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Very much agree. An extra layer on the danger cake (for web apps) is if your user base grows slowly while keeping the business profitable. Suddenly (sic) you hit real capacity limits after n years, and have no idea how the "organically grown" code in question works.
I guess I would also note that these guys are all kind of headed in the direction of competing with the "real" desktop 3D printers, but yeah, they won't be there for a while. I wrote some further thoughts here: http://justindunham.net/2011/08/where-is-open-source-3d-prin...
I have yearned for a day where government and enterprise systems are simple RESTful/ish, JSON, javascript and HTTP friendly APIs instead of bloated SOAPware... Beautiful simplicity.
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Thanks. I've seen Code at my local B&N (and of course, on Amazon), and I've come close to buying it.

I'm getting it tomorrow.
Nitpick: It's not an apartment, it's a shared lab space near the Marcy Projects. I visited a while back and it was cool.

Awesome work, Mark!
TechZing is my favorite tech podcast -- two developers chatting about development and startups (mostly on the bootstrapping scale). Sometimes guest interviews with other programmers. If you're a developer you should absolutely check it out, you will most likely love it (especially web developers, especially especially freelancers / people running their own businesses).
I hope I didn't seem like I was piling on, and I wasn't annoyed by your post in the first place -- just thinking in terms of the general trend I'd like to see in these threads. Cheers.
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The Diablo franchise was never meant to be game with a lot of modding. It was always about a great hack and slash with friends. Since modding was never allowed in online play over Battle.net, the majority of the community never bothered themselves with mods.
They're poking fun at the formal methods community, which spends a lot of time doing research in this direction. Percolation of these techniques back to industry has been... less than stellar.
Faceplanting: an app launch horror story with a twist
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Reminds me of the Alice Cooper scene from Wayne's World.

I was raised to believe that these hedonistic punks knew only sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Learning that they were in fact professionals who intimately knew their craft (and, yeah, also liked to have fun) is a blessing of age.
I need to start a company...
I'm kind of surprised GCC doesn't have a __builtin_* extension for overflow detection. It seems like a pretty natural fit among a lot of the other ones.

...and after a quick bit of googling, it appears this has been discussed by the GCC devs semi-recently: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48580
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Repeat from about two years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=743860

I suspect it's not the first time. It's a great story.
As these developers discovered, all a broader user base brought them was increased infrastructure and support costs, with zero uptick in subsequent sales.

"A broader userbase" that doesn't pay anything isn't "help" by any stretch of the imagination for a number of business models.
I love this hackery and I'll definitely mess around with it, but in the end it's probably easier just to use the media keys on my keyboard. I don't necessarily feel a huge need for vim to do everything, or I would have switched to emacs instead :)
Privacy and global communication networks create tremendous value for society. Unfortunetly people want to throw those out for the sake of incidences that negatively effect an astronomically small number of people.
Honestly, it was going to happen anyway. D3 is a heavily anticipated title.
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Seminars about long-term thinking:
http://longnow.org/seminars/

An incredible series of talks & discussions. The scope of topics covered is akin to TEDtalks. I recommend downloading the entire catalog.

edit: itunes audio http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/salt-seminars-about-long-ter...
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That makes a lot more sense, however, it's not entirely impossible for them to find out what users downloaded the app on that day and only target updates for them; they want out of amazon any way might as well break the TOS. They should be logging some type of 'first_install' after every user pings the server for the first time... but I'm making excuses for Amazon.

TBH both parties are at fault. Them for not reading the letter Amazon send WORD FOR WORD and not Amazon for discounting their app to 99cents the day after.
I am blown away by how impressive & awesome this is.

And that is on both sides of the coin: implementation itself looks to be very solid (Rails, JSONP, yay!) AND the concept itself is amazing to me. We get 'our' apps (and data) in a format that is open for us to not only use but to contribute to and improve upon!

I definitely hope to see more of this type of stuff in the future...
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It seems sort of silly from a user experience point of view. If you start playing online and then for some reason you can't, you have to start over at the beginning of the game. There's no continuity between your gameplay sessions in that case. And that's really how it has to be if you go with that idea; the alternative is too open to abuse.
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Already on front page today http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2837181
https://github.com/mdp/rturk

happy birthday!
I was actually referring to the produced piece that came out of it. It seems to have rather poor resolution, and there are what appear to be stringy anomalies and uneven portions. The machine itself is not relevant to me. I don't care if that looks clunky. But if the produced piece is a clunky looking mess, that's a problem.
It's service to non-US based users.
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How do we know it has been done before? All I've seen so far are people guessing how it might be done--and then analyzing their own guesses to find they are inadequate, and then somehow concluding that means that nobody could do it.
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Unless you want to use Google+ or Facebook. Although, maybe we'll see a resurgence of real name pseudonyms. Now I just need to think of a name as cool as Mark Twain...
It's not fair to compare just on price like that. Did you read the list of included components in the starter kit?

I've thought about tinkering with an arduino, but I always wonder what on earth I'd do with it. I suppose I've seen some cool shields. But nothing that's made me WANT it.

I can't say the same about that starter kit.

I think the truth is that most software developers are paid well enough that $250 is not unreasonable, especially when put in context of how much money we all spend on 1) Hobbies and 2) Gadgets and 3) Developing our skillset.
You should read the book, "In Search of Stupidity - Over 20 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters"

Refactoring is almost always preferable to throwing out all your code, imho.
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I can't speak for the developer, but as a TextMate user who has dabbled in vim/emacs over the years, my take on this is it's about "polish". Like MacVim is line-based, and when you scroll or resize the window, it moves in "chunks" of one line instead of whatever pixel-precise position you drag the mouse to. And using mac-standard "command" key shortcuts instead of different modes (for vim) or control-key ones (emacs). [Yes I know that can all be customized in vim/emacs, just talking about out-of-the-box]. Also the "project pane" in TextMate is very mac-like, whereas in Vim you have NerdTree which is totally text-based (in the sense that it's like "curses" graphics-via-ascii-characters as opposed to icons and lines and non-monospaced-fonts), or emacs which gives you the buffer list at the bottom (if I recall). And I was never able to figure out how to get a project-wide search going in Vim. Also, the window chrome, which I guess you could classify as "shiny", but little things like that do appeal to a lot of people -- same reason people like the shiny and smooth macbook hardware vs. more boxy windows laptops.

Not saying this is objectively better, just trying to answer your question. And of course I understand there are tradeoffs between polish versus flexibility. For example, the Mac editor Coda is super-duper shiny and maclike, but it's way too inflexible for my personal tastes, so I wouldn't use that. But something like TextMate seems to hit the sweet spot for me and a lot of other people.
This is what DER does to encode ASN.1, and it is basically a nightmare of epic proportions.

The 16-bit tag at the beginning of strings is a reasonable suggestion. 65k charstars are slow and unwieldy anyways.
He removed his content from his blog, I don't blame him at all, I would have deleted it too, lucky the internet has an un-delete button.

"Why I will never pursue cheating again" mirror:

https://plus.google.com/106021114396508944027/posts/jgQmKTsW...

""Why I will never pursue cheating again" word doc copy paste of content:

http://machinesentience.com/miscvideos/nyu_professor__why_i_...
Figuring out how to use mTurk, figuring out how to ask questions to get useful results, and tabulating/summarizing answers are all things that the person who is asking for the tests probably has more important things to do, particularly the first two. It's a fair amount of work.
I'm sorry you didn't like the post. I'm really trying to share what I thought was a worthwhile experience with the community. I appreciate the feedback though :)
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A few lesons we learned in the last three years: we operated in Dogpatch Labs in union square for the first half of 2010 and the wireless was painfully slow. Some other teams actually brought in their MiFis and we used this to connect to webmail and calendars. Mabe this changed since then.

We then moved to our own office in Chelsea and the Internet is bad here, as we use Verizon's second best connection. Depending upon the location of your office or where you work in manhattan, you may have time warner, verizon, optimum, etc. and high speed Internet is usually a crapshoot.
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thanks Mark I saw that it's definitely going to make my life a lot easier
I don't get this attitude. All of business is using raw materials to create something that people are willing to pay for. Using Mechanical Turk is not always a pleasant experience. There is quite a bit of nuance on how to price things, how to qualify submissions and submitters, etc (not that a service will get all this correct right out of the gate). And don't forget, we're talking about a rather modest $10-40.
The guy behind Atomontage has stated that he's got his engine averaging less than one bit per voxel (he estimates 753 bits or less per 1000 voxels)[1] by applying a variety of compression mechanisms[2], so at least that part of Notch's assessment can be disregarded out of hand.

EDIT:
Taking a step back, remember that with an octree, contiguous areas require less tree depth to fully describe them, so open empty space (sky) and consistently filled space (uniform material underground) require much less data. This of course creates practical limitations in addition to the claimed maximums of what the engine can achieve (so art budgets aren't going anywhere anytime soon) but I think calling it a "scam" is a bit much.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sfWYUgxGBE

[2] http://www.atomontage.com/?id=tech_overv
I work at the public radio station that "owns" This American Life (WBEZ in Chicago). There have been a few comments regarding the best way to thank TAL for their outstanding investigative journalism, so I'd like to clarify a misconception regarding the best way to thank Ira and friends. If you donate to TAL, that donation goes to Chicago Public Media; donations are not earmarked for any particular program or project; it is not possible to make a donation directly to This American Life. TAL's budget is set every June and it's not impacted by donations to the mothership. I don't think there is anything wrong with donating to Chicago Public Media, but please be aware that only a small fraction of your donation will go to support the work being done by This American Life. I would say somewhere around 10% of your donation will hit the TAL operating budget. My opinion is that the best way to support TAL's work directly is by telling as many people as you can about their work and sharing their content as often and widely as possible.
If you're going weeks without going into the city, why not live somewhere else instead of paying still really high rents (and yes, Brooklyn rents are still usually high compared to everywhere else but Manhattan.)
In support of your comment, I think some are forgetting how horrible Netscape 6 actually was to use. (Or am I just getting old? It wasn't that long ago!)

Compared to earlier versions it was incredibly slow—even by the standards of the time—and crashed a bit more frequently. It took much longer to load or perform some common tasks. Sure, the rendering engine was better for many pages, but browser sniffers were still common, and (like now) weren't updated often enough, so bad versions of sites got served occasionally too.

There were a host of reasons why Netscape 6 was bad from a user's perspective. Spolsky has it right when he says Netscape 6 was a piece of junk. Let's not allow time passing to permit us to remember it more fondly.

Sure, future versions got better, but that was due to he creation of a new "corporate" memory. It took a while to get over having discarded so much learning.
D2 had an awesome single player campaign, dozens of hours of fun!

Forcing online connectivity for single player which is what they're doing, is DRM. And it's the worst kind - they're forever, needlessly tying the game to an online service instead of making it a big, optional value add.
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Even if you're living in the outer boroughs, or Jersey City, you're still probably paying more for what you get than you would if you lived in just about any other US city. I grew up in NY and lived there for 30 years, and when I look at rents in other cities I'm just dumbfounded how much cheaper it is. I'm in a very nice area of LA (still supposedly top 10 for cost) and I pay about 1/3 of what I would in Manhattan or Brooklyn for an equivalent place - and I commute less than 15 minutes to boot.
> Netscape 6 was the most revolutionary browser project ever created

I dont disagree with the general sentiment of your comment. But as someone who attempted to use Netscape 6 at various stages of its development, I fear that statement might be stretching facts a little bit.
"reselling stuff" aka commerce. definitely nothing wrong with it.
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Cannot upvote enough.
Why be so shy? Faster than Assembly language! Faster than Assembly language with cache size alignment and padding of data structures! ^_^
Nowadays, something like this can also be seen as somewhat insulting to a venue. We spend hours pouring over contract riders to make sure we meet the specifications, and many more hours pricing out the materials and labor necessary for an event. If the lead singer of the band is putting M&M clauses into riders, instead of the touring production manager dealing with the venue TD directly, there's already something wrong with the negotiations.
............says the guy currently kicking everyone else's tail.

(nice work by the way)
The unique thing about .NET Gadgeteer is how easy it is to connect and reconfigure different components, even complex ones like cameras. MSR uses it to prototype hardware devices and they wanted to release it externally:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/gadgeteer-...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRX_rdlCkUQ
Here's a visualization where your understanding of the world and my understanding of the world converge:

Let's say the statistical composite gamer buys 10 games a year and consumes 100. Game companies don't get rewarded for being in the top 100 and they don't get rewarded for having perfect anti-piracy: they get rewarded for being 1 step ahead of #11.

You're probably insanely familiar with the importance of the new release window, where the supermajority of game sales (and more importantly to publishers, original sales) are made. All you have to do is be desirable enough and annoying enough to be a must have in those first ten days, and you secure your coveted position among games that our poor subject actually purchases.

With regards to poverty and video game players: personally, I don't really see a justice concern in "I am wealthy enough to consume video games, but not wealthy enough to consume video games up to my desired level of consumption." If they were stealing food to feed their children, I'd be darn careful with how I talked about them, but unless Diablo III tastes great with ketchup...
Wish I could've made it tonight. I'm looking forward to coming to the next one!
Oh no, I didn't know about this. I show up at the weekly Monday rails meetup. I would definitely show up to the next one!
Because Brooklyn is awesome.

Great parties, concert venues, cafes, restaurants, parks, bars, and lots and lots of super talented people ranging from musicians in Williamsburg to artists in Bushwick. NYC is more than just Manhattan. It's also easier to bike around.

It's like thinking that the Bay Area is just San Francisco and that there is no reason to live in the BA if you don't go to SF.
NOTE: to those who're reading the comments here instead of RTFA [because you're like I am...], you should RTFA.

I first heard this story about 3 months ago and was blown away [because everyone knew that Van Halen were prima donas, right?!]. That Van Halen plays IROC-Z rock doesn't mean they aren't big time business people. There are certainly outliers, but big time business people are big time business people without regard to the business and that's a lesson most of us need.

EDIT: I attended an alternative educational conference where the theme was "Taking Yourself Seriously". Naturally, I sat thinking "I write computer programs! I'm a serious man!". Learning about Van Halen's idiotic-but-wait-oh-my-god-that's-super-insightful contract drives home the point that I might not be taking myself seriously enough... There's always room to improve.

EDIT: to those who're pointing out that this is a re-hash, this is an important re-hash. Yes, it was discussed two years ago, but it bears repeating. Even an atheist, such as myself, appreciates hearing the 10 Commandments reasonably frequently.
Classic rock & roll wisdom. Other notable groups have followed suit with similar seemingly insane/bratty demands for the same reasons. Iggy Pop often trails off mid-paragraph in his rider and starts telling some silly story rather than outlining his technical requirements, followed by a "ARE YOU READING THIS? REALLY?" to make sure they know they should be paying attention. Metallica should have done something similar in the early 90's! Ouch!
This was obviously fake. It came from a tabloid and I don't know why Huffington Post would publish it.

http://books.google.com/books?id=bfMDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA14...
This should be big news for WebSockets compatibility, right?
Seems like re-using the same stipulation wouldn't work longer term.
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It's not fair to compare just on price like that. Did you read the list of included components in the starter kit?

Well, as I also said "the FEZ does have a ton more features than either" and "This stuff is several levels up in terms of abstraction and features". But OTOH "suitability/competitiveness really depends on what you want to build."

I've thought about tinkering with an arduino, but I always wonder what on earth I'd do with it.
I can't say the same about that starter kit.

If you don't mind me asking, what do you think you'd do with the FEZ starter kit? I don't mean that in an argumentative way, just properly trying to understand.
I find myself automatically making judgment calls on my own thoughts, especially on G+ where it's easy to make things no longer public. In general, however, I've just posted everything publicly. If I have something controversial to say then in general I'm prepared (and often do in the post itself) to justify it rationally. Maybe I'm simply being naive :<

I wonder how the generation that grows up with semi-immutable thoughts will learn to self-censor (for good or bad).
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Ask HN: Is it rude/inappropriate to submit your own content?
(see title)

Ie, linking to your own blog
You don't need to be egotistical to see that you can do things better the second time around because you've learned stuff along the way. In this case, the writer provided multiple examples of how they were able to use the lessons they'd learned from the old codebase to improve the new one. They did, in fact, escape some of their problems. Did they introduce new problems? I'm sure they did, but they're probably still better off overall.

Sometimes ego is involved, but sometimes rewriting is just the rational thing to do from a cost/benefit standpoint.
Fine. Assume it's one bit per voxel.

512 petabits = 2 petabytes.

So only 2 petabytes of data. I'd like to see the server that processed those 2 petabytes.

Notch also points out that even still, 8m is quite a small height. Take it to 16m and now you need 4 petabytes of space.
There's nothing at all combative in what I said. If you see it as such, the problem is with the way you relate to people.

If someone asks me today specifically for the most recent three things I have invented, I am not going to lie in my answer. I am going to explain why I can not disclose any of those three and ask if they would rather hear about ones I can disclose. That you see this response, which is correct, true and factual, as "combative" shows that you have a problem.
A few notes:

Fullscreen mode does work with multiple displays, in a way that makes a whole lot of sense. Most engineers at Apple use multiple displays, so more functionality will come soon.

What I disagree with is the notion of the core OS being merged in, which it most decisively is not. User experience aspects? Sure, but that's to be expected as the divergent teams merged.
Great article. It's a good reminder that you don't need funding and a huge idea to get a side project going.

Thanks for writing this!
The current submission is also just a heavily plagiarized rehashing of that part of David Lee Roth's autobiography, as (properly) quoted by Snopes.
Down for me, but

http://web.archive.org/web/20080305234616/http://jimcofer.co...

worked
API ToSes never stopped anyone determined enough; they could easily use scrapers.
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This has already been submitted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2837709
That part of HN is already worse than Reddit, though.