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I'm not sure but, at least for me, I work even better literally working with another person actively on a project (not just sitting next to them working independently). Working directly with another person (like pair programming - also in small groups of people collaboratively) was the most fun, productive and best experience I've ever had working on anything.
Perhaps a few more details about what was poor about the communication? As a pebble backer myself, I had no issues with their level of communication.
What about the other side of the adsense equation: site owners placing Google ads who sometimes get hosed off the service with little room for recourse or support?
No. It's more that there are so many positive possibilities yet a large group of people still choose to exploit them to make themselves money by harming others and end up breaking things for everyone else.

The whole history of modern operating systems and the Web is the example of that. Think of all the amazing and useful things that could be (and have been) done had there was no Data Execution Prevention or Same-Origin Policy or any other limit introduced because of security.
Of course they will shut it all down. Eventually they'll be forced to when nobody cares about them anymore.
Do you have an idea how that might be done?
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What would actually stop you from building a language like Perl or Ruby from scratch?

Perl currently has no specification, other than the latest release of the interpreter. What the interpreter does may be decided to be incorrect by consensus at some point, and changed (although Perl has a very strong history of backwards compatibility so it's unlikely to change unless it was unuseful before), but there is no external resource besides the code and the compiled interpreter to explain how it should behave in every case.
Wait, your source of frustration with Google is that they're not doing enough to move the human race to another planet in the near future?!?

I just want to make sure I understand what you are getting at, here.
You have a gmail address listed in your profile.
But, you can make your calculations massively parallel on an FPGA. So the clock speed does not compare at all to a typical processor.
It's been quite painless for me, although I did have to install all the plugins again, via Package Control, which was a bit tedious. The good news is that most plugins seems to have been updated for compatibility.
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It would be interesting if it happened. I wouldn't hold my breath.

It doesn't matter if their resources are huge, which they are. They are finite and they have shown, lately quite often, that they don't want to spend them even on things which are relatively popular if they don't see strategic value in them.

Are you really arguing that keeping GTalk around as a competitor to their G+ messenger/hangout/whatever client will help them long term?
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But they were only required to incorporate support for ODF in office[1], and it seems like they have complied[2]. is there any relationship between ODF and DOC?

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/05/22/us-eu-microsoft-id...

[2] http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/how-microsof...
If it turns out I'm a thousand times more comfortable with Perl than I'd ever be with a Lisp, then I guess I'll just learn to accept that I can't (or don't need to be able to) build the language I use from scratch.

You can also see how you like Perl 6, which has a specification and multiple implementations being built. It's not the same as Perl 5, but it's not meant to be (think of it as a sibling, not a successor).
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And within this one microcosm, you've captured the entirety of the problem that we now face with the US government. No one is willing to sacrifice their vote for the greater good or long-term viability. All they care about is THEIR pocketbook, RIGHT NOW. "More stuff" is going to break the federal government, as surely as it has some countries in Europe, and now some of the largest cities in the US. Paying a little more from Newegg over Amazon is an easy call for me to make. I wish more people valued the benefit to society the extra $50 or $100 could bring over the few grande triple-shot mocha frappachinos it represents to them personally.
I continue to wonder why more companies being threatened by patent trolls don't band together to share legal expenses of a defense. Is there something in the legal rules and procedures that prevents a shared defense?
Now you're not only attacking my character, but you're attempting to label me for the sole purpose of dismissing my arguments.

This is so ad hominem it's almost cycling around the universe and landing back on "polite".
I am really enjoying mine. Even if it only ever allowed me to read text messages and see callerID it would be valuable to me. Of course I'm excited about the apps that are yet to be developed. I use Runkeeper now instead of Strava and Nike+ because of its Pebble integration. I'm hoping the Pebble will allow me to avoid having to buy a super expensive Triathlon watch.

I really don't have many complaints. The battery life is fine but then again I charge it every night on my nightstand. The construction is great and I especially appreciate the fact that I can swim with it on. I replaced the watch band with one I liked better so I'm glad I was able to do that.

I have had the watch become unpaired from my iPhone a couple times which is bad news since I turned off all sounds and vibrations on my phone since receiving my Pebble. But it hasn't happened for a long time now.

I'm excited to start developing apps for it, too. The two-way messaging they just added to the SDK is going to open up a world of possibilities.

All in all, I'm a very satisfied backer so far.
MacRuby is an implementation of Ruby 1.9 built on top of Cocoa. It's also OS X-only. See http://macruby.org

RubyMotion is fully compiled, and built on top of LLVM. See http://www.rubymotion.com/features/
What's the difference, $100 for an entire system?

That little bit every three years is probably worth it to reward a company that cares.
RubyMotion is derived from MacRuby. MacRuby hasn't seen much development in some time, I would recommend investing your time in RubyMotion instead.

You can learn Ruby for free; you don't need RubyMotion or any other paid software for that.
It's funny right, there was a time when investors didn't think smart watches were going to be of any interest to anyone; that was just a few years ago. This is really the difference between a visionary entrepreneur and the rest. Congrats Eric and the team, great job and looking forward to see what's to come. Pebble glasses, perhaps ?
Dresden Codak has been a fully sustainable job for Aaron Diaz for years now - this is his profession. He has also participated in at least one collaborative Kickstarter that has already delivered. Given that the professionals that have been doing the Kickstarter thing this year have largely done very well, and he already has a track record of delivering, why are you so skeptical?
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Yeah, it just turns out that all the things that require my wrist to be moving around on top of my desk I do with both hands. Dragging a wristwatch around gets old fast.
That is a very easy problem to solve from their standpoint. The next step after this first round of watches is to offer different styles, I'm sure.
Well it was announced yesterday, so the HN assertion seems to be that if you don't launch with XMPP, you're evil.
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Genuine question - was your business (on "autopilot") successful enough to live off of, permanently?

It seems to me if you're "free" from the need to work (i.e. paying the bills), you then get to choose what to do with yourself. It sounds like you chose to keep working a "job". Which is cool - you chose it.

It seems to me that the freedom we seek is being able to choose and not be tied permanently into any situation (especially a bad one) by choice.
I'm collecting data for another update in 5 years when the full period has elapsed (to check the performance of the original model and build a new model based on that and the new entries found in the 5-year interval), but otherwise no, I don't plan to produce rolling 5-year estimates or anything like that.
At the end it doesn't matter how to calculate the index, what matters is if you can live with your salary.
I use the sublimelinter_executable_map to point to a specific ruby version. Does that setting work for Python as well? My config: https://gist.github.com/benyami/5593162
Example? I'm interested in what you find ambiguous.
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> No company should have such a big impact on your life

> Several months ago I moved everything to the Microsoft ecosystem.

So now Microsoft has such a big impact on your life?

Wouldn't it make more sense to spread things out over a variety of services?
Yeah, I mistook your username for another one. That's why I deleted it.
Consider Fortress'[1] syntax, its designed to completely typeset and look amazingly readable. [2] has a pretty nice rundown of the syntax, with [3] being a talk at ScalaDays 2012 on what Fortress and Scala can learn from each other syntactically.

Fortress has the concept of juxtaposition: things like:

2 3

evaluate to 6, because thats the scientific convention. Integer types are also represented as the mathematical symbol for Ints etc, the language looks beautiful and how you'd write it on the whiteboard.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_(programming_language)

[2] - http://www.slideshare.net/alexmiller/project-fortress

[3] - http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/scala/scala-days-keynote-301...
Any Windows/ASP.NET devs using this in combo with VS.NET? I like ST2 for taking notes and documenting things, but I'm not using it as a primary IDE. Are you using it for LESS/SASS? I'm trying to figure out how to utilize more of the cool features of ST that aren't available in VS.NET.
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Interestingly, many people whose jobs are less secure, less financially lucrative, and less... suited for the future manage to have hobbies and do things for fun =)

I think it's a psychological quirk of the techier or nerdier crowd. Many of us have a great desire for a sense of not only autonomy but complete control over our own lives; indeed, feeling autonomous seems like it requires having complete control over our lives. In as market-based a culture as our own, that amounts to us being sold a story about how having an amount of money X (where X's amount is perpetually significantly larger than present but reachable) will give us that control, and we should perpetually aggregate as much money as possible until we reach X and then can live off capital gains.

We like rules, and we like systems of rules that we can optimize against. Most people do, in one way or another. But we have it more than most, I believe, and it is perfectly capable for us to make the numbers work out to retire between 30 and 40 by working a stable desk job.

Hence the constant draw and temptation to always push those non-pecuniary, non-market labors sometime into the future, where you'll theoretically have time in spades.
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Clickable links in comment.

This post titled "What's next Google? Dropping SMTP support?" suddenly dipped from #1 to more than #10 within minutes. Some say it's flagging abuse by HN posters with good karma, while others say it's not.

Someone linked the HN Rankings graph which seems to show rank vs. time. You can clearly see the huge dip here.

http://hnrankings.info/5717995/

The same happened earlier today and on a couple of stories yesterday.

http://hnrankings.info/5717739/

http://hnrankings.info/5715168/

http://hnrankings.info/5715889/

I am just curious what could cause such drastic drops? Other stories appear to have smooth and gradual graph lines.

There was a heated discussion about this yesterday.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5716010

Is it something secret? Why does it seem to happen to Google related stories mostly? If the mods don't want us discussion those stories why don't they just tell us?
"You're talking out your ass."
I'm not going to continue the discussion with you in this type of manner...
https://groupme.com/ may be able to help with your scenario.
Exactly what I was about to write. Went back to my Nike Fuel band almost immediately. As a watch, it's just ok. Beyond that, it just isn't that useful. And as phones continue to get thinner and lighter -- I guess I don't see the point.
BTW, I did work at Google for over 5 years as an FT SWE, so if that helps the effort to discredit me, by all means.
I'm a little confused, does this work on 64-bit binaries too?
I dont, as I've had a bad customer service experience with Newegg. But it was only once, and they did budge once I contacted google "trusted" stores team.
For me, the moment DisposaBoy has GoSublime ( https://github.com/DisposaBoy/GoSublime ) working and being maintained on ST3 I shall upgrade.

One person created a fork ( https://github.com/quarnster/GoSublime ) which he got working, but it's already a couple of months behind HEAD. So I am waiting, as I reckon other Go devs are too.
Less than 100 years ago, GPS wasn't a nav tool until the mid 90s. Astro nav was the standard right up until then and is still taught to masters today. We have calculators for atmospheric diffraction but the long hand method is still used.
Story that dipped suddenly :https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5717995

HN rankings graph of the above:
http://hnrankings.info/5717995/

Other posts from yesterday:

http://hnrankings.info/5717739/

http://hnrankings.info/5715168/

http://hnrankings.info/5715889/

See post and comment links at bottom of HN rankings page.

Discussion about flagging: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5716010
Not really - it's all about contextual actions in the Inbox. That said, Gadgets have been available in GMail and I know of no reason why one couldn't pretty much implement the same action without Google's blessing. A data format spec is a natural next step for Gmail gadgets. Microsoft also has had support for mail apps in Outlook 2013 where you can specify activation rules for gadgets/apps to show up.
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Why does everyone say 'travel' or 'volunteer' when these questions get asked?

I'm not being rhetorical or sarcastic. I genuinely don't know. I can only assume that it's something I'm missing and everyone else just 'gets' without having to say it outloud (this has happened) or ... something else?

I've done both and I can't say I really cared for travelling since it's such a hassle. As for volunteering, which I've done, it feels exactly like work -- except even less people wanted to talk than before. Do people who give this advice actually go volunteer?

> INTERACT WITH OTHER HUMAN BEINGS

Yelling at people doesn't help. It kind of feels like people are telling a person to just cheer up if they're clinically depressed.

I think that the problems here, and their solutions, are a lot more complicated than anyone gives them credit for.
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"Music notation does not express concurrency easily [in enough generality to do most of the interesting things that aren't simple parallelism]. It expresses parallelism easily."
I'm not sure what the right words are for the post you replied to, but they are honestly different and have different capabilities.

For "concurrency" think of the operation, "You go off and take care of that. I'll take care of this. We might meet up later."

For "parallelism" think of performing a sequence of operations in lock step, while standing next to each other.

That these are independent can be seen in programming when you compare multi-threaded programming (concurrent but in no way parallel) with programming for the GPU (very parallel, but none of the type of concurrency that I'm discussing).

Returning to music notation, it is like a GPU - everything goes in lock step. Stuff happens simultaneously, but not independently.
What about leadership ability? You describe a number of absolutely necessary talents, but without the ability to lead your team on the task of executing the vision, those talents don't matter for long.
Yeah watches just ended up being a huge irritant to me as well. It bothered my father tremendously as he thinks not wearing a watch is a symbol of being a "layabout". But of course I always had a watch or clock on me or near me, just not a wrist watch.
Florida State University offers an online BS in CS - http://distance.fsu.edu/students/online-programs?prog_id=177
and it's actually a CS program rather than a glorified IT program.

Generally, 2-way interaction is done via message board, but most (maybe all?) of the instructors I've had so far keep specific office hours and available are for web chat or telephone calls during those hours.

Any of the prereqs that you're missing could potentially be taken as a transient at another institution (be it locally, or online). This is how I've handled the few classes I was missing.

Based on the rates listed on the page linked above, it should be around $25k for the whole thing (based on needing 60 credits of upper-division classes, since you already have a Bachelor's), even as a non-resident.
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It seems like what you're describing is achievable via Twitter.

Use hash-tag for a particular topic.

If you like what somebody posted (perhaps a link to their blog), you follow them and if need be you can interact with them.
That's 3.75 hours with a video continuously looping.

I get 6 - 7 hours on a low brightness with normal usage (web, email, visual studio, sql server, etc.)
You're absolutely right and I admit fault and guilt on all counts. I even made multiple "selfish" votes last fall even though I knew it was bad for the country (ex: voting for that idiotically unfair car insurance price segregation proposition in California).

It's as if I'm an addict. I know I have a problem but I can't stop.
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Nice writeup.

When I saw this article in my feedreader I thought it would be a very complicated thing that Matt did, but basically it's just using one/two data sources with some great ideas.

The result speaks for itself I think: http://www.leandomainsearch.com/brandable
There is a significant difference between APIs that are named/structured in a Ruby-like way, and APIs that are named according to Objective-C/Smalltalk conventions. This can be a cause of significant pain. (For example, while refactoring, you have to search for all the ways a method could be called.)

RubyMotion is doing the right things. Much of the result also depends on community. It's a bad sign when supposedly smart programmers disdain a technology or a set of tech conventions simply because it's different. Especially when that tech has a great track record. It's really weird when they disdain the very thing they're building on. I've met some RubyMotion programmers like this, however. I hope they're just an aberration.
Yes. The Voice app on Android will automatically route outbound calls through Google Voice (dependent on your settings) and will add Google Voice voicemail into your visual voicemail queue in your phone's native dialer.
With trolls being such a problem, why haven't companies formed alliances to defend each other against lawsuits? Wouldn't the tech world be better off if suing one company meant taking on most of the industry?
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This is not my opinion on the point you and Potatolicious are debating, but rather my opinion on the way you replied.

You present an idea (that it might benefit people for society to consider excessive cooperation a treatable mental illness). You posit the parent article as evidence for this idea.

Potatolicious replies, expressing his doubts. He presents an idea (that the system the man was working in caused his death, not an innate psychological condition). If valid, his idea eliminates the evidence for your idea, making it less credible and no longer relevant to the article.

What I see as a rational response to this is to either point out a flaw in Potatolicious's idea (if one exists) or to introduce information that would make it so that Potatolicious's idea doesn't invalidate yours.

Instead, you restate your initial point (albeit in greater detail), and introduce a kind of argument from continuum ("if people who are excessively oppositional are medicated, why shouldn't the other end be as well?"), which, although not invalid, doesn't do anything to refute Potatolicious's point about the relevance of your argument to the parent article. Furthermore, you introduce a new opinion, which is not related to your previous points or supported by evidence, and only serves to polarize people.

I'm trying to explain this in the hope that we as a community can move toward more directed and effective debates. I hope that helped.
For some people having a life is harder than having a job. For some other people having a job is harder than having a life. Not sure who is more lucky between the two groups.
Larry shouldn't complain about being pitted against other companies when Google is the one copying successful products/services so they can put ads all over them and release them for free.
"wouldn't be justified by the probably non-existent increase in the total busts"

Interesting thought. Almost similar to why cops don't do a better job of trapper speeders. And why they don't even catch speeders they sometimes just lurk in plain site to slow down traffic.
I have been thinking lately that the Chamber of Commerce in most cities should be evolving into what you are describing. They could provide co-working space, events, support, advisors, etc - they could be these mini-incubators and bring new businesses into their respective areas. In my dreams I see many small "silicon valleys" (or better put, centers for innovation and incubation) all over the US.

I know the ones around where I live certainly don't do this enough, although they do try to help connect businesses in the community, and they do have some free presentations that are nice.
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Patience chasb, patience. Legislative action is not always the desired outcome, pushing for legislative action on Copyright reform got us DMCA, a mixed blessing at best. Legislative action informed by judicial review of key concepts and organizing principles makes for better laws in my experience. Time will tell of course. Change does happen.
Curious as to how the pictures would compare to a simple principle component analysis algorithm.
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