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Until the ecosystem shows any signs of slowing down, posts harping about the codebase of WordPress will lack conviction. There is an army of developers who don't particularly like the inner workings of WordPress. But WordPress is thriving and has a booming commercial & free theme and plugin market. A glorious rewrite in whatever ideological direction you want to take it is more likely to damage its success. If a better codebase is so important, another CMS should eventually gain more ground. In which case, it's more productive to talk about why another CMS is so good, rather than lament about WP.

Having said that, the codebase is likely to become more javascript centric, which might make things even more complex. It will be interesting to see it evolve. I just don't think calling WordPress 'dire' accurate. Nor is it in need of rewrite just for the sake of writing more beautiful code. Does it have to adapt and evolve? Of course.
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One way to improve the looks in Firefox is to remove the default outlining of links.

Working pretty good in FF Nightly though!
The problem is that he did respond, to tell the user that they were too uncivil to deserve a more helpful response. Not responding at all would've been completely understandable, for all the reasons you gave.
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I deleted my Twitter account, so when people do this, I can't even use it to try to promote it - no less the argument that I'm not going to promote something I haven't even used. People do this all the time on Dribbble and it's really frustrating.
It does not yet, but it's on our TODO list. API compatibility details can be found here: http://docs.basho.com/riakcs/latest/references/apis/storage/
> I don't feel that I can be helpful when people approach with sarcasm

In general, I agree with this sentiment. But this post, which appeared (to me, at least) to contain extremely mild, non-personal-attack sarcasm, used to highlight areas of particular frustration, seems to be a shining example of how being 95% civil can result in much more effective communication than 100% civility.

If I were moderating that forum and wanted it to be a happy friendly constructive place, I'd let his post slide as a one-off, but give you a warning for being a condescending dick, since I find that kind of attitude in a community far more off-putting >_>
I've been reading Designing Games by Tynan Sylvester (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920026624.do, eBook is $10 if you use coupon code DEAL). It's been really interesting so far.

Game design is not about art, writing, or programming. Game design is about creating the rules that lead to emergent, interactive experiences.

There is an actual science to game design. It's not enough to just think of a story and move an avatar around on the screen. The game must create flow so the player is receptive to emotional arousal, then use game mechanics to invoke emotional arousal, and then add fiction/narrative so that the player labels the arousal as a particular emotion. A good game designer has to consider all of this and much more... strategies, equilibrium, balance, skill levels, and so on.

If you clone an existing game you basically get all of those design decisions for free, but you don't understand the background. This can lead to a case where you tweak or add something to your game which completely throws it off balance, without realizing it and without being able to fix it.
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For anyone wondering the same thing I was: these F-1's were dropped into the Atlantic when Apollo 11 jettisoned its first stage.
Making changes to the code to bring support to new "OS's" in this case is easy as long we're talking about the webkit gang + Firefox, which makes up most users who will have interest in webapps.
According to Wikipedia's sources it is no longer being used. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_Compartmented_Informa...
No experience with it. It's the only real cloud option I've seen while I was investigating. It promises everything you'd want though.

As long as you can get someone else to manage it, and it's on top of some fast SSDs, it looks like a good choice to me as long as it delivers on it's promises and meets your performance goals.
His post-2000 career is basically just Tabula Rasa. Lineage II is Korean made. City of * is all Cryptic (and later Paragon). Garriott is only attached to those products by way of being high up in NCsoft's US division at the time.
This looks fantastic, if it works smoothly it solves so many problems for me. Great work, great idea.

Have you thought at all about price point? IMO I wouldn't try to enter the hosting space, at least not yet. That's not the value for me. I think you have a great product in the works just as a front-end development platform. If it works as described, I'd put money down for it today (customer validation, check).
WordPress needs more rules

I'm convinced Wordpress is successful despite this.

No rules implies very low barrier to entry.
A very bad description would be: "containers are essentially what you get when you cross virtualisation with chroot".

The reason why I give that description to begin with is because containers solve a lot of problems that often lead people towards the virtualisation route. And to the guest "OS", all the applications think they're running on a unique machine from the host. However containers differ from virtualisation in that it's just one OS (one shared kernel). This means you can only run one unique OS (though if you know what you're doing, you can run multiple different distros of Linux in different containers - but you couldn't run FreeBSD nor Windows inside a Linux container). Containers can also have their own resources and network interfaces (both virtual devices and dedicated hardware passed through).

Because you're not virtualising hardware with containers and because you're only running one OS, containers do have performance advantages over virtualisation while still being just as secure. So I personally think they're a massively underrated and under utilised solution.

If you're interested in investigating a little more into containers, Linux also has OpenVZ, and FreeBSD and Solaris has Jails and Zones (respectively). The wikipedia articles on each of them also offer some good details (despite the stigma attached to wikipedia entries).

I've not used Docker specifically, but I have used other containers in Linux and Solaris, so I'm happy to answer any other questions on those.
Don't hate the playa, hate the game.

They are using other people's money -- given the current system, they had a fiduciary responsibility to do this, unfortunately.

Maybe the lesson is to not take other people's money, but investment really does allow grand things happen that would not happen otherwise.

Patent system is fucked and fucked corrupts absolutely. At least, that's my take away.
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PostHeads Social Media Ecosystem is now LIVE
It's cloaked so only google can see it - try changing your user agent to match googlebot's.
Game design is NOT easy, and it's just as much an art form as painting or writing music. Asking what makes a game fun is sort of like asking what makes a certain song "good"; it boils down to a question of personal preference, and everyone has different tastes. You can't please everyone at once, but if you dumb down the game enough you can appeal to a very wide audience. That's what happens with formula movies, pop music, and increasingly, video games as well.

Maybe the problem isn't that most game designers suck, but that the major studio's have calculated that they can be more profitable if they don't bother spending the time and money it takes to make games that are actually well designed.
Social media ecosystem, PostHeads, has finally released its demo accounts for those who believe in efficiency and the potential of digital media. But what the heck in PostHeads anyway? This should help:
- http://vimeo.com/62110339
For future reference, plural forms of words don't require apostrophes. (theme's, plugin's)
At first, that quote made me shake my head. However, it took me a minute to realize that the advice isn't "Google all the things!"

Certainly, having to search for an answer is inevitable. But it is also orders of magnitude more slow than recalling something from memory, at least for me. I think the key here is having the wisdom to know what is important enough to recall immediately versus referencing as needed.

As an analogy, and acknowledging the differences, being proficient with an editor isn't about the speed with which you look up how to do something: it's about what you can do without having to stop and think.
what about also basing it on saved designs? the first x are free, then it costs y for additional
Get Rid of the vertical bars between Think, Share, and Collaborate. Use commas or make them separate text.
The "sign up now" button should be just one font.
The positioning of the about and feedback buttons is very odd and looks messy.
The facebook like button should be on the same line as the other social buttons, if needed.
The thing about innovation dept, like architectural debt, is that it doesn't become a problem until it is too late to do something about it.

And do you believe this is seriously something that is killing companies left and right?

You know what kills companies? Cashflow.
I would settle for an alternate-universe version of Wordpress that is clean, secure, and elegant. :3

But seriously, if one is to rid the world of PHP, Wordpress is a great place to start.
It sounds like they are just building on cgroups etc, which are already part of the Linux kernel.

I would argue that virtual machines at a hypervisor/hardware level were just a hack for OSs not living up to their isolation promises/obligations. Strong OS level isolation implementations (cgroups, namespaces etc) allow people to put isolation back where it belongs, the OS.

The job of the OS is to control the hardware, wrapping the OS is software to emulate hardware is ridiculous and VMs generally have much more performance overhead than isolation containers.
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Containers have existed as long as virtual machines have. FreeBSD implemented "Jails" back in the late 90s / yr2000. Linux also has OpenVZ and Solaris has Zones.

If you couple a container with a CoW file system that supports snapshotting (eg ZFS or BtrFS), then you can have most of the features you'd expect from virtualisation but without as heavy footprint.

Containers are an underrated and often forgotten solution in my opinion.
as noted above:

"We will implement the IPA later this year, and it will apply to all patents issued to our engineers, both past and present." [1]

emphasis on past

[1] http://engineering.twitter.com/2012/04/introducing-innovator...
Which is funny, because they often bill themselves as 'changing the world.'

There is a distinct dearth of R&D-to-product shops, and our industry suffers greatly for it. Intellectually, some people need more than displaying a DB on a web page, no matter how profitable it is at this time.
We're really excited to be able to bring the ease-of-development and real time updates of Firebase to a new platform. Please let us know what you think!
As someone who has worked as a writer and editor at a newspaper, I think you're undervaluing journalists (it's a high-skill, analytical job) and making a false distinction between editors and journalists (it's like "software architect" vs. "programmer" - same basic skills, more supervisory role). But that's not what I want to talk about.

My actual point is that for better journalism to happen (what you call better editing), it needs to be incentivized. I am still hopeful that somebody will figure out how to build a successful journalism platform, probably based on micropayments, that incentivizes good journalism.

I'm not sure if PG listed this in his essay from a while back about great world-changing startup ideas, but I think it would qualify.
Interesting article. I actually do like developing for WordPress, but agree with you on many points. I'm just in the middle of having to write extra code to create a table in the database to hold some additional meta data for a custom taxonomy (sigh). Like many developers (I suppose), I've just built a small set of tools that allow me to get round some of the major issues, and starting with a decent theme (I'm quite a fan of Roots) can allow some pretty solid web development. It's never going to be quite as good as a ground-up build, but finding the hours to push into user interface development is hard - the settings and admin screen APIs in WordPress aren't bad.
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Here's the web "desktop" version. I've added a little parallax effect to the background picture.
Fonts are embedded through base64 strings, to avoid external requests. I tried to make the best to make the page load as small as possible, even if Heroku free plans still misses cache and are terribly slow.
We're going to plan to switch to a cdn hosted static website as soon as possible.
I hope people here realize how far some people will go when they feel they are given permission to harass others:

https://twitter.com/jessenoller/status/314417532842950656

This is just awful. And the people who are taking part in the harassment are responsible, not anyone else.
In any other venue, I would 100% agree and would not have responded this way. Delvarworld's tone is totally mild and in keeping with typical internet culture.

But Discourse's goal is to raise the bar. Significantly. They blog rather eloquently about it http://blog.discourse.org/2013/03/the-universal-rules-of-civ...

And new topic posters are asked to keep that high standard in mind when posting. I'm sure his sarcasm was meant lightly, but it still deviates from the high quality of discussion I'd like to have, and rather than simply ignore a discussion where I was specifically invited, I opted to publicly explain why I wouldn't be participating.

What I failed to do, and this shows my failing to keep that high bar, is explain what we could change to make the discussion civil.
I'm not. It's just symptomatic of someone that, for all the cred, still holds serious issues if that even ~sounded~ like something worth bringing up.
OK, I'll be the nay-sayer in this thread.

I love space and tech. Love it. We go to JPL every chance we get. My brother in law is a PhD Physicist who works there. Great stuff.

Now, that said, I have to wonder how much time, effort, money and energy went into recovering junk from the ocean.

And, I have to wonder what other project could have been undertaken that would have produced far greater benefits for society than being able to look at a mangled rocket engine at the Smithsonian.

I get it. Guy with a ton of money playing with expensive toys. No problem. We all do that to some extent or another with our disposable income. The problem here, if there is one, is I don't really see much value from recovering this junk. I'd love to know how much the entire adventure (inception to engine-in-museum) will cost. It's probably an obscene amount of money that would have done far greater good elsewhere.

<moron negative guy mode OFF>
Why do you insist on using GoDaddy? This is a particularly terrible ISP which severely and artificially limits your deployment options... why should your choice of blogging software depend on it?
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I think you can tell a lot about men's self image and conception of their own value as lovers by reading these comments.

Congratulations on your successful marriage with a woman you want to be with!
"I would love to be able to solder things together as easily as I can hold them together with duct tape. To me, that is what makes duct tape the best."
> What makes a video game good is however harder to operationalize - as it always is with mediums of art. Ask the average person why they like some song, an example of an answer would be something like "It's got a catchy hook", which the video game equivalent would be "It's got good controls and explosions."

While an individual's taste may be particular to him or her, it is possible to group and classify visual art styles. This is applicable to other aspects of game design as well, like genre and specific game mechanics.

I hate to link to Quora, but there was a great question about video game art styles at: http://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-taxonomy-of-names-of-videoga...
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Music sales are not affected by web piracy, study finds
Voyager 1 is at an ecliptic latitude of 34.9°, according to Wikipedia, so it is about 5.7 billion miles above the ecliptic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ecliptic_grid_globe.png

Edit: Whoops 5.7 not 7.5
I'd bet that there's still stuff to be learned, especially in metallurgy. Some types of cracking, especially within the bulk of metal, should be well-preserved.

Wear patterns should still be visible, even after corrosion.

Some chemical changes only take place at high temperature.

Furthermore, if any old NASA designs were lost (or if details are classified), salvaging the hardware guarantees you access to flight hardware.
I just lost all respect for you.

You're a doormat now, congrats.
Why do people continually upvote trash from forbes.com?

If you want a concrete example of a woman that blows away men in the criteria that the author chose, consider Margaret Thatcher (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher)
Maintaining complete compatibility with WordPress, including any future changes, while trying to clean up design problems (how is this actually possible without breaking anything?) would be a full-time unpaid job from hell and who would actually thank you for it?
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Mixture brings together a collection of awesome tools and best practices. It's quick, no-fuss, super-powerful and works with your favourite editor.
That sounds like a definitive improvement over LXC specially the isolation properties but I'm not sure what is the added value of Docker compared to OpenVZ ?

Any ideas ?
Bezos is taxed, and I imagine gives to charity. Why do his other endeavors have to be charity as well? I cannot understand this mindset at all.
Exceptions are idiomatic, widely supported and immediately available. The convoluted alternative presented here is not. I have never seen inherent problems with exceptions. Another "exceptions are exceptional claim" without any convincing evidence.
First of all: congrats on launching! 7 months is a long time, it has to feel good!

A long time ago I built "squeeze page" manager which had an editor like this (it was simpler and more focused on content management). I sunk a lot of time into it. However, I ran into the same problem I bet you guys will run into: "the design tool chasm". On one end are simple tools for publishing on the web (Weebly and Wordpress) and on the other are professional tools (Photoshop and Sublime Text 2/Textmate). In between are tools that no-one really wants.

Basically, don't stop at the editor. Its a feature. Take a look at Unbounce or HubSpot for "marketing tool" inspiration and Weebly and Wordpress for "publishing tool" inspiration. Or, if you want to be used by professional designers, you'll need to go in a whole different direction (which is likely the one you are on now). Of course, if you have target customers that love this as is, their feedback vastly trumps mine. But never stop talking to your target customers (steal them from the big boys with your personal touch and solve their problems)! Good luck guys!
And her setting a chain of events in motion that got a professional fired for a harmless joke is permissible?
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I salute a troll of the purest kind.
This helped me, too. Thanks!
+1 on the excellent news, makes it especially easy for hobbyist like myself to mess around with this sort of thing.

Awesome to see use of vagrant to get started quickly!
Suppose that there was no Microsoft. Who would have taken its place? DR was charing $240 for CP/M 86 -- the same amount it charged for CP/M on other platforms. At the same time, Microsoft was charging $40 for DOS. The other option on the IBM PC was UCSD p-system, which was fatally crippled by the overhead of the interpretation layer -- we didn't yet have JIT.

Or perhaps you think that a system not backed by IBM would have found success. In other words, multiple companies duking it out with incompatible OSes. How often does that work out?

I submit that the most likely scenario would've been a duopoly -- Apple with the home and education market, IBM with the business market.
On the other hand, most of the free plugins are awful. Many of the paid ones are as well, in fact. Many plugins can bring your site to its knees as soon as five people look at it sideways.
The Brothers Karamazov . Incredible insight into human psyche .
Are they still using it? the current Digg is a whole new site rewritten from the ground up from betaworks I'm not seeing the toolbar at all.
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Serious question, as I enjoy posting on HN and don't want to run afoul of the community. Was my comment negged because I was seen as hijacking a thread by making general comments about web apps rather than addressing Webflow specifically?

Or is it because of my negativity toward web apps and an appearance of ignorance on the state the art?
Writing this comment from your App. Will let you know how it goes.
Using the googlebot User-Agent string gives me:

User-agent: *
Disallow:

This robots.txt should allow all bots to search the entire website. However, I think Google also penalizes websites that serve different content to googlebot than to non-bot user agents.
Speaking from the point of view of someone who is the current position and has been for the last few years, as long as the health concerns of sleep deprivation do not bother you, number two does not have to be a concern.

To the OP, the biggest issue I had was bank accounts, many services wanted business bank accounts, which was a nightmare for the 14 year old me to try and convince them to give me. In the end I settled for an account with only a checkbook tied to it. I agree with what argonaut, before you make this official 'test the waters' and see if it has the traction that would be worth risking your education for.
I'm on it :)
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I was totally looking forward to reading about the Bezo Sexpeditions.
The main thing I took away was in this passage:
"you prove to me I'm worth it. ...make me know how valuable I am. Because I don't have any idea..."

But then, I don't see how she'll be satisfied with any ring. Surely if a guy could sacrifice this much he could sacrifice just a bit more - so she may not be that valuable to him. I don't even want to start thinking about a guy who can afford a bigger rock suddenly showing up :D

Basically, the moral of the story, for me, was: 1) Avoid women who don't know their worth and require external confirmations; 2) Develop your own sense of self-worth by doing something worthwhile, then finding a like-minded woman would be easier.

I think.
If you still think of it as being a mere blogging platform, you haven't been paying attention. Woocommerce, which is just one of dozens of ecommerce solutions running WordPress has over half a million downloads. Clearly people & businesses don't adhere to your logic.
I am familiar with Microsoft App-V, VMWare ThinApp, and Symantec Workspace Virtualization. They can help you as a security sandbox but not as a full protection. A virtual machine will be much more secure (and theoretically very strong), although there are security bugs there that enable you to escape it.

Those products work at two levels: using filtering drivers for registry and the filesystem, and hooking into the Windows operating system API.
It's up for me with:

User-agent: *
Disallow: