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"A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant." -- Allen J. Perlis

Speeding up the JVM has always been on the critical path - and it is important to recognize the distinction between Java and the JVM. They are two entirely different types of things. Java is measured by expressiveness. The JVM by speed and memory efficiency and concurrency and other performance abstractions.

Rich Hickey offers garbage collection as the compelling reason that many cpp programmers found Java attractive enough to switch.[1]

In the early days, and to some degree today, Java programmers felt the speed hit of JVM managed code in comparison with managing memory directly in their program. Thus, speed of execution has always been a intercommunity criticism - even though a significant fraction of applications are constrained primarily by other things...like getting written in the first place.

The rather understandable misidentification of Java and the JVM painted the language with the features of the machine. Java has not improved its performance over the years (though it has perhaps become more expressive). The JVM has, on the other hand, been improved in terms performance.

[1] http://www.artima.com/articles/hickey_on_time.html
Depends on how you sync it. bt sync is really awesome, and i'm really waiting to see all computing done in p2p, which is not the same thing than in "the cloud". The cloud is still centralized so that they can control the content in some way.

I really wish I could have the skill, time and motivation to work on p2p techs like the ones bittorrent is working on. But defining what you want to do on p2p is really hard and is unexplored.

Every geek nerd investor/programmer you-name-it will join the current mainstream herd and tell you to make facebook apps, iphone apps, android apps, and advise you to auth your blog comments with twitter or openid.

I don't know what this joel guy is always saying that can attract so much attention, all I know is that I want to bury the web2.0 remains into the ground, forget about internet browsers and focus on sharing mechanisms that actually work. The web was designed to make static pages, not dynamic pages. So please, kill that SPDY thing right now, close those huge, innefficient data centers and try to work on decentralized techs.

The web currently works in a centralized fashion, so there is no way developers can join in and add value. Facebook is a fortress.

And if the CIA knocks and tells you they need to monitor your stuff, let them do it. Nobody really cares except journalists, who are professionnals.

I know it sounds unreal, but I'm so convinced people could share more information if the platforms were not owned and regulated by websites, but instead by people, even if there is are security and spamming risks. I'll sound crazy but the internet has always been an opportunity to have a better local economy, and that's a shame it's not happening.
Nobody on Mac runs Firefox except to test with because it's so obviously non-native.

And I wouldn't describe LibreOffice as "not looking (and running) like shit". Again, nobody on Mac actually uses it, and Windows has the real Office.
i'm the complete opposite. i latched-onto macromedia fireworks before adobe bought it up (probably because i managed to get it for free¹) and have never been able to comfortably shift to photoshop..

i get the sense that you can achieve very similar outcomes using either one, but just always preferred the way you do so with fireworks over photoshop and similar programs. i’m not too savvy in the design space, but would appreciate any insights into the differences between the two, particularly as it relates to workflow.

¹ should note that while i initially gained exposure to the program via less-than-legal ways, having since grown up i am now a happy paying customer. i imagine this experience is quite common and this type of exposure a net benefit to companies like adobe.
Poor example.

Kingdom Builder is made by legendary board-game designer Donald X. Vaccarino (creator of "Dominion"). The art style is reminiscent of the board game and clearly communicates to me at least "Oh snap, Vaccarino made another game". It clearly has Vaccarino's signature on the top.

The screenshot is perfect for the target audience: people familiar with Vaccarino's name, as well as his reputation. It is simultaneously an advertisement for itself, as well as an advertisement for the boardgame that Vaccarino has made.

Its the official iPad adaptation of the board game. And as such, it looks exactly like the board game. If you're not into turn-based board games, you won't know Vaccarino (and probably won't enjoy the game). If you are into those games, you will know who Vaccarino is.

If you're advertising Monopoly, the last thing you want to do is point out the complicated board state. Action will be slower and graphics will be terrible... after all, this is a port of a board game. However, those who are interested will recognize your board game port... so you want to make it look like its cardboard form that you'd find at a toy store.
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I really appreciate the idea but most designers coming out of school (or self-taught) know how to manage building mockups in HTML and CSS. I might see how this could be slightly quicker but it still doesn't quite translate like the real thing.
Yes, get the white one:
http://instagram.com/p/XzdnxHut8u/
this is where github helps. or stack overflow.
I'd love to beta test this if you ever decide to implement :)
While true, are you aware of that ever actually happening?
Depends on one's definition of interesting. This very article is about a pseudonymous user. And you and I are too.
Downside: you're meeting with a potential investor or client for your start-up and you've got to pull your laptop out.

Other possible downsides include, people coming up to you and bothering you with non-relevant "work" or "free work for equity" which you're not interested in.

There is also the exclusivity thing, where a potential client might perceive you as "too eager" for work, and you end up loosing a gig you might have gotten otherwise. (Granted, I'm reaching on this one).

I think it's a neat idea, but you have to be judicious when putting on any overt "label" on yourself or on the tools of your trade. I only bring this up due to my own experiences with stickers on my laptop. Getting them off is no easy task either (glue residue and such).
I've never really been able to solidly get into Fireworks, despite trying several times. The fans love it, but I've personally found it very clunky.

However, a colleague swears by it for designing and developing HTML email newsletters. The general state of support for HTML and CSS in email clients is extremely poor, so you have to use inline styles and table-based layouts. Fireworks is perfect for this.
Or at least fail gracefully, by e.g. returning an error code to the caller. Simply crashing isn't always the best choice.
Have you tried PaintCode?
Is graphic designer now synonymous with ignorant? If not I think they would be fine dragging around some bootstrap text and refreshing a browser.
The first example is someone running a red light with "good reason", e.g., taking a patient to a hospital, and how if "Alice" knew this she would not consider the "runner" a reckless driver.

Bollocks.

Never drive in haste. Ever. Unless you are trained driver of an emergency vehicle operating under emergency conditions.

Otherwise you are being a reckless idiot and endangering others.

Alice is right to conclude the other person is reckless. Distracted by an emergency perhaps, but reckless nevertheless. (Trained responders are trained first to not put themselves in danger: The "runner" was in the business of creating more victims....)
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I like it.

They offered way more information to us than the route you are suggesting and opened themselves up to more internet scrutiny as a result. I know that "Shelly is faster than Heroku says Shelly." isn't the first thing you want to hear but they offered a comparison in key areas that I find interesting.

What if they just took all the numbers that Heroku offered, then offered their numbers in all of those areas. That is essentially what has happened but we don't need to compile both sets together ourselves because it was already paid for someone to do it.

Arguably Shelly offering numbers that could be compared with Heroku's numbers would be nearly the same thing but less convenient.
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I've got a Github sticker on my laptop.
It's sort of a "Hey, I'm a developer" flag, maybe it'll lead to some good conversation one day.
Likewise, just because some people (a lot of people?) like dropbox et al., that doesn't mean it's revolutionary or killer or whatever. It just means a lot of people like it.

I have a basic understanding of what dropbox is. I've never used it. Never even been to their website. I don't care about synchronizing files. I suspect I'm not in the minority.
I have loaded a TON of plugins at one point. It was nowhere near Eclipse's "oh, you wanted to keep typing? 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".

With everything I had loaded in Sublime, it just took a couple of seconds longer to start up. Which plugins were you loading specifically?
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Further to the point made about vim being a text manipulation language - it's very well defined.

Voice control is a more advanced means of communicating with a computer, keyboards are not all we have anymore. What you're saying is contradicted by what's demonstrated right here.

Voice works right now with vim's text manipulation language, have a look at the vim golf example. This ancient technology could be used to make voice editing a reality for people who would rather learn 'delete five lines' than "5dd". I haven't yet seen another editor that would allow code be manipulated this was with voice controls, besides emacs. It's a testament to the configurability and extensibility of vim that it can stay current in this manner.

VimGolf is basically a challenge to make certain edits with as few vim commands as possible.

Unless I am mistaken, google glass uses the android voice recognition software.
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I fully agree. As a front-end developer, working with Fireworks is a breeze, it's fun. Slicing designs, exporting sprites and measuring elements is all done easily and in a very user-friendly manner. The few sites I have developed from a Photoshop design have always caused trouble, because Photoshop is simply not made for the task.
Good point. I just updated the post to fix that.
Because IE is taking all my stupid time !
THIS is why Techcrunch is annoying. How many "in-browser" and "responsive" mock-up tools have already been launched? Jetstrap comes to mind immediately, and I recall seeing several others.

I appreciate them covering tech companies for less technical audiences, but it just seems like they follow a few certain VCs around, rather than looking at the technology that is worth GETTING VC funding.
Because it might be the best option for a next few years? I'm not saying it is, but some people did a right choice "locking" themselves to Adobe-only infrastructure (Flash), Apple-only infrastructure (iOS/Objective-C), Microsoft-only infrastructure (Windows/Office/.NET), ...
for an mvp? hell yaah.

tbh, there should be a price picker. you specify a timeline. you specify quality, and then price is calculated for you.

this communicates that your want mvp, or real development. And for each the site can provide heuristics. that's where the site's secret sauce can come from.
I like the idea, but the execution not so much. A round sticker would be better in my view.
So is architecture astronaut a perojative that we can just fling at people who come up with innovative features when really we want office 2013 to be the same as office 2011 and so on?

What's the point of revving office if there is no innovation allowed?
Would you call "the killer app" something that everybody needs/uses? Because file sync is a GREAT feature, but many people have 1 computer, and wouldnt understand syncing with a smart phone via an app anyway.

Also, I would say while the sync is awesome, some of the other dropbox features are actually why I use the product instead of other more private options. (instantly link to anyone anything in the folders you have? very nice. +constant free space via different referral games.)
I'm sick of screenshots like this:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/war-of-the-fallen/id59401994...

I want to see the app itself, not just a collection of stuff you can do. That means nothing to me. I don't want to download junk, free or paid, and want to see an accurate representation of what I'll be getting. This shows me some character factions, what a card looks like, and tells me I can fight with it, but all that is meaningless to the app itself.

I have similar feelings about quotes being used at the top of the description, before I even know what the app is. First, tell me what it does for me, then go into detail, and then use cherry-picked quotes from reviewers (but I'll ignore those anyway and check your star rating; manufactured social proof is meaningless to me).

At least this makes a good filter for me; usually apps that are unwilling to use actual screenshots and require feel-good quotes aren't worth anything. Of course in this example, the developer name would generate an automatic pass.
Congrats on the launch to Sandijs and team! Glad to have played a small role in this journey. Now that you're public, I can finally add you to StartHQ: https://starthq.com/apps/froont
The NRA is the gunowners' representative. The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Shooting_Sports_Founda...) is the "national trade association for the firearms industry..., the organization has more than 7,000 members: firearms manufacturers, distributors, retailers, shooting ranges, sportsmen's clubs and media."

Whereas individual gun owners, 5 million, a million more than before Newton, are the ones who belong to the NRA, and who, along with the gun owners who listen to us, are the ones who give it such political heft. Hatred towards "the NRA" is hatred towards the most politically active 1/20th of the nation's gun owners .

ADDED: Such as me, my father, my brothers, my oldest nephew, etc. You'll have to pardon us if we take this a bit personally.

Anyway, confusion over something so basic as who are the major players on the pro-RKBA side is one reason we don't pay much attention to ... negative sentiments such as you express.
Velcro would work.
Shouldn't you wait until a price is announced before you call it expensive?
I came here to post pretty much the same thing.

If you believed the commercial success of all the solar panel breakthroughs we have been hearing about, then by now every solar panel would be the size of a postage stamp, be generating 12 KW of power by moonlight and they would have been giving away a free solar panel with every six-pack of beer...
Are video codecs written in JavaScript really the future?
I think HackerNews should have a Verified Secure logo just for the irony. Too bad it probably gets someone in legal trouble...

Edit: I don't mean HN should buy an SSL cert from whomever, you can just copy the image.
This made me realize how much I miss Freehand which was way better and easier then AI. Now Adobe kills another superior piece of software made by Macromedia. On the other hand, Flash still lives strong.

Go figure.
Open-source bounties are back?
I don't think this is a mock-up tool. If I'm not mistaken, this is a design tool that produces production-ready HTML.
I've never used App Engine before -- what is it about its design that precludes Async?
Seriously. Every time I see a tool pop up for "designers" the definition tends to be:

-code illiterate
-drag n' drop syndrome
-shortcut seeking
-so visually oriented that they might as well be blind

It honestly makes designers look bad. Modern designers know how to code as well (or should). Why? So that they design with the development in mind and don't deliver shit that's too outlandish to implement, or more importantly, deliver shit that's ignorant of what's possible.
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College students use Dropbox as a means of keeping backups, as an online thumb drive and sharing work with each other.

There was even a "college space race" to get more storage a while back, https://www.dropbox.com/spacerace
It's as hard to learn from failure as it is to learn from success.

I saw this vividly when I was in law school. You get your whole grade based on one exam at the end of the year, which is typically comprised of several essays.

People who did well often had an inordinately high opinion of themselves, but people who did poorly often had an inordinately low opinion of the system. It's random, it's based on luck, I did better in classes I didn't study for than classes I did, etc.

It's hard to learn from mistakes. Just as we rationalize success, we rationalize failure. It's not about whether the person speaking is a success or failure at all, but the merits of the argument being made.
They have over 100 million users, and then of course there is Google Drive, Microsoft Skydrive, etc. I've convinced several non-techie folks to use Dropbox once they realize it replaces the need for flash drives (which of course can get lost). So it's not so much "file synchronization" that was the killer app for some, but rather "accessing and storing/backing up files in the cloud."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy84TYvXJbk
noscript blocked your link for me.
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I like the guy who guarantees the solution will be "100 % W3C compliant"
"Froont is the fastest solution for designers who want to prototype responsive websites with their true content."

>at the bottom. It's for "prototypes."
My approach was to take something I already made or knew well how to do and apply it to the web. That way you aren't struggling with solving an unfamiliar problem but mainly concentrating on how to best implement it with your new tools. For me it was creating an event calendar I had done previously in xBase. I know the logic and it was suitably complex enough to be a good programming exercise as well as a good workout for the layout aspects of web development.

So find something in C that you know well than you can develop on the web, start with that.
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The reason people think the American Dream is as you state, is because the get rich quick people made it up to justify their exploitative wealth (I think slavery counts as exploitation), and need the common man to be educated and work hard for them, while spending all their earnings making the get rich quick people richer.

In short, the American Dream is a fraud. Capitalism means a huge chunk of people literally have to be poor, other wise costs rise, inflation goes mental and capitalism fails. Dunno if any one has noticed, but, er recession? People wanted the trappings of the American Dream, they couldn't afford it so they borrowed, couldn't pay it back and the whole thing came crashing down, and the only people bailed out were... guess who..... yeah, the get rich quick paddlers of the American Dream.

This is why we get boom and bust cycles. It happens when poor people trying to pretend to be rich begin to struggle to pay debt, and stop spending elsewhere. Its quite simple.

Not to slag off the US, the whole of western capitalism did this. The only difference is that the US lie of the American Dream is engrained in to American culture, so much that Americans, well, none Americans too, really believe it to be true. Its not, and never will be, because it actually makes no sense. You cant be right with out poor people to make it happen. Most of us will struggle for literally nothing more than mere survival, then die.

The real kick in the guts is that there is no known better system. Might be able to manage it better, but in the end, the masses will remain pretty poor, while the very few will be able to be filthy rich. I see no way out.
This is because:

#The crime of murder is an offense in both countries.

#legal jurisdictions can be lawfully transfered. England can thus give legal jurisdictions of the case over to Scotland even if the shot was made inside English border.

#International law (pre-EU) puts some legal weight on which nationality the victim comes from when dealing with murders.

#EU law has similar international laws as above.

#A murder weight much heavier than copyright infringement, and allows for more legal actions on an international level.

So to sum up, the reason why a murder at the border of England/Scotland has no similarities to the case of Megaupload, can be seen through the years of legal history and jurisdictions law, common sense, and the fact that Australia and U.S. is not part of one large International body like EU.
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How about something a little... bolder:

https://twitter.com/iWaffles/status/256984030552129537/photo...
That's not the point. Office is not a file syncing app.
I'd like to echo that sentiment.
During the process of developing the tool, it has evolved from a prototyping tool into a design tool. Unfortunate delay in updating the definition on CrunchBase.
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How about letting me try it out without registering? :)
I guess you should try and learn from both, but in general we pay more attention to the successes than the failures.

As an extreme example, a lottery winner should say "you should play the lottery, it made me rich!" ignoring all of those who made an overall loss.

Think of it like the housing crash, everybody knew somebody who was getting rich from property.
WHAT THE HELL.

It does CSS Sprites

CSS Properties

LIVE MOCKUPS

God damn adobe. I've gone so long without having to touch photoshop or illustrator for web dev because FIREWORKS IS PERFECT.
Gradients in Fireworks are so very simple. With opacity and all. With barely a click more than you need, and insanely obvious to even beginners. In Photoshop I have no idea where to start.
Here's a link to the site: https://draftable.com
The scenario here is that your kid sees the injured child and you see a healthy child. You don't see the injuries to think up the lie that the kid had an accident.