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Except the iPhone isn't as worrisome as StarCraft to me. Ultimately, the iPhone's problems are going to force Apple to open up, because they are decreasing the quality of the iPhone ecosystem.

And even if it doesn't, the iPhone platform is not actually a communication medium. Obviously it contains one, and people build communication media on top of it, but Apple, as far as I know, doesn't prevent you from making calls to China, or from communicating via any app that is distributed both in China and here in the States. Your provider may charge you a pretty penny, but you're free to do it.

Compare that to StarCraft, which represents a vision of a terrifyingly closed Internet, where every nation has its own walled garden and you cannot get out. Apple has a walled garden, but you're free to enter or leave any time you want.
I can email the code, if you insist. :-)

(I thought about what the job would mean and it's too long since I studied, I just don't have the math self confidence to go halfway around the planet for a job. To do the green card dance etc, I'd need to feel confident about job fit.)

Edit: Too late, will sleep now. I'll try to remember and check this if you answer, when I wake up.
Not everybody that is using the Apple product line as a yardstick by which to measure success is an apple 'fanboi[y]'.

I've used the iphone/ipod example myself elsewhere in this thread but don't own either product.

To immediately label someone and start calling names says more about you than it does about them.

I suggest you scan the tone of the conversation around you and moderate accordingly.

People can't seem to mention the Apple brand on HN without you jumping all over them with accusations.

For instance: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1637376
Fun article, I agree the same principles in the article can be applied to many skill based hobbies.

The thing I love about Starcrack is how dynamic each game can be. The three races are so different and unique, yet balanced. There are so many different ways a game can end; there is a counter to every counter. You have to manage economy. You have to manage army production. Technology upgrades, information reconnaissance, micro-harassment, army positioning. Your brain has to be on top of everything, and you have to make decisions quick.

Its like compressing your startup work-life into a 20 minute simulation. Its kind of crazy, I actually get a bit of adrenaline and nervousness from wanting to win so badly.
Very true. That's because only good programmers can code it.
Pretty sure everyone else counts spammers too ... and anything else they need to reach a newsworthy or investor-friendly figure.
Have any of you detractors even played starcraft? I'd like you to try it. For all intents and purposes, starcraft (or any other real time strategy game) is essentially training for effective resource allotment, time based strategic planning, and command/control skill. All managers should be have to be excellent players.
I can appreciate that point of view, though I don't totally agree.

The problem I have is that they're no longer doing the same thing - it's like comparing Bill Gates to Donald Trump. It might have made sense to compare Bill and Steve while they were working in the same field, but why bother any more?
Interesting. The young couple in the article can't seem to resist the historically low borrowing costs available to them and that renting their place could be an option if they would not be able to sell, should they be required to move. Question- Does purchasing a home drastically reduce labor mobility as it stands in this country right now? In other words, if I want to go out to California with a group of three partners to start up a company that I think will have enormous impact and be disruptive to an existing industry, would I be less likely to take such a venture if I thought that an obligation like a mortgage would tie me down? With the rise in home ownership over the last decade (now in reverse), have we prevented ourselves from geographic mobility because of that dreadful debt burden in a 30 year fixed mortgage? Richard Florida describes this same issue in his new book, The Great Reset. I would agree with him that emphasis should not be as great on homeownership (and accompanying tax credits) and instead should be more towards driving new creative technologies and systems that this country needs to compete.
Trojans - different kinds of hacking trojans and their functions
It really couldn't be much easier with the twitter gem, and it's way easier to clean up after an "oh shit I left credentials in that public script" moment; just re-generate the secrets on the twitter site.

https://gist.github.com/cfc477a0c5895e8bd1bd

Wrote this when I was drunk to prove a point.
I haven't played much Starcraft but the thing that makes Go endlessly fascinating is the dynamic behavior of groups and the fact that a single stone placed on one end of the board can instantly & completely reverse the fortunes of stones on the other end of the board. Is anything similar possible in Starcraft?
That is right, apt-get update only updates the list. apt-get upgrade upgrade currently installed packages to the latest version.

If you want to do it all on one line, "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" is the answer.

The && means "run the second command only if the first command completes without an error" .
Apple iPad VS Samsung Galaxy Tab
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Hey, I resemble that remark.
Enterprise software can be surprisingly awful. blasdel's story is the best, but I remember being astonished that you could actually pay for version control software. The fact that said version control software didn't even have atomic commits but did, interestingly enough, run on its own proprietary file system was almost a Kafkaesque punchline.
According to Alexa, apple.com is in the top 50 sites on the internet (#42 - coincidence Hitchhiker fans?) and top 30 (#27) for the U.S.

So yes, I agree they are "mainstream" and welcoming them to the web probably isn't necessary...
Who Says You Can’t Play Games On Linux? Caster Is Amazing
Wow I love this comment.
Depends on the state. In most, assets and liabilities acquired prior to marriage remain with the individual.
Which is which? I'm not going to beat a dead horse, you can look at my comments in the other thread for my thoughts on StarCraft itself, but I'm going to speak generally on RTS:

I look at RTS as a sort of dance that eventually becomes a contest to find the better dancer. Even so, the better dancer may lose, and the better dancer may dance better and lose simply because the dance was better losing than winning. A loss has no real-world consequences, and as such, the sort of person I'd like to work with has no fear of losing. Only fear that the game will be uninteresting. I play for war stories, not to win.

Of course, games where one gets trounced tend to be uninteresting, and as embarrassing for the victor as the loser.
Fifty pounds? You must have huge feet.

But on the topic at hand (as it were): I was hoping for some German-inspired mashup name, like "Device that allows one person to sometimes hear part of what another person is saying, no matter where they are, at least 80% of the time".

Well, now that I type that, I suppose it's not very funny. But arguably more funny than calling it "head".
I haven't followed SpamAssassin in several years, but have any startups ever tried running their comments through it?

As you point out, it seems like many of their rules for emails would apply equally well to blog comments.
Phishing is cross-platform.
A really good pianist can literally bring me to tears with the skill and feeling of his art. No RTS player, no matter how brilliant, will ever do this. I admire Olympic athletes but an artist that can make me look at the world in an entirely new way or make me feel something I've never felt before is on a different level, IMO.
MS Access 1.0 was fantastic when it came out. I can almost taste that box arriving in my office.

23 freakin' floppies though! Awesome piece of software.
I call it my "Exo-brain"
You could just use http://twitterfeed.com. Unless of course your script modifies the RSS data significantly before posting it.
I've did a lot of gaming when I was younger, and always on a super competitive level. I think it's more that personality trait of close to obsessive competitivity that translates into being good employees, or anything they put their mind to for that matter.
Some of the things you list are very concrete in-game examples, but I feel can all be summarized as a result of people taking the game more "serious". But you definitely have a point.

Would I ever mention anything about my gaming history on a job interview though? Unless I know the interviewer would be really into it, sadly, no.
I don't think you'll find a better community than HN. These topics might not seem to be on the front page much but if you post a question about a specific issue I'm sure you'll find plenty of experts offering their advice.
I have a lazy eye, so 3D doesn't work on me, so I upvoted this on principle.

I refuse to bow down to my stereoscopic overlords.
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If Linux, please specify the distro, as that is basically what I am choosing between.

I use Ubuntu 10.10 (I generally switch to the development versions of Ubuntu around the second or third alphas), but I am not sure that there is much difference between similar versions of Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint (with mostly the same applications, all that would differ would be some customization). I imagine RPM-based distributions like Mandriva, OpenSUSE, and Fedora would be similar.
And made so many other competitor products better too. We wouldn't be where we are now without them.
The launched with so few featured artists and recommended users, that everyone ends up following Lady Gaga, Rick Rubin and Alexandra Patsavas, so naturally spammers gravitate around them.
Yeah, I won a game earlier tonight because I kept a scout in his base, which he didn't notice, and was able to respond immediately to his tactics, allowing me to use minimal forces to great effect.

Although I won, technically my play was sloppy because I didn't have to utilize all of my resources to wrap up the game.

Things don't go to the extremes of Go in SC2, but the dynamic is still there.
This guy has a good point. I'm using FreeBSD 8.1 at the moment. I push my app up to a git repository and then pull it down to Linux(debian) to test it and it works. My friend pulls it down to a Mac and it works.
Victorian Orientalism
You're being evasive, which is equal parts amusing and irritating. Maybe Perl 6 is an exercise in deconstructing the concept of a software product ever being done?

As long as the official language specification refers to Perl 6 in the future tense, I will as well. Take it up with Larry Wall.

For those of us who don't play linguistic existential games, BTW, Perl 5 has been "done" since 1994. I think most of us recognize that you can continue maintaining and updating software after it's done/finished/released. It appears the Perl 6 community has been innovative in the discovery that you can release software before it's done or finished and go Derrida on someone's ass for implying that an incomplete implementation of a draft specification is, in fact, incomplete.
At least it's driven down prices on decent non-3D TVs. Got a nice 55" recently that has two USB ports and plays all my AVIs/etc straight off external drives.
Grungy Tower Defense for iPhone
I think the greater point here is that you should hire people who have a real passion and knack for something in their life that isn't necessarily what you're hiring them for.

Given the choice between two mostly equal candidates, I'd choose the one that could wax philosophic about StarCraft 2 or their boat building project.
The point is that you're taking the time to master something in your free time because you enjoy it. StarCraft 2 just happens to be something relatable to the author.

You're fixating on the individual pebbles when you're supposed to see the mosaic he made.

That's the problem with kitschy blog material that gets a lot of attention, 80% of your audience goes off into la-la on the irrelevant minutiae.
I thought the iPad was a joke, and by all accounts it seems to be a success, so I'm wary of judging a product's future success based on my own personal opinions.
http://hackerne.ws/item?id=1661890
So far, so sad. Google maps says 15 hours and 9 minutes of traveling. I hope videos will be available.
I actually know one of the designers who worked on iTunes 10, and frankly, I'm tired of seeing all the hate. All of the designers worked really hard on it and considered and balanced hundreds of conflicting constraints that no one outside Apple has any insight of. Everyone is just bitching based on the one way they happen to see iTunes and not considering the whole picture - because they don't have the whole picture. (And neither do I.) Things change. Get over it.
I think DN was the first game I played where you walked about a real environment with realistic objects and furniture etc. instead of empty rooms on a spaceship. I remember seeing it at a friends house and being totally blown away that... he was running around outside on a street. It was also the first FPS game 'with attitude', Grand Theft Auto style. Also had some cool gameplay mechanics like CCTV terminals. In fact I think I only had a demo of it, not even the full game, and it still made an impact on me.
I saw this when it came out and thought "someone's been reading Anathem"
That is a great idea.
Marketing is About Facts, Not Opinions
What are they for, then?
I agree. There are a lot of small business, marketing, tech, etc forums around but HN is a cut above. From what I can see (and admittedly I'm new), the quality of discussion is way above the average. So let's hear your questions :)
If by production you mean a mission-critical computer and not just a server in a datacenter, one of my previous companies has 486s with DOS still running machine tools (manufacturing equipment). It's amazing how long a computer can last when it cost a million bucks originally (with attached hardware, of course).
I think your best bet (apart from — or maybe including — HN) is going to be the Lean Startup Circle. (http://groups.google.com/group/lean-startup-circle) It has a whole bunch of startups, all following the patterns of Blank, Ries, McClure, etc., and sharing thoughts, questions, results, and so on.
3D is the future. Even if these first attempts aren't perfect, we will get there.
Ask HN: Contract/Consulting Gigs (September 2010)?
In the same vein as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1659409, Who's looking for a short term consulting/contract gigs on HN? I am myself interested in Chicago area/telecommute and something e-mail/server/Linux/perl/ruby related.

Post away and thanks in advance !
Never heard of a couple wanting to know if their prospective photographer had a degree before hiring them though!
Who Will Champion Entrepreneurship?
I don't see what the big deal is. It took me a few hours to update Factor's Twitter library for OAuth -- and that included writing the OAuth support library. The whole thing is only a couple of hundred lines of code.
I know it’s not the topic of the submission but I would have very much liked to get an explanation. Is it maybe a guide horse? See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guide_horse
Unless you're dating a doctor or a lawyer, I can't think of another profession that requires you to borrow anymore than for an engineering degree (i.e. a four year college education).
I use linux: gentoo, arch, and ubuntu. But if you're using ruby, you should just use rvm. Then the distro doesn't matter that much.
Part of that "other stuff" would be countless hours of finishing/retouching/correcting, etc. Some photographers will spend a week P/T to work through the photos they took on one night.

I think there'd be a few people who get into wedding services expecting it to be lucrative and then find it a lot more difficult than they expect. I've mentioned on here before (check comments history) a client of mine who got married, noticed the huge prices, bought a wedding services business and then sold it within six months - more hassle than it was worth!
As a Rubyist, I hack on a Linux desktop and a MacBook Pro. On my desktop, I'm running Gentoo unstable, Snow Leopard 10.6.4 on the MacBook Pro. It's been my experience, however, that Ubuntu tends to dominate the community of Rubyists using Linux.

That said, OSX seems to be the most popular choice among developers, followed by Ubuntu/Fedora/CentOS.
Yes, this is the only way a pony would be allowed in the Apple Store, and probably why people are not going to pet it and stuff -- it's not nice to interfere with the behavior of a guide animal.
The video states A/B testing doesn't help you find the global maximum, which I agree with.

So how do you go about finding the global maximum? Using A/B testing you could create some variations that are 'wild' to hope to get lucky but it is not very efficient. What else can you do?
I know this is not the topic of submission here either, but I can't help but feel that picture in the wikipedia of the guide horse is horrible abuse. All those straps and chains, UGH. /shudders
3 authors are from Microsoft. I would expect them to be able to get current data and not need to speculate that much.

As for the questions raised in the blog post, they seem reasonable. The information in the PDF doesn't quite add up.
This is what I've been training for! Count Wolfire Games in.
Doesn't appear to be significantly different then a normal horse harness. How do you consider it abusive in any way that, say, leashing a dog isn't? Or do you consider that abuse as well?
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At least they gave it running shoes, though it seems to have lost one somewhere.
Blind people generally tend to be so doting on their guide animals that I'm sure the straps and chains are more than compensated by the shower of love he gets from his owner.
On the other hand, you've done a beautiful job at showing how simple OAuth can be.

That seems to be the main reason for sharing the code ("unoptimized and ugly code, walking you through Twitter's OAuth madness" and "All I wanted was a pseudo-code example of the steps involved in the auth process"). Seeing it laid out in a step-by-step piece of code helps you grok the process for either building your own independent work or using other libraries. This is pseudocode that just happens to be Ruby code too ;-) It's far too unstructured for you to realistically be using verbatim in your app.
Some of my most treasured memories, even years later, are epic games with friends at the peak of our skills. You may not see the art in it, but that doesn't mean there is none.

Some people juggle geese.
I'm confused, you can still not play Starcraft.
What do you mean by "sticky" in this context?
Yeah, degrees don't mean much compared to real samples and references.

I'm saying that but my wedding photographer had just come out of college. We paid $750 for the photos and it was a pretty good deal, she had some shots taken during school, they were pretty good and that was all we needed to decide. I think we were her first customers of her new company. It was a risk but now days, every aunt and uncle comes with a digital camera.
Poor availability of data for reanalysis has become much poorer
No, you don't become legally responsible for any debt you didn't sign for (that's true for your parents as well as your spouse). However, in the event of a divorce, the court will divide up the debts as well as the assets and assign them to both parties. This is certainly fair for debts that were incurred during the time the couple was married. Debts incurred before the marriage would be handled like assets brought into the marriage; in general, an effort will be made by the court to restore individuals to their pre-marriage state.

That said, marriage is about two people joining their lives together into one, and that means combining your financial lives as well. That means it's our income, our cars, our debt. Disagreement about money is one of the leading causes of divorce. In separating your finances, you are prone to living more like roommates than a married couple.
Wow, I wasn't expecting an actual horse. I thought for sure this was some kind of Trojan Horse metaphor about Ping and the iTunes store...
> That's the problem with kitschy blog material that gets a lot of attention, 80% of your audience goes off into la-la on the irrelevant minutiae.

Perhaps if titles/analogies/content were more sensical ....
The problem with 3D TV adoption:

-Lack of 3D content
-Lack of 3D TV standards - which causes the previous problem.
-Increased cost
-Decreased 2D quality
-Extra equipment required for some implementations

If 3D TV had a single standard that content producers could use to create their 3D content, and if consumers could watch it on TVs that required no extra equipment, and if the vast majority of 2D content still looked good on 3D displays, AND if the cost is not prohibitive, then 3D TV will have a shot at thriving in the market. As it stands right now, I think the best application for 3D displays is in specialized research and design, and limited consumer experiences (Avatar, shows at Disneyland, etc.).
Wow, this is highway robbery. People need to realize that they don't need to pay crazy money for a degree. Unless you go to one of the top 20 school in the US. You are getting nothing better than a state school degree. And some state schools are quite good (many programs are rated higher than all these private schools charging 20+K)

The best advice is to pay the minimum you can unless you get a shot at going to harvard. And if you do, some of these school now are offering free tuition for people making less than X amount of money.

I might be biased because I have a degree from a state university but that never prevented me from getting work.
Naked Twitter Safari Extension
Displaced "viral marketing?"
Xanadu.
Eh, last time I was at the Apple Store in South Beach a few people had their non-guide dogs inside. A horse wouldn't have been too out of place.
+1 for Matasano. They came to my employer and did major damage. Really bright and, equally importantly, really nice guys.
3D's just fine. I'm sure it'll sell a bunch of TV's the same way printing 'MEGA-BASS" on boomboxes and hooking the crossover to a little switch sold those in the 80's.

They can have their 3d. Just please, please don't make the 2d experience worse in order to shoehorn this nonsense into what should just be passive wall monitors. If there must be 3d on most tvs, please provide an easy way to turn it off.