I wonder if there's a way to preserve their cloud.typography service through this. The article states that ownership of the fonts was transferred, but I imagine most designers would disdain the very idea of subscribing if the allegations turned out to be true.
Service aside, how is the company supposed to survive this? Even if Frere-Jones wins the trial and full damages are awarded, surely he'll want to leave the company. I can't fathom how you could keep collaborating with a partner who tried to scam you out of a life's work. That'd leave H&FJ with much weaker creative direction and a tarnished reputation.
On technical counts, I agree. The scenario of a poorly implemented filter reminds me of "porn before the Internet": young people learning the basic tricks to gain access to forbidden material and then spreading them within their groups. Even with physical pornography, doing this was neither complex nor particularly time-consuming.
However, I maintain that there's reason for concern when a government elects to make sexuality a matter of policy. Steering public opinion in a certain direction (making the filter opt-out sounds more like a "you shouldn't be doing it, perv" rather than a "it's entirely up to you, my well-adjusted friend!") and exerting control over exposure at the infrastructure level might not be censorship proper, but I wouldn't consider it harmless from a cultural perspective. Generally, I'm indeed bothered when my government wields morality to crusade against something of dubious consequence.
Granted, this comes from someone who considers the most common stances on pornography and sexual education largely detrimental.
What brought you to develop this library rather than relying on Incanter/Colt?
The scope of HipHip seems different, of course, but there is enough of an overlap to warrant the question.
Wonderful, thanks for the continuous updates. I hope you will keep gaining momentum around this initiative; having a solid community-supported set of benchmarks which routinely improves would be a true asset.
By the way, I would like to offer a UX suggestion: it would be nice if you could select one or more frameworks and have them highlighted in the result listings, so as to be able to notice their relative position at a glance.
A warning: this traditional, over-the-top gesturing is particularly common in certain cities and segments of population. (The kind of colourful things that short tourism&culture articles like to talk about.)
Elsewhere? Not so much. If you were so careless as to extend this stereotype to —say— the modern urban youth or the well-educated expat, you would likely be mocked as a clueless American tourist, and asked about how many guns you keep at home. :)
For perspective: I was born in northern Italy. Very few people within my social circles ever used any of the traditional gestures; when they did, they deliberately exaggerated the movements for comical effect, or put on a southern accent. Indeed, I have only recently discovered that gesturing is considered to be such a prominent, common feature of Italian culture... by reading English articles about it.
It seems to me that downloading a subset of a typeface from a webpage would be less practical than downloading an entire collection from a torrent.
Concerning the service itself: according to their product page, H&FJ requires you to include a remote stylesheet rather than javascript. I would say this is the "minimum viable evil" if you are striving to centralize distribution of your webfonts; while annoying, there are some advantages for the user (in this case, free Akamai).
Edit: I just checked a couple of torrent search engines and, apparently, there are not many up-to-date torrents for H&FJ typefaces. In hindsight, I suppose that the population of individuals who are likely to share files illegally and that of professional/dedicated designers have very little overlap.
Ironically enough, the lead actor (Ulrich Mühe[1]) had really been under Stasi surveillance; a surveillance to which his then wife allegedly collaborated.
Well-designed email clients with proper privacy seem to be very hard to come by, and new players in that niche would be welcome. Particularly in the current climate, I would argue.
While I lack the skill set to fully appreciate the paper, I must say that it is very refreshing to see innovative proposals on this kind of all-important foundational elements.
These are the kind of submissions that make HN worth visiting, for all its problems. ;)
Many would argue[1] that “responsibility” is an entirely perfunctory concept when you admit that society should judge and control you based on the actual consequences of your actions (and expectations of similar future behaviour).
I must say that I am very glad to read this, since I am also looking forward to deploy RethinkDB alongside Clojure (or Erlang, but I fear that will have to wait for quite a while).
Nonetheless, I must agree that focusing on the DB itself is for the best. Keep up the excellent work.
The new UI is quite nice, although its striking similarity to Sonora's design leaves me with quite a bitter aftertaste. Unfortunately there seem to be no substantial improvements over metadata and format handling; it looks like I will keep missing foobar2k for a long time still.
I would argue that your hopes would be better served by Unity Engine[1] and Mono[2] than by Steam. While high-budget releases have almost completely ignored the Mac and Linux platforms despite Valve's effort, the popularity of those tools has brought a very large number of mid-tier and indipendent developers to publish on them. While they are not as popular, they still help to make them look a little bit less like a desolated wasteland of work and productivity. :)
Let's also not forget that those same high-budget productions rely heavily on the current set of graphics (and audio) drivers, and there is hardly any effort to bring the Mac and linux up to par on that front.
Yes, they will need to be updated, for the most part. I am fairly sure that Sublime Text 2 was Retina-ready after a couple of days from Apple's announcement, though.
I assume it is not relevant, indeed: I was merely asking for comments over an unrelated point that was made in the essay, which is that there are no working Lamarckian mechanisms in biology.
I certainly agree over your second point, which I had considered myself, but that did not seem to be particularly relevant to my doubt.
(My interest in evolutionary biology is quite lax, so bear with me if I say something particularly wrong.)
I was under the impression that, in recent years, there had been a small but significant surge of interest in the possibility of epigenetic inheritance, evidence for which had been found in a few studies on chickens, rats and plants. This article seems to explicitly states that no such thing is currently recognized.
Have I been deviated by fringe neo-Lamarckist press releases, are they simply too recent and in need of consolidation, or did Pinker avoid mentioning them for the sake of clarity and fidelity to the most safe, "gcd" theory?
I think that this comment bears a certain indulgent mixture of patriotism and naïvety. Dismissing Iran as an "evil theocracy" and a "a totalitarian terrorist state" is not entirely without grounds, but I would invite commenters to tone down their statements if geopolitics is not among their interests.
Service aside, how is the company supposed to survive this? Even if Frere-Jones wins the trial and full damages are awarded, surely he'll want to leave the company. I can't fathom how you could keep collaborating with a partner who tried to scam you out of a life's work. That'd leave H&FJ with much weaker creative direction and a tarnished reputation.