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It's this kind of thinking that leads to "Ruby is all magic!". You have to understand the object model to get maximum benefit from Ruby. To be fair you need to understand the object model of any OO language to get a deeper understanding of the language.
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I think the distinction is that you can learn a lot about a problem-centric business (e.g. typical lean startup) from an unpolished version, whereas the article's author is claiming that games are unique in that you must polish BEFORE you learn, which makes the first leap much more expensive.
I've been answering questions on stack overflow and the number of people who write completely incomprehensible questions is amazing! They just have no idea how to write.

Sometimes a foreign language is the reason, but not always.
Game design is really its own beast, I'd say separate (but overlapping) from typical customer development / MVP processes. Making something fun is incredibly hard, let alone marketing, distributing, and profiting from it.
Wow ... this is messed up. I'm counting my iPods and iPads and Macs, and I think I'm going to go over their limit. When I paid money for my apps and content, I assumed I wasn't going to have to deal with this crap.

This is the real difference between digital content and physical content. Once I buy a damn book or physical DVD or whatever, I know what I am getting. With digital content, I can get f'ed and have virtually no recourse.

I expected better from you Apple.

Edit: It is unclear if this is in production or only applies to the developer beta. If it gets into production, I'm turning in my Apple fanboy membership card.
this isn't a black thing. It's an idiot thing.
It's the first item in "about:flags".
Just another Ruby article where Ruby cultists preach to the choir, and its techno-babble to the rest of us..
This item - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2863503 - is intended to be the same thing, but incorrectly points to a generic front page. A pointer has been put there to direct people here.
As a developer, I would much rather write a more expensive high-quality app than some bargain bin POS.
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Just watching the Leaky vid, it seems like they are adding real value.
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This submission seems to fail and redirect to a generic front page.

A submission to the actual item can be found here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2863544
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It seems nobody has mentionned Gregory Chaitin[1] yet

With good reason. The logician Torkel Franzen said it well in "Gödel's Theorem: An Incomplete Guide" [Chapter 8, p 148]: ``Chaitin's claim to have discovered "the amazing fact that some mathematical statements are true for no reason" has no apparent content, but seems rather to be based on the general associations surrounding the word "random".''
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on all my PC's and my BB. Ever since FireFox crashed on me and lost all my bookmarks.
My site http://ourdoings.com/ also organizes by date, and there are samples on the front page you can click through to see different people's timelines.

However, I think Snapjoy's right to tell people to upload their own photos to see it in action. To me, 2005/December means Puerto Rico. For it to mean that to you I have to tag/caption/etc. Upload 1,000 of your own photos and you'll see how easy it is to have a navigable, varied, enjoyable collection. (That sentence applies to any site that organizes by date and uses any algorithm to mitigate the too-many-redundant-photos problem).
Agreed. I was more responding to the parent comment (than the article) re: the difficulty in estimating the time to polish software.

You (and the article) are absolutely correct. An unpolished productivity app can still deliver value if the output is complete, i.e. the majority of the value comes from the output, not the experience of using the product. Whereas games are all about the experience, so unpolished game is not going to provide the value.
Let's not tar all Sheriffs with the same brush. Yes there are a few very visible cases of abuse, but the reason you can even say "Sheriff Joe" and have people know what you're taking about is that he is a very special case.
I guess i'll go signup for every third party service to reach enlightenment. Thanks
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Hollywood. Where do you think they're from?

Please leave cinematic fantasies where they belong: on the other side of the silver screen.
That's precisely my point though - I think the software market has reached a point where developer laziness like this simply won't fly.

There was a time when the functionality of our products compared to the status quo (e.g., word processing vs. typewriters) was so ridiculously skewed that we could get away with bloody murder. And we did. We invented insipid modal UIs that jerked users around the app. We invented gigantic toolbars with hundreds of vague icons because we were too lazy figure out how to let users access their most used functions quickly. We created unforgiving apps where just glancing at it wrong resulted in data loss. We abdicated our responsibility to make features accessible, and instead printed large manuals and tear-out cheat-sheets, and made fun of people who couldn't handle the information overload.

That era's long gone. Look at the App Store - it's a parade of failed apps eviscerated by users for bad UI. It's a gallery of obscure apps that never made it out of the gate because they didn't put thought into their UX. Now look at any of the top apps (in whatever way you define it: top grossing, most downloaded, highest reviewed, whatever), and you will see that one main common thread that connects is that their UI doesn't suck.

People's tolerance for bad UI has decreased rapidly for years, continues to decrease, and the number of places where you can get away with it is rapidly shrinking. On the desktop you might still have that much breathing room - on the hyper-competitive winner-takes-all arena of the App Store, you have no chance.

As a side note - I highly doubt Qt will save a developer enough time to make the difference between a $1 app price vs. a $5 app price. There are so many low-level fundamental UX differences between iOS, Android, and any of the other mobile platforms that full abstraction is simply not possible in the way that we have been able to do on the desktop.
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Your age does not matter. Depending on how old you are and if your a first time entrepreneur I suggest that you have a big vision but adjust your tangible goals correctly to the amount of time and resources you have available to you. Perhaps aim for something you could easily sell to another company or a product that can gain paying customers.

In terms of finding a co-founder, why not partnering up with another teen? Events like Young Rewired State (UK - http://rewiredstate.org/events/young-2010), hack days and barcamps all usually have teens attending them.

Check out TeensInTech (Bay Area - http://teensintech.com/) which also runs a teen tech incubator.

There are also a few online young entrepreneurial groups such as Millennium Generation https://www.facebook.com/groups/rockstars and theres WebeTalk IRC chat (http://webetalk.com) which is frequented by some of the youngest YC startup founders.

If you want to take a different more active approach try building something small and useful that will get you tons of press and coverage on HackerNews. You can also tip TechCrunch (tips@techcrunch.com), building something that people are aware of outside of you telling them will definitely help you find and secure a co-founder. On top of that the media and others absolutely love young entrepreneurs stories. So with a bit of work you will be able to get coverage.

If you want to team up with a more experienced person, why don't you ask them to be your mentor, ask their advice (it's generally good to have personal advisors, they'll help you out). Build that relationship and if things look good, maybe you could ask them to join as a co-founder or help out. Many startups do this to acquire higher level executives or even investors.

If you have a technical background, you don't need a co-founder to start. I hope this helps and good-luck, many of us have been there before.
That does sound odd, since it's possible to detect the state of the triggers independently. The configuration utility for the Xbox Controller driver that I use allows me to map any of the physical axes to the virtual axes X, Y, Z, Rx, Ry, Rz, and Slider, so I guess that's roughly what's supported by the Windows input APIs. I don't really know how it's reported by the controller, though, other than the fact that it isn't standard USB HID.
That's indeed the Mac way, or more correctly the Apple way. It's the reason why the Mac was dominated by highly polished not-cross platform apps.
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NASA is confident that these, at least, did. (Of course, they could also have simultaneously been created terrestrially - but that doesn't change the fact that they were also created in space.)

We have three lines of evidence that together give us confidence these DNA building blocks actually were created in space. (http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/dna-meteorit...)
I'm gonna get hammered for this, but this smacks more of a struggling President that has it out for a (ridiculous) news organization that has it out for him than a legitimate racketeering case.
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At least this phrase is not true:
"Most Facebook games of note cost at least $200k to get off the ground and many of the more famous ones cost $1m"

Some very popular (not the most popular) facebook games started with $0 budget yet have millions of users.
I have always been curious as to how religion will tackle proof of alien life. Do aliens get to go to heaven?
In addition to the fully-loaded cost of programmers being substantial, you also have huge budgets for asset creation: art/animation/music/etc. Asset creation is expensive. It also depreciates straight off a cliff: the core audience will see it as novel for a period measured in weeks, days, or even hours in some pathological cases.

Many non-game applications have an adoption curve which looks something like the sales graph on BCC (100x now what it was at launch) or the famous YC "gradual adoption, spike, trough of sorrow, plateau, steady growth, traction" narrative. Games almost universally have a big spike at lunch, declining sales through the launch window, and then they fall off a cliff and never recover. The exceptions to this rule are so rare that even non-gamers know their names. My mom remembers Starcraft. You will not be Starcraft.

This greatly complicates post-launch marketing, iterating towards a game design which achieves fit with what customers will pay for, etc. (The ability to do that is one reason why social games work so well... that and fixing "our industry has no effing clue how to do customer acquisition" with copious helpings of spam spam spam your friends.)
Your second sentance is irrelevant, it's not like every living thing on earth is believed to go to heaven.
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If development cost is related to size, this 3D shooter game (a technology demonstrator, if you will) is about 100kB: http://www.theprodukkt.com/kkrieger

100kB including graphics.

Uses procedural texture creation. The group also made available the tool they used for generating those textures.
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You don't get what you don't pay for. "Linode works for me" is just anecdotal. I suspect Linode has smaller margins than Amazon, though, and tries to pass savings onto their customers despite not having Amazon's economies of scale.

An Amazon small instance has 1.7 GB of memory, and 160 GB of "local instance storage" (which Amazon will wipe when your instance goes down), and "1 EC2 unit" (a single core on a 1.2 GHz 2007 Xeon processor). It will cost you about $60 a month.

A similar plan on Linode will give you 1.5 GB RAM, and 60 GB storage. They will also throw in bandwidth and persistent storage, though.

Amazon tends to give you more flexibility (on demand prices, spot prices, dedicated prices, bigger instances, smaller instances, persistent storage, cheap temporary storage, and so on). But it's not as easy to use as Linode.

Linode targets people who want a cloud server. Amazon has a number of uses.
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I'm sure Amazon will fix this issue, but the question it brings to my mind is- why are so many people using ECC? Most startups need hosting, not an elastic compute cloud. ECC makes sense for someone who needs to spin up 1,000 workers, pull data out of S3, process it, store the results in S3 and then spin down the workers when it is done.

But startups need hosts that are up 24/7. ECC doesn't give you any guarantee of uptime, and if it goes down the local (fast) disk is ephemeral. Yet, the EBS alternative which is backed up, is very slow.

The basic VPS offerings, that Linode, Rackspace, and just about everyone else offers, isn't available at all from Amazon (near as I can see.) Yet this is what startups need- local disks, a small monthly fee, and up all the time.

So, Amazon requires extra engineering--to account for nodes going down more often and to make ephemeral disks reliable or EBS performant. It also puts you on the path to lock-in, since so many of amazons services have their own unique APIs. It isn't exactly cheap, near as I can tell, when compared to, say, dedicated hosting in germany.

Its advantages exist elsewhere- if you need to spin up a bunch of machines with an API you can do this at rackspace cloud. And... that's about the only advantage I'm able to think of. Personally, I'm architecting to have some overcapacity built in and to survive a spike, because I use that excess capacity in the off hours for heavy lifting. I wouldn't try to bring up extra nodes in the morning and shut them down in the evening anyway... and I doubt that many startups are really doing that.

Possibly, I'm missing something. I tend to forget about features that aren't compelling to me, but are compelling to others. So maybe there's something that's important to these startups.
FWIW, you can buy these cables online (I bought a couple a year or so ago).

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I've always wondered... how much of these nature documentaries are shot in the wild, and how much is shot in a controlled environment? From the write-up I presume that the outside shot of the queens working together was 'real' -- but when the camera pans down, is that some kind of artificial ant farm?
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Of course not. The whole reason many of us became entrepreneurs in the first place is to minimize the amount we have to work.

I, for instance, spend maybe five hours a week maintaining the little web empire that's bringing in enough to live comfortably on. Sure, there's always a period of intense building at the beginning of a project where you can find ways to occupy yourself for upwards of 40 hours in a single week, but if you choose your niche well that period doesn't last long, and soon you're on to the marketing phase which is measured more in calendar time than IDE time.

Naturally, if you're the sort of person who works 80 hour weeks, you'll find a way to build a business that requires 80 hours of your time each week to stay out of crisis. On the flip side, if you're the sort of person who prefers month-long periods of idleness on tropical beaches with occasional email checks to verify that your business is still running itself, that's entirely doable as well.
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Religion doesn't need a literal interpretation to succeed, they'd just sweep it under the rug like everything else. Indeed, I think the majority of religious people do not believe much literally, and at least many of them are simply believers in belief.
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It costs engineering time to simply choose Amazon in the first place. You could spin up VPSes at backspace or dedicated machines elsewhere for less money, and have a local, reliable, fast hard drive.

Instead, to go with amazon you have to architect for Amazon, not counting on your ECC instances to be up all the time, accounting for their local fast storage going away, or accounting for how EBS, which is persistent, is slow.

The alternative is, get the enterprise version of Riak, purchase dedicated nodes in two data centers, tell them about each other. (no engineering required.)

If engineering resources are the most precious commodity, it seems AWS is the more expensive option.
Compatibilism is just one of those "answers" that defines away the problem. "Oh, if we just say that free will is determined then problem solved! I'm a genius!"

Also, FWIW omniscience is not logically incompatible with free will.
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I'll be eagerly waiting for this service to make it to Florida. Good luck guys.
FWIW, you've been able to buy these things for at least a year (I own multiple, all purchased).

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I hate headlines like this. What it should have said was "Facebook OVERuse..." Which is just as true of any number of things. For example, students who check Facebook during a 15-minute period when they're supposed to be studying get lower grades. No, really?
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"Content with cash, and more eager to spend it on homes and on a more balanced life-style, they may not want to keep driving the company as aggressively."

So I don't understand this thinking. You've built all this value (and a kick-ass team I would presume) and you're not allowed to take a few weeks off to go house-hunting or take a vacation? The only good CEO is an underpaid CEO? Jeez.
It is difficult for me to stay objective when it comes to gun possession, because I'm strongly anti-guns, and I can't seem to even begin to understand Americans' attitudes on the subject, but I'll give it my best shot:

Remember what was the "cause"[1] for these riots? A person got shot. The situation is already out of control, but if half the rioters and half the citizens and all of the police were carrying guns, I honestly think London would be a war zone right now.

One thing that - to me, at least - has always been obvious is a direct proportional relation between guns and violence. Less guns, less violence; more guns more violence. Weapons are a catalyst for violence.

These are people fighting people. Any guns would be evenly distributed among the defenders and the attackers, and thus not serve to end or cool the conflict, but further exacerbate the situation.

Any mob is better than an armed mob. Arming the citizens would be arming the mob, since the mob actually consists of citizens. I do not think guns would help anybody.

I don't even think that guns would help the police. I'm glad the police are not using arms against the mob.

And yes, if I had to choose between somebody breaking into my house and stealing/breaking everything, and having a gunfight with said person, I'd choose the former, without even blinking. Call me meek, but I'd rather lose my livelihood than my life. Where I come from, health is always valued more than possessions.

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[1] I know "cause" is not the right word. The shot drug dealer wasn't any more a cause for the riots than Helena's rapture by Paris was a cause for the Trojan siege. Doesn't mean that the Trojans would have been wise to counteract the Greeks by abducting more women. The mob is taking it as a primary reason to run amok, and more people getting killed would add more anger.
I do not agree that it is completely irrelevant when including the possibilities of life at a higher intellectual level. It would still put religion in a difficult position; if God created humans, he must have created aliens. At what intellectual level would you set the barrier? Must it demonstrate empathy? Love? And who would decide? What gives a human the right, as it clearly is the guy in the sky that is the gatekeeper.