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He is asked why Creative Suite costs $1,400 more in Australia compared with other countries when the software is delivered over the internet.
The AXD301 switch

> http://ll2.ai.mit.edu/talks/armstrong.pdf (from slide 27 on)

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language)#...

"In 1998 Ericsson announced the AXD301 switch, containing over a million lines of Erlang and reported to achieve a high availability of nine "9"s."

Additionally it is well-known that the AXD301 has live patching capabilities (which is not surprising, since Erlang has).
The part I think most people miss is that how "good" Zuckerberg is/was matters less than the resources he had access to. Luck/privilege account for SO much and that's true of all most all the billion $ startups.
It sounds to me like you've dug yourself into too much of a rut of how software should be made that you can't just dive into it anymore, and get bogged down in doing everything 'perfect' that you don't get anything done at all.

I tend to just dive in, make a bit of a mess, and refactor/clean things up before I check things in. I think it helps that I have tackled learning quite a few different languages over the years and have done some working for startups (which has no time to get things right, it's just got to get done before the whole ship sinks).

Just pick a little piece of what you want to work on, get that working, then add another bit, and another bit, until you have a full feature but still runs, then clean it up, check it in, and move on to the next tiny piece. Don't worry about documenting every little thing.

Learning a new language, especially a scripting language that can get things done in a few lines of code and people don't obsess over diagrams and graphs of the system could help. Python filled that niche for me.

Good luck!
Even more noise at work. Like an office alarm that goes off for every new user.
How will you stabilize it to get a decent picture?
jaredhalpert says take a break and he's right. eigenrick says shake things up a bit and learn a new language he's also right. Sebastienconcpt says get a fresh pair of eyes, he is also right.

You just need a jolt. If it's feasible take vacation and build something fun in a brand new language that is really different from anything else you've ever used. Set goals like I'll work on this no longer than X hours a day where X is small. Don't set deadlines for completion. The goal here isn't a finished product it's to have fun tinkering with something that will break you out of your block. And pick a language with a welcoming but passionate community that can give your feedback on your code.

I do this all the time to keep myself fresh working on open source projects or playing with new things. It expands my toolbox and gives my brain a break from the constant legacy enterprise spaghetti-ware we so often work on.

And when it comes to your money earning work don't discount the Just Works outcome. When you are glueing together legacy systems sometimes there is no "beautiful and elegant" solution. Sometimes due to time and legacy constraints your only option is duct-tape and bailing wire. Having an outlet to write more elegant stuff in your spare time can be a valuable sanity saver.

Side Note: I wonder if there are any good places online to have virtual design reviews done? Somewhere where the high level goals and constraints are listed and people comment on the best way to achieve them? Language and platform agnostic preferrably although some suggestions will inevitably work better in some languages than others.
ZTE makes the best $10-$20 phone I've seen anywhere.

It is called the ZTE Zinger (T-Mobile) or ZTE Prelude 2 (AT&T)

The formal model name is the Z667 or Z667T or Z667G

Goes on sale that cheap a few times a year, otherwise $40

The screen is low resolution but you'd never know, works fine for all but the smallest text.

It is dual core and runs KitKat 4.4 so it is very smooth.

The problem is they are impossible to root and impossible to unlock bootloader. So they never took off. ZTE basically shot themselves in the foot and sold out to carrier desires.

It should be a crime in the USA to not be able to root your phone if you paid for it.
It's about why traditionally distributed Adobe software is so expensive in Australia, and the CEO's response is that you shouldn't buy the old, traditionally distributed stuff, you should instead buy the stuff distributed via Creative Cloud.
I agree, while I wouldn't say it outright sucked, it was a bit disappointing. In fact, when I played it as a child I literally had no idea what was going on. I guess it was doubly confusing for me because Curse was the first Monkey Island game I played! Perhaps that's why I don't think too hard about it, I love all of the games and readily overlook the inconsistencies in the story.
With lower goals you don't necessarily need VC
It'd probably be preferable to have jQuery and various libraries that depend on it to having different, slightly different variations on things jQuery does from each library you include.
I hate to say, I'm just back from a week's vacation. I struggled to switch off & went down with shingles (brought on I am convinced by the work stress)
I'd also expect mosquito and pest populations to spiral out of control in areas where they are already bad, and spread to areas that didn't have them previously. Changes like this could cause collapse/redistribution of ecosystems pretty reliably.
Your #2 is drastic. Your #1, reasonable, and Martin Fowler is your friend [1][2].

[1]: http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/enterprisePatterns.html

[2]: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Enterprise-Integration-Patterns/dp/8...

[edit: beefed up]
The thing is, building a billion dollar business doesn't require 1000x the work or entail 1000x the stress of building a million dollar one

The key thing is, a billion dollars is nothing like 1000x better than a million. In fact, I suspect it's barely 1.1x better (and there's even some weak evidence from subjective wellbeing studies that it could be worse).

The St Petersburg Paradox[1] is a fun application of this fact — the fact that when you already have a LOT of money, even a LOT more money is pretty well useless to you.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Petersburg_paradox
Imagine the replies: "TAX, TAX, TAX... Thank you..."

With Affinity slowly growing, it will be a lot cheaper than Adobe in the future.
It's for reasons like this and the ongoing quality and security issues Adobe has faced around flash player that I'm now actively avoiding all of their products. I've 'replaced' Photoshop with Pixelmator which is lacking in some areas, but for most of what I do is sufficient - it certainly is a lot faster than Photoshop.
There was a similar article submitted last week that resonated with me more:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10149308

Focused more on building a small (5ish people) business with $1mil in revenue a year as the path to enlightenment.

Key insight: building a $1mil/yr business ($7/mo * 12 mo/yr * 12,000 subscribers) that focuses on delivering pure awesome is an excellent way to build a $10mil/yr business is an excellent way to....
I think you're mistaking a rhetorical point for a math equation. Deep breaths.
The catch is you probably cannot root it.

ZTE has gotten VERY good at locking down their phones, the bootloader checks and undoes root and the kernel seems to detect attempts otherwise.

For me, non-root is a showstopper.
> The 20 year-old version of Mark Zuckerberg beats the 20 year-old version of me every time.

If that's your attitude, then yes he would.

But Facebook being the success it is was not due some genius insight on his part that was destined for greatness, it was mostly luck. If MySpace hadn't driven itself into the ground, Facebook would have never taken off.

If Google hadn't been so slow to realize the importance of social media, if Google+ hadn't been so bad, etc. There are any number of factors that are 100% outside of Mark Zuckerberg's ability to influence that could have stymied Facebook.

A good idea, hard work, good decision making, etc. all are necessary, but they are not enough. People who are hugely successful, and people who think they will one day be that successful like to believe that it's merit that got them there. But it's not. There's just as many talented people who don't make it. The filter is largely luck.
What stack are you guys using?
What is this constant thread of "Don't shoot for the stars?" Why are people trying to reign in expectations and goals for what are essentially crazy and highly talented people?

I don't want to run a $10M company, I want to run a $10BN company. It's the difference between tee ball and Major League.

The author is basically saying that everyone should just shoot to stay in tee ball, which is equally as arbitrary as choosing to shoot for the majors. What the hell is the point of all of this if we aren't going for the big win?
Did you happen to miss the part that says that all vendors had tripled their prices because of the Thailand flood?

> Over the next few days prices spiked in all of our traditional purchasing channels,

They were grabbing existing stock from stores which had not raised their prices yet, even if they were limiting the amount of drives per customer.

> In addition to the price of the drive there were now extra costs to shuck the drives, extra costs to recycle the shucked parts, and once shucked we couldn’t return a bad drive, but it was still less expensive than buying internal drives even if we could find them

They did factor costs into account. This was an emergency situation, they never said that's how they do business normally.
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Has anyone played Broken Age? It's nowhere near as difficult as the adventure games of old, it feels more of a casual adventure game, but the story, characters, art and voice acting are superb. My favourite game genre by far, happy birthday Monkey Island!
What is a flagship? Just a really good phone?
St. Petersburg paradox
Another big concern is shifting precipitation patterns. Our civilisations and current ecosystems are build for current patterns, and floods in deserts during droughts in normally wet areas don't help anyone.
>You don't have to be exactly the same as SV, but no reason not to be inspired by it

Did you read the article? Because this is exactly what it's about:

"To be sure, we can learn from Silicon Valley and other more mature tech communities, but that also includes how not to do things."
I realise my comment won't add much to the discussion, but Day of the Tentacle was a masterpiece.
It is cheaper - I'm saving $1000 bucks on my iPhone over the course of two years, just by buying it unlocked and on a cheaper plan.
I can use it in other countries as well, just a matter of swapping the SIM card. Only downside is that my network provider won't replace my phone if something were to happen to it, but I'd imagine there are third party insurance providers in this space.

I think there are a few reasons why companies like Verizon are so big in the U.S.: they have a good network, they offer plenty of family plans, and they will replace your phone for what seems like subsidized rate under various conditions. Oh, and they advertise constantly.

But not being able to use my phone out of the country? Very limiting. Why would I pay more for that handicap as an individual enrollee?
The Value of My Time
MySQL, Java (Liferay, SpringMVC, JSF), jQuery, Vensim (a climate modelling environment) and a couple more :)
I'd like to take this one step less. Talk to a therapist because it's therapeutic. They might think there is an issue but as much as anything someone can listen to your problems and offer some advice without judgement. They are awesome.

I feel like I was in a similar boat to you. I was living somewhere I didn't like, doing work I didn't like, and felt like I didn't know where I was going. I decided to shake things up and move to the Bay Area and force myself to be more social. A months later, I met the woman who would be my wife before I moved and stayed around with her to try out the relationship. It worked at well. We live in the bay now and just had our 2nd child. My life and work have purpose and I am happy. It was not always easy, and it feels awful right now. Good luck, I hope you find what I have.
A baby step when we needed a quantum leap. It's not enough. The local PDs can still stingray with impunity, pulling location data as well as content without any warrant. They pass this kind of data to the federal law enforcement agencies all the time-- a handy backdoor.
That's been occurring to me for a while with SO questions. I get about halfway through and begin to recognize the writing style. :)
Stopped by his assumption that I know something about machine learning. Does anyone have any recommended resources to get on that level?
Do you really mean 1 million or, say, 10 million? I think there's a huge difference between these two. I haven't done the math, but I figure with the latter you could retire without thinking (much) about what you spend money on. From that point, yes a billion isn't much different.
Asking why it is a problem to move cites honestly sounds more like trolling than a honest question.
> it's getting from what needs to happen to how to decompose into classes/methods/libraries

Perhaps the problem doesn't fit into an object oriented solution. You could try learning a functional language and see if you find it fitting better. I struggled for years with OO and was never happy with my solutions. Learning functional was my road to Damascus experience.

If you have to go OO, there have been plenty of people who have thought long and hard about how to make OO a suitable solution. Some classic books you may want to consider :

- Design patterns : elements of reusable object-oriented software (Gang of four) - there are people who swear by this and turn it into their hammer for which everything becomes a nail.

- Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (Martin Fowler)

- Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Martin Fowler and Kent Beck)

- Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests (Steve Freeman)
> We need to pivot our economic system towards a basic income model.

So putting a floor on what people get each year seems like a pretty good idea. How about a ceiling as well? What's an equitable spread? 10x? 100x? Should the basic income given to residents of Manhattan be 2.5x what people in Wichita get?
Thank god Eclipse has gotten very usable in recent years.
It would depend on your use I suppose? I always found that I could never live off a prepaid system because I would blow through the data too fast.
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Two wrongs do not make a right, and thinking that climate warming only poses a minor inconvenience is ignorant. Please do some further research or you could misconstrued as a rude troll.
I love the ui, but I completely discounted the info after reading ebay's story. It went something like ebay hired meg whitman to run the company as it had 4.7m a year in revenue/profit(forgot which).

Next slide, ~6months later company goes public making founders immediate billionaires.
Hello, author here. I didn't actually have anything to do with it, just noticed that they included them when I was playing with the feature. Fun surprise!
And it's NSFW in that it makes that hellish noise without warning.
> Most of these games are free downloads these days

Not legally, just conveniently.
Yes, that’s exactly what I meant. This page == Hacker News. If I meant this thread, I’d have seat this thread.
3: increase in days over 100F. Being hotter isn't just an inconvenience: photosynthesis stops working efficiently when temperatures are over 100F (fun chemistry fact: chemical reactions are temperature sensitive; this is why your body tries to maintain a very narrow temperature range. Otherwise, the chemical reactions all run at the wrong speed (or not at all), and the delicate balance of chemical pathways is disrupted). So when temperatures get too hot, plants switch from photosynthesizing and storing energy to burning their stored sugars and respiring. Forests begin emitting CO2 instead of consuming it; crops do not have the extra sugars to store as fruits and grains for us to harvest and eat.
What resources did he have access to besides being a Harvard student? That's a huge one, but it's not like he had access to (or needed) lots of resources to make The Facebook a success at Harvard. And after that it was all downhill.
Back-Button Hijacking too... What an unthoughtful touch.
> We, as a species, absolutely can bring a first-world quality of life to everybody, so why shouldn't we?

Not with the current lifestyle and the given ressources.
Should i be impressed that even though the author was not using the tool they thought then still got it to spit out something?

it must be a robust tool.
Nice. Hope it'd be good if you visualize how opponent's move could affect for the player in the other end.
> And pick a language with a welcoming but passionate community that can give your feedback on your code.

Any recommendations? The PHP community (where my commercial work is done) is not that. And far too fad driven.

> And when it comes to your money earning work don't discount the Just Works outcome.

You're not the first person to say that to me. I should start listening!

> Having an outlet to write more elegant stuff in your spare time can be a valuable sanity saver.

Agree - if I despise what I write every day, it wears me down. I haven't worked on anything fun (or open source) for years, focusing on making money.

Thanks mate!
Hmm. I agree there could be a difference between 1 million and 10 million. To an approximation, 1 million is not having to worry about housing, while 10 million is not having to worry about work.

But I'm not sure not having to worry about work would be good for everybody — me included. It could be good ... but I worry it could also leave one purposeless and adrift (I have some anecdotal evidence on this point).

Apologies for not looking up the literature to corroborate this (or not), but I should get back to the day job.
Agreed. It's often underplayed how helpful it was that Zuckerberg was at Harvard when he created Facebook. It created a sense of wanting to be a part of a network that once was exclusive as it expanded. I doubt he would have had the same type of advantage even if he was at another Ivy, like say Dartmouth.
Unfortunately Disney pulled the iOS versions from the App Store in April.

https://help.disney.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/About-The-Secret-...
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Are all development-positions for Kahoot based in Norway, or am I misinformed on this?
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I think "take" worked. Sierra games had extremely limited vocabularies, of course. The Infocom games and later those by Magnetic Scrolls were much more advanced at natural language parsing; you could type "put key in bottle", and if you had several bottles it would ask you "Which bottle?" and you could simply answer "the green bottle". Wish I could think of more examples, but it's been a long time.
After buying a nice power boat for week long cruises, a nice turbo prop for quick private travel, and that summer cabin in Colorado, 10,000,000 doesn't go as far as you might think. Especially if you like to travel well.
http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/ is a great read to get started
Is there any good Java IDE for emacs?
So true. I was thinking about the other day; how many sites are incorporating animation, parallax scrolling and other interactive elements that are very reminiscent of the Flash websites from the late 90's and early 2000's. In some ways Flash really was ahead of it's time and the runtime was very capable given the CPU and bandwidth limitations at that time.
I for one would love to see a viable tech community emerge in Chicago

Well, we all would. The fact that Chicago is building things like 1871 and UILabs shows they want the image of being a vibrant startup-friendly community but we all know what the true reality is.

Northern Illinois has a extremely valuable legacy in tech, especially in the bio and manufacturing sectors. Think of Motorola, Bell Labs, Teletype, Abbott, Baxter, Sundstrand, ITW, Zenith, Bally, Kraft, Caterpillar, CME, Molex... there's a huge list. But that legacy isn't what's hot and cool with the VC community. Chicago's modus operandi is about going heads-down and getting shit done. But that isn't what's hot and cool with the VC community either.
So, they're a brand-new 2 year old phone, at attractive prices?
It seems likely that JetBrains moved to this model because their current revenue model doesn't allow for enough runway to allow them to make updates as needed or grow the business. So from that perspective changing to a model where they continually get money helps them stay in business.

Where they 'went wrong', if you could call it that, is that they forced developers down this new path without allowing us to 'dip our toes in'. It would have been better to open this up as a separate way of paying for their products alongside the current model, and then in a year or two simply switching over.
Hello, author here. Didn't expect to see this on hacker news after so many years :)

For you hardcore easers, @blurspline made some improved values by scripting tons of variants. Probably the way I should have done it, but I was in a rush to get it out before anyone else and never revisited it.
http://www.lab4games.net/zz85/blog/2014/12/26/better-cubic-b...
Nice, I assume this is XY-mode by stereo channel. I did a little writeup here: http://cookingwithsound.com/an-xy-mode-oscilloscope-in-your-...

If you want to get in touch, I'd love to add more detail about how the code works :)
Cheap energy is a cornerstone of our (modern, American) way of life, to be sure, and losing it would be awful. For us. But there's the OP's point- climate change will screw over vast numbers of people who didn't even benefit from cheap energy to begin with.

It would be interesting to see an in-depth quantitative analysis of the effects of dramatically reduced fossil fuel use versus dramatic climate change, in terms of a general global sum of badness (and if anyone knows of such a resource, please link it!) But there's more to the whole matter than global utilitarianism- there's also the sheer unfairness of the situation.
And my friends wonder why I'm still using CS3 and in some cases Photoshop 6.
>, and most customers upgraded every year.

Is this statement actually true? Is it educated guessing or has it been substantiated by JetBrains?

(Not trying to argue. Just want to know substantiated facts.)
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In all likelihood, they also don't have access to education or birth control.
Nitpick: The Intel switch was in 2006.
At the same time, when I'm buying a new phone (unlocked and up front) I don't go for the $100 phones but I do take price into account. Not that it does much for OEMs selling at those lower margins but it's a large part of why I buy $350-450 phones like the Nexus 5 or Moto X instead of the $650+ iPhone.

I think you nailed it on the installment plans though. Splitting up the cost and spreading it out makes a few hundred dollars less obvious (psychologically at least).
I don't know if I'd agree with branding it as a "console". Platform might be a better word. Console implies it's a self-contained set of hardware, which this isn't.

Good proof of concept, probably not a good business though. What makes this different from something like Kongregate, where I don't have to use my phone as a controller?
Good read, didn't expect CSP to be that necessary at first :D
So once again the people getting the best deal will be the pirates :(

I suppose that we are at JetBrains market saturation levels - everybody is using their IDEs, so they just don't sell as many new licences to fuel growth.