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That's the main cultural difference between clojure and CL. Clojure wants to be a broad language with concrete syntatic support for many data structures. CL is a tall language with fewer syntax than data structures; you can have vectors in literal sytnax, #(1 2 3), but you can also create them explicitly:

(vector 1 2 3).

Hashtables can only be created explicitly:

(make-hash-table) then
(setf (gethash "one" *) 1)

but you're free to create your own syntax or shortcuts, which is what Alexandria provides:

(hash-table-alist '(("one" 1) ("two" 2) ("three" 3)))
The ads displayed in the home page http://css-tricks.com/ are not Google ads (or any other middle man, for that matter). Do you think this practice is on the rise?
Since Verizon is doing an LTE overlay on top of their CDMA network it seems likely CDMA will be around for another 5-10 years. At some point it will exist simply for redundancy in the same way GSM carriers simulcast 2G and 3G today. I don't think we'll see any pure LTE-only phones for a few years. They'll all be LTE/CDMA, LTE/GSM, or LTE/GSM-CDMA capable. So it probably isn't a total waste for Apple to devote the resources to CDMA now with plans of moving to LTE/CDMA or LTE/GSM-CDMA in the next couple of years. I think either way Apple will have to support CDMA in some form if not to reach parity with other LTE/CDMA handsets that will be more reliable and may have better coverage in rural areas (ie, some coverage versus none)
Great way to tell the story - reminds me of a good book about compelling storytelling, "Made to Stick" by Chip and Dan Heath.
I think emerging economies in the world would take much stronger to the original concept of Radio Shack. Since we've grown a "throw away instead of fix" economy, the U.S. doesn't create nearly as much demand anymore... But there are plenty of places that would.
I wish vim would provide a kill-ring like emacs. I was recently writing an editor for an app of mine on the terminal. To enhance the keyboard usability - I read up on and implemented (among others) the kill-ring, it was easy to do, and really makes work easier than having to use registers. (kill-ring is for copying and yanking, multiple yanks go into the ring, and the values can be cycled through).
"Guliani discovered that the best thing for a politician to do is to reduce crime so he tells his cops "reduce crime or else" and the easiest way to do it is to cook the numbers."

Born and raised in NYC, lived there until the late '90s.

Perhaps there was some number cooking (hard to believe there wouldn't be) , but Giuliani (maybe more so his Chief of Police, whose name eludes me) realized that if you start hassling people for the little shit, you have a good chance of grabbing someone with a outstanding DAT or warrant. Grab people for jumping turnstiles, hustling change, open bottles of beer, whatever, all the things Dinkins was ignoring.

Once you've got someone you can run checks on them and often hold them for something more serious.

And it was good for the city, financially at least, because if downtown/midtown was safer, or even just felt safer, more people went there and business thrived.

(Downside: Times Square seems to have become a branded theme park. Oh well.)
What I dont understand is that over the 10 years the size of the market has gone up, sales of blockbuster games have gone up, average selling price of a game has gone up, revenues via additional digital content has come in, product placement has trickled into some games, cost of servers has gone down, cost of bandwidth has gone down, cost of hiring programmers has roughly remained the same, some games have even gotten money via movie rights. What is it about publishers cost structure that pushes them to nickel and dime customers inspite of all the above mentioned factors ?
Right on! Good way to characterize it. If you are strafing from zero, the downside risk is low, relatively speaking....so might as well go for it. This is why (in my view) it is good to go for it when you're young and/or it is a bad economy,
Because they got they branding done at 99designs

People who always ask why you should pay hundreds or thousands for a corporate identity should take a look of the amount of work behind those guidelines...
Seriously. The NYC of the '80s and '90s was much different from that of the '70s.
I'm going to hold off on the taunting until Android sales beat iPhone + iPod Touch + iPad, which could still be awhile. But oh I will be taunting so so much when that time comes.
I think anybody that is challenged daily with alot of problem solving and creative thinking should have a psychical hobby. Sports like running or swimming are pretty inexpensive and give you a great work out. Personally my favorite hobby is tennis, not only does it require psychical fitness but also a vast amount of critical thinking. Strategy is key in this sport.

However any psychical activity not related to your daily job helps not only clear your mind but also stay in good shape. By all means, if I could require each developer that I work with, run 2 miles every other day without hesitation, I would it.
Only if it's my doppelganger old-gregg. I'll bump into that scaly man fish on random threads now and then-- I know nothing about him except he has insightful comments and like him I was a Rails developer in NYC... I know you're out there and I'm watching you.
So free it costs $30 a month to use?
The OP's point:

Either you are reliable or not.

If you claim that the data is backed up and so on, then you are giving a garantee. Now yes, if all of amazon's datacenters burn down, or the one where ur data is, yes it will be lost, but that should be the corner case that you prepare for. Thats when you do an offsite backup in your house daily/weekly to ensure that at least there is no one place that burns down = company down the tube.

No matter the solution there is always the probability that shit will happen to all of it.

However if you are selling a reliable service, don't sell an unreliable reliable service. Reliable should mean that at least you back it up so that if one hard drive rack blows up, the data is not gone.
When I was actively trying to lose weight, I was checking it every day. What I found was that I might lose a pound every day or so, then next day I'm up 3 pounds. But over time I was noticing a new, lower, upper limit to the down/up cycle.

At first it was 205, then 200, then 197, and now I'm surprised if I go over 180.

Yeah, checking it helped me keep u running and not eating crap, because it gave me some sense of accomplishment and further motivation.
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Wow, what an awesome idea. I don't have a garden, but I sent a link to my parents in law who do. And if I ever get off my ass and clean up my yard, this will be how I get a garden going.
Development costs have gone up.

Even if the cost of hiring individual programmers has remained constant (and I don't have evidence one way or another there - we'd have to consult something like Game Developers' annual salary survey and apply the appropriate adjustments), development teams have definitely grown in size. Bigger teams mean more developers (from all disciplines), including additional management and QA staff.

There are also other cost areas to consider, such as licensing fees and devkit costs, but I'm afraid that I can't share specific numbers there.
Fry's.

Period.

It's a west coast thing, but it should be a clue that the first one was in the heart of Silicon Valley. Aisle after aisle of computer components, electrical components, and truly random stuff (Mace next to hard drives, LED glowsticks next to cases, etc).

An electrophile's dream.
I don't get why people commenting on this article feel that EA is in the wrong here. EA makes nothing off the sales of used games yet currently incurs the cost of providing online services.

What would be a better solution?
Generally speaking, this is a great idea! I think there are many other sites out there with the same theme, but totally different delivery. There's tons of available info out there, but if your site could pull it all together, sell seeds, offer tutorials to new people, etc, I could see it being a big hit.....you definitely have the right product "idea" at the right time, but you also have a lot of competitors in this area.
In addition to Digikey, Mouser and Newark similarly have diverse catalogs and allow single-unit orders of most parts. I've never ordered from Newark, but I do order from Digikey and Mouser, depending on who has the best price and availability on whatever it is I'm buying.

http://www.mouser.com/
http://www.newark.com/
(and a clickable link for Digi-key: http://www.digikey.com/)
I heard the study author on NPR's Talk of the Nation - Science Friday podcast and skipped it within 5 minutes. The researcher sounded like he already had a religious/mystical predisposition and wanted to confirm his own biases.

He said something to the effect of: "We know from religion that washing purifies the soul .. and I wanted to see if it's true".

NEXT.
not to dampen your point, but you could say the exact same thing about any mainstream media space (film studios, record labels, book publishers).
As a personal anecdote, daily weigh-in was crucial for my (rather humble) weight loss - from 82 to 75 kg in about 12 weeks.
I would weigh myself in at the same time - in the morning, before taking in any food or drink, but after taking care of the bodily needs.
I never had the need to count the calories, so I have absolutely no idea what my calorie intake was while losing weight compared to normal diet.
I do, however, keep a fairly consistent eating regime. So, the daily weigh in results were just used to adjust the size of portions a little bit here and there. It definitely helped.
Programming Is - never having to say you're sorry.
The original buyer already covered the cost of online services provided. Reselling doesn't cost EA anything (it is no different than if the original buyer had just kept playing the game).

It would be different if suddenly two players could play at the same time, but this is like lending a book to a friend... you both can't be reading it at the exact same moment.
rooters? Not quite sure I follow.

Is that a pun on a hacker that usually gets root access to a box, but you are now referring to agriculture?

I am not being a dick, but I seriously don't understand the comment.
Anything like that has always been prohibited by Apple's license.
http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Video_game_costs - That suggests that game dev costs have nearly tripled over the last ten years. I also think the same timeframe saw the cost of a game go from ~20 to ~60. Admittedly I always bought games a fair bit of time after they got released, so my recollection on game costs might be biased / incorrect. Also - cost of devkits has in fact gone down. Suggested by the page that I linked to, and I know for a fact otherwise. At least the PS3 devkit and the Nintendo DS devkit are very reasonably priced.
I found that weighing myself in the morning, after going to the bathroom but before eating or drinking anything gave the most consistent results.

Seems logical to me, the body has been given enough time to process / eliminate the results of your latest food / drink intake, so there would be the least amount of 'fluctuation'.
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It would be foolish not put limitations on a live clojure repl.
I completely agree that hobbies are largely beneficial to the mental health of founders. I have several, and they help keep me sane.

On a side note, how much money does this guy HAVE? I mean, 'scuba diving with sharks'? 'Spelunking in New Zealand'?? 'Riding sheep at a rodeo'?!

My hobbies include things like crossword puzzles, tennis, frisbee, piano, and knitting. They are great for the startup budget. Also, video games.
Fry's are not all the same. The only one that has a decent components section is in Palo Alto. Other stores, in San Jose, Mountain View etc do not have anything.
You might like http://octopart.com, which searches all those sites.
That does not sound like a winning strategy to drive a wedge between the Chinese regime and stridently nationalist Chinese consumers.
Huh? It's an ad inserted via JS through BuySellAds; it's a network of niche blogs where you can buy ad space directly on a particular site, instead of the network matching your ad with content contextually, or doing a category run.

It's a very unsophisticated way to deliver ads, it requires more advertiser intervention, and it costs more. But the publisher has more control over asset display and it looks more legitimate.
For me, it's probably the iconic picture of 20th century political action.
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I am not the OP, but that is an amazing idea. I remember those baby emails, and can just imagine screenshots of baby kale and turnips. Op, you really should do this. It would be amazing.
Exploit is fixed, and follower lists are rolled back, but they didn't do a perfect job...

Felicia Day is still following me. ^-^
As a developer, I don't care about hardware marketshare--I care about the mindshare of people willing to buy apps.

In particular, the iPhone has trained peoople to buy apps at $0.99. Crappy price, but at least they're buying. Android revenues are low compared to the iPhone in spite of their marketshare--the top apps are something like 400-500/day according to the developers I've talked to. You can make a living at it, but you can't (yet) start hiring comfortably.

Wake me up when the app market is competitive with the iPhone.
The two problems I see with your analogy to books is that books don't have an ongoing cost for infrastructure maintenance which online services do. I wouldn't put it past EA to figure out the cost of services provided with a game diminishes over time with one owner, but if someone new were to pick up the game and start playing then they would be incurring a heavier system load than originally forecast.

Book publishers also generally aren't trying to recoup $50-100,000,000 development budgets.
They killed it. C.f. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/3q-resnick-scratch-0428.h...
They're going to lose a lawsuit over something like this in the near future. I'm not sure what law they're breaking, but going out of your way to cripple products to increase your chance of sales has got to be illegal somehow...
Ive not seen movie studios, publishers, record labels do the following yet
a) Require constant internet connectivity while you watch a movie.
b) Hold onto the bonus that is due their employees - http://www.physorg.com/news191742223.html
People still use the word boot for boots, and will use 'duck' for ducks, except when saying Duck Duck Go in which case they will think of 'that thing that replaced Google'.
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In other news, McDonalds sells more burgers than many better places. Mmm.
quick feedback: consider investing your time/resources in something unrelated to music... my $0.02

to answer your q: better can be fine, as long it is of sufficient magnitude in an area of real value to the customer (have you interviewed potential customers regarding this etc)
1) He doesn't need a doctorate, he needs a business plan.

2) It was done before, sans penises.
Why is this relevant? iPods and iPads have nothing to do with cell phones, except that Apple happens to use the same OS for all three.
I'm the same way. I use to have a "running mix" on my iphone. But one day the earphones broke and I just listened to the sounds around me. It really helped me relax. Almost like a moving meditation. I definitely recommend the music-less run!
Who expected Apple to own the market?

From day one the iPhone was a premium price / premium experience product with a user base that developers would work hard to access.

Android is already a sloppy mess for developers, and for many traditional consumers.

It's like the Mac vs. PC battles, except this time the market is much more accessible for the average consumer ($500 vs. $5000 unadjusted no less!) and, as such, many times more profitable for Apple who uniquely owns the hardware, the software, and the content delivery channel.
i sure hope they do.
so they are charging 2 times for the same package.
Need help understanding Adwords Traffic Estimator data
I have entered the maximum value for CPC as $100, the maximum that is allowed by adwords. For some of my keywords, estimated daily clicks is zero. but however, local monthly searches, estimated avg. CPC, and estimated daily costs are not zero. Some of the keywords with estimated daily clicks of zero has quite high values for the other parameters. Could you please explain what this data implies? Should I remove this words from my campaign? Also, I don't know how much max daily budget to set. I want to set it at $20, but that results in very few estimated daily clicks. Thank you in advance.
I'm surprised and disappointed that this still requires a semicolon after each line, and parentheses around the conditions in for, if, etc. statements.
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Resizing the page throws off the animation somewhat.
This is great! Really good visual design, too. It looks quite featureful already - perhaps you should have launched earlier?

I'm going to pass this on to people.
Interesting. His quotes (as reported in this and other articles) make it seem like he's just referencing the existing ideas in popular culture about the metaphor of hand-washing.

Regardless of his personal beliefs though, I'd assume that the study had standard double-blind procedures and only reported the result because it's statistically significant (especially considering that it's being published in Science).
Am I the only one who read the heading on the actual page as 'Girculate'? That arrow on the end of the C is a little confusing.
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In that case it would be a simpler mental model for the user to just decouple the usage cost from the game cost aka the World of Warcraft model. Why let the original purchaser play as much as they want, cap their usage too (~40-50 hrs of playtime for free) and charge them for usage beyond that. Also if the cost of running servers is so high and such a big drag,why dont they let third parties run game servers and charge a fee. That way competition among game server hosting companies would bring the price down closer to what it should be in the real world.
New AAA games have never cost as little as $20. The increase is more like 50 -> 60.
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I'll echo everyone else here that has said a lot of websites and companies do have this.

But the reason not every one of them does is that it is extremely time consuming, takes a lot of thought, and you have to spend time enforcing the guidelines once they're created. If you're not committed to following them, it's a waste of time and money to define them.

Most start ups are worried about things other than logos and colors matching across multiple mediums (print, web, broadcast, etc.) because most web sites and web start ups only have one medium: the browser.
Their control sample seems to have done something else entirely (like evaluated bottle designs or something). The correct control would have been something involving water but without the psychosocial overtones of hand washing - for example asking people to pull marbles out of a bowl of water.

The reality is that "water play" is very soothing. Put an angry toddler in front of a sink full of warm sudsy water, and I don't think they are happy because they are channeling Lady Macbeth.
I hope dropbox will refund the payment to all the users who are now unable to use their service.
Agreed on the Farmville angle. I think there are a lot of people who would love to get their kid or S.O. off Farmville and doing something productive. The visual design is already perfect for this.
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I'm planning to be in SF during WWDC (even if I won't attend, one of my employees will), so I'm looking for events to attend and meet local people.
Really? It's fairly rare that I'm able to find anything I'm looking for at Fry's (in Palo Alto). I've had better luck at Jameco. Better yet? Online (if I'm not in a hurry).
I guess one limitation is that gardens probably mature at slightly different rates (e.g. if you have a mild cold spell, development goes on 'hold' for a bit, which might put you out of sync). I guess Eric would have to interview some expert gardeners to ascertain the scope of the issue.
They didn't say it was bulletproof. They stated that data was replicated to more than one device to ensure that a single component failure would not result in data loss.

They didn't say it was bulletproof or impossible to loose data. They explain fairly well how things work, what the failure rates are, and give you the tools to do the same risk analysis and cost/benefit calculations you would do anyway, whether using a cloud service or rolling your own.

Multiple equipment failure can happen. Even across data centers and availability zones. The larger the entire AWS system gets, the higher the chances of eventually seeing edge cases where the wrong equipment at just the wrong time screws up to lose data.

If you want bulletproof data storage system that has such a rediculously low failure rate that you are guaranteed not to loose data for a hundred years, you can get it - but it's going to cost a heck of a lot more than anything Amazon is selling you.
It's certainly a mix. They are people too :)
The hostility against these decisions always frustrates me. The market will sort this out, and I'm pretty sure despite all the moaning, it will fall in EA's favor. You can't expect EA or any game publisher to just give their product away.

EA is a business and needs to make money in order to sustain making AAA titles. Nowadays, there are hundreds of people working their hearts out to deliver each title. These people would like to get paid. Gamestop does not pay their salaries. EA does. Every time somebody gives $55 to Gamestop instead of $60 to EA, an hour or two of somebody's work is potentially taken at a loss to EA.

Budgets of games are not going to go down. Gamers wouldn't go for the drop in quality. The used market is not going to go away. It's perfectly rational for gamers to try and make a buck. But this puts EA in quite the quandary.

Rewarding gamers for purchasing the game new is rational and fair. Not evil. EA will make money and the gamer will continue to get well made games. Just because a feature or part of the game was once 'free' doesn't justify it always being 'free'. The market is allowed to correct itself.
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Huh? I want to group related things together so I can easily do things like show/give someone all related things, regardless of their datatype.

Grouping by datatype isn't "database-ish" unless you think that data type is the only interesting relation, and it isn't. In fact, it's one of the least interesting relationships.
I always love seeing not-entirely web startups. This seems awesome. Best of luck!
Great job on the homepage.

Simple "How it works", a low barrier way to get started, and nothing else. Exactly how it should be!

I'll tweet it to my friends for you. You may have thought of this already, but you might try experimenting with a monthly plan to show some smaller numbers (although I see some benefits to going only yearly with this model to). Great job!
Even before they were "proven" I think Heroku was significantly less risky than some other platforms, since it's a pretty standard open source stack.

If you really had to move off of Heroku (if they went under or become prohibitively expensive) you could move onto your own servers running essentially the same stack (except of course manually configured and maintained), which is more than you can say for AppEngine, for example.
It's relevant if you're selling apps