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Since you decided to use emotional language in your title, I'll fire back: you're an idiot.

Yes, if you deliberately set out to write bad code (CFDictionaryCreate instead of @{}? Come on.) then you can make a language look really bad. This should surprise nobody.

I'm afraid that, while you may have attempted to make ObjC look bad, you simply managed to make yourself look bad.
> There is also nothing stopping you from porting your favorite development tools to NaCl.

You expect people to dedicate YEARS of their life porting development tools to a platform that in all likelihood is going to be dead soon ? Not happening.

> If the Pixel renders it the same way, it is a nicer experience.

Sure. And if we are completely ignoring price/value then reading it on a supercomputer connected to a Sony 4K television would equally be better.
It's probably enough to check your e-mail and calendar all month as long as you don't download/upload attachments.
Why pay $1,299 for a thin client OS even if it's running thick client hardware? I can run a browser and so much more in a macbook air or thinkpad in the same price range.
Same thoughts here. My parents are simple people. If I would tell them I had less sign-ups this week than last week, they would be pretty devastated. Talking anything more serious is no-go.
> EVERYONE KNOWS that the screen MUST be flexible

No. I don't even recall having ever see a flexible watch in real life. Curved or flat hard screens all the way.
a two day hospitalization that the insurance company got for $2,100 (after the insurance adjustment), would cost an uninsured person over $21,000

Pooh, I ran up a bill of close to that size in only 12 hours without any serious injuries :-/ In fairness the hospital did tell me about their discount policy and cut it down by about half, but it was still kind of a ripoff.

Of course it seemed as if every doctor in the place took it upon themselves to have a quick chat with me, and then billed me for the privilege afterwards. I got copies of all the hospital records afterwards and the amount of duplication was ridiculous, not to mention dangerous; there's so much paperwork floating about that my discharge nurse initially gave me the paperwork for a patient in the adjoining room.

I think this is pretty unethical, really; ostensibly they're all there to help (and understandably want to to be able to defend themselves for accusations of poor medical care) but as I was recovering from a near-fatal accident the last thing I wanted was some new person coming around every 45 minutes to ask me the same questions afresh, when I had neither the energy nor the initiative to refuse.
To help get context on this, I went back in time and looked at discussion about the initial iPad launch:

- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1081505

- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1081140

The first poll is especially telling. Overwhelmingly, people said they wouldn't get this device (2/3 of the voters). The initial iPad was obviously very successful.

The complaints in the second thread are largely a mirror of the conversation in this thread, except for back then, nobody came up with counterarguments in favor of the iPad. Does that indicate that the market for this sort of thing is different these days?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I agree that it looks too much like an Apple product, but I think the differences they made are nice and the machine over all looks better than the Macbook Pro.

I am disappointed though. One of the images they showed was in low light and it made it look like the whole surface of the keyboard area was charcoal sort of shade. I think that would look way more sleek and professional looking, and at the same time it would help to differentiate it from Apple products.
And no fraud would be stopped.
At Pellucid Analytics we're using Play 2.1 with a similar success story to LinkedIn's. The undersold feature IMHO is the asynchronous responses: with the excellent new monadic scala.concurrent.Future interface, you can more easily put together non-blocking web apps with code that looks slick and concise
But the OS is cloud based, so you don't need the processor power or the RAM. That's the entire point of ChromeOS.
I'm actually a fairly big fan of running Wordpress on Heroku. It works great and it's very nice to have my Rails, Node and PHP apps all on the same PAAS.

I use the wordpress-heroku project [1] and it has been great.

1 - https://github.com/mhoofman/wordpress-heroku
So why wouldn't you spend the few hundred more and get a MacBook Pro that isn't a dumb terminal ?
"Today our partner, New Relic, released an update to the Ruby New Relic agent"

Does this also apply to other non-Ruby frameworks (eg. Django)?
Tell that to Aaron Swartz.
No it's not.If you had some environmental consciousness you would understand that plastic bags are very bad for the environment. The average life of a plastic bag is no more than 20 minutes and takes decades (if not centuries) to decompose. And 3¢ is a joke. It should definitely be higher. I say 1$ would be perfect because then people will buy reusable bags instead. See this link : http://www.reusethisbag.com/25-reasons-to-go-reusable.asp
You used emotional language in your title, and now you're surprised that people are getting emotional? What kind of reaction did you expect?
The main frustration here is that the Requests are those that are actively initiated by a user. A friend is actively trying to invite you to the app, rather than just an app spamming those who have once installed it.
Absolutely, many people don't realize that interviews are a two way street. Not only is the company interviewing you to assess your technical skills and cultural fit, but you are interviewing the company as well to see whether you'd like to work there.

If you're a "superstar" (I don't really like that term), you want to work with other talented individuals. So if the interview process is non-existent or overly easy, it sends a negative signal about the "potential" quality of other hires.
The only security risk it needs to be is to blind us from other security risks. That can be accomplished by its behavior in the network monitoring tool (many malware applications behave very similarly in a p2p fashion) or by putting us at risk of running over the amount of traffic we're licensed for in any of our tools. We're not in the business of buying licenses to support a program we explicitly disallow, so instead we're in the business of explicitly disallowing software that would put us over that license. P2P raises our risk level just by being noisy. iTunes does the same thing, and it's not P2P. It's just really, really chatty and it is also disallowed by policy. Chrome and Outlook don't put us in danger of being over our license or out of bandwidth.

Users don't understand. I get it. Information security is a young industry, and some decisions that are made might not be immediately clear. It's a negative job; if you're doing everything exactly right, users will be complaining that you're getting in their way and the bosses will be wondering why you even have a budget. If you're not doing everything exactly right, users will be complaining that they have odd charges on their credit cards and the bosses are wondering why they can't log into their email anymore.

You might not like my driving, but covering my eyes with your hands doesn't solve that problem. P2P blinds my network monitors just like your hands blind my eyes.
I have not seen another templating system that compares. What other framework has it such that the templates are html. Not "html like" but actual html?

Honestly, I think for me the big win with them is actually the inversion of how the template is done. Instead of writing some template that specifies how it is manipulated, you write a template and then directly manipulate it in the framework. (That make sense?) In essence, it seems that it is automating the typical first task on getting some html from a designer. This is great, because often the template can be redone and then all of the modifications the programmer was going to make to them is just part of the framework.

As noted by TylerE above, I can see how this might not be a factor. I personally loved it.
I own a Surface Pro and it's crap.

It's like someone chopped the screen off a laptop and put it where the keyboard goes.

If you're considering a Surface Pro just get an ultrabook instead.
Besides the stocket market evaluations and all those considerations, I have to say that I am amazed how spoiled America is sometimes.

How I wish we had such an entrepreneur in Europe, someone willing to shake the status quo and speed up the process of making the future happen.

Tesla is a company that is trying to make AMERICAN electric cars, he should encouraged and cheered. People with some money and liberal views should be jumping on those cars, it's History in the making, a true revolution. I really hope he suceeds, that'd be an encouraging sign that science and technology can actually have a good impact on climate and consumer practices vis à vis greenhouse gases and the approach to modernity.
The android client doesn't use p2p.
Where are the home/end/pgup/pgdown keys? It doesn't have a function key as in Mac either.
Awesome. Thanks for the responses!
In my honest opinion.
Never have to clear old *.pyc files again
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I'm confused. People said the Surface Pro was overpriced. This thing does much, much less than a Surface Pro but costs $300 more.

And it's being praised?

Wow.
Do you run into issues when some of the plugins require a shared, persistent filesystem? I know you can redirect uploads to S3, etc. but some other plugins expect a filesystem
You're a complete beginner with the language and borrowed some examples from an obviously biased source to make a claim that you're in no position to be making... and this is supposed to make you look better?

At least own what you said.... You can't make a post like this and then try to roll it back with "ha ha only kidding not my examples anyway".
Fair point. The dishonesty is simple to me: open and shut. It's in the state filings. PrivCo at best got pretty bad information and published it without verifying it, and at worst made a bunch of stuff up to drive traffic. Not much to discuss there - it's bad.

LivingSocial's business, though, changes over time, and is worth discussing from time to time. Down rounds are always interesting to me. The decreasing margin in the deals business is interesting to me. That LS still apparently plans an IPO, in the face of a fairly brutal down round is interesting to me. That they think they can be worth $1B is interesting. (As is the current valuation when you read between the lines). The sliding liquidation preference is whole discussion unto itself. But yes, it's a pretty well trodden topic when reduced to "LS's business model is flawed". So I'm guilty there.
By "specs like this," I'm assuming you just mean the high resolution display. I disagree that a hi-res display is only useful or "meaningful" for development, design, or gaming. It's great for web browsing, which is my main usage for the iPad, and I happily upgraded from iPad 2 to the 3rd generation iPad just for the retina display.
I don't use FB apps, but by any chance is it common to provide rewards to users for inviting their friends via Requests?
Pennsylvania's "convenience store" label should just say Wawa. That's half the missed connections posts in Philadelphia.
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Not stopped, but it would decrease fraud, as the fraction of payments made in bitcoins is guaranteed to be impossible to charge back.

As this fraction increases, fraud is reduced further and further.

It would be interesting to have a payment platform that evaluates the trustworthiness of a customer right before payment (based on factors such as customer history, shipping address matching the billing address...), and force those deemed "risky" to pay in Bitcoins. It could even handle CC authorization failures: "credit card declined? No problem, pay in Bitcoins instead."
Do you realise how completely ridiculous and illogical you sound ?

> I've never really understood being cheap with something that you're going to look at and touch 6-10 hours a day for 3-4 years, on average.

So if that is the case why on earth would you buy a laptop that doesn't do anything ? Why wouldn't you spend the few hundred more and get a MacBook Pro that runs Eclipse, Sublime, Visual Studio, Photoshop, Office etc.
Having actually deployed a PHP project on Heroku, this would have been a godsend at the time I started. While Heroku unofficially supports PHP (for Facebook apps), their default PHP stack leaves a lot to be desired. In particular, lack of default zlib and multi-byte string support caused all sorts of chaos.

I don't blame Heroku for this, since they don't officially support PHP, but it was a PITA. Luckily, someone else had already encountered these issues, and I was able to plunk in some pre-built libs.

I chose Heroku because I wanted to familiarize myself with the top PaaS provider, but if I had to do it again, I would have bitten the bullet, learned a new language, and not mentioned it to the client. Or, if I were forced to use PHP, I'd have gone with a provider where it's a first-class citizen.
If you are almost always on wifi it could be usefull for checking occasional email or checking something in a pitch.

But mostly I guess it's a appetizer.
For some reason I thought it was a plan treat carbon emissions as something that could be traded. So if I have a factory and lowering my carbon emissions would cost me $5000 per ton/day and you had a different type of factory that could lower it's emissions for $1000 per ton/day I could sell you my emissions for a negotiated price (in this example, let's say we settled on $1400 per ton/day) and you can lower your emissions and I can keep chugging along. The same amount of carbon is in the atmosphere but it only cost $1400 per ton/day and you got to pocket some money to make your factory run cleaner.

I understand now that it is much more complicated than that but I like the idea of what I thought it was.
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> This is mostly due to the Scala compiler being a bit slow.

True. Reloading pages on Play 1 (Java) took less than a second. It's about ten seconds now on Play 2 because of Scala.

The move to Scala feels like a mixed bag to me: it added both features and bloat to Play. Play 1 feels so light and fast in comparison.

It seems to me the Play developers moved to Scala more for personal fun than for their users (nothing wrong with that, just making an observation).
I think most of Canada has a .05c fee.
That sounds like a good idea and I thought I had bookmarked something like that 2 or 3 years ago but I can't find it at the moment.

If you build it, you have at least one user, here.
The grandfather of this exploration is Moldover and for the purposes of this discussion ignore his current tendecy to involve an electric guitar in his sets ... a recent development.

http://moldover.com/

http://vimeo.com/moldover/live-at-future-everything-excerpts

He ended up designing and building his own controllers using arcade buttons.

Since this is hacker news I'll point out the whole investigation is largely a technology issue. Many studies have shown that expressiveness of great instrumentalists rests on incredibly small timing variations, which ARE NOT random. Because of latency and more especially jitter in the hardware/software interface true virtuosity is either very hard or impossible to develop using most currently available tools. What the actual acceptable level of machine induced random variations are is a much debated point. This is why I pushed Lippold Haken so hard to increase the sampling rate of the continuum fingerboard to its current sub-millisecond levels. The underlying technology of the madrona soundplane can be implemented at audio rate, which, by definition, should be fast enough to obviate this need.
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If buying a product makes the buyer happy, you can hardly call the purchase "irrational."
Is that new? Under Blair/Brown it was a waste of time and I've mostly been out of the country since then.
The job market is great right now, ask away!
Where'd you get those numbers?
> If you wrote an application that does nothing but call SetFileAttributes I suspect you've not heard of the attrib command

I didn't explain clearly enough. The python script uses an ini style file to remember one value between runs. On Mac/Linux I can hide that file purely by putting a dot in front of the name. On Windows I hide it by changing attributes to hidden, but have to unhide for the portion of the script that access the file. The attrib command isn't relevant in this case. (And yes I've heard of it.)

Just to make things clearer, these are the non-mobile operating systems I've used beyond the superficial as well as doing software development on the vast majority: Prodos, MSDOS (3 through 6), Windows 2, Windows 3 (including real mode), Windows for Workgroups, Windows NT, Terminal Server, 2000, XP, Vista and 7, Pyramid Unix, SunOS, SVR4 (several derivatives and flavours), Linux, and MacOS. I've used several more but deeply enough to make the list (hello GEM, OS/2, AS/400, BeOS, a zillion Unix flavours ...).
The environment can go fuck itself, and this is the wrong forum anyhow.
Close - it's "Chauffeur".
That's a shame. I'm sure quite a few people were interested in putting Linux onto the machine.
That is why Everyone in America needs a really good health insurance plan. Lesson Learned, don't be cheap while choosing your insurance plan at your company. Go #ObamaCare!
I don't think "cheap" is the best way to explain it. I have a high deductible plan which is pretty cheap and tied to an HSA. My wife and I are on the hook for the first $5,000 per year, and the insurance will pick up 100% of the costs after that. I won't run into the problems you're talking about. I like it because I don't really think minor medical expenses should really be covered by insurance anyway. I liken it to having car insurance pay for routine car maintenance.
Who would have thought that taking health insurance away from the person and assigning it to the employer would lead here?

I would interject "who would think that a complex set of interlocking incentives would lead to improvements?" Who?

The whole arrangement seems like Ayn Rand's bad acid trip despite there being many articulate and intelligent people who have bought Coolaid, with and without personal gain involved.

Pile incentive on incentive till things are ready to break, rationally rearrange things up a bit till the process of exploiting perverse incentives takes hold again and things are once again ready to break.

And this situation "interesting" only from the outside. The intellectual irony is lost those dying or having their lives ruined.

A substantial portion of the country can see that marketization is simply something doesn't scale for medical care. State health care has pretty much been shown itself to be the only sensible way to organize health care in a modern industrialized society.

That won't take us there because the population of opportunists who make tremendous profits from exploiting the present perverse incentives is huge and they have essentially completed regulator capture and virtual state capture.

What will happen? It's mostly the relationship between a parasite and host. The parasite has an incentive to keep the host alive but an incentive to keep the host healthy. Sounds like the future.
I believe it's much easier to hack this one to run Linux than any ARM-based Chromebook. It certainly has enough memory, storage and processing power to be a decent development machine (provided you avoid heavy IDEs).

It's likely possible to even run Windows on this machine.
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Just ignoring the specs and the Chromebook concept for a second (yes, this baby is useless for most of us, obviously), I'm very impressed with the design.

This is the first time ever I've seen a laptop design that is not a total Apple rip-off and looks classy. At least it doesn't scream "compromise" like 99% of all other non-Apple laptops.
The use case that most people cite when they say that they're developing on a chrome machine is to use it as a dumb SSH terminal to their actual development machines. So they're not going to benefit from the higher performance, because all the heavy lifting is being done elsewhere.
Everyone is saying that you can easily turn this into a development machine with SSH or a web IDE like action.io ... but what if I don't have internet? You never leave your home?

What's the point of a mobile chromebook if I won't use it ouside my home or my workplace? And last time I checked there isn't open WiFi in the streets.
I imagine "specs like this" is referring to the Core i5 rather than the display.
From my experience, the weirdest thing is that you're rarely informed about something having a cost. It can be something as simple as a one minute chat that later shows up on the bill as a separate item. Not only that, but every time I've tried to ask what something costs, I can never ever get a straight answer out of them, I'll just have to find out when I get the bill and pray it's not too much. It's insanity.
Presumably the cost of the services Medicare provides would decrease further if the volume increased under universal care.

Secondly, Medicare would be better funded if it was paid into like virtually every other single-payer system.

What's driving the deficit is taxes that are too low and military spending that's too high.
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For $1,300 this should come with Google Glass
Yes, at least if not directly - then by making it harder to proceed without "friends" playing the games.

Also, it's not like they have carefully selected the group of friends that they want! The ones I have seen just have a "Send to all friends" tickbox.
Here's a list of 4K videos on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5BF9E09ECEC8F88F
iirc, it has always been Google's plan to combine Chrome and Android.
No, looking at treating sick humans--people who have no choice but to get treated or die--as a business instead of a social responsibility is exactly the problem. Business opportunities created the disgusting situation we're in.
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> No, the point was that you could seamlessly move between different clients

One word. Dropbox.

I work on three computers every day. Documents, Preferences etc all sync immediately. And how does living in the cloud help me when there is network failure ?
Yes for logging.

3DS, while effective, is not a bullet proof solution. Requiring 3DS transactions will impact sales, and can impact them enough that it's better to not use it. I always recommended a scoring approach (reach a certain threshold, and we require 3DS).

Even still 3DS only affects the initial transaction. Any recurring payment won't benefit from the 3DS transactions. There are ways to encourage 3DS use (discounted membership fees if one performs a 3DS transaction), but outside of games like that, 3DS only affects the transaction it's made with.