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No, I think this game has probably had more effort put into it (and I'm not talking about the work that had to be redone because of delays etc), with a bigger focus on perfection.

They know that they have to live up to such a huge expectation, and they're aiming to do that and more. And I think the will.
Building the technology that could support Visa/MC/Amex alternatives and the userbase that gives it critical mass is probably the best way to get bought out by Visa/MC/Amex at an inflated price. No one says they actually have to ship their alternative payment system.
Umm according this link
http://eandt.theiet.org/magazine/2011/01/pyramid-at-giza.cfm
the figure for the Great Pyramid at Giza is 3.5 billion man hours. Wikipedia has aroun 18 million articles. Assuming 2 hours per article, fair enough since most of these are 1-2 para stubs, that's not much.
In 2005 I heartily agreed with John Siracusa.

From early 2006 to late 2010 I worked for Apple.

Now, I'd have to say that I disagree. True, technology is a treadmill. What Apple has gotten really good at, though, is moving the treadmill forward instead of running just to stay in the same place.

Everyone knows that computers get cheaper, right? See a model you like; wait 6 months; and buy it for 20-50% less. Not with Apple, though. Instead Apple just keeps the price the same and moves the specs up.

Same, too, with the technology. While everyone else is out there writing hyper-super-parallel-concurrent-evented-message-passing-functional-object-oriented-metapseudotemplate code, Apple is writing code the same way today that they did in 2000...except this time it's running on the computer in your pocket instead of the tower on your desk.

I get it, though. We're engineers. We love design. So we buy Apple kit and we would love to believe that our preferred brand has the same values we do. It certainly did. This is, after all, the company that Woz founded, that employed Raskin and Kay, that still employes Bud Tribble...but I, personally, think that the "glory days" of Apple/NeXT's preeminence in core software are behind them. Of course, UI? UX? Hardware? That's where Apple's engineering focus lies now.

Copland 2010 was avoided not because Apple did something about it, but because they changed the rules completely.
We have no idea what Wikipedias impact is or will be over any kind of significant time frame. PG writes that there is still room to do to Wikipedia what Wikipedia did to Encyclopedia Britannica without stirring controversy. I'm also not so sure about the amount of work involved. The monuments I listed consumed staggering amounts of work, and then we haven't even compared casualties yet.
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If by favoring free communication over the internet you mean "my email will be private", I think you can safely assume large majorities will be in favor of it.
I agree to some extent (the interesting and innovative applications will tend to be native, because they will be using the device in ways unanticipated by the browser vendors). There is another angle to native apps that these articles rarely mention and that is the "channel" created by the app store.

For example, many common applications I'm asked to develop for corporate clients can easily be written as HTML5 web apps, and it makes sense to write them this way for cross-platform reason, but all of the clients I've spoken with decide to go the "PhoneGap" route because they want their app to appear in the App Store because this is where there customers are going to be looking for it.

There are plenty of practical reasons to host your web app off a wing of your regular website (bypassing App Store approval being the big one) but so many users have become accustom to getting their apps via the App Store that making your app available in an App Store, even if it's HTML5 wrapped in a native-code package, makes sense (at least for now).

Of course there is also the monitization issue, but I believe there are some solutions to that already?
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For heritage site, it generally means more money for the site. I think part of it comes from the UN and part of it from the country of the site (so the US in this case?).

Wikipedia could gain by becoming somewhat independant for its many expenses in keeping the site running.
seems like Sarkozy is rapidly becoming the new G.W. Bush.

Nah. Barack Obama is already the new GWBush. So Sarkozy must be the new Obama. Or something like that.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. [1]

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I assume that means when you're near your merchant you can order and pay for things before you get to the store. Makes sense for a coffee shop as they can have your coffee and bagel waiting for you when you walk in the door. Doesn't make as much sense if your merchant is a hair salon.
Still vaporware until I can actually buy it.
Well, a vast section of the items on the world heritage list was build for - let's just say, less that noble - purposes, using methods that would cause military intervention today. Yet, that's no cause for dismissing their grandness, and neither is the fact that Facebook is commercial.
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>"Great Wall of China, Notre Dame, Taj Mahal and Angkor Vat."

You are cherry picking.

In terms of significance, Wikipedia is far more significant than Stoclet House. [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1298]. More interestingly Wikipedia would be one of few sites created by volunteers for non-commercial nongovernmental purposes.

Complete list of World Heritage sites here:
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list
You are right, I mistakenly thought that it was about a Golomb ruler, which it is not.

EDIT: Found 7555794 solutions, took my 2GHz P4 30 minutes.
interestung that the premium over mysql seems to be 0 in the "bring your own license" mode, and less than 50% when getting the license with the service.
So a single "large" resrved instance would only cost 400 dollars more a year.
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I understand some people have problems with the Flash platform, but at the moment it's the best option for a few large classes of web-based games.
> The amount of skill that you have in a certain area is proportional to the amount of work that you put into it. There is no such thing as a 'creative' or 'technical' type. The reason I was bad at art starting out is the same reason we are bad at anything starting out. One day, I sat down and put in hours of serious work, refusing to stop until I liked the results. And, gradually, I got better at art.

I tell my son there is no such thing as talent, just understanding. This keeps the As coming in, dude is awesome
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Wow, maybe that Camping guy was right, the world is ending!
You are correct that Wikipedia isn't like the others, which are giant constructions that took enormous effort. However, Wikipedia is more significant and important today than all of them put together. If we were to lose the other Heritage sites, tourists would miss out and there would be a large monetary impact. Losing Wikipedia would be far more disastrous.

However, there's no point in becoming a world heritage site. It's simply recognition.
I believe—when Gearbox first announced they were working on DNF at PAX last year—that they were largely just finishing and polishing up what 3D Realms had worked on.
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Oh, you can buy it alright. So could you with the previous version.
Re: Automatic memory management

Siracusa himself concedes in his podcast that Obj-C has garbage collection, but that it was something of a second class citizen. Because garbage collection has been tacked on (and currently not supported on iOS) old pros are unlikely to adopt it. On top of that, newbies who look to the old pros for guidance are going to follow their lead and not use it either.

Siracusa also used the same argument against Obj-C's dot syntax.
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Why wouldn't they support software patents? The dispute here isn't some silly ideological pissing contest about whether software patents are valid or not. This is Apple saying they bought these licenses to be used in the App store and the same patent can't then be applied to their own customers.
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a lot of such heritage objects were built for fighting wars, praising gods, or simply vain. I don't see why they are more remarkable in the context you applied here.
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Tor has a way to work around this - bridge nodes. They're hidden and their IPs are distributed in various non-batch forms (e-mail, social networks, http://bridges.torproject.org).
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Pay varies widely in Europe. I work in Norway, get 6 weeks vacation a year, and make a lot more than I would in the US. Even after accounting for higher taxes and living expenses (rent, food, etc), I can still set aside almost $1000 more per month than I would if I were in the US.

When I talk to people for the first time they're always asking me if I'll be moving back to the US. My response is maybe someday, but for now I'd be crazy to give all that up!
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World heritage status is supposed to protect something. That’s its purpose. It’s not supposed to be just a list of nice things. (I’m also not sure why you think that the Notre Dame is somehow more impressive than Wikipedia. It’s a nice cathedral alright but I do think that, all things considered, Wikipedia is a more impressive achievement of humanity.)

Do websites need such protection†? I think we all have seen content disappear from the web. Bringing the idea of conservation from architecture to the web seems like a valid idea in that light. The Internet Archive is doing great work in that area.

I can certainly understand that someone might perceive UNESCO’s planned involvement as ineffective and unnecessary. I do, however, believe that Wikipedia is one of those websites that should be kept alive.

I’m not so sure about the point you are trying to make with your reference to Facebook. If the list only includes websites with the user base of Wikipedia or Facebook it will be a very short list indeed.

You are, however, bringing up an interesting point. How should the UNESCO treat successful commercial ventures? World heritage sites are usually not part of commercially successful ventures for pretty obvious reasons. Those sites often don’t require any protection. Facebook is very successful and not in need of any protection∆.

Wikipedia, however, relies on donations. I think Wikipedia is inherently a lot less stable than, for example, Facebook.

†I’m not in the mood right now for discussing whether a world heritage list can provide such protection for websites.

∆The UNESCO also more or less only cares about the sites. Whether or not, for example, the company is still in the building or whether it’s a museum is secondary for them. Websites are fundamentally different and that’s certainly an interesting problem.
So far as I know, it's alive, well, and providing blazingly-fast access to Linux ISOs hosted at other member universities.
when wikipedia becomes heritage, wouldn't it mean that it has to be left untouched from that point?
I had a similarly amusing moment years back when I saw a bit-blit demo in the browser. All this excitement about something that was state of the art on Commodore 64s.

(And yes, I do understand how the ubiquitous nature of the web actually makes this important... but I still find it funny!)
One of the longest running gags in software industry is finally coming to an end?
C++'s typing is fairly weak. Most of the errors shown in the article were weaknesses of the type system. Now Haskell, or even Java...
RAC uses shared disks (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/clustering/overvi...)
So unless EBS or an EBS-like service will allow the attachment of a volume to multiple instances or Oracle changes how RAC works, there won't be Oracle RAC on AWS.
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Hm. Did they pack all the work/code of the last years together or did they start from scratch and just use the "Duke Nukem" name?
Look at Russia. It's a democracy, but you can get your head kicked in (literally) if you raise a fuss.

Look at the US, just before the Civil War. Or even pre Civl Rights act. Were all natural born Americans given the right to pursue happiness?

There's a lot of things that make a country work well. Not all of them are in the constitution. New rules need enforcement. There's a lot of levels of government, and a lot of public institutions (such as the police, judiciary, and education systems), and they virtually never work together.

Sometimes, there's no abstraction layers that make sense, and you just have to talk about fixing stuff that's broken.
This is one of the best-written articles on Mac development I've ever read.
Not at all. If the question is "Should the government be able to access email to track down pornographers and terrorists?", the answer is that 99% of the population is in favor of it.
I agree. I don't understand how so many apps can be springing up with the same flaws. They all seem to classify themselves as a tool specifically for the listing of things a person needs to do. To me, this would be similar to buying paper that is only to be used for to-do lists. While I”m sure that type of paper exists, it doesn't beat good ole' fashioned white paper for me.
Also - an interesting note - I find myself constantly sending myself emails with reminders, links, ideas, etc. And I use gmail which has a built-in task-listing app. So apparently I find the gmail task list to be such a pain that I'm willing to misuse my email service just to avoid it. I think it's time to look at this problem from a new angle. If I am to adopt a new list-making technology, I need to be making lists before I ever realized I had started. Maybe gmail could detect when I send emails to myself and start a list for me and automatically archive the message. Just a thought. Maybe in the right direction?
Pretty impressive, but it looks like there's still a bit more improvement possible.
I wonder if anybody's taken a shake at estimating the number of man hours spent in creating wikipedia?
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I think Wikipedia surpasses all the thing you mention in both man-hours spent building and usefulness provided.
Well, then we have to keep revolting. I see myself as owing the world something, because my skills and abilities could help others. I am so lucky to have them, and I can pay it back by paying it forward. If everyone had that attitude, the world would be a better place.
More like "aiming for perfect" went out of business. Someone else bought it at the liquidation sale and fixed it up for release. So no, no one learned their lesson and decided to ship.
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Command Line = CLI, Common Lisp = CL. I was wondering why being written in Common Lisp made it good.
It's a good question. Suppose somebody went to a physical WHS and started removing parts of the structure they didn't think were necessary.
Given the results with the Mario game cast members on the final page, this would be an excellent filter to apply (in realtime) to an old Mario game.
That's all that will be left if these sniveling fuckers get their way.
Yeah, I just downloaded 4 like a month ago.
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Not exactly the ascii art I expected. But still very cool anyway.

Also, it would be great, if someone implements figlet[1] using html5.

[1] www.figlet.org
What does a new release cycle have to do with using Chrome?
Um. The UK has universal healthcare (the NHS) and a parallel private system. I'm not sure why that make it a bad example in this context.

(Admittedly, the NHS is not the best health care system in the world, but then we spend less on it than other countries do as a proportion of GDP.)
Hm, I'd expect that given Hell to freeze over pretty regularly.
Some questions:

* Who submitted this to scribd?

* Do they own the copyright?

* Do they have the right to submit it to scribd?

* Have they acted ethically?

* Have they acted legally?

Added in edit: These are, to me, legitimate and serious questions. Some time ago I posted a link here on HN to a PDF and it got automatically slurped to scribd. I didn't submit it to scribd, I don't hold the copyright, and now I find that the traffic that might have gone to the original site has been usurped by scribd.

I find that distasteful.

Pragmatically, anything you post to the web is now fair game for being duplicated elsewhere, your work being taken, possibly having ads put all over it, and generally ripped off. That's just the way it is, I know, but I find it odd that a company that seems purely to make money by ripping off other people's work is supported by HN.

But that's all I'll say. Most likely I'm in a minority in wondering about the ethics.
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That doesn't explain why we have Firefox 5 rather than 4.1. It must be that the Mozilla marketers were worried that the major version numbers were too low compared to Chrome and IE, so by bumping them up every few months they can catch up! I'm so impressed!
That's quite the claim and I don't believe it for a second.
Thank you. Great info. Hopefully, they'll add vector graphics soon. That's a big oversight in my opinion. That's usually where I start in Flash...
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Isn't this a bit like Chinese Democracy by Guns 'n' Roses? Meaning that all that time and money invested have raised the expectations to levels than can never be satisfied?
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These seem to be contradictory:

5. ... One knows a handwritten task takes a few moments to write, so one considers whether it should be done immediately more readily. Also, handwriting a task gives one time to decide to stop writing it down and do it/forget it. Task apps accept tasks as quickly as people type, so users might enter too many trivial tasks that should be completed immediately or dropped, and there is hardly any time to reconsider before the task is completely entered.

8. Assuming the task-keeper has good handwriting, the basics of an action item can be jotted down more quickly than entered in a computer or mobile device, to be revised later.

Author doesn't seem to be able to decide which is faster.
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Yes they've done that. See the video linked from the original post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2578706
You assume I take my opinions from "the media". No. You can tail -f the legal Changelog of your favorite state and deduce the fuckedupness-beyond-repair of the populace.
> You are correct that Wikipedia isn't like the others, which are giant constructions that took enormous effort.

I'd say Wikipedia is a giant construction that took enormous effort.
I think it is quite difficult that Google would simply hire you and assign you a job because in that essence, it simply takes out your motivation by not letting you be able to choose on which project(s) which you should be able to contribute significantly.

Perhaps the best way I can think of is to work/hack/do something to get noticed on a Google product which you are very interested into. The quality of your work afterwards would speak out whether Google would be interested enough to speak with you on the possibilities of working for them.

Good luck.
World Heritage status implies preservation. Preservation implies that the object being preserved is static or has been rendered static. Wikipedia, by its very nature, cannot be rendered as such.

Can UNESCO take a copy of Wikipedia (or, better yet, the list of "Featured Articles" on Wikipedia) and preserve that? Yes. Can UNESCO preserve Wikipedia itself? No, since, in this case, preservation is the same as destruction.
Thanks for the link. It was a long weekend in Canada, and I went 48 hours without Internet access! ;)
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"Most people talk about TechStars and Y Combinator and interchangeably. But most people don't understand that the programs are radically different accelerator models"

Yes, YC has a track record of large exits (Heroku), high profile companies (Drop Box), and buzz/relationships with the most important investors (Sequoia/SV Angel).

TechStars is "Different" and lacks all of those things to this point.

Granted TS is a little newer so its not an apples to apples comparison, but does anyone seriously think the benefits are at all balanced? The press does, but mostly because it helps them fill out a narrative, but YC and TS belong in the same category the way a Maserati and a Schwinn both fit in the category of wheeled transportation.
Which all language do you speak, because it sure as hell isn't English.
The first hit on Google is a link to the paper on the lead author's website, so I think your issues are non-issues.
If you regard the object to be protected to be 'the history of wikipedia' instead of 'the current state of wikipedia', it makes somewhat more sense. After all, MediaWiki stores all older revisions as well.

Imagine how much people in 500 years can learn about our culture by having a copy of wikipedia as it is now, and can look at its evolution over time.
Try deleting all characters from "Character set" and click APPLY SETTINGS :-)
Adobe is also taking on this problem:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/wallaby/

These tools could win out on price, stability or simplicity but if Adobe doesn't screw this up, they I'd put my money on Flash due to it's advanced featureset.

That said, there's probably room for a few players in this space. Heaven knows Adobe needs the competition.
Internet Archive / Wayback Machine (http://archive.org) also merits considering for digital World Heritage inclusion.
I wonder if the target date for this was originally Saturday ;-)