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Mojang has money, so no matter what this won't hurt him, but unless he's doing this for the publicity, he's making the wrong choice. Change the name of your unreleased game. Not that big a deal, and you'll save a lot of lawyer fees. Pick your battles. Of course, that is if he isn't attempting to use this as a publicity stunt. As some people mentioned, Mojang's project wasn't that well known prior to this incident.
hey Victor,

sometimes you just meet someone with similiar desires, plans and values. this is what the internet is all about: connecting those people, so the result is more than the sum of all parts.

we are glad to have you on board and are excited that you decided on us. looking forward to make it happen and pick you up on the airport. like tim ferriss said: travel lightly :)

nicole is cheering all the time ("victor is coming, wohooo") and I'm really happy as well.

see you soon.

daniel+nicole
In-ear earbuds are basically earplugs, without the social stigma; of course, you may feel like a bit of a tool for wearing headphones to avoid the shame of earplugs.

Classical or instrumental music might be also worth a try if you haven't tried it already; post-rock works well for me.

As for phasing it out, unfortunately conversation is much harder to tune out than thing like engine noise. Our brains are designed to pay attention to talking, and the intensity and tone are constantly changing.
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Speakerdeck doesn't have full-screen view, so it cannot be treated seriously, at least for screening or just careful viewing purposes - I have to download PDF after all. OTOH as a presentation DB it looks rather ok.
I'm pretty sure inverse ETFs/ETNs use swaps or futures. If this one is done through futures, you need to worry about contract roll, which introduces loss.

Which particular ETN are you referring to? I'd be interested in reading the prospectus.
Same here, I am finally forcing my head into vim. I always knew that it was a good investment, but always stopped on the hjkl lesson.
So, do the remaining cookies truly not contain data which can identify a specific user to Facebook?
Better lens; more light in == better pictures(broad generalization). A teardrop shaped phone would allow it to have a larger longer lens up top but still feel relatively light and thin. I haven't done research on the iPhone 4's current ccd chip but there is always room for improvement on things. Not necessarily an increase in specs but an increase in response time, decrease in noise levels, larger ccd, etc....
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Considering that DropBox is building on Amazon cloud storage (S3) and Google have their native storage arrays, I'd be very worried, as Google can offer storage much cheaper.

If you check Google services (docs, mail), you get for just $5 -> 20GB of storage for a YEAR (or for $20 -> 80GB).

DropBox takes $9.99 a MONTH for 50GB, or around $120 a YEAR!

User lock-in is powerful, but if a competitor can offer a product for a magnitude less in price, I'd be friggin' worry my posterior off.
Possibly I'm overly optimistic in regard to the altruism of the Linux vendors. The old 'the whole ecosystem is going to suffer' argument is still pretty strong with the OSS community but you certainly could be right.
I know what you mean. It's hard to work or study around chatty people or where one can hear a radio or TV going. Having abnormally good hearing doesn't help much either.

Recordings of natural acoustic environments (rainfall, seashore) work for some people. I find classical music with slow tempos does the job for me; I sometimes break off to listen, but shortish micro-breaks are a good thing. The good thing about classical music is that there are a lot of long-form pieces, like symphonies that last an hour or opera that lasts 2 or more. Alternatively, you could go looking through the ambient electronic music genre, which tends towards ethereal and spacey sounds rather than being built around hooks, choruses, and musical climaxes. Brian Eno is a good artist to start with.
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The First Law of Economists: For every economist, there exists an equal and opposite economist.

The Second Law of Economists: They're both wrong.
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I completely agree, but developers-wise it was not a complete pain in the ass yet: it was the "looking forward to meeting you" browser for the development community (having just been renamed Firebird), the community was mostly in its IE5/Mac high and getting started on understanding CSS and trying to get rid of tables.

This would lead down a long and painful road re. IE6, but I think it was just getting started and not feeling it yet. On the Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox front, Chris Pederick's Web Developer Toolbar was still a year away.

(there were, of course, visionaries community wise: PPK published "Separating behavior and structure" in April 2004[0], and the "javascript prophets" were getting out their suggestions on getting event handler bindings out of HTML[1], it's a long gone time when Opera's javascript support was billed "poor" and the first version of Safari had little CSS support and no ability to execute any javascript worth running)

edit: after thinking about it a bit more, i still think 2003 is too early for the IE6 pain point, but my 2005 might be too conservative as well. So I'd put the early pangs in early to mid-2004 for the "wider" community of developers interested in web technologies.

[0] http://www.digital-web.com/articles/separating_behavior_and_...

[1] http://www.sitepoint.com/structural-markup-javascript/
Wow. We're debating the presence of "one notification" to be a response to extremely speculative rumors of a "cloud iPhone" (in the day of poor batteries and data-caps?) Or that Assistant, even in this thread, is being touted as revolutionary? Or that people seem to attribute webOS with Android-style notifications despite being later to the game? The iPhone 4 is gorgeous and iOS is in a class of it's own, but I can not understand the blinders that come on around announcement time.
It's Moneyball time - examples of rethinking
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EasyRGB is nice for matching them to actual paint colors and names: http://easyrgb.com/index.php?X=SEEK
Woooohoooo, they've heard me!! :D
I don't know though. I can see it from apples standpoint; think of the shit storm that would happen when a G rated app showed some x rated stuff on a update. If they want to keep the curated walled garden clean they would have to restrict it like crazy or have updates go through apple inc before approval.
They don't need the cookie to track you anyway. Cookie-less tracking is no problem. Not deleting the cookie was making the tracking just a little bit easier, but I am sure they track users anyway, as long as they download the like widgets that webmasters put on their pages.
Absolutely Ryan. Thanks for your sharing your thoughts with me.

I also see other parallels between building great software and building a great business. For one, focus is important for scaling both. You don't want to be all things to all people.

In addition, whether you're bug tracking or solving business problems, it's important to get to the root cause. Full disclosure: I used to be a management consultant.

Finally, it takes a great team to build great software and a great company.

I'm sure there are many others. Would love to hear what others here come up with.
Come back to your own country where every one else paid for your education, your healthcare, your safety and your opportunities.

Start business. Employ people.

Pay it forward.

Problem solved.
This guy is an independent trader because no one would hire him. He's misguided in his understanding of the markets. Goldman Sachs is an investment bank. When he says "anyone can make money from a crash", he's right: any INDEPENDENT investor/fund. Such as a hedge fund or himself, an "independent trader". These people are referred to as the "buy side". However, Goldman Sachs, as well as all the other banks he probably thinks "rules the world" is on the sell-side. The sell-side provides "prime" brokerage services to the buy-side clients -- that is they connect buyers and sellers via the exchanges. In fact, with the upcoming Volker rule, no investment banks will be allowed to engage in proprietary trading (trading for profit with the firms money), which is what the buy-side does.

Investment banks might actually lose money in recessions because they might take illiquid, toxic assets onto their books to service demand (point and case: the mortgage crisis). And securities is only a part of the investment bank business model. Advisory services, largely driven by M&A and IPO volume, provide a decent chunk of profits for banks. Capital markets dry up during recessions, which will completely stifle M&A and IPO activity and therefore revenue on that side of the bank.

This guy is full of shit. When asked what to invest in when the market goes down, his best advice is bonds and "hedging strategies". Bonds do indeed rise in value during bear markets, however hedging has almost nothing to do with profit or loss. Hedging is risk management: covering your ass in case of an unexpected move. For example, if I expect a downward market turn, as per his advice, I might buy up treasuries. But, to "hedge" the possibility that the market moves UPWARDS instead, I might buy an index tracking the Dow, which will increase in value as the market moves up. In this case, hedging is actually DECREASING my profits in the case of a downward movement in the markets. There are much more intuitive ways to play a downward market.
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Two words, Cloud iPhone...
The article is still speculating about the "iPhone 5" part, right? Last I checked, we still don't know if it will be a hardware upgrade (perhaps "4S"), a low-cost version, a world phone, a complete form factor upgrade ("5"), or some combination of these and other things.
As others have said, nobody ever refers to them like that. They might say, "did you like Oblivion", or, if they're gamers hanging out in a gaming-specific forum, "are you a fan of TES?" Never, ever, have I heard anyone refer to the games as "Scrolls". It's simple not done. In the same vein, you would never refer to gcc as "collection".
That's understandable to a certain extent, but there is no need for anyone to be rude about it. Someone wants a Facebook clone for $500? Simply respond "it's a huge amount of work and I won't be able to do it for that." If they press, explain why.

It's one thing to be cynical; it's something else entirely to show that cynicism to a potential client.

Hell, this isn't limited to the tech world: my wife trains horses and gives lessons and she has the same problem with clients making snarky comments and dumb assumptions. If she wants to keep getting business she has to swallow her irritation and answer politely and informatively.
No, plenty did. From the more famous Nouriel Roubini, Nassim Taleb, and Peter Schiff, to lesser known money managers like Mike Shedlock and Karl Denninger, there were many. Just because the market-cheerleading media hardly covered them doesn't mean no one saw the housing crisis coming.
I use a noise generator.

Noisy - http://code.google.com/p/noisy/

Turn it on and - for me - it sounds incredibly distracting. A few minutes later I don't notice it all and the background distractions fade away.

I've used it at work, I've used it at home. Recommended.
My impression was always that MBA programs are best suited for people who wanted to work within an existing organization rather than create their own. Most of the MBAs I know are middle management or above in engineering companies, and the MBA is one way of moving up for them. Maybe it's a new fad for business schools, but I hope they aren't beginning to advertise themselves as good preparation for starting your own business.
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The best advice I have received about pricing:

Price your service so that you would not regret it either way.

Before giving a price I usually think of how I will feel if I don't get the job and how I will feel if I get it. If I would be comfortable with both situations, then I know it is the right price regardless of what happens.

In line with this, I have given higher rates to "difficult" people I have worked with before that have asked me to do work for them again. I didn't get those jobs (usually I don't even get a response) but I was happy about it. If the work and person seems interesting, I may quote a lower rate.
The Google Chrome version adoption chart very much drives home the difference between chrome and IE!
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The following steps would hopefully help:
1) Peruse quora.com every day, read the wall street journal, if you don't have a subscription you can get one online and read any journal.
2) Network and attend conferences that interest you.
3) Focus on an area that you have passion about and keep it simple.
4) Possible paths to explore beyond social media are:
a) Ecosystem driven where there is demand i.e. Salesforce, Twilio, Google App Marketplace
b) Healthcare
c) Personalized Medicine
d) Energy
5) Build a prototype(balsamiq) and develop a pitch.
6) Participate in business plan competitions.
7) Get going.
Remember, this isn't just about Mojang naming their game 'Scrolls', this is about them doing that AND applying for a trademark on the name 'Scrolls' for video games.

If this was just about the name of a game then it wouldn't be much of an issue, Bethesda could just cover their TM by licensing it to them for how little or much they wanted to. But Mojang wants their own TM (to subjugate others) and that's where the lawyers are getting huffy.

Frankly, I think he should just change the name of his game. Life is too short to deal with the headache and pay a bunch of lawyers to argue over this junk. 'Scrolls' doesn't seem like a great name anyways.

Disclaimer: I love Minecraft and play it regularly, but I'm not interested in card-type strategy games. Therefore I won't probably even try a demo of 'Scrolls' (or whatever it ends up being called).
Well this is funny and cool to see, I spent the better part of Sunday playing with the name that color script (http://chir.ag/projects/ntc/) and jPicker and I compiled a larger color list for it using a couple additional sources. That particular script's color list only requires the name and hex value of the color which is a little more compact. I don't see any other major differences though. It's handy to know that the Wikipedia list has duplicate values for different names (Chestnut Rose = Indian Red for example), looks like your script just grabs the first match it finds.

I was wondering what to do with darker colors as they are less represented in terms of color names. So, when you pick a random darkish color the accuracy reduces because there are less names to choose from.

I was thinking perhaps the best solution would be in these cases to extrapolate a lighter variation of the picked color and display that color with a measure of its darkness (30% darker purple). Right now, if you pick a color like #291c36 you'll get dark jungle green when it's a dark purple. Any thoughts on tackling that problem?
Ah, one of the last reasons I still had Flash around...
>Meh, leveling was pointless anyway because when you leveled up, so did the enemy.

Yes, but if you didn't also increase other skills you would only get +2 or +3s for your stats rather than the max of +5s to three stat groups.

So the enemy hits lvl 20 just like you do, but you are much weaker as you've inefficiency leveled.
vimtutor was all it took for me and didn't take that long. Yes, it takes about 30 minutes to get through, but I used it off and on as a refresher as I was getting more accustomed to using vim. Here I am half a year later I do almost all of my text editing using GVim. My advice would be to gradually ease into the advanced commands and plugins and not to immediately try and fix every problem you come across where vim doesn't behave like you would expect coming from other editors.
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I had a similar thought, but as the author points out in a thread here, it is still largely legitimate for library authors.
This seems like a really ill-conceived play on bethsoft's part. A month before the release of their biggest title in years, and they want to piss off gamers by suing someone universally loved by them? Why? What possible good could come of this for them? I would have thought the initial reaction to the story would have caused them to rethink their strategy, but they don't seem to care.
FINALLY! Been waiting for this for ages!
i'm sure the suit is ridiculous and all, but why exactly does the Scrolls team think that defending this suit is in their business interests?
I wondered the other day who owns the html5 trademark and the logo. It should only be licensed to sites that are actually html5 - same for browsers.

It shouldn't be hard to come up with some criteria for both apps and browsers as to what is html5.

this definitely isn't, since the markup can't be parsed and made sense of as to what the document structure is
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I'm consistently impressed with the steady, incremental and elegant improvements github keeps making to their service. This is how you delight your users.
I've come to almost the exact opposite conclusion. I went from fundamental trading to almost completely technical/algorithmic trading.

After the 87 crash, the 2001 crash and the 2008 crash, I'm a firm believer that we will experience crashes every 7-10 years, because the financial markets are fundamentally unstable, and keeping your money in the stock market for long term will only lose you money.

I believe the only way to be in the stock market is to realize that it is a game, that the dominant players all believe it is a game, and you have to know how to play by their rules. In this case, it means that you have to follow the technicals in order to understand the ebbs and flows of the market, and know how to trade, not invest. I believe that given the nature of the markets these days, it's more of a market of probabilities, and short-term momentum rather than fundamentals.

I still think there is room for "investing", but it is high risk to hold things in the market these days.
> I thought that he made me think of Peter Schiff

This guy is less doomsday than Schiff - Schiff wouldn't talk of a move to treasuries. He'd say that America faces the same problem as Europe, but claim that they've got structures that have allowed them to kick the can further down the road. He'd push metals as a safehaven.
I didn't indicate anywhere that megapixels == quality.

When you just about max out the quality of a given MP value with given hardware constraints, as I think the iPhone 4 has done, the only real way to go up is increasing MP.

I can't be bothered to dig up some review for you, as my observations come from personal experience. Your best bet is to look for HTC Sensation reviews with unmodified example shots and videos.
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> Considering that DropBox is building on Amazon cloud storage (S3)

...which tells you the only logical acquirer. Any other will have a middleman of S3 to pay, which will make the financials not very sensible.

If GDrive releases and is viable, Dropbox should put on their best push-up bra and fishnets, and head over to seattle as soon as the mascara is dry.
A new version is released every 6 weeks, so if it's on 7 than you will see 9 in production in 12 weeks.
I can't wait for chapters on Mnesia and distributed Erlang. I've been learning Erlang for fun over the past few months and LYSE has been an absolute godsend.

Also looking forward to this in book format
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Eh, going by the App Engine pricing nonsense, I wouldn't necessarily count on Google's current prices reflecting anything beyond "This sounds like a nice number." It's entirely possible that if people started using up more of their allocation (as they would with a Google Drive), the prices would skyrocket.
websocket protocol bump to v8? isn't v10 the one with the security issues fixed?
So price support for certain browsers as features. IE7 +5%. IE6 +30%.
Is the iPhone 4 still the same price that it was when it came out?

This reminds me of April 2010 when I wrote a couple articles about how Apple is fairly unique among computer manufacturers for charging enormous prices for old hardware and going so long without update or a price drop. In April 2010, depending on the week, you bought a Macbook Pro that was miserably outdated or a Macbook Pro that was very modern for precisely the same price.

(If you're interested: http://simonsarris.com/blog/22-mac-envy-2 )
This man's fishing for attention, IMO, but there is some degree of brutal honestly in how he describes a trader's outlook. Many traders eagerly await swings in volatility as opportunities to make a lot of money; the reason for the swing (e.g. global financial market turmoil) is irrelevant.
That's fair.

I guess my larger concern rewriting the codebase, is they lose a lot of learned assumptions from users.

For example, under the new delicious, if I click a tag in my tag cloud. And say it takes me to '/photos' and then I click another tag, 'house'. It doesn't take me to '/house', but '/photos/house' and the page isn't found.

I've probably done this 20x today and the behavior is so ingrained in me that I can't function with their new UX.

There are other nuances like this that make the new delicious extremely frustrating.
If I need a car for a short time period like shopping, I can rent one short-term - there's a car club parking spot about 2 minutes walk from my house, and costs about 5.50 GBP per hour, including fuel - or I could take a taxi. Of the people (i.e. mothers) I know who have done this, they've always taken taxis, to and from the supermarket, once a week. If shopping is the primary justification for having a car, the cost doesn't outweigh the alternatives.

I find spaced out living not conducive to walking from one shop to another, to a cafe to meet with friends, to a theatre or cinema, to a restaurant, to a pub; without limitation on alcohol consumption etc. A centralized shopping centre already exists - it's called the town centre.

I personally prefer to keep well away from freeways, motorways and their ilk. They're loud, ugly and mind-crushingly boring to drive on. I also think they scar the social landscape in a particularly unpleasant way - they tend to separate communities on either side, almost like rivers.

It's clear that our preference functions are very different. Mine is probably largely coloured by having grown up in a very walkable town in the west of Ireland (Galway), and now living in London; and having been horrified by the way most US cities are put together (i.e. apart from places like NYC and SF).

Driving around the upstate NY / PA area very clearly brought home to me how much I'd hate to live there, and driving around silicon valley on the 101, 280, 85 etc. was much worse, reminiscent mostly of a massive industrial estate. The only two places I've seen that I'd seriously consider in the US would be the aforementioned SF and NYC, and perhaps Boston.

But I do however have a vehicle - two actually: a scooter and a motorbike. In London, I enjoy negotiating (i.e. filtering or lane-spltting) the traffic - I rather prefer busy streets to empty ones, and anything is better than a motorway.
If Apple or Microsoft introduce a competitor to your application, you are going to have a real difficult time staying in business. Are we to the same point with Google and cloud apps?