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I would be extremely surprised if WoW has issues when lots of people are crammed in a small space due to their Oracle backend. More likely it is all the calculations that the serverside is performing. I know a few people who work on other MMOs and they keep everything in memory, even accounts for logged off users.

I'm curious: what you think (or know?) they are doing that is causing the database to be a limiting factor?
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On my 13 inch MacBook the map itself only takes 50% of the actual screen real-estate, the rest is filled up with garbage (big search buttons, this toolbar which is not map-related, the left side-bar which is a giant, white, empty rectangle the first time when I open the page, the "change map-type" buttons which have gotten unnecessary bigger and bigger over time etc.). Compare this to Wikimapia's "here's the map on 98% of your screen, do what you want with it". Anyway, maybe it's just me, going to Google Maps because I love looking at maps and not clicking on stupid adds.
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After years of OOP I came to the conclusion that OO is no good. It has too many problems with parallelism - you have to use way too many kludges to make your shiny objects work in parallel.

For _me_ Data Oriented Programming is the future. My data does not need to be intelligent. For that I have my central data processors. As soon as there are no "objects" that need to talk to each other parallelism becomes so hassle free.

The only case I still like OO for is UI programming.
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Thanks for you comment alphakappa! How did you find the post, did you get any new information from it?

Indeed, it is dead simple. Once you have locations for the towers and WiFi networks, that is. Getting a good database of those is the hardest part.
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Related to this. Some of you may remember "Kik" being launched last year. There were quite a few discussions about it here. Anyway, I set up an OTR feature request on their GetSatisfaction page a while ago. If you're using Kik and want OTR support, vote it up:

http://getsatisfaction.com/kik/topics/otr_for_private_conver...

I also set up one calling for SSL at the same time:

http://getsatisfaction.com/kik/topics/secure_kik_with_encryp...

That ones been implemented now though. Kik 5.0 came out a little over a month ago and had SSL support, but didn't do certificate verification. Kik 5.1 came out a few days ago and now finally has working certificate verification.
I think this illustrates how well pattern matching works for certain types of code. For the balance function, 7 lines of Qi becomes 45 lines of javascript. And I even think those 7 lines are easier to read.
I hope you don't take this as a flippant comment, because it isn't meant to be, but the answer to your latter question is - it's what the market bears (or did bear).

There's plenty of lawyers out there - but, like in programming, there are a lot fewer good ones. In general, people are willing to pay $500 / hour because they can't find one of similar quality for a lower price.
so would you say hipmunk.com/blog/bleh is better than blog.hipmunk.com/bleh ? I've seen this debate before with googlers debating it.
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Based on your experience, I'd love to chat with you offline. My law firm (together with another firm in London) is building software for deal lawyers. If you're interested in meeting, you can reach me via the email address on my firm's page: http://yusonirvine.com/

If nothing else, I'd like to introduce you to my UK counterparts.
>I really wish someone else had created this.

I'm with you. If anyone but Google had made this I would be ecstatic. Heck, even MS.
I really hope they kick facebook's ass - Google is a company which allows other smaller companies to grow and build on their system, they're inclusive ... it's near impossible to build a serious business on a facebook app (outside of farmville type games) - any serious app (photo sharing, better socialization etc.) that gains any kind of popularity on facebook gets shut down without compromise.
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I quietly launched this site a couple of weeks ago. I have gotten good feedback from friends, but a frustrating lack of actual use by people I do not know (who clicked on Facebook links or stumbled upon the site on Google). I am hoping that my fellow HNers can provide helpful feedback whether there is something horribly wrong with my UI or something else.
Funny, yeah that's the one. I switched to his class after I heard one of his presentations in the international building one evening.
Neat, but there are a few edge cases that you may want to consider. Graph layout is one of those problems that's easy for a human but a pain to program, as I'm sure you've noticed.

The bezier connectors can get ugly when the endpoints are near each other-- making a sort of "N" shape. I assume this is because there's a control point offset a certain distance from the actual endpoint, but could that shrink as the total offset decreases?

For the flocwchart connectors demo, the connection "4 - 3" would be easier to follow with one corner instead of three.
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How does no-win-no-fee do that? If you haven't been genuinely wronged and don't have an actual case that needs to go to trial, you can't realistically expect to win, so NWNF doesn't make much difference.

What NWNF is supposed to do is to make it possible for the not-rich to afford to defend themselves when wronged (either by taking legal action, or by declining to settle unfavourably when threatened with legal action). That doesn't seem terribly perverse, it's the opposite of "encouraging settlements", and it does help those who have been genuinely wronged.

The downside is that lawyers operating on a NWNF basis may be unwilling to take on any case whose prospects for success are poor. I suppose that might count as "encouraging settlements" -- in cases where you're not very likely to win and can't afford to pay the legal fees. I have trouble seeing why that is a bad thing.

What am I missing?
It's too early in the morning for this kind of doom and gloom.
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Looks good.

BTW. Does anyone know any good web based sql modeling tools? If not, jsplumb would be a good basis for the gui part.
The polymer in a li-poly battery is ethylene glycol. It's relatively stable, relatively non-toxic (don't drink it, its can kill you but not the way hydrochloric acid will). Its almost the same stuff used as coolant in ICEs. Unlike NiCad and NiMH its probably the most environmentally friendly battery around. The other anode and cathode is lithium and lithium-manganese. These aren't rare metals (which I find ridiculous when people think they are made of exotic materials) but manufacturing is high because of the cost of research and the quantities produced.

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But I doubt you'll find useful sources for programming style searching for it.

How about AOP? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect-oriented_programming). I think both CLOS & Moose push you more towards this programming style.
Quality is very, very difficult to measure in this context. It's a bit like measuring the quality of a doctor or other professional whose advice you need to trust beyond a shadow of a doubt.

In the end, law firms tend to trade on longstanding reputation, which is a fine, but imperfect, way of handling this problem. These days, there is no reason to assume that high rates == quality, or vice versa.

The market will sort this out eventually: right now clients are making pricing demands on big law firms that are cutting their margins significantly. As a result, firms are ditching costs in a kind of emergency sale. My own opinion is that many firms are gutting their best assets (their new, young lawyers) in order to preserve the partner profits, and that will be their downfall. Meanwhile, the next generation of lawyers will be free to charge much less, and will actually make more money.
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Exactly! What I've learned, though, is that there is always a need for a human being at the end of the process. That's where lawyers will always be needed: to exercise nuanced judgment that just cannot be systematized (yet). The trick is to be a lawyer who can work as part of a bigger process that includes smart technologies and less expensive (and perhaps, less skilled) labor.
Yes of course, the 'discussion' was about people wanting stuff for free. And my point being that there's no reason for him to provide a 'discount' for the whiners who complain that $5000 is too much for a week of a consultant's work. It's a perfectly normal rate.
This is what I also do, any step in a derivation I would glance over when read must be fully understood and proved whenever I write it down. Every non-trivial result in my math books is written down so I can fully comprehend what's going on.
Um, there is a layout engine for Cocoa. It's called UIWebkitView... But the fact that you felt the need to write your own layout system instead of using the existing one suggests that generic layout systems don't give the needed flexibility, which means that it is more important for an API to provide the tools to build a layout system than to provide a layout system. Cocoa is one of the better frameworks for building layout systems in my experience (Java SWT, Cocoa, MFC - haven't tried .NET).
Oh, I know the market bore it and then some. The question is why? And more importantly, was it an isolated fluke of an economy/politic gone crazy? If so, its about to correct fiercely and get a little extra kick from a frustrated populace who rightly felt that access to justice was snatched from them.

There's plenty of lawyers out there - but, like in programming, there are a lot fewer good ones. In general, people are willing to pay $500 / hour because they can't find one of similar quality for a lower price.

We still find people representing themselves because they can't "scrape together a retainer". They're not trying to hire $500/hour guys. They'd hire anyone that'd take their case for what they had. The law has become so twisted that its genuinely long, hard work just to get a case together and get in the door. There's a minimum barrier to entry that the average joe just can't meet and the most inexpensive of lawyers can't make a living doing. The work is too much and the people have too little. Its not the lawyers. The whole system is failing. Its just failing from the bottom up. Its only just now effecting the $500/hour level.

If a few poor people here and there end up representing themselves its no big deal. They just operate at a huge disadvantage and get screwed. If most people are forced to represent themselves or go with an overworked public defender the whole system will crack into to very distinct parts.
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Sure you can. In the status update thing, click the padlock and choose "Customize" and then "Specific people", and you can enter lists of friendlists.

(Granted, it's not very discoverable)
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Yes, litigation and compliance tend to lead the way when it comes to extracting meaning from legal data pools. In my opinion, the single biggest obstacle to getting legal knowledge to play nice with software is the fact that it is all "silo'ed" due to: (1) being in MS Word format, (2) being confidential information, and (3) the lack of conventions/standards in legal documents.

The good news, though, is that legal documents tend to follow a fairly narrow channel of variations, when isolated to particular practice areas (e.g., leases, sales of goods, service agreements, motions, etc.)

I've always wanted to run a huge number of documents through Beyesian filters or something similar to develop some interesting classification rules, but it's damn hard to get a pool of representative documents that isn't strictly confidential.
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The good thing about electricity is that it's fungible. You can convert everybody's electric car from coal to nuclear to solar without having to actually go and make alterations to every car.
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Law School doesn't really teach what lawyers need to practice law. I've been tempted to do some videos on open source compliance, basics of contract negotiations, etc. but I just don't have enough time to do everything I want to! Maybe if someone else wants to collaborate, I would make it more of a priority.
200 should be doable in spurts; I've hit 175 WPM in rounds of Type Racer. But my sustained typing speed over longer periods of time is much, much lower than that.
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Ah, that's probably what it is. A sustained 200 wpm does sound improbable.
Spider and Web is one of my favorite examples. It plays to the medium's unique strengths in ways that will be obvious to anyone who goes through most of it. It's also a fairly short game.
Just wanted to say thank you so very much! I'm just getting started on trying to build an iOS/Mac application system and while it's fairly straightforward to build it, the design of the user interface is what gets me. Going from ok to 'wow' is what really sets Mac applications apart from most PC applications.
Even if people wont move in droves to this, its still easier to get started with this because of circles and privacy features. For example, previously our tight nit group of college friends used to engage using email threads. Now hopefully we can move on to this.
Sounds like something that I could use for building the graphs in my Flow-Based Programming environment for Node.js

https://github.com/bergie/noflo
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To be fair, I've often "read" reddit IAMA's by just looking for the original submitter's answers; the followup discussion is not necessarily equally valuable.
I'd be interested to know this, too. Fortunately the Pragmatics also let you download the PDF, which usually read well on the DX even though the navigation sucks.
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Just replying to myself to clarify, here: the situation seems to be different in the US and in the UK. In the US, there is explicitly no copyright in a mechanical reproduction of an original artwork. It would appear that there is in the UK.
UIWebView is (presumably deliberately) pretty restrictive in its JS<->native bindings. Having to redirect to URLs which are then intercepted on the Objective-C side is pretty awkward. Then there's the fact that HTML/CSS aren't even that great for designing UIs, since they were created for document styling.
Doesn't the reason you use visual representations in CAD, construction , aviation and layout is to be close to the domain ? i.e. visual objects.

A second reason is that higher level languages for mechanical design hasn't been successful. my guess it's because mechanical objects are very cost sensitive, so people use low level tools, similar to embedded developers using c+asm.

On the other hand , if you look at fpga and chip design , where complexity has exploded and transistors price really plummeted , you see a move to higher and higher level textual languages, from the schematic systems used in the past.

Another interesting use case for visual languages is visual domain specific languages. metacase has some success with this. my guess is that visual languages can be much easier for domain experts to use and understand, in some cases.
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After the weapons have been built, it is irrelevant whether you destroy their factories.

The US would not chance a nuclear retaliation either. If they had not been sure that Iraq does _not_ possess nuclear weapons, they would never have invaded.
I like the idea of using a web-based interface for tasks that are normally done in framework code: Altering data structure/models, etc. Drupal already has this (CCK), but it's not exactly a lean/small framework, so it's not the ideal solution unless you actually need the CMS feature (the ability for non-techies to edit content on the website).

Anyway, I think a framework that includes a web-based data handling thing might be a success.
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This could be very useful for implementing organisational-charts which, as far as I am aware, is currently only implemented in Google Viz. (flot, highcharts and their ilk don't seem to support them).
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Most legal work isn't a market, it is a racket. Lawyers in Congress and state houses write deliberately complex, yet often vague, "laws" in order to create business for their pals in the legal guild (where they typically join them after the law passes). They also design various malpractice laws and penalties to generate huge payouts to the legal suits. From health care to IP to shareholder issues, "Lawyer up!" is the intentional purpose of U.S. public policy.
I used jsplumb for flow based programming last year, but in the end switched to QGraphicsView based interface instead (I was using embedded WebKit and a HTML/JS interface first). I really like jsplumb, but theres a few things I found difficult to do, for example, I had problems saving and restoring jsplumb graphs - when I restored them, they did not always display the same way as they did when they were saved. Could just be that I didn't know how to use jsplumb, but in the end it was easier to just do it myself in C++ (and better graphics performance...).

Still, jsPlumb is pretty cool!
I'm guessing he needs a product to be intuitive enough that he doesn't need a marketing person to tell him how to use it. Wave was pretty far from that.
also wouldn't probably work well if you share your bed with another person...
Depending on how frequently you travel, renting a car may be much cheaper than the difference in depreciation between a Prius and a LEAF. And an all-electric makes even more sense as the family's second car.
Bunk article.

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- since when do the courts make legislation?
- courts are doing research and the courts are "laws from the top"?
- search for bitcoin on the uscourts.gov website brings up zilch.

Totally made up and false article if you ask me.

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I think you might be right when you're talking about a household's first car. We want to be able to take the car on long weekend drives or holidays. But many households have two or more cars, and considering that the typical daily usecase is more like a 40km round trip, current electric cars are more than capable of meeting this need. Households simply use the fuel-based car for longer trips, and the electric car is used for in-city usage.

In 20 years time we could hope that the battery problem will be sufficiently solved that we can start getting 500km trips out of a charge, and then even the first car of a household could be electric.
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I agree. Nowadays, I often provide an OO-based interface, but these objects are really just proxies to the non-OO data oriented internal system. I'm very much interested in multithreaded programming, so it often makes sense for me to dump OO in favour of more parallelism-friendly code.

I also find that functional programming is often a much more natural fit for solving a lot of problems than OO is. I find thinking in terms of streams, lists, trees, tables and higher order functions often maps much better to the data being modeled than an object hierarchy does and is often more parallelism, cache and out-of-order processing friendly than OO is. I don't really feel that OO is very suited to modern processors and certainly not to every problem we are trying to solve.
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