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Also a great example of how abuse of the word has made "literally" a very vague term!
As mentioned by others, SL isn't a game, so of course it won't compare well with games.

Linden Lab (the makers of the Second Life platform) is a profitable company with about 250 employees. In fact, their latest quarter was their best yet, according to a recent blog post:

http://bit.ly/l6ds5a

Of course, most of the content in SL wasn't made by Linden Lab, it was made by the SL users (residents). Because there's an internal economy (where content creators retain the IP rights in all content created for SL), there's a competitive market for quality content. Top-quality content has improved greatly over the years. To get a sense of it, check out the latest Best of SL magazine:

http://www.thebosl.com/en/latest-magazine-issue

The SL vision is audacious: to create a real-time simulation of a malleable world based on our own physical world, but better (e.g. you can fly). Of course, the characters in SL aren't simulations, they are real people (except for a handful of bots), so they're interesting in all the ways people are interesting.

As for user numbers, nobody says "Facebook has 650 million active people, but San Francisco has less than a million, therefore SF is a failure." That would be absurd. (The active user base of SL is about the same as the population of SF.)
Send him this:

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(That's the "F*ck you. Pay me." from Mike Monteriro that was doing the rounds a few weeks back)
I worked at a Second Life consultancy for a while (yes, they exist) and I naturally felt obliged to "get into" the game. I spent hours exploring and building and chatting but never found any joy in it. It is an ugly, hollow and seedy world.

The Minecraft comparison is a good one. There is a world with purpose: to survive and ultimately control nature. It perfectly indulges our most primal instincts.

In contrast, everyone is a god in Second Life and the world is empty. For some reason, this ultimate power is used to recreate the most mundane and tasteless aspects of reality:

- Consumerism -- SL citizens love buying clothes, furniture and other useless junk even when they can create anything themselves.

- Lame commercial "theme parks" like McDonalds Island etc. Even the ones that should be interesting, like NASA, fail to either educate or entertain since the medium of static 3D models is generally terrible at both.

- And of course, vice: kinky sex, gambling, pyramid schemes, and spam. These things made up most of the metaverse, last time I was in it.

By far, the most interesting thing about SL was the elaborate and imaginative attacks on the world e.g. self-replicating objects, and the equally elaborate countermeasures used to fight back.

I guess the lesson is that a virtual world needs to find a balance between innate meaning and open ended creativity. SL is one extreme, the other being MMOs that involve too much carrot-chasing to interest most people.
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I'm so glad we have an amazing local theater chain in Utah. They are innovating in every way from food to reserved seating (no 3 hour queues for new movies). In the unlikely event this became a problem, they are small enough and care enough to fix it.
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Well, yeah.

No one knows what they're doing. They only have the appearance by doing the sensible thing and doing the best they can.

The result is that in reality a lot of people know what they're doing; but they're still resting on that cardinal assumption:

whatever you're doing, it could fall to pieces. Even the most egotistical hacker, in his/her private moments, acknowledges the chaos of the universe.
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Why is it reasonable or desirable for a programmer to expect that switching to a new version of a library should have no effect on dependent code?
Why? The folks listening together in Second Life are generally more science-literate than average, so the discussion going on in chat (text) makes the whole experience very engaging. It's something like the chat room associated with Leo Laporte's TWiT network. It's fun, and as a bonus, Science Friday gets feedback and many good questions.
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What I meant is that your co-founder should be be able to have a high tolerance for uncomfortable situations. To withstand the tough times that are so often a fact of life in startups. I remember eating the same dish for 2 months because I was on a shoestring budget.
It's true, there are a lot of french words in it. But English hasn't picked up the grammar of france. Because it was way harder to learn. You rather switch some words, than the whole logic in your sentence-making. That's why I think that if you're able to speak english, you'll be able to speak german too.
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sometimes I don't know how lucky I am.

That's been standard for all the big chains here for years.
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I have that same no-permit permit. It was a rather amusing runaround to obtain, but every place that "needed" it was extremely lenient with timing. I found for every circular dependency, you could satisfy it by getting one element in the circle to accept a promise that the dependency that depends on them will be filled "later". Later can be months. It seems everyone dealing with the bureaucracy is used to it, and workarounds like these for seemingly impossible circular stuff are common.
A hard working rich co-founder > Hard working co-founder > rich co-founder :-)
This is true outside of East Germany as well. Very few people in Germany speak English well enough to communicate.
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I saw the new Pirates movie last Friday with a bunch of friends. I don't understand what was '3D' about it, it was annoying to wear the glasses, etc.

It didn't help that the movie itself isn't that good.
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Does that give you something better than Fuction<T,V> (aside from not requiring a return type)?
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Perhaps one of the things to learn is that for things (games, creating world, etc) to be really interesting, the constraints are just as important as the power to create. Basketball wouldn't be all that interesting if you could just do whatever you wanted; oil painting is more interesting than photography because it is so much harder than pointing and clicking (sorry for the cheapshot, but you see my point); automatically generated music is never as cool as something that sounds like the composer struggled to make it happen. I think we re-live the creative process with its challenges when we experience real art (you can feel the challenge in a hard guitar solo, for instance); if there is no challenge for the creator, there is no human experience for the audience to share. So, yawn, another sexbot/ big building/ etc.
Well, yes. Exactly.

Big ups to the Homo Sapiens posse.

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Any action going into the direction of "hiding" what I do online will be seen as hiding something and will rise suspicions.
While "balancing" seems harder to spot, because it all goes under the "normal traffic" category.
I don't know if the implementation is even possible, but the idea to put some smoke in the face to who is spying me is intriguing :)
It's true. I mused publicly about shorting it in a previous thread, but you're right, the timing with shorts is tricky. Also, shorting a company that seems likely to eventually catch up with its stock price, even if that takes longer than its current stockholders expect, leaves one with a relatively limited profit expectation. Long-term shorting is best done on stocks that have a visible shot at going to zero.
No; Microsoft's clone of Java was J#, once J++. C# has some shared ideas but pretty dissimilar behaviors.
As @BenSS mentioned, Safari doesn't share cookies with UIWebView object. Also I'm planning on implementing the comments views with native UI, therefore I will have to handle all the authorization myself. Not sure if I can act as "man in the middle" in this case for HN and the OpenID provider.

I will look into it, but it won't make it into the first version...
This focuses on int 0x80, which is the old method; it's been replaced by the sysenter opcode, which is faster on newer chips. (This has been the case since Linux 2.5, and Pentium II+ processors; it was apparently first noticed on the Pentium IV.) Would this basic method work with sysenter?

http://articles.manugarg.com/systemcallinlinux2_6.html

http://kerneltrap.org/node/531 (From 2002)

http://lwn.net/Articles/18412/ (Yep, late 2002)
iTunes used to be good. I replaced winamp with itunes many years ago simply because itunes offered a better was to manage my music. Don't remember much about it other than it did the job and it didn't get in the way

Wasn't till later on when apple cept adding more and more crap to it that it became the bloated crusty thing it is now.
Hopefully I will be able to deliver a better HN reading experience than that :-)
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To know whether it's reasonable, you need to know not only the amount of revenue but also the revenue growth rate. I don't have the numbers in front of me, but my impression is that LinkedIn's revenue growth, while substantial, is not in the stratospheric territory that Google's was.

(There's profit to consider too, of course, but the business models of these two companies are similar enough that one would expect them to have similar margins.)
yeah, I noticed that as I worked on implementing the idea last night. :-)
I think the grandparent may have been referring to the prospect of $2AUD/litre petrol.
> when this is over, Sony may end up being one of the most secure web assets on the net.

Sorry to be harsh, but this is a wishful thinking.

When you've been very careless about security for years (PS3 random seed not random, music rootkit that was hackable, OMA master key leaked, PSN servers not up-to-date, PSN trusting the PS3s, etc...), you don't simply turn into a "secure" company, unless you spend years of corporate policies and formation, trying to change the habits of your employees...

Changing (or creating new) employees reflexes and habitudes isn't something easy at all, especially when you are an international company, with different cultures on board. This can be a herculean task.

I wish they will succeed, though...
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I think Python-style implicit kw-args are a mistake. It means that caller can depend on the name of your function parameters and you can't change them without breaking existing code, which may not be yours. Explicit kw-args, where the names of params are explicitly advertised as part of the interface of the function, are a fine idea OTOH, and should be in every language.
> Those don't come close to meeting the cost of maintaining this stuff

Not so fast. The claim, which I refuted, was "which costs far more to operate and has zero "revenue")?"

Not enough revenue is very different from "zero revenue".

> It's a hypocrisy argument: government subsidies on transportation are bad, except for the method of transportation you use.

Except that I wasn't making an argument - I was showing that your "zero revenue" claim was false.

Note that it isn't at all hypocritcal to say that some subsidies are worse than others. And, when you're arguing for subsidies, you can't argue that all subsidies are bad.
I seem to recall that IKEA offers their more frequent flying employees business class tickets but if they choose to take the standard (slave) class tickets they get 50% of the difference.

I don't know if this is the case any more but I am reasonably certain it was some time ago, alas I have no source.
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why do you say it doesn't work? It does work... is just that Mono is mostly used in Linux and OSX.
Another way to "short" is to buy put options. The most you can lose is the price of the option. Are there any puts for Linked In? I'd buy those... maybe.
I'm a little surprised at the general SL hate going on here, mostly from people who have never actually done anything in it. I haven't logged on for a while, but when I was involved a few years ago I had a great time building multi-agent systems inside of SL and pushing the limits of what their environment can do. For example, here is a multi-agent ant simulation I did a few years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehEzRUu4_RM I also wrote self-synchronizing virtual fireflies and physics simulations.

For a programmer, it's a 3D, multi-user IDE where you can learn new programming techniques in real time with your friends. Yes, people also use it for weird things and porn (unlike the rest of the Internet). But there's quite a lot of genuine art, talent, and learning going on in there as well, and I still think it holds a lot of potential as a medium to teach people to program while "playing a game."
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I work with JavaScript closely these days and sometimes I look for new libraries or frameworks that could fulfill my needs so that to not invent a wheel. And sometimes I find almost accidentally solutions that I think I just could overlook because there is not so much buzz around them. For example, I have been looking for some MVC/MVVM solution in JavaScript and accidentally found Spine. It can be that someone else missed a library or a framework just because it's not as hot as jQuery but still can be useful. So, what if there were are resource collecting and sorting info about JavaScript libraries and frameworks with categories, ratings, a way to submit or share opinions. With info about compatibility between this library and that one, what feature this library has that another one doesn't. It's a place where you could come, click "MVC Frameworks" category or "jQuery image gallery plugins" and see all libraries from the category with comparisons, pros and cons etc. I am thinking about beginning creating something like this because I think I could need this and asking you if you think it could be useful and interesting. Any suggestions are appreciated!
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When is this article from?
Thanks.

As for your reader: I think you should remove the Twitter box on the right and give more screen real estate for the iframe (on my Macbook I need to scroll left/right the article in order to see it properly when it opens).

Also, why the comment links don't work?
Ask HN: How to market a Video Dictionary
Hi guys,

Need your advice . Recently launched a new site - http://www.megavocab.com - Its a Video Dictionary.

I am confused about the best way to market the site. It is clearly not a SEO play since the competition is sites like dictionary.com , merriam-webster , thesaurus.com which are long established , more so this site is video something that google does not understand completely when compared to text

I am trying to hit facebook and twitter to get some traction but that is a tad slow ...

Any suggestion how can reach a relevant target market in a scalable way ?
Maybe not failed as such, but I'd agree with the author that SL tech has suffered an apparent stagnation for a quite a while now. Indeed there has been a long festering complaint on SecondLife forums that Linden Lab has added various sugary features without addressing core performance concerns. This may or may not be fair, but that seems to be the general impression.

Large draw distances, high particle & script counts and more than a few dozen avatars in a single region all tend to result in poor performance and user experience. And the platform appears to be quite sensitive to the usual concerns of bandwidth and GPU. As a longtime SL user I'm not surprised at the issues described by the author.

Linden Lab itself has seen a number of shaky management changes (founder + CTO out, new CEO, founder back, founder out again, etc) and this may have taken some toll on engineering efficacy.

That being said, I think that innovation on the SecondLife platform will be forced by pressure from the furiously advancing OpenSim project, an open source, reverse-engineered version of the SL "backend" that is usually described as "the Apache of the open metaverse".
http://opensimulator.org/

Basically, SecondLife, though filled with an amazing amount of wonderful art, code and creativity, won't last another 8 years without somehow opening up and keeping up with the explosion happening just outside its walled garden.
Upvoted. We'll have to agree to disagree on this. I don't see why the number and semantics of arguments can be part of the interface but it's bad for the name to be.

Also, wart is like arc in that it's utterly unconcerned about backwards compatibility. It's not meant for building large edifices. That doesn't mean you can't build webapps in it. It does mean that you better write lots of unit tests.
Like I said, I don't have any intention of pursuing this one any more :-) That said, I'd be more than glad to share opinions with anyone that wants to do this.
Daniel, this is not a product for consumers it's for big retail, eg. Fnac (Europe), etc.
I've found there are two types of programmers:

Staff programmers program because they are paid well to do it. At the end of the day, they generally clock out of software development and into whatever their real passion is (sports of some sort as often as not for guys). Some staff programmers are really, really good at developing software. The majority are average at best.

Coders are the artists. They code because their computer is their canvas and their editor is their paint. Regardless what their day job might be, they would be coding in the evening. Many are artists in other media as well, very often music and photography, which utilize a similar melding of technology and inner-eye as coding. They almost never stop coding, no matter how far away a computer actually is.

The former will generally get you a repeatable (perhaps highly inefficient) process.

The latter will get you http://www.anseladams.com/, http://www.mountainlight.com/gallery.html, or http://www.philborges.com/. But you'll likely leave a few slides on the darkroom floor in the process.
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Yeah, it's going to take 3-5 years, look how long it took Microsoft.
For me, it's a case of the colour not being uniform throughout - the lower part is considerably more "whitish" than the upper part, especially with f.lux fully kicked in at night. This basically irritates the heck out of me and I end up disabling it.
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I have my own software company (http://leftfield.pt). This would be best pulled off by people with lots of experience in software integration (CRM, POS) both engineering as well as sales.
I wished :-)
"Matthew Ho, who led the Native Tongue team, says that he came up with the idea for Mandarin Madness through his own struggles to learn the language." That's the way to go
Turns out linkedin doubled revenue YoY.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/27/linkedin-files-for-ipo

Google (gross revenue) was at 3x.
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/0001193125041...

All this is details. It's pretty clear that prices aren't crazily inflated.
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I agree with some of the points made, specifically that success is more about luck than anything else, but I flat out disagree on some other points.

Why would anyone advocate not listening to successful entrepreneurs, or even failed ones for that. While no one may completely know what they're doing, to simply say that everyone is winging it without any sense of direction is too extreme.

You can always learn from the successes or failures of others and having someone who's been there and done that to guide you can make a lot of decisions a lot simpler.
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I have spent some time in IMVU, and my impression of the culture is, ah, poor.

- Utter consumerism (this is how the company makes their money) - people shop for clothes. Typically the styles are not very creative, mostly variants on a couple motifs.

- Massive vice, mostly directed towards sex.

Unfortunately, IMVU has no ability to direct team action. No creation, no group games, no monsters. That makes me kind of sad. I'd like to grow my world, instead of simply living in a theme park. It's fairly empty experience when you're just idling in a 3d level.
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One idea I had is to create sort of a shared 'virtual-emacs' style 3d world where creating and doing new things was to write/execute functions (yes that's remote code execution).

I didn't feel up to putting enough time for something that probably only hardcore nerds would like though, so I didn't pursue it.
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The only significant different I see is that == isn't xx. If you turn == into xx then it's no different.

If it were clojure it would look better than the python version since you'd use [] instead of () in a couple of places.
Great feedback.

1) Indeed, price checking is already in place so perhaps in those cases the recommendation system can send data into them?

2) not the target market, not enough data. Remember, a small market that has huge value is still a valuable market worth pursuing.

3) Of course no one browses the stores :-) But when you make a buy there, you're already in a spending mindset so stores can take advantage of that to promote things that may interest you more. With the receipt recommendations, you should be able to track data across shopping sessions. Like a cookie ;-)

5) I don't think any of the possible clients will allow you to store the details elsewhere than at their own DC.

Thanks for the feedback.
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