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This is kinda funny - we should all hang out together or something :)

Here's my attempt:
http://www.clipbrd.com/

Was looking for something similar, couldn't find a thing that worked well, so I had to build it myself.
Too bad I don't have enough time to polish it, but it still works well for me.
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Maybe a shader issue then - WebGL is still fairly new on mobile devices.
I want to find the one simple trick to cramming all that into five minutes.
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As someone that was in your position not so long ago (5 years), here's what I've learned:

- Yes, you can get good programming jobs based on your experience and portfolio.

- No, college is not a required step.

- I would recommend working in bigger teams, as exposure to other developers, teams, and processes are going to be very valuable to you.

- Not in my experience.

HOWEVER:

As someone who doesn't have a degree, I will also say that I frequently notice the gaps in my knowledge, and while I'm actively working to fill them, it's a lot more difficult to do so when working full time because there's actual work to do. I'd very strongly recommend going to college right after high school if you're going to get a computer science degree. It doesn't have to be anything fancy nor expensive.
Yes, you are right! But, you know, it is Android 5. It has a market share of 1.6%. We can talk about this cool new feature in ~3 years, when everybody has Android 5+ ;-)
Going by the description, Wordstat seems similar to Google Trends. And AdWords has several keyword research tools.
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And by cross-platform, you mean? That it works well on Microsoft and kinda-sorta on everything else?
That doesn't sound particularly discoverable. That sounds like a power-user keyboard shortcut for what should be simple functionality.
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I've noticed that none of the FOSS spreadsheets do as well with some things as Excel does.

For example if I put 1, 2, 4, 8 and I highlight that and drag it to continue the series I get different results.

Excel gets it right and provides 16, 32, 64, etc

LibreOffice provides 2, 3, 5, 9, etc

OpenOffice doesn't do any better.

I haven't tried gnumeric in the last 10 years so I can't remember what it does but I'm not optimistic.

There are a lot of these kinds of things where Excel really has polish and the others don't and probably never will because the code to make it work right is excruciatingly boring to write.
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There are a variety of tools for web applications because of how the web predisposes developers towards certain metaphors (page views, clicks etc.).

There restrictions also appear in desktops apps but it is more likely that the metaphor will be broken in a way that does not fit the model of the tool.

You might want to check out Snowplow as it has the most flexible model I know of. But from your answer to other comments it may be too much work for you
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Yeah, him and every other user that includes basic features like "when I select the first step in a sequence of steps, the UI immediately responds instead of waiting several hundred ms to fetch an entirely new set of markup".

Every time I use Tor, I appreciate your viewpoint. But trying to pretend that most developers are better off spending their time maintaining a separate renderer for a few edge case users is not really reflective of reality.
Hi HN,

I'm exploring a UI idea, and I'm posting it here in search of some critique and feedback. I'll jot down a few stringths and weaknesses I'm thinking of so far. I'd love your input.

Here's the youtube demo link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkXgcS6kT4U&feature=youtu.be

Here's the github repo:
https://github.com/mikemajzoub/ResponsiveGrow

Abstract Use Case:
Allow the user fast access to any data containing a uniquely identifiable graphical ID (badge, emoji, profile picture, color in palette, etc.). As user moves around grid, views details of current node in top part of screen.

Strengths:
1. A common solution to represent such sets if data is generally a scrolling UITableView (iOS) or ListView (Android). This is inefficient because it requires time and energy for the user to discover off-screen options.
2. Its simplicity lends it to be memorable and learnable.

Weaknesses:
1. As the size of the set grows, the node's graphical IDs decrease in size, detail, and as an extension, recognizability. In the demo video, that's a 15x15 grid, which I felt was really pushing the set size limits... but then again on a UITableView or ListView, representing 225 elements would be a nightmare too. I'm a little conflicted on this point - would love some feedback here.

2. I'm currently losing screen space at the bottom and edges of the screen so that the margin can accomodate for the growing of the squares near it. One potential solution is removing the margin entirely, and then shifting the entire grid in the opposite direction of the currently selected area, because if the user is in the lower left corner, she probably doesn't care if the upper right corner slides off-screen momentarily, does she? Do you think this is a viable option?

3. I'm still conflicted on how to allow the user to select the data. "On release" seems like a potential option, but this means the user will have to drag all the way off the grid if she chooses not to select anything. Perhaps this challenge presents an argument for keeping the margins, so that at any moment, the user is within screenWidth/2 distance from the "do not select" area. Another potential solution would be to allow for a hole in the middle of the grid, which means that the user would always be within screenWidth/4 from the "do not select" area, but this cuts into the amount of data that can be represented on screen, so I am not in love with it. I welcome (and beg for) any ideas here...

Thanks for your thoughts and feedback - I'm still very much in the early stages of this idea, but I think it has some interesting potential and wish to keep exploring and evolving it.

In peace,
Mike
Ha! Look over the Bermuda Triangle :) Colors is a really good idea and I experimented a bit with changing colors based on direction E/W and N/S - I like the idea of using velocity though and since it's not scientifically accurate, estimating based on position within the arc is probably good enough.
Can you imagine bringing that up?

Hi, you're fired, but here sign this legally binding contract so I can tell you why you are a terrible employee.
No end-to-end encryption, not even a privacy policy. Stay away...
I don't have the skill to play any song from start to finish in my head, and I don't know about "closest", but "Does It Float" and "Repulsion" on "Dinosaur" are some specific examples you could look at that have some similarities IMO.
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It is developers fault not to use the other API's like the Amazon App store ones.

Perhaps the downvoting is not from Google supporters but fro now accurate information
Most of the touchscreen functions are not discoverable. Pinch-to-zoom, long-press, swiping with multiple fingers, etc. It's very easy to do though, not what I would call a power-user thing. Remember there is only one physical button on the front of the device, and this is one of the things that it does.
Isn't it just a prettier RSS reader? basically Flipboard?
Also, I'm skeptical of the concept of "bynd-zero" because it is impossible. In fact it'll be even more stressful because the stream of contents is endless and the only way around it is to shut off this feed addiction.
Thanks for the feedback in this thread. It is CPU bound with the calculations to move the points around - I wonder if I could push that off to the GPU - it's all really just simple trig.
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A friend of mine have created a simple but very addictive android game, i appreciate your feedback guys about the game.
Hey Ted :)
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Agreed. I can't wait to start using it. Speed is a very important feature.
> When musical literacy is lacking in a person it is truly sad.

As a member of the musically illiterate, I ask why?

From my perspective, it feels like being musically illiterate is like being unskilled in the ceramic arts (which I also am). It's absolutely true that I cannot make music of my own and would be forced to buy all my music. It's also true that I cannot make porcelain figurines of my own and have to buy all of those as well. My inexpensive solution has been to simply not own any porcelain figurines or music.

Honestly, between the two, I'd be more interested in learning the ceramic arts at the moment. Not that I really need figurines, but it sounds like more fun and I have some ideas for bathroom fittings. Why should I learn music instead?

I'm probably coming off as a bit abrasive and I apologize for that. People have been making music for thousands of years, so there's obviously something neat going on there that I'm missing.
Contrary to popular belief, Condé Nast no longer owns Reddit.

Since 2012, Reddit operates as an independent company (Advanced Publications, the parent company of Condé Nast is a majority share holder though).

See: http://www.redditblog.com/2013/08/reddit-myth-busters_6.html...
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Well in that case Apache Ngix Microsoft and the IETF need to keep control of the satndard any one that tries to add the http/2 equivelent of <blink> gets taken out and shot.

I have seen this before with OSI when MCI decided that part of the x.400 standard was optional. And not to mention ICL who thought that starting counting from 0 was a good idea when that standard said MUST START from 1 (and you wonder why the UK doesnt have a mainframe maker any more)
Banner is whatever information a remote connection gives you when you connect.

For ssh that will be some information about the server, version of ssh, hostname, and (hopefully) a prompt to login, or a request for a key.

For http, it will be a handful of headers about the server.

Tools like Shodan scan the internet looking for active connections, and try to banner-grab on common ports, looking for details like server versions, operating system versions, etc for a long list of protocols like telnet, http, ssh, smtp, vnc, remote desktop (often with screenshots of the remote system, disturbing often unauthenticated straight to the desktop or running program), etc.

If you're of a malicious mindset, when a new vulnerability is discovered, or an old one, you can look up a list of vulnerable systems from the database, searching by service and version, rather than scanning the internet yourself.
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Try to edit JavaScript code in offshored projects with 30+ developers.
I believe Vagrant takes care of that for you.
"Gets it right" is incredibly subjective, you cannot really expect a spreadsheet to run some number series analysis to see if there is some logic behind numbers except for some trivial cases (this one might be one, but that's debatable).

gnumeric does simply replicate the series, you get 1, 2, 4, 8, 1, 2, 4, 8, 1, etc. It does offer a tool to fill series though.
There is a lot of truth in here. While the startup boom is creating a lot of great products, the founders are often lost when they have to grow fast.
Even in 1999, using JavaScript to make far more usable UIs was common. While I'm not a fan of these bloated apps that need a couple megs of stuff just to render some basic looking page, let's not pretend that requiring user action and a full round trip to render even the smallest change was some golden era.

>that would have been a few lines of jquery a couple of years ago

Irony?
I made a switch to LibreOffice when my work machine switched to Ubuntu. As the post points out, switching for everything but Excel is feasible for most users. There is a bit of a learning curve, but some things actually seem to make more sense once you dive in.

As for Excel, as tumultuous a relationship as I have had with that software over my working career, I never really appreciated its features and stability until I tried to use the alternatives. That said, I haven't tried 4.4 but look forward to giving it another shot.
i noticed that you only mention seattle and silicon valley, and you only seem to talk about top schools and companies (i.e., household names). you're probably right - you'll never work for those companies, or in silicon valley. but is that what you really want? i mean have you actually gone to the middle of, for example, mountain view, and looked around? it's a bunch of generic office parks and shitty suburban tract homes that cost $2M+.

LA, portland, new york, south florida, va/nc are all on the coasts and have strong tech job markets and hiring all the people like you, but you're sitting here moping about silicon valley. seems a bit like you're missing the point. the boom is happening everywhere and if you want in, you gotta find your way in.
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I really enjoyed this book—useful guide to communicating with clients. Has me thinking a lot more about what I write before pressing send.
Agree. There are a lot of semi-offensive comments about "brain drain" and talent level. It's more subtle than that.

There is a lot of talent in the Midwest. What you don't get outside of the Bay, at the highest levels of specialty, is a continuous rather than discrete/illiquid market. (New York has a continuous market, but you're competing with Wall Street for anyone good.) This is a pain point for job-seekers and companies looking for talent. If you're looking for someone with 5 years of Clojure experience, production experience with three specific NoSQL products, and an extensive knowledge of the Javascript world... you can find that in SF at some price. In the Midwest, you might have to train up into the role... or, if you're a job seeker, accept an 80% match on the tech stack.

It's a quantity rather than quality issue (pound for pound, the talent levels in Minneapolis and San Francisco aren't very different) but this allows employers and job seekers both to be very finicky ("purple unicorn" searches) in the Bay. It also makes it possible in the Bay, if you're adept at this game, to double your comp in a bidding war. It's much harder to start a bidding war in a Midwestern city of 500,000.

This "bidding war" effect is also why you see some not-that-talented engineers making a lot of money. In the Bay, you have Haskell engineers at $125k and Java engineers making $300k. Why the inversion? The Java engineer can get 3 employers into a bidding war at the same time; that's nearly impossible to do if you're a Haskell engineer.
The landing page looks great. Very well designed. The UI looks good but I have a few comments as I have been dealing with Email Marketing lately and have come across some pain points. If you are using SES, how will you manage reputation and hourly/daily quota issues ? Are you going to show the reputation to the users in some way ? If a user gets marked as spam a lot, their reputation suffers which means they will not be able to send a lot of emails within the same hour/day and this needs to be explained to the user properly. A lot of clients don't understand this and will say "hey my campaign is paused, what happened".

Also, what integrations are available with services such as wordpress etc ? The reason I am asking because your tool seems to be targeted at smaller business to start with and quite a few of them use CMS such as wordpress and want integration. So standalone app is great but a lot of people will want to integrate with their existing CMS etc.

That takes me to the next point. This is not a criticism but just some food for thought. You are charging $30 for 10,000 emails which on surface looks great comparing with Mailchimp etc but there are plenty of plugins in the market that can provide similar UI, autoresponders etc and let users use Mandrill in the backend which lets you send 12,000 emails per month for free. Yes that quota is 12,000 but that is still a lot for most starters.
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> Except that those millions of corpses were not caused by Marx or his theories but by a flawed implementation of it by some power hungry dictators.

Leninist vanguardism, however much it may borrow language from Marx (mostly about abstract goals) and call itself "Marxist-Leninism" is not, in terms of concrete prescription (or even conditions in which it is designed to operate) anything like Marxism.

> In terms of tech, don't blame the spec if you didn't implement it correctly.

Those implementing Leninism and its descendants were working from a very different spec than Marx's work, not merely poorly implementing the spec.
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Yandex market is awesome. It has a very detailed database of products, and lets you filter them by tons of tech specs and actually explains what they are. I use it all the time to find products in categories that I don't know much about. Amazon, Google shopping or whatever don't even come close.
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Oh...Minneapolis gets snow too. Believe you me.
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Having grown up in Milwaukee (the city proper) and now living in Minneapolis (the city proper), I couldn't disagree more. Milwaukee may be very racially segregated, and Minneapolis may have a high achievement gap, but neither city is all slum the way you portray. Far from it.
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Marxism is a flawed theory, so all implementations of it will be flawed. The capital owner is not committing wage theft when he hires an employee and makes a profit.
IMHO it all boils down to habit. I switched from Excel to LO Calc and am quite happy, too, though it does feel a bit awkward and sometimes it just gets in the way. I managed writing a macro though, and it was surprisingly easier than I thought.
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This is a pretty obscure YMMV, you must admit ... full quirk-compatibility is an iterative process.

What it'll take for LO Calc to compete with MSO is someone wanting to knock Excel off its perch and spend money on the drudge work. LO finally has decent data structures in Calc and the GPU calculation, now there's all the drudge to do to literally beat the best spreadsheet available. If you got the sort of serious spreadsheet that takes Excel 24 hours to run, and Calc ran it in 20 hours, people would pay any amount of money for such a thing.

(I think Excel is the hook, because it's the one bit of MSO that the people who sign the cheques use personally. Maybe Powerpoint too.)

As a word processor, Writer is every bit as good as MS Word, though of course slightly different. DOCX compatibility is improving noticeably every release; I haven't had any problems myself in several years.

Compatibility quirks are important to someone when they bite them, but look at Google Docs - it's hugely popular (basically for non-sucky email) even though its word processor and spreadsheet are terrible. We use GApps in the day job and I keep LO to hand for when I need something not terrible. Or that offers non-terrible DOCX rendering.

So I think what LO needs is something killer. Not sure what though.
My personal experience definitely agrees with this. I think it might have something to do with a "trained" ear or a better discernment or attention paid to small variations in sound.
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if you're setting up a kiosk, you'll need to get a new model anyways.
Well, I did check into this as part of advanced study, and your doubts are misplaced - there is a real link/cross-sharing between music and language...because there's an observable link/cross-sharing between music and overall intellectual development. Here's a quick summary citing the study that I think I used in my own inquiry[1]:

Confirming the belief that the relationship between music and academic performance is positive, “researchers have found that music instruction actually enhances student achievement in areas outside music” (Kelstrom, 1998, para. 12). It is believed that “music develops critical thinking skills and improves skills in reading, writing, and math. Music develops and improves spatial intelligence, which transfers to high-level math and science. It develops perceptual skills necessary in many academic areas” (Kelstrom, 1998, para. 31-32). According to this study, music has a strong influence, because it produces and develops skills needed for many academic processes.

[1]http://www.kon.org/urc/v5/fujita.html

Personally, as both a musician, person who successfully learned a foreign language, and was, for a time, on a professional track to become a programmer, I can say that programming is very low on the totem pole. It is predominately mechanical in nature deriving from logic comprehension, compared to music, which is a highly expressive and dynamic format. Or, to put it another way, I've never seen a "collaborative jam session" in programming that wasn't anything but chaos, because the format simply doesn't allow for it. Programming is great to understand how machines work, but to build the machines, the mind should be expanded via music and the arts to enable practical creativity.
Are people able to export their list? I'm looking for something like this but no way I'm signing up if I'm locked in.
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This feels like an overt attempt to sell me things instead of actually providing me useful information.
Your complaints apply to the suburbs of everywhere (needing cars, home maintenance, no public transport, etc). I think you might be inflating your experience in Michigan's metropolitan areas with the entirety of the midwest, judging by 'extreme weather conditions'. My total gas/electric bill this month was $140, which is on the high end for me.

There are tons of places in the midwest where urban property is well within reach and public transport is available, obviating the need for two vehicles, much less two expensive vehicles. No one in the midwest sees the 'brain drain'? It is talked about constantly.
I recently got offered a sysadmin spot with a local agency by an acquaintance that had taken over their IT department. Fortunately, government jobs actually post their salary rates so I was able to decline before either of us wasted too much time.

They wanted someone to run the back end for an 18 county area, including supporting local offices. Starting pay? Between 26k and a starting cap of just over $30k/year.
He's a cabinet member of a democratically elected government. It's not a false sense of entitlement when the people of Greece have actually entitled him to carry out the program that Syriza promised.