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Flat UI is not about beautiful color palettes.

Sure, color is an important tool at the disposal of a designer. But so are typography, layout, proportion, symmetry, hierarchy, contrast, and affordance. And those are just the static things! Designing good interactions additionally requires consideration of speed, motion, order, and timing.

Good design takes into account these qualities whether it's flat or not.
funny, I initially read it as gossip-oh, also not exactly positive....
Yes, thanks for bringing that up! Absolutely right, Quark is an entirely new direction for Intel:

http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1217623‎
We've tried to institute technical design docs and reviews and failed.

Management keeps asking we do them but doesn't enforce it.

Developers don't want to do it and take it personally when you suggest a different approach during the review.

Management sets deadlines on projects without consulting leads or architects.

I (database architect) have suggested we add steps for technical approval and code reviews to our feature/bug tracking system but have been ignored.

I'm sure people can relate out there.
Because WebRTC is not finalized and I think Microsoft has taken an approach of not implementing the experimental features.

You can get the prototype WebRTCn as a plugin for IE through Microsoft's Interoperability Bridge here:
http://html5labs.interoperabilitybridges.com/prototypes/cu-r...

A lot of browsers certainly chrome implement experimental features with vendor prefixes just to get high up in html5 tables such as those.
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You're looking at it wrong, it's not that they're going to use a TABLET/Phone instead of, but part of the workflow. Maybe for a quick bug fix here and there. What about if that laptop you had to haul home for occasional work was just your phone that you plugged into a monitor that had secured access to your corporate VPN where you logged into your dev environment to fix a bug that's hanging up Operations from releasing a new version?
This is total nonsense
Give me $1.20 cash. I spend. I make $1.00 of sales. I hero!

About -0.20 net? Is accounting detail. Instead, please to look at sales growth. Give me more cash, I grow more sales. I entrepreneur!

I meet investment bankers. We go to club. Many strippers. I give them $1.00 from sales. Everyone happy.

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"Techies" believe they know better how to allocate their money than do charity workers. Why give now when they could wisely invest and give 3x as much at a later time?

Then maybe at that later time their internal generosity dries after years of toiling and smaller than expected payback.

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How do we balance this? What if an organization employs non-technical people that pay 3x as much as necessary for tech services because they don't understand what's necessary.
CouchDB and by extension Cloudant are really cool.

Change feeds and replication are first class citizens if you wish, not some side-feature.

This means 3 things for me:

* Can build your own cluster topology. Replicate in a star pattern, in a circle with overlapped neighbors, in a hierarchy. You decide. Replication is explicit and configurable.

* Ideal for real-time applications. Having client poll for changes can grind things down. CouchDB support continuous updates and changes feed. It can go via long polling, event sourcing, can still to GET's with a 'since' parameters. Up to the user.

* Having to handle merge conflicts explicitly. MVCC semantics is not hidden or hand-waved away with a timestamp-last-writer-wins-unless-your-ntp-is-messed-up. Conflicts are first class citizens as well and one needs to know how to handle. That is good for some case but bad in others. I like it. For example one can attach an application specific conflict resolver that knows how to solve conflicts for that particular database in an application specific manner. Riak is another database that handles explicit conflicts well.

BTW: Just noticed CouchDB 1.5 was just released.

http://www.apache.org/dist/couchdb/notes/1.5.0/apache-couchd...

Will have to play with the new Admin UI and Node.JS query server.
Ok that's an understandable position. Let's continue that logic and apply it everywhere else in life:

The relationship between your neighbors and you is a matter solely between them and you. The government should not interfere. So, if for example your neighbor were to choose to rob your house, or murder a loved one, clearly, the government should not get involved.

When you're driving, that's a matter between you, your car, and perhaps the road. And your relationship with other drivers or pedestrians is solely up to you and them. You should all be able to do whatever you want and/or work out any disputes between each other as they come up. Laws would be pesky and just be government interference.

And by the way, as to your point about disrupting your insurance for reasons not relevant to your treatment. That's a big whoosh that misses the point of the ACA. The whole core point of the ACA was in reaction to private insurance companies which would deny or drop people who were seriously sick. Thus, effectively denying treatment, or forcing them to rely on rush-to-emergency-room treatment, rather than cheaper and less stressful preventative care, or experience catastrophic costs, which then either bankrupt them and/or get passed on to all other taxpayers and customers, against those others parties wishes, anyway. Making sure more people get more and better treatment, more consistently, is the whole point of the ACA. It's not perfect, nobody claims that. But it has a heck of a lot of objectively good elements which are pro-health.
If that's the case, maybe you should name if after Raphael Finkel. [1]

Disclaimer: I had the privilege of meeting Dr. Finkel here at university a few times before I stumbled across his name in Wikipedia and in the front of a book in the library. Totally not biased.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Finkel
WS is the ticketmaster of the financial world: public companies, private corporations, startups, VCs, angel investors, investment firms, hedge funds, and HNWIs all blame wall street for some reason, yet they thrive on the services WS provide (and depend on the money made available by WS)
> All shares "pop up" on the first day or so.

Unless the ticker is "FB"...
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So your argument is that a company's value should be limited by 1 year's profits? Please start a company so that I may buy it from you.
i'm amazed google still uses flash for their stock graphs.
I'm guessing this is just the front-end of paypal. The backend is most likely Java-based and is never going to be changed to Node.
There have been a few attempts. The autogenerated code isn't/wasn't all that great. I periodically use something like Quickbase, which lets you focused on the data collection and processing aspect, rather than where widgets go on the screen (VB3's UI being the first thing you interact with and what everything is tied to leads to some less than ideal maintenance nightmares).
Taking a short break every 20~30 minutes is a good idea for other reasons, too. It gives you a chance to get up and walk around for a minute, which gets your blood moving and counteracts some of the ill effects of sitting in a chair all day. And it gives you a chance to re-examine whatever task you were working on; it's surprising how often you'll realize you were making the job overly complicated, or doing something that didn't really need to be done.
Not sure if it's fair to call it "flagship". I have one now and it seems blazingly fast and it's nice to have stock android... but the device isn't without compromise. The battery life is 'meh' and the camera is pretty crappy (the speakers are also weak, but not what I'd consider to be a core feature of a 'flagship' device). So you can definitely tell they cut corners on those two (very important) aspects of the phone. Overall I still really like it, though.
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Shorting is selling a stock you don't own. You have to purchase it back (called "covering") later. If it goes down, you keep the difference between what you sold it for and what you had to repurchase it at.

If the price goes up, though, you still have to buy it back. As a share's price technically has no upper limit, you could wind up in the situation where you sold a share for $10, intended to purchase it back at something like $5, but wind up having to purchase it back at $10,000,000/share because they accidentally invented an AI.
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"REAL". I think it's a lot less clear what that means in this context than you apparently do.
Very interesting, I never saw that before!

But I can't figure out, for the life of me, why the bizarre ".container:before" declaration is needed -- it would seem to be entirely superfluous, but if you remove it, the whole thing breaks. Can you explain what's going on?
The fact that this is an interesting article is a huge indictment of CSS. It was developed for a different, simpler use case, and it's obviously the wrong abstraction at this point. Too bad it's entrenched.
I think the important point is that a boss needs to touch-base with each employee daily, and how you do it is up to you.
I see your point, but still doubt that Gavin intended his post as innuendo. My assessment is that he's not yet ready to respond to the paper with carefully written, fully-thought-out, detailed technical counter-arguments, but wanted to assuage the Bitcoin community and address all those "sensationalistic headlines" put forth by "reporters on deadline" with an 'official response' as soon as possible.
Congrats to the bankers pricing the IPO low enough.
Indentation is also significant in Haskell, for example.
I thought that the claim was the XP and Vista are no longer supported versions and nobody need write new software for them.
Haven't heard of it unfortunately so I can't comment on it.

Generally speaking, the number of followers/contributors at Github is a pretty good sign of the overall activity of certain framework. Play has way higher numbers - you can see that here:

https://github.com/playframework/playframework
https://github.com/apache/wicket
We're still in beta, so we're polishing off a few things, including performance. So please bear with us.
Whatever you want! :)
You didn't answer my question at all. You claimed postgresql was an enormous challenge to scale horizontally. I asked how. There are still lots of reasons to use postgresql, I assumed you knew this since you expressed that you wanted it to be easier to scale horizontally.
I think we simply approach software different. I feel that small, composable applications should be the default, and I nearly always start off this way. I've been involved in projects from writing a specialized version of cp, ETL processes, to developer focused but consumer-facing web applications and the first interface I write to anything I do is as a small cli application that works well with standard unix tools.

When you embrace this philosophy it doesn't particularly matter how good a language's ecosystem is, you have all of unix to interop with. For example, I don't care if a language has a good JSON parsing because jq[1] exists and is probably faster and easier to work with than just about any language's built in tools, even better than JavaScript itself.

With JVM you can't participate in writing software this way. Everything must revolve around the JVM and it's ecosystem.

[1]http://stedolan.github.io/jq/
I see web-based IDEs as potentially becoming a big thing in corporate enterprise world. I've worked in environments where we RDP into a secured secondary environment and had to edit code there. I see a browser-based IDE the next phase of something like that. Of course, you'd have to be able to set up this web-ide in a private corp environment.

But this is a good start for the indy web-developer working on certain types of projects.
Someone told me that "Browser mode" in the development tools has been removed from IE11 so I can't emulate IE8, 9 or 10. Is this true?
It's so frustrating that it still requires all sorts of gymnastics to do something so conceptually simple in CSS, and yet many people seem to see CSS as a self-evident imperative to be used in all cases.
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Can someone explain what the point of this is?

I realize that it will have more or less dramatic effects depending on the site, but in the two examples that Adam Schwartz chose to best demonstrate the effect, it seems to be just "remove shading and gradients." Why? Is someone out there offended by gradients? Why would you care?

Edit: Or is that the point, that it's meant to be a commentary on a design aesthetic? afschwartz's own cryptic response in this comment page suggests that it might be.

If so, the commentary seems to have escaped some commentators--one comment on the original says "Github looks much nicer with it enabled." Huh? I had to look at the side-by-side GitHub comparison for several seconds before I even saw the difference.
Interesting.

{edit:] But the headline might be "Plausible new interpretation of Beowulf's first line."
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Never thought about it like that... We needed a name for the domain and chose this one because I thought we could have a Hippo (the animal) in our logo. I really like how mailchimp uses their logo to make their service a bit cooler. Thanks for mentioning.
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I find it hard to believe the long title came first and just happened to condense to USA PATRIOT. That had to be at least partially a backronym[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym
You'd be surprised. A crucial part of learning to be an artist is open critiques. It is the one moment when lovey-dovey artists suddenly turn into the same kind of nitpicky curmudgeons as us coders.

Where do you think great artists come from?
I've been saying this of JS/HTML/CSS for years, but people seem to suffer from severe stockholm syndrome.
I'm the iOS Developer on the MOSS team at Modular Robotics. I'm happy to answer any questions anyone may have regarding MOSS. We're working on tons of cool ways you can reprogram MOSS including SDKs and firmware APIs.
...what does that have to do with anything? It's the actual name of the act. Making up a new name for something to signal your disapproval is the fastest way I can think of to indicate you aren't capable of discussion.
Here's another list of Zipcodes:

http://www.zippopotam.us
But why would you want to? As said before, somebody executing a script doesn't need to see what language it's in.
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Stephen Shaw's (author of the OP article) codepen of the same I sometimes find easier to read, less advertising noise than smashing ...

http://codepen.io/shshaw/full/gEiDt
Just to be clear, the rest of the browser world offers modern browsers across a wide array of operating systems. Microsoft can't even be bothered to offer a modern browser across more than two of their own Operating Systems.

Chrome spans at least 7(And that's a conservative estimate) Operating Systems. Firefox the same. And both update in a sane manner.

It's nice that Microsoft offers a good solution to the 5% of users on the cutting edge, but they are still ludicrously behind the curve.
You can write a check to the government for as much as you'd like.
I think that's a little naive. The market cap of twitter does not make up for the losses in tech over the last 2-3 weeks. And that's as-if there is no new money in the game, that to buy one stock you have to sell the rest. Which means paying taxes. Not for macro reasons but JUST to buy a new offering?

Twitter is not the only big IPO. There is no pattern of market turndown in the lead up to an IPO. The whole idea is a bit silly to me.
If you live in the UK and you haven't been to Bletchley Park yet then you really should go. Seeing a Colossus running is an amazing thing that really isn't' captured by video.
This is the first time in my life going to HN while I'm futzing with a problem has actually helped. Thought I was going to take my mind off - instead I found the answer immediately!
I think this is going to be a necessity in a few years when web-based IDEs are functionality complete enough that enterprises can use them.
Of course, if everybody knew BTC would skyrocket in value, and hoarded coins- hello deflationary spiral, hello BTC crashing in value.
Before the inevitable complaints about CSS start flying in, you really actually hate the Box Model and should direct your anger towards it. To wit, the article itself says:

"Other Techniques

Absolute Centering is a great solution for centering, but there are other methods that may fit more specific needs. The most commonly used or recommended methods are Negative Margins, Transforms, Table-Cell, Inline-Block, and now Flexbox. They are covered more in depth in other articles, so I’ll only cover the basics here."

Pray your support matrix allows you to just stick to Flexbox soon and all of this will start to feel like a bad dream from the bygone past.

First we abused tables, then we abused divs, now there are actual sane hooks for this, it just took 20 years is all.
What is missing the a way to update specific fields in json/hsotre columns, or is there a way ?
"However, the fire did cause the loss of some materials that were being prepared for digitisation - the full extent of which is still being assessed."
This is crazy, if taxes are too high for businesses to start then lower them; these piecemeal approaches to problems just make things more complicated. We need to simplify rules and regulations not increase their complexity.
That's not true necessarily: what if you're trying to vertically align something of a known height on something WITHOUT a known height. The thing with the unknown height is responsive, while the overlay is not. That's what I was just doing, found this, fixed my problem!
Do you have a better suggestion?

I agree with your frustration about this article being newsworthy (it's 2013! How are we still figuring out vertical centering?!), though I would argue that CSS is great for its original use case and certainly has its place today. Why is it bad that CSS is entrenched in the Web?

Like any development technology, CSS has a learning curve and has several shortcomings (like vertical positioning), but I think it's a fine tool for the job and struggle to come up with something better.
Hi smailex, sure! We're building a database that will eventually include all international courier services not only the 4 big ones (FedEx, UPS, TNT, DHL). I understand that smailex only integrates FedEx and UPS, right?
Also same link was on HN 84 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6214314
Yes.

Think about all of the paywalled news outlets out there. Think about how many journalists tweet their stories to drive their personal brand.
Think about immensely popular twitter accounts and sought after domain experts.
Think about the fact that someone who is very entertaining on twitter needs to leave twitter to ( consult, sell t-shirts, produce media, etc. ) if they want to make money.
Think about how t.co makes it possible for them to track url usage attributable to them.

Remember when micropayments for media was a buzzword?

If you still don't get why twitter might be undervalued. I would be happy to to explain it to you with, charts, graphs and a full research report; for a fee.
It is dangerous, that's the whole point. Investors are expecting high returns - this is not exactly a slow-growth stock, and they've taken a commensurately high risk in exchange.
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There are no guarantees, ever, so I'm not sure what you're saying here.
Ok, I will go out on a limb here and say that I don´t unit test (at the moment), as I estimate it would take at least twice as long to write the test code and data as the actual code, as there are many related objects that need to be put together correctly for each test case. I am in the fortunate position of writing an in house Django app, so basically it is in a constant beta state, and I have around 40 beta testers to tell me when things go wrong.

Now I see that unit testing would have caught a few of the bugs over the last couple of years (but not that many of them) but in our case, adding new features and adjusting the data model to the constantly changing requirements is more important. My code does get tested, just not automatically.

I am not saying that it is a bad idea to unit test, and that I never intend to use it, but for the time being the time costs don´t outweigh the benefits.

Also whenever I look at tutorials there is no advice on how to test the parts I want to test. Instead they demonstrate how to test 2 + 2 = 4. I don see the point in that when my application is mainly outputting a moderately complex SQL query results. I can generate a load of objects in the database, and set up unit tests, and have them run each time I update a completely unrelated part of the application, or I can use the real data, and check the results are as expected on my development machine. I know which way is more productive for me.
Ahh now that's the sort of info I was hoping someone would reply with. So the shares that made up the IPO offering came from newly issued stock, not from existing share holders?

That makes it all a bit less cynical to me since all it means now is that the investors are worth more on paper. They still have to actually sell some of their shares at some point to realise any profit and presumably it's not easy for them to sell large quantities quickly (i.e. they're in this for the longish haul and thus far haven't covered their losses to date with actual bankable money)?

Would have been better in my book if they'd have waited until twitter at least turned a profit before going for the IPO but then I guess why wait if you're only plausible exit is IPOing and the banks are telling you the market will support it.
But the public key must be linked to the address, or else you could not confirm the public key belongs to that address. Right?
This is exactly my point. This type of thinking is simply going to be weeded out. More efficient IT heads will replace the slower and costlier ones. Companies will lose potential employees who don't want to carry around a BlackBerry Curve or use Lotus Notes. The market has a way of correctly slow moving companies.
> So, "Obamacare" might be more accurate.

How does that follow?
What about using the HTML5 calc() to figure out the center?
Partnerships with TV networks seem to be the big thing now. I guess lots of people cozy up to their iPad and post reactions to TV shows in real time on Twitter with hashtags -- driving live viewing of TV, watching of ads and giving marketers another way of delivering coordinated mesages to people.
Super useful article, thanks for posting! This is the true way to manage a content marketing strategy. Build relationships, but go about it in a very organized, targeted manner, and they will pay off long term. Thanks!