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That the Amiga didn't get any decent custom chip upgrade was probably due to inter-custom chip timings more than software being carelessly put together. Perhaps the resources was not there to upgrade all of the chips at the same time. The AGA upgrade didn't affect several of the custom chips, like the blitter and the sound chip.

At least that's my impression.
Again, programmer ignorance about using GUIs with the keyboard.

"scanning through the list visually will take an incredibly long time"

Just type the file name.

"You have to ctrl-click or do something similar (that's definately not keyboard friendly)."

On Windows, you use Ctrl-Space and Ctrl-Arrows.
I love my MacBook Air. I believe that the difference in operating systems is being underestimated - if anything, they've diverged even more dramatically with Lion.

The large multitouch trackpad and the powerful gesture features feel less and less like a nicety and more like a necessity. In an era where I'm doing more and more in Chrome and a handful of crossplatform apps, I'd love to jump back to a PC, but the trackpads are just painful. They're barely getting things like two-finger scrolling that Apple nailed five years ago.

Also, I appreciate Windows 7 in many ways, but the fit, finish and refinement on the UI and animations in Lion strike me as something that will always be a differentiating factor for many people shopping for a $1000 + system.
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Oh I get it, it's very clever.

Consider what will happen in a not so long run when the money spent by companies behind those brands start to work in full swing.
I completely agree with all of your points, and I think that a lot of people are missing the point of just how disruptive HP have been in all of this, in terms of mopping up tablet users with the cheap Touchpad who would have otherwise opted to buy a cheap Android tablet. Amazon for one, must be furious with HP given that this fire-sale happened on the eve of their $250 tablet launch, especially given that the Touchpad makes a sweet Kindle device.

It will be very interesting to see what happens with this spin-off entity, and indeed, what it will be called (anyone taking bets on Compaq or Palm making a come back)?
I think you missed a "don't" that would be required before the quote.

Many people actually think programming and math are unrelated. I try to explain that logic matters, and the more logic you learn, the better off you are...

But the truth is, many things can be coded these days without a lot of logic and thought. Most of the hard work (the infrastructure) is provided for you, and even some non-trivial apps can be written these days just by plugging away at it until it works.

The real meat of programming, the stuff I enjoy, takes a lot of logic, math, and creativity. Sometimes all at once. Those are the best times.
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That pastebin reeks of bullshit. Someone with those kind of skills, someone who actually fulfils the definition of "elite," would not be making ludicrous boasts such as these in public fora. They would either be working for governments or for top security firms, and in both cases would know to STFU.
Quite.

Some years back, a guy named Bill and his buddy contacted a company making kit computers and said "we have a BASIC interpreter we'd like to sell you". The company said "a dozen others have said the same thing; we'll pay whoever delivers one." A few weeks later, Bill & pal delivered.

And thus Microsoft shipped its first product.
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So well, then you write something in CoffeeScript, "compile" it to Javascript and run it in Node.js? Ugly dev cycle, maybe worth hooking to Eclipse.
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Limiting the scope of your idea helps a lot with execution. Kenta Cho blows me away with the crazy number of games he releases. He releases a new one every few days! [1] But if you look at his source code, it's very short and about 90% of it is reused each time.

1. http://wonderfl.net/user/ABA/codes

The tower building game mechanic in World of Goo was the result of a similar rapid-prototyping exercise. Braid started out as a quick prototype, too. Having lots of ideas isn't bad; you just need a way to spew things into a playable state quickly so you can filter out the chaff.
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Poor health, poor posture, ill-fitting, ragged clothes, poor hygiene... this is what I mean.

If you carefully design your aesthetic, even if it does not fit with my personal style preferences, then that will be fine. Just show that you thought about it ;)
No, they deserved to get better.

Some were riddles, yes. (I'd have said they were jokes, actually.) But the good ones were puzzles. Puzzles are a lot harder to write than jokes.

I'd argue that the Myst series was the best of the genre. There were no riddles or jokes there. Every single challenge was a puzzle, with clues that were either obvious or hidden. Never were they absent, like a lot of adventure games.

What we're seeing now is FPSs that have adventure elements. Very few of them, but they're coming along. I even saw a hidden object game that was half adventure game! It got my 9 year old niece interested in adventure games, and she had quite a lot of fun with the copy of the original Myst that I bought her. (Her grandmother and mother helped her with it, some, but she was pretty good at it.)

So no, they didn't deserve to die. The good ones were amazing, and the bad ones were horrible, just like every other genre.
> Immoral does not equal illegal.

I meant criminal as in immoral, not as in illegal. Obviously the government is going to declare its taxes legal.

> I'm not even going to get into the fact that it's not always wrong to force people to do things.

There are cases where it's OK to force people to do stuff, just like there are cases where it's OK to kill someone. But those cases are rare. Government employs force beyond those rare moral cases, and is therefore immoral.
Shockingly incorrect. You're letting the convenient fiction of money (plus shoddy accounting) confuse your thinking. Value is the only thing that matters.

Suppose you spam your way to a million dollars selling fake Viagra. You have created no value. Your customers have all wasted their time. You've also wasted 100x the time of people who didn't buy. There's more waste in computing capacity and bandwidth, plus the time sysadmins spend fighting and cleaning up after. The resources spent hosting and sending the spam were wasted, plus the time and resources spent making fake pills and fake packages.

The general rule of thumb for business is 10% profit on expenses, so let's assume you had to burn $10m of your own resources to make your $1m. Spamming, though, mainly shifts costs elsewhere. Guessing a 5:1 ratio, let's say you wasted $60m to make $1m.

If we suppose that you're a generous parasite, you'll give 10% to charity, 100k. 25% overhead is very good for charities, so we'll say $75k of resources end up improving the world out of the $60m you wasted. Rather than being "hundreds of time more efficient", you're closing in on 100x worse.
I got an email the other day, from a young kid wanting me to sign a NDA, so I could quote him on his idea. I suggested he look at programming himself, and he did not take it well. I did explain to him that signing an NDA would be a disservice to me, if I was working on a similar idea, but he did not see the problem with that.
Thanks Steve. Not only is your post on coming back to Vim (about plugins) excellent, but so is this. I've always wanted to write plugins but been lost. I would then write shell scripts and then call them from Vim. Hopefully, this will spur me to write plugins.
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The EFI firmware with "legacy" BIOS support that Apple uses. It doesn't help that Windows actually supports booting from UEFI but not the EFI 1.1 hack that Apple uses.
Actually the solar panels price is very small, if it will be embedded into gadget then it's less than $20 (even for the best modern solar batteries)
There are still a tiny fraction of vary good ideas that are worth something. Pagerank is a classic example where the idea was clearly worth something the problem is even great ideas tend to be worth less than 5% of the company after a year or so.

The hard part is sticking to your guns and actually telling your 'friend' that sounds like a good idea. You can pay me X/hour to build and market it or I can build it and hand over 5% of the profits it's up to you.
Also: Having a female manager.

Maybe I shouldn't be generalizing, since my sample set is very small, but the female managers I've had were great, especially the more technically-inclined ones.
"Convergence, distributed, secure strategy replacing certificate authorities for users of Firefox"
the idea that stupidity is harsh, and that we have to rename this feeling as ignorance is all part of the problem. everyone is so hung up on not being stupid. even after reading the article, it's what people care about...

you can argue all you like that the author should use another word. but what you have to get over when you're doing research is exactly that feeling. the feeling that people are trying to hide from by playing with words.

not sure i am making my point well - what i am trying to say is that the people who are complaining about the term "stupid" are not helping anyone. they're just exhibiting the same instinctive reaction that you feel in research. whatever name you give it, you feel the same.
Great tips. I'm happy to see a lot of vim related posts hitting the HN front-page recently.
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He suggests your identity data be stored in the cloud so all your browsers and devices can access it.

He doesn't mention whether or not you need a password to connect your new phone to your cloud identity wallet...
This blog post seems to be copied from http://20bits.com/articles/graph-theory-part-iii-facebook/ without any attribution.

It was also posted on yc only two weeks ago (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2912073 for commentary).
I don't think this has anything to do with attitudes but is natural. Isn't attractiveness a sign of health? (for example - [1] the waist-to-hip ratio)

Are we to defy natural selection?

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waist-hip_ratio
Its processor is somewhat underpowered when compared to iPad 2's (ARM7 vs. ARM9 cores). The perceived slowness, short battery life and various other problems were could also be blamed on it being released before it was ready. The hardware side being ready (sort of - the machines should be faster) before the software shows poor management.
3d data of the surroundings could be also obtained with a portable sound-to-3d sonar system.. not sure if such exists yet but it would be a cool thing to connect to your device for enhanced bat-sight.
> IF something is making money it is providing some value.

That's provably false (and a regrettably common belief). Bernie Madoff made buckets of money. Magnetic healing bracelets make money. Psychic surgeons and Nigerian scam artists and spammers make money.
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I think the author generally made some good points there, but something important was overlooked in one of his examples.

git checkout master

You might notice there, the front command, 'git'. This wasn't launched from a special git command line, it was launched from the same command line that he was using for everything else. On the GUI side, on the other hand, you either have to to Alt-Tab some undefined number of time -it might be 1 or 5, you have to do it slowly and pay attention to visual feedback. For the CLI, on the other hand, you just type three letters and the correct context appears.
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How are they "less than zero" if they gave you an idea that a) you would've never thought of yourself in any amount of brainstorming or b) was so insanely great that you jumped at the chance to actually do it.

Would people who are passionate enough to really think things through with their idea contribute less than zero? I'm not talking about the fictional coked-out, fast talking movie exec with logline "business plans" that want 60% + a seat on the board. If you're talking with that kind of person, then of course you don't take it on.
Are you familiar with Steve Mann's wearable computing work?

I bought a Kopin cyber-display around 1998-2000, and one problem with all of these displays is that they have a tiny field of view. It feels a lot more like looking down a sight than having some kind of full-scene overlay.

I've also tried using the 3Com MPro mini projectors to back-project onto a phone-sized screen. With the default optics, the best image I could get had the projector 20 cm from the screen, and the screen 10 cm from my eye.
It is pretty clear that 'Comodohacker' is the guy that hacked Comodo (check the first Pastebin where as 'proof' he releases the as yet unannounced email and pass of the CEO). As to the authenticity of the latest hack, perhaps that might be a bit bullshit, but I would not be surprised.

Yes, the way he/she is bragging about '1337 hacker' skills is pretty 'lulzy'. I am not a security geek, but I find it amusing to see someone bragging about skills I consider to be something not worth mentioning.

This person certainly has patience when it comes to Googling.

The most embarrassing thing that can happen to a security company is getting owned by someone like this.
Constructive blog articles rarely are tagged "rant" by the author. If your point is "stop all the madness, build things" just say that or echo people that already have. Wrapping it in anger, as it is currently written, you have created fodder for nonconstructive discussion.
This is why movie studios explicitly say they won't read your scripts and film suggestions if you send one in. They want to be able to make a film without the danger of being sued for stealing ideas.
One possible acquirer would be Lenovo.
This idea doesn't address his complaint (expressed multiple times) about accessing from different devices. In fact, this makes that essentially impossible.
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This is exactly it. In fact, I was just talking with my partner last week about the fact that almost every time we get a potential client or lead that wants to meet or talk on the phone first, it almost always never turns into real work. On the contrary, our best clients rarely, if ever, request meetings or phone/face time.

His idea was that to these "idea people," the meeting is a replacement for work. I'm not sure what I think, aside from the fact that I'm tired of wasting my time.
This is not the same as the main point of the parent comment, which is the bottom-up philosophy of small simple procedures that can be combined to create even more useful procedures with variety and ease... This is the Unix philosophy, and this is what we (the terminal-enjoyers) enjoy most about it.

When I can "pipe" the output from one component within a GUI program to another (of which there have been a few interesting research ventures), or even from one GUI program to another, and also automate this whole process with things like loops and conditionals on a whim (not just from scripts stored in files, but invented on the spot as needed) without resorting to writing a plugin to a program-specific API, then we will be on the same page.

GUIs don't have as useful of a REPL, but this could be fixed. GUIs don't have a programmable shell[1] that provides the conditionals and loops needed for automation, but this could be fixed.

Just post it to Hacker News when it is fixed!

[1] edit - Well, myself and others run stumpWM; which, being Common Lisp based, does provide a bit of a programmable shell and REPL, but this is not the norm for KDE, Gnome, etc.
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This is the same philosophy I take with regards to meetings. I'd gladly take a coffee, lunch, or other meeting with anyone who is interested because you never know what may come out of it. Sure, sometimes I'm busy, but there's always time for lunch and coffee. Take meetings, have conversations, let 1,000 flowers bloom or whatever the relevant expression is. But I also state in advance that our conversation is not subject to any non-disclosure agreement, and I explain that we are both free to do with the information whatever we like. If they're not comfortable with that, I explain that the purpose of the meetings is to see what mutual value we can bring each other. That's enough to screen the random meetings.
I've found that the fastest way to get people to stop telling you their ideas (that they want you to build), is start telling them exactly how THEY could accomplish it.

Them: "I've got this awesome idea for software that tracks traffic jams!"

Me: "Sure, you just need to link up existing maps and satellite imagery from Google to traffic cameras...."

Them: "Uh..."

Me: "Of course, you have to be able to monetize the massive amount of data you'll be moving around, so you need to consider how people will be accessing this? Would it be through a GPS device, or is it a smartphone app, or is this just for commercial (TV stations, police, DOT) applications?"

Them: "Uh...I also had an idea for this other thing..."
This is a side project my partner and I worked on. We built it on Google App Engine. I made all the drawings using Autodesk Sketchbook Pro on the iPad.
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Define bigger? More nodes yes, but less cores, RAM and disk space.
At least they _had_ a story.

Anyway, what kind of games does the author propose as better?

The article really seems to boil down to "I don't like them."
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I second Gandi - I transferred to them from Dotster for many reasons and the service is excellent - not to mention the free SSL certificates with your domain purchase, which has come in handy a few times.
Public services would be provided by businesses like everything else. "Law and order" would be maintained primarily the way it is now, which is through social custom. But since there would still be aggressors, you would have to pay for private security. And you would probably want to carry a weapon with you.

All of these issues are discussed extensively in the libertarian literature. Murray Rothbard and Stefan Molyneux are good places to start.
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Mastermind is a "tough math game" ?? It's a guessing and logic game, nothing to do with math. And it's not tough.
Is there a mirror of this anywhere? I'm getting 404.

edit: never mind. It's back.
I have thought about that... but more and more, I browse the internet from some sort of closed system (iOS and Android devices). I also switch operating systems quite often. I doubt any solution, other than "just remember the damned password, you remember N of them, so you can remember N+1, right?" will work vertically on all of those.
I am perfectly willing to believe that this person has at least some responsibility for the attacks, what I don't believe is that he did it using all these 1337 swordfish style skillz as he describes.

I'd put money on all of them involving basic social engineering and spear phishing with PDFs.
I didn't sense that he meant for the user to be involved in the cloud aspect, just that the browser stores it there so that it can persist beyond sessions, single computers, etc.

If the goal is no more passwords, what is the handshake mechanism to move my Firefox data to Opera?
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I think he only thinks of video games as the AAA titles that most people love.

Getting into game programming is easy, and your first basic game could be done a month after you learn the basics. You don't need visual artists, sound artists, or any of that to produce your first little game.

Granted, that will be a -very- basic game. But it puts you on the road and you can say you actually made something... Which is something that many never get to say.

This post seems like it is meant to discourage people from getting into game programming by making it some untouchable elite thing, and it's just not.
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There's a couple of very different problems getting presented here.

1) Password management, which is a solved problem by geeks and normals alike. Geeks use password managers. Normals use three passwords.

2) Single sign-on, which is less medicine and more vitamin as far as things go.

3) Net-wide identity. HERE BE DRAGONS.

As soon as you start doing the most trivial possible quanta of work to resolve the OMG DRAGONS, you start compromising the system's utility for password management and sign-on.

You'll need, minimally, new UI for "What information about yourself should we share with $NEW_SITE?" and for switching between users/profiles. This will happen in ways your users don't really understand.

Among the many OMG DRAGONS:

1) Microsoft, Mozilla, and Google can get into a corner and say "Heya, federated identity would be the awesome!" all they want, but there are laws in the US, Japan, Europe, and points beyond which don't make "It is an open standard!" int a compliance safe harbor.

2) You know that whole Google+ thing about real names and people having multiple identities which don't necessarily intersect with each other? Yeah, um, that.

3) Speaking of which, how about the other intractably hard problems for pre-filled biographical information like e.g. human names? They're, ahem, a wee bit tricky!
I love this kind of post. Copy 4 lines of code and you're hacking away. Great job.
Given this, what he describes isn't that different than using something like LastPass, letting it generate random passwords for you, and accessing your login info from multiple devices with it.
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But what percentage of them are active sites and what are parking pages / domain squatting? It's been shown in the past that a single domain parker moving their hosting can have a vastly disproportionate effect on these numbers while affecting almost no real end-user traffic.

As it stands, this statistic is vastly too crude to be of any value.
you copy and paste the exact same reply every time Arrington is mentioned in a post - and every time there are numerous rebuttals posted in comments here.

I have no idea what your agenda is, but your comment has been discussed ad nauseum multiple times in the past and has nothing to do with OP.

if you are interested in this thread, search for one of the dozen other times it came up with the exact same allegations and exact same characters.
Who cares, it is mainstream but nginx vs. IIS statistics is very funny.

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That was my thought too. I can't use this advice because I'm not supposed to be talking to little girls in the first place.
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