andy_herbert

Are people supposed to realise this version number is related to Zig?

I tried to take the article seriously, but the CSS animations become so distracting that it turned the piece into sublime piece of satire.

There are still a couple of ANSI and ASCII art groups with quite an active membership. Perhaps the most notable is Blocktronics: http://blocktronics.org

The photography of an individual can constitute harassment even in a public place - there is no implied consent involved. Even if it were, as you implied, perfectly legal in all cases then this in no way makes the act ethical. This is especially true when concerning a new technology which makes it trivially easy to perform. I'd expect if Glass, or some descendant of it, becomes more ubiquitous, then social guideline and laws would eventually prohibit it's use in certain situations. Would you, for example, be happy with someone recording you in a public restroom?

You're also repeatedly missing the argument I've already made twice in this thread with your second paragraph,

Either you're wilfully ignoring the point I'm making, or you've missed it completely.

I get that I might never know if or when I'm being monitored by some device, but that in no way justifies explicitly recording someone without their permission.

Anyone recording me with a camera in their hat or on their lapel or a microphone embedded in their clothes would be treated in roughly the same manner as someone recording me using Glass.

Just because the act of wearing the recording device is in plain-sight doesn't make it anymore acceptable to people who find it objectionable.

I appreciate the sentiment, and no disrespect for the guy either, but it makes this site a little less like 'Hacker News' and more like the front page of Wikipedia.

Very interesting, although is there a reason that it's been posted now?

Great looking button, but I have a strange aversion to stuff like this as I normally equate them with the worst examples of web advertising.

It's worth mentioning that Woody Allen has a fairly unique relationship in Hollywood; the studios grant him an unprecedented amount of creative control and allow him to continue making films within the system for very little returns, and Actors also voluntarily take a cut in their usual fee to appear in his films.

I'm not sure what lessons can be drawn, if any, from this stray point away from the normal distribution curve.

I really hope the websites that implement this also supply an off-switch, it looks great but detracts away from the text and reduces readability.

I've got to admit this was my first thought too, but I think the scope of the business is to provide the plumbing for apps, rather the just a Twitter replacement.

I'm no zealot, but arguably it's always time for an open alternative to any service or product.

Some of these examples are redesigns so it makes the actual cost extremely difficult, or impossible to quantify.

I've always thought of Stack Overflow as the programmer's social network.

Because it wouldn't bring in as much revenue as advertising, I'm guessing. And I think they'd rather have less third-party client than they do now.

These skeumorphism-is-bad posts are pretty familiar with people who follow Apple blogs, it's been the darling of amateur design critics for years now.

The counter argument is pretty simple, even though it looks hideous and adds nothing to the app's functionality, it is supposed to encourage feelings of familiarity with people who wouldn't necessarily use an computer application. Whether it does or doesn't is up for debate, and I've never seen any stats to support either position.

The rules on displaying a tweet on a website seem so batshit insane I can only assume that my interpretation of it is wrong, and it should only apply to applications that provide the functionality of a Twitter client.

"Objectivism is objectively the greatest system of Philosophy ever put together up until now."

I wish this post spent less time concentrating on revealed truths, and instead supported assertions like this one with reason and argument.

I don't want to see this fail by any means, but to me it seems like a slightly immature response to a [very public disagreement][1] The Oatmeal had with a Forbes journalist, which involved a [very unusual retort][2].

[1]: http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/05/18/nikola-tesl...

[2]: http://theoatmeal.com/blog/tesla_response

In my opinion comments are a bad idea for your site, unless you're fortunate to have an exclusive audience. Yes, I am aware of the irony of this comment.

No excuses here, but who would have thought that male hormones and alcohol would lead to such behavior.

What makes you think they haven't tried and failed to make it work (well) on mobile?

Maybe in the cost benefit analysis it would be better to devote time and resources on HTML toolsets.

Not really surprising, in my opinion once these organizations become large enough that diffusion of responsibility become institutionalized. It doesn't necessarily indicate that the individuals don't care, just that they feel that it isn't their responsibility to do so.

Great! When are you going to start working on it?

Without the individuals willing to put in the work then directions like this are pointless, however well intentioned. Since no-one attached to the development of Textmate has expressed any interest in porting over to Linux, or any other platform, I find it unlikely that the situation will change in the near future.

Wow, how long did it take to write this article, given the news of Textmate 2 going open source is only hours old? If I was cynical, I'd be guessing that the topical headline was a fairly shameless attempt to gain attention from website aggregators.

On the subject of rewrites, with the benefit of hindsight it's easy to point out when it was a bad idea. But clearly it doesn't always have to be that way. After all, it never hurt Microsoft on occasion, and Apple.

As almost always, context is key.

> TM had a lot of fans, but no-one liked its undo

What an absurd generalization.

Pretty damning, I'm confident that all the mobile manufacturers do this against each other, why wouldn't they? It just sucks to be Samsung right now.

An extremely noble goal, but I'd say it was unlikely for a reason not mentioned in the article, but heavily implied: this would be a one-way trip.

Whilst creating and maintaining a Mars base would be one of humanity's crowning achievements, I don't the proposed journey would pass the moral and ethical objections from the general public.

> No where is it claimed by anyone that Apple copied Samsung

Except in the PDF linked in the first sentence of the first paragraph.