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Try the book Numerati by Stephen Baker that talks about current business/government/military applications of the data mining and machine learning practices

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A game is in development hell for years. It "officially dies", then in a matter of a year or two, a sequel is whipped up by another studio using the inherited rights to the name.

Did anyone really expect this to be anything besides a cheap cash-in on the last gasp of the Duke Nukem franchise?
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It's not really tap dancing. Accounting aims to give a meaningful account of the life of the business. Dividing up subscriptions into parts and recognising that a pre-payment is also a liability more accurately represents the nature of subscription than merely booking a single payment up front.

In this scenario, income is appearing each time the magazine is sent out, but the cash is in hand all along. The hardest part of understanding accrual accounting is to learn that a sales event is not necessarily a cash event.
(1) Regarding the article: boo f-ing hoo.
(2) Why Rails 3.1 actually is blowing it: There is no way to turn off concatenation of js/css files in development! WTF? Have these guys ever developed a client heavy app before? That is a total non-starter. I love how the entire goal was to make js a first class rails citizen but you can only debug these files in firebug as one giant file! What a f-up!
I'm not really comfortable about the fact that dozens of adult people have spent several years of their work and milions of dollars so that other people can run in virtual environment and throw shit around.
I think that people who played Duke3d remember one of two things: badass non-stop action and a lack of bubblegum, or fantastically misogynistic humor. He clearly falls into the former category. However, even with this I fail to see how he can think it's that far off Duke3d in its humor. It was always toilet humor, we're all just older now...
There is a webmaster, you can contact them. Senators have no direct control over websites like this, and are unlikely to have the faintest clue what to do about this.

I'm not sure if they would even know what "website vulnerabilities" are.
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Anyone see that and wonder how those long international flights that track the sun would allow passengers to sleep?
Okay, pre-heroku, Capistrano, which again was a huge simplification on other deployment processes. How is rails more of a pain point than anything else? Deployment is always going to be a task that is required. Rails has for a long time had pretty good solutions to this.

I'm objecting to the parent stating that deployment is a serious pain point for rails.

I would like to know what the 'simple' deployment stack people are comparing the Rails stack too?
Some ideas for more features:

,----------------.
| Round-cornered |
| boxes |
`----------------'

-+
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>- Stretchy braces
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-+

Also, GUI control mockups:

( Buttons )

[ Dropdown lists |v]

[X] Checkboxes

(o) Radio buttons

Sliders: ---|----------

+-------------^
| Scroll bars #
| #
| |
| v
<----######-->

Spin-boxes: [ 37.0 |:]

...you get the idea.

Being able to select drawn items and move them around after the fact would also be great.
I think you're insulting female founders by suggesting that their decision about whether to apply to something like YC would be determined by the gender of the partners.

Surely male applicants wouldn't be scared off if most of the YC partners were female. Why assume female applicants are any different?
Gearbox didn't make the game, just took the existing almost-finished version that 3D Realms abandoned and polished it as much as they could.
I think everyone expected an underwhelming "meh" game that would at least be worth some nostalgia value.

I'm not sure how many people expected just plain Daikatana bad.
I'm also a bit curious as to what deficiencies you're trying to address in the existing py-bcrypt library? Similarly, how did you decide to make this a Flask extension, versus a standalone Python module? It doesn't look like you're actually doing anything Flask-specific. Do you have broader plans for the project?

I don't think there's any deficiencies regarding py-bcrypt that I'm attempting to address; the idea here is to provide some convenience functions for Flask apps so that they can import an extension and have a drop-in replacement for werkzeug.security's password hashing utilities (which do not support bcrypt at this time). Hopefully this can happen without having to edit any existing code, beyond adding the import. This extension is similar to the Django bcrypt module although I understand they provide some other functionality as well.

I like the idea about adding rounds to the app.config. I definitely will plan on adding this.

And I've made some edits regarding your suggestions above, currently fixing the tests and then I'll push some updates.

Thanks for the feedback! :)

Edit: I tried to merge your changes but failed. I'm sure I was doing something wrong but I've only been able to do it when someone has made a pull request. I tried to add your fork as a remote and then pull from the remote and merge but somehow the conflicts were saved without being merged and then pushed. Anyway I appreciate you taking the time to make the changes you pointed out and I would gladly have used them directly if I were a little more finessed with git.
Thanks for the thoughts everyone. A few responses all around...

DStein2: I've been given repeated and direct advise not to pursue funding without a functioning prototype; most important reason is b/c terms are never favorable.

I should add that quite a few of the folks we've talked to have been very interested, it's been more that the fit really hasn't quite been right on both sides yet.

And if I've learned anything from the engineers, it's that this game is about 5% idea/95% follow-through.

Steven: I can't really dive into this but it's just not as simple as you think. Trust me, I wish it were, but employee NDAs and such are major hurdles.

Also, I've not ruled out getting a prototype done, but of of the engineers I've talked to (>15) most said they would prefer to be involved from the beginning as opposed to inherit a prototype.

Hoodoof: I am definitely planning to learn as much as I can, and would like to develop the skills to build a prototype, at least.

I was just pointing out that I have a respect for the experience developers have. Yes, I think I have a strong work ethic, but that's quite different than being adamant I'll be able to out program more experienced people.
I almost spit my drink out while watching the video. This has so much PR/Marketing written all over it it is hard to fathom anyone outside of those departments have even seen those "concepts". Almost like some intern fresh out of the European equivalent of RISD[0] sat down with some crayons and dreamt up something derived from Star Trek and Star Wars simultaneously. My favorite line:

"Gone are the regulated class divisions of First, Business and Economy, replaced by personalised zones that offer flexible, tailored levels of relaxation, interactivity and working spaces."

That, my friends, is probably the only thing that will happen by 2050. And the odds on that are slim to none.

[0]http://www.risd.edu/ (yes, go look at the image, 1/4, they have up right now.)
How would they know?

The point is to drop enough of them (mount them to cheap drone aircraft if you want to, like hobby-grade stuff) that it covers the city in wifi.

It's not literally a suitcase, and it's not something that you take back to your house and plug in to. It's something that is transmitting from a few blocks away.
Likely not a problem as most users search as a starting point. Would be interesting to see the data...
Both of your suggestions are great!

I'll work on adding them. Thanks.
I think that the difference may be that they have bigger tools and more power than they did in the past. That's what's scary.
The quality of the applicants has been slowly increasing. But we are also slowly becoming less credulous.
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I think having the 'ORGanimal is' below the fold could be an issue.

I kinda got that it was a calendar for pets, but wasn't sure exactly what the deal was.

I don't think your design is too simple. But I think you might want to take a closer look at the flow. What people see and how they understand what they are supposed to do.
Could you please give critique on my side project:

http://www.cvstash.com

About aesthetics, impression on the landing page, ease of use, and the look of the resume (only 2 templates). This means signing up (should be very quick) and trying to put some resume entries and such. If it's cool with you maybe you can also suggest ways to improve the site or monetize it, as I haven't thought of that yet, just trying to move the identity away from LinkedIn resumes. Thanks!
Is your newsfeed literally 90% "x is friends with 10 new people" stories? If so that's very likely a bug (I work at FB am incidentally a pretty active user and have never seen that).
What do you want from them?

Because they have a hard time getting female founders, they have almost no female alumni to pull on. They want only the cream of the crop for this highly important role, and I can't think of a single female YC alum whom they think of as highly as they think of Sam et. al. Maybe Jessica Mah in a few years, but inDinero is too young for her to lose focus now, and she doesn't have as much experience as they're looking for yet. And I don't think they're comfortable inviting in people with whom they haven't worked.

This problem is a lot bigger than YC. It's not that women don't do YC, it's that women don't do startups. YC has a few hundred active startups to herd, and I think they just don't have time to address these problems of the larger startup landscape.
Opps, right thanks. And no, WebForms is not an implementation of MVP...its an implementation of god knows what.
"I am saying that the older programmers who are downvoting me are feeling nervous."

That is an interesting conclusion.

"Since you mention data so much, I am curious, have you ever read "Fool of Randomness" by Nassim Taleb?"

No, however many folks have suggest that Gladwell's article on him [1] covered all the bases in the book. So I did take a moment to read that article.

I think he brought a fascinating perspective to stock trading and I found his discipline in removing confirmational bias from his observations seems to work for him. Since you brought it up, have you read the book?

It seemed from Gladwell's article, that Nassim would make the argument, in this context, that age and experience don't matter in the quality of the designs and implementations, rather some folks will simply arrive independently at a more optimum answer for any given problem than others.

Gladwell states that Nassim is/was a quant focused on the derivative system (the stock market) in which randomness appears to dominate. I have not read the book but Nathan Berg (UTexas) takes this a bit further by showing that 1/N diversification wins (see the article 'Simple Heresy', by Bruce Bower, Science News, 4-Jun-2011, pp 26-29). It read like a pretty solid endorsement of Nassim's take on the behavior of markets.

What I did not get out of Gladwell's article was that Nassim was promoting an 'ignore all data' philosophy. It sounds like you've come to a different conclusion than I did about what constitutes a useful experimental result.

If it helps I'm sorry you've had to deal with some less than helpful people in your career so far.

[1] http://www.gladwell.com/2002/2002_04_29_a_blowingup.htm
A discussion on Fatwallet or Slickdeals?
For those that are not familiar with the two sites, they are basically the two largest deal forums on the web. Pretty much any deal can be found there and posted pretty quickly.

I think the two sites are a mess. The frontpages are hard to navigate, and the forums don't seem like the main part of the sites' content.

I'm brainstorming a new deal site and would love some feedback from "hot deal shoppers."

Are you satisfies with one of the two sites overall? What would you do to improve them?

Some thoughts I had yo start the discussion:
Posting a deal as a new user can be a hassle, I am tired of tedious forum registration.
Both sites are very cluttered and resemble web 1.0: classic forum software, directories as opposed to search.

The obvious service they are providing is the promotion of these deals around the web, is there another place "better" that one of these two sites?
I am currently playing Duke3D and no, it is not a game reduced to that. It has varied explorative(!) levels with humor tacked on, eg a poster here, a monster on the toilet there, a vocal sample by Duke later. There were strippers in the first map but not anymore so far (5th map now).
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They interviewed 6 year olds clearly.

I love these "visions" that constantly get thrown about with no discussion as to how or why the airlines would want this for their business.
I find the quality of javascript produced through coffeescript is much higher than devs who proclaim competency with javascript. Even the simple stuff (using closures properly, and '===')

I've found a lot of devs while they have been 'trained' in C/Java/Pyhon/Ruby have kind of just picked up bits and pieces of javascript without a really a firm understanding of how it works or it's idioms. Coffeescript on the other hand, has a very (python-esque) prescriptive set of idioms that produces very decent javascript, if you don't follow the idioms, it doesn't compile.

For an absolute "i know nothing" I think the Ruby, Rails, HAML, SASS, Coffescript is a smaller learning curve than ERB, CSS, Javascript.
I've found my iPad to be pretty good at dealing with academic PDFs, but there are still some difficulties that make it annoying. I started taking it to my discussion classes instead of printing the day's paper out, and it worked great. The PDF is reproduced exactly as it prints, and you can quickly scroll from one page to another, search, and zoom in on interesting bits. The ACM two-column format works well with the iPad's PDF reader and iBooks.

Later in the year the professor showed up with an iPad as well. :)

(There are apps to organize and cite papers with, like Mendeley, that help somewhat, but I haven't found a great one yet.)
Also it would be nice if they supported IE.
Somewhat related: It irks me how the Quit shortcut (Command + Q) is so close to Close shortcut (Command + W). I've accidentally shut my browser down and lost all of my browser-based work more than once by hitting Q instead of W.

A solution for anyone else who's interested: remap the two shortcuts; details here -> http://simonwillison.net/2004/Jun/8/remappingShortcuts/
"Did everyone really forget that Duke Nukem c1996 was also 'barely playable, not funny, rampantly offensive?'"

https://twitter.com/#!/ibogost/status/80475033998327808
But it's not marketed anywhere near as well - certainly it's not seen as the cool thing to have.

I used to work in AppleCare; the number of people who told me they bought iPhones because their friends told them to, but who were surprised there was an app store, or a music playing app, was amazing.
I have no opinion on this, but the original article makes a few cases for this: no more ajax/javascript helpers in core, no more catch all route by default etc.
CTRL+T for new Chrome tab, CTRL+Tab to cycle tabs (or CTRL+1, ... 9)

Windows D for desktop, Windows E for explorer, CTRL+R for Run (especially in Windows Vista/7).
Just stick to your job for another year, and continue with your android self-study. Don't just study android, also the basics of programming and computer science, and try to apply them on android development. I know that's far too time consuming, but after a year you have more money saved (did I mention you need to save like a monk, even with family and mortgage?), and you will have more options and skills. I'm pretty sure you'll be more capable programming-wise, and some savings will make you a bit more confident during interviews. My 2 cents.
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I hate this kind of 'design' and constantly wonder how these firms that make these kinds of conceptual, artists' renderings stay in business.

It's totally searching for solutions to problems that don't exist, and even worse, creating problems that don't exist now.

A transparent plane would be exciting for one flight, but think about what most people do on planes, especially those that fly often. They sleep, catch up on work, read, or watch the in-flight entertainment. These frequent flyers make up the majority of an airline's business and these designs would only complicate their lives.

If you asked any passenger what they would want to see improved, they would be things like "more space", "wi-fi", "better seats" and "lower cost". All of these designs probably act in opposition to these wishes.

Who want's virtual golf on a plane when that space could be used to widen the space between seating?
> Constant gem compilation issues, I spent hours resolving them.

While this is common, it doesn't really have anything to do with Rails itself. I can't think of any Rails dependencies that have mandatory native extensions off the top of my head.
The time sink is in migrating all the plugins/gems that either dropped support for Rails 2.x in favor of 3 (i.e. no version that supports both), or were abandoned for some other competing gem. What this means is that for any app that uses lots of plugins, it's a nightmare to upgrade to Rails 3.0, not because of Rails itself, but because it means you have to migrate all those plugins simultaneously just to preserve existing functionality.

There are entire sites like http://railsplugins.org/ to help you figure out if your plugins are Rails 3 compatible. Unfortunately, there simply aren't enough users to crowdsource the compatibility of all the plugins out there.
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its PR, airbus relies on large cash injections from the EU. this is to make airbus look like a good corporate citizen and a good use of taxpayers money.
IMNSHO, the norm in the ruby community as of late as not been refactor, but rewrite.

When the rails folk redesign the route system it's not a refactoring cause a refactoring keeps functionalities unchanged, it does not add/remove/change corner cases. Which has happened in all major rails releases and some point ones.
Just anecdotal evidence. I'm just seeing an increase of job postings online, but after doing research, the term 'Ruby on Rails' is actually declining on Google trends. http://trends.google.com/trends?q=ruby+on+rails&ctab=0&#... I thought at least there would be a slight bump after Rails 3.0 release, guess not.
The problem is you shouldn't even care about NDAs regarding outsourcing your prototype. It's about as bad as requiring an NDA to disclose your idea to potential cofounders. In the mass majority of cases, no one cares and if you outsource overseas, I don't see a high correlation with people jacking your idea to outrun you in building your startup. I think you're going about it the wrong way. The likelihood of someone pulling a "social network zuck" on you, is very unlikely, especially for outsourcing a prototype.

As for possibly getting a prototype done, I don't understand the comment here. If you outsource the work, you pay X and they code Y and you guys do the exchange. There's no inheriting or whatever you're referring to. Sounds more like you're trying to recruit employees or something than to purely just get the prototype finished.
If you develop web apps, don't do this.
There are a few other sites that aggregate deals from various sources including those two and whats listed in the actual forums themselves. The real value in deals are in the forum discussions, not necessarily what hits the front page. This is true with most of the same type of deal sites. The forums are also a necessary function because its the community and the socialization that makes it happens, including those who submit deals.

I actually disagree with you that it's web 1.0 (in a sense), at least for SlickDeals. I don't go on there to hunt for deals as I have way in the early 2000s these days but I still go there to interact with the community. I can't comment on the FW side as I never got into it. But the customization of the forum software serves it's purpose in my honest opinion. And it may look like its just using standard forum software but there is a lot of heavy customization and backend work contrary to what you may believe. It just may not have that web 2.0 look to it.
I find healthy people have more energy and are more focused. This always leads to more motivation. Do you eat well? Exercise daily? Sleep properly? I still think those are the three fundamental aspects of productivity/happiness. Of course this is a generalization - we all know fat programmers who are hugely (hahaha) successful. This shouldn't be controversial, the relationship between poor health and poor productivity is well established. Of course, you need to be honest with yourself, I've known some stupidly unhealthy people who thought they were really healthy.

More specifically to programming, we all learn differently. Some like books, some like videos, some are more hands on. Ultimately, you need to find what works for you, and spend the time and do it. There's no quick fix/easy solution. You need to spend time and get it done. I'd suggest small quick projects so that you get the benefit of iterating and learning quickly. If you aren't creative, contribute to something that interets you. Otherwise, pick something that'll solve a real problem you have and go for it. Even something as simple as documenting, you know, through a blog, your process can help.
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How can anyone threaten anything when you have prior art?
Yes, the pricing data is based of Dynamite Deals pricing engine so it's just retail prices - offers available on a consistent bases without rebate trickery.
Cheap attack is cheap.

How big is entertainment sports business? How many millions of dollars do we pay individual players?
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