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Youtube video's are proprietary now?
Netflix launches in Brazil, rest of Latin America to follow shortly.
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There is no _Game theory_ mentioned anywhere in the article, but _Competitive game design theory_.

Title should be changed to reflect that as to not bring confusion about it referring to the broad (and complex) Game theory subject.
Apparently our politicians are going to continue to get paid by bankers to manufacture class warfare narratives that will get one half of the dying American middle class screaming at the other, allowing further decimation of organized labor by these same politicians, further enriching the bankers and ultra rich, etc.
I basically agree, but there is an important article left to write about the future of the library.

Traditional ingredients of a library:

You need a lot of books. Fewer physical books equals less knowledge.

You need a librarian who knows how to navigate all the books.

You need a critical mass of library workers (who need not have library science training) to reshelve and process all the books.

Because mice and rats and bugs and molds may eat your hundred-year-old books, you need to exclude food and drink from your library.

Because it's inefficient to move lots of books through long distances, the scholars are going to park themselves in the library, packed cheek-by-jowl at adjacent tables. To a scholar the desk that's within a few steps of a comprehensive library is the most valuable real estate on earth. So libraries traditionally enforce quiet, and build arrays of private study carrels, and force public gatherings to take place in special soundproof meeting rooms somewhere in the building.

Obviously, to house all those physical books in a patron-browseable format you need a pretty big and nifty building.

But the future, assuming the righteous librarians finally deal with all this infernal DRM, will be different. To first order, wherever you have three people who love books gathered in a room with a librarian, you will have a library. They will be a lot more efficient to run. They will exist in much greater variety and much higher numbers. They will probably be largely indistinguishable from bookstores and coffeeshops.
From a programmer's point of view, they look good. I think they would look great on a minimal-like design.
Not sure after the fifth generation as my from there my fathers, fathers, fathers, father had lost his memory. From my mothers side and all of the mothers in my family tree and as far as I know their background are from Finland over 10 generations ago. Which is before the first Swedish era when Sweden conquered Finland for a while. So I can pretty much say I'm quite native here.
Really tough sale, I'm not sure what value-add a "book store" can provide over a coffee shop.

Here's one idea: the customer pays a monthly membership. Any books they buy at the book store are shipped to the store and shelved for the customer. The customer can come in at any time and read their books or take them home. This is basically a privatized library. Maybe it could help with some of the problems libraries have.

But that's a very small niche. I'm not sure what a book store can provide that a coffee shop + kindle combination cannot.
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Turkey has a lot of potential Software Engineering talent going to waste...shame there aren't more entrepreneurs looking to harness that unrealized potential.
Ethics, I guess? LOL. Not really keen on selling a typo-filled book on a non-current version of a software.
I just read all the comments because the author states that one program collects the maximum amount of stones, and another competitor's program figured out how to collect an additional stone.

Does this not make sense to anyone else? Can someone please explain it to me?
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POPCNT sounds like a more suitable instruction, and it's modern (ie not likely to be slow-pathed; although pre-Core iX processors won't support it at all!)
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When I go into Half Priced Books (a brick and mortar store) it's usually packed with people. That doesn't mean they're doing well; I wonder if they are? I can see used books store surviving. You can't buy used ebooks.
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Moved from one southern state of India to another about 600 years ago. If you're talking about moving between countries, I'd have to find out when humans moved to India.

I did study in the US and then came back, so what does that make me :) ? Oh, I'm trying to do my own startup now.
More specifically, they have taken over operational management of the DigiNotar servers :

"On 3 September, the Dutch government has taken over operational management of the DigiNotar systems that are used for certificates."

http://www.govcert.nl/binaries/live/govcert/hst%3Acontent/en...
"defending Europe"

I have to point out that a lot of Europeans were never very happy with being "defended" in the manner you describe.

If America wanted to removed bases from Europe to save money I think that would be sensible for both Europe and the United States.
I'm a 0 generation immigrant, and 0 generation re-migrant.

But given the age I immigrated at, It's more akin to being a 0 generation dual-immigrant.
If I knew my full family tree, I'd probably find a closer immigrant, but 13 generations back my great..great grandfather was on the Mayflower. Not a great data point for this survey though: he was an indentured servant, and the whole Pilgrim voyage represented more of an attempt to preserve their comfort zone at all costs.
My response wasn't meant as harsh, it just lacked a smiley ;)

I work on a lot of OSS projects and our company does consultancy. This means I browse other’s projects on a daily basis (i.e. I don’t know the filenames yet). That, combined with the fact that I have a deep love for GUI design and platform consistency, has made me come to the conclusion that something like NERDTree wasn't working for me. I tried to keep on going for a few more weeks, but in the end I decided that writing a file browser would cost me less time than I lost during these few weeks.

I’m glad I wrote it, because now I’m perfectly happy with my MacVim setup, which I wasn't before. I’m also very glad I did not decide to revert to using TextMate or any of the other new closed source editors.

To conclude, it’s a bit of a feeling-thing. I’d invite you to try it out for a while to see if it works for or against your flow. No hard feelings either way :)

PS: It might not be apparent from the article, but the browser provides a few more functions that os x users might be used to in other apps. See the last screenshot: https://github.com/alloy/macvim/wiki/Screenshots.
I do literally the exact same, I rock MacVim in fullscreen surrounded by Terminal sessions on the left and right, left for building/opening files, the right for tailing the syslog.

If only Lion supported multiple monitor full screen.. :S
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my stack is full of those modules!
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Does anyone else think that they should have made a "Previous" button as well?
Tricky one for me.

We've managed to trace our family tree back 12 generations through family documents, etc. and our family are still in Ireland (where I'm from).

From what we know though our family have had a presence in Ireland for over 500 years on both sides.

It's actually remarkable when you consider the earliest record of our surname in Ireland is in the 13th century.
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Very insightful blog post, which is very much in tune with my opinion on Opera. It's rare for someone who worked at a company to have such good perspective.

It's definitely true that the main reason why Opera has struggled on the desktop is because of a lack of polish. The UI has always felt clunky, non-native and awkward.

That is a major reason why I switched from Opera to Firefox (née Phoenix) many years ago and haven't looked back since. UI has always been their weak link, while their performance and rendering engine has always been top-notch.

Having tried Opera 11.5 for the first time, it's certainly a huge leap forward. It's not perfect, but it doesn't stick out like a sore thumb like previous versions. The downside is that it's a bit too close to Firefox/Chrome to provide a compelling reason to switch, and it still has too much irrelevent crap front-and-centre coupled with its own UI quirks (e.g. why is "Show menu" in the "File" menu and not in 'View'?). Even so, a vast improvement.

I think it's far too easy to blame their low marketshare on their miniscule marketing budget. Mozilla faced similar problems. Mozilla failed when they had a crap product in SeaMonkey (née Mozilla Suite) and succeded when they had a compelling product in Firefox. If Opera can create a similarly compelling product, I have no doubt that many people would happily switch.

I think Opera's best approach would be to focus on Opera Mobile. Mobile is the browser growth market, I suspect it's easier to convince users to try a mobile browser than a desktop one, and they should be able to translate mobile marketshare into desktop marketshare.
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I somehow managed to hit both ends of this scale. Pick any branch of my family and you can trace them back to pretty much the 3rd boat to come across the Atlantic.

And, I'm in the process of emigrating to England.

Hmm...
Maybe the "one more stone" strategy leaves more options to the decider algorith and is therefore less likely to get stuck in a local maximum that ultimately leads to a loss.
Wow, is this a typo??

"The most egregious certs issued were for [asterisk].[asterisk].com and [asterisk].[asterisk].org"

I didn't know double wildcard certs were possible. This would be extremely helpful for us if that was. Anyone know?

(Just to be extra clear, we would like one cert that covers a.b.example.org as well as d.e.example.org, and hopefully also still works for a.example.org)

edit: We currently have a *.example.org cert, and while some browsers think that is valid for a.b.example.org, most do not.
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full fare economy will mean fully refundable and changeable with no fees etc. discounted business/first class will be just like discounted economy - not refundable, and not changeable w/o fees - the latter can definitely be cheaper if you don't mind the constraints.
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Interesting - I am from another southern state of India, and am unable to trace it back to anywhere that isn't in the same 'state'. However, 600 years ago they were mostly just smaller kingdoms with similar cultures, rather than 'states' as such. Wonder if moving across them would be considered 'immigration'
If you want the "old" MacVim fullscreen mode back (which supports multiple monitor full screen), just throw this into your terminal:

defaults write org.vim.MacVim MMNativeFullScreen 0
Surprised PeepOpen hasn't been mentioned yet. I use it exclusively with MacVim on OSX. It is a bit unconventional but works amazingly well: http://peepcode.com/products/peepopen
I understand what you are saying...that Steve has the taste and design sense to guide Apple's development process. While I agree that this is true, I don't think this is why Apple has been successful. It's Steve's obsession with perfection that has driven the company; his unwillingness to ship just anything that will sell and make money.

Steve doesn't do it all himself. Even much of the original Macintosh design is probably better attributed to Jeff Raskin, Woz, and Bill Atkinson. Steve is a good showman, and good showmen know to never introduce the stage-hands, but Steve has had plenty.

Now, you might argue that if Steve had zero taste, then he also would not have had the sense to demand design perfection. That may be true. But if you are a CEO of a company today and you are hoping to replicate Apple's success, you would be much better served by cutting your product line in 1/4 and demanding absolute perfection from the remaining products, than by going off to find a guru, take Caligraphy classes, and stare at van Gogh all day...
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Exactly, it is the existence of "too big to fail" entities that are the problem.
I think Github's issue tracker is the best around, now that search actually works. Very lightweight, and the integration with commits and pull requests is really nice.

dhh doesn't sound like he was ever a fan of Lighthouse: https://twitter.com/#!/dhh/status/63366853636009985
There is a long and contentious, but mostly forgotten, history of laborers' rights in the United States.

These events in history were at times violent and bloody confrontations. Labor Day, to those with knowledge of this history, is a day of reconciliation and reverence.
I'm chilean and my great-great-grandfather, John Carpenter, arrived in Chile in 1860 - 1880. He was British and all the research I've done suggests that he was a Quaker from the south of England.
12 generations (1634 France) and I can name them all.
This is incredibly helpful even if incomplete. Finally somebody took time to write a decent exposure. Now, if only there were something like that about keyboard (geometry, modifiers, layouts, media keys, dead keys, compositing, input methods, capture priorities) and sound.
I've got this, and I find it's better than Command-T, better than Jamis Buck's now-antiquated FuzzyFinder, and even better than Textmate's own command-t functionality!

At this point, basically, if an editor doesn't support PeepOpen, I won't use that editor.
ah, I was wondering about that. tip: it helps to rewrite the headline in the third person instead of the first, clears it right up.
I agree completely about Command-T. I don't use any type of file drawer at all, I tried NerdTree and found it really annoying. The way I see it, you either know where something is already, in which case Command-T does the job, or you don't, in which case you may as well use a console, or just use :edit . in vim to open up the file & folder browser to start browsing around.

Command-T forces you to think: where is this file? And then you type in a handful of characters and retrieve it immediately. To me, that is very vim-like, because it's similar to the editing experience, where you think: what is the most efficient way to do X?
Well, I'm pretty I'm sure at least 6th generation Dutch. The patrilineal line I know better and goes back further. On the other hand, I don't live in The Netherlands. I went to an English university, Scottish and American schools, and now work for an American company in the Middle East and Africa.

My parents have barely lived in The Netherlands since early adulthood, so I guess I'm a second generation permanent expat.

I think you'll find a lot of non-immigrant expatriates as well because with modern travel & communications options, moving countries is no longer the huge deal it was in the past.
True, an "average person" cannot launch an airline, but then, an average person cannot launch much of anything. Is this the extent of your aspirations? Richard Branson could pull it off. As for the freshman thing, thanks for the laughs, trollman. Now please continue with your frustrations about how hotels and airlines destroy your quality of life (rather than, say, contribute to its improvement at any price that works for both parties; otherwise, no one's loss). And if you're deluded that by handcuffing them, "the government" (any govt. really) would be acting only in your own best interest, wait until they stoke you, too.
Yeah, good thing Box2D doesn't change a whole lot in itself, and is pretty complete. Recent commits have mainly been small refactoring changes.
I have in the past displayed a similar mix of determination and stubbornness, and sometimes still do. I can totally understand the disillusion felt caused by having to study things which may have no relevance to your future career in order to jump through the necessary hoops.

However it is important to not go beyond the point of no return in your railing against those around you who are trying to change your opinion. While they may not seem particularly helpful at the moment there are things you can still learn from them, and at times, you will need them. Don't burn your bridges with your friends and family, and don't fall into the trap of equating all education as pointless... there is much more to it besides the concrete things you learn, in many ways it doesn't matter what you learn - there are a handful of experiences amongst college / university life which help you to grow and mature. But at times in my life I'd never have believed that if you'd have told me. I thought I was mature, which in many ways I probably was, but I also had too much conviction in my own opinions which is definitely a sign of immaturity.

Being passionate is good, make sure you don't lose it but learn to control it too.
Grandmother on my Dad's side came from Ireland. Some of my direct ancestors came over from Scotland in the 1600's, though.
Naturally, x86 has a useful opcode for this: BSR, bit-scan right. It tells you the index of the first set (1) bit scanning from most-significant to least-significant. It returns the index from 0=LSB, 31=MSB.

BSR/BSF are the equivalents of CLZ/CTZ on ARM and other CPUs; it isn't a "crufty" or "redundant" instruction in the same way as LOOP, etc. Most modern x86 CPUs implement it in 1 or 2 cycles, with the exception of Athlon 64 and Atom. Check Agner's list of instruction latencies; don't guess.

BSF/BSR are extraordinarily useful instructions for a wide variety of uses, the most common being integer log2 (useful for parsing variable-length codes).
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So the solution to government-favoritism is government-cracking-down. Awesome, let's put the flying into govts hands right away, that's easier. Oh wait, we already tried that decades ago.
"The practice" I'm referring to could have stated with a bit more clarity. Thanks for pointing this out.

I'm talking about the practice of creating a centralized app store.

Providing developers with a way to monetize and market their apps is important. However, creating an environment where one company has complete control over the hardware, operating system and development ecosystem results in issues like these.

The developer in the OP hasn't done anything other than pay homage to the style of Star Trek. However, when issued a DMCA takedown request, the app is blindly removed from circulation with no notice, no appeal process and no options. It's easier for one company with complete control to enforce arbitrary standards that result in the least amount of friction for them.
Opera should do an OS like Chrome OS. Opera Unite will work well on such OS and they will also start making direct contact with hardware manufactures which will bring more polish to the browser.
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yeah whole post is kind annoying, he wants to do it, but he will not, maybe he will, no he will not, like a girl.
I didn't find vim that hard at all, just learn it and use it, that is all.
Good point. I remember trying to work an example in a Java textbook that involved building and printing out a times table. There were so many type coercion errors, I eventually just gave up.
Same here, those guys are machines when it comes to writing top-quality node modules.
Not to mention I'm seeing spam on Google+, while my pseudonymous friends are very difficult to find and/or recognize. In fact, because they're not allowed to use their names by which I know them, for each and every spam I am forced to wonder whether this might not be somebody I actually already know - clearly the reverse of a sane antispam strategy.

So all in all, this Google policy is wrongheaded and basically we all know it. I'm with you. It's yet another power grab.
True. I'd argue that it's the best of both worlds: Unlike Java, you have access to a bunch of helpful functions on every primitive, and you can add more by modifying prototypes; and unlike Ruby, primitives are immutable, which puts a cap on the level of complexity (you could write a whole book on Ruby's string objects).
Or even

alias vimtab="gvim -f --remote-tab-silent"

in your .bashrc, .zshrc or equivalent
I'm a descendant of slaves so my family tree gets tricky once I get (back) to my great grandparents (who were alive during the U.S. Civil War). Best guess is 5th generation.
The point of the article is that U.S. doesn't have a pure capitalistic system. Banks can take huge risks and, if it works out, they keep the profits, and, if it doesn't, the government bails them out.

Banks receive the benefits of both capitalism (unlimited upside) and socialism (insurance from downside). This is not a healthy system.
I love living in the future. There will probably always be evil in the world, but now it's much easier to unmask it as has been done here.

Now that this has come into the light, are Swedish citizens going to take any steps to get their country back?
VIM defender rushing in. I wrote a post which translates 100 Textmate features into VIM, and vice-versa. In particular, I included a section on getting used to the NERDTree.

http://www.jackkinsella.ie/2011/09/05/textmate-to-vim.html
I don't understand where this number is coming from. According to the data from the 2007 Economic Census...

Then go check the SEC filings. If they refute Taleb's numbers, bring in the Census as corroborating data.

I think that it is disingenuous to paint the entire industry as being composed of individuals out to cheat the system. I think that it makes more sense to note the behavioral economics at work.

This is precisely what happened, though. The large investment banks went public and externalized their risks. 10 years of bonuses (privatized profit), then a big blowup (socialized loss). Was it planned that way? Does it matter?

By contrast, private partnerships never developed as much exposure or lost as much money, since they could not externalize risks to the same degree.

I bet you worked for an LLC, no?

There is no great, malevolent force working in finance. The industry was governed by (and possibly still is) some pretty lackluster regulations, but it is a questionable premise to paint the entire industry as willfully fraudulent.

Why not? Because you were once involved in investment management yourself, and you are a good & decent person, and therefore the industry as a whole must be comprised of similar people and follow similar patterns of behavior and judgement?

This is not really the case. It is more the case that the regulators are often underpaid (relative to what they could make in the private banking industry) and over-worked (due to staffing cuts). This creates an accelerated revolving door between the public and private spheres. This revolving door makes it very hard to get any good regulations out of our current institutions.

So you think paying regulators more would somehow auto-magically deal with regulatory capture? Seriously?
Very nicely done. I like the use of the character icons instead of images. Not pixel-perfect, but surprisingly good.
Well, that's certainly the hardest poll question I've ever seen on HN. Let me get back to you.