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Sadly, I've all but stopped replying to anyone with less than 500 karma here. Karma is so easy to get on this site that anyone that's been here for any length of time that can't get over that threshold is probably either intentionally trolling or has difficulty with common courtesy. Case in point, where philliphaydon came out blasting with:

So basically you're saying is Stack Exchange development team does what ever the fuck they want to do?

You didn't give anywhere near enough information for someone to come to the conclusion he came to. And the anger with which he presents it is uncalled for.
I'll go a bit further, if the group you are working for during the summer as a Tutor / Counsellor has bought combination key-chains, ID lanyard to hang around your neck, then friggin handles are an accident waiting to happen.

I was bending down to help pick up a whiteboard (wall mount) and one of the other T/Cs decided to open the door fast[1], catching the lanyard, and sending me head first into the ground. I was knocked-out for about 10mins and was bleeding from my head. I should note that I came too before they had decided if they should call 911. I feared for the children that summer and stopped wearing that damn thing[2].

Handles are bad[3], that is why we use door knobs.

1) She later claim to be an experienced camper and place here tent directly in a ditch prior to a thunderstorm

2) I get a little nervous with ties these days

3) never mind problems with children and large pets
Thanks for fishing out the source for me, I just found it on Facebook. Added the attribution now, but seems like I can't update the link on HN and I can't get the new content at the old jsfiddle link. Here's the new one:

http://jsfiddle.net/neil_s/PJ4sQ/6/embedded/result/
Apparently decently hard
For most of the way through this, reading about Pencil and its compatibility with Paper, the palm-rejection technology and the super-handy eraser on the rear, I thought I was reading a parody advertisement.
Jeff Atwood in 2012:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/05/please-dont-learn-t...
> so I left for Canada to stay with a friend, and planned to come back on the visa waiver program.

I've tried to do this many, many times, and the rules specifically say you can't just cross a land border to Canada (or Mexico), then come back again.

If you could, everyone would get their 90 day visa waiver, and just hop the border for a few hours then come back and get 90 days fresh.

Last time, I flew to the Bahamas for a week, then came back, no problem.
I want to add one more thing, doesn't happen often, but happens often enough:

- Don't put call options on employee stock.

And something I wish that companies would start doing:

- Don't make vested options expire soon after the end of employment. Don't force people to take big tax hits just to buy the stock that they have earned.
It looks like it offers a suite of generic api endpoints for developers to use -- but it doesn't seem like there are many integrations. It seems like a Parse for e-commerce -- easily store order related data. Where's the value add?
How do you handle authentication and sessions? Just curious on the approach you took.
And we know that profiling in this way doesn't work: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/science/03screening.html
Used to be a buyer for a grocery chain, which has very little to do with video game consoles, sure, but I can assure you that certain big ticket items are sold at a loss under the expectation that the margins are there under peripherals and games. Sony is definitely eating it on the sale of each console --

For a fun personal example -- rotisserie chickens are always sold at a loss, but it's normally the center piece of a dinner, meaning you also sell mashed potatoes, cole slaw, bread, etc at a high margin.
I think it's the "well-configured" part. While I love using vim, my .vimrc file and .vim folder have been crafted and maintained over years. I can't give those to beginners without explanation. VS needs no setup. Intellisense is free.
ADA was suppose to (figuratively speaking) build ramps, not tear down stairs. There is a theoretical threshold at which we should start considering if we have gone to far.
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Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2596475
Yup. When the order was announced I interpreted it as "Find as many documents that support our policy position and doesn't tell the public what they don't already know. Also, feel free to redact anything that might be interpreted as negative, so that whatever documents you release are seen in a positive light."

James Clapper and Co are not qualified to determine what the US people need to know here. A mutually trusted third party or parties should be going through the documents and figuring out what should be released.
This is one of the cases where the title of the article is better than the title chosen on HN. Because the entire article is really about why this is The Right Way to Grant Equity to Your Employees.

(As of the time of this comment, the title starts off "One Way..." instead of "The Right Way..." You might disagree with the article's assertion that this is the right way. But a different subject is misrepresenting the article.)
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It's just that it surprises me when applications are written in Ruby instead of Python, especially on Linux where Python seems to be the king of the high level languages
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Kickstarter is a good platform for collecting money for ideas that aren't real yet but most of the people I've talked to say that just being on the platform is not enough. You need to apply your own traction tactics to the campaign.
I didn't get that feeling, but the "Hm... I wonder if anyone is getting nauseous watching this" thought did cross my mind.
I've used one of those and I found it to be an equally terrible experience. Not sure if they fixed them, but the first few generations of that product left scratches on the screen.
Bitcoin would work perfectly well without datacenters. The client is all you need, you can run it on your computer.

I'm talking about the people from VISA that have to store and maintain accountholders data. None of this exists for Bitcoin.
> jdoliner 1655 days ago | link

>Well this is an exceptionally cute idea, but there is absolutely no way that anyone is going to have any faith in this currency.

> joedoliner.com jdoliner@gmail.com https://twitter.com/jdoliner
citation?

Since fiat in the US, we have the two worst economic crashes (great depression and great recession). Under gold standard, recessions were more common and smaller in impact. To my layman eyes, it looks like we are just smaller, more frequent adjustments for fewer, bigger adjustments.

the fiat system allows the central bank to 'kick the can down the road' and hold off economic re-alignment for awhile, but it hasn't shown that it can completely eliminate boom/bust cycle.
Honestly my experience is exactly the opposite: I watch windows people try to edit code and wince.

Now you have me curious as to how you edit code.

Are there any screencasts or whatnot I can look at to see an expert developer demonstrating

I don't suppose you have any screencast or whatnot I can look at to see how someone codes how you code?
It's still relatively early (they're on rapid release, so 15, 16, 17, 18 don't mean what they used to) and Linux is a tiny sliver of a market for the Opera folks. Opera seems more focused on achieving commercial success across modern mobile devices (as opposed to the dying feature phone business) as well as desktop browsers. Dropping the old rendering engine helps them towards that goal (for good or ill). Delivering on a Linux build at this point probably doesn't.

They have a lot of development time to still put into the new Opera builds full stop. And making them work on the most popular platforms (with the most users and thus the most revenue from partnering) makes sense. Mac is about 1/12th the userbase of Windows. Linux is about 1/5th the market share of Mac. So, it would be the last in line to get work put into it.
As someone who uses both VS and IntelliJ IDEA regularly, the latter is superior. VS with ReSharper comes close, but raw VS has comedic support for refactoring when compared with IDEA.

In my experience, if you haven't tried IDEA, it's best not to claim VS's superiority. I mean, just look at the ReSharper page. All of those things are missing from VS for C# but not IntelliJ for Java.

Frankly, the two are simply not comparable.

Edit: Rereading, this seems combative. It isn't meant to be. Just try IntelliJ if you're working with Java. It's really good. I hope its features come to other IDEs as well.
For those curious but don't have the time or desire to read 1294 words of fluff, the reason (which I got from another article) is to make buildings more accessible for the elderly, disabled and the arthritic. It's much easier to use a door lever than it is to twist a door knob.
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aren't you being just a bit... pendantic?

Please get the joke, please get the joke.
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i would disagree with your disagreement. the price of the transaction is the value, period. what happens afterwards is neither here nor there and can be complicated by factors that are completely unrelated to the viability of the original business, purchase price, or anything else.

what happens if the purchaser makes the purchase, and then are the victim of a class-action lawsuit brought against a sister brand in which they have to spend their entire savings and must declare bankruptcy, thereby bankrupting thecupcakeblog?
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but as the other poster mentioned it uses pkgsrc which used to be the NetBSD package system but has been adopted more widely. you can even use it in Linux. it has a lot of packages.
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Can someone post this as a news article please:

https://medium.com/p/1b1cde25627a

My posts do not appear since I am new. I would like to see a discussion on this article on HN.
The Apple remote is exactly the remote that came to my mind when I think simplicity.
That's what most people use. up, down, left, right, center(for enter/go/confirm) and a menu (for options, back).

Thats 99% of a remote usage, the rest is handled by any GUI.
The easiest way to refute the tulip argument is simply point out Bitcoins total money stock is fixed at 21 million units, wheras you can plant new tulips at will. (The skill/time required to do this is irrelevant to the point).
Does Ctrl-F11 still work? I often found myself firing up Opera just for that one feature.
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Satires please. hehe
There is a big difference between allowing devs to do "whatever the fuck they want" and the degree of standardization you are talking about. Every team I've worked on has adopted tools and coding standards that everyone has agreed to follow (and been held accountable for following), but coders were allowed to tweak their machines and editor settings to their liking.

Unless you don't trust the basic competence of your team (in which case, it is probably time to find a new team), I don't see the need for that degree of uniformity.
Consider that PS4 will be sold for a couple years with identical specifications. Manufacturing cost will drop while yield increases, memory gets cheaper and so on. Eventually they will move to a smaller case, further integrate chips shortening the BOM, reduce power supply demands and so on. Look at the different PS1, PS2 and PS3 revisions on Wikipedia, it's quite the lesson.
Yes, yes it was. I was feeling a bit woozy near the end and had to just stop watching. Big monitor here, didn't like the movement.
Nice idea and execution.
The video makes me dizzy :P
I have two suggestions.
1. Use a good font on your site, e.g. Helvetica Neue, Open Sans, Proxima Nova
2. Make more padding in-between the top of background images and their text content
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I've found that you can make Emacs and Vim be just as fancy as Visual Studio when it comes to all this stuff (and when you combine semantic intellisense with plain-ol' fuzzy search, you arguably get even MORE value, because you can do things like "build up an intellisense" by repeatedly calling methods on a dynamic object).

BUT, it doesn't work out of the box. You have to set up the plugins right, you have to make sure all the tools respect your compiler and library paths, in some of these environments you have to manually rerun your "tags" program for the editor to pick up the updates.

My point is that, even though all this stuff is getting better, it's still pretty far away from "just load stuff into Visual Studio and chances are you'll get a bunch of fancy stuff".
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Considering the PS4 is much more powerful than the Xbox One, which also goes for $100, I'm not surprised they're making very little money (or even losing in the early days).
Post a link to a source.
SPJ is a fool for making those 'clever' statements like "Haskell is useless!", because most people won't stick around to hear the twist explanation.
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No, "off the record" is the commonly used phrase that implies that the conversation isn't for redistribution, but also that such a guarantee is based on your trust of your counterparty and not on any technical barriers to logging.
So patent the knob to lever transformer thingy.
Hmmm, I have a personal data point on their IT sophistication, they had to hire the firm I was working for in 1997 to start tracking banner ads.

And their 2007 IT outsourcing deal is pretty infamous.

I never got the impression it was a company I'd want to work for.
I used to think that way, but now I don't. Brazil implemented a retaliation policy, where U.S. citizens are treated much like Brazilians are in the U.S.

Several nice people from the U.S. have had a bad time as a result, and it made me reconsider - I don't think "an eye for an eye" is such a great thing.

If only we could only treat people with power to change things that way :) - but someone traveling is already not a standard U.S. citizen and probably more open by default.
Question for anyone that has used vsvim and ViEmu (the commercial product).

I have ViEmu for older version of Visual Studio and looking at purchasing the new version.

I am thinking that I can possibly get by without ViEmu and just use VsVim the free extension. I don't particularly use all the advanced features of ViEmu.

Anyone have any thoughts on this at all?
> They have no use for those lower-clocked chips.

Could they be selling them to someone else?

i.e. if the GPU is binned to a lower SKU, could they be selling it to someone else that's then throwing it onto a regular PCI-e card for a desktop?
> That's completely independent of the language or runtime being used, and is purely a project management issue (which breaking changes go into which version).

That passage was about the runtime. At one point, I had to deal with four different JVMs in the same server farm.

> You can use any language or runtime badly.

No other ecosystem has so consistently fucked me over. Not even PHP. I actually prefer Java to PHP for just writing code, but PHP to absolutely anything running on the JVM for operations.

Know when I stopped regularly getting woken up in the middle of the night? 2011, when I stopped supporting anything on a JVM. Ironically, it would have been two years earlier, but I foolishly self-inflicted Cassandra on myself. Never again.
It's amazing how many bad titles end up on HN. As you said, the original title is much better than the submitter's modification.

On the flip side, we have useless titles like "Pencil".
Just an FYI if you can stand to look past your own prejudice and ill-informed speculation:

1. I've lived (and worked) overseas in both Europe and the Middle East.

2. I've visited and spent great deals of time in South America, Central America. I haven't been to Asia but that's been mainly a function of time than opportunity. That'll probably change next year with a trip to Singapore.

3. I've run out of pages in my passport, buddy. I'm likely better travelled than you are. Last month, I did three transatlantic crossings back to back. I've driven from Paris to Milan in a 5-series. I was at the Berlin Wall while there was still a Berlin Wall and I've been back to see it's disappearance. I've even got a picture of myself in East Germany from BEFORE the wall came down.

Before you go off talking trash about how dumb and untravelled Americans are, you might consider that the person on the other end of that screen you live your life on had a Passport and exposure to the world before you were born.
Curious how old you are now (guessing 26).
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I was wrong, and you were right. You don't need to install it but you will probably want it if you to take advantage of the full potential of Dropbox.
My god. I thought I'd done well when mine caught a handle and ripped the pocket off a brand new tailor made shirt work bought for me. Right in front of the managing director, great. Lanyards should always have a release mechanism to prevent throttling etc.
Really that was my point: show me a real expert user so I can see what I'm missing. I've simply never found one in the wild.
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Consoles are like the archetypical example of loss leader hardware. I assumed this article would be going the other way - that Sony making any profit on the hardware is actually really surprising/impressive.
I can't thank you enough!

There are a number of factors that will make this product successful:

1. The compiler needs to work well.
2. We need to teach average developers that they can build new applications/algorithms that were previously unfeasible.
3. We need to reduce Hadoop costs for large corporations.

Simple enough, right? :) Also worth noting that ParallelX will be an Heroku add-on as well (with a freemium plan!)
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I disagree. The price point is perfect. Not overly expensive, but not "cheap". $50 is in the perfect range where you can get one as a gift for any family member.

I'd never buy one, mainly because my handwriting is atrocious and I'm not anything close to an artist. That said, I can think of a bunch of people that would love this.
Minimum information necessary, fit the stereotypical profile that you have the visa status for. For example: On vacation, on a long vacation, and I fund it with my job savings. Business visitor who already has a business visa, student who already has a student visa, etc.
Don't bother with that article on wikipedia. Like so many, it doesn't pass the sniff test and completely fails wikipedia's own guidelines on impartiality. It contains complete weasel wording like "Additionally, people often complain". It reads like it was written by a bitcoin promoter.
Are the compiler tools available for free? It's not part of the SDK or the DDK is it?
"And something I wish that companies would start doing:
- Don't make vested options expire soon after the end of employment. Don't force people to take big tax hits just to buy the stock that they have earned."

That's counter to one of the main goals of a good equity comp plan - retention. If a company goes out of it's way to ensure that LEAVING the company is painless and of low cost to the employee, retention would suffer.
The retailers get screwed both ways. Their cut of a console is low, and their cut of game sales is similarly low.

It should be no surprise that every time you buy something from Gamestop they try to upsell on your "protection plans" and strategy guides, items that actually have high margins.

The time of brick and mortar game retailers is coming to an end. As soon as either MS or Sony gets their act together and can do midnight launches digitally (see: Steam), that will be the final nail.
The argument in the article is that it is even better yet if construction can be made so that it benefits everyone without being a hindrance to anyone else. For example, many stores don't have ramps or stairs -- the store floor is at parking-lot / sidewalk level.
Please do go on about Belorussian. This is quite interesting.
Only now I understand your point. Of course both planet must be able to detect each other, as radio transmissions must be focused to be able to travel the distance and be detected with non-science-fiction telescopes.
> Certainly, that's why Washington D.C. was built, so that the gentry didn't have to go to sewer-like New York to run the country. (Actually they moved to Philadelphia first.).

They didn't mind the size of New York or Philadelphia. Cities were very small in 18th-century America. In 1790, New York City's population was only twice that of Charleston.

The reason for DC's location on the Potomac was that the Southern states wanted the capital to be in the South.

The temporary capital of Philadelphia posed an additional problem, in that it was located in a free state. George Washington had to rotate his slaves through Philadelphia while he was President, so that they would not stay long enough to be emancipated.
As other posts have mentioned, Sony is certainly taking a loss. In the long term it is probably worth it for them in this instance since the $400 price ($100 less than Xbox One) really cut the legs off the Xbox One in the wake of the always-connected DRM fiasco (which Microsoft has since backed off on).

There's plenty of places for them to make up the difference if the original intent of increasing percentage of marketshare works (and it seems to be): they get a cut of every game sold, they are likely to sell a lot of PS+ memberships, accessory sales (extra controllers, the PS4 camera) and they will almost certainly get costs down faster than the retail price on the eventual redesigns (PS4 slim or whatever) in a couple years.

On a related note, I've had a PS4 since Friday and the machine is very, very nice.
It's pretty natural in a new niche for there to be experimenting before it settles down to a standard. Either the OS makers pick it up and we get standard API's in Android and iOS, or someone organizes a standards effort for the vendors to get behind. But standards committees are slow and negotiating a new standard isn't what you do when you're trying to ship 1.0.
up until the 1970's the Middle East and Afghanistan was actually quite progressive:

http://englishrussia.com/2011/07/21/the-afghanistan-of-the-5...

From one of the caption: "The campus of the University of Kabul has changed little since then. It’s people who have changed. In the 50s-60s, the students preferred Western style clothes, and the young people of both sexes could freely communicate with each other."

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2013/01/28/podlich-afgh...

Caption from the #7 photo: "Afghan girls coming home from school. "Afghan girls, as well as boys, were educated up to the high school level, and although girls (and boys) wore uniforms, the girls were not allowed to wear a chadri (burka) on their way to secondary school. Able young women attended college, as did the men." - Peg Podlich"

I'm not sure why exactly the pendulum swung so hard to conservative side, but it's been there ever since, much the determent of the people living there.
I thought it was cute.
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Not to mention that these things aren't cheap to develop in the first place. If you factored the R&D costs into the PS4 I'm sure that would add a significant amount.
I noticed Ghostery doesn't prevent this tracker: betrad.com. Any idea why?

EDIT: my bad I meant betrad.com.
Before watching the video, I thought this was a parody