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The entity boss part seems like it's just an array of objects you perform actions on. It's not a description of the goal of the object, it's an internals-level view of how it does it.

Maybe there's another more fundamental behavior or dataset that would suggest a better name?

Perhaps Scene or World, depending on the things the EntityManager was doing. If it's reloading them it's like a scene, if it's changing gravity it's more worldy...
I've never personally been able to get any use out of the voice control feature of iOS. In fact, after trying it a few times, the only time I invoke it now is by accident. I hope that Apple kicks some major ass on this feature and creates another "how did I ever live without this" moment.
Okay, my take is that it means 1 common iPhone for CDMA and GSM
Bullshit - curation is a valuable act and you should get something for doing a good job of it.

Also, you should build a machine learning thing to up/down rank stuff based on clicks. I might be able to help with that.

Also, I want tags. More like this! Especially for stuff that I don't know much about (eg UAVs)
I dunno, I've stuck with Capistrano... I've used Vlad, but Cap just works and it only needs to be as complicated as you make it. My cap files are usually about 40 lines total and that often includes a section where I write the database.yml on the fly to the server. I've used all the other options, and they're nice, but Cap works nicely still.
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Somewhat related, I recently checked out the 'console' of the online editor, Cloud9 (http://c9.io/), and was amazed at the in-editor git functionality (mostly I was amazed that it worked in such an early version of the product).

I can pull/push from my repos at both Github and Heroku from within my project on c9.
It couldn't have taken you years.

Sure it could. Firefox 3.0 was released in June 2008, 3.5 in June 2009 and 3.6 January 2010. If he just upgraded then he could have been on Firefox 3.x for over 3 years.
Depends on how you approach it, but, if you are particular, it can take weeks to get everything setup.

First you have to learn a lot about vim and what it does.

Then you have to memorize the all the shortcuts for all the stuff, there are quite a few.

Then muscle memory those.

For me personally, there are about 10 plugins I use regularly that don't ship with vim, that I had to discover and learn how to use. So you have to run into an issue, discover its not in vim core, see if there is a plugin, pick a plugin, install it, learn how to use it, etc.

Then there is configuring vim to do all the stuff you want.

MacVim + Janus.vim helps a ton, but even so, there is tons more stuff to learn about vim to do your daily tasks than there is probably anything else in programming
IOS utility library with many useful features.
>What am I missing here?

vimtutor or Emacs info-pages so you're no longer dependent on commercial entities for the cornerstone of your tools.
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Yeah, I've seen the Hiller platform at the Smithsonian, it's neat.

It's also unstable because of the high center of gravity. However, it has a specially designed duct that the propellers fit within which creates stabilizing aerodynamic effects, counteracting this instability. Also did you notice the Hiller's lip around the top edge? That's a carefully designed airfoil against which air drawn downward by the propeller passes, creating uniform lift underneath the whole lip edge, all 360 degrees around the outside of the platform! Very clever, but also prevents movement that isn't perfectly balanced upward lift, which is why they were hard to navigate.

The Chinese gentleman's aircraft does not feature either of these and will be unstable. But I'm glad you brought this up, because it's possible that the Hoverbike uses similar effects and is thus more stable, I suppose we'll find out more as Hoverbike prototypes make their way to market and are analyzed. I don't really see an airfoil lip of the same nature on the hoverbike though, but perhaps it's there. The general solution going forward with such things is likely not going to be the Hiller design but is to stabilize using automated flight control as has been mentioned elsewhere in this discussion. The high center of gravity is still a stability problem though that has to be dealt with. With the Chinese craft, there's no way it will be flown any distance untethered using its current design.
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Then, what good did disabling it in the URL bar do? :)
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I love that things change, and I love the almost competitive nature between projects, but it's grating if you maintiain existing things.

If you're a consultant hopping from one client gig to the next each few months, it's great. If you maintain your own things, it gets frustrating when things you relied on are no longer maintained because the developer got tired of putting up with putdowns about how his project "sucks" and [x] is the new hot way to log people in. :)
Sublime Package Control is really kick-ass as well.

http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/package_control

It allows you to install, remove and manage packages from within Sublime itself
He probably called it a "mess of bash scripts" because, uh, it is a mess of bash scripts. Have you looked at the implementation? RVM is amazing in the functionality it has, don't get me wrong, but it hacks into your shell in some nasty ways and when things go wrong good luck figuring out why without diving deep into the underlying bash.
"if your fluorescent bulbs/solar panels/low-flow shower head won't pay for itself within a year, i won't bother"

I'd guess this is largely caused by our psychological tendency to overly discount future gains combined with loss aversion (people are used to things failing after a year, so if it hasn't paid for itself by then, it never will (example: I just had a 4-year fluorescent bulb I installed one year ago fail, about a month after I threw away the packaging with the warranty info on it)).

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Hyperbolic_di...
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Yes, the guy is full of shit.

The basic thing is that while there are ways to play down-markets, down-markets and up-markets are not mirror image and are not simply "different ways to make money".

An up-market inherently creates - maybe-not-money - but the appearance of money, the availability of money, "liquidity". An healthy up-market inspires healthy production and makes the liquidity it generates really correspond to people having more wealth on average. An unhealthy up-market naturally involves mis-allocated resources and its liquidity thus becomes illusory and so it is followed by a down-market. A down-market eats liquidity and decreases production meaning the decreased-money people have really corresponds the people also having less stuff, on average. So given the downer that is a down market, profiting become harder on average. Some do great but the average person should assume that the law of averages to applies to them...
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I understand people who use VIm for everything. I've recently come ack to it after a few years away.

It's nice to have an editor you know how to be productive in when you start using a new tech.

In an average workday I'll touch ASP, JavaScript, Sass, CoffeeScript, PHP, and Ruby code. When I use VIm, I can use all of the shortcuts and things I've learned over the years to manipulate text. I know how to manage projects, find files, etc.

That's a huge advantage. Having to learn Eclipse to do Java or Visual Studio to do C# adds complexity cos you have to learn the tool and the language.

So yea, I totally get it. This goes for TextMate or Emacs too.
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It conveys no useful information to the user. It'd be like prefixing all emails with "email:".
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Execution over ideas in every case.

However, after diving a lot into Lean Product and UX Design, I have learned that the hardest part is finding problems worth solving. In my opinion, being able to discover problems that have terrible solutions and workarounds are really where good ideas are spawned, then "hypothesized" and "validated".

Also, for helping to formulate your ideas (I am assuming a business model), it has helped me to use a business model canvas. I like the "lean" one from http://www.runningleanhq.com and there is a link to one from Steve Blank's blog article: http://steveblank.com/2011/09/22/how-to-build-a-web-startup-... and a good slide explanation: http://steveblank.com/2010/11/15/creating-startup-success-cu...

Hope this helps.
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Honestly didn't know LA was a big scene. It's a good 2 hour drive to get out there from where I live (Temecula/Murrieta) area, but if it's as strong of a scene as it sounds like, maybe I need to start going out there.
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No need to wait. Tim Cook has already hosted some events, like the Back to the Mac event.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxWSIDoE8Hk

(I can't find better videos at the moment, but they're around.)
Are you planning to do each course sequentially, one at a time?

Also, do all of these have lecture videos or do many require just reading and following the curriculum?
For any interested in Burry's story, pick up Michael Lewis's The Big Short. Great (if somewhat miscontrued) tale of the housing crisis, ripe with corrupt financiers and the "smartest men in the room".

Burry's lightbulb concerning the crumbling housing market was a product of a staggering amount of research on mortgages, contra to the research (mostly by rating agencies) already published. No average Joe is going to foresee a bubble about to explode.

I was thinking something more conventional. For example, contrary to what many may believe, history actually IS a good predictor of future. As an investor, I am not only limited to investing in individual companies -- I can also bet on entire markets/sectors (for example, Burry bet against the housing market). Also recall that the markets are cyclical (that is, recessions follow booms and vice versa).

With that in mind, I could, for instance, have a sector-based model hinging upon the business cycle. Certain sectors, historically, have tended to outperform during different segments of the cycle, and with well-timed bets I can always make money just by recognizing what state of the business cycle we are in.

For example, currently we are in a (if somewhat shaky) "recovery" phase. During recovery, financials and tech companies tend to outperform. I might use ETFs (IXG and IXN) to go long on these markets. I might even enhance my bet and short Consumer Staples, which are expected to underperform during recovery.
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Yeah, cos it can't possibly be that I replied to that in the affirmative and then I joined the mass ranks of users who just got dropped when this migration lost a huge pile of data en route.
Nope! Harder to use. It's basically impossible to discover new functionality in vim without reading technical documentation for it, whereas in Textmate I assume (having never used it) that feature is accessible using a mouse.

TM is more usable than vim.
Ask HN: Am I screwed if I don't get accepted to a top CS school like Stanford?
I'm a high school senior. I've done web development since I was 13, released an iPhone app at age 15, and continue to have aspirations to start my own company someday.

However, I'm only really good at what I'm interested in, but not much else- my HS GPA is only a 3.8, and my SAT's hover around 2100.

The statistics are really depressing- I feel like I'd be a perfect fit for a school like Stanford or Carnegie Mellon, but chances are I won't get accepted.

Is all lost if I don't get into an renowned school for CS? Will VC's take one look at me and laugh once they find out I didn't graduate from Harvard? Are there any stories of HNers who've been successful without the Stanford degree?

Thanks guys, I love this community and I'm glad to be a part of it.
Haskell does it, apparently choosing \x -> y from Miranda's type signatures over ML's fn x => y. Of course, Haskell proceeds to x <- y -< z and then starts to go a bit peculiar.

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Arrow
Good move. I suppose the most vulnerable are those driving desks being forced to use IE7, Standard Operating Environment that runs these plugins or some internal business application requires them.
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Not giving poll receipts comes from a sorted history of people coercing people to vote got a certain candidate.

"Vote for the right person or you'll be fired. Show me the receipt"
Have my LinkedIn profile setup, but I guess I could put my resume up as well. Do you mind me asking what software you were working on? Was it an open source project?
For me it has zero to do with me wanting or not wanting to pay for TM2. I was simply put off by Marco's presumption to speak on behalf of everyone, "We will not hold you to it... Please let us give you more money."

Had the post been just his own offer of support and words of encouragement it would have been quite nice, but instead it ended up being a bit irritating to me.
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Ban it a few decades earlier, and people would not be "coping", they'd be getting sick as hell.
The secondary index stuff is actually very new, so it's entirely possible that it didn't exist when you last looked at Riak.

More info here http://blog.basho.com/2011/09/14/Secondary-Indexes-in-Riak/
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Yes, they will laugh at you the minute you walk in front of them without a degree from a prestigious school.

While a great school will open doors, actually doing something will open more. So no, you aren't screwed, unless you plan on spending the next four years sitting on your ass like a bump on a log.
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There are bitmap and vector fonts here. The vector fonts lack hinting, so I expect they wouldn't look too good on Windows. However, OS X ignores hinting info and uses its own display algorithm, so they might look really good. Anyone have a chance to check?
Nailed it from my perspective.

The biggest difference between myself and a Japanese programmer is that if I run into a problem I can jump on to Google and find huge amounts of English information (docs, forums, stackoverflow etc.) to help me solve it.

Japanese programmers who are not pretty damn fluent in English cannot do this and this really is a brick wall.

I haven't seen much NIH syndrome, mainly it is because they cannot effectively search the net libraries / apps that they can use; again due to the language barrier.

So in the end they make their own.
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I can't imagine there being a difference between a physical button and a capacitive one when it comes to interrupting the kernel to say "hey exit this process". It's all in the design in how the kernel handles interrupts.
Being in Temecula doesn't help much since there's hardly any tech companies out there. You are closed enough to LA that it's worth making a drive once a week to go to a tech meetup or work out of CoLoft to expand your network. Surround yourself with other smart people in the industry. The worse thing that can happen is that you learn something.
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Apparently, from reading the other comments, I'm within a couple hours drive from a hot market (LA). But I like what you mention about local user groups and such. Do you know of any tools for finding those kind of groups/meetings?
Why bother? Just hook up Disqus--it's free and just a couple of lines in your html.
That site seems to be using two different methods to represent indic text.

The blue bar on top, and the poll on the left, are displayed as garbage. Looking in the source, they are using iso-8859-1 encoding, with a font named "Satluj" which maps extended ASCII characters to (presumably) indic characters.

The rest of the site, including the central column of text (new articles?) renders correctly in Ubuntu. I've not done anything special to install middle-Asian fonts, as far as I know.
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Hi All,

I was just wondering what is the success/failure ratio for tech startups. I mean how many startups eventually become profitable and are able to sustain for longer periods ( more than a 1000 days )

Some relater queries:
1) How has it changed over the last 2 decades or so ?

2) What does the current trend look like?

3) How does it change when we look at tech startups from a specific country?

Surely there must be some data available on that.
I think this has more to do with how anyone competent or socially adept is promoted out of engineering/development roles, joins a multinat or goes abroad. Very few East Asian companies have the concept of a senior engineer, let alone anyone actually employed as one. Institutional knowledge, and the lack thereof, is the main reason for so much reinvention. Usually, at the coalface, there is no one with significant project experience and those with experience will not help rookies (because they are management now and the questions are below them or they struggle with any form of human interaction).
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"The only time-worthy thing to do is to oppose them until open-source solutions are accepted."

Meh, I'm still unconvinced by the virtues of electronic voting at all, open source or otherwise. Little electronic currents simply have less mass than pencil marks on paper, and I mean that in a number of ways, including the fully literal one. A full accounting of cost/benefits shows the costs to be staggering once one accounts for the risks of tampering and the difficulty of preventing it, and the benefits mind-bogglingly tiny. (Heck, even if one merely accounts for the costs of materials the cost/benefit analysis isn't all that great.)

If it wasn't so darned shiny and high tech nobody would even consider electronic voting. It's just technofetishism run amok.
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