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I've seen this before, or, I think, a related piece by the same guy (which makes me think it was probably posted on HN before -- or some variation of it). It's an amazing story, and I don't impress too easily.

Excerpt:

The other time, I wanted to get a drink from the stream and one of the wolves stopped me dead in my tracks, growling, snarling and nipping me. I thought, "This is the end, he's going to finish me off." An hour or so later, he started to lick my face and we both went to the stream for a drink. There I saw evidence of recent bear tracks and droppings, and I realised this was why he guarded me. I would almost certainly have been killed but, more importantly, my tracks would have led back to their young, so it was for their protection.
Third problem: Apple doesn't have a monopoly on smartphones, and is steadily losing ground to Android.

(Which is not to say they're doomed. They'll probably keep a healthy marketshare, just not the dominant position they used to have.)
Managing and owning, though they can be combined, are often two different activities.
Have you considered using the actor model with something like akka for scala? http://akka.io/

It will give you event passing across machines in a really concise way.
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I was on the ipad, just getting tags was a struggle! Thanks for the link :).
The Ambiguity of Open and H.264 vs. VP8
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That's awesome. Let me know if you have any problems!
Couldn't you just use DBAN? http://www.dban.org/
It's not "sometimes" - it's some gamers most of the time. Look anything from Mario to Madden. The majority like the status quo, and the likes of Braid and Minecraft still aren't making EA money. Additionally, the creative thinking required to make these games don't scale to the masses of average knowledge workers employed by the big companies.
Fixed. Sorry about that. Didn't see it until it was too late. :)
The reason you should care is because a team of four or five people using free libraries and cross-platform tools have just made a mockery of the last five years of franchise-oriented, $50 million budget, yearly-release, AAA game development.

Eh, I would not say that. Minecraft is not seriously competing with AAA big-budget titles like God of War. They have completely different audiences. Yes, GoW is extraordinarily expensive to create, but it offers a gameplay experience that Minecraft doesn't and never will. Or at least, by the time minecraft can procedurally generate an experience like GoW, the big-budget AAA franchises will have moved on to something flashier.

And certain franchise titles are attractive because of the licensing, eg the NFL. That is unfortunate but not something the gaming industry can do much about immediately.
(Your third problem is the same as the first problem.)
Also, compare Apple's impact through the app store with the potential of:

- Mobile providers throttling particular apps
- Mobile providers and bandwidth caps
- The balkanization of networking (Facebook)
- Pushing a patent-encumbered standard for video
(Apple is involved here, but is only one player of several.)

EDIT: Technically h.264 is "open"
Not to divert attention from the point he's making, but is that a MacBook he's using in the article picture?
h.264 is an open standard.
Great article. Google should be concentrating on creating features and products that generate revenue.

They're too busy with this and other non-sense.
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Request HN: Can we have some more easter eggs?
Even though the easter eggs here on HN can be small, I think a lot of the users really appreciate them. When you get so accustomed to HN, an option to change something such as the top banner color is truly a life changer! What's great is that easter eggs are pretty easy to implement (I'd assume), but they add to the excitement and are something to look forward to for users.

Obviously, adding more easter eggs is not a priority. But it would be very cool if pg did add a few more when he got around to it.

Here are some of my ideas (features would be unlocked at different karma thresholds):

-Change font and size/color
-Change number of posts per page
-Use official tl;dr in a comment (would appear in a area separated
from the comment)
-Use certain formatting in comments (e.g. <hr>, <b>, <u)
-View statistics of how long you've been using HN in the past
24 hours
-Message other users
-View graphs of polls
-Down-vote posts (not just comments)
-Sort and filter posts or comments using different metrics
-Track certain comments (yours or others) and see when people
respond to them
-Choose to only show top comments on a certain thread

Now that I've written them, it seems as if some are not as 'small' as I had expected. But even implementing just one of these over the next few months would be truly be amazing!

Please post any other ideas you may have.
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Wasn't this counterfeit story debunked some time ago?
A lot of people are of the opinion that you can pick up a new language very quickly, but I disagree strongly. Being able to formulate a basic program is easy, learning to be fast and efficient and effective is another matter entirely.

Personally, I'd pare that schedule right down. If you don't need a specific language, I'd start by learning the basics with Python. It's clear, readable, comes with a brilliant standard library, is very useful for all sorts of things and is a fairly 'normal' high-level language - what you learn in Python will be very broadly applicable.

Once you can competently write software in Python, the logical and inevitable next language is JavaScript, which is as useful as it is ugly. It's a terrible first language, but it's a brilliant second one, mainly because it's so useful. Obviously there's client-side web stuff, but also servers with node.js, smartphone apps with Appcelerator Titanium, Chrome plugins and a whole variety of other stuff. Javascript is very similar indeed to ActionScript, so you should find it fairly easy to pick up Flash and Air, giving you the opportunity to do all sorts of rich web stuff, develop multi-platform apps with Air or develop for the upcoming Blackberry Playbook.

You'll pick up HTML and SQL by default and while it's worth having a book or two on standby, you'll probably find yourself learning what you need as you need it.

As regards books:
http://learnpythonthehardway.org/
http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/

There is no good introductory text on JavaScript, but try:
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517748/
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596101992/

Now go out and build something.
This quote from the post says it all: "I actually haven’t finished the book yet – I’m at the end of the first chapter".

It's great that the author is learning a new language, but maybe wait until you've actually done something with it or at least finished the book to write about it? First impressions don't mean much.
h.264 is also patent and royalty encumbered, which is the real issue here.
"not the next FPS" is funny. I have 3D sickness and can't play FPS anymore. And I got sick watching the YouTube videos about Minecraft.
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Thanks for giving more of a entrepreneur perspective. I agree with you on that it is not a co-founder equity. However, I get the impression that VC would have a heart attack before even considering a better deal.

Considering the deal includes a trigger with very beneficial acceleration mechanism, I don't see them giving in more, on what already seams like an outstanding deal from the VC's perspective (the founders are relying on the VC's expertise on such deals, as they are not that familiar on what is standard and what is not).
Compare Apple's impact to openness online to Microsoft's back in early 2000. There were a lot of banking and corporate websites that only worked with IE and Active-X. As a result, every corporate machine (and many users of these banking sites) - had to have a copy of IE floating around to fully access the Internet - and good portions of the internet just weren't usable for many Linux/BSD users.

Now - how much of the Mobile Internet requires that you use an Apple product? Apple just doesn't have enough market dominance to result in more than a trivial portion of the Mobile Internet to be written _specifically_ for Safari/IOS Browers.

Wales is completely off his rocker here. As long as Firefox, Opera, Chrome, and yes, IE, continue to have a strong presence as browsers (and I don't see that changing anytime soon), and as long as Anddroid, WP7, and others start rolling out first class smart phones, Apple will not be a threat to the Mobile Internet.

This is one of those cases where lack of a market leader actually results in a better adherence to standards. As long as the focus is "Build an ACID3 Compliance Browser" for the vendors, and developers write "ACID3 Compliant Websites" - we'll be in fine shape (modulo the recent Video controversy)
Any working engineer, at a company that's hiring will tell you that HR can't actually tell a good CV from a bad one.
As a little warning /r/programming has quite a few ignorant people on it, even with a valid logical argument you'll still get voted down for not following proggit norms such as ruby being garbage (which I don't believe one bit), etc.
I believe you are missing Skywing's point. Learning to hack requires using what you do know to get things done and only worrying about what you don't know only when not knowing it becomes a problem.

For example if you don't know any kind of code at all, draw pictures of your application screens, then learn HTML and CSS to mock them up, then learn whatever framework and language is handy to handle the backend and logic necessary to tie them all together.

A working kludge is better than a perfect code in one's head.
Because their stance will just give more the web more "video wrapped in Flash", which has little to do with open web. As it was said: Google just prefer patents they own.
Ask HN: What domain/name suggestion tools do you use?
I've used http://impossibility.org/ in the past and today I was introduced to http://wordoid.com/ which is pretty great.

I thought it would benefit everyone to have a crowdsourced list of the best, so please fire away.
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Hyperlinks:

http://impossibility.org/

http://wordoid.com/
It’s still what is usually called an “open standard”. Saying it is not open is confusing and misleading. If you don’t like the commonly used definition you are obviously free to redefine your terms, but you should mention that you are using an uncommon definition. Saying “patent and royalty encumbered” would be preferable because it’s not as misleading and much more precise as calling h.264 “not open”.
It's less that they don't "know" python - but rather that they only know a little. I know when I attended my first pycon, while I had been using Python a bunch I could have stood to spend some quality time in Zed's class, and generally sucking more knowledge out of things via the offer Zed is extending.

Also, more and more we are seeing people new to Python come in the Django door (as well as other frameworks) - these people may be comfortable with Django as a RAD framework, but don't quite yet consider themselves "python programmers" and so courses like this can help them.
The Qaiku thread contains some more examples: http://www.qaiku.com/go/ai7f/
I have to concur: that's the one bit I disliked about the post. PyCon has always been very, very welcoming and friendly to me and many others.
Because they haven't dropped mp3. They announced it on the same day as Verizon's iPhone announcement. If it was Microsoft and WMV / OpenXML or Oracle and the Java, I would be just as concerned. Group standards seem to work better than a single companies spec.
Yeah, items #4-7 are all enterprisey things. Several others look like stuff for businesses.
But the idea is that it doesn't matter if the game genres are completely different. What matters is that indie developers like notch have shown that they can make games that will become immensely successful in new genres, such as sandbox games. Perhaps the audiences are different, although I'm sure there is still quite an overlap. However, even if the audiences are different, this just goes to show that indie developers are beating top notch companies (no pun intended) to taking advantage of these audiences.
FPS + Farmville = Profit?
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I am using Nodejs as an update monitor for a community game. When one person does something, I need to update everyone else. I initially did this with ajax polling back to the server for any updates. While this worked, it seemed slow. Now all I have is a simple nodejs server that accepts web socket connections, and passes information to all connections In total it was about 10 lines of code and it is pretty much real-time.
It's because no one familiar with the technology would make that mistake (in other words, the author doesn't know what he's talking about). There are other H.26X codecs and they're quite different. It'd be like someone writing a review of Windows 6... oops typo meant 7.
Pedantic: The quote from Sculley is misleading "So Intel lobbied heavily to get us to stay with them… (but) we went with IBM and Motorola with the PowerPC."

Apple switched from the Motorola 68000 family to the joint IBM / Motorola PowerPC. I am sure Intel lobbied heavily to get Apple to switch to the x86 architecture, but they definitely did not lobby to have Apple stay with them.

To be more fair to Apple's decision, at the time it was made, RISC was the New Hotness[tm] that was suppose to run much faster than CISC.

What they both missed was that the memory subsystem became the bottleneck, not processor clock rates, so the winner became the processor with the biggest and fastest cache. Intel ended up with the edge due to their fab technology.
What’s also interesting is that Notch does not want to run the business, at least not at the scale at which it is now. He hired people to do that for him.

Do you think that might be a concern? I would very much love to see Notch continue to be successful, and it would be a shame to see him lose his multi-million dollar company due to silly legal reasons.
It was a very funny line in the article and I didn't down vote you, but I suspect people did because your comment added nothing to the discussion not out of maliciousness. Even: "If you are on the fence, reading this article for the one liner on teens is worth it." Or "This article contains a one-liner that is the funniest thing I've read in a tech article in a while." I've found I can make controversial statements without getting down voted (perhaps I'm lucky) but glib me-toos are ruthlessly suppressed. I think it makes the place nicer though.
Thanks.

The first chapter there is very insightful - http://heathbrothers.com/switch/chapterone.php
Oh cool, smugsex.com is available.

But seriously, good fast search.
I do wonder if Intel would have built a vector unit if the G4 hadn't existed.
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At SpiderOak we get a 3x replication equivalent for about 35% overhead, using Reed-Solomon at the cluster level (on top of RAID6 at the machine level.) Not nearly as expensive as outright replication.

Agree those SATA port multiplies are worrisome. In the beginning, our prototype machines used them to squeeze as many drives into a single machine as possible. They have unusually low tolerance for electrical interference and make it possible for one badly malfunctioning drive to take an entire array offline until manually serviced. We've seen occasions where just touching a cable attached to a port multiplier caused the Linux kernel to emit "dazed and confused" NMI events. I am not brave enough to try them again, even in a redundant setup.
Aww, someone submitted my blog post. :)
What's really interesting is that it's not Mojang that has the following, it's Notch. If Notch gets screwed, he has tons of loyal fans who will jump to his defense. Unless he does something stupid himself (and he doesn't seem the type), he'll have a strong following for a long time.
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Excerpt:

"Braid and Minecraft are both examples of how a few good
ideas, executed in an accessible and affordable way, will
outsell franchises by orders of magnitude."

This just about sums it up. Many indie developers are harnessing potential new game genres. They're finding low-budget ways to create addictive games with a high chance of becoming viral. They're finding classic ideas to expand on and platforms to build off of. Big game publishers are failing to do this. They'll spend tons of money, yet lack the innovation to break through in these new areas of the market.
Definitely PayPal. Not only should you be able to get 5% + 5c, it also is just rolling out a much better UX for digital goods and more importantly has 200+ miliion ready to pay.
Seems like a typical short term pain for long term gain situation. What does Google get out of prolonging Flash's dominance?
It's possible we never will. Although we take Moore's law for granted, eventually we'll hit the natural limits of computation and storage per m^3, and solving chess completely may well be beyond that (but maybe not, as well).

From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_number):

"Allis also estimated the game-tree complexity to be at least 10^123, "based on an average branching factor of 35 and an average game length of 80". As a comparison, the number of atoms in the observable universe, to which it is often compared, is estimated to be between 4×10^79 and 10^81."
Minecraft is not an FPS, neither does it have elements to it that are similar to Farmville's. Go try out Minecraft and come back when you're more informed on the subject.
Re: 6

It much easier to change behaviour that you initiate, than it is to change reactive behaviour. As an example, I tend to use 'yeah, but ...' a lot: I tend to pose questions as challenges. This does not work well with everyone and I would like to interact with those people differently. However, the 'Yeah, but ...' is so ingrained in my way of discussing proposals that it has proven quite hard to change it. Even though I really, really want to, because some people near to me don't respond well to that way of discussing something obviously unfinished.
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Groupthink is not a situation where all members agree.
Groupthink is a situation where members of a group self-censor their (critical) opinions in fear of retribution or loss of esteem.
The quality of allusion is not Google
As a sidenote, are people actually saving money with it? The energy bill for my apartment is around $30/mo. At $9/mo for WattVision service, and $249 for the hardware, I can't find any potential cost savings in there.
I don't think the folks who worked in 19th century textile mills would recognize anything you or I do as "work," either.
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Would that be father of AI as in father of the flying car?
HN does better without such jokes. Obvious jokes are noise.
I don’t know the internal structure of the company but I would assume that Notch legally has all the control. Whoever runs the business can presumably be vetoed by Notch at any time.

I don’t see any problems with that, at least if Notch hired the right people. If you think that running a business (that’s not just one guy selling a game on the Internet but a real business with an office and employees and all the rest) is not your strength and if you much rather want to spend most of your time coding it should be possible to let someone else run the business for you.
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Hope vim.org don't mind it...
I found it weird that Deming wasn't mentioned anywhere in the second half of the article.
Same, dont know what to do at that page.
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It's more than that; you also get to build scructures with as much flexability as lego, explore a randomly generated world that sometimes produces amazingly beutiful scenery, figure out how to build complicated systems from small trivial components and top it all off with the random-interval reward system of mining.

Minecraft hits so many of my "god I love this game!" features it's easily my favorite game of 2010, even though it was an alpha release.
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The key to getting work done is to want to do it. Using technology that you want to play with makes the "wanting to do it" part easier. What follows is the project being done.
This thing was like trying to get support from Google. Step Two divide a number. Go to the forums. Then what?
To me, the more interesting part about minecraft's success is that it gets a lot of people doing things that look like work to me for fun. Also, it does this with a high learning curve and without using any kind of reward schedule mechanics that are in vogue now. As far as I can tell (and I've only watched others play), the appeal is based on the joy of creation and sharing your creations, and the difficulty of it actually enhances the experience. It just seems so fresh compared to what everyone else is doing.
FWIW:

I was bedridden for about 3.5 months and then was mostly housebound for a long time. During that time, I spent a lot of time on the internet. Getting a job, at a large company no less, after so much physical isolation and mostly interacting online was really bizarre. It is very clear to me that it is a lot harder to not be reactive in person. I think it has to do with things like pheromones. I have found that putting a little more physical distance between myself and others can help reduce that effect. And some people do more "broadcasting" than others, so some individuals are just harder to not be reactive with. I guess developing better habits with other folks (who are easier to deal with) would be a good place to start so that those new habits have some hope of overriding your old habits.

It also helps to not be on any medication (even OTC cold meds and such), not hopped up on caffeine, not suffering blood sugar spikes or lows, etc.
Ask HN: iOS app portfolio, is it legal/ethical? 
I have built many iOS applications as a full time employee of a development company. I am going freelance this year. Is it legal and/or ethical for me to include links to these apps in the AppStore as part of an online portfolio. If not, what about screen shots? What about in a private meeting? Thanks in advance.
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I plan to work in a startup first, learn while figuring out my visa situation (I am Canadian), and eventually have my own.
This is my exact situation. I'm 24, finished engineering school 2 years ago, and work as a web developer. My lifestyle has stayed the same (I even spend less on many things). I don't need/own a car and don't really care about buying expensive gadgets...

I'm currently reading The Investor' Manifesto* and it seems I am very lucky to have money to invest in the market. A bear market is a boon for young investors.

By the way, this book is awesome. I regret not reading it earlier. Derek Sivers plugged it on HN almost a year ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1026296) and his reading notes are available online at http://sivers.org/book/InvestorsManifesto.