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I think the reasons depend on the company, too. Large companies have different reasons than indie devs and amateurs.

As an amateur game programmer, I have a -ton- of ideas. I don't need anyone else's because I've got too many of my own.

As an indie dev, I imagine that the above applies, plus they already have a game or 2 released in a certain genre, and changing genres can be problematic with the fans.

As a major developer, you can break the 1-genre rule, but you become a target for lawsuits, as jonnathanson noted in another comment here.
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Well, for that much money - even a shot at it - you ought to be out there making your case to attorneys who might take the case on contingency. Put together a nice presentation of 'the facts' and 'the evidence', and get out there.
You are exactly right, hardcover/softcover is generally somewhere between 40 and 60%, I used to work at a receiving area of a bookstore and most commonly the discount was normally in that ballpark.
I'm actually in London and the server is in Stockholm.
Come on, seriously?
If OWS isn't outraged at the Tech Leaders, then they shouldn't generalize "the top 400" in this manner. When you abstract "the ultra-rich" into the symbolic cause of America's current woes, you're going to automatically incriminate those who do drive value-creating businesses as well.

I don't think OWS's purpose or message or mantra is wrong. However, if they continue down this path of generalization and polarization for the sake of PR impact, I'm afraid they're going to become even more unfocused in their messaging.
Factory is actually perfect example of pattern that is mostly used to overcome the fact that passing classes around is unnecessarily complex in Java and thus it's favorable to wrap code calling constructor in it's own class and pass instances of it. In "dynamic" languages (including ObjC) you can simply use use the class object (and if the need arises: things that behave like class objects) itself instead of factory in most cases.
Actually it does, you just have to tilt your head right. :) See [1].

Either way, the principle stands. If a desktop environment wanted to standardize on JSON + C/C++-style comments, they could extend their standard parser easily enough without meaningful performance impact.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/244777/can-i-comment-a-js...
In a nutshell: Corruption and fraud in the banking system causing global economy collapse, the vast disparity in wealth, rampant corruption in politics and big corporations buying politicians with money, not democratic votes.

For concrete ideas, Matt Taibbi as usual really knows what he's talking about:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/my-advice-to-the-o...

However, it's important to remember that coming up with good solutions as well as figuring out what it really is the people want is really the job of the politicians. And just because they're failing miserably at that job, doesn't mean the general population suddenly has to know all the answers. I think the general message of discontent is very clear.
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I really wish this inforgraphic used arrow widths proportional to the ratio sizes. It's very hard to extract the data from a passing glance at the graphic; instead, we have to painstakingly read every single ratio written on the arrows. We have no idea which arrow is in fact the largest.

Disappointing.

(I guess Tufte has taught be a lot already)
> He's a Swedish national,

What do you know about that? I happen to be, yes.

But I don't live in Sweden.

> he would have mentioned that in the article.

I gave the RTT time. Nothing else was relevant.

> If he is on a very slow link (which is always possible) then he should have mentioned this in the article

Mobile data can be high latency even when it's fast.

> By the way, the google article linked below gives a much more in-depth argument for increasing the window size and also gives you a good idea on the limits of its effectiveness:

Which is why I linked to it.
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A novel proof involves making novel connections, rigorously showing how different parts of mathematics can be made to work together in ways that haven't been thought of. When you look at it that way it's not hard to imagine the value in solving puzzles like this, even if it's impossible to know the specifics ahead of time (which are by nature unknown).
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It seems to me like you've fallen in a well and are trying to get out by digging it deeper.
It's important to realize, that ObjC (and Smalltalk, Self...) does not have named arguments in the conventional sense (ie. like Python, &key arguments in CL...) but mix parts of message name with it's arguments. In essence, it only looks like named arguments - and on the other hand, this syntax essentially precludes support for real named arguments. For why this is bad look at all these #with:, #with:with: ... #withValues: methods in Smalltalk's standard library that are only thin wrappers used to simulate true optional or named arguments.
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I feel 'elegant' suffers from this problem too, being it covers a large area of attributes but as far as I've seen when used usually does not fulfill most.

It's become an almost meaningless word when people use it to describe a snippet of code that scratches some specific itch that bothered them as opposed to the overall quality of the code.
Bump. In the past, I've been through Stanford's IOS dev course and ML course (via iTunes). Currently, I'm doing the AI course. It is truly amazing that Stanford is giving away this content for free.

As an academic, it makes me wondering how education will change over the next 10 years. If a prof gives a fantastic lecture in the Fall of 2010, does he need to repeat himself in 2011? I had the experience of lecturing an undergrad course in Programming Languages many years ago. Honestly, the content didn't change much (I was teaching Scheme, ML and Prolog). I did get a bit better answering and anticipating student questions. I'll admit that in some cases, content must be updated fairly frequently. For instance, Prof. Ousterhaut's web app course on the site seems to be covering Rails 2.x.x. Teaching it today, perhaps 3.x or 3.1 would be used.

However, when I look at how well the community can improve the quality of a lecture, it blows my mind. In the Stanford AI class, for instance, the lecturer made a slight error where he defined the admissibility criteria of the h function (estimated cost) in A* search as less than the true cost rather than less than or equal to the true cost. Well ... this was quickly spotted by students and a correction was promptly issued. This blows my mind!

This also has the potential of making things worse on the supply side of education. In the last decade, it has undoubtedly gotten harder to get a faculty position in Computer Science. Will the advent of online education make that situation worse? As someone who has been an educator in the past, my personal opinion is that education should be available for free. But, I worry that it might not be sustainable.
Not a fan of the syntax, but my real gripe is with the header files, and all the DRY that entails. If I were Apple that's the first thing I'd aim to fix, rather than giving us ARC.
I've been reading about the imminent death of publishers for a while now, but I don't think they're ever going to disappear completely. And I run a site for writers that processes hundreds of manuscripts daily.

People like to make the comparison of the inevitable democratization of books to how the internet changed the music industry, but that's just not an apt comparison.

Books cannot be consumed in the same way as music. Pop songs are usually 2-3 minutes long, and an entire album clocks in at half an hour to an hour. Generally you can listen to a few songs from a band and make a decision as to whether you like their style and want to buy the album on the spot. Books aren't like that. A reader must often invest a significant amount of time--days--before it becomes clear that a book is or isn't good. Publishers provide the extremely valuable service of validation. If you get your book published up by Random House, then the reader at the store can say, if absolutely nothing else, that a group of well-read professionals thought your book was good enough to warrant stamping with their brand and spending money polishing and marketing. You just can't say that about 99% of self-published material, and when it can take days for a reader to determine quality, that distinction becomes important.

And, despite what many would lead you to believe, publishers provide a valuable service besides validation. They take a raw manuscript and polish it up to professional standards. The manuscript is only part of the finished product that we call a book. You also need cover art, which is your book's first impression and incredibly important--not something you want to leave to your 18-year-old nephew with a cracked copy of Photoshop. You need typesetting, which is still important in the digital world: how many middle-aged writers know--or want to learn--HTML/CSS? You need editing. Having run a site for writers I can guarantee you that an author's perfect final manuscript is still filled with typos, mistakes, and ripe for polishing from a trained professional. You need marketing: the best book in the world won't get read if nobody knows it exists. The truth is that writers are good at writing, but often not that good at all of the other aspects of publishing a book. A big publisher takes that off their hands and handles it in a professional way.

I suspect that the people who say publishers are dead have themselves never picked up a random indie author's book from Amazon. If they had, they'd realize that not every author is Amanda Hocking or Scott Sigler. In fact they'd probably realize that what they just read was filled with typos, had shitty cover art, maybe had greater structural problems like weak characterization, and likely was priced just about right at 99 cents.

If anything, the death of publishers could be very dangerous, because when young new readers start getting burned by crappy self-published books, they'll get turned off to reading and we'll have lost yet another generation to TV and fast media.
I'm sure you can find a lawyer who can take the case on contingency, 10-20% for the lawyer would make a nice sum...
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I always chuckle when anyone says, "It's not too late to..."

It's never too late to do anything.

And it's never too late to get good at almost anything, especially programming.

My story:

Age 21 - graduated college
Age 23 - graduated graduate school
Age 24 - got my first job programming
Age 24 - touched my first computer (that's right)
Age 27 - touched my first personal computer
Age 30 - purchased and set up my first personal computer
Age 31 - wrote my first framework
Age 32 - did my first start-up
Age 36 - did my second start-up
Age 46 - build my first web page
Age 50? - wrote my millionth line of code
Age never - got as good as I wanted to be
Age always - loved it!

A few other thoughts about OP:

It’s easy to think that it’s too late, because look at those people who spent four years in college learning to code!

Don't look at anyone else. That's your problem. Just look at the problem at hand and your approach and solution. It's just you and your computer, mano-a-mano. Pretty primitive. That's when you stop worrying about the negatives and just go ahead and build something. And that's when you know nothing else really matters.

It is difficult!

Not really. Difficulty is relative. Start out by copying a "Hello World" program and getting it to run. Then add one new capability and get that to run. Then another. Then another. Always saving your last good version so that you can go back and start each step over, just in case you really fudge things up. Hey, you're programming! It wasn't that hard, was it?

I used to think I was cursed, because every time I tried to setup something new (new development environment, tool, library, etc), something would always go wrong.

There's a difference between systems administration (which all of this is) and programming. I hate the former (which I view as a necessary evil and takes 1% of my time) and love the latter (takes the other 99%).

Do you like it? ...do you feel a rush of excitement?

Yes! Nothing else I've ever done gives quite the same feeling as experiencing something I've built working for the first time ever. Happy dance!
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We've got some pages that implement a gazillion Facebook iframes (via their JS approach, but they still iframe everything in) and, quite apart from just having to trust them on things like this, it makes everything slow as a dog. Latency is one part of this, clientside JS performance in older IEs is another (and no, dropping support has been ruled out - one of Australia's biggest media brands)

Anyone have thoughts on sandboxing to protect against things like this, or success stories re: performance optimising FB integration?
You might also like Barry Schwartz' work on choice overload. His book is nice, but the TED talk captures most of it too:

http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_ch...
In this particular case, the housing and higher education bubbles required significant proportions of the population to buy into them. Bubbles that do little but draw poor investment from the already wealthy aren't as problematic.
It turns out that jobs are actually created most by small businesses.

Which many have been able to grow or start due to Microsoft and Bill Gates.
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That's a good idea.

I was using the colors for that purpose (e.g., it's overwhelmingly blue, meaning there's an overall flux into facebook), although as I understand it colors are not great for conveying information.
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Hi HN,

I've just launched the landing page for this idea that I've been thinking about lately. This is the first time I'm actually launching my little startup idea over HN and I'd really appreciate any comments on the idea itself or the copywriting/UI of the landing page.

I'm still new to this and I have much to learn from all of you guys.

http://kontactify.heroku.com

In brief, Kontactify is a tool for people to store namecards digitally via their mobile phone (with a camera). Instead of spending time typing in namecard information, you'd just need to snap a photo, email it to us and we'll do all the input. You can also retrieve the digital image of the namecard anytime.
I believe JetBrains have an Obj-C IDE now. Haven't tried it yet but I know they are pretty good at the whole refactoring thing (I use ReSharper at work all the time).
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I know design skills are becoming more common, but for now I guess I'm fortunate to have other options as you suggest. I guess I just need to know if that side of my work IS appreciated. Thanks for the advice.
After the first week of the AI and Machine Language class I'm truly impressed. I feel I'll be putting more effort into this than most of my classes in college simply due to the metrics and ease of UI for the in video question. Now they should add achievements like for the ML class, "3 perfect first attempt"... or stuff like that ;p

Also anyone knows of a good online video lecture on Computer graphics? Something with some accompanying material?
I think I've heard this one before...

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I'd say shop around for another lawyer - your's sounds bunk.
A healthy dose of skepticism won't hurt here. This sounds exactly like 419 scam if you choose to fund for his "lawyers".
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Thinking back, a lot of my closest friends have been friends of my other close friends. It does make a lot of sense. Good luck!
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Equifax is a huge corporation which is both good and bad. Bad because they've got limitless resources, good because they are a publicly traded corporation which makes them sensitive to valid lawsuits. Their business is also based on validating trustworthiness, which I think would also make them vulnerable to allegations of criminality and abuse of process. This is not a job for your typical small town lawyer. I think you need to do some research and find a big-ass New York-based law firm that knows how to find their short hairs and pull sharply.
I don't think implosion means what you think it means.
In the steady-state, almost everyone will be working at Facebook ;-)
the fibonacci sequence is a side effect of these patterns, not the other way around. if they get disturbed, as they very often do in nature, they no longer follow the fibonacci sequence. the angles between branches on a tree do often tend to the golden ratio (137.5 degrees) and will continue to do so after a disturbance.

fact of the matter is that only the perfect, flawless examples follow a fibonacci sequence.
Cool. Thanks for checking. It would have been a silly omission had it not. I guess the author is the needlessly wordy one.
Hrmm.. looks like some free AT&T advertising.
That's really valuable advice, thank you.

I've only got a few years' experience so I guess I don't yet know what it's like to be managing deadlines from above. I do know that if I ever was, I would not be able to sacrifice what I'm passionate about in order to guarantee to meet deadlines. I would always rather risk delivering great products a bit late than deliver average products on time. I know that doesn't make sense for larger businesses right now but if I ever have a startup of my own that's how I'd want it to be from the beginning!

Cheers
I won't!
Awwww those 149 karma points could've been mine. I posted this link yesterday in the iCloud icon thread.

Oh well, it's good the get this info out there nonetheless. And it's not like I wrote the article or something, anyway.
In order to learn from Ivy leagues, you need not get into one. OCW started by MIT early 2000 is a really good initiative, and I see that Universities which are not open are not good like open source.
I honestly wasn't asking anyone to fund anything. I am just seeking advice as to what I should do. I could have them prosecuted free of charge, but I'm not sure that will advance my cause.
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I think these Stanford courses are even superior to the MIT OpenCourseWare ones. The quality of these videos along with the feeling that the teacher is directly speaking to YOU is just impressive.

I also have to say, that I absolutely love the "khan"-Style presentations
For the first problem, he goes to the trouble of defining "graph" and "tree", as though his audience has no math background, but doesn't bother defining "labeled". For those wondering WTF an "unlabeled tree" is: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LabeledGraph.html
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I'm a tab junkie. Everything not within the same domain typically goes into a new tab. I know what you mean though. You would have gone nuts at that HTML5 history game

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Why did the record labels not put together a RIAA-controlled iTunes well before Apple did? Or the movie studios an MPAA download store before Netflix?

One, they've got a lot invested in the current model, which is primarily priced around selling medium rather than content - http://www.paulgraham.com/publishing.html. Two, they've spent years learning to compete and regard their biggest threats as each other. They're not culturally equipped to work together to combat a transformational challenge.
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It's a combination of political slogans/rallying cries and observations about wealth distribution problems in general. The former will always be wider than they ought to be, the latter can't exclude the "good guys" from the conversation entirely, because they have benefited to some degree from the broken system, even if they don't intend to perpetuate it.

But the name is "Occupy Wall Street". They know who their opponents are. They know who screwed with their mortgages and retirements. They know who paid off the politicians. They're out there with MacBooks and iPhones, tweeting and facebook-ing. Silicon Valley isn't their problem, and they know it.

(Edit: They're not even hammering Wal-Mart, and it'd be so easy. I think that says something.)
Yes, I should have added "clean" and "elegant" to the list, they have the same problems.
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