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Yes, you've only had your work accepted to a program run by the company with some of the best software engineers on the planet, that rejects at least 98% of those who even apply.

What could you possibly do to surpass the kid who bought 11 domain names, some of which have apps attached to them?

No offense to Mark Bao, by the way. I greatly admire that he's put together so many projects and is trying to interact at an adult level. I was not enamored of being a businessperson at his age but I produced projects at about the same rate. However, I didn't know the value of what I was doing, and Bao does. He also knows how to market himself.

But I just get deeply angry when I see people discounting their own achievements in favor of people who've put a lot of effort into personal marketing.
I think SKS jumped the shark when they decided sometime in late 08/early 09 to directly sell gold & other consumer durables instead of providing cash lump sum.
Curious: how old is this? I hate it when there's no date on blog posts.
I use two fonts, Tangerine from the Google font library and Fertigo Pro from the exljbris font foundry, both via @font-face. Not sure if they don't go well together. Fertigo is more a print friendly font i guess. Thanks for the feedback. I will try a few other font options.
No game in my life was nearly as addictive as reading HN (or digg before that, or watching news on tv before that).

Games in my life reach at most level of wikipedia reading. 12 hours grind once in two months and casual use now and then.

WoW ? if I wanted to do chores all day, I'd get a job.
Sadly i'm one of these guys: http://i.imgur.com/0xdmt.jpg
I think people's participation would be much higher in such a program if the rewards were linked to an existing platform.

People have been trying to game-ify real life for years and its never gained much traction. I think this is because people have to sign up for something additional, and at that point (unless the program gains a lot of steam with a lot of people) there's not much tying individuals in.
I'd be curious to see the percentage of each that have engaged in 16 hour sessions, pausing only to eat and go to the bathroom.
out of that group, how many are actually startups?
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There is a date under every post, and he updates it every time he gets a new beard.
I'd say that at the top levels, WoW (and many FPSs) are sports at least as much as shooting, golf, snooker, chess or darts are.
Great post, I really want to play with Clojure, but when I looked into it last year it was very apparent that it was built on Java. Not just the JVM, but the Java ecosystem, you were expected to use Maven or Ant for building, jdbc for database connectivity, things like that. I'm sure this is great for someone coming from Java who knows how all of these libraries and tools work, but it felt like I'd have to remember Java just to understand their documentation. Has this changed? Is Clojure standing on it's own now feet now?
I'm not what you'd probably call a WoW 'addict' (never managed to get into the 4+ hours a day for longer than a couple weeks at a time before getting sick of it and quitting,) but I would consider the time that I've played WoW to be a net benefit to me..

I've played with a fair number of people who are in the same field as me, as well as with my own coworkers and managers, which has allowed me to get to know them pretty well and get pretty good job offers and consulting gigs.

But sure, if I had been spending every free moment on WoW, it likely wouldn't have been a worthwhile endeavor.. And for all I know, I would have done something better with the time put into it had I taken up a different hobby.
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I understand now. I've read about people remapping them as JKIL too. I guess the cause is the same.
>I find it strange, for example, that...Clojure is not in the top 100...

It isn't included in the search for Lisp (http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/tpci_d...). Email them and they'll add it.
At the risk of stating the obvious for most readers here -- the energy put into cracking water will always be more than any reaction you would receive from combining the results (hydrogen and oxygen) back.
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Look beyond your first impression. Don't worry about the so called douche-bags.

I am a light VIM user, but I do a lot of scripting on Windows for work. I spend a great deal of time working in consoles for wsf and ps1 files. Having an editor I can use "inline" with my workflow is priceless. I'm not a power user, my vimrc is all of 8 lines, but I can get in make an edit and get back out without losing step. Plus having one editor on all platforms means the things I _do_ manage to learn at work can also be used at home (on Fedora).

TL;DR
Don't worry about a programs perceived user base. Measure it by what it can do for you.
Ordered by trustworthiness: http://i.imgur.com/PHmF5.jpg
Valuations are like leprechaun gold: they look really shiny in the pot at the end of the rainbow, but get too close and the money could disappear.

The more mathematical description is that valuations are a linear extrapolation of two data points. The first data point is (shares = 0, price/share = 0) and the second data point is (shares = [some small number], price/share = [relatively large number]). Valuations then linearly extrapolate to arbitrarily large numbers of shares.

Linear extrapolation will only provide good results when used to extend the graph of an approximately linear function or not too far beyond the known data. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrapolation#Linear_extrapolat...
Sure, but WoW does already have a huge installed base.

That said, you could be the middleman and not ask permission from anyone. Just build a 24 Hour Fitness/WoW mashup. The 24 Hour Fitness end would be easy if you have a membership (basically just set up a screen scraper for your biometric login history).

For WoW, you might start off by buying a bunch of top swords and stuff from other players to seed it. I vaguely know that Blizzard doesn't like that sort of thing, so maybe you could instead seed it with donations of equipment from people who are going to delete their accounts because of lack of exercise.

At the beginning it'd be semi-manual, with difficult-to-obtain gear traded in person in the game. But I think that would get a lot of buzz on Twitter (and even the NYT) if promoted properly, and would get you a meeting with the Blizzard guys to make it a reality.

Anyway, if anyone is interested in doing something with this, I actually have a whole spec written up (one of 50 startup ideas that I can't actually attend to, what with the primary and all). Drop me a line at sramanujan1729 at gmail dot com if you want to chat.
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See this video? "Rogue Complex" funny shit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBqjDYJ6dCY
There are clear abuses going on in the game industry. Check out this link where a game designer from Microsoft talks about "behavioral game design" - he illustrates his paper by comparing gamers to a rat inside a skinner box.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3085/behavioral_game_d...
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World of Warcraft isn't meaningless.

I didn't claim that it was meaningless. (I don't think that it is.) I don't really care about WoW. I was just responding to somebody's sad claim that "life is meaningless."

doing well in WoW allows you to achieve happiness

Doing well in WoW will not give you self esteem; it will not help you successfully deal with the real world (for example, providing for yourself materially and intellectually via a meaningful career). Successfully dealing with reality is a prerequisite of achieving an overall, lasting sense of happiness as a human being.

I think you have to make a more convincing case for why life has meaning and wow hasn't, you can't just spout platitudes and call it a day.

I'm not here to write a dissertation to prove my original claim--that you can find happiness in life, and (relatedly) that it has meaning, but that is objectively true. If you haven't or won't put forth the intellectual effort to discover this for yourself, that is truly sad.
Very minor violations: he mentions $3000 over a 6 week period. More than that is coming out of those advertisers' accounts. He's not a small-scale customer.

It's fraudulent because he's deliberately trying to deceive advertisers who run through Google. There's this little nugget:

>Oh yes, I was also running little blocks of adverts provided by Adsense and, yes, I told my subscribers that I got some money if they visited the websites of those advertisers – all of whom were interested in selling stuff to sailors.

Which is explicitly attempting to game the system. A second's thought of how it works will convince you: advertisers are charged by click, but they make money by purchases. Having extreme CTR with extreme bounce rates means the advertisers are being scammed. Actions caused by willful ignorance in this case look almost identical to willful intent...

And they very nearly are the same thing here. Say you noticed your bank rounded up for certain transactions. Would running thousands of those transactions with the intent to make money - the same as the article - count as willful intent to scam the bank? Would the bank be right in penalizing you for doing so?
Batteries have the same drawback, however.
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There are a couple interesting math problems in there.
Try an IDE designed specifically for whatever language you're working in. Most will have key commands to do just about anything you can do with Textmate. Spend a little time trying to customize and learn the environment. This will give you a good experience to weigh a lightweight editor against a heavyweight IDE. Most people seem to just fire up Eclipse or Rubymine or whatever else, see it take 30 seconds to start, not bother to learn what sets it apart from a text editor, then swear them off because of bloat.
Dunno how many Obsidian Portal fans we have here, but we're running a charity promotion today if anyone is interested.
Why wouldn't someone simply drop-in the api-compatible membase in this situation? It's written by some of the memcached contributors, does heavy cacheing, so it has comparable in-memory speeds but yet persists data to disk, does not require any changes to code, is open source and free, and can do transparent replication and rebuilding.

http://www.membase.com/
Looks nice... once suggestion - the first thing I noticed were he rounded corners on the top, and the ~1px of white which looks like it occurred when you cut the background out in photoshop (or whatever). My eyes were drawn to that immediately, and it would take very little effort to clean that up
Indeed - human mind is capable of creating many elaborate delusions.

Nihilism being the worst of them all. One has to recognize that indeed, there are no supreme values, that there is no guaranteed path to salvation. And that in spite of this terrible truth one must form his own set of values that guide him on a journey that doesn't really lead anywhere specific, but one must travel the journey else he becomes damned.
wow, I was only half serious when I made this comment a while back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2030226
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You are simply wrong about the patch process. It is no longer the case that I am the bottleneck. Many people have worked hard to put in place the organization and systems to make sure this is so. We have meetings on a regular basis, and many people dedicate their Fridays to Clojure tickets. There are several people who vet tickets, and a few who can screen them. Tickets are rarely waiting for my final approval, and rarely waiting long after that for application. And I frequently catch things while looking at them for final ok.

None of us appreciate having our ongoing effort characterized as 'stalled'. Everything in the commit log, Jira and Confluence activity streams belies that. More people are actively involved in improving Clojure than ever.

As for CLJ-688 - it's an enhancement request. Do you think every idea for an enhancement that anyone has should make it into Clojure? I don't - it would quickly become a huge mess. If not, then someone has to look at everything and decide.

Yes, there is a backlog from when it was just me, and it will take a while to whittle down. We have finite resources and have to prioritize. I can assure you we have more important things to concentrate on than your negative index substring enhancement, and are doing so. You'll just have to be patient. Or, if you insist, I'll just reject it now because a) IMO it's goofy, b) you can make your own function that works that way c) we don't get a free ride from j.l.String, d) it begs the question of negative indices elsewhere...

Want Clojure to be a free for all? - Sorry.

Can't cope with the necessity for prioritization given finite resources? - Sorry.

Want top priority? - Sorry.

tl;dr: This blog post is the idle chatter of people who are not involved in the Clojure development process in any significant way. Lau has never submitted a single patch. Apparently his free lunch isn't arriving fast enough.
Flourish Unframework for PHP (http://flourishlib.com) I've looked at it in the past, but this was the first time I was able to work in it professional thanks to a change in career.

It's a really great core library for building web applications, takes the 1389408103 functions in PHP and produces a nice modular library that gives you everything you need and nothing you don't.
There is a fairly nice Clojure build/dependency tool called Leiningen. It uses maven repositories under the hood but you usually don't have to worry about that.

There are libraries in contrib that wrap JDBC database access so you don't have to interface with any of the Java classes.

clojuredocs.org documents core and contrib very well in a non-javadoc style.

So by and large, yes. Of course Java still shines through from time to time - I'm not sure that can be helped. But overall things have improved and are still getting better.
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Your browser is not compatible with the application (supported browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome)

(Running Opera on OSX.)

EDIT: it's worse than that, read the bottom of the sys requirements: "Note: The user must have administrator rights to the computer he is using."

So they're installing some shitty Windows-only plugin?
Then last sentence of my comment does not apply to him. Just me. :-)
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They count an all time low for Visual Basic at position 7, yet they have VisualBasic.NET at position 45, less popular than Logo, JavaFX and APL. When its not VB.NET at position 7, which Basic can they possibly mean? VBA? They can't possibly mean VB6, can they?
The push for more higher education has led to an excess of business degrees
Was the explosive growth of business degrees what was envisioned when "everyone gets a college education?" It's not that degrees are useless, but that there are too many of them, while the growth rates of many other degrees fields have stayed more or less stagnant. Shouldn't a push for higher education aim to lift all ships?
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Right, but that platform could just be "social bragging" through Facebook, other websites, and other methods entirely. It's as simple as showing off to your friends the cool things you're learning while encouraging them to do the same. Meanwhile, those same friends are able to observe the changes to you on a personal basis. It's inherently social and viral; I don't think it really needs to leverage an existing platform at all.
Why not just accept that is pointless after becoming aware of it but just stay for the ride?
Frankly I'm surprised jquery even allowed this to begin with. Now there will be sites that rely on this tha break, some of which won't be fixed for ages (if ever).

I guess I shouldn't be but I'm still surprised people would even do this given that Google s offering the service for free. Hotlinking has always been antisocial.
Except Vimeo doesn't allow commercial use.
This is what made interviewing at Apple so exciting recently. I didn't get this particular job (and plan to apply again), but the adrenaline rush from realizing that all the folks interviewing me were extremely bright, talented, motivated, and into their jobs was instantly addictive. It's very easy to understand why Apple works and how it keeps its people motivated.
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"...The USB chargers were sourced through a Chinese vendor. We paid to have the proper certification and safety tests performed here in the U.S. for the chargers. However, tonight we were informed by a customer of a safety incident with the black USB chargers..."

You think it is appropriate to say this in a recall notice...

and this is why you fail.

Sony has problems with their products, so does Apple. Neither of them blame their sourcing in communication to customers. Why? Because your problem is not Chinese manufacturers, or Stateside testing companies, your problem is YOU and YOUR PROCESSES. Take ownership and move forward.

I am reminded of how you handled getting a bad review, here -> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2029052

I think there is an attitude at your company that is incompatible with the relentless pursuit of perfection that is required to pull off a successful hardware startup. What you guys need is a 'Come To Jesus' talk, not more clumsy attempts at deflecting culpability.
6% CTR implies otherwise. As others have noted, that's not just abnormally high, that's impossibly high for legitimate behavior.

A warning would have been better. But by this point he had already essentially scammed advertisers for tens of thousands of dollars (he mentions $3000 in the last 6 week period).

What would you suggest a middle-man do, if person-X has scammed your clients for tens of thousands of dollars? A polite warning, or cut them off ASAP? And remember that in this case the middle-man is the largest middle-man out there, and deals with billions of interactions.
Perhaps a little harsh. Is the problem bandwidth or connection quantity? If it's bandwidth then they should just 301 to the Google CDN.
> ..., atomic-free synchronization algorithms

Actually I'm not sure if it was supposed to be funny or serious. I see the funny "everything-free" list, as well as can imagine that there is some action you can do not atomically (relative to other actions) that gives you synchronisation.

Anyone?
unfortunately a slightly dated description...we've grown a fair bit since then
On emacs, the immediately obvious approach takes 11 keystrokes:

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Whilst a reasonable read, pretty much every link in that article is a 404 error.
I like the one comment about serving up evil.js to hotlinkers instead (https://github.com/kitgoncharov/evil.js/blob/gh-pages/evil.j...).

How have I never heard about this hilarious script before?
They are not disabling their CDN. They are only disabling hotlinking against other sources. This was in the first sentence.
Crockford used to prevent hotlinking to his JSON library (its now on github) in an interesting way: right at the top there was an alert() line that you had to remove before using.

This would probably be the best way to transition. If they add an alert to their library and leave it up a week, most people should notice and fix it.
...their personality.
The should have posted pictures of the old site in the post.
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Why? How far from "willful intent" is "willful ignorance"? Especially in the face of precisely, unquestionably violating the very first agreement checkbox of a contract?[1] If you can even claim ignorance, that is; they were informed. That's kind of the point of contracts.

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2051078
Sorry I'm a little late to get back to you on this, HOWEVER, Kohana just released version 3.0.9, which includes a revamped user guide with full examples and details and tutorials:

http://kohanaframework.org/guide/kohana
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Always seemed to be to be a bad practice from a security point of view - you are putting the security of your site in the hands of whoever is hosting the .js

This also applies when .js is dynamically included as a type of API call to embed widgets and whatnot - but in those cases there's a necessary reason - it's the only practical way - but for a simple .js, you should be managing your own .js library and publishing on your own (including all the speedup tricks you know you should be doing)
For a tiled repeating background, I would recommend looking into createPattern function https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Canvas_tutorial/Applying_st....

You can use code like this:

context.fillStyle = context.createPattern(img, 'repeat');
context.fillRect(0, 0, 100, 100);

Where 'img' is an Image object you loaded from an src, or even a canvas object that you may have used to build a composite background.

If this doesn't work in your situation, I would at least build this image once in a canvas in memory (using document.createElement), and reference it in the 'drawImage' function instead of building it from scratch each time. Though it sounds like you might already be doing this. Do you have a link to your game?
Sorry to sound like an asshole, but I have to agree with you - this guy is annoyingly obnoxious. In the first minute of the first screen cast all he was able to highlight was that Canadians don't live in igloos, and that he thought his "neighbours to the south" were ignorant.

I am keen to learn how to use VIM effectively, but I can't sit through these videos. Please, anyone out there, take this guys idea but do it right. Put together a series that emphases the content - not the guy presenting it.
I understand that. The question still stands - if it's a bandwidth problem on jquery.com, why not just 301 it somewhere else?
Straight connection overloading. We're already redirecting the majority of the files - but somehow the hotlking continue to persist.
I am in a similar situation.. I consider myself very proficient in PHP (and have been doing it full-time for 2 years since school). Being forced to use one language all the time didn't sit too well with me. Recently, I picked up a few python books and made a new app just for fun with python/GAE. 100% free (minus the book costs) and it was eye opening in many regards. Seeing all the beautiful language constructs that python has available compared to PHP made me very jealous. I fully intend to jump into the Ruby world eventually to see what all the fuss is about - However, I recommend you do what I did and try some small stuff with GAE just because of the ridiculously easy setup/deployment. Lets you focus more on the language and coding.
The small gray article text is a little hard to read. I've already seen one person complain about it.

Compare the text of an article with my viewer and you can see how easier it is to read with darker, bigger text:

http://thenextweb.com/us/2010/12/31/dictionary-com-acquires-...

and

http://viewtext.org/article?url=http://thenextweb.com/us/201...
I used your file back then to graph the web servers these sites run: http://lazyant.com/post/642248858/web-servers-of-the-most-vi...