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It's pretty popular now. To the point that TV commercials will have a little "shazam this" icon on them.

But that's basically what it does. I haven't used it for a long time but on the iphone app you could have it "listen" to any music playing in public and it would tell you what the song was.
I like the idea, but he examples given look fairly cluttered to my eyes. I don't mind copious documentation, but something that more clearly marked documentation from code and the end of code marker for human eyes might be useful.
Wishful thinking, I'm afraid. How tall are you compared to the average in your country? For somebody who doesn't have this disadvantage, it simply doesn't exist.

I refer again to http://cdn.okcimg.com/blog/lies/MessagesPerWeek.png - it's not 100% but it's indicative. Also I refer you to walking down the street in your town. If you were correct, then there'd be a big variation (or at least one resembling the normal dist) in male height in couples you see. But in fact what you see is something of a skew...
I personally would prefer to have a "project" file, like Visual Studio or even Sublime Text. I can still get all the information I need about the dependency/class names used in the project, while at the same time I don't need to deal with the workspace stuffs.
I had the PHP extension installed, but this was a plain text file I was using for something (probably a template file or config file or something).

It's a pain to have to worry about configurations like this instead of just being able to get work done.
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So that's why I see web components as something that enables people writing markup more than it empowers people writing giant javascript applications. This is so that people can add <twitter-tweet href="twitter.com/name">My Cool Tweet</twitter-tweet> tags to their wordpress blogs, and so that the people making that <twitter-tweet> tag can be confident that it will render and not look horrible on that person's blog. It's so that the complex, app-ish things can be abstracted away and added to documents with a declarative and logic-less syntax.

Sure, and to the extent that Web Components do that, they are a good thing. Where I think we've gone a bit wonky is more on the "giant javascript applications" where we're using a great document delivery platform as a half-baked application runtime.
usabli.ca has been kicking ass lately. I'm actually very happy to see this is a team coming from a country like Iran.
Yes. Because I forgot the password to my other account.
I had a very beautiful girlfriend during uni + didn't believe this was a problem at all. Then that ended + it became quite obvious.

Just because you managed to overcome the disadvantage, doesn't make it not a thing. It's not all about the attitude (or rather apparent confidence), it's partly about it.
"We informed you that under the new Citizen Bill of July,2040 we have revoked your right to vote, and travel without permit because you have been identified as a participant of the antisocial demonstrations of May, 2018."

I know this sounds paranoid, but given past behaviour of totalitarian government, I don't see why any future techno-totalitarian society would not use that kind of tools. And my example is rather mild, it could be something much more sinister that travel restrictions... This is one the reason I find the "Right to be Forgotten" a sane idea.
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Very nice! There's also a JavaScript remake of the classic C64 game "Boulder Dash" by the same author: http://boulderdash.krissz.hu/
It even comes with a Construction Kit.
I'm wondering how long until someone ports the Energia/Arduino IDE to work with Androids.

Energia is basically a port of the Arduino IDE to work with TI Launchpads, including the TI Stellaris, which has an ARM Cortex-M4F. Before Energia was ported, Eclipse was the IDE to use for TI Launchpads.

Working with this IDE has been pure joy. Adding libraries is as simple as copying the library into the folder and restarting the IDE. Simply by replacing Eclipse with Energia has made hacking with TI launchpad devices more fun.
They are modeled after bricks and mortar institutions.

My wife taught online for UoP. They used NNTP and a book. No video. No interactive games. It worked because it recognized that the sizzle was the degree. It worked because they weren't trying to sell it to established institutional interests - e.g. department heads and professors and administrators who want to make sure that streaming video can go on their CV.
nobody at the actual python conference committed ANY kind of crime, let alone a hate crime. watch your damn language and provide context. don't equate the actions of anonymous internet trolls with those of real people.
When did I say I was proud of it? Of course I wouldn't be proud to hit someone. But I'd be even less proud to let someone get away with sexual harassment. I can't believe we're even getting into a discussion about how you shouldn't be allowed to defend yourself against sexual harassment.
The suggested transformations look nice for the trivial, tiny examples used, but would really hurt readability of code in general.

Code is not read linearly as a book - it is 'scanned' and reviewed back-and forth; and the compactness of the code is important for readability.

Also, on currently standard(sadly) computers, especially laptops, vertical space is very restricted in standard LCD dimensions. If you spread out a screen of semanically linked code to two screens, then you suddenly can't grasp it all at once w/o scrolling through the pages back and forth, and that is a real loss. Newlines and empty lines can and must be used to group things in "paragraphs", but the OP suggestions waste far too many lines.
> "in the long run, it will cost you more"

This is true if you don't have tests or your tests lack. But if you write tests as you work or a little ahead of yourself, the cost difference will probably be negligible. To each his own.
I love IntelliJ but I am so pissed that the only Vim plugin does not support key mapping. Which means to me it's nearly unusable.
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I think it's funny that they don't seem to think of Eclipse as an IDE even though that is probably where it is most used and most valuable, esp. when you consider things like Zend Studio, Flex Builder, and Aptana Studio (which powers Appcelerator now). Yet, the Eclipse team doesn't seem to see itself as an IDE but more of a toolkit. That is completely stupid. Eclipse deserves to have its core market slowly taken away by IntelliJ. Also JetBrain's various flavors of its IDE are far superior to Eclipse.
So... "where you come from" what is the bar at which felony assault is justified?
Except there is plenty of evidence that women have a massive preference for tall men. Just go round asking some women, seriously. Or check out dating sites/columns. Height is a biiig thing.

How tall are you can I ask compared to your national average? To somebody without this disadvantage it simply doesn't exist.

It's not the only thing, but it's a MASSIVE thing.
The problem is I generally don't check if other people are looking at me when I'm using a urinal (and by "generally" I mean "never"), so that I would have a very hard time figuring out if the person closest isn't in fact just photographing my "down there" just from a blink of an eye.
> "to think that anyone is going to care about us walking down the street minding our own business"

If your worst fear is having your photo show up on one of those "poorly dressed and out of shape" websites, this is easy to brush off.

If you're an attractive woman (or girl) walking down the street minding your own business, there is already a real possibility to end up on some sort of voyeur/jailbait website and become a target of sexualized comments. It is completely reasonable to be concerned about sexual predators having an even easier time taking those photos.
The police in USA certainly look the other way when a bank in Ukraine is robbed. I think even if I called and reported an in-progress bank robbery in Ukraine, they would tell me it's not their jurisdiction.
> We should never have had any expectation of privacy in public places.

I don't think I agree with this point. I know most countries have some kind of laws saying more or less this, but I think there is an implicit agreement regarding how much of what I do every day is public or not, and the lack of security cameras in bathrooms is a reflection of this.

I might be wrong, but I think that if we were to write privacy laws today, knowing that we (almost) have the technology to monitor everyone everywhere, we wouldn't write something as simple-minded as "you don't have any right to privacy in public places at all" - I think we would probably throw a "reasonable right to privacy" in there somehow.
because of those default toolbars and windows, i think eclipse download package should come with a +30 inch screen.

but comparing eclipse with sublime text is like comparing word to the notepad. a bit unfair.
I tried getting into IntelliJ and, though look and feel wise and it is superior to Eclipse in every way, there is just so much lacking that I am used to in Eclipse. Maybe I am just not used to how IntelliJ does things...

I use IntelliJ primarily for Play Framework development. I've installed plugins for almost all other languages (node.js, python, mustache etc) and use IntelliJ for that but for non-Play Java, I tend to go back to Eclipse.

Some of that may be the 10 years or so now that I've spent with Eclipse.
True geeks should use their own editor. When I ran across 2 space indentation, I also couldn't keep track. So, I implemented a vertical marking bar in the editor, that I could use to "comb" the code. Works beauty, I suspect that implementations of this idea are available for editors like vim as well.
What is your reference bread? The only difference between Shulstad and "Ja!", that I notice, is that Shulstad has the 1:1 aspect ratio. There's no rye in the bread I linked, so I don't understand how it can be brown white bread to you.
Containers & international shipping are pretty cool. In undergrad I interned for a barbecue grill company and worked on a project with the VP's of engineering and manufacturing to increase container yield.

As simple as putting boxes in bigger boxes is, it was fascinating stuff, more so figuring out how to minimize the packaging of large hollow objects like bbq grills. In one case we were able to more than double the number of smokers we could fit into a container (which helped our margins big time.) That being said, shipping containers of tiny ipods has to be the most boring logistics task ever!

Finally, it's pretty interesting that you can look at a container ship and have no idea what is in every single container. It can be filled with clothes, bikes, food, electronics, toys, you name it.
Yes, this is indeed something I've considered :-)

I'd be completely average height in Mexico, say.
I thought that IBM was behind Eclipse, hence the name being a jab at Sun (who created Java, and 'owned' it at the time). That seems more than just a bunch of random people 'scratching an itch.'
People seemed to miss this article when it was posted here when it was published. Surprised at some of the comments; they seemed to only read the headline before commenting as well.

Like I said then, the social buttons didn't work for MailChimp because they implemented them after most users already had email logins. The article dismisses a concept that is integral to onboarding users at the beginning of your service. When everyone has been using their email login for years, why would they switch? I disagree with some of the people here saying these types wouldn't use a Facebook login. Lots of people use MailChimp; lots of people that have no issue using a Facebook login (and don't understand the risk in doing so).

This is a case of coming to the wrong conclusion with the wrong data.
I really want to love Eclipse but I've never quite managed to. And the reason is quite simple: an IDE should enhance your productivity (otherwise we might as well just be editing files in vi / emacs). Eclipse doesn't always do that; in fact quite often it just gets in the way. It has so many silly nuances and bugs that I've now just given up on it completely (I now use LiteIDE for Go, plain text editors for C++ and the only reason I kept Eclipse on my workstation was for Android development but I'll be looking rather closely at IntelliJ for my next project).

It's a great pity because Eclipse -on paper- is the kind of IDE I should love. It's powerful, flexible and let's you tune it to behave the way you want it to behave. But getting it to bend to my will has on occasions in the past, taken more time than it would have taken just to bang the code out in a plain text editor and then compiling it myself via the command line.
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This is a boat i bought into only in college. Once my professional career started, and i started viewing coding as an artisan craft, i realized that less tends to be more. I want an editor that i never have to wait for. Every IDE i have tried has time where i pause waiting for it to try and do something.

Give me column editing, multiple cursors, and snippets and i will show you an editor i can code a system of any real size with.
Also this was announced in April by some of the researches: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1Xl02lnBPI
If I had to use Eclipse 8 hours a day, I'd commit suicide out of desperation.
>We should never have had any expectation of privacy in public places.

Privacy, no. But we expect some stupid thing we do in public to have a localized, temporary effect. Maybe you get a few dirty looks, maybe some people laugh at you, thats it. But once its on the internet its there 1. forever 2. easily discoverable by people you know.

That's pretty scary to me. I can walk home drunk and silly and a few people in college might find out. With glass, everyone on my facebook, including employers/co-workers find out and see a video of it.

On the flip side, it would be liberating to see this happen on such a large scale that we come to accept these things and give people a break for having a bad day or doing something silly in public.
> It could be a direct exposure, for example by adding public methods to a class that allow tests to access otherwise private fields in languages like Java or C++

I hardly test private methods for this very reason. The methods are private and are meant to be helpers. You can poke at it through the method that implements it but I tend to stay away from testing private methods.
I do believe we need a place like that, except I don't think its feasible to do it on Earth - there is simply too much baggage here.

Luckily we could be less than a generation away from colonizing Mars - and what better place for the adventurous experimenters to go? Imagine an entire planet where you can do anything you want, but also an incredibly harsh one where the need of survival will drive experimentation and adaptation.
Violence without immediate danger is never morally ok. It is vile and barbaric.
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..the guidelines clearly specify flagging is for spam or off-topic posts. i generally define 'abuse' as utilizing a feature for something that its not intended for, such as burying a story one does not agree with.

saying its 'off topic' is total bs. issues involving standards, ip, public access, etc.. (also, involving two of the largest tech companies, the mobile space, a popular web-based product, etc...), seem to be very relevant around here and frequently come-up.

so.. this wasn't spam or off-topic, yet shows heavy flag activity. that indicates abuse to me. would 'misuse' be better? - its petty of you to dismiss my point as being 'dramatic'. i attempted to frame the issue as i saw it, using the evidence i was able to scrape-together, and tried to avoid making generalizations or turning it into a 'hn hates microsoft' or whatever as i'm sure this happens often, but this case highlighted it most clearly, and most recently..
its not hard to be a man at a tech conference. it is, however, hard to a PERSON at a tech conference. its important to acknowledge the socially destructive chilling effect that all the recent controversies/scandals have caused.
Delete Facebook, lawyer up, hit the gym ...
A: bullshit (but even placebos can work)
Do they need to look though? Or will Glass pictures include your peripheral vision, so all you need to do is turn your head slightly?
Sure, actually this is far better reply than most here, sorry you got downvoted. You at least accept the premise.

I hate to sound like a terrible hypocrite, but I do have to apply filter enough that I'd be able to honestly say I found them attractive. My standards are actually not all that vastly high to sound like a terribly shallow person.

As for women w/children, I wouldn't on the basis of having had a step parent during my upbringing and the various weirdnesses that involves so I'd rather be single than be in that position.
It's not as irrational a fear as you're making it out to be.

Check out any number of tumblr blogs. People of Wal-Mart. Look at That Fucking Hipster, etc.

Or a very, very large section of /r/pics or /r/funny on Reddit.

Even ignoring the extreme cases like /r/creepshots, the Internet has already proven that it greatly enjoys taking pictures of strangers in everyday life and mocking them mercilessly.

People would like to go around with their fly accidentally undone and not have a bunch of armchair comedians commenting on their junk. People would like to go around on a bad hair day without it being picked apart by screeching Internet fashionistas. Our fear of being spread all around the internet is grounded in past instances of nobodies being spread all around the internet.
The worst type of handshake is the one between (typically) two men where a guy is trying to assert himself and clamp down on your hand with a firm handshake but they clamp too early. Instead of gripping your hand when the cruxes of your thumbs and forefingers meet, he clamps down on your fingers and mashes them painfully. I cannot help but feel that people know when they are doing this, but they silently persist in it anyway because they get to assert their dominant role as if to say, "Ha, I have the upper hand," with this smugly underhanded gesture. It also seems like people that do this tend to be overbearing and obnoxious in general. Has anyone else noticed this?
> Many were using their cellphones while wearing the glasses — defeating a declared purpose of the new gadget, to free you from having to look at your phone. Another man continually looked at his watch to check the time, even through the glasses display a clock right above your eye.

I get that the author is trying to be humorous but I fear that some people may take some of his criticisms seriously. AFAIK nobody has declared that the purpose of Glass is to "free us from having to look at [oure] phone[s]". It simply makes certain functions more convenient than using a phone, in certain situations. Let's also not forget that Glass' functionality is pretty limited at this point, so people using their phones while using Glass were most likely using an app with functionality that isn't offered by Glass yet.. like browsing the web.

Glass is going to take off with the active crowd. It's perfect for people who either have jobs or hobbies that require the extended use of their hands. Think cyclists, police officers, postal workers, construction foremen, taxi drivers, etc. I feel like it's journalistically sloppy to criticize Glass for the (I feel) false premise that everybody is going to be wearing Glass all the time. The OP was at Google IO for crying out loud, of course you're going to have a bunch of early adopters walking around with Glass' on their face.
Yeap, got that right, they have some of the smartest guys on the planet as their employees and they fill up their time with what looks like gibberish. You do have to think big.
A) Using the term "cult" is almost certainly a slam. B) Who are "these" people? I am certainly a fan of TDD but I know that there are lots of other processes that work. I know lots of other people that feel like me. C) I would love to see what testing has indicated about TDD, what studies are you referring to?

Finally, I'm not interesting in raving about design processes. I am interested in hearing about how other technical people work. What design process do you use? Why do you prefer it to TDD? How have you gone about comparing the 2?
Thumbs up for Gitchess. Just brilliant.
Idea pitch - Gitateka?
My first response was, "Who cares, we already have cameras everywhere and anywhere, this doesn't change anything," but the idea of no one really knowing when you're filming or taking a picture (unless they notice a wink) is kind of a game-changer.
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Exactly, the "Mark Burnett problem" (producer of Survivor). I heard him claim in an interview that with enough footage he could create any perception of a person that he wanted (hero, jerk, brilliant, idiot, etc.). It seemed obvious after hearing it, but not something I had considered.
How well can you read text on some one's screen with Hangouts? I'm trying to find the optimized setup.
Not to contradict your experience, I just find it unlikely to translate to this particular office we're talking about. Who knows, maybe I'll find out first hand.
i love the content and the interactions on HN, but I also love the fact that I enjoy distance from the tech world per se. best keep it that way. I can't smile my way to greatness, I know my limitations.
Thanks.

Providing good support (rather then barrier) would definitely help Rackspace to boost its market share. People in the past use Linode mainly because of their great support; on the other hand, AWS is basically no support (unless you pay them or just forum), and not to mention Google...so this is the sweet spot for you guys..
28. That's the number of times you used the word "I" in that diatribe.

I think your biggest problem is that you are clearly focused on your troubles, your finances, your work on the product.

To succeed you're going to have to focus on the needs of your potential customers which, experience tells me, is most difficult to do when you are in a difficult situation. If you have a long enough runway, I would suggest taking a few days off, then spending some time away from your cofounders and the computer and talk to potential customers. Do that for at least an entire week. It will completely change your perspective.

If your runway isn't long enough, get a job and work on this on the side. There are no shortage of ideas and regardless of what others tell you there will be another opportunity to pursue a startup and chances are you will be a lot wiser about it the next go-round.
If you also consider what commit diffs will look like if you have to insert or delete a variable, (particularly the last one) then comma first creates less cruft in your history.
I'm not surprised Microsoft employees are feeling down. It seems most media outlets and popular blogs really have it in for Microsoft, and that must get to you after a while. No matter what they do right or wrong the media hates it at the outset.

And their management aren't really helping - campaigns like scroogled must make a lot of employees really squeam.