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I hate to be negative about this but this certainly doesn't seem comparable to either OneNote or EverNote. Both of these products seem far superior to this.
As a developer I really appreciate his position personally. I think one of the reasons he's so brilliant is that he's a pioneer in pushing interface abstraction back and forth between the science and art worlds. I'm not sure he'd be so competent were he working under the constraints of commercial development.

What I yearn for is about 20 more Bret Victors to appear in such a way that they'd all get together in the same room for a few weeks and do some cool shit. Maybe thats where he's headed?
Since someone already mentioned why it isn't an alternative to OneNote...

What's obviously missing (compared to Evernote):

1. Web Clipper

2. Android support
But what added value would there be in implementing it in firefox core?
What do you mean by "easy and visible enough"?
He's kind of woken up my personal motivation to do cool shit, actually. He doesn't scare/intimidate me; its more a sort of reminder that in fact if you work hard on something you love, you do it well and have a good time. So I'm getting on with it, all the while appreciating the genius that I am able to access ..
I guess the key point here is that by desensitizing yourself to rejection, you prevent a single rejecting from impeding your progress. ("Making a mountain out of a molehill")

Of course it's important to learn why rejection or failure was encountered; some aspects are outside of our control, but those that are, we can work to change.

Where it becomes a problem is when the rejection/failure is generalized into a systematic problem that demotivates you from continuing on.
It wouldn't surprise me if she is completely unaware of that functionality.
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Unlikely. San Francisco is a young city (by european standards), and is younger than when there was Lombard Banks. It's more likely that when people were naming streets they just picked a nice name (or a familiar name), rather than naming it after the local Lombard Bank that was there.
If it makes you feel any better, when I saw my nephews this summer they were all showing me their favourite things. The youngest is quite fond of Potty Racers, so we had some time together playing through it and he would talk about strategies etc. He usually gets drowned out by his brothers, so it was nice to have some quiet time where he could show off.
Infographics might be more fun to look at than a company website
Rackspace releases new high performance Cloud Servers
40 Gb/s net
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What is that all about? The site makes a claim of making a search through 150mio records a big deal. Ok, it is not trivial, but any decent DB with proper indexes would have no trouble doing that. Am I missing something?

Also, they want me to enter my e/mail to check... <lost me here already>. Seriously?
If you meant buying online, the problem was solved long back.. https://www.irctc.co.in/

Believe me the website works and is used by millions..

Queues still remain long due to lack of computer literacy and reach of internet..
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First time I've seen an MTV link on Hacker News :)
> average reader of Nature

His point is, this average can change, and its the quality of the symbols which deduces the set of readers.
I use OneNote extensively, on multiple devices, on a daily basis. I have never used pen input. I know many OneNote users. None use pen input.
I would love to see an EverNote/OneNote replacement that was based on the filesystem and git. In addition to a great web UI, any client could then access and edit notes via git. Sync could be provided with Github or your own repo.

Maybe markdown + git + nice UI clients?
The irony of those complaints is that programs such as this one have a tremendous positive impact on industry and the economy. Think about what happens when you have a group of engineers and technicians who successfully build, launch, and operate a Mars orbiter. What sort of skills and experience do they acquire, what sort of impact do they have on the industrial base? What do they go on to do later in life?

And think about the proof of Indian engineering and manufacturing that this sort of mission provides. How much more likely are people to buy satellites or launch services from India? Or Indian made aircraft? Or even just consumer goods?

R&D spending often has a multi-fold positive impact on the economy, and I think that is likely to apply for this mission.
You seems to be reasoning that rituals are _not_ inventions of ordinary people where as superstitions are, hence one should give more credence/weight to rituals. My point is rituals are creations of ordinary people, just that they are ceremonious doesn't make them any higher truth.
And here's the author's response

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-11-05/responding-t...
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Neither strlen nor malloc (nor qsort) count as programs under any pragmatic, non-nitpicking, definition.

Even the assumption that implementing, e.g., a memory allocation algorithm in C++ is not more comfortable than in C, does no lead to the conclusion that writing a device driver (your example) in C++ is not more comfortable than doing it in C.
Shameless plug, but if you want to try out a Helpout, or learn a little Android development, you can check out my listing here:

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The email announcing it it was rather vague. "A note from Lanham, Rackspace CEO, on a new definition and focus on performance."

It goes on to note how performance is important and invites clients to "contact a Racker to talk about your performance objectives.". The words "server" and "SSD" don't even appear in it. Well, at least he didn't invite us to "dialogue".

But anyway, seems to be all SSD now, but no longer resizable machines. Some more technical notes here: http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/what-is-ne...
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There is already an XMPP & IRC chat client built into Thunderbird, which to me seems a more logical place for it ( in the communication app )

https://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/instant-messag...

It works decently well.
Not enough time is a completely valid reason. But I haven't heard that from them.

About the breakup analogy: the similarities are many, like how each one is different, sometimes complete honesty could do more harm than good, and sometimes there is no reason other than "we're just not right for each other" or "I met someone else." And maybe I should add, breaking up over email using a form letter is cold shit. Haha, just a joke, I know they probably do have good reasons for it.
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Thanks! I also put up a mirror over on WP.com: http://forteller.wordpress.com/2013/11/05/mirror-first-steps...
> You're going to have to do type conversion on the string regardless, because "MongoDB Objectid" isn't a native type for the compiler

My point was that jQuery .data() tries to guess how to handle strings and misses in some cases, because the strings are too similar to numbers. The fact that this particular string was a MongoID is actually not relevant to the problem, it just illustrates that this is a real-world problem.
We have single click Docker deployment - go to servers, select "deployments" then select the docker option. We also have scientific python images, and more
Seems pretty clear to me - you open a new tab and you get a social page which isn't facebook. some of your friends are on it. who needs FB?
Many people were of the belief that Google was primarily motivated to be good[1] and bring benefits to the internet and if they made some money for shareholders that would be nice too[2]. They were (and still are) massively trusted.

Closing down services and increasing the ad prominence in search, turning into the big bureaucratic bully rather than the small snappy startup has come as a nasty shock to a number of people and they then feel betrayed and angry at Google. It is precisely those who trusted them most who are most angry.

The irrational love has now flipped (for many not all) into irrational hate (to use your word).

Those on the sidelines who never trusted Google enough to look after their mail might find both the love and the hatred overblown but many people feel heavily dependent on Google with Android phones, Gmail accounts and using Google Docs heavily. They worry not just about the current situation but what might come next.

[1] "don't be evil"

[2] I seem to recall the IPO prospectus didn't make shareholder returns seem a very high priority.
http://caniuse.com is your best answer. Simply search the variant of the prefixed and see their support.
Not much of a response really. Doesn't try to counter-argue any specific point made. It could be boiled down to 'I'm a good, honest writer, trust me'

(I've no opinion here on who is right or wrong, haven't even read the book)
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Thank you for your work on Graphite. For all it's UI strangeness and quirks, it is a great solution that a lot of people love (myself included).

I'll peek at the pull requests and see if my company might be able to contribute some help.
I think that's a great idea - I take it you mean a direct mapping of notes and attachments into some sensible directory structure?
Doesn't seem to be any harm in keeping them for the moment? There's still a lot of people on older browsers (Safari, Firefox, MS) who need those prefixes and seeing as the browsers support the features I think it'd make sense to keep them.
I find the remarkable part more important than the failure. Best of luck for the future.
I'd seriously hope things have changed in 13 years, there's a pretty big difference between 2 and 15 years experience. You're probably safe to drop the grudge at this point
So you 1. optimized the algorithm and 2. sharded the backend.

Next: buy more hardware and scale horizontally? (aka partners)
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Yes, pretty much. Maybe it exists?
Probably, politics. Hack the system.
"If this were an isolated example"

This always bugs me, damn grammar.
Maybe you should re-read the article which explains with words and diagrams what "easy and visible enough" means.

The point of adding it to core is also argued in the article, which proposes an alternative to the monopoly Facebook and Google are currently obtaining.

Forteller already addressed both these questions!
Nice! A feature to auto decrypt/encrypt the messages would be nice, right now I have to manually click for that every time.
What stranglehold? Does anyone really use Facebook anymore?
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WORD! :D

If time isn't the limiting factor, and I saw on some other thread about pg saying how scalability isn't a bottleneck either (for now), not giving feedback is a choice they have retained. LOVE for pg to comment on this.
didn't flock try to do this and fail? they did go a bit over the top with the social integrations though.

I personally prefer having my chat and browser separate although I do agree with the need for RSS to be simplified/made more understandable for the level of the average facebook user.
Ironically, she had to buy the book to read it. The author didn't send them a copy?
well to be fair, your hitting a very crowded market that already has very established services with large userbases (If Google Docs, Word or Github just takes the idea then your basically done for) and there is a whole bunch of startups in the same exact space as you (Atlas, Editorially and Draft), that might of scared Y Combinator off because chances are one will thrive and the rest will fizzle out
Feels more like an Evernote clone to me, though it needs a lot of work. For instance when you load a note you need to click edit to enter editing mode which coming from Evernote feels very clunky. I'm also not sure why there needs to be a long fade-in for everything... one of the most important things for me in a note taking application is the ability to quickly create notes.

Nitpicking aside, it's great to see more people trying to compete with Evernote. There seems to be a serious lack of note taking applications where I can simply take rich text, HTML, or images and place them in a note.
At one point I hired a personal assistant through oDesk. I took this idea from Timothy Ferriss's 4-Hour Workweek, but I hired someone in the US. I wanted to get a landscaping project done (that was required by the environmental regulators in Tahoe), but I didn't have time to track down the contractors, do background checks, make sure they showed up, and finally get the regulators to sign off on the project.

The contractors thought it was pretty strange to have to deal with someone in a different state, but it worked out pretty well. Our culture (at least here in the US) doesn't appreciate outsourcing day to day tasks (and I felt embarrassed telling people I had an assistant). Maybe this comes from our Protestant roots.

It reminds me of an episode of Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion. Some of his characters from Minnesota visit California and find out one of their relatives has a gardener, and they ask if the relative is having any health issues, because they couldn't imagine having someone do their gardening for them, unless they were severely ill.

Update: The poster above mentions getting what you pay for if you pay $2 per hour in the Philippines for instance. I agree with this. I payed significantly more, but I feel as though I got my money's worth. It isn't that expensive to hire in the US if you look to lower cost areas like the Mid-west.

For this project, I felt it was worth it to have someone who understood the problems of hiring and managing contractors in the US. The person I hired was a homeowner, understood what I wanted to accomplish, and did an awesome job. It turned out to be a fraction of the cost of the overall project, and was money well spent.
How long before the factual inaccuracies noted by Mrs Bezos bleed into Wikipedia's articles on Jeff Bezos and Amazon, with this book being cited as a notable reference?
Hey, that's a neat project as well. I love the Quill mission, and will definitely look into the project.
Agreed we want to improve the UX with encrypting/decrypting, but at the same time we didn't want to hide the entire process from the user because it might feel like nothing is actually happening.
It checks if your email is in the dump. What would you want, just a full list of everyone's emails in plaintext for the world to see?
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Since you mentioned the horror that is XMPP, I am glad to know that this idea and any project will fail and end up on the trashcan of internet history just like all other "federation"/XMPP technologies, such as... oh wait we dont actually have or use XMPP for anything it was meant to be.

Thats right, its only facebook and google internally that take advantage of XMPP while keeping the rest out. Thats what federation does and this idea is no better than jabber which we thought was a good idea 11 years ago.

This is a bad idea because a web browser should not become a chat or client as well.

You know what is a good solution to the "facebook is taking over the web" Remove their like-buttons from your pages! It is all of the web devleopers of the world who chose to add facebook scripts to their webpage that are the problem. Thats what needs to be solved. Facebook wouldnt be nearly what it is if it wasnt for all those webdevs that thought it was good idea to run fb scripts and snitch out their and the webs user.

This battle can be moved to the browser if need be, just run ghostry and better privacy by default, block all accessess to facebook domains form any other domains, and thats it.
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I'd love it if this sort of thing worked. I see a few problems:

1) All the people are on facebook. Only a % use firefox (as opposed to chrome, and all the others,) so this doesn't actually mirror your existing friend network, let alone solve the problem of making it easier (which is the only way people will actually switch.)

2) Facebook and google chat already have a list of your friends/contacts right there to hand. Firefox would need to gather this data somehow, which would either be intrusive (think LinkedIn "import your gmail contacts") or annoying (I am not going to mess around exporting things manually, and neither will the real humans).

3) Existing network implementations. As per Adam Lerymenko's "Redecentralize" talk[1], all the existing services are based on centralised network architectures. Unless Mozilla build their own central network of contacts etc, we'll be stuck using the existing monolithic sites that don't respect privacy as backends. Which (as per the Talkilla example) isn't the point. If Zero tier one et al are successful one day, then maybe we'll all be own our own separate VPNs with our friends (although that doesn't mirror the global social graph either.)

[1] http://redecentralize.org/interviews/2013/07/30/02-adam-zero...
The calling convention your compiler is using is dependent on a number of things [1]. It is this calling convention that dictates how values are returned from a function, not whether or not RVO/NRVO is happening. Also, what is being passed as an extra argument, according to many calling conventions, it not really an already constructed object, but an address for an object to be constructed into. Under certain situations the compiler is able to elide copes, which as you pointed out, leads to your copy constructor to never be called at all, even if it has visible side effects. I think these are important distinctions and hoped pointing them out would be beneficial.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_calling_conventions
The big advantage would be in rendering embedded content using the browser engine. If someone drops a link to a youtube video into chat I should be able to play it inline without needing to use third party services like google+ or facebook that make simple consumption an act of sharing. IM should be treated as a first class citizen, and the browser is more user friendly than the OS (for desktop), and more private than the cloud.
Good distinction between losing and conquered.

The Vietnam war was not a war of survival for the US, nor did it take place in US territory. Psychologically, it was certainly a blow, but in the chess game of geopolitical strategy, it was more on the level of losing a knight or bishop, certainly not losing a queen or the entire game.
Her previous review was in 2001 (!), well before that feature was around.
Relying... 100% is stupid.

And yet this is what FaceBook, Twitter, Google, Apple and many other web and OS corporations are encouraging people to do - build on top of their platform (be that FB apps, Twitter API, iOS/Android apps or web apps relying on a single-signon). They all want to own the platform which everyone builds and consumes on, and turn everyone else into sharecroppers.

With this particular service, it might be really great for connecting people to provide each other services, but as it also relies on Google+ (which, for example, people have been arbitrarily shut out of), and is provided by Google of Reader infame, is it worth an investment of time or resources? Perhaps as an adjunct to other services, but I'd be wary of depending on it in any meaningful way, as you say.

That may sound like common sense, but see the examples given above of platforms which try to push both consumers and developers into reliance on one tech company for essential parts of their online identity (professional and personal).
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this was / these were
Mozilla got bloated because the creators wanted users to live their entire computing lives inside a single application. The reasons for wanting that are always the same: it gives the creator the most power.

Of course this time around there is a slight difference; rather than adding a chat client to the browser they will prefer to keep adding features to the browser until somebody can write a chat client inside it. Either way the original criticism still stands, which is that doing everything in a single application means duplicating a lot of the work of the host OS, but generally not as well (from window management to scheduling threads to reclaiming memory to supporting hardware features like parallel computation to managing files).

The current plan at Mozilla seems to be for Firefox to be an OS that people use for everything, not just one of many applications that people use. This would give them a great deal of power. The power to kill services or applications that they don't like (e.g. Facebook), the power to prevent application developers supporting hardware they don't like (e.g kinect) and so on. More so than the traditional desktop OSs which have been open in allowing anybody to write software that talks directly to the hardware: browsers are sandboxes that prevent hardware access.

Note: none of this means I like Facebook. I refuse to use it. However I don't think Mozilla should be killing things on their platform just because they don't like them, especially when they are trying to set themselves up as an OS provider.
Hi,

Yes there are at least a dozen services like this (prominent players :
textmaster.com, gengo.com). Some specialize in translation, other offer a wider range of language services (editing, copy-writing).

There might be some space left in some very specific technical translation niches though. Also there probably are some opportunities to creatively use the APIs provided by textmaster/gengo to create/improve other type of products.
Yes, you're right. They tried to integrate social networks in the browser. But as you say: They went over the top. I'm just suggesting making feeds easier/better and integrating a chat function not dependent on Facebook or any other of the big, closed players.

The other important reason why Flock failed was that they where new. Firefox already has a huge user base who would just get these new functions trough a normal update.

It's about visibility: People can't use what they don't know exists. Most people didn't know Flock existed.
"They don't want to solve anything. They want to make something that looks like a solution for long enough that they get piles of money."

But if they don't offer value to their customers, how are they going to "get piles of money" in the first place?
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I have some awful elisp code that glues together org mode, iimage.el and Deft to do something along these lines. All notes are stored as plain text with images in a sensible directory structure. I don't use git, everything just sits in a Dropbox folder. Emacs works well for me as the UI, but there's no reason a web-based UI couldn't be written. I could look into tidying it up over the Christmas break and publishing it if there's interest.