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I think the aspirations behind the Surface Pro are solid, but everything I've read about the execution leads me to believe that it is a huge failure. That happens. Sometimes you try to push something too early or it requires many iterations to actually get right. I suspect it will take a lot of evolution for some frankensteinian relative of both mobile and desktop operating systems to be good enough to actually serve as the root of the future of personal computing. I'm certain that Windows 8 and the Surface Pro won't be anything more than a footnote in that evolutionary tree.

In many ways this was pretty close to the move that Microsoft needed to make now, but it's not right enough and not good enough and not executed well enough either. In the timespan between the announcement and release Apple will have gone through an entire ipad rev. cycle. You can't fight against an OODA loop that is multiples faster than yours with half-measures and mediocrity. The company is already on the betting table whether you like it or not, you need to play to win or go home.
Is that the same as blood oranges they sell here in Florida? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_orange
If you are a computer engineer and have prior knowledge of programming, you should be able to pick up any new language or technology in a very short time. With 1000 hours (that is 5 months of 5 day weeks) you have more than enough time to: find an interesting startup idea, learn the necessary technologies, build it, test it, launch it and validate with potential customers. If it doesn't work you just go back to your old day job. There is nothing to lose.
I agree that companies that don't cut the dead weight have tremendous amounts of very bad internal politicking, up-or-out organizations tend to have politics optimized around moving up...which is very rarely tied to any sort of work performance.

The U.S. military has a similar up-or-out policy (especially among the officer corps) and the result is (more often than not I'd say) yes men who latch onto a strong leader type and ride his coattails into a senior officer position. The result is poorly informed and advised leaders, and senior staff who spend their time figuring out if what they're doing will be approved "by the old man" instead of actually promoting the function of the organization, fight and win wars.
I would not down-play salary that much. I am not sure if it applies to all sectors, but at least in my limited experience more you ask for - better you are treated and better technology you work with. Because otherwise it will be to expensive to keep you.
Thanks! If you mean for analytics, then we're just using Google Analytics to count notifications served.
Google trends search: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%22space%20marines%2...

All ten related searches are for GW items.

But, of the A through G points on the 2004 to present graph, only two items are for GW.
My issue was the sentence: "Luckily, we have great reading devices in our pockets: our phones."

My phone is not a great reading device. Far too small. I do have ebooks on my smartphone in case I ever needed something to read, but the compactness of the phone made me never do so.
Please point to examples of sites you've implemented to back up your claims?

RWD does set a higher bar for implementation, but isn't that the point? That we challenge ourselves to be better?

The goal of the article was to help the guy at the top, the CEO, to understand that the investment into better implementation is worth it.
I got claw-hand just looking at it.
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Great work. Really love the well refined interface.

Not that I care about it much, but as a feedback, I am not able to get LinkedIn to work.
"I believe central bank issued currency that flows through the hands of banks is a mechanism for control over people."

Only to the extent that laws are a mechanism for controlling people. I have argued elsewhere that laws are what give money its value, and that Bitcoin still requires the existence of fiat currencies to be useful to anyone (put simply, most people still have taxes to pay and debts to settle, and so they only accept Bitcoin because they believe they can exchange it for another currency; even you speak of Bitcoin in terms of another currency).

I would argue, though, that laws and fiat money are not necessarily ways to control people, but that they are necessary tools for any large society. Sometimes people disagree and require a third party to settle their dispute. Laws help give third parties (also known as judges) legitimacy in their judgments -- they can point to laws that were written before the dispute, so that there are fewer questions about bias or personal sentiments affecting the verdict. When people fail to use laws and court systems to settle their disputes, they turn to their weapons and civil wars ensue.

At the very least, the operation of a court must be paid for. A person whose job is to mediate disputes all day -- and even a society with only a few thousand people will require such a person -- is not producing food or maintaining infrastructure. We would not be satisfied with a system where the parties in some dispute were directly paying the judge. At the very least, some sort of tax system is needed to pay for a court system, and humans discovered that using animals or crops as taxes does not really satisfy the needs of society. Currency makes taxation fair (do judges need wheat, or do they need cattle?) and reduces the expense of collecting taxes (tax collectors no longer need to decide if one cow is of the same quality as another).

Of course, the moment you introduce a tax law that requires people to make payments with money, you have created a fiat currency: you have created a law that fuels demand for money (and thus gives money value), and it makes no difference whether that money is made of clay, gold, paper, or even if that money is nothing more than information stored on computers.

So while I can understand the dissatisfaction with what today's banks and governments do with money, I do not think fiat money itself is the problem. Fiat money is a consequence of any appreciably large human society; without it, we would be living in tiny groups in the wilderness, jabbing each other with spears whenever we had a disagreement, or we would be trying to convince government officials that our sheep are of high enough quality to be accepted as a tax payment.
I agree that the CEO should set the direction and let their staff decide the details of implementation, but the reality is that a CEO must be aware of the benefits of choices like RWD in order to authorize and support the additional investment RWD takes during implementation.

Why? Because they CEO ultimately controls the money. That's usually what it's all about anyways, right?

RWD costs more short term but pays off long term, that's the point.
Health tracking is for gym rats and nerds? Think again.
JS slideshows with JQuery usually support swiping when available but work with clicks as well.
Upvoted.

It seemed to me that the research cited was likely a bit thin. I couldn't tune a guitar, so I have no idea about violin players. But there have been notable cases of very hard-working creative types--Flaubert and Sand come to mind, and Herbert Simon (Turing Award, Nobelist in economics) claimed that a 60-hour work week was about right for him.
So what would you do if the counterparty failed to deliver on that contract?
Thanks! Can you send us an email at support@chimeapp.com describing the issue that you're having. Are you logged-in to LinkedIn?
If you have icloud and export your outlook calendar to it - you could automatically setup a X minute reminder before all appointments.

http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1829132&...
"Researchers in ..."

I anxiously await for the day when that phrase starts with countries like Bolivia, Mongolia, Sudan, etc. It seems like there are only a few places where world class research is being done. When the rest of the world comes online, hopefully news like this happens daily.
Well, as a mathematician, I can say the same is true of mathematical research. Climbing Mount Bourbaki is a difficult endeavour, but from the top the pastures are relatively peaceful to explore. Most papers are not groundbreaking theoretical sledgehammers, but minor updates on footnotes of a vaster theory.
This looks really cool, but one thing I'd love to see/know before I install.

Do you send me a notification whenever something happens, or can you pool them together and only interrupt me every few hours? Hint: I want the latter.
I expect you'd be able to find metered on-street parking. Note that the city of Cambridge meters only take quarters (no dimes or nickels). The Meadhall is a couple blocks from the east end of the MIT campus. Here is a list of parking garages in the area if you can't find a metered street spot:
http://web.mit.edu/facilities/transportation/parking/visitor...
Technical types tend to think that there's not much to the task or process of motivating and managing a team.

The people that promote individuals into management roles are often just as naive. The individuals are expected to develop new skills simply by virtue of having been promoted.
Is the advance of technology going to make us illiterate?
Why not implemented on Erlang OTP?
Ruby and Python share the same scaling issues, so I don't see a benefit it combining them or migrate from one to the other.

I also dislike the "high performance" claims without showing a single performance comparison. Not to mention the state of implementation completeness of the language.
I've tested revenue streams on forums, and neither of those things work.
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I'm sorry but I'm not buying it. Whenever I hear someone say "I hate to bring up Apple" it's always followed by a "but" that essentially amounts to "I've put my blinders on and trying my best to sound objective".
Why Chrome only? This looks like something that could work just as well on Firefox
I was skeptical too, but all it takes is 60 bits, i.e. 60 "yes/no"-questions in their "black book". Doesn't sound too far-fetched. But, of course, I do hope they're not brute-forcing it.

See http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=log2%28one+quintillion%....
Thanks! You can turn off desktop notifications and just check when you feel like being interrupted. The pooling together is something we're working on down the road.
GW has previous form, they issued a bunch of C&Ds recently to many websites.

And they're a pretty big company. They're a PLC trading on London Stock Exchange. (http://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/prices-and-marke...)
From what I've seen people don't use it as a "lap"top, but rather a "table"top or "desk"top, though. It does have an on screen keyboard.
I think such a device does make sense, but I think the trick is getting it right, and doing the transition well. I suspect that the right choice is to actually morph the UI between a keyboard/mouse-centric mode and a touch-centric mode, trying to satisfy both modes simultaneously with some common interface is probably a mistake.
This is a good point. I get a little jittery from one diet coke and two diet cokes makes me feel really sped up and gives me insomnia. A cup of coffee is almost unbearable.

I'll drink a tea for a little caffeine, but that's about it. I have no idea how people tolerate drinks with multiple shots of espresso. Tolerance must vary wildly between people.
+1 for this!
You don't need any examples from me. Just take Apple's homepage. It isn't responsive yet, so, if it is still a usability nightmare, would you still be buying their products?

I agree with the challenging part. I will tell you a specific example:

There are monitors with SO MUCH variation in resolutions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_resolutions

And the ratio of the time invested in beautifying your website, to the quality of usability that improves is almost negligible.

When the majority of the internet has progressed to better resolutions, please write the article again and I will gladly agree with you.
Transferring raw binary instead of JSON
Desiderata has a special meaning for people with background in Health Informatics: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~jeremy/HealthInf/RCSEd/terminology-...
Right now we send a notification as soon as it happens. We're looking at implementing a pause mode, so you wouldn't get interrupted by notifications when you need to focus.

Pooling notifications is interesting, we'll definitely be looking at that in the future!
Yup, we built Chime for Chrome just to get the product out in the hands of our users. We've realized the response for Firefox/Safari is overwhelming so we'll be looking into support for those browsers as well.
I read that as "Crime" for a moment, thought it would be some kind of real-time notification centre for when a crime is happening near you. I suppose police radios are encrypted these days, otherwise it could be interesting to recognize location from the calls, and show a pin on google map say: "bank robbery in progress 2.1 miles north of you; adam-4 responding". Then you can also add a social element: like foodspotting... but for criminals.
With all due respect, perhaps you should re-consider. With fixed-width sites, you wind up having buttons cut-off, and whole portions of the page missing - you have to rely on the user being familiar enough with how the variable-resolution web works that they know to scroll laterally for additional content. Missing content means missing conversions.

Also, nobody is advocating a broken responsive web design. And to be honest, depending on the way it's broken, it may still be much better than a fixed-width design that hangs 80% off your screen. Missing content means missing conversions.
Forgive me for asking what may be a very stupid question: Can someone explain to me the need for a Ruby interpreter built on top of Python? He mentions performance in the announcement, but is this really going to be faster than, say, MRI? Thanks in advance.
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Pagination as in whenever it is used.

Ever tried to read a long article online? I have seen them split over 15 pages.

And yes, I always click the print/view on one page button.

And it is even more insulting with comments -- I am not going to click/scroll just to see ten more comments.
Just curious: if there is no server-side stuff how would you know you have served over 100k notifications?
Its implemented on top of RPython, which is something completely different then Python, the runtime.
I'm curious to see how this compares to MRI/Rubinius/JRuby once it's feature-complete; the PyPy vs. CPython benchmarks these days are pretty convincing.
Hmm.. foodspotting for criminals. I like it. Do they get OpenTable integration? haha.
Apparently, the Stackexchange network handles this by linking an account to an email id. If you cannot login by using facebook, you can use google to login provided you have the same email id and link the accounts.
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I think you're missing the point. It's not written in Python. It's written i RPython, which is vastly different. Technology behind this and PyPy is the same, however there is no Python usage here.

Additionally, erlang has avoided scaling issues by being functional. This might be good or bad, depending on your viewpoint, but just implementing a ruby interpreter in erlang won't cut, because you're not answering any of the hard questions about the state. You might answer "meh, ruby is just a broken language", but well, this has nothing to do with that article.
The curious pattern of pre-emptively rejecting the solution to your problem
Maybe we need a feedback-responsiveness rubric for open source projects, websites, even whole organizations, and a site which issues them A+ through F grades based on the score.
A interesting note here:

I noticed my karma was swinging wildly.

Using the "threads" button, I noticed that the "YAY more KDE!!!" post is the culprit, it is swinging between -5 and +5

I expected such things usually from posts of controversial political opinions, not of a "Yay KDE!" comment.

I guess there are lots of fans and haters of KDE?

Maybe fans of GNOME are downvoting while KDE lovers are upvoting?

It is interesting sometimes to see how people might get trigger happy, and stingy with personal software choices.

I guess if I said that I hate Emacs and love Vim the result would be the same (the swinging Karma)
Chocolatey is not old software
One of the major launch criterion was having "enough of Ruby that the performance won't change". What does that mean in practice? We have exceptions, we have bindings, and we have all manner of other obscure corner cases. Charles Nutter (JRuby dev) writes about this: http://blog.headius.com/2012/10/so-you-want-to-optimize-ruby...
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Google is very good in not acknowledging Chrome bugs filed by its users.

http://notchromium.appspot.com/
Completely unscientific, but if these outputs are any indication, this is going to be great news for Rubby users in the future...

$ time ruby -e "puts 'hello world'"
hello world

real 0m0.184s
user 0m0.079s
sys 0m0.092s

$ time ~/Downloads/topaz/bin/topaz -e "puts 'hello world'"
hello world

real 0m0.007s
user 0m0.002s
sys 0m0.004s
Ask HN: Is 1336 the vote limit for submissions?
I noticed the 2 variations of the Hello Chrome<FF>, it's FF<Chrome> calling submission both had 1336 points. That it's 1 point less than 1337 makes me think it's no coincidence.
That's only 60 variables, which can produce a quintillion variations.
As a community, I think we need to do more encouraging people to do "pick up and fix the existing project for thing X" rather than "build a brand new project for thing X."

Right now it's much sexier to do the latter -- hey, you might have the next RubyonRails!
It's not vanilla Python but RPython, and presumably to take advantage of the PyPy toolchain to get similar results in Ruby as PyPy has in Python.
I wonder how many emergency room visits (and deaths) are associated with coffee usage. I suspect the number is negligible, if not plain 0. With billions of cups of coffee consumed daily, I'm skeptical that it's really caffeine that is the villain.

The guy in the beginning supposedly consumed ~600mg of caffeine over 7 hours, which is roughly equivalent to a pot of coffee. That's high usage, but not at all unusual.

>“Your typical cup of coffee comes hot; you wouldn’t usually gulp it down.”

Speak for yourself. I'm a guy who one-shots his coffee before it even cools down.
Once I was the only "indispensable" developer too. Also under a bad managing owner. When I left I offered to help in time of a crisis. Never heard of him again.

Ask yourself this: do you get paid for the risk of you leaving? And ask yourself this: can your family enjoy you when you feel bad?
Ah, Rails and PostreSQL. That's unfortunate. They have a reputation for not scaling well compared to more modern technologies like NodeJS and MongoDB.
I can see the benefit here of keeping people motivated to continually achieve more but it seems based on the assumption that everyone is capable of going all the way to the top.

In the worst case scenario, a large number of people go "up" to the point where they're no longer capable of doing the job they're in and then go "out" after a brief period of doing their job badly.

These people may well have been very competent at their previous level of authority and so the business as a whole loses out.

Additionally companies which state outright this is their policy often have quotas of people who should go "out" which I've seen, in particularly talented groups, lead to an almost random selection of people going out despite the entire group being so close together in ability than no meaningful distinctions can be made.

EDIT: re jonnathanson response below, agree completely that if up can mean a person is performing solidly and achieving good results while improving year on year then such a system can be very beneficial. My criticism is much more focussed on systems where up explicitly means moving through grades, especially where there are attempts to apply quotas to who goes up and who goes out.
Debian testing is frozen with KDE 4.8.4 and it's very stable (more so than recent Kubuntu releases, imo).

Adventurers can always use the siduction's kdenext repo, which is at 4.9.5 atm. I'm sure 4.10 will be released there soon.

"deb http://packages.siduction.org/kdenext unstable main"
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This is not necessarily true. There are a number of poems whose lines play through my head at critical moments in my life.

Although most people will "one ear out the other" with something like this, it'll affect a few permanently.

The best (and worst) side of words will do this.
Yes, because it's actually implemented on top of PyPy, which is a very modern run-time with a state-of-the-art JIT and good garbage collectors.
hi, actually it was Adobe, they worked with mozilla on tamarin a es4 vm.
RPython is a subset of Python that is used to build PyPy. If you want more information on it, I would do some reading on the structure of PyPy.

To be clear, this isn't "Ruby running on top of Python." This is "Ruby specified in RPython."
Swiping gestures are supported on most modern phones today. And when they're not, you can gracefully fall back to touch events. And when those aren't supported, you could gracefully fall back to a list, rather than a slideshow. There are methods by which everybody gets to play along, and as long as those are implemented properly, nobody is left out.
I am logged in, and I tried a browser restart, and a logoff-login as well, to no avail
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The junk mailers would still mail their advertisements. The USPS picks them up and scans them at their pickup point, or at the nearest processing facility (they already do this, to automatically shunt mail to the proper zones). Mail that I designate as "trash" via the iPhone / web app gets recycled before it actually gets shipped across the country, or, if it's already shipped, then when it next gets processed at my local processing facility. So the advertisers still pay the full rate; I just have the option of intercepting it before it makes it to my mailbox. If I don't act in time, it gets delivered, just like normal.
Weekend app from a while back:

deathbycoffee.heroku.com/(yourname)
The Erlang runtime imposes a different set of constraints than Python that would impact the design of the language being built on top of it. Given that, someone already has come as close as you can to porting Ruby to the Erlang VM, it is called Elixir. http://elixir-lang.org/
You also have to consider another point altogether, because it applies to your platform. Developers might underprice their software because they do not want to spend time supporting it, but still want to make money off of it. It sounds crazy, but I have yet to meet a developer who is crazy about customer service. By increasing prices, they are also increasing the amount of customer service they might be obligated to provide.
Any plans to add other "social" source code hosting services?
Researchers create robot exoskeleton that is controlled by a moth
Only Google Analytics :-)
So why is this not an open and shut case ?
Higher price is justifiable from a developer point of view as long as the support is included. There are gazillions lines of crappy code out there. A general rule in software management is “try to reduce your dependency as much as possible.” Not because of the price of dependency, but, because of the maintenance costs that the dependency will create for you later on.
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Software engineer job is not different from any other and I can't see any reason why it SHOULD be.
What is Bovlia? I can't find such country.