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Redis is absolutely beautiful for async networking; the protocol is extremely straightforward. It has completely solved my problem of persisting data from EventMachine programs in Ruby, too.

A couple hundred lines of ObjC got a generic Redis client and a special-purpose blpop client working for my Cocoa apps (I keep libevent in a thread there).
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'A vast body of psychological evidence shows that the pleasures of consumption wear off through time and depend heavily on one’s frame of reference.'

I loved this single,succinct line.
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Was it "only" M$25, with other investors having put up the remaining M$16?
What happens if you receive a call mid flight? That seems like asking for trouble. Looks like an awesome device otherwise though!
On Ubuntu, the package name is ack-grep. So use:
sudo -i aptitude install ack-grep

Don't go for ack, which is some Kanji character converter.
As someone who isn’t good at SEO, is the name and domain going to be good or bad for the company?

I tried to find the app on the iTunes search result list and gave up (until I found a direct link).
right. this is a direct TOS violation, right?
For my blogs, etc. I just process everything via Textile/SmartyPants/similar.

For other writing, I don't bother to insert proper quote marks, but usually use a proper dash.

BTW, Mac OS X since 10.6 can automatically replace quotes in any Cocoa textview, but I have it turned off.

The problem with "smart typography" is that is must be language-aware: quotes used in «Russian» are different from “English” and „German“ and »other« »styles»: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English_usage_of_quotation_...
Actually from what I can gather it was between $80k and $120k, haven't been able to pin it down though.
The idea that you would actually want this for the social interaction never occurred to me. My first reaction was that this was the next generation of

1) "I have a girlfriend!"
2) "Great! Can I meet her?"
3) "Uh no, she lives far away"
4) "Oh. Then how did you meet?"
5) "Um, summer camp?"
6) "Suuurrrre."

Edit: I still don't understand HN's line break formatting.

Edit 2: Thanks
Color.xxx
I stand corrected - that is pretty bad.
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This might get down-voted to oblivion, but here it goes:

OP, cool it down with the link bait headlines. It seems like fashionable to bad mouth Color right now with their monster financing, etc, but if you have ever built anything (and it looks like you have) you know damn well how hard it is.

And V 1.0, 40 million or not, always stinks and If it doesn't you shipped to late.

So, let's give this guys some time so we can understand why Sequoia gave so much money to Color.
indeed, a couple of other features were released as well.
if they can pull it off (terms of service violations and what not) this will be brilliant, it is just a viral bomb ready to go off the things that can happen. I see chat roulette like kind of infamy very quickly.
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Was your offer unsolicited? I would guess that an unsolicited offer for a poorly performing site would lead to some good deals on domains.

From one of you prev posts, it sounds like fab.com was a social network that didn't take off.
I see your points and they are well received. I am not THAT scientific, it's really just an expression, but to argue your point a bit I pose this:

Rather than thinking of it as a laser being focused on an object or location (cause to converge on or toward a central point) try thinking of it as physical time and effort (focus) in a direct beam like a laser (concentration of attention or physical energy on something).

Really, it all depends on your perspective, and how you define "focus". And, whether or not you take it as an analogy or for face value.
I bought fab.com from a domain hoarder in 2010. It had been unused for many years prior. The fab.com social network was run by us after purchasing the domain. We ran the SN under that name for a few months before deciding to change courses using the same domain name.
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It depends on the person here.

1. Imagine a dude who just wanted to build something cool. Craig Newmark, of Craig's List fame, for example would fall under this category. He's got enough money to retire, yet he still works customer service, because that's what he enjoys.

2. Now imagine, someone who just wants more, more, more, more. It appears Donald Trump might fall into this category. I don't know for sure, but he seems to be purely driven by money and power.

You can become wealthy 'organically' in the sense that you didn't set out to be wealthy. You can so get wealthy from the expressed intent to get wealthy.
The choice of highly brandable names like sex or color come with a huge disadvantage in terms of SEO. I mean, just try searching for the Color app on the app store, you have thousands and thousands of apps with "color" showing up. Sometimes it is best to go with something unique. IMO.
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twitter is internet plumbing. it doesn't matter if it makes money, it drives ridiculous amounts of ancillary commerce. There's plenty of people that are willing to pay money to keep it alive because it serves their business. Infrastructure tends to be money losing businesses when they start; think youtube and more recently, facebook.
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Stupid premise. Give me a list of things people actually need.
The key value is going to be hooking it up to CRM systems like Salesforce to automate filling in the address, rates etc. across both systems. My old employer had a horrendously kludgy Active X control that generated MS Word forms from Salesforce fields. Using their API and a web-based service, I would imagine you can do a lot better than that.
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congrats! forrst is a great service.
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Just installed the original C&C. Thanks!
Remember that documentary from about 5+ years ago about spoilt rich teenagers? I think it was called Born Rich. Anyway one of the things that one boy said really stuck with me (not sure what his name was but he was generally unhappy, and I think he later sued the publishers):

'People think because I'm rich I must be happy. But they don't realize that my happiness is connected to so many material things, if just one of them goes wrong it can ruin my day.'

Or something to that effect. More material comforts = more dependency for happiness = greater likelyhood of misery (or at least, 'peevement' or angst). He was talking about all the expensive toys that had to be maintained properly, special meals he liked to have, elaborate plans for essentially simple social occassions, and so on.
> History rewrite sounds like a dirty thing

well you're only rewriting local history, so you're a-ok. history re-writing becomes a dirty word when you re-write history that someone else may have already seen. i know you already know this.
You get a fair bit more than that when buying shares in a bank...
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Many people don't, myself included.
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Goes to show that you need to know/trust your certificate chain, and not some "padlock" piece of browser chrome. Continuing my irritation with the way browser presentations de-emphasize the actual chain and certificates involved.

Even if the certificate labeling is copied, the actual cryptographic values will change. (If they were readily reproducible, the cryptography itself would be useless.)

So... notify the user when those values change from previous sessions, or at least when the fingerprint changes. This still assumes the ability to establish the legitimate values during those previous sessions or via other means. And it appears that trusting the original browser installation is not adequate. (E.g. dozens of "built-in" certs, some from who knows where. Or now, apparently, attempted forgery of Mozilla certificates.)

Of course, I guess most users will refuse to deal with such details, anyway. Until it hurts enough...
I think people tend to go into that game being decent and come out of it corrupted. In high school and college, they wanted to be writers. But investment banking seemed safer. Some failed out, but others got all their promotions, their MBAs, their first millions at a ridiculously young age, and started drifting away from their "interesting" (but poor, by banker's standards) college friends and into a certain money-centered social circle. People don't like to admit this, clinging to the notion of an atomic "self", but a few years in that kind of environment changes a person into someone unrecognizable by the younger, better person who went in. People who were once fascinating to talk about about all kinds of topics with devolve into defectives only capable of talking about mergers and acquisitions, people who talk fast and sound intelligent but, if you actually listen to the words they are saying, have almost no content in anything they say.

An unbroken pattern of severe wins and losses in the working world is usually corrosive to one's personality. Losses make people bitter and they either collapse or deeply desire, even at psychopathic cost, to win. Too many wins, especially those of the "windfall" kind and much less those that come from genuine hard work, make people shallow, childish, and impatient.
cloudboyfriend.com suspiciously absent. market opportunity, anyone?
While I am no longer active on Twitter, I cant deny the fact that Twitter has become a massive distribution channel for content,links etc. There are two other such online distribution channels -- Google and Facebook. And they make lot,lot of money.

Twitter might still not have a viable business model, but they can experiment (now that they have a huge user base and data) and try to find one. While its not easy and obvious at times to find a viable business model, just reaching the sheer distribution scale as Twitter's is a huge hurdle in itself that very few incumbents will ever reach.
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I think you're confusing a couple different things. There was an old party game in Turing's time where someone conversed with both a man and a woman and tried to identify which was which, and Turing was inspired by this concept to devise a test where someone conversed with a human and a computer and tried to identify which was the computer and which was the human.
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The main difference between the stresses of the super-rich and the stresses of the super-poor is that the rich have problems that they choose to have, and the super-poor have problems that are forced on them.

The rich people could eliminate 100% of their stresses if they simply chose to change their lifestyle.

The super-poor can't really eliminate their stress by a simple change up their lifestyle, if the mortgage isn't getting paid, the car broke down and you need medical procedure you can't afford and have no options, then these stresses are WORSE stresses than the rich have.

The rich may have it worse, but it's their own darn fault for making it worse.
>>Everybody's 1.0 app crashes.

No, that is wrong.

My 1.0 apps don't crash (as per itunesconnect which says "No Crash Reports" for my last 3 iPhone/iPad apps which are all on their 1.0 version).

One of them was recently ranked #1 on Apple's top charts for its category. So this isn't a matter of trivial apps with a low user base.
That is an awesome quote. The viral r-factor here is at least 1.
Yeah, but it's more than sending a few 301s or plugging a cable, a better analogy would be that if you wrote a sophisticated algorithm to mine patterns out of those bytes to the tune of 7 billion whatevers per whatever and produce interesting results, then you could call yourself a digital signal processing scientist.

They're not just doing redirects, they're doing a lot of data science with exploring the statistics of what gets shared, clicked, etc.
we all die.

That will probably be changing soon.
This is clearly the value here.. not the interaction itself, but the social status of having some hot babe liking all your status updates.
My perfect girlfriend can solve the P vs NP problem.
At the bottom of every page there's a link to the FAQ:
http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

That has the question: "What kind of formatting can you use in comments?" followed by this link:

http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

That says:

Blank lines separate paragraphs.

Text after a blank line that is indented by
two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim.
(This is intended for code.)

Text surrounded by asterisks is italicized,
if the character after the first asterisk isn't
whitespace.

Urls become links, except in the text field
of a submission.

Does that answer your question? You get a line break by leaving a blank line.
A point here that I think gets lost sometimes in the "ship it" mentality is that you can't iterate your way to figuring out your one thing. You need to start with the one thing and then iterate, not vice versa.
> if you could trick the server (64-bit FreeBSD) into connecting to sockets

Proxies, SMTP gateways, FTP servers (active mode), ...
Let’s maintain the convenient fiction that you won’t just google “abandonware” and avail yourself of the many websites for pirated DOS games instead.

Seeing Dark Forces really brings me back.

edit: after reading through the thread, I realize I'm the 3rd or 4th person to say that Dark Forces "brings me back." Sorry to add so little, but it's also fascinating that so many of us have such fond memories of that one game.
What he's doing seems useful to the project. There's no better time to get it right. I'm just surprised he's willing to expend so much effort communicating instead of just fixing the patch.

I noticed that C programmers tend to use macros for things where (possibly non-exported) inline functions would make more sense. Why is that? Are they in the habit of building the OS with all optimizations off? Or is it that they're being used as poor man's generic function?
I wonder how this article would read if one were to substitute 'smart/intelligent/clever' for 'rich'. I think I do spend a lot of time chasing knowledge to compete with others, only to find that I don't have 'enough'. As much as I like it, it does feel like I am living 'a life of quiet desperation'.
The real poor would love to worry about mortgages and cars.
Great for forrst, well deserved, even if this is yet another article that pretends forrst is for designers only...

Us devs are on there, I promise.
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The thing I kept thinking of, especially whenever they were talking about "enough to be financially secure" was a quote from Ted Turner just after he donated a billion dollars to the UN. (I can't find the quote online, I saw it on TV)

It went something like this:
"I've found that a person really can't spend more than $200 million dollars in their lifetime. Even if you make no attempts to save it or spend it wisely, it's very hard to squander $200 million so badly that you are left with nothing" (that was the gist, at least, but this is from memory)
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The rich people could eliminate 100% of their stresses if they simply chose to change their lifestyle.

I generally agree with what you're saying, but how should they do this? They have reputations that could be ruined but can never be "given away" and friends with expensive tastes. How many people willingly uproot themselves, after age 30, and move to another country where they don't know a soul? Not many. Those who do may find the transition rewarding, but it's still stressful, and a lot of people would prefer to stay put. So the idea that rich people can just eliminate all their stresses with lifestyle changes is wrong. A lot of stresses aren't even financial. On the other hand, I agree that wealthy people who are willing to live more frugally can be happy.
there is 2 year limit in place,(the law passed by Obama) so that there is not a daily run on deposits when data becomes available as obviously any recession does not last more than 2 years..

The core problem which Obama failed to understand is that these financial firms used uncoupled securities to pad their short term profits while at the same time increasing their long term risks to way beyond the capital they had.

The uncoupled securities now do not just include derivatives
but also commodity contracts as exchanges no longer have the limits in place of having actual products to enter into those contracts..

Translation: They eff'd us over..
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The issue is a non-issue, but still legitimate and interesting.

Stress, poor decisions, emotional tumult, and being flung into life itself are inexorable, and as unavoidable as breathing when you have a pulse.

Money is tangible, and as far as tangible things go..May well be at the top of the food chain.

In day to day life, and superficial observation of others, the tangible is our primary prism of experience and thought. It's not that this issue isn't "real".

The mind is so complex and our emotions so strong, we're (benignly) selfish and self-consumed to the point that day to day living and observation is done through the "tangible", as our primary prism of experience and thought.

Money/wealth takes on significance. It simply is significant. And always will he for those with and without.

But if we admit the ubiquitous behavioral pattern of our selves (as applicable to money as seeing an ultra good looking person walk down the street; or someone walk around with a 145 scored IQ test on their shirt..), we aren't dealing with wealth and money, per say.

A deeper but likely impossible study would be having the recording of therapy sessions with these people; and then juxtaposed with therapy sessions of non-SuperRich.

Dollars to donuts that those who are 'happy' and Super Rich bear striking resemblance, and actual distinct cross overs, to those 'happy' and not Super Rich. The converse being true for those 'unhappy' and all in between.

Perhaps there is a tipping pt in both poor/rich directions, at certain extreme ends; but in these instances, what are we dealing with, aside from the perks or poisons of 'luck' in a distilled form, that is life's ace up the sleeve and trump card.

And when it's just as possible to meet your wife while getting a latte, or choke on the biscotti you get with it...luck shouldn't be taken for granted, either.

Cliff Notes: when I am Super-Rich and still neurotic, i will simply blame myself, and move on in finding a year or two respite while penning an epic book and psycho-behavorial study on the rich and poor, vis a vis therapy sessions.
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/brownie-husband...

can this tide you over until that gets implemented?
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to the extent that after some time you may start believing in her existence. Human mind can do wonders ... to itself.
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I was really impressed with that when I read about it (I think Douglas Hofstader had a section about it in GEB).

Does anyone know if there have been similar projects along the same lines? (i.e. with a constrained virtual environment)
i think there are a lot of new areas for something like a tablet -- take for instance, a lot of designers these days are using iPads/tablets as portfolio devices in interviews or with clients. Instead of clunky paper portfolios or simply throwing someone your website and asking them to check it out later or after the interview, you can bring in your tablet, show off some nice high res images, zoom in and out. It adds interactivity to the interviewing experience, especially if you can bring up a website design you might have done and show exactly how it works.
Oh man, so I've been doing in wrong all the time. I always thought it would be a good idea to use the type system to its full capabilities and complained about the compiler for not adequately slapping my wrist when I obviously assign negative numbers to unsigned variables (a sign analysis is pretty simple to implement!).
Using the tilt sensor for flight control? One sneeze and an expensive model is destroyed. If I have experience with traditional RC flight transmitters, I have muscle memory in my thumbs for flying, and I can't use that here. No snark intended, best of luck to the OP.
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A much more intriguing and Gattaca-esque approach would be to use this to genetically engineer disease-free children. In the future, you won't have to screen for Tay-Sachs or Cystic Fibrosis, you could just eliminate it from the germline.

Of course, eliminating diseases is one thing, adding features is quite another ethical bag of worms.
how is it not funny that this game, that has been years in the making, is delayed again? I think they're trying to go for the Daikitana record...
o.O It says ours is dead "Now?" hah. nope money ain't the only factor.
I don't know which colors are supposed to be hot, and they don't seem to provide a scale. And I don't know where Delaware is.

Leaves something to be desired ...
Has anyone ever studied wealth distribution to see if it's fractal based? It would be interesting if human interaction followed the same design principals as natural formations.