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Here's to twenty more years!
Their site http://thislooksfun.com/ is currently unimpressive. It's noticeably slow on my broadband connection. Why? Huge background images changing on a relatively quick timer (sizes as large as 4.5mb, 7.56mb).

It's just an email gathering page, but a few minutes spent in an image editing program would give a much better first impression.
Floppy disk icon for „Save“?
I guess GMail alreadh has users who never had that thing in their hands…
I guess this will get _someone_ using id tech 4... doesn't look like it ever got much love from a licensing standpoint.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id_Tech_4#Games_using_id_Tech_4
You might be right, but I'm not so sure.

IANAL, but I don't believe that the court found that the asset doesn't exist. I believe they found that the specific details of copyright law render it such that the asset wasn't sufficient for Brighthaven to have legal standing.

That doesn't mean that the asset doesn't exist. It's just that BH was dumb enough to buy something useless. It's kinda like me selling my car keys to someone else. They're completely useless to the buyer (I didn't sell them my car!), but the asset of the key certainly exists. And when the sheriff comes to seize that buyer's assets, the key will be picked up with everything else -- and who knows where it will go after that.
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>This was a fairly large change that we, understandably, only wanted to deploy to a small subset of users. This was facilitated by Bengineer Kamen's GAE/Bingo split-testing framework for App Engine.

I think this method of A/B testing has some faults. I blogged about it A/B testing. Is Khan doing it wrong?http://liveatthewitchtrials.blogspot.com/2011/09/ab-testing-...

and Allen Downey ran some simulations at Repeated tests: how bad can it be?http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2011/10/repeated-tests-how-b...
It was faster before 2000, but is it still faster now?

On my computer it is indeed four times faster, but the marvellous method is on its own again four times slower than SSE, using the rsqrtps instruction, with the advantage of a way lower maximum error.

To take the square root of an array of 1024 floats:

Naive sqrtf()
CPU cycles used: 48160, error: 0.000000

Vectorized SSE
CPU cycles used: 2970, error: 0.000392

Marvellous Carmack method
CPU cycles used: 11330, error: 0.002186
It honestly wasn't meant to be rude but I thought most other people would also stop reading and dismiss it and it wouldn't be productive if you took that to mean you'd argued a great point and stumped the community. Your assertions stomp all over sensitive issues on all sides of the issue, you use race-related language that could be considered inflammatory. If your point was about cultural sensitivity on both sides of the divide then perhaps you could have started by showing some in your post. Hope that helps to clarify.
people fuck up. I am more surprised that something that shows an error on login would pass Apple's appstore inspection
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No, that wasn't us, just proves that this is an exciting time for this industry
More like "Hey guys, how can we make sure our products run better on our platform than the other one?
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Ask HN: Possibly lucrative idea - no business sense
I've been working for a little while on an idea which I honestly think has some real potential. To be really vague, it's a sort-of Groupon-style iPhone app for restaurants, but rather than one centralised system, I had forseen customers buying the system and running their own apps from there.

The package consists of iPhone app code (which will be customised) and a PHP backend. The original idea was this was self-installable, but the whole shebang has the possibility of being run SaaS-y.

Now the problem I have is that I lack the business chops to get this off the ground properly - or even know how to get it off the ground. I've tried and I could try harder for sure, but I know someone else can do a much better job. My heart just isn't in that side of things.

Where I currently live there is no network to speak of and being a freelancer who mainly works with other devs, I don't have much in the way of business contacts. I guess I'm curious as to whether there is anything online that I'm unaware of which can put people like me in touch with those who might be interested, whether anyone here would be curious or just what's a good starting point from here for a business-daft dev?

TIA for any advice and I hope this isn't too wildly off topic :)
The biggest difference to my mind, the one that bugs me most, is the opportunity cost. Sure, I have no commute, low mortgage for a big house, no sales tax and easy access to some of the most beautiful unspoiled wilderness in the entire world. The downside is that there are virtually no jobs/startups here that I find interesting.

You either adjust your expectations when you live here, or you go somewhere else.

I am somewhat worried that when I do decide to leave that my wages will be pegged artificially low because of the cost of living difference. But I figure I can always convert my salary to the local equivalent when asked what my current salary is.
Is your site homogeneous across all demographics across the world?

Because IE share in the US is higher than its share worldwide. The article is about worldwide share.
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Let us know how that name box is converting compared to without. Are you A/B ing it?
The new full-screen capabilities in Lion can help with reading on small screens (in fact I think that's why they added it). Combined with bumping up the font size in applications, it can be quite readable.
Andrew Mason also interned at Electrical Audio Studios.
Would it sound less far-fetched if we talked about mining asteroids for rare-earth metals, conductive metals like copper, industrial metals like titanium, etc?
I work for an e-commerce company and our breakdown with 200,000 unique visitors a month is 54% IE, 19.22% Safari, and 14.36% Firefox, and 8% Chrome.

IE 6 is < 1% and IE 7 is < 5%.
Asteroids don't have tails.
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My suitemates and I (BR '14) were talking about what it would be like to drop out of Yale. We realized that the school would pretty much take you back whenever as long as you were doing something cool in the spare time. That's a really nice "psuedo-assurance" to have imo.

Best of luck fellas!
I think Josh's point is that Jobs' success came from the inspiration he got from his calligraphy class— not an engineering degree. He was never really an engineer.

And I agree with him: many tech-oriented sites tend to think the only jobs that (should) exist end in "Science" or "Engineering". Does the entertainment industry not fuel economic growth? Would Netflix be popular if we didn't have movies and television shows to stream? Would smartphones be pushing the envelope if all they did was allow you to check your email and take calls? Do we not laud video games that have fantastic stories and artwork?

I've even seen commenters express superiority between the science degrees. For instance, "Computer Science isn't really a science. It's just math!" and, "You can't call yourself a software engineer! Real engineers get qualifications! Real engineers do something that can affect public safety!" are both common sentiments.

Why is this? Do these people really not see the importance of the liberal arts, even when their own work is heavily reliant on them?
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Also: I am a colorblind engineer. How can I pick color schemes that don't make infants cry and write copy that isn't a legendary cure for insomnia?
Installing Different Versions of Internet Infromation Services (IIS)
With SideBarEnhancements plugin you can.

https://github.com/titoBouzout/SideBarEnhancements
I think it'd be smarter to put groups of people together and send them to events or create events for it. So long as the ratios are even, or could be set. The advantage of groups is that it's not a make or break situation, like a 1-on-1. And groups of friends can be matched with other groups of friends.
I'm not arguing that everyone using python for science should come running in hordes to sciruby. What I'm saying is that if you prefer ruby to python that this is helping to make it possible to do a lot of science all in ruby. Also, some of the nuances of ruby could make for some interesting science code.

1. (reply) I know it is possible, however, in practice it is easier and done more often in ruby. The idea permeates ruby thinking much more than in python. Even 'if' statements return a value, and rubyists often use that.

2. (reply) yeah, list comprehensions are cool, wish ruby had 'em. The original point was more directed to R and matlab code. Still, the way in which enumeration is done in ruby looks and feels quite different than python, even if the same effect is achieved. [1,2,3].each_cons(2).map {|x| x + 3}

3. (reply) True, but if ruby hadn't persisted alongside python, would django exist? sciruby may do things differently than scipy, and that just might make python/scipy better down the road.

4. (reply) To be clear, I have the utmost respect for the python community. How about saying that they innovate in different ways? Python's emphasis on having one preferable way of doing things tends to yield well engineered systems, and innovation occurs easily in layers as a result. Because of ruby's flexibility, Rubyists are more prone to rebuild core functionality in different ways. Depending on how much you care about syntax, that's either a colossal waste of time or quite useful.

Finally, if you don't care about the syntax of scientific computation, then yes, this only allows rubyists to do computation in ruby. But, despite their many similarities, ruby and python are fundamentally different in several ways. To suggest that we might be able to do scientific computing in somewhat new and interesting ways is not meant to be insulting to python developers, and we make the claim with the deepest sincerity, and humility. Like python, ruby possesses unique strengths, and we hope to bring these to bear on scientific computing as best we are able.
this is literally the first thing taught in both of the machine learning classes I've taken from Prof. Ng at Stanford, so maybe it's the application of logistic regression more than the estimation technique itself that makes machine learning?
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dating is really a niche that's more or less guaranteed slow growth, taking time off from school to pursue something this generic doesn't strike me as smart...since you'll spend a ton of time waiting for your user numbers to climb.
Jobs made that point even more explicitly:

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0f1ocmoGG1qz50x3.png
I used Linux for 10 years before my first MacBook, so it was really more of a return than a conversion.
But wouldn't you agree that the correct venue to make that determination is in Sweden?

A UK court shouldn't be deciding the merits of a case based solely on press reports about the prosecution.
"Current dating sites are not the last word. Better ones will appear. But anyone who wants to start a dating startup has to answer two questions: in addition to the usual question about how you're going to approach dating differently, you have to answer the even more important question of how to overcome the huge chicken and egg problem every dating site faces. A site like Reddit is interesting when there are only 20 users. But no one wants to use a dating site with only 20 users—which of course becomes a self-perpetuating problem. So if you want to do a dating startup, don't focus on the novel take on dating that you're going to offer. That's the easy half. Focus on novel ways to get around the chicken and egg problem."

From http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html
My experience is primarily back-end development, so I'm a complete UI design dummy. I have a stupid question that I always mean to look into "when I have time" - - given topic, perhaps someone on this thread can answer.

Why does the font in the input box on the bootstrappingdesign lander look so screwy and hard to read, relative to the rest of the page? (I'm running Chrome on a vanilla Windows 7 box.)

http://i.imgur.com/TgQjV.gif
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Just what is going on at Google? The past few weeks (since and including the plus launch) have been a disaster for their brand within the tech community.
All the more puzzling is that they waited so long to do it. There has always been dissatisfaction with Mail.app but it's taken them 3+ years since the launch of the iPhone SDK to come up with a half-assed wrapper around a website that performs more poorly than running it in WebKit.
Yes, and it also helps them keep the games alive. If you have the game data (CD, DVD, Steam, whatever), you can play every id FPS game up to Doom 3 in almost any platform you want, today. And you will probably be able to do it 20 years from now. I think it's fantastic.
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Please don't editorialize headlines.
Right now, The plusses on javascript are:

* Runs everywhere. It's the BASIC of this age
* It's not that bad.
* They can do stuff their friends can see

I'd rather do python, since it's that much cleaner, less curly braces and semicolons and better loops. But, the results aren't as public, and it's a harder environment to set up. And given that I have to work with the school's IT, I think I'm going to be lucky that we can load chrome on the system.

So, clarity for teaching, or ubiquity. Still deciding.
Can anyone give me a justification for attending a tech conference. I never have attended one in the past an d $450 seems like a lot of money out of my own pocket. I'm interested in writing clojure web apps, but I am not convinced I would benefit enough from this conference to justify the cost. Can someone tell me where I'm wrong?
That's $700 new. You can buy a refurbed Mini from Apple for $469 right now that comes with a warranty. If you expand your buying options to second-hand hardware out of warranty, you can pick up older but Lion capable C2D Macbooks for less than $300. If you're really hard up for cash, you can even build Lion-capable Hackintoshes for a little under $250.
we saw what happens when Samsung got pissed off, they decided to start suing for patents the world needs to implement cell phones

Wasn't it Apple that fired the first shot there?
Which methods/algorithms did you use for data mining/analytics in 2011?
I believe his math was accounting for the 4 years of lost wages during college as an opportunity cost of $32k/yr * 4yr = $128k for a total college expense of $140k + $128k = $268k.

Now, if you could invest that money at 3% compound interest over 30 years, you're talking about $650k -- that's 33% of your final career totals. (When I do that calculation for my 10 years of BS+PhD engineering, its pretty dramatic!)
All those that ridicule Google's product quality on iOS have never tried to use iTunes on Windows!

And given that lots of Googlers have iPhones, it's hard to ascribe malice when just incompetence will suffice.
This is an avenue I'm investigating.

Just trying to find the right place to go. Right now I'm doing a software craftsman apprenticeship to increase the quality of place I can get a job. When that's done (it's a 20-30 hour commitment on top of a full-time+ job) in January, I'm going to get involved in some OSS projects.

The move is probably at least 6-12 months out.
From the website:

However, due to the special nature of python's builtin datatypes (str, list, int, float, tuple, dict, etc.), you will not be able to use chained_class on those classes.

This helps to make my point about ruby's object model. Of course, ruby takes a speed hit for it, but it is more consistent in this regard.
Rockstar is to games as Apple is to computers
That's a bit of a fallacy to assume that more time = more users.

User growth doesn't happen by itself because you have a product out (outside of the rare viral hit).

It takes months of hard work and focus to build a user base.
I agree. I LOVE the python-in-javascript REPLs, but so far NONE of them have console i/o. (Python's raw_input command isn't implemented, for example.) And that makes these a non-starter for my courses unless I completely rewrite all my assignments. And that's a HUGE time investment for an uncertain payoff.
I'm pretty much winging it with the Middle Schoolers. Normally I throw a quick demo up on the big screen, talk about it for a couple of minutes pointing out what it does that they were struggling with in the last class.

Then they work on doing something interesting while I answer questions and ask "What happens if...".
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I had to go back and re-read but couldn't find anything relating to it: why did you assume they used hours of usage as a metric versus the number of visits to the site?
Dating sites don't inherently suck.

OKCupid is actually an amazing website. The problem, as always, is there will always, always be more men seeking women.

I'd like to see what would happen if a dating site somehow tried to keep the ratio of men to women more appealing to both sexes.
We differ from HowAboutWe in that we're going to offer prearranged events for our users. We want them to avoid decision paralysis when picking a date or date idea, so we give them something fun, tested, and popular to try while meeting someone new who wants to do the same thing.
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>I don't know, since I haven't gone through one of those programs myself, but I would bet that students graduating from such programs don't come away with the same kind of skills that a liberal arts education provides.

I would tend to agree with you here. STEM fields push logic and reason, but then you get students who look at the most practical solutions instead of the solutions that might not be as practical but benefit the most or offer an intangible benefit.
Good luck guys...don't let all the negative comments get you down. Power through and stay on task.
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This is an issue with how Windows renders fonts. I believe Windows 7 has a ClearType tuner that could help you. (@font-face via Typekit can exacerbate this too compared with locally installed fonts.)

I'll look into a fallback font for that input box. Sorry it's hard to read.
I am thinking this will be a good follow up to "Design for Hackers".
Thanks to JSCore's JIT compilation only working in Safari or saved-to-home-screen web apps, they've basically taken three years to actually make a 'native app' version of their e-mail service, which is slower than just using the web app (and feels worse to use).
One other use case is if you have significantly different weather conditions a short distance from one another. I live near the coastal mountains; a 20 minute drive could take me from nice and sunny to cold and rainy.

Your points about feedback are valid, however.

Does anyone think it could also be useful to tie a twitter feed in with weather information? I feel like weather is one of those things that ppl complain about on twitter all the time; some simple geolocation and keyword matching and you could pull up recent geolocated tweets near you. Could be a nice qualitative weather report to accompany the actual data (people like a personal face on the weather).
What's the URL to the blog post where you read this? :)
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That's assuming that an 18-year-old outside of the tech field could get a $32k/yr job to begin with. Looking at the unemployment rates for people without college degrees, there's a pretty large chance they wouldn't be able to get any job at all.
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I'd want to broadcast my payments ... why?
in russia, opera is decreasing too. it is always a wonder of mine, why from russia to kazakhstan; ex-soviets, there has been so much love for opera.
Different Apogee. Presumably you are thinking of Apogee Electronics, he is talking about Apogee Games, which more or less* became 3D Realms (of Duke Nukem infamy), and who back in the day published a lot of the classic shareware games from other developers as well, including id's early stuff like Commander Keen and Wolf 3D.

* "more or less" because the business structure is more complicated than that and there was still an Apogee Software alongside 3D Realms, but for all practical purposes, what was Apogee Games became 3D Realms and then died due to the Duke Nukem Forever project.
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Update: USCIS just reversed its decision and allowed back Amit into the country. (Source: he just posted on his facebook wall).

I know Amit and how hard working he is and am very thankful this was resolved so quickly. At the same time, I hope it grows into something more than just a lone media frenzy-induced example. If the US is to stay competitive, it needs to reconsider its immigration policies. (Full disclosure: I am a foreigner myself).
Wouldn't flooding the market with that much gold...crash it?

Well, presumably only a single party is going to recover that gold. If they dumped the whole load onto the market, it would crash. But if they release it slowly, then a greater supply from each batch would cause "inflation", so that the price they could get from the next batch would be lower. But they could still derive significant wealth before trailed off.
Have you tried using Adobe Kuler? kuler.adobe.com/
They have a great collection of color pallets that you could use. Start off with a common base and go from there and then test away and get feedback.
>I can only assume that there's some desire within Google to make sure the iPhone versions of their products are complete dogshit to try and encourage Android adoption.

I find it interesting that Google is intentionally using its own icons for pre-existing iOS conventions (Floppy disk for save, weird action menu, nonstandard trash can, buttons without borders, etc.) I can understand being in love with your own system, but making a native app look non-native is just odd.

Personally, Google Sync/Exchange works great, gives me calendars as well, and plays nicely with my other accounts. The only hiccup is archive v. delete, but that's not a huge one. I've had no desire for a GMail app.
Iteratively solving for the model parameters using gradient descent is not standard practice in a statistics class; paying attention to the numerical methods behind logistic regression is a very CS kind of thing to do.
He seems to be under the misapprehension that libraries would be impossible or extremely difficult if you added restrictions to the language. This is illogical. Languages with many more restrictions, like Haskell, can still have useful libraries. Sure, jquery wouldn't be able to work in exactly the same way it does now, but it could still work. (I would imagine wrapping objects instead of actually changing their prototypes).

Also, he doesn't go over the most useful aspect of static OO, which is interfaces. Being able to force an incoming argument to have attached methods often makes code much simpler, because you don't have to deal with the possibility of someone passing different arguments into your function.

Arguments like this usually degenerate into shouting messages, so I would like to conclude that even though I am a huge fan of static typing, I don't think it's for javascript. You can always add a static type checker on top of a non-static langauge, so people like me will be happy. It might be more difficult to go the other way around.
Google hires the type of people who want to solve hard engineering problems, not the type of people who want to really polish an app.