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Well, with an alarm you could still set it up to go off within 15 mins I'd assume; fairly useless to be sure, but at least it'd give you a way to test out the app's reliability. What bothers me about the 15min limit, is that sometimes the first-time setups/downloads for bigger games already take about 15mins to finish, leaving you with virtually no time left to actually try them out. I know this happened to me with Dungeon Defenders even though I was on wifi while it downloaded its assets. I didn't mind it too much cause the game was decent, but I could easily see this not being the case for other people buying similarly large games.
That was taken right out of an IFrame canvas app that I just retested in Safari - both a new app install, and revisiting an app after 2+ hours for the default token to have expired.
That, my friends, is why I wash my hands of this industry.

So much for "smart people doing what they love" eh?

Better get that government job and hunker down; once this pops, your mad skillz might never see use again.

For those lacking historical context; it took 20 years for anyone to be hired in industry to work in "artificial intelligence".
Eh... I don't know that that's necessarily true. Say what you will about financial firms, but it's not like they pay you to club baby seals while startups pay you to care for orphaned bunny rabbits and kittens. There are startups out there that are unethical along with financial firms who have completely legitimate business models that provide unquestionable value for society.
I understand the point you are trying to make in posting this, and it is a good point to make.

However, in the article, Norvig himself points out the worthiness of learning several languages, and doesn't claim that you have to get on a ten year treadmill for any individual one, or even a subset. My impression was that Norvig was really targeting the people for whom whatever-language-in-a-fortnight-and-a-half would be their first exposure to programming at all.

As you gain more languages, provided you are judicious in choosing, so shall your learning of each of those languages be more rapid than the prior.

Does a month per language seem a bit rapid? Yeah, it kind of does, depending on the time spent in study and tooling. The pragmatic programmer guys suggest learning a new language every year; that seems wholly attainable. In reality, the author studied a language to what he considered a sufficient level in a quarter. That also doesn't seem that unreasonable, depending on the level of mastery desired. Could be that both perspectives have more than a grain of truth.
Ever heard of Maxima? http://maxima.sourceforge.net/

Maxima which is a direct decedent( I think they even share code now) of Macsyma one of the first symbolic math packages developed at MIT. Wolfram was inspired by it when he created Mathematica. In fact I think it was because he despised macsyma (cause it was in lisp and not C I believe, there are some mailing list post describing the events) that he decided to create Mathematica. So the enemy of your enemy is your friend ;p
It's funny, people have been talking about prefab houses (related, but not the same, as on-site robotic assembly) for years, but they still are a niche item. Despite all kinds of efforts to popularize them, such as:

http://www.dwell.com/magazine/the-prefab-issue.html
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It is played over a week, one move a day with the move passing to the other team at 11 a.m., which research has shown, is when we are just settling down in our offices and are the most free of distractions to play a game on facebook.

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Most of us have plenty of ideas and not enough time to execute most of them. So we're more impressed when someone shows us something cool that's actually usable rather than another article about how someone had a vague idea for a cool thing that's supposed to become practical in another 10 years, but which we doubt will ever actually get produced.

In short, it's a lot easier to come up with an idea when you don't have to actually do the work to make it feasible. See also: "I have an idea, I just need a programmer or two."
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Pre-existing contracts may be binding on someone who purchases a business. So the buyer of a web site might be bound by the TOS. Thus, a promise to customers could survive the company changing hands. (I can't speak to the particulars of this case, though.)

The flip side is that TOSs typically have some provision for amendment. Such provisions might be invoked by a company's new management. However, the management has to be careful even then, because of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_form_contract

Again, I'm not suggesting that any of this would necessarily apply to threewords.me. This is just my understanding of how it works in general.

BTW, I couldn't find a link to the TOS for threewords.me.
How about tens of thousands of dollars? How about hundreds? Millions? Tens of millions? Does that matter?

"In finance, you will be fighting against transparency for the sake of maintaining profits" - not sure what you mean by this, if you could please clarify
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Having met several people who work at Cheezburger, I can verify that they are indeed very smart people doing what they love. The Cheezburger team works tirelessly to make sure that their users laugh, every day. That's their mission and they seem to be achieving it...
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What's wrong with making markets more efficient? It's the same as making code run faster, or making a user experience less painful in the sense it's improvement at the margins. Just because the value is less tangible doesn't mean it isn't real. At the end of the day, we could say that all programmers do is push bits over wires. How does this add social value?
Hmm, I wonder what the solution to this could be.
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Is penetration testing a career worth pursuing?
I ask this due to this article:

http://carnal0wnage.attackresearch.com/node/440

I think he made some very good points that most companies don't want to take an expensive test that they'll most likely fail and they just want to be compliant.

While I can see penetration testing diminishing in the corporate environment, I think it will most likely be a constant within the realm of the military.

What are your two cents?
No, I saw the original version that cautioned against state changing idempotent GET requests. The changed version is actually worse, as it only cautions against non-idempotent GETs, which is not enough. State changing idempotent requests via GET are quite as bad.

In fact, idempotency is irrelevant for GET, as GET requests should be safe, which trivially implies that they are idempotent. So requiring idempotency in addition to safety does nothing except making the prose harder to read.
So you'd say 30% vested over how many years? He's got a pretty good track record and claims he can introduce me to all the right people. He's thrown out some names, and seems like a pretty legit and nice guy. I'd essentially like to keep developing the idea while someone else is out building business relationships and structuring the business.
Failblog is popular with some high school students.
I will definitely drop you a line.
Part of what Facebook has done has continually push what we're willing to share online, I think. And really, the entire Internet has changed what we're willing to share online, not just Facebook. As we're able to do more and more online, we need to provide more and more information online. It's just whether or not that information remains under our control that's really the big question, I think.
How the hell can you all be bitching about how this is a bubble? Were any of you around for the dot com days? I was young, but I remember companies getting triple and quadruple digit P/E ratios, for the lucky ones that had earnings at all. Others went public and were worth hundreds of millions or billions before they had so much as a decent audience, let alone a revenue model. Now we're crying "bubble" because a profitable company with a huge (profitable) audience raised money to grow even more profitable? You think their subject is stupid, I get it. You probably don't watch cheap, cookie-cutter cartoons or read trashy romance novels, but there are huge markets for those, too.

If growing, profitable companies in large markets raising capital means a bubble, may it grow ever more bubbly.
RVM also manages gemsets, which lets you quickly save and switch the set of installed gems (packages). You're correct that it doesn't replace gem as a package manager.
Yeah, he probably just doesn't understand numbers--- got his Nobel with boxtops I bet, whereas you got yours by popular acclaim wasn't it?
I don't think so. I'm not a huge tweeter and so anything that gets in the way of the rare things really jumps out at me, of which the slow status box is no small issue. Other than that the redesign is just that, an expanded sidebar with some fleshed out boxes. No big deal. That it's causing different problems for different people tells me that maybe something else is going on behind the hood. Heck, maybe they just want to be the network and aren't interested in providing a groovy webapp interface anymore, who knows.
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It implies that the people of New Orleans were basically to blame for there problems which some think is unfair.

> Australia just happens to resemble the best parts of America rather than the worst parts, in this regard.

Anyone who was sensing racial overtones in the first 2 sentences pretty much has their confirmation here. I don't know if the author intended this or not but if he did have a point regarding race and/or culture to make then it should be made with more intellectual honesty and evidence/reasoning. Instead it comes of as snide at best.
10% gross margin doesn't mean that the labels get 90%. Bandwidth and storage cost a lot too.
Smart people, maybe, but they sure as hell don't need to be working hard to keep ICHCB running.

As far as technologies that inspire go, there are very, VERY few around.
So as far as you know, there's no way to do signal processing with Octave?
The App Store doesn't need high levels of security on your apps. No matter how much you obfuscate, it only takes one smart person to crack it and then your app is on all the bit torrent sites.

People will buy from the App Store because they want the protection it provides and the convenience. They know when they download your app from the app store that it's not a virus, the install will be one click simple, and Apple has hand reviewed and approved the app.

I think the Mac App Store protection is designed to be just enough to stop Average Joe from copying it onto a usb stick and giving it to his friend. In the end that's really what you want.
I'm not sure HN is the best community to be asking. Remember it was originally called "Startup News".

That being said -- pen tests are still valuable -- and PCI DSS mandates them. So there is definately a market for them.

I know the latest pauldotcom episode I listened to covered the "is pen testing dead" subject once more... Worth a listen to if you don't already and are interested in the field: http://www.pauldotcom.com/security-weekly/
Just think, if it's so easy, there's a HUGE opportunity for you to swoop in, solo of course, and build a profitable (from inception) company with 375 million monthly pageviews and 100 million monthly video views. And since you can run it all by yourself, think of the money you'll save!

Ah, but you're not "inspired" by that kind of thing. Too bad, you could be rolling in cash.

EDIT: Yes, I'm being snarky. It pisses me off to see some random person on the Internet tear down the accomplishments of a team that has built something huge and profitable that their users love. From scratch. In three years. What experience do you have running a network of the size and scope of theirs that leads you to denigrate their work?
There are cubes, but shared offices are also common at Google. Not many private offices, though.
Are quants really expected to fetch coffee for traders?
IANAL either, but anything that happens with regards to forced property acquisitions also means the person with the confiscated property has to be compensated fairly at full market value for said property. And the cost of acquiring all the riverfront property along the Brisbane and Bremer Rivers would be astronomical.

So they only way to resume the properties and provide a benign area for flooding is to either (a) borrow or tax a lot of money for the acquisition or (b) suspend the laws and steal the properties from their owners by means of modified legislation or other force.

I'm not saying that forced property acquisition should never occur, clearly there needs to be cases where this happens ('The Castle' notwithstanding). But to forcefully acquire all the property along the Brisbane river? Another flood mitigation Dam would be a lot cheaper and keep a lot more people happy, and provide more water for droughts. Queensland is still woefully under-equipped for long dry periods. Wivenhoe was designed to mitigate flood waters and guarantee supply until 2000. SEQ needs another large dam.
Ya, I wasn't thinking Failblog was popular amongst the employed-female crowd. Different property, different segment. As long as you have and can identify a specific audience, you're in good shape. It'd be interesting to get a breakdown lolcat's audience...maybe i'm wrong and it's a broad group which doesn't differentiate itself from a lot of web properties (male geeks).
Tens of millions maybe to some, but honestly the percentage of people making that is low and it takes years and years to get up there.

Even then, waiting 15 years to make a million won't have the same affect on everyone. Have you read Tony Hsieh's book after he sold LinkExchange: he could either sit around for a year and collect his ~40 million just by showing up and not doing anything, or he could leave early, and take less. He left early and took the cut in pay. I'm sure he made the right choice.

Banks don't make a lot of money from equities, they make a lot of money from over the counter (OTC) markets. These don't trade on an exchange, they are traded via phone calls and bloomberg emails. Banks try to keep pricing information as close to the chest as they can so that they can keep a wide bid ask spread (meaning they buy low, and sell for higher, and not because of appreciation or financial performance). Banks make money by offering 2 way markets (like a book keeper would) so the less transparent they are with their pricing, they more likely they are to be able to increase the bid ask margin. They don't have to disclose prices, and the traders can mark the bonds at almost whatever price they see fit, even if the price they have is super stale. Not only that, no one really knows what some of these complicated securities are really worth. As someone who comes from a science background, I was shocked to learn that "research reports" are more like marketing/advertising and they are not allowed to publish a negative outlook.

In my opinion, it's a messed up system and I don't want younger hackers thinking its a cool thing to do.
Sorry, but your "correction" made your statement even more inaccurate. You should have elided the scary latin "idempotent" and kept "state changing", as the latter is what GET requests must avoid. GET http://example.com/index?action=delete;recursive=true is idempotent, but usually not what you want to see in action on your site...
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Definitely true. That being said, the advice of others in a similar situation can also help you realize that something is not at all what its made up to be.
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1. I just moved to SF a couple of months ago and haven't found it easy to find "business" people that I didn't feel were completely BS off the bat. That being said, I haven't met much of anything else other than other devs here.
2. It's not so much that I lack the appropriate skills, I lack the contacts. I also feel the opportunity costs are too great for me to be picking up the business side of things without experience yet. So I was hoping to learn a bit from him before my next venture.
3. I trust him more than I trust most people 3 days after meeting them for the first time. But he has shown great interest and found me from hacker news. So he gets points for zeal and ambition.
4. I don't understand this concept you're putting forward.
5. I work at a start-up now and the founder of this company I work at has lawyers that can help me.
6. I know, but we're really racing to push this product out and I feel that by giving up some responsibilities in areas I may be weak in will give me the ability to really pump out competitive code. So I'm struggling to find volunteers to help.
There's certainly nothing wrong with it, but if it's the best answer you give to a programmer when trying to attract hires, it's not going to sound very good. It would be like Google trying to attract top marketing talent by saying that they push 400 petabytes of IO a day. Certainly cool, but that's not what a person who's good at marketing is going to be interested in.
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But did that make you a returning customer, or did you still just abandon the site?
I did an internship at a place in 99...I never saw a product or a client..but I saw fancy offices and foosball tables. It set certain ..ahh...unrealistic expectations.
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I would rather take the Stephen Wolfram path to "rolling in cash", thank you very much.
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I'd want to know the price/earnings and the valuation before I started crying bubble.

I am somewhat concerned about the long-term sustainability of the audience for these properties. Will people still be interested in lolcats ten years from now? Almost certainly not, but the question is whether the Cheezburger Network can continue to stay on the bleeding edge of whatever zany memes folks might happen to be interested in in the future.
At that scale, it seems like the money would just become an abstraction anyway.
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First that article hardly makes it clear that that was the US's bomb. Second it was 25 years ago. Third, you do have a black and white world view? And all countries are clearly equal?

Are you seriously unable to distinguish between countries? Are you unable to distinguish between single (or even rare) occurrences and repeated? Between countries that feel bad about such occurrences in their past and those that celebrate them?

Do you really think that saying "So and so is not so bad - after all the US did it one time." is a good argument?
Facebook's language translations are actually crowdsourced. It's funny that so many people would approve errors like this. There is a brief blog post about it:
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The whole system is pretty interesting. They maintain a mapping of every token on the site to every language and only user translators verify portions.
Jobs reported $1,000M to developers in the lifetime of the app store in Jun '10, so that's for the first two years. (~$1,400M gross revenue)[1]

Now asymco has that doubling to $2,000M in the following 7 months. It's possible, I suppose, but seems quite optimistic.

I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I think it's safe to say that iOS installed base hasn't doubled in the last seven months. I think I recall iOS market share being reported as growing 2% in the last 12 months.

That seems to leave the lions share of the revenue acceleration to increased ARPU. Higher ASP on the iPad may account for some but it's hard to believe it would be enough.

In more traditional stock analyst estimates, Citibank has 2011 app store revenue at "up to $2B" [2]. With asymco's estimates he says we're already exceeding that currently, showing $2.5B in yearly revenue with no growth. If you extrapolate asymco's growth curve that puts 2011 at more like $5B in gross revenue.

I just don't see it. I wouldn't be surprised if the estimated/assumed app ARPD of $0.29 is the issue.

[1] http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/06/23/app-store-1-of-apples...

[2] http://www.intomobile.com/2010/12/31/apple-app-store-iphone/
Wall Street has always recognized how important good talent is. That's why they pay executives and fund managers so much. What's new is the realization they need good software talent.

I'd never work for a financial firm again. It's just too hard to get up in the morning so I can go into work and make columns of numbers a little bit different from yesterday. Boring as hell.
Considering that if you take very young wolves and raise them as if they were dogs they fail to acquire anywhere near the understanding of human emotions, gestures, and non-verbal clues that dogs acquire, it seems pretty clear that there is something built-in to dogs at play here.

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