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The sad part about that fact is that lack of awareness affects the business man far more than it affects the developer. They end up shooting themselves in the foot time and time again while they filter themselves out of the pool of prospective clients for the good developers.

No disrespect intended to you, but the onus is on you to understand why developers are so important (if you start thinking of them as your product, the picture becomes clearer) because the good developers don't have the time or the need to help you see the fallacy in your perception of roles.

As for your question, I would have it developed if you don't have a good lead on a tech co-founder. technical personnel get approached with "build my idea" all the time. When they do, they hear "hey do all the work and I'll take half". Which while not entirely a correct position to hold, one has to understand that a good deal of developers have their own ideas, if they are going to work for free they are going to do it on their interest and without cutting someone else in on the deal.

Having invested in a product, no matter the quality of the code, and getting the business off the ground will "put your money where your mouth is" with a technical partner. They will see that you are serious about your idea and that you are willing to put in what is needed to succeed.

If the code is sub par they will still see that you have a very good working prototype that has a lot of learning's rolled up into it. It gives them a head start on writing the next version that incorporated the learning of the "prototype".
Virtual methods are widely used, though heavy use of inheritance seems to be on the decline.

I'm a big fan of const, including const methods, though the places I'm especially fond of using it are more MMO specific, (probably) not quite as relevant for a "solid indie game developer".

It's good to know the basics of templates, for things like lists, hashes, trees, and maybe vectors, matrices, etc. Using stl or boost is probably fine, though larger developers always seem to invent their own libraries. I think that's mostly due to historical lack of support on consoles.

Like another poster said, exceptions and RTTI are virtually unknown in game development due to performance considerations.
I'm not sure I'd agree. It's a continuum, certainly, but even compared to other western nations contemporary Americans are unusually individualistic and disinclined to see people as primarily defined by group affiliations like ethnicity, nationality, ideology, etc, since those elements are muted in American society compared to many other countries.
VP of Marketing?

I see what you mean now, you want to find somebody who can drive traffic, but most people who apply for jobs after grepping for marketing don't have the tech/dev skills that you are looking for.

Hard role to fill - are the founders doing this work atm?

Somebody mentioned this down below, but you should setup an affiliate network. There are tons of affiliate marketers out there who do nothing all day but drive traffic. I am surprised that they haven't already approached you - every startup I have launched we have received emails from potential affiliates/online marketing partners after being featured in blogs etc. These guys (there is an entire community out there) are always actively looking for new sites to promote to their networks (usually websites and mailing lists)

Checkout Commission Junction (cj.com) and hang out on the boards that these guys do, like Sitepoint and Webmasterworld/online_marketing
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The government hasn't even filed charges. More than that, the two women he's accused of raping (in the same weekend or something) haven't even filed a formal complaint. I dunno about Sweden but I'm pretty sure in the US, you need a crime report before you can charge anyone for anything.

I mean, not only don't you have any evidence, you don't even have a formal accusation. I'd think we can leave politics out of this one and delegate to common sense. As far as the guy's personal character, he's probably a bit of a prima donna -- that doesn't mean he robbed any banks (no evidence of that, either).
I think both have their good points. Smaller companies allow more freedom and a wider range of experience. If you pick the wrong small company you'll pick up bad habits (what's version control? backups? testing?). I didn't have a software engineering degree, so wasn't aware of some of the things I was doing wrong (or missing) until I spent some time in bigger companies.
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Kickstarter is another similar way to get funding- although $5 million is asking a lot.
Small nit: Ruby actually represents strings as mutable objects.
Discounting games, the majority of the apps I've downloaded from the app store could be written with HTML5 and distributed as Titanium or PhoneGap wrapped apps. Some of them probably are and I'm just unaware of it.

For that matter, if I didn't remember I'd used "Add to Home Screen" to get the 37Signals Chalk app on my iPad's list of apps, I probably wouldn't realize it wasn't native.
Disagree on much of this, unless I've misunderstood you. No interactive debugging? I can't imagine adding print/log lines for every imaginable variable in a scenario. I love being able to drop a breakie and inspect an object from the inside out.

Ditto for source control. It's fantastic to have a complete history of changes with date and blame attached, along with comments for explanation. It's like an automatic logbook for the code, with free unlimited "undos" to boot. I can't imagine working without it, even in a one-developer project.

Perhaps I'm just spoiled -- AKA "Kids these days can't lance a pimple without an automatic vibrating scalpel with drain and suture" -- but these are the tools that make me more productive. I can do more better in less time.

I'm not a fan of English docs either; they fall out of date very quickly. I'd much rather have readable code, with things like sensible variable names and readable conditionals like if(noUser || userIsBusy) instead of if(user==nil || [userObject state]==kStateWaiting). I realize that readable code doesn't mean no docs, but I'd rather my colleagues spend an hour coding than a half on coding and a half on docs. I've seen too much code where the comments are flat-out wrong.
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One reason the banks are going to be wary is that construction projects are even more prone to cost and time overruns than software development projects are. Thus they expect that the requested loan won't be the last, and if the company doesn't have resources for it then things could go badly south.

Plus there is the fact that if things collapse half-way through you've got a company which could be hard to get value out of, and a piece of land which probably has the start to a foundation that will only be a PITA for whatever anyone else wants to do with said land.
Someone in another thread put it best: when did I vote for Julian Assange? Who is he accountable to? Where are his secrets?
I know we're not supposed to talk about politics here, but I just have to say this: regardless of how you feel about their policies, Republicans (and their allies) are just masters at controlling the public discourse and manipulating language to serve their goals. It's seriously both disgusting and fascinating at the same time.

This American Life recently did a segment on it (Act 2):

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/417/t...
Which tells me that you where dealing with amateurs. Good developers don't take fixed bid contracts, they don't need to. Sounds like to me you got some guys who gave it a shot sunk 10% and saw that it was bigger than they could estimate given there level of expertise and abandoned the project. They may have not notified you that they abandoned it but the most likely did. You see a fixed bid contract basically says to a developer, I want all of the upside with none of the risk, and I want to limit your upside. Most good developers avoid such an argument due to the scope creep nature of software development. It instantly shackles them into a bad arraignment. The only other profession that does this is real estate, sales and lawyers and they get a % cut of the sale or settlement. The only way I would sign such a contract, as a professional, would be the same arrangement % of profit. You where assuredly dealing with amateurs.
One obvious limitation is you won't have Cocoa, or the frameworks built on top of it. Want to let the user take a picture using the iPhone's Camera? It only takes 2 lines of code, and it works exactly like the native app. Same goes for showing Google Maps (MapKit), editing contacts (AddressBook), and so on.
With only 0.11% of the total archive released and proof of directives to US diplomats from the secretary of state to engage in espionage within the UN I do not think it is reasonable to jump to the conclusion that the US is coming off heroic in this particular debacle. Perhaps just not as bad as some people imagined.
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That's an incredibly weak argument. Assange clearly believes he's doing this to prevent greater injustices / killings from taking place in the future.

However biased / inaccurate they may be, sites like http://www.iraqbodycount.org/ claim ~100k documented, civilian casualties in this past war. Lets divide by 100. If a leak prevents an action which would kill 1,000 civilians, and ends up causing a couple, is it worth it? Is it morally correct? Do the ends justify the means? Is not leaking something you believe could save 1,000-x lives morally correct?
I'm talking about making headjs add support for media queries (viewport size, at least).
I think uncertainty actually is a big factor but personal tax rates or the health care reforms are a fairly minor part of this uncertainty.

It is more a matter that the world financial system is serious turmoil. The value of the dollar, Euro or other currencies could fluctuate quite a bit as could the economic climate.
Where is the evidence that people have been killed as a result of Wikileaks releasing these diplomatic cables?

At least provide some evidence of a great increase in risk that people will be killed.

I've heard of few to no claims that people are now at a high risk of death due to these cables from anyone other than the Sarah Palins and Congressman King's of this world. Sec. Def. Gates stated that the consequences for U.S. foreign policy will be fairly mild.

Once such inflamed rhetoric is removed form your comments, I can't see how your position holds water.

Further, I fail to see a gap between Wikileaks stated goals and the results. The results you claim (potential consequences related to Pakistan nuclear activity, protection of dissidents), even assuming they are valid and therefore in opposition to Gates concern level, are relatively minor in comparison to the stated goals: much higher degrees of government transparency brought about by the constricting of secret communication. That being the (summarized) stated goal of Wikileaks, the reality is it is long term. If this is step 1 of 100 that leads to a government that cannot maintain the levels of secrecy necessary to fabricate a path towards something like the Iraq War, then the results align perfectly with the goal.
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Are you this guy?
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In situations like that I take an abundance of downvotes to signify an entrenched outlook, or a widespread belief through the userbase that what you are questioning is 'common knowledge'. (whether or not it's actually common, has any proof, or is even true)
If you're talking about centuries old buildings, wealth back then was usually accumulated by way of your family passing along wealth, your inclusion in the favored aristocratic class of the era, or through businesses built on slavery.
Also, there is really nothing protecting "normal" DNS against spoofing right now. Sure, djbdns and the latest version of BIND are hard to attack (65536 source ports * 65536 transaction ids). But who knows what DNS software your ISP is using? Who knows how your Windows workstation handles forged responses?

Incidentally, I think that if DNSSEC ever gets deployed, you'll be able to verify records even after they have been removed from the "real" DNS. That will solve both problems at once... but of course, the Internet always chooses workarounds in favor of clean solutions, so don't count on this happening any time soon. (My house has IPv6. But nothing else does...)
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Was anyone else's first though "people still use Firefox?"
Do you have any evidence to support that belief? Any evidence at all?
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Out of curiousity.. I often hear Safari being grouped with the iOS browsers, but is there any reason the default Android browser isn't counted there, since it's UA-String includes Mobile Safari as well.

Incidently, I'm on Android now, but Opera ;)
I find it hard to believe that this is Rasmus' first public code contribution on Github.
Never mind the Star Trek computer, Star Trek engineers are stupid
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The driving theory test uk cosist of two parts. The first is a computerised touch screen test in which you have to select the correct answer from a number of choices. The second part is called the hazard perception test.
Are you telling me that thread now means something in addition to an execution context?
Doesn't Groupon sell those now?
Terrible choice of words to use, since the capitalization (or not) of the word carries so much information. It's hard to take this seriously given his apparent obliviousness.
I think you missed what his plan is.

He's not leaking this to cause outrage - he's leaking it to make the US government lock down its information sharing to the point where it cannot functionally pursue its policies.

I'm not sure it will work, but it's a original and intriguing plan.
Off-topic but 'The Affair of the Oaks' came to mind when you mentioned old school construction

http://web.archive.org/web/20031121174515/http://www.new.ox....

http://beebo.org/smackerels/new-college.html
Um, the leaks show the US government strongly pressuring european governments not to prosecute CIA officers who kidnapped and tortured completely innocent european citizens. We've suspected that all along, but now we have evidence that:

- The CIA kidnapped innocent people in Europe

- The CIA tortured those people

- The CIA abandoned them

- The US government will not tolerate even a symbolic condemnation of this behavior

And you think that looks pretty good? What?

there is a "lack of any significant difference between what the U.S. government says publicly and what these things show privately"

I must have missed the press conference where Sec Gates publicly announced that the US government kidnaps innocent people from our allies and tortures them and then refuses to even admit it let alone make restitution. In which press conference did the government publicly admit that? Because if you can't think of any, that suggests Sec Gates is a liar.
A figurehead is a target, yes, but also inspires people more than an amorphous organization.
It does, actually. Most - not all - of the "hacks" are cited and linked to doctors, studies, the American Nutritional Association, etc.

A few don't lead anywhere, guess that's a symptom of linking out of a two year old ebook?
For some reason, I don't think that's the issue is here. They don't have much credit history - seems to me that they have bootstrapped up until now - doing everything from profits and retained earnings.

`Harsh penalties for prepayment in the first five years` that shows that the banks are concerned that they have been debt-free or low debt (i.e. there is no money in providing the loan, because they will likely pay it back quickly).

The bottom line is that the banks don't think they will make much, if any, money on it.
Good God, I hope so. E-books are a joke right now, ridiculously walled-in, incompatible with many readers, and frequently mere OCR'd scans of the books they're supposed to be, instead of even doing basic linking like TOC / Index. Google book search alone does better than many publishers.

More competition will be good for the game. And am I the only one who wants an open Android E-ink device? Stupid F*#^#& locked-down systems, crappy desktop software, and proprietary formats; it's no wonder they're not selling like hotcakes.
Well for one thing, if you're genuinely on the run then moving from country to country doesn't decrease your chances of getting nabbed, it significantly increases them.
at my university, I see a lot of people using firefox simply because they don't like chrome's tabs-on-top thing, and they don't know how (if it's even possible) to change chrome to have tabs on bottom.
Amongst other things, you can run hundreds of halvm nodes on a typical machine; and the "OS" boots in a fraction of the time it takes to boot a kernel.
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Such a thing is currently languishing as my #3 side project.

The idea is a curated directory of topical resources that takes into account what you already know, and what you'd like to learn.

E.g. the "Scala" topic may take into your self-assessed familiarity with the "Java" and "functional programming" topics to omit the learn-programming-with-Scala links and jump straight to the Scala-for-programmers links.

The content exists only as curated links to external sites with a well-written summary and sundry taxonomic information. User submissions will be welcome, but reviewed and catalogued before being published.

A small recommendation shall operate as well. If you've given yourself a 2 (out of 3) for "JavaScript" and have flagged an interest in "Statistics" then it'll recommend and tailor the "Data Visualization" page for you to include only the relevant links for your level.

This came about after witnessing the dozens of "What language should I learn?" and "How can I start ____?" threads that pop-up on Reddit, here, and various other forums.

Sorry I don't have a link for you right now, but just wanted to let you know you're not alone in missing a resource like this!
Wow, I sure got downmodded for that. A lot of Quitoans in the audience? I'm sorry, I'm sure your city is a very nice place.
<< and >> are rudimentary it's almost always exactly the same as unix dated from 1970's redirection. e.g: $ echo 'crap' >> somefile.txt. ||= reads as 'or equal', simple.
I think they mostly depended on:

1) extremely cheap to free labor.

2) community effort. Everybody contributed to important buildings. Private homes would be built by the entire family, and possibly neighbors too.
"But I must admit that I just tried Parenscript some three years ago and was completely pissed off because it didn't have return values for everything."

Yeah, we're still working on that (mostly because I'm stupid). The expression/statement dichotomy is a wily satan.
WebKit has hooks for location services - any website can ask for access to the iPhone's location. It's things like accelerometers, gyros, and camera that are tougher.

It's also next to impossible to make a native feeling application. Scrolling, transitions, animations are all less fluid.
>(Yes, this also applies to the poorly planned and poorly executed occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. The U.S. government doing stupid shit in a war is not a justification to leak unrelated diplomatic cables that risk getting good people killed for no good reason)

I'd say slowing down an aggressive empire could be classified as a "good reason" likely to save many lives.

It takes some imagination to suggest that what Wikileaks has has done has cost lives. Approximately 3 million people have access to SIPRnet. It seems unlikely that Wikileaks could compromise it, yet foreign state intelligence would be unable.
While it is not a pure HTML/JS app (it is a well-designed and engineered hybrid[1]), ivanzhao's Three Degrees shows that someone can ship a well designed app with web expertise.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/3-degrees-of-wikipedia/id3998...

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1903732
All thats holding me back from using chrome is that the plugins search-status and noscript are not available for it.
I second your mention of Titanium. It's a cool JavaScript based SDK for writing mobile apps in general - easily ported to iOS, Android, Blackberry, and mobile web. http://www.appcelerator.com/
the point is to see if the HN crowd is good at predicting, not random people...
At risk relative rates, you're going to put the government in the position of payday-loan level lenders.

Personally, I don't think debit is always a good thing. I mean, if I had access to loans, rather than spending the last five years building up a ramen-profitable business, the mistakes I made would have put me through bankruptcy at least twice. Maybe more, if you charged enough to be profitable.

Personally, I think businesses, like individuals, should largely live within their means.
> Some folks have asked about smaller loans. This is would be great.

When you're asking for large sums of money and very non-trivial support of others, it's probably a good idea to be extra careful with your typing. No offense.

edit: I don't mean to nit-pick, it's just good to put your very best foot forth on these kind of requests!
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Somehow I don't think MSFT is $0.00.

Logged, with wild randomness. I don't pretend to understand chaos theory nor astrology.
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WikiLeaks cables show U.S. focus on Pakistan's military, nuclear material
Every statement you made is wrong.

1. Every stock is a random walk.
2. Insider info for smaller companies is much more valuable then larger companies.
3. Speculative plays would make this even more boring, because then everyone makes wild guesses at the future value of a company they have never heard of.

Nice job in any case though.
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This is the interesting point which is often missed.

In the olden days (like, a couple of years ago) classified documents would get leaked to newspapers. The newspapers would take a look at them and publish them in excerpt alongside an editorial talking about how they thought long and hard about whether it was in the public interest to publish this particular document and blah blah blah. As I understand it, based on my reading of the law, they were technically committing a crime by doing so, but the authorities never bothered to pursue prosecution against the media outlets and just prosecuted the original leaker. Why not? I don't know, maybe because responsible publication of leaks is acknowledged to be a good thing, or maybe because it's not worth going to war with anyone who buys ink by the gallon.

Wikileaks, on the other hand, will publish huge swathes of documents in a much less restrained manner than the New York Times would. It's concievable that they can be charged.

As far as I know, the law states that it's illegal to pass along classified documents, and it doesn't restrict the applicability of this law to the people who were supposed to have the documents in the first place.