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It looks good now. Next time I will try your support link instead, but I am glad you saw the comment and got it cleaned up.

In the future it shouldn't be too hard to find someone willing to support and a good open source project with some proof-reading. I may not be the best candidate, but it would be a good way for someone to get started helping the project, and could make a big difference if you are targeting a larger audience.
Probably a JetBrains editor. One commercial license for IntelliJ IDEA is one buck shy of $500. If you include the cost of upgrades over the years, it's not that surprising.
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How are they doing harm? Unless you're going to tell me people are too dumb to make decisions about who gives them rides I can't possibly see where there can be any harm.
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I was under the impression that it is in stealth mode right now, but is on the verge of a comeback.
I hope your project goes well.
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I agree with everyone recommending a tried and tested library for this.

Even with jQuery and jQuery UI, I see a few bugs and inconsistencies across browsers from time to time. However, you only have to look at the bug trackers for those projects to see how many more issues they have already resolved in this area.

I’m all for keeping things light and avoiding unnecessary dependencies on external libraries, but this is one of those issues where you’d be mad to try and get everything working properly yourself. This is one of the nastiest, most edge-case-ridden areas of front-end web development today, and you surely have better things to do with your time than fix every browser oddity one by one.
How is it strange? A service that's used by maybe <.00001% of the human population, compared to a service used by 500 million+ of the poorest population. How can they even compare?
> I wish they wouldn't attach themselves to the sublime brand

They aren't claiming to be associated with Sublime - they're saying that they're trying to make something _like_ Sublime. And that is actually a pretty good way to explain it. When I first found LimeText (about a year ago) I was searching for an "open source ST2 clone". I already knew that I wanted something like Sublime, I just wanted it to be open source so I could contribute to it. Having to compare the features of LimeText to the ubiquitous features of Sublime would have just made it harder for me to "get" what LimeText is.

> because he has the gall to charge $60

I don't think that the 60USD was a big deal. I was fine with that, I just wanted something that's open-source.

> weird that the fact that it's made in Go is part of the pitch

I think that the reason why is because LimeText is marketed towards people who want to contribute to their editor. Sublime is probably a more stable solution for people looking for something like Sublime, so right now the big feature is that it's open-source.

* Also, I should note that I've never used LimeText... I ended up switching to Atom instead. My primary experience with it is just finding it and evaluating it as an alternative to Sublime.
I would love it if eBooks supported custom, programmable side-bars, one where the layout designer could add a "map" of the book that was more unique and memorable than the percentage tracker of, e.g. the eInk Kindle.
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You can argue that with some tech companies these days but many web delivery companies have a very successful and profitable business model.
They're only encrypted when they go to the App Store. You can make a .ipa file and install it on your own/jailbroken devices without it ever being encrypted. It's extremely easy to decompile it and get variable names, string values and stack traces too.
I suggest you check out how Wordpress does this in the menu-settings. They support nested dropping and it's pretty smooth in both Firefox and Chrome.
Wilcox, Alabama...8% disability?

Is that entire county committing disability fraud? What's going on there?
> Do you [...] think old men should die?

No

And I doubt that it would cause a population explosion either. The only countries that have a low enough non-aging-related mortality rate tend to be the countries that have a birthrate below replacement anyways.

Remember, ~2.1cpw is replacement rate. Even with no deaths, you'd need 2.0cpw for replacement rate. That's not a large variation.
At least it wasn't "mb". I am not even sure how that would work.
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> In this scenario, we don't care about what the price is.

You don't, but you rely on people who do on both ends, which means that the long-term viability in the use case you are interested in is dependent on the viability of Bitcoin to people who do care about the price, even if the people using it for your use case do not directly care about that.
" Although both numbers are high, Montana has four times as many whooping cough cases per person than Louisiana. "

- how much of this is due to vaccination and how much is due to different climates? Or other non-obvious factors?
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The real issue is that of nomenclature. If you are a professional software developer (ST target audience) then you are careful about how you use a #1 development tool that calls itself "unstable". It implies certain things about whether it is a good idea to install on a mission-critical server for example, or whether it is a good idea to invest time in writing plugins against its API.

The product itself may be relatively bug-free, but that is not really the issue. RHEL7Beta was relatively bug-free, but I would not advise you to use it for most purposes.
I've had okayluck with ultra well targeted Adwords ads, better than reddit. I've done site takeover style ads with buysellads.com which has worked out pretty well but it's expensive and hard to do when you're just starting out.
Could you be specific about what in D isn't useable without the GC? You can use manual memory management in D. It has Unique (unique_ptr) and RefCounted (shared_ptr). It has Array. It has malloc and free. None of these use the GC.

People complain about the GC being available to use while simultaneously complaining that to avoid it you have to manage your memory yourself. You can't have it both ways. There is no memory allocation strategy that works best in every situation. Sometimes ref counting is best, sometimes stack allocation, sometimes RAII, sometimes memory pools, sometimes its the GC.

Rust has done some cool work with memory but even it doesn't free the programmer from having to consider and choose which memory allocation/ownership option is going to deliver the best performance on a case-by-case basis.

You're right about Rust and Go having much deeper pockets. D isn't backed by any corporation. It's 100% a community project. Maybe it won't ever gain a significant market share because of this. I don't know.
In my experience, there's only a weak correlation. You're much better off looking at their repeat clients. If they serve sophisticated parties on a repeat basis, it's about the best indicator you'll get.
Interesting, thanks for the test case - I believe I can add support for cycles with the current approach (though I'd put it behind an option, since get default() excludes older browsers), will work on it.

This was a weekend project, using the examples from http://jsmodules.io/ as a starting point. Not finished yet :-)
This is exactly why many people CHOOSE to use Uber. Because they don't put up with unnecessary and economically damaging laws. This allows them to draw in either better drivers or better prices. If you're going to hang on to this point, you're going to have to provide some real reasons as to how people choosing to use Uber or Lyft over other "official" companies because they like them better is somehow harming them.
Bitcoin has a lot of utility outside of just holding. I didn't specifically say I would be holding. Rather, I would be using it for money transfer.
SPI flash is usually NOR flash (not NAND like you'd find in an SD card or SSD). NOR flash is usually SLC and will take 100k writes/erases and is quite simple to access (as compared to MLC NAND which only usually takes 3k erases and is a pain to access comparatively due to things like ECC requirement).

SPI flash generally will do on the order of 0.5 MB/s erases, slightly faster writes, and somewhere in the realm of 4 to 12 MB/s reads, give or take. It's not high performance but it's simple, cheap, and low pin-count. The host controller is responsible for wear leveling, erasing each needed sector/block, and all writes, as SPI flash is unmanaged (compared to SD cards which are managed memory).
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Super easy to use public key crypto messaging in browser
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> The fun part was finding adapters for the few 8 cm CD singles I had, so they'd play in a modern slot-loading drive.

I had no idea such an adapter even existed.
Perhaps a better comparison than US currency would be with currency with a nation that had only recently formed, and that many people doubt that it will be around in 20 years. The volatility of their currency may attract people into making short-term purchases, but long-term investors will be harder to find.
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Previous:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7656154
I wouldn't say it's that small a value. If there was no relevance to where you started in the life, the odds of reaching the top 5th from the bottom 5th would be 20%. 12+% is where San Jose and San Francisco stack up, which seems pretty spectacular considering all the potential factors pushing against someone.
Did you reply to the wrong person?

Did you mean to say that a non-logarithmic graph is highly misleading?

Because a logarithmic graph is the only way to see the true value of anything financial that has price changes.
more pedantically Approtable : native :: Xamarin : CLR

As part of a thought experiment I got Mono running on top of Apportable's platform (I used to work on Mono myself ironically). We just work at a lower level at Apportable.

Xamarin has great high level tools for developing apps if you want to write in C#. We rely on the tools the developers already use and know (mainly Xcode) to develop for other platforms while also providing you a native userland that has most of the same native APIs and frameworks you find on iOS (and most Unix like environments) that you don't get on Android out of the box.
I don't know how you manage it, but I can tell you it is not reasonable to expect people to compile every compiler they want to use on every system they want to use it.
We give him "tummy time", as they called it at the hospital classes. He can and does hold his head up quite frequently, but he is not yet able to push off the ground with his arms. This probably isn't of any interest, I am just doing the new parent thing where I tell everyone about my kid.
Looks like an improvement on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6514305
While I agree with you, its worth noting that newborns do exhibit a walking reflex (that usually disappears after a few weeks). I would not completely rule out the possibility of a newborn walking with an exoskeleton -- the problem seems to be that their muscles cannot support weight or balance.

Cheesy example video, but the first after a quick search: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJIcKkxx7wg

Edit: and now I see that someone has already mentioned this in the other comments.
One thing which government-issued fiat currencies have going for them which cryptographically secured fiat currencies do not is taxes. Someone who lives in Windsor and commutes to Detroit every day will have to pay taxes in US dollars for the work performed in the US and then pay taxes in Canadian dollars because that person lives in Canada. They need to have some amount of US dollars and some amount of Canadian dollars even if they can do all of their shopping, rent, utility bills, etc. in Bitcoin.

Since taxes are done in the local government-issued fiat currency, local businesses need to hold some amount of that currency anyways. It is simpler and cheaper for local businesses to do all of their business in that currency not to mention it sidesteps the issue of dealing with currency risk.
Oh yes, what I call the "family argument" (work rules are different if you have a spouse and kid). I always forget about that one. Makes perfect sense. Sorry about that - it was pretty obvious.
No problem, just wanted to point out one of the reasons for the transpiler's relative verbosity :)

There's lots of other good test cases here that should be adaptable: https://github.com/esnext/es6-module-transpiler/tree/master/...
Well, they have been working on it steadily for 12 years now.
I wish people would stop referencing the Amazon delivery drone thing.
Pretty sure this is the Dot-Com strategy...
Relevant username/comment combo.
It's moderately interesting because it was built using Xamarin. So the top iPad app (at least for a little while) was built using C#.

http://blog.xamarin.com/tom-hanks-vintage-typewriter-inspire...
> to offset potential confusion

I don't understand how you can say that. A logarithmic graph is LESS confusing.

With a non-logarithmic graph you have to mentally "warp" the graph to learn anything from it - I doubt people can do that in their head. It makes little difference how much the value changes - that's the entire POINT of a logarithmic graph, it works perfectly for small changes and for large.
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The patent-game fundamentally changed last year. New administrative law procedures are killing patents with about an 85% kill rate for 1/5 the cost of district court trials. It's the biggest patent law story right now. Many highly-regarded plaintiff's firms have stopped taking contingency patent cases in recent months as a result of the stats we're seeing. http://www.insidecounsel.com/2014/03/19/patent-owners-beware...
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It doesn't interact well with any scrolling
> Currency exchange rates aren't supposed to need a logarithmic scale.

That makes no sense at all. A logarithmic scale works perfectly for small fluctuations or large.
Here is my N=1 armchair hypothesis: If there really is a difference, I could imagine that the limited tactile experience is the key factor. Often times when I go for a walk with a podcast on I remember it much better because I associate parts of it with things I encountered along the way. Our finger tips are like magnifying glasses and produce a very rich (though semi-semiconscious) experience we associate parts of the book’s content with (especially the thinkness of both sides). With ebooks it’s reduced to visual experience, the tactile experience is pretty limited in variation and overall unchanging.
"the high prevalence of adblock"

I didn't know reddit had ads until this HN story. Interesting.
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Fences have several purposes in modern-day living, such as security, decoration, and privacy. Some fences are meant to stand the test of time, while others are only temporary. Temporary construction fencing is a great tool for any size construction site in terms of keeping debris confined within the site and the general public out of a dangerous area.

Construction fencing is best installed by a professional fencing company, since you do not want your work site to look slapdash in any way. Either order construction fencing materials from or hire a local fencing company to place a fence around your construction site and keep critters, kids, and passersby out of danger and away from busy workers. No matter how big or small a job site is, fencing helps keep things organized.
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Use a well tested library,even if it means extra load.The reason for this is DnD apis are a nightmare that will work on 90% of the devices and browsers but not on the rest. Trust libraries that are well tested over a wide range of browsers.

> I'm about to add a dependency on jQuery and jQuery UI just to allow the use of their bulletproof Draggable and Droppable elements. Somehow that feels dirty.

What feels even more dirty is a UI that doesnt work properly across browsers.Better have a solid UI rather than thinking using jQuery == DIRTY.
Well, I don't have a problem with that, but it's not really relevant. The community liked one proposal and disliked the other, but it still took almost two decades to handle the one it liked.
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> I want that big, scary, spiky graph.

You can also just fake the numbers if that's what you want. A non-logarithmically graph is just completely misleading.

If you see spikes on a logarithmically graph then you are talking volatile. Spikes on a non-logarithmically graph mean nothing whatsoever.
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You're forgetting about the smartphones, bro. Smartphones. It's DIFFERENT this time.
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Why? If a large company is organised correctly (and I'm not saying that MS is for a second) then you aren't interacting with those over >49 employees. In return you might have access to huge datasets, or at the least huge audiences. And as for financial backing... having a ton of money available is very interesting to many hackers, because it allows them to do a great many things.

Not ever hacker is a startup entrepreneur.
Right, the "like a married couple" is stronger than that could've been read. An important point. Details still vary by jurisdiction.
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I don't know if Java is any different from any other language; or rather, because it is so mainstream it is probably representative of the mainstream.

If your language is outright obsolete, like COBOL or Cold Fusion, you've got one problem. If the language is somebody's science project (i.e. Scala, Haskell) you have a different problem. (i.e. developers who think business value has something to do with finding the slowest possible way to compute the Fibonacci sequence)

With Java I think it's not too different from PHP, .NET or any other commercially successful language.
Of course. If you were the first to write tic tac toe in basic on the VIC-20, in the early 80's (or on something else in the 50's,etc)
We started with games and it's most of what you see on the site, but it's never been our only focus.

If you hit our sales team up at contact@apportable.com, we have product that is in beta that you could get access to that might work for you.
Ok, that explains it. When you're used to Java it's easy to expect inheritance to be a big deal. The fact of the matter is that run-time polymorphism (aka virtual) is much more rarely necessary in the C++ world than the Java world. The only reason it's common in Java is that it's the only tool available for many job that C++ has other tools for, and it also avoids an extra composition overhead that doesn't exist in C++.

tl;dr: Just because it's "infinitely more valuable" in Java doesn't mean the same for C++.
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Well, I know(but don't have sources as of now) it works like that for memorizing stuff, as an example you probably remember where hundreds (or even thousands) of objects are placed within your home, or your office without thinking twice about it, you just "draw" a path to that you were looking for.

But is the absorbing in the article about remembering or understanding what's being read?
Take the folks at Walmart Labs (http://www.walmartlabs.com/) for instance, NodeJS hackers working on the backend powering Walmart's mobile commerce. A small percentage of hackers will get a chance to work on problems and devise solutions at the sort scale they work on.

You certainly won't see similar challenges if you limit your scope to companies with less than 50 people and less than 10 million in funding. Unless you are a founder or maybe a first hire that would seem to preclude you from almost any interesting company coming out of SV in the last 15 or so years.
I really like the fact that facts are immutable in the Datomic model. It actually makes it easier to reason about eventually consistent, because you can rely on causal consistency between facts. Eventually consistent systems can give you durability, isolation, and atomicity, but it's typically hard to reason about, because the interface that's given to the user is some sort of multi-value, vector-clock tracked thing, and it's hard to reason about.

Datomic can manage a commit protocol under the hood, and deal with causality tracking without requiring the developer to "get dirty." It's query language is declarative, and doesn't provide the same implicit guarantees that SQL queries need.
Yes, clearly. I would be interested to hear such an argument from anyone who was not trying to conceal their identity as a secret agent (or anyone convincing enough who actually was still hiding this way, for that matter, but in the actual time before their outing and not in retrospect with that knowledge already revealed).

Surely there must be such an argument, maybe this is too far off topic and not the place for it here.
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There is, and its getting popular http://zorin-os.com/ there is another OS that is trying to build a windows compatible open source architecture, but it hasn't got out of the alpha stage for the last 10 years, so I think the project is dead. The name of the OS is reactOS. I think they still have the website up.
> Do Emacs and Vim get 'major upgrades'?

Yeah, they do. It's very hard to do in both cases, for different reasons - licensing for Emacs, code quality/style for Vim - but it happens. For Emacs just read this: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ant... and this: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Ant... (or look at normal changelog, but I kind of like this "backwards in time" format, it's fun :)) to get a feeling for what you'd miss by not doing a "major upgrade".
Maybe. We are getting into something which is a bit complex here. And I'm assuming neither one of us are experts.

People who are interested in holding Bitcoin probably aren't people I'm going to be interacting with. If you are holding, you aren't selling.

My use case will help Bitcoin by creating demand, and helping liquidity. I'm buying and then turning around and selling. I using up available liquidity and then selling to create more liquidity. That liquidity also helps other people looking to do the same as me. You then have a pool of Bitcoin which is basically just zipping between people who aren't affected by price.

People who are speculating on the very short term don't necessarily care about price either. They may only care about up and down movements. Just as day traders of stocks don't necessarily care about the name of the stock or even the history. All they see is movement. In this case, volatility may actually be good for these people (I don't know, I'm not a day trader.)
It's not. Young people with no money move here (like to any other city) from Podunk and make their way up the ladder. If they're in tech, the end point is much higher and you get there faster.

You're not going to see a Tenderloin drug addict or one of the Mexican day laborers waiting outside Home Depot make their fortune here. Nor will you see someone like Kevin Rose reduced to working at Burger King, however much value he destroys.

Your original comment was very much on the mark.
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Yes, plenty in NYC.
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