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It's not about the filesize, you have to polish/test/revamp/art/music/code.

I have only done 2d games small games and saw how hard it was.
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S3 is a big part of it. If you're storing lots of data, a "local disk" just isn't enough. Now you're spending your time solving problems Amazon already solved.

Occasional downtime just isn't that big of an issue for many startups, who are still looking for product-market fit.
I'm not sure I see a problem with that; as I understand it, the point of RICO was to make it easier to go after large/ongoing criminal operations and their leaders. If it can be shown that an organization has done these things, why not bring RICO into it?
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your code comments are mostly unnecessary. a 'label.text = "my text";' is pretty much self explanatory and doesn't need a comment that you assign 'my text' to a label.
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Its gameplay sucks. This is because it was made by hobbyists who just couldn't bother spending any more time once the "omfg a good-looking FPS in 96k" effect had been accomplished. Kkrieger has all the problems that the OP highlights: it's half a game.
Learn Python or Ruby. Start working on an open source project and going to meetups frequented by other programmers, engineers, hackers, and media types. Write about what you are doing and what you are interested in on a blog. Make connections, experiment, and find out what you are interested in and the opportunities will present themselves.
I totally agree. Still, a discovery so profound as first contact must have some impact to their belief. But then again, my guess is that when this discovery is made, the larger part of the world are secularists.
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Don't be so facile.

Given the depth and breadth of the corruption and treason that News Corp was instigating in the UK it would beggar belief if the US didn't investigate it.

If it hadn't investigated it I would have given up entirely on the US, at least this shows it's not entirely in thrall to its corporations.
Someone said business continuity? It can be costly, but could save your business. Stop saving that VC money and start saving your business.
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Honestly, the exact example they criticise is a common device I use to make code less complex. Yes, you can horribly mis-use it, and you can horribly mis-use goto, but I don't want someone to tell me I can't use something just because I might not use it properly. There's an interesting discussion on goto's use in the Linux kernel here: http://kerneltrap.org/node/553/2131 (the final example, stack-style rewind, is NOT pretty in Java).
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Anyone ever checkout LaunchList? http://launchlist.net/

Seems like it would be a great tool to keep track of these things.
I agree regarding the rant. I want an explanation of why I no longer need those constructs in Scala, not just a hand-wavy "they're bad, stop using them". Currently I need them, telling me that I do not is not going to sway me to your cause!
> Mr Mendez pointed out that, rather than valuing a single sovereign, the worker ants were simply picking off the weakest queens to manage their resources better.

wow that looks like a really good strategy - first the queens help each other out to improve their chances of building a good nest and then they get starved by possibly their own "kids" so that the colony is driven by the strongest queen. The article doesn't provide much detail about how do they select "the weakest link" though
Please refrain from judging reliability of cloud providers unless you have a representative sample. By representative sample I mean several hundreds of instances.

That your instance runs 99.9% does not say anything, you are lucky. That your instance dies in two weeks does not day anything, you are unlucky.
Emailing a password plaintext in a confirmation email is completely orthogonal to whether or not it is hashed in the database! I agree that neither should be done, though.
The question is not why Moody's thinks that U.S. still deserves AAA, but how long it will take until Moody's will have to downgrade U.S.
Lots of discussion from when this story was submitted three days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2850170
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I could probably live without "break", but "continue" is very useful.

for(Person p: persons) {
if(p.getAge() < 18)
continue;

// lines of code here
}

The alternative is to have a if-else instead, and that hurts readability even if you don't usually have much code inside a for-loop. You could probably also solve it by writing a filter function that generates a new list with those you want to process, but I find having lots of "magic" functions scattered around the code to be just as annoying. And it will also hurt performance / memory usage for large datasets
> It's the same reason why I oppose Java-based UIs. No matter which platform you use it on, it never really behaves like the native widgets, and there are inconsistencies big and small that drive users up the wall.

Although Eclipse drives users up the wall in every other way, it uses SWT [1], which uses native controls.

[1] http://www.eclipse.org/swt/
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My religion has taught me there was alien life since I was a child. I was also taught that all humans and all animal life will be resurrected. It's not too hard to extrapolate that intelligent alien species, should they exist, would as well. So maybe the answer to your question is "It depends on the religion."
I think irreducibility is well received in philosophy. Evolutionary Biology not so much for political reasons. Sure there are are plenty of models that incorporate emergent phenomena but it's a heated area.
We seem to be reaching good enough models (arguably some of them will be thoroughly reproducible in laboratories soon enough). But I don't think we'll arrive at a definite answer here. My guess is that we'll come up with multiple ways it could've happened, along with their respective degrees of likelihood.

/me leans back on his armchair
Some very popular (not the most popular) facebook games started with $0 budget

Someone had to make them. Just because they were bootstrapped does not mean they were free. You have to value your time at something.

That said, you are right, there are some success stories that don't have huge budgets. The article does attempt to address this though:

It’s easy to look at outlier examples such as the early Facebook apps and think that those games are normal examples of where dedication can get you, but you’re failing to take account of context if you do that. Very early adopters in a brand new market can afford to get away with appalling levels of production because the market is so new that there are no expectations. Most games are not developed for brand new markets.
Constructive criticism does not normally begin with "that is such bullshit."

I certainly did not say they were friendless. I insinuated that if they believed they were following the community guideline of "being nice" they probably did not have a lot of friends.
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For a language that's targeted at non-programmers I don't see how Move offers any benefits over Coffeescript, or even Javascript itself particularly.

Programming should change the way you think. The language is an artifact that you program through, but that's not the critical problem in conceiving of and executing good software design.

A cursory examination of the Move site does not make it look more attractive than other Javascript based languages, and the explanations it offers i don't think would make it more accessible to non-programmers either.

What gives? /me is confused.
I'm assuming that this article is catered towards ppl intending to be game developers, or ppl wanting to make a game by hiring a bunch of developers.

if you count in man-hours, then yes it's into the 100ks.

going from the single indie developer perspective,

assume you pay yourself $100/hour
game takes 4 months to develop
total cost is 100$ * 120 days * 10 hours/day = 120,000 $

the cost for game assets have not even been included!

but no indie developer I know take these costs into account. Who actually cares about sweat dollars? If two-three people sit in room, code+draw for 4 months straight taking ramen noodles, launch and make millions off the game on iOS, they're not going to tell you "We spent $120k of our own money+time". Instead they'll say "We spent 4 months furiously making the game, living off ramen noodles in mom's basement"

in summary, the development cost could be either be close to zero, or $100k.

if you're hiring a team, yes prepare to splash $100k, but if you go indie, get some good game dev friends, and absorb all costs!
I know it's not a hash table. That's the whole criticism anyway because I needed those features. It's pretty stupid that I had to Google for a proper hash table library when something as fundamental as this should be builtin.

Insanely powerful prototypal behavior? I haven't seen anything that I can't already do with Python's or Ruby's object models, but with much simpler syntax. Inheritance in Javascript is a mess, you have to manually write code to copy over the parent class's prototype to the child class, which is why every Javascript framework invents its own wrapper syntax for defining classes.
Unfortunately the article doesn't mention kings, but I can identify being starved by your own children. Two college tuitions and a thin-as-a-rail son that can empty the refrigerator in a single meal. j/k
A little more details from the author of Move.js: http://rsms.me/2011/07/30/an-update-on-move.html
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It may be relevant precisely because not every living thing on earth is believed to go to heaven. "But these guys don't get to go to heaven" is part of the rationale behind a lot of modern genocides, and before that many cases of slaughter and slavery. If we or the aliens are to think that of each other, hey, that's enough premise for a real-life Hollywood classic.
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Doesn't sound like self-assembly to me - isn't that simply some magnetic particles sticking to a magnet (or as close to the magnet as possible)? Too bad the videos don't show the magnets involved.
The Bible for example is very clear about the one who is making the decisions: God, or guy in the sky as you call it.
So I don't think that would be a problem for religion.

And I think this news is still no proof for skeptical people (like myself).
They found molecules that are very rare on earth and are now suggesting they originated in space:

"...but were unsure whether these materials actually originate in space. The presence of these three molecules, however, suggest that they do, potentially raising new questions..."

So just new questions and suggestions. No proof of alien life for me. But interesting!
For a "my first programming language", it's a bit too "programming language". It took me a few seconds to understand what

hello = ^{ "Hello " + name }

does. I (and my grandmother as well, for that matter) would understand that a lot better if it was a lot more explicit, like

function hello(name) do
"Hello " + name
I don't recognize your description of the political landscape. Republicans don't do any more to shrink government than Democrats do to expand it. This has never been true. They do have different priorities. Republicans think the government should be like your father who protects good citizens from harm by fighting bad citizens and foreign threats. Democrats think the government should be like your mother who nurtures and cares for all of its citizens.

As science and economics are showing us a mixture of father and mother turns out to work best, the political differences between Republicans and Democrats are shrinking every year. As a consequence, the parties feel it is necessary to distantiate themselves more and especially the Republicans have spent several decades creating a vast narrative around where their priorities lie. Unfortunately, this has led to big changes in voter's habbits and ideological perspectives.

Wealthy opportunists have helped promote and taken advantage of the narrative to push an agenda of lower taxes for the rich in return for lavish campaign funding. A group of people bought into the narrative too deeply and now think that the myths about taxes they heared over the years are the hard facts, and that Democrats have misguided beliefs. Supported by the wealthy opportunists, these people have taken control of the Republican party and its policies. This is a corruption that has taken many years to develop, but now runs deeply into the belief systems of voters and the wallets of politicians.
Thanks for the link. Makes me wonder, if life did come from space then we will have to start exploring space more seriously. The possibility of a aliens existing somewhere else cannot be ignored any longer.
"In the short term, these micro-robots could be used to deliver cancer drugs (or any kind of medication) in a highly-targeted fashion, rather than the carpet bombing approach that is currently used"

You can almost always find the cancer therapy tie-in with these kinds of things. In this case "near term" would be 15-20 years at best. Getting stuff inside of cells without the immune system going caveman on your nanobot along the way is a hard problem.
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Way OT but… you are making a categorical error: (putting aside what you may or may not think about Christianity… but) Christianity asserts that the only reason people (or beings) are not going to heaven is because of their sin (defined as, “any want of conformity to or transgression of the law of God”). To presuppose that any theoretical aliens have sin is wholly unwarranted. There is no need for any Christian to assume any status as regards heaven in relation to an alien.

Also; the existence or lack of existence of any alien life form would have no theological bearing on the western church. (That’s not to say that it would in the east. I just am ignorant of the details -- though if I was a betting man I would say that it is the same in that case also.) Wouldn’t change a thing; and not because it would get “swept under the carpet” but because it really changes nothing core to the dogma deemed necessary for the western church (i.e. the Ecumenical creeds).

And, just as an even further aside, some prominent Christian theologians believe that aliens might exist.
They will find evidence of aliens in their religious texts. Always post factum.
The guy who made Gratuitous space battles keeps a blog, and from what I remember he contracted out the art for less than 10 grand and sunk over a year into development. We could claim it took 100K or more to make but I definitely agree man hours is the more important metric.
I see what you're saying, and I failed to illuminate that I'm coming from the perspective of someone who is working with a cluster of riak nodes. Riak is a ring topology much inspired by the Amazon S3 design. I'd never trust anything to just one spinning rust device, sure. I was taking a distributed storage architecture (using whatever open source platform you prefer) for granted. But I recognize that S3 predates many of them.
I should not have watched Falling Skies either, but mostly because it sucks so bad. :-(
Well maybe you give the answer yourself.

"Patents exist to encourage innovation" Sometimes innovation is costing a lot of money and time (research and development). When you can make sure you can protect the outcome you are more likely to keep on innovating.
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In re Passwords

Have you ever noticed many/any companies that just disregard the chars after 8 or 12 and or the unicode characters?
Nope, it's real. Maybe it's just overreaction, but after seeing a few submitted stories get upvoted and then fall far off the front-page in minutes, I got the feeling that the old account might be blacklisted in some way. I was going to kick the tires on this one and see if it worked better.
> I have always been curious as to how religion will tackle proof of alien life.

They may not have to; I can't think of a religious faith that insists that humans are the only sentient beings in the universe. (John Polkinghorne [1] argues that even multi-verses are consistent with the notion of a Creator.)

> Do aliens get to go to heaven?

Same answer as above. And this assumes there is a heaven; not all religious people, indeed not even all 'Christians,' believe this. [2]

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[1] Polkinghorne is a retired Cambridge University professor of mathematical physics, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. He's now 80 years old; when he was 49 he went to seminary to become an Anglican priest, and has written a number of books about science and religion. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Polkinghorne.

[2] Some of us have provisionally concluded that a sensible way to bet is this: Over the very long term, the apparent on-going 'construction' of a cosmos, in which we seem to be participating, is likely to work out unimaginably wonderfully, but we really can't even speculate as to much more than that. See http://www.questioningchristian.com/2007/02/another_way_to_.... (Disclosure: I'm the author; the comments are worth reading as well.) EDIT: Polkinghorne has published what he describes as "naïve speculation" about how heaven might be explainable in terms of string theory. See http://www.questioningchristian.com/2006/04/resurrection_ap.....
In scala you would use a for-comprehension to get the same effect:

for (p <- persons; if p.getAge >= 18) {
println(p);
}
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I'm sorry to be critical but this article is a dangerously incomplete treatment.

For instance, methods only exist on classes. And there's no mention of the singleton class whatsoever.

For a more accurate lesson, watch Dave Thomas, author of the "Pickaxe" Programming Ruby book, present on the Ruby Object Model: http://scotland-on-rails.s3.amazonaws.com/2A04_DaveThomas-SO...
I agree, ^{} is fairly inadequate to delimit a function.
"Why do we have a special syntax for arrays in the language while collections are implemented in on top of the language? And isn't a bit irritating to convert them from one to another all the time?"

Perhaps it's just me, but I do not convert collections to arrays "all the time". I can't remember the last time I did so. It seems that the author has some bad experiences with certain libraries, but he shouldn't assume that it is part of the standard java experience.

I also don't see why this:

for(int idx = 0; idx < names.length; ++idx)
System.out.println(names[idx] + ": " + ages[idx]);
}

is "surprisingly tough to implement cleanly" compared to:

names zip ages foreach {p => println(p._1 + ": " + p._2)}

The second syntax may be clear to Scala programmers, but I think the Java version can be understood by most programmers
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Inside cells? That certainly is way off - but things like getting chemotherapy drugs mostly to the organ or body part that is cancerous should be much easier.
If you expect to grow your start-up quickly, it makes sense to use a provider that allows you to scale. It is very costly to maintain two separate infrastructures for different providers.
Please do not do this. It compromises people's right to privacy and will artificially incriminate people who may not be participating but are bystanding or trying to get home.

Technology is not the solution - it's part of the cause. Everyone is automatically incriminated. Don't add fuel to the fire.
> Note that this is a basic explanation, and glosses over higher-level concepts like the eigenclass/metaclass (I’ll leave that for a later post).
I would say yes, most likely an artificial ant farm. I learned recently from a documentary director friend of mine that this is done very often. For instance, since a human should really not get too close to a wild cheetah, they would use domestic ones for close up shots, even though the documentary is meant to be in the jungle.
Most audiences would not spot the trick, and it would help filmmakers tell their story more fluently. But it of course blurs the line between fiction and documentary.
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Games are a business with a very old model. They are sold the same way movies and music and books have been sold for decades, and the initial release provides instant feedback on the games success.

That being said, I wonder if games might be prepped for disruption. A big part of any polished game is user testing. How do we know its fun? We watch people play and see if they have fun.

Well, with the advances made in web analytics and the possibilities that graphics acceleration offers in modern (or maybe future) browsers, I could see studios and publishers selling games around a more iterative process.

An approach that finds the minimum fun experience and iterates from there could work very well on the web. Games like Asteroids and Missile Command do not need the polish others describe to be engaging, and then hosts of new features can be added over time to make such games more engaging. Add in the fact that web-based business models for games have proven recurring revenue through micro transactions can be very viable, and I think there could be a lean approach to game development.
Yeah, similar tech was demonstrated earlier this year I think -- little balls that carried anti-cancer drugs to tumors in mice. I think they were controlled with magnets.
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launch and make millions off the game on iOS

Remember, making millions is not guaranteed at the end of the journey. Even if you put in the right amount of polish and you've got a great game, there's still no guarantee that you'll be a hit.
A lot of what you say applies to anything in the "entertainment" category. Mobile music apps seem to follow this same sales trajectory.