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>Not in this comment chain you didn't.

Sigh. This is tedious.

>There is no scientific theory that relies on "randomness" as the explanation for how a thing occurred

The Big Bang itself posits randomness as the very catalyst. And, while randomness is only part of the evolutionary process, it is also the catalyst for the first life forms. But, here you are saying that the whole of these scientific theories resting on these random events is irrelevant.

And, these events are the events. These are creation theories that literally omit the actual creation part. "This explosion occured, but it was random. These molecules formed randomly, then evolved, blah, blah, blah."

Someone higher up on this thread referenced the quote, "Give us one free miracle and we'll explain everything else."

That is exactly what science and you are doing at this point. Except you are unwilling to admit that you're asking for the free miracle. That, or you are comically attempting to downplay the significance. I can't tell which.

I asked you very specifically about the role of randomness as the catalyst vs there being an intelligent impetus. You quickly attempted to dismiss the very catalyst as an unimportant part of the theory, then shifted gears to evolution and claimed victory.

Science does not say "we don't know" in these cases. Period. Your repeating it doesn't make it so. No need to continue this discussion when you are unwilling to acknowledge reality. You are so focused on attempting to appear intellectually superior that you cannot assemble a cogent argument, because you cannot acknowledge where you have overstated something or could be wrong. So, you are now effectively saying "up is down and down is up. See, there, I have won the debate".

It is all really silly.
Shameless plug to add to the list: I built and currently use a tool called 'hawk' for handling ad-hoc deployments to testers. It's (in my opinion, anyway) simpler than the alternatives, is command line driven and configured from within your repo, and free beyond the cost of maintaining your own S3 buckets. Feedback very welcome:

https://github.com/mtrudel/hawk
yes yes yes. I can't believe this at all...
I liked the video especially the bit at 0:32 seconds.
> No, sorry I'm going to block while the JVM does a GC sweep, and I try and figure out what auto-completion to show you".

I've experienced this quite often, mainly on large code bases.
where is the windows version?
Now that's a neat Idea, you could be a billboard when the time is right and take it down at other times... You might even get more creative and hook up your smartphone or tablet as a display on the other side with whatever wording you want.

Maybe a scrolling marquee app. Heck, you could advertise whatever you want on your display at that point.

If it then becomes a trend, one could pay people small amounts of money for becoming mobile billboards on location enabled devices.
I believe the key sentence was "Office doesn't need to have a DropBox built into it, it just needs to be Office."

Embeddeing a featureless chunk of DropBox in Office that only works in Office that only works on Office files is the opposite of innovation, where you have a great idea but can only see it through the lens of your existing interests. Pulling features that don't belong in Office into Office isn't innovation, it's just poor product management.
Using transaction attributes in EJB 3.1 - Container Managed Transactions
Animation is suitable in an interface, an icon does not constitute an interface. An icon on a button animating on rollover is just distracting. Now, perhaps if something had to go on in the background it would be relevant (indicating that the work is still in progress) but that's a very edge case.
Hi! I would like to clarify what we are actually doing with FROONT – we aren't another bootstrap editor at all. We are aiming to give designers more freedom and control over design process so they can work faster and communicate with developers better building designs that can be tested on real devices right away.
We don't want to automate design, rather automate repetitive parts in coding.
Doesn't matter, only supports Ruby on Rails.

Might care when it supports stuff I actually use, like Heroku does.
"file synchronization is just not a killer application"

...is still true. Solving for the problems of not having having my files when I need them, on any device I'm using and without having to map drives and deal with complex, technical setup IS a killer application.

Customer experience and usability changes everything.
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It is mainly because the DOJ's resources are unlimited that, for "egalitarian" sake, it needs to be watched.
"My laptop is full of valuable code. Please come steal it."
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To run redis, you only need to pay for the virtual server and storage, that's why it's not mentioned separately in pricing. You can run all non-replicated databases (postgres, mongodb and redis) this way.
I wonder how many people use Dropbox for sync amongst multiple devices. For me it is mainly backup and sharing from my laptop.
Yes, it will be a very sad day. That program has been my bread and butter for so damn long. Photoshop and Illustrator can't even remotely compare to the power of fireworks when it comes to prototyping.
I also went to private schools for a time.

They are very image conscious, especially the schools associated with religion.
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> I should release it one day as open source.. though is all OpenGL 1 so a little outdated on iOS these days.

You definitely should! :-D

You can worry about porting/updating it later. You might even get help in doing so, once you open-source it.
The Atlantic article wasn't from a blog nor was it spam, but I do see that someone has changed both the title and link. Please stop your infantile, factually incorrect, holier-than-thou name calling, it impresses no one, certainly not me.
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Fireworks is an atrociously buggy, poorly designed piece of shit, but it's stil been the best app for web and UI design.

However, in the past 6 months I've started using an app called Antetype instead, and can't recommend it enough for screen design. http://antetype.com/
I'd be very curious about the viability of clients who approach you in a coffee shop. Seems like you'd get an awful lot of, "So hey, I have this idea that's like Facebook and Youtube combined and I think it could be the next big thing".

That's not to say you won't ever find a good client in a coffee shop, but I suspect it has a lower viability rate than a Craigslist ad, and at least on Craigslist I don't have to spend any real time talking to the people who are clearly not serious clients.
That's a lot to put on a sticker -- people aren't going to read that. Maybe something a bit snappier, e.g. "Freelance coder: available for gigs" or something.

I would question, however, whether putting a sticker of any kind is gonna help you score gigs. I mean, if you were looking for a coder, would you really approach some random guy/gal in a coffee shop based solely on a sticker on their laptop and knowing nothing else about them?

Maybe having a sticker with a link to your github, as suggested by others, would be more useful (if your user id is memorable).
The thing is, the article does not say "There are many circumstances where logging is a great tool." Who would object to that?

However, what the article says is "One of the differences between a great programmer and a bad programmer is that a great programmer adds logging and tools that make it easy to debug the program when things fail." In other words, he's more or less explicitly saying people who do not use logging are bad programmers. So it's not at all surprising that there is vocal disagreement.
There's still free IPv6 tunnel brokers, and pg can probably afford an extra $4 a month. The fact is that no website will enable IPv6 unless they have spare time and want a mini-project.

It is of course much, much preferred to have a native address. But if you're lazy you can enable IPv6 using 6to4 encapsulation and hope for the best:

modprobe ipv6
MYV4=`ip addr show dev eth0 | grep 'inet ' | awk '{print $2}' | cut -d / -f 1`
MYV6=`printf "2002:%.2x%.2x:%.2x%.2x::1\n" $(echo $MYV4 | tr . ' ')`
ip tunnel add 6to4-ipv6 mode sit remote any local $MYV4 ttl 255
ip link set 6to4-ipv6 up
ip -6 addr add $MYV6/16 dev 6to4-ipv6
ip -6 route add 2000::/3 via ::192.88.99.1 dev 6to4-ipv6 metric 1
echo 'nameserver 2001:470:20::2' >> /etc/resolv.conf
echo "@ IN AAAA $MYV6" >> /your/zone/file.conf
echo "ns1 IN AAAA $MYV6" >> /your/zone/file.conf
echo "www IN AAAA $MYV6" >> /your/zone/file.conf
iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p ipv6 -j ACCEPT
Design is iterative by its nature – therefore FROONT can be used for prototypes and for designs, that depends of the stage and complexity of design. IT can be wireframing, designing responsive patterns or design with real content.
Well, I have an installation on Shelly and it's not Rails app, but Rack based one - Sinatra. So not only Rails are supported.
The best thing you can hope to learn from someone you view as having made no mistakes is that they've made just as many if not more than others.

Also because survivorship bias: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

EDIT: Linked to Wikipedia
Great Entrepreneurs Will Listen To You But Will Follow Their Own Instincts
I really like Joel, I think he has some very worthwhile articles to his name. That said, he's probably more often wrong than he is right and I disagree with him on many points regularly. Even when he's wrong though he's still worth reading because usually you'll find a few nuggets of wisdom buried in there even if the broad picture is wrong, or as in this case if it's the other way around.
We support all Ruby frameworks, not only Rails.

We believe that by focusing on Ruby we can provide better service than we would if we had to support multiple runtimes and application architectures.
I'm not sure why you assume he didn't make any mistakes, or even that he didn't make any serious one. Just because he was ultimately successful doesn't mean there was a lot more behind it than pure "right-decision-making" or skill.

How many great people never finished their works because of something completely outside of their control?
I don't think this comes as a huge surprise to many. There were big hopes for Fireworks after the buyout that never materialised, and while it has seen steady — albeit minor —iteration since, it never ended up inheriting the Photoshop features that I for one hoped it would.

In stark contrast to PS, FW is one of a select few pieces of Adobe creative software that always 'just worked' as I expected. It is a remarkably intuitive tool for many tasks, and it'll be a shame to see it go.
scuse my french but before saying that you should fucking learn how to use it
The site seems to be down. Text Only Cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:flippin...
Very interesting! Thanks for your reply. Have you ever posted or discussed your infrastructure before?
Many people are already socially satisfied: When I work at home I carry on multiple conversations with people over IRC, IM, Skype, video chat, Google Hangouts, and occasionally even the venerable telephone. In real life I have a number of friends who share interests and outlooks, who I'm met in many interesting ways, and not just because we share an employer.

When I go to the cafe (I'm a different person from who you're replying to) I often go to meet up with other peers, but even when I don't, just being around other people mixes things up.
I like the idea. Have you considered adding weights? I'd also consider linking to a more detailed source (wikipedia?) when available.

On the topic of idempotence..we recently made our platform distributed across 4 datacenters using queues. None of us really knew what we were doing. Recognizing this very early on, we made all calls idempotent. Pretty sure that single decision is what made the entire system work.
I would only take seriously tests like this if my apps consisted of displaying "Hello World" to paying customers. So far I couldn't find a business model to monetize this type of application.

As a result, I find these tests to be meaningless no matter how pretty the graphs are.
Laptop thefts never(may be 0.05% of them..) look at your code. So do not let your laptop unattended even you use this sticker or not..
Sorry. Traffic spike took down the site temporarily...coming back up now.
I agree, I do a lot of design in browser now as well. I was just stating you tend to see more articles about Illustrator and its benefits to a design workflow over that of Fireworks.
You might actually reduce the chance of theft, if you put the sticker over the Apple logo :P
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What's funny is that math people know this is impossible and will never attempt it, but it's quite easy to write something practically useful that does the job most of the way. It's possible for static analysis tools to identify many loops that will never end. E.g. in Java if there's no break or return and the guard is a boolean that is never written to and no runtime class loading is used.

It can be very valuable to have static analysis tools in an organization, I know my own company has them, and we don't share them. IBM as well puts tons of work into it. Motorola has shared one of their tools. Every bug and issue your tool can find is one much more cheaply solved.

Similarly, the client may be doing coding education, or interview, or other software where just a few limited lines and limited operations need to be checked, or it is OK to say if you hit n^4 loops you lose, etc..
Correct -- immediately after the video was posted to InfoQ I posted a comment there to clarify and correct that error:

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Erlang-OTP-Behaviors#anch...
yes. bluepill said it perfectly.
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I guess most of the people posting these one-off coding jobs on bidding sites are probably too flaky to ever need a version 0.00002, they will abandon the business as soon as they realize they aren't getting any hits.
>> If I could build Instagram and sell it for $1b

>> I sure as hell would

> Bullshit. Maybe you could!

You need to read up on how the word "if" works.
This will not work! You missed the Apple logo.
Sure. I'm working on a startup that's a marketplace for corporate business documents (e.g. business frameworks, financial models, presentation templates). The marketplace is based on the principle that companies/employees waste a lot of time/effort/$ recreating the same documents and redoing the same analyses.

I'd like to reach out to experienced professionals and offer them the proposition of joining my marketplace as sellers. I would like them to have worked for 5+ yrs, so they have the skills and business insights to build quality, relevant documents. I think my value proposition is more attractive to unemployed folks, since they're in need of money and have time on hand to create documents.

Let me know if you need any more detail.

Here is the site: http://flevy.com
Is there a performance penalty for using document ready? Understanding that it isn't necessary if your scripts are at the bottom of the page, does it actually hurt?
Probably, but there's plenty of good money in selling software to humans.
Because rightly or wrongly, there's evidence that it increases consumer confidence and results in more purchases / subscribers / customer love. It's an empty promise, but people buy it anyway.
Are you suggesting YouTube turns a blind eye towards copyright infringement? My experience has been that they aggressively patrol the site for infringing content to the point where they remove many videos that are clearly not infringing.
So, can women in the US be charged by other countries for, say for example, not wearing a burka in public? Can they stone my ex-girlfriend for being a slut?
I use it to synch files between my Windows gaming desktop, my Windows and OS X work laptops, and my personal Linux laptop, plus access from my phone... so that's 5 devices right there. So there's at least one data point right there.
Excuse me. Stealing a laptop for the valuable code it contains?
Game science will give you an advantage over your competitors
FreeBSD (and Darwin) are not UNIXes, despite being compatible, since they aren't certified. Unless you fork over some change for the certification, the best you can be is "Unix-like".
Do you know what the process is for getting those profiles? Does getting profiles also include a way to contact them?

I would prefer a mass method.

Thanks for the suggestion.
I have absolutely considered adding weights. But, it quickly leads to the idea that my priorities are not necessarily the same as everyone else's, and that leads to user-customizing, and that leads to... well, it got to some cool ideas, but I figured first I should shove this out the door in a simple form and see if people like the concept. If the concept is well-received, I'll continue to develop it and explore other API best practices in a similar manner.
Depends what you are going for, unless you are looking for people who are already reasonably tech savvy your potential customers might not know that github is a thing.

I full sentence briefly explaining what you do, and more importantly giving people permission to interrupt you would stand out more than just some random sticker.
How do you provide a preview for Retina displays on non-Retina displays?
By keeping the test apps simple, we limit the app code's effect on the results, and show the overhead of the providers' infrastructure.

You're welcome to fork https://github.com/shellycloud/baseline-performance and provide a better test.
I think you have a good point in that working in "command mode", or "chording", or whatever you want to call it, is different than writing prose. FWIW, I am a Vim user and I think it works great in Dvorak (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4323873). `<ctrl>a` is the same as qwerty, `:wq` is typed on both hands, but as I say in that link, I prefer split hands for `hjkl`, and `wq` is pretty easy too.

To your point I would accept that in command mode, key position, mnemonics, etc. may be more important. In insert mode however I think it is, at the very least, a sound hypothesis that more alternation creates more comfort.
The Damaging Psychology of Down Rounds
As an admin who unfortunately has to deal with "cheap hosting" quite often I'd say "Please, NO!" to that.

I don't think RoR and "cheap hosting" are compatible. RoR adds a maintenance overhead that kills the "cheap" part.

I did admin work for RoR "cheap hosting" and it sucks; lots of gems and multiple versions of them to install etc; this took a lot of my time and made security audits very hard, plus it's not always trivial to install them as some require NEW everything.

Whereas with PHP, 99,9% of the applications run just fine with a relatively simple PHP installation: e.g. core + xml, mysql, imap, gd, mbstring, mcrypt. Update it every once in a while and you're all set!

What RoR programmers need is a cheap vps/container with RVM (or similar) or very specialised platforms (e.g. Heroku).
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What next, you'll tell me that software having fancypants 5-star awards from some random shareware-download site might not actually be all that great. I'm shocked I tell you, shocked!
OT: I hate sliding hero-unit carousels that don't pause on hover. I am trying to look at your damn image, hold it still!

Also, get off my lawn.
Show HN: YouTube Channel Totals
Conversations with other developers, yes.
jQuery Builder: build a custom version of jQuery with only the modules you need
That's a good question - I'm not proficient in this area, but I think there are some cleanup ideas floating around.
Experiencing Life Away From Your Computer Screen
It also has a bit of a "will code for food" vibe to it.
And yep, you're gonna get "oh, you work in IT? Maybe you can tell me why my laptop won't connect to the wireless here..."
You forgot the part about the idea being worth one hundred billion dollars!
What kind of rejoinder is that? I used it heavily for three years. It's a joke. Here's a tiny fraction of the shit I encountered every day: http://fwsucks.tumblr.com/
Adobe is migrating everyone to the new cloud services, so it makes sense. Fireworks > Edge Reflow / Dreamweaver, Flash > Edge Animate. Only problem is that they're experimenting so much with new apps that I don't know what to invest my time in learning (I'm looking at you Proto).
No, that's looking at the wrong place. Yes, the ditch diggers may make money and that may go on to generate wealth, but at the point where we're paying the ditch diggers, we're burning wealth. We could either have gotten something for that money, or nothing, and we chose nothing. There's opportunity cost there. Quite significant, in fact.

A lot of people make this mistake, including the government and even it seems to me many economists, always looking to the next transaction and failing to think about this one. But this one is the one that counts right now. The mere fact that the dollar wasn't "destroyed" doesn't mean that it did anything good, and it certainly could have.
I would say that this kind of explanation could be used to justify every wrong statement.

In the end if someone claims something it is usually true until someone proves it wrong. I think that in this case Dropbox popularity has proven Joel's statement wrong. And this is also why Drobox is successful. It hid the complexity and provided some simple and intuitive mechanism for file synchronisation.
Joel's argument was simply based on the previous unsuccessful attempts...
Zoom to 200%, and move the monitor twice as far away.
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Been a Fireworks user for years for UI mockups and graphic design. Would be tragic if this news is true. One alternative not mentioned here is Omnigraffle. It is actually very well suited for UI design though not as much for visual design but you can get pretty close.
Live Mesh was a Microsoft syncing service, it worked well, it was free.... and it got dropped.

Otherwise, SkyDrive (which is the Microsoft equivalent of Dropbox) has had a free Office built into it ;-)
Idea to Paid Product, Week 1
Love Froont - did some mockups and got valid HTML out of it in minutes. Genius.
Wow, someone at Google finally successfully championed the cause! Thanks to whoever you are if you're reading this.
Now I have much more sympathy for your point view. However, I still claim that "There are much worse things your kid probably sees daily just by turning on the TV."
I would rather go for "We are hiring"
Agreed. I can only assume that at least 50% of the people that use Photoshop only do it because they've never tried Fireworks (or have to, because everyone else does). Of course, that means Adobe is sort of competing with it's own product, so it was inevitable that Fireworks would disappear some day.

To the best of my knowledge, Fireworks has no competitor or open source equivalent. If anyone is thinking about it, you'd have a customer for life from me.
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Please Stop "Innovating"
It's like a BBB sticker for your office door.
I used Freehand when it was made by Aldus. Back then, Deneba Canvas was pretty good too.
Wow! They actually listened. Who would have thought..
That requires an acquire on every access, so it's generally slower.