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> Also, C is extensively standardised

Not really, at least not in the sense that you mean here: The generation of machine code in shared objects. There is a distinct lack of definition between C syntax and the resulting machine code.

> The best advantage of writing libraries in C is that it allows the library to be usable via FFIs in many other languages.

You can create C shared objects from Rust (or from a ton of other languages which generate native code). No big deal. It can do what you want.
Would love to see this work in the Sonos app. I'm a Prime member & just added a bunch of albums to my Amazon Music Player via web browser. Switched to Sonos and the AMP, but only see the ones I've purchased.
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And how to "hack" other sites to steal users...

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I've been wondering about this for a while. For my thesis project in college, my class created a web app for a school for the blind and visually impaired. We were greenhorns when it came to creating a production ready system, but we were able to meet the standards for usability by implementing them while the project was going, not as an after thought.
I agree with you completely. CVS is old, but that doesn't make it bad per se. If it could serve the needs of source control before, I doubt the needs have changed that much to require a different SCM tool. We just see new solutions that work better so we naturally migrate to them.

My point is that the argument for CVS is probably just a forced, faulty rationalization by the author so he/she can justify writing a new implementation. But I'm repeating again that there is nothing wrong in reimplementing something just for the sake of it—you have nothing to lose and a lot to gain :)
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"3% browse with IE9 and 14% have a disability. Why do we only cater for the former?
So why do we think it is perfectly acceptable to spend time ensuring that our websites work in IE9, but not that you can navigate them with a keyboard?"

if she is so concerned about making websites accessible for those with impairments, why in the heck did she choose that font?!?

2nd, you are really twisting things. first you take ALL people with disabilities (term used generously), and use that to justify websites having to comply with an issue that effects less than 1% of the population. the vast majority of disabilities falls under visual impairment, and all websites should strive to make them readable.

Then you do the complete opposite to IE. you disregard all the IE versions and focus on just one. in short, you lumped all disabilities to validate your point about one specific part of it and bifurcated the IE market to make it seem smaller to prove your point.
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Because "a disability" is extremely broad, and covers such things as back injuries, diabetic neuropathy, and mental illnesses. I would expect that percentage to come down considerably when factoring specific disabilities that actually impede browsing.
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Because sometimes it's nice to see other people's success. It sure keeps me going.
If you're familiar with Smalltalk, skip the first twenty minutes of that first video I shared and then stick around for at least fifteen minutes, that's where the customizable views are explained. I think that answers your question - although I don't know how innovative this if you take into account all the alternative UI's that failed. However, the way it is being implemented in Pharo really appeals to me, and I can see it really work well in this "visual debugging seeing room environment thingy" Bret Victor wants us to aim for.
I agree that the most minimal version of the Apple icon isn't perfect. I prefer the less minimal OSX version.

The complaint that it is too similar to the download icon is valid, not because there's anything wrong with either icon; just because they are visually confusing where they might appear together. Rahter like waht I did to this senetnce.

I think that problem could be solved with better visual differentiation, through more clearly different arrow shapes, sizes, or inverting the colours (essentially, make more use of the arrowhead filling the box, or not). Again, they are very clearly differentiated on OSX, which is why I prefer those. I appreciate the minimalist version for the way it conveys the concept as simply as possible, I just don't think it's quite the "finished form" of this icon, it needs some further polish.

The complaint that it looks like a log out icon is also valid (while most logout icons I've seen have the arrow pointing right, it's yet more visual confusion). The mitigation against that is that Apple never has the icon anywhere that it might be mistaken for exit or log out. As a universal icon, that might not apply everywhere.
There was a really good writeup about the decision process in the early iPhones where Steve Jobs ordered the UI in its own process so that the user gets instant feedback on interactions even if the feedback is a simple loading spinner. It gives the perception of speed even if a modern android phone is timed to load the same application faster. There are ways to try and achieve this in web apps but Apple's early decision to use that approach was certainly brilliant. If you call a bank and a human answers immediately...telling you to please hold...it would be a far better experience than the current press 1 for English.
Don't increase the font size (it doesn't help). Even when they're larger, certain characters (ie - SQL) are completely unreadable. Script is always a bad idea on the front-end.

Do your readers a favour and change your font!
It's not built-in but the Stylish extension does that.
The fact that her site uses a hard-to-read font has nothing to do with her point. The merits of each should be considered individually.
A lot of comments seems to be negative on this.

As a amazon prime subscriber, this is great for me, here's why:

1. I have amazon prime for their delivery, and this is basically a free music service for my mobile that is unmatched by anything else. (Free spotify sucks on mobile in comparison, and can't be used offline)

2. Downloaded songs basically gives me a library and allows me to use the song everywhere.

3. A million songs is a lot, unless you listen a lot to very esoteric bands, it works well.

The app is crashing on search for me, but it doesn't matter, the content is so great I will keep going back. Amazon Prime video already trumped netflix with their HBO library acquisition. I am psyched to see what they will try next.
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You seem like a soothsayer to me as you know beforehand if you will use some site regularly or not possibly even before accessing its functionality (which is applicable to many sites with login requirements).
I've lived in both, cost of living is deceptive. Non-housing cost of living is nearly identical between the two cities, and housing is really starting to get up there.

There's still a good advantage to be enjoyed, but it won't last long. The 2BR I had for $2200 a couples of years ago is now going for upwards of $3000. Housing cost growth in Seattle is starting to hit a hockey stick curve reminiscent of the Bay Area.

Tax rate is noticeably lower than California or New York though, so you've got that going for you (though the lower taxes can be felt in other, less awesome, ways - see the constant cutbacks to the already fairly anemic transit system).

Side note: you're also going to need a car. Yes, even if you live in urban neighborhoods like Capitol Hill or Belltown. One of my big takeaways is that while you can get by just fine with transit and shopping locally, Seattle itself is a car-centric city. Trying to force a transit-only lifestyle on it means you'll simply be insulated into one of the few neighborhoods where that lifestyle is reasonable and never leave.
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Everybody has their own preferences and all but I don't personally consider

>(cold, snowy winters,

as an ideal climate. My Dad's side of my family is from Boston, so while I've never lived there, I have been there from time to time (usually in the summer) and they didn't seem that mild to me. Must like the Summers I was used to in the Midwest (which is [just] one reason I left the Midwest).
And it's not just blind people who can't differentiate between red and green. A significant percentage of the population has red-green color blindness.
>against the unfair regulation

Not all unfair regulation, since one could argue that the regulation that protects the taxi drivers from incumbents it's pretty unfair. They are protesting just against unfair regulation that hurts them.
More freedom for mediocre or bad coders = more ways to fuck up.
More freedom for good coders = more ways to make great things (and fuck up).

So basically it's a tradeoff. If people working on the Linux kernel were very careful and good hackers, writing in C would be much less of a risk than letting fresh-out-of-college programmers tinker with memory on the low-level. But even very careful and good hackers can screw up sometimes—see what happened with OpenSSL.

I don't see a reason not to use Rust except for performance, or when the unsafe features of C are required to get the job done. I can't say a lot here because I've only seen Rust's syntax and feature list and never programmed in it. (On the other side, I've written a fair amount of (functioning) code in C, and I feel that debugging race conditions coupled with memory management bugs has shaved a few years off of my expected lifespan already.)
Shameless self promotion: Here is a decorator I wrote to help me inspect performance issues using Django's DOM. The nice thing about this over Django-Debug-Toolbar is that it runs single function rather than the whole view helping you narrow down an issue. You can also add filters to remove unwanted noise during your analysis.

http://pushingkarma.com/notebook/django-decorator-print-sql-...
I advised my political party (here in Uruguay) on a bill to mandate accesibility throughout government websites, and we submitted it to Parliament.

Sadly it "died", it wasn't deemed important enough to be voted on and so languishes in a drawer or cabinet somewhere.
That's a great analogy. Its only flaw, as you say, is that doctors should be regulated closely- but to me this only brings up the question of why cabbies are as regulated.

It's kind of like if travel agents were regulated, and suddenly expedia or kayak existed. They can do an almost-as-good job through technology, and a "mistake" analogous to the taxi driver taking a poor route, i.e. Expedia connecting you through a worse city or not finding a deal 10% cheaper.
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greasemonkey can too, with the added benefit of being able to script the page as well.
related: Great thoughts about "WHAT ACCESSIBILITY HAS TO DO WITH SECURITY" by Anna Shubina:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6phwEoiqLTM
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The Original article seems to mis-quote browser marketshare. They have IE10 listed as 3% of the market and "Other" as 36%? And all the IE's combined for 19% market share? Everything I've seen (except the original article) list the IE's at a combined market share somewhere in the neighborhood of 50-70%., with IE8 still having a dominant 15-20%.
Out of interest, did you do any user testing for this site? I've worked on sites that have required a legal accessibility audit and in my experience a lot of screen readers don't even know what ARIA is, let alone use it. Like users that stick with older browsers a number of users use old screen reading tools.
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It's important to remind developers and clients in the United States that some aspects of web accessibility are required by federal law:

http://www.ada.gov/

Does the ADA apply to the web? Yes. This has been supported in court, when the National Federation of the Blind successfully sued Target over their e-commerce site:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Federation_of_the_Bli...

The ADA is a great example of important legislation that protects the rights of a minority group that is regularly ignored by the market.
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ah, thank-you. that makes more sense.
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Yes. Compatibility is not a commutative relationship.
How in the world do you justify linking to a blog-post of precisely 135 words, 101 of which are quotation, the entirety of which was lifted from a recent CNN (opinion) article?

This is insulting. Hacker News is not just another place for you to post your practically-plagiarized, "content-aggregating" garbage for a couple meager cents from advertising.

(Your "12 Life Lessons from Trading" was a much better article, even though it's similar plagiarized copypasta.)
Also, the browsable api that DRF provides can be used to perform the profiling with django-debug-toolbar.
@_broody: if it becomes a race to the bottom and it will not provide a decent income then people will not practice it (like any other job). Why not let the demand & competition regulate the market instead of some bureaucracy ? If my job (programming) becomes agglomerated will someone regulate it to provide me a decent income ?
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I think you're being sarcastic, but as a first approximation it's so close to what many actually think that the sarcasm might be lost. :)
Hard to read downvoted comments is a feature not a usability bug.

Down voted comments are supposed to be hard for everyone to read.
I find this font ridiculously hard to read. I clicked the back button after the first paragraph.

It's also hard to take the author's opinion on web-design seriously when they make such decisions for their own site.
I don't disagree - I'm just saying I'd understand why the doctors would be upset about it.
Wow, that's a terrible font, especially for an article talking about catering to those with disabilities. I found it hard to read, and I have perfect vision.
A driver didn't have enough sleep or one whith medical condition might very well kill you in an accident though.
If his theory is correct, this post will generate next to nothing. However, I think he misses one major point...

The first article talked about the product offering throughout, this article doesn't even mention their company/product name. There was nothing in the second article that made me wonder what they did; in the first article I was interested in what their obvious value prop was.

Tip: write each blog post like it may or may not be a person's very first interaction with your company. Write for both audiences.
Both? IMO the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest (which, granted, is much larger than just Seattle) is the sort of sight/sound/smell one should experience in their lifetime.

Having lived in dry, brown California, and now in concrete jungle Manhattan, a hike in the hills of the PNW sounds positively divine right now.
PowerMat's resonance charging supports multiple devices on one charging matt, whereas Qi uses inductive charging which require more precise placement to charge. I think Qi may have resonant charging solutions coming up or out now, but you can see the better experience in a place like Startbucks would be resonance charging. It's much closer to don't-make-me-think.
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the fragmentation and lack of updates from OEMs was the same thing that frustrated me about WinCE and older phones like the ericsson T68. They would completely abandon the devices that were released and you had to do all these hacks to make the newest firmware work. Often times it worked better because it didn't have all that carrier BS on it, but was a major hassle to get installed.
xScope provides a great tool for testing common vision impairments. What I'd love is a well written overview for keyboard accessibility within websites.
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> I've seen blind people with iPhones (I have no idea)

Video demonstrating how blind people use iOS devices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIQWyp13beE
Do you have to write specific code for Safari users?
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This is the first time I've come across the term "wantrepreneur" and I am immediately putting it beside "slacktivist" as a word to use often.

"While I appreciate you asking for my expert opinion on your business plan, your insistence that I sign a wantrepreneur NDA means I will pass."
If you're going to set up shop in a foreign country and hire locals, you have two options:

a) Learn about the local culture and try your damnedest to conform to their culture. This includes things like talking to other Americans who have started businesses there, reading as much as possible about the culture, finding a trusted local to serve as a de facto guide, and admitting that you don't know what you don't know.

b) Do things the exact way you would do them at home.

In your situation, you had a trusted local guide who was doing a fine job of running things. Then, you demoted her. When she complained about Joe's management style, you didn't take that as a hint, instead you carried on as you had before. In this case, option B cost significantly more time and money than option A would have.

International business is intensely hard and I'm not criticizing you. If you'd like to hear about my own sizable screwup, you can email me!
At least two decades. Here's one in an issue from 1994: http://www.theonion.com/articles/november-2-1994,10581/

I imagine they go all the way back to 1988 but it's hard to dig them up....
"I agree that it would be nice if everything was all in one place."

I actually find "distilled reference with links to source" a fantastically valuable view. I've no objection to providing some sort of combined view, but let's not lose what we have in a quest for consolidation. I've no idea if that's what you meant or not, and don't mean to put words in your mouth of course, just expressing a concern.
You know, I think a machine capable of recognizing puns would be very close to some measure of real intelligence.

This thought was instigated by some friends talking about some animals. "There was a herd of them?" "Yea, I heard them. Ayyy!" A machine recognizing puns must be able to recognize auditory similarity, while recognizing that their meaning is related in some undefined way while being distinct words.
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That's not what I mean at all and this model wouldn't work outside of places, like NYC, where drivers are indy contractors. Even there, it's not clear that this would be OK with the lessors or their cab. They may not be able to use this. I'm thinking something that cedes some control of the system while making available some of the functionality. SaaS, not a franchising exercise directly from Uber to drivers.
Should this be a list of famous people who disappeared mysteriously?

I know 2 people from my college that have disappeared mysteriously, and they're not on this list.
Well... this really is something good.
The 'Marco Civil' came in response to law projects ('AI-5-digital' or 'Lei Azeredo') that harm the privacy of Brazilian citizen.
But there are negative features in 'Marco Civil' take too long to be fixed. This all because was approved with haste.
Everytime I say something negative about Rust, the counterarguments push me to learn the language. I'll definitely check out the kernels page, thanks a lot for that.

With your comments I have to concur. I have also read a comment on name-mangling somewhere on this thread, probably one that you've written. If C can be replaced with Rust for most-if-not-all applications in future, it is a step forwards IMO.
1. If you're going to share something related to a product, it's a good idea to have a link to that product.

2. Even better if the product site isn't down: http://buckets.io/

3. Would've loved to read why it evolved the way it did, rather than just an animation without any context.
Doesn't this method of including dynamic data in the index.html page prevent it being served from a CDN?

When serving a web application, I'm generally more worried about the time it takes before the user sees a response, even if the page isn't fully hydrated yet, than the total load time.

Requiring a hit to the database before the index.html is served seems like a bad idea to me, even if it is 'saving' a request to the API.
Please start, I'm curious as to why web workers doesn't fit the needs like using threads, I have a fairly basic knowledge of web workers and not much practice with them, but I would like to know if possible what are the limitations.
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I don't understand #1. You can have DjDT show up only on a condition, e.g. when someone is a superuser. Isn't it the same as this project?
For what it's worth, I disagree. For one, I would rather see additional content on the page instead of a huge embedded video that I may not watch (especially at work). Secondly, links to Youtube are handled better on mobile devices than embedded videos, opening the Youtube app instead of relying on the browser to handle it.
But the floppy disk has already disappeared completely in practice...
OK, the topic is great. So could anyone write a decent article about it and post it to HN?
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World is impermanent, the internet world magnifies this tenfold. Things will get ever more transient.

Accept the impermanence.
Even the snow isn't that great :-) You get really nice snow one day. It starts melting the next day and the day after it gets really cold and everything turns into ice. Not great conditions for snowboarding/skiing...
I agree with the parent that it is a pain, but not very much of one. My pains in lacking other features when I move away from Haskell are far greater than my pains in name collision in Haskell.
Claudius is being sarcastic. http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.php?title=UserContent.css
I didn't know that, but I'm not surprised. It was the sensible thing to do.

My point is that it is also sensible for Uber to claim that it has resulted in a massive success for their company. It makes themselves seem savvy and the taxi drivers short-sighted.

Of course, the goal of the taxi drivers' protest not really about getting people to not use Uber so much as it is about getting the regulators to change their decision that Uber's app doesn't count as a taximeter.
How about "you only see the sun for two weeks out of the year"? That's arguably much more important since it tends to lead to depression in a lot of people.
I can't believe they launched something this big with that UI. If they had an app comparable to that of Spotify on mobile and desktop, so many people would have jumped right on it.
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I think the biggest factor in this is that baremetrics hooks up with Stripe.

It's very likely that someone who runs a website and is reading Hacker News will be using Stripe, so this is an incredibly targeted audience for that service. Maybe not such an externally valid case study, but interesting none the less.
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You're right that this often is just PR...

In the case of Seattle, it is an actual thing. YC is seeing it too ( https://twitter.com/sama/status/475658241167220736 ). Seattle saw $500M in venture funding last quarter, which was its biggest quarter ever. It was the fastest growing city in the country last year... though it still only has a metro area size 50% of SF, 15% of NYC, 30% of LA.