newishuser

While you are correct, you are completely off topic and not really helping. Plus, it's not like HN needs another reminder of vim's infallibility.

To be fair, if you're going to lifehacker to help you set up github, you're probably not motivated enough to go tearing through github's faq. Quite frankly, you're probably not motivated enough to finish the lengthy tutorial they posted.

I think it's a great first picture for the article as it shows the concept existed before and has a meaning expanded past Internet related technologies.

You don't just design for a medium, you design for a culture. If you don't understand the cultural context of the design elements and terms you're using it's going to show in you work.

There is no debate between skeuomorphism and flat design. There are people who think that there should be a debate and thus spend 5 pages spewing personal opinion, but in the world of business and making products there is no debate.

There is nothing wrong with either and both can be over done. The reality is you have to meet somewhere in the middle, and most importantly, you have to do user testing for your specific application. Reading every blog post ever written about skeuomorphism vs flat design isn't going to help you build a more usable product, or a product that sells for that matter.

And for god's sake there's no such thing as "visual realism". The Internet and mobile phone apps are "real". This is what skeuomorphism is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorphism . Anytime anyone feels compelled to define it, don't. Just link to the wikipedia page.

TLDR: Blowhards and drama drama drama.

Dude... everything in that claim is what a milkman literally does. Literally! Especially if that milkman uses computers.

If there was ever an argument against broad software patents it's this. Also if there ever was an argument that the patent system is a money making sham, it's this.

Prepending existing ideas with, "A computer-implemented method" does not make them patent-worthy and everyone in the entire world knows it.

I'm using Ghostery, It's blocking GA, the site works fine.

Bend your index finger to touch your thumb. Something as trivial as that could mean "Don't treat this as an interaction".

Why not just build an editor that works off git? Then you could abstract it from the user and leverage all the existing ways of sharing text like github and bitbucket.

"But even as a developer it’s full of headaches." is also just plain not true.

There are certainly ways to simulate fish oil with biologically inert ingredients.

What this article leads me to think is that we need to legally protect the word placebo. It seems grossly misleading to use the word placebo to describe non biologically inert ingredients. To do so is to lie and nothing more.

To me the biggest threat to computing freedom is no longer your operating system vendor but "the cloud". Most people are just giving their data away to companies that can do whatever they want with it including delete it forever when they go out of business.

I'm not trying to dust off my foil hat or anything, but the OS war is almost over, it's the "who own's your data" war now. And I mean OWNS your data.

Yes, it's still open source. Freedom is more about liberty than cost.

ha, never-mind. I was confusing myself thinking it was some special case a la !important. Just an ID of important.

anyone know what the #important does in this selector from the article?

    article:matches(.active, .visible, #important) {
       background: red;
    }

I understand what it normally does, but I've never seen it in a selector.

A trademark is a legal monopoly on a name. The issue isn't whether he worked hard or not, it's whether he deserves to have a legal monopoly on the use of the word "Gaymer". As much as you argue "he trademarked it plain and simple" these people have the right to say "we don't think there should be a legal monopoly on that word, plain and simple."

People should really think twice about what they try to remove from the public domain. It's a bit selfish and arrogant to think you can own words like "Gaymer".

A database of of 4 digit passwords is not suitable as a replacement for PINs. Especially not for anything called a fucking analysis.

Banks don't let you choose 4 consecutive numbers or 4 of the same number making his first conclusion completely invalid. A lot of banks assign pin numbers now making the rest of his conclusions invalid.

I get wanting to analyze PINs, it's interesting, but pretending any old data that looks similar will work is misleading, disingenuous, and half ass.

Title is a bit overblown and unnecessarily negative. Why can't we just be happy about the future. 'Cos it doesn't attract readers? 'Cos even seasoned contributers to Forbes have to express their petty, pissy attitudes?

The title should be, Don't forget Volvo, Nissan, BMW and others are working on driverless cars too. The future will be awesome.

Why is anyone getting worked up over this.

Verizon phones don't use sim cards.

This isn't really anything interesting unless you're a Dylan collector.

No boundaries of copyright are being pushed, no new faces of record label greed are being shown, there's nothing to even talk about really. It's just a major label releasing some work to opt into the 20 year extension on copyright in the UK. With out the words Bob and Dylan this is just normal, lame, day to day record label business.

from the article: "Because Sony has been considering some tracks on “The 50th Anniversary Collection” for its Bootleg Series, a program of archival releases that now encompasses nine multidisc sets, the company decided to throw a few dozen tracks onto the market, however tenuously, to ensure their ownership. "

His YouTube channel is very entertaining.

https://www.youtube.com/user/tommyedisonxp

Tommy has a great sense of humor and explains some interesting aspects of being blind since birth like:

Color: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59YN8_lg6-U&list=PL832E5...

Cooking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umiOuVA7PEc&list=PL832E5...

Using an ATM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzah0A6IC5o&list=PL832E5...

I have no ability to downvote, so instead I leave my intention. Please try not to be so reactionary. Silicon Valley is a region in California. The Westboro Baptist Church is a private organization.

Silicon Valley is not a thing that can have opinions. He's just being inflammatory.

Silicon Valley is not a thing with opinions. You can't call an inanimate object wrong in this way. What you meant to say was, "I believe a College education is important." But that title isn't inflammatory and eye catching.

Anyway, I think the greater argument isn't, "Drop out of college and become Bill Gates." It's "College tuition prices have gotten so out of hand that it might no longer be worth what you pay for."

Going to a private 4 year can easily cost you more than 100k. With 100k and the right motivation, you can start any number of businesses and teach yourself more about entrepreneurship than you could have in a 4 year business program and you have the chance of it making you money instead of just being a purchase.

MessagePack Has nothing to do with JSON.

This page is a good example of how marketing copy can undermine your product.

MessagePack is a data serialization format, it has about as much to do with JSON as honey has to do with milk, but they went and started a flame war with no more than 7 tiny words, "It's like JSON. but fast and small."

Bam, ruined their own message. Now instead of reading that page thinking "What can message pack do for me?" you read the page thinking "Better than JSON huh? I'll be the judge of that."

Marketers could do us all an enormous favor, themselves included, if they stuck to promoting the positive aspects of their products instead of the negatives of the competition. It puts the consumer in the wrong mindset. Why would you want someone wandering around what is essentially your store looking for negative aspects of your product. Seriously, just stop being negative.

I use the software center whenever I can. I like the reviews, screen-shots, description, and link to official website.

It's a pretty ugly piece of software with unrefined edges all over the place but it gets the job done for now. That being said I've never bought anything through the software center, just installed free software.

What about when people need to take a screen shot of something sent to them for evidence of a crime committed against them?

Also this all hearkens back to the "How do I prevent right clicking on my website with jQuery?" days.

For sure, I genuinely think it's a great idea and I hope you succeed.

As far as the writing goes though, I never understand why people try to generate interest through negativity and deceit. I think the post would be more inspiring if it went something like:

"I love 3d printing. I love 3D printing so much that I'm coming up with innovative ways to make it cheaper and more ubiquitous. Please join me on my quest to bring 3D printing to everyone..."

It's more genuine, less condescending, and isn't a lie. After all, you don't hate 3D printing in the least, not one bit. You're in love with it and are dedicating a portion of your life to making it better.

Misleading title, post is an advertisement for 3d printing. Hates the state of 3d printing, building 3d printing vending machines a la red box.

That being said, it's a really cool idea. But post title is obnoxious IMHO.