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The real point that should be made about Chef and Puppet is that they are so similar, it really doesn't matter which you use. Using one or the other is a much more important choice than which one you use.

I don't know the best way to express this sentiment (feels like there should be a word for it). But really, just use something to automate your infrastructure and your life will be measurably better.
Quite the contrary. It is the availability of massive amount of idle time that creates a demand/outlet.
IDB is a neutered and slower SQLite (it's actually implemented on top of SQLite) without any of the benefits to be expected of a transactional indexed KV store.

Why not embed SQLite, Berkeley or Tokyo Cabinet?
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Ever get the feeling that the web is suddenly trying to profile you? Every upvote you make, every comment you leave, every article you read... Until one day they start knocking on your door for having negative thoughts, being unhappy, being prone to rebellion, not being conformist, or whatever category some data mining app applies to you.
Not so responsive for me in my office Xp in Chrome. Gets stuck if I type too fast.
Multiple identities are real, online and in meatspace. You all see a different 'me' than my wife or kids see, or my oarents see, or my coworkers.

I manage different identities online, depending on what I've got invested in the community. Some places, I'm the voice of reason, such as it is. Some places, I'm anonymous, because there are not entirely sane people and its a local forum, and people could know where I live. It's not dishonest, it's real. I do try to avoid having multiple personalities in one community though, since that's just rude.

So, I'm not using facebook's facet flattening system.
It helps that they come after the red (pill).
I think there is something else going on as well. The characters in the game cheer, snicker and scream, but are otherwise incapable of volontary movement. As players we have to carry out all their actions for them. This deeply rekindles with how we play/played with toys as kids, but we dont have to act out all aspects of the game like the physics and voices of the characters.

It is much more the perfect play, rather than the perfect game.
I own Angry Birds, but I've never even heard of Crush the Castle.
Zuck went to Philips Exeter. Boarding in 2011, that's $40,000 a year his dad shelled out for high school; non-boarding, still $31,000. OK, it wasn't today's dollars, but aying he wasn't "exactly poor" is an understatement.

Going to school somewhere like that is one of the experiences that develops precisely the attitude the blogger is talking about.
Anyone trying to beat facebook should read that quote every day.

People should, in an ideal world, behave with integrity. But it's not an ideal world. My boss shouldn't care what I'm doing in my own time, but he might. The military shouldn't care if a potential recruit once tried pot at a college party, but they might. No employer should care about sexual orientation, but they probably do.

It's not about integrity. It's about living in a hypercritically judgemental society.

Choosing to remain slightly anonymous is one way to maintain your integrity. It's better than treating every statement like a PR release. Like Mark does, if he has the integrity to say everything using his own name, like he tells us to.
As far as I can tell Zuckerberg have no redeeming features (success isn't a redeeming feature in my mind).
Yes, because I send/receive on the order of ten or fifteen a month. Every time I actually talk to Verizon I have to endure a dumb conversation where they try to convince me that I'll save money by switching to a text plan, and they seem genuinely nonplussed when I point out that even twenty messages times 20c/message ($4) is still less than the $5 for the text plan.
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I am sure they will have FB social features soon enough. Do keep in mind that Last.fm has their own valuable friend graph (even if you may not have a ton of friends on it) that is meaningfully different from the FB graph
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Wouldn't it be better to attempt to cast these ideas in an evolutionary biological framework rather than in a typical static classical rich-poor, capitalist-marxist, liberal-conservative values framework that we use in voting? Might something more closely approximating the truth be revealed by doing so?
Personally, I think it's better than Last.fm. There are too many pages, too many clicks to get anywhere, it's too much information and too much hierarchy.

Like.fm is simpler to discover what friends whose music taste I like are listening too. Hearing their last 10 songs is fine with me if I can skip through them quickly. And if I want to look at their profile I'll go to Facebook.

Please keep the white space. There's not enough of it on the web.
Zuckerberg doesn't get context sensitivity.
That's not what the term means, though, and using the real definition of market share it is impossible to have a negative market share, for the exact same reason that you can't have a negative number of people using a product. "Small market share and spectacularly unsuccessful products" is not, even in the loosest possible sense, the same as "negative market share."
I use last.fm heavily and i do not see anything for me on like.fm. it is basicly (for now) a bad copy.
The idea must have been to avoid that extra second of wait. As long as I see the screen a second earlier I don't care if the pigs jittered a bit.
What does dominant mean? Because I can tell you that from the folks that I know here who work at our phone company (including one who was privy to their negotiations with Apple over the iPhone), it isn't sales. The lion's share of android phones being sold here are the less expensive feature phone replacements.
>> But presumably his investors already had his numbers, they aren't waiting for a blog post linked to by tech crunch to find out.

For clarification, from the OP's OP, TC didn't exactly have to do any investigative journalism to get this data. BI released it voluntarily themselves from the beginning. TC got their data from that post:

"Well, we're a private company, and we've never disclosed any of that stuff, either. But I'm honestly not sure why.
So we're going to try an experiment. We're going to disclose that stuff. Then we're going to see if something horrible happens to us.

If it does, we'll probably never disclose that stuff again. If it doesn't, maybe we'll still never disclose that stuff again--because, you know, it's "confidential" and "competitive" and "we're private, so we don't have to disclose that stuff."

But, in any event, here goes."
Rob and I built ShoeVox over the past few weekends after being intrigued by the possibilities of Kinect-style voice control for PC applications.

We're using the speech recognition engine built into the .NET framework (presumably based on technology from Microsoft's TellMe acquisition) to detect a fixed grammar. The set of programs and commands for each are configurable by a simple XML file.

We're also leveraging WMI to monitor OS process creation/deletion events, and only run the SRE when a known target program is running to save CPU resources.

When Microsoft releases the Kinect SDK, we'd like to take advantage of its microphone array to do better background noise filtering. We also want to expand support to include browser plugins, as so many people now use Hulu and Netflix as their primary means of media consumption; if you have ideas about how to automate browser plugin UIs, we'd love to hear from you.

I was pleasantly surprised by how easy and high-quality speech recognition was with .NET, and I'd encourage others to experiment with it. We have some other ideas for how to leverage speech in desktop applications, but suffice it to say there is a raft of opportunity in the space beyond traditional dictation software.

Feel free to ask any questions about the speech recognition, process monitoring, keyboard simulation, etc.
We can all pull the "Mark never walked in our shoes" line, but what he is trying to say is that transparency is inevitable as we march forward into the information age. So we might as well accept our convictions and live with them.

As for the people in Egypt there will always be outlets for anonymous communication. However, it won't be found on some tech blog.

Putting faces behind the comments provoke people to consider their opinions more carefully, just like we do in real life. And if you are one of those people who want to lash out, but don't have the guts to do it in face then you should just tell your best friend or keep it to yourself.

Just my thoughts.
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Works perfectly here, in Chrome, on Linux. You're clicking up top to set focus first, right?
Heh, I got an amusing safety video from AOPA that parodies the iPad.

http://www.aopa.org/aopalive/?watch=dpczgxMjqhzgA49OfCP6osVD...
That's because Crush the Castle's origins are in Flash casual gaming which is an audience of 100s of millions of people that predates / exists somewhere parallel to iOS casual gaming.

Although Angry Birds has undoubtedly made more cold hard cash the CTC franchise (3 titles) would have plays in the 100s of millions by now.
Anyone who's paying attention will update the readme in the stale fork to make it really obvious. People don't sometimes because they're lazy, but this is an application of the more general "people suck" rule, and not very specific to Github.
as bits slam into other bits and people scream and die.

hmmm, perhaps this appeal isn't as strongly felt by the general public as cute birds slamming into pigs?
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That's not true in Sweden.
Most plans in Sweden charge when you receive a call in another country, but never for an SMS.
"I think "human nature" is a bit of a red herring. We don't currently have any scientific way to separate how much of how people behave is social/environment programming and how much is "human nature"."

Nope. There's been lots of good research in the last several decades. We are not "blank slates", behavior is largely genetic ("human nature"):

http://articles.cnn.com/2004-04-16/world/pinker_1_behaviors-...
from last year but awesome:

"I’m totally serious when I say that you shouldn’t go. Instead – while your rivals are distracted in Texas, pissing their money up the wall and ejaculating over their laptop stickers during yet another Evan Williams keynote – you should use the time instead to stay at home and work on building your start-up.

Your liver will thank you, your investors will thank you, and most importantly so will millions of real-world users who really want you to create something new and innovative rather than being sucked into the hype and churning out just a better, prettier Twitter-meets-Gowalla clone for the approbation of your peers."
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Neither unix pipes nor TCP are particularly complex, and it is their simplicity that lets them be combined -- easier to combine a hammer and an axe than a nail-gun and a rotary saw.
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Nothing stops one creating a fake Facebook profile. Choose a reasonably human sounding name, crank the privacy levels way up, and comment. FB is unlikely to figure out it's fake.

There are some disadvantages. Your fake identity will probably need to be reused across sites, since creating a new account involves getting an email address, which takes a few extra minutes per identity. But choose a generic enough name, and it is less of a problem...
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They are very, very different from the comfortable slippers, slides, mules, Maine summer, and the list goes on! These are just a lot of women prefer to wear footwear brand.
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This analogy seems a bit off, and I don't see how it simplifies things.

I guess this is similar to the "Monad tutorial" problem, where the author forces a (typically way off) analogy onto the reader.

One concrete problem with "accounting as graphs" is that a transaction typically involves more than two legs, while Graph edges are ALWAYS associated with exactly two nodes. You can emulate this, of course, and the author hints as much in his description of complex "deals", but it raises the question whether graphs are the best analogy.
UK rates really are a crapshoot. Voxeo and Twilio must just be averaging the rates for mobiles. The rates I get at Flowroute for UK mobiles vary wildly: https://www.flowroute.com/services/rates/U/
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Right, try telling that to the tour guide I met in Burma last week whose real opinions about his country's government could get him put into a work camp (and who is a facebook user, like almost everyone we met in Burma).
I clicked on my profile, history, then I clicked on my name. It just says loading now... ??
Was a fun read. But you don't have to get complicated.

Accounting is just taking notes. No matter how you write then
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Interface - Using your finger to use the slingshot is very intuitive and fun. This game was made for the iPhone. It wouldn't have been as successful if people had to use a mouse.

Character - You're not shooting rocks and bombs, they're birds! They are colorful and they squawk! And you're not shooting targets, you're shooting pigs! Pigs who smugly smile when you don't hit them.And there's fun music.

Puzzles - Some of the levels are difficult but overall the puzzles can be solved quickly. And there are plenty of them. A series of fun, quick puzzles: the perfect game for 5 minute breaks.

It's interactive and just fun to play. Move your finger, release, shoot the bird, it makes a sound, maybe touch again and the bird does an ability, then shit falls down. And it's you who's doing it. Who doesn't like to knock down dominos?

You're constantly touching the phone and the phone is reacting to you. There's sensory feedback and an addicting rhythm.
That's especially true about humor. I can't remember the source, but "you can joke about anything, only not with everyone" rings true to me.
This is likely due to the fact that American men average a few inches taller than American women. Biology and statistical sampling plus a little bit of confirmation bias.
Though I really don't want to create a fake Facebook profile. I don't want to resort to being dishonest with Facebook, and I still don't want all my comments to go through Facebook. Also, it's not easy to be logged in to Facebook with multiple identities at once.
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Here's an interesting take on Angry Birds:

http://blog.munchonme.com/?p=59
> like copy & paste I think they want to get it right

This "they want to get it right" thing is nothing but apologetic stupidity.

Apple is not a magic company, they have a priority list and a limited number of resources to address that list.

Sometimes, features have to fall off the wayside. I suspect that copy and paste and notifications have been judged less important than other features, because frankly, Android's notifications have been perfect since day one, so it's not like there is no precedent.
Yeah, and there's HTML too! Complete bullshit!
It's only inevitable if you give up on it. Technologically speaking the tools are there for it to go either way. That's why you see these technology CEO's that make their money on tracking and surveillance making statements like this. They have to convince you to stop caring and shift societal norms.

I admit it doesn't look good for privacy for now. But 20 years ago, a lot of smart forward thinking people, including global intelligence organizations, thought it was going the opposite direction. What they didn't anticipate is that we'd all be convinced to voluntarily give it up ourselves.
Nice demo :-) I hadn't put my finger on why exactly I always read like.fm as last.fm, but I think you hit it on the head.
Totally agree iPhone 5 should be lighter. The iPhone 4 is great but a tad too heavy in one hand. I think the back glass adds weight and they will switch to aluminum.
I'd wasted enough time on Angry Birds to feel qualified enough to write about it.

1. The splash screen shows a high degree of polish
compared to all other games. Every time I start it,
it stands out heads and shoulders above other apps.

2. The whimsical characters mean that there are no scruples
with killing real pigs.

3. The ability to advance to the next level quickly, but at
the same time, there is a higher three star achievement
for finishing a level with some finesse.

4. There is an element of luck and timing involved, and
this makes for addictive gameplay. It is also very difficult
to get the angles exactly the same each time on a small
device. Every time you play, you think "this is going to be
the perfect game".

5. The matter of waiting for 2-3 seconds makes for exasperating
play, which again is pretty addictive.
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To the rest of the world, this pretty much spells the end of "hope" in Obama.
I've lived in both for at least 3 years, and can attest that there are wonderful resources & communities in each available to startups. So why do we keep filling HN with these posts?
Think of all the first person shooters you have ever played. Now imagine the groups in those games that had secret prisons.
You have a point. In finance especially, I think being middle class is about the worst position to be in. If you're poor, you get into finance because you're fearless and hungry and worked your ass off. You work on the trading floor and get along fine.

If you're rich, it's like the OP said -- you get into finance because you have casual confidence and connections. You probably already know your boss or some of his colleagues socially, or your dad belongs to the same yacht club. And your boss likes you because you're just like him.

If you're middle class, though, you aren't hungry because you were actually pretty comfortable growing up, and you don't have the connections because your dad is an accountant at a mid-sized manufacturing company and doesn't have a yacht. So you're screwed.
That's about the model Gitorious uses (minus the integration into debian packaging and apt repositories).

In Gitorious the project is the main resource. Developers can be working on a project and they get their own area where they can put forks of the project or other one-off stuff.

You can even easily (for a definition of easy as "doable with some effort") host one yourself for internal projects as it's available under AGPL.

It's still not as easy to use as github (due to the project hurdle and less refined UI) and the public service lacks what makes github especially good: the large community of users
What I find interesting are how other, very polished and fun games, are almost never mentioned when people ask for lists of great Android games. Rocket Bunnies comes to mind.
Wow, is this really how bad the hate for Facebook and Zuckerberg has gotten on HN? To say that someone like Zuckerberg, whether you agree with him or not, has "no redeeming features" is simply ignorant. I'm all for reasonable debate about the privacy issues Facebook brings up, but can we please avoid this personal attack nonsense?
You know, I think the cornerstone of Lame-Trolling is pretending like you failed every reading comprehension class in grade school.
Everyone did notice that Facebook's comment system allows you to login via an essentially anonymous Yahoo! account as well, right? When/if they add Twitter and Google those will be equally anonymous and the trolling / spamming will return to normal levels.
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Crush the Castle was a hugely successful flash game. Just because that success didn't carry over to the iPhone doesn't mean its merits are nullified. It may just mean people said "meh, I already played that on the computer. Now there was one with birds that someone told me about..."

Anyway, Crush the Castle is itself a clone of Castle Clout, but had _far_ greater success than its predecessor, even though they were visually similar (nearly identical, actually).
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Regarding the non-ordering of dependencies I wonder if it would help to have some sort of shuffle flag. I know that redo has implemented a --shuffle flag to tease out missing dependencies.

https://github.com/apenwarr/redo/blob/master/Documentation/r...
Wow, a lot of hate directed towards Zuckerberg. I understand why the auther can be sceptical og facebook and his comments, but degrading it into namecalling is just not keeping the debate at a serious level (in example, calling Zuckerberg a manchild).
Jeez, a 4 GB nitro-burning funny card that draws 1/3 kW and takes an extra slot for cooling. How long until AMD drops in a Phenom core and USB3 controller and declares "to hell with motherboards"?
> Also: FWIW, I never notice folks' names on github. The important thing for me is that the code is right there front and center. If I want to download it, I click the clipboard button and then go clone it. Boom.

Yeah, I think "BOOM!" is right. If you can't see the flaw in stuff like this:

http://drnicwilliams.com/2009/11/04/hacking-someones-gem-wit...

http://groups.google.com/group/gemcutter/browse_thread/threa...

Then you got no business being a sysadmin and working this way.
I thinks this is fairly wrong as its more of a project based (launchpad) vs code based(github) approach. Sys admins can write a decent amount of short scripts which don't mesh well with a project based approach, many programmers may prefer github for scaling down more and making the code easier to find but the more stability you want the more you might like a project like approach(until you want to make a quick contribution). I bet lots of larger teams might prefer to grab a library of launchpad.
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Oh, in the README? Duh. I totally didn't think of that awesome way to communicate to all the package management build systems out there that the repository has moved. I'll get right on building the Turing Oracle so I can solve that "README File English As Redirect" problem.
Try using a page as Siegler did http://www.facebook.com/pages/MG-Siegler/106690852693356 . But see if you can tune the settings on your original profile to prevent people from viewing this page and then you can name your alter-ego to whatever you please.

Though this is different from users who intentionally impersonate others, never really understood that ... especially when no humour came from it.