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Dead simple, you can't get much simpler than http://wasitup.com/

Three form fields. Click submit. Done. It's been monitoring my blog for the last six months
If you carry $170,000 of debt without even realizing how much the total amount is, that says something about you, something that may in fact make some people less willing to marry you.

Having hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt is fine. It's a curse of the middle class, at one point or another--a mortgage if not student loans. You're supposed to realize what you're doing when you borrow that kind of money, though. Running up hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt without fully recognizing what you're doing seems irresponsible. You're mentally evading your responsibilities to others.

I can't even comprehend the mindset involved in that. How can you spend years paying for anything (even a car!) without even once trying to keep track of where you stand in terms of paying it off?
This is a bit like saying the iPhone is "bad" closed ... most founders still have iPhones.
Starcraft 2 has a huge community and no balance issues.
Coinstar Not Necessarily Not Partnering With Apple On Something Or Nothing
> Lately it seems like this discussion group has become increasingly anti-Apple. It didn't use to be this way, originally it was far more neutral. I wonder what's changed?

HN is frequented by developers. Probably, the increased hostility is at least partly a reaction to Apple's iOS App Store policies.
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Publishers likely won't want the sort of user leakage that comes from an offsite link.

The most interesting CAPTCHA innovation I've seen recently is from AdCopy, who replace it with an advertisement that contains an answer the user must then provide - guaranteeing that the user pay attention to the ad. A portion of the revenue gets paid to the publisher, turning the CAPTCHA into a revenue stream.

Sample here: http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/savetsl/captcha
Lotus took Microsoft's word seriously when Gates proclaimed OS/2 was the future and Windows was an interim step. Lotus invested a lot in 123 for OS/2 (123/G, IIRC) and, when the IBM/Microsoft divorce made evident they chose the wrong side, they had to port it to Windows all over again (with lots of different and conflicting APIs). Microsoft had no such problem.
It seems counterintuitive to simply list cost of rent and utilities when discussing photographers as if no other business suffers the same. It'd be more interesting to list expenses specific to the industry.
The model 100 was in a class of its own. Crazy battery life, a day of continuous use on a bunch of penlights.

Oh, and here is your trophy ;) :

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Do check out the algol 68 reference in this thread though!
Considering the immense popularity of Starcraft in Korea, should I take this statement to mean all Koreans who play Starcraft are actually white males?
You should fly Day[9] out to SF to commentate. He's done a few noteworthy things other than be awesome at Starcraft that are valuable to startups:

* Never give up (eg: play SC for 10 years)

* Build a huge following around his daily series

* And my god he is so evangelical about what he loves, he exudes love for the game - http://blip.tv/file/3486428

/tenuous.
Nothing can be much worse than Sharepoint.

edit: there are categories of software that have representatives that are more dysfunctional than Sharepoint. Still, Sharepoint is pretty much the worst document management/intranet package you can find.
Damn, here I am trying to learn Haskell and master Lisp, and it's really getting good at Starcraft I should be focusing on.
This isn't about which CEO is the better human being. It's about which management style is more effective.
I would rather be paid less an hour if it was made up with PTO days

Part of the point of the article was that this is what happens. Your work is worth a certain amount for which you are getting paid, regardless of how it is amortized over a time period with or without PTO. If more PTO is mandated, it will necessitate a decrease in pay. The exception would be the unlikely result of people's productivity improving to counteract the loss of value caused by the extra time off.
Vehicles?
Like I said in the other thread, I started Shopify build it up to 30 something employees and run it as CEO.

I play Starcraft2 right now and am usually in the top 10 of my diamond league. In fact the company is almost completely stacked with video game players. The article here is probably not taking itself very seriously but it's definitely close to what I've done ( unconsciously ) and it works extremely well.

It sounds silly but the day to day work of a CEO isn't very different from playing a game of Starcraft.

Before starting a startup I used to compete in many gaming tournaments. Not sure if that helped me much in preparation for becoming a CEO but it definitely got me started on programming. My first programming project was to decode the network protocol of quakeworld and create a proxy server that could inject all sorts of useful information into the network stream. Cool stuff.
This point seems to come up every time Bill's name is mentioned these days. It is really funny how he has gone from Darth Vader to Mother Theresa in a few short years. I mean its nice that he is giving all his money away and making a difference, but everyone seems to skip over the fact that his money was made by running an evil empire and being one of the most reviled figures in the computer world.
The best thing about WoW is being thrown into a group of 10 or 25 strangers trying to solve a problem that requires careful, coordinated action. The group dynamics that emerge can be fascinating and the interactions and history of these groups reflect a lot of common real-world social dynamics.

It's interesting as a near-pure meritocracy too. A 15-year old kid might be calling the shots for 24 other people twice his age if he's got the experience and skills to lead.

It becomes a treadmill pretty quickly though.
I see people write this all the time, and it makes me sick.

Bill Gates decided he made enough money at Microsoft and wanted to pursue other things. That's fantastic, for him and millions of others. Steve Jobs has decided to do what he loves until he can't any more. That's also fantastic, for him and for millions of others. They're both making positive changes for lots and lots of people. Who are you, or anyone else, to criticize that?

I don't see why these two need to be directly compared this way, as if Gates is finally showing his soft side means Jobs should too.
I didn't claim that it was. I do think it is worth considering all the costs and benefits of Bill G staying at MS. The benefits might be a better Windows. The costs are all the work he wouldn't have time to do outside the technology sphere.
I have a non-web, non-desktop based twitter app with a couple thousand users and just haven't had the time available to figure out how to get it doing newAuth.

xAuth seems like it'd work, but, as stated in the article, that involves me going through some hoops to get back to this level of security. woo.
I use http://wasitup.com and the free version of http://pingdom.com. Both seem to work well, although Pingdom has the advantage of a monthly summary.
everyone seems to skip over the fact that his money was made by running an evil empire and being one of the most reviled figures in the computer world

Just because you believe this does not mean everyone else does.
Sounds like you've never been forced to use any of the Oracle Applications webapps!
> Do you want to close down a major power plant to install a PC based replacement and hope that it works first time?

This will probably sound weird but I actually feel better with that 1960's stuff in there even if the PC based replacement would work the first time.

If only because I think that it wouldn't last. PCs are built using cheap components, even the industrial ones. It's very hard to even find a power supply that will last more than a few years. And anything with a 'regular' fan on it is immediately suspect.
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No, I think he meant spammers.
"MS probably could have made some decent products."

Microsoft products are great, not all of them but most of their software products are, it is the reason they own the desktop market and have millions of users using many of their software products every day.

I like Apple's products as well... but it is the hardware that I like... not so impressed with Apple's software such as Mail or Xcode.
great book.
They may be bad, but come on, much worse than Sharepoint?
"Evil Empire" you are funny and misinformed.
Why not just use one of the terms that already in our daily vocabulary like: Cell or Mobile.
Steve Jobs releasing some new shiny thing that makes the lives of some very affluent people (on the global scale for wealth) magrinally better, doesn't compare, is not even in the same ball park, as ensuring that hundreds of thousands of people don't go blind in central Africa. That is my belief, and of course I understand that not everyone else shares it.
Okay, simple: how the f*ck do you run up $150k+ in debt and NOT KNOW THE BALANCE? Continually amazed with people.

Makes a good point about the potential pointlessness (and lack of financial feasibility) of higher education. Makes me question getting an MBA.
Particularly when one compares the aspects of scouting, harassing, turtling, and expanding to the similar goals of Go to control board territory, eliminate enemy stones, and defend strong holds.

The real difference is in Starcraft you're dynamically adjusting to your opponent's strategy in real time with fog-of-war obscuring your view and no benefit of a turn based cadence.
NextStep?
Rise of Nations was the "real" Age of Empires sequel, and much better than AoE3.
I can't agree with you that WoW is a meritocracy. Give two people similarly situated characters and it might very well come down to experience, skills, and leadership ability.

However, the ability to arrive at "similarly situated characters" is not distributed in an equitable manner, and that grossly tilts the playing field. For example, WoW trades advancement for time. If you've got 720 hours to kill and spent them in the same calendar years as I did, you were going to end up with a level 60 character and a fair amount of gear (with differences depending on your WoW skill, guild, etc, but negligible compared to the differences between a lvl 1 and lvl 60 character).

Maybe skills would let you lead a raiding guild taking down what was then "top content", maybe they would not. But if you didn't have 720 hours free, perhaps because you had to work three jobs to keep your children fed, then you weren't going to be leading that raid, regardless of your charming personality or skill with stance dance.

(Speaking of stance dance, I have a few years of practice of flipping between Academic Liberal Or At Least Educated By Them and Republican Somewhere To The Right of Atilla The Hun. Sometimes in the same conversation.)
Translation from press release speak:

[The iPad is great for entertaining one person, but sometimes you want a TV because you want to entertain more than one person. Apple TV lets your TV be entertaining, as Steve Jobs demoed yesterday. It's $99, which is cheaper than an iPad. Also, you can bore people with slideshows of your last fishing trip if you have both. Compared to the old price of $299, it's priced like an accessory, like my fuschia Fendi iPad carrier fanny pack.]
That's exactly what I experienced (and still do) while working with Facebook APIs.
Sometimes, it is better to search StackOverflow first.
Apple G4 graphite tower to run some 68k stuff on it.
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The /Mac/ was a pale imitation of itself, by those standards. Developing a Mac app was just as gnarly as developing a Windows 3.1 app, but by 1995 Microsoft had Visual Basic (to Apple's HyperCard, which was virtually moribund at that point) and MS took off and /owned/ the database client market.

Apple never really believed in its development tools group, and the market share they lost in the 90s shows that. They are still paying for lost opportunity.
python is like basic. basic on steroids, but still basic. perfect for people with 'straight' brain. just like you.
you should have put in your battle.net ID and that Shopify is hiring :P
Is there a focused lean startup community/discussion site for entrepreneurs? 
Where the discussion is focused only on entrepreneurs and the lean startup?

I'm looking for somewhere to talk to other entrepreneurs about business, pricing, marketing, hiring, legal, suppliers, financing, investment etc without noise from other subjects.

thanks
> We need not limit ourselves to games, either

I think the opposite - that is, why is it impressive that someone is a good piano player, whereas being a top Starcraft player, not so much.
God, that thing /sucks/.
So you didn't solve it?
I edit in Emacs, then build and debug in VS (when I can). It's a good combo and less clumsy than it sounds.
Monitorus. They use delicious periods, so I just Google it every time.

I also use http://scoutapp.com , which has saved my bacon when the problems were a little more nuanced then "the home page fails to return HTTP 200." Well worth the $20 a month if you've got a web application with paying users, in my opinion.
I'm sorry, but being good at Starcraft only means that you're good at Starcraft.
Yes, worse than Lotus Notes or Sharepoint.

I've seen some gibberingly awful Oracle web interfaces for HR stuff like entering time cards, but the worst was a "Software Life Cycle Management" thing that a client was using — a bizarre issue tracker with piles of inane baked in process.

When you logged in it would open a sole chrome-less popup window. You weren't allowed to be logged in more than once per account: one computer, one browser session, one window, one tab, period. There were no hyperlinks and only one URL — all the buttons POSTed a form with tons of parameters back to the same URL, with lots of state both in the session on the server and independently in cookies. You couldn't link to anything, it had a ridiculous taxonomy system, and the search was actively antagonistic to you finding anything. Most of the actual data worth looking at was in unindexed Word documents attached to the issues.
who cares? you can say this about any major release number OS. go ahead and throw out netbsd stats all you want. no one tries to hack that b/c no one cares. stats are a funny game, my friend.
> If that's changed, you should probably go update that.

If that weren't against Wikipedia policies, I would. Then again, I don't consider Perl 5 "complete" either, whatever "complete" means.

> There's no complete, finished implementation of the Perl 6 spec, right? Is the spec itself finished?

No to both, but why does that matter? There'll be a Perl 6.1 spec and a Perl 6.2 spec and so on. Meanwhile, people who find a Perl 6 implementation usable for their purposes will use it and people who don't won't. Fortunately, every release is more usable to more people.

As for "pre-release", I don't believe in playing linguistic existential games. Software exists or it doesn't. You've released it or you haven't. It does something or it doesn't. Perpetual betas and alphas and pre-releases and unstable versions and (even) release candidates are for people who lack the courage to release good software.

As for "perceived slights", insinuating that Perl 6 doesn't exist or isn't useful because the spec isn't "complete" (whatever that means) or no single implementation is "finished" (whatever that means) or no one has said "This particular release of this particular implementation is stable for every domain and every purpose and everyone who might ever want to use it" is awfully silly and (in my mind) deserves a challenge.
I remember really loving XP when it first came out. It was much better than 98 and Me and faster than 2000.
Asians love Starcraft too. Hell, everyone loves starcraft.
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It's all about quality, not quantity. I'm surprised to see Apple jumping into social music when there's already services like last.fm which already excel and will be hard to dislodge.
Quite the contrary, the way I'm reading it.

on one reading, for example, the previous policy limited future changes to 'minor' ones; this is important because honestly., who ever revises their opinion on their use of a site based on their monitoring of a privacy policy? a minute fraction. Now, "and we expect most such changes will be minor" is gone.

Their freedom to hand the data to third parties is now much, much wider (for <processing> not the operation, improvement or development of services).

Search the page for 'sensitive' - this is vital. Look: before, google refused to collect or use it without your consent. Now, it can, without consent; it merely requires consent before sending it to third parties. Sensitive info is defined as 'related to confidential medical information, racial or ethnic origins, political or religious beliefs or sexuality and tied to personal information.'

They also now retain the right to store the content of the SMSses you send.

They no longer bind themselves by promising to store credit card data in encrypted form.

They no longer promise to provide services, like google search, that you do not need to provide personal information to use.

They allow themselves to burrow detail about privacy policies in myriad 'help files' or 'specific notices'.
This argument only holds true if people buy TV's to watch stuff on them. TV's aren't about watching stuff. At least they aren't only about watching stuff.
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There is a Horse in the Apple Store
Same here. Plus...

- There are many things you cant do with Graph, so I'm still sticking on using the old REST Api.

- Facebook OAuth 2.0 implementation is incomplete, e.g. no refresh access_token method provided.

- Current support for iFrame Facebook.com apps is premature.

With all these, they even planned to remove old authentication method & going full force on iFrame end of this year. Hopefully they really can fix all those problems by then.
- Good StarCraft Players Play StarCraft All The Time, And Don't Invent And Build Real Things.

- Good StarCraft Players Know How To Configure Their Video Card Settings, Making Them Savvy Enough To Deploy And Manage Business Servers.

- Good StarCraft Players Master A Small Predictable Walled Garden, Not The Vast Outside Ever-Changing World Of Business.

Seriously. Using that logic, you can make the argument that a porn star who has a high PPM (penetrations per minute) should be hired by startups. ;)
Nice, thanks! (Hmm, I wonder how much it relies on maven..)

Now that I remember (I haven't tried it yet), there's also this: http://github.com/senny/emacs-eclim

(a headless eclipse instance providing eclipse features inside emacs)
As long as (Long-Term Increased iTunes Store Revenue due to Ping) > (Development and Maintenance Costs of Ping), I can't see why it's surprising. Perhaps you disagree that the above equation will be true for Apple?
I don't live in SF. The tournament has a regional bias on multiple levels. Not that I take this event incredibly seriously, but I do consider Activision's region locking deeply offensive, as someone with dear friends on far-flung continents, some of whom I have fond memories of weekend college LAN parties, and I occasionally like to revisit those memories with them.

Fortunately, all of those (RTS) memories are of Age of Kings and Age of Mythology, so I can't say StarCraft's locking affects me too much lately. But I'm not going to stay silent while people try to wall off the Internet out of greed. Games should be an opportunity to come together without barriers of language or nation.
The article is interesting, but short on evidence.

Has anyone in academia performed psychometric testing on game players versus non-game players?
I wrote http://github.com/decklin/curlicue for precisely this reason. It's kind of a hack (shell script!), but I've gotten some mileage out of it.
Ahh, that's an informative link. Thanks for posting that.

You didn't really answer my question about a native Mac app, but that may be because you can't talk about anything that may or may not be in development, which is understandable. In any case, just to re-iterate, my customer feedback is that I'd be much happier with Netflix streaming on my Mac if there were a native Mac app that incorporated the iPad implementation of PlayReady, without the need for installing Silverlight. On the bright side, I'm definitely happier with Mac streaming since learning from elq that Netflix supports "HD" streams on the Mac since May. I guess I should have subscribed to the official Netflix blog, as I'd have heard about it before yesterday.

p.s. Also in that article is this gem:

In addition, Netflix founder and CEO Reed Hastings sits on the Microsoft board.

I guess we've hashed this to death already, and you've made good points about the technical merits of Silverlight (version 3, at least, which was not available to the public when Mac streaming was originally released), but given the relationship between Netflix's CEO and Microsoft, you can probably understand why people would be skeptical that the choice to use Silverlight was an engineering-driven decision, which was staunch's point in his original post, I think.

At any rate, I think you and elq have made a good argument that as of v3, it's probably a better technical solution than Flash, at least.
Yeah it's a meritocracy assuming you put in the minimum baseline of time it takes to grind up gear. This takes a lot less time than it used to though. I'm not sure if you played recently but the whole thing has been tremendously dumbed down. Players of average ability can now clear all raid content without a huge weekly time investment.

Heroic modes are a different story though.
Way to build a short and beautiful step path to the land of Not Invented Here. It's one think not to write a tutorial to using one of the well supported OAuth gems. But you didn't actually commit to helping people either. If (and when) someone finds a bug in your implementation, they won't be able to fix it with a gem update, they'll just have to return to your gist for the lifetime of their app.

On the other hand, you've done a beautiful job at showing how simple OAuth can be. If I ever want to write a twitter client in Io or something, I'll definitely be ripping off your (apparently still copyrighted) code to do it.
Indeed. I just recently shopped around and bought a new TV. As someone that had a budget of upwards of $2k, everyone and their mother in every store I went to, including Fry's and Costco, were pushing 3D TVs at me. They all needed $200+ glasses to work (that's just awesome when you have lots of friends over...), were all giving me nothing other than 3D to justify the increased cost, and nobody really mentioned what I already knew: there's a dearth of 3D content out there. I think every store that had a 3D TV I could try out was permanently tuned to either ESPN 3D or the manufacturer's demo video.

By the time my new 46" Samsung LED TV needs replaced (I give it 5 years at the earliest), I bet neither the 3D technology nor the content will have improved significantly. I haven't seen much 3D content that adds rather than detracts in a very uniquely gimmicky way, ever, and I don't see all the studios and manufacturers agreeing to a common set of standards very soon...
One cultivates the head and the heart, the other only the head.
If Mongoose is playing, we could have an intern-only round! I could use an excuse to fly back to San Francisco for a weekend.. :-D