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This is a sobering read as I prepare to move down to the Valley for work after years of talking about, and to a lesser extent dreaming about, it. One would hope that the experience for those of us who haven't had our stint there yet would still be worth it.

What say you, veterans? And what of San Mateo? That's where my new work is, and I wonder if I'd be better off living there than San Fran proper.

Very cool project. Congrats on the great work!

If you read the about, it details the monicker. Basically, this infrastructure could allow for turnkey VPN networks and sharing of resources/files by way of "deperimetetization", wherein security is on a data level rather than a network level. Read the about; it's a copy-pasta from there.

Ah, fair enough.

Surprised to see Objective C dropping; I wonder why that is? It sure doesn't feel like iOS is getting more web view apps, and with the increased frequency and quality of apps on the App Store in lieu of iOS porting, you'd think it would go up.

They also have a lettuce wrap option (burger sans bun).

You're right; corrected my mistake.

I suspect you're right, and generally what I figured. But then when I see street meat vendors with fresh onions and pickles every day, I question if that's really the reason.

You know, between McDonalds, BK, et al and the street meat vendors around, I don't understand why all fast food vendors in the US and Canada haven't opted for Korean-style lettuce wraps. Firm, crunchy, fresh lettuce makes for such a better health-conscious sandwich vessel.

The healthiness of these wraps is hindered dramatically by the far-from-filling* carbs and empty cals of the tortillas / flatbreads, and I'd bet at scale the lettuce isn't much more expensive than the wraps.

*Corrected from complex

This PC version was actually released over a decade ago; it's pretty ghetto and old. That said, it Wine-wraps decently.

The same treatment was given to FFVIII, as well, so it likely won't be long before it joins its predecessor on the Steam store (its appearance leaked in the registry moons ago).

FYI: The Steam version of the game still has a phone-home, always-online DRM which requires you to maintain connectivity in order to play. This is not the standard Steam DRM.

This is such a great concept; really glad to see how Humble has expanded to support all kinds of media.

I only wish, as I do for the Android bundles, that Apple would step up its game and allow this kind of thing to be easily supported.

iBooks-native redemption would be great for this and only help keep me in the Apple ecosystem; why the company limits redemption token generation is beyond me.

I'm curious; given that HN represents a community that could very well be construed as the "power user" archetype, how much would people here have paid for Reader as a service? $5/month? $100/year? Free with a Google Drive subscription?

I've always been partial to "Lua". It's as fun say as it is to work with.

I couldn't disagree more. While Apple may be foolish to release a full TV with the screen, opening up apps (read: games) with the new third-party controller support in iOS7 only stands to grab them easy market share and grow the living room iTunes purchase portal. It's easy money with little RnD. My guess? They're just waiting until shipping an A5X with 64GB flash storage in a hockey puck is possible at $99.

I'm all for Oauth integration in principal, albeit the "standard" has its (reasonable and well-criticized) issues, but I think there's more of a case to be made here for what's important to highlight to avoid user error on the part of the web browsers / clients themselves.

Maybe incognito mode should be the default state of any new browser install and non-incognito is a preference or toggle? This would avoid mass consumer public consumption auth issues.

<3 Reblogged on my personal and followed, for great justice.

Having just recently learned Python the "hard" way, I really wish I would've seen this beforehand. Even having done some hands-on work and a lot of Googling, I picked up a few new things from this I hadn't seen before. Thanks!

Needs more <marquee>marquee</marquee>.

I don't think anything proves this point more than the "This is a webpage" post that hit 1 on HN a few days ago.

I'm curious. With all the railing around Flash and its obsolescence, is Silverlight destined to go the same route?

I don't hear much about it anymore, particularly in the enterprise and the video provider space in which I currently work, where things like Verimatrix and Azuki are mentioned far more often than Flash/Silverlight.

Anyone have any intel on any major projects that use Silverlight aside from Netflix?

Wow. I hadn't heard of this; looks amazing. Thanks for the heads up!

As a long time technical writer, allow me to convey my sheer joy at how awesome this is. Issues with the submission and its descriptiveness in terms of HN standards aside, this is super wicked awesome and makes me warm and fuzzy inside.

Fair, but this change will be lost on the vast majority of the users that got them to said market share.

I don't buy the hype around crowdfunding and its supposed boom.

I think, particularly in the video game space which has seen some of the biggest backings across all industries/verticals, very few successful "crowdfunded" projects hit the market, and those that do generally become available to mainstream consumers with the backers receiving little in the way of truly worthwhile bonuses for fronting the cash.

After being a hugely avid Kickstarter at the get go, I've long since abandoned the site as failed product after lackluster product either died or left much to be desired when it was released. Anything worth owning will eventually be made available for general purchase in a form far superior; it's like someone took the worst parts about buying first-gen, cutting-edge products and exacerbated them.

Although I'm less passionate about it, I tend to agree with ChrisNorstrom's comments that the change doesn't seem change enough to warrant neither this level of attention nor such a "detailed" analysis of the changes. Sure, "good design doesn't mean flat" in this post-iOS 7 world, but at the same time, dropping a few details is hardly a revolution.

This seems like a convoluted way of addressing the issue, and I'm not really sure to whom this article is addressed.

Is it to people already in product / service development? If so, it's far too verbose an example. If it's not, it's far too vague; the direct tie is not drawn back to development in order to adequately complete the analogy.