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angularjs uses jquery api , like zepto does it is a hidden dependency. but you are basically using a subset of jquery when you use angularjs.
Web being open has nothing to do with the number of rendering engines for browsers. Even having zero of them would not affect the openness of the web in any way. Firewalls would.

> It's driven less by standards and more by de-facto implementations.

That was always the case. In fact, one of the goals of WHATWG (fathers of HTML5) was to standardise how the code is rendered even if it is invalid.
"I hope that skill will always be held in higher esteem than your gender - if you had no skill, you would not be part of the discussion, and your gender is simply a modifier."

This is the point that really rang true for me. I guess I will never know if people praise my ability because they're surprised that a woman's code can be so good, or if my code is truly good. I would love to be confident in the fact that I'm highly regarded and asked to speak at conferences because of my skill and not because I can be the token woman.
I'm a little ignorant of the details here, but was ZFS a part of the Sun kernel?

I know the linux kernel is mostly monolithic, is the Solaris/openIndiana kernel the same?

Even if it is, it seems unlikely to me that the core kernel team had much to do with ZFS.

It's really more about competition between file systems, or so it seems to me. Maybe I'm splitting hairs.
More importantly, why is an email subscribe only 0.01 business days while unsubscribe is 10 days?
Ah, but it does result in stagnation on many axes. Where's the Google or Apple effort to add significant intra-page parallelism to WebKit? It's too hard in that codebase, so it's not happening. If you require that codebase for a web browser, that means no significant parallelism in web browsers.

(There's some work being done to parallelize the rendering pipeline, and a bit on painting, but parallel CSS layout seems to be completely off the table in existing browser implementations.)
I'm not sure - "simple" CLOS is really pretty simple and arguably works in a more intuitive way than most OO environments. However, if you do want more sophistication, as with most of Lisp, taking the Red Pill of the MOP can take you as deep as you want to go....

[Damn - I really need to do some more Lisp development]
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Does it support LAN Sync? Shared folders with non-SelfCloud users? Instant Upload from Android?
I've been using Squirrel and it seems ok; fairly decent most of the time, actually. (Anyone else have any thoughts on Squirrel?) I've never used psql though. I'll look into it.
You could charge a currency like bitcoin for your creations, but what would you buy with it

The creations of others, for example. Or perishable goods that the buyer doesn't happen to have.

As long as there's anything to barter, there's something that can be traded using currency.

when it's easier to trade for your own production and swap goods for things than to try and find a buyer for your bits

It can't really be more difficult to find a buyer, because the person you're trading with is a buyer, even if (s)he pays using alternative means.

Finding traders is the same as finding a buyer and a seller, with the added restriction that they must be the same person.
That's awesome feedback and something I wouldn't have come up with - so thank a lot! I'm going to release a newer version with more "Settings" options so that people can customize a bit more.
>The time I'm talking about

And again, I am saying that time is virtually non-existent. It is a red herring, used to try to pretend that "those weird people who actually learn stuff" aren't getting anything done. People are not talking about haskell and clojure instead of working. That is the entire point.
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I am enjoying watching this comment grow. I hit refresh every five minutes to get the next installment :)
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Cool, but the numbered list has everything lablled as '1.' for me: ff esr 10.0.12
Re-inventing the wheel isn't progress, but coming up with radically better solutions is. And that's much harder to do if you have to not just match a specification but also be bug-for-bug compatible with an existing large codebase that you have to reverse-engineer to achieve said compatibility.
It's hard to wade into the middle of this. Blissful ignorance only goes so far; if there are Amazon ad links and they're in every article they're there because they generate money. You can be blissfully ignorant all you want until your bank account starts lighting up and you start spending it.

I don't have a problem with people making money from their writing, but it's one thing to decry the foul nature of journalism while simultaneously filling your articles with Affiliate links.

What a weird situation, after reading that I feel very distanced from the whole situation. It just doesn't sit well.
Any love for python/django?

Or maybe will wok on top of the heroku buildpacks?
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He pretty clearly describes what he considers to be privileged and why he thinks it is not applicable. You counter by ascribing a different (some would say more valid) meaning to the same word.

On a global scale, anyone who is reasonably assured that local militia won't come in and rape their wives in front of them before executing their entire family is pretty privileged. Or anyone who has no fear of starving to death etc etc.

I thought it was a good piece, but then I am English and really rather like the safety nets that let me change career without fear. The ones that meant my motorbike accident cost me a year of my life - but didn't make me bankrupt. I cannot imagine living without them. That for damn sure makes me privileged. Even if half my wages do vanish into the taxman's coffers.
Diversity for the sake of diversity isn't going to get anywhere. That is basically gambling that something good will fall out of a different implementation just because it is different.

Instead, focus on solving problems. If the best way to solve a problem is to use webkit, then why do otherwise? If the best way is to go back and fork webkit from 2 years ago, and start your project from there, do that instead.

But don't be different just because you want to be different. Target your ambition toward something more meaningful.
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When it comes to mobile, "everything else" is the android default which is also webkit.
I'm not sure what kind of questions you normally have, but I didn't really have much trouble getting answers from StackOverflow. It's no accident that when Google "sorts through the unbelievable chaos of the entire open Web to bring up the most relevant answer to any question on any topic in a fraction of a second using the latest 21st Century search algorithms", the first link is almost always StackOverflow ;)

Also I think it's pretty impressive that Joel managed to make the website run smoothly on a vintage 486.
iOS browsers have to use WebCore for rendering/JS, but WebKit has always been optional but default on Android, WebOS, Bada, etc.

Once you consider that mobile != iOS, it seems silly to say Mobile Safari is the ridiculously dominant platform.
Frustrating things about being a programmer
That assumes that the WebKit engine is already as good as we'll need it to be or can be improved as needed in arbitrary ways.

But it's not, and it can't be.

Think about how something like the Servo project would happen (or not) in a WebKit monoculture world.
I've actually been using this since open beta. This is for those like me, who can do devops when pressed to, but really hate it otherwise. Which is most web devs I know.

The neatest thing is being able to transfer your stuff to another provider within minutes. I haven't tried the manual thingy yet, seemed like too much fiddling, really.

The cost in my case isn't significant, less than an hours worth monthly. I'd have wished for more frameworks as RoR isn't really my weapon of choice.
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Why wouldn't Google use your physical location (determined by your IP Address) to graph trends instead of using, as an example, the "flu connecticut" search term? (Granted, determining your physical location by IP Address is not always accurate.)
Perhaps there is room for a new rendering engine, one not intended for use by the end-user but by developers. It could be free of prefixes and politics, and simply implement W3C standards to the letter. Anything written for this dev-browser would then become a test case for the other browsers to follow.
We built Cloud 66 to combine the convenience of PaaS with control of having your own servers. Even if we are down, your servers will still be up on your own preferred cloud vendor serving your users! That's a win for everyone!
And run it without the zend manager which was required previously.
Cars will fill the space given to them. Every growing city will have traffic in its center. I.e., when you look at a given city block you will see all the parking filled, and cars driving in the road. But what you may miss unless you take a step back (abstractly), is that while every road in a denser city is still filled with cars, there are less roads in aggregate, and therefore less cars as well.
First-to-invent also gave the upper hand to large organizations that had the manpower/resources to document every step of their invention process.

In all honesty, it's more of a wash.
Try open source owncloud, I created a script on GitHub that will install the server with SSL on a fresh Debian server. I am syncing from OSX, Windows and Ubuntu. Try it in a VM

https://github.com/mgutz/owncloud-ssl
Lets step back from the "open" buzzword and look at the empirical facts.

Less than a decade ago you made sure your web sites ran well in Internet Explorer, a closed source browser that was allowed to stagnate. IE took the W3Cs standards as more like "guidelines" and not a specification.

- Today, every major web browser (except IE) uses an open source rendering engine (or the browser itself is open source.

- Every major web framework and library is open source.

- Most of the servers running the web are powered by an open source OS.

- The standards bodies are actually working faster than ever on new version of Ecmascript and HTML.

- IE's marketshare is smaller than ever.

Years ago some guys had a crazy idea to make a browser for KDE. Today it's powering much of the desktop web and almost ALL of the mobile web. Perhaps I just like a good love story, but it seems like this is a pretty great achievement for "open". Now, it seems pretty disingenuous to say "the web is not open" and even more so to say that just because more people are working on the same open source project that it's, "becoming increasingly less [open]."

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I am pretty happy with SumatraPDF on Windows. Orders of magnitude faster than Reader too.

http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/free-pdf-read...
Yeah I just setup two micro instances to play around with it. I'm thinking I'll setup something on DigitalOcean assuming I'm happy with what I'm seeing.
but they are the seasoning.
Disclaimer - I'm completely and utterly impartial as Mu-An works with us but Pivotal Tweaker (or Mu-Tweaker as we refer to it internally) rocks.

Pivotal was hard to scale as we ramped up stories because we couldn't get an idea of the state of play for any individual developer (i.e. how many stories are in icebox / backlog / current).

Pivotal-Tweaker lets you just see the stories for a particular person and see how their workload is distributed. Which is really useful. Thank you Mu-An :)
Interests and aptitudes are relative to pre-determined ideas of capability and who is already in those fields, who we imagine when we think about those roles and who is therefore inspired the most by them. Women had no issue pulling their weight in manufacturing and computer engineering when we needed them to during times of crisis. Blog post after blog post show and surprise readers with images of women working on airplanes and doing technical work in factories. Somehow, even today, the idea of women not only taking these jobs, but doing so in mass numbers and enjoying the work impresses people.

I think the fact that we're having these conversations at all - and consistently so - signals that it can "suck to be a female in this industry".
Hey

Would you be interested in joining another startup, like mine, as a cofounder? I am the only founder.

As a suggestion, you should join a startup (not necessarily mine) and since you are not burdened by the thought of securing your next meal, you can really take much bigger challenges, much higher risk (in terms of time, not necessarily money).

For instance, I see a lot of people saying release early, go to market asap, but I somehow feel the otherwise and I agree that's a risky approach but not totally unworthy.

Just a suggestion.

I am looking for cofounder currently, someone who is willing to take risk (a lot of it) so if it suits your appetite, then you are welcome. I do not expect any money from you, will not pay you ad expect you to take care of your expenses until we secure a round or go profitable.

As far as what I am working on, I am elaborating a lot on it because that does not matter. Personalities should match first.

Contact me: shail2@live.com if interested.
I am based in India.
Thanks for the question - there is a little more detail here:
https://www.cloud66.com/help/cloud66_stack

Happy to answer specific questions
Glyph, an “untrusted” mobile wallet app
10+ years here too. Recently forced to switch because it's gotten so bad. Maybe if they aren't working the render engine they will have more time to work on performance.
It's interesting how this became the groupthink because in the beginning the general opinion was, correctly, negative towards the metro style UI.
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I would like to point out that often a company has multiple email vendors and may be in the process of migrating. This means that there are multiple systems that need yo be updated. And they may be using multiple email lists internally. Generally the 10 day is really only a few days, but they are giving themselves leeway in case a weekly sync fails
We're not talking about parsing in base 10, we're talking about parsing in base 8. I need to be able to tell if the parse succeeded or not, silently hiding errors is bad. The correct behaviour demonstrated in perl and python:

$ perl -le 'print 07'
7
$ perl -le 'print 08'
Illegal octal digit '8' at -e line 1, at end of line
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
$ python -c 'print 07'
7
$ python -c 'print 08'
File "", line 1
print 08
^
SyntaxError: invalid token
That makes more sense to me now. Thinking about it I see it being useful to help with some currently painful tasks like converting old wiki content that has a non-standard wiki markup syntax (or no markup at all) into markdown.
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I definitely don't think there will be a stampede out to KC.

But I think the idea of "arbitrary rallying flag" is a good one. This could be a really great way to evolve the KC tech community. They now have some validation (both Google and Brad Feld have invested there), and there is some excitement.

I think it's a good thing, and I'm excited to see what happens
You can pass functions as arguments to functions, so verbs, too, can have parts.
I can confirm that Mu-Tweaker really brings the thunder.
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Oh yeah, I've read that Vice article before. EVIL dude. I couldn't imagine anything worse, physical or otherwise.
If you're making and publicly selling the jig, then that's prior art, and it cannot be patented by anyone else except for you.

That standard has not changed at all.
I find that funny because even if you add up everything WebKit, Gecko+IE+Opera+Others still have a higher browser share. And most of the "large parts" of the world don't even really use WebKit (I'm looking at China, India, Africa, parts of Europe etc) most of which are IE/Gecko/Opera
Same as ReMarkdown? http://fvsch.com/code/remarkdown/
Is Ann's literary technique obviously illegal? It seems like an interesting literary exercise to me, and if it's illegal to publish the results, that's a pretty interesting development.
No, they're literally copying Chromium. They're forking the source tree and including it as the rendering engine in their browser. That is a verbatim copy. There's nothing wrong with that, and I think it's a smart move and does not speak anything less of Opera (in fact it speaks probably a lot more), but it is a copy.

Before, Opera "copied" Trident by implementing the same quirks so pages behaved the same way. They were not standards compliant, and Trident was not standards compliant. Trident failed at certain implementations, and Opera deliberately failed at those same implementations to achieve the desired effect.
You know that you can always start an open source project that fixes these parallelization issues and start building out an engine that is better, right? It'd probably be a 5-7+ year project, but it certainly is doable.

In fact, it's possible that the poor parallelization support will be the Achilles' tendon of WebKit on a long-enough time scale.

This is no different than the Achille's tendon of the DOM that is procedural-style immediate mode graphics instead of retain-mode graphics. Browser apps will never compete with iOS apps in terms of user experience until this procedural approach is replaced with a declarative functional reactive approach.

Think long term. The Windows hegemony eventually buckled under its own weight. There's no reason to think that WebKit won't eventually do the same on a long enough time scale. Figure out what will lead to its collapse because that is an opportunity. In fact, letting WebKit lead the way allows you to learn all the ways in which WebKit does it wrong. WebKit will continue to trail blaze on the interface, but doesn't have to be the end all be all of implementations for those interfaces.

Between Tizen and B2G, there is plenty of innovation in the web browser space. I just hope that transclusion is always considered a first world citizen in this brave new world.
We want to make sure that the pricing only increases in small steps.

Many of your users are not price sensitive, at all, and they have a very different definition of what a "small increment" is as compared to you. For example, for a company which has 10 full-time devs, anything under $1,000 rounds to zero. If you tell them "Good news! Instead of asking for an extra $25 we ask only for an extra $5" you're telling them something which is not valuable to them at all, and it might actually be negatively valuable for them. (For example, if it causes you to make the app most responsive to the needs of people who think $25 is a lot of money instead of companies with 10+ employees.)
>in markdown, the actual numbers don’t matter

That's to be expected, you make ordered lists like that in markdown :)
Valetine's day? So what
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Who cares anymore?
Samsung App Store rejects game because main character isn't wearing a shirt.
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I didn't miss that at all, I'm simply pointing out that "fewer cars can be better" is profoundly different from "cars are fundamentally incompatible".
What's wrong with creating your own programming language?
Ha, we have the opposite problem, we have experience programming, delusions of being elite programmers, we have great ideas or so we think. Got debt, house, cars, bills, and no cash. Trade you idea for idea. How did you earn your cash? Teach me, and I can teach you how to code.
Yep - we've got Django in our roadmap too!
Won't non-driverless cars go extinct anyway, since cars don't last forever? Also I think horses are banned on some streets these days, like motorways...

It also seems to me that the transition to driverless cars will probably sneak up on us: "normal" cars will become more and more intelligent until suddenly they can drive without human input.
I actually don't like jQuery at all and I read the headline in negative, so your theory holds true, atleast to me.
Please let our pointy haired bossses with MBAs point their Microsoft Access or Excel at you platform and pull in whatever they need without calling up dev team in the middle of the night.
I've heard good things so far. I know a couple groups using it and their impressions pretty much echo what you said. They felt a bit behind during project 1 while they tried to learn the new language, but are starting to feel more comfortable with it now (we're a week into project 2 currently).
Is this just another wacky advertisement? Why would people use this over the more useful/well-known ones like stripe or braintree payments?

Even if it's free, it's not really any better. Running the payment process of checking/validating cards and all that for your company individually that is primarily web-based may be more work and end up costing more.
> there are less roads in aggregate, and therefore less cars as well.

Fewer. Fewer roads, fewer cars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewer_vs._less
Can't wait till Sequel Pro supports Postgres. Was really excited to see them publicly start down the path of implementing it last September. http://stuconnolly.com/blog/sequel-pro-postgresql-support/
IMHO that would only be true if you consider 'web developers' as 'users' of technologies. Actual 'end-users' usually don't care what technology was used, as long as they can use the website/tool without any hassle.
'subl -w' is the correct incantation.
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Yes, #1 hit when you Google for postgresql JavaScript:
https://code.google.com/p/plv8js/

I can't vouch for any particular maturity level but seems to have active users and it's been around a few years already.
It might have been a good idea to spend a paragraph or three defining privilege as used in your post. Your use is valid, but it's going to annoy a lot of people who are accustomed to rich white men trashing them, and they might not be able to read it as intended.
That is definitely not how the law works.

Surely we agree though that it doesn't much matter here. I don't think Bill Budge is going to sue you for porting Pinball Construction Set.
A good quote from the article:

One rendering engine will go. Some lament that. Some of
those who lament it seemed never to test in it, excluded
it from their demos, or actively blocked it.
True. I don't work at a large company, and we definitely don't have a huge install base, but we develop several large JS apps, none of which use jQuery.

Only our smaller, cobbled together pages use jQuery. If it grows, we switch to something that meets our idiomatic style better: smaller modules in a CommonJS/AMD style.

JQuery takes over your code, and it seems like WebKit is doing the same thing. Some of our developers only include -webkit prefixes until I complain loud enough for them to throw in the rest: -moz, -o-, -ms.

I hope FF never switches, because then we'd be even more locked in.
Nothing. It already exists as a service:

http://www.priceusa.com.au/

And many US retailers are now shipping to Australia to take advantage of the price diff:

http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/international_stores_that_ship_...
Yeah, technically markdown doesn't need the numbers to be incremented, so I thought it'd be more fun to explicitly not use counters. Maybe it's too confusing though. There's a discussion about it here:
https://github.com/mrcoles/markdown-css/issues/1