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They're working pretty hard to change people's minds about that; to focus less on the tech and more on the experience. I thought their "Dear Sophie" video was a pretty compelling example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4vkVHijdQk
Wow that is great! I've always wanted to make a FPS but never really tried. I've made flash games before and got stuck into PHP for 10years+

Now that I wanted to dig into a "real" language and make a videogame (minecraft effect). I've found by myself I should learn directX and install visual studio. And this article just reassure me in my choices.

Is there people here familiar with that type of programming? Is there great resource to learn how to directX and use visual studio in that direction?

I barely know C++ (I've studied C 1year in school and have notions in OOP). What should I do first? (I'm actually reading this : http://www.directxtutorial.com/ for directX 11)
I'm a dad with a 5yr and 10mo old. There is no way you can care for a child and get more than 1-2 hours work done at a time. Tough to get in the zone/flow for sure.

We do a nanny-share. Another family brings their daughter over, and we have a nanny come from 8-5. Sometimes we switch and use the other family's house, but not often. It's about the same cost as day care for this arrangement, maybe a little more. My wife works full-time out of the home.

I like that I can see the kids during the day sometimes and generally keep an ear on things. Also nice that I'm here in case nanny is sick and has to go home for the day. My house has a separate room for a home office, which helps a lot.

EDIT: to clarify, I work full-time from a home office.
What if relocation isn't an option and the guy lives halfway across the world? Does that present a problem in your mind or is a phone conversation acceptable?
However, Apple does require that if a publisher chooses to sell a digital subscription separately outside of the app, that same subscription offer must be made available, at the same price or less, to customers who wish to subscribe from within the app.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/02/15appstore.html

Also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2535773
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Ask HN: Please advise a non-tech founder looking for a tech co-founder
I have been working on an idea for a little while now, I am realizing that moving forward without a technical co-founder is (very) limiting.

The IP behind the app idea is very unique and already picked interest from some investment bodies, but I realize that with a working prototype the offerings will proportionally increase. Plus, money aside, my ideas are nothing but organized thought without a technical implementor...

If anyone has any advice for how is best to move forward, I would appreciate any and all help. Ideally I am looking for an experienced iOS developer to co-found this venture in the Bay Area. I would like to work with someone who enjoys challenging the big names for the sake of enhancing the user experience.

A little about this idea. In simple terms this original IP will redefine functionality and user experience with media on the iOS.

Thank you.

Ron
Good point, since I think that some concepts from linguistics can be carried over to computer languages and vice versa. The central dogma of Chomskyism ( which is ~ linguistics, at least in the US) was (roughly) that all languages are equivalent, hence linguistic relativism was BS. This approach has been shattered recently by quite a few people, I think one of the most well known is Lera Boroditsky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lera_Boroditsky). Luckily, CS people (and the like) never had their minds warped by this paradigm so have always been free to discuss "which language to expand the (programming) mind".

My rant done, let me produce my list:

* Ancient Greek (or Latin) - inflectional: Just sheer coolness of it and the literature you can read in the original is enough. But these languages are the grand daddies of Indo-European (unless you wanna go Hittite or Lithuanian) grammar and will teach you valuable linguistic and conceptual points (i.e. cases, noun declension). Learning this is like learning ALGOL, kind of useless but you'll see where a lot of concepts have originated from.

* Mandarin (i.e. Chinese) - isolating: Two points: Seeing the syntaxlessness of these languages is mind boggling and expanding experience. Many poet/translators have remarked about the "timelessness" of Chinese poetry, because verbs don't have tense markings. And, of course, the writing system is very interesting, too. Like learning Lisp (Scheme), an interesting, expanding experience.

* Turkish - agglutinative: (Disclaimer, I'm a native speaker) A great into to the agglutinative aspect of languages (unless you want to learn an American-Indian language) and an interesting phonetic system, so regular, is used as an example a lot in phonology courses.

* Swahili: The concept of noun classes (a generalization of grammatical gender) is bewildering when you first encounter it, swahili has 16 of them (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swahili_language#Noun_classes)

And more esoteric ones that would be great to learn: My favorites would be Basque (interesting language isolate) and Georgian.
Exactly. Can you elaborate? Give some resources. I mean, if you have some :)
I got an ugrad in CS, but from a non-engr-focused school, and then got into one of the top grad schools. I quickly realized I had neither the mathematical pedigree for CS theory, nor anything resembling experience designing OS and microprocessor internals for systems, that the MIT, CMU, and Berkeley students did. (my OS class was literally a history course!)

Yet I now have a PhD and a Best Paper award.

The key: specialize.

Study a sub-discipline so deeply that you know every paper's references' references. the reference set will collapse to a strongly-connected graph. jettison weak connections to get a clear picture, and, really, a narrative of the field, as in a survey paper.

just naturally, you'll start to be able to quote author affiliations, and their publication list in time-order.

once you do that, you'll find yourself hearing/reading comments, and immediately saying: oh, shut up, that has been done! that sounds like A, said by X, and B, said by Y, and even a bit like C, said by Z. and, then, voila, you'll see that no one has said D yet, even tho it is just obviously a variant on C, or whatever. and then you write it/prove it/code it. then you publish it. and all of a sudden, even though you've (say) never lexed or parsed or emitted or reduced... you start seeing yourself in other people's references as "D said by You".

Then you win.
There are 25,000 Google employees, how many of them do you think are attending IO (total attendance 5000), let alone speaking there.

That's a stage managed corporate event announcing new products and initiatives, it's no more a display of openness than Steve Jobs' keynotes.
This virtual world you speak of requires a physical medium of transfer.

Let us not forget all that physical hardware is somewhere and somebody's electrical infrastructure is powering it.

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Hello,

Although many content pieces on the internet are provided completely free, some of the content producers make a living from the advertising revenue their work provides. Without that revenue, they would stop producing their interesting articles.

Your application circumvents this revenue stream.

How do you feel about this?
Although I agree largely what is being said here, I must add something in that is unrelated to work and looking after children at the same time. My little boy excelled when he was in the company of other children, socially. I found that when he was on 1 to 1 with my parents, he didn't know how to play with other children. I also find this true of people who stop at home and look after their children.

I also find they become quite needy as you are the only one they have interaction with. Sorry if this is off-topic from your true question.

We've never had a problem with child care, mainly because we send them to people we trust.
Yeah, it's taking money out of the hands of all those who worked to support the artist and help them get on that stage.
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Yup - that's one of the thing the USFTA changed when in came into force in 2005. The old restriction of +50 was changed to +70. See http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1968133/....
Could you elaborate on connection between C and designing things that scale? I don't get it and I think I may be missing something.

I support C too. While I don't use it everyday (actually I avoid using it) I think it is important to do some low level and system programming - and C is here important. Every programmer should code e.g. a simple binary tree from scratch (with manual memory management) just to see what it is like.

Also as a matter of fact someone recommended C but it's buried down with 0 votes.
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My problem is trying to come up with ideas to use as practice. I could always do the same old thing over and over, but I'd rather find something that highlights the strength of a language.
I was a stay at home dad (I prefer 'trophy husband', btw) with an infant son while I built my first product. I got by on too little sleep for too long, taking care my son during the day and working during naps and evenings, often late into the night. It wasn't easy, but we had a great time.

Now for the bad news. While this was all possible working on my own product, on my own schedule, there is just no way that I could have kept any external commitments. Some weeks I got a lot done, and some weeks I didn't get anything done. If you're going to try this, I would suggest scaling daycare back to half days, or maybe just a few days a week at first to see how well you can make it work out.
My sister-in-law has two kids (2.75 years and 1.5 years) and works from home. She has two or three girls set up on a rotation that come over and watch the kids for a number of hours most days of the week so she can get some work done. It would be impossible to do anything otherwise, especially as the kids don't often nap at the same time.

They live fairly close to a local college, so it's worked out well for them to find people for the position. One even stays in a secondary building they have on property with a portion of the rent traded for the babysitting.
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Fun fact: this article was clearly pre-written, or written by someone who didn't attend the session. It reads: "...at a session on connecting people with places, led by VP of location and local services Marisa Meyer."

Except that I was at that session, and can definititely report that Marissa Mayer (yes, that's how you spell her name) was not at the session despite being listed as a speaker (last-minute change).
Excuse me but how is this not anti-competitive behaviour. The way I see it, its clear cause for at least an investigation, if not prosecution.
I'm not female so presumably my opinion doesn't count, but I'll give it anyway 'cause that's what I'm like.

I do some web design/dev work alongside my other occupation and my wife and I alternate childcare/household duties and work (and have for both our kids except for the -2 to 6 months age range). Our youngest just turned 2.

Basically I came to the point, about 6 months ago, where I can no longer do any useful work (before bedtime c.8pm) and look after the little one. He does have a nap for up to an hour a day and that's the most time I can hope to gain. But then he's also up at 6am and I'm a night owl so I often need a little nap myself. He can of course play independently in the house or mess around in the garden but I find context switching to be extremely hard. Whenever I try to use the phone he's there or he’s calling me or fallen over or something.

After our first child when I first started professional web design work I'd simply work in to the night. It's possible to do the actual work but what I couldn't do was go out and find new work easily.

We started our own business(es) and took a huge cut in our income, then had kids ... I wanted kids. I want to raise them and spend time with them, as much as possible really.

In short raising my own kids is mostly joyful and rewarding; I don't really understand having children and then getting someone else to raise them for you. If you have a ready source of [PHP] work then I think it's eminently doable, if you have to seek for work, win clients, etc., then I think it's going to get very much harder.

/rambling
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#3 reminds me of mp3.com's 'my.mp3.com' service.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mp3.com#My.MP3.com

Judge Jed S. Rakoff, in the case UMG v. MP3.com, ruled in favor of the record labels against MP3.com and the service on the copyright law provision of "making mechanical copies for commercial use without permission from the copyright owner."
I think all you two have proven is that the proverb doesn't really apply here :-)
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At least they forgot to redact that.
Worthwhile article, if only for reading one of the less biased dynamic vs static typing pros an cons.
You wouldn't be screwed if your business operates in Bitcoins, and your customers pay you in Bitcoins. If you take out a loan for 100 Bitcoins, you will still owe 100 Bitcoins, regardless of the USD exchange rate.

If you aren't dealing in USD, it doesn't matter how much value the USD loses.

Similarly, if you had debt denominated in USD, it wouldn't matter how much value the Zimbabwe Dollar or Weimar Republic Mark lost in hyperinflation. Your debt burden would be the same amount of USD. It just depends on your frame of reference.
Nice list and interesting point. I haven't heard of Boroditsky before.

To your list I would add Finnish or Hungarian for some hard-core agglutinative features. I don't speak Turkish, so I cannot tell to what extent it behaves similarly in this regard. See for example this list with 2253 forms of the word "shop" in Finnish: :)
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~fkarlsso/genkau2.html

Then to cover some indoeuropean vocabulary, I would add one slavic, one germanic and one neolatin language for good measure, although this is a bit too eu-centric.
You can sell stuff outside of your app, but you can't link to it from within the app.
If said company was truly innovative and satisfies the interests of consumers, I'm sure it won't have much trouble raising the cash necessary to continue being a law-abiding citizen.
Based off my personal experience over the last year dealing with 'Service' Canada and a bunch of splinter groups:

I think 'understand govt' is in the details of how it works. Government, at the bureaucracy level, is a large collection of paid workers. These groups of workers don't talk to each other, many don't give a damn so long as they don't get fired and most don't even understand their own rules and policies.

Each group has different procedures to accomplish a task and many of those procedures seem bizarre and obtuse when you try and navigate them to accomplish the task you are trying to actually do.

There is a huge difference between understanding the high level of how your government works and navigating the quagmire many of the departments have become.
I drove to work today because my wife ankle was sore. I have a book I've been trying to finish and the 30 minute drive sorta annoyed me. I could have been so much more productive during that time.

I also drive from Canada to Florida multiple times a year. 24 hours wasted but it's better than flying, more freedom to stop and relax, better food and less stress overall and more space to carry stuff. With these cars I'd be in heaven (not literally).
There are microcontrollers with only 128 bytes of ram and 1KB of flash. They don't have enough memory to support malloc, so there is nothing to garbage collect in the first place. There isn't enough flash to even store the garbage collector's code, even if it sits unused.
The way to say those in English is "rejoicing in the misfortune of others" and "business owner."

After edit: the saying cherished by linguists in English is "'loanword' is a calque, and 'calque' is a loanword," which I find helpful for remembering which word is which.
Being rich always helps.

What does your sister-in-law do?
Thank you, I wasn't aware of this!

(link: http://groups.google.com/group/hn-parents )
I think a side-lesson from this article is how difficult acquisitions/enterprise sales are in general. When you are working with a huge organization like Google you really need to identify the few key people in favor of your deal and who are trying to scuttle it. I think Chan was perhaps right for Google to not buy Skype, but it's a good lesson when you are trying to get Google to buy your startup. Or even if you are trying to get a big company to license your technology or be a customer. Find your benefactors and detractors and manage both to win deals you want.
It would be a terrible answer, but it's a fine comment.
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Agreed. His website should be cause for Serious Hiring of the creator. It is innovative, inventive, and probably 5 years ahead of its time...

It crawls on my current-gen Macbook Pro (Chrome).
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You can't buy 100% connectivity. Or even a reliable 85%. It's simply not available in the marketplace. You drop enough packets and some part of your work flow is going to fail, likely taking your data with it.
How long are such NDAs legally enforceable? If I sign the NDA and work at Apple for month am I prohibited from ever discussing ideas developed under NDA during that month? Has there been any meaningful test of this in court? What if Apple releases a product that incorporates aspects of the ideas but not all of them? Is Bret still unable to speak of his work (even if he limits it to the aspects publicly disclosed by Apple)?
I'm a father (still pretty new) working from home with an office in an outbuilding. My wife stays home with our crawling 10-month-old. She has asked me to watch the kid while I work from the couch so she can be free to make dinner. It doesn't work. It didn't work before the kid learned to crawl. It won't work until the kid can be unsupervised. You can't supervise a kid and work at the same time.

So what? You can still find a way to be home with your child more of the week and get by. We sacrificed a decent second income (my wife's) and money is tighter but it's worth it.

Maybe you'll work fewer hours and hire a nanny for your working hours. Best case scenario: one of you finds a better income so the other can stop working.
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Sure is! A great reason to use a rapidly inflationary currency with no promises of stability or reliability.

Oh, wait. Those are reasons not to use it. My bad.
Yeah, I meant it just from a linguistic point of view. The original question was about "different approaches and concepts" and this clearly applies to human languages as well. Some use gender for some purpose, some don't, some express posession in one way, some in another, one language uses suffixes where the other has prepositions, etc. etc. etc. I didn't say anything about difficulty of expressing oneself in any language.
Ask HN: Any services that are a backend for iOS auto-renewing subscriptions?
Preferably without requiring push notifications.
You've got two whole days of work time there (if the grandparents will commit). With some post-bedtime work then you should be able to work ½ time without getting too frazzled.

Easy ;0)>
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Sounds to me like the bond needs to be a couple tens of millions, then.

If you want to get into banking, you had better have the chops to be able to treat your customers correctly. It's not a hard concept.
Of course that's possible. They were looking like making 1-2 billion on the IPO though from estimates, and that means the total market cap would have likely been under 5 billion still.
I'm currently in the same boat as you - staying at an EconoLodge near Oakland airport... Couchsurfing would be great it you're willing to relocate a few times during the trip - unless you find an awesome host (!), and AirBnB is actually more expensive than this hotel for a week...

The short term market here is pretty under-served actually - especially since there are probably plenty of people in our situation.
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It seems that OP don't realize fully that there is much more to language than syntax. Java's syntax is similar to C but the languages are used for entirely different purposes. I think that it could be actually more useful to choose some project and learn language with it - like write a webapp with php, then other webapp with django, then play with some AI in haskell, then your own simple shell in C etc. (maybe not best projects, but I think it makes much more sense that only familiarising with syntax).
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We seem to be having the opposite problem at the minute. The longer my daughter spends with other children / not having 1 on 1 time, the more withdrawn she gets.

We went away for a long weekend recently and the change was amazing. I'd not seen her that happy in a long time.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
Indeed. Meh. It's akin to a "how to become a doctor" article that says "get into a good school, get an internship, learn something about biology, diseases, office management, and tort law, and make a portfolio of dissections you've done; might want to glance at a couple websites too."

In the same space he could have provided a comprehensive checklist of topics to learn.
Glad you asked this -- as many people think my opinion on this subject is something other than what it actually is.

I don't hate advertising. Good advertising I actually love.
Unfortunately, there's lots and lots of the horrible variety and way too little of the good variety -- but I see signs of this (slowly) reversing.

That's beside the point, though. The point being that Readable doesn't circumvent advertising -- it only loads on request, in response to a physical user action (clicking), by definition after the original page has loaded, and it also makes it very easy to get back to the original page. I honestly don't see how I could be more accommodating, towards ads :)

P.S. Also, Readable wasn't originally created because I was annoyed by advertising -- as I have a tendency to read only those sites with good advertising.
It was made for the sole purpose of allowing people with particular (and maybe even peculiar) tastes about how text should look to read comfortably.
Cool. Have you thought about implementing any of these in lua to try out the experimental scripting support?
I think it's a relevant distinction. Clearly the California company doesn't apply to all corporations in the world or even country. The point is there's likely a loophole that for an interstate or international software corporation will render the regulation toothless.
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