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> Without having installers that include adware (Java)

Only for developers that aren't savvy enough to know the multiple options to bundle the runtime or compile to native code.

Or the users that don't install Java from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jre8... or can't be bothered to read a dialog box.

> or that seem borderline-unsupported (X11/Quartz)

Since when is Quartz unsupported?

> or that require funny multi-stage compiling (Qt).

Since when do users compile GUI frameworks?

Cross platform UI is nothing new, there are much more options to choose from than those you listed, and browsers can hardly offer more than a 90's GUI experience.
How big do you think MV is? It is only 80K residents now. 50K housing units? Where exactly do you propose to put those units?

Really Sunnyvale should get into the act. MV should build denser. But Google does need to contribute serious $ to MV capital improvement plan
More about the Smart-Flash:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/02/company-without-a...

I've checked some dates:

The first patent Smart-Flash claims (https://www.google.com/patents/US7334720) has the filing date of Jan 19, 2006.

Apple's iTunes exist in public since January 9, 2001.

The "priority date" of the patent is "Oct 25, 1999." It can be that the original application was "something-mumble-something" and that the later filings inserted the details really developed by others.

More than that, the patent doesn't appear to have the real invention details relevant:

"At step S10 a smart Flash card is inserted into a content access terminal smart Flash card interface. The system owner web page is then loaded onto the content access terminal and displayed to the user (step S11)."

It's about (surprise) the Flash cards carried by the users and "inserted" around?
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There is less competition in smartphone OSes (2 dominant providers) than in most localities' high-speed internet (2 wired and 3+ wireless providers). So the same market-power rationales used for FCC regulation of ISPs could be used to justify strong federal regulation of the Apple & Google platforms.
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Can you add something more about what is the minihtml module? Google says nothing.
I have now read the thesis lightly, and I cannot for the life of my children, find out exactly WHY you want to save the simplest of abstractions on the device, namely the logical to physical translation. It's a well known abstraction, and the benefits are clear as day - the alternative, with migration callback and now two different kinds of data that you must write differently just screams bad idea, and goes against everything I've learned in CS and in my carreer. It introduces unneeded complexity for the OS. The main benefit seems to be lower cost devices (1GiB ram per 1TiB), which is neglectable. The performance isn't really better and the thesis doesn't exactly go into detail of the CPU overhead of this implementation during heavy IO, and we now face an entirely different problem with crashes. Today we can build SSDs to ensure that confirmed writes are guranteed persisted.

This abstractions is what have allowed us to transistion from a traditional spinning data store to SSD without much effort (save for delete flags to help the device performance GC and improve performance).
I'd have an interest in learning ASL but now that I'm abroad, it doesn't make much sense. There is a regional variant where I am but being an expat/nomad, that might not be a great idea to learn either. Even though I'm against there being an international language (ie, English), I really wouldn't mind a more robust ISL.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Sign
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I'm a woman in tech who has only been on the periphery of the Valley (mostly working out of Singapore, Indonesia, Myanmar, etc).

The sexism is everywhere. However, the brogrammer culture which has made an art of condescending to women PLUS all that PUA bs, is quite specific to SV and may even be an SV export (when I have seen it outside SV, it tends to a derivative).

In some other places they just treat women like shit outright without writing long articles about it :) (Like the founder who told me he was going to have a wet dream about me, after I kicked him out of a startup competition he sucked at.)
Why would they need to include chat services? External chat clients already exist, and for the important internal messages, there are systems for communication:

- StackExchange has a comment system, as well as a Meta discussion board, as well as chatrooms for every StackExchange site

- GitHub has commit messages and issue tracking, as well as e-mail addresses listed for contact, and in-project e-mail threads

So these sites really do have chat, just not the Facebook-Messenger type of chat that you might be thinking of.
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Hopefully they will finally fix the bug in Chrome where sites that require Flash pop up a "this site requires flash! - would you like to install it?" bar at the top of the screen, even though it isn't bundled with the app.

It is particularly annoying considering their own efforts to remove Flash from usage on YouTube, that is, with supporting HTML5 video.
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Is that .. serious?

I'm assuming this is a joke. Quite some parts ("it was great just playing video games", "market without high expectations, disproportional rewards") are so much over the top. Wow.
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emacs doesn't have decent support of jsx: the jsx-mode is actually for another tech with same name, the js2-mode is great except xml support.

i love vim a lot (use evil in emacs), except vimscript. I hope oneday I could use neovim with atom/st2 as frontend.
Talk to small businesses and find the pain points that they would pay money to solve. Once you do that, the idea part builds itself.
Castro Street a non-descript strip mall? Not on your life - it is crowded and busy. Even Monday nights are getting busy. The problem with your redevelopment idea is that there are many different landowners. Each parcel of land will have to be individually redeveloped. Not impossible. The city should encourage it but the city can't force it.
Because he managed to combine the job, open source work, and to a large extent I expect, social life, into the same thing. That's the chicken and egg problem; you can do it once you 'make it', but getting there is tough without significant sacrifice.
>I used a computer without AdBlock the other day, and it was like stepping back into 1999 with every page saturated with the 21st century equivalent of animated GIFs and auto-play MIDIs.

Really? I'm not sure that's entirely true. I don't have adblock on the temp laptop I'm using because I just forgot to install it and I have barely noticed any change in my browsing habits.
And Grofers did it again! The overall idea is quite unique and what is the USP .. Well it's the personalized experience.
Exactly!

The actual memory contents behind the controller are dependent on physical characteristics. Using the FTL firmware, the flash+controller (such as eMMC) vendor is free to do all kinds of tricks, for instance, depending on the quality of a particular batch of NAND. Bad batch? Use more of the spare for error correcting code. Particular memory pattern that generates interference? Tweak the scrambler. Slow? Interleave between a couple of NAND chips. (These examples are hypothetical)

Tying filesystems to the physical layer makes no sense. It would mean I wouldn't be able to use 'dd' to copy a partition to some other device, since it would have different physical characteristics which the filesystem would need to take into account. It would mean that I wouldn't be able to take an iSCSI volume and write it out to disk to 'de-virtualize' virtualized storage.
I think I'll write about this in the future, because this describes my experience with Appointment Reminder, pretty much to a T.

Do I have a magic answer to it? No. Long, slow SaaS ramp of death all the way. http://businessofsoftware.org/2013/02/gail-goodman-constant-...

Spoiling a bit of that eventual post: one of the hardest challenges for me with AR was keeping up motivation to grind-it-the-heck-out over the years, because AR was not an intrinsically motivating problem/market for me. It would probably be 10X larger than it is right now if it had attracted the requisite effort from me over the years by being interesting-in-the-absence-of-major-growth. The next time I do a business, it will be something which will be certifiably Fun to me every day, for some value of Fun.

Incidentally: depression may be an orthogonal issue to this. Many of us in the community struggle with it. You're very not alone. Talk to someone -- me, if necessary.
> It’s not a perfect solution — the troll could abandon the banned account and open a new one without supplying a number

Yeah, that's a slight flaw in this plan, isn't it?...

I guess the only real benefit of this new system is that admins can be more trigger-happy on (temporarily) banning accounts.
- JRebel or Spring Loaded

- Groovy is nice and still very similar to Java(no learning curve)when you want syntactic sugar like LINQ or JDBC SQL without all the boilerplate code.

- IntelliJ Idea is similar to Visual Studio + Resharper.

But the biggest reason to start using Java is its extremely mature and rich ecosystem!

I'm currently doing software development on Windows with C#.Net and Visual Studio without ReSharper and I really miss Linux, Java and IntelliJ Idea :(
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This is the best start-up lesson I've seen this year. I wish more people followed it, though cynic in me thinks it's irrelevant because most of the time, it's not customers that are the users - it's investors and potential acquihirers.
Haha very true. It reminds me of the time Apple announced that Internet Explorer was going to be the browser for classic Mac OS, with Bill Gates calling in, to shouts of NO!!! NO!!!!! NO!!!!

It makes me chuckle. It always boggles the mind that the web is mostly just rendering of documents and flinging backwards and forwards of requests, yet the passion it invokes with browser wars and web developers. A browser is essentially a HTML Help File viewer yet you get followings and wars! It doesn't make sense.

Even less sense is made when they reinvent all application features in a web browser to make web pages behave like desktop applications. Kind of useful, but an incessant broken/fix/reimplement cycle
One question: when can we have a real look at react-native ?
Build some random workflow tool. Find a repetitive thing that a lot of software people do, and build a plugin of some kind to automate it for them. Sell it for a reasonable price, and build another one. Offering a suite of useful workflow tools for reasonable prices would be a pretty cool company. Also this helps everyone out, and makes the work that you yourself do faster (by building tools that solve problems you also encounter.)
Cloud9 manages to pull off all 3, and in javascript to boot. I honestly don't notice any difference in performance between it and ST3 (other than initial loading, which is a given seeing as it's web based).
> It’s not a perfect solution — the troll could abandon the banned account and open a new one without supplying a number

Surely such devious machinations is beyond the capability of mere trolls...
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Fascinating and informative! Thanks!

I had no idea it was this bad, as I am from the UK.
Most websites (eg. youtube, github, reddit) are unusable without javascript. HN is a rare exception, but even here, the search doesn't work at all without javascript.
You just made my life sound way more awesome than it is.
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Do you load it into an iframe?

If not, how do you make sure you are not conflicting with an existing version of window.React?
It's the better end of the deal, to be honest. He used to live here in Gifu, and while this is a great place to live, there are many things you have easier access to in Tokyo.
I saw it on my iPhone, I thought it was clearly gold and white.

Had a discussion about it with a colleague (he saw it as clearly blue and black). I got up to go check his monitor and as I got closer it changed colour right before my eyes.

I went back to my desk and checked my phone and it had changed to blue and black. MIND = BLOWN

I've not been able to see it as gold and white ever since...

I'm so confused lol
On the topic of things programmers might assume about place names: 'does not equals' not appearing in a town name.
It's a software issue, it tooks a few years for people to develop desktop widgets, plus a few more for highend software to find better paradigms. I think people just dropped the ball on tablets because the money is made on other apps.
Also as an application gets more complex, it may be harder to keep the juggling act of mutable structures going, and keeping them as fast as they were before.

Mutable structures have a tax that you often must pay with complexity. Immutable structures and React’s declarative approach have more of a flat tax, with means complexity and performance are much more predictable.
I disagree. Putin is building 21-century version of SSSR. He is in same delusional uber-ego dictator category as Stalin, just methods have matured, PR is better (well... he is still a shame to his country though), and he doesn't have the absolute power to unleash stalinist terror - it wouldn't work in same way as back then.

To us in Europe, Putin (and hence Russia) is by far biggest thread to our society and our values. Forget cartoonish muslim terrorists, they are there just to catch headlines to get more sponsors/recruits from Saudi wahhabists.
Putin, on the other hand, longs for his good old days in KGB and the power structure of the world back then.
My country (Czechoslovakia back then) was heading towards democracy in 60', and it was invaded in '68 with russian forces just to stop it. For next 21 years, my tiny little country had 5% more population in form of soviet soldiers permanently stationed there.
This recent bitter lesson won't be forgotten so easily - russians cannot be trusted. Period. I am more glad with US powerhouse being counterbalanced with Chinese.
You can call my opinions personal, but Poles, Hungarians etc. could tell their own stories.

I would even extrapolate and state that well-being of europe is, among other factors, linked to militarily weak russia. Once precious natural resources will go off (and eventually they will), there isn't much Russia has to offer to the world. If any non-russian disagrees, please go there living for few months, and let's talk after that.
I think you just proved his point. Bye bye thepiratebay or anything else the US government calls a 'pirate' website.

Oh yea, be sure to pick up your public web service license so are not causing harmful interference with those that DO.
Yes a dark room is always very helpful for my productivity also i tend to switch all my tools to a dark theme so it's easier on the eyes.

Unfortunately so many websites only use bright themes that it's painful and I sometimes end up restyling them with Greasemonkey.

Especially the sites I use the most.
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With or without DJGPP?
> The "decision" made at 10AM was to adopt the rules that have been under public comment for months. If you haven't seen them yet, it's your own fault.

From what I've read, the 322 page document wasn't released as of 3 days ago [1]. I'm not sure about the claim that it still hasn't been released, but regardless - the rules weren't really available for public review before the vote.

[1] http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/23/republican-fcc-commissione...
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Out of interest, what is the situation like in Germany with regard to the networks?
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I always thought these sayings were more about what people get upto in the evenings - that's usually when parties, drinking, etc. happen. Therefore if you can get up early, you probably haven't been out all night partying, ergo you are more virtuous.
Just search for Protein Sparing Modified Fast.
Certainly not just bro science - there were some studies done.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/711361
And of course things were harmed by the party politics. A Polish engineer invented a computer which is now considered to be few years ahead of its time, and was ready to enter production,but then it was shut down because of a direct order from the party,as it would conflict with the party-backed Elwro company.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-202

Edit: of course Poland was never part of the Soviet Union,but the political system was heavily influenced by orders from Russia.
Not being in the USA, could you summarise the Affordable Healthcare Act and the problems with it?
I thought "gamification of open source development" was always a pretty major part of Github's business model. Frankly I don't know if that's a bad thing; I've certainly been motivated by trying to keep my "current streak" or whatever going on several occasions.
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I meant in the sense of http://thedailywtf.com/articles/The_Inner-Platform_Effect . If you try to create a platform that has all the power and flexibility of SQL queries, you end up reimplementing SQL, poorly.
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The book is Code Complete.

http://www.amazon.com/Code-Complete-Practical-Handbook-Const...
Haven't the script already won over the app? Instead of downloading and installing each app, you import / require the modules needed.

There's one huge advantage with apps though, that they are easier to make money from.
It looks impressive, but I wonder what the power requirements are? What is this in equivalent LED bulbs or cost per year?
I'm not a fan, but Microsoft Word 2013 is massively more performant than Atom, at any basic task that both programs do (launching, opening files, find/replace, etc).
That's exactly what "message board nerds" do: focus on the gestalt rather than the substance. Call people out as not p.c. to silence an opinion.
Yep, here I am at 2am, feeling super guilty about being awake. I can generally stick to a normal pattern of sleep for a week or so, but I eventually have one evening come along where I end up staying up late. I tell myself it's out of necessity for work or other catch-ups, but really it's just a natural inclination.

The worst part about not being a morning person is the loss in communication skills during critical morning meetings, etc. The parts of my brain responsible for solid verbal/written skills are just not up to speed yet. Lots of coffee turns me into a highly alert rambler. It's better than nothing I guess.
Attitudes towards women in Tech would be a little more relaxed if a fair number of developers would have the courage to face the truth and come out of their closets.
That property is caused by the reflector, rotors themselves can shuffle randomly. The way the reflector is built in the implementation is from pairs of consecutive (unique) letters of the shuffled alphabet (getting a half of the reflector) and then merging the inversion.

IMHO it's correct.
True, else it degenerates into Slashdot with the word "shill" being thrown around everywhere.
We don't have to fix everything at once. And if someone is making a big fuss about the transparency of this particular regulation, while ignoring the hundreds of regulations that are passed every year in the same way, then it's right to ask whether they have ulterior motives.
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Actually, there is very little evidence of kidney damage from high protein intake in healthy individuals.
This, for example

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1262767/

Although excessive protein intake remains a health concern in individuals with pre-existing renal disease, the literature lacks significant research demonstrating a link between protein intake and the initiation or progression of renal disease in healthy individuals.

or this

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10722779

To conclude, it appears that protein intake under 2. 8 g.kg does not impair renal function in well-trained athletes as indicated by the measures of renal function used in this study
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That page loads but doesn't render for me (Chrome 4.x/FF 36) ... I feel so excluded.

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I too would like to make $2k/mo on 10-20 hours a week. I think everyone would.
I came here wondering the same thing. Based on the comments above, and what I know of the two editors, and the fact that there were some improvements to minihtml and suddenly today the sublime text changelog popped in HTML format, I would guess that minihtml is a light html renderer that can be used by plugins inside of sublime text. Atom already has this ability by design, so it can do things like draw a usage graph in a side panel, while previously sublime text could only have text-based panels produced by plugins. If I am correct, minihtml should allow plugins to display more complex user interfaces and data through the a minihtml pane.
If someone do not believe in using copyright law and dislike those who do, they should act accordingly and not deal with proprietary companies at all.

Sure. But that still doesn't resolve my dilemma, it just narrows it down.

Is it legitimate to take code published under a liberal license by someone who doesn't deal with proprietary companies at all and use it in a GPL project, knowing that it prevents the original project from using that derived code?
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> It's at this stage where the stress is greatest. You feel like you are ineffective, you start to doubt yourself, doubt your vision, you look at your competitors and feel less confident.
How did you manage this?

On the stress side, the way I manage is that I see bootstrapping v/s raising funding as a tradeoff between slow growth, higher chance of controlling your destiny v/s fast growth, higher chance of fizzling and higher chance of giving up control. Since it's chances and not certainties, what might seem successful competitors today might just be a matter of time. And what might seem struggle today could be totally worthwhile tomorrow. Since there are a number of variables that influence startup success, I think being clear of why you are bootstrapping v/s raising funds relives of a good amount of anxiety.

Anxiety is at peak if you want to raise funds but can't, and hence are forced into bootstrapping.

>what worked well when it came to marketing as a bootstrap company?

I wish there was a simple answer. Content worked well for me in 2010. But I hear that it no longer works.
I have backpain and I switched to a standing desk and it's working out well. The only problem now is instead of back pain, I'm having foot pain. Is this normal or are there ways to reduce this pain?
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