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Your idea has the drawback that browser updates might be few and far between (for some users), so when embedding them in the browser you can never rely on a certain version of a certain library to be available.

A more general caching system would be better. For example, "Cache by digital signature", as some people above mention.
Perlin noise has a fundamental problem that I believe Simplex noise accentuates:

(Begin quote)
When rendering, it is common to texture 2D surfaces by sampling a 3D noise function, but the resulting 2D texture will in general not be band-limited, even if the 3D function is perfectly band-limited. This means that
the loss-of-detail vs. aliasing tradeoff cannot be solved simply by constructing a band-limited 3D function. To our knowledge this problem has never even been identified, much less addressed.
(End quote)

I think this is responsible for the questionable look of the screenshots of 3D and 4D simplex noise at the end of this pdf (sorry, couldn't find a html version):

www.itn.liu.se/~stegu/simplexnoise/simplexnoise.pdf

Another practical problem:

(Begin quote)
A Perlin band near the Nyquist limit contains both frequencies that are low enough to be representable (i.e., they contain detail that should be in the image) and frequencies that are high enough to be unrepresentable (i.e, they can cause aliasing). Excluding the band
causes loss-of-detail artifacts, but including it causes aliasing artifacts. Balancing this tradeoff between loss of detail and aliasing has been a constant source of frustration for shader writers at Pixar and elsewhere. Because aliasing is usually more unacceptable than
loss of detail in feature film production, bands are attenuated aggressively. An unfortunate consequence of this is that as you zoom into a scene the texture detail becomes visible later than the geometry detail, so the texture doesn’t appear to be tied to its geometry.
Instead, the texture appears to fade in unnaturally as if there were a haze that obscured only some aspects of the surface appearance and only when it was farther away.
(End quote)

Enter wavelet noise. It's heavier in the theoretical side, but the paper that presents it claims it's efficient and solves the above problems.

http://graphics.pixar.com/library/WaveletNoise/paper.pdf
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Hence the question. I have already far too many cables. An old laptop with everything integrated would reduce the odds of loosing the connectors.
Ask HN: FireFox/Chrome Plugins as a product?
Would you pay for a Firefox or Chrome plugin, if it increased your productivity?
yeah, not sure about that number either. From memory he spent about 3 years working everyday in his shed perfecting the design. Prototypes were made from cardboard or metal and he kept details records

This is the guy who invented the Sea Truck (which I have vague memories that it was involved in some battle in the middle east), the ballbarrow (a simplitic/obvious invention that no one had come up with previously) and a few other things.

The idea for the vacuum came from the fume extractor which in turn was inspired by a large commercial extraction unit between his (James') home and work.

to adress some of your points (I own a 5 year old Dyson):

- don't lose suction only applies until the canister is full, then well... it's full and needs emptying. Based on my experience, this claim holds true.

- they fineprint after "only cyclonic vacuum" probably says "with no filter" or something. Our's has a hepa filter, but that only needs a wash every few years. Most other cyclonic vacuums I've seen have a filter that requires cleaning.

- build quality on ours is great. Thing is tough as nails and looks like it'll still be going strong in 10 years time
This is the guy in question ;).

The code is pretty much a hack which I haven't got around to tidying up (but mail me if you really want it).

It's really just glue anyway -- the interesting bits are done by:

* http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Parse::MediaWikiDump

* http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Text::Summary::MediaWiki

The script then saves the produced summaries in SQLite, then some code based on Stanford::DNSserver (http://www.stanford.edu/~riepel/lbnamed/Stanford-DNSserver/)
does a lookup in SQLite, follows #redirects and returns a TXT record.

These days I'd probably use PowerDNS's pipe backend to implement it rather than a full DNS server in Perl (there's helper modules like ruby-pdns that make writing a DNS server with specialised purposes incredibly easy).
Prolog is another that passes. The Pure language - interpreted but not compiled - should count. Compile time self modification is still there though. In terms of macros for code generation, syntactic extensibility, runtime+compile time reflection and staged computation without homoiconicity; Nemerle is one on .NET.

C# is one step closer with its upcoming compiler as a service. Available in mono now.
I wrote a proprietary trading system in C++.
er, yeah, this was late 70's. Don't think using flow modelling software was a viable proposition (this is one guy, living off savings, working in his shed)
Some, yes.

But as we are not US-based, it is kind of hard to enforce...

Not to mention that a SF-based company registered our trademark and sued Sourceforge afterwards...
I haven't had time to have a good look at this, currently I use CodeIgniter, but I'm always open to change, so I'll grab a copy later and play around with it.

I found a broken link though - http://fuelphp.com/docs/classes/agent.html and the error page looks a lot like CodeIgniter/Expression Engine :S
They just cancel each other out.
I think the point about accepting failure here probably gives an incorrect impression.

He had the fundamental idea correct, and the many prototypes (I'm sceptical on the 5000 figure) were working on improving the design, not trying to make it work

the stuff we expect a vacuum to pick up is not homogenous, but rather consists of a huge variety of materials and particle sizes. He found that one set of parameters would work well for certain particles, but not so well on others. Most of the prototypes consisted of tweaking dimensions and recording the resulting effectiveness.
I was in YC, and I think this is an awesome idea. You can replicate lots of the value, even if you don't have PG giving office hours. However, five isn't enough. Lots of the value from YC was to hear lots of different ideas and opinions and feedback, and you won't get that with five.

What's the downside of taking 30? You're not taking investment, not providing mentorship; there's no cost to taking more.

You're going to want to arrange stuff for you to do, right, speakers for example? So you should split the effort of getting angels to talk, between the companies who join.

Finally, no-one is going to want to give talks (very high value) to five groups, and there will definitely be no demo-day (ultra-high value) with 5 groups.

With five groups you'll gain very little (some, but little).
I'd urge you to accept as many groups apply, to a limit of 30-ish at least.
When I was growing up, a friend of mine actually had to pay a guy in the US to tape all the episodes and mail over the VHS tapes to us in Europe. (German TV showed the shows years later, cut out a couple of minutes to fit their schedule, dubbed over with mediocre voice actors and randomly ordered and dropped episodes without any recognizable pattern.)

We've beaten geo-blocking and regional licensing over 15 years ago and it's getting easier by the minute. Truly great times we live in.
windows acme-sac is my day to day programming environment. the host file system is available at /n/C and /n/D (/n/local on linux and os x).
hmm, am I the only who wishes that issues where simply files in a directory inside the repository?

It seems crazy that when you fork an old version, you have no idea which bugs have been fixed and if you later merge again you have to manually track down which bugs have been fixed.
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.NET is great. It's fast, clean, and the
framework libs are incredibly good.

Having worked with .NET, I beg to differ -- .NET framework libs are a mess.

C#, IronPython, and F# are amazing.

It's not the languages that keep people away from .NET -- to put it simply -- community, tools, price.

Microsoft does a good job at playing catch-up, but unfortunately (for them) when it comes to web development, innovation happens somewhere else.

And sure, Visual Studio compensates for a lot, but it's just an IDE, the least important part of the stack.
Is there some up to date comparison of github / bitbucket now? It seems like they fixed the issues view already and the last big difference is the number of private accounts allowed without paying. Is there any other outstanding problem with any of them?
"I use Unison to sync files between my various computers. Dropbox seems to be the hot new thing, but I like that Unison doesn't ever store my files on someone else's computers."
At least power companies don't try and tell me what to do with the energy I buy from them - they don't tell me I have to pay more to use / can't use brands of toasters unless the manufacturer paid them money.

I think the ideal solution would be an act specifically about net neutrality - but where existing laws allow net neutrality to be regulated, I think that using those measures in the interim is not necessarily a bad thing.

Prosecuting companies that aren't using net neutrality in the interim might be more of an FTC role than an FCC role in terms of current US government structures - especially if they can get a court to agree that non-net neutrality violates one of the anti-trust or consumer protection laws.
While this might be true if you try to AXFR large zones I think most people who have large zones have solutions to this, it's just like scaling anything else.

For example there's IXFR which is helpful when doing dynamic updates.

Alternatively don't use DNS for transfers -- there's nothing forcing its use, except for talking to clients -- SQL replication works (e.g. with PowerDNS), or the approach most spam blocklists take and rsync zones around for serving by a special server (rbldnsd); DNS just becomes a common query protocol because every client supports it.
Did it @
https://github.com/cycojesus/emacs/raw/master/solarized-them...
https://github.com/cycojesus/emacs/raw/master/solarized-ligh...
It is certainly possible - you just have to ignore copyright.

At some point we are going to have to realize that we have enough movies, books, etc that we can't read/watch all of those which interests us and just kill copyright.

It is already half happened because most people flatly ignore it and the amount of draconian enforcement necessary to uphold it is too large for people to accept.
Everything in life is a trade-off. And the 30 x 1 years quote nicely illustrates why you should always strive to learn new things.

However, if you already know how to do something well in one particular stack, then you should just stick with that if the objective is to ship.

The operative word is of course that you know you can do it well in that stack. If you start thinking "there has to be a better way" then you should seriously look into alternative stacks or whether you are using your current one correctly.
Is there a way to download the whole book? Train journey coming up...
Does anyone else think we're getting a bit circlejerk-y? I mean, what's the value of the video, except to pander to the community and make us feel better?

I found exactly zero value in this video. I find it worrying that this sort of fluff is getting upvoted more and more frequently recently.
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2269863/Less_Wrong

The PDF is even nicely typeset in, if not the Official Harry Potter font, a close facsimile.
The development team (of which I am one) all come from the CodeIgniter community and have built lots of applications and sites using CodeIgniter. The Fuel site runs on PyroCMS, which I also develop as both Fuel and PyroCMS belong to the same company. There's no point us developing a brand new CMS just to run the website for our brand new framework right?
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Mickey Mouse is the most recognizable cartoon character in Disney Channel
Why would we care? Get a proper browser. IE9 is out.
Really good read. I graduated from an ECE program (with a focus on VLSI and comp arch) in 2003, but went straight to software after that, so this was a great refresher for me, as well as explaining some of the newer stuff that hadn't been in use then. I especially liked how he explained how caches work, and the different types (direct-mapped vs. n-way associative). I remember it took me a while back in school to really grok caching, but the explanation here was clearer than anything I ever saw in class.

Overall I was most impressed by the discussions of the pros and cons of each of the designs and the various tradeoffs involved. Often the "why did they do it this way?" is left out.

Heh, perhaps I just read it faster because I have some familiarity already, but I got through it in about 45 minutes.
But Quizlet already has tons of traction. It's not some shot in the dark.
Ignoring copyright is what I'm doing right now. Downloading movies/series is not illegal in the country where I live.

But I would like to pay for streaming sci-fi series online, to support them and make sure they are continued being produced. It's sad that the laws that are meant to protect copyright status are preventing me from doing that.
Fuel does not namespace everything as there is no need.

There are 4 main namespaces.

Fuel\Core
Fuel\App
Fuel\Tasks
Fuel\Migrations

Then packages have their own namespace too.

These help code that could potentially have the same name exists and allows for easy extending of core classes.

Class Foo extends Fuel\Core\Foo.

Thanks to a cascading file system very similar to Kohamas this is all very simPlenand very quick.

The Zend_Style_Class equates to classes/Zend/style/class.php and could exist in core or app, or packages, etc.
I was very spectical about this. It sounded like a typical "atheist misantropic know-it-all" thing. I gave it a try reading on my mobile phone on train rides. As it turns out this is a very well written (!), entertaining, witty different take on the whole Harry Potter universe. Harry Potter actually is the "atheist misantropic know-it-all" (yes, I am using wrong words, sue me) but the story is not. It actually evolves around his struggles with himself because of those character traits. It is very exciting, funny and as I said, professionally written. Highly recommended!

The epub is missing some formatting and paragraphs (as in empty space) though, I read it in fbreader. Nothing too bad but you might stumble on them.
Reminds me of Dyson's fanless fan, which actually had a fan in it's base.
What does 0.300 mean? 30% return on investment?

Also please don't complain about downvotes in advance. It is poor form.
This looks very useful for now, but shouldn't we be trying to get LLVM-based native client standardized for the long term?
> I am a bit concerned that some unscrupulous people will use it to scam money out of naive "investors" through the use of crowd source financing services.

This is bound to happen, but it shouldn't stop the scheme from going ahead. Investors should be sensible enough not to risk more money than they can afford.
We're using FogBugz now and this functionality comes dangerously close to being a real alternative.

I'm glad, because I think Fog Creek has stagnated and FogBugz isn't developed much anymore — competition is good for everyone :-)
I haven't read the article and I'm not a Steve Blank fan but I upvoted because I love and agree with the headline.
This was ported over from CodeIgniter which has a few crazy Hellers for this sort of thing. I wrote an article explaining the benefits:
http://philsturgeon.co.uk/blog/2009/12/Why-CodeIgniter-HTML-...

Remember though, that class won't be loaded unless you want it.
This is what pg called "The Python Paradox"

http://paulgraham.com/pypar.html
We use any product that makes sense. Should we be forced to develop an issue tracker in Fuel before launching the framework? And a CMS? And a forum? :)
A Friend of mine runs http://www.activeinboxhq.com/ which is a freemium chrome/firefox plugin, he seems to do well for himself and has a good community around it, but he ran it on donations for the first year or two
Around last October when I was in need of internet access I played with dig and noticed that I can query any DNS servers with no restrictions. I thought that this was a great discovery, but as it turns out it seems that this has been discovered long time ago.
Btw today I even wrote a tiny DNS server in Ruby which can be used for fetching short http pages.
https://gist.github.com/912187

It doesn't support splitting, I just wrote it quickly as a proof of concept.

For real use there is the earlier mentioned by jedsmith Iodine.
It's not compulsion to spend some money and do the course. When i started rails, i was without even computer sciences background.
The best way to learn rails is by doing and learning with application development itself. In this regard this may help - http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book

Keep in mind, the best way to go with rails is learn the conventions, once you get them you will start loving rails or else thing might frustrate you.
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I've been to a lot the H&F events and other events in the Bay Area. They're great, but they do not empower the individual groups. They're good at getting speakers and creating a forum to get to know each other. With YCreject.com, I want to complement those efforts and take those organized groups to the next level. YC does a good job at putting their companies on a pedestal and tell the world to "look at us". Given this small grassroots project over the upcoming summer, I'd like to take 5 groups and place them on a similar pedestal so that investors and the press can see who they are and foam at the mouth.
Find out how school budgets work, and know who you're selling to.

If you intend to enter at the whole-school level, you'll probably be dealing with school managers or the school district, and annual software subscriptions are often in the range of hundreds of dollars, or greater. It can be tough to deal in this area (politics, 'preferred' partners, etc.).

Particular departments (math, science, history, etc.) have more limited capitation, but there's usually less bureaucracy. So if you're marketing toward a particular subject, it may make sense to approach a department head and find out what their needs and resources are.

(Note that this is not country-specific, so it really depends on where you are...)

In any case, you must know your market! Find out how much other educational software companies charge, attend expos, and (if possible) try to meet teachers or school managers as part of your effort to set a realistic (affordable) price.
How are you going to market yourself without 5 lakhs?
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Just like most great entrepreneurial ideas turn out to be already invented.
What a find!

Unfortunately I'm not in the correct geographic region to enjoy this.
Replying to myself - found on forums many suggestions for a thinkpad T30 to this same question

It will just miss the firewire but nothing a pccard that'll stay inside (and not be lost!) can't fix
The wait can kill passion as is my case and I'm only 4 years in.
Hey! What about Perl? We have web frameworks too!
Catalyst, Dancer, Plack + some tools, Mojolicious
Wouldn't it be wonderful to get YC feedback on your app?
They have already scrutinized your application, maybe found holes or gaps in it. I know they are looking for smart people first and foremost, but wouldn't it be awesome if you could get some feedback from them based on what they thought - I am sure they wrote notes on your app, it would be great if they could share them - kind of like Simon on American Idol. It might help when you reapply too.
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There go textbooks out the window...
And yes, Visual Studio is that awesome

To me, that's only true once you have Resharper installed too,
This is one of those things that continually rubs me the wrong way. There seems to be a perversion of the term "artist" to mean "someone who create stuff" or "someone who creates stuff that I find inspiring". But artists are people who create art.

Founders are (at least in some cases) craftsmen. That's the word that they're looking for. There are all sorts of craftsmen who are not "artists". It sounds cooler to style ourselves artists, but that doesn't make it true.

There's a spectrum between functional craft and pure art, but it's not entirely clear to me that startups are even on that spectrum and if they are, it's hard panned towards the functional side.
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a Microsoft based team I've founded solutions such as TFS to be just terrible lock ins.

The majority of .net development that I have seen is not done on TFS. I've used many source control sustems for .Net code.

SVN is far more common. a ".Net dev shop" is far from being the same thing as "a Microsoft only" shop. Typically you see software in use like NUnut, SVN, jQuery, Castle Windsor, TeamCity, Resharper, etc. If you're lucky, you may even get Git or Mercurual.

MS could not have standardised on Git even if they'd wanted to - TFS pre-dates Git by a few years. The driver for MS making TFS was two-fold:

1) get people off MS's previous source control system, SourceSafe, which dates back to about 1995. And it shows. SourceSafe is one of the few version control systems that I do not hesitate to say "avoid! Run! Use anything else!" about. TFS is actually a large improvement.

2) To try to prevent them from going to SVN instead, which was the new thing then. Since SVN is lightweight and free, so TFS took the opposite route of being heavyweight, kitchen-sink, ALM, etc.
Work and rest in a startup
Next time, don't prepare the reader to read shit and then... gives us a very sensible comment. It loses vigor :)
Try local students, etc. they'll often lack experience and need more hand-holding, but you can get get raw talent at a cheaper price than you'd have to pay for more experienced talent.
Gee, who would've guessed this would turn into a philosophical discussion.
These are some very interesting observations, my 3 favorite were: every community has talkers and doers, a team must have a hacker and a hustler, and how to handle haters.
Chill out guys.

There's a balance between deliberately writing garbage and trying to start with perfection, and you choose some middle ground.

Yes, write maintainable code. No, don't accrue technical debt just for the fun of it. The post is titled as if all other things equal I would prefer paths that result in more technical debt, but that's clearly moronic.

But you have to start with step 1 (or I guess you can start with step 2...). The point for me is that I end up a lot more long term productive if I get my ass in gear on "get it done" first, because it helps me get to "test" and "refactor" a lot sooner.

That doesn't have to be true for everyone, but it seems to be true for me... this week anyways.
HS senior from hong kong here! recently graduated and heading to college in the bay area in september. i think it's a great idea to take a gap year to figure out what you want to do next. there is a lot you can do in one year. if you really have a great idea, the pursue it!
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"Can't we all just get along?"

Beauty of it, you don't need to get along with anyone. People will remember your product not your technology stack.
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