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I pretty much only use Illustrator. I'm still on CS6. It didn't help much that CC1 was one of those releases where I look at the list of new features and say "there is nothing here for me" that's happened every 3-4 years since Adobe moved to the marketing-driven "new release every year" model instead of the developer-driven "new release when it's done" one.

I've done the math and the Cloud model is not worth it for me. It starts to make sense if you regularly use like 4 of their big apps, I think.

Edit. Oh shit I just looked and they've quietly added some new features that I actually would like to have. Now I'm running the numbers. The existing pre-CC user pricing works for me - $360/y for my one big app every day, plus being fully legit when I need to briefly use InDesign to lay out a book or Premiere to edit a Kickstarter video - but once that trial year is over I think I'll be ditching it for the single app subscription plus briefly subscribing to other apps and canceling them.
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On episode 54 of Accidental Tech Podcast [1], they mentioned a recent flair-up about the screen writing software Final Draft.

It seems the CEO went on a podcast about script writing called ScriptNotes two times [2] and it sounds like he was caught totally flat by listener feedback about how far behind his product was. Film director Kent Tessman wrote up a post [3] about how foreseeable much of this was and just how bad the situation is.

It reminded me quite a bit of this article. An old & dominate piece of software that is built on old technologies and has obvious deficiencies that doesn't seem to be progressing and seems ripe for disruption.

1. http://atp.fm/episodes/54-goto-fail

2a . http://johnaugust.com/2014/the-one-with-the-guys-from-final-...

2b. http://johnaugust.com/2014/period-space

3. http://www.kenttessman.com/2014/02/notes-on-scriptnotes/
Thanks so much - we've spent a lot of time thinking about how to make the tool as intuitive as possible, happy to hear that we've succeeded.
True, however a key distinction i'm making here is knowing something exists and knowing how it works and being able to replicate that in another system could be just as much of an infinite timesink.

I'd rephrase the "nothing currently exists that even proves it is possible" to, nothing has been observed to demonstrate its possibility.

That and things like warping space could throw a wrench into the "we can't travel faster than light". But maybe we can end run around it. Though the same can be said of the brain, we really know we don't know a lot more than what we don't know about physics.
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When people say "later", they don't mean in human time, they mean in program execution time. As in, your program can decide based on the dynamic state of the system how (or even whether) to use the resolved value. In my experience, that is not nearly as convenient to do with callbacks as it is with promises.
Are you going to be actually buying the lottery tickets? Or is it just a service to manage/organize the pool? If it's the latter you might want to get in touch with the payment processors, as that's probably fine.
Signal Vine is currently in the market for a Haskeller and may need more in the future.

http://functionaljobs.com/jobs/8684-platform-engineer-at-sig...

Disclaimer: I'm a cofounder of the company which spun-out Signal Vine.
Reminds me of the TwitchPlaysPokemon phenomenon lately.
I forget the nitty gritty details, but as I understand it: Apple's restrictions dictating what can and can't go in iOS apps makes it impossible for us to use Gecko on iOS.

Edit: Here is a more thorough answer: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/945460#answer-392...
You should check out https://github.com/psztorc/Truthcoin , which builds up on that idea to design a fully decentralized prediction market.
Wow, after reading the name I thought I would come here and write a comment about how a more detailed introduction might have helped the project. But reading the other comments this team might have a bigger communication problem. I feel with you, guys. Sometimes even the greatest product can get destroyed by some communication problems.
I certainly plan to keep expanding it. That one's on my list.
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Any source on this? Impressive if true.
The fact that light-on-dark text looks terrible on Macs isn't due to gamma—it's due to the fact that subpixel rendering for light-on-dark text is broken on Macs.

More info:
http://www.lighterra.com/articles/macosxtextaabug/

Generally I like Mac OS X's font rendering much better than Windows's, but this is one aspect that drove me up the wall when I was redesigning my personal website. (I wrote a bit about the issues I had with this bug in this article: http://kronopath.net/blog/dawn-of-a-new-day/. Search for "The bug".)
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That doesn't invalidate GP at all.

If Dorian was a member of the group that eventually birthed Bitcoin, isn't it realistic that he'd be an early adopter, even if the pseudonym wasn't quite his?
Thanks for this. I think I will stick with Inconsolata but I'm glad people are making new fonts and trying things out.
I was scratching my head thinking this was something that has stood the test of time well enough. It looks good and I hope they're able to get some traction.
I thought I saw those too, but haven't been able to find them in the FAA notices for model aircraft. There is such a clause in the 2012 for small unmanned aircraft (sUAS) use by a "government public safety agency".

I would presume the FAA will try to apply such a rule to civil use after this ruling.

Edit: Federal Register Notice 14 CFR Part 91 says they "expect line of sight" for model aircraft. It does not seem to be required--and at least one administrative judge thinks that such a notice does not carry much weight.
BackgridJS - http://backgridjs.com/

Backgrid.js is a set of components for building semantic and easily stylable data grid widgets using Backbone.js.

There are a number of features I'd like to implement soon.

- Infinite paging
- Fixed header
- Column auto-fit
- Column resizing
- Icicle tree row and cells for multi-dimensional nested data

This project's been around for a little more than 1 year and has already sprung up dozens of different extensions. I look forward to working with whoever is interested in contributing.

Take a look at this ticket if interested:

https://github.com/wyuenho/backgrid/issues/244
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It does feel a bit weird. However, I do like the "fun" feeling of `if` statements now.
Boost.Compute (https://github.com/kylelutz/compute) is a C++ GPGPU based on OpenCL.

We're always looking for more contributors with knowledge of C++ and an interest in GPU computing.
This sounds like a temporary issue in your career, or, put another way, a circumstance of that particular job. In another year or two (or in another opp that values slightly different things) the full stack marketer will be incredibly valuable again.

Note the value may be for new reasons: Simply understanding all angles of a business is incredibly valuable, and often lacking. It's arguably the one skill one needs more than anything to become a member of senior leadership at most well-functioning companies.
God damn, that's an ugly one. Super-thin, and look at the lowercase "i" slant backwards so much, it merges with the character before it, especially at small sizes.
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When my conputer has the potential to erase my bank account, I want to limit its potential.
Ignoring the whole "we'll just cure mortality...how hard can it be?", people tend to go batshit crazy after spending a couple of months in confined conditions looking at the same faces day after day. Think they're going to do better mentally when they look forward to the same for a 100 years.
Yeah, this is what happened. I supported Quark users at the time, and everyone was just surprised and confused. In contemporary terms, it would be as if Zynga didn't ship Farmville for iOS 7 and everyone had to switch to something else. Maybe they made a weird bet that customers wouldn't adopt OSX, or migrate at a decades long WinXP-pace. Since Apple binds the OS to hardware, it happened in (only) about five years.

Running Quark 4 and 5 under Classic was ugly and problematic. When Quark 6 finally shipped it was so buggy that it couldn't be deployed. By the time Quark 7 arrived, most people had switched.
That's because the code is so concise that it doesn't need many lines.
Hard to believe that the SR-71 is almost 50 years old and it's still the fastest plane in the world.

[Update]
For some reason, I can't reply to the X-15 comment, so I'll add the extra info here. The X-15 is dropped from a B-52. There are a set of rules to qualify for the record. An unpowered scramjet dropped from another plane isn't going to quality either.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_airspeed_record
We want to build General Assembly to still be thriving 75 years from now

There's a lot of negativity here on their pivot and marketing. I just like that they're talking about building a company to last. (Of course the VCs will want their money back well before 75 years)
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Agreed, although not entirely original. Inspired by actual work in this area - http://www.spacecraftresearch.com/MII/MII_overview.html

I was getting my head around what "100µm" and a "few micrograms" meant, and I found that the human ovum is ~3.6 micrograms and around 100µm in size.
Playing devil's advocate for a moment:

A straightforward lecture delivered directly from a powerpoint is not automatically a bad thing. I think students sometimes over-estimate their ability to learn from reading slides and incorrectly assume that simply reading a powerpoint is equivalent to attending a class, even one where the slides are simply read aloud (which, yes, the OP alludes to in a different context). This seems silly, but actually hearing the words may help you understand and more importantly-- remember. I can't tell you how many times where my recollection of some important concept came back to me in a verbal manner, sometimes in the teacher's voice with the same inflection and cadence. (For a simple example from high school, alluded to in the slate piece: "the tangent is the opposite over adjacent." After hearing the teacher say that half a dozen times, I can't think "tangent is adjacent over opposite" without feeling is wrong.)

Obviously, if 100% of a class period is spent simply reciting bullet points from a slideshow, that may indicate a problem in the design of the course. But it's not unreasonable for some percentage of time to be devoted to lecture, however unoriginal the visual aides for the lecture might be. When I was in school, professors diligently copied notes from their own notebook onto the blackboard or overhead projector. It wasn't a huge difference really.

And yes there's a difference between students giving presentations and teachers giving presentations. Students see the presentation as the goal, the work that's going to get graded, something they have to do. Professors give lectures routinely as part of a lengthy course of instruction. Those are totally different scenarios and it doesn't make you a hypocrite to use slides while advising students to avoid them.
Edit 7: Learn what all those words really mean and how they relate; drop the whole thing a get a beer.
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I could imagine this is a problem as a company grows. I've run a ton of Facebook ads every day for three years, so I know the ins and outs of how to do a performance-based ad campaign. Compare me to someone who is good or dabbled in SEO, display, Facebook ads, Adwords, etc. and I'm probably the best choice to run your Facebook ad campaigns. So you could be replaced by a specialist. I think that's why you should look at it less as a curse and more as the way to know what path you want to take (VP of Marketing, go to another startup, grow into a specialty at your current company, or take a more managerial role in marketing at your current company).
You've fallen into a common trap. A trap that many developers and managers do - that software is the goal.

It's not.

Software is a means to an end. A tool we built for users and customers to solve their problems.

Software that doesn't solve the customer's problems might as well be gravel on a beach.

Software that is shipped, but isn't maintained, will diverge from customer's needs as they change. And will become just as useless.

So are you trying to precisely understand a customer's key requirements? Then you best represent them in unit tests.

Are you building and releasing iteratively and getting customer feedback to make sure that customers are getting what they actually need? (A lot of times what people say they need changes once they actually get what they ask for) Then you need to be able to refactor frequently and fearlessly, and you best have tests.

Are you considering future releases after shipping major versions? Same, you will need to refactor, and you will break existing functionality, and you need tests.

I understand you want to be pragmatic. But don't think that the people that preach TDD are just sitting there in love with their best practices for their own sake. We have just been burned too many times and believe the best process and framework for delivering customer value via software is to build on a solid foundation.
Well, that confirms that the "obvious" workflow of "git pull" is dangerous. At least it explains all the spurious merges. Why on earth did it ship with this broken design? Why doesn't git pull do the right thing by default?
This is a really stellar app and the compiled JS is quite small. You guys should present at the next GWT conference or I/O.
Yeah I agree. I have tried several fonts and finally gravitated to Inconsolata.
Really good article with useful takeaways for link building.
> I've been under 260lbs for almost 2 years now and I still have to starve myself constantly to get back down to 220lbs even though I sleep well.

I weigh more than you but I've been successfully (if slowly, for most of the time) losing weight for several years, after having lots of the same kind of problems you describe before that. What seems to be working for me is:

1) Eat lots of non-starchy vegetables, especially toward the beginning of trying to establish a lower-calorie pattern. These can satisfy the need for stomach-fullness that develops over a history of overeating (over time, your stomach stretches, and it takes more volume of food to feel full), without the miserable feeling you get from eating too much caloric foods (I used to get different forms of misery from "too much carbs", "too much fat", and "too much protein" when I overate, but they were all misery.)

2) Eat more snacks between meals -- this helps level out your metabolism helps avoid the "starving -- must eat lots at next opportunity" feeling that leads to overeating misery.

3) Find one or more physical activities that you can enjoy for their own sake and do regularly. For me, it's been ballroom/latin/swing dancing, but the particular activity isn't all that important.

4) If you haven't already, try to get your doctor to check for metabolic conditions or vitamin deficiencies that might be making it hard for you to lose weight (I had a pretty significant Vitamin D deficiency and supplementing for that seems to have helped some, lots of other people I know have had bigger impacts when previously undiagnosed metabolic conditions were addressed.)

EDIT to add:

5) There's lots of approaches that are popular as to exact approaches to diet mix, and I've seen lots of people successful on different ones, but all of them -- including mine -- have included really sharply limiting sugar (often pretty much to whole fruit as the only sugar-heavy food, if even that.)

6) Drink plenty of water. For lots of people, hunger and thirst signals easily get crossed
Yes - the headline is a little misleading. It's not "Here's 50k on us".
My litmus test about a package is can I reduce it to one line of code, for 80% of the benefits. If yes, it's useless.

assert($condition);

It's useless.
>We recognized a public interest in establishing some core facts about Bitcoin and better informing those who might invest money in it.

Bullshit. Revealing who Satoshi is doesn't give you one shred of information to help you decide whether or not to invest in Bitcion.
In a world where users will willingly enter malicious code into their computers if they believe it will do something they want[1], can there really be a better way?

[1] https://www.facebook.com/selfxss
I have separately spent a week learning Erlang and learning Haskell.

Erlang: much much easier to learn. Within a week I felt I could probably have built pretty much whatever I wanted. A few pitfalls, but it's predictable, and with very few difficult to understand parts. Also the OTP is almost CPAN-like in its ability to get you solving problems very quickly. HOWEVER: until the next time I need to build a telephony switch or any kind of massive message handler (chat application, messaging queue, WhatsApp competitor etc), I just have no use for it.

Haskell ... I had some basics in a week. After some months of dabbling here and there, I finally get Monads, but haven't done anything productive yet. I feel like I have become a significantly stronger developer in the other languages I use, have a much deeper understanding of some basics of CompSci, and have had a lot of fun. I think in another few months, it might start being my goto language for solving problems.
I agree that live interaction is important to the quality and results of education, but as far as making money from it, I believe many will choose the option that requires the least possible effort on their behalf.

Look at fad diets, get rich quick schemes, "one strange trick to perfect x," all those hilarious exercise machine informercials... people love the idea that they can get something for next to nothing, in terms of both effort and cost.

I imagine there's room for both (and for the middle ground, which apparently this is), but for many reasons, I don't see the online-only model going away (or even stalling).
Their software is terrible, I wrote an iOS App in less then a day that was better then what they provide. The longer oval beacons themselves were actually not the issue. just really, really bad software.
Great article, but after reading the slides, it seems like the problem isn't the medium but how it's used. In business contexts PowerPoint is going nowhere, so I spend a lot of time thinking about how to effectively use my presentation slides, rather than decrying the fact that I have to use PowerPoint. The latter is an interesting discussion by itself, but there haven't been many usable solid alternatives that industry has adopted widely enough to warrant use.
Sure. Something like this would probably work just fine for your needs:

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/AudioBoxUSB/

There's all sorts of more expensive interfaces (and microphones) that you can buy, but for what you're describing, they likely wouldn't help much. I don't think you're needing to do professional foley recording of your furnace for a major motion picture. :-)

So in sum, if you went the separate interface/microphone route, you'd have something like:

- microphone sitting on microphone stand, say, eighteen inches away from the furnace. If you don't know exactly where the sound is coming from, set the stand so the mic is about half-way up the height of the furnace.

- XLR cable running from microphone to audio interface

- audio interface connected to your computer via USB or FireWire or whatever cable (based on your selection of interface)

- For that particular microphone, it needs to be powered by the interface, so press the 48v button on the interface to activate the power to the mic.

You'll need to adjust the input knobs and such on the interface ensure getting adequate audio signal. I can't tell you exactly what to set it to without being familiar with the particulars, but it shouldn't be hard to figure out. (You can record digital audio at a very low level and it still turns out usable, but if you record too high, it clips, and is pretty much ruined. So favor too quiet rather than too loud, if you're not sure, and boost the level in Audacity, if needed.)
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You are missing the point.

It doesn't matter how you turn it around. Journalists always have a choice and they constantly keep stuff out of the public.

What matters is not whether they are legally allowed to do these things but whether they should had.
The first sentense is the myth and what follows "Fact:" is the fact.

Not that different than this format:

"He said that he is a great coder. In fact, he can't even write a Hello World program".
Cool looking font, it reminds me of my handwriting style (especially the italicised version). If the author is around, can you explain why you chose to extend the brackets and parens below the base line of the other characters?
Never been a parent, eh?
Or even better than multisig, on-blockchain transactions and Truthcoin: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1ycjdi/whitepaper_d...
thanks! clara.io looks awesome too, I played with it sometime ago when it was released.

it would be interesting to try to connect the tools somehow. plz write me to skavish at animatron.com
Hm, we never thought about it! There's no limit in the database, just client-side restrictions on the input fields ... we'll have to consider.
Ahh okay, I knew Safari was going to be the end all, be all of performant web browsers using strictly native Objective-C (and it uses webkit too I believe). I notice that you're looking for C++ help above, and was thinking that maybe native mixed with C++ could produce a nice user experience that people would crave on iOS.

Haha I'm kind of just spitballing ideas here - I think not having Chrome sync and Safari sync is a good feature of iOS web browsers in a lot of different use cases. Plus a slim, portable Firefox clone could be pretty interesting to duke it out with those two as well as Dolphin and some other web browsers for the platform.
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There are many more hurdles that realistically keep Amazon from doing what they said.

Multi-tenant housing, people running under landing drones wanting to hit the 'Sue Amazon' lottery, and airspace ownership above private property are just a few of the gigantic hurdles that will take years to sort out.

Not to mention the power consumption issue still limits this idea tremendously.

At this point, it's just as realistic that Amazon would implement pneumatic tubing to your house as it is that a drone will deliver your soap.
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I used to deal with this issue of PC PageMaker disks in a Mac & Quark world at a service bureau back in the day. The problem was that PageMaker had unpredictable results when printing to an imagesetter.

I would open the file in Mac PageMaker, delete all the graphics, save the pages as EPS, then rebuild in Quark. Quark had this great Xtension that let you place the output with great precision on the imagesetter film roll.