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I'm a bit confused with what the word invention means in this context. Does it mean truly inventing some new algorithm (not in Knuth) as a normal part of your work. Or does it mean just writing new code from scratch rather thanh using a library?

I've written a lot of code in my career (and as a hobby), but I doubt that I've truly invented something new.
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Strange that this comment is being down voted. This was also the first thing I thought of.
And the message of this comment is?
and yet, all pages i see mention swedish tabloids reporting it. no mention of real news outlets.

didn't boter to click this as I've clicked several other links elsewhere.
Google can't even figure out how to get a high PageRank
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Yup, but a tent is not a building. And going from a tent to a building requires you to take apart the tent in almost all cases, no?
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Nobody uses these complaints when the game is called an MMO. Perhaps that's their new take on Diablo? I was a huge fan of Diablo and played it entirely online. I'm not too angry about this, personally.
"You have a >100,000 user base so push an update to the free app so that it now includes ads."

The problem is, the users who got it when it was free got the PAID version, so they can't push an update to the people who got it for free without making all the users who ACTUALLY paid also get ads.

They'd also have to add ads to the paid Google Market version, since the Amazon dev agreement requires that you keep app versions synchronized across all app stores. Amazon has basically put them in a position where they can only lose money or piss off their actual paying customers.
Also, the U.S. Government Printing Office makes available bulk data for certain publications in XML format. See http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/bulkdata/ for more information.
Thanks, Wingo! These posts are really cool, and doing a great job of explicating some complex beasts.
Do Downloads work?

Is it as powerful?

It is not clear you have every advantage git offers: real access requires equal representation in relation to mainstream commands.

- Every git project frontpage looks different than "Downloads" page.

- Downloads page has 2 sentences; new git-command-friendly project homepage has full good README page.

- What about revision history?

- Can you upload folders/multiples? Says "Upload a new file"....

- Downloads is a sidebutton, not a main tab; it is a button custom-designed differently than every other button on page, uncertain.

Differentials?

P.S. Concerning title for your same tangent reason
It does seem like great news. Quality of life in India has definitely gotten better. Actually the growing economy has made entrepreneurship more lucrative, allowing folks to make enough money to be in the upper middle class with a startup.

The actual mechanics of a startup still seem to be harder than in the U.S. from what my friends who have gone back tell me.
Absolutely, as someone who grew up in a city like Mumbai, I know much about shanty towns and from my knowledge of them, they are far from ideal. ie. They are not know for a strong foundation, cleanliness, longevity etc. They are constantly hacked and patched by its residents to ensure basics like protection from rain, electricity and basics like a toilet.
RepRap is a free desktop 3D printer capable of printing plastic objects: http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page

The RepRap Project is an initiative aimed at creating a largely self-replicating machine which can be used for rapid prototyping and manufacturing: http://www.reddit.com/r/reprap

Both are different projects, but relate to 3D printing.
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To be pedantic, there is at least one fate worse than the Total Death we observed: Total Death + no Gecko.

Even though ths external case is stronger, this holds true even from the company's perspective. AOL continued to release Gecko-derived browsers through 2007. They got something from that (even if it was just AIM installs and propping up the fading Netscape brand for other purposes).
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You are right, Sony manufactures a lot of things in Japan. But it also manufactures many things (including high end televisions and some of its game consoles) in China. They are quite coy about disclosing what percentage, so I don't know where you have read the majority come from Japan.
See also http://netduino.com/ for a very similar project that's been around for a while, albeit not with Microsoft sponsoring it.

At this point it seems pretty much another "me-too" Arduino[1]. The noteworthy fact, I guess, is that it's coming from a major software company not an embedded company this time, and that it's open source hardware/software from Microsoft (OSS libraries not tools/runtime.)

Microsoft have been trundling along with .NET microframework/robotics studio/etc for quite a while now, is this a sign of an escalating push into the hobbyist/education/maker space?

[1] As per
http://antipastohw.blogspot.com/2010/12/end-of-open-source-h...
Similar other examples include chipKIT Max32, TI Launchpad.
I'm pretty sure I've seen this image circulate the Digg/Reddit cycle a few months ago referring to the Millennium Falcon being found.
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It's unfortunate there's no mention of using MIMO spatial correlation techniques to increase Performance.
There's a big difference between an MMO though ... the online play is the only play, it's not in any sense single player nor would you buy it to play alone or when you're disconnected.

With C&C4 it had the single player stuff and the multiplayer stuff just like them all - online play was there and it added lots of value to the game just like it has historically, except they crippled the non-online play by needlessly forcing a constant online connection (if you dropped out you could complete the current game, not save it, not start another), moving your saved games and everything else to their servers etc.
While(1) vs for (;;) Is there a speed difference?
If this was the same price as Arduino, this would more than likely change Arduino's market dominance. Microsoft's development tools along with C# makes this much more exciting than most of what Arduino has to offer.
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Without Netscape 6, we wouldn't have had Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox, and probably wouldn't have IE7, IE8, IE9 and KHTML/Webkit would have come about very differently and all these would have had much less competition.

Netscape 6, or at least the mere fact that it existed and worked well enough and the fact that it was the first browser ever that did standards well and focused on not much else other than standards, made it the most important browser ever created.

Netscape 6 was the most revolutionary browser project ever created and had the development effort behind Netscape 6 not been done, we would possibly have had a much worse very IE-only web today.

Never mind that beyond all that, Netscape 4 was terrible and deserved to be thrown out.
That's amusing - I just logged on to post a comment to the effect of 'that thing looks just like the Millenium Falcon.'
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If you're willing to spend 10x the amount, you can score a professional printer. How much is "many times the amount"? (p.s. checkout Up! printer)
Unworkable DRM: Important bits in client, client secured by key, key handed to client.

Workable DRM: Unimportant bits in client, important bits in server, server secured by key, key handed to network operations center.

Your local gamers have been voting for this decision with their wallets, for years.
And that's how New York and Rome and Shanghai grew into world cities. They didn't pave them over and start from scratch. They grew out of shantytowns.
He means that New York needs a PayPal mafia. I think we already got one with DoubleClick which spawned off an incubator that did Gilt Groupe, 10gen, and Business insider so far. The Lerers are doing their part as well to reinvest in New York. But Chris is right that it won't hurt to have a few more. If Gilt Groupe sells or goes public, I expect we'll see this effect.
I made the comment because Reddit has some bostinnovation.com spammers:
http://www.reddit.com/user/joeymullette & http://www.reddit.com/user/chezral

I'm guessing they have employees who just post to social news sites.
The question is, what will we put our minds to?
I think Zediva had a great idea and found a loop hole in the law. I find it strange there is different rule for streaming and for DVD rentals in the movie industry. Why can't it be all the same? Sooner or later no one is going to rent DVD anyways everything will be online.
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It has now been marked as a troll, the admin was optimistic too.
Design software. Forget the scheduling and geology software, its managed by the big guys.

Every mining/mechanical engineer I know uses a collection of spreadsheets they have created/collated. It's cumbersome, its crap, its error prone.

* Materials Handling (Conveyor design etc.)

* Pumping (Dewatering, supply lines etc.)

Other areas which need serious shakeup are drawing and document control. There are junior miners starting every other week and if you can sell your software to them from the beginning to manage there document/drawing control you are set for at least 5-10 years of service/subscripton revenue as well.
well of course, they're changing the world one daily deal at a time. what has nuclear engineering ever done for society?
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You wrote that reasonably smart people couldn't figure out the old system, even with a couple of days' investigation. How is this a good system? If people can't figure it out, how are they supposed to use it?

Then you wrote that, when the new system appeared, "nearly everyone" moved to it. Doesn't this suggest that the new system was actually better? Why would most of the old system's clients, for example, pay the price to move to the new system unless they believed it was improved enough to be worth the migration cost?

I'm not saying that your conclusions are wrong, just that from reading your anecdote, it's not clear how to reconcile your claim that the rewrite was an mistake with the evidence that the result of that mistake seems to be preferred by nearly everyone who had the choice to keep using the old system.
Once you start calling anything an invention, the next logical step is to allow to patent it.

“Invention” and “Patent-worthy Discovery” are not synonymous:

An invention is a better or more effective composition,
device, or process. An invention may be derived from a
pre-existing model or idea, or it could be independently
conceived in which case it may be a radical breakthrough...

An invention that is novel and not obvious to others
skilled in the same field may be able to obtain the legal
protection of a patent.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Invention

It is possible and normal to invent things that are not novel, or may be obvious to others skilled in the same field. It’s still invention, it just isn’t “Big I” Invention, it’s a more modest creative process.

Think of it this way: We have the expression “re-inventing the wheel.” If it wasn’t possible to invent things that already exist, it wouldn’t be possible to “re-invent” anything, would it?
I'm sure that's one of the larger goals of PyPy, to make idiomatic code that is convenient to write also perform well. They don't have to be mutually exclusive.
Nice job, Dan. Always rooting for fellow Penn guys :)

Do you expect to automate this any time soon?
Oh wow, I hadn't looked at the price. $119 for the FEZ spider mainboard, and $249 for the starter kit. Education market, I guess?

The Netduino is $39 (admittedly, GHIs other smaller "non-gadgeteer" FEZ products compete with that), Netduino Plus (ethernet/SD) is $59, but the FEZ does have a ton more features than either.

And I guess presumably we can expect more "gadgeteer clones" in the next year or so.

As for Arduino's market dominance, it seems like suitability/competitiveness really depends on what you want to build. This stuff is several levels up in terms of abstraction and features. Some projects will embrace that, for some it'll just be window dressing.

Regarding development tools, TI has a really convenient USB-driven live debugger for their MSP platform, AFAIK including the Launchpad boards. Arduino is still the market leader, despite an absolutely bare-bones (but dead simple) IDE. Maybe Visual Studio tools will tip the balance, I don't know.

It'll be an interesting space to watch, that's for sure.
I'd like to know as well but I can attest (from working in NYC) that internet instability is an issue that must be solved.
Go to business school. Seriously.
I'm not sure about this one, but I know polywell reactors can be hot enough to use deuterium-deuterium reactions. It's cheaper, easier to extract energy from, and leaves stable helium nuclei with no stray neutrons.
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This weekend haha I'm not that much of a masochist to do it by hand forever :)
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I'm one of the developers on the Federal Register 2.0 project. Thanks for the great comments; we'd love feedback on how to improve the API or the site in general. In addition to the API client, the whole site is open source and on GitHub: https://github.com/criticaljuncture/fr2
Anonymity and pseudonimity exist on the Internet. The main problem is that people don't care enough.
I've done some work with the 2.0 beta. It's really easy to drop sproutcore into an embedded panel on an existing application now. I prefer the eventing conventions in sproutcore over the alternative – purely a matter of preference. I'm looking forward to the new UI kit, too.
Actually, I think he's saying be courteous to people that help you.

I agree with this advice, and I think the advice stands alone.

I think you should always err on the side of being overly generous to anyone who spends time trying to assist you. So, if he built a startup that makes this process easier, and then writes about it, I think thats great. Whats your beef?
So, if I understand this is essentially reselling Mechanical Turk services with a little work in hiding the details from the customer? I'm not quite sure if this is a scam or not...

...but I can think of plenty of cases where people sell "expertise" which boils down to the same thing... normally its a bit more complicated than this though. I wonder if the customers would pay if they knew of Amazon's service? My guess is they just don't know about it, or at least didn't think it would be any good for them...
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This is also a great way to prevent a modding community to flourish. The complete oposite of what Notch has been doing with Minecraft: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/4955141617/the-plan-for-mods
My favorite one is "The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe". It has likable hosts and content that is entertaining, but often educational as well.

The level of commitment to the show by the Skeptic's Guide hosts is simply amazing. They have been producing great content every week since 2005. I would recommend starting at #108 and make sure you listen to #109 next to see just how committed they are.

I usually listen to the show while falling asleep or taking a bike ride.

"Planet Money", "Radiolab" and "The Moth Podcast" are good too.
Because they are claiming an increase of detail by a factor of 100,000, while the demo barely showed anything close to a detail increase by a factor of 1.

Trees & rocks are often animated in modern games, so animation is important. Additionally there is no point using a heavy duty voxel engine to render background landscapes that no one will visit in the game, especially if it's going to take gobs of RAM & CPU time to do it.

Hardware tessellation can already greatly increase surface detail, is already available in modern hardware & has better looking demos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G9anRoYGko

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT_45RFFTx8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HWZKGZcKoA
"Back Seat Producers" for movie recaps and reviews.
http://www.backseatproducers.com/

"The Paleo Solution" for health and nutrition.
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"Manager Tools" and "Career Tools" for general career advice.
http://manager-tools.com/

"Jennisodes" for pen-and-paper RPG interviews.
http://www.jennisodes.com/
Remote wipe is a horrible way to implement security on a Dropbox account. Better is client side encryption - although Dropbox has no intention of implementing that either.

There are a few other companies that have, however: http://skeptu.com/secure-alternatives-to-dropbox
Hey jheriko thanks for the comment! Yes what I'm doing is essentially taking the MTurk service which is for doing a very wide range of tasks, and is also somewhat time consuming to set up, and reselling it as a targeted service for people who want to get their websites reviewed. It's definitely not a scam, just me building a service I thought people might find useful and charging for it. Feel free to email me at dan@danshipper.com, I would love to talk to you more about your thoughts on this.
Procedurally generated assets take very little storage. They still take just as much memory to actually put into the scene graph and render.
Heh, days? If you work from home, try weeks.
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obfuscation != minification != compilation
We just don't want it to turn into reddit.
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Yes your'e right that the compiler != the IDE. The compile time should be attributed to the compiler, of course, but VS has a habit of invoking the compiler unnecessarily, even if no source has changed.

I don't really use the WYSIWIG aspects either but all aspects of the UI seem slow and cluttered in my experience. And whether or not you and I use those aspects of the IDE is somewhat immaterial. It is called Visual Studio after all and touts the visual designers.

My point regarding the specs of my dev machine were that it is a fairly decent, new machine and the load being placed on it really isn't that high. Comparatively I run XCode on a 4 year old laptop with 2GB RAM, slower disk, slower processor and it is far more responsive. (And FWIW the compiler is faster too, especially now they are using LLVM).

When I say the IDE doesn't make a difference to the level of polish you can apply to an application what I'm trying to say is that if you're writing mostly textual code as I do too, then the IDE doesn't really factor into the polish of the application. Although, I suppose I'm contradicting myself as if I'm more productive in XCode then I have more time available to polish, so there is an indirect relationship there :P

At the end of the day, they're both decent tools and and everyone will have their preference. My comment was really just because a lot of people have started using XCode in recent years, having moved from VS due to the "iPhone effect" and I see an awful lot of comments and posts about how much better VS is, and my experience contradicts that :)
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CrowdPicker has been doing this for awhile: http://www.crowdpicker.com/
Technically, anyone could get away with it. But, it's the value proposition that really makes it unrealistic lol.

You'd have to be at a point where you're trying to scale your business for this type of tax planning to really kick butt.
Soudan Mine is really quite a sight, if you've never done a mine tour before. If you have any interest at all in the neutrino work happening at Fermilab, be sure to take the scientific tour as well as the tour of the mine proper.
Thanks I hadn't seen that I'll definitely check them out. Do you know if they use MTurk or some other service?
Or maybe our local gamers have been voting with the paychecks they earn. Patio, I generally think your commentary is valuable and insightful. In this case I think you've reduced a complicated situation to a nifty sounding catch phrase that appeals to our libertarian leanings (even mine).

I used to manage a high-volume retail game store (~3m in yearly sales, $30 at a time). Many gamers literally do spend all of their disposable income on the games, and pirate what they cannot afford (and surprise, huge swaths of the gamer population are poor as dirt, and with the amount of time and money they spend on games this isn't changing). This kind of DRM would exist if 1 person or 1million people were pirating games, because its the only secure solution.

I don't think this kind of DRM will be successful in improving PC sales in general. The only reason Blizzard gets away with it is because their games will always be at the top of gamer's purchase lists. They are high quality products with a shitload of content and beautiful user interfaces. If every game company followed suite, I don't think the result would be successful.

edit, and context: I don't really care what Blizzard does to protect their games. People were concerned about Starcraft 2, the required online connectivity hasn't affected my game experience at all in the last year. I think this will probably be true for D3, as well.
Where is open source 3D printing going?
Awesome to meet so many Seattle HN folks. Sorry I had to bail a bit early. Looking forward to potentially hosting the next one at Moz (or Estately if Galen wins the arm wrestling contest) :-)
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Egotistical engineers always think this time things will be different, because they're smart enough to do it right. The reality is that every rewrite brings a new and different set of problems that need to be addressed. You don't escape problems by scrapping it all and starting over and this is one of the most valuable lessons to learn as an engineer.
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Is it just me or anyone else have find it frustating to use SVB online banking system?
They will leverage them to innovate on the interface
Diablo has always had a strong online component. While the series has never been an MMO in a strict sense, online play has always been more engaging (except for rampant spamming... which Blizzard seriously needs to address). Sites like d2jsp.org will attest to the added depth of online play. An economy developed out of the items you could find and there was also high end game play that was only available online. The experience was clearly superior.

Lots of people are going to jump all over Blizzard for it, but this move was entirely predictable and makes sense. What do you gain by playing offline: less restrictions and less gameplay. While some people will disagree with me, it is akin to asking for an offline component to WoW or EVE: there's technically a game left, but without other people there's much less fun and enjoyment.
I think you can get a "real" desktop 3D printer for about $5K these days. But the consumer build-it-yourself designs are doing reasonably well, and actually give very, very good results - the catch is you have to be willing to put a lot of time in.
Nothing wrong with reselling stuff. Also, Mechanical Turk is not available in all countries.