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This is nothing new. I do comics and publish them through Kickstarter; my working method is

1. spend a year drawing a graphic novel
2. do a Kickstarter campaign
3. profit?

I've spent money on hosting, and hundreds of hours of my time drawing. I've also looked at a bunch of failed Kickstarter campaigns; one thing common to a lot of them is that most of them show no proof of having done any work beforehand beyond making the video.

You can only pull a Double Fine on Kickstarter if you have the reputation and fanbase of a Tim Schafer. If you're just Some Gal, then yeah - do some work, get your thing to the stage where everything is set up for you to tell your remote factory how many copies of your thing you want made, THEN launch the campaign.
This is why it is a major release. It breaks compatibility for the sake of moving forward.
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Doctors overprescribe antibiotics (among other things) to get patients out of the office.
I'm not even sure if I'd call it a loss leader, solely based on "making it up" in hardware margins.

I think you could show that by having much larger %'s of its user base being up to date and adopting new releases faster, that it cuts costs in other areas and makes it a more attractive platform. Just spitballing here, but less users on old versions should reduce support costs, create a better user experience for more of its users, and entice developers to take advantage of new features, which may further differentiate the platform from competitors.

I'd have to think that creates more long-term value for the company than making $30 bucks per license. And that's not even calculating the customer goodwill by making the updates free.
Yes, www.gov.uk is the product of the new Digital Government Service which I linked above. They haven't been around for very long yet and they are currently only responsible for the government web-services but I hope that their success will eventually pave the way for in-housing much bigger project likes NHS systems.
I think Sketch would be more suitable for web design.
It seems like story is the punchline to an xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1055/
Uh, what are you talking about?
You are completely right in that bacteria don't have the ability to "want" things since they don't have any kind of brain. However, desire is a useful way for the general public to understand what is happening. It's like saying "Water wants to flow to the lowest point of a room" or "The arrow wants to follow the path of least air resistance"
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> people with old computers that cannot upgrade have a stronger incentive for buying new hardware.

Sure, but if that were Apple’s main objective, they would’ve made Mavericks’ system requirements a lot higher. Mavericks runs on 6 year old iMacs.

Today, I installed Mavericks on my mom’s 2008 MacBook. It is noticeably faster. Before, my mom was considering buying a new notebook. Now, she’s going to hold off.
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Pixelmator sells very well, in their first 20 days on the Mac Store they grossed $1 million.

http://www.pixelmator.com/blog/2011/01/25/pixelmator-grosses...

Not Apple level of sales, but if your development team is small and focussed, it's pretty good.
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It is, I'm told, ideal for paired coding.
What the heck? SIL OFL for the font, CSS etc is MIT, even the documentation is CC.
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One advantage is the energy flux. Refueling a fuel cell, or filling a gas tank for that matter, is much faster than charging a battery.
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This is touched in the FRONTLINE documentary. See 33:40-40:00 here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hunting-the-nightmar...

Basically Pfizer, one of the last companies working on antibiotics for gram-negative bacteria, pulled out due to pressure from shareholders, because there's little money to be made here. You spend billions of dollars on creating an antibiotic, and upon its release the recommended instruction is to "use it as less as possible"? -- there's no money in that obviously, there's more money in cholesterol drugs, ADHD drugs, and other drugs you'll continue taking for a long long time.

I feel bad to steer the discussion this way -- but this it, this perfectly underscores one of the scary faults of capitalism. Everyone wants to see a nice smooth growth curve. Growth is prioritized higher than long-term stability of society. We need to fundamentally re-think this.
My mother died from a MRSA infection. This is VERY serious stuff.
While everyone is talking up hydrogen as a clean alternative. Currently, 90% of hydrogen is refined using fossil fuels. Even if you account for hypothetical/nonexistent future technologies, the majority of hydrogen for the foreseeable future is coming from fossil fuels. Hydrogen is truly, "Bullshit". If it launches nationwide it be because gas companies are behind the push, and they will only do it once their gasoline revenue starts to dwindle.
Well thanks for reminding me how profoundly lazy I am ;-)

And hey: Again, kudos!
Can you expand on what makes Eiffel a particularly good language to learn these things?
Going off the 'chart' (which is probably the worst chart I've ever seen), it looks to me like the bottom line has dropped a lot. I think the bottom line probably isn't Mountain Lion?

Are you using some chart where you can actually see which OS is which ?

EDIT: The chart is broken in Firefox - it works fine in Webkit only. Goodbye open web, was nice knowing you.

Anyway, I see you're right. Lion and Snow Leopard are both roughly where they started. So I change my opinion - the 7-8% who have upgraded to Mavericks are likely the people who follow Apple closely and so were already on Mountain Lion to start with. This might signal that the fast upgrade speed may slow down quickly as it implies only the small part of the OSX population who follows Apple news is upgrading so far?
That's funny, I was going to make the post about eternal september, and compare HN to /. and /. to USENET.
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If he thought hydrogen was viable, he'd be working on it.

He is one person, and he is not all knowing. He has limited time and potential. He also has a significant ego and financial interest in their current course.

He's a smart guy, but I'm not going to write something off because he isn't into it.
There are many technical problems with hydrogen: metal embrittlement, it leaks even through solid substances, etc. They're not insurmountable, but they make hydrogen not that competitive with electric. Elon is not a fan of H2 for rockets either for those very same reasons-- embrittlement, leakage, cost of storage and handling. Guy is flat out anti-hydrogen, man.

That and once you have hydrogen it's not that hard to go from there to CH4-- methane. Once you're there, natural gas fuel cells and vehicles make more sense as methane is infinitely easier to handle and already has a ton of deployed infrastructure.

They're already doing this in Germany-- making CH4 from H2O and CO2 with surplus renewable energy and then feeding it into the natural gas grid.
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A lot of people have macbooks and external secondary displays. Just as you said, these people should be able to go fullscreen on their laptop and still utilize the connected display...
Do you have a source for those numbers? I have no reason to doubt you, but you seem put off by the question. It's a legitimate concern before sending money to a company to ask how financially secure they are.
All interesting and useful stuff. I would be interested to talk to some of those that enlisted outside help in getting the final finished product together about their experiences (particularly those of using elance etc for these kind of services).

What's great about Authority is that it essentially validates itself the more and more popular it gets.
Things you can do with C#:

1) Web using ASP.NET MVC
2) Desktop using WPF, XAML
3) Mobile on any platform via Xamarin Mono

PS: if you see someone hacking C# in a coffee shop, than it's most likely something for mobile, highly-portable and probably a game (MonoGame and Unity are pushing C# mainstream as it's much better than dealing with Obj C or JavaScript).
I much prefer Sketchology's freely zoomable canvases over a fixed canvas, but somehow the brush styles don't look as nice as 53 Paper (http://www.fiftythree.com/paper). I don't know how to better explain this, but can Sketchology be configured to produce similar results?
Not everybody wants to make a career out of their side project. Just because you offer me money, doesn't mean I should be obligated to take it. (By all means, offer the money to somebody else, just leave me out of it.)
IMHO hydrogen fuel cell technology is more practical. No charging time means that you can travel any range without delays as long as you have hydrogen fuel stations on your way. That kind of technology gives you more freedom I guess. You feel less limited by your vehicle.

And as far as I know charging li-ion batteries is still very slow, they will go flat at some point, faster you are charging them faster they become flat and they are very heavy.
I'll take that as a (small) counterweight to the massive amounts of Apple-hate/contempt seen lately on HN.

People upgrade, because free, simple and better. Go figure.
Hi, author here. I agree this may not be easy - but something can always be done. I've been in several situation.

As a team leader facing junior developers, I did simply set-up rules. I explained them, but I had the power to enforce them by myself. I coded with them, and they started coding like me - until they were confident enough to challenge me. I apologize to the "autonomous self organizing teams" evangelists, but in some situations, giving some direction may be the most efficient way to progress.

As a peer, you just need to find one other person in your team that is willing to play along. Although I understand the value in explaining something, doing it is for me much more convincing. If you really think something is a good practice, don't try convincing me if you are not already applying it yourself.

If you are in an Agile/sprint oriented team, just propose to test it for one sprint, then it will pass the retrospective test or it will not - no one should object to a one sprint experience, especially in an agile team. Do the same with your colleagues ideas, even if you find them silly. It shows goodwill, and you can be surprised at some time.

This is actually the way me arrived to our current workflow at 8th color (http://blog.8thcolor.com/2013/09/how-our-own-workflow-is-dri...) - successive retrospectives.

Finally I would not involve non coding management in the discussion if possible, as it will quickly devolve into "what would it cost". Better to handle this inside the technical team.

Hope it helps, and remember, it's the first step that cost. Find one willing colleague and start!

Martin
> I was hoping for more storage so I could put every episode of Big Bang Theory on my iPad.

Can't he use the Time Capsule for this?
In college we set one off in a metal wastepaper basket and it violently tore the bin into two pieces.
Yes, I was hoping the article actually shared some of the research Tesla must undoubtedly have done about the feasibility of fuel cells. Yes, they have limited range, but so do batteries. But while it takes _hours_ to recharge a battery, refueling hydrogen takes a couple of minutes, same as petrol.

All his other arguments about infrastructure and safety apply equally well to petrol cars, and yet here we somehow managed to implement that efficiently. I don't see any inherent reason why we can't do the same for Hydrogen.
And how much energy is lost converting energy to hydrogen? Because there are no native hydrogen energy stores. You're either using electricity to crack water, or you're going to crack natural gas.

Its more efficient to simply use batteries.

EDIT: I'd like to point out, generating hydrogen does make sense if you're using an energy source that is essentially free. Too much hydro and you have to dump the water anyway? Make hydrogen. Too much wind and the transmission operator is shutting down your production? Make hydrogen. Otherwise, it doesn't make sense to use it as an energy transfer medium.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_economy#Current_produc...
As much as I like having them for my projects (but I see no reason to get v4 instead of keeping v3), still no temperature (thermometer) nor sparklines (graph.)
It applies to gasoline cars too, you need energy to process oil into gasoline.
Try reading your own link, "It's important to note that this fallacy should not be used to dismiss the claims of experts, or scientific consensus.". You are trying to do exactly that. Pointing out that you are in conflict with basic economic knowledge is not an appeal to authority. You asked why he was worried about deflation, I showed you why, I wasn't making an argument, I was giving you the information you asked for. Ignore it if you like, I'm not interested in arguing with you.
The thing with Tragedy of the Commons -- which is exactly what the antibiotic situation is -- is that the decisions which are optimum for each individual actor in isolation are suboptimal on the whole.
He's completely correct. I've never understood the allure of hydrogen fuel cell powered cars. It's just a shittier, less-viable version of a battery.
The iPad launch lacked a story. Does Apple still have vision?
To avoid this sort of thing, I have an editor macro that puts a comment like this at the end of the current line:

alert("Fuck"); // DEBUG FIXME(dlitz)

You can't see it here, but the comment also includes a few trailing spaces.

This way:

- "FIXME" gets gets highlighted in my text editor

- the whitespace triggers a git warning when committing

- I can configure a pre-push hook that refuses to push commits to origin that contain "DEBUG FIXME"

- I ever do accidentally push it, it's clear that the code was just there for debugging, and that I'm the person to talk to about it.

I also use "git add -p" to do a hunk-by-hunk review of my changes before committing them.

None of this is very hard or time-consuming, and I can't remember the last time that I accidentally pushed debugging code since I started doing this.
source?
edit: that link doesn't really say that hydrogen is less efficent than batteries, just that it has less energy than the energy content of the original fuel, which is true with charging a battery too because of transmission losses, ect.
I think it's a bit pedantic to argue about his usage of "desire". Evolution is a blind watchmaker. The bacteria are reacting to selective pressures. Large populations of bacteria around the world are getting exposed to different kinds of antibiotics. It's not a matter of "if" they will acquire resistance, but "when", and we're seeing this happening right now.

The fact that lines of bacteria go extinct does nothing to disprove the fact that bacteria are developing resistance to antibiotics. Is it possible that there are antibiotics out there that can stop the newly-resistant bacteria? Of course. But it's getting harder and harder to find newer and more-powerful antibiotics.

A promising alternative appears to be bacteriophages.
Will try MonoDevelop, to be honest the last time I tried MonoDevelop was when the Intel MacBooks were new, and it wouldn't run on OS X.

Downloading MonoDevelop as we speak, thanks for the reminder :)
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Bootstrap is crazy popular and people know about it enough that they understand that "designed for Bootstrap" usually means "you can hack it to fit your stuff".
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One dollar scan will send it back for twenty bucks more. I suppose a similar cost is why these guys chose not to do that.
Kinda brings the free market idea into a different light, isn't it?
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And you can use wind/wave/solar energy that is "spare" to crack hydrogen for storage.

The ability to use effectively the same engines and plant is a big plus for hydrogen.
Charging time is overblown. You can charge a modern battery to 80% in about 5 minutes. That's about how long it takes to fill my car with gas at the moment.

You're not going to be refueling a hydrogen fueled car that quick - it's a volatile, extremely high pressure, extremely cold gas. The safety considerations are substantial.
One thing I learned from watching this episode of Frontline was that we aren't doing a lot of research into new antibiotics. Companies like Pfizer (the original makers of penicillin) would rather create drugs like Lipitor or Prozac, things that customers will take everyday for the rest of their lives. Antibiotics are intended to be used as sparingly as possible, which doesn't leave room for a lot of profit. Even the National Institute of Health has but antibiotic research on the back burner to pursue more pressing concerns.

The other big problem we face is that certain antibiotics are like steroids for farm animals. I believe that they kill the bacteria in the gut of a cow or big that signals when they should stop eating, resulting in larger stock (or something like that). This increases the exposure of bacteria to the antibiotics, making things less safe for all of us.

But drug companies and farmers aren't to blame for our antibiotic situation. Capitalism encourages profit and doesn't ask questions about how it's made. Corporations have a fiduciary responsibility. And doctors can't be faulted for overprrscribing antibiotics either. A sick person is the ultimate debugging task and most doctors will try anything that could help the patient. I don't know if this problem has a good solution.

If we research new antibiotics then bacteria will eventually evolve to resist them (kicking the can down the road). If we stop using antibiotics then more people will suffer, potentially unnecessarily (destroying the village to save the village). Trying to fight evolution is a losing game. I am, however, confident that someone somewhere will come up with a break through in the next few decades that will allow us to temporarily solve this problem once again.
They're just jealous of Bill Gates.
At the end of the day they're not burning the fossil fuel, so it is a clean alternative...
It is absolutely your choice to have issues or not and as you describe the current project status it is almost certainly the right choice for the moment.

If you intend to the issues up when you reach another state (e.g. widely usable) then indicating that the not accepting issues is a temporary state would be good. I completely understand not wanting issues raised when you already have dozens of things that you know that you need to do already.

From a user point of view the issues list is something I often look at before even using a project to see the activity, scale of the current problems people are having. I also find it a useful source of answers/workarounds. That doesn't mean that you can't be decisive about what issues you choose to work on (from a user perspective a clear response of "no time to work on this issue, send a PR if you sort it" is better than silence).
No one does asmx and aspx anymore. It has been ages since ASP.NET MVC had been released - now it's just controllers, models and pure HTML - especially if you use the latest flavour - Web API.
The two things I wish I'd known before starting my company
Just finished my first startup accelerator and learned a ton, fellow entrepreneurs, what are your two largest things you wish you knew before you started a company?
The allure was that 15 years ago battery technology sucked.
But same can be applied to electricity. Yes you can get green electricity nowadays but majority is still produced by old fashion power stations.
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Obey the Musk!
I like the clever use of css-based animations on the marketing site. The Invision feature tour (http://www.invisionapp.com/tour) does a great job of this as well. It probably goes unnoticed by the majority of visitors, but I think it communicates great design and attention to detail in a very subtle way. Hats off to the designers and marketing team that built a great site to get the message out.
As nice as the editor looks, I doubt many hackers are going to pay to use a tool to blog about programming.
I give Musk a bit more credit than most CEOs, but he has also shown himself to be very capable of playing the spin game in the press recently (the funky math on the 'new finance product', declaring that the NYT backed off its Tesla piece when they in no way did).
The bold line is Mavericks, and correlating the lines to the numbers, the top one is Mountain Lion. Looking at the numbers on the onhover legend, neither of the bottom two lines seemed to have changed much if at all (it's very noisy).
Is there any indication that the organisms we have "stolen" antibiotic molecules from might become themselves suffer disruption from bacteria that they can no longer kill? Fungi are involved in many symbiotic relationships that we indirectly depend on, for example the fixation of nitrogen for plant growth.

One imagines a future in which we have a dwindling supply of biodiversity to 'sacrifice' in order to keep ourselves safe from bacterial onslaught.

Not unlike oil -- millions of years to produce, but destroyed in a few generations of exponential human growth.
I don't agree. Just a few slides in, what good is "functions don't have to return a value explicitly, even if declared as returning non-void" (a priori, I mean—not counting backwards compatibility as a reason)?
This is what I don't completely understand. Why has no one developed a disinfectant spray that hospitals can apply ad-nauseum (pun intended, the smell ideally wouldn't make people nauseous) all over the hospital? Or, do I not understand the vectors properly?

The way I perceive these stories is that hospitals are actually extremely dirty on a microbial level (as is most of the world), it's just counter-intuitive because I think a lot of people take for granted that a hospital is imagined to be a super sterile place. MRSAs could potentially reside on every surface; an act as simple as touching a bed railing could get you infected. You then have patients in recovery with healing wounds/depressed immune systems, which need antibiotic treatment of some kind when they have an infection. But it's not like you cannot become infected by a MRSA outside of a hospital, you can, and the same antibiotics won't work effectively for you just as they don't work effectively in the hospital. So the first step in my mind is making sure the hospital is 'clean'.
Ok, what about durability of batteries compared with durability of fuel cell? I'm just curious because I think that batteries are less durable right now than fuel cells.
Pretty much this. Handling pure hydrogen is a suckers game in terms of complexity. The real problem is we don't have a compact, low temperature direct methane/direct methanol/ethanol fuel cell yet.
Not to mention the addition of menu bars on both monitors, and the ability to trivially show the dock on either monitor with a quick flick of the mouse.