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>People should, in an ideal world, behave with integrity.

any proof?

>Choosing to remain slightly anonymous is one way to maintain your integrity.

or just my personal choice to utilize such a freedom. The freedom to have multiple personalities. Internet provides the ability to have such virtual personalities, the ability the real world clearly lacks.
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Except non-JavaScript (or limited JS) browsers see nothing at all. Graceful degradation in this situation isn't all that difficult, they just chose not to do it.
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Same in denmark, it costs to recieve a call in anothe rcountry, but not sms messages. The reason is that you can decline to recieve a call, but you cant decline a sms.
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An analyst/associate is not going to be able to go off and start his own boutique if he can't even make it to MD in an existing firm(s).
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What possible reason could they have given to order him to stop?
And what would give them the right (or make them think they had the right) to do it in the firstplace :/
Update: The fix has been pushed to the Beta servers.
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Who could put it together simple as an RSS feed or delicious tag?

Are you suggesting I make it for myself? Which would defeat the purpose. Or are you suggesting that I hire someone else to make it?
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>Putting faces behind the comments provoke people to consider their opinions more carefully

You're absolutely right. KGB and Stasi had achieved a lot of success in putting faces behind the comments, and as a result people were considering their opinions extremely carefully.
That's really not true - Facebook, when used properly, can be an astoundingly good driver of growth. If you're not the type who would use Facebook, you're probably not the type of person who will drive their growth anyway, so why should they take away time from optimizing for those users who will?
But they could probably run the physics loops for a few seconds and store the map layout after it has stabilized, not?
More to the point, even if it were "pure css", there's nothing pure about it. Perhaps "only css" makes more sense, but CSS was meant as a way to separate style from content.

Try viewing this page without style and let me know what inherit content is present.
As a middle ground, how does Google Code work? The project lives under its own name and has specific, transferrable maintainers, but pulling source code is very easy and it's easy to see changes as they come and go. On the other hand, GCode isn't based only around DVCS, so the fork model doesn't work as well.
Like.fm is new. Let me know what are the features you need. My email is chris@like.fm. This is, in essence, a preview of what's to come.
Now we will have a great environment to work with when HTML5 gets solid acceptance.

Can we stop with the silly demos, people complaining "it doesn't work on my browser!" and articles on how a couple of tags would kill Flash?

I for one can't wait to have the best of both worlds.

EDIT: The adobe page on Wallaby links to a "release notes" wiki page and a forum board. Both are suspiciously empty.
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Dual core is a bit of a misnomer here - the industry standard term is dual GPU. They're two separate dies on different chips, and GPUs have been multi core in the CPU sense for quite a long time now, being able to execute multiple independent threads.
Of course the web is trying to profile you. If it's not Google and their advertisers then it's Facebook and their government friends who plug all your comments into NSA supercomputers to check for terroristy thoughts.

We all have profiles in some NSA database somewhere, just waiting to be expunged and used against us when someone important decides we're a Homeland Security threat.
For a programmer I'd rather explain it in database terms. It's a single table T, which basically contains the edges of Kleppmann's graphs.

amount source target (metadata like date ...)

For each account X you get the left and right side with simple SQL queries:

select * from T where source=X
select * from T where target=X

All the other mumbo-jumbo about double-entry bookkeeping is implicitly baked in. For example, "The double-entry bookkeeping system ensures that the financial transaction has equal and opposite effects in two different accounts." Of course, each entry subtracts amount from the source and adds it to target.

While this representation is easy to implement (see ledger, i suppose), it does not lead to pretty graph pictures.
This is a superb concept. Would you subscribe to people or projects or both? Where would the user questions come from?
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Easy to take everything out of context isn't it? Also you would have to assume that the people hosting the comments where either KGB or Stasi... Are you referring to Techcrunch?
It's to show you that the house is an object which can be moved/destroyed.
You wonder how much sysadmin effort would be saved if they didn't have to deal with shared libraries between packages. Is it a case of the sysadmin practices not keeping up with the current abundance of disk space/ram or is there still a case for the efficiencies of the shared library model?
Is a TV show really the best example, even if it's been seen by a relatively large number of people? It's not real, after all.
I see a number of things discussed in those links. Could you clarify which you're referring to?
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The lack of understanding Zuckerberg has about image is rather amazing. I think the fact that he has never had a real job - one where he could easily be fired for messing up, has a lot to do with this.

You learn very quickly when you or someone else gets hell rained down upon them from a boss who decides they did or said something inappropriate - no matter what the context or meaning was. I know I've seen people get fired, or come close to it, for saying something that I never before would have given a second thought to, but I definitely did after that.

So when it comes down to it, there is no way I'm going to risk my professional career by letting my Facebook identity be my public persona. Hell, I even have a rule against having family members friend me on Facebook.

It's not about being a different person in each setting, it's about being able to act appropriately in each setting. --Being someone who is viewed as a dependable, professional expert at work, being able to have a serious discussion with my father about my mother's Alzheimer's at home, or being able to relax and let out my inner child a bit with friends. These are all parts of me, but there's a time and place for everything. Zuckerberg doesn't understand that.
You're assuming that if he understood context sensitivity, he'd come to the same conclusions that you have.
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Ridiculous ideas like this have a habit of already being secretly 2 years into development.

(I have no evidence, I just suspect as much)
Founder Chris Chen says that its emphasis on song tracking is what separates the Like.fm from streaming services like Last.fm and music buying networks like Apple’s Ping (which he describes as “a step above adding share buttons to the iTunes store.”) says Chen “Like.fm isn’t meant to be a destination music site, it’s meant to be a place to find songs that you like. It’s not meant to be a Pandora but a compliment to it, it’s a place for sound discovery, where you go and listen to music.”

It sounds to me like he's describing Last.FM perfectly. Last.FM is a social network for finding new music based on the songs you play/scrobble.

I think with Pandora and Last.FM already well established and Grooveshark certainly doing fine I struggle to see the room in this market and what Like.fm provides that's different. Even the name sounds like a rip off of last.fm.

Maybe there is something here that the others don't/can't provide, but I'm not seeing it - anyone have any ideas?
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So I made a really simple app that just displays a tagcloud of your last 100 tweets based on the username. I did this using Python/Django.

Now my question is, what is the easiest and cheapest way to make my application live? Given my objective is to learn how to deploy a site live, how/what should I do?

Google App Engine will probably be easiest and cheapest for this. But my problem with GAE is that it's got its own paradigm and I don't think I would be use GAE for my future 'serious' projects. So I'm not sure the I will be able to bring forward anything I've learnt by going down the GAE route.

Amazon AWS seems to be the most obvious choice but by golly, there's a lot to know and read to get something up and running. Gotta remember, I got zero sys admin experience.

Any free regular hosting services that anyone knows of?

Side question: Why isn't there a Heroku for Django out in the wild? Every service I've seen seems to be in beta? Smells like a $200m exit waiting to be unleashed.
There's no denying that Angry Birds is a cultural phenomenon (I've lost track of Angry Birds references on Conan, for example,) while Crush the Castle is... not.

That transcends considerations like "times played" or even "money made".
How do you know they don't? Mojang Specifications, this year's hottest new game studio, uses Scrum. The Lean Startup movement combines customer discovery with Agile practices.

That said, my experience is that development practices have little to do with startup success (unless they're overly rigid or formal, in which case they get in the way of success). They affect organizational scalability and long-term maintenance costs, which fall in the category of "nice problems to have" for a new startup.

I do see ideological blinders here, but not the ones you meant.
I agree but would add that it is not just about context.

imo a desire for privacy is not the same thing as a "lack of integrity".
>Easy to take everything out of context isn't it?

yes. It is one of the reasons people may like to remain anonymous - to avoid dealing with consequences when comments are taken out of context, incorrectly interpreted and/or understood. Why should i spend extra effort dealing with morons who aren't able or inclined to understand a simple logical idea?

>Also you would have to assume that the people hosting the comments where either KGB or Stasi...

not necessary. Just reading/listening to have been enough.
Facebook did a lot of the same things other social networks did too on a high level. But you can't look at things only on a high level or else they all look the same. This is a preview of what's to come, since this site is new, and we're a much smaller company than Last.fm.
I agree that using a real identity forces people to be more deliberate. Also, idealistically, I agree that we should own our convictions.

Realistically, people's convictions change over time. The internet on the other hand is mostly undated. A Google search doesn't return a persons online activity in reverse chronological order. In a traditional environment the absurd things we might say as a result of past convictions will fade as time goes by. Consequently the perception people have of us is biased towards the present. This isn't true for the internet and anonymity is the only way to keep our identities from stagnating.
> Notch (of Minecraft fame) recently expressed a desire to make a game that's something like a fantasy RPG version of Football Manager. I'm really, really tempted to steal the idea and make something with it.

Cool, did he say that? I'm sortof building something that contains that element.
My current aspirations of real full time game development can be traced back to designing Lode Runner levels on my first computer, a Mac 512k. I used to design levels in MacPaint and pretend to play them, because I didn't know any better.
People, it's time we create a "contextual persona" toolset for social networking. This is the widest crack in Facebook's armor that a rival could exploit...
Probably has something to do with the huge trade deficit of the US, if the US was a large net exporter that created many jobs, people's opinions should be different.
Huge congrats Chris! Being a 20 year old solo founder is seriously impressive.

To everyone hating for how this borrows too heavily from last.fm: I think that you'll find soon enough that there's a serious opportunity in picking up where an acquired but now stagnating startup left off. Startups are so much more agile that this might turn out to be a consistently repeatable strategy.
Re: fighting in armies - absolutely true, hence the word infantry, but not necessarily a good thing (and I know you didn't say it was).
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Puppet is one of those things I like in principle but is too much of a PITA to set up. Take for example the class definitions, the class definitions don't appear to offer a great deal more than a shell script, but in the example shown in TFA for the price of about 6 lines of puppet code we could've just run rsync -e ssh -avz ntpd.conf puppet@server:/etc/ntpd.conf && chown root:root /etc/ntpd.conf && chmod 644 /etc/ntpd.conf.

Of course in the real world you'd have a tarball you'd rsync over, then use SSH to extract and run the base script and robert's your father's brother. A lot simpler and the way I'd automated Solaris admin years ago. Puppet's drawback is that it doesn't offer anything sufficiently compelling for people to change from what they use, and presents an awful lot of work in it's syntax for people getting started. Once it's up and running it's brilliant, I've seen it. But it just seems like so much hard work to get there it's like a barrier to entry.
"Programmers don't care about version numbers, release history, bug trackers, mailing lists, nothing. Especially if the project is relatively small. Just the code please."

I disagree. Experienced programmers definitely care about bug trackers and version numbers. Once you get bitten by version skew or lose a day trying to reproduce a bug against a wrong version, you start to care about such things.

And small projects are just big project that haven't grown yet :)
I'm exhausted of defending him and refuse to do it anymore (barely did in the first place) but the lesser known facts are these:

1. Congress purposely yanked all funding for other alternatives to force it to be kept open.

2. The remaining prisoners are supposedly the worst of the worst or do not have countries that can take and watch them (ie. Yemen)

Doesn't make this right and there are most likely innocent people mixed in there, held for a decade now who were turned in by people who simply didn't like them and wanted the bounty that was offered.
Typical game:

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First 5 throws are 100% predictable and its results are used by the program for subsequent predictions. It's too easy to set up traps.
Its interesting to know that you have to do a webex demo for your products. I assumed that for Saas, demos are a thing of the past. Other people have experienced the same too?
I can say without a doubt that reading this article (if I let her) would make my wife look at me more strangely, not less.
Good open source projects are projects, which are made up of code and people. I've never cared for the idea that a project belongs to one person on github.
Sadly my region doesn't support credits for Milyoni's payment system. Still, this is very very interesting.

It's times like this when I'm sure the movie studios must at some point think, "Streaming all this bandwidth is expensive, if only there was some way we could put all this on the user, maybe split the film up into chunks and have them stream it from each other in some sort of friend-to-friend way."
Dealing with burn-out
Yes, big companies usually need webex demo. I'd be curious to know if other people experience the same (or VWO is an exception).
Wow.. I wonder what extent the animations stay the same after the conversion. Can anyone throw up a before and after?
I agree completely, I only disagree that the CTC franchise failed!
Entirely missing is any notion of system modelling. Yes, at some point we actually have to give the computer detailed instructions, but what instructions? To do what, exactly?

Seeing programming as essentially making really detailed lists of instructions for boring tasks is pretty limited.
This looks very silly when typing with the Dvorak layout. :)
Awesome. I think the eject icon could be made out of unicode symbols.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters#Geom...
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Off-Topic: ... If they'd cover it on TV news,
it's probably off-topic.
If prior art doesn't matter, what stops anyone from patenting someone else's publicly known invention and then suing them?
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> Google makes very little off of Android

http://www.businessinsider.com/android-revenue-2010-8
Title: Google's Android Is Making Boatloads Of Money, Says Schmidt--Way More Than It Costs To Make
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Agree that having an idea is worth nothing if its not implemented well. But I still find it strange that it never came up in any discussion about Angry Birds. And nobody protested, especially during this season of patent trolls.
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http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/wallaby/

>"Wallaby" is the codename for an experimental technology that converts the artwork and animation contained in Adobe® Flash® Professional (FLA) files into HTML.

Not quite as exciting as a SWF -> HTML5 converter. I wonder about the feasability of that.
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This is the perfect explanation to me why taking on too much work results in getting too little done. Always knew it to be true, but never had an acceptable reason why.
Next up, endless complaint about how Adobe's javascript code is slow, or they're doing something horrible to the canvas or some other B.S.

(I can't wait for my quad core computer to grind to a halt with dozens of unblockable canvas advertisements wallpapering every website I go to from now on...sigh, the end is near)
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I think you mean

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If you're getting it that often, why stop?
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This project has a similar purpose: https://code.google.com/p/ie6-upgrade-warning/ (this was created pre-ie6countdown)
I'm playing with the tool and it seems that actionscript 3 isn't supported.
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Should closing an account really even be considered to be a "feature". It should just be there - a basic building block of every application.
Nice, but I still need a keyboard to press space and tab. Now if there was a way of simulating a keyboard in only CSS3...
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I gotta agree --- on one level (I forget which one) there is a golden egg wearing a hardhat... if you get the golden egg, that egg disappears. But when you restart the level and that egg is gone, the hardhat is still there, sitting in mid-air, as if the golden egg was there too. Then the physics turns on and the hat immediately falls to the ground. Pretty simple case of physics on, physics off.
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What about the story?

As already stated in the comments, Angry Birds is almost identical to "Crush the Castle", another game, of which Flash versions were quite successful but mobile versions weren't. (It involves destroying castles with a trebuchet -- play it here: http://armorgames.com/play/3614/crush-the-castle).

It would have made for a more interesting article to compare Angry Birds and Crush the Castle (CTC) to identify differences between the two; as it is the article lists six attributes of success for Angry Birds:

1. simple yet engaging interaction concept

2. cleverly managed response time

3. short-term memory management

4. mystery

5. how things sound

6. how things look

Every one of those qualities is present in CTC, sometimes differently (different sound, different look) but most of the time EXACTLY in the same way (the first three items).

The main originality of Angry Birds is that projectiles are not inanimate objects but living (thinking) creatures, and the pigs (the victims) are stupid/despicable.

In CTC the projectiles are bullets and the victims are soldiers: the goal is to crush the castle but not really to kill the soldiers; the player doesn't care about them (and she certainly doesn't care about the projectiles). It's mostly an engineering project.

In Angry Birds the goal is more to kill the pigs than to crush their houses, and the player identifies with the birds. I would argue this (the story) is a key element to user engagement.
Labeling this "burn-out" might be a bit harsh. The guy was quite productive ... although he did things in a new field. This kind of change is sometimes very important for a person's mind. I recall reading that Jim Clark (of Netscape) spent an insane amount of time automating his yacht. In Jim's case, some of the non-trivial problems he solved ended up being commercialized. Same thing with this dude ... if he wanted to apply his experience to a renewable energy startup, he can very well make a high-value contribution to society. One final point ... as I was reading the post, I felt that this isn't all too different from doing a PhD :)
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How about Actionscript 2? Flash basically has two VMs . . . one is used to run legacy content (up to Flash 8, AS2), the other for newer content (Flash 9+, AS3).
But my reading of the project page suggested it was just converting graphical and animation elements in .FLA files.
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2300123
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As a programmer using the code others publish on Github, I'm definitely interested in those, the more so when I want to contribute. Many project are sorely lacking a way to report and discuss (possible) bugs (bug tracker, mailing list, hell, an email address would be fine) and to figure out what version of the code contains what (release history/changelog and version numbers). However small, I find projects without those much harder to use and improve.
Or alternatively: more power hungry, slightly slower and more expensive than 2 of the previous cards in Crossfire configuration.
uneditable html, probably.
Does the Senate seriously think THIS is the sort of reform we need in the patent system? Are they that out of touch?

The article itself isn't much better, it barely touches on the real problems in patent law.
A full hour of lunch? Here it's usual to have half an hour of lunch (09:00 to 17:30 for a 40 hour work week).