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Maybe you weren't getting enough sleep? I drink a pretty good amount of coffee, but I am not tired if I don't have any. Sleep; it's good for you...
Acetaminophen and NSAIDs are not depressants.
I'm in a similar position, except I have a few weeks of full-time employment left. Then I leave to pursue some contract work and the rest of my time will be spent working on my startup (a domain specific spreadsheet, more or less).

Anyway, good luck!
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Working on my Google AppEngine based website. I hope to launch by the end of this month.
I do the same, but at the highest point of the day. This results in higher peaks, and lower lows (when I can actually fall asleep).
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Is it pretty easy to make money on istockphoto? Or are you very prolific on there to make the money you do?
There's a difference between 'knowing it doesn't really matter' and 'actually doing it'. I'll tout the 'execution is all that matters' story all day every day, but damned if I'm going to share my ideas without a (commercial or community) reason to do so.
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Awesome game! Although I wish it moved one square at a time for each key press, making it less of a timing game.

And I really like their captcha for posting comments.
In reply to istockphoto money. They require a perfectly made photos. It is hard to get it approved if you have no experience in digital photography. And you must find a profitable niche for your photos to make some serious money.
Make has been covering it for a while now

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/12/an_open_source_rest...

and posted a followup a few days ago
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/02/the_open_source_res...
> the only way to lose is to not play

I think you meant the only way to win is to play. There are always many ways to lose!
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I remember that we did a "where are you living?" poll a while back, but I cannot find. Trying to meet-up with Paris based hackers. Can someone point me in the right direction please.
I learned just before leaving the military. A contractor said, "Learn Perl and you'll have no problem finding a job". So, I grabbed the "Learning Perl" book and forced my way through it. I was horrible (a Linux 'man' page wrapper; or basically system()). I do remember the day, while working on a project, that it all "clicked". All the concepts suddenly made sense. I'm good now, but not great. I can solve problems in just about any programming language. This is 10+ years later.
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Is that job still open? I toyed with the idea of applying, but then my gf was a bit shocked by the idea of moving to the states. Still, it sounds like fun.

I started coding the exercise, my first approach would have been a clustering algorithm. For various reasons I decided to write my own (though with a standard algorithm) and didn't have enough spare time to debug it properly. Should have just used an existing package... Anyway, if the job is still open, I might give it another shot.
I think projects of that age (18 years?) and size (~10M LOC?) which are still so much in flux are rare. Of course, Linux has a gigantic number of people working on it, and a large part of the codebase is hardware drivers - and a lot of new hardware is released all the time. In that light, the graphs aren't overly surprising, but I can't think of a comparable project.
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> Imagine what Amazon could have done if they had Research budget of Microsoft of Google.

I find that hard since much of Amazon's business culture and innovation comes out of frugality. Being a low margin business, Amazon had to become so streamlined that it does not suffer from the expensive maintenance drag. The great strength of Amazon is its ability to evolve. They're a population of tiny businesses/services rather than one single entity. You'll see the rate of innovation at Amazon is speeding up over time, rather than slowing down.
'Looks like a neat idea. Mac? Linux?
I was sleeping when this was posted, but now I'm working on a consulting project (embedding an existing game into OpenSocial and Facebook apps). Once I finish with that for the week, I'll carry on building the prototype for our SSD-based I/O caching driver. I'm hoping we can finally make that do something useful over the weekend.
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"having some plans" and "executing on something" is not the same. I have seen it from my own experience that people tends to see their ideas as unique and much more superior than they are in reality. Until you are actually invested in your ideas and at least 75% (my threshold, YMMV) in to it in terms of execution that idea is worth nothing.

I have few dozen ideas on my personal pad, they are worth nothing.
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I doubt you read this site Luc Tremblay, but congrats!
Good luck! I congratulate you in taking the first steps. I did back in July of 09, and haven't looked back since. Tighten your seatbelt and enjoy the ride, cause its a roller coster! Perseverance, determination, and a sense of purpouse will allow you to overcome the tough times.
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What do you think Hixie's view on Larry's actions were? He certainly sparked the controversy with his public reaction to Larry. Was it justified? Was he overreacting? Politicking? There's more to this story even if it's just people politics.
Email me (or better yet, put some sort of contact in your profile). I'd like to talk to you about something.
select-copy and middle-click-paste lacking are one of the biggest annoyances for me whenever I have to use windows or osx.

Linux/Ubuntu/Gnome have a lot of small things like that that dramatically improve usability. It annoys me to no end when people complain about usability on linux and then gloss over such things.
Oh, its not so bad as the article makes it out to be. As a concurrent/parallel programming enthusiast (but by no means expert), I've been following the developments in this area pretty closely (blogs, articles, books, SIGPLAN papers, etc) .

IMHO the problem is that most programmers are so ingrained in their technologies of choice that they get overwhelmed and discouraged when trying fundamentally different paradigms and languages, so they get stuck with their C's and their Javas and whatever other languages are popular, but not terribly good at parallel programming. [1]

For example, I hear that Haskell, Erlang and Clojure do a fairly good job and managing the complexities of concurrent and parallel programming - why aren't more people using these languages then? [2]

The real win over the complexity of programming parallel software, IMHO, comes from the dataflow paradigm, which can provide auto-parallelism at a much larger scale than even functional languages (which can only do this when they do not modify state). For some reason dataflow doesn't seem to get much attention though, yet available research suggests that it can, indeed, solve the parallelism problem - or at least, a lot more than other languages have so far. [3]

For what its worth, the programming language used by Airbus and the Eurocopter is a dataflow language - though I don't know if it automatically parallelizes or not.

[1] Disclaimer: this happens to me too.

[2] Disclaimer 2: I have, so far, only tried one of the mentioned languages.

[3] Actually, the author agrees with me on this - Project COSA is, essentially, a dataflow system and was actually a big influence for me, though I'm not sure that it (modeling a nervous system, of sorts) is the way I'd handle it, but then again, hes probably more qualified than I am.
You're not. You're helping him test his improvements
Raytracers are fun. Tonight I'm hopefully going to start threading my (slow) real-time raytracer. I've never done threading before, and I'm very interested in seeing how the performance plays out, what strategy I should use to optimize cache usage and generally getting stuck in with what has always been an interesting topic to me.
Thanks for your wishes chedigitz! Like for now I am very surprised how popular this post gets. Definitely it is roller coster (with traffic to my blog like for now). Hope to have you onboard when I will describe my experiences :)
That's the best job application I've seen in a while and something that I've no doubt interests many of us. I think I'll take a stab at their interview problem just for my own amusement. Shame I won't be moving to California otherwise I'd consider going for the job.
chide? It's a real word, but also mix of checkbox and hide.
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I think it's a much advocated and also much (especially here) misunderstood idea.

It doesn't mean that ideas are valueless - just that their inherent value depends on lots of factors (such as your ability/likelihood to execute it).

Releasing one of your ideas does devalue it (because there are now more people with the idea in mind who may execute it before you).

Or in other words: the execution builds the value of the idea. Spreading the idea may devalue any ultimate execution.
i share ideas all the time but people wont make the things i suggest... maybe my ideas suck... but i wish more people would steal them so i could use them.
This is a good point. Our first version of our consumer site was flawed in many ways. But we kept getting positive reinforcement from our friends/family and didnt put it in perspective.

It's important to take a step back and look objectively at all feedback, especially if it comes from a demographic that is not your core customer.
http://gizmodo.com/5480421/the-ipod-touch-is-this-generation...

Look at the numbers for the iPod Touch, almost two thirds of all iPod Touch owners are below 17. Given how many iPod Touches are out there, how many parents know about Parental Controls and how parents give little Johnny an iPod and never touch it after that and call Fox News when they find out about these "sexy apps"?

At least in with this branding idea, the parents might blame the app maker (SI, Playboy) instead of Apple because of the name recognition.

(That said, I'm all for removing this crap off the Top 25 lists.)
What's that do? Unless you change the order, I'd expect it to delete two files: foo and -rf. How does the Mac get it wrong? I don't have a Mac at hand.
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Whats next - North Korean socks?
The Saudi Arabia thing is probably a bit misleading. I don't know how many iphones there are there, but in countries without many phones my app jumps around tremendously with very limited sales. We're the number two navigation app in China on days that we sell one app there.
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What do you mean by brute force? How would you even determine whether a solution is good?
We build bridges on top of other peoples bridges
Trying to get the hang of the Furnace webframework.
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What exactly is website flipping?
GNU tools generally allow you to put your options anywhere you please, even after regular arguments. Whether or not this is a good thing is of course up for debate, but it certainly can add convenience.

Confusion can occur with some applications (possibly non-GNU ones) for which option/argument order does matter, or with those where options have different affects on later/earlier arguments depending on where they are placed.

Note that the parent didn't say the Mac gets it "wrong," just that GNU "rm foo -rf" works in the sense that it will do what he intends it to do.
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Best of luck to you, and if there is anything that I can do to help, always happy to help out a fellow person making money from the internets.
Right, and I am thankful for that. However, my point is that in the entire history of my HN career (which spans many, many hours), maybe 100 people have clicked on that link. Maybe 2 of those 100 people turned around and bought the game (probably quite a generous estimate).

If you do the math, that is approaching $0/hour. It is simply not a good way to acquire customers, nor should it be expected to be.
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So what? Mac OS supports a limited range of hardware by choice, not because of any lack of software engineering skill on the part of its development team.

Not saying I agree with Apple's choice, but it is indeed their choice to make, and it appears to be working out decently well for them.
From what I understand, it is buying a site, w/ potential, yet poor execution, and selling it for profit.
Looking into memcache http://bit.ly/ceIa49
Beepl's (django) eating up 400MB of mem/apache process. :-(
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Eh, probably some variation of the "good enough" principle. It's hard to get people to switch to something better if it's "only" an evolution, not a revolution.
Fair point, but I never said leaving comments on blogs should be a customer acquisition strategy. If it is, you have big problems!

What I was saying is that leaving commnents on blogs helps you get the initial traction, both in terms of exposure and press coverage. That's it. Once you are past that stage, I agree it's an inefficient use of your time to spend all day combing blogs looking for relevant posts to comment on!
His photos look professional, they are linked from his web site. I guess you have to find the right niche, as in other business endeavors.
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The baby my wife had on Tuesday, I guess. We just got home.
Yes, exactly -- it felt like he was giving a big eye-roll to Adobe, followed with a, "fine, if you're going to be annoying about it, I'm just going to add a clarification that says we've been doing the right thing." Which is what he appears to have already believed, but wants to make it explicit.
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Thanks and thank you for the follow :) I have followed you as well.
> Facebook discloses....

too bad the linked post doesn't
Buying/selling websites or Making ready website then selling or buying to make profit on it :)
A Bayesian approach probably works much better
Thanks. I am doing all my best to make my phots. It cost not only a lot of time in post processing but I have invested a lot in photo equipment and software. But it can pay back if you know what are you doing...
Can't believe this wasn't posted, I believe the following video was a heavy source of inspiration for that blog post...
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Brilliant 30 minute talk by Jesse Schell (funny too), I was looking for it before everyone started posting billions of comments but Chrome's history acted up in a funky way. Oops :)
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If you want to find out more about this guy, I'd recommend checking out his website: http://artofgamedesign.com/
Wikipedians strongly recommend against that and get annoyed when people do it. Anyone that wants to fix their own mistaken Wikipedia page is best off doing it by posting a link on the talk page with the correct information and letting someone else fix it, or having someone else do it for them.
just for the record, i'd buy one... especially if they were only 3000 for a home.

i'd definitely buy one to power my remote house...
Flash is not The Next Big Thing (it's been falling from prominence by almost every measure for quite some time) and I'm not convinced that any significant segment of the market is actually demanding it. I've heard more iPhone owners applaud its absence than complain about it.

Google Voice could maybe be The Next Big Thing, but Apple can still (technically) get on that train. Much different than the hardware constraints facing Nintendo when the cd-rom format took off.
It's hard to tell what to believe, really. Just because the public discourse was polite and diplomatic, it doesn't mean that what's underneath it all was just as chill. But I don't know, and I suspect you (or really anyone else posting here) don't really know either. We have very little to go on.

But I do agree with your point that, at least in public, it appears that people were able to resolve the situation respectfully and politely. Even if, worst case, Adobe was trying to derail HTML5, and now Larry Masinter is fuming behind the scenes due to his failure to do so, it was all handled very well and we should be pleased that such level-headed individuals are involved in shaping the future of the web.
It could be, or depending on how the problem is specified, it could be entirely superfluous. If the accounts that submit articles vote according to the general population's general vote distribution, then knowing the submitter of the article does not help finding a voting ring.
i think xinhua pretty biased on most things...

but this is dead on.
are you gonna post the code on the web at any point?
He has a wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Phillips_(entrepreneur)
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I think your reductio would work better if you used non-fiction: The Republic, The Nicomachean Ethics, The Meditations on First Philosophy and Leviathan are full of opinion and rank speculation. At best, educated guesses.

(At least then, the parallel is on-target.)
The article doesn't say this, so it's worth noting that TAEB is a Perl/Moose app.
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I know many languages but I'm a master of none (I work with HW on my day job). My cofounder works with Java from 9-to-5. Should we go with Django or some Java framework?
His book is also excellent: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0123694965?ie=UTF8&ta... - I checked it out of the library recently and it really is a bible for game design. It literally covers everything you'd want to know about making high-quality games.
There is a fine line and it comes down to the situation at hand; ultimately I don't disagree with you, I've extended my early guys 4% each on top of their salary.

The thing is, not everyone is founder-material either. Prior to hiring our first two employees, I chased this deal over 9 months... most people would not forfeit a salary and other opportunities for that long. It was a rather painful sacrifice that's also taxed my relationship and quality of life.

I'm cautious of people who parade around "entitlements" because the idea can become political/toxic and disrupt a team -- you gotta earn those stripes. I hope you are considering starting your own company, things are a lot different when you're the one responsible for everyone's paycheck and returning money to investors.
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"And why on Earth would someone think he has the One True Way of storing configuration in a file?"

There is no One True Way. Only a bunch of good ways, a bunch of bad ways, and a bunch of sorta-ok ways. Just because there isn't one amazing way that is obviously the best, it doesn't mean that the alternative is for everyone to use different, incompatible formats.

"I see nothing wrong in each program storing configuration data in the most convenient way for them."

Clearly you've never had to administer systems before. Or, if you have, you're so used to it at this point, you don't remember what it was like when you were starting.

I would much prefer to only have to understand and remember a single config file format and save my time and effort for things that actually matter.

But yes, I'm a hypocrite: I designed and implemented Xfce 4.6's configuration storage system... yet another incompatible format.
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If you want to leverage your existing collective talent, choosing java is an easy choice. If your co-founder wishes to learn something new & different or you have a specific use case where python-based frameworks make more sense, then you choose this route. Both languages have their pluses and minuses. Without getting into a language war, choose to leverage existing ability, the best for your use case, or the one that will be most fun and interesting. After all, if this venture takes off, it is a language you will most likely be stuck with for some time.
But are they non-discriminatory?
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NOW: Working to pay rent

TONIGHT: Adding graphical reporting into Femtoo.com (to view graphs of change history of trackers)...and then getting drunk.
>the most dangerous enemy of a better solution is an existing codebase that is just good enough.

These are words of wisdom for anybody that doesn't understand how Windows came to be the dominant desktop OS.
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Well put, and beautifully written. No real disagreement.

However, I'd like to add that Nintendo's desire to control their licensing was one of the prime reasons that Nintendo never produced a CD-ROM based product. That left a gaping market void that Sony filled spectacularly.

This is a little bit of speculation, but I think if the N64 had a CD-ROM instead of carts, they would have kept Square and Capcom, and PSX would have been another Saturn.