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There's more to the pain of switching your hardware than just the material cost. As a designer, when I finally got away from Quark, it was good riddance to bad rubbish. Their entitlement problem (No, you switch your hardware, ecosystem, technology culture) went beyond their marketing acumen into their UX design.
Well done, but rather expensive. $400 for a single developer license.
> Promises are a monad,

Actually, they're not. Get ready: https://github.com/promises-aplus/promises-spec/issues/94
Yeah, my primary reason for getting the Das was to play Starcraft. I've never felt like I have too few keys at a time (but maybe that's because i'm not enough of a hardcore bonjwa).
A friend and I are working on this verbatim! Building an iOS interface for controlling the drone in-flight and planning missions, and a little "black box" that will connect to the autopilot computer and send telem data over LTE. We'll post on DIYDrones and FPVLab once it's ready for testers.
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RC plane builders have known for a long time, that if you put ridiculous amounts of thrust on something, you can make anything fly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNWfqVWC2KI
I don't really know anything about GA but I do know you can't really trust much of anything you read.
Notes was always a terrible email application :)

You are right about the level of IT capability of most small shops, maybe I "crippled" would have been better than "destroyed".

But elitist?

Have you ever considered working on your home furnace? There are people who can do these things. The ones who THINK they can do it are Darwin Award winners.

The downside of an amateur rolling their own solution in Notes was not life threatening but it certainly wasn't smart.

Notes gave people who had no idea what they were doing the confidence to build solutions that were fine for personal use but completely unsustainable at even small office scale.

The "experts" who adopted HC and Notes were the ones who did the real damage though. These folks (and I knew a few) were just a step above the guy in the office who refilled the toner in the photocopier. They created half-working systems and then moved on. They didn't have to live with the technical debt they left in their wake.

They set unrealistic expectations for what good IT solutions should cost and left guys like me trying to clean up their mess for years.
No, you just don't work until 11pm on them. You go to bed earlier, wake earlier, work on them at a different time, and have a more natural (i.e. solar-based) sleep cycle.

Having side projects and staying up too late do not need to be synonymous.
Here's one who ejected slash got thrown out of the airplane at over mach 3:

http://www.916-starfighter.de/SR-71_Waever.htm

He lived, his back-seater did not.

I recall seeing someone run the numbers, and it turns out that the guy in your link had it worse, as the much lower altitude more than made up for the lower speed.
You're unlikely to see any project designed to last more than a few generations simply because the original stake holders won't live to it's end. Also, there's the opportunity cost -- technology usually advances which makes the investment retroactively not worthwhile.
Are they just trolling the public in this article or adding insult to the injury?
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If you need a datapoint on how noisy those signals are: some people have combined a 144.6Mhz Raspberry Pi output with a narrow passive bandpass filter to generate a relatively clean and powerful 433MHz signal (the third harmonic, which is quite strong in a square wave): http://www.skagmo.com/page.php?p=projects/22_pihat
It can only become corrupted by external factors; a lot of games I've worked on, in-game bugs could lead to corrupted saves being written out to disk. Since in this case we are just serializing lua data, unless the serializer itself has a bug, it will always write out correctly, and any issues become issues of game logic rather than anything else.
"If you are not paying, then you are the product" is not logically equivalent to "if you are paying, then you are not the product". !A -> B != A -> !B Denying the antecedent.
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Well Telegram advertised getting 5 million (~1% of WhatsApp) users in a day shortly after the sale was announced. Correlation doesn't always imply causation but in this case that's quite the coincidence.
Ok, so exercise and diet generally isn't a moral issue these days (sloth and gluttony aside). So what about things that are widely considered virtuous, like keeping promises and appointments, being honest/genuine, not being selfish, not being a dick, etc.? I fail at those things a lot as well, but still consider violations to not be virtuous. Perhaps I don't actually look down on people (at least until they make those violations their norm), but I would still advocate these virtues despite failing at them myself.
"Sounds like a phototypesetter:"

You are correct. I owned one type - Itek Quadritek (another was Compugraphic). The fonts were essentially plastic disks. At the time (early 80's) each font was $40 (80's) dollars.

I later (about '86 iirc) replaced this with a Linotronic which was driven by not only a green screen front end (as described) but later the first Mac 128k (I think Pmaker 1.0 required 512k mac). The lino was $80,000 in 80's dollars approx iirc.
Good work, though I largely prefer Source Code Pro (Medium). This is probably the most well-done monospace font I've seen.

If you want to take a look see here :
http://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?event=d...
Okay, I'll burn my karma for it...

Chuck Norris could steer a bricycle!
Nor does it imply quality in and of itself.

>>"Responsive" is pretty factual - something either is or it isn't responsive.

"Car" is pretty factual. There's all kinds of cars...
Great, now when a test fails, your resources are left in an inconsistent state. How do you deal with that?
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Nope. All different parts of the starship are at rest relative to each other. No such effects would occur.

You seem to believe in the existence of an absolute frame of reference that all speeds are measured against. There is no such thing. "Speed" only exists as a relative measure.
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I'm trying to figure out the easiest way to get this done:

The nonprofit I work for has a Summer Camp which requires multiple waivers to be filled out for liability reasons (like 6 or 7). So every year, the parents fill out all 6 waivers again and again, and it's a big pain for everyone involved.

The application waivers ask for the same information over and over again. So I want to make a form to collect the info that the parents only have to fill out once. Then I want to take the results and export them too the application where necessary. This would be so much more productive than the current way of doing things.

We already run our email system with google, so ideally we could use google docs to accomplish this. However, I'm having a hard time figuring out if google docs can handle this functionality. Do you think it can easily be done?
I moved away from Inconsolata because of the lowercase g, and I was excited about your link until I saw that despite it being called Inconsolata-g, the g has remained the same. Instead I now use the packaged font that comes with Espresso (Espresso Mono) (but I use it with Sublime Text, you can find the font in the Espresso package) and it's treating me well so far.

Here's an example, you might not like the zero: http://i.imgur.com/QNpR2Og.png
Here at my little company Fighting Walrus [1] (we make a radio accessory so small commercial UAVs can be controlled via iPad) we are really excited that there has been some forward movement on the legal front. My personal view has always been that commercial drone use would be worked out in the courts before the FAA really got a handle on their (much delayed) roadmap for integrating them into the national airspace. However I would caution that the FAA is probably going to appeal the decision to the full five member safety board. The FAA is not going to give up regulatory control of this class of small unmanned aerial vehicles (SUAVs) easily.

[1] http://www.fightingwalrus.com

ps. If this stuff interests you come to the SF Drones Startup Meetup my Co-Founder Bryan organizes - http://www.meetup.com/SF-Drones-Startup-Meetup (About 700 members so far!)
I'm not sure exactly how they compare, other than the fact that both have a potential for some form of misuse.

Exactly what concerns do you have?
I like harpo's answer better than the accepted answer. I'll help generate more upvote for that answer from here :)

> The coupling is looser with promises because the operation doesn't have to "know" how it continues, it only has to know when it is ready.

> When you use callbacks, the asynchronous operation actually has a reference to its continuation, which is not its business.

> With promises, you can easily create an expression over an asynchronous operation before you even decide how it's going to resolve.

> So promises help separate the concerns of chaining events versus doing the actual work.
There are ways around it but if people want to cheat their own SP experience who am I to stop them? We'll obfuscate a bit to dissuade casual users but I don't know that I've ever encountered a game that didn't have some level of save hacking available.

Hell, I've used it myself more than a few times.
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Firebase is also a good solution: https://www.firebase.com/docs/ios-quickstart.html
I've been looking for the Majestouch NINJA [BrownSwitch/Fullsize/US ASCII] (1). If I find one, I hope I can get the proposal past my minister of finance.

1. http://www.diatec.co.jp/en/det.php?prod_c=772
> Young whippersnappers don't seem to know how to take notes--so going with no slides is tough. Students cannot go back and review the lecture to make sure they understood key points.

If you're going to go to the effort of planning a verbal (i.e. text) lecture, and then re-encoding it as slideshow, all for the purpose of getting students something to review... why not just write down your plan for the lecture--a transcript of what you're going to say--and then email it to the students?

In fact, ideally, do this before the lecture. That way, many of the students will have already read through it once, and will be able to ask more thoughtful questions.
The thing is, it just sort of happens. It's not some massive effort to remain calm, but rather you just automatically focus. That's how people have described it, and it's been my own experience. I've never experienced anything close to this bad, but I've had a couple of aeronautical close scrapes and there's just no room for fear.

Edit: had the same experience in a car once as well. Total focus on solving the problem. Terror comes after.
> I don't have a point, just thought I'd add a little first hand history.

Your anecdote is much better than the article I submitted.
If you've spent time searching around for a great coding font, I recommending giving proportional fonts a try. Chances are your system has a proportional font with everything (else) you want.

"But things won't line up, right?" Not exactly, but I find that such concerns were a bit of a distraction, anyway. With a little emacs command, I can switch back to monospace when needed, which isn't all that often.

Like others, I applaud the OP's work and always appreciate a new typeface. Just wanted to share the viewpoint.
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Good points! Integration is completely customizable. The bar is optional, and you're free to programmatically call up the grid using breakpoints defined in your code. If you do choose to integrate the bar, it can be completely customized to fit the style of your app. It can also be placed on the top of your interface if this is more appropriate.

We're allowing complete customization so that the developers that know their users best can decide how to implement it in their apps.
Nice work. I'm in the middle of a big project so I don't want to take time to get used to a new font right now, but will try it again when I have some downtime.

N.B. I'm using Inconsolata right now, and have been for quite a few years.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7318203
This is all too true. The interesting thing is when companies get into this sort of death spiral you can usually spot it if you look carefully. If you're a competitor with an "800 lb gorilla" which has just entered this territory you have a good shot at killing them if you execute well.

I speculate the reason this sort of technique persists though is that the only people who get hurt here are the lower level employees and the customers. Smart investors make money on the short selling, the top management makes money/reputation on the original upside.
I would sure like to see one of these extensions that doesn't use affiliate links. I often want to use specific affiliates to support organizations like the EFF or Child's Play charity.

Not trying to be trollish, but I genuinely dislike this sort of monetizing and wish these extensions were at least more upfront about it.
"listen to your users and respect them"

yep.
The biggest hiccup is almost a literal one; serializing large lua structures and then writing them to disk can take a lot of time. But this can largely be mitigated by just saving compiled lua instead of text lua.
That's what I do currently. My slides are very sparse, but on the screen of my laptop I have my notes about what's going on at that point in the lecture. Once the lecture's done I upload the whole shebang (double-wide PDF pages with the slide on one side and my notes on the other) for the students to read afterwards.
Thanks for the fast response. Will write the post and update the comment here with the link to it.

BTW, typo in your embed code: missing an "http:" in the value of the src attribute. Works after I add that, not without it.
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I like Source Code Pro as well, but I agree that nothing beats Consolas. It's just such a well-designed font, and works so well on Windows.
http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/I2O/Programs/Social_Media_in_S...
At that size you need to innovate to even stand still as the environment is changing around you, and this flux only gets magnified by your market share.
All of your history is essentially correct. I owned a company in this business in the early 80's (started it right out of college btw.) We bought the first linotronic ($80k, driven by a Mac running Pagemaker 1.0) in our city so essentially we had the first service bureau you might say. Taking and printing disks (even from a Mac) was a complete mess and generally super aggravating. Side fact: This was all before fax machines were in widespread use for proofing. That in itself was a major leap in getting customer approval.
I recall that they used to offer slower speeds for more, but they decided to be like Google when Google moved into Kansas City.

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/125831
I'm not a crypto expert but I find the arguments of this article (and tptacek et al) convincing.

The one thing I still don't like about /dev/urandom is this: urandom's proponents say that it only fails on first boot, because modern linux distros capture entropy to seed urandom on following boots.

This means that in order for /dev/urandom to be ok, I have to depend on specific functionality of both the kernel and the linux distribution. In contrast, /dev/random is (arguably) harder for the distro to mess up, as it's primarily a function of the kernel.

Given the number of times distros have screwed up crypto, what are the odds that this will someday matter in the real world?
Yes, assuming there's strong harmonics (I'd be real surprised if there weren't), you should definitely put a bandpass filter between the Raspberry Pi and the antenna like these guys did.

Thanks for the link! That's a clever way of using harmonics to your advantage.
What were/are the limitations? Are they things that have since been fixed in the publically-available version of Webflow, or will users run into them?
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Makes a lot of sense really, and the parallels are there: "First, design without (optimization/testability) in the most straightforward fashion such that it works and the code can be reviewed in a straightforward manner. Only then, decide if some increased (optimization/testability) is worth the extra complexity and implement as necessary." Pragmatic not dogmatic.
The Blue Brain project will have a rat brain model. It reproduces some of the responses you'd expect from a real. That's orders of magnitude of technical progress away from what an upload would require. We don't even know for sure if it's physically possible to perform an upload (due to quantum mechanics), much less have a device which can come close to measure a significant part of the quantum state of a working brain (i.e. the technical problems beyond physical feasibility).
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Linus Torvalds is generally accepted to be pretty abrasive, at least, do you use anything created by him?

I try not to learn anything about any creator whose work I admire, they will unfortunately generally disappoint.
I use Mac, not Windows, so I'm sure I see them rendered quite differently than you, but I prefer Source Code Pro.[1][2] They are extremely similar and I agree nothing else comes very close.

It's the lower-case 'i' that does it for me.[3]

Fewer serifs in general allow me to read more quickly, I feel. 'i' has 1 to Consolas' 3, while lower case 'l' (L) has 2 to Consolas' 3.

One negative is that I much prefer Consolas' 0-with-slant to Source Code Pro's 0-with-dot.

By the way, the first link below is from a very cool resource I just found with votes and comparisons of many of the most popular choices: http://www.slant.co/topics/67/~what-are-the-best-programming... (It seems the web has become more informative on this topic than the last time I surveyed all the font options.)

Finally, this is what the designer of Source Code Pro, Paul D. Hunt, had to say about the two[2]:

> Consolas is narrower than most monospaced fonts at 55% of the Em square, where I stuck with 60% for Source Code. If the narrowness is a top selling point for you, then Consolas is definitely king.

[1]: http://www.slant.co/topics/67/viewpoints/5/~what-are-the-bes...

[2]: http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/09/source-code-pro....

[3]: http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/files/2012/09/Confusable...
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We've always felt that games should be fun first and educational second. With our previous game Quento (quento.com) we tried a slick, minimal game that focuses on challenging puzzles. But it was still quite obvious that you were doing math because you had to use operators to complete sums.

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I didn't get it. Can you explain the slides to me in private?
Thanks to all for the input!
You also need a very, very good antenna for that sort of stunt.

QRP is tough. I'm a licensed HAM radio operator and my Tx has a 5 W final stage, so I fit right into the QRP limits. It's tough. You're at the mercy of the ionosphere all the time.

100 W amplifiers are cheap. :)
That makes no sense to me, unless you overlooked that the author is the artist whose work was used without permission or attribution, and thought the author was just some third party jumping in to attack the target.
It depends on the school and the professor.

The most progressive schools put their lectures online, and use class time for interactive q&a and group projects.
John Carmack took Haskell out for a spin in 2013 and had a good take-away from it. I don't have any sources to link, but I remember quite a few comments from him on twitter about how he got almost nothing but benefits the harder he leaned on const correctness in C++. And that this inclination came from his experience with immutable data in Haskell.
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Sure, but if you want to drive on the road, it's still at least a bit helpful to know that the framework is not, in fact, a boat. (I wonder if someone could give a Devil's Advocate position on the advantages of a non-responsive framework...)
The tool looks great and everything was really well done, but who is the customer for this?

It seemed like it was for non-designers but when I open the editor I get a blank canvas and I have absolutely no idea where to start to make a professional looking animation. Seems like I would still need to hire a visual designer/graphic artist who would most likely use the tools they are already familiar with.
To my knowledge, "Trappy" (nickname of the pilot) is one of the best RC pilots around. He flies for Team Blacksheep, and is a big figure in the drone community for encouraging safety, education, and progressing the tech.

He's definitely known for pushing the envelope on reckless flight, but I get the sense that he would take responsibility if something happened.

These flying wings (foam plane model) absorb a lot of force on impact. Even with the GoPros and all radio equipment loaded on. Aside from causing commotion, I think it's unlikely that you'd severely injure someone. Possible, but unlikely. A quad-rotor heli falling out of the sky would really hurt, though.
My sister did a back end web dev class in NYC this past fall and had a great experience. She learned a ton that she has been able to apply to her position doing QA at a startup. Just another anecdote to throw in the mix.
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This was my understanding as well. And is by far the most restricting feature on Webflow.
Makes even less sense considering the largest "cost" is simply db space.