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Very excited to see what becomes of the Atomontage Engine. For years I've been annoyed with static 3D environments where walls don't actually crumble when shot at, and windows never shatter. This engine will change the way we react to realism in virtual environments.

Almost so much that it becomes easy to ponder if we're already in someone's 3D simulation ;)
$286,000 bucks for registering a domain name, I'd so take it. In fact, that makes me want to start up domain squatting... but that's a dick move.
> So it's okay to abuse the law while building a business because it's "hard" to do it legitimately? You can't be serious? If it's too hard to do it legitimately, you don't do it.

Yeah, we might be a lot better off if people hadn't run to Hollywood to escape enforcement of Edison's patents. Without that city of pirates, things might have turned out very differently.
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Finally! IMHO Google's Android Market is the weakest part of the platform right now. I am fond of my Android phone but it really is a pain to find new apps. AFAICT, the only way to really do it is from the handset, which is not nearly as useful as being able to do it from my desktop machine. Hopefully the existence of Amazon's marketplace will motivate Google to get their act together. If not, maybe I'll just switch to the Amazon market.
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This violates our common sense, but it doesn't necessarily violate physics. We've known for a long time from quantum mechanics that time may not fit with our preconceived notions of what we want to think it is. Entropy only means that time moves forward. The rest, such as that we can't know the future, we've just assumed.
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I don't know about saying 1000 LOC is a baseline for a junior developer. I did second year software engineering last semester and our final project was about 1000 LOC. Granted, that was C, which tends to be... verbose. Even our python implementation of something similar averaged 450. Point is, I don't think 90% of the people in that class, myself included, could start as a junior developer today and be expected to succeed.
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Yep. Very excited for the platform.

Microsoft is finally succeeding in its quest to dominate the living room. Remember the pre-launch buzz of Project Natal? With this controller, they made all consoles of this generation obsolete.

With future software updates, we will likely see the gaming functionality become less prominent. The box may default to Media Center experience based on user identity.

Microsoft knows what works for Apple and how intuitive UX is essential to its success.
Switching to Linux from Windows as a regular user can work most of the time, but there are always subtle things and expectations that don't work. If you survive the little frustrations, you are 99% there. Unfortunately, it means it's costly to switch if the work environment depends on either Windows or a Windows application. Mr. Barr actually needed Windows, so he ran it from VirtualBox, which is really not a complete switch-over.

Finally, while having a helpful community, one is left with the impression that there is a much lower threshold for complaining, being free software.
Constraints give rise to creativity. Just compare that to the "1K" or "7 day" competitions.
Are you trolling or what? All your posts seem to be based on the assumptions that

a) The ARM architecture is intrinsically slower than x86

b) .NET is intrinsically slow

c) Microsoft wants the same applications that run on the desktop to run on the mobile

Any evidence that backs these assumptions?
> In reality, if you publish 20 experiments with p=0.05 [1], 1 of them should be incorrect.

In reality it doesn't turn out this way because the results that get written and published tend to be biased in favour of novelty and demonstrating a relationship rather than the absence of one. How many similar experiments could have been terminated, never submitted or not published because they failed to show anything notable? This is one of reasons... 'Why Most Published Research Findings Are False'
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/

That meta-study applied to medical studies and I think this genre would probably fair even worse when it came to long term replicability.
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I'd also use them as a shortcut to validating their experience in an area

That seems very dangerous. I, for example, know about DEADBEEF and CAFEBABE as hacker trivia, yet have close zero experience in actually using those techniques for debugging real world problems.
Indeed. There are plenty of other arguments, too, based on game theory, which I should hope any mathematician or economist would appreciate. Some good papers and discussion can be found at these sites:

* http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/index.htm

* http://www.againstmonopoly.org/
It's fun that people are so different. I would give a lot if I could have BeOS Tracker, Deskbar and GUI fitted into, for example, a Linux system instead of Gnome.

BeOS GUI was minimal, slick, and one of the rare GUIs that you can actually use for system maintenance. That's a tipping point for me: Linux desktops GUIs are there because a desktop computer apparently has to have a desktop GUI. In BeOS, it was there so that you could operate your system. Using a shell on Linux is the equivalent of the "Start" button; using a shell on BeOS always felt like a hack: you didn't need it for system control.
Congrats! You have overcome the first BIG change. Now it's only about finding alternatives, and often easier solutions, to your normal work on the computer, where you maybe before used propriatary software only made for winboxes. :-) Good luck!
Yes, failed is a bit harsh, but see how difficult adoption has been? A near apocalypse of ipv4 is required before the leap occurs. My point, though, was simply to illustrate how insane it sounds for a bunch of random people to do what an organized and financially backed group even struggles with.
"Games like Farmville are a fad, like Rubix cube and Cabbage Patch Kids."

Well, sure they're fads. But toys aren't a fad.

LOST might be a fad, but entertaining content aren't a fad.

Farmville might be a fad, but Zynga is in the content business, not the Farmville business.
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Arguably that is only the case since musicians are less finance/numbers savy than programmers.

In any case, in America it would be relatively easy to get in the hole to your music studio to the tune (sic) of 2.2 million dollars, have your record flop, and then declare bankruptcy to avoid being 'owned'.
It's probably more about the trademark than the domain. The other company applied for the Groupon trademark as well, so trading under that name until the trademark dispute is settled could be quite problematic and using a different name wouldn't be able to leverage the Groupon brand.
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This app supports live preview. You can see it in the live application. It also supports most of the css3 features. And one this is just a beta app for collecting the response of the users. It will be improved according to the response of the users.
Don't know if I'm awesome at content network, but about 95% of my adwords clicks are coming from the content network and not from actual search.

I get people via Adwords at less than 20 cents a click. According to Facebook, the minimum bid for people who like online games or mmorpgs, or other categories I've tried is currently well over a dollar. I did get some clicks from Facebook when their ads were fairly new and the minimum bids weren't so high, but conversion rates were much lower than those from Adwords.
Weren't there voices warning about that possibility back when Google was buying DoubleClick? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoubleClick#Acquisition_by_Goog.... comes to mind

In any case, what you wrote seems to confirm that Google is advertising company rather than general internet service company or web search company.

Edit:
in any case, Google, while having smaller revenue and market cap than Apple, seems to be able to put squeeze on the competitor exactly because it can leverage having large share of (advertising) market against Apple's medium share of (consumer electronics) market.
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Does anyone have any user amounts about the different no-sql databases? Or just say two most popular ones? I guess some of them will rise above the other's in following years and some will drop. User amounts would indicate which ones have most potential to stay around and be accepted as standard no-sql databases.
sorry it they are the same. I just searched for an icon in the icon finder and used it. I know my designs are poor, I am not a designer, I am a developer.
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They've probably seen that:

- ARM chiops are soon at desktop speeds; further, there are dual-core and quad-core ARM chips in the near future

- Laptops have been fast enough for years that customers can trade off some speed in favor of much longer battery life

- They see synergetic advances in gluing together mainline Windows and Windows Phone with ARM platforms: ARM is certainly going to be a player, they're certain that ARM based minilaptops, netbooks, and tablets, when they become closer to mainstream, are going to eat away market share from Windows/x86
So if you could buy $50 billion of GS shares at the current price, you'd own about 57% of the company.

could you? I think you'd have to offer a hefty premium over market price for GS...
Nobody has mentioned acquisition. I think it is safe to say that MSFT would be interested in FB at 50B. 100B starts to look like real money and it is hard to know who would be interested...
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Oh dear :-(
Also - building a lifestyle business is largely under your own control, if you work hard and have the least bit of talent you'll be able to make it work. Hitting the jackpot is much more a matter of things outside your control, even though you work hard the odds are stacked against you and you'll probably fail.
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OK, so the costs of running Facebook from a pure employee point of view are smaller than Yahoo.

I wouldn't be so sure...
Just wait for devices with ONLY amazon store and no way to install anything outside of it. Just like at&t+motorola screwed with the back flip in similar ways.

And don't be foled, this is probably their monetization strategy, not a consequence.
Thats right, I told my boss this is shit, and he answered me that its the way it is and cannot be changed per security reasons. He is anoyed too.

What he told me is that the system is designed for the normal users, so is as restricted as possible so that they cannot break it.

Since more and more developers have been joining the company this is becoming a really anoying issue, but nobody of the people who have enough power and could force a change cares about this stuff.

Personally, with my own custom system I would be very much productive, altough vim already boosted my productivity even being on windows (xp) ...
We are hosting KhanApp ourselves. OpenAppMkt provides easy ways for end users to install or bookmark our app onto their phones. Plus it gives us install numbers and reviews etc.
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While I wouldn't disagree that an OSX install can get slower over several years, I can't help but think what you want is a bit of a case of 'the grass is always greener'. There are plenty of lean linux distributions out there, but the reality is that they cut things out.

Modern operating systems do a lot to improve your experience as a user and provide various services. A lot of tech people seem to want their system to have as much CPU and RAM free as possible, but then what are you going to do with it? Are your apps actually running out of memory and swapping?
I will doubt web development skills of anyone who has no understanding how web servers work and what's happening server-side.
GNU/Linux? Firefox also turned out quite a bit better than IE. I'm aware that money and organization are involved in both of those endeavours, but the amount of each is miniscule by comparison.
Do you have personal exprience with the Windows kernel and user space code base? If so, what makes it unclean?
sorry that was an unnoticed mistake from my part. Thanks for pointing out about it. I will update it as soon as possible. The double clicking the selector is assigned to rename the selector.
Shutter (http://shutter-project.org/) should probably be your cup of tea, if you like Snagit.
Maybe Amazon can do better device targeting aside from resolution and OS version. Device name would be good...
The last time I heard of voxels was in the late nineties. Good to hear they are back!
rule of thumb in the energy sector is an installation cost per kW ie, natural gas is about $1500/kW, coal plant might be $1200/kW etc. all sorts of bells and whistles but when someone tells you something is going to cost on the order of $12,500/kW to install, you want to start thinking about where you're getting $10,000 worth of value from...
I actually wasn't asked to sign an NDA (in Switzerland). Maybe someone just forgot that, or they realize that creating a legally binding NDA is quite hard in Europe.
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dude. are you telling us you just stole artwork from somebody else's app that they charge real money for?

very, VERY not cool. if it was my app you'd stolen from, you'd be hearing from my lawyer right about now.
You're right, I didn't really consider this. I run a hackintosh myself, so the hardware thing wasn't really on my radar.
It's really easy: Sphinx has a data import interface called xmlpipe2 which takes an XML stream/file and feeds it to Sphinx for indexing. So I wrote a small PHP command line script that gets all the documents I want indexed from MongoDB and formats them as XML. I gave a talk about it last year:

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The other aspect of coure is configuring Sphinx. That really depends on what you're doing and want from it. The forums are helpful and the documentation and wiki are superb. Really they are - read them!
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I wouldn't buy one, because I wouldn't be assured of using it indefinitely (especially if it's proprietary). I might rent one, because that keeps you on the hook to maintain compatibility when Google pushes updates.
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Wow..Amazon gets to set the price on your app. Developers only get to recommend. Certainly original. If this takes off it could have a significant impact on application pricing for more than just Android devices.

iTunes put it in people's heads that a song is worth $1. Amazon is working hard at saying that a book is worth $10. This is the same model - by setting the price for individual apps, Amazon is going to be setting the price for the entire industry. I'd assume Amazon would almost always price an app lower than developers would (and I doubt you'll be able to game the system by suggestion for 2x what you would have otherwise), meaning an overall downward pressure in app prices.

Would benefit users...seems impossible to tell whether it'll benefit developers (or whether other aspects of the store will compensate them, such as with increased sales).
People aren't stupid, they're lazy. They expect things to just work out of the box. They don't want to create online accounts,they don't look through the setup menus and they certainly don't read the manual.
As a developer trying to reach a wide audience but that doesn't want to go through the hassle of getting apps and subsequent updates approved, OpenAppMkt is a possible solution. Your saavy user will know OpenAppMkt just creates shortcuts, but how do you explain such concept to your iphone-using mom who doesn't know what a browser is and thinks google is the internet and much less that a web site is really just a (web) app?

And how do you create a shortcut to the khan academy app on yor home screen, anyway? At least on Android, I can think of a not so intuitive way that your average person won't easily stumble upon: 1) google such site/navigate to it directly; 2) then bookmark it on yor browser; and to create a shortcut (app button), 3) tap-hold an empty spot on your home screen; 4) select shortcuts; 5) select bookmarks and 6) finally, select the khan academy bookmark.

Using OpenAppMkt is just like using the regular app market. The only problem, potentially a killer one, is getting your avg user to download it. But here, I hope social recommendations and links just like the one contained in the page above (which take you right to the download page on the respective app marketplaces) will help.
Are you allowed to do this if you don't own the trademark on groupon in australia? I don't know!
I'm genuinely curious, are there a good number of people that use Wicket?

A while back I was evaluating using Tapestry5 for a rewrite with my team and we had a shootout: Tapestry5 v Spring MVC v Wicket v Grails. Grails won almost in a landslide, mostly due to Groovy.

I see Wicket moving to Scala as a good thing for the framework but wonder how lively the framework community really is. Same thing with Tapestry. Back in 2006 Tapestry seemed like the most awesome framework since WebObjects. Today it seems dated.
The nice thing is that Amazon can basically continuously and automatically A/B test different price points for each app. Drop the price by a penny, is revenue better than projected over an hour? Ok, drop it by another penny, etc.
Pretty sad. I have enjoyed using Scoopon for the past few months and I'm disappointed by their behavior here. Though I'm not justifying their behavior with this statement, it's understandable that 300k isn't biting. I have no doubt that they'll be much happier with you out as long as possible.

Another competitor, and one I've been even more impressed by, is ourdeal.com.au. You've definitely got some competition here. Good luck!
Interesting difference: Amazon set the price of the app, not you.
Not sure this deserves the excitement of the headline. Amazon's been trolling for mobile developers for months now, and there are many other app stores doing the same.

The question is which ones will get enough traction with consumers to matter.
"But why doesn't everyone choose to do so? After all, it would mean a shorter wait, and who wouldn't want that?"

I see it as a trade off.

Lets say you are in a queue that is 2 hours long. You are offered the opportunity to half your queue time for £5, and you can pay multiple times to repeatedly half your queuing time as many times as you want. How many times will you pay the £5 for an ever decreasing return?

There is a trade off here between queueing time and cost. Regardless of your available wealth you won't repeat the payment indefinitely. Internally you assign a value to your lost time, and you trade that against the value of the payment you are willing to make.

The balancing point of the trade off depends on your personal circumstances, availability of monetary wealth and your desired goals.

The fast track system builds the same trade off. The more you are willing to pay the more reduction in wait times you can get, but the higher up the scale you go, the smaller the gain becomes, and there are a range of available ticket types that target different goals (Multiple use, certain rides only, single use, booked time slots, etc). Each user can trade off money against queue time to maximise their goals.

It's fair because all of the available options are clearly documented and made available to everyone indiscriminately. The choice is yours to trade money for time.

It's also fair because those who don't assign high value to the trade off are protected in some way. Fast track tickets are limited in quantity, so most people have to queue, there is not a situation where 10% get stuck waiting exponentially longer. 90% have the same queue, and only the 10% who assign the highest value to the trade off can receive the benefits.

Just because some people can't afford something doesn't make it unfair. I can't afford a Ferrari, but that isn't unfair.

"By whom?"

By me. ;-)

Seriously though, while I have witnessed people cutting into lines unfairly and arguments starting in many other situations I have never seen a confrontation due to the fast track ticket system.

(Perhaps this is because it is sanctioned by the organisation so maybe people just grumble silently in this case, who knows)
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That really is anecdotal. Amongst casual gamers (The massive market) wii games sell like hotcakes. Tons of fantastic titles.
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It'd be nice if, when developers give their 10 days notice (which is what is required to remove the app from the store), Amazon locks the price.

I could see some pretty angry developers pulling their app, and having amazon's "automated" pricing engine heavily reduce the app's price at the same time.
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If you raise VC and you feel owning international TLDs is important, you get a good law firm to do the ones that you can't register yourself online. They will then contract out to local scriveners etc to do the local trademark/domain registration.

Honestly, if you've just raised millions in VC it is a giant waste of your time to navigate the ins and outs of regional corporate law. Pay a law firm, and get back to building your product.