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You're talking about word aligned boundries, which is absolutely an issue with certain architectures(I remember dealing with the issue with older SPARC processors). The article is talking about L2 and L3 processor cache hash collisions, which can result in lost performance as the cache's are overwritten.

This optimization doesn't preclude those architectures necessarily, it's saying that instead of allocating at address 512, 1024, etc., there might be a boost from allocating at off-page addresses.
Also, worth reading their next segment that answers the following related question: So why do people still come to Silicon Valley?
Visit: http://techonomy.com/2014/01/people-still-come-silicon-valle...
I think now that Fireworks is gone Adobe will add more of those features directly into Photoshop. I think their live shape tools for editing the radius on rounded rectangles are just the start.
I don't know how I'll manage without FW. I use it for design exploration and exporting image assets but it works so well for that.

What are the replacements on the horizon? Anybody found anything good?
The nature of their site means that people will often display the following usage pattern:

-search Google for something like 'rapgenius track X'

-read the page covering the track that they're looking for

-close the page

Similar to songmeanings.net or other lyrics+ sites.
"California is an at-will state,"

California is an odd example of an at-will state, for various reasons.

There have been a lot of implied-in-fact exceptions to the at-will doctrine (see Pugh v. See’s Candies, Inc.
) essentially holding that your employment contract would not control if the employer gives you a different impression.

The general legal view is that california is not really an at-will state anymore, because of the routine exceptions that get made.

IE cases holding "evidence of a “long and distinguished career” supported finding of implied contract not to terminate without good cause", etc.

See http://ainleylaw.com/2012/10/25/avoiding-the-at-will-bar/ for a random list of cases and holdings.

Suffice to say, i would not hold up california as a typical example of anything employment law related :)
Not having kids and only recently being in a relationship makes your life situation quite different from the majority of people out there. People only listen to advice that they can relate to.

Imagine a monk giving sex advice ;-P
My impression is that if we lose some capacity to make our own planes, and have to rely on some of our allies, it's not the end of the world. We're already spending more on defense than most of the rest of the world put together.

The one negative is that defense is a rare winner-take-all industry with lots of spillover effects. If we lose the big companies, we lose a lot of other jobs with it.
I suspect that Rap Genius' bounce rate and user retention (both before and after this issue) is an order of magnitude better than all of their competitors.
Pull To Refresh - available in iOS 6.

UIViewController Containment APIs. iOS 5.

Custom Tab Bar. iOS 5

Custom Navigation bar. iOS 5

HTML Strings. iOS 7

@2x only. iOS 7

Flat out. iOS 7

viewDidUnload. iOS 6

AutoLayout. iOS 6

UIDynamics. iOS 7

Receding keyboard like the messages app. iOS 7
I thought Fireworks is still in the building? At least before adobe went to the cloud...
I bought a car recently and I can tell you if I've gone through all that paperwork and haggling, I want my car that night. There's no way I'm waiting until the next day to get my car just so some dealership can get a head start on its quota.
I don't agree with petitions. Not only do they get ignored but here they use it against you in politics later when public opinion changes, plus it's a list for marketers. Instead harass your local representative mercilessly with letters and espcially angry phone calls those get noticed eventually.
Breaking up the state will provide better democratic representation.
Agreed. It's an unfortunate artifact of some people's personalities. I'm planning a vacation for a few months from now, and I feel guilty about taking an extra day. Forcing myself to ignore that.
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It's interesting that the article you link to states that South Korea's government bowed to public pressure as the reason for restarting the process. If you're right, that's one hell of a loaded sentence!
The poor have nothing for the rich and privileged to take advantage of. It can only ever happen in the other direction.
This is a good start but leaves out some really useful features of Photoshop. One of my favorite newly discovered features is layer comps!

If you're addicted to photoshop but also want to display your designs somewhat interactively and minimize layer clutter, open photoshop and go to Window > Layer Comps. It lets you create multiple states within the same document, including layer positioning and layer styles. Great for button states or for preserving an entire flow through an interface in the same document. Have fun!
When I left a former job, I was very candid in my exit interview. My former boss and I discussed things that I didn't like about the job, and he was interested to hear some honest feedback from someone with nothing to lose. It didn't cost me anything and it helped him to get a feel for things that other people didn't like either but weren't comfortable coming out and saying.

Maybe if things were sour it would have been different, but in this case I thought it was productive and was glad to help.
I think the takeaway is that selling online though places like Steam make it easier for a indie games to become hits.
> it's not like they can sue you for a million dollars in damages if your "disparaging" remarks are true.

They can sue you for slander/libel with or without you having entered into the severance agreement. If we're talking about getting sued for entering and then breaking the agreement, we're probably not talking about "millions of dollars" but rather whatever the contract specifies the penalty for breaking the contract would be (and this is still up to a court to decide what's actually enforceable).
Noted: A beautifully simple gesture-based note-taking app for iPhone
Windows 8.1 vs. Ubuntu 13.10: The Desktop
Good points; thanks.
Near the end of the article is a link to this very interesting write up about airBnB's 'growth hacking' on craigslist. It acts as a useful counterpoint to rapgenius' case.

http://davegooden.com/2011/05/how-airbnb-became-a-billion-do...
Yeah, it's basically just a gimmick.

When I see "unlimited" PTO mentioned in job ads, I get the sense that someone put it in there because they got the idea (from some medium post or somewhere) that this is what all the other "it" startups are offering, and so hence, they should, too. Without like, you know, taking a couple of seconds to think about what it actually means.
oh yeah right, the government actually want to block these topics!! Of course they don't.

Paleoconservative and other strict ideologies like the one that espouses the benefits of country-wide Internet censorship like this typically don't hold favorable positions to the aforementioned topics.

Having a problem doesn't mean one necessarily wants a proper solution for it. Rather, as history has shown us many times, governments frequently take the easy way out either by denying it and skewing information, covering it up or implementing a faulty solution so as to appear that they're trying, when in fact it often worsens the situation (case in point: abstinence-only sex education).
I tend to point people at "Eloquent Ruby" to learn how to write idiomatic Ruby code, rather than point them at actual projects.
Bear in mind that Google also effectively delisted them for searches like "<some song title> rap genius", and that since (like many sites) their own search engine apparently sucks, most people who knew about and liked the site probably got there that way.
It's entirely possible that your post just tripped a lot of people's "Oh, it's the end of the year, I should clean out my subscriptions".

That said...

A quick reading suggests that your message is "choose work, because that means you are doing what you care about (work)". Even if that isn't capturing the subtlety of your message, that's probably what most took away from it.

The "work work work" message doesn't go down well these days, especially because the zeitgeist is that companies are squeezing us folks dry. Asking people to bring their work into every facet of their lives is a bit much, to be honest--and I'm saying this as someone who does just that.

A message of "do what you are passionate about", or "take pride in your work", or pretty much anything else would have gone better; otherwise, you come across as "become worker drone beep boop".

Read The Jungle for a good perspective on how focusing on your work screws you.

~

Some miscellaneous gripes:

Use an Oxford comma (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma) in your sidebar about snippet:

"...for happiness, integrity and success." => "...for happiness, integrity, and success."

The choice of light-grey-white in the bottom of your about page is brutal--especially the "Me around the web". Why not use the little badges everyone is used to there, anyways, or in your sidebar?

Your about page also has the worst-formatted quote (from Chuck Palahniuk, no less, who would laugh at your article I think) block I've seen in a while. You need to set the author's name off from the text, and fix the top padding. Fixing the colors wouldn't hurt either.

Also, the picture in your sidebar can best be described as 'slackjawed', the hover version 'imbecillic'. If you're trying to write about how to become rich, famous, and fulfilled, I'd suggest not looking like a stereotypical college kid/PFY.
Why not?

But, in reality, yours not a better question. The Microsoft tool could, obviously and easily, detect non-Microsoft operating systems and report them as such.
It's almost as if France has a robust social safety net. Child support just might be less. if we had things like:

1) inexpensive municipal day care

2) tax breaks for families employing in-home child care workers

3) universal free preschool beginning at age 3.

As to your last point I'm assuming you're implying that all women learn in K-12 is painting fingernails and remedial math, in which case, fuck you.
So they make a tin foil hat for the satellite dish and it actually blocks the signals?
I've always wondered what it would take to setup an ISP. I think customers would be the major pain point (especially in america when competing with Comcast or AT&T).
I find the idea that political and cultural boundaries should align to be a very sad and unimaginative one.

(Not suggesting you hold an opposite view.)
I find it really odd that anyone would actually think something like this would work. Firstly, California would have to agree to break itself into 6 states. Even if that happened, those six states, which as far as America is concerned are still all part of California, would then need to convince Congress (which are the representatives of the rest of the country with a disproportionate representation of tiny states) to allow them to join the Union. Asking Congress to let 5 extra states join the Union is pretty much asking every state if it's cool that California gets 10 new Senators and 5 new Congressman. It seems odd that anyone would think Congress would be okay with that, especially when it doesn't seem to benefit the country at all.

I also think it's funny that they've hired a PR firm[1] that handles "luxury hotels and resorts"[2], and "Luxury Real Estate Developments and Private Residence Clubs"[2] to contact for information. I can't think of any successful, attempting to be grassroots movement, created to try to improve the lives of others, that hired a PR firm from the start.

[1] - The for press inquiries link at the bottom of their landing page
[2] - The PR company's clients section http://www.seahorsepr.com/clients/clients.htm
Could be a good idea. I see a startup having two choices to focus on; let's call them B2B and B2C. Your description is the B2C side, your first focus is to build something for the end users - those filing a claim. Ultimately, they are just going to become an attorney's client and that is the B2B side, the business that is actively organizing the lawsuit.

I would attack it from the B2B side. TV is full of ads for this class action stuff, attorneys obviously have the budget to advertise, and really all they want is leads for those potential clients. Create a cheaper more effective way for them to find those leads by building and running online advertising campaigns. You could probably get high tech and use targeting algorithms to find the most likely clients/leads, etc. We know they don't have that, because they are spending so much on TV ads which are pretty untargeted and I would assume more expensive on a cost per lead basis. (How much is a lead worth to these law firms?)

B2B first gives a couple key benefits 1) the lawyer is paying to grow your userbase, maybe even profit if you want it - growing a sizable userbase is going to be expensive, this is not a sexy space so I wouldn't count on the crowd and virility 2) leads generated now, are also leads in the future - even if they didn't qualify for the lawsuit they signed up for, you can market future ones to them for basically no cost.

Once the attorneys start having you promote their lawsuits to find clients. You can then start maintaining the claim-to-client matching system; monthly emails of new suits, etc and generally approach the B2C side of it at that point. I think going straight B2C is going to come off spammy and you're not going to get the needed traction. I think you want to build trust with the users, so you have the opportunity to match them with multiple lawsuits and extend their lifetime value.

My $0.02, could easily be completely wrong.
I'm a fan of Sketch for UI design, primarily because it offers a more accurate representation of what will actually come out in code. However, I've had little luck in getting the designers i work with to adopt it. With Sketch there is a strong correlation between how things are designed and how they're built that designers find inhibiting and offensive. That said I strongly encourage designers give Sketch a serous look.

As always however, the best tool for UI deign will always be pencil and paper. Sketch is simply a good tool to flesh out those concepts.
Nice work, thanks for the write up!
"Normally, highways are still built underground in these cases, and passing through a building is an extremely rare occurrence."

Did they mean underground? Seems like an underground motorway would be even more impressive or unusual than this building.
An exit interview allows you to be more candid than in a regular 1-on-1. When you're still an employee you're more worried about saying something that could affect your perception.
I think you exaggerate the WWII experience a bit. The turning point in the Pacific was roughly the battle of Midway, which was fought with pre-war equipment. The turning point in Europe was really up to the Soviets, but American involvement really didn't come down to "asses kicked" since we had no real presence to get kicked until Operation Torch, and the Americans had decent success from then on.
While I agree with your sentiment about real problems, this is focused on startups outside Silicon Valley.
I'm not sure how that couldn't be an argument to break up all the large states. It would just turn the senate into another house of representatives.

And it's a weird way to fix the senate if you wanted it to be fixed. You should instead get the congress to move over to a parliamentary system where all percentages of votes are counted instead of a plurality takes all. You could ask for more senators. And then you will not be breaking up my home state with these outsider ideas. All of these solutions are about as likely to pass: nil chance. And I'll fight tooth and nail to keep help keep this state together.
Why would you want to make an in-memory data structure page-aligned instead of cache-line-aligned?
Incredible T-Rex Illusion, I Can No Longer Trust My Eyes...
> So I decided not to invest in a language that can't make up it's mind

It's a bit unfair to try to group the actions of vast swaths of people under the same banner, and penalize them for not acting in concert.

Why isn't the entire Python community using 100% Python3 right now? Because they are a disparate group of people with differing motivations and goals. It's only been in the last year that some major projects have started to support Python3 (e.g. Django). Not everyone has the luxury of spending all their time porting over existing code-bases to Python3 the moment that it's possible.
Can you provide some numbers? According to Wikipedia, defense spending is much less today as a percentage of GDP than in the past.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_S...
> Such an advantage might be transitory.

Well, yeah. Some of us still remember that California was a Republican solid state in national politics not too long ago.

> Who's to say those new states will remain red, especially when they're submitted to a new level of political targeting that the state outcome was dominated by urban blue-ness?

I can't understand what the "especially..." part of this is trying to communicate. It sounds like there is an interesting thought behind it, but I can't penetrate the way it is phrased to get to the meaning.

> There are small blue states too.

And big states, blue and red, that have powerful interests that like them being big (as well as powerful interests that don't, too be sure) which will seek to avoid balkanization getting established as a thing.

> Both effects are likely to be outweighed by issues that have nothing to do with red vs. blue. The over-represented states want to stay that way, no matter which parties are involved.

I think that claiming that this will be the dominant effect understates the degree to which national politics in the US is driven by tribal partisanship, but certainly partisanship wouldn't be the only factor influencing it.
The typical consumer doesn't take the Northeast Regional or the Acela. People take Airplanes for speed, or cars/buses for cost. The Hyperloop, as proposed, would compete primarily with airplanes because it's so much faster than other ways of getting between those two cities.

(Between Boston and NYC, the link I'd most likely take, the Acela is only marginally faster than the Regional. The improvements planned in CT look like they would help, but actually cut similar amounts of time off the two routes.)
> If this were 100 years ago, you could make the argument that by enforcing this contract, Congress made a law abridging the freedom of the press.

That's crazy. The point of the right is that you have choice where a law takes away that choice. You can choose to sell your actions to other people for a limited set of legal actions. Why shouldn't Congress enforce contracts when BOTH parties are willing to sign?

I hate the idea of this particular clause and find it very distasteful, but I don't think it should be illegal.
Global Innovation Report 2013
These startups are Outside SV.
Broforce, your 80s 8-bit combat fix.
There may have been a number of other factors at play that led to the decision to have windows 8.1 as the default. I wouldn't immediately jump to "shitty code" as the culprit here, especially when the tool works exactly as it should for it's intended audience. It may have been something as simple as developing this tool before having confirmation as to which user-agent win 8.1 would use at time of launch (is it be 5.2? nope, bumped up to 5.3. Good thing we put in that fallback before pushing into production!) or evaluating the ROI on supporting an 'other/unknown' fallback with additional development.

One may consider putting resources toward developing code for a user-base that provides no return on the development investment is 'shitty coding'.
Academics Petition to End 'Blanket Surveillance'
I've been enjoying http://apiblueprint.org
I'm in somewhat of the opposite situation. I feel like I've got a fairly good grasp of user research, workflow definition, feature prioritization, et cetera, et cetera, but I often struggle with translating that work into an actual UI. Does anybody have suggestions for how to get better at this? I'm sure that learning Photoshop will help, but what should I do for practice once I'm comfortable with the tools?
I'm not sure this is in practice true. Twitter have to start writing or tuning their own scale-specific software, need more analytics, application security, developer productivity, partner and sales engineering etc. proportionally than they would do at 1% of their size. Certainly they could run 100 Plurks with many fewer than 1000 engineers but I'm not sure that's the best way to characterize Twitter.
I grew up in Washington state and there were periodic calls to divide it vertically down the middle so that those in the (less populous) eastern (largely Republican) half of the state could be more independent of the (more populous, largely Democrat) western half of the state. The kicker was the proposed name for the new state: Lincoln.
"It doesn't make sense to delete code that is working and redo it just because the new way is easier."

Less code to maintain >>> custom written code that might be prone to break on newer versions of the OS. It's definitely what I would do.
Optional 2.75: Install every crapware toolbar available on the Internet, allocate all free disk space to browser cache, and fill it up with obnoxious ads.

Requires a second wipe after step 3, and may get you into trouble, depending on what the crapware does without your input.
From the Adobe site "While we are not planning another full release of Fireworks and will not release any new Fireworks features, we will continue to sell Fireworks CS6 and make it available in the Creative Cloud."

So you can use it, but they won't be developing it further.
It seems like the "from around the world" part isn't really up and running yet. I expected to see some of my local SF Bay Area ISPs on the map, but it's only showing some European ISPs right now. Further I wondered what the qualifications for DIY might be--individual-level shared networks or the typical small business thing? Next I wondered why it was so important to know about FDN attending some conference, vs. spending more time explaining in basic terms what they do and what they plan to do.

Anyway, seems like a neat idea.
No apologies needed, but thanks! I learned some valuable lessons.
I've used Illustrator to draft website designs for years, and drawing in vector is especially useful now that I often find myself needing larger versions of graphics for hi-res screens.
I looked around for a bit for some of the older articles from earlier in 2013, but gave up under the deluge of positively spun post-acquisition articles. When it was all going down, especially right after Boeing won the award, the news about it was pretty crazy to read.
That's why companies are free to have this as a company policy.

The First Amendment prevents this policy from being a law.
The government has near infinite resources. I don't think time, capex, or opex factors into these decisions. Whether or not the CEO of that hot new military contractor donated to your campaign or is a relative certainly does though. Also, there's a lot less legal liability when going through a contractor. I'm convinced that's why blackwater became Xe services, which became Academi. It's a lot easier to shut down a business and start anew than it is to change internal government operations.
Just don't actually add your text to the button in photoshop, and don't use jpeg for the final image as you'll get jpeg artifacts especially around text.

Text should superimposed by the system you are using in the end. Akin to using css backgrounds.

This way you will support the wave of hi-dpi displays, be able to easily support other languages and will make correcting text or labels so much easier in the future.