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I can already hear the debate raging about weather or not the images or particular examples in this article are acceptable or defensible or not. I think it's totally fine for the comics that this one shop has are there. Artistic freedom! Great! What's not super is that it's really the only kind. It's like netflix with only action movies.

This article should feature a bunch of blank photos representing the comics that don't exist. Those are the problem. It's ok to have super sexed-up comics in the store, but it's really sad that's all they have.

Japanese manga is fully of sexy, weird, objectifying stuff that most people really wouldn't want their kids to see, but go to a bookstore in Japan and you'll also see bookcase after bookcase of manga totally appropriate for all ages with young girls pressing their nose into them. Stories about teenage girls getting picked on at school or trying to meet the right guy or saying stupid things in class. Stories about girls who are in bands and office workers and every possible thing.

I think the comic industry, video games, tech, and geek culture in general are all going through growing pains as they find adoption in a larger market. We need more articles like this helping people realize what a "normal" comic shop could look like. The comics we have today would still be in there, there would just be more variety and the market for comics would be healthier.

It's actually a better scenario for everyone.
Cool project. I like how minimalist it is.

Could you provide some templates as well, just for the lib to be ready to use in a glance?
Just to let you know, I confirm that Krita is very unstable in a Mac. The "fatal failure and you lost everything you did" kind of unstable. So far I can not recommend Krita+Mac for anything other than tinkering around.
I'm surprised some form of browser isn't in the top 5 of everyone's lists.

Gmail, Hangouts (Android L SMS integration), Chrome, Sleep Better, reddit is fun.
I had a similar 'revelation' with violence in video games. I knew a lot of games were violent, but it wasn't until I found my 2 year old son watching me murder human after human with a crossbow in Tomb Raider that I 'got it'. It has ruined AAA video games for me.

I solved the problem by buying a Wii U. I'm not sure why that's better. I have killed hundreds of pikmin, squashed hundreds of goomba and worst of all, used the blue shell in anger. It's still incredibly violent, but I'm not willfully enjoying a murder simulator.
Tools that are safer then shell scripts exist, doesn't mean that end users have them installed, doesn't mean people will chose to you them either
Point made by author is still valid.
There can be only one Joe:

http://joe-editor.sourceforge.net/
DNSSEC does not mandate any cryptography algorithm. Why are you associating it with 1024 bit RSA? (I know, because some article appeared here that claimed it was limited to this. It isn't, and most roots do not use it.)
Nah dude.I get what you are saying, but if that is the case, why are male villians often grotesque, but female villians always (or almost anyway) just as sexy as female heros?

Heros are drawn for you to identify with as a power fantasy. The female characters aren't about who you want to be. It's about what you want to see.

That's why superman gets to be fully dressed, whereas super girl shows her belly and wears a skirt.

And even if you were right, that would mean that the ideal female super hero is usually wearing a skimpy outfit showing skin, and what does that say?
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It really doesn't work out well, especially where it matters - on mobile phones with poor connectivity. Why do you think alternatives like Zepto.js exist?
Ask HN: What tools they use for analyzing stocks and maintaining portfolio?
Hello HN

6 months back, I started invested in indian stock market as value investor and eventually also started with algo trading. I wrote lot of tooling for this myself like Fetching of real time price and storing data, analyzing it on server and then posting request to the brokerage account.I use this: http://screener.in/ (for screening -- one of the best tools I have come accross in india for stocks analysis) and BSE/NSE (indian stocks website) for real time price and market depth. Used google finance for some stock alert by writing script using google apps. Will be good to know what other people are using so we don't reinvent wheel and make use of the modern technology.
Definitely not - I'm saying that an Apple Watch with a one day battery life would not be a failure and would (IMO) be preferable over a 2 or 3 day battery life (regardless of whether they could make it now or in the future).

As many have pointed out Apple (and others) seem to 'solve for X' in regards to battery life. One day seems like an ideal 'X' for a smart watch.
What do you really expect? Comic books are overwhelmingly read by men. Men who generally -- and don't downvote me, you know it's true -- don't get much female attention. Of course the authors are going to spice them up a bit for their intended demographic.

Men have comic books, women have romance novels (and don't tell me the covers for those books aren't intended to sexualize men and titillate their audience). It's not a crisis, it is what it is. Sex sells, BOTH ways.
Yeah, his argument is subtly different, or I would have used that too.
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Yes, I'd agree that it's been common to "skip a version" or similar. Effectively you get Photoshop (or whatever) at a reduced cost.

So you can see the logic behind Creative Cloud: Adobe have both prevented this behaviour, and struck against piracy. They're clearly betting that this will outweigh the reduced sales, and that Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign are so essential that few people will pass it up. I'm not convinced they're right.
Don't know how much it will cost?

The price you see in the huge font is the price you'll pay at the end of the month...
What are your feelings on romance novel covers?
I like how technology like this self regulates.
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Ask HN: Can a 19 years old get a dcent job in web development
This question have been bugging me for a while now.
So i'm 19 years old and i've been learning web development since i was 13 and started freelancing 4 years ago.
I code in:
HTML and haml
CSS, SCSS, SASS, LESS
javascript and all its major libraries
i'm quite decent with Ruby and python

Also:
I've coded about 100-120 website since i started learning
I pride myself in writing beautiful understandable code

I know that none of these are special traits, but i'm thinking of quitting school since my final objective is to work as web-dev so if i can score a good gig with my current knowledge there is no use wasting 5 years of my life. And it's not like i lack experience, 4 years of freelancing should count for something.

I appreciate any input you have on this subject and any advice you have to offer! And thanks for taking the time to read my question
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I applaud brave move to base this on (the slightly terrifying) Wordpress because you seem to have made an "eyes-open" trade off between best and fastest implementation.
These comics aren't aimed at young children, of any gender.

There are comics available for younger ones. Here in the UK my two read The Phoenix. It would benefit from more female characters, but they both enjoy it (boy 7, girl 6)

http://www.thephoenixcomic.co.uk/free-digi-phoenix/
what absolute nonsense. I don't find these female superheroes any more attractive than the woman in the comic you linked to finds the muscled men attractive. There's no evidence that any fewer women find the muscled man a sexual fantasy than men find the big bewbed woman.
That might be ok for technical people who are used to this kind of "machine speak", but for end users it's often not acceptable. Consider the difference between:

Purchased credits: %d.
Remaining credits: %d.
Buy more : 5 [link] / 10 [link] / 20 [link].

and

You have purchased a total of %d credits and have used %d of them so far. You can buy [drowdownlist] additional credits by clicking here [link].

Which one do you think will have the highest conversion rate?
i'd say that most rockets blow up when propellant mixes with oxygen during the crash, if there are any left. they probably burn it all before reentry.
I think http://shopbuy.org/static/category/original/romance-novels/E... sums my feelings up nicely.

Romance Covers are, however, an entirely different topic.
You seem to be implying that being able to know the identity of the person you're looking at will cause women to be harassed.

But in small communities, everyone already has this feature (by virtue of their being few enough people that an unaided human brain can track them all). And in small communities, you don't get a lot of jerks going around randomly harassing women on a daily basis. Why not? Well, the identity of the jerk who does the harassing is also known, and social (and ultimately physical) sanctions will be applied.

Now you're saying that in a large community where people are anonymous, there are jerks going around harassing women on a daily basis. But that's in a large community without identity tracking, where the jerks don't fear reprisal.

So what you're saying is actually an argument in favor of implementing AR identity tracking and letting human capabilities catch up with community size.
I dont see this as an issue. Putting it very bluntly. Comics are (in general) of low quality (in terms of writing, ideas* ), aimed (in general) at a specific creepy contingent of society composed of teenage boys or men who still act like teenage boys.
So, who cares about them!? Contemporary media, games, tv shows, films, music, are filled with and largely composed of terrible dross. If you're discerning that involves ignoring 99% of media and almost completely ignoring comics.

*Obviously there are some good comics which I've read (Akira is a good example) but, in my experience, the soaring heights of the greatest writing in comics would be seen as mediocre in another domain.
I agree 100%. I don't understand why everything has to be over-analyzed to death. Good grief, we're talking about comic books.

I'd love to hear this guy write about taking his daughter to a shop selling uncensored Japanese Manga. "Maaaaybe our comics aren't so bad after all."
But they couldn't even get the conjugation right in the headline. "You typeth"??? (Shakes head)
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Looks like German universities I have seen. Of course that short article had to contain at least one sentence bad mouthing private institutions :-)
Ancient egyptians, according to history, invented perfumes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_perfume
Minor nitpick, but shouldn't it be s/save/extend/
this always baffles me: how do people invent those simple games ? Is it about game theory or game design ? Or just simplicity ?
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I'd argue that's because it's wrong; not massively wrong, but wrong. You can have a parenthesis with commata on both sides (as siblings have suggested), or you can (just) write the same sentence with no commata at all and it would make sense, but a single comma in that position is a mistake.
I'm honestly not sure what you're talking about. Android does have a system update mechanism. You go to settings -> About phone -> System updates.

If manufacturers / carriers change that to check for updates on their own servers, rather than google's - which they can do since Android is open-source, and so they all do - then that's how the system update mechanism will work.

I don't follow what you're suggesting google could do about that, apart from moving more and more OS functions out of the core OS and into google play services. Which is exactly what they've been doing.
I see them as the other side of the coin. Comic books are targeted towards men and sexualize women, romance novels are targeted towards women and sexualize men. Sex sells.
I wasn't arguing that sex doesn't sell both ways. Was just disabusing the OP of his notion that comics are not highly sexualised.

Still, there's plenty of novels for all sorts of audiences. Both the titillating kind (swing both ways), and otherwise. It's just a shame that the superhero comic format, which does appeal to a wider audience than just male teenagers, caters almost exclusively to that one group.
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Do you know Inkscape?

Inkscape has free-hand and raster tools, you can do masking and such. The GP mentions "in-place text editing" for which PS presumably uses vector methods. I use Inkscape pre- and/or post- GIMP for things like text layers.

I've long thought that a great graphics package could be achieved if Inkscape and The GIMP (or other primarily raster programmes) could draw to [different layers of] the same canvas. Inkscape lets you link in images which is a small step towards this.
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Look into the "Open" Handset Alliance (especially findings from the SkyHook lawsuit) to see how much control Google actually wields over manufacturers. Google controls what software and services are bundled with handsets (see SkyHook). Google prevents manufacturers from creating competing Android devices using forks of Android (see Acer; that's why the quotes around "Open"). If it cared at all, Google could easily require manufacturers to provide regular updates.
For complete from-scratch production, yes, it’s not cost-effective. But for repairs? Many times, you can’t get the parts for love or money, and it may well be worth the time.
Probably something like:
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What you say is like a nice idea, but you have to remember that this is a business. These kinds of comics line the shelves, because they're the ones that sell. Of course, it could very well be that if we had more comics that were more moderate they would sell also, but nobody's willing to take the risk. On top of that, you also require an author that is interested in that - you can't just suck this stuff out of a pen to make money (although often this does happen, they tend to end up being less interesting though).

If the comic is printed out then somebody has to buy it. If the comics aren't bought enough then it just won't work. It doesn't matter whether our ideal society would have us have more moderate comics or not, because it seems that in reality that's not the case. Of course, you can always prove me wrong (and the comic industry) by creating your own comic that does adhere to the criteria you enjoy. You would probably be rather successful if people truly wanted it, because it seems like there is no competition for them. But it seems unlikely.
Except that it's not true that no comics with "normal" female heroines exist. We had Yoko Tsuno when we were kids, for example. The most recent comics I bought were Buffy and Fray. You don't have to buy cheesy sex comics - I don't.

That lots of men enjoy comics with exaggerated sex symbols has no bearing on the offering for the female target democratic.

Same goes for books and movies and so on btw.

In the same vein, it doesn't bother me as a man that there are thousands of women's magazines, and only very few men's magazines. I just don't care - nobody is forcing me to buy them, after all. In fact there are zillions of products in the world I don't care for, and that doesn't make me feel discriminated against.
It's not that simple. This is a cultural issue. Go outside the US and see what comics sell.

The best selling comic in Norway for decades was Donald Duck.

These days the most popular comics in Norway are Pondus - a comedy series about a pub landlord (previously bus driver) and his friend who sells music (after previously spending years on the dole) - and Nemi, a series about a 20-something female goth, written by a woman. While Donald Duck still sells fairly well.

The best selling French-language comic is usually Spirou, a periodical that features mostly comics targeted at children.

You'll find country after country where the most popular comics have little to no sexualized content.

Now, I enjoy US superhero comics too, but as I noted elsewhere: There's been a drastic change in them to in the last 20 years or so. They used to target boys, not men. And they used to be a lot more innocent.

Sure, they probably target their core audience, but the thing to keep in mind, and that it seems like Marvel at least may be waking up to: Maybe this focus on "men who don't get much female attention" is why the comic audience in the US is so tiny compared to the comic reading audiences in Europe or Japan for example?
Usually a good paywalled article will at least present an abstract, which should cover the need for a summary.

If it is an absolute paywall (pay or read nothing, no abstract/summary for free) then yes the poster should provide a summary so others can decide if they want to gain access to the rest or not.
You could potentially argue that the drugs side is victimless. But assuming that the false ID stuff is true, then that's much less likely to be - the I would suspect that a fair percentage of people buying false IDs online are doing it to help with pretty nasty activities.
It's kind of a shame for the minority of women or men who prefer to see women depicted realistically in the comics they read. But that contingent is small enough that I fear it just isn't viable to serve them. The comics market has been around awhile and is fiercely competitive, so I think we can be confident it is delivering the efficient solution as it stands. That said, gradually shifting the tastes of everyone around you by writing countless articles and making speeches at conventions etc. is legitimate if you feel that strongly about it, so more power to them I guess.
Starting with Android 5, WebCore is part of the Google Services and is therefore updated silently through the Play Store.

But I obviously do not approve what the OEMs are doing.
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Garfield, Dilbert, Foxtrot and Calvin and Hobbes is about the extent of my comic repertoire

Taking a 7 year old to a comic store is like tasking her to a pg 13 movie.. . Not too surprised it didn't work out. Comics tend to deal with adult themes and are aimed at older people.
Agreed on she probably not being too young to understand. And the whole "if she dresses sexy we'll lock her up ha ha" just sounded wrong.

As another suggestion, Orc Girl[1] is nice, though somewhat dark.

[1] http://readchallenger.com/comic/orc-girl/
Sorry, that was a bit odd way of putting it, perhaps.

What I mean that I first model a particular problem on pen and paper as a group of set operations and identities and then implement that using container operations. I.e. a set as a container, or a particular subset of the elements in the container. I totally depends on the program whether that simplifies things or not.

But for instance, I usually find that rather than adding lots of state variables to entities I model state as those objects belonging to various sets. I.e. store object Id in a list pertaining to a particular property.

This way subsystems can be implemented in a non-invasive, and extensible way. The set operators (union, difference etc.) do not need to be implemented explicitly, rather just figure out what is the most simple isomorphic routine to compute the output for that particular operation.
The difference between the two is that homosexuality can be acted on between consenting adults. One can argue about exactly what the age of consent should be (18? 17? 15?) but it's difficult to argue that the difference in levels of maturity and in control over ones own life between an adult and a young teen makes their relationship sufficiently unbalanced that it can be impossible to prove that there is no coercive element. And pre-pubescent children are not emotionally mature enough to engage in sexual activity with full understanding - most would not choose to voluntarily and those who do participate even without coercion are typically traumatized.
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> which does appeal to a wider audience than just male teenagers

I think you're gonna have to cite that. I would put money on 90+% of the audience being men.
Maybe it's me but I cannot figure out what point the post is making. What exactly does the author 'get' now? How does the sexualisation of comic book characters relate to how women experience the tech industry? I'm not saying there isn't a link, but the author doesn't explain it from his point of view.

I have to admit I am a little discouraged by the way the author handles his interactions with his daughter. To explain something to your child as being for "older people" and to dismiss her questions with "Daddy's thinking, don't worry about it" seems to parallel the way adult women are treated by men. It's not my place to criticise how a parent behaves with their children but in an article that talks about the problems of empathy and understanding another's point of view it still seems that the author doesn't quite 'get it'.
To me, the most important quality of photoshop is the UI/UX. This is anecdotal, but I've toyed with a lot of interactive graphical programs and Photoshop often feels natural (the kind of shortcuts sequence you end up trying in other software without thinking about it). Compared to this GIMP feels infinitely bloated.
But sometimes it backfires - in EU bans were introduced to stop fisherman from fishing out too much of a certain types of fish - but it's not like you can tell the fish to stay out of your nets, so what ended happening was that they would catch the banned species just like they used to but they couldn't bring it back inland,so it had to be thrown overboard before entering port - already dead. So it was the ultimate waste of resources - those fish have been killed for literally nothing, as they couldn't have even been consumed.
With respect to books, there are vast selections that mainly target men to balance out the romance book genre. With respect to comics, the selection targeting women is much smaller. It's not at all the same.
I think that was the point of the article. Comic book authors don't consider that women might want to read their books, and so they unwittingly cut women out of their audience.

Also, there's a difference between comics and romance novels. Comics are a medium, while romance novels are just one type of book. A book store will have many types of books including romance novels, but comic book stores may have just one type of comic, and it's usually for men.
I know exactly how you feel. For the past year, my main gaming rig has been on another continent and I've been making do with what I could play on a cruddy little netbook running Linux.

It's probably been my best year of gaming ever.

I've been an old west robot prospector.

I've seen a man have sex with a giant goldfish.

I've tried to get a mouse to wear a hat.

I've consoled a grieving child.

After all that was done, I got a small amount of my hardware back and I killed some zombies. That was awesome, too. In fact, it was more awesome than it had been in a long time, since the variety had removed a great deal of the staleness.

It's the same with comics. I want to read a comic about a gay college student coming out to his parents. I want to read a comic about a goat that's also a political prisoner. I want to read a comic about a child learning to cope with the death of a parent. I still want to read a comic about a preternaturally buxom woman throwing a bus, but I want to read other things, too.