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December 9, 1968 Douglas Engelbart did something what I believe was a huge leap into the future. He didn't just invent the mouse, but the whole experience and interactivity with a computer which was unheard.

Do that sort of things still happen today? Of course new things get invented and new ways to interact with media and a computer such as Leap Motion, Myo - Gesture control armband, Siri, and I'm sure there are tons of other examples out there. But they seem to be what in Engelbart's presentation was the mouse, just a part of the larger picture.

AI always inspired me to become better at programming and learn new languages, methods and idea's. And even with the currently available tools and technologies, it amazes me how little of these dreams I had actually exist or are being worked on.

EDIT: Just came across an article: "The Mother of All Demos" is 45 today; Douglas Engelbart did exactly what I'm hoping someone today will be able to pull of.

I do think it would be a good thing if more people, preferably in management positions or office-positions would get the chance to learn to code, or at least an introduction to it.

It would allow them to appreciate the hard work that get's done on the background, make them think twice before defining deadlines and most importantly realise some of the work they do on a daily basis could be automated! In result to that they might at least consider getting in touch with a programmer and trying to find a way to make theirs own job more efficient.

But that everyone should go get a degree in CS or everybody should be able to program is to me, the same thing as saying everybody should be able to cook 3 star restaurant dishes.

Bartender does even more than that, you can make certain icons reappear in the menu bar when they change for a certain period to make you aware of them.

And combined with iStat menus I even make for instance my battery-icon hide whenever docked and fully charged.

Also, quite some icons such as the WiFi, Volume, Bluetooth are only visible at all times in my case because I need a quick and easy way to alter the settings or be aware of them. This problem can be solved for me by automating these settings by profiles or my location such as School/home/on-the-move. This can be achieved by apps such as ControlPlane (http://www.controlplaneapp.com), you can even dimm your screen, kill apps that need a network connection to work such as Dropbox/Droplr/Twitter...

Very similar to what Llama (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kebab.Llam...) does on my Android phone.

Why would this be an administrative nightmare? I can see how deciding which JS/CSS libraries should be included can cause dispute, but apart from that, why not?

I actually even always wondered why the default css applied to elements isn't standardised, so pages not containing reset.css or normalize.css-sheets render differently or how certain Javascript methods differ from browser to browser.

But I guess that is a rather different discussion.

I'm curious if we ever will see the most popular JS/CSS frameworks/libraries integrated into the browser itself, and a simple attribute in the tag would allow loading the internal version, but still allow failover to the hosted one.

This could even prevent man-in-the-middle attacks on scripts that otherwise would never expire anyway like described here: http://thejh.net/written-stuff/want-to-use-my-wifi

I believe this is worth thinking about, because if the syntax highlight is only to disguise whenever the syntax is incorrect, you could only highlight it when it is incorrect, and modern IDE's (vim including) are capable of doing this.

On the other hand, perhaps highlighting the syntax is to represent the structure of source code, or make it more readable. There is also a text highlight utility for text, called BeeLineReader (http://www.beelinereader.com/)

As stupid as it sounds, I actually have a use for this script: When I clearly want to mark that I start installing something or logging and need a "marker" that stands out.

Very likely there is a better way to do this, but doge stands out.. and if someone would be looking over my shoulder at least it would make them laugh or ask about it.

I'm only guessing, but I think the reason it's soo big is because they want it to be "DIY" and a bluetooth-module and wireless-recharging module cannot be made much smaller, not to forget that thing also needs to have a battery that can hold out long enough!

I certainly agree with that, it seems the only two functions of the implant are measuring the temperature and making light up his arm a little bit.

I am however curious to see how this project will advance, will he be able to use his arm like he did before, won't it affect his health in any way... how about heath generated by the device itself...

But being honest about it, this is cool! I always imagined with the current technologies (think google glass, thalmic's myo, current smartphones) we will come very soon to a time where wearable computers will make our live much easier, the only bottleneck seems to be we haven't got batteries that could last longer than a day and power such a device.

You know, it would be interesting to do some statistics on which languages people vote down based on which languages they vote up. For instance, people that vote ruby up, most likely will dislike PHP, but not always the other way around.

But anyhow, my opinion is that all languages are tools that help you to built something or reach a certain goal. While some languages are easier or more fun to program with, if what you are trying to build already exists in a different language it's not always wise to recreate it just because language x sucks.

Pretty cool! It took me a few minutes to figure out how exactly to send data, but a quick php-script did the trick!

https://gist.github.com/larrybolt/6860232

Really this is what I have been thinking about building myself, awesome that you actually built it! I think I found a github project that I actually would love and can contribute to!

This is a better approach, but I tend to open a page, see if it's an interesting topic in a few seconds, scroll to the bottom so that any images that don't load until you scroll to them get loaded and comments get loaded (for instance Disqus comments). After that I go back to HN and look for other interesting posts etc. Once I have more time or no internet connection I read the page.

So I think doing something like checking if the tab/page is active (http://stackoverflow.com/a/1760268/2227792) would work more accurate, though only when an internet connection is present.

However, if the post was really interesting I might look for what other posts the author has made or for an about page about the author. I'm not sure however if there is a timeout after which preforming an other action is seen as a "bounce".

It makes me wonder how relevant a bounce rate is on something like a blog-post, I think refer-less visits are more interesting as they come from users that have bookmarked your post and visit it again at a later moment.

Well, to add my 5 cents, Floobits works great!

When reading the post about CoVim I tried getting it to run, but it gave me ugly errors about my python version which (I really did try to fix) but took a bit more time than expected and I gave up.

When coming to the vim-support, it works great! Even better than in Sublime since in Sublime there is this marking of what has been added the last few seconds which I personally don't like.

Installing was very easy both for vim and sublime, though I had to manually install it for Sublime text and restart (the settings menu was disabled, not sure why).

Also there was no default config so I had to copy/paste from the site and add my username/secret.

Something I'd love to see: The ability to see which user is editing where (using colors, I believe like CoVim does?).

But anyway, great work!

What exactly does that mean, the level you apply/qualify for? Does it depend on your education or merely on how much your employer put into it? Because 6 years waiting for a green card, after which another 5 years before you can apply for citizenship and keeping in mind the economy changes trough the years.

As a european developer and HN reader I've recently been wondering how feasible it is to move to the states after I finished university.

It seems the general trend would be something in the like of getting a visa, start looking for a job and be lucky your employer can get you a green card. After this 5 years of living in the states before you can become an American citizen.

Please do correct me if I'm wrong!

Any financial sites should not participate in April Fool's jokes if you ask me, or just as google add a notice it's for just a joke.

https://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/nose/help.html

Though I like seeing sites pulling an April Fool's joke, I do think any money-related sites (so bitcoin sites as well) have to say no to pulling pranks on their users.

I always kept switching from Vim to Sublime text until I found this:

http://vim.spf13.com/ The Ultimate Vim Distribution It's a collection of plugins and common shortcuts such as :W becomes :w, :w!! for saving as root, etc...

In the beginning it was mostly the file-drawler that make me want to leave Vim but that was easy solved by using this version: https://github.com/alloy/macvim

In combination with iTerm on mac it's my preferred way to develop, the only thing I miss is an easy way to reload, visit pages etc in the chrome-window on my second screen without having to lift my hands from my keyboard, but cmd+tab and Vimium help me with that.

This, and learning to touch type helped a lot. And on top of that all kind of shortcuts different programs use become more logic, such as the [-key for changing the brush size in Photoshop, cmd+[ for indenting in textmate...

I agree! Long ago it was possible to determine whenever a signature was genuine, but these sort of "digital signatures" don't provide any level of security, verification or anything alike. Even signing using an e-id and card-reader would be a better way to sign a document really.

Could you please name a few of those hosted services? Because Squash seems currently to be written for Ruby specific apps, however PHP, Django, Nodejs apps could use such a service too.

Than again, I though about putting a minified link to a Cv-page with extra info and a way to interact right away. And if you're looking for a job in development/design a simple base encoded url that points to a page where you pinpoint shortcomings in the Site or App/Service of the business for which you made the Cv is for.

Versus what I do:

- See the ad

- Take a picture of it with the native camera-app (android).

- Get at home behind my pc and notice google has uploaded the picture to my private pictures and displays a notice about it on my homepage (google).

- Since I'm home anyway I can take a look at the site of the ad, etc.

If I'm in the subway and see and ad for a movie which seems really interesting and I don't want to forget I take my time in the train to lookup the movie, my calendar and schedule when I could go to watch it. Afterwards as that date comes closes I still have the choice to "not buy a ticket" or go trough trailers to see if it's really worth it. On the other hand, later on I often find out I don't have to to go see it, or other activities are more pleasing anyway.

Even more scary if the link isn't over ssl, but even than third party services could make it risky. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/893959/if-you-use-https-w...

I don't mind these html5 items coming to all browsers, but I hope it will become possible to style these to your own needs, with vendor-prefixes or something alike. Because if you have a dark site it does become really annoying to have a bright white datepicker popup. Of course you could also just ignore these input types and roll your own based on javascript but what's the use than of this sort of enhancements..

This looks interesting to use a vm dev machine. Install it under vmware or something alike on your mac/pc and run your sites/apps live over there.

It seems to me there are huge advantages to doing that because if your run mamp on your mac for web development your quickly bump into problems like installing memcached or non-mac services. You also get more experienced with linux..

There actually already is something available for this called TurnKey Linux (http://www.turnkeylinux.org/).

A quick hint, if you do develop sites locally on your mac and get annoyed with Mac's weird dns lookup (.local, skipping the hosts file if it's not in a specific format.. etc) check out Dnsmasq (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnsmasq). You can install it on your mac using port.

I like Torvalds posts/articles. Most important people that blog/post/comment about stuff in their field of "expertise" (I'm assuming in this case that would be technology in general) try to do research on the topic, give advantages and disadvantages. Which isn't bad! But Linus just seems to post his own opinion on things, just the way he sees it.

I did not knew about the new myspace project, thanks! I like how they bring "a new dimension" to the whole newsfeed/timeline idea by allowing both vertical (not really, tho switching from one page to another could be seen as vertical scrolling) as horizontal scrolling.

Also lovely how nowadays sites and software seem to be getting more simple, clean.. less icons, buttons, modal boxes; and maybe more important, fullscreen use!

I don't support everything Kim Dotcom does.. but I do support Internet neutrality. I believe (and correct me if I'm wrong) the internet is one of the few mediums where the Government cannot stop free speech.. cannot stop people from posting their "real" opinion and the truth. And one of the few places where after reading an article you can do another search quite easy to ensure it is correct what you just read.

Television, Radio, the newspapers etc try to provide us with news a true as possible though I often question myself when watching the news, is this the entire truth? Is there not more behind it, or things they leave out to ease the mind of the crowd.