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Excel has been used and abused past it usefulness in the 'Big (Monkey) Business';

Any tailored software has to go through the constant scrutiny of IT managers and bean counters that don't understand anything and are over impatient while a donkey can 'code' a couple of function in Excel. Excel DOES NOT take into account user abuse and collaboration between them, and I don't blame it. But this is a networked world and not anymore a collection of work station where data is better passed from one user to another one via the mean of a floppy disk.....

The use of tools is reflecting the cerebral activity level of its user base.
Awesome and depressive.
He set his engine as something he will never top and believes it, and that is only thing keeping him to make something amazing.
Some people got over self imposed limits and are blasting.
Some are fine where they are.

Still I am thankful to the world for him to exist.
It's honestly out of laziness. I mostly just keep opening tabs and can't be arsed to go back through them and decide which ones to keep.

I've tried using all manner of sites like Pinboard, but none of them work as I like. I want a one-click bookmark button where I don't have to tag anything. Maybe I should finally get around to building the bookmarking app I really want.
What are the chances this is a built-in backdoor? Also, what would be the ramifications if someone found out it was?
I recently had a phone interview that went rather well for a very interesting position but the company asks a minimum of 45 hours per week and that is a deal breaker for me.
Hence Apple's profit share is much better than its market share.
There are similar complexities in the iOS world. It's just the particular details that are different. See, for example, http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Langua...
2) is very optimistic (I wouldn't bet a dollar on it)

8) I'm not sure what you mean with that one, what kind of alternative? (given you seem to exclude transpilers/preprocessors)
While hunter-gatherers spend only 10-20 hours a week on obtaining food, how is farming an improvement on that? http://www.ditext.com/diamond/mistake.html
When you look at a commercial jet flying at 10k meters from the ground, it takes a long while until it disappears from the skyline. This meteorite crossed the entire skyline in a matter of seconds. That's just mind bogging. Also, the sound blast arrived waaay after the main explosion, and since it's been traveling at ~360 meters per second. I wonder if anyone here could estimate the speed of that rock in the atmosphere.
If you were in college in 2004 it was pretty unavoidable
well, I was super excited when I see the video, until I see this in the getting started document:

We’re only supporting OSX at this time, but we have some success running on Linux and Windows.

haven't tried it yet though, so how much is "some success"? and what are the things that makes it OSX only, instead of UNIX compatible?
Electric cars are so common in Norway because they're actually cheaper there (lots of taxes on gasoline powered ones). At least that's what I heard.
What good is having an independent rendering engine if essentially every other aspect of Firefox as of late has been a copy of how Chrome or Safari handles things?

I'm talking about stuff like getting rid of the traditional menu bar and status bar, hiding the protocol in the URL input field, support for SPDY, the new tab page, silent updates, the built-in PDF viewer of the upcoming Firefox 19, and forth.

Meanwhile, we've also seen them spinning their wheels with failed me-too initiatives like Firefox for Mobile and Firefox OS, rather than producing any true innovation.

Ever since Firefox 4, all that Mozilla has managed to deliver is the Chrome experience, but in a less-effective manner. It makes perfect sense why people are leaving Firefox for Chrome; they'll get a nearly identical UI in Chrome, but they'll get new features sooner, and with better performance.
You can get 230k followers on the cheap these days. Phil Plait is credible, though.
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The company is located in the middle of nowhere ;) But I'd have to consider this soon indeed.
Ask HN: What do you do whilst your specs are running?
So as our test suite and app grows bigger I have more and more periods of a couple of minutes where I don't have anything in particular to do other than pray that green dots appear on the terminal window. It feels at bit too much like lifehackery to worry about where this time goes, but it breaks your flow and can leave you feeling at quite a loose end. What do you do?
Wow, I feel like Heroku is really dropping the ball here. Like, they are acting punch drunk or something. Basically all this says is "we hear you and we are sorry". They could have posted that a day ago. This still says nothing about what is wrong and what they are doing to fix it.

Also, I'm not sure at what point this is, but at some point around say $3-5k a month, (100+ dynos) you really should rethink using Heroku. At that point and higher, you really ought to know about your infrastructure enough to optimize for scale. The "just add more dynos" approach is stupid because adding more web fronts is often the lazy/expensive approach. Add a few queues or some smarter caching and you'll need fewer web servers. Throw in something like Varnish where you can and you need even fewer servers. Point being, at some point scaling is no longer "free", it takes work and Heroku isn't magic.
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Ability to hide submissions from the front page is the thing I miss the most on HN. Sometimes, I'm just not interested to 10 Tesla articles or 20 Apple articles that clutter front page, but don't have a way to remove them from my view other that not visiting HN. I don't have that that articles don't belong there, it's just that I don't see any value in them.

What do you think, would you use the "hide" button if it were ever implemented?
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:D Good catch.
Yeah, I wish browsers supported a tab mode where a tab can be open, but use no memory apart from URL and history, thus: no page content. A bit like how currently in Firefox a closed pinned tab is still visible in the browser tabs list, greyed out.
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Indeed, your ignorance is every bit as good as my knowledge.

Did you intend to be that self-deprecating? It's pretty nice to see someone being so humble, frankly.
A privately owned website that is generally available to the public most certainly does constitute a public place (in the same way that standing in a pub saying "who fancies a shag for £50" wouldn't get you off the hook. If you're soliciting TO the public, it doesn't matter where you are "standing".

Escorts pay tax and deduct expenses for the "Escorting" work they do, not the sex. If they declare the income as income for sex, the police quickly come knocking to arrest you for "living off immoral earnings" (a few have done so in the past as a "protest").
I really don't understand why people keep saying this sounds like an intentional backdoor... it looks a lot more like the ramifications of using an overly complex set of state transitions that end up with a bunch of spaghetti logic strewn between multiple processes and a ton of largely unrelated systems that, if you go through them in the wrong order with outstanding delayed actions (as caused by the animations of that power drop down), lead to an exploitable race condition.

This isn't Apple being nefarious: this is just Apple being "sloppy" (which I put in quotes, as when you have as many engineers as they do working on as many features as they are, with all of the user interface wedged into the same small set of displays, you are going to expect to have at least a few places like this, and honestly Apple generally does really well at avoiding them).

(As a similar example to this, for an unrelated reason, I just spent the last few hours pulling apart how they do the UI z-ordering of the lock screen, and it is a ton of one-off rules like "if I am adding the notification list, and I already have a battery image up, put it over the battery; otherwise, try to find a thermal warning, but first ask if it considers itself important enough to be rendered on top of the notifications; if not, then see if we have a headset charging display, and try to render on top of that...".)
I think it's a really bad idea to start using Twitter followers as a credential. That being said Phil Plait is a legit astronomer and has a Ph.D in Astronomy and worked on the Hubble Telescope and has done a TED talk on defending Earth from asteroids. With real credentials like those you're doing a disservice to first mention the number of Twitter followers to validate his expertise.
Can someone tell me why this got all these comments and points in a couple of lines? Thanks
Virtually nil.
In Switzerland you're almost certainly closes enough to a decent sized town to stop and get rescharged at any time. Europe in general is just not as spread out as the US, nor are its cities defined by freeways. Different world.

Tesla's other challenge, i suspect, will be really hot spread out places like parts of Australia.
There's no need to be hostile in your response to a legitimate question; even if the answer seems painfully obvious to yourself and others.

After all, we all learn by asking questions.
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Best practices around generating OAuth tokens
OK- a deposit I fully agree with. But when I have prepaid (or paid the last installment before receiving the final code) I've been burned. In fact, a freelancer owes me some code as we speak that I will never see- but I don't really care because, surprise surprise, his code sucks too and I've someone else re-doing it.

In fact, maybe that's a better bellweather: look at samples of code. The more professional it looks, the more professional I can expect the interaction to be. Seems reasonable- what do you think?
Typically - and I am purposely avoiding too fine a point on this - the copyright remains with the creator until payment occurs. Otherwise no transfer of rights has occurred.
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I've grown to believe that learning to code is similar to what learning to write was 200 years ago. You can't be a good engineer, scientist or even artist without knowing it. A few people who excel at it will have great impact on our society. Within 50 years, every single kids out of high school will know the basics of it, or have very limited choice in higher education.

This is a good thing. Do your kids a favor, teach them how to code.
Not too late at all but you must email inside the next 8 or so hours if we're going to have a chance to get it to you.
Long suspected that aggregating all sorts of feeds from across the internet in a simpler (read: more accessible) way than RSS is a potentially huge growth area. This looks like a good step in the right direction.
write tests which run faster.
Who cares how old it is? This is really pretty simple:
a) It's not abandonware.
b) He put ads on it to make money.
Trying to compare what this guy is doing to the communities that preserve abandonware is laughable. Those people spend money out of their own pockets to make old works available for free to the public in their original forms.
To answer the question in the middle: yes, there are tons of people attempting to break the passcode lock system. One of these groups are police departments and the forensics experts they hire, who really hate it when the victim's cell phone might give them the vital clues they need to solve the murder, if only it weren't locked. (You may argue with the morals of this: I am just reporting that these groups actively work on this, and you can buy books and tools and even hire them as consultants for these purposes... I am not saying it is "right" or "wrong".)
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I might use your site then. I've used vworker (but dropped them when they sold to freelancer) and found a quality guy there. I'm using elancer now with mixed results. I don't think the guy I had trouble with was scummy, just not very good (but thinks he is) and unprofessional in his manner. I paid him in full- even sent him a bonus in the middle when I realized the problem was harder than I anticipated, but never got anything usable from him.
Government grants private property by agreeing to defend your exclusive use of it, and by dictating the conditions under which it will maintain or terminate that exclusive use.

If you find that you have the ability to defend your exclusive use of something, you're either appealing to a sovereign, or you have become a sovereign. To be a sovereign, you need a very large stick.
It doesn't matter if it's hard to find the original PoP on the web. If the point was to make a piece of abandonware accessible to the public (and I question the assumption that PoP is abandonware), then you'd do that, not make a lazy clone of the game and put ads on it.

I think hosting abandonware is fine but it's totally not acceptable to try and make money from it. It's not your product to monetize, even if it's 20 years old.
Submitted with thanks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5225899
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Do the owners of python.co.uk not have to prove the legitimacy of their right to the name as well? I'm fairly sure that trademark law works on the principle that you have to be seen to defend your trademark in order for it to be considered your intellectual property (it's why you often see silly stories in the news about big companies chasing after trivial businesses then settling quietly out of court). As the other company has let "their" trademark fester for 13 years, I can't see how they have any legitimate legal claim.
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I think you're overestimating the popularity of Clojure.

While it's not as totally obscure as many other Lisp, Scheme or Lisp-like language implementations, it's not very widely used at all. Its penetration is minimal, even compared to Scala (which has seen much more significant usage, but still pales in comparison to Java).

While Clojure is a step in a better direction, I don't think it's gaining traction all that quickly. There's a whole lot of existing Java and Scala code that would need to be completely discarded or ignored in order for Clojure's usage to be considered as having any impact.
I don't think I said that; I certainly did not intend to.

Let me retry: the amount of energy you can get out of a battery will drop slowly, but we can ignore that.

Because of the properties of the battery, the amount of energy you can get out in a form that can drive the car may be a lot lower (extreme example: 1W of power may not be enough to even drive the electronics that control the starting of the engine. If so, a 1GWh battery that is full but delivers at most 1W will not take the car anywhere)

Secondly, the amount of power that you can get out and use to drive the car will depend on the environment (temperature, in particular) and, likely, on previous charge/discharge cycles. I know I am not an expert on this, but I know this isn't simple. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery#Conditionin... shows I am not alone in that. After scrapping the 'may's, 'belief's and 'debate's, little information, if any, is left.

Also, I understand the battery control software has safeguarding against full decharging, as that would be a costly affair. That software may have quirks. Given the age of the car's design and the number of hours all cars combined have been on the road, I think it is a safe bet that it does have quirks, especially for uncommon scenarios.

If the battery had more power than the software estimated, and that that power would be able to drive the car, once the battery warmed up, it all was a matter of convincing the software about that.

If the car's manufacturer suggests multiple small recharge-charge cycles (using regenerative braking) to do that, why would I distrust them? I know almost nothing about the chemistry of the batteries, and even less about their control software.
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Self-driving car given test run at Oxford University
I joined Opera just before Unite was released. People told me that the idea was very old. They've been prototyping and re-working the product and were not 100% happy about it whet it was finally released.

It seems to me that at that time it would be a great idea to wrap the API into some mix of standards that emerged over time (IndexDB, AppCache, etc.) That way writing Unite applications would attract web developers interested in HTML5. It didn't happen and most web developers saw some proprietary API for a browser with a small marketshare. No wonder it didn't took off.

Something similar may appear on top of WebRTC like you suggested.
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> [...] Don’t get me wrong. I am not here to criticize WebKit. [...]

Well, no. The whole "Thoughts on WebKit" section of the article spells out problems with WebKit that do not exist in Mozilla-land; most people would call that criticizing.

Which is perfectly fine (how would you write this article without critically comparing the different projects), but please be honest about it and spell it out.
Diesel also needs special considerations in colder weather (the fuel becomes too viscous at lower temperatures). Just a different set of problems to petrol, not a dealbreaker imo.
I circled North America (roughly) on a bicycle.
Yes - but I'd rather it was "mark as duplicate".
Sometimes having identical stories (often from the same website) is really annoying.
That's why I said I hope, money does have a way to corrupt things. Sometime it starts as a noble thing: "let's do this one thing because it's a necessary evil..."

(see: Apple and the rumored billions Google gives them for being the iOS search engine placement)

Yeah but Google is trying, hoping and praying to destroy Apple's 50-Billion-in-profit business.
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I'm not sure if that's what he means. The discussion of the point specifically mentions applications like bug trackers and wikis - not software that tends to be developed in house. Heroku is generally used for hosting applications that you wrote, rather than for hosting open source stacks developed by others (e.g. phpBB or MediaWiki).

Saying that, it all falls under the general trend of providing system administration as a service. Given how much ongoing effort is required to maintain secure, up to date and efficient servers, this is probably a good thing.
Ew. What a nasty, mean little article. He's been drinking too much techno-pop koolaid.

"Every person - not just children - get access to infinite knowledge."

But what about the history of their community's books? The picture books thumbed through by children? Sure, perhaps we'd be better off if everyone read The Casual Vacancy on e-Readers (and many libraries are moving towards systems where demand for popular paperbacks is satisfied by digital) but getting rid of every book? EVERY book?

The value of a book isn't just in the combination of letters. Books are much richer than their raw genotype. There is the feel of the pages, the textures, the heft, the binding, the hundred little details and sense-impressions, from smell, sight, texture, sound, of reading a book - often unique from book to book. To ignore all of these displays is simply ignorant nothing more. This guy just somehow grew up with a completely fucked relationship to books.
I'm trying Pocket for a similar reason. It adds a little icon by the bookmark icon. There's no tagging or anything required, the things I save go into a private queue 'in the cloud', and it even syncs to my phone.
I read it as Tesla picking nits and ignoring the big picture issues. E.g.

* It's clearly quite hard to find the supercharger at night.

* Tesla should do a better job of indicating non supercharger charging options. This would almost have solved all the problems on its own (I got short of power owing to lousy weather and had to make a side trip to a nearby charging station.)

* Tesla's tech support people are giving out unclear (perhaps not incorrect so much as ambiguous or easily misunderstood) advice. Tesla does not dispute the advice the reporter claims to have received... Training problems?

* The car's software provides insufficient information w.r.t. charging (or buries the lead).

* The car's software doesn't account for temperature well, including not warning about overnight charge/range loss due to either heating or a cold start. I assume it has thermal sensors.

Either the reporter consistently misreports his speed or the Tesla is simply logging the wrong speed, which is entirely possible based on the variance in wheel size from spec. (I don't know the distances involved, but it should be easy for folks to verify either way.)

The 80mph (or 65-70mph if miscalibrated) speed spikes aren't worth mentioning. If you drive in traffic, rapidly overtaking someone to avoid a problem is commonplace and does not bear on the discussion. Making points like that actually undercuts Tesla's case.
I wonder if trying to cram all those meta-skills into topical classes is part of the problem.

It would be interesting to see an academic track high school program that included some sort of project academy, where the instructor was more of a mentor that guided the student through finding, examining and solving a problem that they found interesting.
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Another 164 Blockbuster stores are closing down
That's all well and good, and it's also a point I made in my original post. Where's the line, though? Is it okay to steal from Klax's authors because it came out in 1989, or because Atari isn't around anymore, or because Klax isn't for sale anymore, or because you're not explicitly charging money for it?

It's one thing to use someone else's art in a 'remix' fashion, where you use it in an early prototype to get the feel of things, or you're building a riff on an existing game that makes it different in some new or interesting way.

You certainly won't find what the original author is doing described on the wiki page for Fair Use [1], and sadly that doesn't apply to your use of Klax either.

I don't think your little HTML5 port of Klax makes you a bad person, but you should re-evaluate whether it really makes sense to have a 'software consultancy' link right above material that - no matter what you say to justify it - does not belong to you.

You did the hard work to build a playable Klax clone: Great! Now, how about you go out there and find someone to replace the art so it's legal? I'd bet there are plenty of Klax fans out there; I follow some of them on Twitter. If your goal is to promote your for-profit software consultancy, how about you spend some of those profits on making your HTML5 game legit? It's not actually that expensive.

When I was last building a for-profit title on my own, I definitely used some existing assets in early prototypes. You can find footage of them in the archives of my youtube account. But you had better believe I eradicated every last pixel of them before ever putting a trace of that game out on the internet or using it for profit. It's nothing more than the cost of doing business.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
The experience with Top Gear has probably influenced the reaction here. I don't find it childish to strongly defend your product if you believe a journalist has written a hack job on it.
In the interests of truthiness, it might be a local issue for you - CS:Source works fine for me on Linux, but perhaps you should get your startup started up before investigating further...
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