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I was particularly struck by the passing reference to the (unknown to me) International Klein Blue, a color made by and then patented by Yves Klein, a pure blue pigment suspended in clear resin, a color that cannot be experienced on a screen or page, but only by seeing the real thing. An experience that you have to HAVE in person, that cannot be approximated online.

A bit of google and wiki later, I read the surreal ending to his life: "[Klein] suffered a first heart attack whilst watching the film Mondo Cane at the Cannes Film Festival[...] Two more heart attacks followed, the second of
which killed him on 6 June 1962. His son, Yves, was born a few months later in Nice...[His son] grew up to study architecture, design, cybernetics theory of systems, and Fine Arts sculpture. He went on to create robotized sculptures."

One thing leads to another and before I know it I have read a series of things that together induced the sensation of having experienced a moving art installation.
All that says is that behavior is highly context dependent. No one is disputing that. However, twin studies have shown us that despite that, personality characteristics are highly heritable. This suggests that despite differences in behavior due to context, there are genetic and thus pervasive personality traits that are fairly immutable.
As an example:

If you're pretty add 1, otherwise add 0.
If you're smart add 10, otherwise add 0
If you're kind add 100, otherwise add 0

Result of the test: if you have accumulated 111,
you're known among your friends as a beautiful,
big-hearted genius.
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I 100% disagree... I found it to be extremely accurate. Like Scary Accurate.
Wow, I had never noticed that shadow thumb until this article pointed it out. I had to go back play with it. A couple other random observations: when you click on one of the arrows the real thumb doesn't snap up to the shadow thumb until you've moved the cursor a certain distance away. Also, scrolling by clicking and dragging the thumb has the lag effect mentioned in the article, but scrolling with two fingers on my trackpad doesn't.

I think the other problem that isn't mentioned in the article is that, at least for long waves, loading of content seems to make scrolling jerky and unpredictable.
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Way to go Don!
Neat!

I wonder if he had to do a bunch of quiz answers first, though.
Ask HN: Keeping yourself organized, hourly or task based?
This is my second question in order to figure out how my hacker friends keep themselves organized.

How do you manage your tasks? Do you plan them in first place? If yes then what kind of method is more useful

Planning based on smaller time chunks e.g. Reading "Black Swan" from 2pm to 3pm OR just Read chapter 3 from Black swan?

For a lazy bum like me keeping track of every hour helps more.
lol thanks, i'm a big fan of superbad :)
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Wow, looks like most of the 2% of the population of ENTPs is on here :) Never met another one, at least that I know of. Cheers!!
While I'd love Apple to have some competition in the forthcoming tablet space, this is PURE speculation put forth by an organization with ZERO history of shipping ANY manufactured devices.

Hey Engadget, why don't you wait for, I dunno, an actual realized working device (even in prototype form) before you devote labor and pixels to "covering" vaporware.

You're also not doing any credence to your editorial reputation by merely being YouTube podcast stenographers.

Add actual insight or you're wasting everyone's time and attention.

PRO-TIP: When citing, you can link WITHIN a YouTube video's time index using the "#t=39m" suffix. (Ex. http://tinyurl.com/yj26c4x )
Excellent article. It pleases me that an important language that turned out not to be very widely used is nevertheless remembered by some -- if not by the creators of Go, who were apparently doomed to reinvent Algol 68 badly.

I'm also reminded of C.A.R. Hoare's famous quip about Algol 60: "Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors." (Sourced at http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._A._R._Hoare .)
I really appreciate Google's attempt to revisit some of the basic UI interactions that we often take for granted. Scrollbar behavior has stabilized and works well for most situations, but this doesn't mean it can't be improved.

However, this new scrollbar approach seems complex and Rube Goldbergesque. For a new UI control to disrupt a firmly entrenched UI control, it's got to scream simplicity, elegance, and why-didn't-I-think-of-that obviousness. And the very best UI controls are the ones that you never notice.
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Google actually already does this with Chrome using native scrollbars:

http://www.techdreams.org/browsers/brilliant-google-chrome-u...
I can see charging a modest amount for a beta program. If it were totally free, you'd get sign-ups from any random person who has the slightest curiosity in the product, and any feedback you get from such folks is likely to be next to useless. By charging for the beta, even just $20, you weed out this chaff, and also your beta testers now have some sense of investment in the product and will be more likely to give you feedback you can act on.
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Well then IMHO he should have stopped with "we haven't set a price yet". That $1000 figure leaps off the page and causes a lot of potentially unnecessary consternation.
It's a nice idea, but I kind of doubt we'll see these scroll bars anywhere else. Google's UIs are extremely inconsistent across all of their apps..
I have found that when ENTPs meet, we have a very productive and exciting sense of camaraderie.
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Oh, I'm not in any way suggesting that this is what the article is talking about. I'm specifically curious about how cheap shared hosting delivers (or fails to deliver) in a price / performance comparison to one of those "plug on the wall" servers. Not trying to be snarky here; I'm actually hoping for a legitimate response, as I have no experience with them (but they sound kind of interesting).
First, he forgets about the sharing memory which needs to be subtracted from the resident number, since that memory is shared by multiple applications, so gvim eats not 27mb but only 14mb which is a very respectable number in my opinion.

Second, I just have gone through a long-awaited "Arch weekend" and finished building a fully functional ArchLinux machine.

It was definitely not "optimizing for the wrong thing". Arch allows you to pick system components you actually want, as opposed to Ubuntu's approach to installing everything you may need. It speeds up your boot/reboot/resume time and it does run about 30% leaner on RAM when it reaches feature parity with my Ubuntu installation.
It's an oddly syntax-focused comparison given that we already often refer to that entire class of languages as 'Algol-style' or 'Algol-derived' and the block-structure and lexical scope ideas are in wide use even in languages far afield, syntactically. I think the notion that they 'overlap more than they differ' is quite inaccurate - they do, if you cherry pick features, gloss over others (par is not the same as goroutines, interfaces are nothing like 'polymorphic operators', you can't turn all of go's keywords into, say, Turkish). If you weigh the differences, conservatively and pragmatically, the languages are tremendously different.

The other points raised:

'effective' vs 'good' - seems like a narrower case of the plentiful and in-depth literature available about 'worse is better' (and the converse).

'can't spot any language feature that was invented after about 1985' - at this point the Lisp crowd should probably be reaching for their pitchforks and lighting their torches. Perhaps formalized systems for hygienic macros came a bit later?
Ask HN: How do you keep up with changing technologies?
I was late to the game and have roughly 5 years of experience with SQL Server and around 2 to 3 years of experience with ASP.NET and OOP concepts. I'm still learning new things on regular basis and only recently truly discovered the wonders of interfaces, after nearly 3 years of working in ASP.NET and C#. I still write all of my object <-> database mapping code manually (and kind of enjoy it), but I know the way of the future is Linq to SQL, Linq to Entities or NHibernate and 2 of those technologies have been around for at least a couple of years now. I just took a new job and while I think I've upgraded in terms of the caliber of people I'll be working with, it's an established shop so I'm still looking at interacting with veteran technologies on a daily basis - with no real hope of integrating the newer that's out.

I suppose if you're building products and apps that work and the end result doesn't become obsolete, then it doesn't really matter if the tech you built it with is older, but I can't help but feel like I'm falling behind. How do keep with up all changing technology and how do you force yourself to step outside your comfort zone of doing things the way you know how and trying something new? I just don't want to put in another 4 years at a job and find myself unemployed and 7 or 8 years behind the field.
"Teller has suggested that rising seas caused by the last Agassiz flood 8,000 years ago may have sent water rushing into the Persian Gulf basin, giving rise to Sumerian and Mesopotamian flood legends and ultimately the biblical story of Noah's Ark."

Riiiight...
good point. You may get some benefit from other news sites picking up on a story covered by TechCrunch. However, in general, I'd say that unless your customer/user profile is the TechCrunch reader, TechCrunch posting schedules aren't going to mean a whole lot.
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I, as a citizen of Canada, hereby apologize for the devastation caused by my geographical area of the world.

Seriously though, it's incredible to think that something happening in Canada could cause Sumerian and Mesopotamian legends - or possibly even the biblical flood. I suppose that speaks volumes (no pun intended) to the vast amount of water expunged from Agassiz.

Imagine if there were people around at the time, watching events unfold - I'll bet it would have been a jaw-dropping experience!

Still, you have to wonder how accurate such findings could be... if you're 13,000 years separated from the actual event - how much room for errors exists?
Thanks for the kind comments. We're working on improvements to the site now. More information on packages is definitely in the works.

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I'm talking about some producer at Fox who wanted to do the same thing. The FAA said no and then 9/11 happened. And it was 1999, not 2001, my mistake.
Do you think the whole email me at XXXXXX[at]XXXXXX[dot]com fools the spammers?
I dunno seems like if I was going to design a bot, I'd put in the few simple combinations that the people try to use to fool it.
The author seems to think that lists should be their own accounts (with multiple owners), but the purpose of lists is different: they allow a user to organize their (too busy to make sense of) feed into subfeeds that are more manageable.

My main problem with the current implementation is that I can't view all my lists at the same time, side by side (so I still use my own quick-and-dirty Python app to do that).

The author's point about being put in lists named "big fat hairy men" is quite valid though, I think the lists should be private (or at least not visible on the listed user's info page).
(whoa whoa whoa. Has Apple, you know, actually talked about a realized device? Are you not doing the very thing you are criticizing engadget for?)

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I was really looking forward to signing up for the beta this evening, but unfortunately I'm on Windows and the beta is currently Mac only.

I'm surprised that more people haven't heard of 280 North or Objective-J and Cappuccino in general. I would consider myself moderately inclined when it comes to technology and I had heard of Cappuccino close to a year ago. I watched the demo of Atlas some weeks back and I was really impressed with what they've accomplished.

I think they're doing the right thing by charging for the beta. It's a small team of guys doing the development and I'm sure they could use the money. Not to mention, if you're paying for a beta then you've likely been following the development, have serious intent on using the technology long term and will likely contribute more than a casual user would - which from what I gather is exactly the target market they're after.

Looking forward to windows support in the coming month(s).
The issue is around how many deals Sequoia funds. If other investors think that Sequoia already has the best 3 companies in any class sewed up before demo-day, why come to pick up the less interesting companies.

Chris Dixon wrote a good post on this recently: http://cdixon.org/?p=1746
Admittedly, I'm a tech-head.

I've used Drupal in the past (it's still in use on my personal site) for various projects. When a colleague introduced me to Django, I felt a light click on; I smacked my forehead and said to myself: "Gosh. Square peg, round hole".

Of course, I was speaking about using Drupal (or any other CMS for that matter) for certain projects of mine. Don't get me wrong, Drupal's done well for itself. It's just that CMSes aren't necessarily the best tool for the job. If you're looking purely to host content - and content only - then a CMS is likely the right choice.

If you are techie enough (or have access to a techie enough crew) and your problem is even a bit more complex than simple content hosting, using a framework (such as Django) will really open doors for you. Having a custom-built system designed around a proven framework allows so much more room for optimization and offer flexibility like you wouldn't believe.

A framework is the best compromise between custom developing (from scratch) a codebase in any language (PHP, Python, whatever) and a more restrictive configuration such as offered by a CMS.

Now... if only I could find the time to update my personal page to Django, because gosh darn it - Django's fun to use!
Two major reasons Google added this new scrollbar:

1. Stop "jumping document width madness". With the OS scrollbar (on windows at least) the document would shrink with the scrollbar width when its length starts requiring a scrollbar.

Collapsing/Expanding a thread which makes the document shorter/longer than its view space will thus shift all centered designs right/left.

2. Does not take space. The scrollbar is drawn NO TOP of page elements. It does not occupy its own dedicated space.

Even worse were always-present scrollbars even when having nothing to scroll) as misguided attempts to solve problem 1.

I for one like this solution.
Don't. Learn the concepts and ideas behind the "technologies" and work with them instead. Then it just comes down to messing around with the details of implementation. This way, whatever happens to be "the way of the future" next will be easy enough to pick up (unless it's something absolutely horrid which no sane business should use).

You aren't falling behind, don't worry.
I had heard you were using MySQL as database earlier. What made you switch to Cassandra? Just curious.
It won't fool all of them, but for the ones who haven't got somewhat more sophisticated spider-bots, it will.

Cutting down on spam is almost as good as eradicating it - in the sense that it's damn near impossible to eradicate it anyhow.
I was just trying to be helpful.
AFAIK, Aliweb was the first search engine for the WWW and WebCrawler was the first full text search (in its original incarnation, now its only a metasearch).
This is marvelously whimsical. I almost never watch videos like this, but this guy's stuff is so original and charming that I couldn't help getting sucked in. (I mean... Grand Theft Wumpus?!)
I believe that if you are real good with your concepts - Algorithms, Data structures, OOP concepts, etc. there is no reason to worry about the technology. The job remains the same- giving right set of instructions to process the data.
Moreover, I personally believe that it's hard for anyone to be even familiar with so many technologies that are coming up everyday.
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I think the default for most mouse wheels is about 3 lines of vertical movement at a time.

When you need to jump down 3 pages to the comments, or to a deeper page in a document, most people don't wheel down 3 lines at a time, they grab the scroll bar and zip to the bottom of the page.
I was late to the game [...]

What game?

Newer technology isn't always better. It's just... newer. What really makes you think you have to keep up with the latest technology? Are you just trying to keep up with the other code monkeys, or do you really want to learn something?

[H]ow do you force yourself to step outside your comfort zone of doing things the way you know how and trying something new?

If "step[ping] outside your comfort zone" is what you want, then you don't need anything that is new in absolute terms, but only something that is new to you. Here's a suggestion: learn Lisp. It's fifty years old, and yet the main dialects (Common Lisp, Scheme -- 20-30 years old themselves) contain interesting features that are only beginning to make their way into "mainstream" languages.
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I just noticed, without thinking about it, while reading through these comments, I was holding onto the scroll bar, moving the page up and down as needed to read everything. My hand and mind were in perfect sync, I was able to read and scroll seamlessly.

When using Google Wave, I feel like I'm actually BATTLING with the browser to find information. The scroll bar in Google Wave is a flaw in my opinion. A seriously poor design decision.
There are two facets to this question: what you can do as WesleyJohnson and what you can do within your organization. Your motivation is making sure WesleyJohnson has a job four years from now. Your organization's motivation is selling more $FOO at lower costs. You need to start identifying or creating happy synergies which align your organization's motivations with your personal motivations in terms of career growth.

I do Big Freaking Enterprise Web Apps at the day job. I do not want to be doing BFEWA in a few years, so I convince my day job that I can deliver projects on schedule and under budget if they give me more latitude with respect to the technologies I'm allowed to use.

This started with the kind of one-off "We don't really care what you do to accomplish this as long as you get the job done" projects and snowballed from there.

A key component of my process was, after saving them a truckload or two of money, I would rigorously document what I did, how much we saved (metrics METRICS metrics), future places we could employ the technology/technique/whatever, etc.

After iterating this a few times, a) when I say "Hey boss, that will work, but I can do it two man-months cheaper if you let me do it my way" they tend to listen to me and b) other people come to consult with me about How To Implement X issues because they've found that I often know what I'm talking about or, in the alternative, can rectify my ignorance with a few weeks of studying and rapid prototyping.

When I'm building stuff for the day job, usually I want to be leaving them working systems or system improvements which will continue to generate value long after I am no longer there (as opposed to daily firefighting). I also want to be building personal capital which will continue to generate value long after I am no longer there (as opposed to daily firefighting).

Note that if you have a small side business, you can create opportunities to use a new technology without having to bring anyone else into the loop at all. Earlier this year I wanted to do some work with NoSQL to see what all the fuss was about. So I picked one of the upcoming tasks that looked like it would be a good fit, and did it. (Presumably you can do the same with OSS if you don't have a business handy.)
A long time ago, I used to jump on every bandwagon that seemed interesting. That lead to lots of wasted time and effort with technological dead-ends. So I over-reacted and only bothered with technology that had been around a minimum of 2 years (or if a "for dummies" book on the subject came out).

Some of our shipping products are based on VB6, while some of the others are .NET 3.5. Generally, if some new technology adds an edge, like Entity Framework (the shiny new name for "linq to whatever"), then we use it. Also, for internal tools, any new technology is fair game. So our internal tools have all sorts of bizarre stuff in them, and if that new stuff is useful, we end up using it elsewhere.

I don't blog, but I'm thinking of doing it for some educational projects. Making a public promise to do something generally makes you more likely to go through with it and do it: whether it is a project or losing weight. One example is the "build your own CAB" [composite application block] series.
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Something like this project might be what you're looking for to push yourself out of your "comfort zone."
> It's an oddly syntax-focused comparison

Specially given the many syntax mistakes on the Go examples he uses for comparison.

He is comparing two languages he has clearly never used to do any substantive programming. The whole thing is ridiculous.
Wow, the Algol-68 spec really is impenetrable.
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You mean scary accurate like a horoscope?

A basic problem with this kinds of tests is that it's too easy to interpret the results to fit a very wide range of personalities - just like a horoscope will fit just about everyone who believes in them.

But they're still fun, and might give a hint about some general tendencies.
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I liked this post, it was reasoned, like most shirky writings. He definitely defined a great platform for debate, and exploration.