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I completely understand why you flipped the site, and you should be proud of the fact that you were able to take a side project that started as an itch and have it become viral so quickly, no matter how short-lived that was. My used car salesman comment was a reflection on 'the process' and in no way a reflection on you or the way you conduct yourself.

edit I also didn't explicitly say what @jeromec did, but I definitely share his sentiment. You owe nobody an apology for the success that you had and will hopefully have in the future.
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Gamers "hacked into" your server? Might be an inside job.
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We couldn't figure out how to make it happen, but I agree, that would be awesome!
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We tried hard to link into the store and it was impossible :( It's like LEGO hates the web. Sigh.
Could it possibly reflect visitors coming from different countries/time zones?
I recently bought a MacIvory II board set with docs and install media and am awaiting the arrival of parts for the Quadra 700 that I'm going to host it in. I've got a Symbolics "fat" old-style keyboard that I'm going to make the USB adapter for, and then use that to run Genera over X on the LAN.
If this is as cheap as it sounds, could we not make long, thin versions of this and drop them down a deep hole? The advantage over traditional geothermal would be producing electricity directly, rather than bringing the heat to the surface to convert it. I dunno what all the relative efficiencies add up to :)
I've found that binding J and K to switching tabs makes things much easier.
Naive question here (I've worked on web apps, but it was using Java technology of the circa 2000 vintage, so my knowledge is quite limited).

It seems to me that it would be really nice for a developer to be able to treat html/javascript/css similar to the way that developers today treat assembler - a very low-level way to the browser to do exactly what you want, but something that the large majority of programmers don't need to know anything about. So that instead of needing to write html/javascript/css, a developer codes to an api that operates at a higher level (in much the same way that developers of GUI applications code to an api that operates at a high level).

Are there web frameworks that insulate developers totally from html/javascript/css? Is this what frameworks like rails/lift/django give you, at least for a limited domain of applications? Is such a framework even possible? Desireable?
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I am a front-end, and know Cocoa and deal with back-end systems in my working capacity, so I think I can comment on both sides.

When I said "As a designer," I meant "in the eyes of a designer." Most people here like to wear enough hats that it makes sense.

Try to be a little less condescending next time.
I don't think that their influence is diminishing, however, computer usage (and technology users) have increased heavily to the point, that a giant like Microsoft seemed to lose its' presence.

In the past, you used to have one computer that you share may be with the other member of your family. Now, you have many computers, a smartphone, a tablet and other gadgets (iPod, Kinect, reader...) there are lot of rooms for lot of other companies, so it seems like Microsoft lost, however, it has not.
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I'm surprised VRML wasn't listed; I remember when VRML was supposed to be the future. It was the original web 2.0.
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It looks like LEGO's TOS is pretty restrictive if you come in through official channels. They're going to want to moderate your kit and make sure you're not doing anything commercial:

http://designbyme.lego.com/en-us/Terms/default.aspx?id=13154...

I bet Brickmania would take this on.
http://shop.lego.com/Mosaic/Default.asp?bhcp=1

"You can make a LEGO Mosaic using your own photographs! Use a digital camera or a scanner to make your photograph into a .jpg or a .gif image file on your computer."

"click here to order your unique Mosaic kit with LEGO tiles and instructions customized just for you!"

edit: Looks like you can't buy them anymore, but they used to offer it, with easy image upload -> purchase the mosaic set. I remember seeing it launched a few years back. Probably didn't sell enough to make it worth it.

Other sites that do them to order:

http://www.brixels.net/index.html
http://www.mosaicsmaker.com/index.php
I'm tempted to try and build a robot (using Lego, obviously) that will count out the necessary bricks into a box :-)
Vimperator and Pentadactyl are inspired by Vim, so that wouldn't make any sense. (w is move forward by a word, s is delete char under point and enter insert mode, a is insert after point, and d is the delete action)
I'm sending this along to our friends at LEGO (the ones who brought our Hack Club NY to life). Hopefully I can get you in touch with someone who can close to loop. Very nifty app nonetheless.

http://breadpig.com/2011/01/18/hack-club-1-total-success/
One of the best things about being a math major instead of a CS major is that it gives you a sense of history and how small the Next Big Thing probably is. One of the weird things about computer science and tech to me is that practitioners don't know what happened in 1980s, much less the theory that was developed over the last 150 years.

I would say that Boolean Algebra was actually an important advance, or the Fortran compiler (early 1960s), or a working system based on relational algebra (late 1970s). But proponents of XML/ Java/ Patterns/ Functional Programming/ Language XYZ/ NoSQL/ blah/ blah/ blah make it sound like their pet technology is a revolution, when it is usually an incremental change on tech/ theory that is very old.

And when it is an incremental change driven by corporate funded standards committees, you know it is going to be a complete cluster f*ck that is forced on the entire world by stupid IT managers with business degrees.
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I switched without changing anything. It's a fork, and they have not changed much of the bindings yet.
Opera 11 [build 1156] looks like the CSS is broken. Not supporting IE means the easy-to-use meme is more likely to be stillborn.
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It's still f. It just looks a lot nicer.
This also installs git, I updated the readme. It's a very simple script so if you guys see any ways to improve it let me know.
There are exactly two reasons that regular expression parsing "needs" to be slow. First, we have the "ad hoc extensions for doing this inefficiently and in a limited fashion", and second, we have subexpression capture. Backreferences (the former) are generally only useful in situations where you really ought to be using some other construct. The backreferences are the part that's NP-complete.

Subexpression capture is great, and at least that can be done in (low-order) polynomial time with a nondeterministic automaton approach. So really, the only problem is the backreferences.
Thank you! Yes, the whole thing could have been run better, but that's why I usually try to not do things I don't know how to do well (like threewords.me), though sometimes things slip through the cracks. And my other option was Flippa, so, yeah. My other (minor) acquisitions all consisted of a buyer approaching. This was different.
I've been using Django for a lot of projects, but have recently converted to Rails 3 for a personal project.

What I like about Rails is that plugins are mostly pieces of infrastructure, not ready-to-use mini-applications that are hard to customize. And Rack plugins (pieces of middleware, done in a standard/reusable way, contrary to Django's middleware) are just awesome.

I also like about Rails that authentication and admin are not built-in. Lots of plugins available for a quick-and-dirty job anyway.

I also like that defining models and even querying has been abstracted away in different interfaces, and that you can use MongoDB in a similar way as you would use a relational database.

Also, in case you need to decouple the request validations from the models (i.e. forms in Django) without HTML-rendering logic attached (useful at times, but completely getting in your way once you try doing anything complicated); in Rails you can, and it looks and feels cleaner because the field types don't have to be related to stuff you're rendering in the HTML response (i.e. field = forms.MultipleChoiceField(widget=CheckboxSelectMultiple)).

Django is awesome in case you ever thought about using Drupal for a project: much more flexible and dev friendly. But it completely got in my way so many times that I actually thought about writing my own Python web framework; which I shouldn't because people have been working on web-related stuff for the past 20 years.
Lift is a web application framework, written in Scala. Scala is a programming language. You would run this application with an HTTP server/servlet container like Jetty (optionally putting a different HTTP server/reverse proxy/load-balancer in front of that, like nginx).

http://www.liftweb.net/

http://www.scala-lang.org/

http://jetty.codehaus.org/jetty/

http://wiki.nginx.org/Main
I've met Mark (BarCam 4 and 5) and found him to be very intelligent and personable. I think he did the right thing (and smart thing) to flip this. If you look at his other work, it's more long standing and of bigger scope comparatively.

I've worked on short projects as well and then have my longer projects. For example http://www.Blabberize.com has been running for over 3 years now. We could have had a quick and early pay off by flipping the site but instead we took the long haul route to build it out. It feels completely different from a quick turn over project. As such, comparing a site like this to a much larger business with deep technology and IP does not make much sense.
To be precise the hardware is outputting 720p, but XBMC can decode 1080p files and scale them down. I'm not sure if the output can be hacked or not, but the developers claim it's "not a priority" at the moment.
The meat is in Resig's analysis, linked in this comment:

http://www.dustindiaz.com/about-that-slowness-on-twitter/#co...
Ask HN: Mac or PC - why does it matter?
First of all, the title might be a little misleading - this has nothing to do with the benefits of the two, and is certainly not an attempt to start a flame war of any kind;

My question is, why do startups make a clear distinction as to the platform they want you to work on? I was just looking through the new threads and noticed Harvest's listing for job opportunities (http://www.getharvest.com/careers) and the listing says that a "Mac of your choice" comes standard with every position. Does it really matter? If you have a top notch developer ready to work for you, does their operating environment really make a difference if you were to hire them?
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Could someone please fix the typo in the title? I think that "bling" should really be "blind".
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You'll rarely run into any errors from the switch but if you do, go ahead and ask about it in the IRC channel (#pentadactyl on irc.oftc.net)

Also - if you'd like lettered keys, try setting the following option in your .pentadactylrc:

set hintkeys='ASDFGHJLK;"

You'll lose the ability to type the hints' text to hit them.
Needed to look up the term 'Dutch Rudder'. Was quite surprised what it meant ;)
Cloud Computing - A term, like "world peace", "think outside the box", or "hooking up", that means everything and nothing at the same time.

Fourth General Languages (4GLs) - Technology to enable non-programmers to claim that they are programmers.

eXtensible Mark-up Language (XML) - Primary data, along with secondary data needed to describe the primary data, all in one file, that a receiving program could act upon, as long as it knew what the secondary data meant.

Unified Modeling Language (UML) - Technology needed to add another layer of personnel to enterprise IT: people smart enough to draw but not smart enough to program.

Agile Software Development - A new name for what the fittest have used to survive for 50 years.

NoSQL - The Y2K of the 21st century, without the hard deadline. Everything will die, but no one can say why.

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) - A technology invented to make associates of Big 5 consulting firms who didn't know what they were doing appear as if they did.

Test Driven Development (TDD) - A fancy term given to tried and true methods just discovered by hipsters whose code didn't work.

Rapid Application Development - Prototyping. But no respectible IT person would buy a book with the word "Prototyping" in the title, hence the new name.

Web Frameworks - More software added to perfectly adequate existing software used by programmers depending upon their level of experience, backlog, or masochism.

Hacker - Either (a) One who breaks into other systems, (b) one who builds stuff, (c) a programmer, or (d) a groupie of one of the above.
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this is true, but over the lifetime of most systems, resource usage is going to go up at some linear-ish rate, no matter how efficient the code is. its not worth the time trying to fight that hard bottom line increase. if things are wildly out of control, sure, fix the code. but if you've been running your app for 5 years on the smallest VPS and you're pushing the need to upgrade, your time is probably best spent elsewhere.
I saw an independant report stating that 1080p had minor stutters. Don't know if that's fixable. This is an early release but on the other hand they're pushing beyond the boundaries of what the hardware is designed for.

I'm also not sure what profiles it supports. Apple's software specs says Main Profile only, but they sometimes software restrict their hardware to keep support homogeneous across their lines (this appears to be the case for the 1080 support, they're just calling Apple's code).
I too am jealous. Fair play.
Thanks! It'd be great to get LEGO to implement it.
One of the basic things it's that's the first time an accelerator program operates in 4 cities across Europe with a cohesive proposal.

There are indeed other accelerators, non of them in Europe. Seedcamp isn't an accelerator, neither is HackFwd (they're and I quote: "pre-seed investment company designed to enable great people to launch great ideas").

The Difference Engine and Springboard in UK are accelerator programs but they only operate in UK (and Jon is a great friend of ours).

There is no accelerator that currently operates across Europe and that's a fact. No bragging, no marketing stunt, no PR. That's the reason we do it, because it's needed and it doesn't exists.
You're making several assumptions and leaps in your reasoning here, though. If one were to accept that aesthetics is objective (which you seems to be implying?) then it may just be that we haven't found the epistemological framework to quantify it.

Now then, I don't see how this (meaning, your example of aesthetics) is similar to religion. Religion is just assumed to be relative by most people I think; at least the religious people I talk to seem to say so and use it explicitly as an argument (you do, too, I think) to parry demands for falsifiability. So then your comparison goes out of the window.
I just wish the tetherless JB would be released already.
Ungh, didn't know about that caveat. I guess I'm back to my initial idea of getting a WD TV Live. Any better option?
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Mac ... because there's a completely legal way to run Mac, Windows and Linux on a single platform via VirtualBox. If you're developing web 2.0 applications, you'll be able to test all the common browser varieties.

Of course you can purchase a copy of Mac OS X and do the same thing on Linux (my current choice) or Windows. I just can't justify the extra cost of Mac hardware (yes ... it's nice) for a desktop system. For a laptop, I might very well choose a MacBook of some sort.
Is anyone else getting an application error?
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I was able to load the Y logo from the comments below and now going back to the main page returns the error in Firefox 3.6
All you would need to do is create a ldd file that people can then import into LEGO digital designer. Then they just click 'buy'.

This has some info on the process http://www.ldraw.org/Category9-All.html

Alternatively figure out how the competition do it... (http://www.brixels.net
http://www.mosaicsmaker.com etc)
You don't have to apologize, explain, or be accountable to anybody but yourself. Entrepreneurs take on all the risks and sacrifice for being "in the game" and the win to loss ratio has always been (and will likely always be) painfully small on the win side; that IMO should afford the risk taker the freedom to do things as they see fit. Just as you don't have to ask approval to fail, you don't have to ask approval to succeed.
Interesting idea, but the website feature appears to not work with links.
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Mark, you've done the best thing you possibly could have done short of dropping out of college and giving it all you've got but honestly - and not to diminish threewords.me - I think that would have been a very dicey decision at best and possibly a wrong one.

Playing it safe is one way to get ahead in a sure and steady way and I'm quite sure that the way you've positioned this project and how you handled yourself in the execution of the project and the subsequent sale does nothing but confirm the fact that you have what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur under his own power.
Is the ending of this paragraph a typo or a joke?

"One way that Erlang differs from OO languages is its emphasis on failure. Any message can fail. Processes don't raise an exception, they fail. Systems are structured as worker processes at the bottom that are likely to fail, with manager processes above them that restart the failed processes. Because programmers expect processes to fail, they"
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We just rolled out a fix. Sorry about that.
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> that IMO should afford the risk taker to do things as they see fit.

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As I Canadian, I can accept that as a MVP stepping stone: planned, but not ready now.
I've tried finding something to nibble on in PyPy for a while. I'll definitely give this a look-see over the weekend.
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I agree. It's exactly that question (promise vs. delivery and costs) which should be thoroughly explored before utilizing any technology that is advocated. That's the only way to not fall for a hollow hype.
Of course it doesn't matter. That's a job perk. It also helps shape the applicant pool in desirable ways, I think. If I'm doing the hiring, and you really prefer developing code in a Windows environment over any kind of Unix (which includes Mac), then that's one strike against you.
It's not exactly a "rumor", Gates and Ballmer have been talking up its eventual PC use since well before the Kinect's release. http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/bill-gates-natal-for-wind...
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That's one of the few things Safari actually does (somewhat) well. ⌘-] , while not single key, makes tabbing fairly easy.
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$FOO in php is cheap.
$('FOO') in jquery is expensive.

I don't think using $ to signify "Run some load of jquery code" was a wise choice. Newcomers who don't know what is going on under the hood will regularly write loops with $('FOO') inside them, which is crappy code.

They're doing what they think is best, so I don't blame them. I blame jquery for making it look cheap.
when does a major company post huge numbers - only to shitcan their CEO and bring back a co-founder? there is a lot of damage control in the media, but companies don't just 'do this sort of thing'
have you met most java programmers? Good luck with the Erlang thing bout i seriously doubt it.
This tweet brought to mind Sergei and Larry arriving at the unveiling of the G1 in Rollerblades and helmets, grinning like mischievous 12-year-olds only two years ago (they were running late)...
No. The $500 Developer edition includes both the SDK and the device (headset).
It depends on what your definition of "truly successful" is. I recently started working on a .NET app, but I was thinking about switching to Java when I heard about Amazon's Beanstalk offering. If these guys can come close to replicating that for .NET, I'll take a good look at them.

At the end of the day, though, they have an idea, and have convinced investors that there is enough of a market for this type of service, so good luck to them!
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I like Erlang, but it is not going to be the next Java in terms of ever ranking at the top of something like LangPop.com.