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I agree, and I would add that people don't avoid names in all cases. The trend against naming names is especially annoying because it basically only emerges when there is a power imbalance, and thus serves only to protect those in positions of power as they continue to act poorly.

As an example, have you ever heard anyone say "I don't want to name names, but a certain local cleaning service has been very disappointing to me." No of course not, they'll say the name of their cleaning wo/man and trash them, because why should they give a shit? I mean it's "just" the cleaner. The waitress at the bar? Screw her, what do they care about her reputation, trash her if you are unhappy with your service.

But deal with someone in a position of authority and suddenly its all kid gloves and politeness. "Oh I don't want to be unprofessional and name names, but I worked for a game company where I did 8 months of unpaid OT and then was laid off after release." Great, that helps exactly no one avoid the same situation you found yourself, so now another college grad can be exploited. If you worked for EA Tiburon and they screwed you, say it! If they treated you well say that too! Bad actors should be named and shamed or else they never have to pay for their actions.

Thanks to this post I can avoid O'Reilly as a publisher, and more importantly I can know that working with the editors named is a good idea as they were honorable people, but if I see that this Laurie person is involved with a potential publisher I can avoid them too.

I have a theory that this excessive deference to authority is why you can see so many people in upper management skate from one failure to the next, as no one has the balls to name them as poor performers, so they never have to reap consequences of their actions.

Good on the author for actually having the integrity to call things as they are.
You are using "secure" to mean something very different. No monetary system, not even Bitcoin, is secure from market manipulation.

Anonymity and security against double spending are properties of Chaum's system, and are extremely questionable when it comes to Bitcoin.
Because we see it happen so often. Technical companies feel much more active than manufacturing, retail and industrial companies. Apple all but disappeared, then surged back to life. GTE grew organically as a telephone company, then ate a bunch of internet companies and split/merged until parts became Verizon and parts Level 3. Software companies mushroom out of nothingness, become buzzwords, then disappear in a morass of infighting and bad decisions.
My article was geared towards smaller companies (startups) Sorry my article wasn't clear about that.
I thought it was an Icelandic volcano at first.
I couldn't find a good article in English, the one I pasted was very poor on details. Here is a Google translation (sorry) of a Bulgarian website - http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&... . The plane was on their screen the whole time. That's their radar - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-18_radar , it has been in use since the '70s, the latest ones manufactured during 1984.

P.S. The translation says "you downloaded 'stealth'" in one place. Believe me, they mean "you took down 'stealth'". It's not one of those "you wouldn't download a stealth bomber" things.

P.P.S. What does the standard say, if I start using apostrophes in a paragraph because the quote contains double quotes in it, should I use apostrophes for all my quotes or could I just switch back to double quotes?
The ScangaugeII (similar use case) works is that it shuts off if engine RPM = 0 for >30sec.
Give me a break. This is so vein. People want to read about how 37signals... gasp uses an Android phone!? Go outside people..
You are inferring a motive in SkepChick that isn't apparent to me. Care to elaborate? Do you have reason to believe that she isn't actually concerned about bigotry and child porn perpetuating on reddit? If she was after page views, wouldn't she have linked to herself more than she did (one slate article she wrote, out of a dozen links)?
"small-minded, deep-south like approach to cultural issues"

stereotyping isn't really helping when talking about issues likes this
Thanks! I am writing a reply.
Marin Software filing for IPO at LESS than VC valuation? Awkward.
I've read it several times, the first time being in highschool and the most recent being a few months ago. As I get older I've read it with a bit more skepticism about the novelty of his overarching ideas and the rigor of some of his reasoning but I always find the book full of valuable ideas and interesting food for thought.
https://www.getlocalmotion.com/ has a solution with a connected box, which integrates with existing corporate RFID badges to open the car.
I'd hope it would automatically know that based on your location.
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There might be a few challenges in evolving this product to an iPhone|Smartphone-free future. 3G modems are notorious for their energy inefficiency, and if one were to include them in this device, the drain on the car's battery will be significantly higher.
I wonder if the plan on making one for obd1 vehicles or if they plan on sticking to just obd2? A lot of gearheads who would love this are still driving obd1 cars.
Not anarchist, but disruptive. The attitude comes from five decades of technology innovation rapidly rendering its competition utterly obsolete without warning. Picasso once said "The urge to destroy is also a creative urge", and the hacker community understands that the urge to create is also a destructive urge.
It would probably be better just to expose weather and tube schedule information as JSON and allow third party developers to use it.

AFAIK this already happens to some extent.
Thank you! I've got some pretty cool ideas - at least they sound cool in my head :) - on what can come next. I'm insanely excited for a feature I'll probably put out later this week or next.
At what voltage?
SRS is more of a parody of reddit itself, turned on its head to the point where it's the white men who get ridiculed and shouted down instead of the women/minorities like elsewhere on reddit. Unsurprisingly, many redditors, instead of just "taking a joke", like they would have women do with misogynistic humor, get extremely upset at the thought of a relatively small and powerless group of people mocking them.

The irony is thick and delicious.
I exclusively use the facebook mobile web app. The native app used to be much slower and have less features than the web incarnation. The speed issues were apparently remedied by going 100% native (it was hybrid before?) but I've never felt the need to go back. And I guess the web app will always be ahead of native in terms of features given that it's probably in lock-step with the desktop web app?

I find your argument a little off though. If native is so important for regular use services why is there no desktop facebook app? Yes, faster connections, but these days I have no problem in 95% of situations getting a good mobile connection.
If I recall correctly, Einstein himself said it. (I know, wrong area of expertise. But he is famous.) And now, productivity (as measured by the GDP per employee —I know it's a flawed measure) literally shot through the roof since the 1970s.

When production rises for whatever reason, either demand rises with it or we eventually have unemployment. I understand you never heard the argument, but why would production rise? I only see two reason: population growth (no problem, demand will rise as well), and technological advancement.

Now, technology also increase demand. We all want more modern gadgets and all. But it is not clear this growth in demand outpaces the growth in production.
Looks interesting, a lot of similarities with android app (I don't own other mobile devices so can't tell if they are all they same).

Question. How long did it take you guys to come up with this design from start to finish?
I often face those issues as well. Especially when you're part of communities that worship people that get a seemingly unrealistic amount of stuff done, or are unusually successful.

My first bit of advice is to take a break. Forget start ups, forget technology, take a weekend to sit around and be a slob. Lay on the couch all day and do nothing. Go on a hike, sit in the woods, put the computer,technology, business into perspective. Maybe this is only relevant to me, but it seems to help.

As for the analysis paralysis... I suffer from that pretty badly. The only thing I've really been able to do to get around it is say "fuck it, worst case scenario, if I make something that sucks, at least I've made something. Best case scenario, I've made something that's great and made the best decisions I could." Sometimes you have to just hack stuff together, you can always change your direction later right?
they have some devices that use the verizon network, too.
Not quite - it shows that they think you should manage files on your Android phone. iOS is designed to hide files, but Android has always had it as an option, which is represented in its interface.

Back when I used Android (owned a Nexus One which broke), I had to manage files all the time, because the individual apps didn't do a good job of it. Instead of having a centralised place for photos, I just dragged photos to /sdcard from my computer, and looked at them that way. When I had to put music on my phone in a hurry, I did the same, and navigated to them in the file manager instead of having it in the music app. I had a bunch of Markdown files that were there, too, whenever I synced manually. Now I can do all that without having to worry about where the files are, using iTunes and iCloud.

Since then, every time I've seen someone have to open a file manager, it's to do a job an app could have done. That's why Apple doesn't want to include one - it gives users more functionality, but makes app developers lazy. It's the same reason they haven't decided to include a stylus: it's technically more precise, but would just cause developers to think "don't worry about finger click targets, the user has a stylus".
Thanks, that's good to know. I'll have to dig deeper.
American history says that we are not very fond of Kings.
Now you are the one who is being disengenuous.

The context of "dropped out" is universally "The person went from participating to not participating". Alexis was never participating.
This is egregiously well done, all of it. I have zero interest in my car or how it works, and yet I'll have one.

Crystal clear website, crystal clear video, an unaggressive logo, they precisely explain what the product does, and you know exactly how much it costs up front.

So well done.
Most people I know (I study CS in Canada) are counting down the days until they graduate and leave for the US. There are few advantages to living in Canada over the US unless you're poor/disabled/unemployed.
Such people are silly, since those two options are almost identical.
Ah I love this. Tarantino was right, this is gonna be the writer's year
Oh, yeah, she's definitely a case of "plastic surgeons gone wild". I said she was famous, not attractive! :)
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Agreed, Meteor is now my go-to language for one-off projects and hack-days at work. My most recent one with PagerDuty integration [1] took half as long as I was expecting. I can't remember the last project I did that too less time than I expected.

[1] http://euri.ca/2013/meteor-js-sample-integration-with-pagerd...
Progressive already does this with a similar gadget:
http://www.progressive.com/auto/snapshot.aspx
OP makes valid points but there is value to having your "ticket punched" by a major publisher vs. self publishing.

That may change but it still has value today. It's not all about money or how many are sold. Being vetted and accepted by a major publisher can open doors and opportunities to other things. Can get you mainstream media attention which can be parlayed into opportunities as well. Selling a large quantity of books on your own can also obviously (key: large quantity) however don't discount the value of chokepoint.
Are password-protected Wi-Fi networks safe?
Being disingenuous or dishonest would require knowledge on her part that she was misrepresenting. Given that the event description originally included Alexis, and the obvious chain of miscommunication above, is it not a reasonable assumption that Rebecca was simply misinformed?
BuildNotify, the CCMenu for Linux. A simple installation guide.
> Social janitorial work

This is the most hilarious euphemism for "censorship" I've ever heard.
The section the GP quoted was not the entire article. Rogers went on to end the quoted paragraph with the rhetorical question "We don't want Weston, but maybe we want Wayland?", and went on to address that question in the rest of the article.

Whether or not you agree with the chain of reasoning, pretending he never wrote anything other than a single step in it, and calling that a "strawman" on the grounds that it isn't a whole chain, is a little silly.
I wouldn't call it a myth people have reported issues with similar port adapters, particularly bluetooth ones. If the issue doesn't apply here then great but in general people should pay attention.
Depending on what you mean for a computer programming's book.

If it about a new language or a new version of a language, I probably won't. But there are books with rich content that is very hard to find on the web.
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But the iPhone isn't just lacking in one or two options. It's a very locked down platform in several ways. I have a hard time applying your argument of "a lot of people have no use" when it comes to something as fundamental as being allowed to run an app or browser that Apple does not like.
There's a ton from that book that applies to coding. Highly recommended.
Rev, linked above, has been around for a few years and is iPhone compatible. See the hardware page on their site for bluetooth info.
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Hey. This is the first meeting so things may change for the future.

There a couple of twitter accounts you can follow for updates...
I'm scared of meteor, no offense, partly because of its funding structure. It's a startup, but I think one thing I haven't been clear on is their licensing scheme, and how to deal with them if they die, etc.

While I'd actually love to use meteor as the foundation of our company, I feel like the risk of being burned by acqu-hire'd / the team burning out is really great. Raising $11.2mm means you basically have to win, and I'm not familiar with other companies who, as a startup, raised $10mm+ on the potential of their framework. I mean they have to be valued at $100mm already, right? So basically this is a billion or bust kind of company.

And yes, the founders are super talented, and helped build Facebook and Asana's realtime infrastructure, so they know what they're doing... i guess I'm just expressing my overall fear of using a framework with such a funding structure / worried about them getting evil down the line. I understand it's MIT so folks could fork and continue, but something just feels weird.

I'd love others to please come set me straight / offer alternative views of the world.
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Handful? Citation please?
I agree: the vector sharpness of symbol fonts is their strongest selling point. I'm just worried that the article leading with "improving performance is a constant process" is going to make people think symbol fonts will speed up their pages.
Online isn't DRM. No more that WoW online is DRM: AKA an incidental side effect
If you can figure out a way for people to try Draft without forcing them to register, do so. I wanted to play around with it, but I don't want to make yet another account. The more people who play with it, the more people who will sign up.
There are no GIFs for me, only videos (but with a transparent div on top).
You think a robotic police force is going to help a dictator? Maybe for a couple of days, until someone with a conscience and a brain realizes that Robocop is running a vulnerable version of Java and suddenly "your" robotic police force is my robotic police force.
"a little line like this _, two layered squares []], and an X. What do those do? Obviously, they minimize, 'restore', and close the window. Why 'obviously'? These symbols are not intrinsically 'obvious'."

True, they make no sense. A Mac user who has never used Windows will not understand them. On OS X, the buttons have the colors of a traffic light (red=close, yellow=minimize, green=zoom). Windows users trying a Mac for the first time understand this instantly.

"They have become a standard since roughly the days of Windows 3.1."

No, Windows 3.1 had different buttons [1]. The 'standard' you're referring to was introduced 3 years later, in Windows 95.

"We expect them to be there, and I prefer the icons to a little status bar that says "Minimize, Restore, Close.""

Sure, you can get used to anything, just like you can learn what math symbols and traffic signs mean. That doesn't make it intuitive, quite the opposite.

"Consider a recent example - the share icon"

There is no such thing as 'the share icon'. Looking at the Google Image results, there are tons of different icons that are supposed to mean 'share'. If there is one share icon that I see a lot, it's "arrow jumping out of a window frame" [2].

"Let's consider that it might actually be important to push new icons into the public icon lexicon."

Sure, but that only works if everyone implements them and even then, those buttons will need to be accompanied by text labels for at least five years.

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ttfinst/ttfinst8.gif

[2] http://bit.ly/10IELWe
But according to the evolutionary biologist quoted in this article, neither the organisms in the photos nor the known species they look like have been dead a long time.

> "1) they are, for the most part, in great shape. There certainly is not any sign of this being fossilized material… There are no extinct taxa found, only ones we would find living today…"
"They used to be my goto publisher. "

Tim Oreilly is distracted and is missing the hunger of the early years. This happens to most people when they age and if it doesn't it's the exception. It also happens to businesses as well. They become complacent fat and lazy. Sometimes a near death experience brings them back sometimes they die.

All the talk of "we will be different this will never happen to us" doesn't change that in most cases.
Shameless plug. I did some Ruby bindings [1] for libfreenect. The Ruby example code to display data from the Kinect is very concise [2].

[1] https://github.com/wedesoft/hornetseye-kinect
[2] http://www.wedesoft.de/hornetseye-api/file.Camera.html#Micro...
I've suffered from MDD and tried to kill myself several times, the last attempt was very serious and I almost did die.

Now, almost a decade later and I think I can say I have "beaten" depression. The cure? Time, therapy, loving intimate relationships and judicious use of psychedelics.
It's a democracy. Thus, a complaint is the first step towards a solution.
Complete aside, but as a student of marketing who reads HN, care to reach out to our company? I'm not a student of marketing, and I'm kind of bad at it but need to get good quickly. I'm curious about you as a person, and want to understand that world better so we can either acquire the right skills ourselves, or hire someone who can help us understand.

Care to shoot me an email? Email is in my profile.
How can you possibly "drop out" of a panel that you explicitly said you were never planning on attending?

Dropping out means that you were planning to go and then you had to cancel. Whether Farhad knew this before or not, Alexis's email was very clear and so there's no excuse to claim today that Alexis dropped out of anything.
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Congratulations on the engaging and thoughtful redesign - this is a huge improvement on the current article pages, which are so cluttered the article feels like an afterthought - squeezed in between social sharing boxes and the related column on the left. Reading that first paragraph has always upset me on articles - where you have to follow a narrow river of text down to the body of the article to continue reading, and ignore all the distractions on the way.

Making the content the star of the show fits far better with what I value in the NYTimes, and what made me a subscriber. Now fix the home page please, it still has that same old cluttered feel!

PS It would be great to see a blog post in future about the work that went into this redesign.
Some people with hindered vision will let out a sigh of relief after reading this...

Seeing this makes me more curious to see Google's attention to style--pressure is on, Warby Parker.
The site is huge and there's something for everyone.

If you want to go to /r/python or /r/ruby, you can discuss your favorite language intelligently.

If you want to go to ... other ... subreddits then you can share conversation and media of a different nature. Some of which is quite unacceptable to the mainstream.

It's like saying the internet is a bad influence on society because porn and phishing. Yes, that stuff is there, but you can avoid it if you want.
I'd like to second this comment. Depression as a syndrome is something that segments of the population have varying levels of susceptibility. Part of the "cure" is learning to distinguish when you are exhibiting the symptoms of depression and can get to help.

I suffered with depression for 20 years. A combination of drug and talk therapy helped me tremendously. After a couple of years, I can now recognize the symptoms of depressive thinking and engage in strategies to get to a better way of thinking.
I am referring to Red's torpedoes, asymmetric attacks and possible multiple thermobaric strikes specifically targeted at the oil. Red doesn't have MAD, but Red does have a deterrent.
Mutter works...now. Ubuntu used mutter at one point and it was TERRIBLE. Performance, crashes and the lot. I recall they tried to improve it and got massive pushback from GNOME.

This led them to use Compiz, which had its own issues.

I can totally see why they would do something like Mir given the history of non-supportiveness they got from the various upstream projects in the past.
Just that picture of their office alone would put me off from ever working there. The level of distractions must be horrible.
Great idea. It compliments many of the things that Clarity.fm is doing, and they have a great product. Keep up the great work!
So, instead of having a half working project, I decided to force Webkit browsers.

You realize that you still have a half working project, right?
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I just started toying around with them recently, and I have the same feelings as you. In general, it seems like Derby's choice of using straight up npm makes it a bit more inter-orperable. Other than that I haven't dived in far enough.