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Partially, the problem is that "designer" is such an elastic word. You could argue that an interaction designer should be able to code, at least enough to make a realistic prototype - if a design isn't interactive then how can it be an "interaction" design?

Coding is less critical for visual designers though. It's better if the visual designer can render his design in html/css (or whatever), but you probably don't want to turn down an otherwise brilliant visual designer if they can't.

The "should designers code" question seems to come up again and again because interaction and visual design gets rolled into one discipline (and often one person).
can't wait for the part 2!
or they could just ship a product with a sensibly sized OS…
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that looks like a lot more data than a few tweets per second though.
Nice idea. Become a Senator and try for diplomatic immunity. Walk out of the Ecuadorian Embassy and wave goodbye to the police who have been waiting for him for the last umpteen months.

The legal wrangling could become quite complicated if he succeeded. If the voters in Oz realise how annoyed the UK government would be if he did this then that would help his odds even more.

For US residents I'll point out that Senate spots in Australia are won using a state based proportional system with multiple Senators for each of our 6 states and 2 territories. This means that independent and minority groups can often get 1 or 2 Senators into the upper house.
Extradite, waterboard, soletary confinement, sleep deprivation... The only positive thing is it would set a nice precedent for corrupt Parliament members.
So what actually happened here.. I'm still not 100% clear :?
>Tiered storage was available if you wanted it ..

Really? I could have got tiered storage on my new sub-$1000 computer I got last month? Which vendor could I get that from, Dell, Hp, Acer?

>It's not clear it's actually better than the caching system others use....

It's just a different technology with different characteristics, it's not a question of better or worse.

One obvious benefit is that you get the sum of the two drive's capacity. Also the two drives are on two different drive connections, not a single connection to a combined device, so there may be bandwidth efficiencies as well. But you just sit there stewing in your own distain. God forbid that anyone try anything different or unusual, that's got to be bad, right?
So far as I can make out ... he can't stand.

Australian Constitution, s16: "The qualification of a senator shall be the same as those of a member of the House of Representatives."

s34(i): "... must be an elector entitled to vote at the election of members of the House of Representatives, or a person qualified to become such an elector ..."

Australians are allowed to be overseas electors only if they intend to return to Australia within 6 years.

I don't think a court could reasonably conclude that Assange's intention to return would be a serious intention, given that he is going to be under an effectively indefinite house arrest.

Even if he did get elected, he would eventually be evicted for failing to attend sittings.

(Of course, I am not a lawyer or an electoral commissioner).
Designers should code and programers should design... they would certainly understand each other way better.
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lol, I really can't get away from the HN police :P
LOL I remember when Steve Gibson (grc.com) was preaching this same message.... That was 10 years ago (must be a slow news day at ars)
The true driving force of the aeronautical industry (and probably other sectors where you work on projects too big to risk personal accountability) is greenlighting. The real motto is "do not ever bring bad news to your management".

Even if 50% to 80% of people up a chain of command are honest, you only need two or three managers putting their career before a responsible behavior to have a top-level management with a completely distorted image of reality (and, more often than not, perfectly fine with this).

Every day, I am reminded of Feynman conclusion in his report about the Challenger crash: "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."

The only thing that prevents commercial airliners from being a complete mess is that EASA has no incentive to go too easy on Boeing and FAA has no incentive to go too easy on Airbus.
Who said anything about retiring? These people are 30 years old. I don't think the avg 30 year old has $1.5M cash in the bank (and a comfy position at a tech company). All I'm saying is that it's very respectable.
Oh so obvious in hindsight! +1
> Become a Senator and try for diplomatic immunity.

Being a Senator doesn't give you automatic immunity. Immunity is a privilege extended by the host country to a guest's diplomatic corps. It can be revoked at any time.

Neither of Australia's major parties is particularly fond of Assange and I don't think the UK would feel any compunction in refusing to extend immunity to Assange.
The sad bit is that suicide is very common. More people die of suicide than by car accidents or murder. Suicide is the leading cause of death on a college campus. And those are just U.S. stats. In Asian countries the suicide rate is almost 5x what it is in the U.S.
If they design for web, then they aren't real web designers unless they can dish out CSS/HTML _AND_ JS

If they design for Mobile (iOS), they aren't real mobile designers if they can't dish out their design with Cocoa.
Yes he did. But it's not a typo. It's hard to explain - it's an intentional misspelling of a curse word that makes it somewhat more socially acceptable.
Easy is the same as appearing safe - potato potato - your argument for it BEING safe however is nonsense... VC returns don't come from minimum competency. They come from a disproportionate number of home runs. Funding for familiarity with the school is absolutely NOT making the best investment with the money for which you are responsible, because it's not a decision criteria for putting risk capital to work - it's a risk avoidance strategy. (As you seem to instinctively see by your use of the word safe.)

The question isn't whether "if all else is equal should I hire someone like me" it's whether you should prioritize a certain credential over other factors, as happens in a lot of hiring. But to come back to your "is it really that bad a decision?" I think most evidence points to YES, increased diversity of background and opinion benefits decision making groups - in this case companies companies - more than homogeneity, with its tendency towards systematic error.

To challenge your final point given the fact that a lot of the top schools have large numbers of legacy hires, and getting into them often involves far more factors than mere merit you're hoping that the delta in better schooling techniques outweighs recruitment drawbacks. Maybe, but I think it's far from proven.

Nobody is saying DON'T hire people from top schools, with great reputations, and track records of turning out quality candidates. Of course not. What's being said is that optimizing your hiring process to a handful of schools, given how many others are doing the same, makes it unlikely you're getting the very best candidates on the market - I don't see how this is anything other than statistically self-evident.
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I think that's also great, but it might happen here because we still have deadlines. To keep the deadline, the product suffers... sad but true.
And the most recent study suggest suicide has now passed car accidents.

http://health.usnews.com/health-news/news/articles/2012/09/2...
Going straight to the source, it's actually in the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918, section 94, found here:

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/cea1918233...
In most colleges is there any significant difference between comp sci and soft eng degrees at the same institution?

At my university the curriculum was identical for both degrees, you basically got to pick what it said on your cert at the end.
I think that's a great point. With the more advanced stuff, who you studied under will probably have some bearing on a candidate's learning. Perhaps still not an exact indicator of their commercial viability, but still a different kettle of fish than the undergraduate level.
Neither major party really thinks much of Assange. There might be some feeble protests but in practice the UK would be in the same position they are now.
There's no guarantee he'd actually win ether :-(
"Telling someone makes it likely that they will try to stop you."

I think this is a likely reason, along with feeling of low self worth (feeling irredeemably "unfixable" as lusr described it [1]), or not having any fiends or family that they can tell.

The best thing is to talk to someone. Ideally a mental health professional, or failing that a friend or relation. But if a suicidal person feels that this would diminish their control over their life then I would urge them to phone a crisis line (list here: [2]). They keep their anonymity and control while giving themselves the chance of a way out of the immediate crisis, hopefully enabling them to get to the point where they can confide in someone and get help.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5138789

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_crisis_lines
Rank and file of what precisely?
Thanks, I didn't dig down that far.

When did he leave Australia? He might run afoul of s95(1B):

"An application that is made after the elector ceased to reside in Australia must be made within 3 years after the day on which the elector ceased to reside in Australia."
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Personally I've never found simulation tools all that useful. Too many components that can't be simulated, like microcontrollers and simple components that just don't have a model available.

Perhaps you've been using better tools than me! What sort of tools do you use that make you think simulation is the most important feature?
Single-issue candidates irk me, so I'm ok with that.

Honestly, I miss the Australian Democrats. They were boring, sensible centrists. And it was great.
Annoying the English is a national pastime.
Summary: Weak my mom says I'm cool hit-piece by AAP, Australian Associated Press.

AAP is 90% owned by News Ltd and Fairfax, the two major publishers in the country, who promote it as a national organization but have a massive commercial interest in the media status quo. The media status quo is threatened by Assange, who has been extremely vocal about the failures of journalism and would presumably seek to re-regulate this area to encourage alternative media.

As mass media is a strong ally of big business and established political groups, he fights really tremendously
big economic and political forces (his words, Cypherpunks, 2012).

I for one wish him the best of luck. It's time to move over, old guard. Let's get some socially and technically-informed discussion back in to Australian politics before it gets any more irrelevant.
End of the builder: It's time to 3D print your home
We talk to Janjaap Ruijssenaars of Universe Architecture about plans to build the 3D printed home. Is this the future for 3D printing?

"It could be possible to print houses for the poor, bring the printer to a location such as a village and see if you can print with the material that you find there."

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I have this odd opinion: Some people can program, and some can't.

From my FizzBuzz tests while recruiting in Germany I think 30% of Java developers with years of experience in their CV can't program. So there are some designers that can program, and there are some developers that can't. Job titles have nothing to do with it.
When I got my new nexus tablet, I didn't install the facebook or twitter app, and I enjoyed using the tablet without feeling the need to keep switching to those apps to check nothing new had been posted.
I also removed the facebook app from my phone and it sure does make a difference.
If you're in the habit of constantly checking fb/twitter, removing them from your portable devices is an easy way to lessen your habit without cutting yourself off completely.
I still have access to fb on my laptop but it's something I check every 2 days or so, rather than something I constantly checked when I was momentarily disengaged.

I find it's lead to me being less sidetracked/distracted when I'm doing something (either when producing work or consuming content)
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Several IRA terrorists have been elected to the UK parliament whole in prison. Doesn't mean they were out of prison, they still had to stay in prison
The era of being a Photoshop designer only...is coming to an end. HTML and CSS are going to become the baseline. Mocking up comps will still have a sort of role, I'm sure clients will still want to see them. But having a designer on board who can only mock up in Photoshop is going to be more a luxury item.
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I totally agree with this and I can tell you that I have been in the same position as Musk in an analogous situation. From what my competitor was saying about their own product it was several red flags. There is no way such and such can be true unless you are doing X and Y wrong.
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Why do you think the UK wouldn't be able to arrest him if he was an Australian senator? Some IRA terrorists were elected to the UK parliament while in prison. They still had to stay in prison. (the UK changed their laws to prevent anyone running for election if they are currently in prison)
Last year my granddad died the day before an exam. I'm not sure if the point of the paper is that students use this as a excuse or that we just don't mention relatives dying at times when they do not conflict with other major events in someones life.
You might want to checkout the HTML sanitizer from the Caja project [1]. You'll need to build it with ant first, but it's pretty good and should be able to do what you want it to.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/google-caja/wiki/JsHtmlSanitizer
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Does not work in Opera. If you save as type: text, the text saves OK. But if you save as html, the file just contains " &lt;html contenteditable&gt;"

Also, HOW to open an existing file while retaining 'contenteditable' mode? Everything I try alters the URL field, so returning the browser to standard display-only mode.
But... Why? I know he tried to justify it in his post, but to me, having a save option FAR outweighs the "benefit" of having your notes in a browser.
A suspected criminal is a suspected criminal; I don't know what the tradition is in Oz, but wouldn't they vote (present a majority) to nullify any diplomatic immunity?

I know about cases in parliamentary democracies where someone's immunity has been nullified - assuming they have it in Australia - but only in domestic disputes, not international.
The video was so smooth I didn't realise what the example was. I actually watched the example video through several times thinking "what? there's no video on that page!" before realising that the thing I was watching was the video.
If you use Chrome, you can prepend the URL with 'cache:' (available in this case).
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"Inspect element" shows you HTML, it doesn't show you the JS that generated the element. I don't know about anything doing, and could very much use, the latter.
I've not bothered reading the SMH (and by extension, The Age) online for a long time. The online version is weak, lazy journalism, incredibly (to my mind) even worse than The Daily Telegraph.

Check out www.smh.com.au now... More than a third of the articles are about celebrities, or are vapid commentary on meaningless issues. There's a bit of content, but nothing really groundbreaking. And today is a day when there is easy news, as an election was announced by the Australian PM.

The SMH used to be great. Not any more. Old media is indeed dying.
It's only a small fraction of $300 trillion USD stolen. $300T of contracts and loans were affected but the banks were only skimming a small part of the loans.

$300T would be 30 times US's total production output for a year, or over 4 times total production of output for the entire world. Basically that means 4 times anyone has ever made over the past year. No way banks can steal that much.
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There may be the perception that they "can't" - and it is realistic to state this - but they actually can.
I'm what you would call a Sydney Anglican - characterised by a largely conservative worldview. The only party I can see that is worth voting for, ironically, is The Greens.
It sounds romantic but their existence seems to be miserable, especially the filth. I'd love to live off the grid for a while as long as there is basic hygiene.
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Some of the worlds best music albums were created in that way.
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Since the video link in the article seems not to work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C-JoyNuQJs&feature=playe...
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There's some pretty detailed information about the Unreal Engine [1] that might give you some ideas to think about around network protocols for games. At the time they were dealing with 28.8k modems, so there are quite a few tricks in there about saving bandwidth and prioritising some actions over others.
[1] http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/NetworkingOverview.html
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There's another thing we are missing here: WTF is Microsoft putting in a 30GB operating system????? Really, come on. 30 gigs of WHAT?
You don't want him to stand trial first?
Could you please stop this?

You do realize he was found dead by his uncle?

Are you seriously suggesting his uncle and the NYC medical examiner are part of some conspiracy?

There is enough madness in this world to intentionally add to it.
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We need new design tools... Designers currently choose between photoshop and illustrator. Neither was created for the job of web design and it shows. Yes, I know you could mock it up in html/css but let's be honest, that is not a great medium for someone playing with the visual layout of the page, it's just too damn slow (not to mention the context switch of going between visual and textual representations).

Imagine a design tool that understands what a responsive grid is. This would be a great go between for a design tool and a web page. It would present a strong visual representation and it would allow the designer to resize the page and see how the design responds, without having to think about numbers...

There's smaller things as well, you can't use ems to specify text size for instance. What about a viewport mode where parts of the page that aren't in view are greyed out(with some presets for common viewport sizes).

Web pages do need a dynamic layout but are still entirely visual, I don't see any reason why a designer should have to learn how to code them up.
That is insane.

I cant help but think that a better option would have been to offer a "recovery usb stick" for extra 50 bucks which would contain the recovery data and save the extra space for the user to make the device more attractive to the buyer.
It's cute, but I can't help observing that we're what, 70 years into the computer age, and there's still no ubiquitous, small, fast, clean text editor present by default on all personal computers. (DO NOT speak to me of Notepad.exe)

So discovering that 'by accident' web browsers can act as a simple (but huge, bloated and feature-starved) text editor seems like a big deal.

Personally I keep a simple, tiny, old freeware editor called Editpad 3.4, on every PC I use, accessed via desktop shortcut and 'right-click send-to'.
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This is old news, already appeared on HN, for ex:

1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=763165

2. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3693108

3. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4762035

TIP: Just search on http://www.hnsearch.com to see if you are not posting a duplicate.

I understand that repetitions are sometimes ok for the benefit of new readers and all, so...
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Ask HN: How many of you use .slugignore?
I recently learned about .slugignore, but it seems to be very obscure judging by the scarcity of information about it via Google.

It basically as a .gitignore-esque filter that serves to prevent files from getting compiled into a compressed slug and pushed with your deploys.

In other words, you can put all the files your Heroku app doesn't need to save the push time, bandwidth, and storage space, while the files still remain in your repo, unignored.

http://matthodan.com/2010/08/20/exclude-static-assets-from-heroku-slug.html

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/slug-compiler
I disagree interaction designers need to learn to code these days. There are tools.

http://www.axure.com/
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I tried to get approval to use an (entirely IBM-developed) open source library at IBM. The process took months and hadn't finished when I finally left. If I remember correctly, it was going to take approval from the team lead, 3 lawyers, and a VP (and possibly someone else, I can't remember). And that's after spending about a week or two running code scans to check for "suspicious" keywords like 'evil'^ and then individually checking each of the ~10,000 issues.

I know why IBM has to these issue so seriously but remember this when you wonder why big companies can't execute as quickly as startups. And remember, the library I wanted to use only had contributions from IBM developers and was under the favoured Eclipse licence.

^ As an aside, putting 'evil' in your licence is pretty dumb. There is no definition of evil which can be argued over in any court. What you consider 'good', someone else almost certainly considers 'evil'
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I looked at the features, and I'm really trying hard to understand what truly compelling and innovative features it offers...

Why use this instead of MySQL Workbench? Genuinely curious.
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Thanks, works like a charm.
The charges were already dropped, then the prosecutor mysteriously replaced and the case reopened. The whole thing is a farce so there's no reason to bother with any trial.
I assume by fanatic Christian fundamentalist you are thinking this family is similar to David Koresh or perhaps a celebrity TV family such as The Duggers. Her sect, first of all, is an offshoot of the Russian Orthodox Church, not American protestantism. Church-attending Orthodox (as opposed to casual members) would be more likely to have children than this sect. It has more in common with Tolstoyism and its nearest equivalent in the US would probably be Adventism or perhaps Unitarianism in the sense that its adherents are very serious, but they are theologically liberal and opposed to growing the church through baptism and assuming that baptized infants are Christians. So, they were not especially motivated to have children despite being very serious about their religion.
Yeah, remove the software... Your choice is to remove the OS or the recovery partition. Awesome choices right there.
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