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A few years ago I came across a vending machine selling bottles of something called "Pocari Sweat". I stared at it: what the hell was a Pocari, and why would I want to drink its sweat? I cocked my head and stared at it some more. Then I fished in my pocket for some coins to buy a bottle. It was alright; kind of fruity.

Novelty can be fun, and it can attract customers. Why not try redesigning things for the fun of it? You don't have to make a New Coke every five months, but there should be a good amount of churn for its own sake.
This article is so much more than the tasteful use of the word "fuck." For example, this gem - "I mean Porter’s Five forces is a useful framework but it’s basically microeconomics with a pretty wrapper." Amen.

Unfortunately, not being a good grin fuck comes with consequences, and Mark's article is a little light on dealing with that backlash.
A lot of authors I read rely on "beta readers" right now (largely drawn from the fanfiction communities where they got their start writing for an audience), but the actual publication of the book is still a one-shot. It is sort of the pro-am convergence coming to fiction publishing, in a lot of ways.

An anecdote on the general subject: I bought Gratuitous Space Battles while it was still in a highly volatile beta state and, while it was interesting enough for me to not ask for my $20 back, the balance was broken, the controls were a mess, and the game did not quite live up to my expectations given the premise. It improved later but I had already "consumed" the game -- I didn't want to re-play levels that I found repetitive/unchallenging/overly challenging even if the new versions were much improved, because I had already sucked out the "new game smell" (new mechanics, new graphics, etc) that I was there for.

So in that particular instance, I got a bit burned by the release-early, release-often suggestion that I'm generally a big proponent of. However, the company certainly benefited -- they get to keep my $20 and the game is probably better today as a result of having folks provide feedback for improvement during the beta.
I'd wager more than %0.1 of the people would like to be able to get stuff from the player to the computer rather than only the other way around, for example, and more than %0.1 just find iTunes a pretty lame and hard to use product, regardless of file/DB model.

BTW, maybe I'm missing something here but shouldn't it be possible to keep an index on the device and just update it when files are added/deleted?
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You have misunderstood.

With regard to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fittss_law (a law that tells you how likely you are to successfully 'click' a control on screen based on its size and the distance to travel), the target are for the menu click is infinitely high because you can just ram your mouse vertically as it will not move past the 0th row of pxs thus always leaving you in the vertical bounds of the control, all that is left for the user to concern themselves with is x coordinate position.

Additionally the 4 corners of the screen are sweet spots for controls as they have infinity x * infinity y target size.
Really? I mean, I had one (potential) customer who checked out a rather nice (tier 3) data center and said he didn't like it because the paint on the doors was scratched up. "if they ignore that detail, what other details are they skimping on?" The guy ended up over at one of the cut-rate (tier 1) datacenters that skimped on cooling and power but paid extra attention to things like paint and free drinks.

Now, I'm in no position to judge UIs, but I am in a position to judge datacenters, and picking the datacenter with the nicest paint is about as retarded as picking the programmer in the nicest suit. I suspect (though, of course, don't know) that a similar principle applies to UI design and eye candy.
> Surely there is an $1000 solution that's acceptable?

I'd guess that police video systems have technical means to assure no undetected editing and possibly something related to chain of custody.

"Signed image" versions (which address the editing question) cost order $1k more than comparable DSLRs.
I think the only reason it has been dragged out this long is face saving on Conroy's part.

I'm not so sure about that. Conroy keeps returning to the filter, whereas if they'd wanted to save face but ditch the policy they'd have just murdered it by committee somewhere.
Completely agree with you, but I think it needs to go a step deeper as well.
What will people ACTUALLY do?

I don't care how one survey compares to another as much as how the results of a survery compare to real life.
I meant that justin.tv may in the future negotiate a deal for them to sell legitimate, non-pirated UFC pay-per-view.
I'm new to clojure - is this for Emacs or for the REPL you launch in a console?

Also, is there anything similar to IPython for the Clojure REPL? I've installed jline but it doesn't do the indentation bit.
I thought similarly, or that it was perhaps 16-18 year olds taking it upon themselves for a science project or something. However I'm now assuming it is people in their mid-twenties who apparently regard themselves so free of the inherent responsibilities of life that they refer to themselves as kids.

I'm 22 and married. I immigrated to Canada (and the legal responsibilities inherent in this would likely scare the life out of these two 'kids'). My friends and family members of similar age to us have children (in fact our marriage is directly responsible for one of them), and I will likely have children before the two authors consider themselves 'adults'. I have responsibilities and obligations, like I assume most twenty year olds do, and I consider myself to have very few responsibilities in comparison to many of my friends and relatives.

It must be a privileged life to be able to consider yourself a kid well into your twenties, I stopped thinking of myself as a kid when I had to get a full time job at 16. I definitely stopped thinking of myself as a kid when I was handling an intercontinental relationship and funding international travel, which as I said before has resulted in me immigrating to another country.
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"Unfortunately conversions is a different story as Juicystar07's audience is primarily 13-17 year old girls."

There's a hidden lesson in this story. 22 Michaels learned this lesson the hard way. The lesson is simple: not all traffic is created equal. It turns out that Youtube views, Youtube comments, Youtube ranking, Facebook shares, and pageviews don't mean much. They're vanity metrics - nice to look at but lacking content.

The only thing that matters is sales. Find traffic sources that generate sales and pour money into the channels the most sales dollars per advertising dollar.
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I disagree. A book is just highly-creative contract work. You get paid, you deliver text.

A startup means you need to take on every aspect of a business; finding customers, supporting customers, listening to customers, and oh yeah, making a product. I imagine the time spent on most startups is about 30% stuff-you-want-to-do and 70% stuff-you-have-to-do.

A book is 100% stuff-you-want-to-do. If not, you've done it wrong.
Firstly, I agree that its certainly not a definite signifier of quality, but it is an indication that care has been paid.

Secondly, the floor on the data center to me sounds like its closer to the box the software came in than to the interface itself. From a users perspective the interface _is_ the software whereas the box (and the painted floor) are merely a nicity that you only see once. I can't stretch the analogue any further though because I don't know data centers.
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We use Amazon CloudFront to serve our static CSS and JS for dotspots.com. It's a fantastic and cheap pay-as-you-go CDN.

My only beefs:

1. Still no support for a root index.html (ie: serving the / URL from a domain) in either S3 or CloudFront, meaning you can't host a static site entirely on CloudFront.

2. No support in CloudFront for origin servers other than S3. Not a big deal, but CloudFront is so convenient that I'd like to stick it in front of more dynamic content as well.
You'd think if they were aware of the problem [with the shoe design software on Linux] they would pay someone to fix it.

One of the wonderful joys of doing a small business is that you have a million things you can do for your next task, and one of the pains is you have to make the tough decisions on which one wins.

This is not a tough decision. The intersection of women who pay $300 for shoes and Linux users is likely microscopic and the cost of fully supporting marginal platforms is often huge. You're almost certainly better off spending the engineering resources on something marketing-oriented which you can immediately roll out to the 99.92% of your clients who are not rocking Ubuntu.
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Not to mention that it would be probably considerably cheaper than this device used to cost back then. (I have no data to back up my claims, it's just a wild guess.)
http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/#details

By default, files delivered through Amazon CloudFront are
publicly readable by anyone on the Internet. However, if you
require greater control over who can download or stream your
files, you can use Amazon CloudFront’s private content feature.
When this option is enabled, Amazon CloudFront will only deliver
files or stream media when you say it is okay to do so by
securely signing your requests. There is no additional charge
for using the private content feature.

I don't get it, signed requests? But private CDN sounds very good.
I've been looking for a high performance toupper lately too.
Judging by this thread so far, it seems as if everyone's almost just as confused as I am by this article... :-(

What does the "river" represent? The flow of activity/competition/life? Why would you sit still and watch it all pass by you?

If A = the point where you and your competitor started in this "river" journey,
B = the point at which you got out of the river and sat by it, and
C = some distant point where your competitor is still "moving" with the river,
then you have a situation where A < B < C.

How an earth can your enemy pass you by? Unless there's a tide that makes the river flow in again at some point?

My logical brain can't handle this ...
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Cost: $0.

But actually, isn't potentially inauthentic video better than nothing at all? At least it can be analyzed by experts. No video at all means there is nothing to analyze.
My guess is that it comes down to certification. That axe sold to the fire dept probably comes with a "certified to x standard" guarantee, the one in the hardware store only comes with "it's an axe" guarantee.
You are probably paying for the ability to sue the manufacturer when it fails and kills someone.
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I wouldn't be surprised it's because it would allow a mostly static site using AJAX against AppEngine or a cheap PHP/MYSQL web hosting (aka no rate per hour rented VPS/EC2.)
I don't understand, can you explain? (Sorry!)
I worked at said retailer as well, as a matter of fact I was in charge of said millions of customer reviews. And you know what? BDB's were mostly used just because of distribution. They were pushed to all live servers nightly, that way you had no dependency on one giant server.

This eventually changed as everything moved to a service architecture, and those BDBs were also eventually stuck in an Oracle database as well.

Basically BDB's, although great for some things were more a product of how to scale initially, and the pain quickly became so big they moved away from them on most things.

So I wouldn't consider said retailers experience as a terribly pro-nosql one.
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I assume that the watchers don't want to be watched. If you do something bad, and it's his-word-against-yours, the consequences are minimal. If you do something bad, and there's a video of you doing it, that's the end of your career.

I don't buy the "it's too expensive" argument. Considering how much money law enforcement puts into busting pot users, I think they can afford a few cameras if they really wanted to. But cameras are more beneficial to the public than to the police, and the police are writing the checks, so...
Ya, I felt the same thing with my younger cousin. I was using my sansa clip and he was convinced the iPod shuffle was superior, but couldn't explain why.
You are way overthinking it. The image you are supposed to see is your competitor's corpse floating down the river. That's it.
Paul's algorithm needs some work. this one shouldn't be first. Votes should count for more.
See my reply to the grandparent.

I actually was responsible for that system, and moving away from BDB's being pushed to servers sometime in '00 or so.

As you said, these weren't really databases by any stretch of the imagination, simply snapshots, and built for a very specific type of query. (by asin, by time, reverse ordered)

The building of the DB's was a pain in the ass, because the sheer scale of them was so big that you had to do clean builds (instead of incrementals) fairly often without them wasting space. There was also all sorts of voodoo magic going on to work around various BDB issues.

The system did eventually move to a service architecture (as all of AMZN did), for two main reasons:

1) pushing that much data to more and more servers was getting insane, even on their inner networks.

2) we wanted faster turnaround for new reviews

3) rebuilding the BDBs was becoming more and more cumbersome with scale

All that said, the original system did take us pretty darn far, both in scalability of traffic and scalability of data, farther than most websites will ever reach.

Fun times working there, you really get to work on some unique problems.
He needs an editor.
My biggest beef is that you can't expire data on the edges. You have to rename the files. For some reason they decided to ignore the query parameters to a url when caching so for /img.png?123 they simply look up file /img.png in the cache. If they would just stop doing that it would be trivial to deliver newer versions to the edge servers by simply referring to it as /img.png?124 . If they could just add this it would work perfectly for most use cases I can come up with.
The code at the link is Elisp, so it is for Emacs. In addition, as the code comment says, function clojure-font-lock-setup is based on code from function clojure-mode defined in clojure.el
It's described here:

http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/De...

It works mostly like S3 signed requests (last section of the following URL):

http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/RESTAuthen...

... except with an added step of making a CloudFront identity that is the only entity allowed to access the S3 object behind what you want to serve via CloudFront.
The enemy of FLOSS is convienence and ease-of-use. I'm not trying to be snarky: I'm typing this on Firefox in Linux and I've almost excusively been on Linux since 2002. I've been elbow deep in this stuff for years, hacking and tweaking and experimenting, etc. I'm at the end of my rope, about to jump to Apple with all the lock-in and overpriced shit and inflexibility and patent abuse, etc. At least it is easy to use and maintain and has many powerful, flexible and even niche applications. And well-supported libraries.

I'm starting to see those free software ideals I've held so dear turn into tradeoffs. I'll trade in some 'freedoms' for more capable, abundant, and better supported software that allows me to get work done easier and more effectively.

If RMS wanted GNU software to spread then he shouldn't have gone into politics and preaching. He should have made sure that GNU software was more useful to the software users. To most people software freedom is too intangible to be counted as a benefit. Hell, 99.9% of people couldn't even explain it in very basic terms if you asked them. He's just created software for enthusiasts and hobbyists. Not a bad thing, but not his goal either.

Anyways, I've grown out of it.

I'm just talking about consumer-facing software, by the way. I know free software will always have value in education, commodity software that is not your primary business, etc. It is always going to be an abysmal failure on the desktop unless a free software Steve Jobs appears out of thin air, though.
Ironic we question another country, yet we still haven't put net neutrality to bed here in the U.S.
Yep, but also remember that this only applies to Apple systems. Apple isn't trying to push this on anyone else, it's part of what you accept by buying an Apple product.

There'll always be a non-Apple 100% free platform. The two models can coexist together just fine. I use Apple products where appropriate, and others where it's not.
Agreed, his sentence doesn't jive. The author obviously doesn't realise that a 371ml coke bottle contains 1.4 litres of carbon dioxide and a square bottle would likely require 4-times the plastic to remain in a square enough shape that it wouldn't affect packaging shape.

I don't buy that this bottle would be eco-friendly in the short or long run.
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Does anyone have the original Turing paper? I missed the section about multi-core CPUs and SD cards.
You can blame the record companies for that particular problem. It's not like Apple hasn't been dragging them kicking and screaming into the 21st century for years now. Letting you copy stuff from an iPod to a computer would just "encourage piracy."
By necessity? iTunes has an "Add to my music library" option where you select a folder and it copies everything where it needs to go.
Well the lesson could be that they should aim their product more at 13-17 year olds. If they are disproportionately interested in your site it would make sense to optimise for them as customers. My unscientific guess is that custom shoes aren't ever going to fit quite into the premium shoe price range - because at that end you want some extra validation like a famous brand/designer.
Does it have UTF / other format support? I really have no use if it doesn't, and I don't see anything mentioning it on the first page.
In the context of grin fucking, I don't believe emotionally loaded language is inappropriate.
I've heard the paranoid ascribe FOSS nutjobs to Microsoft Astroturfing efforts. This character emailed me claiming that the bellicose, "F*ck MSFT!" mouth-breathers were really Waggoner-Edstrom shills.
The suggestion on page 28 to use .[^.]* to match dot files is wrong I think, it won't match anything with a second dot in it, when they really want to avoid '.' and '..'.
Don't get me wrong, starting is certainly important, the problem lies in that most people have a drawer full of half finished products/projects. I think this is because of the maxim: "The first 90% of a software project takes 90% of the time, the last 10% of the project takes the other 90% of the time"

I personally have 9 started, yet unfinished/unreleased projects. You can't just say "oooh.... something shiny!" all the time if you want to make money. You have to finish. You have to release. And doing that is a lot harder than starting.
No procrast kept me from fixing this and I couldn't stand it. The example is right and I am wrong. I was thinking about regex syntax, not globbing syntax.
OK... then what do you say about having to aim for the bottom right corner in order to resize a window? Seems to me like whatever you gain from having an easy to aim menu system is negated by the difficulty of aiming the resize area. I'd argue that one resizes a window more often than access the menu (at least in my case).
Balancing startup work with course work.

Edit: I'm not a senior--I'm a junior. I wonder how my response to this question will change a year from now.
I'm picking entrepreneurship over the girl.
http://www.currentlyobsessed.com/2010/03/13/sell-ice-cream-n...

"I saw scrappy, analytical sales-oriented entrepreneurs without much technology or product but they had businesses that generate millions of dollars annually."
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The power of social media isn’t lost on any of the visitors of HN but it’s still worth taking a moment to read about how Shoes Of Prey worked with 16 year old video blogger Blair Fowler to make a make a YouTube video and post it to her account. She has nearly 300,000 youtube subscribers and the promotional video sent nearly 200,000 visitors to the Shoes Of Prey website. To give some perspective, Techcrunch was only able to deliver a tiny fraction of that number of visitors.

Visitors don’t always mean sales though. The Shoes Of Prey blog says they didn’t get many sales out of the deal and speculate that Blairs follower demographic of 13-17 year old girls can’t afford the expensive shoes. I don’t know how much they paid Blair to do the video but I’m sure enough of those kids were able to convince their moms to buy some shoes.

http://hnsummary.com/2010/03/28/the-incredible-power-of-a-16...
Since it is doing bit manipulation, then probably not. I mean, the toupper function is treating (4) 8 bit chars as one 32 bit uint. Then doing math... so, I assume that it will miss the finer points of I18N.

However, the base64/85 en/decoders should work just fine.
Is the career path I've chosen where I will want to be in 5 years? How do I prepare myself for a potential switch?
Pick the girl. There are always more jobs. You can always move later for professional fulfillment. You're less likely to have the opposite work out.
"The problem is, that I want to make games."

Have you tried anything else? Everybody thinks they want to make games (at some point). But while the end product is more fun than most end products, the sausage making process ranges from the same to below average in enjoyability.

If you are going to enjoy being a programmer, you're likely to enjoy it working on any number of other things as well. If you can't stand working on those other things, you probably won't make it as a games programmer either.

I'm not trying to discourage your from going into game programming, I'm trying to encourage you to notice that there are any number of other fun problems and tasks out there. In particular, if you are on a small team, rather than a programming sweatshop, almost everything should ultimately be a fun task with at least some new element to it; if you are doing the same thing every day, you are a terrible programmer!

Not every programming job outside of gaming is a sweatshop job. For that matter, not every job inside of gaming isn't a sweatshop job. Unless game making is really truly your passion, and indeed, really truly your only passion, I really don't recommend it; you'll be competing in a market where supply is too high, and that means only one thing.
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Nobody in local government has an incentive for keeping their costs down. On the contrary, budgets are a sign of your personal authority, and cutting budgets is a sign of neglecting your priorities. ("My opponent slashed the funds available to save your wives and children from grizzly demise in a fire by 84%!" "But it was the same axe!" "SLASHED THE FUNDING!")
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Play it safe. If the girl was worth it, she'd accommodate you.