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I wouldn't be surprised if there was some psychology behind the choice of sounds when you tag the transit card. Just like visual "affordances" in UI design, there may be certain audio characteristics that people will associate with "good" vs. "error," for example. I recall one study showing that people almost universally feel certain shapes and word sounds are "friendlier" than others (albeit by very subtle margins). And I believe in many languages people interpret pitch inflections to tell when a sentence is continuing vs. finished - think about reading someone a serial number out loud, and how if you were to pronounce the last number the same as all the others it will sound like you left the sentence dangling, with more digits still to come.

I'd be really interested to read anything more concrete about audio affordances though, if anyone knows of links to further research, etc!
> to download an appropriate sourceport from Sourceforge

No, most of these source ports are available in repositories on Linux.
This is actually true.
It's about even from the personal income tax side in california. Companies don't pay for healthcare so that 'tax' is gone. I don't think there is much of a difference past that.
Garry and the Initialized crew are simply the best!

You can really judge investors by how helpful they are during adversity. Through ups and downs, but especially the downs, Garry and Initialized have been the absolute best!

If you're a founder and you have an opportunity to team up with them, do it without hesitation!
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Why the 4a PDT earning call? Ahead of opening of (TYO) Tokyo stock exchange Friday am which trades Softbank?
Some of the Blairs brand of hot sauces claim up to 16 million on the scoville scale. I have tried the 4am sauce which claims 4M on the scoville scale, and it was not a laughing matter immediately, more crying, then laughing days later. (I love this stuff though, and would do it again!)

Having said that the stuff in the millions is pretty darn hard to find, they don't stock it or even sell it regularly.

Info: http://www.ushotstuff.com/hotSauceHeatScale.htm
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It's a weird feeling to walk out of a store with a bag full of stuff and realize you have no idea how much any of it cost. Whenever that happens I think of that minor scandal when the nation found out the Clintons(?) didn't know the price of a gallon of milk.
so far nginx is the only server which is affected by this issue, but the latest version wasnt affected.
Are you kidding? Come on. Both campaigns are turning out women claiming to have been abused years in the past. Even though some of them may have in fact been, it's turning into a circus, a competition of who can turn out the most or worst victims. These are not investigations, these are media circuses. How can you possibly take it seriously a few weeks before the election?

Did you see the Project Veritas stuff? You know, where the Democratic campaign staffers confess to having hired mentally ill people to commit acts of violence at Trump rallies? And to hiring people to vote out-of-state, specifically using their own cars or rentals to avoid the obvious concern that would be generated by busing them in?

So think about this: if you have at least one of the campaigns having confessed to criminal electioneering, why would you believe anything they say? Why would you believe anyone they bring forward to slander the opposing candidate?

I don't support any such boasts. I support healthy skepticism. NBC didn't have any problem with Trump's conduct when he was a TV star raking in millions for them, but now that he's opposing Dear Leader, the evidence must be brought forward.

And you try to turn this around and make it about me? You're clearly not interested in truth of any kind.
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The Diamond Rio comes to mind, as probably the first consumer one to get much attention (but "much attention" is relative, and it was still a niche market), but with only 32MB of storage, it was underwhelming (but also years earlier, in 1998).

The Remote Solutions Personal Jukebox looks to have been the first of the models to use a laptop drive instead of small and expensive flash, but at $799 for 4.8GB, it was very pricey (1999).

The Creative NOMAD Jukebox in late 2000 had 6GB for $429.

In late 2001, Apple introduces the iPod, which at 4GB for $399, is actually not quite as good in a dollar per GB metric.

I think it's clear that it's not really the idea that made the iPod take off, but the marketing, polish, and IMO most importantly, that they had a real software company work on it rather than a bunch of EE people. Not to denigrate electrical engineers, but often it's a different type of programming that goes into UI and UX, and having people that have worked on that for years can matter quite a bit.

1: http://www.pcworld.com/article/174725/evolution_of_the_mp3_p...
If you don't have a safety net you'll quickly become risk averse.
For some reason this reminds me of http://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-inner-json-effect
I agree with you that this is an issue, and is why I buy hard copies of books I want to share or read many times over. When I'm buying an ebook, my thinking is "this will entertain/educate me and I would like to give money (that I'm lucky enough to be able to afford to spend) to the people who made it possible". If that weren't the case, I'd just use my library card.
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AI is the new PC market.

Integrating various AI components to formulate something an user wants, uses, and values is going to be the foundation of this third tech wave.

Cogsci services will also be the biggest drivers behind cloud computing usage and thus one of the biggest drivers of revenue, hence why

Microsoft has doubled down on its Azure efforts, why Amazon is working hard to keep its AWS lead, and why other big corps like Alibaba and Baidu are jumping into the game.

Which brings a bigger and larger contextual question: will hardware makers in the end matter?

As in, that iphone you're clutching in your hand, will it go from smart to dumb once we move on to a software distribution model where by the device is but a high-res screen with a nice camera but running everything else remotely in the cloud somewhere?

Because that's the only way to get to point where we have universal computing, the kind of stuff in the movies where you can walk up to any glass anywhere and compute.
Unless I'm remembering out of order, heXen/heretic had two axis aiming before quake. Doom being locked on one axis was a tad cheesy. Also which one of those had the Chicken Gun ;-)

Another fun MP game was Rise of the Triad.
Just out of curiosity, which ones have they developed?
> You could even split things into three layers: a layer for the OS (Windows 95, say); a layer for the game engine; and then a layer for the game project. And the whole thing gets "pulled", revived into a merged container, and then loaded into DOSBox.

You can do this today with dosbox on archive.org. Here's how:

Upload the game engine (Doom, to keep with the current theme) as an IA item; this may or may not have already been done (I happen to know that Doom is hidden because you can buy it on Steam, but I'm pretty sure the shareware version is there somewhere). For the sake of this example, assume that your item has "foo" as its identifier, and the game is in "foo.zip".

Then upload your game or level (WAD, in this case) as another item. Assume that this one is called "bar", and has a "bar.zip" containing the level and a batch file that I'll describe.

Edit the metadata for your item named "bar" so that it includes this information:

emulator=dosbox
dosbox_drive_c=foo/foo.zip
dosbox_drive_d=bar/bar.zip
emulator_start=d:\bar.bat

The batch file "bar.bat" is responsible for starting the game, which might include copying files, changing config files, specifying command-line arguments, etc.

If you want to use windows you can use the same system to load it as well. Of course this really only works with the earlier versions of windows which ran in dos, and thus can run in dosbox. Check out https://archive.org/details/win3_SKIFREE for an example.

You can also host everything on your own webpage; I recommend my own project, the Emularity, which simplifies a lot of it (http://emularity.com/).
This is code. Instructions codified into a machine-readable format. It's just really verbose and complex code. It reads almost exactly like Polish notation [1], assembly code, an abstract syntax tree. Except encapsulated in JSON trees rather than space-separated lists.

The problem is that it's almost entirely optimized for a machine to read, and not for a human.

Next thing you know, you've written something a little complex in this new format and realized it's pretty hard to maintain. So what should you do? Create a program to generate it, perhaps, from a higher level, easier to read, representation. In other words, a compiler.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_notation
I still miss my scrolling wheel. Way better than any phone interface for browsing a big collection of music. Does Apple still holds a patent for it? I'd love to have a music player with a scroll wheel.
The simple answer is if you IPO at a certain price and declare you don't plan on growing at all, then nobody will participate in your offering or buy your shares in the open market. It's just a fact of life that as a public company you need to prove to your shareholders that next year your shares will be worth more than right now. Otherwise outside investors have no reason to invest in your company rather than keeping their money in a savings account (or a low risk alternative). The same basic premise applies to VC investments.

That's not to say that a patio11-style business is wrong, just that it's very different. It's personal preference if you've started the business and there's no right or wrong way.
The correct link is here: https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services
Above is just a Bing search.
All configuration is programming. Glib but true. It's practically axiomatic. And it follows immediately that all configuration can be represented by code. Learning that it should be is a matter of experience.
True, but I wonder if they'd be buying IoT devices in the first place.
Startups are the reason I can't have a stable/steady job because they all require me to work 15 hours a day and also work on weekends, if I don't appeal enough to the get-rich-quick boss, I'm fired.

Seriously, I hate startups and their culture.
It took seeing how dismissive people are of a great, free resource to realize I needed to donate just to spite such silly entitled commentary.

Thanks for providing the motivation, random entitled community member! =)

Now I just need to figure out what to get with the new, custom icon reward...
As a teenager, I had a part time job at my local public library, shelving books and working at the front desk. The librarian was an absolute privacy freak. A couple of anecdotes:

Once I commented on a patron's choice of books, and he went into a fifteen minute tirade about his topic of interest, an elaborate Communist plot against the US. The librarian pulled me aside afterwards, and said: "You're not even supposed to notice what they're checking out. It's none of your business. Hope you learned your lesson." To this day, it kind of bugs me when the library workers comment on my kids' book choices when they check out, even if it's harmless chatting.

This was during a time when an organization called Moral Majority was reportedly going to libraries and asking for circulation records, pertaining to some book that they considered to be offensive. Some people showed up while I was on desk duty, and asked to see the records. I invited them to sit in the librarian's office while I fetched her from the stacks. She went in, closed the door, and you could hear her hollering from down the street, then the visitors quietly left.

My other duty at the library was sending out the overdue notices, so I had access to the circulation records. They were kept in a bizarre way, and I filled out the "overdue" postcards by hand. We disposed of records after they were no longer needed for that process. After the incident, I commented to the librarian that I didn't think it was even possible for someone to figure out who was borrowing what books without a pretty elaborate effort. She said: "Now you understand."

Her career lasted well into the computer age, and she was always opposed to electronic circulation systems.

The experience influenced my thinking fairly deeply.

As a side note, libraries can (still) serve as a physical access point for bringing together people who need certain kinds of help, and staff / volunteers who can help them. When I worked at the library, things like the civil service exam study guides were in heavy circulation. Today, at the same library, there are several computers, and a bunch of volunteers who can help people use them. My mom maintains them.
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I used to visit a BBS semi-regularly during middle school, I had always enjoyed the simplicity of the basic text interface. Not that there was much going on, this was around 2008, so everything was long-dead by then.
Reddit (and HN) has its voting system and 4chan has the bump system, but there's something about newsgroups with the long-lived threads with email-length replies that really appeals to me. Will there ever be something as popular and "open" as newsgroups, where each user judges a post on its own merits instead of by what the rest of the community thinks? Or am I merely pining for a past that never really existed?
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Both. Mexican restaurants in northern Mexican states like Baja and Sonora, as well as southern stuff around Mexico City.

And then obviously tons of Mexican restaurants around the US (I live in Phoenix).
Code is fine in a trusted environment, however sometimes you need to give another process/user/actor a limited environment. You could give them a limited run time environment, however that is often difficult

For example, consider you have a stream of events that you need the user to be able to filter server side, such as all events that have a field of "name":"bob".

I will agree with you that these systems often increase in complexity until you have finally built a small language runtime. It can be difficult to distinguish where the descriptive language ends (eg binary operations) and the other begins ends and the other begins (eg sliding window, custom algorithms).
How about the fact that journalists have contributed $400,000 to Clinton's campaign, while journalists have contributed $14,000 to Trump's.

Of course that's not indicative of a problem--they're just exercising their free speech rights, right? They're not biased at all...

(And before you go all wikipedia on me with "sources, sources! hearsay!", just google "journalist campaign contributions" and do your own homework.)
Hah. I think patio11 just joined Stripe, one of the fastest growing startups around :) Anyway, besides many of the usual answers, talent is a key one often forgotten. People want the chance to do new and ever changing things so as to be challenged. It's hard to retain good people when they know it's going to be a smaller company with modest growth. What often kills companies with slowish growth is that they lose their best people to other companies with a more dynamic environment.
> As a language, it's sterile. You can tell it was designed by committee.

This remark is puzzling. How do you tell if a language is sterile?
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If data can be code, code can be data too. There are people who hated react for mixing view with logic.
"Please, he prayed, now -

A gray disk, the color of Chiba sky."
Please stop trying to fuck up javascript.
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As a Somerville resident... what? We're cool? Are you guys talking about that one bar in Davis with the great cookery, or the Tuesday death-metal night on Highland Ave or Slumerville Brewery or what?
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I run a bootstrapped SAAS business and I make far more than $20K a month profit and have done so for years. The key is choose a niche that is large enough to make the level of profit you want, but too small to attract VC funded competitors. The sort of market size you want is in the range of $5 to $20 million per year. Big enough to be worth the hassle, but too small to attract the big guys.
I don't think it would have a profound impact. The current incarnation of Twitter is only lackluster by Decacorn VC standards. The worst case scenario is the limp along like Yahoo has for the last decade. But during said limping a lot of employees made a decent living.
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Intrinsic Alchemy was the name of a graphics api in the 90s.. might want to beware of tm.
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>As in, that iphone you're clutching in your hand, will it go from smart to dumb once we move on to a software distribution model where by the device is but a high-res screen with a nice camera but running everything else remotely in the cloud somewhere?

That sounds like it's going to have absolutely killer latency problems.

>Because that's the only way to get to point where we have universal computing, the kind of stuff in the movies where you can walk up to any glass anywhere and compute.

This sounds like it's going to have absolutely killer privacy and personalization problems.

I will pay a lot of money to buy hardware and software that actually shifts back towards programmable stuff that I actually own and can do what I want with.
Do people actually include the entire font? I usually just grab the few svg icons I need and include those.
Eh. Somerville is real quiet, except when HONK or whatever are going down. I enjoy it, but it's not that kind of scene.
Even worse, once you've convinced investors that you're an essential component of the internet and you get a monster valuation, the only solutions worth looking at are ones that will fulfill a destiny that recedes with every passing day. Who is going to be the CEO who says "fuggeddaboudit, we ain't never gonna be Facebook. Learn to live with Twitter as the unfiltered (and therefore troll-infested) breaking news utility and whatever valuation that brings us."
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Here to say JSON is not a good place to encode logic because JSON doesn’t allow comments, and whenever you are encoding logic, you are going to have to clarify that $conterintuitive_rule is needed because $stakeholder decided $such_and_such.

OK, I’m done shitting all over what’s probably a perfectly cromulent library now…
I feel the same way about Halo. I love the games, but all the buildings and spaceships are just huge hallways and useless empty rooms with nothing in them.

Space stuff is designed the opposite way to that.
Back a couple of decades ago in India. I was working for an American telecoms co. I grew pally with an HR manager. He showed me the background on a new hire. The new hire was the son of a mid-level government official cum career civil servant in a dept that oversaw the telecoms industry.

I saw the letter Daddy wrote ON HIS OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT LETTERHEAD... addressed to the head of the Indian division of the telcoms co... recommending his own son for a job.

My point? It's not just rich kids. It's also well connected kids. In high-regulation environments, government officials, although they may not be rich, have the highest access.
http://i.imgur.com/U4mHId3.png

Thanks. Good video.
It's not just VCs, it's the current owners. When you market value is much higher than sales and earnings, owners expect growth. This is the natural consequence of getting outside equity. Please note that the owners (equity holders) demanding this growth include the employees and managers.
Garry, Alexis, and Initialized have been extremely helpful and hard-working investors in my company for ~5 years. I love that they're founders themselves, which means they know what it takes and they work really hard to help their portfolio companies. These are the investors you want on your side, particularly when you run into road bumps. I highly recommend them as investors, and I'm happy to answer any questions (my email is in my profile).
The difference we are having is not with the details but with the fundamental principle you approach this from vs. how I approach it.

Diversity is by default at good thing by exception a bad thing. Thats my base point and I thought about that quite a lot.
That's all about how I remember it.

I'd add though that, while the initial iPod received a generally positive reception, there was the usual Apple critique that it was on the pricey side. And there really wasn't a general market perception right away that everything was different now. For one thing, iTunes originally ran only on Macs--and Apple wasn't saying publicly that would ever change--so iPods were mostly usable with laptops/desktops that were pretty niche at the time.
Idk, probably because it works great
I haven't heard of the Moral Majority since Bloom County ;-)
I like the "what it calls". I miss these neutral toned titles. Nowadays the tech press is all about priming the reader through its titles.
There's also a lot of complicated signaling that says I Am Elite Like You. Hard to pick up on or transmit out if you're not in on it, and I don't think people in it are doing it consciously.
Even if the USA helped create Al Qaeda (rather controversial) I still find it hard to believe that anyone in the USA thinks it is a good idea to support them today.
just farm more reddit posts.
Yes I think this is why the iWatch has largely been a failure. There wasn't really a watch out there that was getting real traction despite itself so that apple could come along and add the missing ingredients and "boom"! It's the downside of when there is so much pressure to have "another hit" but your skill isn't creating something out of thin air but rather taking something that has real upside if you can get all the pieces of the ecosystem (hw/sw/contentproviders) to hum together.
It's bigger than that though. The real issue is that they don't have a choice because as long as they aren't profitable they need to find a way to fund the operation.

In many ways VC funding is the worst and shouldn't be applied to most companies.
It's funny this discussion comes up now, since I've been working on this exact same problem for an odd week on and off now. Building the syntax, interpreter, serializer/deserializer took a day. Writing the JS to render it? Still working on it. (largely hindered by my being a backend eng masquerading as a terribly incompetent frontend web dev)

My approach however was to treat it as a literal syntax tree. we can represent trees reasonably well graphically, and if you connect the blocks sensibly you can make the visualization even flow well enough. Things start to decay past certain levels of depth; and I've addressed that with modularity. A tree can be "named" and become a single node within another tree. (yes yes rewriting programming languages badly or something).

Thus far the biggest problems I've had with this approach have been primarily just learning the words I need to use to search for the right concepts in web-UX space; I've actually been pretty damn happy with the view.

Tech wise, just a grid, jquery, bootstrap.
Congratulations Garry, Alina and Alexis! We feel incredibly lucky to be backed by them. Super founder friendly, tremendously helpful and always have your back!