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Thanks for the awesome post!

A few questions:

- Were you not aware of Cocos2d / Unity when you started? Or did you think you could do it better?

- What sort of feedback did you get and how did you go about getting it?

- Are you not planning to develop any more games? (Based on your first sentence.)
Umm, the point of GMail is to never delete anything anymore. I love being able to search through my years of old mail.
I use Windows, but just yesterday I noticed I was using 5.47GB and I didn't even have any VMs opened. Just VS with Silverlight, sql server management, couple of browsers with the silverlight plugin opened.. 6GB of RAM payed of I guess
I don't like the phrase "post-materialist" either, because it implies this is something new. "People used to want more stuff, but now we're moving beyond that."

There have always been people who want more stuff and people who don't, and there always will be.

I agree that "threshold earners" is better. Another way of putting it is that some people place a higher dollar value on free time, autonomy, etc, so they aren't willing to trade as many hours for money as others are.
No.

It's not either/or - it's both.

You _need_ a PC/Mac to set up an IPad: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2011/07/07/setting-up-an-...

I got a cell phone, I didn't throw away my home phone (yet) and my wife has one too.

I got a laptop (3) and I still have a desktop and 2 HTPC's.

I have a Kindle, I didn't throw away my books.

These devices all complement each other. Some things you just can't do on a phone or a touch OS.

We need to get passed the mindset that one product needs to fail for another to succeed.

This market is not zero sum.
I would love to see serious developer tools integrate the new file/state APIs creatively.

- Will it be possible to populate the list of previous file versions from another source, like a git or svn repo?

- Could the application state API include a shell intelligently reopening itself and launching the development environment that was running before a restart?

- Can applications read old versions of files edited in another application? E.g. could I tell Chrome to view a page in one tab, and in the next tab view the version of that page from a week ago to compare differences?
But you can certainly start the upgrade. You can perform the majority of it, in fact.
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I'm a bit of a Mercedes enthusiast. They began making cars in SA some years back. I'm always surprised at the number of owners I talk to who actively seek to avoid the South African built cars. It's possible to do because each model has at least some German production, but it often means a special order and waiting months for the car to sail over.

People are strange. I think a lot of Americans especially do not really know how to categorize South Africa.
That's the wrong question. Outside of the startup world, the Customer Development Model is known as "Sales and Marketing".
I completely agree with your trust concerns, but it doesn't seem you are familiar with VRM [1]. The whole point is to off-set the current (and ever growing) data disparity between consumers and businesses. You'll note they have trust in their name, which I would guess is specifically because they realize the significant trust level they're going to have to engender among their customers. I still believe in VRM as a concept, but it has a large barrier to entry mostly because it isn't an easy idea to grok. It's still a vitamin, not a pain pill, but I believe it will be a pain pill eventually.

[1]http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Main_Page
I take it MS must have bought a Forbes ad?
I'm using the 2010 11" as my primary computer, and have been really happy with it. But then again, I mostly hack CoffeeScript and PHP with vim on Linux, so how much power do I need ;-)

http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/11-macbook_air-the_best_computer_i...
It was a second gen, not 'current', you're right. :)

I could possibly have gotten 4GB with it, but my aging brain still couldn't conceive of anyone ever needing more than 2GB. Now I know better, haha.
I would think it could be beneficial to be able to streamline the .js file for people (think like jQuery.ui) so if I were developing something not in Japanese, the additional (and for me, useless) methods would not add to the code size, (assuming that there is not some incredible interweaving between the methods).
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Yes! Teachers need to start trusting modern tools to help them teach.

I'm married to a teacher and have 8-10 teachers that I socialize with on a regular basis. Whenever I start talking about charter schools, Khan, statistical analysis of grades, etc, they always roll their eyes "oh, that's just too much work for me to do" or "it's a bad idea to slot someone as a 'visual' learning" or "not everyone can handle being self guided" etc, but they always miss the point.

The majority of teachers are stuck in their ways. For 100 years (longer?), the education system hasn't really changed at all. The addition of computers has been more like 'faster horses' than 'cars'. Highschool/gradeschool teachers aren't really that effective at learning new things. Sure, there's professional development, but that's the equivalent of HR presentations on sexual harassment.

In the last 5 years, we've had a revolution of the available teaching tools and an institution that is resistent to change/improvement.

A friend of mine is working on a pilot project at one school where everyone gets an iPad. I feel this is a huge waste of resources, since they are just modeling their current process but with an iPad. It's basically being used in place of handing out photocopies. It's a huge waste. Technology should be leveraged and used to evolve so we can do things we couldn't before, not be an expensive drop in replacement.

If you have kids, ask them if their teachers forbid the use of wikipedia, or embrace it as an imperfect information source. Has a class ever worked on updating a wikipedia article? Ask them if they've ever had a skype video conference with an expert from a particular field. Ask them if their teachers include kahn videos as supplement resources. Or do they watch VHS tapes of PBS recordings during class time like I did 15 years ago?

These are the things I expect every classroom should be doing today.
There is no option to upgrade to high-res(higher-res) screen on the 13 inch. I think I am pretty sure on that. Just the plain 1280x800.
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Having studied graduate level Math at UC Berkeley, I can tell you that there are consistent, major disadvantages for women in the sciences even in California.

Examples:
1. When working together on homework, guys would almost never accept corrections from women, even when they were right. They would accept the same corrections from guys.
2. If a guy got help from another guy, he would mention it when talking to a third person e.g. "Steven said that the way to think about this is...". If a guy got help from a girl, he would almost never mention it.
Yes. The Neo4j community edition is always free, and as long as your code is open source, the enterprise edition is also free even for commercial use (http://neo4j.org/licensing-guide/).
Segregation was completely legal in many public and private sites. Those uppity kids breaking the law needed to get jail time for it.
Do you use an external monitor at home/work, or always just the built-in display?
It looks like the external superdrive from the MBA will fit neatly on top of/underneath the mac mini, if you have a nostalgic attachment to pieces of spinning plastic. ;)
My new laptop has 16GB of RAM. Last night, I was using 12GB of it. I was running one VM with 4gb of ram, and the rest was taken up with my browser (where I was exploring a vulnerability involving a massive number of objects), my debugger, and IDA.

8GB will work for me (that's all I have at work) but it definitely makes my life hard.
Yep, sounds like you need something heftier than a super-light laptop for that sort of task. Hopefully you have already provisioned thusly.
The concept of Hyperarchy was already explored by demexp.org. Look for instance at the aspect of vote delegation: http://www.demexp.org/dokuwiki/description_of_the_political_...
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My iPod has two!
Can't speak for the GP, but I frequently work with multiple Windows VMs (think large Oracle and SQL Server databases), and 4GB starts to feel a bit small.

My ideal machine would have more than 4GB RAM. It could even come at the expense of a smaller internal storage, because I'd use an external Thunderbolt drive to store client stuff.

So I might be sticking with the MBP for that reason..
For example try this at an Apple store: stand at a Macbook and open several apps at once, close them, then reopen them, then do the same exercise on an Air.
I bought the 11" for my wife and now I want one.

The savings in space and weight are significant when you're moving around. The 11" really isn't much bigger than an iPad. I have some pockets it can fit in.

The tradeoff is a smaller screen when you're on the road. The small screen has high-res and is quite usable but I'd rather dock to something for long-term coding work. But external monitors are cheap, so unless your work pattern involves constantly moving from new desk to new desk it's not hard to just park a monitor at every one of your desks.
Easy payments through cell phones combined with ubiquitous, cheap phones combined with cell-phone interfaces to buy/sell/access everything (stocks, insurance, micropayment): this is a powerful change in the way people work and do everything.

But I think the step after the phone is going to be even more interesting. Its about the point now where any device can be hooked up to 3G and have a touchscreen interface (basically having a touchscreen phone embedded in the device, with software tailored to the interactions the device can make with other devices, or suppliers, or support, etc)
I don't think it's misleading. The first image on the page shows a Macbook Air with Thunderbolt going to one side & power to the other. That image is just the first in a slide show of Macs connected to displays, and the page isn't about the Macbook Air, it's about the display.
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Not current CBS content, back catalog stuff.
I think you misread what the problem was.
As an XMonad user, I can attest to the fact that it is indeed nirvana.
No. You'll be fine.
Possibly, you'll have screen estate issues with the 11" air, but that's about the only issue with Eclipse you'll have. The SSD will severely speed things up.
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No. They can boot off of an SSD. You just replace the existing HD.
"In all three cases, managers got what we asked for, but not what we wanted. How does this happen? Let’s take a look."

So, the managers failed to communicate what they wanted to the employees, but this is spun in the headline as the employees' fault.
yes it can, it is even a standard option in the store (but it makes the thing a lot more expensive)
Microsoft just want to say..
Yeah, if you go to a French bakery in the USA, and everything is labelled in French and in English, does it even matter if the French is correct?
Give it a few days and you'll think going back to the old way will take a lot of getting used to.
4 GB of RAM can be a problem for some.
I just got:

"Our servers melted!"

"Our servers are misbehaving"
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The NVIDIA 320M of the previous model did not have dedicated memory either.
Anyone have any idea on how I can redeem the "free Lion upgrade" on my newly bought Mac?
http://www.quora.com/Are-people-at-Facebook-worried-at-all-a...
Now that, I must agree with.
I can't imagine you think that the marginal utilityof income is ever increasing (which is the result of a literal reading of you comment: the 120k between 80k and 200k is worth less than the 120k that puts you over the million dollar mark), so you must just be describing the standard case of marginal utility of income strongly decreasing. The fact that this is decreasing quickly is very important for life decisions, of course, but should be stated more clearly.
Agreed on both counts. I think it's too unnatural with a mouse so I switched it back on the desktop. On my laptop I left it alone.
I feel greatly let down by the Calendar and Address book apps. The whole "looks like a real office object" metaphor reminds me too much of Microsoft Bob.

Also the menu to select calendars feels poorly designed and doesn't always update correctly.
The default view in mail is practically useless to me as often i tend to sort messages by date, person, or subject in order to find stuff.

So in some regards a step forwards, in others a step back.
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I completely agree with your last point and half-agree with your first one. If we were talking about Vulcans then, yes, the optimizations would always be implemented. My personal experience is mainly with technology companies and in that field, at least, the optimizations are more often not implemented, even if they will indeed save money in the long run. I think that these problems are reflected in the general population where only a fraction of people make investments and the vast majority tend to chase after quick profit rather than lasting wealth. Business has a higher percentage of the latter but there is still plenty of the former.

Edit: Also, we might be talking about slightly different situations, I'm mainly referring to optimizations which require a time investment up front, not 'free' ones.
That was the point of gmail... five years ago. And then they added delete, because there are some message which never again need to see the light of day.
Clickable link - http://www.verysimplesurvey.com/

I really like this, could do with more in-depth instructions, eg: are there radio buttons, multi selects, etc?

Also can you make fields required for entry, such as the terms and conditions checkbox?

Custom URLs would be nice, and instead of having the massive VerySimpleServey link on the serveys, just have a small link back.

Overall very good.
Sandy Bridge is way faster than Core 2.

If you are doing any computationally intensive stuff, it may be worth the upgrade (I had postponed the purchase of a MBA for this reason, and I am definitely going to buy this one).
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how this kind of stuff gets to the front page...
I don't know if this is a big deal. I've also downloaded it, but have had no reason to even open it yet. I still doubt G+'s ability to make a significant impact.

Duncan Stewart's retweet of Andy Levy's comment says it best: "as far as I can tell, every post on Google+ is either something I already saw on Twitter or something about Google+."

With that said, I think there is value. I'm more than happy to tell Google who my friends are, if it helps them refine my searches.
Is there a version of Firefox that plays nicely with the new full screen app features? 5.0.1 kind of falls apart with it, but I just can't give up TreeStyle Tabs to make the leap to Chrome, which is a good citizen.
If it is anything like last time, you will have to get this new OS for the next version for Xcode. Which sucks, since you already have to update itunes and your devices. It is turning into a few hours project to update everything.
There's certainly systems out there built to scale automatically. I was on a small team that wrote such a system for an ad network.

We tracked clicks on our own (physical) servers but for impressions, you're talking a system built to serve upwards of 30bn a month. While nothing compared to industry-leaders (Google, DoubleClick, etc), that's still around 10,000 impressions a second.'

We had no problem building a system on our inhouse servers to handle that 10k/s number: A very thin PHP instance running on port 80 that does nothing but push the impression into a Gearman queue. Easy enough, even at that scale.

The problem of course is that you're not getting 10k/s. Some seconds you may get 100k, others 1k.

So we built a simple system that automatically spawned S3 instances when we began to see high loads, distributed the latest code to them, and when we no longer needed them, we downloaded the DB they held locally and moved the data to HDFS.

What we did is pretty common, I'm sure. It's all pretty straightforward software.
came here to find this out myself.

that means that crash I've been seeing is TotalFinder's fault.
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It's a bit superfluous, but I don't think it's too much. Besides, the OS can use the extra memory as cache/buffers.
I wasn't being sarcastic. I was simply saying that I bet Facebook is beginning to worry about some serious competition.

What's really great about HN (now I'm being sarcastic), is people who will nitpick at tiny things you say, and then reinforce their pedantics with "This is what makes HN great" or "HN isn't about this". I was just making a simple comment. Is that now allowed on HN?
I sold my older 15in MBP to get a unibody 13MBP. I lasted 4 months before selling the 13 to go back to 15in (thank goodness for high resell values.) The little bit of extra space just makes it so much easier to juggle open windows and see data from different programs while working. People think I'm a major multitasker with they see all my open windows, but really I'm working on one task with lots of varied inputs. I'm a little worried that Lion might take this away from me, with its emphasis on single window apps.
If I could avoid having to fill out twelve forms - nearly identical for the first half of the page - every time I went to the doctor, that'd be worth $20 bucks a year from me.

But I'm pretty sure that developing a HIPAA-compliant system, and then convincing every doctor's office in the country to switch to it won't be covered by a $20/year subscription fee.
I was told 4.1 is working fine.
A good test would be to try out the MBA's resolution on your current display, and work with Eclipse in it. 1366x768 for the 11 inch, and 1440x900 for the 13.
I think the RAM is soldered to the board, to save space and weight. So it's really hard to "configure". :)
You've been posting quite a bit about graph DBs lately including one the other day which stated that "the relational DB is dying as the primary datastore" as well as "Graphs are a much more elegant way of storing relational data". (source: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2778945).

I have to disagree with you here. Graph DBs are a much more elegant way to store graph data, i.e. social media data, some forms of scientific data. But for the vast majority of relational database usage, i.e. finance, accounting, retail, medical records, human resources, academia, reservation databases, etc. the truly vast amount of databases we interact with indirectly all day long, these systems are firmly in the relational camp and that is not changing anytime soon. SQLAlchemy would very much like Python to be prevalent throughout all these industries, and is not just about social media applications.
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A dataflow architecture should be doing this in hardware -- don't issue an instruction for execution until all of its operands have been reported.

There is still a need for application-level synchronization. For example, to keep the same money from being withdrawn from a bank account twice.
I imagine about the same time NVIDIA announced they were getting out of manufacturing graphics cards?
With your swap file on SSD, is it really that noticeable?
What Erlang brings you is precisely that...

"And then got messy because they stopped using messages for some side channel communication."

... can't happen in pure-Erlang code. Of course there's nothing you can do in Erlang or Haskell that you can't do in pure C, but the problem is that if you are working in C you can't ever quite be sure that something somewhere accidentally mutated a value, when the language makes it so easy. (And let's not talk about C++.) Some of the Haskell leaders call it "wearing the hair shirt".

This is extended agreement, by the way, not a disagreement. If you are stuck in C, there are far worse things you can do that try to impose your own message-passing paradigm, just as there are an awful lot of object-oriented C programs in the world.
I just installed it now. I run a dual screen iMac at work, but a 13 inch MB Pro at home. I think it will be a lot more useful with the macbook.
Same here in Vietnam. The low end model is the VND equivalent of about $1200. :(
Am I the only person who feels a bit sorry/annoyed every time Eliezer gets harassed about updating HPMOR? It's his project, people, he'll update when he wants to.
I believe the exchange rate right now explains some of it too, particularly as Apple haven't adjusted their prices in the UK to reflect it.

I did read they'd adjusted their Canadian prices for the same reason though.
I love randomness. Breaking out of the pattern and being impulsive is how 90 % of the fun stuff in my life happens.

The rule is: If you see something interesting, perhaps a group of people you would like to talk or engage with, give your self at most 3 seconds to take action or else; don't do it.

Why 3 seconds? If you spend more time, you will start considering the consequences inhibiting yourself -- your freudian conscious guard is activited.
Be specific. Repeat customers? New customers? Over what timeframe?
Their website hurt my eyes
Why in the world does it block my vpn? Do they not want my bitcoins?

On the upside, when I got on without the vpn, the site is beautiful and professional. Respect.
The (online implementation of the) idea for social networking started in the 90s too by a little company called 6degrees that Amazon eventually bought. It too was abandoned along with the idea of social networking until friendster came along.
This section of wp article is a good start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-materialism#Measuring_post...

"If you had to choose among the following things, which are the two that seem the most desirable to you?

Maintaining order in the nation.

Giving people more say in important political decisions.

Fighting rising prices.

Protecting freedom of speech.

... On the basis of the choices made among these four items, it is possible to classify our respondents into value priority groups, ranging from a 'pure' acquisitive type to a 'pure' post-bourgeois type, with several intermediate categories."

There was a longer test with more items in, I remember one was looking after the environment.

Inglehart claimed that a certain type of generous life could incubate people into his "post-materialist" mindset, and then they wouldn't change to "materialist" even if they were subsequently exposed to hardship.

Long time since I read any of it. This being one of those topics where I got to write an essay and then reuse it for another subject the next year. For shame! :)

It stuck with me partly because I found "Giving people more say in important political decisions." to be a very uncomfortable idea. I've changed position somewhat since I last thought about this.
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