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What if increased aggression is good for you? I seem to remember another study about men with long middle fingers (indicating high testosterone levels) having a significantly higher income.

Naturally the rest of society wants us to be docile, but it is not necessarily what is good for you. Also, the people with the guns usually win and set down the law. "We can talk about everything" is a lie.
That is great advice. We've noticed the same half-listening thing. I'm just as guilty if my husband tries to speak to me when I'm working on any writing or translation projects. Or even if I'm engrossed in a Twitter convo ;)

A startup marriage takes effort (from both sides) but it really is worth it and so much fun :)

Thanks for the link and the feedback!
It's true that network latency is dominator rather than serialization. But low CPU/memory usage is still important for CPU/memory-bound applications. Especially, zero-copy feature is effective to raise maximum throughput.
As for RPC performance, parallelism will be important for high-load systems. It's described at http://msgpack.wordpress.com/2010/05/08/messagepack-rpc-for-...
On the other hand, some uses serialize/deserialize directly on search engine or caching to pack objects.
There was a settlement: http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=9051
Touche, gotta be grateful for what we've got.
20% of the internet population what percent of the time? for what subset of their habits?
Here's the update: http://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/1479.html
It basically uses TCP. Raw unreliable UDP is also supported on Ruby and Java. TCP or UDP will be enough choices for most of applications. Practically, MessagePack-RPC mainly focuses on cross-language communication, like Ruby frontend <-> C++ backend. So portability is rather important.
Pretty darn old, but there was one such: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCopter
Or treat search as a first-class resource.
Thank you. I tried to be neutral without sounding stuffy, as a lot of lit with "s/he" tends to sound (in my opinion). Plus it really annoys me when people assume all entrepreneurs are men, or that no entrepreneurs are gay. I may not always remember to do the "s/he" thing, but I wanted the first post to establish that neutrality.

If you want a supportive partner, you will find one. It may not happen right away and it'll probably be when/where you least expect it, but it'll happen. In the meantime, don't be any less than 100% happy just because you haven't found him yet :) You know that saying about smiling all the time because you never know who could be falling in love with your smile at that moment? Yeah it sounds cheesy but it's true ;)

It would be great if there was a study done about whether those attributes are more common in women. I'm sure there are some great men to be found that would gladly give up centre stage to a strong woman :) I'll keep my eyes open ;)

Wait, did I just add matchmaker to my list of duties? lol
Does everyone here believe this guy? The guy spins a good tale, but I seriously doubt this happened. It is at the best an elaboration.
You can use Piklab for Linux. I have developed a complete firmware for a USB device using Piklab.
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there's something seriously fucked up with the game industry. A uni friend with a reasonably good theoretical CS degree tried to get a junior gameplay programming job last year and was told/signalled his knowledge and experience is not game-specific enough. So what I suspect is that the people who manage to get in have spent some sweet time getting there (perhaps even on specialized uni courses) and keep telling themselves this is what they really wanted (wasn't it just yesterday here on HN someone posted the wiki article about cognitive dissonance?). And it's the same across large portion of game companies at least, most notably those crunching out MMO games (there's a great blog about that that I can't find right now).
You're repeating nonsensical marketspeak. What does "a number that didn't exist before ..." even mean? And what does "quantum measurement principles" mean? I'll tell you: it means diddly squat.

The device the article is about measures electron flow through an electronic component through which 'usually' no electrons flow. That electrons flow in this device, is because they tunnel through the potential barrier. That's a quantum effect if there ever was one.

Converting the presence of electron flow into a number means you construct these numbers on the fly. The numbers did not 'exist before', for any reasonable meaning of that term.
Thanks so much. I'm sure she has many entertaining experiences she could recount :) Please tell her to share some!
You can buy a USB Bitwhacker from SparkFun, use Piklab for Linux to develop for it (in assembly), and use a command-line tool to flash it over USB (I can't remember the name of the tool). Or, you can buy a PICkit, and program the PIC directly without needing a bootloader.
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Shhhh!

This is good. :)
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there's an old cliche about a frog being slowly boiled to death here ;)
http://www.opencircuits.com/Main_Page is an electronics wiki.
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> Especially as a programmer, why would you put up with something so ridiculous? It's not that hard to find work doing development elsewhere.

I think this is partly because they feel specialized in what they are doing and their feeling of specialization sort of binds them to the game industry.

The other part being the glamour wisty is writing about.
Of all reasons to spend the night on the street -- a new iPhone? The economy must be getting better...or maybe I am just getting old. I feel embarrassed knowing that in some places hungry people are lining up like this for food.
How do you jump the enter-digit verification via 3jam?
Tried linking 3jam to my Skype account, to no avail; do you forward it to your mobile phone?
Me and my wife work on the startups together. She is good with people and I good with systems, so it makes a good team. It make more sense as all the the dynamics are already in place.
..and provides for a classic hackers' sparring session: hands-on experience in one corner vs. those who've read all about it in the other.
It's all about context.

On RWW Start the startups with exits are the headline grabbers. Delicious carries much more clickthrough appeal/legitimacy than AOL. Always lead with a grabber.
I'll second the github suggestion. clj-peg looks very interesting.
I've heard that that is the way the Japanese salarymen put in their long hours. A lot of them end up just sticking around at the end of the day doing nothing. They are just waiting for other people and/or 'the boss' to leave so that it looks like they are being very productive.
I guess it must be working for them business-wise, but it's had a pretty negative effect on retaining even top talent, who also feel burned out by the constant crunch times / ridiculous overtime / etc. I mean Will Wright can probably do whatever he wants, but basically anyone who isn't him seems to feel harried. I've talked to designers at conferences who got dragged back from the middle of a conference where they were actually presenting because of some "emergency" or "crunch". I mean sure, sometimes there are emergencies and crunches, but EA seems to use them constantly as a normal development process (if your company's having 20 emergencies a year, either it's crashing and burning, or you misdefined "emergency").

Most people don't like to burn bridges and go public with why they left, but if you look at top designers, programmers, etc. at EA over the past 10 years, a large number have left, and often without even having new jobs lined up--- basically went indie or went to start consulting firms rather than continue under those working conditions.
Keep in mind your friend is at one studio of many under the EA umbrella. Just like the entire game industry, some studios are a mess. Unfortunately (and probably unfairly) EA takes the brunt of the bad PR.

However, EA and most other studios industry wide have taken great strides to improve the treatment of employees since the EA Spouse ordeal. There will probably forever remain bad/overworked studios, but I see plenty of those outside of the game industry as well in environments even less enjoyable/creative/fun.
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If you're planning on wandering down at 6:50am to your pre-booked tent you may be in for a surprise. Generally Apple frown on "placeholders", at two launches I've been at stores have sent an employee out a few hours before opening to assign numbers to those already waiting.
I'd been wondering. EA claimed they were cleaning stuff up, if I remember right, but I never really heard much follow-up on whether the game industry (and EA in particular) had improved. Thanks for telling.
Can't say enough good about it. So much time, energy, and money saved. I would occasionally do a full day's work over GoToMeeting, or, rather, a full night's work when crisis time inevitably hit. Beats hauling ass to the client's office at 2 AM. WebEx consistently let me down.
> it just means that the stuff that gets created by people who don't see a need in getting paid would rise to increased prominence and be recognized as such.

Direct payment is still the best option to make money from creativity. Things made for free reward their authors in other ways;

* sponsorship payments

* promotion of the authors (common with short films)

* raising awareness of issues

* promoting subsequent paid sequels (eg, NIN)

As anyone who's run a website known, it's a lot harder to fund a business with these models than with direct payment.
If direct payment for works was no longer an option, the current non-direct providers would struggle with an influx of high quality, well funded competitors.

* Independent, low budget musicians would have to compete for sponsorship and venues with established acts suddenly doing gigs for free.

* Indie gamewriters would have to compete for cash against giant game companies with high-end 3D engines giving away the latest games with in-game ads.

* Authors that write books and companies that do training courses might just give up completely, and not write books, since ads don't work very well for OReilly.

* OSS companies that give away their source and sell a binary compilation and update services would have to find a business model.

TPB is already making these things happen today. That's why people who make things know they're bad.
I was really looking forward to iPhone 4, but now after upgrading my 3GS to iOS 4.0 I'm not sure why I would upgrade. It's really that good.

Which is great from a longevity point of view, but not from a gadget-lust point of view. I still have over a month to decide anyway, as they don't come out in Australia until late July. Unless they're delayed, like the iPad was.

First world problems...
I just thought of this, and I don't know why it didn't come to me earlier.

Not that I had the foresight to pick Clojure because of this, but after I started working with Clojure I noticed that change became much easier than with the languages I was using before (one of which was C++).

When my thesis advisor would tell me, "you should go do X" (fill in the blank), I'd do what he said, and then a week later he'd have changed his mind and he would say "now go do Y", instead of X. Those changes would kill my enthusiasm and productivity when I was using C++, but once I began using Clojure those changes no longer felt like a bombshell. Change became relatively easy.

Now, I'm not saying that change is trivial, but compared to C++ (in my experience), changes are much easier to deal with using Clojure.
There's a book for sale at http://www.startupbook.net/ that pretty much walks you through finding niche business opportunities (bits of it are based on the ideas outlined in 4HWW) - but the gist of what gets recommended there is "make a list of the people you know and their hobbies/work experience. These are 'warm' niches, that you'll have an easier time breaking into".

Seemed like pretty good advice to me - and I highly recommend the book :)
It's quite possible it's improved, but it seems there's still a culture of: developing this game will be your life. Almost every single acceptance speech at this year's Game Developer's Choice awards involved the team thanking their family for their understanding / apologizing for not being around for the past 6 months / etc. After hearing that over and over from the acceptance speeches in succession, it gave a pretty strong impression of the industry still being a pretty oppressive place to work.

(The IGF segment, for indie-game awards, seemed to involve much happier devs, except that many thanked their families for indulging their unfunded, nonsalaried quest.)
Acquire a really high level of fitness, the domain space is really large, interesting and rewarding. For example, obviously you need to learn plenty about nutrition, then in order to make it meaningful you need to learn about cooking, then you want to work on your endurance, flexibility, muscle tone and strength, which means learning the muscle groups, then learning how each of the different gym machines will enhance your various objectives, then learning the various stretches for different muscle groups... its intellectual and rewarding. Anecdote: my personal trainer was talking about how an orthopedic doctor is his client, just because he's a doctor doesn't (apparently) mean he's mastered all of these domains.
Ugh, sensationalist fluff. Android's permissions system is very clear and very easy for the end user to understand. "This app might cost you money" on install is pretty darned clear!
Ask HN: what Twitter hash tags are you following?
I'm following #startup and the Swedish #entreprenörskap (entrepreneurship). Any other good Twitter hash tags I should keep an eye on?
I've been tutoring Euclid to a Gr. 6 student. I gave him both the Heath and Byrne editions to work from but he has a much easier time with the Byrne, primarily because the proofs appear much shorter. The coloured pictures strip out an entire layer of pointer dereferencing.
Ask HN: Google Analytics for Startups?
We're planning on launching our service this week, so I'd like to bone up on how to use Google Analytics efficiently.

Currently, all I have setup is standard page tracking, and this is about the limit of my knowledge at the moment.

Can anyone point me in the direction of some resources (websites, slides, books, anything) that can help me understand what metrics I need to track, setting up goals/funnels and anything else that may be useful?
This applies to almost everyone: It will never be cheaper than it is today.

The older you get, the more responsibilities you take on. When you have a mortgage, a wife, kids, and car loans, you have to make your startup pay really fast. When you have little debt, can crash on your parents couch (if needed), and drive a crappy old car that is paid for, you can take extreme risks, and the payback can be tiny for the first few months or even a couple of years.
The way this article has been titled, it screams "SENSATIONAL!!11 READ ME!!!". Comes across as applications lock all your photos and messages and charge a dollar a peek.
PEBKAC, sir. That's the problem.
Here's the problem: almost all newspapers self-identify in a way that prevents any degree of substantial change of their core business. To them the thought of changing enough to survive in the modern, online, world is no different than the prospect of winking out of existence after running out of money, both appear to be death from their perspective.

This doesn't touch on the often numerous labor related legal straight jackets most big newspapers operate under. This combination explains why so many newspapers have simply continued operations unchanged until suddenly dying, in just about any other industry there would be a lot more innovation in play when so many papers are staring down near certain death in the next few years. Ultimately I think the end result is that the successor to the newspaper will not come from the newspaper industry but will sprout up from elsewhere.
There is nothing wrong with being in the industry. But I have many friends who planned to go the startup route after "2 years of working to save some many". Most of them wouldn't be able to leave their job now because of their comfort in it (and say what you will, it IS a difference in lifestyle).
No so many years ago people argued that an online web server is an open invitation for anybody.
Now if you have a link you can't use it because of TOS? Is this enforceable? How do you get the TOS? You download the link to it? Man, what if you used "automated means" to download the TOS does it count as a breach of rules - which you didn't know before the download? Are you punishable for this?
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Totally, it's on the cards
The 3GS and the iPad occupy completely different segments and markets (one of which didn't quite exist before the device was created), Vista and 7 don't.
Ahh, thanks! That's good to hear. I hope it changed a few things there!
I've been considering writing a desktop app. I've been wanting to get into the JVM action, but dimly remember being scared off by Swing years ago. What about Clojure makes it better at using Swing?
Start running. About 5k a day should clear your mind and fix your focus.
Very interesting. Did you consider using R? Why did you choose Clojure for this? I've been thinking of doing something similar myself and I would love to hear your thoughts considering you've already been-there-done-that.

I'd love to read your thesis and code, if they're available.
Because someone would, very likely, sue them?
Oh God. Css animations. :(
Ah okay, I saw that but in my half-asleep state only concentrated on the link to the watchdog site which now seems to be just a forum to talk about game companies. I've now read the FAQ and all of that too! Cheers.
TI just got out of prison too.
You're quite right - my use was exactly backwards. Thanks for correcting me.

Bizarrely, I found myself defending the selfsame legislation 2 hours after my grumbles above, though for quite different reasons. If you are interested: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1453496
Wrong numbers. Apple is interested in money, not market share. Compare financial results of Nokia and Apple and tell me you still think Nokia is doing well being #1.
Uh,

Have a look at the article...

By the normal sense of the law up till now, you are not a criminal if one party in a contract considers you in violation of the contract. It has been a civil matter. Even the RIAA has had to sue people in civil court rather than being able to prosecute in criminal court. A criminal violates criminal law. Let's get clear on the concept, especial with Facebook trying to stretch it.
Ask HN: What keeps you going?
I suppose everyone goes through times when it's near impossible to get anything done. Many of you on HN have reached success, or are working your asses off to get there.

What do you all tell yourselves that keeps you motivated? What thoughts drive you? Do you have heroes whose footsteps you're following? Maybe it's something else that pushes you, but whatever it may be, please share.
Chrome has a process per tab and runs entirely separate processes for each plugin. So if flash crashes, the page does not crash. There is only one flash process serving the whole browser though, so if flash crashes, flash content on all open tabs stops working. The new Firefox plugin implementation works the same way.
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There is also a bit of a problem the other way to, I know people who would be much happier doing games development subjects at uni but are reluctant because future employers may not give them non games dev jobs. I'd say a lot of people working in the industry are quiet specialised or at least they appear that way to employers, plus there love of games development is used against them.
Or... what if you use a different browser? What's not automated about a browser? The line seems utterly absurd...
A lot of good programmers are not good graphics designers or good artists or marketers but want to get into the games industry because they like the idea of working on games. There are (in Australia at least) even entire bachelors degree streams on game programming (for more complicated games that require lots of people), so it would probably seem natural to those graduates to seek employment there too, since they really have specialised in game programming.

Like someone mentioned above, it's a glamour job, kinda like working in the film industry. You'd be surprised what people will do to "get in".
Wow, you guys have a great looking idea!

I feel like the usability mantra circa 2000-2010 was "Don't make me think" and I hope the usability mantra for the decade of 2010-2020 will be "Don't make me unsure". Using inspiration from games, I hope UI developers will make sure to give instant feed back. When a user makes a mistake the user will be informed, when a user does something correct the user will be informed.

Thus using software will be more like a fun video game rather than a frustrating experience.

I plan to write a blog post on these thoughts. Let me know if you guys have any input.
Do you have an announcement mailing list? Or blog RSS feed?
It's more I think a recognition that MS has transitioned into a value company. Some parts of MS are still very innovative, but at the most fundamental levels (management direction, company culture, etc.) MS seems to have reached a tipping point. It's too soon to tell whether that zeitgeist fully represents reality, but it's coming from both outside and inside the company.

Granted, the result of this transition isn't that MS suddenly goes out of business tomorrow, that's not going to happen. Instead, the result is that MS slowly slides down the hill into senescence. MS slowly bleeds away more and more talent as the corporate culture becomes more bureaucratic. MS continues to miss key opportunities and become left out of more and more new markets. MS loses the cachet of being a cutting edge company, etc. Worst case scenario: MS misses the boat on disruptive events that destroy its core revenue streams (e.g. enterprise computing). More likely scenario: MS turns into another Sony or IBM.

This isn't the worst thing in the world, but this sort of thing happens. For people who are really passionate about this industry it's the equivalent of seeing one of your favorite hard core metal bands turn into a vegas act. It's disconcerting and disappointing.
Is there a more generalized version of that pattern, perhaps something like this (I haven't checked):

let P(n) be the nth prime number: P(1)=2, etc.
let n be an integer >= 2, and m be an integer > n
then P(m) ≡ 1 and (P(n) - 1) (mod P(n))

?
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