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> It seems to be very similar to the entertainment industry, except that employed game developers will never achieve the fame or riches of a well known actor or producer.

Not quite as famous and rich, but I think the top-level game designers are famous and rich enough, especially famous among the audience the would-be developers themselves are part of, to provide the motivation. Many people really want to be the next Will Wright, Peter Molyneux, John Carmack, Sid Meier, etc., even if that isn't quite the same level of fame as being the next Arnold Schwarzenegger. The bigger problem is that the odds of becoming the next any of those are really low (and nobody new has managed to claw up into that list in >10 years).
It's much deeper than that. Think AT&T and the Unix source.

Remember for most of this time there was little overlap between the Unix and Windows worlds. A Unix user would no more care about Word and Excel than a Windows user would care about Emacs and FORTRAN.

Back in those days Microsoft developed software on a VAX and cross-compiled it, and had their own Unix, Xenix.
This depends heavily on the situation. It from the letter it sounds like the most realistic outcome of making waves is getting fired. Incompetence can become well rooted and surprisingly competent at protecting itself. If I were in this situation, I would keep my head down and start pumping out resumes.
More info on the smartcard pls.
What is an anti-hack kit?
Hey HN,

My cofounders and I have been working on a project for the last month or so, and we'd like to get your input on it. We wanted to hear your thoughts on what we're doing - so check out our landing page, and let us know what you think/understand. Does it sounds like something you guys would want to use?

We'll tell you guys more about exactly what we're doing as the conversation evolves, but we just wanted to see what the initial reaction is, and what you understand (i.e. are we describing it in a way that makes sense).

Really excited to hear your thoughts!

Cheers,
Nicolae, Kareem and Nav
Doesn't that depend on what the website is trying to achieve? Clearly there are plenty of sites out there whose functionality is necessarily dependant on JS. As long as they make clear that this is the case and what the website is supposed to do, is it all that bad if a website becomes otherwise useless without JS?
Ask HN: Good Bay Area Bio/ Headshot Photographer?
As part of updating my blog and Personal Bio, I would like to find a great cheap photographer for doing professional bio shots.

I would like to get a good headshot for profile pages on linkedin/ facebook, etc....

And I would like to get a few great shots that I can use to make my blog more personal, these should be fun, and professional looking.

In the next 2 months I plan to redo my personal website.

How much should I expect to pay for such a service?
This particular post was OK, but the site itself is amazing, it's got so much good TV writing info! I didn't know such a thing existed.
Disabled JavaScript myths
And forgive me for pointing this out...I don't want to be labeled stupid for relaying this...but the kid's posting on reddit was NOT an original idea.

Alex Jones or one of his affiliates posted an essay stating that if there truly were terrorists in America, they could suicide bomb 200 malls in a day for less than $200,000 -- and surely this would terrify the populace. We'd demand metal detectors at all public facilities. There could be a follow up attack every day. (with a "package left behind").

The end of the article goes to conclude that this doesn't happen, because the threat is not significant.

That this kid (or rather, the kid's friend) quoted a 'radical' libertarian on reddit (and didn't cite sources) HARDLY makes him a threat. Somebody at the FBI should be fired for the sheer idiocy of their profiling programs.
Hear hear. The user interface for my first app took me 3x as long as I expected, despite finding (unexpectedly) that Cocoa Touch to be one of the nicest API's I've encountered. It was because I re-built it several times to make it feel "right", and after watching users try it. Each time it got simpler. It probably only took a few days worth of coding for what went into the final app (the editing interface, not the whole thing) but the road to get there was long. I guess that's the value of an experienced UX designer -- they can do that work beforehand with paper and intuition.
How Do I Raise Seed Capital If I Don’t Know Any Investors?
All our plans start with a 30-day free trial so anyone can start with Silver or Gold plan and at the end of the trial period switch plans.

True, but that doesn't help people who don't get that much traffic within a 30 day period.

We also offer 100% Money Back Satisfaction Guarantee so if at the end of any month you aren't satisfied for any reason (including not reaching statistical significance), we'd be happy to offer you a full refund for the month.

Offering refunds is great, but it's even better if they're not needed. :-)
Unsearchable
Hi all,
I am interested in investing my time in a new idea called the Unsearchable. Many of us would have faced problems in the past where the search in a Google does not lead us to a solution. Some people should have found their own way in solving the problem. So we do want to give credits to people who find solutions to problems which are unsearchable. This was my basic idea.

I would like to basically create a site where users can post a solution to a problem which could never be found over the internet. We maintain a credit base system for people who find the solution. Credits are given if others like the solution and others may modify it and discuss about it in the comments. I don't know if something like this exists or not.

Please help me get your views on it. I know its a dumb idea :D but I want to know the facts about how good it would be if its implemented.
Sorry, missed that. I just went by what was said in the video, so I didn't realize there was a separate benefit to the $50 pledge other than what they said you get for the $20 pledge in the video. My bad.
10.0 ("Cheetah") was at least supposed to be cheetahy--i.e. really fast--at least compared to the Public Beta. That was the main focus of improvement there.
I think these are right.

# non-closed questions (broken out by answered/non) - http://odata.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/q/12626/

# questions with an accepted answer - http://odata.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/q/12627/

# questions forced to community-wiki vs those that were not - Don't know enough about their schema to answer this one. This could be the answer - http://odata.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/q/12635/
Doesn't the founder of the libpurple project work at Meebo? Since pretty much the beginning of the company?
Skip the soundtrack, but a professional voice (and more importantly professional recording) could do wonders for the perceived polishedness of the video. That being said, the content was enough to get me interested!
Chargify customers are strongly locked in because Chargify stores CC data.
Great feedback!

On pricing page: I agree this isn't perfect. What metric would you like us to segment our plans by ideally? We want to make this as simple as possible so folks know how to budget for this and so they can easily know which plan makes the most sense for them.

On additional features: Are there any other "value-add" services you think bigger companies might want besides just more visitors?

On 'select container': we realize this is a bit confusing and we're working on implementing a multi-select almost exactly as you described.

On choosing conversion action: right now we automatically track all reasonable conversion events on a page (clicks, form submissions, subsequent pageviews, custom events) and we want to make this even easier by allow you to explicitly create a custom conversion event to track by specifying it when you are editing the experiment.

On automatic suggestions for how a page could be changed: this is a hard one and we hope to get there eventually. In the mean time we're going to try to do a better job blogging about best practices and lessons we've learned working with our customers.

Thanks again for all the feedback!
I run a script every 15 minutes from cron that updates my iptables rules based on a whitelist of dynamic dns entries. That lets me logon from my laptop wherever I happen to be.
How about some god damn support for usb webcams in iChat?
Some people like to manually arrange files they way they'd like to. Like, for example, many of us developers. It's fine that some people don't want to, and I don't think it means much beyond personal preferences; but it isn't exactly astounding that developers might sometimes feel plenty comfortable manipulating files manually.

Besides, yes, it's easier than people think moving files around via command. And when I do it by command, I know what I did, so I can see what happened, and it's all under my control.
I like that.

Include the name of your company in the description "CarcinoDeath sells the bullets to kill cancer" and I think you've got a winner.
The old saw about how the only person who should be in power is the person who doesn't want to be in power, huh?
this looks sick. i like it.
This sounds a lot like StackExchange site. I understand you're limiting it in scope to only things that are impossible (or difficult) to find on the Web already, but the main problem I see with that is that many (most likely more than half) of users of QA sites didn't do a Google search to start with.

Some of the draw of a QA site is that someone can ask the question and the answer comes to them -- there's nothing to filter out the "easy" questions, or in the case of your idea, the already-answered questions.
Sounds like a cool idea, though it's not the first time I've heard something like this proposed. I was wondering how you'd decide if something was 'Unsearchable'? It seems to me that most of the problems you'd find nowadays are being mentioned and solved online. There are also plenty of basic communities (as simple as Yahoo Answers) that fill part of the same niche. I think it would be tough to get past that.
Apple Awarded 'Anti-Sexting' Patent
Offering refunds is great, but it's even better if they're not needed. :-)

Certainly agree! :)
I was discussing few days ago with someone who "work in IT" a project that he wants to get done. It's a Golf amateurs related website (JS/PHP App). I have told him that everything is simple and ready [can be found somewhere] (user login, querying a database, Image manipulation, user comments...) but the hard thing is putting all the functionalities together and making them really WORK. I estimated 1,500 USD, which I think quite low (pricing myself at around $15-20/hour), but I'm just starting and no kind of professional.

He thought it's quite high and he said he don't think such basic functionalities are quite hard to do. Yes, they are not. But testing, deploying, IE bugs, polishing and fixing are very expensive.

Software development is expensive, Polished Software is frikin' high expensive.
Correct. You can't just photocopy the map, but you can recreate it.

iSubwayMaps.com ran into copyright problems with the MTA in New York a while back. Instead of paying the MTA to use their official maps they just recreated the map themselves, using the official map as the only source. This, apparently, doesn't violate copyright law, even though the resulting maps are very similar.
I would like to basically create a site where users can post a solution to a problem which could never be found over the internet. We maintain a credit base system for people who find the solution. Credits are given if others like the solution and others may modify it and discuss about it in the comments. I don't know if something like this exists or not.

It sounds very similar to StackOverflow.
Bet they'd have more questions and answers without that stupid third-party login crap. (OpenID)
If the FBI is investigating them, either all REAL counter terrorism safeguards have failed, or its that "very special" kind of terrorist that's more likely to shoot himself because he can't figure out which way to point his AK.

The CIA no longer operates its intelligence-sharing and counter-intelligence programs exclusively abroad. The whole "rendition/torture/secret prison" thing is a fact of life.

Their job is to make sure we never even hear about the terror plot. They have no real oversight by "we the people". They're driven and good at what they do and this is not a new game to them.

We only hear about law enforcement, and I like said, they're our last line of defense, just after the boys brigade and the league of woman's voters.
But you bet the second I can make that money on a single day, I will do so. :)

The course is prepared material plus some personal guidance from me. It's not 4 months of live or even semi-live teaching. It's written and recorded content, followed up with live nudging/feedback.

Tix to my husband's & my live JavaScript training classes are about $400-500 each, though, but we keep them small because debugging people's code is rough over 25 people. The business education stuff scales so much better.
I hope I didn't confuse... that should be anti-crack kit. Specifically the kit uses various means to detect if the application had been cracked.

When applications are cracked there are various tell-tale signatures that are left behind such as modified plist files. These signatures are detectable by the kit, which I can check on via a call to the kit's "isCracked()" method. I collect this statistic, and if I wanted to could cripple the app.
That makes sense, upvoted :).

They've got such an intersting story especially for HN audience - bunch of taltented guys in their 20s at the time, working for the man, going out to build something new and doing their best to survive while they got traction - I think their first deal was just $1500 a month for the original online version of bejeweld
I'm guessing he's referring to off-the-shelf anti-piracy software.
And this is why I block all of the facebook "API" things through adblock. I don't want my search provider to know who I am, and I don't want to take any chance that my facebook friends will see things like what I searched for popping up on their status feeds.

I don't want this misfeature. If it comes to google, I will probably disable my facebook.
It's when the funding period ends. At that point the money will actually change hands. They've already done basically 10x their goal ($10k).

Note: Kickstarter is not a forum for investment. You don't get equity in return. In this case you are really just pre-ordering one of those stands.
TapZilla (YC S10) Offers Daily Deals For Paid Mobile Apps
I assume that means you can start out with the small plan, then upgrade and see stats that have already been recorded? If so, very cool.

That's exactly right! Glad you like it.

You can also start at a Silver or Gold plan for your 30-day free trial and downgrade at the end of your free trial if you like.
I just went to dropbox.com and the play button got larger and larger each time I hovered over it. Could this be a bug, or a weird optimization test?
We write web-based software to make people's lives better.
Mr. Zuckerberg "is a 26-year-old man who has spent almost a quarter of his life building this company,"

Six. They could have just said six.
How Civilization V was built for multi-core processors [pdf]
To make that clear to others - like me - that didn't see it first time, that's negative 150K lines of code.
30 Effective Phrases to Captivate Your Man's Heart
If you're a smart woman, will you choose to compliment a man or say things to hurt his ego? Will you say things to make him feel lousy or say words to make him feel reassured that he is good and admired? Confidence is everything that makes a happy man.
Check out http://www.ProjectWonderful.com It's an auction-style online advertising site, used heavily in webcomics (but you can find ads on all kinds of sites).
I guess duty is a hard concept to sell. It's much tougher to persuade you that you have the duty to do something, than it is to, say, teach you a catchy song or a spectacular legend. It helps a lot to be able to say "the all-seeing god has laid this duty upon you". If you did manage to invent and spread a meme that had the same effect, but didn't conflict with science, then I see a lot of history-making potential there!

(By the way, how do you do italics on HN?)
I like it. I like it mostly because I love Google reader, but all the RSS feeds can be hard to manage when I want to go back and find something I read (usually a recipe I tagged). This is sort of like a reader for links? Seems easier to organize, which is cool.

My only question is, what is the incentive for people to organize information? If I have already read it, or seen it, why do I care if its neatly filed away? I think you need to give people more incentive to curate their links- so they are inspired to pick cool ones, organize them, annotate them, and then share them. If they just use the shared web to collect links, it could quickly become the mess (similar to my reader) and then it loses utility.

I think if you can answer the question about "why do I organize?" this will be awesome, The more effort you can get people to put into the "curate" part- the cooler your platform becomes.
I've never bought a car, but why do dealers keep inventory at all? Seems like it's the cause of all their headaches. Just have one of each model for test drives, then let people custom-order. I know people like to be able to drive off the lot with a new car, but we're talking about the biggest non-home purchase of their life. They're not willing to wait a few weeks to optimize it? Especially if the inventoryless dealer's lower costs mean they get a much better deal?
Wouldn't it just get moved to ServerFault, and then someone would have answered it, and the Google result would have pointed at ServerFault instead?
>What's with everyone thinking Objective-C is inefficient (in developer-hours)?

Manual memory management, lack of functional programming, compile/test cycle, etc isn't free.
Thanks for this. It was very relevant to enter and just review my subscriptions. Tks
Speeding up critical code in MATLAB with GPUs
Great idea! I'll try to convince my co-founder to write a blog post about his experience going from product manager for Google App Engine to coder using GAE every day as a customer!
Can you be more specific? As in, why not install your preferred host OS, be it windows or some flavor of linux, and run virtual box on top anyway?
Twitvid: Canada’s great untold tech story
The World Speaks to us through the internet, U listening?
Cubicle Spy: Inside Etsy’s Brooklyn Office
The actual images themselves are copyrighted images. However you can copyright a collection of facts, e.g. a phone book. It's the collation of facts that is copyrighted. How much of it you can copy before you get into copyright is up to a judge.
> My big wish for the next major iOS SDK is to get bindings.

I wouldn't expect this. Honestly I'd expect things to go the other way: 10.7 maybe deprecating bindings on the Desktop for things like table and outline views. Particularly since they added NSTableViewDataSource/Delegate and NSOutlineViewDataSource/Delgate in 10.6.
Wait, I thought they said they were going to manufacture them using injection molding, not 3D printing. It looked to me like they use used the 3D printer to make the prototype.
To be honest I've never tried. I use a standard UK keyboard at work and I've got a vague feeling that there'd be too much cognitive dissonance for me to learn a new layout without the right labels on the keys.
http://www.searchstream.co making search social
> Does it mean that OS X is not Unix? No.

What exactly are you arguing? What is your definition of unix? A label purchased from the Open Group or an implementation of a specification?

If it's the former, I completely agree with you, OS X is UNIX. If it's the latter, what standard of proof would it take to convince you otherwise?
Apple awarded multitouch patent on pinch-to-zoom
Right now our biggest competitor is non-consumption. Businesses see the value in A/B testing but just aren't doing it. The pain points we are trying to solve are setup & implementation, easy-to-understand real-time results, and resolving the marketing & IT impasse within organizations when it comes to doing A/B testing: marketing wants to do it, IT doesn't have time to help. We want to enable marketers to run A/B tests without having to rely on engineering or IT.

Great feedback on the pricing model. I agree this isn't perfect. We do offer a 100% Money Back Satisfaction Guarantee so if at the end of any month you aren't satisfied for any reason, we'd be happy to offer you a full refund for the month.
Mind your country though - Wikipedia indicates the AA in the UK had to pay up 20 million GBP for copying government-created maps (Ordnance Survey).
I'm sure garbage collection's on the way with the increases in processor and memory in iOS devices.

Lack of GC seems to be an artificial constraint designed to force dev's to take charge of a situation with very limited memory. Unless there was some major overhaul to the Foundation classes.

Am I way off?
Flame war cometh? The feedback to Joel was based on PHP being so inefficient but I think that could not explain half of it. I think technically it is a combination of the fact that PHP is slow and asp.net mvc with sql is much faster/more efficient (when done right) than people can imagine. Those factors might explain 20% of it but I think the most important factor is the fact that Jeff Atwood and team are wickedly good programmers who have grown the site not under the auspices of grow as fast as we can but rather they have been methodical about their choices. Jeff wrote recently about going 'that way fast and if something gets in your way, turn' and while that is probably true in a macro sense - they are just in a different league. I truly believe that a great hacker can produce 10x the average lackey and there is probably an imbalance over at Digg in this factor.
Hey Sarah,

Thanks so much for your feedback. The way we think about it - there's two reasons to organize the thing's you've seen. Self-reference for later, and also, just so your friends have a place to browse it if they want to. I could tell a friend, yah go check out all the advice I've read on pitching - there's lots of good stuff there in my 'pitching' channel :). For those people, they now have a place to browse what you've seen, and they can thank you for posting it, and respond.

The nice thing, is that we're working on ways to make the categorization as automatic as possible (e.g. via crowdsourcing etc) - so that for you its easy to say you saw it, and then it goes into the appropriate topic.

We're also thinking about the ways to differentiate between the links that stand out, and the ones that don't in the long term. For example, based on your friends' reaction to it, your own indication of its importance, and other metrics. That way, this becomes a more useful showcase and memory of your web experience.
I was so glad to see your comment at the top of the pile. It seems like lots of people "want" to be rich, but when they see somebody who's actually making lots of money, out comes the resentment.

So many people are incapable of thinking beyond gut reactions of jealous or hatred that somebody is "getting one over on them" to realize the value that one might get from such a thing, at such a price.

It's really sad, because a lot of the people with that particular reaction are otherwise very, very smart. But you can never make a great business, if that's your true mindset (underneath what you say). They will always feel like they are doing evil in the world by merely selling, or marketing.
If you pledge $50 or more they will as quickly as possible send you a 3D printed stand, presumably because setting up the injection molding process will take some time.