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But would people really like it? There's a 20-year history of people trying to make the web look pretty (splash pages, flash, fancy-schmancy javascript transitions etc.) and people hating them for it. There's something to be said for bland uniformity when what you really care about is the information, not what it looks like.
You can move any app so it takes up only a slice of your screen
Wrong audience, this is everything my Roku is but better. Better UI, better performance. Plus apps and maybe some games with a real controller. It is everything an OUYA is but better. And miracast support too.
The reference to Her is especially relevant, since in the Halo series Cortana was clearly designed for sex appeal, and romantic tension between Master Chief (the player character) and Cortana was strongly implied.
... oh man, I missed that detail.

Seriously, Google needs to wake up and notice that other people are doing a better job with Android than they are.
Technically you only need an iPod Touch for $229. (Or maybe you need the better $299 one.)
My back tells me to buy one. Nice Project! Wonder if they ship to the EU.
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full transparency, this is my wife's blog - figure it might hold a few good nuggets that you crazy kids at news.y might enjoy :)
Like the idea, pricing is interesting and wholly out of line with common desks. Still I would lean towards a glass top (black bordered glass is what I have now) instead of laminate or bamboo. L-shape would be fun, but I guess you could put two together, perhaps slave the controls?
This! I welcome the step. It is more tha about time to move away from centralized Services. Hope more will follow.
You can use google translate.

Yes there were irregularities, the process was either rough or rigged. However he was seeing a voluntary 75% turnout with exit pool showing more than 75% in favour.
Hey. I'm in San Diego, Del Mar area. I mentor a FRC FIRST team that is going to be putting on a number of Robotics Camps over the summer. If you interested, send me a message tyler@team3128.org.

Totally get if gymanstics is taking a priority though :). Running and jumping and doing cool tricks is a ton of fun.
Interesting that Amazon now has a pretty good motivation to remove this feature.
Sure, just do whiteboard coding of a difficult algorithm because it replicates actual coding conditions quite nicely </snark> I'd much rather see what a candidate can come up with while working at their leisure, using their favorite IDE, googling syntax and other questions, testing, and having time to refactor than see what they will come up with on the fly, under pressure, without any tools available to them.
My god, it's practically funded already. And for those saying it's expensive, I paid $1000 for my GeekDesk.
John Brunner's book "The Shockwave Rider" (1975), which was heavily inspired by Toffler's "Future Shock", had this concept (called a Delphi pool) as a major and successful component of the future society.
"If that wasn’t enough, the explosion of smart phones and tablets has made the job of the web designer even harder. Designers can no longer assume a fixed-width canvas..."

They never should have, and I'd say it's probably easier in some respects with smartphones because, while there's a multitude, they're all fixed, and you can generally target, say, 3-6, and cover a huge variety. And people generally can't change their font sizes.

Compare with dozens of monitor and window sizes on desktops. 13, 15, 19, 20+, with varying types of DPI and available fonts on systems. Not so much monitor sizes I mean, but... is the browser window full screen, or partial? People resizing windows would lose info, or not see it in the first place, and get lost. Back in the early days the "256-color palette" was considered a requirement for many projects.

While it's a hassle to develop for various size phones, it's still a more controlled and uniform set of sizes, imo; it just takes a lot more work.
The goal of the problem solving interview is more to see the candidates reasoning process and less the ability to recall the problem and reproduce a solution. I like interviews where the problems are more open ended and the interviewer is active in the process and it's more of a discussion towards a solution and THEN coding or at least some pseudocode.

I've had interviews where I'll be asked some canned algo/data structures problem (some version of knearest, or longest substring) and then the interviewer will tune out- these are mostly lame.
It’s very similar here in Argentina, but we usually have a different plastic piece to use as debit card and as credit card.
Historically, some tasks have proven easier to automate than others. Much of typesetting and printing was rote, thus it was automated fairly early in the history of computers.

There have been efforts to automate programming, but so far it has proven impossible. That's because programming is almost never rote. It's likely that automating programming is tantamount to inventing a true artificial intelligence. If that happens, the implications extend far, far beyond web design tools.
1) web design is an engineering discipline because you have to make things fast and fault-tolerant on top of making it look good. there's a lot more moving parts to a website than there is to an InDesign export.

2) any tool sufficiently powerful to render complex websites will make it considerably easier to create simple bland websites

3) the mythical oracle described above would not only be of interest to webdesign, but all of computer engineering. i wish you the best of luck.
There will be an on-prem version of this too pretty soon. On the hosted we're benchmarking, but it'll depend where you're hosted. If you're Amazon EC2 you should see very low latencies.
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Many times, I find myself just 'C-s' or 'C-r' (searching) in Emacs to the piece of code I want, even if it's already visible, then doing 'C-l' to get it centered. And when org-mode is loaded, 'C-l' will cycle through making the current line vertically centered, top of buffer, and bottom of buffer. Not sure it's what you're looking for, but that's what I do, and I'm sure there's a way to customize how far emacs will scroll ('M-x customize-variable RET scroll TAB TAB' might be a good starting point for looking into this).
Yes, unless I am missing something. It's up to the developer (same as on Web w/ CSS Breakpoints) to accommodate the various 'breakpoints' or devices visually. To say it's poor UX is inaccurate, will there be plenty of unoptimized UI/UX full-screen apps? Sure, but the functionality itself is not poor UX.
Apple is in the business of selling devices and having the most content available to encourage adoption (and doing a pretty good job of it). I don't give a toss that iTunes isn't available on a bunch of Smart TVs or BluRay players, I'm rarely going to buy another BluRay player or Smart TV, nor are most people, they're happy with the one they've currently got.

Amazon is in the content distribution business and playing catchup on having the devices to support it (because, for some reason, having their app on a smart TV and set top box doesn't seem to be enough).

This is a pretty good offering, but it's clear that, HuluPlus and Netflix aside, the big players [Google|Amazon|Apple] wants to have their own device ecosystem, and are fighting to differentiate theirs. For $99, these streaming devices are a disposable income purchase that gives you benefits in a particular ecosystem. Amazon has no particular advantage in this race yet, they're still coming from behind.
But magazine designers don't have to care about usability to the same extent. Once people have to interact with your stuff consistency becomes important.

Back when Flash was in vogue there was all kinds of print designers using it to produce very creative websites. But the consensus was that people hated them.
> looks basically identical and is quite comparably priced.

I disagree. That desk is priced at £407, whereas this one goes for £240. All else equal, that's significant.
No, the caps on contributions to each "point source", you might call it, e.g. each candidate, remain the same.

What was overturned was overall spending limits, that you could only donate a total of X dollars per election or whatever.
This. I've also had co-workers hell-bent on building out over-the-top unnecessary solutions (albeit sometimes neat in a technical sense) to problems that already had existing solutions that we could have easily leveraged and saved lots of time (money). Being able to leverage resources efficiently so that you are able to get more done is valuable. Go crazy and solve big problems when necessary but don't be afraid of using Google or any other resource to get through the rest.
Ah, now I understand. Yes, I agree that discoverability is an extremely useful feature.
The amazing thing is that you can potentially write all your code in C# and have backend/frontend logic for the web (ASP.NET), Windows, Windows Phone, and even iOS/Android (via Xamarin). Wow.
Doesn't seem that bad to me. I paid $200 for a similar desk (without the standing feature) from IKEA. Most desks, standing or not, that are designed for office environments, are at least that expensive.
$500!? Plus shipping!? You can make a standing desk with $100 worth of Ikea parts then buy a tall stool/chair for $75 on Amazon. Bam, just beat your "most affordable" sit/stand desk by $325+. Oh, and you can have it next week instead of next year (or later).

I guess I'll start my Kickstarter campaign tonight.

P.S. 45" is not enough height for many of us tall folk, especially in dress shoes with a thick heel.
It isn't a crime if you occasionally need to google something. It is a crime if you copy and paste a solution you find without understanding how it works. This leads to cargo cult programming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming
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Odd, I've streamed Netflix to Chromecast and my laptop video to Chromecast just fine. It may be your wifi connection.
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If you live with someone who also uses the desk, it makes a lot of sense to have more options.
Does Amazon see the future?

Content delivery platform for commercials/suggestions + shipping infrastructure to deliver products + drone delivery for last mile = Commercials with immediate product purchase ability.

Amazon can even broadcast a commercial in a geographic area, know the percentage of users who will immediately want the commercial's product, and pre-emptively unleash drones to a geographic location to drop off the product within seconds.
Really wish Microsoft would hire a designer.
Ok let's look at some of the use cases you mentioned.

Wire up form submission: Submitting a form in just HTML requires setting the action attribute to point to a backend that will accept the form and do something with it. Wiring it up does not require knowledge of code, it requires knowledge of knowing where to post that form to. What kind of automation do you envision here?

Writing Javascript to get navigation bar working: Lots of widgets/controls exist with javascript based behavior enclosed with the UI(they even have extension points via properties that can change how the control behaves by setting properties e.g. slide left slowly, slide up with a bounce, etc). If you need your navigation bar to behave in a custom way there is no way around writing javascript to implement your custom behavior.

Setting up MySQL server to get dynamic content on the page: Unless you want to put MySQL connection code directly in the frontend(not recommended) you will have to write some code to get the data from the backend.

Now if your goal is to move away from hand-coding simple applications and Wordpress templates for creating simple Websites then the Title of your blog post is a tad exaggerated at best and a bit of link baiting at worst.
Why not just get an ikea galant?
I see this as equivalent to writing one application that targets both iPhone and iPad and even Android with one app targeting tablets and phones. The only really new thing is support for a single application but the design and UI work still needs to be addressed for each screen size.
I talk with a lot of people about getting started with standing desks, and I usually recommend throwing a small cheap table (ikea) on top of your existing desk and getting a drafting chair (tall). This way you don't have to pay for a variable height desk, and you keep it on the cheap side to see if you actually like it. Also, be sure to start slow and stand for maybe an hour or two a day for a few weeks. Then gradually stand more and more.

I've gone into more detail here: http://reustle.io/blog/cant-stand-sitting
I am kind of surprised the Roku manages to stay independent in all the 'tv' efforts. They have a really nice player and now a nice 'stick' player. Also a pretty easy to use SDK. So why re-build all or much of that for a proprietary box? Any thoughts on that strategy?
You can read the guidelines here:

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This may fall under:

" Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait. "
Corporations enjoy a legalized fiction as persons, but I don't think their role as citizens has been questioned enough. Non-citizen natural persons aren't allowed to make political donations. Should international corporations who funnel their profits to offshore entities be treated as persons as well as having the speech protections of citizens?

Citizens, by birth or going through the effort of naturalization have a bond to their nation. And so we trust that collectively, the political speech from those citizens serves the long term interests of the nation. Corporations have no such bond, so an essential element that is provided with live citizens is missing.
yeah that's what i meant. People in special conditions who won't check their emails may lose all files... freezing in 4 months and keeping for 12 months may ensure nothing valuable is lost.
This is motorized, so you can also sit at a regular chair if you want as well. Some people don't like stools, they simply don't offer the same level of comfort and ergonomics that a regular chair would.
Submitter here: I have the same excitement (though not a sailor myself, just a spectator). I actually wondered about a kite pulling a boat a while ago myself, and now someone goes and does it.

I was surprised how fast the foiling technology has been spreading after the America's Cup. There were the foiling moths (small sailboats) before, but now it seems to be more popular. Then recently, I saw something about kiteboarders fitting a foil to their boards and gaining speed. Now this.

One disadvantage of the kiteboat is that it requires a bigger sail and thus longer lines. That will increase the risks of entanglement in a race. And with 80-meter lines, this prototype already has to worry about bridge clearance on the bay.
http://i.imgur.com/KgoIF.gif

I'm so glad everyone downvoted you.
Today we have such powerful tools for web development that, at least for me, there is hardly any "meaningless and repetitive work" involved. Those aspects of the job have been automated. For example, I use SCSS instead of pure CSS, eliminating whole classes of drudgery. I use Rails' form_for instead of manually populating text fields with their current values. Another class of drudgery eliminated.

What's left is still coding, without the repetitive parts. Instead of going on vacation, I take the extra time to produce more and better software.
> I doubt the issue is simply the use of web technologies...the fact is the more powerful our computers become the more demand is placed on them. Your web browser is just one more thing running on your computer, there are a bunch of other things influencing overall performance. You could replace the entire web stack of technologies and you would probably end up in the same place performance-wise.

Running a profiler would seem to suggest otherwise.
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As a newbie programmer (self-taught), I've asked the same question a lot lately.

I think to some extent it's a matter of habit -- I've learned the most about my ever-improving (but still limited) abilities during the few times I've found myself coding on an airplane flight without WiFi.

When I'm forced to go with only what's in my head, I've been surprised at how far I can get (!). It was actually pretty satisfying to solve a problem and get some code working without a single Stack Overflow query :)

Of course, there are limits, and there are times when I'll hit a roadblock that's truly a limit of my knowledge (usually API/syntax-related). And even then, I've managed to make a few educated guesses and surprise myself with the result.
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Confused over the country specific pledge tiers. Unless KS has changed since I last backed, I thought you could only select a single tier. Therefore, to purchase a standard fame/top from UK, do I just select the $99 UK tier, but pledge $399? (or is it $99 + $399?)
What are you talking about? Romania has secret prisons where people are held without trial and tortured.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/08/world/europe/08iht-prisons...
If this Amazon box ever gets MLB.TV I'll buy one that day to replace my AppleTV. I don't watch enough movies or non-sports TV to make Netflix worth it to me, but having ties into what Amazon Prime streaming would be enough to pull me over.
I have difficulty envisioning exactly how this market is going to develop. None of the products (AppleTV, Roku, Google, Amazon) are differentiated enough to imagine someone who's pretty happy with their box switching, particularly given various ways you'd get locked into particular features or media (e.g., if the average AppleTV user has bought a bunch of movies from iTunes, they're unlikely to switch to Amazon even if they like the games).

At the price point, you can imagine people owning more than one device to get access to different feature silos, but the huge duplication of features (e.g. every device having Netflix) makes this feel wasteful. Furthermore, I think people quickly run into a limitation on how many HDMI ports their TV has. If you're going to have a cable box and DVD/BluRay player connected, you need to have 3 ports to be able to connect one of these devices at all, and you can't plausibly have more than two. (I don't know how many HDMI ports TVs have in the market, but 2, 3, and 4 seems to cover the consumer space in a very small sampling of Amazon availability.)

If I were building one of these devices, I would include an HDMI switch with pass-through so I don't consume an HDMI port. In the absence of that, it's not clear at all to me what the shape of market adoption looks like.
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Compared to any other device I use, PS3 updates are unusually intrusive. Almost nothing seems to be done automatically, so I'll end up with 5 minutes of downloading update apps and system updates before I can do what I intended to do when I sat down. Oh, and the updates are often "required", meaning you're prevented from even running your out of date app. I'm hopeful that they fixed most of these issues for the PS4 (hard to believe there was no App Store or Play Store when the PS3 came out).
You could try SugarSync? It's fairly flexible and, if you're the type of person who can stomach it, works flawlessly under wine. There are solid native mobile apps and a good web interface, too.
We have a 'quiet room'; a separated-off room with a few desks that some people (but not typically very many) use fairly often. In this case, it would be handy to have a few presets.
So if someone abuses the proxy and gets ip blocked the entire service fails for that api for all users, or am I missing something?
Looks like they plan to open a UK based distribution centre by 2015.
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Yea, if you have a laptop, you need to use an external monitor or it will strain your neck to look down all the time. Ego keyboard is always recommended. Living your life typing on a standard "rectangular" keyboard is a wrist's worst nightmare.
The same is (sorta) true of Apple TV. You can use an iOS device as a remote via WiFi.
> In reality if you are going to build something awesome, it's not going to be easy.

Turning a product into something that people like and use is nearly impossible (statistically speaking). Once you solve that then turning it into a sustainable business is easy.

Seriously, it's all hard. Only people who haven't tried to do it believe it's easy.
Yes, I agree, and web design tools should enforce/encourage good usability. Good usability doesn't have to be tied to software or code.
You are claiming that Amazon is on a wide variety of platforms and that's a reason to choose their ecosystem over Apple which encourages the purchase of an Apple device.

I don't agree. Google and Amazon are trying to get into Apple's device ecosystem game as it's way more profitable and offers more control than inserting apps on devices, which seems a failed strategy. Microsoft has already taken this approach with Surface and Xbox. And they're actively putting blocks up to their biggest competitors, which all about locking-in consumers to their ecosystem.

The the market leader in the "generic video streaming app everywhere" space (Netflix) is crowding out all competitors in this space unless they have exclusive content (HBO Go, HuluPlus, etc.) Apple maintains its market in the face of Netflix because of its wider content selection and the wide availability and affordability ($99) of its devices.

Amazon will be able to compete well here (this FireTV looks like a good offering) but we haven't seen what this year's AppleTV has in store, so it's not a slam dunk.
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Ok,guy selling a wysiwyg , webflow , "drag and drop with no code".

OP, doesnt understand that, these webbased products DONT WORK.

Even during the flash area,designers needed basic coding knowledge to add listeners to events, and, the twist is , some designers became coders because they had to , in order to stay competitive on the flash job market.

Web designers WILL always need to learn to code if they want to stay competitive ,period.

Things change fast on the web,and wysiwyg web tools cant integrate all the latest web techs, all the latest best practices,etc...

Finally, web designers dont work in the void,they work in teams with coders, and coders hate wysiwyg generated code.

So no ,not going to happen,like it did not happen with Dreamweaver (that even tries to be less designer oriented and more code oriented now).
But is it automatic?
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I must say I was quite worried when I woke up and saw the headlines. They originally made it seem as though the Court struck down all contribution limits, even to individual candidates. Was relieved to learn that wasn't the case. I wonder if we're headed down that road, though.