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Krita actually resembles Photoshop quite a lot, and while the feature list is impressive, I don't think it replaces Photoshop 1:1 or is even meant too for that matter. Krita is more aimed at digital painting, Photoshop isn't a digital painting application, if anything, that's what Illustrator is for.

For a free application you have to give props to Krita, it looks fantastic and plenty of digital artists and illustrators have been raving on about how great it is since it came out. It definitely appeals to me more than Gimp, but I would still probably use Gimp over Krita for general photo touching and editing though. Even the about page on the Krita site itself speaks of illustrators and more drawing purposes. I mean if it works as a Photoshop replacement for some, then that's great. Undoubtedly a cool application.
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Just out of interest, what other reasons do you use Jails for?
What am I going to use to do my life doccing and interfacing with Second Life while I'm zooming around on my Segway?
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I didn't say it couldn't; I didn't say anything about formal verification.
as i said, i'm doing a wittgenstein here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein

in the public discourse every poor performance is a "penalty" so this word has lost all it's meaning.

if your site is preforming poor (your desired state of traffic != the traffic you have) you do not - per se - have a penalty. if everything is a penalty, nothing is a penalty.

on SEO blogs everything is a penalty, sometimes with %stupid cute animal name here% prefix. this nomenclature really should not spread over to this otherwise great forum.
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Few of these issues are in driver level code, so the variety of devices doesn't play into that.

The most recent one is somewhere in the User Profile Service, which is about as far away from the hardware as possible. Shellshock didn't need testing on every possible hardware combination it runs on either, did it?
Krita's site is under a lot of pressure right now. If you've never heard of it, learn more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita

It's a Photoshop alternative in the same way Word is an alternative to vim. You can use them both to make a text file, but they have very different specialisms. Krita is a very capable drawing package while Photoshop is a print finishing app that got really bloated.
knorby above, by implying that some policies were better because they were enacted by popular support.
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Then perhaps MS ought to shorten its bug fixing period. Three months is quite a long time to find a bug, fix it, and run extensive tests. What good is a fixed time period if you're willing to extend it just because one company can't pull their shit together?

As for the Kaminsky DNS bug, it was leaked more than a solid week ahead of the time he intended to release it. Sure, patches had already been released, but how about if other companies had said, "We need a full month to test this patch prior to rolling it into production."? They would have been putting themselves at risk. Mind you, this bug was simply an extension of an earlier flaw - too small a range of transaction IDs, and some DNS projects (`djbdns` comes to mind) had already mitigated it (ostensibly fixing the root cause as opposed to the symptom). Had the other vendors mitigated that flaw in a similar fashion (they had almost a decade since djb pointed it out), they would not have been vulnerable. However, there was no looming deadline, so few of them even noticed until an actual attack was possible (as opposed to fixing issues as they come up).

What happens if someone leaks the bug early? Or if a malicious adversary discovers the bug at the same time? The whole idea of these deadlines is to force security bug fixes to be released ASAP, taking precedence int time and importance over all else.

Deadlines can't be adjusted just so MS can screw around for longer doing nothing. If it's really taking them more than three months to fix a bug and release patches, perhaps they need to rethink their priorities and dedicate more resources to the task. And perhaps we need to seriously reconsider our dependence on their products.
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If that is a security risk, then they ought to make the mail unconnectable outside their own network and demand VPN usage. You cannot blame the person for a poor security setup within his organization.
People interested in Hypercard should probably check out the new, improved version of TiddlyWiki http://tiddlywiki.com/
I think it's a good idea actually. Make politicians feel what it's like to be monitored, to have their privacy violated, that kinda stuff. Protests and objections in themselves probably won't sway politicians into opposing surveillance; being the subject of said surveillance probably would.
I loved the irony of

> [\xE9 is e-acute in Latin-1. Some pod renderers would scream if I used the actual character here. -- SB]
"but because of inadequate support from the company the department decided to
replace that."

I read that as "Adobe got greedy"

Well, good for Krita.

Part of PS/AI success is that students use it at Uni (and later on at work, and most of the workflow, even going to printing uses it)
Sure, what I meant is most companies will chose cheap-fast over good-fast, in my experience.

Flinging crap out fast is sometimes seen as a valid business model (unfortunately): that crap is only expensive to you if you have to maintain it, but that's not your problem if all you're trying to do is to "exit".

On the other end of the spectrum (like where I work at now for example), we take a lot of effort and time to make sure our code is not crap - but that is an expensive decision both in terms of money and time.
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I think rather than killing the surplus population, more likely it will fade away over time. People could simply have less children.
Popslate is pretty cool, I saw it at MWC 2013 in February of 2013. I guess it never took off because it was too expensive.

Guess what - it's gotten more expensive ($129 now).

Bummer.
Does noting that you don't have to use / as the separator help with the syntactical pain? I personally always use |, since I'm unlikely to be using that for a pattern. Example:

grep foo somefile | sed 's|/path/to/some/file|/new/path|g'

Lot nicer than all those picket fences \/\/\/
Different time, different circumstances, but same human nature: how many buffalo, cod, otter . . . are there?
Sounds like a modern-day Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night, for you Pratchett fans out there.

If there was a serious super-secret illuminati secret ubermensch braintrust, I expect they'd have fundamentally better ways of attracting members, ones that don't get confused with marketing ARGs, hoaxes, or not-as-serious groups.

However, if they only wanted free labor from people who are easily motivated by puzzles and affirmation... people with no no easily-traceable relationship... people they can casually cut-loose when convenient... Hmmm.
We need better, approachable routes into programming.

I love Python and in many ways it's an ideal introductory language but it's roots are in the command line and you have to learn a lot of Unix cruft that shouldn't be strictly necessary to get started.

Processing (or maybe Nodebox and it's kin) are the spiritual heirs to Logo but don't help bridge the gap from fun to useful.

HTML+CSS+JS are available on every single machine with nothing but a text editor needed to get started but - oh the cruft you have to imbibe to get anything useful done...

Someone once said that Excel is the dark matter of the software universe. It probably accounts for most running software in the world that any other environment/language and has a lot going for it:

1. it's immediately practical and positioned well to help people solve real problems.
2. The transition from "I'm not coding" to "This is pretty much coding" is gradual and imperceptible
3. It has a very visual environment with lots of immediate feedback

However - it doesn't help you get from the final stage of "amazing feats of wonder that should never have been done in Excel" to "a real program in a sane environment". Many people who construct those amazing feats of wonder don't even realise that what they are doing IS programming.
I'd agree that it's a precarious hold, but when it's lost I expect it'll be because Adobe did something, artists and designers I've talked to aren't interested in alternatives, or if they are they keep using photoshop alongside it, to check if the CMYK is the same etc, hesistant to trust a new product.
Hold on.

Are you telling me that the drop of 4K views was entirely attributed to getting fewer hits from Google searches? What happened to the bounce rate?
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Illustrator is not for digital painting. Did you mean Corel Painter?
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There are some interesting similarities between Urbit and... the Church of Scientology.

Like Yarvin, L.Ron Hubbard made up a lot of new terminology for things that had perfecly good names before.

Like Urbit, in order to be able to be able to read for yourself what it's really all about, you're made to invest, heavily and up front.

The psychology of that is astounding. Scientology's formerly inaccessible teachings have been leaked, and nobody who reads that stuff unprepared comes away impressed. Scientologists, however, do NOT complain, "This is what you have gotten a decade's worth of earnings for from me? RLY???"

A large investment of time and effort seems to make people psychologically predisposed to accept as valuable whatever is revealed at the end (and tell outsiders that it all has been very much worth it.)
The first thing Microsoft does when they learn about a zero-day is to hand it to the NSA. Microsoft doesn't get to fix it until the NSA tells Microsoft they're done exploiting it.
Google may be pissed about this. They've been pissed off before about NSA's shenanigans.
In the US, maybe. In the UK, definitely. In Germany, not so much.

Mind you, in Germany you're also not allowed to take pictures of people without their consent (with some exceptions). You could actually sue people who post pictures of you on Facebook without your permission.
They could have mitigated this trust issue by requiring people to hold a button on the side of the device to enable the camera. That would be a socially acceptable enough gesture that would signal: "FYI, I'm recording." just like holding up your phone to take a picture does.
The guy the other side of the corridor likes to play the radio allllllll day long over some large studio monitor speakers. I shut the door to this office but another guy who sits at the opposite end of this large office (therefore as far away from the door as you can be) likes to open it and jam it open.

I truly despise the flow of bland music that I have no control over, and the ongoing chatting/arguing that passes for radio entertainment. It's like listening to other people's pointless conversations.

I sometimes put headphones on but incessantly bombarding my ears with noise just to cancel out other noise is like spraying deodorant on excrement - pointless. It also means I'll suffer gradual hearing loss

I sometimes wonder if people don't understand that we need time to solve problems and problem solving is best done in quiet! The other guys in this office do not write software so I sometimes wonder if people don't "get" it.
Also there is a massive difference between someone choosing to edit and share a curated set of best moments on social media with a more or less selected set of people vs having very little control of how one is seen with the eye of others (literally).
Also funny how people learned to pose on a photo (hence take some control) but most people still gets shy in front of a camcorder. Google glass is perceived as someone holding a camcorder in your face all day long.
And I would argue that as it is their building they can decide what is legal and what is not, no?
Photoshop definitely wasn't intended for the wide variety of use-cases it now supports, but it is definitely the front-runner for digital painting, 95% of concept artists/comic colourists or similar artists I know or have seen use Photoshop. Krita looks fantastic, really capable, but I haven't had a chance to try it, mainly because all of my brushes and settings are in Photoshop.
And that's true in many other Europeans countries as well. And at least here in Portugal those permits only allow you to store those records for a specific purpose (security), for a limited time period (30 days) and can't be shared with third-parties.
Yes, as DanWaterworth has pointed out, people have written large projects with entirely bug-free code (in the sense that it verifiably implements a formal specification). The way these projects are developed is very different from the process described by this article -- a lot of time is spent writing formally-verifiable proofs of correctness.
I came here to wonder about the price, and there's the answer. It's a pity that eInk is a great technology that remains horribly expensive. Not sure why; manufacturing yield? Rare inputs? Small volumes?
Any other comments on Moz? I thought their reputation was pretty good?
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Out of interest, what do you do? And where?

It is interesting the thought about moving to management - I often see that developers have to become project managers or managers of some sort as they get older.
People are comfortable with things that they choose to do. People put up statuses, pictures, and all sorts of private info on social media of their own choosing. If someone else wears Google Glass and decides when, where, and if to take your photo, your choice of what to share and store is taken away. As another example: people are fine with group photos taken with their knowledge and uncomfortable with strangers taking their photo without asking.
That's actually a great post. I had really low expectations. The author also has 150k+ people on his mailing list so I suppose we're not the only ones. Nice share.
No, it's the right video. Jump to 1m56s for the first (microsoft) video.
Very informative, thanks. It is often too easy to undervalue yourself with software development.
He also allegedly hired a hitman to take out 6 people. The hits weren't executed because the hitman was undercover but if this is true then I have no sympathy for him.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/21/silk-road-...
Most designers I know will draw on illustrator and maybe finish up in Photoshop. Since Photoshop is a sort of common baseline in the industry it's used as a general tool to aid in the finishing of artwork even when said artwork is not really in its domain.
Yep. Plus incredibly uncool looking.
Those look like great offices!

I must be in the wrong job haha
and check -> The Semmelweis reflex or "Semmelweis effect"

"The Semmelweis reflex or "Semmelweis effect" is a metaphor for the reflex-like tendency to reject new evidence or new knowledge because it contradicts established norms, beliefs or paradigms. .. "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semmelweis_reflex
I suspect the current performance of the website might have something to do with Hacker News :)
If you are doing art Krita is a fine Photoshop replacement. So I can understand the switch.

But I'm also a little amazed that there still isn't a good Photoshop replacement.
I think that's because a lot of developers think Photoshop is layers and blend modes. But imho the real strength of Photoshop is the interface. Not only the GUI but also the interaction design.

I can do with Gimp what I can do with Photoshop but it will take a lot more time. In-place text editing, attaching effects to layers (drop shadows), non destructive editing, it's all missing from most Photoshop alternatives.

Also check out Natron (mentioned in the article): https://natron.inria.fr/ I never heard of it but it's looking great!
"Guts" for what? Did you notice that we stopped even having elections? Sorry, but I don't see why people should sacrifice themselves and their families just to keep this up.
Aaron Swartz himself wrote about this kind of situation: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/semmelweis
Here's two more with the rocket actually visible and nearly upright - https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/555978908554625025, https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/555980855537975296

It's from the exchange between Carmack and Musk - https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/555946079175208963
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Show HN: coinmarketcap-api
Hi there HN,

just wanted to share a little project I've been working on for some time: a coinmarketcap.com Python (API) wrapper. As coinmarketcap does not provide any API endpoints, the code is pretty dirty and should be considered as a scraper more than a real API wrapper.

Example usage:

>>> import coinmarketcap

>>> coinmarketcap.market_cap('bitcoin')

$ 7,644,402,276

Everything is well documented in the README but if you have questions, don't ask.

Hope you enjoy it, issues and PR on Github are more than welcome. (https://github.com/c0ding/coinmarketcap-api)
Not everything needs to be a single sentence. "The tank of hydraulic fluid ran out before landing. This tank powered the fins that steer the rocket. Therefore the rocket could no longer be steered."

Or there's the ablative: "The tank of hydraulic fluid having been emptied, the fins could no longer steer the rocket."
Right, all about that "reasonable doubt" thing we always hear about. Still a fascinating case, thanks for the clarification!
Between the failings in statistics and those in modeling, there's a whole lot of science that's on shaky ground.
Microsoft also released subsequent versions of Windows, but they still keep updating old ones.

I don't understand why Google hasn't build an update process for Android in the first place. Everyone knows the OEMs won't update if they don't have to.
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No. They are not all at fault. The only one's responsible for updating their phones are the companies supplying the phones. There is nothing stopping Samsung, Sony, HTC, LG from creating and submitting a patch to AOSP and they are the ones who actually have a responsibility to their customers to do so. There is also very little stopping them from updating their phones to 4.4.

> is really all Google's fault because they let the carriers get away with it and have never reigned them in even after years of incompetence on the carriers' part.

You are again blaming Google for the carriers policy of updating phones not even belonging to Google. Do you really think Google is involved with a carriers agreement to carry Samsung phones?

Last time I checked, Nexus phone's can also be updated without the assistance of the carrier.
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One way of looking at this is the legal system keeping a clear distinction between patents and copyright.
That's correct. They run Linux, like Redhat.
Looking forward to the first GPL'ed reimplementation of this app.
well that's nice and all, so next time CEO wants a new fleet of jet aircrafts for him, all should pay more for the medicines? Because, you know, we can?

Companies should definitely make profit, but their default modus operandi is "milk the cow as long as possible", which would directly result in many deaths... not much sympathy from the crowd there. Let's not forget simple math here - company is/was charging for medicine that doesn't cost more than few tens of bucks to produce... 69,000? Sorry, ridiculous all the way through. Don't care about research bla-bla

Just turn on that weird device that used to be called TV. During winter, 1/3 of the adds are medicines. Who pays for those adds? All those who buy medicines...
I'm not sure - who is winning the market share?

That said, I'm amazed by the size of the offices etc. from just bug tracking software. Does everyone not just use Trac or Bugzilla or something?
google has 400+ recommendations (specs, recommendations, posts) about what you have to do to perform well in google. without even counting schema.org or other initiatives.

(google) analytics is an unbelievable powerful tool that has at some companies whole teams dedicated to it

google webmaster tools is a unbelievable powerful tool that tells you 80% of everything that is wrong with your site. you can easily make it your half time job to use this tool to the fullest.

google is part of the triangle: your webproperty, the users, google search

your ressources are better invested into these three areas (analytics, webmaster tools, google recommendations) than in a third party with its own interest i.e.: selling tools
And Google, because they have not implemented a default update system for the android core. Google only updates Apps.
That logic doesn't always hold up. You could make tiny tiny alterations to some plastic container, put some random bump here or there, or make the flap stick out a little more, and the plastic container might suddenly not be usable due with a third party automatic coffee maker. That's a huge effect, despite the tiny change.

But I doubt that would make that case that because of that huge effect, those random bumps and extended flap deserve patents. We are after all talking about basic shapes here, nobody should be able to patent "a round shape with a tiny bump sticking out" so that others cannot use that shape.
1. they'd already licensed it, so the patent holders are already compromising 2.patents are really not that long..5yrs? 20 yrs? nothing like life+99 or whatever it is for copyright.. 3.because patents are relatively short lived the pharma firms have to turn up "hits" which have to pay for all the other misses.. i'm guessing they would really rather market+brand their existing products than invent new ones if the protection they get from patents start to get eroded..not sure thats a good thing..
Agreed,

> That led many media outlets to call the gutsy landing attempt in the Atlantic a failure.

That's a fundamental misunderstanding of what the launch was about: modern journalism seems to be the failure in this case.
But by that metric economy was NEVER doing well. Ever. So what is your suggestion, do we just keep saying that economy is bad until .....what exactly? How do you define "bad" or "good" economy? I would say that an economy where we have achieved the lowest poverty levels across the human race in the history is "pretty damn good". As for the starving children in Africa(or America,or anywhere else) - we will fix that too.
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Well, obviously, you're missing the mood.

Besides, I see two issues with that:

- While it may be more machine-readable, it's absolutely not human readable

- Something like (OPRONOUN (3, 0)) assumes that pronouns work like in English. Want to represent text in a language for which it is not the case with this system? No dice.

In short, I'd rather have an improved gettext (without hacks to detect if you're gettext'ing printf'd text...) than your proposed AST solution.
Most books exist as audio books.
Why does Google still rely on the carries, even though they know for years, that they don't have interest in updates. They could easily implement an update mechanism for the core of Android, like they do for App-Updates as well.

When i buy a Laptop from HP, Dell, Lenovo or any other OEM, i still get Windows updates (even if i don't upgrade to the latest Windows version). I would really like to know why it is not possible for Google to implement such an update system? Blaming carriers is easier i guess.