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> The value of the IMAX trademark is that it's a set of standards for image projection, which is how it's being used in the quote

What article did you read? The quote most certainly did not refer to IMAX as a "set of standards for image projection". Here's the quote again:

> "The jump up in tech between playing a normal video game and playing with Kinect was X. The jump between a regular game and playing a room scale VR experience is X times 100. It’s like saying, 'I have an IMAX theater in my house.' It’s so much better that we can get away with a cumbersome setup."

There's nothing here about standards for image projection. The quote doesn't even compare the visual quality of SteamVR to IMAX. It says the jump in experience from a regular game to "room scale VR" is like the jump of putting an IMAX theater in your house. The quote is specifically about the huge improvement in the experience. You can tell because he literally referred to the "experience".

And none of this matters, because even if he had actually been saying that SteamVR looks like an IMAX screen, that would still not create consumer confusion. Comparing products' quality is a reasonable thing and we do it all the time without creating confusion. Someone reviewing a Samsung LCD could say that it looks as good as their Panasonic plasma, and this is a reasonable and probably useful comparison to make. It wouldn't confuse any reasonable person into believing that Panasonic was manufacturing, certifying, or licensing Samsung displays (or vice versa).

> Say a lamp which isn't UL certified had a quote "It's like having a UL certified lamp in your house!" Would that seem ok? Or maybe questionable?

It seems like a stupid thing to say because the statement doesn't make a lot of sense. Saying "It's like having a UL certified lamp in your house!" is kind of like saying "It's like having a car that won't kill you in a crash!" It reads like sarcasm. No one would make this comparison in a serious way.

But no, I don't think it creates any kind of consumer confusion.
The thing is there were many readers of FPH (150k subscribers and probably way more readers as people were afraid to subscribe/comment as it could get you automatically banned from other subreddits) so naturally they participated in different subreddits as well.

I remember there was no (at least for a short time I was reading it) calls for brigading and linking to other parts of reddit was prohibited.

For example, I think that health minister shouldn't be fat and fat health minister calling for cigarette ban is comedy in the making and mockery of the position.

With views like that I am likely to read r/fatlogic or r/FPH from time to time and even subscribe to them. I will make comments expressing my views in other subreddits as well and as such views are rare enough it's natural to link me with above mentioned communities or say that I am "coming from them to comment".

The problem is if it's then treated as brigadding. It isn't, there are just many people with politically incorrect views and they tend to gravitate to subreddits where they can express them without being automatically downvoted to death as is the case in popular subreddits. Once such subreddit becomes popular (and FPH was one of the most active subreddit on the whole site during the week it was banned) eveything can be labelled brigadding.
This is very cool. I could lose a lot of time just casually browsing the random day link.

One problem I ran into, is the "More" link at the bottom of any past date, links you back to the present date and shows you the next page of results for today instead of the next page of results for the past date in question.
Have they deployed yet? Otherwise, build to ship first. Be first and expand based on your users/buyers input. Motivate yourself to deploy asap.
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Developed this app after getting frustrated with the TA'ing system at my University.

One can also create an account via gmail if not in University.

I'd be happy to answer any questions about the app, it's only been published for about a month

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tutor.cesh&hl=en
Ugh dammit. Short version:

Instead of taking the branch <feature> and rebasing it, make a branch called <feature>.1 on top of <feature>, then rebase that, leaving <feature> in place.

That way all your references remain intact and you can compare CI results.

Increment the number as needed.
FinTech specific laws aren't necessary. There are more than enough financial regulations beyond what you can wrap your head around.

The thing that many tech entrepreneurs underestimate is the power of these financial regulators. It's not like Uber/Taxi industry that will bend to their wills. Financial regulators don't like any risk that they can't manage/mitigate.
I really hope Seveneves is the first of a series. It left a few seemingly important dangling questions and teasers.

Also, I wonder if he's angling for an RPG spinoff. Not to give too much of the last third up but the character types felt very 'rpg class-ish' to me at the end complete with complementary factions.
You either have a complaint for systematically being ignored or you don't. There isn't a middle ground. It's black and white: you were or you weren't. There are methods of getting these things investigated and handled [0]. In some cases, it is very easy to tell when you are being discriminated against [1].

If it cannot be proved - and investigations prove otherwise - that discrimination did not take place, the feeling of being discriminated against does not mean discrimination took place. Otherwise someone could pull the race/gender card each and every time they weren't hired, regardless if the reason was they were underqualified/not the right fit/blah blah blah.

[0] http://www.eeoc.gov/employees/howtofile.cfm

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/01/us/hooters-settles-suit-by...
I assumed it was either that or, given his username, all of the trolls whining about Reddit declining to give them a completely unrestricted forum for abuse:

http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/05/reddit-announces-sit...
The distinction is not whether a preposition is involved or not, it is whether the "who/whom" word is operating as an object ("whom") or a subject ("who"). That's why delinka's mnemonic also works.

In both "to whom is the message addressed" and "whom do you trust", "whom" is an object, not a subject.

All that being said, it is increasingly a common and acceptable practice to use "who" as both an object and a subject, so it's probably not worth losing too much sleep over.
This. And besides this, the trend of corporate wellness programs is booming, and a large portion of these is quantifying the activity levels of participant employees. Wearables like Fitbits make this trivial (as do API hooks into services provided by Garmin/Polar/Suunto/etc). In these cases, there's a financial interest for employees to use and like their activity tracker.
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I commented before I read the full article. You are correct.
Shit, this changes everything.
Flask+SQLAlchemy on Ubuntu 14.04 Using Azure MS SQL
One interesting recent change is that you won't see your own downvoted comments as greyed out. You used to, but I think someone said it was offputting (which it kinda is) and dang & company changed it.
In JavaScript you have to contend with a dozen different run environments. Maybe you realized your fix actually broke the feature in IE8 because you left a comma at the end of an array. It's quite common to have your fix break something in a very specific environment.
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How is this circular?
AT&T accepting regulations in exchange for a guaranteed monopoly sounds a lot like taxi companies accepting regulations in exchange for sharply limited access to the market.

I'm sure we'd see civil disobedience of the form you mention if telecoms deregulation hadn't happened. But my point is that it did happen without the need for civil disobedience. Civil disobedience is reasonable and good when you've exhausted all the normal avenues for change and it's not working. But Uber hasn't even tried to get taxi regulations reformed or removed. They've started out by simply ignoring them without ever trying to work within the system.
Can someone provide some context for this post?
This comment confuses me. Is it text on a web page or did i just actually watch an IMAX movie? I hope they don't send you a letter too!
If you use safari connected to the internet with a cable safari does not give the lat-long. Only if you use the wireless. Had this issue the other day.
A single eternal master works for a Continuously Deployed app/site.

Not for any other project where maintenance releases are a norm. This includes stuff strict API compatibility projects, semantically versioned frameworks/plugins/libraries, many forms of desktop/offline apps, some android apps, most enterprise apps, etc - more or less where developers don't have the liberty to thrust the latest master on their users.

I'm not against CD, and not a big fan of Git Flow either. But different things have their own uses. I'm really liking GitHub Flow and GitLab Flow though!
What good is showing the function signature? It will be different per language implementing the OpenGL bindings.

The docs should be just about the OpenGL functions, not about how C implements them.
too late. i will never trust or download a thing on sourceforge ever again. sourceforge is dead and good riddens.

love how they called what they were doing a "test", that is so blatantly a lie its almost comical. The plain truth is that they are in a mist of a HUGE PR blowout and trying to back track before all their advertisers jump ship.
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Aren't they implementing it one .dll at a time, though? Meaning, they still need a lot of the original MS binaries to work?
Then I am not doomed... Good.
Good points, but always depends right?
I need this tool and it happens someone has done the dirty work and will take forever for me to DIY (it requires a lot of research and understand how X works). I used the tool, and I found a bug which affected usage, and I fixed it because the tool was opensource.

But I always note I don't actually decide what goes into that software. I can argue about why X feature is needed or why Y should be implemented in Z way, but I don't own that repo. Of course this is the beauty of open source just fork it (with the cavaet of watch the license which many probably doesn't care or doesn't have the knowledge to understand what X license mean to a user and to a contributor). But if I were to test my own ability and feel proud "yes I build it from scratch" I will build one from scratch. There is just that one idea that "I wish I was famous and getting tons of likes and respects because I built something that hundreds of developers are benefiting, being original creator vs a contributor.
Wordpress is a great platform.

The plugin system has pretty much everything I need to start a new site and the hooks system makes it really easy to add onto existing functionality without having to mess with the core files (making updates more secure).
Net neutrality means you need to support narrow legislation. As usual, disingenuous spin is not helping you image.
Yeah, this makes next to zero sense.
> yea but watch the sentencing... and compare the sentence given to aaron schwartz...

Aaron Swartz was never sentenced. Popularly quoted was the a "up to" sentence taken by adding the maximum penalties for each of the crimes he was charged with, as is typical with both DoJ presentations and news articles about potential sentences (for related reasons, as both have an interest in maximizing the perceived cost -- DoJ to motivate plea deals, news media to create drama), but real sentencing rarely looks anything like those maximums.

Comparing an actual sentence for one party that pled guilty to the theoretical maximum for another party based on the set of charges they got is no way to evaluate fairness, since its not comparing apples to apples.
> At least then the punishment is in the same unit of measurement as the crime

No, not really. The crime inflicted homelessness, multiple jobs to feed your family, depression, broken marriages, suicide, etc.

If there's no downside to attempted theft, like they just lose the ill-gotten money and get to go home to a warm bed, we might as well be incentivizing it.

Besides, Jail isn't inherently costly - American for-profit prisons are intentionally wasteful. We don't need to spend a million-dollars a year per prisoner.
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2 years ago, and it's Dmitry Baranovsky's update to Raphäel.js rather than a big Adobe Project™ (which sacks off support for older browsers in favour of newer). And there's never been that much movement bar minor bugfixes for a long time. Not that there necessarily needs to be, it does what it does, but there doesn't seem to be any movement toward integrating closely with Adobe vector products (which would be useful) or seriously optimising (like, say, Greensock's really nice SVG animation stuff that's come out recently). Also IMO the two main competitors are better (SVG.js for simplicity & very nice plugins, Paper.js for complex stuff with amazing documentation). Note Paper.js is the successor to the Illustrator plugin Scriptographer, which was fantastic, but was killed by Adobe Illustrator updates - Adobe had something they could have used that worked really, really well, but didn't back it.

Snap is good, and useful, but it's not that useful, it's just a tiny library, and a bit of a wasted opportunity IMO. With fairly crap documentation beyond the basics. I would love it if there was movement on this, a better SVG workflow from Illustrator -> Web would make my life a lot less frustrating, but v0v it's Adobe and they either move at the speed of a geriatric snail or they stomp all over tools I find useful
The future is in print (3D printing)
Everyone says we should write essays because it will get us noticed, make us more employable, and sharpen our writing skills. But few of us have anything important to say. So we get this glut of self important "considered harmful" essays. And we're all guilty.
Aren't the original YC terms 7% for $20,000 plus $100,000 uncapped note?
Iris Classon has been developing (.NET) for about 4 years. She's shared her story along the way; the ups, the downs, etc.

She is followed by many; this kinda came out of nowhere, and as a follower it's very horrible to see her obviously broken right now.

It seems she's sick, and claims that pluralsight.com just pulled the plug on a project that would give her a notable size of money, which she was planning to use to get better.
Care to explain? What does the word "weekend" have to do with sleep debt?
If IMAX's attorneys actually think nominative use in an article risks them losing the trademark, they need to fire their attorney. In no way is Ars using the IMAX mark to refer to a generic large screen (its an attributed quote, not an editorial comment) and there's no risk of confusion.

All the lawyers are doing is chasing a pay check
That seemed more an aimless rant than an actual article about mistakes. Hell I even agree with some of what I will generously call points. Unfortunately I now feel bad that I share a "camp" with this loudmouth.
I have already created a feature request here - http://feedback.gitlab.com/forums/176466-general/suggestions...

The main assumption in the Integration-Manager workflow is that code from repositories of other users is always pulled by the owner of the current repository as and when appropriate.

So if dev1 and dev2 are working on the same feature in 2 different forks of the main repository, dev1 has to pull commits from dev2 that are needed in his/her fork and dev2 has to do the same in his/her fork. Once the feature is complete, the merge request is created from one of the 2 forks.

Yes it is harder to mention issues, but that can be done in the message of the merge commit. Since forks are essentially equivalent to branches in this workflow, I usually don't mind referring to issues in the individual commits itself which would link to the correct issue on getting merged to the main repository.

We do this with our team's projects hosted on Bitbucket, ymmv.
Ask HN: Advice on how to market a first iOS app?
Hello,

I developed and published my first iOS app. It was accepted and now is available at Apple´s app store.

I developed this app firstly as a personal challenge and secondly in order to learn the whole process of creating a mobile product.

Any advice on how to market an app like that?

Best regards.

- Julio.

P.S: The app's link wasn't provided because this is not a promotional post :-)
I would like a clear button.
> Treating that person the same as anyone else is your group is what is appropriate.

Are you sure? It seems quite likely to me that this sensitive person would lodge exactly the same complaint for totally different behavior. "They didn't roll out the red carpet for me, what a bunch of hostile stunted brogrammers."

The person driving a wedge between females and tech is not the males in tech, it's the people spreading this paranoia. It's the people telling women that every man who codes needs to be reeducated before the field is safe for her to enter.

The reason stuff like this scares me is not that I'm accustomed to acting like a troll and don't want to stop. It's because I have spent decades treating everyone I meet with respect, and I now feel I could be punished for a crime I didn't commit at any moment. A good reputation takes a lifetime to build, and in this environment it can be undermined in moments. Now that we seem to be surrounded by people on high alert for signs of thoughtcrime, this asset -- my reputation -- which I've spent a lifetime building is on very thin ice just because my race and sex and politics and gender choices don't intersect with any politically correct victim groups. I don't like it, and I'm not going to just shrink back in fear and say nothing about it.
> To use another example, look at how many implementations of CL and Scheme there are, why does all this fragmentation exist?

For Common Lisp the reasons are: competition, different licenses, create proprietary property to sell, different runtime implementation strategies, different compilation strategies.

Basically the same reason why there are several different Java implementations.

Common Lisp was created, because it was clear that there is a fragmentation of Lisp, but there shouldn't one for the basic language. Originally it was also thought to standardize on some libraries, but the whole thing ran out of steam. But you can read the Common Lisp standardization groups on various topics.
I played this 3-4 years ago and had a blast... I remember the distinct worlds very fondly. Very happy to see it on the front page today!
I bought a wig for Comic Con last year[0], and it was an interesting experience. The local shop carries 3 grades, with an option to spend even more.

The entry level is polyester, with colors not normally found in nature. The mid-grade polyester (what I got) normally sells in the $180-230 range. Natural hair starts at $400, and obviously looks the most realistic.

Most of the hair is sourced from outside the US, from India and Asia. So the colors are usually very dark. They will bleach it to produce lighter shades, but if you need/want true Blonde, you'll have to buy either a bleached darker shade and hope for a good match, or spend significantly more for northern-European sourced hair.

Hair length is an issue - waiting for your hair to grow long before selling it obviously takes a while, so it sells for a premium.

And now I know a lot more than I ever thought I would about aftermarket hair supply. :)

[0] I went as Lucius Malfoy (Draco Malfoy's father) from Harry Potter: http://nebula.wsimg.com/773ae27d6ab68c28500b6986588b0da2?Acc...
> Everyone says we should write essays because it will get us noticed, make us more employable, and sharpen our writing skills. But few of us have anything important to say.

The advice needs to be updated slightly, then, to clarify the apparent confusion: you should, if you can, write essays for all those reasons, but step one of writing an essay for those purposes is find something meaningful to say.
I'm very confused by this, and something doesn't add up.

The premise of the article seems to be that the author is not doing well physically, and that has had a cascading effect on her work and personal life.

Except she won't tell us what's wrong. As someone whose twitter headline reads "The world’s happiest .NET developer & Microsoft C# MVP! More energy than a 5 year old" - I find these statements to conflict with each other.

If you're sick - you should tell your boss/clients/board/whomever you report to. Especially if it's serious. I get the impression she's been bottling it up for a while. Well, if I think, as your boss, you're the happiest dev ever with tons of energy, and then all of the sudden you aren't, I'm going to be very shocked, confused, and lied to / disappointed. I'm sorry, but that's on her. If she's been hiding it in such a way as her Twitter profile, that's a great disservice to her and to her superiors.

The question now is whether or not she has been actually sick for a while, talked with her employers, and they haven't helped her - that's something worth blogging about for mistreating their employees. But we don't know - there's two sides to a story, and even this one side is incredibly cryptic.

If you want to reach to a particular audience, perhaps email is a better outlet. Without a clear message, or even a clear problem, I'm not so sure a blog is really going to help you at all.
In the link he brings up the "fatty food makes you fat" thing. My memory is that fatty foods were shown to be bad for your heart back in the 1980's and I always wondered where the "makes you fat" part came from. It's almost like once something is labeled (fatty food = bad) people forget the why and substitute their own reasons.

Similar stuff is going on now with saturated vs unsaturated fat. The problem is trans-fat which tends to form in the commercial process for saturating fat, and in the deep fryer. I don't recall any other research, but now there seems to be another "reversal" on saturated fat. Or is it unsaturated? IDK, but the public opinion is getting altered again.
Thanks for checking it out! For the time being I've turned off the more button
> The point of rebasing for clarity, IMHO, is to take what might be a large, unorganized commit or commits (i.e. the result of a few hours good hacking) and turning it into a coherent story of how that feature is implemented.

Isn't this the same rationalization that drives Git Flow's feature branches and merging via --no-ff ? You can see the messy real work in the feature branch, but it gets merged to the main branch as one clean commit.
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It seems like one of the ironies of git-flow is that it would actually work better if you used it with Mercurial rather than Git, because Mercurial stores what branch you were on when you made a commit. This means that a tool could automatically look at the Mercurial commit tree and figure out which swimlane each commit belongs in, and use this information to draw a commit history tree that wasn't such a mess.

I apologize for the self-promotion, but this answer on Stack Overflow (and the question) talks about this difference between Git and Mercurial, and includes links to articles that explain it better than I could:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/26784550/1013442
Everyone is different and there is no single elixir to solve all problems, but meditation helped me greatly.
Is it me of posting/commenting on HN has become the default method of resolving a Stripe issue when all normal channels fail?
> The reason they are in the passive voice is that the original "considered harmful" essay was

...written by a pompous prick (cf. with classy Alan Kay).