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I honestly never used it, and am completely unaffected by this.

What was the most successful product that emerged out of google labs?
Can also store in the apps home directory (which is right above the apps Documents directory).

They spoke about .nosync at this year's WWDC a few times. Dev forums are a little nuts since they opened the iOS Beta 5 forums to all the non NDA members.
With those numbers $4K isn't nitpicking it's 10% of your net.
It wasn't written "for a general audience". I and my regular readers are regularly judged negatively for not choosing to consume and go into debt like everybody else so the blog is more of a support group for those who are willing to go against the stream and actually save money so they can avoid the typical middle class problems above.

I admit, there's a bit of "I told you so"-attitude, although one quickly learns that nobody really wants to take responsibility for the poor choices they've made or for that matter are going to make. Whereas everybody is willing to attribute their good decisions to their personal genius. The general zeitgeist of the housing boom and subsequent bust illustrates this well.
How will Google be able to stick to their the "Do no evil" mission statement when trying to dip into Hollywood's koolaid?
I think there are a lot of good points in the thread. I understand your risk that makes it seemingly impossible to leave your job. I would agree that without many paid customers it is not worth it to do so.

Try to spend the first few hours after you wake up on your project (I have found these to be the most productive hours of the day). Also try to bring a lunch into work and do some work then? Although doing a side project at work could lead to some problems down the road.

If you want to bounce some ideas off of me or anything, send me an email (it is in my profile). I'm not the most useful person in the world, but I'd love to help if I can.

Good luck
As someone who has started down the path of growing a passive income stream, your article really resonated with me. I found myself nodding along to the points you were making, since I have had similar thoughts many times before. But the parent comment made a good point: that money can be a powerful mechanism for shaping the world you want to see. I don't know the answer, but I will have time to think about it as I build out an income stream to support my living expenses.
Anyone who has been to WWDC and seen their engineering staff present will know that they're given a bit of leeway in the design of the products they work on.

Real artists ship - the expansion and creation of new API's in their software shows this.

Just because they can't work on whatever with 20% of their time doesn't mean it's a no-creativity nose to the grindstone environment.
Visible means "able to be seen." You can see things that emit or reflect light. Abstract concepts don't emit or reflect light.

Real objects can only approximate a circle. The pedantic definition of a circle in this context is being used to make the point that you can't make a perfect circle with pixels.
Not a bug per se, but the back button in iPad MobileSafari is now 6mm away from a tab close button. I've already lost my page several times. I think iPad-toting grandparents will fare even worse. Sloppy.

While I'm moaning, the 'linen' pattern is on course to be the new 'brushed metal'. The notifications sheet you can now pull down from the status bar has a harsh version that looks like worn denim and is completely incongruous.
Carmack needs to be paired up with a real gameplay/product/market counterpart. His Steve Jobs so to speak. But if he is happy doing it his way then he should continue. I just hope Bethesda won't punish him for Rage's commercial disappointment.
Maybe i'm not understanding this correctly (I'm not an iPhone dev), but why don't you just store the data in the Documents folder ? Or maybe make it the user's choice:
1. Save data in the Documents folder - > slower itunes backup
or
2. Save data in the Caches folder -> Arbitrarily deletion of data
Hey, i'm in my 20's also :)

It may seem normal to you and not a big deal since you kind of dismissed it but you did describe a childhood full of turmoil (gangs, drugs, parental issues). You might want to talk to a mental health professional about these things. Your childhood environment could have made a negative impact you're not yet aware of.

Other than that, try focusing more on doing things you believe is useful to the next generation. Feeling valuable to the next generation is hard wired into humans but often times ignored causing the well known mid-life crisis. You may have just gotten there a lot faster than the average person.

The things you do to aren't important it's the way you think about what you do. For example, most people do this by raising kids and feeling responsible for the process. Another option is to become a mentor to one/many people and share your wisdom and experience with others. Pretty much anything works even things generally considered superficial as long as you believe internally you're doing it to serve others.
> quintessential engineer

If you have not yet read JL's interview of Woz in "Founders at Work", I encourage you to read it now. One of the best in her book.

http://www.foundersatwork.com/steve-wozniak.html
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Fascinating read. It's amazing to see such established things become obsolete.
Yeah, I always thought Labs was a part of Google's identity. What next, no doodles because it's a waste of time? :-(
Yeah, exactly. I wanna get a better handle on what these common cases are, so, comments like this are wonderful.
"easily"

Creating and running YC is not in the least bit easy.
This would be a huge help to me: I make 40k a year as a web developer, and it provides for my family, but we definitely have to cut corners to make things work sometimes. I feel like, given my work history, skill-set and ability to learn, I am worth more than this. But when I apply for tech jobs, it seems like my lack of a degree prevents me from even being considered.

Can you look at my LinkedIn profile(which is basically my resume), and tell me how I can better show people that I can be a great asset to their team?

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/joe-cortopassi/24/76b/5b9

(more info in my profile as well)
Quite true, and kudos to them for trying. Just being realistic about the chances for results in the next decade or two.

Lobbying sponsors of research would be another pathway to adoption. It would raise a lot of questions about proper allocation of resources between consolidation and exploration.
I'm about as much of a Google fanboy as you can be and unfortunately zdw's words ring true.

Also, in spite of Apple's success I'm not sure Google would do well to emulate them. I (and I would guess many others) have loved Google because they aren't Apple, though unfortunately they do seem to be inching that way at an increasing rate.
"I can't go back"

Speaking as a man with friends and loved ones, not an Apple fan (per se), that really got me. Woz gets more than just Apple's direction: he gets what's important.

He wants one more dinner with his friend and that's really inspiring. It's hard to think there's a chance you'll outlive the people you love and I, for one, have decided mid-post to go seize those moments rather than type here. Ciao.
Then his food comes from his garden

Not all of it. You obviously missed the link in that article to his FAQ answering every objection you raised: http://earlyretirementextreme.com/frequently-asked-questions ...a max of $1200/yr on food

which means he has to work on that

Right. His point is that you don't need income, not that you don't need to work.

and he conveniently didn't calculate the opportunity costs

Zero if you like gardening.

tools

For gardening? Amortized over the life of the tool? Visit some estate sales and you can get set up for gardening like a pro for probably $50.

irrigation

You mean like a rainwater barrel + some old rubber hosing? You can make one of those for probably $10 in parts.

chemicals

Not necessary.

seeds

These come from the plants themselves. As in, free.

What about transportation costs

If you don't commute and ride an old bicycle (know how many of these people give away? and can be fixed for <$20?) these can be surprisingly close to zero.

Anyway this is in the FAQ he linked to. $600/yr

electric/gas, phone

This is the first thing in the FAQ he linked to in that article:
$3240 per year

internet

$240/yr he said

household supplies

Well, you found one thing he missed.

upgrade of your old computer, clothing, shoes

Did you miss where he said he has a 7-yr-old computer and keeps clothes for a long time (= very low amortized cost; probably $50/yr total for these things)

Then if you want to have a car

He covered this. $600/yr

don't pay property taxes,

Read the FAQ. He estimates a you could afford a $100k home on that budget. I've lived in one in an expensive state (RI), it was spacious.

no safety net in case of a serious sickness.

That's what savings are for. $3000 in savings and bam, you've covered your deductible.

TLDR: read the article and the FAQ.
Ask HN: How do I get started making Quake-like games from scratch?
I just read a post on HN (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3018539) that delved a little bit into the source code of Quake II. I was so moved by it that I almost cried- that's programming at it's finest. That's just working for long hours, just typing in code, and finally creating something amazing that millions of people use around the world.

How can I get into game development from scratch, just like John Carmack did?

I know about frameworks that can give indie developers a headstart (XNA and the like)- they're cool, but I don't want something that will give me a built-in engine and let me make a fully operational game in five minutes.

I want to start from scratch- learning from the basics of rendering and memory management in C to building a simple game engine, all independently. This way, building a game could be an incredible learning experience, mastering the details of a powerful language and being educated about game development more than reading articles could.

Is it even possible to start out like John Carmack did without a large background in games programming? I've done web development for years, but never anything like this, but I'm willing to work the long hours that it would take. Is there a book, ebook, blog, or other resource that could at least get me started on this mission? I appreciate any help you guys can give me.
Hyperbovine's point was "I don't understand what is "eye-moistening"". And very honestly, I'm not sure how normal it is for the guy who runs the most valuable company in the world to be walking out to his company's general parking lot by himself unrecognized.
There's now a blessed serial cable with a dock connector, and some form of an arduino programming environment on the iPad. The only drawback is that the cable is more expensive than the arduino.
Your parent comment meant that money is less enjoyable when you are not as young as you once were.
The RAGE tech and artistry is great, but my opinion of the game is cooling as I play it. The character seems to essentially be a dogsbody courier who sometimes gets to shoot things.

Edit: Good snippet from the Ars review:

> The sense that gamers are being trolled extends to many of the missions. Some of them go so far as to force you to drive to a location, hit a button, and then drive back to tell someone you hit a button.
. . . they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid . . . --Micah 4:3b-4a
I think you can always find exceptions -- such is engineering. :-)

In my example above, one of the things I also failed to clarify about that test was that it was in the context of a system that could back off and restart or the call was returning NULL for reasons other than OOM. But like I said, we rigged malloc() to blow, because malloc() is the generic purpose allocator, and you're screwed if that goes.

I think tp gives good advice here: for your typical malloc() user, you're usually screwed if malloc returns NULL, because that's your heap allocator, and you have nothing else :-)

An embedded system, generally, will have a great deal more knowledge of how to back off -- in other words, the memory allocator is something that is under much more control -- it probably isn't malloc()...
This article definitely puts the random thoughts I was having tonight after seeing Rage into words.

In the as-close-to-an-id-biography-as-you'll-get Masters of Doom, Carmack's preference for avoiding story and focusing on industry-busting gameplay and technology is stressed many times, yet something does seem to have changed in this regard since Doom 3. In terms of blowing the competition's efforts away, Rage isn't a Doom, Quake, Commander Keen or even a Quake 2.
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I agree whole heartedly with the conclusion of the article, that "the things that matter to engineers aren't the things that matter to real human beings."

I also noticed immediately at the end of the keynote that there wasn't an explicit mention of "corrected reception" in the new iPhone (there was mention of a new antennae design, but it wasn't explicit and not emphasised). I would have thought that this was an important reason, and perhaps why they opted for the new antennae design that they did - because of the poor reception issues with the "original" iPhone 4.
Congratulations, Gabriel! I am very happy for you. DDG is my default search engine, and I suggest that friends and family use it. Just wondering why you don't use https as a default setting. Also, sometimes I find the continuous scrolling of search results makes it a bit more difficult to keep track of where I have been than with Google's default 10 results per page. Consequently, sometimes I find it easier to quickly scan Google search results. I wonder if there is something further that you could tweak in this regard? Keep up the great work!
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> It isn't, directly. It is an investment in something else which makes that a more important issue to an individual. That affects the probability of the individual taking actions that favor the given outcome. The main purpose of getting your head frozen is saving the individual's life directly, but it does have this positive externality.

No, it doesn't. This is all feel-good silliness. You've said stuff like this in numerous replies, but you've given no reason for anyone to believe that cryonics has any positive impact. A 25K donation for Malaria treatment would probably do a lot more. That provides concrete benefits, rather than intangible hopes that cryonists will somehow work toward a better tomorrow.

> How does passively letting yourself die increase your incentive to plan for a better world in the distant future?

How does spending money on snake oil do more for the world than spending that same money on solving real problems?

For your argument to make any sense, we have to accept that no one cares about the state or fate of the world after their own deaths, which is absurdly cynical.
More people are going to college now than ever. Life expectancy is higher. Quality of entertainment is much higher from both the devices we use and content. You can learn so much on the Internet, and it's easier to do anything (like finding when a venue is open, directions, etc.). I agree that unemployment is some percentage points too high, but I wouldn't say the general state of the U.S. is so bad. I also think pollution levels are lower in the U.S. now than a few decades ago.
I agree with the author that there's much to be gained by shrugging off the consumerist expectation that we spend all of our income on junk. The next step in that progression though, in my opinion, is to learn to obsess over money exactly as much as is necessary, then start paying attention to what really matters in life. This guy's OCD approach to money sounds exhausting.
Biology, is MASSIVE. So first question: What aspect would you like to get involved in?

WET LAB: pipette lab coats and playing with chemicals

"LH002"
https://github.com/delinquentme/LH001

"biotech temp agency"
http://bit.ly/onCmQI

BIOINFORMATICS: probably the quickest route for a programmer

"Best resources to learn molecular biology for a computer scientist."
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"Bioinformatics for programmers"
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"A Quick Guide for Developing Effective Bioinformatics Programming Skills"
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MICROFLUIDICS: "lab on a chip"

List of microfluidic companies
http://fluidicmems.com/list-of-microfluidics-lab-on-a-chip-a...

Talk to me if you're serious about it ... there is a HUGE community basically waiting to blow open ... I've recently begun working in bioinformatics and bio into my skillset, in this short time the interest has only grown.
Google suggest which later got integrated in main page is one, I guess.
This article is so full of incendiary bullshit, I'm surprised it even got on the front page.

Some of the most critically acclaimed games, as well as highest selling games, have stories.

For example: Grand Theft Auto 3. Final Fantasy VII.
Ico. Metal Gear Solid. Arkham Asylum. Mass Effect. Dragon Age. Dark Souls. Demon Souls. Starcraft. Starcraft II.
Modern Warfare. World of Warcraft.

Do you know what else made these games stand out? Art direction.

Give me a break.
Reporter sounds very ersatz. Constantly interrupting, interjecting with "huh", "oh", "yeah", and "ah, interesting". She pretends to know what she's talking about, although it's obvious that she doesn't.

Anyways, the parallel to Sony is interesting. Many have mentioned it before, but only time will tell.
Joe - one thing I would point out to help you out here. Every listing under your experience section is written like a story. People, especially recruiters, don't have time to read all this. My advice would be to remove the story format and have just bullet points that highlight accomplishments and business results. For example "designed and developed xx project using php/mysql"... "led the technical vision of xx".
Just started reading after seeing this thread. Great stuff - I'm laughing my butt off. Keep it up
Yeah, you did.

If something is agreed to have a chance of extending my life for thousands of years by more than 5% of people whose thinking I respect and

Check

it costs less than 200k and

Check

there are no obvious people who are profiting from this then

Check

This is at least as true for religion (which you can practice for free) as it is for cryonics (which is a business venture).

I want to be >99% sure about it not being viable before giving up on it.

In what way can you be >99% sure that religion is not viable? What logic allows you to believe in cryonics but not religion, given that each have basically the same scientific underpinnings (which is to say, none at all).

EDIT: Unless you meant that the logic you described was not yours, but just mmaro's, in which case fair enough.
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It wouldn't cost $10 billion to recreate Linux because it's been done before, and people could quickly code it with knowledge of the framework and the key tools.
Let me be a little less polite than PG

VC public e-mail addresses == /dev/null .. they exist purely to appease the raging masses of entrepreneurs hanging outside their walls, reading Venturebeat ( fill in another 10 top " blogs " of your choice ) more than mails from their mum.

Cold calling any of them will not work. Heck even intros from the highest level are not treated that nicely if you're a first time guy.

Best place to be in, acquire unfair advantages like a yC tag and learn everything you can from insiders. Make a product that even in its most seed form shows a pathway to an entire industry. Get traction.

"If you're in a fair fight, you didn't plan it properly." - Nick Lappos, Chief R&D Pilot, Sikorsky Aircraft
Does anything remotely like Bell Labs exist today? Is it simply not possible with everyone tightening their belts?

If you're unfamiliar with what came out of Bell Labs, check out this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_labs#Discoveries_and_devel...

Or is it the fate of software innovation that it is to be decentralized and happen in our spare time now?
I noticed this when working on a site, which loads a font from fonts.googleapis.com wasn't loading properly -- seems like fonts.googleapis.com isn't working, and googleapis.com either redirects to google.com or replies with plaintext "Not Found".

Anyone else experiencing this?
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Google Adsense is a crap pogram!! They suck money from poor publishers!!
Today all of sudden I got this mail from Adsense team stating that your account had been disabled... I never copied any content from other sites..and I have been a publisher for 4 years without any incidents..but still they disabled my account..I have just startd earning about $100 for last 4 months and I am not a big time publisher..

The listed below are my stats for 2 of the sites

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http://www.mahabharatepisode.com - 10000 visitors, 37000 page views

I still don't know why the heck they disabled my account as most of the visitors are from Google search only..Worse I had $136 in account..I think Google increases their profit by disabling accounts like this and adding this money to their coffers instead of repaying the advertisers..

And their customer support for Adsense publishers is
a)Crap (No great UI or anything)
b)Not quick replies (They take more than a month to reply)
c)No Phone call support

Even when a small bank which is worth less than $10 million has customer support for account holders..why not Google Adsense?
What is preventing them to have a customer call centers?

Google should realise that if we(publishers) are not there..they won't not be..?Why they are intent on customer service as we publishers are also customers..

And Even one of my checks they sent returned since there was no Phone no on it? Even though I have addressed a mail to them there has been no replies? How come they are fooling publishers like this?

I think this is the way they are inflating revenues by sucking of money from publishers and advertisers alike..And no one investigates when they disable an account whether they are refunding the money or keeping the money for themselves..
Haha my favorite part is around 2:35.

Woz: "...one mind still in control to keep products so..."

Interviewer: "Advancing?"

Woz: "small."