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I recently finished designing/developing my blog, and I agree to extent. I think the trick is to use the minimum viable framework. I just wanted to create a simple two column responsive layout with the ability to add columns easily within the main article column. Obviously, I'm not going to write that CSS myself: that'd be reinventing the wheel.

Stupidly, I started by using Bootstrap because it was the hot thing to do. I quickly stopped because I reailized I had to override far too much stuff to get what I wanted. Then I switched to Foundation, thinking it would be less opinionated and easier to override. I struggled with it for much longer and despite getting to a seemingly okay point with the development, there was a consistent yet hard to reproduce bug with JavaScript related to the collapsed top bar. On top of that, it still didn't look 'good' to me, and my CSS file wa already getting pretty big with the overriding styles, on top of the already big framework files.

Then I remembered that I had actually seen Skeleton on HN and had planned on using it, but forgot to (maybe I should use Evernote more). Deleted all my previous work, made a new design in 20 minutes, and within an hour I was back to the same point I was previous. I completed the rest within a day, and the blog is now good to go. Skeleton had all I needed: a responsive grid, good default styling, and good typography. I didn't need any of the other stuff that these Frameworks provided. I dropped Javascript entirely except for syntax highlighting via Prettify. I could also have, in retrospect, using the customize functions on the Foundation or Bootstrap websites (although they're not that flexible and I still would have had to override just as much stuff). But Skeleton was a perfect fit.

Had I used it originally, the development would have taken much less time than if I had tried to do all the necessary styling myself. Despite all the hiccups, it was probably quicker anyway.

TL;DR it should be obvious to most of you, but use as minimal as a framework as you need.
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Preferring head::tail over x::xs sorta indicates they have read little functional code. Using x and xs (plural) is pretty common and straightforward. head::tail doesn't help at all.

Edit: Also, even in C#, the whole "one class per file" is often unwise. So many times I come across projects that have a bunch of bloody files to define interfaces with a handful of members. And then a bunch of implementations that have 2-line implementations. It's sorta ridiculous. I think it's a holdover from Java's idiotic "tie the filesystem directly into the compilation output" approach.
> Don't see that. A bi-llion is million million. A tri-llion is a million million million. Makes perfect sense to me.

Why is the million the base unit? Numbers are always written in groups of thousand, not million.

Sorry, but in this I agree with okamiueru - the short scale system makes much more sense.
I don't like it.
Putting the web's biggest P2P website in the hands of one of the most authoritative dictatorial regime - what could go wrong? Security issues anyone?
Seems fishy at best, and if true it is counter productive: it will not reflect well on TPB...
I do like the principle of thinking about code readability. But unless you're writing an introductory tutorial, your code should absolutely not be optimized for reading by people who know nothing about the language. You should try to make it readable for the people who will actually be working with the code.

Optimizing code for people who don't know anything about the language basically means sticking as close to the C or Python way of doing things as possible. If your language is significantly different from C, this is obviously not going to be a global maximum of readability.
Higher pixel counts give less noise assuming the total light collection area is the same. Normally you get a bit less light collection area due to the gaps between pixels with a higher resolution sensor but overall I think higher pixel count generally wins, especially when working at the low iso end. So as long as the cost is reasonable why not stick lots of pixels in.
This is a bug in chrome: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=100666
the claim is that the majority support communism.
the site isn'r working for me...
There's also a discontinued Canon f/1.0 that some rental places still have. I shot some stuff with it, and it's pretty amazing to play around with. Even with that though, we had to expose for at least 4 seconds at ISO 1600 to get legit star exposures. I've always fantasized about being able to shoot handheld video of the Milky Way, I'm happy to see that the technology now exists!
"FoundationDB founder here. Flow sounds crazy. What hubris to think that you need a new programming language for your project? Three years later: Best decision we ever made."

I don't think that should come as a surprise to anyone. In the long run, language-oriented approach seems to be the best approach to handling the intricacies of complex software systems. The only thing stopping it seems to be a certain lack of skills and experience on part of most developers, and the inadequacy of current language-building tools. (By any chance, are you familiar with the "let's simplify language construction"-related work of people at vpri.org?)
A book is exactly the wrong sort of example because publishers don't generally own the rights to the book, authors do. So the argument is that if I own, manufacture, and distribute a product or service that I shouldn't be able to dodge paying taxes on it by establishing a wholly owned sham company off shore and transferring the "ownership" of some product to that sham entity and then assign all the profit to that entity thereby making it a "foreign profit" which is only taxed when repatriated. Apparently, this is going on not only with products sold outside the US but also products that never left the country. It has nothing to do with double taxation.
You do realize that "Taxation is theft" is about the least liberal thing a person could say, right?
They acknowledge the irony in their own post - the only way that they can promote freedom of speech is by forming a partnership with the least free country in the world, not by forming an alliance with the supposedly 'free' countries in Western Europe/North America.

In other words, the Western countries' belief in 'freedom of speech' is starting to seem as shallow as the word 'Democratic' in the 'Democratic People's Republic of Korea'.
My first reaction: GET OUTTA HERE!! YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING!

but oh well, I have a wiggly feeling in my mouth each time I read this, I don't know, whether this is funny or world changing or ironic or god knows what. The internet has melted a new barrier.

Cheers to THE BAY!
Communism and democracy are orthogonal. Your question is why dictators represent themselves as democracies, but I don't think that's a very complex question; it's propaganda 101.
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>so "x::xs" looks alien and very unapproachable

And how is head::tail any better? That's like insisting for loops use "counter" instead of "i".
That's a result of how metering works - it assumes you want a brightly lit scene. You'll either need to use manual exposure or use one of the spot metering modes, where it measures only the brightness of a focal point rather than the overall scene brightness and tries to compensate.
And they're down again!
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You will end up with just another fringe write-only language.
There's a joke about how many "democratic"'s or "repulic"'s are in the countries name that the more un-democratic and un-republican they are. :P
>This is the worst path Canonical could have possibly chosen. Now developers across all different toolkits and applications, from Gtk+ to Wine, will need to maintain massive patchsets to integrate with Ubuntu. Either that or run in a rootless X window in "legacy" mode.

>This will not end well for interoperability, for developers, or for the wider Linux ecosystem. Bad times.

That comment on OMG! Ubuntu! is making me uncomfortable with the consequences this might have for the GNU/Linux ecosystem. I am not sure about how far I can trust that comment, but the Phoronix article[1] explains it better:

>Canonical developers will make to see that applications relying upon Qt/QML, GTK3, XUL, etc will be able to use Mir in an "out of the box" manner. The legacy X support will come from an in-session root-less X Server.

I would, though, like to know more about the consequences for this. First of all, we know that Unity will be much faster, since this thing needs to run on phones too and Unity will actually be a "real thing" instead of just a Window Manager (Compiz) plugin.

>Isn't a point of FOSS that people can all contribute to one major project instead of reinventing the wheel?

That is another comment on OMG! Ubuntu! and I completely agree with it. Sure, freedom of choice is great, but why not use Wayland, really? It was designed from scratch to work for everybody.

[1]: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTMxN...
Actually, I think there's some merit to writing code that is readable to outsiders, for several reasons. First of all, with a not-quite-mainstream language like F#, you're more likely to have team members joining your projects who are lacking the relevant in-language expertise. Making code more readable for them without significantly harming readability for an expert seems like a fine tradeoff. Secondly, one benefit to F# is that the code can read almost like pseudocode, which opens up the possibility of having domain experts (that is, non-programmers) review code, in which case the same tradeoff also makes sense (see e.g. Jane St. Capital, where traders review some/most of their OCaml code).
So, Wayland vs Mir will be the next Gnome3 vs Unity?
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Communist countries aren't the only ones that use nicer sounding terms than what they really are.
A decent programmer makes more like $150K a year.

A decent house costs over 1 million dollars.

A rental for your family will cost $3-4K.

The schools in SF aren't great and there is a lottery system. This means your kids could be going to school on the other side of town even if you live across the street from a school.

The schools in SV are good but housing there is just as expensive and you have to drive everywhere.
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Given that company's minimize their tax liability any amount of tax over zero is going to be enough to induce them to such shenanigans.
You have a link to that? Sounds like interesting reading.
>So let's say it was manufactured in Florida, shipped from New York, and sold in California, by your logic we should be paying state taxes in Florida, New York, and California.

I do not think that is an accurate example of what occurred in the article.

1. MS bought a Danish Company, (This is a taxable transaction),
2. MS then sold the assets (software) of the Danish Company to an MS subsidiary in Ireland, (This is a 2nd taxable transaction, but this is where MS "allegedly" sold the Danish Company asset at a price far below the market value effectively cheating Denmark out of taxes it would receive had the Danish Company sold its asset to an independent company)

Nevermind the obvious reasons "Why" MS engaged in the second transaction, MS is paying less taxes on the asset selling it from Ireland than in Denmark.

So to change your hypothetical to more accurately reflect the article - It is more like manufacturing a book in Florida, selling it to your own company in NY, who in turn sells it to someone in Florida just to avoid charging FL Sales tax which would need to be charged by a Florida company selling to a Florida resident. Of course at first glance this seems like a smart business move, but assuming the legal analysis of the article is true, then also imagine in your hypothetical there is a law prohibiting this type of transaction to its own subsidiaries in other states to prevent the circumvention of State sales tax.
Also see: the Milwaukee protocol for rabies. No one knows just why it works for some people but not for others, but early treatment is key.
Any f-stop below 1.0 is pretty incredible. Kubrick filmed that scnee with JUST candle light.
This just reflects the dilemma of the "new" JCPenney. They have a new brand strategy, but can only roll out physical changes slowly. So I go to my local mall and the only differences in the store are new signage and nothing on sale anymore. Is that supposed to be appealing? Is it any surprise they lost sales in those stores?
It takes a certain perspective to look at the world today and say that governments are screwing cash out of companies.
I think their "mini mall" strategy is interesting, but I have my doubts if it will work beyond being a novelty to buyers in the short term. If a brand is strong enough to support having its own store, why wouldn't they just open up a store in the adjacent regular mall and cut out the middle man?
If you need layouts RABL falls apart with Ruby 1.9: https://github.com/nesquena/rabl/wiki/Using-Layouts there's a note at the of the "Using Rabl" section.
I had the same experience reading the article. He mentioned Penny's target market being thrifty shoppers in the lower middle class and I wondered when the middle class started being able to afford Penny's.
I have been to the DPRK on holiday and whilst I was there it was explicitly made clear that the people of the DPRK (or at least, the ones I met who are presumably on-message) do refer to "Korea" as one Korea.

That's not denial of the existence of other Korea, and not "we're the true Korea"; it's more that there is only one Korea, it's the entire peninsula, and this unfortunate state of affairs where there are currently two separate governments isn't an indication that there are two Koreas. There's one Korea. The whole thing.

I asked the guides specifically so I think I've got it more or less right.
Another in the pattern of bringing in executives without _direct_ experience (retail mall stores) resulting in disappointment. Apple stores and Target are in the general retail category, but serve a different customer base with different desires.

Does business (school) teach anything other than a copycat approach? The increasing rate of failure in business is unsurprising given the complete lack of imagination.
So.

A traceroute to thepiratebay.se is kind of amusing.

From my home (Sweden), the packets seem to go to Frankfurt, then New York, take a link via an ip which reverses to intelsatone.net to a cambodgian ip (500ms latency right here), then reach the ip 175.45.177.217, assigned to Star Joint Venture Co Ltd. Who seem to be a legitimate North Korea internet provider (or, well, as legitimate as it gets, coming from North Korea). The rest of the traceroute doesn't ping back (edit: 6 hops, which could stay in NK, or lead you back anywhere in the world).

If it's a joke, it's a very elaborate one.
Yes its a very tricky place to be in. Building a business on a single platform is so dangerous these days. I had a friend who tried to build on facebook platform and had to shut down because of their rules and threats.
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This makes me upset. Its upsetting because while yes, information freedom is a very important topic and needs to happen, but it does not trump human freedom. I'm not sure if this is a straw man or not - but how can they justify working with an entity that has such a horrid human rights record?
Hey guys, petition starter here. Just wanted to thank anyone who signed for their support. I just got off the phone with the White House and they're really enthusiastic about getting this fixed. We also discussed fixing Section 1201 of the DMCA permanently, and they've agreed to continue the conversation on that.

When I originally posted this to HN at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5112020 there were a lot of very skeptical responses to the effect of "petitions don't have any effect". The optimist in me is glad they were wrong. The White House seem to be genuinely committed to helping push through a piece of legislation to fix this. If there's something about government that bugs you, it's worth trying to do something about it.

Also, we're launching a campaign to ask Congress to change Section 1201 of the DMCA, with backing from the EFF, Reddit and others.

Sign up at http://fixthedmca.org - should be launching the site tomorrow.
What about travelers? It seems a bit ridiculous that one cannot legally toss a SIM from another carrier in their phone while traveling.
How does the Python program know what the random Flow code is supposed to do?
Surely the "Holy Roman Empire" was the thought leader in this regard, being neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

Still, if it's a case of wishful thinking, why "democratic" and not "The Awesome, Glorious Empire of North Korea Death to America"?
tl;dr: We agree, but we "can't" do anything without Congress, the FCC, and/or voluntary action by mobile carriers.
Alternately, you know, it might just be that their conception of "freedom of speech" does not jibe well with that of the "supposedly free"?
Eric Schmidt, not Sergey Brin.
Pretty good idea or do you think NK will release _any_ informations to american based entertainment companies?
I like the emphasis on transactions. However, the fact that it doesn't support transactions longer than 5s and puts the onus on the client to enforce is kind of a turn-off. How is the client supposed to know how long the server will take for a given operation at a random load?
I get a German IP, 194.71.107.15 and the tracepath results take the route nowhere near Asia.
The irony here is just too much to swallow. Of all possible places, a party campaigning for greater freedoms ends up in NORTH KOREA.
I used be proud of defending tpb. Now I'm really not sure.
Isn't it one month early for April fools? Oh wait...

Seriously this is mind boggling! I can't believe it has come to that!
I don't see it in my traceroute. It is going through Frankfurt.
Same as with Gerard Depardieu. He/they made choice not to be in one kind of dictatorship so they escaped to other. So it seems like pretty subjective stuff (personally i think it's wrong), but it's their choice so who cares. Why do you care?

Here is what they think:

"This is truly an ironic situation. We have been fighting for a free world, and our opponents are mostly huge corporations from the United States of America, a place where freedom and freedom of speech is said to be held high. At the same time, companies from that country is chasing a competitor from other countries, bribing police and lawmakers, threatening political parties and physically hunting people from our crew. And to our help comes a government famous in our part of the world for locking people up for their thoughts and forbidding access to information."

Is this false?
I got an unexpected result for "back" as per the following screenshot:

http://screen.capture.mindcast.com/clips/1362419850gn9hxd2j9...
Wtf? "We don't like Wayland because of ... reasons, let's build our own stack from scratch!"
This does sound like a good balance. Do you have a dedicated desk or is it just general tables where you setup at?

Also how much does it cost per month?
My route, from the US, was one hell of a world trip. Bounced around the US a bit then back and forth between NYC and Frankfurt, finally down to Nigeria (appears to be a satellite uplink), over to Cambodia and then into NK.

Huh.
I was about to blog an article like this yesterday, but it seems I do not have to anymore.

Another thing I might add to this exceptional piece of work is that whenever you force anyone to do anything, even if it is intrinsically "fun" (such as mathematics, science, or history, and, yes, coding) it becomes something that people don't want to do anymore.

I'm a teenager; 14 years old to be specific, and I see this on a daily basis. I used to teach my classmates algebraic concepts that they didn't understand fully, and once it "clicked" for them, they usually said something along the lines of "Wow, that is really cool!"

So, this is the main conflict we're facing. You raise a generation of "forced coders," and suddenly, nobody will want to code anymore, which is one problem. However, the other problem is that if you DO end up making forced instruction fun for kids, you will end up with mediocre programmers who think a "Hello World" is the equivalent of earning a CS degree, and startups will have to sift through dozens of perhaps low-quality applications rather than just sifting through the few that have the dedication to learn how to code.

Here's the solution: make CS more accessible to students. Have a bunch more electives on CS and encourage kids to take them. Trying to make coding/programming a part of the curriculum will take away time from important subjects such as composition, literature, science, and mathematics, all of which are arguably now more important than ever with test scores at record lows.
Can you enlighten me?
We are going to release a version with PostgreSQL support shortly.

RazorFlow PHP generates SQL code according to the requirements and filters, and must take the differences between the SQL dialects of different vendors into account.
As a Brit, I'm pretty stunned by the efficacy of the We The People Platform here. Good work democracy.
I agree. I happen to know the Wheaton Shopping Plaza he's talking about and that whole mall is pretty run down. I doubt JCPenny would choose that location for their experimental new store design.
I read a joke somewhere that as countries become more and more totalitarian, they add more and more freedom-implying qualifiers.

So (for a not-quite-correct example) things would progress Congo -> Republic of Congo -> Democratic Republic of Congo -> People's Democratic Republic of Congo.
This is one case there the HN policy of using the title of an article as the title of the submission is inappropriate. I nearly missed this article because it didn't say "White House Response To:"
Free movies.
so you need empirical evidence but are comfortable asserting what the outcome will be.
Ubuntu is like an aneoba they cant stop splitting.
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That's from 2004 and is about firewalls on desktops, not servers.
grep is now 40 years old. Thank you Ken Thompson.
I was also thinking of Web Intents. This problem is not unique to music services but all kind of web application and services. I <3 Intents!
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