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For dissenting opinions, check out Ars Technica's [1] and Engadget's [2] reviews. Both are less enthusiastic, with Ars complaining that the lack of buttons (compared to the Wiimote or Sony's Move) greatly limits gameplay potential.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/gaming/reviews/2010/11/buy-a-house-cl...

[2] http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/04/kinect-for-xbox-360-revie...
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I would say that the GPL is closer to closed source than MIT/Apache, in that it puts more restrictions on how you use the code.
Actually, most rights clearance agreements have boilerplate language about the agreement covering "all mediums and distribution forms, existing or yet to be developed, throughout the universe, in perpetuity."

Basically, 'anything, everywhere, forever'. The language was probably developed by the insurance companies that handle claims for E&O (Errors & Omissions), and who know exactly how common these problems are. Chances are, that's where the $2k came from too; not Hasbro, but Hasbro's underwriter.
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btw - somewhat related - how much money can be made of Google Ads out of a site with 1 million page views per month? Content is technical - developer oriented. We are currently running a niche ad network and making approximately $1000 per month off ads, but I believe this is low.
One person's bloat is another persons feature (though personally I agree with the spirit of your comment).
If they want you guys to join the company for some period of time, make sure to account for that in the price.

For example, if you commit to stay on some number of years and an exciting opportunity presents itself during that time, you want the compensation to be enough that you can pass on the opportunity without too much heartache.
The problem is that most people are used to blue links to indicate clickability, and use this information subconsciously. If you make the links gray, you have to train users to click on those, and it's yet another barrier to actions/clicks/conversion.
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Whichever language is best for the immediate job at hand.

5 years is a long time, lots will change in 5 years.
I'm not sure if I really believe this, but...

http://www.createdebate.com/debate/show/The_God_Emperor_Come...
Miguel de Icaza has spoken at past MIX conferences fwiw.
not a conspiracy theorist by any stretch, but i found it a bit humorous this came out just when oracle offered a pricing plan for mysql and, especially, innoDB.
And a rant wrapped in untested broken markup that lets the text end after three sentences with a big black banner saying "Make your own card at some spammy site" that you can't scoll past on mobile browsers... Classy, indeed.
My mistake. I assumed when you linked to that reply that your were linking to your own reply, but I failed to check the usernames.
Does this mean they found a way to sell all that user data?
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hasn't happened to me. i'm usually running the latest chrome dev build with 2-3 tabs open (sometimes to HN) at a time. but i'm not exactly a "fervent" user. maybe it's different for others.
> The Catholic church has only been around for about 2,000 years.

Do you know of any older institution ? I don't think there is.
From what I've heard (my site isn't technical so I can't say definitively) technical sites have low click through rates because many developers use adblockers and may not be as attracted to advertising. But it's hard to estimate because it can vary wildly depending on how many folks are advertising in your space. Run a month trial and see how it does.
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I'm a MSFT employee but you guys have to take my word that this is a purely unbiased review. :)

I just played the Kinect all evening for the first time. And I'm still in shock - that thing is magical, like the first time I played with the Wii, flicked on an iPhone or got search results instantly from Google.

Few things blew me away

- How intuitive the controls (or lack of thereof) are. You just 'do'. The Wii was like this too but this felt more natural

- Being able to talk to my Xbox. I've never felt voice recognition was ready for mainstream. I was wrong - talking to my TV felt a bit like Star Trek modulo the computer voice.

- How much fun it was. My wife and I had as fun much goofing off by dancing around and playing around as much as competing.

I can't wait to see more games for it.
That's not really true. I am doing consulting to support me, my wife & and my 3 years child for 4h a day and the rest time is for my startup. So yeah, it's really possible, just you have to be very committed to it.
i like that more than most websites. very fast. minimum of visual noise. substance over flashiness.
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What you wanted to say is that MS is and has been uncool to developers and no one would touch their shite unless coerced by bills or held captive by an employer visa.

(no need to mince words)

Microsoft Sucks(TM) but they have never been good at, or even wanted, consumer lock-in. Microsoft Sucks(TM) but they're not evil, not by a long shot, or at least not good at it.

To us, developers, they're Useful Idiots[1] who do pro-developer things inadvertently, while trying to be evil. Case in point, they made their entire platform COM-enabled in order to ensure Office interop and "invite" people into VB. Really, they had the Web flashing in bright neon and all the dotcoms of the late 90s for omens, and all they thought was "yeah, the future is MS Office, let's just make Windows super accessible" ..

What happened is that the entire MS platform became "callable" from other stacks and people built their own stacks on top of MS'. Flash, Mozilla, Java, Open Office, VMWare, etc. None of them could have existed if MS was "competently evil" at locking down the win32 platform as Apple is at locking down the iThing.

Really, Microsoft sucks at being evil so bad that they're actually benevolent. If I was Roger Corman, shooting a cheap horror flick, I would yell at MS and tell it to get its act together, or get back to Denny's for their shift (most of Corman's lead actors were wait-staff); that's not a way for a proper villain to behave. Truly, the Eric Cartman of bad guys.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
worth a bit, actually. a letter from ballmer (or gates) saying, "dude, nice work" would be even better. :D
It's actually occasionally useful if you're trying to gensym a string. In a normal language, you need to write your own gensym function - in PHP, you know that $s++ will create a sequence of unique strings, suitable for use in b64-only environments, that will never run out.
That, and because it's extremely fast compared to other software. I usually tend to go with less apps, but this could be a nice addition for me. Time will tell.
If you're going to use blockers, some people have a tendency to get pissed and to do something about it, like inventing a much bigger and better mouse trap.

I'm not seeing any ad-blockers for the iPhone, and it gets harder and harder to unlock the latest models.

Again, the best thing you can do is to stop using/supporting those services that serve intrusive ads. And if you cannot because it is so good as to be irreplaceable, then respect those decisions because some people worked their butts off trying to make your life better.
"Method" is OO parlance for a function that is associated with a class or object. C++ has those.
I think outsourcing a simple $2k fart app is workable.

A complex internet service with multiple technologies, web, multiple mobile platforms and your valuable IP is another matter and probably not advisable for outsourcing.
"I don't care which browser you use, if you have 100s of tabs open and you have flash running, your memory usage will balloon without you having to do anything wrong at all."

You obviously haven't used Opera.
First IronPython & IronRuby (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1833772 ) and now this. I have to say, Microsoft is (or seems to be, depending on your philosophical disposition) increasingly embracing FOSS, and that's a very good move not only for them, but also the community.
Are you worried that the domain itself won't give any boost to your SEO efforts? Because I wouldn't really worry about that aspect of it - even bad domains rank fairly well these days. I think Google realized that aspect of the system (domain name-based SEO bonuses) was a bit too easy to game.

Instead focus on good link building. This works best for me these days, once the on-page factors are fairly well optimized.
Most of the discussion in our lab about the change is that the text is now too small for quick reading. I'm pretty glad this extension is here.
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rbanffy is anti-Microsoft, and doesn't waste a second in making it known. It's no use trying to reason or discuss with him about this - others have tried.
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What makes you say that? They've increased and changed their paid support offerings, but Oracle has a higher cost basis than Sun does - this should be expected..

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/
There's something to be said for getting out of the house though.
Indeed, but I said "for implementing high-performance strings."

I would love to hear about the OP's ideas for faster variable-length and adjustable string implementation using C++ member or friend functions (the C++ implementation of "methods".)

When it comes to performance, the same design I detailed is used by all the "high-per" libraries that I know of. If we're talking API aesthetics, fast implementations can always be wrapped with something more attractive.

P.S. Let me make it clear that I am not advocating operator overloading for resizing strings and that the OP actually does have a point. (sorry if I came off as a douche in that regard.) But implementing fast-strings as classes + methods is not really fastest way in C++.
Yeah, Matlab seems to be pretty useless if you want to do anything besides pure math.

I mean, that's really all computers are at the core- math- but you know what I mean.
Disclosure: I've practiced Bujinkan Ninjitsu 武神馆忍术 for 5 years now.

I recommend, especially for the brainer types, a well rounded martial art like ninjitsu, aikido, gong fu, qigong. Something like Boxing or BJJ will give you the physical fitness that you can get from most forms of exercise, but they lack the mental and spiritual refinement that comes from practice of a "true" martial art. The emphasis on art there implies that it is a true art form, taking years of discipline and practice to grasp just the basics. Ninjitsu is deadly efficient in combat, combines spiritual refinement (meditation, mindfulness, discipline), survival techniques (herbalism, meteorology, etc.), combat techniques and strategy into a complete package.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninjutsu
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That's what I don't get...he went to all that trouble of researching the 'problem' he lists the dev build, etc. I guess not everyone is familiar with what branching and releases are for.
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Another point to consider is your physical limitations or advantage. If you're a 6'2, 200 lbs guy, you can consider wider range of martial arts. if you're a short and skinny guy like me, TaiKwonDo would be murder. Aikido or JiuJitsu might be a better choice. I much preferred Aikido with its elegance in movements and philosophy. I found that Aikido requires you to be very in tune not only yourself but also w/ your opponent in the same way as you get in tune w/ the waves in surfing or the snows in snowboarding or your partner in salsa dancing. It's true that it's like dancing. It is also true that you can practice this art for a very long time, since it's not very physical demanding.
I don't think it's the economic representation at all that causes mediocre food; I could also give two shits about the economic class targeted by some dish. The problem comes when they don't have significant heavily concentrated ethnic neighborhoods to sell to; when 70% of your potential customer base is people who have a problem ordering spice levels over 2/5 in one of the billion mediocre Thai restaurants around, you have to tone everything down. They don't have to worry as much about selling to these people in the CD or in the Rainier Valley since frankly a lot of people are scared shitless driving down E. Cherry St or past Franklin High on Rainier Ave S. I'm aware of the Richmond scene; that's the benefit of a city that's 45% Chinese people. The general Asian concentration isn't even remotely that high anywhere in the Puget Sound (it's less than 20% in every city I checked).

Sushi (I assume you mean sushi, since most Japanese restaurants I've been to here treat everything that isn't sushi as a distraction) is absurdly simple food (it was created to be fast food), governed mostly by fish quality. And guess what the fish is pretty good up here, big surprise.

I'm not convinced Belltown partiers actually live there. I'm about 80% sure it and Pioneer Square fill up with the Seattle version of the Bridge & Tunnel crowd; I guess they'd just be the bridge and bridge crowd but I've also heard them referred to as BARKers once or twice (Burien Auburn Renton Kent). But yeah it's a place to stay away from on party nights; the concentration of drunk morons makes it crime central. They've got some nice (not-ethnic) restaurants down there as its only saving grace.

I also disagree on the antisocialness of the town; if the only people you know are hackers that's your problem. For people who come here as a hacker and expect to be embraced for it, they should know that the locals have seen a hundred thousand programmers pass through on the MS/Amazon/Expedia/etc gravy train and it's kinda old hat. They don't think we're very interesting either; a hacker has to do something else to stand out from the 40,000 other people who are just like him/her.
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> Nokia.. pfft. ... I'm not seeing any one rushing to develop for either Symbian or MeeGo at the moment, though.

What I've seen (but then, I live in Finland) there are a lot of developers who are interested in Meego, because it's closest to PC Linux environment of iOS, Android, WinMo, BB and Meego. Thus I think there will be a good amount of Meego software. But danger is that Meego is riding an old wave, the software won't be simple and beautiful, that it's roots are in Linux desktop software.
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on this subject, just went watch some netflix on my maverick meerkat install (on a macbook) and clicking on "install silverlight" on a microsoft site redirected me to the "mono moonlight" project. if that's not acceptance, i don't know what is.

EDIT: sadly, netflix won't let me watch movies without win or mac (silverlight plugin notwithstanding).
Every major advancement in gaming is bound to leave some people behind. The good thing is at least Microsoft is recognizing there are different types of gamers out there and trying to offering it all on one platform.
I think "Do you write tests" should be included. And "Do you have continuous integration running" would be a nice replacement of having a daily build.
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Our designer is awesome. I'm fortunate to have grown up around artists, so me communicating with him works well. The big thing though is he goes out of his way to understand the technical issues, and fortunately I'm reasonably good at explaining technical things in terms of laundry machines and dryers. Additionally, the dude's a straight up hustler. We don't call him a designer, we call him a creative director. You want a creative director.
I have used opera and continue to try every single beta and alpha released every other month. Opera does have a small memory footprint and better memory management overall; but what does that has to do with flash memory leaking/hogging problem?

How is opera going to manage 100s of tabs running in the background with flash element chipping away memory?

The problem is flash not the browser. The more tabs you have open with flash elements in them, the more memory they are going to use. The solution to that problem is to either not have insane amount of tabs open or use flashblock.
> Apache2 is not in the same league as BSD and MIT

From the point of view of a company looking to release proprietary products utilizing the licensed code, though, it's similar to BSD/MIT in a good way: you can do it without problems.
> Also IMHO, using "flashblock" is disrespectful of other people's work. If a website bothers you so much, stop visiting it and go somewhere else. It's kind of like voting with your wallet and it works ;)

I could use the same silly reasoning and argue that overuse of flash is disrespectful to users but that would make us both sound stupid.
buying a domain the reflects your idea/keywords is in most cases buying a random name.
Thanks for the advice. I am looking for a sales guy who would help acquire publishers to the network..
I see more and more people view Microsoft as a harmless, disoriented giant, just like IBM. Thing is, both were actively evil in their heyday. They killed, raped and pillaged until they become granddads and settled.
Why? "Haskell" also works on hugs,yhc,uhc,... http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Implementations
Most implementations are BSD/GPL Licensed. Haskell itself (thinking of Haskell Prime, Haskell98) is a research/community driven project and, as such, open/transparent.
For GHC there is even an intermediate format allowing you to run your code on stuff like llvm.
Perl does this, too. And is it really that unexpected? How many possible things could 'z'+1 return? The only possibilities that make sense to me are "{", "aa", or an error. I like PHP because it's flexible, and this often makes life easier. If you're really going to try to use strings as integers, then you deserve what's coming to you. If you're going to use this behavior as a feature, then you've just saved yourself a chunk of time.
After using quite a few of these different systems myself and paying for many, I've found many people have the wrong philosophy. It's not about fitting your life to a system, but finding a system to complement your life.

Most importantly, when your life changes, change systems. I constantly switch between different combinations of apps to keep my life in order based on what's going on in my life at the time.
If you don't like the way the project is ran, you can just fork it and create your F# variant that accepts patches. This has been done before countless times (e.g. EGCS), this is the power of open source.
Some people worry people are going to steal their ideas. In reality, most people are far too lazy to do anything.

The only reason I've ever been 'stealth' with an idea wasn't because I didn't want to share the idea; it was only because I didn't want to talk up an idea that I only ended up taking half-way.

And I agree with everyone here; almost more important than the idea is your ability to explain it - your pitch. The best ones are natural and conversational, and that takes telling and retelling. The only secrets I keep are the confidences of other people that share their ideas with me in private. Besides, you telling someone else your idea is a datapoint for yourself in regard to your own enthusiasm for the idea.
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What's your goal? Asking, "What's a good martial art for me?" is like asking, "What's a good car for me?" Well, do you want a very reliable car that you never have to do maintenance on, do you want a really fast car you can race, do you want some sort of luxury or prestige?

There's a few different goals you could have with martial arts: Fitness/athleticism, competition/camaraderie/sport, philosophy/balance, and/or practical self defense. Of the last one, there's also a few considerations. A highly trained martial artist in any art is going to fight very well, but how long do you intend to train and when if ever do you think you'd need to be proficient?

For me, I don't care about the sport aspect, the fitness aspect, the competition aspect, or the philosophy aspect. I sometimes travel through dangerous places, and I needed training that would get me proficient to protect myself in a variety of common situations. I researched into this some, and if you want rapid proficiency at self defense - to the exclusion of the other elements I mentioned - then I'd recommend a martial art that's been refined and taught by a successful military.

The two that I was deciding between to learn first are Krav Maga, the Israeli Army's martial art, and Systema, the Russian one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krav_maga

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systema

I was in Los Angeles which has the flagship American Krav studio, so I studied there and enjoyed it a lot, and I feel capable of defending myself in a variety of situations after only a few months of training. Eventually, I'd like to round myself out by studying a variety of martial arts, but for very practical fast learning curve self defense (to the exclusion of philosophy and sport) I was looking at Krav and Systema.

Regular boxing also seems to have a quick learning curve - I don't know if it's true, but I've that pure boxers will be ahead of the learning curve of most martial arts that use punches and kicks for about two years before the martial artist passes the boxer.
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I've studied various Chinese forms and Japanese over the years. There are fanboys for every style but the reality is no-one style is necessarily better than another its whatever you enjoy the most. Make sure you visit the school and get to try a few sessions before joining, a good Sensei is worth his weight so checkout their credentials.

Oh and one final tip, going once or twice a week is not going to make you Bruce Lee. If you want to get really good, you have to practice at home.
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Which, incidentally, often is true for wikis as well.
The chip is just a sensor to get the earliest stage of scene decomposition quick. There's tremendous algorithmic work to be done beyond that.
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Please explain: what makes this choice "correct?" Is it because it's your personal preference?

Different languages have different features. I've been coding PHP for years, and I've never encountered this feature before. I suspect that's true because I don't usually treat strings like integers. However, now that I know it's possible, I might actually use it to generate random strings or do something useful. I don't see it as something that is incorrect, I see it as how the language is implemented.