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My wife purchased this game last year and we had a lot of fun working through some of the puzzles together. The art and music are great.
I can try and visit him more often, but I've just started a startup. Perhaps it's time to revise my priorities.

Have you considered that he's drinking because it brings out the brother in you?

I've never looked at it that way, but if that's the case, me being near him may help.
I have the LispWorks 64bit Enterprise Edition. It does provide Unicode, concurrent threads, database access, networking, GUI lib, ... Some of the other stuff I have loaded as libraries. My base image with software loaded is probably larger than SBCL's but it also contains more stuff.

LispWorks runs also nicely under Windows.

Possible drawback: it is commercial and not open source.
1. Space
2. Noise, specifically, boom boom boom on a Friday night...
3. No yard (inline with space, but slightly different.)
10 seconds back. Compiling it right now
I sometimes wonder if the same thing goes on here, just on a smaller scale. It would be easy to set up... even to automate.

Tangentially, I think it would be awesome to get a data-dump of all voting records for, say, 2009, of HN.

Something that shows every story and comment (with parent/child relationship) and timestamped voting records.

Assign a random id to every account that actually voted to protect privacy and preclude any chilling effect on future votes.

That would be fun to mine.
I don't think encouraging behaviour of any sort should trump personal responsibility and (more importantly)
legal liability.
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I have thought of doing that, but given that he seemed to be recovering recently and also just started working, I put it off. Also, I'm not sure how much a short visit would help.

I'm sorry to hear about your family; thanks for your help.
I'm sure lots of people would probably disagree with you about that. Just because a small handful of people think the system is HORRIBLE doesn't mean the average gamer will say the same thing.

Maybe they just wanted to change things up a bit, or maybe they want to restrict things at first to see what people's reaction(s) are.
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People do this a good bit for algorithm programming contests. Use dynamic languages to prototype out all of the good ideas you can think of, then rewrite the most promising ones in C for maximum performance.
While I generally agree with you, I think this can be done properly. Track and notify the kid every time their location information is accessed. They say they'll be home absolutely no later than midnight. Parents call at 12:30am with no answer. They try again at 12:45am without an answer and finally check location at 1:00am. The kid knows they are late, sees two missed calls on their phone, finally followed by the location check.

I think that's a legitimate use that would be agreeable to most kids. While abductions numbers are low, things do happen to kids; being able to get their location when something seems wrong is a legitimate use, IMO. Sure it can be abused, but those parents are already invading their privacy in other ways.
That proof is amazingly clever.
"well articulated op-ed piece about where our debt comes"

This was an okay article and an opinion on where our debt comes from. I was merely pointing out the blogs and opinion pieces do get into google news.

As for the links you just posted: I may not agree with any of the content, but they are also just opinions (and not much worse than the links I posted)

The reason you don't want them posted is because you don't agree with them politically, which goes against the freedom of speech.
The law is more complex than I perhaps made it seem. The car's insurer can for example sue the bicyclist afterwards to get some money back if they think they can prove something (but they have to pay first, that's the default). There's also a provision that it doesn't apply for knowingly getting into a dangerous situation (but, on the other hand, if a bicyclist runs a red light thinking it's safe, this provision wouldn't be triggered).

I haven't heard anyone call it ridiculous before, so it's probably down to me not explaining it very well or not knowing all the details.

It's also not a law tailor-made for bicyclists, it applies to all 'vulnerable road users', i.e. pedestrians, skaters, also passengers in cars...
Reid was no coding slouch. He won the 1982 Grace Murray Hopper award for Scribe. http://awards.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=5356574&srt=all...
Both Parmer and Anderson Mill have bike lanes on some stretches now, but when most people talk about Austin being bikeable, we're talking about central Austin. Anderson Mill is barely Austin.

You're definitely right about many of the safe routes being a little convoluted.
Mopeds aren't cars
>Those of us who remember looking through Duke Nukem 3D fan pages for a new, great map to play and share with friends know what we've lost here, and, to put it bluntly, it sucks. Every now and again you'd trip over a swastika, but the Star Wars total conversions, the Predator sound packs, and the maps based on Star Trek ship layouts were always a good time. Those days are behind us.

Only if you buy this shit. I've got a large library of games with minimal DRM and large modding communities. Graphics stopped adding to the experience five years ago. I am quite content to battle away on Age of Mythology, Morrowind, Neverwinter Nights, Age of Empires III, the original Jedi Knight, and a dozen others.

When I game at all. It's just appalling that people so casually accept censorship in this day and age. As Ars says, this isn't a simple matter of keeping the trolls at bay:

>There is also the matter of the rating: StarCraft 2 is rated Teen, and if Blizzard doesn't keep Mature-rated content out, there could be a serious backlash.

Good content will be banned to keep the environment at a teen level. This is disgusting, and make no mistake it is censorship.
I am surprised this remains on the front page! For those who are interested, the EFF has a very good FAQ on the subject (1). You should also know about anti-SLAPP laws, which are designed to prevent abusive litigation designed to bully someone into silence (2). There are arguments for a model libel law at the federal level, given the ubiquity of the internet (3). That same ubiquity means you might find yourself sued overseas; but judgments against US bloggers will probably not be enforceable, thanks to a little-noticed bill in congress designed to protect writers from libel tourism (4).

1. http://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers/legal/liability/defamatio...

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_publi...

3. http://writ.news.findlaw.com/hilden/20100621.html

4. http://cpj.org/blog/2010/07/us-senate-passes-libel-tourism-b...
DOTA is still a small file size (7.2mb) and there are already dota clones for StarCraft2.

The file size limitation for SC2 is only an issue if you want to include multiple custom 3D models for a total conversion.
I code in PHP, so no compiling, but I last checked in changes 27 minutes ago.
A liquidation preference of 1x seems fair. However, how common are deals where the liq pref is 2x or 3x?
This sort of thing makes my blood boil.

Let's see how long this takes... blog post -> consumerist -> big public apology -> new iPhone for the guy/free tix to Reno.
Car2Go and and biking (and an office with a shower) are an awesome combination. The only things we really need are better, more frequent transit and a bike sharing program so you can get to and from bus stops from a further distance without needing to take your bike on the bus, which often have full bike racks.
"What seems to be missing, as usual from these piracy posts is that the 90% who pirated the game most likely wouldn't have bought it."

We will never know this. When I used to pirate software in my younger years, I would buy software that I needed if I couldn't find it anywhere. I suspect that the number of pirates that would never buy are a lot lower than you claim.

The problem now is that piracy has muddied the waters. We will never know either way.
I grew up in a suburb of Stuttgart and rode my bike everywhere - the hills are execellent to speed down and burn fat on the way up.

Now I live in Corvallis and it's a great bike town as well.
Possible drawback: it is commercial and not open source.

I think that's the main reason. $5000 does buy a lot of libraries.
Thanks, that addresses some of the things in my response.
...and your answer, which provides no additional information, begins with "probably." I was trying to (and did) answer the question: it's the same library, so the fact that it works with one application tells you something about the rest.
Looks like a burgeoning Javascript demoscene. Good luck to everyone who wants to top the 284 byte ray marcher, though: http://www.p01.org/releases/512b_jspongy/

It runs super slow on Firefox, it does much better in Chrome.
Bush created the deficit because he believed that? I don't think you understand the cause of the deficit or the crisis.
You can play offline single player, but it won't log your achievements.
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You're probably not very creative about the language... Have you ever tried J? There are a lot of 1 line programs in J that require 100 lines of Java.
From the server to the client these are the things wave is/was:

1. server: the ability for you and me (or equally easily your company and mine) to run our own exchange servers

2. client: the ability have true threaded conversations - not crude conventions that denote conversations, which could at any point be converted into finished documents

3. client: the ability to include new participants into the conversation while allowing them to actually see the progression of the conversation before they joined.

4. client: the ability to have an arbitrary amount of open automation at every point of the message's lifecycle. emphasis on open because anybody could write an automaton (robot, agent) to automate things - not just google.

there're more but that list in and of itself is a few orders of magnitude better than the current state-of-the-art for email.

What it has, but neednt:

1. the update as you type feature. it is still cool, but really not required for everything else that wave is.

2. the unnecessary digressions from standard web technology. why did we have to have a huge public discourse on a scroll bar, for eg?

What it should have had, but didnt:

1. a way to bridge current email into wave. This was the single most important thing google should have done - allow people in email land to send you an email that would show up as a "dumb" wave, and have the ability to send out email updates to such people with the full snapshot of the wave as the response. yes, its dumb again, but we're used to "reply all with inline comments".

2. artificial scarcity on access to wave. worked for gmail because you could taunt others by sending them emails. not so much with wave.
I was actually thinking of a slightly prolonged visit. I dont know what he does professionally but maybe he could come here and see if there are startups / companies / univs doing interesting things in his field. I was thinking along the lines of -he comes here, meets some people who are doing interesting stuff in his field, finds a footing and passion for the field and gets some direction - perhaps enrolls in a post grad univ. Sometimes the reason people turn to philosophy books is because they arent finding the intellectual challenge that they crave in their daily life. In India careers can often seem mundane and maybe putting him in contact with people who are close to how he wants to be would solve his anguish and make him feel that good things are possible.
I think that the statement made about Benjamin Franklin is rather inaccurate. Ben Franklin was a printer, publisher, and writer for most of his life, which puts his occupation at a parallel with what Blizzard is currently doing. However, Ben never displayed censorship at this level. In fact, he published plenty of pieces which were considered quite racy and controversial by the day's standards. It is true that he would not publish articles that were malignant in nature, but I have a hard time believing he would condone the censorship that Blizzard is currently demonstrating.
It think that some of the articles with negative news about Apple (the ones making a fuss over fairly minor things), be be designed to cause ripples in the stock price. Things won't always be as obvious as MS-paid people trying to discredit Linux. Even rumors that aren't true may cause some reaction that can be exploited. I think there are many posts on many site for many topics that have ulterior motives. If you think of any situation where someone wishes to get or deny some kind of advantage, there's the potential for cyber-warfare.
It can happen at any level, it can be powerful even when not fully understood.
Look at kids driving other kids to suicide.

Influencing people is power. Why do you think the diversity in ownership of U.S. broadcasters has become so eroded? There's more to it than lack of competition.
This one http://js1k.com/demo/41 is really remarkable for 1K.
In the end nobody can change a life except the person whose life it is, but if it were my brother I'd be right there beside him on the off-chance that it would help.

Fortunately my brother is not in to stuff like that.

It's really tough, and one of those things that you have to deal with as an emigrant that is not in the playbook.

Do you have more brothers? If you do can they be of assistance somehow? Does your brother look up to you, see you as a role model? Does he have good friends?

It's tough. My dad was an all-out alcoholic, he drank more than anybody that I've ever seen, before or after, and on top of that he was violent when drunk. It gave me a fantastic warning about what kind of an effect alcohol can have on people and as a result I never drank a drop.

So I really feel for you, but if it turns out that you can't make a difference don't be too hard on yourself.

good luck!
Cribbing from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Reid_(computer_scientist)), he's five years away from the traditional US retirement age of 65, and he was a director level executive at DEC. I imagine he played the money game long enough at DEC that he's in fine shape, even without his teaching income.
Oh no you di'int.

Some of us just like to have infinite scrollback buffer, rectangle select, bookmarks, regular expression replace, in our remote shells. And all our other customizations.

Emacs isn't the be-all end-all tool (it doesn't run on the JVM for starters). But it is one interface to rule them all, and the interface is extensible at runtime. You can install a few packages and have a Java IDE running inside the interface. Or a version control system.

It's not that you have to... but you invested enough effort in making your interface powerful. You want to do more inside of it.
At least hear in the US, I've never seen the public apposed to taking the easy way out. Witness the massive(no pun intended) diet and weightloss industry.
Rockstar developed GTA. Bethesda made Elder Scrolls and Fallout 3.
There is a book called "The Truth about Addiction and Recovery" that you might find interesting. One of the points it makes is that focusing overly much on the drinking problem tends to make it harder to solve. That resonates with me. My father drank a great deal in his youth, probably to try to drown out memories of his time on the front lines in two wars. He developed a heart problem when I was a little girl, blamed it on the drinking and never drank again. I think part of why that worked is because he was never labeled "an alcoholic" and my mother never made a big issue out of his drinking, in part because he wasn't a mean drunk and there was always enough money.

I think people do things for a reason. I would wonder what the reason was and try to address that in a non-blaming, non-controlling fashion. I think trying to "fix" another human being generally comes across as blaming and controlling and, because of that, tends to be rejected by the intended recipient. You might also consider reading some material by Deepak Chopra concerning the impact of the mind/attitudes/mental framing on health outcomes.

Good luck with this.
Start a startup that keeps track of alcoholic relatives and that allows to inflict remotely controlled electric shocks using an iPhone app, or by default, with a device that detects alcohol in the vicinity.
I'm with you, I just started for a finance-y company and was rather shocked to see various non-developer\IT people tabbing over to MS SQL Management Studio every few minutes, running queries and updating tables!
That is really impressive. I wish the guy would release some notes about how he did it, or what his code means...

Edit: I started looking into it. He does some really bizarre things, like having all of his assignments and statements in the parens of a for loop, assigning Math.cos to $, and some tricky bit ops. Unfortunately, I don't think I understand the math well enough to totally understand it.
Chatroulette is too notorious. It would be easier to build a new site with the same basic concept and advertise as SFW.

Plus, instant bans for anything inappropriate. That is what tinychat.com had to do when they wanted to new advertisers. Don't know how they did it but you get IP banned within a minute of getting naked.
Friendster, Orkut, Myspace all failed due to emergence of Facebook. If another better social networking platform comes up, Facebook will go down...But I don't see that happening in near future. Facebook does look like going to be soaring up higher and higher if you look at the rate of their growth in not just the number of users but also their features and company size.
> I just cannot imagine that if you write something in 20 lines in any language I cannot write that in 40 lines in Java

Try lisp. Hell, try Python or Ruby. You may be surprised.

That being said, if you are determined to write Java-esque code in other languages, I'm certain you won't reduce the number of lines greatly.
For the user this is easy to copy. For the pirate this is easier to pirate than a mainstream game, since the pirate doesn't have to figure out how to crack it or make a keygen. Instead they just upload the file straight from the company.
You're spot on there.

He's a lawyer. In fact, he applied for a masters degree here and got into a couple of decent universities. But we were scared that his drinking would go completely out of control here, where drinking (especially binge drinking) is a lot more common than in India. So, he deferred his plans to come here and work for a while in India.

But perhaps a change of scene is really what he needs.
Historically there has been some truly awful code, no doubt, and much still being written.

There is a growing breed of trader though who can code well. Coding well in a variety of languages is becoming a basic skill along with advanced math & stats for certain types of trading jobs.
What happens when politician doesn't pay his bill? This.
I feel the same way about Ruby and Python.
Sounds great, it did from the first announcement.

Has anyone here tried it? I applied but nothing back yet.
Not only that. It buys you one of the fastest Lisp implementations, which runs nicely on Windows, Linux and Mac - everywhere with native GUI. Windows isn't that well supported by open source Lisps. The commercial ones are much better in that respect. Though, for me the Mac OS X support is more important, since I'm also not a regular Windows user.
I just like how everyone is nerdraging about how bad Blizzard is, etc, and have completely overlooked possibly that you live in an era where offensive crap is automatically blamed on the company.

Think, if you will, what the hell Fox or CNN or someone would do with a SCII map that utilized suicide bombers or something. Good christ.

Talk about giving the idiots that think that all of us gamers are off to kill hundreds of innocent people because we do it in a video game a carton-load of ammo.

Then we'll have any good or "innovative" games completely yanked, and you'll bitch more about "losing" freedoms because some company didn't cover their ass.

Swear it's like a bunch of bickering high school kids in here sometimes.
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> What if I "steal" your identity? Technically, you don't lose anything. I am just borrowing your information. Should this be okay too?

You can't steal identity. You are instead impersonating someone and you are defrauding someone else. 'identity theft' is a new word for the ancient problem of fraud.
Throughout the whole catastrophe, the white house has been suppressing scientists' statements, impeding 3rd parties from examining the results, and permitting BP to basically hide the evidence. As Carl Safina said in his TED talk about the subject, "We put the murderer in charge of the crime scene."

Who's in charge here, BP or the US Federal Government? Seems like BP is.
I'd buy some weapons, kill a few pimps, steal their hoes, and pimp em out. Price tag is probably like 2000 for the weapons/grenades, the money is for a while!

On the other hand if you want non-insane, I would buy an appartment building, flip it, and try to make long term money on that. With partners of course.

Honestly for 25 grand I'd live off the money for a few months and find a job.
Sounds like the downloaders are treating the game as a demo. If I get a game for free I'm more willing to stop playing if it sucks. If I pay I'm going to see if I can get into it.
I think he's referring to defining existing graphs in the code. Because of the relationship between code and data in lisp, you don't need to define graph objects and connect them all at run-time, which you'd have to in Java.

It's like who in Python you could say

mydict = { "a":1, "b":2 }

as opposed to

HashMap d = new HashMap();
d.put("a", 1);
d.put("b", 2);
am i the only one who doesn't see the actual article? this is just a link to a title...
True - joel kaplan's group in FID was the source iirc.
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Do you have more brothers? If you do can they be of assistance somehow? Does your brother look up to you, see you as a role model? Does he have good friends?

I don't have more brothers, but there are a few family members around my brother to help and support him. However, the generation gap is a problem. He does relate best to me and look up to me as a bit of a role model. He doesn't really have any good friends, not any that he hangs out with.

Sorry to hear about your dad and glad that you took a positive lesson from his life.

Thanks for your help.
You haven't cried until Amazon owed you money :-|

I have never felt so helpless in my life. Had about 4k with them, and their excuse for not giving me my money was "you're selling way too many books too fast". To get my money, I had to take a mugshot, holding up tens of USPS receipts with a pile of books behind me (as if it wasn't enough I was selling my most precious collections, if not friends.)
Actually I wasn't talking about the monetary value. It's not an investment scheme but a way to keep souvenirs for the future.

(Apparently the people at HN tend to think of everything as a business opportunity ;) )
Consider this another vote for Richter's "CLR Via C#" http://www.amazon.com/CLR-via-Dev-Pro-Jeffrey-Richter/dp/073...

Get the latest edition, covering .NET 4. The chapters on concurrency and I/O alone are worth the price of admission.
totally wrong venue for this
If I read the article correctly, you can tinker with it. You just can't use your tinkered version to host a game.

If I'm wrong, please correct me.
I like this, its awesomeness increase proportionally to its silliness.

It's also interesting that even on a planet as big (or objectively as small) as ours, you can only go a few levels deep with this kind of research.
You should talk to a specialist about this, not HN.