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I think the problem here is the title. After reading the article, I realise that when the author says Arc "is good for" games he means you can do games at all with a bit of work. The details you mention should only worry you if you expected the author to be proposing that Arc is currently, out of the box, a competitive platform for games.

By the way, you can roll your own audio support in any Scheme that has a FFI. You have to be a bit careful if you want low level access [1], but if you just want a play-wav function you can wrap SDL, fmod, OpenAL, or any other library that gives you audio through a C interface.

The point here is not whether the Arc platform is suitable as-is for games, but whether it's worth the effort to make it suitable. You can amortize that effort over several games.

Neither the C/assembly nor the Java/bytecode analogies are apt IMO. If you can't get access to some underlying platform facility in Java, bytecode won't help. As for C, when you move to assembly you sacrifice platform independence, while when you go down to PLT or the FFI the result is an Arc extension that, if well done, has the same objective qualities as if it had been provided by Arc in first place.

[1] ...since that may imply writing a C callback that may be possibly be called in a separate OS thread. Most Scheme implementations don't support OS threads, but even those don't stop you from (carefully) using OS threads in your C extensions.
Would have been nice to try comet out in that situation, it seems like a more appropriate technology
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cheers, sounds promising. hopefully us non-US mac users will have an outlet too.
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And now the question "What is so cool about loopt?"

Perhaps it's just I don't have any need for it. It seems like it might appeal to twitter lovers though, though even then it seems like it is a feature rather than a product to me. Is Loopt popular in the US?
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I thought this year's was funny albeit nowhere near the scale of past pranks.

http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/the_video
It really depends on what kind of code you are writing. If you are writing a component or framework with a public API to be consumed by others, it is very important to document methods throughly. I agree that the code itself should be as clear and understandable as possible, and a superfluous comment is worse than no comment - DRY.

However the more complex and clever the code get, the more you need comments. Note that Knuth, one of the smartest and manliest programmers, invented literate programming.

We have no idea whether the woman in question demand stupid superfluous rote comments, or rather want well-documented API's or literate code ala Knuth.

BTW. I think the Inquirers slant on the article is clearly sexist, but also that she brought it upon herself by framing the issue in terms of men vs woman.
I was just thinking how remarkable it was that where gas prices mattered less, votes lined up for Kerry.

Interesting that those that see high gas prices as a natural way towards a higher-evolved energy system are those who have the least skin in the game.
To me it sounds more like a mix of pioneer's pride and sense of humour.
You are supposed to keep ALT down when you press space.
I'm sorry, but I still don't get it. This concept is totally strange to me. How is a dollar today worth more than a dollar tommorrow?

How is it better to defer payments (add debt) than to pay everything at once? If I pay now, I can bulk up on money quickly later without having it reduced by debt repayment.
Microsoft's obit will be in the newspaper (response to Ballmer's "print is dead" speech)
I almost was expecting the release of Java to feature in the list.
No one DECIDES who can develop on windows mobile.

which might have something to do with why it's an ugly, unpleasant mess.

great technical products are not produced via democracy. they're almost always the vision of just a few people.

Meanwhile 4000 devs are going to make ALL the applications that the masses could ever want on an iPhone.

that's patently absurd. apple randomly picked 4000 iphone devs to let into the beta program. that's all. they will let in more later, once they've gotten feedback from the first crop, and understand better how the process will work.

I'm frustrated that I can't get some of my linux apps to work in OS X.

the linux community is not exactly known for making user-friendly apps. it's only natural that there would be a disconnect between their apps and macosx.

heck, i could spend all day addressing the misconceptions and downright falsehoods in this comment, but it sounds like you've already made up your mind.
Tell that to the guys that are competing with Mexicans for jobs. I'm not saying they are right, just that I can see how high ideals like freedom of movement fly out the window the moment your job is threatened.
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I would care if the existing software on the iPhone was really lacking. I actually wrote a new firmware for the Archos multimedia jukebox for that reason - the original software absolutely sucked. Archos then actually threatened to sue me etc etc. Good times, good times...

Anyhow. Games consoles are pretty closed, I don't have a problems with the iPhone being closed to be honest. It has a very capabale web browser, which means you can run pretty much anything you like anyway.
VB Tech Journal? I don't know, man, this sounds like a personal friend test of the author or something.

Have them program something in the interview. Watch them use their chosen text editor as they work through your problem. Have them run their program and watch them iterate through a few code/test/debug cycles. Once it's working, ask them for a minor but logical improvement, and watch their reaction. Dread at having to go back to the code, or gusto in making it better? How fast can they go back and edit their own code?

For whatever job you're hiring for, have them do the job as part of the interview process.
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It could have been expensive for Microsoft to license single click window closing on a per copy basis and it could have set an expensive precedent. So, they devised numerous methods of closing a window without infringing on the patent. One method was to open a menu on the top left corner of a window, and with or without a second click, selecting the window close item. Another method selects the same menu item by using keyboard sequences. However, no method allowed you to close a window by using a single mouse click.

After the patent expired, the keyboard sequences were retained for power users who were already familiar with the sequences. However, the prominance of the menu has declined.

> it doesn't work on Firefox

I'm not surprised. Firefox on Windows implements its own menu primitives. Many other applications have different versions of the same libraries statically compiled. Obviously, the Firefox implementation doesn't implement a legacy window.
Yeah only if your IP happens to look like it's in the US. Jesus christ I hate websites that do this. So you want me to go through a proxy or use a US IP address just so I can get around your legal bs?
"The 8GB 3G iPhone will cost just £99 on a new £30 per month tariff and the existing £35 per month tariff. Consumers choosing either the £45 or £75 per month tariffs will get the 8GB 3G iPhone for free."

That's much better than the previous offering. I was looking at the £35 per month tariff with iPhone v1, but the ~£300 price tag put me off. So now I can get the same tariff and a reduced up-front cost -- what's not to like?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/...
Did you notice /humor/ in the URL?
But no plans for launch in Russia yet.
I just keep wondering why.
It's been almost a year since launch, and there's version 2 coming but there are ABSOLUTELY ZERO plans to launch iPhone in Russia. You know, we have cell phones here too, and many of them, actually! (here: 140 million http://www.mnweekly.ru/business/20070809/55266704.html)
He's taking into effect the opportunity cost of spending that dollar verses investing it in something, if I'm not mistaken.
For the last couple of months I've been giving a short presentation to some of my software teams. At the end, I have a slide with "42" on it. I usually say, "And for the answer to everything else, here it is."

Interestingly enough, the analysts don't get it, the PMs sometimes get it, but the programmers most always get the allusion. I should start putting something about cats in there...or perhaps parrots pining for the fjords.
What's more is that going through any form of proxy kills your speeds. I'm in Jordan and paying through the eyeballs for 1MB internet (80USD/Month with a 10GB cap) - going through either a private VPN or Socks5 effectively castrates my web-browsing speeds so you can imagine how badly it affects streaming 480p video :)
jarnold is talking about a situation without debt, that's why you're confused - debt is effectively the difference between present value and future value. Think of debt as the cost of having something sooner rather than later, and you'll start to understand why we need to use a PV factor to price a future cashflow.

Here's a reformulation of the same problem:

If I paid you $200 now, would you pay me $10 a month for 24 months? You have access to a bank which gives you interest of 5% pa compounded yearly.

The answer is no, and the amount that you'd lose out by is $27.94

This doesn't have much to do with the iPhone since we're pricing two different products here, but it's a very important concept to understand in finance.
Nope :) I tend to read very quickly, and since this is a topic I'm truly interested, I guess I hoped that the author was serious. Thanks for the callout.
"... That's an archaic attitude towards psychology ... Get real help ..."

Archaic but effective. I imagine my repressed Anglo-Celtic ancestry where death & grieving was followed with a "wet-wake" ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_(ceremony) I imagine served them well. Tragic as it is death is also a part of life. While groups of like kin may be devoid of the latest medical advancements they do have advantage of common sense. There is quite a magnitude of difference b/w grief and mental illness quite visible to people you know well.

"... What you shouldn't do is take any advice on here. That would be like getting programming advice from a psychologist. I've done a couple years of work with people on hospice, and have done a little with suicide prevention stuff ..."

By your own admission I wouldn't take yours either. But I do see your point.
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Apple and the iPhone are not roughly parallel to "living in a locked down communist country." You pay for the iPhone. You pay for the cell service. You pay for the shiny MacBook. Nobody makes you pay for these things; you don't have to use Apple products or services if you don't want to. In a communist country you will participate or be imprisoned or killed.
I agree that its'a subject to discuss, however it may be you can find this article interesting: http://www.opensource.org/node/163
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Some more Snow Leopard info:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/snowleopard/?sr=hotnews

http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/snowleopard/
Actually, you don't need to with MS apps, but doing so allows it to work with FF also.
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The first thing that came to my head reading this was "Uh, since last year you could go to the Comedy Central website and watch every Daily Show episode ever."
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That's why I've never understood the Apple-hate. I mean, yes, I understand that it's great to have open things to fiddle with. At the same time, though, open-source applications are almost never the top-notch apps in their field. I think that Firefox, for instance, is dwarfed in terms of features by Opera and in terms of usability by Safari (my personal favorite). It's partly because Firefox is far more loosely-designed than either of the two browsers. Its philosophy is primarily "be open to change," whereas Opera's is "do everything" and Safari's is "stay out of the way."

Apple doesn't lie to developers about their systems. They present a "my way or the highway" offer. And many excellent devs take them up on it, because they think that the OS X is worth the limitations developers face. Some users think that overall, that is a trade-off that is completely worth it. Others absolutely disagree. But Mac users don't hate "freetards" for their choices. The hate tends to be one-way. Ironic, because a lot of the condescension that Mac users get is from people who accuse them of being elitist.

And... that's my one-sided, rambling rant.
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I saw the Harry Potter movies with my family, though.
There seems to be a rush of test articles today. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=213653 for another example. Is someone writing a utility to automatically create accounts, post spam on this forum and upmod it? Would it be worthwhile to get into an escalating arms race and add some safeguards?
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Though I recently come to like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_history

It de-emphasizes the 'Great Men'.
TechCrunch's quality has gone down over the last year. The problem is that Arrington has critical mass, and not following TechCrunch could keep you out of the loop on some important stories or conversations.

At some point though, I won't be able to handle it and will unsubscribe, regardless of how many people follow his news.
But they break it up into ugly little bits and the web player they use is dreadful. TC is overreacting (big news?) but this is a great piece of news for a fan.
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The Real Threat of Google Earth
Google Earth is gradually becoming more and more popular with the mass users too, But is it a threat to the world. When Google earth had just launched itself, as the virtual globe program, not many people knew about it ....
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Important stories like Twitter's downtime or del.iciou.us not pushing new software when Arrington decides they should?
Google App Engine Blocking PayPal?
cool - it looks like they're really going to add ZFS this time. It sounds like they're putting a lot of focus into server-related improvements, which is an interesting development.
I seem to remember it being open source at least as early as 2001.
great technical products are [...] almost always the vision of just a few people.

Platforms, yes -- consistency goes a long way there, and a few coherent voices can build something where all the pieces work well together.

Applications? 'the talented few' still need access to the platform. The question is, is there a way for a few, talented people to develop and deploy the killer iPhone app?

That's not a rhetorical question -- is there such a route?
> shutting down new user registration

A few users made their first posts more than one year after creating their accounts. Therefore, there could be a large number of dormant accounts on this forum. If you drastically limited supply then demand could encourage sales or auctions of dormant or active accounts. The market value for an account could exceed US$100 but none of it would return to the administrators. You could undercut the value and sell accounts directly to users, however this model is similar to SomethingAwful's one time fee of US$9.95, which has hardly been conducive to constructive discussion.
Sometimes using the mobile version of an existing site in a normal browser can give you similar results

https://www.bankofamerica.com/mobile/

http://mobile.fandango.com/
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Its problem is the commenting system. Needs something like Digg.
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> How is a dollar today worth more than a dollar tomorrow?

Inflation, among other things. Deferring payments might add debt, but you've got to include the price of the debt: the interest rate.

Imagine you have $100 in the bank, earning interest. Lets say, if you keep it in your account for a year, you end up with $110. So, if someone gives you the option of paying $100 now, or paying $100 at the end of the year, which do you pick? If you pick now, you'll end up with $0 in your account. If you pick at the end of the year, you'll be left with $10.

Back to your question, normally when you add debt, that debt has interest payments attached to it. So the choice isn't "$100 now or $100 later", but "$100 now or $150 later". Imagine you still have your $100 in the same account, now the choice is to have a balance of $0 now, or -$40 at the end of the year, so it's better to pay now.

Whether you are in the first or the second situation depends on the relative profits from keeping your money invested (ie, via the bank) and the cost of the interest on your debt. For the iPhone, your monthly payments stay the same, so it's more like the first example than the second example, except that the new monthly payments are higher than for the old iPhone, so you still "loose".
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Welcome! I had a similar reaction, until I saw what was in the URL. I was very pissed since I'm a dog person.
Great article. Denny is one of the nicest people I've met in the startup world...
Neat, but as soon as I get to the "Windows mobile" part I hit the back button.
Good to know that there are still old-fashioned dorks at Google.
That's right. I have Alt+Space mapped to Launchy so i didn't test that.
Interesting that there are differences in power consumption between Linux distributions. I guess with the myriad of possible configuration parameters, the various profiles can mean anything.

I measure power consumption of any system I set up, and dynamic CPU clocking (SpeedStep, Cool'n'Quiet) definitely help a lot. Yet another reason why I ended up ditching Xen. The main gains by far are made with picking the right hardware, though. PSUs, CPUs, motherboards. For desktops/workstations, graphics cards. For servers, hard disks.
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Skip to 1:17. The intro is a bit indulgent.
Am I the only one who finds that TechCrunch is unreachable most of the time? I assume its server is overwhelmed with traffic. Possibly the problem is on my end, but I don't have problems with other sites. I find it strange that the guy who complains about Twitter's downtime seems to have some of his own to deal with.
They also need some kind of comment moderation but I guess if there is no moderation in the blog post what can you expect :?
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If Arrington is after traffic, people would stick around to read and participate in comments moreso if it was actually usable.

Regarding the posts, I think better comments would encourage more cooperation by the websites who are profiled as the comments could be more valuable.
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I could always access the site without any problems and didn't see any issues.
>though it does look rather awkward on my widescreen

how about resizing your browser window?
You could also call it US Percenf of Income Spent on Destroying the World.
I tend to agree with the article, especially the "impatience factor".

What I especially don't like is the practice of "private beta invitations". I am wasting time reading "news" about features of some new online service, only to find out that it's not available yet, but Techcrunch has "50 free invitations for its readers". It's a win-win-lost situation - startup got publicity, TC is "first to report it", but I wasted my time.

What I think TC got right is the blog-like format + discussions + quick reporting. But the content stinks. I hope competition will take him over.
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Sure, but you could download the video and watch when it's done... Although that negates the point of using the site in the first place really.
http://www.wikileaks.org/leak/bt-phorm-report-2007.pdf
Any advice for a first visit to the MIT?
This is going to be my first visit to USA, and what I'd need is some advice for visiting MIT and maybe Harvard too in July, for a pair of days only. I'm interested in knowing those universities, to see the latest trend in tech research and to learn more about some of my current interests, on subjects like computer vision interfaces and robotics.

I've been developing games for years (I founded a local national game dev association, and my own game studio) and the last time I've been doing other more general tech projects (some of them about them anyway): including a computer vision interface for a game for Intel (which was used for advertising in a few countries), and a massive video chat system I'm still working in these days. A local university has given me a small funding for doing research on vision interfaces for health, but I couldn't yet start working on that. In the future, I'd like my career to shift completely to the applications of AI to industry, interfaces, search, data mining, etc, but I know I still need to learn a lot about it.

Is there any specific advice about what I should see, or who should I contact, or where I should go, that you could give me? (I already contacted some researchers from interesting projects there, but maybe you can point me to some specific advice I should really know.)

Please reply here, or if your reply contains any sensitive information, by mail to hhmdev@gmail.com (I'll be using that address only for this post, for a small time period).

Thanks a lot in advance!
What they're calling "OpenCL" (I could see that name changing, considering some preexisting libraries) is pretty interesting. They're trying to get developers to milk one more core out of their machines by offloading general computation to the GPU. That's really cool.
You beat me to it. The rest of the article is irrelevant.
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I never followed TC, I just go here. Interesting worthwhile stories make it to the front page.
My bet: Buffet and hedge fund managers make lots of money.
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