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The Settings screen displays an email address that you can send feedback to, but it’s not clickable, so rather than memorizing the address and then composing an email, I’ll just write my feedback here.

I got stuck on Wave 70 – the grow-when-shot boss just wouldn’t die. I think it is a bug. At first the boss grew when I shot it, but after a while it didn’t change, and always stayed the same size and pinky-purple colored. I kept shooting it for 3 to 5 minutes and it still didn’t die, though none of the previous bosses took longer than 40 seconds to defeat. All the while, the boss kept dropping minions, which I was able to kill normally. I could only just see that when I shot the boss, a “10” points indicator floated up from the boss, partially cut off by the top of the screen. I’m on a Samsung Galaxy Nexus.

Also, I lost my progress in the game when I tried to change Settings in the middle of the game. This was because of a UI problem. The pause screen has buttons at the bottom for “Exit game”, “Settings”, and “Continue current game”. After continuing to the Settings screen and looking it over, I pressed the bottom-left button with the left-facing arrow. But that turned out to be the “Main menu” button, which dropped me out of the game completely, making me lose my progress. (Luckily, I didn’t mind too much in that game, since I couldn’t progress past level 70 anyway.) I see that if I press my phone’s Back button instead, I can return to the pause screen and then press Resume – but there should be an explicit button for this too. I think the best fix for this is to replace the “Main menu” button with a “Back to pause screen” button if you got to the Settings screen from a pause screen.

I also noticed that I can’t press the Reload button while my other finger is still touching the screen just after shooting a bullet. That is, multitouch doesn’t work. It is a little annoying to have to stop shooting completely to reload. But then again, having to reload manually at all is also annoying, and it’s part of the game, so you could call this behavior a feature, since it makes reloading harder.

Finally, I was a bit confused about the name of your game when I read your blog on my phone, since the Play Store link ends with “com.bigosaur.backyardpanic”. Maybe it’s too late now, but it would be less confusing to change your app’s package name to “com.bigosaur.droneinvaders”.

Apart from those problems, your game seems like a fine phone game, with enough gameplay elements to make it interesting. Having to manually reload is not as bad as it could be, since you give feedback that you are out of ammo and have to reload from multiple sources – flashing Reload button, missing ammo bar, small “Out of Ammo” white text, and click-click sound effect. And it’s impressive that this game was put together in so short a time.
I have respect for people who are doing waterfall and admit to it. In my personal sphere I see far too many people talking agile all day while actually running waterfall projects. It seems like people think agile means "waterfall, but skip most of the upfront planning".
Surprised nobody has mentioned:

http://www.alfredapp.com/

Basic version free power pack 17 pounds
Okay, tried it, and actually worked with the demo from that article! Yay.
It takes two to tango. There was a lot of "vote down and move on" behavior in that thread. Instead, people kept responding to content-free posts, which predictably got content-free re-responses--because the kind of person who says something dumb is also the kind of person that demands to get the last word in.

Responding to threadshitting is a form of threadshitting. It's not very enjoyable for anyone who clicked in hoping to see interesting discussion about the subject of the link.
With all due respect you're just another OSS evangelist comparing RoR to Visual Basic, Classic ASP and ASP.NET.

It is a silly comparison but it is so unbelievably common here. Try comparing it to ASP.NET MVC and you'll see that Microsoft actually has a modern and compelling offering. They really haven't sit still since you've been gone.
Already has happened (although not automatically) for USB 3G modems[1] and HP printers[2].

[1]: http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/
[2]: http://www.hp.com/global/us/en/laserjet/hub/printer-installa...
I'd be interested to see your thoughts on each distro, even if it's just a sentence or two. Switching quickly, while obviously making some types of perspective difficult to develop in such a short timeframe, probably makes it easier for you to notice some things most people wouldn't through more typical usage habits.
RoR vs Asp.Net is largely community (and modules) vs tools. Both are important and I am not sure if a combination of the two is even feasible. VS is like crack, it's so good, but at the same time nuget looks like a joke compared to gems. TLDR; nobody is good at everything because different things are optimized for different cases.
Ha. This is great!
This is right in general but wrong on the specifics of this case. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on the original, federal trial. That court threw overturned the conviction entirely; it did not order a retrial.

The state prosecution was an entirely different matter, which is why they had to strain to pretend it wasn't double jeopardy. The "acts" were the same but they had decided to classify them as different, lesser crimes. In fact he had already served more time than he could have been sentenced under those, rendering the whole proceeding nothing more than a farcical publicity stunt.
Sure. And we shouldn't forget that Microsoft was primarily a development tools manufacturer for a long time. They have a long track record in such tools.

> What OSS tools and IDEs are making your devs so happy, and making their jobs better than say, VS 2012?

It depends to a large extent on what people are doing. To be honest, I have become so happy with VIM, BASH, base UNIX utilities, and such that I don't think I am ever likely to achieve the same productivity in an IDE. The thing is that IDE's are a fundamentally different paradigm and they make easy things a bit easier, but I think a text processing paradigm is better for the hard problems.
13 hours battery life now on my 11" 2013 macbook air, wow
I think I'm being dense... can someone explain the difference between a 'blocking' fiber and Ada's task/rendezvous constructs? Both seem like synchronous message passing mechanisms?
I (speaking for myself, obviously, not anyone else on HN) don't hate Microsoft. I use Windows! Windows 8 in fact!

For context because I'm sure some people (I do think there is an anti-MS bias here on HN, though not as pronounced as OP thinks it is) may think I'm some stereotypical Microsoft-using rube. I grew up in the 80s, programming first on the C64 (BASIC, 6510 Assembler), then Amiga, then various UNIX systems (SunOS, IRIX, AIX, Ultrix, Solaris, later Linux).

I avoided Windows like crazy until Windows 2000 came out because prior to that release the idea of using an OS where one process could crash the system at any time seemed ridiculous (post my Amiga days), and running NT was only for "enterprises" (at that time). But since I first started using Windows 2000, Windows has always been my "primary" OS, partly for gaming reasons, partly for access to commercial software (currently Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop), and partly because I simply actually just like the look and feel of it.

In the meantime I spent quite a number of years doing Win32 software development (though now I'm mostly doing Android/Java and some embedded stuff with Go) and to this day, Visual Studio is still the programming environment by which all others I use are measured and found wanting. There are some pretty decent other ones, but I still miss the absolute power of the VS debugger (against C, C++ and C#) and everytime I find myself doing printf-debugging because the FOSS tool I'm using doesn't have solid debugging support I cry a little inside.

I also still do a lot of Linux-based programming these days, each Windows system I use has half a dozen or more Linux VMs running on them regularly, but I still prefer Windows as an overall primary desktop. It is fast and extremely stable these days (hell, the GPU driver can crash due to Nvidia bugs and Windows will just restart that mofo and keep going, how cool is that?).

All that said, yes, Microsoft hasn't always acted in the best interests of the overall industry (but neither has any other company near their size, and Microsoft has gotten better over the years while some others I won't name have gotten worse, IMO). Also, I still haven't found any good reason to buy a WinRT device. But my overall impression of Microsoft is pretty positive.
What people can do in CSS3 blows my mind. I love this!
John Dvorak, quoted on http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/gizmos/2005/11/2_grassroot...:

"Some years back, Microsoft practiced a lot of dirty tricks using online mavens to go into forums and create Web sites extolling the virtues of Windows over OS/2. They were dubbed the Microsoft Munchkins, and it was obvious who they were and what they were up to. But their numbers and energy (and they way they joined forces with nonaligned dummies who liked to pile on) proved too much for IBM marketers, and Windows won the operating-system war through fifth-column tactics."

Also, googling "Steve Barkto" will turn up interesting information.
Always find myself stunned by the capabilities of CSS.
For those of you who are bound to ask the point, this is pure hacking. You are given a technology and you produce a result, sometimes for the fun of it! Thanks for this! I learned a bit.
You could swap your PATH back to the OS's python, or compile python yourself. Homebrew is great for the latter, and much more.
This kind of argument appears often in threads about companies not being one entity - but it is wrong. An engineer asked by management to implement enthical program parts can either play along (thereby endorsing behavior) or go home.

A member of the legal team cannot decide to NOT extort e.g. Patent fees from e.g. Android handset makers, or allow e.g. BeOS to be installed by licensed vendors that were forbidden to do so.

A company behaves like an individual, sometimes schizophrenic, often psychopathic or sociopathic. But policy, and reponsibility is not, in fact, up to individual employees.

What you say is true of a group of sports fans, not of a company. And having watched Microsoft's stacking of the ISO committees, patent extortion and chilling effects, SCO proxy war, scathing disregard for industry standards etc - I'll say that I think they have earned all the hate they get here, and then some. The fact they they are not doing as much damage these days is mostly thanks to sliding away from the dominant position - but the culture is still one of bullying.
Silver Bullets
I also was deciding between which language to learn and its corresponding web framework. What's the criteria for you? For me, one of the main criteria's is the applicability of the language and its supporting ecosystem across many application domains (ie. web, scientific, systems programming, etc.).

I am not tied to either language (not yet at least) so the decision was based more on "bang for the buck". I decided that Python is a better investment of my time. This was largely based on the fact that Python is used in many, many areas outside of web development. As a result, I feel python will server me more across most domains versus Ruby. It's true that Ruby can also be used in many different application domains but based on my research, it just doesn't have the legs that Python has for general programming. For better or worse, Ruby is widely known as "Ruby on Rails".

In terms of which language is better, both are good so this wasn't a factor.
This comment made my day.

It is all about your community and once it becomes too biased one way or the other, everyone else moves on.
I have always wondered why Apple and Microsoft don't embrace Bittorrent as a perfectly reasonable distribution method for "big bang" releases (like today). I have tried using Burnbit but it is only as valuable as there are folks who use it (Metcalfe's Law strikes again!).

I would also want to see some shas of the files distributed from Apple before I would use something from TPB.
This is nuts -- but sadly dancing Bender is not too practical. (Unless the dancing trend catches on and GitHub releases the dancing Octocat to production...)

For more practical CSS madness, I'd recommend Ana Tudor's creations[1]. She had a cool talk at CSSConf.eu about the math behind building some of her CSS creations.[2]

[1]: http://codepen.io/thebabydino/public/

[2]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9HeWBH_kvg
Thank you for this, always inspired by your thread.
It's not that I'm against it, I have no need.

I've a S2 and an Asus 300T: I read ebooks via Google books on those devices.

Music is streamed through rdio, which allows me offline access to several GB worth on my phone.

I have Netflix.

I do not own any iOS devices.

I see no reason why I would ever want to buy anything through iTunes, since I am happy with my music service, with my books account, and with OSX and the few apps I've added to it.

Yeah, I know, I am a 1% outlier (Android Google mobile user, OSX only for the reliable hardware for business and not for personal use). But why use iTunes to distribute Mavericks when the App Store is already there?
...also known as "we carved yet another exception into the clearly worded text of the Constitution"
Great additions but again read my post.
Impressive! Great job.
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I'm still a novice to Bitcoin but I thought the lure of it was so that there is no way to track/audit money transactions in as far as who was involved.

The top screenshot seems to show such an audit trail. I hope it is stored on the device (never on Coinbase's servers) and only temporarily.
Though you're probably right, iPads have had 1GB of RAM since the iPad 3.
I wouldn't know. Back then I was working for IBM on OS/2 in Boca Raton, in, as I was told, the very office space that Microsoft vacated a few years earlier when the NT/OS/2 collaboration broke down.

But if I had to choose between IBM and Microsoft, I think Microsoft wins as the more ethical company. IBM seemed like a very shady place to work business practice wise. And no one is talking about IBM these days on HN, unless they happen to do something like Watson occasionally.
The funny thing is I never mentioned RoR in my GP, so you inserted that comparison in your own head. I'm talking about a complete OSS ecosystem - dev language, servers, VC, deployment tools, monitoring etc. I work at enterprise scale in FIRE, and there is so much more to successful project delivery than just language/IDE.

BTW I had to bandage up a limping ASP.NET MVC app about three years ago for a large Canadian telco. Nothing I saw under the hood changed my mind about MS.
OK, thanks, I'll try the "free app" approach.

(But, man, do I hate such kludgey workarounds.)

EDIT: Seems to have worked fine - download in progress, and I didn't actually complete installation of the free app (AFAIK; I did have to enter tombstone info, but I can live with that).
I suspect that most people here who hate Microsoft still use products like Excel (for which there is no good competitor :) And maybe that's part of the reason for the hate: for all the problems, there are a few indispensable products that keep us coming back to windows and office and other Microsoft products.
Yeah, I don't want to be critical -- just wanted to point to some other lower-level shapes that might be easier for others to learn from and build upon. 100% believe we need more dancing characters, not less.
IsoHunt shuts down before archive can be made
Canada’s CGI Group at centre of furor over troubled Obamacare website
It looks like it was deleted by the submitter in the first hour after submission? If it was killed by the mods it would be marked as dead instead.
http://www.phpstrap.in/
OP may have meant iPhone, but the best example is the iPod -> iPod Mini, as well as the iPod Mini -> iPod Nano. Both products were flying off the shelves and racking up massive sales when Apple undercut themselves with the cheaper product (the Mini) or completely replaced it with a radically different form factor (the Nano).

In both cases it seemed like money on the table, but in both cases the products became the core of Apple's product offering and dramatically out-sold their predecessors.
Good thing I'm only friends with lawyers from grad school rather than one myself.
Hacker's equivalent of animated gif :)
shakes fist at Win98

Never forget.
Know it's too early, but can anyone comment on Screen Sharing improvements in Mavericks? I regularly access a headless mini and have had to occasionally kill screensharingd for hanging sessions, and/or lose connectivity on occasion for whatever reason. Screen Sharing's been improved with every OS X release, but it's not spectacular.
It's not a private wallet it's an interface to a coinbase's shared wallet obviously they track it. If you didn't want that you would use one of the many local wallets / blockchain.info's wallet.
I think you overestimate the necessity of copyright law to the open source community. Even if the community could not legally force people to play fair with open source code (by releasing modifications, not charging, or whatever the terms are), people would still continue to write it.
In our case, Amazon is $0.38/count and Target is $0.35.

Plus, Target is a smaller package (my son grows like a weed, I want just-in-time inventory), I get another penny per diaper off with the credit card, and Target accepts stacked coupons, which typically translates to another $0.05-$0.10/count discount.

Also, the we don't use it, but the Target generic brands are very high quality and cheap. Saved us a bundle when my son was on formula and the Enfamil coupons ran out!
It is true that Microsoft has changed a lot. (I used to work there.)

However I have trouble getting too excited about a lot of Microsoft technologies. There are some good ones out there for some things, don't get me wrong. Microsoft SQL Server has some really nice features for developers, for example, and Microsoft Access is a really nice db front-end RAD tool, if you pair it with a real database server.

But, in the end, I there are only so many things one can get excited about. I find PostgreSQL more exciting than MS SQL Server, for example.

Microsoft has become a lot more accepting of FOSS than it was when I was first hired (I watched some of this shift while I was there, but it has gone a lot further since I left). This is good. But in the end, it feels like so much Microsoft stuff is legacy technology for those of us who have made the switch that it is just hard to stay excited.
> [The beautiful, gorgeous product] would solve every monetary exchange hurdle with masterful, dashing perfection.

I wish the author actually described his/her conception of this panacea. It's possible that "paypal's decade-long fumbling" reflects the reality that the perfect product does not exist.
I'm not sure that I understand the relevance - or the practicality - of that.

One of the reasons I finally dumped my HP PC and Ubuntu was that I no longer wanted to play sysadmin. I wanted my computer to "just work" with minimal (non invasive) effort on my part.

So far, I am supremely happy. This Air is the bomb: Fast, silent, robust, well made, wow. Nice piece of work.

But needing a CC to get a free OS update is neither non-invasive nor effortless, which the platform had been up until now.

(Sure, I could get the update from somewhere else, but I would only be doing so because Apple failed to address my particular use case. I'd rather get it from them, jic - as in "just in case something borks in the update" - then I can go back to them with ground upon which to stand. Sure, as noted elsewhere, my use case is in their 1% outlier fringe, but that doesn't mean I wish to be without support or without minimal privacy invasion.)
Also, laziness. Knowing proper protocol doesn't preclude procrastination. "I'll lock everything down tomorrow."
Treatings - OkCupid for networking (NYC)
They created a useless debate as FUD. There is no real debate about e.g. GPL vitality any more than MS stack virality. There is no real debate about Linux copyright or patent legitimacy.
The post seemed to be on the front page for longer than an hour, from what I remember. Looking at the link. it seems omments were being made (by various users, not just two people going at it in a dead thread) several hours after the posting
Cf other comments: Because that's just another kludgey workaround, extra steps I have to take because my use case isn't quite mainstream.
The legs slide horizontally off Bender's ass on Firefox 24 on Linux :-( Nevertheless, great work!
Then you would have to type in the password each time you wanted to use it anyway. Not much sense in storing anything in that case. :)
Easy. You skim what you aren't interested in.

It's a great review. If you care about your tools, do yourself the favor.
I just were wondering the same and if that's intentional to make it funnier. Because hands seem to stick attached to the body well.
Okay. That's interesting. I guess it could be true. Or it could also be a very creative and barely plausible explanation that happens to fit the provable facts of the case. It certainly requires us to accept an astonishing degree of naïveté in an otherwise very smart guy.
Apple maintains many of the same positions, yet they are loved. Apple actually uses a lot of open source, yet rarely contribute back. Microsoft Research contributes a ton to computing research.

Note: writing this in Google Chrome on my Macbook
Faster-Than-Light Drive
Why would you need that? The F# compiler's open source and runs just fine in MonoDevelop/Xamarin Studio (or outside of an IDE, for that matter).
That was my first guess too, but the rankings say it was still active till 23:05: http://hnrankings.info/6594352/

... but of course they don't mention what timezone that is, so I have no idea how long ago that was.

Also, the article contains comments whose timestamps differ by more than two hours. That wouldn't be possible if the submitter deleted it.
This is particularly true for electronics. However, I've noticed that if the fulfiller is Amazon then there's a better chance of shipping an item to Australia. I can't remember what it was now, but I remember one item where storage option A was fulfilled by Amazon and would ship to AU but storage option B was fulfilled by another company who would NOT ship to AU.

There's also an option somewhere to restrict search results to only items that can be shipped to the chosen country. You'll be disappointed by the reduced selection though. In this case, I suggest Amazon UK who has reasonable shipping to Australia.
While I would love the rest of es6 the only things I really really want for the project I am working on are generators and sandboxes.

I tried implementing sandboxing a little while back by cleaning the global namespace after every tick and freezing all the built in prototypes, but I still don't know enough about the dirty details of js to know if I am doing it properly in a way that will actually be fast.

I am reluctant to use with but a friend of mine suggested that it is possible to use it to avoid polluting the global namespace. This in combination with freezing all the global prototypes might be enough to do what I want.

Have you thought about this at all? Is there already a library for this that would do what I want? I wouldn't mind running the code in a worker to restrict access to the dom apis.
And that gives MS some love in academic circles. But that's all it should give them.
...made the front page in 1998.

Congratulations!