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I knew the film camera was dead when I saw the first video coming from the Canon 5D Mark II. It wasn't perfect, but it was close. All coming from a package that fits in your fists and uses no film.
Not sure if this includes other services like Gmail Labs, but I relied on "attachment reminder" throughout college. It has saved me multiple times, including now in my professional career.
Right, I guess that sort of rewriting of CRUD situations would be nice in some cases.

Although in real applications, most of your methods are complex enough that you'd want them to be multiline blocks, at which point it would start to get really ugly IMO.

Anyway it sounds like I'm being more critical than I actually am I think.

But my un-DRY annoyance with Sinatra isn't writing multiple blocks with route declarations for CRUD methods, so much as not being able to refer to those routes in your views abstractly. ie., if you decide you want to change from /comments/:id to /awesome-comments/:id, it's a headache.

I assume there are plugins to fix that annoyance, but I'd have like Sinatra to generally have routing more abstracted from specific URL paths.
Apple wants Cache (stuff that can be re downloaded and not core to the experience, just to improve performance) to actually be deletable when space is low. A valid point.

Developers want a place to store app information that is critical and sometimes a very important part of the app(example main feature of instapaper is to view offline content). This should not be backed up since its redundant and when the phone needs to be restored(rarely) this data can be re-downloaded. Also backing up will be slow and destroy user experience.

Solution make another location which is used for storing the data(not backed up) so then all are happy. Maybe you can have data from hidden directories not backed up inside the Documents directory. Then Apple can delete caches in apps like browsers. User critical data like settings can be backed up and app critical data that need not be backed up can also exist
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I'm pretty sure IMax still uses a film camera.
But 2-3% of my assets. I wouldn't get too hung up on the details. I didn't earn 40k every year. Some years were less. And some were more (see FAQ). I didn't live in New York.

Everybody can run their own spreasheets for their personal income and tax situation presuming an expense level of 6k/year. Figure an investment return of 3%+inflation (so 6% or so total). See what you get.
Good point, that is a concern. Maybe google should create a subsidiary brand for just that purpose.

As far as low-budget productions, I think you're looking at it from the wrong perspective. The key is lowering the cost of entry. What this enables is not just "low-budget" productions but also "start-ups" with members who have decided to defer compensation in exchange for equity in the "start-up". This is the dominant way that bands get started, for example.
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At my previous employer we had a Red One (http://red.com). 5 minutes with that thing and you could see the writing on the wall.
Ask HN: how to start a hardware-based start up?
Hello,

It seems like there's a much lower barrier-to-entry when it comes to creating a web-based or other high-level software-based start up.

So what about a hardware start up? I have some experience with circuits, processors, and microcontrollers/embedded systems, but I'm not sure where to start when it comes to ideas. I don't think it's possible for any one individual right now to jump into the handheld devices market, though I've always thought making smaller more affordable computing devices would be great.
The logic behind Sets actually lives on, at least for now, within the autofill feature of Google Spreadsheets. Fill a cell or two with sample data, then option-drag (control-drag on Windows) the square autofill handle.
Reporter? I assumed it was some random girl filming with an iPhone...
Friedman does highlight some positive points of where America is though it seems like the main point is the flux that America, nay, the global arena is in - partly due to challenges, partly due to opportunities. I'm wondering how HN users see the situation we're in.
Yes, money can be an agent of change. Time also. Some may do best working in a traditional structure. Others do better on their own. I helped found a nonprofit organization during my first year of "retirement". However, I found that I could be far more effective on my blog talking directly to people instead of spending time writing grant proposals, so I quit the nonprofit.
Peter Theil's partner in the debate was Charles Murray. He was actually advocating for a new system of education that emulates the vocational/trade idea for pretty much all subjects. He says that every topic and subject you learn should be learned through post-secondary education (2 years instead of 4 years) and then followed by a certification exam. Lastly and perhaps most importantly would be an apprenticeship to actually perfect the craft in the field with someone more knowledgeable.

My personal issue with this whole debate is which are we referring to. Potentially college-bound students who are HN readers and have the capacity to understand how to be didactic/resourceful AND know which field to enter, are probably the ones who will probably not benefit as much from college as other students. This group is less than 1% of college-bound students. Yet all these debates and discussions are focused on them. Thiel with his 20 under 20 and Bienen at Northwestern are catering to the top few.

What about the rest? Those who are not sure what they want to do. Those who need some formal education to actually learn something. College is for this majority. Yes, an improved, affordable college that focuses more on career skills would be better. But whatever state it's in, these students need to be there to escape low-paying jobs when they themselves are ready to pursue more knowledge-based careers.
/rant

P.S. It really was an exciting debate to see in person, especially the part where Vivek Wadhwa got excited and challenged Thiel on the spot.
Yeah we agree regarding route generation being important. We came up with a decent solution to it for Renee, let us know what you think: http://reneerb.com/route-generation and time will tell but we think the combination of clearer routes, leaner code and url generation makes renee a fun alternative.
The whole domain would redirect back to google.com.
Last night when I went to Googlelabs.com via the newest announcement of retirement of services from google [1] was indeed the last time I visited it.

The fact that many of the labs projects are still active made it much uneasy to find those products anymore.

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[1]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/fall-sweep.html
I will agree with one thing from the article,
he's John freakin' Carmack.

This is a man who has been pushing the boundaries of realtime graphics since Wolfenstein3D. We owe him a lot, and I think he has earned the right to work on whatever project he damn well chooses. People seem to imagine all the amazing things he could have done with his time while glossing over the amazing things he has done right here, right now.

No, Rage is not the panacea of interactive entertainment. It is, however, a stunning showcase of some amazing new technologies in the form of a fairly conventional shooter. It is what it is, don't like it, don't buy it.

Nowdays, anytime an id game is mentioned you can't help but be overwhelmed by the "id games are teh suck!" noise. Fine. Don't buy them. But concocting some conspiracy about Carmack being held hostage by the artists or whatever is just nonsense.

He has a team of artists who help realise the (visual) potential of the awesome new tech he has developed. The gameplay itself comes second. Heresy, I know, but this has been the pattern for a number of releases and if the id team are happy with that then more power to them.

No gun to anyones head.
You think I should ditch the summary part altogether, or just put some bullet points above it?
I am at the moment working with a guy whose job is to digitalise old (usually amateur) movies filmed on 8mm and 16mm reels.

It's a bit of a shame to see these go, because the quality of 50-yo footage is quite incredible, even without any post-processing. The sheer simplicity and sturdiness of some old mechanical Russian camera is also amazing.

What will happen of the videos we are shooting now? I'm pretty sure we'll be losing a lot more of it to hard drive failures or simple mistakes. Digital is a lot harder to store away in the attic to be re-discovered by your grandchildren.
There's already Steam which sells games that aren't mainstream. Also I have never heard of 'scratchware' before.
Priceless:

.alias RandomNumber1	$2E	;Random numbers used-->
.alias RandomNumber2	$2F	;throughout the game.
The first thought that hit me when I opened the link is that I don't know where to look. I was searching for the product. Then I found it after looking at the bottom half of my browser . Three different horizontal menus and one huge ad banner seem to be taking a lot of space. FYI Screen Resolution 1366x768

Once I actually scrolled down a bit and started using the sliders I got it directly. Very easy to use, great job on this.

Another note is the "In the news" section has news from 6 months ago. It's not a big deal but doesn't look that good.
Ah, cool.

I love Sinatra, and I'm big on DRY, so I'll definitely give Renee a shot.

BTW, noticed the 'GITHUB FORK YOU', nice haha.
Its amazing how propaganda from one genocidal regime is accepted, even cool, but the other would get you banned anywhere.
Apple certainly does a lot of experimentation, but their approach differs greatly from Google's. The main reasoning behind Google Labs as far as I can determine is to expose projects to the broader world and determine which are best through some form of natural selection. A form of market research if you will.

Apple on the other hand has been very much against market research, preferring to experiment internally, killing of bad ideas before the world even hears about them and presenting a polished final product to the outside world when it's done and ready.

Both approaches certainly work, Google's works great for improving their existing suite of products whereas Apple's works better for incubating new products that consumers don't even realise they want yet.
What about games like Minecraft? I don't know if it's possible to fuse a high quality 3D engine with less amounts of artist generated content and still have a great game.

Challenge assumptions.

But if anyone can do it, Carmack can. (and that was an assumption, but oh well).
It's also easy to split a Renee application into multiple parts, but, I'd really like to address this more going forward, to make it easier.
If Google can't backup the resources required for Code-Search, then who will ?
Just googled to see if any other code search service is available. It listed one more result other than the Google Code Search. Will koders.com remain alive. It will probably be a single. Lets hope, there will be someone backing up Koders.
It's somewhat similar to this other microframework: https://github.com/soveran/cuba

Not because of the name ;)
They're getting ready to cook up some new projects ;)
As someone who routinely uses Google with AdBlock installed, I second this. For that matter, I would gladly pay Google a monthly fee to have unlimited search, if the "free" Google only had limited search. The fact that Google has chosen to make their money from advertisers instead of users like me is not my fault.
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This is from 2000. Sorry for not making that more clear.
I agree with you to an extent. However, it's a lot easier to think about the money you do have than it is to work for the money you don't have. My attitude towards spending is more of a game to see what I can get away with, e.g. getting the same thing for much less than just ordering it on amazon with next day shipping. I find this entertaining much like some people find shopping entertaining.
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I would ditch the summary altogether. You would mention this stuff when recruiters ask you in details.

Here is what I base this on:
"Research has shown that your impression of someone is generally based on the average of available information, not the sum. So telling people one great thing about yourself will leave them with a better impression of you than telling one great thing and one pretty good one".
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http://books.google.com/books?id=P3EFa-WuMMkC&pg=PA98...

So just provide bullet points of the highlights, the accomplishments and the business results.
Maps was bought (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps#History) and so was Writely, which became part of Docs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writely). Dunno about Reader.
Microsoft Research?
In the Stack Overflow article linked from the parent, the dev describes the scenario this way: "No, users explicitly download sets of map tiles, that they will need when they are in the forest, or flying their airplane, or sailing their boat."

If it's that important, it SHOULD go in a folder that's backed up/synced to the cloud or so it seems to me. What happens when users conditioned to expect that all their documents will automagically appear on all their Apple products discover that the maps they set up on their iPad at home aren't on on their iPhone when they get out in the field? Food for thought.
People have lost troves of footage & pictures due to fire & water damage thanks to physical formats. People will also lose footage & pictures to digital media loss/damage, though it's much easier to duplicate a hard drive or a couple thousand data files than it is to duplicate a physical format.

While it may be sad that the grandkids aren't going to find 8mm film in the attic, there's nothing really stipulating that even if they did find it they'd have the ambitiousness to track down the proper equipment to view the footage. It's not like you can walk into most any store & find an 8mm or 16mm player. If the fear is that people won't be able to play the content a previous generation created, that fear has already been realized with 8mm & 16mm film.
Yea, I think a lot can be done and said in lower end devices. I foresee "smart clothing" soon.
Current IMAX cameras use 70 mm film, but they're looking to go to 4K digital with new equipment. Cameras like the RED Epic can already capture at 5K resolutions. There's not much reason to stick with the 70 mm format.
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Bell Labs was a manufacturing line for science Nobel prizes. Google Labs was a project for showcasing Gmail bells and whistles. I guess it was kind of disingenuous for Google to call it "Labs" in the first place.
I was pretty excited about checking this out, then was disappointed there is no live demo. Screenshots are good, but nothing beats a live demo of your product on your website.
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The biggest advantage of digital formats is that they're easily duplicated in many locations. Making 5 copies of a digital video and distributing to friends means that there are five exactly equal-quality copies of the film in circulation. Doing the same with film formats is far more difficult.
The great thing about opinions is that.....

Anyhow, games are merely products. They have a target audience and are generally designed to appeal to that segment. For many, being immersed in a virtual [believable] world, holds high value when trying to wind down from stress.

For someone like the OP, I'd suggest checking out a game like Demon's Souls or Dark Souls. These are very lite on story, but heavy on game play. Be warned, the games are not easy. I think Demon's souls took me close to a year to finish with an hour or two here and there.
As a user, I can't imagine a class of data that is so important it should never be reclaimed to save space, and is so worthless it should not be backed up.

The important use case is what should happen when you lose your phone/tablet and buy a replacement. Or wipe it. Should the data be restored or should it be lazily regenerated/redownloaded?

For map cache data, re-download it. Otherwise, the map app runs fast at the expense of all the other apps on the device.

Data that has been preloaded to read offline (e.g., Instapaper) should be stored in Documents. If I lost my iPad, I would not want to have to manually reload a bunch of articles when I got a replacement.

I understand that IOS5 has gratuitously broken a lot of apps, and the new regime may have been communicated badly. (May have. I'm not an IOS developer; I don't know what the developer documentation says.) But IOS is user-centric, not dev-centric.
That explanation misses a lot of context. It comes across as a criticism, as if Jobs just didn't see the benefit of research. That's not the case. He wanted to shrink the things they focused on, so they could put their 'A' team on every project (which required less projects). The end result was having a bunch of really talented guys focusing on things that drove business value.
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You think SC and SC2 stand out due to art direction? Well, sure, in the same way Chess does.
Out of curiosity, what does/will your passive income stream consist of? I have recently recognized how important passive income is to enabling my goal of fewer hours of labor, but I am frankly new to the idea and just getting started.
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Yes, these games made it big and were good, but did they really push boundaries and invent new styles of play? No, they are just a story with an engine - the OP is talking about JC going off and doing something "different."
Tell HN: How I live on $2,555 per year
I moved to South America and lived on a farm. $7/day * 365 = $2,555. I win.
This is really cool. Love the fact that they are trusting PG and team's filtering process and guidance to build great startups. This is super sweet for the founders as well since they will provide some awesome advice and guidance.
The last time I heard, people in New Guinea do regular trading with outsiders to acquire living-essential goods such as guns, machetes and VCDs. This is globalization.
Thanks for mentioning that. I didn't know about it. Ended up watching the whole thing tonight. I found it fascinating. Great to see what goes on behind the scenes..

If anyone else has documentaries about film-making that they can recommend, I'd love to hear your picks. Thanks.
It's also full of spelling, punctuation, and grammatical errors. I had to reread every other sentence to get the gist of it. If the content was gold I could probably overlook that, but it's not. It's basically a carelessly scrawled rant.
I (have a private Github account. Let me echo something, "... when you think that if you made one giant repo they'd do it for almost nothing".

In other words, if my project was "open" Github would cost nothing. That's burtal.

Frankly I don't mind paying for repo services. I used Assembla for years. But then I moved away from svn. My problem is the price compared to all the free accounts. I (and all the other paying customers) are subsiding the open repos.

Now that's ok. I do gain from that, since I have several repos (projects) I follow and use. So it pays for itself in the long run. Sort of like public broadcasting. It's the same business model; I donate money every year to both PBS and NPR for the pleasure of tuning in. And I know the guy sitting in the car next to me blasting "Car Talk" probably didn't pay a dime.

But I"m ok with that. Really. (sic) :)
And it expands into many fields
Can this flow be used by non-app apps, or whatever we're calling Facebook Connect-type web sites these days?
I couldn't agree more. They don't have mortgages and debts, but my god, they put their life on risk every day. The homicide rates in New Guinea during 1960s to 1980s were really high.
Apparently you've never seen the 100 desperate people who line up to drop off their resumes when a restaurant in San Francisco is actually hiring?
Apparently not; see the reply from one of them to my top-level comment.
How the tech boom is bad for innovation
And if I had an infinite supply of funds I would take all chances, regardless of credibility. I do not.

You do not get points for reductio ad absurdum arguments.
In particular there was no good way around the untracked files, even with a fairly complex shell script.
I can still access all code labs http://code.google.com/labs/
Xerox PARC, IBM Research, MS Research, Google Research (don't confuse Google Labs with research). There are plenty more.
I'll miss the grain.
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I bought the boat with grander ambitions than to use it as a place to live, and so I spent more on it than I would have if I was just looking for housing. Worse, in the last years I had it, the marina really jacked up the rates.

If you're looking to save as much as possible, you can get boats for $1,000-$7,000 that a single person can live aboard fine (or two people towards the higher end of that scale)... and by going out of the urban area to more remote locations you can get cheaper marina slips.
What I am looking forward to is a walkable sphere with a projection on the inside wall. You step in, walk in the direction you want to explore. Google street view would rock.
This is the same kind of lifestyle I lead, and am continuously striving to lead. I love it. I am working on a project to help people become nomadic hackers like yourself.

Can I interview you for my website? Shoot me a line: rich@gun.io

EDIT: I've written my thoughts on the subject here: http://gun.io/philosophy/
This method leaves all styling in your HTML/server-side code, which is a pita.
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This is like telling me that it's lamentable that I can't fix a car. Had I been forced to spend many waking hours tuning and maintaining my car, I would have learned something.

Well, I spent those hours programming, and the people who love cars are using the time saved by their iPad to tinker ith internal combustion engines and electric vehicles.
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In recent years Most of these spaces are occupied by long time members and past winners.
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It does align nicely with Steve Yegge's post: strive to be a platform. Let people build what they need. Don't try to be everything to everybody. Less products, more services.
Maybe right, maybe wrong, but Google shows that they CAN DECIDE and I applaude them for that.
Imagine I have a Flight Charts application. The app automatically downloads charts for the entire US, and when the charts are soon to be updated, it also grabs them ahead of time so it can update the charts when the cycle changes, without needing to spend hours downloading new charts.

Now imagine when they go to fly and they turn the app on, half of the charts disappear. Are you suggesting I architect the app to go ahead and download the new maps when this happens?

Because if that's your suggestion, the Air Force and commercial airlines no longer wants to use my app. Those charts darn well better be on board when they expect them to be. They need to be able to reliably have both gigs of current charts, and gigs of upcoming charts, ready to fly. They might fly to China or elsewhere they won't be able to update, enroute.
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