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Actually, my favorite bits are runtime linking, JMX, VisualVM and, most recently, FlightRecorder + Java Mission Control, which has to be one of the coolest profilers I've seen. But I was just talking about performance.
I would posit that part of the reason behind differences in illusory superiority are due to a difference in how you measure narcissism between cultures. You can't use the same test in a Western culture as you would an Eastern culture.

Collectivist cultures aren't immune to the narcissistic problem. They're just narcissistic in different ways. In fact, I would say they're more susceptible to it. Look at the whole Chinese "Tiger Mom" thing. Asian cultures place very high expectations on their people just as Western cultures do.

A western narcissist would say "I'm God's gift to mankind". An eastern narcissist would say "I'm God's gift to the collective/family/cooperative".

For example, the Narcissistic Personality Inventory is based on the DSM, an American diagnostic tool. One of the questions is: Do you "prefer to blend in with the crowd" or "prefer to be the center of attention". I would imagine a more Eastern narcissist would choose the former while a more Western narcissist would choose the latter. Also, "I am more assertive" vs "I wish I were more assertive". People from face-saving cultures probably wouldn't even know how to answer this, while a Western narcissist would probably choose the former.
By "runs best in Firefox", I just meant that Firefox executed asm.js content faster than Chrome (though the same standards-based content is compatible with all browsers). Google's "works best in Chrome" demos usually depend on non-standard features or the phrase is just marketing text.

I can't speak for Brendan, but I think his comment linked above was concerned that Dart and NaCl promote proprietary content types.

The Dart language is an interesting but incremental improvement like CoffeeScript and TypeScript. The Dart VM is a dead end because Apple, Microsoft, and Mozilla will never embed Google's Dart VM. If Google merged Dartium's VM into Chrome, web servers would serve proprietary Dart content to Chrome and "separate but equal" JS content (generated from Dart) to other browsers. That approach would require extra tooling and testing from web developers and open the door to Google services serving exclusively Dart content. Imagine if YouTube only supported Chrome.
It amazes me that facebook has achieved this sweet spot of harvesting personalized ad dollars while providing so little utility.
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I fantasize about rebuilding the java ecosystem. Create "JPM", don't allow anything from the old Maven system in it.

Create a new "hip" minimalist framework that ignores everything about java and its notions of OOP. Basic dependency management handled NPM-style. Developers encourage to put everything in the same package for their own stuff, and everything is package level. Getters and setters and encapsulation and java's poor implementation of OOP ignored.

Heck, fork Spark, split out the individual pieces as modules, and start there.

All "JPM" packages expected to be under 100 lines, a la NPM. Frameworks are discouraged. Take what you need a la carte.

I'd argue that java is a better back end language than javascript in and of itself, but that the community norms have led to the pain we see.

Have an extreme preference for 1.8 code (IE, the new java.time system) and away from anything bloated. Rethink for the common use cases, rather than trying to support everything under the sun. Spring still exists for that, after all. :)

The problem with java isn't that it's a BLUB language anymore, but that it's a BLUB ecosystem. I'm not saying the language is perfect, but Java 8 as good as ruby or javascript for web development if the ecosystem is ignored.
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You're scattergunning. What exactly about the 300ms tap delay removal do you disagree with?
Interesting way to buy and sell coins. I wonder what the markup will be compared to some of the other services out there once you factor in commissions and so on.
This reminds me of my highschool friend's "white envelope" eBay ticket scalping business: buy sports tickets and then sell them as free items inside very expensive white envelopes :)
Yes, but there are situations where you don't honor the confirmed price even for instant buy purchases or sales. You can read about my experience below in a separate thread!
I couldn't help but notice this phrase:

[X] is nice but [Y] will get you most of the way and [dealing with the difference] is simple.

reads a lot like the Blub conceit. I'm not accusing you of that, but I do disagree that OO can give you what pattern matching typically does.
If the US population were 313 million clones of you, and they all lived by a Costco, sure, nothing to be afraid of. I've never heard of King Soopers and don't shop at Costco. My phone charger broke yesterday; the replacement I ordered from Amazon yesterday afternoon will be delivered free any minute now (ed: now it's here, less than 24 hours later).
I'm not in the market for a new mattress just yet, but probably will be when I (eventually) move back to Australia since shipping my current mattress just seems crazy.

Do you guys ship overseas? If not, would introducing international distributors force you to introduce middlemen that significantly drive up the price or leave marketing out of your hands? Is there another way or will it just be US-only for the foreseeable future?
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Sounds great in theory, in practice mobile web views are pretty slow for games, as op already stated. Besides Unity will have a HTML5 export soon which will make it the most efficient tool for creating web games anyway.
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More generally, a certain lack of substance.
Thanks, I stand corrected. Sounds heinous.
"Couldn't get fix" and "no devices found", respectively?
Amazing. I just spent $440 on a king futon mattress. Nice execution. Furniture has the similar issues to the mattress industry. Expensive, and cheap quality. So many dining tables in a furniture store, but just 1 in 10 did not wobble. (yes assembly could be an issue, but mechanically not a sound design in my opinion)
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thanks, no I didn't think this was that old! Completely surprised.
Some don't have a light at all, and as you suggest, some are controlled entirely in software (like the LEDs on the Kinect, for example). How would one go about convincing manufacturers to include mandatory activity indicators in all consumer webcams? Is there a reason why that would be a bad thing?
Have I gone 'round the bend, or has Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Tap-Dancing-Work-Practically-Everythin...
Java has always been a good language if you ignored the ecosystem. The ecosystem is a large part of what defines a language though. You have to take care in how you define that ecosystem.

I sometimes wonder if Node.js is making mistakes in the opposite direction as Java with their ecosystem these days.
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We had a "hero" on one of my teams that was strong conceptually but made poor implementation choices. Hacks with poor design that invariably didn't integrate well. High energy, always jumped right in - when others wanted to slow down and consider stuff, it looked bad by comparison. Deadlines became more stressful with more last minute bugs (that he would special-case "fix" - hero!!), and it was impossible to complain about him because our manager wasn't deep into the code.
Very, very cool. I've known several people that have taken a similar approach to their business to great success.

I do have one question though: do you rely on Amazon for most of your business? I've known several people who are extremely cautious of that dependency.
Wait for the inevitable influx in fraud regarding these USB sticks to see them reverse this 'loophole'.
Google has so many features that users don't know about that they created a site that (1) gives users a random listing of their products and features to sort through, and (2) lets Google see which features/services get the most interest from the uninitiated users.
ARM has the momentum, compared to MIPS.
Great story, like a lot of people, I can relate. There is another type of worker that I run into a lot. The type that actually screws things up on purpose. I call this the "Red Sock Effect". When I was growing up, my Mom and Dad got into a big fight over who would do my Dad's Laundry. Mom relented and agreed to do his shirts. Now keep in mind, back in those days, dudes could not be seen in a pink shirt. Mom "accidentally" tossed a red sock into the wash with Dad's white shirts so they came out pink. From then on, there were no more arguments, Dad took his shirts to the cleaners. At work, I run into the "red sockers" all the time. They feign incompetence and as a consequence, management takes work from them and gives it to those that are competent.
Nimble Storage went public today. The company's Series A pitch is at the bottom of this post. It didn't set out to make a storage system first.
Almost agree, but minor nitpick: the tools and infrastructure (at least most of them) exist on other platforms in the same or better quality as well. Especially dependency management is not necessarily a strong side of Java (one global namespace for types etc.).
That is a completely specious argument and I think you know it.

A: We are not talking about a product here. We aren't selling an image to somebody, then slapping a watermark on it. We are creating material, at our own expense that we are using to advertise a product. Do you think that Coke should be allowed to use Pepsi's marketing as their own, or is not allowing that some sort of draconian DRM tactic too?

B: We aren't actually talking about consumers here at all - the issue is the inability to control how other companies use the materials you've created, and hold the rights to.
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I think that much of your fantasy is already a reality. For example, look at how Dropwizard[1] assembled a best-of-breed collection of modern Java libraries into a small, yet very powerful, REST micro-framework.

So the bits and pieces are certainly there, and even the JCP does good work sometimes (JAX-RS) that becomes good standard APIs with many different implementations.

[1]: http://dropwizard.codahale.com/getting-started/
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No, it doesn't. The double tap gesture comes after pointer events. Pointer events can prevent double tap. Whereas click comes after the opportunity for double-tap, and double-tap will prevent click.

Try it in IE, or another browser using touch events.
From the article, "Given that the threat is growing, I believe that is an unacceptable risk to our country."

Citation needed, Mr. Alexander. How is the threat measured? Sounds like FUD to me.
The costs of a typical suburban house in the US can be broken down as: 50% land, 25% materials, 25% labor.

By living in the wilderness rather than in a developed area, the 50% cost of land gets cut substantially. By using Chilean workers, the 25% cost of labor is also substantially reduced.

Remember that Chile's GDP per capita -- while high for South America -- is only 2.5x that of China.
> So some sort of central fund for cancer research, where bureaucrats distribute funding to constituent organizations... Hmm where have I heard that before? ;)

That's like comparing social security to a personal retirement account.
This presents an interesting dilemma - if you're shipping a physical USB drive - the drive + shipping is going to run you a minimum of ~$15 - that means IMO you'd probably want to sell at least 1.5-2 LTC per transaction, but losing a potential dispute would hurt much more, and eBay/Paypal are notoriously wishywashy about these types of things. I doubt when it comes down to it, citing "eBay rep 3: John" is really going to help.

When I started selling BTC/LTC on eBay a few months ago when BTC was ~$150 and LTC was ~$3 - I only dealt in small chunks - 0.01-0.05BTC and 1LTC because there were so many frequent scammers that if I lost one or two disputes here and there it didn't really affect me.

This does cover the case of the spammer though - most of these guys steal eBay/Paypal accounts and just charge with the credit cards, because they know once you send over the BTC/LTC, the actual person is going to see the weird transaction, dispute it, then win. Now, if you're sending to the actual address it's much harder to dispute.
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This is the sort of sad comment that continually amazes me. Facebook is am important part of the social life of millions (billions?) of people. It isn't feasible to go away from it. It's completely reasonable to have a requirement to use Facebook while not wanting it to be an ass about stuff like constant GPS fixes.

Yeah, sure, don't use Facebook. You're the guy who butts into conversations to tell everyone how you don't own a TV, aren't'cha?
"Steal TV and Youtube Dollars"? This headline is nonsensically sensational.

This is a pitch deck describing an upgraded Facebook video product. In it, they make a case for the effectiveness of their ad targeting, and its competitive advantages. The news is that they're entering the broader video market.

Also, while the contents of the deck may be protected by an NDA, my sense is that there's absolutely nothing in this deck Facebook doesn't want you to read. I'd strongly suspect that it was an intentional leak to build awareness.
That's a great point. We didn't put our product on Amazon until we reached a high level of customer satisfaction. In the early days when we first started, we had to hustle when we had upset customers. We fixed the problems really fast to avoid them writing about a negative experience. As an example, we've provided complimentary upgrades to our new versions of the bed to previous customers.
We don't ship overseas yet. We have to do some more growing first but it's something we'd like to provide.

The primary issue we see with expanding is that we want to provide excellent service and if we were to just ship it and have no presence there then we may not be able to execute on that.

We may need to actually have a presence in the country to follow through on the experience we're building in the USA.
This was discussed at some length a while ago - here are a few of the submissions. They all had different titles and takes on the story, so I may have missed some. here's the only one with significant discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5770145 (redorbit.com) (55 comments)

Others include:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5452819 (linux.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5665073 (zdnet.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5668312 (zd.net)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5669927 (zdnet.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5677045 (linuxfoundation.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5680490 (extremetech.com) (4 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5686586 (gizmodo.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5687720 (readwrite.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5689142 (venturebeat.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5695447 (telegraph.co.uk)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5711378 (vice.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5728134 (digitaltrends.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5849586 (rollingdebian.com) (12 comments)

It's surprising just how little discussion this provoked for so long - it took ages for any of these submissions to get any traction at all.
I wish you the best of luck in convincing MS to make it easier to install linux on their phones, and convincing embedded system builders to spend extra on hardware.

Either way, I was talking about what we have now, and even if we have device tree now it doesn't solve this problem without other pieces to the puzzle. And that's without even getting on to the mess of closed source graphics drivers that exist in the arm world.

Please don't think I'm trying to say we can't have a situation like the OP wants, I'm just trying to explain why we don't.
I might suggest changing the text color of the quote - it's very hard to read some of it on the bright-sunlight background.

So is this basically software run on a remote machine, but presented visually and interactively VNC-style in my browser? Looks a lot smoother than VNC, of course, just trying to get a feel for what the product is.
This seems interesting but very easy to take advantage of by either party. If I were the buyer, what if I transferred the coins somewhere and then claimed that the seller transferred the coins out before I had a chance to do it myself? And vice versa, if I were the seller, I could do exactly that but prove to eBay that the USB stick with 'free' wallet arrived correctly.

Either way, one of the parties will get cheated, and as soon as this becomes a regular occurrence then I imagine eBay will take steps to forbid trading in digital wallets.
Latency sucks. You can apply this type of touch-click speedup on a site for other browsers with a bit of JS.

https://gist.github.com/cagerton/7948779 (disclaimer: proof of concept, etc. )
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That doesn't really change the point, it just wraps it with a layer of abstraction.
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> one global namespace for types

I am not entirely sure what you mean by that, but in Java, a runtime type is determined as a combination of its name and its class-loader. You can (and do) have two versions of the same class running alongside one another in different modules of your code.

Granted, supporting this stuff is not easy, but hopefully the long awaited module system planned (currently...) for Java 9 is supposed to make this all both powerful and easy.
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> then disabling zoom is better

When the page loads no zooming happens; how about we let me decide whether or not I feel like zooming it or not?

If I accidentally zoom I know how to not-accidentally un-zoom.

All zoom-disabling is user hostile.
By allowing you to install software they make your phone less secure. Better buy a feature phone ASAP!
First level is non-interactive demo. You can proceed to the second level by letting it run to completion. Yeah, it confused me too.
Maybe for things like photo storage, where CPU speed isn't that important. Baidu is already using ARM servers for cloud storage.
For a long time, my biggest fear was that I was secretly retarded. Every time anyone said I was smart, I thought they were just being nice, like how you'd put even your child's ugliest drawing on the fridge.

Of course, if I were, I probably couldn't comprehend the thought in the first place, so rationally, I know I'm not. A lot of it probably comes from reading things from/about people infinitely smarter/more motivated than I am, and feeling like I have no idea what I'm doing.
Certainly this depends on the company. But good questions for people to ask themselves before an email blast.
Its easy. You want to improve public perception of your illegal acts? Halve your budget. You'd be surprised what a lean and seemingly innocuous agency can get away with as opposed to a sprawling power-money-manpower hungry behemoth.
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> The bit rate of the uncompressed 4K video stream can exceed 6 Gbit/s, which can be transmitted via a 10 Gbit/s network

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=444594...

So we're already there, as long as you're set up for 10Gbit ethernet.
So you send them an empty USB stick.

Then what?
Talk about specious arguments! Where did I ever say that other companies should be allowed to use your images? Please remember that DRM is completely unrelated to legal permission to violate someone's copyright. Confusing the two is a favorite tactic of RIAA-type people, though, so your post just makes the parallel all the stronger.
One of my favorite iOS Chrome features is "request desktop version"
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Gonna use this in the Coffitivity iOS apps! We're writing a ton of 3rd party app integrations to get rid of the way we mix music in the app (which makes no sense right now) and we were shocked that we had to go find custom URLs for every app we want to integrate that and just pray they have a URL we can use. Writing all the custom code is annoying.
I stopped reading at the part with the "Type information". Or better i should have stopped...
Another post about(and the from paypal too) about my language X vs language Y...

It's the same flameware like Facebook started with its we can't get HTML5 as fast as native... then some people who know what they where doing did it...

No don't use java
No don't use javascript

For god sake learn one language or two and learn it very well! i mean very well! and you will write good code and performant code...

EDIT: Why do i get down voted? Jesus HN gets worse and worse...
King Soopers (Fry's, Kroger, City Market, Dillons) different names for different places in the US ...
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> Spring brings a lot of functionality to the table. Likely far too much functionality. Most people are moving away from the monolithic application and moving towards smaller more lightweight frameworks…

It's high time to debunk Spring. In the name of 'Dependency Injection' many Java developers still create complex, monolithic and - first of all - untestable applications with this framework. In fact, Spring adds another layer of complexity on top of Java EE without real benefit. It fosters Anti-Patterns like 'Dependency Injection' that give you the illusion of modularity but instead create dependencies within the application ('Dependency Injection' needs to be taken literally).
And you'll see a lot of people won't care when they're paying less. See Walmart for reference.
Sure, but there was a time that MIPS was in some of the most powerful machines in the world, from workstations to supercomputers. Things can change pretty fast in this industry.
> If there was a market for it, people would be making them, if you disagree with that they what are you doing on here, your fortune awaits...

This is incredibly disingenuous because of the high barrier to entry on cellphone manufacturing.
Off = powered down = no broadcasting or receiving.

Now, in most devices these days you can't be sure "Off" is actually "Off." I bet many Android phones lie about "turning off" and just go into a low-power-with-quick-reboot sleep mode.

If you successfully redefine Off to be Maybe Off, nobody can argue with you because you changed the terms of reality.
Not true. I am talking specifically about interaction response, not the rate of animation display. It is about your brain learning responses to its actions so that it can better plan its actions. That cannot happen when the responses are semi-randomized.

Seriously, there are tons of studies on this. I am not making it up.
This is why it's unreasonable to have any faith in the contemporary Silicon Valley. Cold-calling used to work out there, because it was full of people who just wanted to do a good job and help each other succeed. Now, you need an introduction because it's full of emasculated social climbers who need some way of determining whether a person is of sufficient social status to merit 30 seconds of consideration. Because of that, the positive-feedback loops that occur when hard-working people want each other to succeed have completely stopped in the Valley.