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Sass definitely needs some competition. I love it, but there's some things it could improve on.

Allowing the mixin of any class into any class is genius. A very standard workflow when developing SASS stylesheets is extracting out a rule into a mixin, and mixing them into multiple classes. However, eliminating this step is huge.

I really like removing semicolons and braces, so SASS wins out huge in that regard.

I also really like SASS's new syntax for interpolation (standard ruby #{}). It's variable are lame though (use of the bang character for variables was a mistake).

Anyways, good stuff. I'm glad LESS exists and allows people to work around some of the missed opportunities of the CSS syntax.
I like the name a lot, but I agree that its going to be difficult to google search. Sucks, but doesn't that seem like a limitation of search engines?
The headline is a controversy-stirring deception: the word "Chrome" does not appear in the linked email.

What it does say: "Careful readers may have already noticed evidence of integration into Chromium <http://dev.chromium.org>; in the Native Client source."

Chromium, not Chrome. "[E]vidence of integration", not completion. "[I]n the Native Client source", not the Chromium/Chrome source.
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They say they are trying to respect the NPAPI spec, so it should work with any browser that works with NPAPI that is to say firefox, webkit, opera etc except IE I guess (not sure).
Maybe a really annoying "upgrade your browser" message that doesn't ever go away?
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cough : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=661026
Unfortunately, it still doesn't work for IE6, on which you need to use the good ol' AlphaImageLoader (sizingMethod='scale') if you want to support that browser: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms532969.aspx
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search for "less css". hmmm. "less extend css" no problem.

i agree that some names are ridiculous for search engines; this one might be ok. jury is still out.
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Of course, I can also say that about a few other sites as well. ;)
really. why?
I like that I can spell it :).
I know, but they're not that simple, so the integration helps a lot. Less seems pretty straightforward to use as a standalone tool.
What's up with the Hyundai logo on the form backgrounds?

Compare http://uploads.neowin.net/gallery/90_full_msmoro.png and http://images.google.com.au/images?&q=hyundai+badge
Agreed. I barely know Ruby, but I have Ruby installed cause so many quality tools are written in it.
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Y'know, this bug report deals with running Django's test suite, which is really a worst-case scenario. The test suite loads hundreds -- even thousands -- of models into memory, and does many complicated and costly operations. It's a unit test suite, and that makes its performance characteristics relatively unrealistic.

So I wouldn't want to judge real-world performance based on the performance of the test suite.

Also, beta0 is old news at this point; I've got to imagine that the Jython folks squished all sorts of bugs between then and now. Have you given your app another try on the final?
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I do get that, but efficiency of _typing_ can be rather directly measured in characters.

I also get the point that part of the reason we (as a species) make language difficult is as a signaling mechanism: we can quickly identify people who aren't able to use it correctly (even if we understand precisely what they mean.)
Check out GWT's CssResource support, which is a much more powerful version of Less backed by a real compiler instead of a collection of regexes: http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/wiki/CssResource

I agree that most of the Java web bits (including pretty much all the popular web frameworks) are, for lack of a better term, enterprisey crap. It saddens me a bit that GWT isn't more popular - there's a lot of innovation and power there that gets ignored simply because the framework's written in Java. IMHO, Rails and Django et al are just kind of standard web MVC frameworks that happen to be implemented on fun-to-write languages: the only thing out there that has the real "right" approach to web _application_ dev is GWT, which is fundamentally difference from all the rest (per the Google Maps/Wave team, Wave would not have been possible without GWT).
I think the biggest selling point on their final design is the simple call to action Get More Done. I have used basecamp in a limited fashion, but it seems that what really makes their final design stand out is the benefit that effectively state in their call to action.

They had several good designs that helped people understand what they would be getting by upgrading, but that call to action is, my guess, what will most likely help users to upgrade.
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400, in my case.

But the problem is valid. In games every nanosecond counts, which is why the control manual memory allocation offers is so attractive.

It's a problem that even small, single-unit game developers have. On the indie game dev forums, fighting against the .Net/Java GC is a common topic. When the GC kicks in, your framerate usually suffers and you waste productivity with tricks to avoid triggering it. When you have multiple cores, asynchronous GPUs and multi-threaded OSes it affects anything other than the most basic of games.

Having said that, in http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1277 Tim Sweeney (of Epic, developers of Gears of War and the Unreal Engine middleware) says:

"Will gladly sacrifice 10% of our performance for 10% higher productivity" and also "Garbage collection should be the only option"

That presentation is a good summary of the current situation of AAA-games programming (well, three years old, but still) and why Epic are programming in C++ and not Haskell or some other functional language, even though they'd like to. Well worth a read.
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Yet according to the article, "A full Internet security suite is what consumers require today to stay fully protected." I believe that.

However, an expensive, resource-intensive security suite is /not/ necessary on Linux/FreeBSD (I believe largely due to better design and open source), and also generally not needed on Mac platforms.

Linux and FreeBSD are tools for serious power users. Yes, they're "harder." But you get a lot more bang for your buck.
I know Google is a big company but it really seems like they're going off in a thousand different directions these days. Might not be a bad idea for them to focus a bit more.
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Flexbuilder (now Flashbuilder) is nice because you can easily switch between the source code and design/layout view. It also takes care of all the build dependencies.

For pure programmers this isn't a big deal but for someone who is more design oriented, it's a lot easier.
The guy wrote much of the os for the amiga, and created rebol. Those are pretty impressive accomplishments.
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I'm not sure what to think of this. It's very anti-competitive but I'm not sure there should be competition to produce software that makes Windows safe enough to actually use in the first place.
Maybe if we ever end up using it.
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In the future world depicted in Ghost in the Shell technology has advanced to the point where creating 'perfect' fake video footage has become trivial. As a result, anonymous videos of important incidents are mostly useless unless a trusted news organisation or government can back up the reports.
Is that like how we "need" to search for: "flickr photo sharing", "wikipedia encyclopedia", "facebook social networking", or "youtube video sharing"?

I think it's better to name your software or site (or company?) something that can be searched for and found by the name alone.
True, for Twitter news. However, there's been other sources, such as Huffington Post who have been getting similar reports through e-mail and YouTube.

Those sources are not connected to Twitter, so no parroting there.
Do you have any examples of software products or services that won by sheer force of marketing? I can't think of any.

Also, "good" and "well designed" are totally subjective- everyone thinks their own baby is beautiful and brilliant. The problem may be that your product isn't as amazing as you think it is, not that someone outmarketed you. Good marketing/PR can give you a quick jump out of the gate, but the best product eventually wins the race. (Isn't that the lesson of the "shark fin" alexa graph?)
I like the idea, i'd allow something like that on my website.
In most messages, the links are as important as the message itself. If you're going to selectively remove links based on how the client sees the message, then you're essentially changing the message itself based on how the client receives it. Which is wrong.
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At that moment I was enlightened.
OTOY to render the games on cloud.
There's a lot of people here that are running successful startups that cater to people in the Real WorldTM so I'd love to hear your thoughts on marketing? (patio11, etc. :)

This is worth a blog post, but I am swamped at the moment. I'll write it later this week. Short version: it is helpful to have a few good geeks in your corner even if you don't sell to them... with caveats.
I wish I could upvote you 5 more times.
Safari 3.1 already supported most things (4 is still missing WebSockets). Firefox 3.5 (out soon) is a massive update to add missing HTML5 features and their updates are automatic and very transparent.

You can start doing HTML5 today and be assured that a nontrivial portion of your audience will support it out-of-box when 3.5 rolls around.
It's not about efficiency, it's about robust parsing.
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I've been doing this for 8 years now. First mostly in south america, then since 2006 in asia, mostly in China.

The first few years were fine - I enjoyed being in a totally different place. But eventually I missed having other hackers around. My social life took place mostly online.

Earlier this year I finally launched

http://www.cocovivo.com

So far, experiences from that are:
-people differ in so many ways- it's hard to find a group that works together.
-some people take the day-to-day distractions better than others. Some thrive by being able to got for a swim whenever they want, some get restless and can't get work done
-our location may be a bit too extreme (we're off the grid on an island in the caribbean, solar + long distance wifi link from town)

Connectivity has improved a lot.. When I started in 2001, writing web apps in Java, my makefile included a target for copying the code to a floppy disk, and adding pscp.exe a .bat file to upload everything to the server so my client could test it. Bugs would come in the form of long emails.

Definitely much better now... ssh is sometimes a problem, but now even getting through the Great Firewall of China with ssh is alright.

Overall, I can really recommend trying this out. I'd very much like to contribute my thoughts and experiences to someone willing to build a community around this... I'm not enough of a community builder and too busy with work to do this by myself. Contact me (rick@outscape.net) if interested!
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Having run a science news blog for a few years in the early naughties, I can safely say that most science news is speculative sensationalism, in which embargoed news items are rarely more than press releases from various universities and national or corporate labs.
Another inspiring woman programmer is Niniane formerly from Google and Microsoft.

http://niniane.org/

http://www.ofb.net/~niniane/resume.html

Brief snippets from her resume:

Google:

* Founder, Lively by Google

o Created vision, got project chartered.

o Built and led a team through technical design and implementation.

o Co-inventor on 5 pending patents.

* Tech lead, Gmail Ads

Microsoft:

* Software Design Engineer Lead, Microsoft Flight Simulator

Also featured in Google's recruiting campaign:

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/05/brilliant-niniane-w...

However, she left Google recently after 5 years:

http://niniane.blogspot.com/2009/02/life-updates.html
Of course. I see it now

That's the great thing about the internet; it serves as a permanent reminder of all those early mornings where I post something before coffee.
Interesting article, I disagree with several points, most notably the blanket statement that anyone who uses fail is an asshole. It seems like the author is too busy being butt-hurt about (one can only assume) someone calling fail to grok the fact that quite often "fail" (much like fuck) carries substantial irony, or otherwise conveys subtext in a very condensed form.
The answer is Yes. The real question is 'when?'. My guess is it will take some time before Flash and its competitors finally join the dinosaurs. It will be slowed down by html5 adoption and by the need for tools/libraries that take canvas to the level of what flash can do today.
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I think the reason is because designers are not into complex toolchains. Just the fact that you need to compile this CSS is a hurdle that makes this much less usable in a designers world.

I've often bemoaned the lack of variables in CSS for things like colors, especially because hex numbers are not very readable, but overall I'm not an advocate of these kinds of CSS pre-processors. It's not that I don't see the value, but I think they can easily become a crutch for developers who don't want to learn how to write clean CSS and utilize the cascade or refactor their HTML into a more sensible structure (hint: sometimes the most semantic class name is actually a presentational one, rather than duplicating a bunch of CSS, 'mixins' just serving to mask the smell).

The other thing is that cutting designers out of your project just because they can't or won't set up a Ruby environment is a pretty easy way to eliminate a lot of the best designers.
"people who self-promote (like me, or jgrahamc) are sometimes looked down on"

This was the hardest lesson to learn when I started trying to promote my new site. I realized that I knew nothing about the magic of promoting! I'm still learning actually but separating the bull from real solutions in the website promotion world is very difficult. I took being called a spammer very personally and am trying to avoid that behavior at almost all costs. I'd love to see a HN for site promotion but I'm afraid it would be a top ten list for directory submissions and keyword stuffing.
Diversity as a first class citizen is not merely about race or gender or creed. It is diversity of creativity and intellect and technological innovation. If we use only the same people and the same kind of people to create games , our technology and our games will stagnate.

I really like this message. I wish people would stop saying 'we need more women in blah,' then instead say something like this. We really don't need more of anyone just to make the demographics look nice. Lack of a group in a field is a problem because we might be missing out on more like her, and I hate to think that.
And how do you verify identity on Facebook?
Have there ever been any media that have died?
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I'm with you. When I announce to people that I am going to undertake a big challenge, part of the reason to do so is to put pressure on myself to complete the task. If you don't tell anyone, dropping out is easy -- there is no loss of face associated with it. When I started my grad school studies, not only did I announce it to my friends and family, I also started a blog -- not the same as Ali and the rumble, but still it involves putting a stake in the ground in a very public way. It forced me to give regular updates to my audience (and also keep my own studies moving forward) and avoid long stretches without any activity.
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There are plenty of stupid, reprehensible things that people have a right to do. I don't think the issue is whether they have a right to do these things, but whether we should support them when they do these things. When we support organizations that treat developers worse than other organizations do we are promoting a negative change in the culture of development.
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It's odd that Palm would risk this, since desktop sync is typically so poor that I imagine it would be easy for them to do a pretty good job of it. Easy considering things on the scale of creating a new phone and phone operating system and application store, anyway.

Have you seen some of the tirades of hatred against ActiveSync there are out there? Nokia PC Suite isn't exactly known as a shining example of a great program and Windows Vista's Mobile Device Center is a typically charmless Microsoft offering.
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already discussed and dead'd.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=660795
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I'm surprised anyone (outside of Opera) went to this much trouble over Opera Unite. It's just not interesting. It won't be particularly popular, very few people will switch browsers in order to use it, and the people that do will find that it just isn't all that great having your own web server running on your PC.

I like Opera, and wish them the best of luck with their business and their projects, but Unite doesn't change anything. It will be a barely used feature in a barely used browser.
The mechanism they use to limit their archive to paying customers is trivial for any web-savvy designer or engineer to circumvent.
The standardization of words permits their quick understanding.

The further fractured a language becomes, the harder it becomes to process.
Here is a good article on trying to live on 30k a month. It is a pretty frugal lifestyle actually. Lots of toast for breakfast, not a lot of ordering Au Bon Pain.

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Can anyone here explain how this might possibly work? Key bottlenecks that come to mind are canvas performance, last-mile bandwidth, and most critically, latency: it's one thing to have the server instruct the client to render a set of known entities; it's another to render the full 720p image remotely and send it down the pipe in immediate response to player action.

EDIT: slight rewording.
I like the way the interview was handled too. Only one question about gender... at the end. It allowed her hardcore programming creds to show through.
Hey, Jacob Kaplan-Moss, you don't have time to post replies on HN. Django 1.1 is two months late, and I still see 20 open tickets. And would a status update on the Django blog kill you? Also, while you're at it, I've been hearing a lot about the GIL on reddit and HN lately, can you fix that? Thanks.
I take it from your comment and all of its upvotes that you and a good number of the people who read HN think that we should help the protesters.

I'll have to respectfully disagree. As a general rule I find distasteful, the idea of handing control of a nation that is a stone's throw away from having nuclear arms over to guys whose idea of protest is to stand on rooftops screaming Allahu-Akbar while burning buses.

I'm just saying.

Judging by the silence out of Washington and London I would bet there are a lot of people seeing the same thing. Even more are sitting around tables talking about the outcome of the last student led pro democracy revolution in Iran. Some are even remembering our history helping promising, bright young pro democracy students in the middle east. You know . . . like Osama Bin Laden.

I think that message has been communicated to the Iranian opposition though, given the peaceful nature of the marches today. Especially when contrasted with the behavior of the opposition marchers on previous days. Still, some of us have some legitimate concerns. And, judging by the upvotes, some of us have short memories.
Short of them having some complete breakthrough of where the server can do some massive massive pre-computation to alleviate client side computations, I don't see this happening.

Between the computation / communication tradeoff, this would have to be a huge breakthrough for rendering.
It's interesting, for sure, but I like haml/sass and that style much more.

Not to mention, having arguments for mixins is really, really nice. And compass is solid too.
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