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Could the person who downvoted me elaborate on why he downvoted me? The newest Firefox nightly has Direct2D. If WebKit is "soundly ... beating" Gecko on every front, then one of those fronts would be hardware acceleration. When did WebKit get support for Direct2D?
Bad art: still art.
Efficiency tip: don't read articles with "top 10" lists.
The interface is confusing and buggy.

Before I figured out how to change pages, I was able to keep 'guessing' one of the 3 available words on the first page repeatedly. I could get the top score just doing that if I had the patience.

Guessing words is very easy and grows old very quickly. The point of doing it isn't clear, and the point of 'adopting' words is not clear at all.
MacBook Pro (April 2010) Review
Review of the new MacBook Pro, from the perspective of a writer and software developer (Part 1).
Keep reading.
In their official documents, the FSF keeps rigor in the definition of _free software_. In their informal communications, they're much less rigorous and start claiming all sorts of nonsensical things about what _software freedom_ means.
The Little Schemer is an updated version of The Little Lisper. It also happens to be much cheaper: http://www.amazon.com/Little-Schemer-Daniel-P-Friedman/dp/02...

It's an excellent introduction to thinking recursively. The others in the series (The Seasoned Schemer, The Reasoned Schemer) are worth reading too.
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You need to get over yourselves then. Thinkpads are really well made because they are not made to please some designers - they are made to be used.
I'd feel a lot better about this post without all of the affiliate links.
"Good" is a relative term, but I think here it is meant in comparison to Apple's products. And although it's subjective, a lot of people (including myself) don't see anybody making products with the kind of quality Apple does. This isn't brand loyalty, because I don't really like Apple all that much. They're far too evil these days. It's just hard to find anybody else making products that good.
Which is a real act of moving the goalposts, really. Can video games only be art if they compare with masterworks? What, then, of those poets today whose works will fail to stand the test of time? Are they doomed to have all their toils "not art" simply because somewhere, sometime, there was a better poet?

A deeper complaint, however, is that the great masterworks of video games are incomparable to the great poets, filmmakers, novelists and poets because video games are an inherently different medium. If the plot of Heavy Rain were presented as a TV miniseries or a movie, it would be at best mediocre, but the plot is simple in the game precisely because it branches and reacts to your choices-- something no movie can do. Thus, the story expands in ways that a movie cannot, and it loses in a naive comparison.

As I've said elsewhere, the Metal Gear Solid series is a wonderful example of an artistic work, but it too would lose much if direct naively compared to a great novel-- its charm comes from (among other things) its delightful strangeness, its vibrancy and its interactivity. The story is dynamic and something to be explored, rather than experienced.

A better comparison may be to a written work like Lyra's Oxford, a companion to Phillip Pullman's excellent His Dark Materials trilogy that serves to show glimpses of what the protagonist's alternate England looks like, letting the reader explore a truly foreign land. How much more, though, can you explore the post-apocalyptic landscapes of Fallout or the dark urban fantasies of Final Fantasy VII? By leveraging interactivity, these games allow you to explore an environment in ways that books simply cannot. This isn't to say that books don't have their own strengths over games-- they definitely do!-- but rather to emphasize how different the media are.
Ebert is criticizing games without actually playing them, just watching other people talk about them. This is like saying movies aren't art, because if all you do is read movie reviews, you will never read a movie review that can compare with Infinite Jest or The Grapes of Wrath.

Braid is better art than any movie that came out last year.
I disagree with what you're saying, but the Free Software Foundation is so irrelevant to my day-to-day life that it's not worth arguing with. I think a lot of the flack Stallman gets is that the lifestyle he advocates is repellant to people. I don't think that it has to do with him being inconsistent.
That's why I wrote it as 9. I just don't have 10 good programming books to give.
Open source is just as rigorously defined. http://opensource.org/docs/osd
Is architecture art? Look at it this way: It is fundamentally constrained by not only the laws of physics, but building codes and the prosaic demands of those who have to live there. (Well, Frank Lloyd Wright could probably claim to have shaken off those constraints, but he's off to one side.)

It is different from sculpture in that the artist does not have a free hand, much like the video game creators don't have a free hand compared to novelists or even cinematographers (who are limited compare to novelists and painters but not as much). Limitations are the bane of choice, and choice is the fundamental aspect of art.
Much of the book is still valid, unixes still uses X, which sucks. Plan9 tried to address some of the shortcoming pointed by JWZ, sadly it failed. 10 Things I Hate About (U)NIX[1] and 10 Things I Hate About U(NIX) Revisited[2] are also good reads.

[1]: http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.aspx?p=4244...

[2]: http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.aspx?p=4568...
But 37s never opened any of their end products (basecamp, campfire etc), they open sourced the framework and for a framework BSD or LGPL makes more sense because nobody makes money directly from a framework or a library, they make money from the software built on top of it, this is why they are more likely to contribute their changes back. If you open source an end user product on the other hand, people are less likely to contribute back so AGPL is needed.
D'oh! You mean the Amazon links? Well... I'd love if someone would buy anything from my posts :) But in fact, I guess that almost everyone interested in these books... has these books already. I just put them whenever I write anything about a book. I also did it back in time when I didn't have an Amazon Affiliates account, just to give the possible reader a quick link to see reviews and contents.
I think it's unfortunate that Ebert comments on games while he has clearly not played them. This is quite evident with his discussions of Braid and Flower.

To answer a question he posed: why do gamers want games to be recognized as art? Because most of us have played some game, be it Shadow of the Colossus, Okami, Flower, or another game, and thought, "this game is beautiful." We think the developers of these games deserve accolades and they deserve to have the game recognized for what it is - a piece of art.

I don't wish to insult Ebert - he is a man I admire for many reasons, but I don't really care about his opinion in this case. One man's opinion about whether games are art or not is not of importance to me, especially since he does not appear to have experienced very many games - apart from Chess.
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Pretty close to the costs for companies with flying planes, I would think: salaries, depreciation/leasing of planes and real estate, airport fees, insurance, power, etc. They do save on fuel costs, I guess.

The airline industry was bailed out in 2001 and probably will be again if this goes on. I believe an economist showed that the industry as a whole (since it started) has lost money.
Now I read my answer, I missed a :) at the end. Don't want to sound harsh, it was just a joke. I could have added Stroustrup's C++ to make it a 10, but I don't really like it, personal opinion, as I think a lot of people love it.
Yeah, it's pretty slow with Chrome. There's no "input lag" with hardware-accelerated Firefox though.
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This is a whole lot of what-iffing about a really straightforward idea. If you're going to incorporate my code into yours, and you're going to sell access to the resulting product as a web site, you need to make your code available. You can't host my code and your extensions on a website to evade the GPL.

Agree with this or disagree with it, but it clearly isn't a plot to get the GPL to infect program outputs.
Google's unorthodox press release raises questions
You are still free to study how an AGPL program works and adapt it to your needs. However, you just have to pass the same freedom to the users of your modified programs which means the source code must be available to them.

Also, if some of the adaptations you've made are liked by the original developer, he can integrate them into the main version. So both of you mutually benefit from each others work, rather than one just leeching on the other.
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It interestingly scales up and down when you use your mouse wheel over it.

I'd also make the CSS3 category color something other than a yellow that close to the Safari 4 color.
Money is a poor motivator and has been countlessly documented as such.

If a (sinking) company (like palm) relies on this to keep their talent, then they are clearly drowning.

IMHO, Most employees are in this to see if they get a significant job title increase (status).
Yeah. It bothers me when people confuse the terms "art" and "great art" and then multiply that confusion by applying it further in their argument.
Clicked around for about 15 seconds. Had the pseudo-book in front of me, then a page of multi-colored blocks, clicked one of the green blocks, it opened a tooltip asking me for tons of personal info without any clue about what I'm doing and why I should care. At that point ⌘W (close-tab) was an automatic reflex.
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When to use Excel, when to use R?
Sorry guy - it doesn't resize to fit my screen, wants to store things on my computer without telling me what it is, and as I move through the presentation, the slides move further and further to the left, preventing me from actually reading them. But going full-screen shows the edges of the next and previous slides.
Yes. The amazon affiliate links call into question your motives for posting this on hacker news.

It makes me wonder if the affiliate links are the purpose of the post.
My rebuttal: Grim Fandango.
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Ah, hell... nearly any Tim Schafer game would do there. Honestly, how is Psychonauts not a work of art?
>Her next example is a game named "Braid" (above). This is a game "that explores our own relationship with our past...you encounter enemies and collect puzzle pieces, but there's one key difference...you can't die." You can go back in time and correct your mistakes. In chess, this is known as taking back a move, and negates the whole discipline of the game. Nor am I persuaded that I can learn about my own past by taking back my mistakes in a video game. She also admires a story told between the games levels, which exhibits prose on the level of a wordy fortune cookie.

Anyone else reminded of Michael Jordan trying to play baseball?
> Spielberg postulated, "I think the real indicator [that games have become a storytelling art form] will be when somebody confesses that they cried at level 17." (GDC 2004)

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/42613/
SICP is by far the best book I have read in my life.
Shoulder and wrist pain, anyone?
Bingo. So much of the beauty and art to games is shaping the experience of playing them. How can you (to reuse an example) appreciate the artistry of Heavy Rain without holding the controller and struggling with the characters? Much of the gameplay derives from that the awkwardness and sensitivity of the controls are tied to the emotional state of the character, which is difficult to perceive from just watching.
Makes sense. It's no more of a bribe than the "bribe" your employer gives you to come into work everyday.
I cried on Disc 2 of Final Fantasy VII... and that was well before GDC 2004.
Do people subscribe to blogs less now? My blog's numbers.
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Shoulder and wrist pain, anyone?

No thanks - I've got enough.
Do you have open source contributers sign changes over to you, or do you consider their contributions a "loss"?

In other words, you can't take AGPL contributions and dual license them in your product, right?

(I don't mean to imply this is bad, I'm glad you helped explain a use of the AGPL and I'm just curious.)
This would be a good time to let you guys know that the company I work for is producing a Blu-ray about Glacier National Park. It's also Glacier's 100th anniversary as a national park.

Follow our progress: http://theparksproject.org
This is the place where a discussion turns into a pointless unending argument. We are certainly not talking about the same thing in the same context.

Are you

a) defining or redefining "quality" to so that a cheap item can be considered high quality because it can be replaced cheaply?

b) avoiding answering the question of who makes a better laptop hardware than the unibody mbp because you can't suggest any company and don't want to admit that

c) you think I am refusing to see some obvious and relevant point because I'm an apple fanboy or that I am just being obtuse

d) other ( insert answer here )
Why do you complain about an individual sharing his thoughts, and not about NYTimes, which is stuffed with advertisement? Or like 90% other hn posts with advertisement on it's pages.
"Ironic how commercially useful a tool for freedom can be, huh?"

I find it ironic that people would associate the GNU with freedom, when it's anything but. The AGPL and GPL is about giving out your source code and telling people exactly how you can (and most importantly cannot) use it.

How is this any different than a proprietary license?

I'm fine with people being against commercialization of their work, but I just wish they would stop trying to pass it off as freedom.

This is why I only support the BSD license. Yes, people may make "more money than me" on my own work, but if that's the case, they obviously have better ideas than I do..and deserve the success.

It seems like the FSF and Stallman want companies to get confused and use GNU software in their proprietary application. By calling it "free", some people do get confused and use it..and it usually ends up on lawsuits that require the company to open up the source of their app and/or the hiring of a "GNU compliance officer".
You can legally do lots of things with the person's political cartoons.
I've sort of held the belief that as time went on, towards the latter half of the early 2000's decade that employers apparently woke up, and realized that people are either (A) desperate to have jobs or (B) desperately hoping they'll still have theirs in the morning and used the opportunity to squeeze whatever control they could out of the fact.

So little worker bees in the office are so terrified that anything as much as a sneeze will get them fired because there are thousands more people ready and willing to take that position.
There. He pretty much summarize what's wrong with the iPhone.

"I’m personally not a fan of the iPhone; the battery life sucks, it is too bandwidth inefficient and the virtual keyboard is pokey and requires you stay in dictionary words, which is terrible for typing borrowed-words in other languages and swear words in my own language. The iPhone is more of a toy for entertainment value and photo management, but that role is already filled by my Nintendo DSi and my camera."
Actually, I think part of what's going on here is that the App Store just makes it really really easy to sell things. It's just that it requires them to be in the form of 'Apps'. I think the simplified billing aspect is the key popularity point. App-ness itself has no future though.
Yeah? Who made the iPod killer? The iPod has been around for a long time now, why hasn't anyone come up with something decent that competes with it yet?
I would honestly give up on the word “art” It’s a pretty hopeless case with a wealth horrendously ambiguous definitions.

Arguing about definitions is stupid. If a word isn’t useful because we cannot agree on its meaning we should just drop the word.
seems if they didn't take the money, everyone loses
There's an Air Crash Investigation episode about flying through vulcano dust. Show them and they'll understand.
Charlie Rose interviews Niall Ferguson (2009)
And yet if someone had not translated it, you could have googled for a translation and maybe learned a little Latin in the process. Which is basically how I learned enough Latin to understand it.
It worked! Thanks a lot.
The same problem exists if you try to sell a commercial license to a GPL'd codebase. I think if you plan to sell commercial licenses, you can't accept "outside' contributions without having the contributors sign them over.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcano#Effects_of_volcanoes
The page looks great, but for the purpose it's less intuitive than a plain table IMHO.
I was waiting for someone to mention Metal Gear Solid! Hideo Kojima's genius is evident throughout the entire game. I remember that the game had me so on edge, I had to drink water and go to the bathroom every 5 minutes. For the whole day.
You're implying "commercialization" means "closed source". GPL'd as well as AGPL'd software can be sold. Others can download it, modify it, sell it as well, and make a lot of money off it. There's nothing wrong with that. As long as you make the source available under the same license it was made available for you.
Making sure that there is plurality in the media is a task of the state.

You've left a massive gap between ensuring it can exist and the forcing of retailers to stock it. That is something I'd like you to explain more clearly. Would you be willing to throw me in jail if I owned a book store but refused to stock a certain book or class of books?
The title of the original is MZ's Coding Skills
Sure, I'm curious what they do and why. It's not often I get to ask someone with an open source actual product.
I have subscribed to many blogs through Google Reader, but I never use it. The only blogs I actually read are those I subscribed through email. It's just much easier.
I couldn't agree more. However, even if you were to find yogurt without corn odds are that the cows were fed corn their entire lives. It takes serious effort and commitment to find high quality food in the US, though it is possible.
A remark on the "Flower" game:

Is the game scored? She doesn't say. Do you win if you're the first to find the balance between the urban and the natural? Can you control the flower? Does the game know what the ideal balance is?

Which really does show just how close-minded he is on video games. He's not even approaching looking at them as art, he's just looking for the Win.

I wonder if he judges art by the same standards. Is it scored? Does poking the painting make it change colors? No? I guess it's not art, then.
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I think such overcomplications are unnecessary. If the DB software is AGPL and you modify the source code, then run a service over it (eg. a webmail service) then you have to put the modified DB source code up on your FTP server. Takes less time then arguing about it here on HN.
That's a bogus argument.
Updating the Mozilla Public License
The arguments are good and sound, but could be simpler:

If you can "grasp" your data by looking at it, use excel.
If your data is too much to look at, use R.

Excel lends itself more to shallow exploratory approaches, while with R, you have to think first (or rather: always).
"What do those products do? They enable people (i.e.: you and me) to do great stuff, without getting in the way. Stuff like programming and writing and designing."

I don't know how you can say that with a straight face.
I subscribe to my daily reading through GReader and I follow people on twitter for the serendipitous stuff, both can certainly coexist.
For those in the bay area, did you have similar success with muscle training treatments? If so, can you please refer me to a few sources where I can get help starting my regiment?

After reading this article I am determined to get my neck and back stronger, just don't know where to start.
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Here is my quick attempt to reproduce the effect just with CSS2 and transparent PNGs:

http://alteredqualia.com/visualization/css2-spotlight.html

It's still a bit buggy around the edges, but it's much faster than CSS3 one.

Plus it works also in Opera (and probably could be forced to run in Explorer with a bit more care).

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Edit: fixed bugs around edges and made it work in Explorer 8 (which is surprisingly the fastest).

About performance: the biggest difference is in Firefox (standard release 3.6.3, no development HW accelerated builds).
The point of the AGPL is to have companies like Google (who use heavily modified GPL'd codebases such as the Linux kernel or Mysql, but don't redistribute it, hence do not have to share back under the GPL) start sharing back as [if] projects switch to AGPL'd codebases.
Well informed, full of good sense. Couple of points that stuck:

an aftermarket Samsung 256 GB SSD

I've seen a couple of sneers at those SSDs (which Apple also seems to use) as not the best performers. He may know better or just think they're good enough. (I can wait for the dust to settle.)

The only Apple product I use is their tiny USB power adapter

The one with the KindleDX looks even smaller - barely larger than a plug, my additional US-to-Euro plug adapter is about the same size. The small print says it's made by Flextronics.

P.S. I was straining my eyes to figure if the scope in the photo was a Tektronix. The text says it is.
‘Wet’ computing systems to boost processing power
I use ASmallOrange (shared), Prgmr (VPS) and App engine for hosting my sites.

At 60K alexa, you should really be looking at a VPS.
Joe Biden disagrees with you:

"When I was chairman in '94 I introduced a major antiterrorism bill--back then,...I drafted a terrorism bill after the Oklahoma City bombing. And the bill John Ashcroft sent up [the Patriot act] was my bill." - Joe Biden

http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/rhetorical-question
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But that's not the argument that he is making.

He's saying that video games are games, and that games are not artforms. You don't have to play hockey, or watch hockey games, to say that a hockey match is not a work of art.

Ebert seems to be saying that the artistic elements in a video game (the text, the graphics, etc.) are subsidiary to the over-riding purpose, which is game-play. So, while Braid may contain beautiful images, the primary purpose of those images is to further the game scenario; similarly, where the graceful moves of a Michael Jordan dunk may resemble choreography, and contain a certain beauty, his primary purpose was to put the ball through the hoop, not artistic expression.
mmm... You could write this as comment post on quicklycode, so I can forward it to the author :)
The way I see it, GNU is about free/open software, and the GPL makes it possible for commercial companies to open their code without fear that someone makes a lot more money off their own work then themselves. Not having the GPL as an option will not lead to companies using a more liberal open license, but to the companies having to keep their code closed.