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> If you're using Chrome, guess who started Webkit?

The developers of KDE. Webkit comes from a fork of KHTML, the engine used for Konqueror. Apple came to the picture 3 years later.
Tangentially related, for similar reasons Paypal remains my payment processor. Lots of people have Paypal accounts and find it much more convenient to use it rather than haul out their credit card and hand key all of their address and payment info. Every time I think about switching I review how many people use PayPal Express checkout rather than credit card DirectPay (both of which I offer), and I think about how many people simply wouldn't pay if the minimal friction of the PayPal Express button wasn't there on my checkout form.

Lowest friction wins.
His thesis seems to be that Graham isn't an expert on art history. I can't evaluate that. I know less about painting than either of them do.

How far one believes the metaphor goes is questionable. Visual art and software development have different goals and rules, but they use certain aesthetic skills that are common. That said, I think Graham is injecting some degree of personal bias. If his passion had been for music, he might have written "Hackers and Composers". Then again, I really don't know. I don't know how far-- beyond the principle (often overlooked in software) that source code is for humans and must be attractive enough to be comprehensible-- the analogy goes because I don't know enough about painting.

That essayist seems to be viewing software as a product, where source code need not be "appealing" to clients and is not read often enough to justify making it legible and attractive. That's not the world modern software lives in. Aesthetics matter.
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The macbook air is just a small laptop. In what way is making things smaller an Apple technology? Laptops have been getting steadily smaller for decades now.

The iPhone may have created a market, but that was because of how it worked. The question was whether anything Jobs did influenced the technology of the device. The iPhone was an early (but not the first) user of capacitive touchscreens, but virtually everything else in the device was an off-the-shelf part.

And FWIW: I know who started WebKit. It wasn't Apple. :)
I guess you could have buttons or a joystick for aiming, and then send the email to fire?
Hi there. I'm the author of this post.

We use git, so it's easy to revert commits, or push an update with '-f' that resets to an earlier version. Once we push this new commit (that simply puts us back to an earlier state) to our release branch, it's picked up by the testing system just like any other commit and pushed out.
Ask HN: Capital Structure for an early startup
What is the typical capital structure for an early stage web startup with no outside investor yet?

- Stock classes: What are the typical classes? I've heard of founder class with more voting rights, etc. What about the classes for early employees or friend investors? How are they typically structured?

- How many authorized and issued shares typically?

Is it critical to do it right from the outset so us founders couldn't be screwed later on?

Thanks
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The core of his argument centers around that compared to the other disciplines, it's harder to find a "good" game designer than it is to find a "good" programmer/artist etc.

But that makes sense- as he says, it's hard to go to school for it. It is a non-linear discipline. You need to be knowledgeable of all the other disciplines (how the game is technically built to understand scope of design), you have to be able to work from a systems scale all the way down to individual variables, you have to be able to talk the language of engineers, artists, and producers/business/marketing.

What I find offensive is that Garriot is saying "If you don't hit all those points, you really just suck as a designer."

Well thanks for the input, Lord British. Your flamebait has really elevated the state of the industry.
Congrats Firebase! The new iOS API is a great improvement from the beta days!
grow some balls you fairy-ass political correctness loving fruitbowl!
"The saying is that mathematics is the language of god, but until now, no one has been speaking gods language"

"What we have is the great unifying field theory, with it you can create and exhaust free energy, end all diseases, produce unlimited food, travel anywhere in the universe, build the ultimate supercomputer, artificial intelligence, and obsolete all existing technology."

All in the first minute. I don't think it was really necessary to take the presentation-style into account...
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Still missing the point I think. The argument was that Jobs didn't influence any of the funamental technology. PostScript was a rendering language from Adobe, and really not the first path-based rasterizer, but could broadly be called "technology" I guess. Laser printing was a technology. Integrating them by putting a computer running PostScript into a box containing a laser printer is not a technological development in any real sense.

That's not saying it doesn't have value. But it's not the kind of thing JBQ was talking about.
Here's GoPro's story:
http://www.reddit.com/r/gopro/comments/1anq5d/gopro_doesnt_l...

"This letter was sent because DigitalRev is not an authorized reseller of GoPro products and they were using images and had incorrect branding and representation of our product in their online commerce store."

(No representation is made herein as to the validity or invalidity of this side of the story.)
If you honestly believe less than 1% of TEDx video have any merit, I think that is fairly elitist of you.

I feel like TED is supposed to be elitist, in terms of the quality of its content.
Does anybody who has spent their adult working career in this industry have an excuse for not achieving financial independence by age 65?
> Wordpress was never intended to be MVC, the developers had probably never even heard of MVC

Not only the developers, maybe even most developers outside of certain communities. I'd been exposed to the concepts, but I'd never worked on an "MVC" site until about 3-4 months after the first release of WordPress, and I'd been doing for over five years at that point.

> I've thought about how terrible actually hacking on Wordpress actually is

Hacking core is pretty bad. Heck, even reading core to try and understand what's going on under the hood can be a challenge.

But writing themes and plugins is not that bad -- indeed, if it was, I suspect you would find a far smaller mass of them. It's not MVC, and particularly if you're used to that organization of a web app, it's disorienting, but the APIs are reasonably organized, well-specified, and let even n00bs get things done.
I work on a Calendar product and I can assure you that working with dates, times, and timezones is a complex endeavor.

We just fixed a bug in a legacy part of the application where timezones were converted properly when accepting an event from an ICS file but on export through our CalDav server, certain timezones (ones unknown by name to the OS) weren't converted properly so we were providing the wrong start time to the event. It's too bad Microsoft uses different names for timezones than basically everyone else.
No, the hosting company is protected until they have actual notice or knowledge of infringement of copyrights, and the notice posted on the website fails to identify any copyrights that are alleged to be infringed.
Employees can call out through the browser and receive calls through the browser as well, or forward their extension to a different physical phone number to pick up. In fact, the default action is to forward to a phone number or take a voicemail if you choose to not accept calls online via the browser.
The hosting company doesn't have to take down the content. Rather, if they don't take down the content and it is later found infringing, then the hosting company can't claim the protection of the DMCA safe harbor.
Because Twitter is a company whose word is trustable?
Expanding, Unpacking, or ... Splatting?
Apple Hires Former Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch, Crusher of iPhones
I'm a technical person and I don't like social login and I don't like creating individual account for every site. What I would like is a decentralized single-login protocol like the article is talking about.
I'm working on a Python web application (using the Flask framework) and its a relatively small application. As of now I have the app.py file and two HTML templates along with the CSS files.

I think that apps become as complex as you make them - I plan to split my app.py into a models.py and views.py. It's easier, I feel, to manage them this way.

Keep in mind that I'm not using some large IDE - I switch between Vim and Chocolat.
That is very impressive, congrats!

I'd really like to know the following: what process did you follow to create that 10min UI Tutorial video [1]?

Did you rehearse it and then record it all in one go? How did you memorize the script? Did you edit it with multiple takes of various scenes? Etc. Thanks so much.

[1] http://vimeo.com/62227334
Nvida Updates Its GPU Roadmap at GTC 2013
So was it the well known missing robots.txt killing a site problem (as described in the original article) or a manual action gone astray?

When you looking at protections you need to ask what happens of this is a mom and pop site and not a well known sv company with high level Google contacts?
I feel sick to my stomach. There's are openings in my company but I can't get your case past HR. They wouldn't want to be associated with a red flag. Hope you land on your feet.
My, how flexible the word 'terrorist' has become.
I was expecting to see this kind of comment. Not that I entirely disagree but isn't there something to be said about all the layers the author mentions having been directly designed by humans and not pre-existing facts of nature (minus a few of the electrical properties he goes into).
One point that I find interesting is that the letter posted on the site is actually from the "Brand Manager" and not "General Counsel". Not having read the material on the site before, I would assume that the article that seemingly pits GoPro vs. Sony did not have an overwhelmingly positive review of GoPro and maybe pointed out some shortcomings of the product and potentially some flaws.

No need to define the role of Brand Manager here, but it would seem that this take down notice was done to censor a review that they did not find endearing.
That takes care of the optimization problem, then. :)
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He's also #1 on the company's internal fitbit competititon
I can't speak for Google or Matt Cutts. But it sounds like he said it was a Google bug.
I think the next step is to add a webcam, then some computer vision code. So you could stand next to it, take a photo of a picture with your phone, attach and email it to the gun -- then it would scan around until it found the picture in the attached photo, aim and fire.
No offence. (and also using your excellent service)
But.

My statistical background have always questioned me, are these guys, who are posting rebuses on job pages are actually searching for rebus solvers or need their job done?

Or did they ever conduct a practical coding experiment with applicants who love rebuses and who dont..
Zero of the eight trolled the federal court system nearly continuously from arrest onward, either :)
She posted a picture of two guys and made public allegations about their conduct which resulted in their termination. To me this looks like grounds for a defamation lawsuit. Did they give permission to use the image of them? Did they admit to making these alleged jokes that she took offense to? There's something seriously wrong with this. I could take pictures of any two guys at an event and put it on Twitter and say they were gay bashing or using racial slurs, and they have no opportunity to defend themselves.

This is seriously messed up.
Apple pressured Intel to design the smaller chipsets that made the Macbook Air, and subsequently other ultrabooks, possible. Without Apple's influence, we might not have ultrabooks.

Similarly, Apple pressured Corning to make Gorilla Glass. I would also argue the iPhone's UI has heavily influenced modern smartphone OS's to be more user friendly.

I'll cede the WebKit point, though I do think we can credit Apple for popularizing it.
Dayum Travis,

Harsh, just harsh! :)
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In practice that does not work. Things get broken, people end up having to support 20 edge cases to use this "universal", "standardized" thing. Depends on the implementation, though.
pun intended, right?
Thank for your comment! I've been afflicted by FUD related to security in LXC for over a year. This really helps.
Really?

>[Update/Correction (Mar. 19, 2013): I wrote the piece below after reading a press release from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and after reading the professional science journal paper announcing the results. Just after posting this I received a press release from NASA/JPL quoting Ed Stone, the Voyager project scienist, saying "It is the consensus of the Voyager science team that Voyager 1 has not yet left the solar system or reached interstellar space.... [Emphasis mine.] I then received a follow-up press release from the AGU also backing off the claim of Voyager leaving the solar system.... So to be clear, the science of what I describe below is accurate enough, but the idea that Voyager 1 has left the building is not.
Thank you. My mistake.
Should everybody get paid bereavement leave?
Mapping & analyzing 1982-2012 USA mass shootings with Leaflet + Backbone-query
it seems to me WP has tried to be everything to everybody and the cracks are finally starting to show.

I've never been a huge fan of WP for several reasons. One is the horror of trying to crowbar one of their themes into what I want it to look like. The second is the ungodly amount of bloat the have on their themes and templates.

Just give me something stripped down and lightweight that I can build on. Too many of these frameworks are just constantly in your way when you need to do something.
Its quite possible there have been some improvements on the back end since I tried it last. I'll have to give it another shake.
It would be cool to turn one into a private key safe. The Rasberry Pi interfaces your normal computer over USB, but only encrypts or signs files and does absolutely nothing else. So even if your computer is compromised the attacker still can't get your private key.

This might exist already, but so far I've only seen smart USB drives that can be decrypted for a certain amount of time. Not the same thing.
"That is unbelievable--but I think we have lost the idea of the software artist. When the machines were much smaller, I did my game essentially as a one-man team. I did all the art. I did all the programming. I had one other engineer help me with some of the music. I have a friend working with EA today and he is probably working in a team of 120 engineers.”

“Electronic Arts treated the programmer as an artist," he says. "They were the first people to do that.”

First time I've read someone explain this concept...
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> Suppose that there was no Microsoft. Who would have taken its place?

Why would a single company take its place?

> DR was charing $240 for CP/M 86 -- the same amount it charged for CP/M on other platforms.

I remember the price was for the IBM-PC bundle and that DR was uncomfortable with it. I also remember CP/M came bundled with many Z-80-based computers of the time - there was not enough hardware standardization to allow shrink-wrapped cross-platform operating systems to exist.

> The other option on the IBM PC was UCSD p-system, which was fatally crippled by the overhead of the interpretation layer

UCSD p-system was cross-platform, at least.

> -- we didn't yet have JIT.

Or maybe we would have one by the late 80's

> multiple companies duking it out with incompatible OSes. How often does that work out?

We don't have enough data to make any accurate predictions. I suppose we may have arrived at a set of basic compatible APIs, much like POSIX, that allowed software designed for it to run on many different computers.

> I submit that the most likely scenario would've been a duopoly -- Apple with the home and education market, IBM with the business market.

And Commodore and Atari sharing the home/gaming market in the US, Acorn and Sinclair in the UK. Commodore would possibly own TV and special effects. 68K (or ARM) based 32-bit boxes would be considered basic home machines and the average person would have access to preemptive multitasking in the mid 80's.
Yes! I hate it when I have to register for a service, wait for the email activation link only to find out that I that the service isn't for me. Then I have to delete the account and wait for emails to come to unsubscribe to those.
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At least with technology, someone somewhere understood what is going on. With biology/biochem/physics all the way down... there is no expert who designed the system originally!

Can you imagine computer science if we had no prior knowledge of computers and had to research the entire process starting at the end point? What a task.
Why are the gopros on that site more than double the retail cost?
Is this a stunt to put Digg.com on the map again?
cool stuff. we may be running another contest soon, focused on the west coast to give away prototypes. sign up for our announcement list or email us via the website.
I don't like social login because I'm not on any social networks. It could be a great service, but as soon as I see that it's Facebook/Twitter/G+ only, I'm out.
Check the Techcrunch article I cited: http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/30/email-social-signup-rockmel... - major social sites have seen data indicating that 50% of potential users don't sign up if it's social only. This is a real-people issue.
Where in Sweden are you at?
Users always complain about social logins. On iOS apps that I've built, I've found Facebook login to have something like a 50% conversion. I'd be curious to hear whether or not the conversion is improved by using Mozilla's Persona product. Is the only sales pitch here that the login is managed by a non-profit organization?

Not sure how that makes this a better product overall. Can anybody clarify?
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Hi, I'm on the Persona team at Mozilla. If you'd like to learn more about what and why Mozilla is doing with authentication, I gave a 45-minute talk at PyCon US this past Saturday. You can find the video here: http://pyvideo.org/video/1764

I'm also happy to answer questions in-thread or via email.
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GoPro response: http://www.reddit.com/r/gopro/comments/1anq5d/gopro_doesnt_l...
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Just a simple thing to keep bots and Nigerian princess promising giant riches for small exchange of name/address/ssn/bank account/horoscope off. Also, we have explicit emails from people who decoded and it and found it fun. So, yes, this was a data driven decision
We've considered it, and it's definitely possible (the core of Webflow right now is actually just Webkit), but we're currently focusing on making sure it works really well on the web.
Check out the CMS for the Pirateship, a co-working space in Somerville MA. Entirely minecraft based!

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I'm interested to see how that standardization works across linux distributions. I mean, different distros use different versions of various libraries (openssl for example). So if your app links with libssl.so.X but the host only provides libssl.so.Y, then your app won't work.

Of course, you could bundle libssl with your app. But then the standardization is at the level of kernel/libc ABI. In which case the container is basically a full LXC guest.

But then why standardize an image format if you can create a small script which builds the image with lxc-create + installs whatever else necessary for your app. That script will be much smaller than the full image, even a barebones ubuntu lxc guest (debootstrap quantal) is ~400MB.
Jeff Bezos Recovers Apollo Rocket Engines From Deep Ocean
I have a dozen or so Google alerts in my set of RSS feeds (that I've just moved over[0] to Newsblur). I haven't noticed any major degradation, but I haven't tried to test the system. Can anyone suggest an alternative?

[0]http://lee-phillips.org/newsblurred/
Why a Handshake Isn't Enough In Silicon Valley
I'm 35, and I have had to work hard to cultivate relationships with friends who are older. That process has been rewarding, and currently I'm in a blues band with a guy who is just shy of 60 and another guy who is 70 (one of the founding members of The 13th Floor Elevators, how cool is that?).

I'd encourage that effort as a part of what is actionable on the scale of a single person.

It can be very difficult to see across generational lines (or, specifically, it was difficult for me) unless you interact with people who are neither your parents, grand-parents, bosses, employees, or children...
Not to be a stick in the mud, but you're using a copyrighted image as your logo without any attribution or acknowledgement of the original owner of the copyright (the Lego Group). You should probably fix that.
WP and Wordpress picked the wrong implementation language.

Both of those projects may have gone nowhere had they picked any of numerous other implementation languages.

I am no PHP booster (I find it to be an abomination), but it is the foundation of a remarkable number of successful products, despite being the target of endless criticism. It could very well be that the laissez faire approach that PHP encourages breeds actual results, while many other purist platforms has advocates still arguing about the best way to pass a closure.
You might like this Portlandia clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohk-Ey01c9k