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I have been doing this a lot more recently. I try to find smart programmers who run highly organized, designed, and maintained little projects and read their code, or step through it in a debugger. I am learning JS this way. I then try to use their ideas in some way or copy them to take that ownership step. Great post.
I agree with Zed Shaw here -- both "web scale" and your definition are not very good. "Web scale" is especially bad because it can mean anything and be used by anybody.

However, your definition doesn't really make sense either. Exactly what is being scaled here? Static web hits? Database lookups? Database writes? What characterizes your ability to scale? Sharding? Distributed processing or retrieval a la MapReduce? Instead of describing what you think your architecture can handle, why not try describing exactly what your architecture can handle. If someone is actually trying to convince me that their architecture is a good one I don't ever want to hear "web scale," I want to see graphs and hear means, medians, standard deviations, and confidence intervals.
I'm not sure that what is described is an MVP at all. It's more of an A/B testing page. What's missing is a V and a P. Seems all they say is to strip everything out (since you'll toss it anyway) create a few mock-ups, and then put that on the web with a lead capture system. There is nothing viable about it and there is certainly no product. Just minimum.

Here's why I think that is going too far: Who wants to sign up for a screenshot that does nothing, shows not much, and is basically just a bunch of copy and hype? Unless TC or Mashable, or some other BIG site goes and promotes it few if any will actually divulge their info.

What I would suggest is at least an interactive prototype (if only a demo with pre-populated data). They use the example of Twitter... but who would have given their info to Twitter without seeing it in action first? And then, I wager, only the very earliest of adopters would.

The world is full of once over-hyped empty promises. Without a V and a P I think you're wasting your (and everyone else's) time.
OkCupid doesn't have people in my country (basically 3 active girls for the whole country), but I did meet my current girlfriend (more than 6 months) through an online dating site (she's pretty shy about that, though, and prefers saying that we met through common interests on Facebook which is more socially acceptable than a dating site).
I didn't realize that you were actually selling something on the site (and that's bad if you are actually selling something). I think you need a large headline on the homepage saying 'Buy Lake Weed Control Products' and then list 2-3 products (with images) and just below it 'See our full catalogue'.
OKCupid is awesome! I've probably had 50 dates through them over the last 4 years, in the 3 cities I've lived in. I just broke up with a girlfriend of 1.5 years who I met there. Seriously, if a guy like me can meet women on OKC anybody can.
All I have to do to shoot down every one of your points is ask why none of those things happened in the Soviet Union.
"iPhone4-quality camera"

The iPhone 4 hasn't been around that long. My guess is you will always find something that could be better and hence you'll never buy an Android phone.
Chinese Gov.'s biography of Liu Xiobao, dissident and recent Nobel Prize winner
congrats to rod and ignacio. lots of opportunity here to clean up this industry.
If we start down that path, then someone will take it on themselves to start posting stuff from here:

http://stallman.org/

And then someone else will post reason.org articles, and then Krugman columns and on and on and on. Just have a bit of self-restraint and keep the politics elsewhere.

I mean, are any of the comments above really something that has not been hashed out 1000 times on the internet?

Just for fun, we do some usenet digging and find results for "libertarian taxes force" from between 25 and 20 years ago:

http://groups.google.com/groups/search?as_q=libertarian+taxe...

There are people on this site who had not even been conceived when these same arguments were already going back and forth.
They're also not amenable to all problem types. If, for example, your problem requires performing relatively light computations on large amounts of data, there is not much data reuse, and you constantly require new answers, GPUs aren't a good fit [1].

One simple question to ask is: how many computations am I going to perform on each element I transfer? For example, if you're doing a matrix multiplication of NxN matrices, each element will be used in 2N computations. (I think. Someone check my mental analysis.) So, matrix multiplication is a pretty good fit. But what if you're just summing a vector of size N? Then each element will be used once. Probably not a good fit.

[1] http://people.cs.vt.edu/~scschnei/papers/debs2010.pdf
Someone modded you down and ran off, but I wish they'd stuck around to talk about whether the worst safety/environmental hazards have been traditionally associated with governments or corporations.
I've heard and I hope someone more knowledgeable can confirm that the easiest is to incorporate in Delaware for foreigners. To maintain the Delaware corp you have to pay a franchise tax on the amount of stocks you have issues (for C-corps at least). I'd have to look it up again but up to 5000 shares it's 75$ a year. If the company is not in Delaware then you won't have to pay income taxes.
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Excellent! One of the first tests we're taught is to try to explain your idea to people who are outside our circle. You've learned (and are continuing to learn) much about refining your "elevator pitch"... and it was all by serendipitous accident. Curious, now, what you're working on.
You make it sound like John Carmack is advocating for lower taxes so he can afford a new Bugatti or somesuch. The truth is he advocates for this because the current system appears irrational to him.

I'm sure John Carmack would be successful, to some degree, in almost any system of government- He is unusually gifted. Saying he's a counterargument to his own political position and that he is "a product of the current government system" is both unfair and untrue.

Since he is a person of such unusual competence I think his opinion should carry a lot of weight- It does for me. Your (pretty irrational) argument appears to be that because he is competent and successful his opinion should carry LESS weight.
"killing people with C"

this is scary yes.
he didn't talk only about taxes HE paid. There were 10+ generations that paid taxes to the United States of America for the last 200+ years to become what it is now.

even if I agreed with your assumption (which I don't), I would certainly not be able to agree that US taxpayers subsidized "less productive" for past 200+ years and US still became what it is now.
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You are absolutely correct. I’ve never met anyone else with my level of concentration. So other than what I experience first hand, I’ve never seen anyone suffer from fatigue. But, while others can seem jealous about my small accomplishments, I actually get jealous that they have lives.
Or, they simply didn't have failover in place at all.
Great article. I think he puts downs, "The kid who’s loading up on AP courses junior year or editing three campus publications while double-majoring" a bit too much though. People who are very busy with various projects tend to also be more introspective, in my experience. Good grades can just be indicative of good time management and brightness, which are important in anyone who wants to change the world.
Maybe one's preference depends on whether one uses speech or braille. Although I known of some blind programmers who won't learn Python because of the indentation, some like it. Some speech users use a piano scale to show indentation. Some use editor settings that transform the source code on load so that blocks are delimited and reformat on save. The EdSharp, developed by a blind programmer, is one such editor.
I'm embarrassed by the ones I've been working on for a long time but never released. Not by the ones that I did release but failed to gain any traction.
I found it interesting that this biography is so different than the ones that have been written in Western news recently. Can anyone here speak to how accurate it might be?
It must be this year's phrasing, but every time I hear the phrase "I can't / we failed to communicate", it really means I don't think the person so far under my station would understand.
I've been a member for about 3 or 4 months. I was in one short relationship from OKC during that time. I would say that my experience has been good so far. Surely I'm doing much better than I would have trying to meet women considering that I'm a hacker by trade, shy, and don't drink (thus excluding me from the bar scene).

I've noticed that if you live anywhere remotely near a large metropolitan area but prefer not to date there for whatever reason (Seattle in my case, I hate navigating/being in large cities) you're kind of screwed. I'd estimate that 90% of the results/suggestions I get are from Seattle, regardless of any distance constraints I put in.

Also, the woman I dated briefly from OKC next met some guy about 25 years her senior and wound up in the passenger seat of a car going 100+mph with a man heavily intoxicated with pills and alcohol pointing a gun at her. I'm sure that happens very infrequently but I'd argue that dating sites might make it a bit easier for nutjobs to control their appearance to potential victims.

Aside from that, OKC is, as far as I know, the best-designed dating site out there.
Metcalfe's Law is trivially reducible from the number of edges in a complete graph.
Agreed, salaries are the main expense; but not writing code goes faster than writing code in a productive language!

Unless you go to a completely unchartered territory (as e.g. Viaweb did), and there's no library to get you halfway done, you should pick the best library and just accept the language it happens to be written in.

Of course, a good language supported by a great community has better chances to have the best libraries. I'd even go further, and argue that "language goodness" should be defined by its ability to let great libraries and community emerge, rather than how fun and concise it is to code in it. This property is not entirely determined by the language's syntax, semantics, or even implementation, but it is what truly matters, what gets things done or not.
So, are you trying to be unhelpful, or...?

This guy had the guts to do what people dream of. And you're here admonishing him for writing about it?
Play may be Scala killer app IMO
I'd think the proper term would have simply been "momentum," but I'm no rocket surgeon.
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Married to somebody met online, but not through a dating site.
Reminds me of http://startup-marketing.com/the-3-keys-to-success-with-free...
The idea is excellent, but the execution could have been better. I don't want a financial company I use to have a plan revolving around running away from a security guard. Had they done some social engineering or even obtained some sort of permit through their lawyers to leave the ice there, I would have been much more impressed. After all, who can say no to an up and coming ice sculptor wanting to display his work outside a hotel for a day? Still though, great idea.
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To make reddit work, you need to make sure of a few things. First, know the culture. Memes and talking points of the moment, what's generating buzz. Second, know the games you're submitting - what genres they belong to and what their strengths are compared to prominent titles. Third, don't use a dummy account, use your own if you have one... use an account that has a history and a voice. Just spamming submissions will not work.
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Nice, but I don't shop enough to watch the prices and see if that 50% off is really a 10% up and 50% down. I wonder why there isn't a site even remotely comparable to kakaku.com. They monitor prices, show you where deals are, and track the trend. Take a look at this one, for example (just picked off the front page):

http://kakaku.com/item/K0000089891/

Notice all the retailers, retailer reviews, and prices along with the price trend graph at the bottom. Also, users submit reviews of the products. Sure, it's all in Japanese but you can get the gist (or run it through a translator). There are shopping sites here but none nearly as comprehensive as kakaku.
What I've learned from this: Calculated publicity stunts done by massive corporations are no less endearing to me than calculated publicity stunts done by small y-combinator startups.

I look at this publicity stunt with the same yawn+rolleyes as when Richard Branson takes his clothes off or Donald Trump insults Rosie O'Donnel.

It's good business, I guess, but it's ham-handed and doesn't move me.
Is the answer you're looking for a binary search algorithm, or do you have some lateral thinking solution in mind?
Noam chomsky, on taxes:

"In a democracy, April 15th, when you pay your taxes, would be a day of celebration. Here we've gotten together as a community, we've decided on certain policies and now we're moving to implement them by our own participation. That's not the way it's viewed in the United States. That's a day of mourning. There's this alien entity, sort of like a-as if it's from Mars somewhere, which is stealing our hard-earned money from us. We have to give it up, because we have no choice.

Well, that reflects the undermining of even a conception of democracy."
and another for scala! What web frameworks, if any are you using?
I'd like to see a front-facing camera but what I need the most is larger internal memory.

I want to install more apps but with Nexus One's meager 512MB flash memory, I hit the limit already. Now, I don't even install apps that are more than 2MB. A lot of developers also have not enabled SD card storage for their apps.
I wonder how this dynamic plays out for homosexual relationships.
It's a reference to "empirical" Marxism and the deluded theoreticians who thought it would work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_socialism

Executive summary: It didn't work.
Graduates of elite schools are not more valuable than stupid people, or talentless people, or even lazy people.

That's a common enough platitude, but I'm not convinced that it's true.

Or rather, it's the sort of thing we like to pretend is true for the sake of a functioning society (since nobody likes to discuss exactly who is worth more than whom) and everybody goes along with it. We'll admit extreme cases (like Beethoven is worth more than some bum on a street corner) but shy away from discussing it in any further detail lest we wind up obliged to cut that bum up to give his organs to someone else.

I don't have a problem with this as a thing we all pretend is true, but I do have a problem with the assertion that it's genuinely true.

(Unfortunately in order to even have this discussion I have to put on my Nietzsche moustache and step outside the boundaries of polite society.)
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I can't point to an in-depth political essay in the past, but from reading Carmack's writings in the past, I was extraordinarily unsurprised by this one. I wouldn't call this his first public expression of political opinion; more like his first comprehensive roll-up of his political expressions.
Care to share your monetization stats?
Wondering if folks here would care to share any web monetization stats for sites they run (personal projects OK). Not looking for more than:

* How many uniques are you getting per month.
* What is the site genre/target audience (i.e., "tech blog, geek audience)
* How are you monetizing it? (google adwords, buy/sell ads)
You might like to check out my distribution feed - loads of great games zipped up ready for distribution or embedding from a wide selection of the top devs and portals:

http://playtomic.com/games/catalog

You can pull it all in via script through the very customizable feed:

http://playtomic.com/games/feed

Portals are a lot of work though. You'll need a strategy - find keywords you want to target, optimize and build links towards them etc.

You can also license games through http://www.flashgamelicense.com/ which gets your branding in games and funnels traffic back to you.
While men can keep having children longer than women, there are genetically-based mental health risks (schizophrenia, autism, bi-polar disorder) for children of older men.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/about-fathers/200901/old...
alright, to those going, kindly email me at danny -at- launchset.com.

In case something changes.
I guess the question there would be, why reinvent the wheel and lose any network effects by making an "ethnic OkCupid"? If you can successfully identify whatever it is that makes OKC not "ethnic" enough, wouldn't it be better to get OKC to basically put on a different skin and rebrand, but keep the secret sauce under the hood that makes it awesome?
Whoa! Thank you. Back to loving HN now :)
Their wording, not mine:

"The Penalty Charge of £120.00 must be paid no later than the last day of the period of 28 days beginning with the date of service of this Notice. If the Penalty Charge is paid no later than the last day of the period of 21 days beginning with the date of service of this Notice it will be reduced by 50% to £60.00."

Based on the general meanness of the service, I think it's reasonable to presume that they phrased it this way so some people would not read to the end and overpay £120 instead of £60. Given such bad faith, I don't see why I should make the effort to rephrase their own statements to look more favourable towards them.
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Well right now I'm trying to convince a set of people who feel that I'm not a network marketing person nor am I selling home cooked pickle.
I hope with this kind of threads doesnt become like a digital point forum
I always searched for "atheist only" in my online searches. Then a Muslim girl wrote me and told me I had good bone structure. 3 years later, we're engaged. (She's also very moderate in her beliefs.)
U.S. companies – incl. Cisco, MSFT and Google–are hoarding $1 trillion in cash
I'd lose the atrocious bevel on logo, looks positively amateurish. What's wrong with plain old outlined font? Also, you need the bare minimum of added value: let users rate games. Put the ratings in a database. There, you just add some value.

Alternatively, a hand-picked selection of games is more value to me as a visitor, than if you had every flash game in the universe embedded on that page. No one has the time to play all those. Choosing which ones are worthy of wasting your time is the hardest part.
I've got a gaming website, like yours, but not as smart looking: http://www.funnygamesspot.com

What I suggest is getting a Facebook fanpage up, and corral all your friends. You could get a following for your site that will revisit it again and again.

Good luck, and nice work!
(Though I have always had a soft spot for the people that take the time to get the number of ^Hs correct.)

I'm a pedant. Is it that obvious? :-)
I imagine the author genuinely believed that being a graduate of an elite school no longer means as much.
What is the operating system they run on this super computer? GNU/Linux?
AKA "learn by example."
Should teachers 'friend' students on Facebook?
Fine, then. If you want to be all against those programs, then explicitly say "What I want is for social security and medicare to be abolished". SS and Medicare run entirely separate from the rest of the federal gov't, raised on their own taxes, run by their own agencies -- they're entirely separate. You're not "anti government" and don't have a point about "government", you have a point about federally mandated social insurance programs that are incredibly popular with everyone else.

A bunch of whining about "government" just betrays either ignorance or willful omission by people who talk about "smaller government" in between assuring seniors that their medicare is safe.
Yeah. I originally put "HTML5" in scare-quotes in the submission title for this reason. It seems like anything sweet we can make our browsers these days inevitably gets labeled "HTML5" even if it's not!
And street view would get ugly if a lot of people and businesses withdraw from it, but I don't think that will happen. Google is probably going to get more requests to have houses removed from street view with that kind of publicity, though. In fact, I'd bet this makes the Tonight Show.
Thanks. I looked at cocos2d a long while ago but never put anything into it. Maybe I should look again.
Ok I guess my last question wasn't well-worded, so a better question:

What do you recommend reading to learn about data monetization basics?
Agreed. Broad match ads necessarily include less targeted ad copy which will ding clickthrough rates.

I'm fond of the "keyword trap" approach as described here http://www.clickequations.com/blog/2008/12/the-match-type-se..., but the same thing can be accomplished in one ad group with multiple match types if bid correctly.

Is this helpful matthewcford?
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WePay lets you collect money (people can pay you with credit card or bank account) and then you can send money that you've collected to whoever you want. So you could, if you wanted, put money in your group and then send it easily to whoever.
This is one of the best-written job ads I've read in a long time. Others take note!

Much better than that four-page essay posted the other day about how you should play Halo on Legendary Mode, get lots of speeding tickets, and have eight or nine other fairly arbitrary personal qualities, in order to be cool enough to work at Random Dental Software Company.
I'm happy to pay for the congestion charge. What I'm unhappy with is the grossly unfair implementation of it.

As I said in my original post, any system that asks you to speculatively pay for something which you don't know whether you've actually used, in order to avoid a hefty government-enforced fine, is a morally reprehensible. I cannot condone any such system existing. It is, quite simply, extortion, and I cannot support its existence. They might as well have said "pay us, or we might come and break your legs".
I don't know. There is no Quicktime for Linux, but, still, Apple's sites open flawlessly most of the time.