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I tried:

https://github.com/nikcub/floyd

I had a bunch of friends and family members who needed simple static sites so I generated it for them (this was before Jekyll).

I could use it myself, but I could never get them to do the updates themselves from their own machines.

Once Jekyll and the rest came out, I switched my own use over and switched everybody else over to Weebly, and then didn't bother continuing work on Floyd and just let it idle (I pushed it up to GitHub).

Each time one of these projects is released I scan through them and try them out to see if there is any new idea to pick up on.

It then occurred to me that a real innovation in this space is a lot of work and trial+error.

For technical people, you have Jekyll, Hyde, etc. For non-technical people you don't really have anything at the moment. I think a project with a web interface that generates files would be interesting, or having a folder of text files (or Word, Pages etc. documents) that are then generated and uploaded by double-clicking on an icon.

I know there are a bunch of apps in the Mac AppStore in this space, but I haven't tried any of them - so it is possible that this solution already exists. I am not so in love with the idea that I would drop everything else right now to work on it.

Edit: I realize my original comment might offend OP but I didn't intend it to be that way, there are only so many ways you can say "work on expanding the potential uses rather than reimplementing etc." without it sounding dickish
I don't think this guy's message is all that complicated. He simply advises a little self-awareness and to not go around acting like your shit has no odor.
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Conveniently ignoring that it's sold at the same price as the MacBook Pro retina 13'' is convenient.
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Having a culture who encourages financial support of open source projects is good for everyone. But forcing everyone to pay in order to use a project is not. I have about 20 of these projects in my requirements.txt and if I were living in a third-world country, I would have to pay an equivalent of one month of my salary if they all demanded payment.
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"Too big to fail" means "they are our buddies and give us money and we won't prosecute them".
The author missed community open source projects like PostgreSQL and Linux. They aren't looking for a buyout.
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What? Paying for open source? Isn't there a license for that already?
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Anybody knows a good alternative?

Leaking my personal info is one thing, loosing customers personal info is simply far too boneheaded to begin with.
The touchscreen is everything. I would willingly pay double, triple for a touchscreen macbook pro.
I really can't imagine how that is supposed to be even remotely controversial. That's probably as controversial as saying that a $200-CPU built in 2013 is faster than a CPU in 1993.

Isn't that just repeating the “all languages are equal”-myth?
The money has shifted from one area to the next.

Steam made little money at the start, but the market shifted and now theyre a big player.

I remember buying gaming magazines and using BBS's back in the day but the market shifted.

Same with consoles vs PC due to pirating.
I old icon of the industry, but it feels like they shoot themselves in the foot when they took down daily victim from their site years ago.
I'm wondering, isn't asking for your criminal history during job interviews the same as discriminating based on age or race? I mean, even if you were convicted, you've paid the price by doing your time and after that you should have equal opportunities at a job like anyone else, right?

Maybe I'm just too idealistic but I never understood why we hardly give these people a second chance. And then people wonder why recidivism rates are so high.
[meteor dev and OP] Sorry to see this here. I don't know any of the people who commented here so far. I just smiled reading their stories -- they're the reason we work so hard on this project.

If you're ever in SF, come to a Devshop and meet some of the community in person. I think it will change your impression. http://www.meetup.com/Meteor-SFBay/events/103016662/
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[core dev] Four of us are not "guys" :) They move fast too!
I actually paid a small amount to get this open source project off the ground. https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/snowball-getting-communi...
and you do what with them? Browse the internet.

Many of those features are available on Windows and Mac machines (you can actually work on them) at a cheaper price.

So what's Chrome selling point? A $1300 brick unless you're online?
RIP GameSpy. I owe a lot of my interest in programming languages to an essay I read in 2000 on GameSpy back when they were much cooler and had a "dev week;" the author was some guest writer named Tim Sweeney, illustrated by some outfit called "penny arcade;" alas its not hosted by GameSpy anymore but, thank gosh for time machines:

http://web.archive.org/web/20000302031550/http://www.gamespy...
It's a laptop - <everything you do on a laptop> + browser.

Pathetic is what it is.
or the short version "u no make enough money byebye" ;-)
Live your life however you want, but that sounds shitty to me.
Like I asked in other thread, do you have any opinions about Scooter http://www.scooterframework.com/ and ActiveWeb https://code.google.com/p/activeweb/ ? These looks more RoRish and productive than Play!. Also, some users of Play! 1.x looking to fork the framework for better support (I think) https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/playone
I wouldn't be so sure because of the display resolution. Do windows and Linux work good on that?
I love that we get these political discussions on hacker news, but I sometimes wish we as a community would spend as much time thinking about politics as we do thinking about programming and science.

Big banks function very much as part of the government, in many ways the big banks determine government policy, certainly to a much greater extent than popular opinion does. There are many forms of this public-private merging of government. To take just one aspect, consider the revolving door whereby bank executives go between their banks and government jobs and back again: to just pick one example virtually at random, obamas chief of staff is a "former" citi group executive. I wonder, if a bank executive goes to washington for a little while, do they even notice that they changed jobs?

This article explains that the big banks wouldn't even be profitable without massive tax payer support, here is a choice quote from the article which really drives home how intense the stranglehold banks have over government policy:

"Neither bank executives nor shareholders have much incentive to change the situation. On the contrary, the financial industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars every election cycle on campaign donations and lobbying, much of which is aimed at maintaining the subsidy. The result is a bloated financial sector and recurring credit gluts."

Some people wonder what could be done about such a situation. The sad truth is that there are already an overwhelming number of ideas that are floating around that have already been demonstrated to work (see iceland). The problem is not coming up with a good idea, the problem is how to implement one of the many good ideas which have already been proven to work.

The crux of the matter is that only the power of a strong federal government can take on the even more powerful too big too fail banks. The only way political change happens is when people get organized, and the american political system gives us a lot of freedoms. If you live and a free country and abstain from participating in politics, then in my opinion you have abdicated your responsibility as a citizen.
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really? for the price i assume it's a computer for working. I can hardware imagine a single situation when i'm programming code / writing with a word processor / making music / creting graphics and I'd feel the need to dirty the vertical screen that's in front of me with a movement of the arm that gets me away from the keyboard and the mouse.

Oh, let alone that I can hardly use a computer running Linux to work professionally in the graphics / music / media fields, but to each his own: maybe you like the idea of a 1300$ machine to surf the web and play angry bird, and it's not overpriced since it's not from Apple.
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I find writelatex.com to be immensely useful.
yeah, but you're pushing the complexity away from the author and onto the reader who needs to decode it, and the readers don't like it ;)
Reminds of this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience
Though the context doesn't fit exactly. and is a weak point for the analogy, but still the idea is interesting.
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According to my company's stats, Foursquare is far more popular than people would expect. It's a nontrivial number of people that exceeds instagram's traffic within our domain. This may be due to our domain or other factors (like we're one of the few to support foursquare).

The Graph API is also quite confusing and returns rather inconsistent results...meaning the API is so vague as to what is to be returned, it's a whole subtask to parse and interpret what you get per request. On the other hand, foursquare is straightforward and far less disparate. Would it be so hard for foursquare to return valid json? Hey, you must quote your attribute tags, not just your values! Sheesh.
One of Boeing's fixes is to add insulation between the cells, which is exactly what Elon Musk proposed.
We're using it because it's Scala-centric as we use that a lot, pretty much migrating from Java to Scala for new systems.
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http://imgur.com/ITACaEL

What the hell am I looking at right now, seriously?

Your idea has merit, but I truly didn't understand what your site did or offered until I scrolled down to your second headline. That is typically a death sentence for most online sales rhetoric.
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i don't know of any malloc implementations that return memory to the system. the only way to do that is to pass a negative value to sbrk, which requires all the memory being returned to be at the end of the data segment. even if you free 99% of the memory you were using, if one byte is still in use at the end of the data segment no memory can be returned. this is almost always the case in practice, so no malloc implementations bother to return memory in this way. on the other hand, unmapping an anonymous mmap does return the memory to the system. most mallocs handle large allocations by delegating to anonymous mmap for this reason. you probably could've tweaked the mmap threshold for tcmalloc to get the same result.

edit: apparently tcmalloc is using mmap to allocate more of its memory than i realized, not sure why i thought it was using sbrk for everything
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Why do big companies like Google think that programmers should work in openspace?
You mean address space. The OS can and will reclaim all the memory it likes, when it likes.

Pages that are mapped but are left untouched for a long time aren't problematic in modern systems. There is a small cost for the PTE but nothting like an entire page of physical memory.
Isn't that what QA is for? My team is lucky enough to have a dedicated tester that has to approve every build in test and staging before we're allowed to deploy to production. It can be a pain but it does catch a lot of sloppy code.
If you're serious about Windows support, I'm guessing that you could use msys to make a zip (that's Windows for "tarball") with everything pre-installed. Then have people point-and-click on the launcher.

Of course, nowadays I hear devs have to pay Microsoft to have the privilege of not having Windows call their products viruses...
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Does anyone know what archival format the library is using?
About [1] Sorry about that: the document you linked to is amazingly stale. tcmalloc has been releasing memory to the system for many years. See for example the IncrementalScavenge routine in a version of page_heap.cc from Dec 2008:

https://code.google.com/p/gperftools/source/browse/trunk/src...

One caveat: physical memory and swap space is released, but the process's virtual size will not decrease since tcmalloc uses madvise(MNONE) to release memory.

About [2], code using tcmalloc-specific features/symbols is definitely a problem. I would strongly advise against doing that and sticking to the libc interfaces instead for the reason you pointed out.
No! I remember using GameSpy to tee-up games with my friends. It was a great program. I also loved The All-Seeing Eye, was also brilliant but had less features. Such a shame.
Building emergency shelters as quickly as possible?

Repairing wind-blown greenhouses in remote places as quickly as possible?

Building a water-pipe as quickly as possible?

Elevator-to-the-stars building mechanic?
Seems like another similar system to Jekyll, et al. I don't think many heavily technical people understand how alienating this kind of approach is to the average user. Wordpress is popular because its understandable, installation is done in such a way that its fairly easy and its powerful enough.

Static generation blogs may seem simple to us but to most people who want to blog they seem ridiculously complicated.
Even more true in hindsight...
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It works differently from Kickstarter; for one thing, it emphasizes maintenance over new development. You really have to have an existing successful project to make use of it... which is probably why no one is using it yet :-(
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Chester's First Law shouldn't be a law. Essential complexity varies at different levels of abstraction and abstractions are what causes them to change. So, it isn't a conserved quantity.

Computer tech and even programming is a great example of complexity being reduced, in some cases, as an abstraction is added.
Assuming you're applying the appropriate effort over a large enough sample, which it sounds like you are, then the logical possibilities are that people either don't want to make friends, generally, or that people don't want to make friends with you, specifically.

The first one seems more easily tested -- for example, it can be disproved if other people are making friends under reasonably similar circumstances. It may turn out to be the case, however, that you're aging into life phase in which people are generally less inclined to buddy up. If this or some other issue is the case, you may need to change the conditions -- e.g. move somewhere else, seek young friends, etc.

If you begin to suspect it's the latter (people don't want to make friends with you specifically), then what you want to get is some honest feedback so you can evolve into an easier-to-befriend person. The good news is, a little self-awareness goes a long way.
I see now why I'm being downvoted. See, now there is substance to the article. 10 hours ago, it was 2 paragraphs on citadel malware and cnc servers and 3 more on their anti-malware app, with gratuitous screenshots of such. It /was/ an ad.
Lastpass - haven't found anything better.
Strange, the page showed up first when I googled "tcmalloc" and the problem was also present in the version that I was using (at least I think it was). My apologies.

Yeah, regarding [2], that was definitely not my idea.
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Vic's "Real Names" (TM) policy was bad enough, despite the massive internal feedback he received asking for pseudonymous support.

Andy has embarrassed himself several times by restricting access to the Android code while, at the same time, claiming that Android was open. Granted most users don't care about the source code but it's a punch in the face for all the OSS enthusiasts who believed in Android's open model.

And Android still developed behind closed doors for no good reason. Not only that but the team is siloed from other parts of Google, like some sort of exclusive club.
I see what you're getting at here, but how does WordPress push complexity towards the user?
They should go a step further - mail a physical letter for you with your printed signature on it (some HTML5 app that lets you draw your signature with the mouse). Charge you $1 via Stripe or some other mechanism to recover postage/labor.
We already know the whole world is a creepy demagogue joke, do we? I find this article interesting, but extremely unsurprising.
I was talking about memory that was used in the past, but is no longer used.

The OS can either keep it resident or swap it out, but it has no way of knowing that it is no longer in use (short of something like madvise()). In the realm of sanity, the OS can't just arbitrarily throw away memory that a process has written to (unless it also kills the process).
A more useful way to approach this might be to ask for examples of city sites that people think are good, and why.

It would probably also help to be clearer in your objectives -- city sites can have vastly different goals, from helping citizens through processes like getting permits and paying traffic tickets, to attracting visitors, to promoting the members of its chamber of commerce.
I am really saddened by tech writers making false statements about India. There are many wrong facts in the article, I wrote a response to the article about what's wrong with it. Here it is http://www.geekybuddha.org/blog/2013/02/22/re-redbus-continu...
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Is this just GameSpy the gaming website (eugh) or GameSpy's server browser (also eugh, but it serves a purpose in life)?
BF1942 and Quake and a couple other older games used it.
Well, it would be very useful making music and graphics, just off of the frustration I've felt with both of those ventures and a lack of touchscreen. But no, I just feel hate the disconnect between gestures and the screen: I always fumble them, to the point where the only "gesture" I have is scrolling.

I should also point out that I only have one computer, not one for dev and one for play, so I really want a touchscreen and a keyboard.
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Yes, he was definitely putting the cart before the horse. Forcing people to pay for every tiny little project would lead to far less open-source activity on the low-end. The lack of support may be a problem, but it's necessary–not everything is worth supporting. And frankly, a couple dozen people paying $5 is not enough to seriously encourage anyone to commit themselves to long-term maintenance. You have to turn the complaint on the head and ask yourself are we better with the code out in the wild even if it's unsupported than not existing at all? It's hard to deny that the answer is yes. Even if you have to learn it and self-support, there's still an opportunity to save time and for new ideas to blossom.
Neither do I.

For an extra $200, you can get twice the RAM, four times the storage, a better battery, and the ability to install whatever OS suits your fancy.
Not necessarily, in other countries the relation of medical costs to average middle class salary might be very different. While in USA you are billed an annual salary for a short stay in the hospital, in many countries it's more like a month salary or less.
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Adding to the other correct answers on this page, it allows the company in question to introduce a salesperson into the equation. Even if 100% of customers were charged the same price, salespeople will be more effective closers than web pages most of the time.

As this tends to be true only when prices are high, and given that salespeople are not cheap, I generally take this to be an indicator that prices will be high, almost certainly higher than direct competitors who post their pricing prominently.
yes, in simple

1 Lakh = 100 Thousand
1 Crore = 10 Million

They fall in between the million-billion range.

1--> billion
0--> 10 crore/100 million
0--> crore
0--> million
0--> lakh
0--> ten thousand
0--> thousand
0--> hundred
0--> tens
0--> ones
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"waiting for opponent..." on /?random

Is it down?

Edit: Reloading the page (with /?random) either generates a random room for me, which is no use when I want to play a random opponent, or does something in a flash and then asks me if I want to play again, meanwhile still displaying a 0-0 score. When I click play again, it keeps saying "waiting", though in the right bottom there is an opponent connected. I somehow doubt it.
wow i didn't realize madvise could actually modify the memory contents and return pages, but it makes sense that it can because that is a useful feature. very cool!
I'm on the fence about any nation going to Mars for the sake of pride.

I don't think the first man on Mars will want to go down in history as an American, personally. At least, if that is how it is pitched and sold - s/American/Indian/g - then I have to say that I am terrified of the sudden lurch of the species towards a planet of immense resources, bereft of any intervention of industry besides .. simply .. the technology to get there and do stuff.

It may be a sense of great national pride, but for no great pride ought this matter of human control over another planet be achieved!

Send Robots to Mars, not Men! Turn over the keys to the enter species, not one single brand/variant of it!
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