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Jinja2 should be the standard template syntax in all languages.
Welcome to HN, Sir Humphrey Appleby.
Ten Questions With "social good" startup Milaana
I've gotta agree with you here. If you are a professional developer and are still writing non-templated html, I'd be surprised. I think it's crazy that all these tools keep coming out for handling vanilla html and css, while the development community is busy shooting miles ahead with far more powerful preprocessing. I'm working very heavily on convenience tools for advanced dev workflows, hopefully these will bring a similar level of excitement for devs who preprocess.
Yes, and you could distribute it, as long as you had a checkbox prior to the download that said, "I assert I am a Windows license holder and entitled to utilize derivatives of its code", or a banner that printed a similar message after installation, instructing you to uninstall if you aren't a license holder.
Still waiting on my first pull request to get merged (msied).
So four (to be charitable, two) syntactically incorrect tokens will cause a parsing error? Good to know!
Pictures like this one: http://pokazywarka.pl/hi4dlh/#zdjecie2341024
It was a densely populated area before war.
I did not sign, I refused the package. I called them afterwards to let them know, and emailed them a picture I took at the post office before I refused the package. They still dicked around and did not treat me respectfully. I ended up buying the GPUs elsewhere and having NewEgg refund me my purchase amount for ren-(egg)-ing on the 1-day shipping.
Replaced JS with HTTP request
This is where I am now. I have been lucky enough to get started on a Chromebook for free and have expanded from there. For me, the Chromebooks and tablets are ways for me to access webapps, particularly Google Apps. Additionally, Chromebooks have a fully-featured SSH terminal built on NaCl and a remote desktop app in form of Chrome Remote Desktop. For me, they are just windows into my cloud applications and back to my full-featured workstations (both home and work). I don't feel restricted by them except in the rare cases where I don't have access to the internet, which is increasingly rare, and even then the Google Apps are working better and better offline.

My tablets I mostly use as a web browser, an email client, an eReader and a remote control for my television. They really aren't the way I want to work, just sometimes a good form-factor for relaxing.
Quasi-scientific at best. The original "research" is interesting, but I don't think it's applicable to humans or any other higher brained mammal. The brain can certainly handle eating candy (ever heard of natives eating honey?), sitting motionless for hours, 'super cuteness' and 'distractions'. While the first half does have scientific research behind it, the second half is lacking, and relies on conjecture. "Will power" is junk thinking.
Never. "Big Data" for this use case is entirely about velocity, not volume. I suppose a better catchphrase would be "Fast Data". :)
My kids love it.

So fuck adults and don't mess with our fun.
Just because you have one person who makes the final call does not mean he isn't reliant on other members of his team.

The way Gates describes his process resonates with me:

In terms of deciding what programs are going to do, a fairly large group makes suggestions. Then there’s a filtering process. Eventually I’ll decide which of the ideas makes sense, and I’ll make sure we have champions who are personally involved in making that product succeed.

http://programmersatwork.wordpress.com/bill-gates-1986/
It is any different than asking everybody to log in to Skype?

It is definitely preferable to asking somebody to drop tens or hundreds of thousands on other enterprise virtual conferencing solutions.
And yet, Square frequently gets featured by Apple.
Mobile App Trends from 2013
You can get external A/D/A converters, some of which are designed to just plug in to a tablet via a USB or proprietary connector, some of which are designed to house the tablet entirely, eg http://www.alesis.com/iodock

That said, even cheap converters are pretty good. Bear in mind that state-of-the-art analog tape recording only delivers about 12 bits of fidelity.
Front-end-wise, if you are jumping between projects, it's often easier to just build a static 1page of what you are trying to build instead of having it run through some kind of framework.

If you have an established project, then sure, you probably already have your views setup.

It would be really cool if Brackets could detect that you are working on a partial and inject that back into the page somehow
I've tried it. Requires a local copy of the files - I found it messy.
This is a very important detail of the whole dreary affair. As surprising as the cause of the whole matter may be, the government after that willfully lied to anyone and everyone, including the judge of the court case, ignored legally binding orders and probably broke several laws. The Paper's Please blog has an excellent timeline of this case:

http://papersplease.org/wp/category/papers-please/
Still not as friendly as a single app.
NBC Story about Hacking at Sochi is 100% Fraudulent
Anyone else surprised they aren't using Adobe AIR for this project?

Are they just abandoning it or is CEF3 the new AIR?
And the moment they do that, the US and the other anti Bitcoin governments will impose economic and trading sanctions against that country to they change their stance
Overstock has market capitalization that's barely a rounding error to what Apple does. And Coinbase can't code.

Let's be real.
I thought that it was popular only because Pewdiepie featured it on his Youtube channel.
Verizon responds to Netflix throttling allegations
A lot of the PHP coders (I purposely am using "coder") are actually designers who learned a bit of PHP here and there and just want to make more money.
Google has an internal version of this called GVC and it is hands down better than any other system I've used. The interface is easy and intuitive to use, and being able to screenshare/present is as simple as visiting a URL. No installation of anything needed on the part of attendees.

Hangouts also allows widespread distribution, so for example, with the GWT team's weekly meetings, we have sometimes recorded them, or broadcast them live, and even invited external participants to watch and field questions.

You can also do things like run Hangouts Apps (Web Version), that lets people collaborate on documents while having the meeting. We do this with design docs or spreadsheets used for planning so that everyone on the video can edit what we are all watching get presented.

Those complaining about the price are speaking from the standpoint of consumers. For someone running a non-trivial business, paying $1000 to get customer support is worth the trouble.

If Google weren't making any margin on this, then you'd have to worry about it going away at some point. If you want a healthy assurance that it's going to stick around, pay b2b rates.
The problem with tablets is not that they are not useful, they are just not good enough, yet.

They should be about as heavy as a sketch book, allow input as precise as a pen on paper and preferably be foldable.

They need something like a filesystem that allows sharing documents between applications. Instead of folders I want documents organized by metadata: mimetype, a history with all times and locations at which I modified it and when I want to open one I want to see the ones I'm most likely to open right now based on whatever information the device has.

Most importantly though integration with other devices needs to be better. I want no distinction between my notebook and my tablet when it comes to accessing data. I shouldn't have to worry about backups or the contents of my hard drive, the hard drive of any device should contain an operating system and a cache and everything else I want encrypted in the cloud.

Switching from one device to the next should be seamless (as far as input methods allow.)

As it stands tablets are glorified file viewers with some limited editing facilities. What a tablet should be is a sketchbook for everything digital.
OP here, we just tried to pick a language that the most people would know. I'm pretty bad at JavaScript, but I know enough to get things done so we went with that.
It also makes profiling much harder. Boehm doesn't play nice with valgrind without a fair bit of work.
Simple. Apple is in bed with the NSA/US Govt/Federal Reserve scam. They are part of the problem.

They are killing bitcoin apps because it's a direct threat to the failing US dollar. Plain and simple.

I'm no fan of Apple. They are the masters of 21st century slavery system. Read FOXCOMM
We use bog standard HTML with custom data- attributes (whose intention is pretty much obvious) and our binding library automagically populates it. So the learning-curve for people joining the project is basically... "do you know HTML?"

Want a span to show the live content of foo.bar.baz? <span data-source="foo.bar.baz"></span>.
As an interviewee, what was your Stripe interview experience?
Because no one cares about Android or Windows marketplaces.
Verizon denies using net neutrality victory to sabotage Netflix, Amazon
Op here: yeah, exactly - that's part of the thinking. Or maybe the feature surface area will expand enough that there's always low hanging fruit somewhere. I'm not really sure.
For what its worth, I do see cryptocurrencies as a revolution, just not Bitcoin as the survivor. I think a lot of people have a hard time distinguishing between bitcoin and the concept of a crypto-currency. The potential is pretty clear to me and anyone I meet with a STEM background. The biggest dissenters I meet in real life tend to be liberal arts backgrounds, no matter how educated. So even if they have a masters in econ, art, or a JD, or what have you, they tend to be down on Bitcoin, which I find fascinating!

Meanwhile the people I know with STEM backgrounds like mechanical engineering, math, physics, etc think it is incredibly interesting, even when they don't own any or know too much about it. Really what I just wrote is a poor version of what PG wrote about bitcoin: "Hackers love it"

So no, I don't think bitcoin will survive, but I think crypto-currencies are here to stay and we are seeing a small revolution. Just like the Internet, or file sharing, or countless other tech things that have happened in my young life.
Marvel Comics API
Op here: sorry, we got a little back logged processing the PRs when we hit the front page, and also because of exactly this username merge problem (whoops).
This I'd like to know. Honest question, does it use flash in any form? What language is it coded in? I see JS everywhere but how is it run?
I used to like Coda, but version 2 lost me. And when I'm working right off the server, I prefer Transmit + a real editor.
Can you explain to me exactly why BTC would need to increase in value at all for it to be the basis for an economy? BTC is for all practically infinitely divisible, so you could theoretically run the world's economy on a fraction of the bitcoins we have today. So where is the upward price pressure coming from aside from speculation/greater-fools?
Too bad encrypted.google.com doesn't have doodles.
This time? You're using something invented the LAST time around: The Internet.

BTW, "To the moon" comments are designed to inspire and raise interest. It's called marketing.
Op here: yeah, it might be the case that the community selection will be too narrow, but we figured almost any programmer knows something of HTML or CSS or JavaScript, so that seemed like a good lowest common denominator for a minimal standard of contribution.
Well honestly then they are sort of beginners to computer programming. Using malloc is not advanced C programming.
Bitcoin can't be banned, silly rabbit.
This crowd either lacks a sense of humor or any tolerance of bad jokes. Or both.
"In my reference checking, at least a dozen investors told me that they made far more money when the numbers disappointed than when the company outperformed, because they trusted Michelle when she said that things were not worse than they appeared and bought on the dips."

anybody sees any wrong here? Beside private hush-hush, there seems to be the same pattern - like with backdating of options - of optimizing interests of some selected "closer than arm reach" group at the expense of general shareholder population of that company.
The lag doesn't matter, the value of anything depends on how much the sellers can charge for it and still be able to sell it.

This regulation or no regulation? It would be like asking if I like women with big eyes or women with no eyes; of course there is a middle ground but this is erring on the wrong side by a lot.
Broadcast Quality Video from Your Smart Phone to a CDN with RTMP Gateway?
I think of data warehousing as being concerned with what the article might call "formerly hot" data. That is to say that it deals with data that was used in critical business functions at previous points in time, e.g. a grocery store's orders for potato chips in the third week of November, 2003. This is in contrast to big data such as the number of times the store's automatic door opener operated during the same period.

Big data is about finding the most obscure statistical correlations between phenomena with obvious relevance and seeming irrelevance. It's the mythical relationship between Wal-Mart, strawberry poptarts, and hurricanes

http://www.hurricaneville.com/pop_tarts.html
For a lot of companies, the biggest benefit here will be having a cheap computer already in the meeting rooms that facilitates wireless screen sharing for any users with any kind of device that can use Hangouts. Compare that to traditional hardware-based VC and the amount of friction this eliminates, especially for non-technical users, is enormous.
Exactly.

If I ask my mom or dad about bitcoin, they won't think "decentralized crypto currency", but "isn't that what they used on that silkroad site I heard about on Fox News a while back??"
Not really. He's just using a more broad (scientific?) definition of the word "goal".

Eating food every day is a goal. Getting enough sleep is a goal. Peter Gibbons in The Office has a goal to do absolutely nothing.
Let's decentralize first by removing the centralized generic resources that consume too much of the traffic, like Facebook, Wikipedia, Amazon and Google.
The major sticking point for most companies are 1) they don't currently use Google Apps, and 2) they don't want to allow employees to use any part of G+ except Hangouts.
What makes you say that? That seems pretty far outside Apple's domain, running payments for physical merchants.
congrats!

my team and i are big fans of your product
My point is pretty much about the "a bit more noise in the syntax." And qsort will only work on array types, something that is typically shunned by people trying to "do all of the work with the type system." Consider the types for "NonEmptyList" and such.

Is it neat when these work? Certainly. Do I think they pay obvious dividends in the effort increase? Not so much. I am open to the argument, but I have yet to see anything compelling. And with so much traction in other areas, I am doubtful that it is anything close to the silver bullet that advocates make it out to be.
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Interesting. It seems feasible that the cute graphics and memorable name play a role.
It does for me...
Smartphones Make You Tired and Unproductive, Study Says
This is probably their strategy. They built an app store for android. They want to build custom content for a steam box.
What do you mean? It showed up for me on encrypted.google.com.
No, it wasn't. That's not what you said.
The LGBT Russia thing is totally blown out of proportion.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/203382931/Russian-Lgbt-Law-White-P...

Before you decide to down-vote me into oblivion and accuse me of hating minority groups please read the white paper linked above. Note I am not affiliated with the person who wrote it or scribd. I just want people to see both sides of the argument.

EDIT - And what a surprise down-voted. Seriously did anyone clicking the down arrow actually read the paper? Considering how long it is and that this post is 5 minutes old I seriously doubt it.
An Oculus Rift poker game using bitcoins as currency would be pretty neat.
I really think Live CDs are one of the best educational tools for those that already have an interest in computers. Even better now would be one that was integrated with some online services like Dropbox (or Ubuntu One?) to get some basic persistence to make things like learning to code more possible on it.
> and msft phone

Sideloading on Windows Phone is still very limited, for examle see:

http://allaboutwindowsphone.com/flow/item/18092_Microsoft_of...
There's not a lot to be excited about really - the major feature in this release is schema migration. I don't think that's a bad thing necessarily and suspect many python developers appreciate the slowish and thoughtful release cycles for Django.
In what way does that depict it as overblown?

edit: Yeah, I skimmed it and it mentions most of the stuff that people are "blowing up" over...

edit2: You assholes hell banning for no reason is one thing, but flat out not posting my replies is shitty.

edit3: Would someone tell sdegutis to shut the hell up? We all know he is religious and anti-contraception and the rest of it. Stop trying to make it out like it's "distracting". You're just pathetic.
> central bank has control over

One benefit, out of a multitude, is the removal of the centralized control of the banks. Done correctly, decentralized control is predictable, transparent, and trustworthy.
Than you. I'm very up to the news on r/fibro (reddit) and I already read that article but I'm glad you brought it up here. Since my diagnostic I'm also trying to make my way to develop health tech that could help mitigate (completely or partially) the pain and the other symptoms, so now I'm living in the bay area instead of my own country.
What's amazing is that I'm well familiar with the details of this story, but Wired's reporting of it was so dry and disinteresting that I didn't associate the names or facts with the case I was already aware of.

What's sad is that I didn't even need to know the facts to agree that what you said was true.
A lot of that is a tempest in a teapot. Rap Genius was blacklisted for good reasons, they were clearly gaming the system using blackhat SEO techniques.

Antitrust accusations? You mean those funded by Microsoft astroturf lobbying groups?

And just listen to your other complaint: Google is the face of rich privileged techies, and at the same time, their uncool for theoretically pushing down salaries, and these already hated SF techies should be showered with even more money? If you look at the publicly released transcripts, Steve Jobs was the ringleader of this effort anyway and threatened to "go to war" with some of the players if they poached Apple employees. Why isn't Apple facing similar outrage over this? Steve Jobs tried to price fix engineering salaries and price fix eBooks.
Wait. You mean a random HN comment from someone with the username @pervycreeper isn't completely factual?

/shocked
I hope you do not believe that graphic, because only a fool would believe that graphic. The title says:

"Projected Annual Growth of STEM Job Openings 2010-2020"

And then for "Computing and Mathematics" it says 52%!!!!!

Think about that! 52% annual growth! In an economy growing perhaps 2% or 3% a year, when things are good! That is absolutely ridiculous!

Also, note that this is a projection, and the projections on this subject have been reliably wrong. Consider the history of Bureau of Labor Statistics that I quoted above. They kept projecting growth when the reality was the loss of jobs.

Even if you make the charitable assumption that the 52% was actually a projection of all growth from 2010 to 2020, it is now 2014 and we know the first 4 years of their projection is entirely wrong.

The evidence is strong: computer programming is a profession that is shrinking in the USA.
An alternative approach is to properly qualify prospects up front once you get them on the phone. This helps you identify a non-customer early in the conversation so that you can end it if there is no fit, or aggressively pursue if there is.

Also, a good sales call needs to have some structure. For example, a good portion of the qualifying questions should focus on customer pain.

Does the prospect have the pain you solve?

Does the prospect already solve/address the pain? If so, how? With whom? What is good about the current solution? What's wrong with it?

Does the prospect have budget to solve the pain? How much? How is budget allocated and when? What is the budget process?

Who makes decisions about this pain? Who decides which solution to use? Who approves the budget, and who can influence a purchase decision?

And so on.

With regard to endlessly calling people...if it works then stick with it. I've been amazed over the years at what works for different sales people. There are definitely practices that work for one person's personality that would be horrific with a different sales person.

However, I think the OP's advice is to remember your ABCs of selling (Always Be C/Selling).
Ukraine crisis: Leaked phone call embarrasses US
Badland is free on Android. And in the Play Store it has 271,073 ratings https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.frogmind.b...

...so yeah.
Looks neat, but why make games only for iOS? It seems like a very limited market when it's so easy to get into game dev for other platforms these days.
Maybe? All we have now are glorified press releases. They paint a very rosy picture, however, as they are press releases, we only get to see the rosy side of the picture.

The principle of Crossbar RRAM is very fantastic indeed -- take the ideas of RRAM worked on by other companies and develop an implementation of them that works on current fabs, tools and materials. However, a lot can go wrong at nano scale manufacturing, and a lot of the things they are doing have not been characterized before by anyone else. Frankly, we won't know how manufacturable it really is before it's in mass production.

Of the next-gen memory options, RRAM is the least disruptive of current systems. This is because it's properties are sufficiently similar to flash (specifically, it needs wear leveling, preventing use as universal ram) that if it wins, it will be used exactly as flash is used, only being denser and faster.
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$250 per year, not per month.
You're an idiot, but Google switched to this years ago. There must be 10,000 of these things in total at Google offices.
What issues have you run into with Jenkins? Just curious.
No the article says that it is being used in money laundering operations and tax evasion as such the government is monitoring the situation.
Sure you could, but the point is rather to require this specific language. No option is totally without controversy, but this choice ensures a very specific audience (not just programmers/technical people, but ones who are into node) and anyone outside the audience is implicitly not welcome at all.
If you dislike the beta redesign but still want to read Slashdot and don't mind missing all but the top 5 comments on each story (which is probably good against procrastination) I recommend http://slashdot.org/palm. The Palm version has been the least cluttered way to read Slashdot for over a decade. It might even make you RTFA. ;-) Unlike the later, now defunct, http://m.slashdot.org/ it works with every browser I've tried, including Opera Mini.

Hopefully they won't discontinue it when the classic design is eliminated. I hardly read Slashdot now but I find the continued existence of their Palm version neat.
- Scuttlebutt is that Square staff are prepping for an acquisition

- Jack Dorsey just sold back some of his own stock to employees

- Apple loves Jack Dorsey

- iOS platform can benefit from a mobile money processor
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