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Odd. I don't think I'm hellbanned, that'd be unfortunate. There was a weird bit of double posting with that comment though, maybe that's what's going on.
> AVERAGE USERS ARE IDIOTS

Please. Technical users are often idiots as well.
Thanks, I've already seen it. In fact, it was one of the factors that made me narrow the choice. Thank you for making it.

Do you have any plans to include CanvasEngine and/or Cocos2D in there as well?
Why shopping on mobile is broken
When I was working on WAN optimization I had a development prototype that did a man in the middle attack on SSL connections and resigned the connection with a locally generated certificate (also added to the browser).

My bank also had these logos, and despite me having a mitm attack going on, those logos stayed up. I failed to find a single scenario under which they went away!
In many ways it feels like the number one change Adobe did to Fireworks is to make it slower, for no discernible reason.

And Fireworks is quite buggy in some details, and it being a completely different codebase didn't help. I agree that AI and PS are much better in terms of stability and codebase and support, but they still feel like you're using an electric toothbrush to paint a wall.

For print graphics, it's LaTeX for me. It's not an entirely sane choice. Either that or very high resolution Fireworks, trying to deal with HTML5 (and bending that into a PDF with horrific results) or just giving up and using Word. Or Illustrator, for that matter, which is the sane choice. But Illustrator sits in an awkward gap and InDesign isn't much better either in that regard.

There's a market out there for a non-WYSIWYG application for print design.
You can always use `%doctest_mode` to toggle back and forth between IPython-style prompts and `>>>` ones (along with changing exception mode to be more standard-looking).
Malware.
There is http://www.weekendhacker.net/

Though I have always found most of the projects posted on that list to be either sketchy ("I am a biz guy, build my thing!") or not weekend-sized.
Asus CEO sees Chromebooks, $300 Windows tablets in the company’s future
Sound on Linux wasn't a problem 5 years ago. In fact, it wasn't a problem even earlier. I started using linux on a regular basis circa 2006 and never ran into any problems with sound. I used different distros (knoppix, ASPLinux, openSUSE, ubuntu, linux mint, arch) on different desktop machines and laptops. The worst problem I had was with winmodems that refused to work with anything but windows, but even that I was able to solve by installing some weird drivers.
I'm sorry to hear that you didn't find it useful. Thanks for trying it out though!

I'd like to understand better what you're looking for; my email's in my profile if you'd be willing to talk further.

If you're using the Word Add-In, the diff runs on your computer. If you're using the online demo on the bottom right of our homepage, it runs on our server. I'll make sure that we spell this out in our privacy policy.

The demo on our homepage is the only hosted service right now. The EULA includes "hosted services" partly to cover use of that tool but mainly because I didn't want to have to redo it once we launched more things.

By the way, did you try the Retroactive Track Changes features, which do compare all those things you mention?
Original SimCity creator calls EA’s server problems “inexcusable”
What's going on at SF's Museums?
First: Oculus Rift is not a living room game console competitor.

Second: Ouya has not even reached the open market. It might do well, but it has several major hurdles to get past before it could be thought of as any sort of threat to the XBOX or Playstation platforms. Ditto Steam Box. (Although I'd put my money on Valve over Ouya.)

Third: No talk in this article about how Sony and Microsoft might need to fight off other very large players that want to take over your TV set? My new Samsung TV has games like Angry Birds built right into it. They suck, but it's definitely a sign that they might move further in that direction. And I assume Apple will eventually open up the Apple TV platform for third party developers to release games. Those seem like much bigger threats to Sony and MS.

Especially Apple. AAA game studios already release games for the Mac -- porting to a new Apple TV flavor of iOS (or whatever) might not be that big of a step. And, unlike Ouya (for example), Apple has a proven ability to attract massive numbers of independent developers to build for their platforms.

Anyway, I don't necessarily disagree with his point that Sony and Microsoft might need to move a bit more nimbly on these new systems, but I don't think the author of the article has really drilled down to the true reasons. He's kind of fixated on a couple of very green products that have attracted some niche attention from developers and gamers but definitely do not have any kind of demonstrated mainstream appeal.
I wonder if Wikipedia will suffer from some of the same problems the open directory (DMOZ) did when it began to stagnate. Ops became openly hostile and started promoting or punishing various people / causes / businesses depending on their personal alignment.
Will Wright: Games "falling way short" as a medium
NFL Pro 2013 1.4.9 Apk+Data Download
There are some cloud components, such as storage and other services. It isn't just the same software with a new license.

http://www.adobe.com/products/creativecloud/tools-and-servic...
Software is supposed to make getting stuff done a lot cheaper than with a real person.
Yeah, it was probably a little much. The site has been up for quite a long time and I thought it might useful given the circumstances. Should I have linked to it more than once? Probably not.
The answer is short: the policies are in charge.

Follow a few discussions and the (crowdsourced) rules are continually umpiring them. Do all editors follow them, no. But when other (more experienced) editors come along - eventually - the hammer falls. You'll see an admin in the fray now and then, but rarely.
The monthly creative suite subscription is a pretty good deal and lets you download/use all the cs apps.
Not sure why it's lame for it to cost $20, is it because you could build it yourself?
Here are my top three pieces of advice I wish I had at 15:

Remember: every website you use, every app on your phone, was built by people just like you. There is nothing magical or mystical about technology. Technology is just a tool, and you can learn to master it to solve problems.

If you can see problems in the world, be it not remembering to walk the dog, or being annoyed with washing your car, you probably have an idea for a business. It might not be a billion dollar business, but it will get you thinking.

Get in the habit of starting things. We spend so much of our life planning, waiting, when we should be trying, iterating.
I'm a bit confused that they kept Dreamweaver but killed off Fireworks.

No web designer I know even uses Dreamweaver anymore, but plenty of people still use Fireworks. Odd decision by Adobe here.
What's your Exit Strategy?
"Even if JQuery isn’t the reason JavaScript is so hot right now, do you honestly think JavaScript would have become so popular if JQuery never existed?"

Yes, I do, for the simple reason that JavaScript is the only language that runs in every browser, full stop.

It doesn't matter how ugly it is. It has the privileged position of being the only language that runs in the browser, so if you want to do any kind of client-side scripting, it's JavaScript or nothing.

This makes the emergence of frameworks to smooth over the language's pain points inevitable. If jQuery had never been invented, Prototype or Mootools or one of the zillion other frameworks would have taken over the world. But JavaScript's monopoly over scripting the browser is what drove all those frameworks' popularity, not the other way around.

"JavaScript has some things that are fundamentally wrong with it that no amount of covering up or pretending will fix."

As long as JavaScript is the only way to script the browser, whether JS is fundamentally flawed or not is sort of an academic question. It remains the only way to get from point A to point B regardless of its flaws.

"Even though the world seems bright and cheery for JavaScript developers today, it also seemed equally bright and cheery for Blackberry devs not too long ago. And look how that turned out."

Blackberry devs are getting pummeled because there was somewhere else for Blackberry users to go. Where else are JavaScript users supposed to go to script the browser? There is no alternative.

"Take JavaScript away and replace it with another programming language and you don’t really miss anything."

Except that in practice, you can't do that. Browser vendors can do that, but none of them appear to have any interest in doing so. (The article mentions Dart, but Dart compiles to JavaScript.) And that's not even considering what would happen if all the browser vendors backed different languages... oy.

Way back in the earliest days of browser scripting, it was thought that languages would be 'pluggable' -- that there'd be, say, a Python plugin for your browser, and devs would be able to script the browser in Python through it. (Which is why up until HTML5 SCRIPT elements were required to include a TYPE attribute; it was assumed that "application/javascript" would be just one type among many.) But that never happened.

"You can only build so much on top of something else, before you have to wipe the slate clean and start over."

There's no practical way to wipe the JS slate clean. JS is out there, right now, baked into a gazillion different browsers and devices. Even if you come up with a better alternative, how do you get it into enough of those browsers and devices to create the critical mass required for developers to start writing for it?

The only practical answer is that you get them into new browsers and devices, and then wait for all the old ones to die or be replaced. Which means that if something really does rise up and try to replace JS, you will have pleeeenty of lead time to get ready for the change. Like, decades of it.
LSD Photos: Chelsea Morgan Mimics Psychedelic Experience - interview
Jimmy Wales doesn't run Wikipedia and is not the head of Wikipedia. He is a figurehead. There's a very dramatic difference between the concepts.

That fact makes your entire rant pointless.
Show HN: Earl - Crowdfunded Backcountry Survival Tablet
I read you have to have your Dwolla linked to your bank account for over a month to use CampBX. I just set up my Dwolla to bank over the weekend and verified. I want to buy a bitcoin or two for fun. Any ideas?
Biggest misconception about design these days is that design is purely about looks.

"What works good is better than what looks good, because what works good lasts."
— Ray Eames
I think that the progression is usually:

full time employee -> part time contractor -> consultant with own clients -> own team and agency -> your own startup

investors can short circuit this, but this is how many companies including 37signals started
I really hope that someone is going to do something fun with http://fellat.io/, instead of just squatting on it forever.
Just got back from a long day away from the desk, will look at this tomorrow.

I'm thinking a good default would use the default templates (as they are good), memcached, PostgreSQL, have a config file in /etc (because no-one should be hard-coding their app, even if it's a quick thing) and I'll make some excuse to include the scheduled tasks as there is always an edge case need for them. I won't try and solve user login, I'll just use Persona.

It will be basic, but have a lot of simple components that people can delete out or extend depending on what they want to do.
At least FW will still be around and somewhat supported for quite a while. FW is pretty much feature-complete and can continue functioning well into the future.
"People create more than a billion memories, thoughts, and moments in Dropbox every day."

Interesting copy. If you replaced "Dropbox" in that sentence with Facebook, it would work just as well.

Maybe that's Dropbox's endgame? An emphasis on "moments" rather than "files"?
The Geography of Twitter
Any awesome plans for it?
What We Learned About Tiered Pricing vs Pay-As-You-Go
I'm sure that more cuts are on the way. Having a breadth of products works well for software that's distributed in a non-SaaS model. Now, that they have embraced a subscription model, expect narrowing the product suite.
And to top it off with meta-deliciousness, the website is Jekyll-based so you can see browse the source!

https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/tree/gh-pages
We just launched WebCode about a month ago (been selling http://www.paintcodeapp.com/ for more than a year). The two apps obviously share a lot of internals. We decided to make WebCode a separate app because it has an entirely different target audience.
It's been awhile since I read Fooled by Randomness but I think Taleb's point was that TMND only looks at those who became rich, it doesn't look at those who didn't get rich following the same strategy.

I haven't read TMND so I can't say if that's true, but your post doesn't refute his point.
ShowHN: Inspireboard. An anonymous art project to reflect, share, and remember.
$350? I'd like to at least get a peek at what's going to go on that day before sinking that kind of money into this.
The days of people being lazy information consumers are long past. If something is important, it's incumbent upon you to pursue understanding of said something. Wikipedia has been a very useful platform, but it is no more secure in its future than horseshoe manufacturers were a century ago.

People and society need information and if someone or whatever outlet supplies good information, people will use it. If the person or whatever outlet start putting out bad information, the audience will leave for better information sources.
+1 this ^
I stand corrected. I've seen him referred to as a Microsoft exec in stories/comments, related to his whole Twitter debacle.
Offline and completely alone I agree, you'd have to try stuff and see what you like. Which is not awful given a decent package management system.

Of course in the modern connected world, you use what your friend showed you, or google, or youtube, or some blog page. screencasts, and tutorials, and faqs. I've never considered the free software community to have a shortage of opinionated highly vocal people.

Someone turned me onto the Awesome window manager, don't remember who or where. Probably 20 years ago I mostly used emacs but the smartest engineer I worked with used vi, so peer pressure struck. I learned GIT from a text blog tutorial quite a few years ago. I watched a screencast on Arduino IDE installation (which was embarrassingly simple and worked perfectly)
Clicking on the boats on this page makes them sink.
I agree.

My last two "primary" consoles were the Xbox and the Xbox 360 (I also owned Nintendo's consoles primarily for Nintendo's first party games), and I am heavily leaning away from the next Xbox regardless of the "always online" situation. Sony just seems to be focusing more on things I care about (indie games, etc) while Microsoft continues to increase my prices to play online while simultaneously increasing the number of ads thrown at me on the service I am paying for).

If I do switch, I'll miss the Xbox-style controllers, which I much prefer to the Sony "* Shock" design, but I think I'll adjust eventually.
I thought I'd share a few cool hacks built on top of Docker:

Hipache: https://index.docker.io/u/samalba/hipache/

Heroku buildpacks on Docker: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/docker-c...

Ready-to-use OpenCV build with python bindings: https://index.docker.io/u/steeve/opencv/
>though if I'm not mistaken it's still the preferred solution for BSD and therefore often available as an option

I believe you are mistaken. The BSDs have always avoided all the freakish audio framework nonsense from linux land. They provide an API that is somewhat compatible with OSS to allow software with linuxisms like assuming OSS to function. That API is a wrapper around the real audio system: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ossaudio&ap...
Yes, $20 for you is too much, but there are lots of people who have no idea how to do a bash one-liner (me being one of them actually).

I worked on this project a while back and posted the list for free for over a year, not sure why it's a sin to charge money for it now.
I was educated in the UK and given (in my estimation) very poor maths instruction. I stopped studying maths at the earliest opportunity. My undergraduate degree was in the humanities.

Even for me, someone who identifies as being very bad at math, the math section of the GRE was not challenging in the least, even though I had done literally no preparation. (I was applying for a course that required all applicants to take the GRE, even though it wasn't considered at all in the entry process. Apparently it had something to do with funding.)

I guess my point is, I find it difficult to imagine anyone who had completed a degree and was sitting the GRE would find the math section anything beyond elementary.
Yup, no one could disagree with this sentiment. Nuke old useless features, if you have new better ways of doing things, and they actually are better, that's awesome. Do that

As long as you actually DO have a better way to do things.
Lisp In Summer Projects: Coding Competition
On the other hand, there is research that suggests that sitting up straight or leaning forward is not as good for your back as leaning back:

http://www.motleyhealth.com/news/slouching-back-is-good-for-...
That was my plan, then i ended up with 30 consultants. Now I'm just really enjoying running a consulting business!
User acquisition is probably the biggest challenge for an early-stage startup (http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html). Your definition of "spamming," is pretty broad.

"Spamming" by itself is not malicious. In the case of Path, the app is only as valuable as my network of friends who is on it, so you can be damn sure I'm going to invite them. In the case of AirBnB, people saw the ads, signed up and ostensibly got value out of AirBnB, so what was the harm?

Not sure what your problem with "spamming," is (even though you have provided two examples that are pretty different), but I imagine that yes, startups will continue to grow at all costs because they have to in order to survive.
Or you can just transmit routing info in a side channel that runs on conventional technology.
One word: finally!
This page seems to cover that topic adequately: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_cigarette#Health_con...

What exactly is your complaint?
I thought that DRM on consoles was generally pretty effective without being always-online.

The console flat out won't run a game without doing a copy-protection check and the whole thing is locked down right to the hardware level.

Jailbreaking a console to run pirate or homebrew content is often a major warranty voiding surgery operation, unlike a PC where one can simply replace the .exe file.
If you open up the "join us" modal and then click outside the modal, you get a orange box that says join us and requires you refresh the page to get back to where you were.
> You could factually say "The nation of x invaded the nation of y and slaughtered 10,000 innocents."

Probably not. "Innocents" is not a factual description, nor is "slaughtered", and "invaded" is dubious. More importantly, even to the extent that that statement could be rephrased into a series of fact claims, that doesn't make it objective. Fact claims aren't inherently objective, as belief in a fact claim is generally based on subjective interpretation of evidence for that claim.

Striving to eliminate as much as possible the reporter's subjectivity results in what we see frequently in the media today: "He said, she said" journalism where the reported facts consist merely of reports that varying parties made various claims.
I think you overestimate how efficient the VC market is. You can fuck up a lot of pitches and still close. In fact, most people hear No much more than Yes. Very rare to just walk in and get an offer without knocking on doors.
Show HN: New Website Feedback
Hey Everyone,

I put this in the wrong section last time, sorry. Just wanted to get some feedback on my new website at www.sugarpixels.com. It's supposed to be an easier way to find better gifts.

Looking forward to your feedback...

Thanks,

Kevin Bikhazi
This is really good for artists. Many folks I know wouldn't be able to justify $1200 laid out all at once, but would still like to be able to use the most up to date version of creative suite. Now they can pay less than the price their morning coffee every day. Plenty of others I know really only use Photoshop, which will come out to $0.65/day, even the starving artists I know can afford that.
Obvious, but frustrates me everyday: inter-app communication. The whole OS feels like some odd riddle where no one is allowed to talk to one another and you still have to get things done.
The three most important SaaS metrics
Absolutely. The pure non-aggression of his method was brilliant.
That's not the point. The point is having to use all three of those apps to achieve what the wonderful Fireworks did all on its own.
Avid PaintCode user here, just learned about WebCode. Interestingly, more than once I wished I had the ability to export from PaintCode to something web with CSS or Canvas. Great to know there's now an app for that, but wouldn't it make sense to kinda also have it as additional functionality (maybe in-app purchase) for Paintcode?
Bad example. The e-cig article does a fine job of pointing out that they're healthier than cigarettes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_cigarette#Health_con...

"Proponents of electronic cigarettes often claim that electronic cigarettes deliver the experience of smoking while eliminating the smell and health risks associated with tobacco smoke."

"While e-cigarettes may give nicotine addicts more or less the same amount of nicotine as a conventional cigarette, they do not produce the same toxic smoke that can cause lung disease and cancer when inhaled over time. Since there are no products of combustion to be inhaled, no tobacco toxins are inhaled besides nicotine"
I'm now conditioned to read "The Future of Product X" headlines as "Product X Has No Future".

Sadly, the pattern holds here.
Scott and I were able to pretty much jump from full time employee to the 1 week on -- 3 week off model. We did have one client in between that was just a 4 week job. The only reason we were doing consulting was to bankroll us while we worked on our product -- so we pretty much skipped the own clients and team/agency step.

I do think most people probably took the route you described though.
Things I miss from Android after switching to iOS:

* The keyboard (mainly showing the proper case)
* An exposed file system
* The ability to set default applications (like default browser)
Hadoop's 10 in LinkedIn's 10
I am working on a replacement for password managers. Type a password, then [Ctrl] + double click the field to hash it. Even if the database is compromised, an attacker is unlikely to assume your plaintext password is a base64 hash.
http://deckar01.github.io/SHA512JS/
Another static gallery generator (which I am the author): https://github.com/saimn/sigal/
It shares some spirit with pelican. Python, jinja2, themes (currently galleria and colorbox). The goal is to make it easy to use javascript libs like galleria.
Loose clicks sink ships.