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I would expect to get, as you put it, the 3DS VERSION for free, if when I purchased the game for the Wii it specifically said that I will receive all future updates and new versions for free.

If it shows up for my phone, I might shell out $7 for it anyway.
From what I heard they were bucking for a breakup payment of 5 billion - that would have been within an order of magnitude of what the Groupon investors would have liked to have.
> ‘When I said “randomize” in breast cancer trials I was looked at with amazement by my clinical colleagues’ said Meier in an interview in 2004. ‘ “Randomize? We know this treatment is better than that one” they said. I said “Not really…” ’
ok. I gotta say it. The url is pretty unfortunate! Never use a url that has the letters "-ex" preceded by any letters that end in "s"...unless of course, you are going for a double entendre.
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> people still don't care about or want tablet computers; they care about and want iPads

I've seen this many times when I try to explain to normal people what I do for a living. When I explain we create tablet apps, I get blank stares.

If I say we create iPad apps, they reply "oh I saw the commercial for those".

iPads are mainstream. Tablets in general, not so much.
Even if the problem that markets are trying to solve is NP hard, this doesn't mean anything. Market forces are always subject to random factors. For practical purposes, randomized approximation algorithms are actually a great choice for tackling NP hard problems.
Hey Gabriel - 10 years from now where is DuckDuckGo? What's the vision?
To clarify, our video data is all crowdsourced - our community paste in URLs to the videos/slides. We then fetch the URL they give us and parse it to find the embed codes (mostly we just rely on Embedly for this, but we have our own fallback code as well).
You're doing it wrong.

Few people click and it's mostly poor, uneducated customers. Your customers will be cheap-ass direct response marketers that can't compute a confidence interval.

Click-based attribution is fundamentally broken, and the market is moving away from that. Haven't you done any customer development with marketers!?
>HP needs something like a 'Droid' campaign to really spark interest in their products.

I see a lot of Touchpad, Playbook and Xoom ads on TV. Atleast the Xoom ones seem to be on the level of the Droid ads(it's Motorola again, of course). The ads seem ok and cool but if the current sales figures are something to go by, don't seem to be very effective. As I said in another comment, it's easier to get people to buy a phone when their old ones gets too old or when the contract expires but it's hard to push people to a completely new kind of device where the use case is harder for the average consumer to see.
Lol. It seems I need to do more web research... Thanks for all the down votes. What a stupid and childish site. Bye Bye Hacker News.
Agreed. I argued that 7 years would be a better term (http://venturebeat.com/2010/03/04/in-favor-of-software-paten... - ignore the title, it was supposed to be "in favor of 7-year software patents)
If you are familiar with (and like) Lisp, I recommend checking out StumpWM: http://stumpwm.antidesktop.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl

I started with Awesome, moved to XMonad, and have settled on StumpWM. It was very easy to install (many steps, but they were all very straightforward and easy for me to follow with my arrangement) and the defaults were reasonable. I haven't gotten it super-customized for my every desire, but it was pretty straightforward to add some keyboard shortcuts to make it easier to move between groups and to bring up programs (shift-win-c to bring up Conkeror, for example).

I think they're all three good choices and wish you luck with whichever you choose.
IceFrog isn't strictly the author of DotA. DotA is, if memory serves, based on an even older mod called Aeon of Strife. And DotA's development history is riddled with support from the WC3 mapping community so it's really unfair to name any one individual as a sole creator or rights holder. There really is no rights holder to the game and there have been at least 3 major releases by distinct developing groups: Demigod (GPG), LoL and HoN.
Oh FFS, did you even spend a second figuring out what a trademark on a color actually means?
Drinking patterns are different in Southern Europe as contrasted with Northern Europe. Hence the chugging (binge drinking) in Sweden, England, Germany vs. the more leisurely wine and pastis in Italy, France, Portugal, etc. Not to say So. Euros don't engage in binge drinking --but on average less so. so even in Europe it's not the same --not to mention Russia.
Is it bothering anyone else that the graphs seem to indicate performance regressions with newer versions of Firefox/Chrome?
Decent analysis but misses two significant points:

- Moto has a Java license that should change state on the Oracle lawsuit, in which they are currently being hammered by the judge

- The settop box business is decidedly non-trivial if (and it's a big if) they can get the cable companies to move into the 21st century. Comcast boxes, for example, lose 100% of their programming guide in the absence of power and can take more than 72 hours to reload the standard 13-14 days of content. Search sucks and presentation is close behind.

While Google's processes may need some adjustment to suit the hardware business I disagree that this will cripple or kill them.
iOS 5 will accelerate Canvas 2D as well.
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I'm not a business owner, so I can't talk authoritatively on the subject, but I think there's something in the combination of wide audience and well-known number of pre-paid vouchers that make GroupOn more attractive than old-world sales marketing. Then there's something in their skimming 50% off that's quite less attractive.
I've got to disagree with a bunch of this.

Front squats are a little tricky (balance and flexibility in both hips and arms/wrists matter), but as with any movement, starting light (prop or unloaded bar) isn't going to hurt anyone (well, anyone who's not already hurt or missing body parts).

I just looked up Boostrap Squats. Not sold, but Dan John is a solid guy.

Cycling's OK for lower body, but I'd pick erging (indoor rowing) for a better whole-body warm-up.

Huge fan of the basic Rippetoe movements: squats, deads, bench, press (a/k/a shoulder press), chins, rows, and power cleans.
The reason I don't like the Wikipedia mobile site is because it collapses all the text into sections, and makes it extremely tedious to read - you have to keep poking at the article like it's a big treeview. But it's not a problem to disable, thankfully. The way Android handles zooming in on paragraphs and reformatting based on the zoom level, works much nicer than almost all mobile sites for me.
It’s important to point out the colour trademarks are applicable only within their chosen markets. Orange in the UK (mobile phone network) have a shade of orange that they claim as a trademark. EasyGroup (a company in a rather diverse set of industries) use a very similar shade of orange, but that wasn’t a problem until they tried to enter the mobile market as a virtual network:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EasyGroup#EasyMobile.2FShimmerB...
I'm pretty sure financial academics don't claim that markets are efficient, but that they tend towards efficiency.
It would seem Bethesda fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is "never get involved in a land war in Asia" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go against a Swede when trademark is on the line"!
I think they're pointing to poor editing.
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It depends on what you care about when you say "open". If you care about security/privacy and the fact that you're running potentially Trojan-infected code on your machine, then any non-open code makes a difference.
Rather than a raving psychopath, a disagreeable person is “more likely than people high in trait agreeableness to behave disagreeably in certain situations by, for instance, aggressively advocating for their position during conflicts (van de Vliert & Euwema, 2004).”

In other words, confidence and decisiveness is viewed as an attractive trait in males.

Nothing new here really.
I played every version of The Elder Scrolls. And I never called it "Scrolls". And never saw anyone in the forums use that term to describe any of the games.
Who pays for your P2P habit? ISPs or you?
Sure, it's a web app deploying to AWS and using, at different times, Twisted, Pyramid, Ruby, redis, and some Java.
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What the {"response": "true"} is this {"response": "true"} thing? A {"response": "true"} cache page? Are you {"response": "true"} {"response": "true"} me?! Do you really need a {"response": "true"} JSON API to do the work of a stupid {"response": "true"} array lookup? {"response": "true"}!!!
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I agree completely. Young guys don't realize that if a "businessman" doesn't have enough cash on hand to pay for even basic expenses to start a big fancy business, there's absolutely no chance whatsoever that he has the business acumen to run a company profitably should it against all expectations survive. It's a no-win situation. You either will never get paid or you'll be working for a company run by someone who doesn't know how to run a business beyond talking some sucker into developing product for free.

The OP's comments about how he wasn't some greedy person looking for a fat check shows he's a bit deluded as well. It's not greedy to get paid for the hard work you do that benefits others, and it's a peculiar mental illness in our industry that many claim it is greedy to be paid. It is not only perfectly fine to be paid for your work, it's fine to be paid very well if you are very good, and there is no shame or greed in doing so.
Only in additive color mixing. In subtractive mixing, it's the opposite.
No need, I'd wager Carmack and friends are plenty good at their own game.
The way I see it is that Apple's commercials and most of the Droid commercials were compelling, head-turners. They were much more interesting. Whenever either of those commercials played, I wanted to watch them. I can't say the same thing of the TouchPad, Playbook, or Xoom ads. This quality of marketing were a part of what made the Droid and iProducts so successful.
I'm surprised the title got changed back. It was originally "How DuckDuckGo got in TIME's 50 Best Websites of 2011" and this more accurately reflects the reality. I don't think that's "gratuitous editorial spin" as warned against in the HN guidelines but, indeed, a reduction of spin.
I honestly don't know what you mean. I have almost no interest in copyright law as it is. All I know is that I believe that if I make a magenta cell phone and start selling it, T-Mobile might get upset. Please explain what you mean.
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This post sounds great on paper, but in my experience, the investors themselves ask about all the items you forbid talking about. Maybe that's the mark of a crappy investor, but I think an entrepreneur should be prepared to answer the question, or NOT answer the question where appropriate.

2) I've had investors ask for very obscure numbers and forecasts related to user base, revenue, etc. thirty minutes into a meeting.

3) I've been scolded by a VC for not putting, literally, a graph with tiny letters of revenue forecasts. Absolutely silly and impractical, but they wanted it.

4) A business plan is there for a reason -- to outline the strategy of your business. It's often sent to an investor before you even meet them. If you're going to do other stuff right from the gun, why isn't it in the business plan? An investor's confidence would be lowered if half of your presentation contradicts what's mentioned in the plan.

5) Without fail, all the investors I met with asked "how much do you want to raise?" with a quick follow-up "how much do you think your company is worth?" Now, I don't think you should EVER answer the second question, but I just wanted to mention that the question WILL come up, and you need to be able to block/bridge appropriately. Just saying "I will not answer that" won't suffice.

I think, ultimately, you need to balance what makes sense to present and what the VC/angel actually wants to see, no matter how impractical.
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As they say here in Hollywood, "Fake it till you make it."
I like notch, even before this, but now I feel morally obligated to buy Minecraft even if won't ever play it, and Scrolls too :).
Tonight on xplay Todd from Bethblog will be on. Rewteet?

https://twitter.com/#!/jasongiedymin/status/1038604301575249...

https://twitter.com/#!/JasonGiedymin/status/1038613727057018...
I agree that the designs look nice enough. I'm not sure exactly how interested I am just yet, but can you provide some concept of what you were looking for in terms of dollar amount? I may have a use for them with a current project I am working on.
I think they should take them back, don't get me wrong, but who's the sales manager for best buy that decided these would be a good buy, and that they could compete with the iPad in price when they can't even come close in quality or performance?
I'm guessing you don't know this -- Even if a groupon expires, you can redeem it for the purchase price. Ref: http://www.groupon.com/terms#terms-of-sale
"We have no contracts or any paper signed whatsoever, despite I requesting them repeatedly - hence why I could release the source code at my will."

Either you do have a contract, he owes you money for the work and he owns the IP; or you don't have a contract, he doesn't owe you anything, he hasn't shafted you and you are libelling[1] him. Legally, you can't have it both ways. A contract can exist without there having been any signed paper.

[1] IANAL; maybe you need to have named him or make his name inferable to do that.
This might just be me, but I find that doing 20 pushups every hour sort of helps "reset" my back, neck and ab muscles, and keeps me from getting chronic pain from unnecessary, habitual tension (holding my stomach, locking neck muscles, pushing shoulders forward, etc.)
This looks like Smalltalk. Todos foge!
Could be Apple's testing of their new mobile-friendly version of the apple store.
> And $334M of the $1 billion of venture capital money went to buying stock from early investors

Isn't that a different way of saying that the early investors are cashing out(to the company too, not even other outside investors) at the current valuation? That raises more questions, why would they cash out if they think the valuation is going to go up?
This is a known issue to HP. It really stinks. The demo units aren't even using 3.0, they're using a special demo build.
I completely agree with the article, that Grid is little more than eye-candy, and I suspect much of it at the detriment of good user experience.

But I think the author's point about how much was spent on the presentation is probably going too far. That sliding 'grid' in the video I'm sure didn't cost them much at all. Having said that, the presentation shows VERY poor showmanship.

I don't think much of Apple products are 'magical and innovative', but there is not question that they are able to put on a convincing show.
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That's like saying "sorry I didn't brush my teeth before our first date, but I brushed them now! Tonight at 5? ... hello?"
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C++ support on embedded devices and smartphones is kind of iffy. First there might be actual language features missing because of a simplified runtime system those systems use. I'm primarily talking about exception handling but also other features.

Second is the standard library. The systems in question might not ship with a decent C++ standard library ("STL").

Third problem is C++0x. If I were to write C++, I would definately want to use C++0x, the language has cool features like auto and lambda and the standard library has nice additions w.r.t. C++98, especially std::thread and std::chrono.

Third is the API's you have to deal with. Using C API's in C++ apps either requires you to use a wrapper layer or give up using constructors, destructors, exceptions or at least give very special attention to those and end up writing code with a bastardized C/C++ hybrid.

Don't get me wrong, I like C++ but it's always a PITA to try to write something portable with it.
someone suggested this would be a good blog post. since it doesn't make much sense for me to pull it out separately i wondered if people would enjoy reading the question and answer as they are...
I looked at the Touchpad at the local Best Buy. I was interested in buying one, but I was ultimately disappointed after using it for a bit. Unlike the iPad, which looks and feels like it was designed by a few people that might actually want to use it themselves, the TouchPad looks and feels like it was designed by committee.
You are free to take the code you bought and move it right on over to your phone.
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And oddly enough, by way of their recent purchase of id, Quake 3.
A majority of the search results are from Bing, blended with some other sources (Wolfram, Wikipedia, others).
So, no true scotsman?

We're in the real world here. If the real world held up to a given person's theory, communism would've worked. You just have a different theory.

I'm not claiming markets are terrible, they're usually the best way to do things. But when you pigeonhole yourself into an absolutist position, you've guaranteed that you're going to be flagrantly wrong sometimes.
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"Numbers everyone should know", from Google's Jeff Dean, has part of the answer:

http://julianhyde.blogspot.com/2010/11/numbers-everyone-shou...

Where do SSDs fit in? Not sure, but I've heard SSD read latency can be as low as 30,000 ns (compare to HDD seek time of ~10,000,000 ns), while SDD sequential read rates are still within one order of magnitude of HDD read rates.

YMMV depending on your access patterns. Lots of random access? SDDs a clear win over HDDs because of the seek time penalty.

(I'd guess lots of random access is almost always the norm, except for certain specialized server workloads.)
If you were starting a company today, what would it be?
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I might be wrong here, but didn't Apple app store have limitations on what languages you were allowed to use. I don't know whether or not that applies to having an embedded interpreter like Lua.
In retail, these folks are called buyers.

Best Buy has plenty of long-term relationships with manufacturers. Any time you see fancy merchandising in the store, say an endcap with fancy graphics pimping the latest Whirlpool front loading washer, it's because the manufacturer has paid for that positioning.

So it's entirely possible that HP made a merchandising deal with Best Buy to promote their new product – and that the terms for the deal included some sort of buy back provision to mitigate the store's risk. Even absent such a provision, HP needs retail distribution channels for their business to work. It's in their interest to keep their partners happy and not leave them holding the bag on an experimental flop of a product.
These are economies of scale. I object to relating them to network effects. Network effect, if the term is to have any meaning at all distinct from economy of scale, should relate specifically to value added by edges joining nodes, where those nodes are customers, suppliers or partners etc., and the edges are something the company enables.
As I said in the comments field of the article, in response to a VC acquaintance's post...

A "land grab" strategy implies there is a means to lock out competition, and a strategy to defend and retain the land that is grabbed. So, one has to ask, what is Groupon's retention strategy for all this wallet-share they are grabbing?

Vendors and customers who are of the mindset to avail themselves of a Groupon-like service are driven by the value of the deals. There is no inherent loyalty to the voucher provider, or automatic lock-in of mindshare. If vendors and consumers can get a better deal from someone else, they will.

So, while Groupon, LivingSocial and the rest may currently enjoy decent margins, what prevents them from being locked into a race-to-the-bottom of razor thin margins as the markets saturate? To my mind, having the largest list of emails to spam with targeted offers is not a sufficient defense against this. It just slows the attrition.

So, then the question is, if there is nothing that prevents a race-to-the-bottom, aren't the companies that maintain the highest operational efficiencies (and profitability) - not the ones that grab fastest the most of the ultimately indefensible lands - going to be the ones that prevail, in the end?

And, let's not forget, this land grab strategy is/will be failure unless Groupon can actually raise the capital required to actually stay in operations and see through to fruition.
Hmm? Bethesda didn't make Quake, if that's what you're saying...
Another reason why far reaching demands for censorship from government officials are a very bad idea: You lose all the little leverage you had over countries like China when you demand less censorship from them. They will just point at the statements and accuse you of hypocrisy. European politicians will be laughed out of the building when they come to China with demands of less censorship.
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Some video of the event - it's just as funny as it sounds. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwU9m4oCtRE
> The fall of 2008 wasn't a free market. In particular, the government was forcing...

To the extent that government regulations are less strong than physical laws, isn't the market still free? For instance, methamphetamines are illegal, but they're still produced, distributed, and retailed; just with a higher cost for all involved than if they didn't have to take precautions against, and accept the probability of, detection and punishment. Given the incentives in place, the supply and demand curves for methamphetamines still meet, and the market clears.

I've always found the belief that markets can withstand any form of interference except government regulation fairly bemusing.

One side-effect that falls out of this more cosmopolitan view of free markets is that the fall of 2008 was the efficient outcome. If market participants had information about what would happen strong enough that they were willing to bet on it in 2005-2007, the catastrophic drop in 2008 would not have happened as it did.
Love the Princess Bride reference! I even read this in that character's voice (what was his name?)
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I can't understand why this isn't making tons of money: connect two parties and charge something for this, and keep your costs very low. I wonder if the Brazilians clones are doing ok, they seem to be.

Also, in the beginning everyone thought "Oh boy, I wish I had had that idea!"...
I am completely missing the authors point here. Android isn't free? Android is free to use for device manufacturers. Google bought a device manufacturer and their patents. The quote makes me want to say "devices aren't free either!"

The point Ballmer was originally making (and I believe HTC's CEO confirmed) is that the cost of getting a Windows Phone to market was less than the cost of getting an Android phone to market because of the toolset that Microsoft provides which results in lower integration and testing costs.