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First of all I would recommend that you go through code samples in to do mvc

http://todomvc.com/

Read or try out a few libraries so you can get a feel for them.

For fronted development I use knockout js. Their documentation is very good. The interactive tutorials offer a great way to learn the framework. The framework itself is not vast and you can get started pretty quickly.

Although it is a matter of preference among the devs but I like the declarative binding style of knockout. It felt natural to me.
A note of context about the author -- Jean-Louis Gassée was the man behind BeOS and was an executive at Apple in the 1980s.
Technology is frequently created before there are good uses thought up.
"If the amount is greater than zero, then you're admitting that you're really buying an experience and set of emotional states in addition to a physical good."

Absolutely, and I think that's the message being conveyed by Banksy. In a similar project he erected pieces in undisclosed locations throughout the English countryside - their existence only documented in pictures on his website. That way money is removed from the equation while the message remains.
Copenhagen has traditionally (a bit less recently) fought this kind of effect by restricting absentee investment ownership through several mechanisms. For one, a large percentage of property in the city has ownership that requires residency in Denmark, usually because it's structured as a residents' cooperative. Another significant portion is owned by nonprofit organizations that will only rent the property to residents. And beyond that, much rental property has renter-friendly laws with a view towards ownership, where if you have been renting the property to someone for three years, you are required to sell it to them if they want to buy. The general idea is to reduce the impact of absentee landlords/investors on the local housing market, by trying to restrict it to only people who physically live in Copenhagen.

The high taxes help make this work as well, by trapping would-be cheats in a situation where they can't have it both ways. Do they want to claim that they live in Denmark? Then their property is fine, but they are liable for Danish income taxes. Do they want to claim that they live elsewhere? Then they avoid Danish income taxes, but must sell their property.
Are regular gum chewers more immune to advertising and the like or do they grow accustomed to it?
You're right that thinking critically != negativity, but nobody ever said anything about thinking critically. What davedx was talking about is more akin to the rampant immature cynicism, contemptment, and 1up-manship around here. Similar to what you seem to be trying to do here by undermining his entire point with some sort of 'gotcha' angle interpretation. I personally didn't read the original parent comment as being too cynical (by HN standards), but it is indicative of the community around here.

@davedx: Thanks. More people should speak up about this sort of nonsense, cause it's really getting old...
I predict it won't work. Specifically, that the low levels of thermal and other noise required to get a useful number of coherent qubits will be unachievable, and a million dollars worth of quantum computer won't ever beat a million dollars of regular computers.

I'd be delighted to be proven wrong, of course.
Exactly. With a well laid out webpage of text I can scan fairly quickly and get the gist - and also figure out how much time to spend on it or wherever to defer it etc. video only I tend to skip.
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I think this is quite incorrect. I've recently got the new iPhone and looked at the possible options across AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile (I haven't included Sprint for a reason I cannot recall right now).

If you calculate the costs over a 2 year span, the differences are quite significant: http://jots.mypopescu.com/post/61007400356/iphone-5s-choosin...

_nb_: I haven't included any interest/depreciation rates though.
You can use something like this:

grep --with-filename -A 3 error $FILES | grep -C 3 description

If that's not elegant enough for you, there are even tools like pcregrep that can do multiline matches. Don't uglify the code because of easily solved tool problems.
The walls are already going up. To use iCloud integration you need to be installed through the OSX app store. Apple wants the control and they want their 30%. Microsoft is trying to do the same thing through Windows 8 and in a very similar way.
Really nice work, good idea, it seems like a social network for devs
There are two paths to success, that are very different.

1) I'd argue that just maintaining the profit level they have now, over the next decade, would be a success given the situation.

2) Breaking the company into pieces, and letting new growth thrive from a smaller base, and letting old pieces die off if that's the way it's going to be (eg Windows consumer desktop). There's a lot of precedence for this sort of maneuver outside of tech, for stodgy old companies with mixtures of slow/no and faster growth businesses. The pieces could be seeded with tremendous amounts of cash to jump start them.

I think #2 is very unlikely given the Microsoft culture, however I think that's exactly what should happen.
Spent 7 hours there once, waiting forever to do a simple business visa. Missed my flight and the next two.

I hope it's improved since then. What I remember is this: A Japanese family was coming through. He was a company transfer of some kind, and had a cubic foot of paperwork with him. His English skills were minimal. I watched an agent harangue them for the better part of an hour about the state of their paperwork (which had clearly been prepared by a law firm that knew what they were doing, because everything they looked for was there, but screaming "where is it" at the hapless Japanese dude wasn't producing the precise document they wanted -- only looking at the cross-referenced tabs in the doc set would do that.

Abruptly the verbal tirade stopped, and the "officer" blasted off in a huff, a sheaf of papers in her hand. 45 minutes later she returned, and yelled: "You SEE what you made me DO!!! Do you SEE this? There are supposed to be FOUR copies of this. FOUR!! You have THREE!! You're lucky I went back and copied this myself. If you EVER show up with paperwork like this again, I'll PUT YOU BACK ON A PLANE."

Yeah.

I said absolutely nothing after that. No complaining, no sir.
Look at any of the laptops from System76. With gaming looking like it's coming to Linux in a big way, I put my money where my mouth is and bought one. They're fantastic machines.
i'm pretty sure in both Australia and New Zealand immigration they have signs saying no photography/audio recording devices/cell phones.
Honestly i've never had a problem with this, the only thing worse than waiting in line for immigration would be waiting in line for immigration behind someone having an overly loud conversation on their phone
This is impractical and unimportant. It's a schtick, a useless gimmick -- something you'd expect from a struggling company like LG, probably not from Microsoft, Samsung, or Apple. I don't know why Asian tech companies with too much talent always fall into doing this. It's things like this that led to Sony's demise. Remember the Rolly?

I'm also quite incredulous that years and years of waiting for flat-screen LCDs with flat screens that were, well, flat and not curved like contemporary CRTs, people want to go back to concentrated glare points and distorted shapes and images.

I can understand a phone's display that tapers down near the edges to show people notifications more easily, but a completely curved phone? Absurd. Purely, simply, absurd. I may have bought the idea it if it were very slight like the GNex, but this level of taper makes it useless for everyday use.
As opposed to the maximum size I find it more interesting what the minimum size of organisations is (Haldane's example was the mouse's eye):

Can you write viable software with a small team (<5)? Yes

Can you write very complex software like a distributed database or a web browser with a small team (<20)? Maybe, but will already be very difficult for the web browser (assuming not just writing a WebKit wrapper)

Can you develop a CPU with a small team (<10people)? Depends on the complexity, but typically CPU teams are larger for more faster chips.

Can you develop the silicon process needed to make the CPU with a small team? (<100) No
>>or sending instructions to others in line to exploit security weaknesses.

Hahaha, what? You can't be serious.
Because it wasn't one. Encouraging abuse of these loopholes is the best way to get them reexamined.

If you think email providers should be entitled to the same level of protection, okay. That's a sensible change to suggest. I don't see what good you think can come of obviously apolitical email providers pretending they are political organizations to get additional benefits. That's a "let's pretend we're a church so we don't have to pay any taxes!" level idea.
The Galaxy Nexus (and the S, I believe?) had a very slightly curved screen, and I do think it fit against my head a bit better. Not sure how pocketable it'd be, though.
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More info on the conversion tool:

http://www.xero.com/au/convert

http://help.xero.com/Help/resources/QBXeroConversion.htm
The scientific integrity of your statement is questionable ;)
>>Okay, it's a high security area. What law allows them to prohibit the use of a cell phone?

The thing you have to understand about the border control area at airports is that it's kind of a "no man's land." Despite technically being on US soil, you aren't considered inside the borders of the US. You go inside only when the immigration officer gives you the green light. Until then, they can basically do anything they want to you, and there isn't anything you can do about it.
Telling people to use 80 columns because "we inherited it" is just cargo-culting. Intelligent people will rebel against that.

Instead, tell people the actual reasons why we use 80 columns. It is because your eyes have to physically move as you read a line of text. Forcing them to move too far causes excessive eyestrain. Additionally, when lines are excessively long, you lose your place in the document by the time you get to the end of the line.

These are the same reasons why newspapers have multiple columns, even though it would be easy for them to put everything into a single giant column. Shorter columns are more readable.

In a way, the question is akin to asking why we still have minimum font sizes even on "retina" displays. You can buy a monitor that can display teeny teeny fonts, but you can't buy eyeballs or a brain that can make sense of them. Similarly, you can easily have giant lines of code on any monitor from the last 20 years. But good luck reading them.

There are some additional issues which are specific to computer code. One is that extremely long lines often come from excessive nesting, an antipattern.
Nice, the design reminds me of the twitter 'cards' which embed tweets on blog posts and such. Which is great because it is already a familiar design paradigm and I'm used to it. Great work!
See my response to a similar point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6545514
I have a completely contrarian view:
They should stop trying to be a competitor to Google and Apple. Continue with Windows and Office, and continue to improve them.

Get out of EVERYTHING else including all internet services and everything that is just a money-losing proposition.

Then buy back as many shares as possible, keep buying back shares and if the shares get too expensive start paying billions and billions in dividends.

Not every company is meant to be the next wave of the future, why not be content with how successful they are and be really good at it, continue to be great at it, and get out of everything else, banking as much money as they can in the process.
It could still stand a chance.

Microsoft needs to do two things.

1) Give the mobile group vastly more independence to escape the dying desktop business.

2) Make Windows Phone compatible with Android applications. Bribe every major hardware vendor to put out a big new line of Windows Phones to launch with said compatibility. There would no doubt be big tradeoffs in doing this, but it'd be worth it, and would make use of the classic Microsoft strategy of embrace and extend that they seem to have lost an appreciation for after dominating for so long. It's a trojan horse approach superior to their goofy dual booting idea.

I see no reason Microsoft couldn't acquire 20% of the mobile market. Their currently mediocre strategy has delivered some success in Europe, so imagine what a good strategy could deliver. The real question is, can owning 20% of mobile ever be worth the cost if you don't own the hardware (Apple & Samsung)? I don't think so.
I am also a Dvorak user. I used to be a hunt an punch typist, and switching to Dvorak forced me to learn to touch type because the keycaps were wrong.

Touch typing (probably even on qwerty) is so much better than hunting and punching that there is no comparison. If anyone out there hunts and punches, I highly recommend that you switch your keyboard to Dvorak, make your desktop background an image of the layout, and give it a chance.
Actually there is a proof of work concept. You have to compute a partial hash collision that is proportional to the size of the message you want to send. The reason Bitcoin clients hold the full blockchain is to acheive distribution and so that wallet balances can be computed by walking over the entire chain and summing. Bitmessage only needs the distributed aspect so its partial streams are good enough and less expensive for a user to get started.
All forms of punishment "violate their rights". Most libertarians are not pacifists, and most people in general approve of some kind of consequences for criminals.
I wouldn't mess around with this if I were you. It may have taken the FBI a while to bring down the Silk Road, but with this kind of thing, you'll have the CIA and NSA after you.
Its more link-baity this way. Instead of knowing what the article is about before clicking on it, you are now forced to waste an extra 10 seconds.
> This is impractical and unimportant. It's a schtick, a useless gimmick

Until it's copied by Apple. Then it's innovative, game-changing and amazing.
So, horse sized duck then?
I think this this article grossly misunderstands the basic problem. It's not about the government being able to reach out for the data of an individual suspects criminal. It's about the government grabbing ALL data from EVERYONE.

No email service stands above the law. They have to provide data about about suspect criminals if there is a search warrant. This will even work internationally with the mentioned treaties and the suspect will not be notified about the search. Lavabit would have complied with such a request as well.

HOWEVER, this does NOT mean blanket surveillance of everyone, without any due process, court orders, or search warrants. And frankly, European data protection laws are supposed to prevent such blanket surveillance while the American government clearly does not.
While it's not ideal, you are able to make batch requests. For example, the xeroizer ruby gem handles it like so: https://github.com/waynerobinson/xeroizer#bulk-creates--upda...
I see. Yes, I misread your comment. Apologies. We are, as another commenter eloquently put it, 'in violent agreement'.
This entire website is hilariously out of touch with reality.
It's a false premise to think that Microsoft could have owned everything (such that they could have had all that other growth too).

They were going to do $60 billion in retail revenue (Amazon.com)? Why? They were going to run a social network? Why?

Indeed many of Microsoft's mistakes were to fire off far too many arrows mindlessly (from Slate to Expedia). Even those that produced a return likely diverted attention away from better results at their core. They have no business being in social as one example.

And why would anybody presume that an operating systems and productivity software company would dominate Web search? Or that they could have even if they had wanted to and had seen it all coming.
I've been here for a couple of years and this is the first time I noticed it.
Latex essentially has the same properties as source code in a VCS's eyes. .docx files would not work as well.
I actually did drop out of University for the same reason too.
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As amazing as the article is, i have one confusion. What about dinosaurs?

In the eagle part, he said eagles CAN'T be as big as tigers etc. But what about Pterodactyls? How did they manage to be so big?

Oh and weren't all the dinosaurs cold-blooded? So, if I am not mistaken, didn't the author say that we get over the problem of heat loss by being warm-blooded? Or does that just mean that they had to eat ALOT more? (though i suppose due to frequent volcanic eruptions etc maybe the environment was hot enough to sustain them)
The City with a capital C is something different in London, a distinction that's made in the article itself.
A curved phone might fit better in a front pocket, curving around the leg. Especially a gigantic 6" screen like this one.
Business/consumer aspects aside, this looks awesome. I might not want to buy one, but I definitely want to spend an afternoon playing with one.
"[God has] an inordinate fondness for beetles" -- favorite J.B.S. Haldane quote. About 1/4 of all known animal species are beetles.
This kinda sucks BUT I would take it over any Intuit API any day. They have a simple REST API that works exactly like you would expect. I assume if I really need more than 1000 calls a day I could probably contact them and get it raised.
T-Mobile savings might be enough to more than cover the cost of breaking your contract. Their best plans are $30-$50 a month.
If the author is reading this: please use regular HTML in the future. Make your work future-proof by avoiding presentation gimmicks and delivering your content in a plain, honest way. Thank you.
I guess the difference between between a phone and a tablet is now 1 inch
One of the benefits for me has been that I have got quite a bit better at getting into the zone faster. The daily practice of getting started of course me better at it.
You could have said something similar about Dijkstra, who most of his life didn't even use a computer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eoSXpNZD9o
True, a teenager would say that, but that's because teenagers are pretty shortsighted. Just wait until they get home and have to type up a school report. A few attempts on the touchscreen and even the most headstrong teenager will be ready to swap it for a laptop.

And while it's true that the PC market is sort of saturated, the tablet market too will suffer the same fate.

In the end the only thing that will continue to sell is services.
Dinosaurs were not cold blooded as it turns out. They live on today as birds.
factor is cool and fasion except it only focus on x86 right now
Ask HN: Have you considered switching from OS X to Linux?
For some time now, I've been growing increasingly weary of the walled gardens I once so enthusiastically embraced. Off the top of my head, some grievances include, forced corporate policies, lack of hardware choice, and closed operating software. For pragmatic reasons, I've stuck it out with OS X for years, but do wonder if it's time to consider OSS desktop alternatives again? Will the conveniences be missed? Tim Oreilly was echoing a similar sentiment a year ago. https://plus.google.com/+TimOReilly/posts/g9WdNt6yVgR
Are you in the same boat? It all just seems so daunting starting over...
WOH-HO Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope. That is just a flat out recipe for massive credit card charges and a boat load of pain.

They have a monetary incentive to interpret your data as failing to meet your goals. That is a huuuuuuuge amount of trust to bestow on a random company.
>Even if people had wanted to stop, they had somewhere to be.

The prison of modern life in a nutshell.
I feel like no matter what you are doing, you are buying experience and emotional states. The point is the cause of these particular emotional states is kind of silly.
oops, catch you!

can you implement that in y86? i didnt learnt x86 asm
I think you need better immigration officers, not more cell phones. It's never taken me more than the wait in line plus a few minutes to go through immigration in Canada, Europe, and the Caribbean...
Anyways that's not about it. Unions have bargaining powers and that's only reason why these drivers are paid any more than walmart gatekeepers. Hard fact. And they will be automated away very soon. It was very stupid to do what they do in the city of hackers where automating them was the first idea everyone had being stuck unable to commute to work.

Unions may be strong but it is very stupid to commit outright suicide.

Also one thing is when say, auto workers are going on strike. They can have a lot of popular support. Not with bus drivers who are going to alienate everyone ever riding a bus, and people will support any solution allowing to get rid of them.
thanks for pointing out to 750words, I just wrote my first 750 words and I'll see how long this will go on for :)
'Most popular' torrent client laced with Android malware
That doesn't mean you have to use the technology before you think of a good use. Only Apple seems to realize this.
Pterodactyls were small. They had roughly the same wingspan as the modern bald eagle.
Possible typo. Maybe the author meant $2000/year
I have a friend who works in another subsidiary there, on hardware not software though. He likes it and has advanced in his career there. Like most companies that size there's lots of bureaucracy. In my own experience though, there's no bureaucracy like anything you'll see in the financial world (due to all the government regulation and liability on banks thus total aversion to risk, at least in their IT departments). For an internship I would steer clear of finance and only take up such a job once you're experienced, know good engineering practices, and want job stability and good pay.

Like the Paul Graham advice, early in your career simply ignore the pay (if you can) and take the hardest jobs. I think whichever company where you can work on the most challenging projects is where you should work. Eventually that will pay off however you want.
Well, I am glad you were entertained even if you couldn't learn anything.
It's called SELF DISCIPLINE and it's really not rocket science.

I looked at your last half dozen comments. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it: How many days can you go without making a snarky or negative comment on HN?
Didn't we recently learn not to create reflective things with a concave shape?

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/sep/06/walkie-t...
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