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As a game developer, I'd argue that thinking along the lines of #2 is very dangerous. Great games have a ton of subtle touches and content that only a small percentage of players will appreciate. The trick is that each player will notice a completely different set of features/content, and it makes them really happy when it feels like the developers went out of their way to polish some little bit of the game.

Think of Super Mario Brothers, one of the best selling games of all time. There are a stunning amount of hidden areas, tricks etc (even using an emulator with save+load, and a guide, it's not easy to explore the entire game world), but this is very closely related to how stunning the game world felt (especially for the time). An average player may only come across 10-20 secrets in the game, out of hundreds, but each time they'll have that warm fuzzy feeling where they are thinking, wow, they went to all the trouble to put this here?

Another good example is No One Lives Forever. They did a TON of funny lines with the guards talking to each other and notes that were left around (eg a note to employees saying no fornicating in the evil death ray storage facility). The chance of picking up on each of those was low, say around 10%, but since there were hundreds the game world, each player will have 20-30 moments where they were exploring some back room and they found something cool, which gave the game world immense amounts of character. If they instead made 20-30 moments and forced the players through them linearly, it would have felt cheap.

I'd also like to mention that, unlike many forms of software, it IS actually a requirement that game developers have fun making the games they play, because otherwise making the game itself fun is pretty much impossible. I don't think it's a coincidence that the developers of Diablo 2 took the time to put in the cow level, which most people never see, and spent a huge amount of resources tweaking leveling up for characters all the way up to level 90+, at the same time that they made such a fantastic game for the average player. If they made the game specifically for the average player, I think a lot of that magic that goes into development would have been lost, and paradoxically the game wouldn't have been as fun for anyone.

Of course you have to be somewhat rational about where you spend your development resources, but if you try to make sure that the majority of the players see the majority of the content, it's so easy to make a sterile game. And if you are often completely irrational about where you spend your time in the name of being artistic, it's surprisingly easy to make a game that is actually fun and gets attention. The difference in sales between the former and the latter, without a marketing plan B, will be orders of magnitude.

(I agree with the rest of your post)
I'm not sure about the causes, but it seems in the UK for example that social mobility has decreased in the past few decades compared to the 1960s. A big part of that has been the disaster of comprehensive education - the old grammar school system, which selected children from poorer families, gave at least some a chance of climbing the social ladder. Comprehensive schools are more of a lottery than a meritocracy, and the wealthy as always have the option of fee-paying "public" schools.
maybe you should do something else instead of your wife and job.
I like psyco simply because all you have to do is import the module and do `psyco.full()` to get an idea how well it's going to work with your code. Once I feel like I've gotten the most I can possibly get out of algorithmic and data structure optimization, psyco is almost always my next stop for further speed. Often, importing and activating psyco is all the optimization I end up needing.
With KHTML they became the de facto upstream very quickly, though it took a few years for the KDE people to play along, become downstream, and make it de jure.

Apple has employed a bunch of the FreeBSD developers, but there's really not that much relevant code there, much less contributable code. The non-mac-specific patches to the userland utilities does make it upstream.

You are correct in that most of the FOSS projects that Apple picks up were playing for relative tiddlywinks before they came along with piles of money (excepting GCC and maybe CUPS). They're one of the only companies that has done this kind of thing with any success.
Though not as useful as firebug you are able to add a 'style="<custom css>"' attribute to an element by hovering over and clicking the '?=""' that appears.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1094091
But so is South Korea.
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But the VM was never the real problem: it's all the native runtime code that's dogshit everywhere but 32-bit Win32.
But there are plant sources of DHA and (some) EPA. Fish do not make it out of thin air, they get it from eating algae.
Actually it suprises that this was the first time. Soccer is the number one game almost all over the world, except the US. It is a kind of religion to a lot of people.
Microsoft's Mundie wants a "drivers license for the internet".
I got that from the article as well. author resorted to a lot of name calling, and parent post was asking for some info from the HN community.

A preference for informative is hardly trolling.
I also switched since version 4 beta, which I already considered to be better than firefox. Apart from the browser speed itself, what I also like is the innovation speed. Simple, Google is an expert in creating "internet software", and Mozilla is just not able to compete with them.
WoW was spending literally tens of millions of dollars on content seen by a fraction of a percent of its player base. That was unjustifiably bad. That it continued for quite some time was a problem of the dev team culture and also, probably, a symptom that they did not have good metrics. (I have been there, done that, and got the T-shirt. Not to the tune of tens of millions but I've certainly frittered away man months on things seen by less than .1% of customers and, even worse, 0% of trial users.)
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Ah, yes, you're absolutely right.

That's why I couldn't find the title :)

thanks!

It must be 15 years since I last read those and it was in pretty quick succession while quite ill.
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I've got a sheet music app for the iPhone (almost done) that really would be much more killer on the iPad: http://www.wonderwarp.com/opus
Cool project ! Care to open source your error level analysis implementation ? I'm curious of how complex it is.
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This summary of quite a lot of discussions is to me closest to what I am thinking about the iPad launch.
You need a database of your books. :)
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Oh, cool. I'd seen that before but I was unaware that the source code had been posted. Thank you for the link.
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They raised $20M, not $75M: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/020210-softbank-pays-u...
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It's really not that much money if you consider the cost of running a dedicated data center.
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All I can say. 1984.
It does sound like they took it too far (I've not played WoW after losing a significant percentage of my time as a teenager to Diablo 2).

But I was talking about the general rule. I'd say that the opposite mistake is much more common amongst game developers, and it's a big reason why so many crappy games are released.

Certainly 0.1% of customers is too low. But I wouldn't call 1% too low - many of the best games ever made include lots of 1% content. And I think that's no coincidence - the mindset that results in developers putting 1% content into a game also results in a fun core game. 1% content only happens when developers care a lot about the game.

I should clarify that by 1% content I mean a different 1% of the audience will see each piece of content.
Non-forcible wealth redistribution is voluntary charity. I am not opposed to charity. I am also not making any claims about how much charity will be provided in a free market society. I don't assume there will be plenty, or any, though I actually would expect some, look at Bill Gates.

I do not consider any wealth redistribution necessary which people can't be persuaded to do completely voluntarily. What charity is good to do is a very controversial matter, but fortunately I don't have to get into that to oppose the use of force against rich people.

Persuade people to donate, and if you can't, don't assume you're right and they're wrong about the best use of their money.

Hope that's clear.
"Do I need to remind you that not everyone interested in shrinking government expenditures is a Republican?"

Considering that I'm one of those people, probably not. Did you bother to look at my original post, or did you just read the last comment in the thread?

(C'mon folks...the parent comment doesn't even make sense in light of what I wrote. Don't just vote up comments because they sound vaguely like they come from people on your side of the political spectrum.)
It doesn't seem that, in practice, users want to modify their computer systems in that way

Don't confuse core product with actual product. If, before the 20th century, you had asked people if they wanted to partake in mechanical flight, they would have most certainly said no. They couldn't distinguish a core product that would differ significantly from the current actual product of a bicycle with wire-wings.

Kay was right. And there are people out there right now, on the equivalent of a crisp morning at Kittyhawk, trying, and trying, and trying to prove it.
Have they given back to BSD?

Yes.

Grand Central Dispatch, one of the major new technologies in SnowLeopard, was open sourced and is already implemented in FreeBSD. See here for more: http://www.osnews.com/story/22331/FreeBSD_Gets_Grand_Central...
This is unfair to the packets, which are now getting less money for their work.

Oh yeah, it's only bad when Amazon tries to keep book prices low.
You can find free market alternatives for many issues in the book

_The Machinery of Freedom_ by David Friedman

As to vaccines, I wonder what proportion of the population wouldn't be willing to pay for their own vaccines. For any vaccine that we make 300 million of it's gonna be cheap, so the unwilling people would either be very poor or have some philosophical objection to vaccine (weird religious view, anti-science, etc).

So the problem is only the size of, say, one million vaccinations.

Existing big drugs companies today voluntarily give away substantial amounts of free medicine to poor people. My friend is a recipient. They do it to create good will and word of mouth and that kind of reasoning. I imagine if no one else was willing to do it, and one company stepped up and provided vaccines for poor people for a high profile disease, thus staving off a public health risk, it'd make them look so much better than the other companies it'd pay for itself.

Or maybe that wouldn't work. It takes creativity to solve these problems. I don't see anything that makes this problem, in principle, more difficult than a variety of others. Also, it's not like the Government is offering a good solution. The Government's approach is to not find a way to do it for a profit, and not find a way to persuade people to do it voluntarily, and instead just to do it by force.
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No, I would not label this event private. Yet you would apparently label no event as private, with your continued references to supermarkets, resteraunts, and the like. You can't frame the debate as bring about publicly-funded events and then use examples of privately-run ones for your arguments.

Anyway, in most areas, I actually am ok with "discrimination." What is morally reprehensible about running an event designed to disciple someone in their religion, then asking people of another religion to stay away? I can't imagine a Muslim would be too happy about an atheist showing up at a Muslim retreat and yelling obscenities to Allah. Nor would I be terribly thrilled if I was on a men's campout and we were forced to bring women along. Like it or not, we aren't all the same, and sometimes we need to hang out with people like us in a certain area. As long as you aren't terrorizing a certain group of people out of hatred, private property laws should allow you to decide who comes on your property.

If the government pays for an event, that's another matter entirely, but please choose which debate we are having and use relevant examples so I can be clear going forward.
America does not have a free market health care system. It has extremely large market distortions. While you are blaming the current state of affairs on the free market, I am blaming it on Government. What I advocate is not being tested out, and what you advocate isn't being tested out either, so we can't just look at the results to see who is right.

One of the market distortions in health care is tax subsidies for employer provided health care plans.

You blame recession on the free market. But how can that be? We don't have a free market. We have huge market distortions in all sorts of key areas. Those are more than capable of causing recessions.
Japanese VC is a little quirky. Imagine companies with great big piles of money and no effective pipeline to get it to twenty somethings. I worked at a technology incubator and essentially the only option for startups was friends & family, government microcapital programs, and (for the very lucky) angel funding from local entrepreneurs. This funding environment turns out very, veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery different companies than Silicon Valley does.

Things are probably different in Tokyo, which is essentially a whole 'nother country which shares a long border and some people with Japan. (I'm only half joking.)
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It might make more sense to wait the supposed few hours and see what Facebook actually releases. Especially if one is going to berate them for not releasing (as open-source) something before they've released anything.
"...that will increase speed by around 80%..."

I guess this is compared to plain PHP not to accelerators? And what exactly is the difference from a PHP accelerator?
Definitely worth reading for anyone interested in audio processing in Flash: http://blog.andre-michelle.com/ and http://lab.andre-michelle.com/
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On the other hand Flash wasn't welcome on the iPhone when Apple didn't want native Apps made by third parties running on it... the App Store was an afterthought, leaving Flash on the side of the road clearly was not.

Or maybe the App Store was just a very well kept secret...
What happens when a stupid rule only affects a small minority of people, and the majority can't understand the fuss? (Remember when some guy got arrested and put on the sex offender registry for his manga collection having some lolicon stuff in it? A few people were outraged; most just laughed and had no idea what the case was about.)

Privacy is nice because it doesn't require large numbers of people to act sanely.
The typical PHP accelerators cache bytecode rather than native code.
Yes but I wonder how much it will really help. Is the bottleneck for Facebook-like sites really in the bytecode dispatching as opposed to e.g. string/regexp operations or database calls?
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Hi everyone, my name is Alaa and I'm a recovering WOW-holic. I have been WOW free for about a year now.

You're forgetting one thing though, the fun aspect. Working for 8-9 hours a day on a computer and then coming back home to work for another 4 is not the same as playing for another 4. Although the strategy thinking does take a lot of mental effort, it seems to use a different part of the brain.

I agree about the time sink aspect though.
Could be, in the case that those two have already been optimized or removed as much as possible.
It seems sensible to assume it helps them for something otherwise why bother developing and releasing it? I also don't think it's a matter of bottleneck - if you make the front-end php run faster you need fewer servers, fewer servers/user, more money. This has come up in discussions about google as well - there are some scales at which even comparatively modest improvements in efficiency count. It probably won't make a world of difference to My Cousin's Personal Basement URL Shortener.
Too bad they cancelled their 30 day lowest price guarantee
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Too pessimistic, society isn't really unraveling. On average, spending the extra money on education results in better education, even when taken to ridiculous levels.
I don't get what it is that people are talking about wrt speed. I've done side by side visual tests loading JS heavy sites like gmail and google docs and I can barely tell the difference, sometimes firefox wins sometimes chrome, the main thing I'll notice is that the initial page layout flow are different, but they're basically both fast. The network is going to make the biggest impact on your browsing speed, not the browser. The only thing chrome buys me is having to learn some weird-to-me UI, and adding one more thing that I have to rely on Google for, no thanks.
Chrome has step through debugging. Check the 'Scripts' tab of the inspector
Editing the text of stylesheets: no.

Editing style rules applied to elements: yes, you can do this. Select an element in the inspector, and you can click to edit its style rules.
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Any chance of getting mp3s of the videos? I don't really have time to watch video, but could listen to these while I'm doing manual labor.
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This needs more units, and perhaps some sort of absolute measure. For example "Amazon lowers outbound data charge from 12 to 10 cents per gigabyte." Or whatever it is.
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A really neat tool, great attention to detail! Wish I had more time to play with it...

Had a nice "needs more cowbell" moment with the Tone Matrix default and the Rhythm Composer already!
I don't disagree with your premise: I'd never work for a company that did drug checking.

But: private companies are not bound by the 5th amendment. The Constitution and Bill of Rights covers only what the government may or may not do.
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Apt example, given that in the century since the Wright Brothers' first flight most of the people who have ridden in aircraft have had no desire to modify them.
Firefox was never a lightweight browser. It was fairly minimalist, especially compared with what came before it, but those things were just switched off or hidden, not removed, because that would have been a lot more work.

It's probably only got more "lightweight" with time as they've had more opportunity and funding to optimise and actually remove things they don't use.
They are wrong to say that Unladen Swallow gets a 5x speedup. That was their initial plan, but they claim now they were naive. Their speedup in less than 2x.

I think this reporting is a little haphazard.
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I think it is quite irrelevant to wonder about such details, as the article proceeds to spout nonsense like

The project is very similar to Google's Unladen Swallow
project, which rebuilt the Python compiler, boosting the
speed fivefold [..]

There is not a word to be trusted, as the author clearly doesn't know what he is talking about.
"Tough. Django produces XHTML."
By the point of that war the white people had been oppressing the Indians for more than a hundred years. One murder does not justify returning with a massacre, and leaving out various facts from history does not mean much when you are trying to retell a whole lot of history. If people want a different telling of history, there is always Wikipedia.

Also, if you read Wikipedia, you will see that Daniel Flynn's understanding of the Pequot War is completely wrong. I will quote him, and then let you read the Wikipedia article yourself.

>Thus the Pequot violence against whites that led to the war is almost entirely absent from the text. The most Zinn can bring himself to admit is that “Massacres took place on both sides.” In fact, the author details only the atrocities committed by one side: the Puritans.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pequot_War
I say, let's blame TV! The theory...

http://www.slate.com/id/2151538/

If true, there are all sorts of chemical, physical, and psychological processes that could be the mechanisms:

- less sunlight/vitamin-D

- less interactive time with real people, more time with scripted/non-reactive people

- less time in nature/3D

- less exercise
Do you remember when some Intel Execs trashed the ARM chips, as used in iPhone and iPads, as not being able to handle "the real internet" (Intel code for Flash support).

Apple got a public apology acknowledging that Intels chips couldn't hold a candle to ARMs in this area:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10074228-37.html

So it seems like they're happy to keep Apple sweet as long as they use the Intel chips in the appropriate devices.
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With all the price drops this year, I doubt I'll lock in as many reserved instances next year. I locked myself into higher rates for a long time, and paid more up front than they ask now too.
An airplane is something to get us from one place to another.

A computer is a tool that helps us wonder. If you can open it up in a clear, abstractable, safe way, there doesn't have to be limits to that wondering.