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I'm making so many big changes that I'd rather not keep track of them all yet

For what other reason is source control used but to maintain track of code changes like this!

Regular Time Machine backups and archiving a copy of the code after implementing a key feature are the only things I'm doing at this stage.

Then your using rudimentary source control anyway :) I'd switch to something more structured asap.

Im with the others: at the start. :) With hosting so cheap now (my choice is mercurial and bitbucket) and with private repositories barely a few clicks away there is no reason not to IMO.
I'm sorry to break it to you, but it's just a mere side effect of iPhone being slow at processing picture. iPhone freeze screenshot is taken separately from the full resolution image, so there is always a difference. You just happen to get lucky to have the one that is better suited for you.

Take a look at this site - www.snapturelabs.com. They do some pretty good work with the iPhone camera. Their quickview feature will help you do your comparisons easier. Give it a shot and let me know if I'm right. ;)
Yes the oxygen is added on vaporization

http://www.terrapass.com/blog/posts/how-to-turn-8-p
Does SF have anything like calagator? If not, someone should build it.
When you did industrial research, how many things involved just one paper? I'm not trying to create an argument. I just accept that academic research is not as pure as many people portray it to be. I used to think the university/research system was a pristine place of people doing research for the sake of research. I don't think that anymore.
No, you're not alone. I keep all my docs under version control and it has saved me more than once.
agreed, thanks kirubakaran!

It has a really simple but effective explanation of the NULL dereferencing problem.
let's wait for google wave ...
its not pre-caching anything. You can easily verify this by adjusting the light level really quickly. It if was taking photos from the by-gone video stream the exposure would be off in rapidly changing light situations. The shutter lag seems evident to me when I tried shooting an analog clock. Much of the perceived shutter lag is actually post processing the image to something that it can display. (remember the sensors on digital cameras produce a format that need some decent number crunching before it can be rendered.

All this said, the camera on the iPhone 3GS is mediocre at best. Compare it to any p&s produced in the last couple of years and you'll be sadly dissapointed. By the time Apple are at iPhone 7 it should be good enough for anything more than sleeping cute dogs.
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You can't get more real than this... too bad some of the other pictures are broken links
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I just have to ask... is making photoshop online any easier than making photoshop on the desktop?

The original comment had to do with amateur programmers that can't do anything else other than write simple php with complete disregard to the complexity of computer science. But when you're making a scalable commercial webservice, you need to know a quite a bit about compilers, concurrency, inheritance, and hardware. Probably the only major difference is that you learn about html + css + ajax instead of MFC (or gasp visual basic).

Software is about the value to the end user, but it's also about cost. When you want to be efficient, you can't just use the simplest tool to implement the features, you need to know much more about the specifics. It just so happens that web development is easier to do poorly than desktop programming.
Because usually there would be some lag time for the camera's electronics to actually process your actions and finally snap the shutter.
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This paragraph summed it all up:

If the studios are allowing some places like Blockbuster stores to rent movies on day one, but limit Netflix from doing the same, how many of the millions of Netflix users are going to drive to a Blockbuster store to get that movie? Some certainly will, but a lot will also turn to the web and simply download the movie. And some who have never done that before will learn how to get around such a ridiculous restriction.

Not sure if it's a scheme to grant Blockbuster exclusive rights to DVD rentals for the first 30 days but it sure seems that way.

In the war on "piracy" it always seems that the studios make things increasingly more difficult for their customers and driving them toward other means. It seems they won't be happy until no one can have their product but must pay for it anyway.
Please tell me how a health care in Easter Europe has a better quality than here in US? I agree healthcare system here in US needs reforms and in my opinion the problem is that it is insurance based, but the quality is the best - I can tell from personal experience - living in Eastern Europe, then Western Europe and now in US.
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Yes, the various organizational overlaps, competing interest groups, and projects that had bigger plans than they did bankrolls makes the whole system less functional that it needs to be. Up until quite recently if I had wanted to take public transit from my home (south bay) to the Berkeley I would have needed to take VTA light rail to the San Jose caltrain station, Caltrain to SF (4th & King), SF MUNI to a BART station, and then BART to Berkeley; with the Caltrain/BART connection at SFO I can at least cut the MUNI step out of the process but it is still faster and cheaper to just hop in my car and drive there...
That may all be true in the future. In fact, browsers as a rule seem to be evolving closer to operating systems with time.

For the time being, I find that when there is a web version and a nonweb version, the nonweb version is virtually always more feature rich, more robust, and more polished than the web version. That could easily change in the future.

One thing that is unlikely to change is that I will have more control over the nonweb version, including amoungst other things the ability to refuse/ignore certain upgrades and to know that my data is staying on my local machine and not being sent to third parties at all. This is normally trivial for most things, but it can be very important for mission critical items where consistency, stability, privacy, and customization are more important that being on the bleeding edge.

Of course, it is possible good solutions to even those last problems will be found, but I do not think that one is on the horizon yet.

In short, I think that there is a place for both and that for the near future more things will (and should) move onto the web. But not all of it and in particular not the most important parts.
He's smart! and It's amazing is just how Ryan talks. He's extremely energetic and really fun to have technical discussions with because of it.
> Unfortunately, scarcity is, and always will be, a reality.

It's true that scarcity is a reality. It is far from certain that scarcity always will be a reality. Unless of course you define scarcity to mean that not everyone in the solar system can have exclusive use of more than 50% of the mass of the sun.
You don't need to know its value, only its syntactic type -- in almost all but the most pathological cases, a clever static parser can identify that.
Technically a 501(c)(6), actually.
One interesting feature Google code has implemented is placing notes about the code in the web view of the repository.

I'd love to see this feature reach other SCM providersm, it's something i would use a lot.
Do you mean http://www.sunlightlabs.com/contests/appsforamerica2/ ?
You got me - I haven't read his books thoroughly either, just a few chapters.

I don't have references on hand, but I believe there's a fair amount of accepted research that shows that we eat far more meat (and probably dairy) than is good for us - some meat gives protein and other good things, but you go too far and your body starts processing all the fats and whatnot in unhealthy ways. The evolutionary standpoint certainly supports this - we evolved as primarily hunter-gatherers who would manage to kill an antelope once every two weeks or something. Agriculture changed our diets significantly, and not necessarily for the healthier (an interesting writer on this subject is Jared Diamond).
You introduce aspects orthogonal to the post argument which is why the post does not even attempt to address them and you seem to think the author doesn't grok them.

HTTP method + a Unique URI are the essence of the Uniform interface constraint of REST. They are very much a part of REST. How the real world uses them has no bearing on their validity. This has to be managed by better informing the real world not by questioning the very notion itself. Linking via hypermedia is an essence of the HATEOAS constraint of REST. Both are orthogonal yet complementary aspects of REST. A discussion can be had about one without necessarily talking about the other as this blog post does.

On the other hand transparency vs. opaqueness has nothing to do with REST API design per se. All REST recommends is that clients shouldn't design themselves to assume specific semantics into the URI substructure nor should the services guarantee them. However structured design URIs do not at all fall foul of REST from an API design perspective, and help both development and debugging substantially.

I suspect you've introduced both issues related to Client API usage and used them to question serverside API design. The issues are not incorrect but the level of abstraction at which you choose to address them is something I would differ with.
Ask HN: Founders, what title do you use in email?
I'm wondering what title people use when emailing customers? For my load testing consultancy, I have to periodically send introductory emails to sales prospects, and I'm struggling with what I should call myself. So I'm wondering, what do you list as your title in emails?
I would say "the only nation".
could be said about facebook, myspace, or any other network. newsflash: most normal people in the world don't have ground breaking things to say every 5 minutes.
I thought the program wasn't just about CO2, but also about stimulating the economy.
I guess it's reality. Hiding it doesn't make it less awful.
"Knittel did not analyze the program's other key objectives: stimulating the economy and providing relief for automobile manufacturers."

I think the latter may be the ONLY real objective. Destroying perfectly good cars, which required a certain amount of energy to produce and which are still being productive, for the sake of reducing CO2 is just dumb.

How much CO2 was generated in making the new cars? How much CO2 will be generated in making the new cars to replace the ,now empty, dealer lots?

Maybe I'm being harsh, but the whole thing just seems really dumb. So, the guy standing next to you, with an car that gets 18mpg, gets thousands and thousands off of a new car and you don't, because your car gets 19mpg. Dumb. To top it off, you (and everyone else) get to pay for everyone else's new car! (Even if you didn't get one.)

Ok, now I'm just ranting. I don't know all the facts, I haven't read pages and pages of editorials or the official propaganda about how it's saving the world...because I don't need to in order to know that it's dumb.

Does this program make sense to you when you look at something like this:

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

Congrats to those who profited from this, it's a pretty good scam.
Just use your name and explain in human language what you do.
NO. NO.

REST is absolutely not about being able to guess URLs -- it's about never having to guess a URL. Repeat after me: Hypertext. As. The. Engine. Of. Application. State.

Clean, meaningful, organized / structured URLs are unrelated to REST, and their presence tends to lead to the predominant anti-pattern of 'API Specifications'. Leave that bullshit in SOAP's failure pile.
Cheers, I too thought it was that one. Guess the nonsense meme speak headlines do that to my memory.
It probably goes without saying, but the source behind the calagator.org site is freely available: http://github.com/calagator
The CEOs best bet for making money is to a) prolong the death of blockbuster as long as possible and more importantly b) chump it up with other board members and executives in the entertainment to hopefully land another high paying job when this all fails. He looks to be on track for success.
Only half? I would've guessed far, far higher than that. Maybe one in 20 conversations I have over facebook or AIM are not pointless babble, and I don't see why twitter would be wildly different.
From what I've heard, the iPhone does some pretty cool accelerometer processing behind the scenes to find the frame which is the least blurry. From this post, it sounds like it might be storing images for processing before you trigger the shutter, creating a buffer around when you wanted the shot. This makes a lot of sense, especially since the act of pushing the soft shutter button moves the device and could cause a blurry photo.
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They all work. Different places use different terms. Just don't mix/match... ie no Sign In / Logout. Sign In/Sign out is slightly less "computery" but everyone knows what all the variations do. Use the one you like best.
VP Sales.
addendum: not just industrial design
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Probably half the content in most newspapers is "pointless babble" particularly in the "Lifestyle" section. 90% or more of email traffic is spam. Doesn't make the media useless.
hey guys,

i had spoken with anoop early on (i started graffitigeo.com with a few of my college friends). i'll do a detailed response shortly, but anoop and i spoke on the phone today and we've both agreed that there were no ill intentions. what i had meant was that Graffitio as a product would be "stomped out" by other competitive applications who would focus on this space fulltime, as anoop was taking a job in new york full time. i was mostly interested in taking graffitio and improving upon it. at either rate, both anoop and i don't hold any hard feelings against each other and understand that this space is pretty competitive. the idea of "graffiti" and "walls" isn't entirely unique either, as i know of other companies exploring the space.
Economics, business, finance is not a natural science. there is a youtube video where george soros explains why that is the case.
I am not aware of anyway to make an old submitted story resurface in HN. Probably some feature like this would be good to have?
If you run out of experiment space, the solution is to do overlapping experiments, not to avoid running experiments at all. This biases your data somewhat, so it's not ideal. But by comparison - nearly every experiment at Amazon is 50/50: they try it one way on half of users, and another way on the other half. And they overlap, so you're running lots of experiments at once. Not absolutely great for data collection, but it doesn't seem to be much of a problem in practice for them.
What about in the signature?

I usually don't put any titles in the actual email itself. In the signature, I sometimes go with Co-founder, other times, just put the company name.
You're completely missing the point. Like, by a lot, to the point where I'm pretty sure you're trolling, but I'll bite anyways.

First of all, the analogy with Costco is false. Data is free to copy (esp. govt data which should not be subject to copyright) and very cheap to store and transport.

Data is only cheap to copy when it's, you know, available to be copied. The whole point of the article is that it currently isn't, but is instead buried in small sites that focus on presentation and analysis. That's the analogy that you seem to have completely missed - the government should act like Costco, making their data available in bulk, but instead, they act like bodegas, giving little snippets.

What you will get is the government creating data in some bizarre and byzantine format which only one or two companies can decipher....This is already happening now

You act as if accessible data standards aren't a part of what the open government movement is lobbying for. Why, exactly, do you think someone who wants data to be more commonly available would stop and be happy if it were only made available in some obscure proprietary format?

That does not release them from their duty to make the information accessible to the average citizen.

The article specifically says that we're talking about priorities, that the warehouse needs to come first. As for "their duty to make information accessible to the average citizen", isn't it great how often that currently comes with a healthy dose of political spin? I know I trust every little chart the government's handing me.
It depends entirely on what your selling and what your client is like.

For example when I am prospecting work for my day job I always use "VP <company>" or "Senior Analyst"

On the other hand for my own company I usually choose something light heartened related to the rest of the mail: "the man" or "the tech guy" etc. it goes down quite well.
Depends on how you want to be perceived. One of the most interesting article I read talked about how this founder carries 2 business cards. When he meets prospective clients, his title on the card says "VP of Sales" so his organization seems much bigger than a 1 man shop. But if he is meeting investors, he uses his CEO title card so he seems to be the one in control.

I think this scenario would apply to you pretty well :)
Hey man, don't lump me in. I'm a hungry hominid and I know it. Back to my previously programmed reality...
Every single text file you use should be in version control! Git is great for this, handles large files nicely and it's very easy to setup backup scripts across multiple machines. The line about making so many big changes is total nonsense! Get your text files into version control and do it right now, I think you should really consider what kind of release engineering you are doing for your app. How are you doing code branches so you can do bug fixes on released versions of your software without including experimental new code if you're not in version control??? You should seriously look into branches for your software for this and automating your build process as much as possible, in the end you will be grateful for the meta-work done today.
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Casio (and i'm assuming others) have this as a feature already. Haven't seen it marketed in a cell phone yet though. Under the features tab it's the "PRERECORD CS" - storing a buffer of 30 photos.

http://exilim.casio.com/products_exfc100.shtml

Targeted at parents watching children's sporting events/not wanting to miss a moment.
Just my name and my company's name. We're dealing mostly with consumer's though.
Maybe he is referring to the oxygen percentage. Thin meaning they could not go on without special breathing apparatus.
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I'm firmly of the opinion that only 10% of writing software is typing code. I have all my text documents in git, experimental ideas, budget plans, everything. The only complaint I have is that I haven't figure a solid plan for doing encryption inside version control effectively yet, but I haven't tried too hard either.
Why does anyone care where you view the advertisements? The point is that they are being viewed at all. The service providers (Cable, Satellite) have the weakest hand in this chain.
... which one, or both
He carried two business cards: a plain one with just his name and another that read "I'm CEO...Bitch."

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/21129674/the_battle_f...
This is an incredibly tough question, both because it varies widely from person to person and because it's very hard to quantify in numbers.

We are in love with numbers, and we think that we can just count the calories that go into our bodies and that is the secret to becoming skinnier (replace "calories" with "carbs" or any other measurement for the latest diet trend). The BMI is another (albeit much saner) manifestation of this desire to have magic numbers.

We're also enamoured with single-focus solutions: eat less tortillas and get fit, eat a stalk of celery every two hours, chug a glass of water before a meal, whatever the magazine rack at the grocery store tells us.

I am of the opinion that this is all badly misguided, especially because it needn't be that complicated. Eat on a regular schedule, in portions that leave you full but not satiated. Try to buy more raw food products and less highly-processed stuff. Include different types of food in each meal. Exercise regularly (there really is no substitute for this). Set your goals with yardsticks like cardiovascular endurance (for the layman, "can I jog up a flight of stairs without gasping?") instead of trying to lose x number of pounds in a week.

So no, I can't give you an exact answer. It will probably be centuries before nutritional science can do so, if ever. But I firmly believe that we can make ourselves a lot healthier by taking some simple steps to compensate for the fact that our modern lives do not follow the patterns that our bodies evolved to cope with.
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Ah, but it's your job to write your comments so what you are saying is reasonably clear - and yes, I indeed read the article before I read your original post.
My SLR has no lag time and there's no caching there. It can just be "fast" too. Simplest explanation is always the best, and such.
You mean, aside from the programming done on the 4 billion cell phones out there, all over the world. Not to mention the hundreds of millions of game consoles in developed countries. Over 10 billion ARM processors have been shipped, and you can bet that most of them won't be running web apps. How about the firmware and the server software and the operating systems which make your web programs possible?
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Casual: First name

Introduction: Full name

Sales email: Full name + "\nOwner, {{ company }}"
Uh ... I didn't say guessing state, I said guessing what is behind the URL. as in /users/greg vs /users/davis

rather than /u.exe?23q4234q34q34234234asdfa&query=true&xml=false&screen=home

The point I was trying to make is that with REST, URLs have meaning in and of themselves, not dependent on the presence/absence of a variety of other aspects of state embodied in the URL... The protocol (and REST verbs) is how you add that additional meaning... and a different URL thus means something different. Hence, for some universe of items, if one has an obvious meaning, the rest should.

If you are using the protocol in the right way then your resource will not change depending on which verb you are using.
I strongly disagree. It should be immediately after you write your first block of code :)

I have a hangup about every atomic commit needing to be a functioning version of the software. Following this logic, an initial commit that is just notes is not viable. Even if it's just some function/class prototypes that only 'raise NotImplementedError', the first commit has to do something you can execute.

I've noticed a trend of boilerplate projects on GitHub for people to use as a foundational branch, and I think that's terrific.
At my university we still have Functional programming (Scheme/Lisp), but the message is "what C++ can compute, Scheme can compute, only a bit weird, e.g. tail recursive factorial".

We have an OOP "course" that teaches code like this

class People
{
char* name;
}

The course's mantra: OOP is syntax, syntax, syntax.

The Prolog course was even more weird - the message was "what Lisp can do with lists, Prolog can do too", but it was implicit because the Prolog course was before the Lisp one.

The electives were only marginally better, with Python being the stellar exception.