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Play! applications are meant to be deployed, not packaged and distributed. This allows developers to throw away deeply nested Java package structures, control flow in XML, forget about packaging WAR files, and instead structure projects for optimal clarity and developer productivity.

Can anyone explain what this means in practical terms? Particularly the "meant to be deployed, not packaged and distributed" part.
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Running it in a script maybe?
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Here's a list I found a couple weeks ago:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/65820/unit-testing-c-code
http://localno.de - A global proxy for your localhost.

Entirely browser-based. Proxy any site on your local subnet. Only requirement is hosting a static file on the server, no installation, no server configuration
Pull up your socks Google!
JQuery 1.6.3 RC1 Released
You make good points, but I think that "average miles driven" is likely just the total miles driven divided by population. I'd guess that many (most?) of these new miles are because a greater percentage of the population has a car than in 1975. There may even be relatively more <3000 mile per year drivers now than before. I don't think the linked data is quite enough to strongly support either interpretation. Still, the drop looks more impressive on a per mile basis than on a per person basis.
He's been saying that eventually it'll be open-source, once it gets a 1.0 version? I don't know, maybe it's time to bug him some more about it...
There's a lot of snake-oil in SSD's until you hit the $400 mark. I'm not going near them until the lies and half-arsed chipsets stop.
Command-click for “Open Containing Folder”.
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, whoever. It's a massive and lucrative market, yet the legal challenges are well established. Some sites have been shut down, and the remaining big sites are outside of US jurisdiction and/or really really shady.
There's http://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis, which is moderately active.
You do know that HP has the biggest market share in PC shipment today, right?

Ref:http://www.hardwarecentral.com/reviews/article.php/3927996/F...

No other competitor came close to HP, though, which shipped 18 million computers in the fourth quarter. It finished the year with almost 20 percent of all PC shipments globally.
"Start-up sales are as much a blank canvas as the the start-up itself once was"
If you have a shared neighborhood Ethernet or geographically-based hop-by-hop forwarding, it's cheaper to get a file from your neighbor than from a data center, because it avoids using expensive last-mile bandwidth. If you have an inherently-symmetric medium like fiber, traffic in the less congested direction is free, and data-center space isn't.

So peer-to-peer works better than warehouse-scale computing in those cases.

The dynamic-allocation case is a little more complicated, and I'm less certain of my reasoning there. It's true that peer-to-peer architectures will still use more last-mile bandwidth overall in that case than data-center architectures, as much as twice as much, and so they'll still be less efficient. The difference is that you can make that tradeoff on a moment-by-moment basis, instead of choosing to permanently cut your bandwidth in half when you sign up for the service, before you know anything about the internet. That's a much lower bar.
Can you use libraries so that the same media is sometimes available on a USB drive and sometimes available on a network server? i.e. an item may or may not be there, and it shouldn't appear duplicated.
*Oh, and the freaky tab-above-the-tabs thing on the title bar.*

For me, that specifically spells of bad design. It looks like a multi-headed monster committee shouted, "WELL CAN'T YOU JUST PUT IT UP IN THE TITLE BAR?????"
I agree with you and I have a wife and a son. I didn't say it doesn't change anything, but that it doesn't change everything. What I meant is that there will be things you cannot do anymore and there will be things for which you use the changed circumstances as an excuse not to do anymore. Extreme minimalism in particular gets harder but buying a house/car/TV/expensive furniture/100s of other things, just because that is what society excepts from a settled person is silly.
> In other words, the reason people don't like it is the
> same reason most every person has resisted improvements
> in interfaces for the past forever.

Potentially correct in some cases, however your assertion assumes that the ribbon is an improvement and waves away criticism. The ribbon is horribly visually cluttered with poorly-spaced buttons and tabs and menus. It doesn't feel organized.

I think you'll find people aren't resistant to interface change, they're resistant to change that makes them immediately less productive with no immediate benefit. For instance, the Start Menu, way back in the day, was pretty widely considered a good idea.
Mobile Marketing How-to Pt. 1
That you can point to that quote as the most inflammatory thing Notch has said just reinforces OP's point.
We (bu.mp) use a lot of SSDs at our datacenter.. we've probably used ~100 64GB x-25e, and recently we have added 20+ Micro P300 disks.

The first thing we used to do is try to convince the hardware raid controller not to do anything clever, like readahead etc, b/c seek times are practically meaningless. Despite our efforts at disabling every optimization we could control that was tailored for rotational platters, we still found that software raid (linux md) outperformed a classically great hardware controller--perhaps by virtue of being "stupider".

So that is our go-to configuration now: Micron P300 SLC, 200GB drives, with md raid.
Could you elaborate on why you prefer it over Rails?
No he said it will be open source when he feels it's not making any more money. You can find this (or atleast use to be able to find it) on minecraft.net

Edit: Source

>Once sales start dying and a minimum time has passed, I will release the game source code as some kind of open source.
http://www.minecraft.net/about.jsp
Now I pose another question to you. What is "learning?"

When you feed a bunch of input to an ANN, isn't it doing exactly what it's told? The ANN itself does not seek out knowledge, it only adjusts weights according to an algorithm depending on inputs.

The allure to having a fixed, visible algorithm is that you are aware of many of the limitations. Having a black box obscures those limitations, but I won't deny it's alluring in other ways.
HP TouchPad and Pre 3 shopping frenzy post-mortem
Also have a look at doxygen. It can emit xml describing the code, rather than documentation.
Explanation is rather confusing. Cloudstack is analogous only to OpenStack Compute and does not have specific storage part, right?
Awesome explanation.

Still, an SSD makes this all better. When I was using virtual memory on a Ubuntu server and put the swap partition on an SSD, everything worked great. On a rotating platter, not so much.
I think some people are just inspired to build things and know that a dependable team is necessary if they want their (eventual) idea to have any kind of chance. Similarly, I was inspired to write songs, but the type of music that I wanted to write needed a band. So I started a band before I spent a lot of time writing.

This is also good because my songs were always being scrutinized by the other band members while they were being written which I think made them better.
Having the iPod hide the file system is the number one complaint I hear from people who own one. It works "okay" as long as you stay within Apple's ecosystem and can completely bomb if you venture onto other hardware/software/use cases.
play kicks serious ass -- if I were to write any webapp in java/scala I'd most definitely use play -- see that they've been coming along a lot in the past year
1. Nothing. People ARE implementing similar things. It takes time, effort, and lots of computation.
2. People often prefer to implement their own ideas and compete (especially researchers).
3. Potentially lack of patents might discourage other firms from doing it.
I don't know if it was all of the people thinking HP selling TouchPads at a loss was a good idea or something else, but I've recently gone from indifferent to adamantly opposed to the whole "give it away for free and worry about money later" attitude that pervades our industry.

The only compelling aspect of the offering is the promise of free 10 GB of storage. I don't see a dollar sign anywhere on the site, so I don't understand how they intend to keep that promise for very long. I refuse to sign up for a product, much less take the time to integrate it into my workflow, without knowing that it will be around for longer than a few months.
The 'quick fix' 5 minutes before launch

The universe tends towards maximum irony, and you are seriously underestimating that maximum. Even with 100% test coverage, fixing something 5 minutes before launch is an awful idea. Either delay the launch, or accept that the bug is small enough to not matter.
Think long and hard before you implement something like this on your website. Implementing the bog-standard login system is a one-morning task for any engineer capable of writing a web app. Supporting multiple logins well can occupy teams of competent developers continuously and they will still screw it up. The underlying OpenID/etc protocols are some of the worst designed you will ever have the misfortune of working with. Your users will hate the experience of using them on your site, largely because a) they do not understand them, b) they do not solve a real user problem, and c) when you screw up your implementation -- and you will -- you will lock them out of their accounts.
I agree with you on "very little information", but I wouldn't want to make the jump to "fallacy". It would be a fallacy to presume that the between-group difference is anything approaching the within-group difference, but I'd guess that the effect is there. Instinctively, I wouldn't be surprised if genetics played at least a 1% role. Would you? What if instead of "black", you pointed to a particular gene?

The alternative would be to presume that the variance of sprinting ability with the black population is greater than that of the white. I'd want to see some reason that this is true before presuming it. This also gets us back to the furor regarding Lawrence Summers dismissal from Harvard, which does imply that there some things that are simply "wrong to note".
There's more than one kind of openness.
Wait, so "so-called hackers" are supposed to be aware of the "absurdity of trying to manage an OS [[...] from a virtual machine which is, in its turn, implemented as an user-level process running under that same OS." But this absurdity disappears when this VM running as a user-level process under that same OS is... Python. Is there something magical about the JVM that makes this absurd?
This is related to caches as the author is talked about hardware prefetching from memory to caches, i.e., is the act of fetching in to the cache the data that will be needed in the near future. This reduces cache misses.
Possible Iranian goverment MITM attack on Gmail
Seems to work fine: http://smooth-stream-686.herokuapp.com/

(code at https://github.com/lstoll/heroku-playframework-scala , basically a simple hello world app)
I don't even ask anymore. If I'm writing an app for you, I'm starting with tests, before I even write a line of executable code. If you don't want tests for your app, you'll need to find a different developer. It's not an optional part of the process, it's how the app is developed.
I'd imagine they mean the heroku style of tight coupling between the app and its environment, rather than the WAR file style of generating a package that can be deployed by somebody with no knowledge of its inner workings.
Thanks for the comment and your concerns are very valid. We're fully confident in keeping the service up/free and are currently deployed in Amazon's EC2/S3 with many optimizations for cost saving.

We're also seed-funded and that gives us room to go further without monetization for longer period of time while we work the features/bugs out :)

Thanks again!
Agreed. We'll see how things go over the next few years :)
Thanks for helpin' a brotha out!
Someone on Twitter noticed it aswell:
https://twitter.com/#!/hkashfi/status/107758824810758144
LifeLens: A smartphone app that can detect malaria
He's right that GPL is draconian and limits freedom. But I am not sure your point because you didn't state it. You have a drive by post where you post some cryptic excerpt that seems unrelated to the topic with no commentary. Are you a posting bot, or are you a person with a point? Speak clearly. Explain yourself.

If the intent is to be critical of notch, I can't see any fault in his saying he hopes to release source code eventually and that since the GPL is such an anti-freedom license (huh, actually my words not his, but my sincere interpretation and agreement with his 'draconian' term usage), he "might just possibly" release as public domain, which means completely unencumbered and free. That sounds pretty cool. He's not under any obligation to do so though, and I don't see that many other games sold on Steam are somehow better.

Or perhaps you meant to indicate that you think his true reason not to release on Steam is not what he said, but he is lying and the secret real reason is that he intends to release public domain, and for some reason Steam would not allow that after signing their draconian and freedom limiting contracts, that are as freedom limiting as the GPL.

Maybe. Don't know because your post was incoherent.
Feigning incomprehension, I will ask, “Why do you need budget to write them?”

If I am estimating how long the work will take, I am estimating how long it will take to get the functionality working correctly with X% confidence it works correctly when the product ships. Unless “X” is less than 50%, automated testing is part of writing the code, not a nice-to-have.

“Improving the quality of our code” does sound vague, kind of like arguing how many knots are permissible in a plank of wood destined or a kitchen floor. Instead, I would simply explain that these tests I write are part of writing the code, and to explain that if management want the code without the tests, they need to tell me in writing that they are ok with a confidence level hovering around 50%.

I am not kidding about this number. I may deliver code that appears to do what it is supposed to do, but my experience is that either it is broken in ways that a simple QA test doesn’t show, or somebody (somebody else or even me next week) is going to regress it between now and when the product ships. Automated tests give me the confidence that it works, works correctly, and will continue to work correctly.
I really hope Notch comes up with something more interesting than capes for the Minecraft market. I could see something like a robust world generator being extremely interesting, but premium hats and capes has to be one of the stupidest concepts in the history of gaming.

I don't like DLC's either, but I guess I just don't like any games enough to care. What I'm trying to say is that I'd like minecraft to stay in it's current innocent state. Perhaps if it grows like World of Warcraft did it will make sense, but it's a tough sell for me now. The simplicity is what makes it so charming.
I don't find this to be a meaningful reply. Hiring people is important, sure. So is maintaining cash flow. So is accounting. So is marketing. Etc.

But all these things are only important because. The CEO is the head of because; if that's not what he's actually head of, he's doing it wrong.
Yes, I can/do not deny the power of the irony gods.

awful idea, yes, I agree, but real world is full of awful ideas. You can either accept it and adapt, or be drowned by it.
Another vote for Mullaly. The UAW likes to demonise his salary and claim he's overpaid compared to the factory workers. Yes, workers actually make the cars, but workers aren't worth shit if their leader leads them off a cliff (GM and Chrysler). If his job is so easy, then why did the CEOs of GM and Chrysler drive their companies to the ground and force a bankruptcy? Not just one CEO, but a long line of really bad CEOs at GM and Chrysler. Mullaly is worth every penny and more.
But isn't that the point of the statement. It would be like saying that if you saw the candidate in person and they did the job equally well, but one had dark skin and the other light skin, so we used their skin color to distinguish -- but then trying to argue that skin color isn't really a proxy for race, since some black people could be lighter than a white person.

To me it just sounds like racism covered up.
Henry Ford, Innovation, and That "Faster Horse" Quote
bitter crap

That particular colloquialism does not appear to translate into English very well.
"kind of like arguing how many knots are permissible in a plank of wood destined or a kitchen floor"

Having sat through an hour long lecture on lumber grades in a scenic construction course, let me tell you, it is anything but vague.
Is learning Assembly Language worth the effort?
Or maybe a link expires in a certain amount of time (2-4 months for e.g.) and they start from the start there are quite a few combinations translated in math is something like combinations of 10 (digits) by 28 (letters)
Which plugin is that?
Saying the GPL is draconian and limits freedom is like saying the 13th amendment limits freedom since it takes away your right to own slaves.
It's fair to say they're both. By these companies and institutions backing down, they exacerbated the problem.
Since it sounds like I gave the wrong impression, just to clarify: I'm not trying to imply that accounting is unimportant. What I said (jokingly) is that there are probably better uses for accounting knowledge than trying to teach it to pets, and if accountants regularly engaged in such fanciful ventures, you'd probably see similar articles about their profession.
Well, I can't disagree with your anecdote regarding complaints (although I have owned both iPod and iPad since they were released and have never had a problem beyond the iTunes file transfer flow being awful), BUT the constraint to the Apple ecosystem and the iTunes flow are implementation details orthogonal to the actual hiding of the filesystem (i.e. it is easy to see how Apple could make file sharing easier without introducing the concept of a filesystem).
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I disagree. The whole point of a business is to use assets to get the best possible returns for shareholders. The CEO is the guy in charge of those assets, and another name for that is capital allocation. It's the top job on the list, basically. It's not just one more thing he does...
Sprockets 2.0.0 released (Ruby/Rack asset packaging)
2.0 Feature Focus: WebHooks
You can assign multiple WebHooks to a single account, one WebHook to multiple accounts, or, simply, one WebHook on an individual account. Required parameters are the URL that Context.IO calls when a matching message is found (callback_url) and a URL Context.IO can call should the WebHook fail (failure_notif_url). There are also a number of optional parameters that will filter the messages that you want by specific criteria (as noted above), such as the “to” field (filter_to), “from” field (filter_from) the subject line (filter_subject), and more. You can even create a WebHook that notifies your app when Gmail labels a message as “Important” (filter_new_important). And of course, we have attachment specific WebHooks that will let your application know when a file has been attached to a message (filter_file_name) or if any revisions have been made to a specific file (filter_file_revisions).
Ask HN: How to remove review from Android app store?
I wrote a review for an Android app and want to remove it from the app store. Anyone know how?
Not only is this out of context, but the (L)GPL is very draconian. Not that that's a bad thing, it is by design.
Death Threats and Hate Crimes, Attacks On Women Bloggers Escalating
Microsoft UI has officially entered the realm of self-parody
The way I look at it, there is only one reason to write tests: to assure shippability.

Everything else is a pleasant bonus. It amazes me that so much can be written without even touching on this.
proof that you can learn new (vim) things every day! Never used the rectangular blocks before. mind == blown!
Wow, you really need to read history and learn a bit about mob behavior.
premium hats and capes has to be one of the stupidest concepts in the history of gaming.

Apparently you are unaware of the runaway success of the Mann Co Store in TF2, which has done so well that TF2 is now Free-to-Play. Hats are among the variety of items that are sold on the Mann Co Store.
Well, the friendly thing about the first Start Menu was it didn't replace anything- it augmented.
Original paper: http://moya.bus.miami.edu/~tallys/docs/umpires-inte.pdf
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I swear I saw an interview with imgur's Alan Schaaf about how it made money, or broke even. So far I've only found this 10/2010 interview in which he only says "it's been really hard to make a profit"

http://thenextweb.com/us/2010/02/10/alan-schaaf-interview-im...

In the 10/2010 interview, Schaff said imgur served 471 million images totalling about 65 terabytes. It had just started pro accounts at that point.
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> but I've recently gone from indifferent to adamantly opposed to the whole "give it away for free and worry about money later" attitude that pervades our industry.

As funding continues to dry up, this problem will take care of itself. (It's already far better than back in the days of the tech bubble, which was really where the "ignore profits" stupidity went parabolic.
"Or have any advantage over just grabbing the private data of social networks"

But, that would be illegal.
I had talked to some UI designers at MS about the ribbon not too long ago and heard some interesting feedback. For virtually every group that uses it they prefer it. One group doesn't like it as much though -- developers and power users. You'll probably never see the ribbon in Visual Studio.

What I found interesting is what tested best with power users -- whatever they were currently using. Even if they didn't really like it, they always liked it more than then next thing.

One of the worst places to get UI feedback, for something like Explorer, is from people who would read such a blog. I hope MS is mindful of this.
Sprockets provides the basis for Rails 3.1's asset pipeline.

For a look back in time, see the Hacker News thread for Sprockets 1.0, from two and a half years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=487601

Some alternatives include the very popular Jammit from DocumentCloud (http://documentcloud.github.com/jammit/), Alex MacCaw's Ruby port of Stitch (https://github.com/maccman/stitch-rb), and Mislav Marohnić's "poor man's Sprockets" (https://twitter.com/#!/mislav/status/87899513649496065).
What you're saying is good advice for getting better, but I think the advice is for getting happier.
Thank you very much for this pitch-perfect illustration of what I was talking about. Hysterical laughter: Achieved!
They missed april fools day by a few months
> premium hats [...] has to be one of the stupidest concepts in the history of gaming

You... have never heard of Team Fortress 2 have you?

http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Mann_Co._Store#Headgear

For the last few years, TF2 has been called "a war-themed hat simulator".
I agree with everything you said, except for the following:

release as public domain, which means completely unencumbered and free

In general, this is true, but some countries do not have a concept of public domain and so releasing it into the public domain would make it completely unusable to people in those countries. Personally, I would prefer either the BSD or MIT license or something like the WTFPL[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL
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