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what's worked best for my game Dead By Zombie:

1. personal appearances at game conventions dressed as the mad scientist Dr. Heinrich von Hexenhammer --- NOTE: may not work for your project

2. listings on niche sites

3. astroturf forum comments on related sites

paid advertising? oh that actually hasn't worked too well in comparison. funny.
Yeah. I thought it was inferred that it basically sucks to be a guy on any dating site. They're actually doing their best to help, though, with photo results, analysis of what makes a 'successful' email, etc.

Facebook has the unique, unbeatable advantage of being more evenly (more, outright?) female. Now we just have to get over the 'creepy/weird/scary' nuances of meeting people through non-traditional channels.
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Palo Alto doesn't quite count; it was a town first and then Silicon Valley grew around it. Palo Alto is the best part of Silicon Valley and has the most expensive rents to go along with that.
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A quick search on google shows that he is posting the same ads on other job boards:

http://www.google.com/search?q=phenomsolutions1

(Not that it is super relevant)
While I cannot address your particular conditions since I am not qualified, what I can tell you is that alternative treatments generally require you to change your lifestyle along with the pills - and it is mandatory and not optional and hence the results vary from person to person. Hence it cannot be proven in a way a pill alone can be. Examples of lifestyle change would be reduce your anger, be more understanding, take walks in the nature etc. In essence, The treatment is a guide while you fix yourself. Are you getting me? This is the underlying philosophy of all the ancient treatment modalities of every civilization.
I don't have any furniture. I sit on the floor, and sleep on a Futon (Japanese-style http://www.yumetai.co.jp/img/goods/L/24623s1.jpg), which I can fold up and put away during the day.

Besides that, I just try and not collect possessions. If I don't use something, I give or throw it away. I avoid buying stuff that will take up space unless I regularly use it.
This link was valuable just for the introduction to OpenCV.
> The swinger-ish nerdhemian folk

I wanted to except some category of people, but I couldn't think of how to name the group without sounding judgmental. I agree with your sentiment.
The difference being, that a new iPhone comes out once a year, at around the same time. So you can buy a new iPhone now, realising that there is no point updating it for a year.
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I just use Rake :-)
Yes, I live in an apartment in Shinjuku (though it is on the border with Nakano). It is a self-contained unit with its own bathroom, toilet, and kitchen (sink and one burner stove).
It's coming to the U.S. on both AT&T and T-mobile. The Super AMOLED screen is supposed to be very good and Samsung is holding out on shipping AMOLED's to HTC and others in order to keep them for the Galaxy S variants. I'm pretty tempted by this one, until I read that dual-core phones are on the way (Cortex-A9, maybe Tegra 2).
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>>"Day 5 4 Sales
Day 6 27 Sales (5 reviews – 10 ratings)
Day 7 59 Sales (Front page of iPad Games in New & Notworthy)
Day 8 68 Sales

>>For me these stats and reviews are amazing. More than I could have hoped for."

59 and 68 sound like very low sales/day numbers for an app that is featured on the front page of "New and Noteworthy"

The numbers may indicate that the market for this app is fairly small or that some changes (in feature or price or ....) are needed to make the app more attractive to users.
At my first web job, the week I started there was an empty desk alongside mine. The other employees spoke of its absent occupant as though he was a bit of a curiosity (like they could talk - you could write a sitcom about that place).

He eventually returned from leave and I found out why he was the strange one even in comparison to them: he was over 60 years old, still lived with his mother, had some penchant for buying any food that was on sale (even if he never ate it, and even to the point where he was buying more freezers to store it!) and his recent leave was granted after he set himself on fire in bed. He also had an uncontrollable giggle.

Those were the days!
This is just out of curiosity, why shorten that URL?
In tests I was able to get new users for around $2 each using Facebook ads. I went into the details here:

http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2009/11/get-new-...

In my limited experience it's all about testing and iteration, lots of it. Or just find a feeble excuse to show a picture of a busty girl, judging from most of the ads I see on Facebook.

Also, be prepared for shockingly low CTRs on banner ads like Facebook's. Even highly targeted I was seeing 0.07% on my best ads, and from talking to others that's not uncommon. Even at that low of a rate the ads were cheap enough to be worth running.
I'm afraid clojure will not catch up just by getting older. Improving the installation experience should not be too difficult, but for a community supported language to have great documentation is a monumental task. Writing documentation is boring after all.

Your list suffers a little bit from selection bias. It doesn't include all the old languages that never caught on. There are of course many reasons why a language doesn't become popular and lack of good documentation and ease of getting started is probably not the most important one.

I mean, there's C++, the language that managed to become popular by doing everything wrong ;-)
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when I first started doing contract work I used to look for reasons to say yes.

now I look for reasons to say no.
I've lived in multiple < 200 square foot apartments in Japan and a 300 sq foot apartment in SF. I think these tiny homes would be a fun getaway. That said, something about a tiny detached house like this gives me the creeps, whereas a tiny apartment does not.
I totally agree with this. Forcing users to stay in the REPL, poking simple toy examples is just boring and useless.

Just telling, a lot of people got into python, because they wanted to solve a certain problem (I know of an RSS scraper and a state machine framework prototype), and these people just started with a book about python and NO knowledge and after around 3 days, they knew a large amount of python and were sold, because the problem was solved and the language 'felt very good'.

I think generally, programming language designers should stop assuming that their language is novel, or different or whatever and people will be clueless learning about the language.

If you know like Java, C#, Python or Ruby, NO object oriented language will present you with really large surprises (until you meet Javascript with prototypes, and things turn around a bit and common lisp with generic methods and things warp a bit, but still, the basic concepts behind the language are nothing surprisingly new, I still have my objects which receive objects and do things depending on the message receveid).

If you know something along ML, Haskell or some other functional language, it will be really, really hard to surprise you with a functional language. Cool, oCaml has references? Cool, Haskell has monads? That is true, those things might be a bit different, but the basic concepts of immutability, functions and recursion is all the same, no matter what happens.

So, tl;dr? You language is not novel, your language is not new, I have used a language which is similar to your language, I will just be bored if you throw me into Programming 101, because your language is new and I will probably just walk away.
I'm very glad somebody brought this issue up, in a carefully written essay. It is a real problem. I come to Clojure from a Common Lisp background and the issue there was exactly the same (in spite of how old the language is): developers had their systems carefully tuned and weren't interested in newbie experience, while setting up a new environment was a major barrier.

The good thing about Clojure is that there are people who care about these things — see for example the leiningen and clj projects on github. Leiningen is already way beyond anything that was available for Common Lisp, for example.

There's hope.
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Add Akshay Rustagi (posted from Craiglist) to the list of scammers. Their usual trick is skype chat or talk. The best way to identify scammers is to talk face to face.
Why do you think it's not a Lisp? It has macros, it's homoiconic, and it's got lists as its first-class data structure. I'm struggling to see what's missing.
Seems to be working for us. It all depends on the industry and business. But I have been hearing that it's becoming tougher.
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You can ask for one. That's what I did.

Unlimited data (with messaging) on my Droid for $55/mo. Reps might have to dig into their system for it, but it's there. Pretty good deal, esp on Verizon.
I don't think this is a good argument, because eg CPython was the reference implementation of Python since day 1.

In other words, since the very very first day of python, people could tell a new python user to grab that one very specific package from python.org and go ahead until he is able to judge the different implementations out there, which solves precisely the problem mentioned in the article.

Same goes to an extent for Java and PHP.
Maybe the disconnect between single men and women could be resolved by a survey that asks a random sampling of men and women when they think it would be appropriate to approach or be approached by a potential SO, and finding the discrepancies. For example, if it is found that most "decent" men think it's rude to approach a woman at location X, but most "decent" women would prefer to be approached at location X, the men could be told to change their behavior. Maybe someone can suggest this to OkCupid (if it hasn't already been done); it seems they do a lot of statistical research already.
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The best thing I found so far is clojure-box: Clojure Box is an all-in-one installer for Clojure on Windows. It's inspired by the Lispbox: you simply install and run this one thing, and you get a REPL and all the syntax highlighting and editing goodies from clojure-mode and Slime, plus all the power of Emacs under the hood at http://clojure.bighugh.com/

BUT it is based on emacs, and unless you're familiar with emacs, its not going to be too friendly...

Then, if you want web-apps, you'll have to get your head around ring, compojure or some other library. If you want graphics, at this stage you are kind of limited to whatever java can provide, and there is no easy IDE inspector to show you what's available / defined at any given moment...

There are many ways to get around all of these, but they all seem to require a fair bit of digging around, google-fu and whatever else is needed to make it go.

Maybe what clojure needs is a simple executable wrapper that handles the java classpath requirements, provides a simple (but extendable) IDE, provides some common sample projects like a simple web app (blog), graphics (temp converter), maybe multi-threaded (the ants.clj example) all complete with good documentation.

I know that would have made my life a bit easier...
I think it's totally relevant: I'm making a living by doing contract work right now. I now would never even consider accepting a job from phenomsolutions1. I'm really glad to know I shouldn't even entertain the notion of working with this guy.
What you're saying has nothing to do with what I said. I will concede, however, that I missed the bitstream license, which grants some protection to independent implementations. But as others have said, that is no guarantee.

http://www.webmproject.org/license/bitstream/
Isn't this just an opportunity for somebody to start their own android store and police it better?
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POSIX compliance is itself multiplatform and multipurpose.
Right, but he said:

I believe the libvpx license does shield you from patent claims (meaning google will take responsibility in case of any infringement).
What do you have against bourne shell scripting? I thinks it's probably the most under-rated language/programming paradigm I know. I really don't understand all the hate. Also, what didn't you like about Tcl? I find it much more in-line with the C world-view than python is; It's C-interface is a lot cleaner than Pythons as well.

My language-choice algorithm is:

sh + unix DSLs -> Tcl/Tcl+C -> SML/Haskell/Scheme -> C -> *

Where '*' is whatever language has a library I need, or a language that I'm required to use.
I just want to second point #2. I spent 5 minutes creating some horribly ugly test ads in The Gimp, just so I could get our campaign started quickly. Afterwards I had our badass graphics guy create some beautiful banners. My ads performed 5x better than his over months.
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This seems like an obvious and easily attainable goal, but in fact, it isn't. The article suggests Python and Ruby provide a better n00b experience and that is far from true. For instance, Ruby becomes a nightmare as soon as you start mixing your own gems with gems installed by the packaging system. That situation is hard to avoid, as distros usually only support outdated Rails gems and the n00b that thinks 'let me just grab the latest stable Rails version from github' is in for some nasty surprises concerning incompatible combinations of gems. We solved this by moving to Enterprise Ruby and keeping everything local and selfcontained, but it is definitely not very n00b-friendly either. With Python I've had similar experiences: when I was in need of a decent XPath library (mind you, this was over 4 years ago), the best one I could find (4Suite) needed to be installed manually, with all the usual problems of missing -dev libs, install paths and whatnot.

A summary of the problem is: the configurations people run are so diverse that it is hard to provide installation instructions that work for all, or even most, of them. As soon as someone wants something not covered by the simplest of tutorials, many of them will run into issues.

I think the only solution is documentation. The only thing that works is catalogueing all known problems people have encountered, so that others can easily find solutions to those problems. The largest problem of this solution is that n00bs need to understand their systems and they often don't.
They were the days! The oddest thing is I've Googled about 10 names from the late 90s Web design days and haven't found a single person. I can't imagine what they're all up to now but it doesn't seem to be the modern Web development industry, that's for sure. Were the late 90's "new media" bunch really a wackier, more diverse lot than we are now?
I share your sentiment to a degree, but you could say something similar about Python and its C/Unix roots. Not everything in the Python API is pretty or consistent and throwing everything out once in a while definately has advantages. But it also means you're losing a huge potential constituency. More importantly, the constituency loses a potential language. Some people must be compatible with the enterprise to do their work but don't want to use Java the language.

In any event, there are things that could and should simply be scrapped. I dont' see why maven is an integral part of the Java platform for instance. Maven is actually a very depressing example because it shows that the complexity culture of Java isn't limited to the bureaucratic enterprise types who gave us J2EE.
May as well!
You should watch the video he links rather then assuming something. HP developed some video drivers for face tracking that didn't handle the "edge-case" of a person with black/dark skin.
By default, our charts are images for cross-browser compatibility and speed, but we can produce SVG too (not VML at the moment).
While that's true, I think you're misinterpreting the usage of "n00b" here. People who are new to the language will be developing something small from the start, not trying to mix-and-match bleeding-edge, custom, distro-provided and language-specific-installation-tool-provided packages to achieve large or complex goals. "As soon as someone wants something not covered by the simplest of tutorials", they'll have the confidence in the language required to attack the problem in full force.

Think of it like a school system: the required years of school (the problems that everyone has to deal with, starting off) should be streamlined and easily-digested, with a lot of thought and care put into the user experience. Secondary education (the problems that individuals have once they're doing something complicated and meaningful) is allowed to be more free-form, because the user now has a base of skills to fall back upon.
Instead of $15-$20k, just spend $8k on a singlewide trailer and redo the interior to your desire.
WP does already own it though. With its momentum and swath of plugins, it will continue to own at least the self-hosted blog.

The reason it should branch out into being a fully-fledged CMS is exactly as the author describes: usability. It's so much easier for users than most other CMS's. Despite other deficiencies, that is huge.
yeah this really sucks. Just got my first Android Phone, and am keen on getting stuck into developing for it, but I am Australian, so I'll have to go around the long way. If Google wants to catch up to iPhone in terms of apps available, it should be putting more emphasis on this.
Clojure-in-clojure will get rid of a lot of the java stuff. However, in the end you'll be tied to some platform if you want to use non-clojure-native libraries like swing or jetty.

There is of course Clojure CLR http://wiki.github.com/richhickey/clojure-clr/ which is clojure but on the CLR. And there are fundamental differences due to the underlying types (but this should change with clojure-in-clojure) and you're dealing with .net interop instead of java.

But the fundamental issue you bring up is that you can't do a production-ready tour based purely on clojure, and some of that is most likely due to the pragmatic nature of clojure - why write a complete web server when you can just provide a wrapper for jetty? I do think these will come in time, but they haven't had the chance to be as battle-tested as the java equivalents...
I've got to say, you are truly a unique guy, I really hope you stick around here and give us updates on your progress.
Given the openness of android, can we make our own 'better android market' application + website? May not be worth the time investment given most people would use the market anyway, but might make Google wake up...
Are you referring to this: You're covered unless Google decides they don't want to license one patent claim or another.?

Google is granting a license to all Google-owned and Google-acquired patents required by VP8. Google will be the largest user of VP8, so it is in their interest to acquire or defeat any VP8-related patents that may be discovered.
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That's true, but the flip side is that the language is tailored to that culture. They love it and it loves them. The culture has grown around Java more than any other language because of Java's features. It's statically typed, but its typing isn't very powerful. It's dynamic, but makes it hard to write the sort of dynamic programs you'd write in Python or Smalltalk. It has methods but no functions. It has anonymous classes but no simple closures.

All of Java's features conspire to create a language that's pretty verbose and doesn't do a lot to make things easier for you (aside from simple object orientation). If you like spelling everything out in excruciating detail, that's good. If not, the language doesn't want to twist your arm, but it's certainly not going to do anything to help you.
Yes, I was just trying to clarify that situation for any other readers who may be surprised by the lack of indemnification.
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exactly. Google always has great engineering, but poor customer service. I dread the day I can't get into my Gmail account...

They work as autonomously as possible, and don't like stepping on peoples toes. The Marketplace needs some strictness, if you want to download dodgey ringtone apps, you can go to the browser and get the install from there. But the marketplace should be far better than it is now. Not even just talking about the fact there is dodgey apps there, the search function isn't the best... THE SEARCH FUNCTION GOOGLE! I tend to go to those app review sites and use the bar code scanner, which I shouldn't have to do to find apps from the worlds best search company.
You can also bring up the task tray, press and hold the icon for safari(or any other app) like you would for moving apps on the home screen, then press the - sign that appears to close it. Discovered it by accident, but it's quite useful.
It's normal for oat based cereals (such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready_Brek) and porridge to be eaten warm. These are common breakfasts in Europe - I don't know about the US. When I visited the US South a decade ago, I had grits which were also warm, but I don't know if that's the common way.
> your name is JIM WALKER, and you type NOD every 3 seconds

What does that even mean?
I saw an ad for this on Daring Fireball.

Whoever’s creating this is super hip. This is what bosses want when they say they want to leverage Facebook, Twitter and the Web. What I don’t think they get is how hard it is to actually be effective with it.