jacabado

I couldn't be happier, I'm standing up late starting the research for my playlist generation thesis.

All hail recommender systems and the internet serendipity.

Your example shows how the author's conclusions are wrong. IMHO the biggest milestones of Javascript life have been his libraries and the creative uses we have seen around them. From XMLHttpRequest to jQuery (and Prototype, Mootools, etc) and now Node.JS there have been highly disruptive innovations over this basically flawed language.

Maybe we should give more attention to the basic process behind this, creating libraries aka Programming Motherfucker.

What you are looking for is a knowledge pill!

</sarcasm>

I just want it there every time as a small unobtrusive clue.

How many times is that feature used vs how many times could it be useful? (or the others suggested here who need user intervention and never allow you to code while seeing this info)

I also use it (from Visual Studio), but I can't edit while in the "blame" view, it's something outside VS, I guess the Ankh plugin is responsible for that.

What I need is something in the code when I'm editing it, it could be some kind of hint how "old" is the line and if I mouseover it would give me the blame information.

I will check if I can build some plugin for VS or if somebody has done it.

For this to take place we need better IDE's, ones that gives you more context on the code:

* when it was written, by whom and to answer which need

* when was it changed and to solve which issue

* if it has been ever debugged and if any bugs where ever found inside it

When I'm chasing some nasty bug in my code and I refuse to accept it was some recent change it's incredible that 90% of the times I bang my head against the wall with some bug in a recently changed bit of code. If just my IDE could highlight the code from the last 3 commits of me and my coworkers it would ease my life so much.

It really depends on what you consider an university of note, if you set the bar really high you can raise that to a thousand kilometers. Is there any engineering university of note in Portugal or Spain?

That said, there are more than acceptable universities around and with really good traits like Universidade do Minho and the Porto's university.

I'm portuguese but from the south, formed in the engineering university with most tradition in Portugal, Tecnico (IST), do you know it?

But it also sounds too artificial too me, maybe they are there for the landscapes, for the Porto wine and the 'francesinhas' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesinha).

Sorry if I offended somebody, I tought it was an acceptable abbreviature.

Me too, 5 days ago. Maybe it's time to switch back? Alfred hasn't surprise me in any way, maybe QS set the bar too high.

Only one of those three types writes a posts like this, the one you didn't attacked.

I don't feel entitled to demand anything, I was just asking :).

Thank you for your answer. It's a valid example but I guess it doesn't prove the point that the web isn't up to the job of serving applications. Maybe in mobile that's true, maybe mobile it's the future. For now I would counterargue that web app market is much bigger than the mobile app market.

For whoever downmoded me RTFM: http://paulgraham.com/road.html. If there is a new road ahead write a new road ahead essay close to that form so I can understand. I won't stand for empty vanguardism.

How should we treat it?

What is the alternative application delivery platform?

Where is it becoming exceptionally obvious?

Tks in advance.

I had seen this before on one of the Hyper Island[0] classes.

[0] http://www.hyperisland.se/

I agree that the dev tools license costs for a startup are/should be negligible, I was just pointing that Azure isn't a substitute for a dev environment (and it's licensing costs).

I also think that the problem of the production environment costs is a good one to have, nobody should fear to start a business because of them. If you can't solve that problem it means you have the wrong business model or really bad engineers.

Oops my bad, I tought others did the billing by CPU load instead of by hour.

Plus: If you go Azure where will you develop? Will some nice M$ guy install Visual Studio in the cloud and you will use remote desktop? Where will you test? No local dev servers, really?

Besides that, Azure is NOT usage payed, Azure is an approximation to that I would call scalable server rental. You pay by time and size, not by use. Maybe that explains Azure's momentum, they're getting things right and discouraging people by having expensive/inadequate prices. I hope they get it right soon, and that they start billing by usage.

I do .Net at an agency and I like it but it's amazing how much noise there is in the Microsoft ecossystem.

Nokia S60?

Blackberry for mobile texting?

We're past them now but we still see lots of bad UIs that could learn with their success. I'm thinking about the heterogeneous button layouts on Android and previous generation Windows Mobile devices.

What is the track record of Microsoft in this kind of partnerships?

Genuine question.

Tie this with github (by associating winning bids with with commits) and you'll have something really cool.

What about a website structure representation?

(I'm working on it)

Just today I tought of a counter in the speed control traffic lights to count how many time the light turned red. This could incentivate drivers to stay under the limit and keep the traffic flowing.

It's really annoying to be stopped by another unaware driver just over the limit, this could make everybody fight for the lowest score and be ashamed when they contribute to it. What do you think?

http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html #22 then http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=429477 (Ask HN: What can't you do in Excel?) then http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=897701 (Ask HN: who will buy PG's startup idea #22?)

I would love to work in this. In Lisp.

Wow! I will travel to Vienna in the start of December! I really would like to meet you, whether you can give me a place to sleep or just show/point me some places around.

My contact is jracabado on the gmail com!

I'm a web developer (C# full stack) with 2 years of experience, I have been attracted to ARM development since the moment I studied it in university.

As I'll be mostly in technical functions for some time (3 years?) what should I consider when trying an experience in ARM development? What are the pros and cons career wise and technical challenges relatively to continue to do boring CRUD C# applications?

This is a great point. For me it isn't poetic at all, but a deductible consequence.

If our job is creating abstractions it must be really hard to create tools which abstract properly our job. Where abstract properly would be separating what is really our job, the abstractions we are creating, and what are the trivial abstractions, the ones we assume as stable. This is a hard path to reach any usefull conclusions or insights to develop new programming tool features. The separation from what are the abstractions we're creating and the abstractions we're building on top off is always changing and it's in the same place (in the code).

For reaching usefull conclusions I would rather think in the different tasks developers need to pursue. Who wants to build a RescueTimeesque tool for developers?

Lisp, with his code is data super-feature, and his REPL super-environment has a lot to say in this two issues.

Surely it will be really hard to get better ways of visualizing code, it's an abstract thing and so it's hard to represent.

But what we are really missing is execution visualization. Applications aren't code, applications are execution systems and it's a shame to test execution/debug like we do today.

As someone has said, it's almost impossible to test all inputs for an algorithm, it's impossible to prove the correctness of an application without testing it.

Without testing we're nothing, most of us can surely say in which conditions our applications will break, but how sure are we to say in which conditions will it work? Much harder.

I would love to work in IDE improvement as I believe there is really a lot of things to improve.

What about the Academia? Wasn't it supposed to be brightest subset of people?

Come on guys let's go back to discussion, which from my interpretation was if the "underlying motivation for argument, debate, or discussion is to signal social standing".

I guess ckuehne opinion is that it unconciously is and I love his example.

How could we discuss that? I would love to know examples of places and people that behave the way metamemetics tells us. I can't match any subset of people, or even any subset of intelligent subset of pople that match that behavior.

Where is the article that references a biblical tale regarding how to reach a compromise between uneven parties ?

I tought about this yesterday! Thank you!!