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A bit of honing in on the news as kotaku's story isn't entirely there.

Minecraft has over 16M registered users, of which >4M have purchased the game. Neither figure is a firm representation of active players however. Minecraft receives roughly 10,000 new sales every day(at 15 euros a pop), so we can generally assume that there is a large, if rotating, pool of active players.

Additionally, while the game is seeing the 1.0, it's far from finished. This is more of a formality for running out of time before the booked-well-in-advance launch venue. The "adventure update" (originally planned for the 1.7 beta) has been sidelined for the moment on account of the minecon launch. Instead the game now features a boss fight and an ending. The developers (notch/jeb) have kept an active voice in the community and have made it known that there is still much more content on the way, including what I assume to be the completion of the adventure update, and possibly other game modes and/or more advanced pre-built content being generated into maps.

While I feel the game isn't "done" or "ready", it's still a reasonably nice time filler, even if it's ideology has an existential crisis.
"That's a legal Pandora's box in exchange for some uncertain marketing return."

And this letter isn't a risk? If Backify is going to sue and LiveDrive is in the wrong, then they have enough reasons in this letter and from LiveDrive's actions already.

Then open letter sharing what was going on wouldn't carry additional risks that this other letter, in fact because it would precede data loss actions or direct advice to Backify's customers to avoid credit card purchases, it would carry less risk.
Have you written any 'rich' clients with it? If so have you used GWT with it what was that like? If you didn't use GWT what was it like to use javascript with it and what libs did you use?
I guess they have to have that. Or perhaps they built it on top of intellij community edition?
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Super interesting!

Sadly, the 7MB file linked from that article is not a PDF of a published research paper, but an enormously high-res version of the photo to the right of the article.
Before they canceled, you could go to livedrive.com, and log in with your Backify username/password, it would give you the full list of files, account settings and an option to download the software and restore files. So they did have access to the data.

The software is "white-lable" by account settings, I.E. if you log into LiveDrive application with a Backify account, the branding will be Backify.
Why did they invent yet another framework-specific template language? What is wrong with Jinja2 and Mako?
Sure, historically iMX was winning in those low-end markets. I think Freescale still has a large footprint in automotive thanks to Motorola's history of doing automotive-grade components and related parts (airbag accelerometers, etc). The early iMX parts were decendents of Dragonball.

I would think Freescale really wants a high-visibility design win in the multimedia tablet/eBook market. You don't put all that CPU power and media acceleration on the die for nothing. My original point is that TI is capturing all of these wins for some reason over Freescale. I'm curious to know what the advantage is.
This is why you use tarsnap. It's efficient and any trouble you can talk to Colin.
Couldn't agree more. What many people fail to realize is that MVP is not about succeeding. It is about failing!

If most startups fail, and your idea is most likely to fail, the best way to find something that works is to fail, pivot, and fail again, until you get something people want.

The MVP entices this fail/pivot loop to happen as fast as possible.

And Scobble is right! If you are still on the failing phase, you shouldn't be seeking attention. Failing silently makes the whole experience less traumatic. And then we can move on to refraiming fail fast to learn fast.
This is a red flag on LiveDrive then. Don't use any of their white labels because if a white label ever goes down (e.g. business issues), LiveDrive immediately deletes their data.

Honestly, how can LiveDrive justify such damaging actions on their part?
Plus, you use tarsnap in the same way as 'tar' which you're already familiar with. Backups are securely encrypted, and encryption happens on the fly. And all that goodness on the commandline!
Programming at the level of HN readers isn't a science, it's a creative art. You buy artwork based on it's value to you as a finished product. Very few people commission art from artists other than those who are very well known.

Conclusion - sell finished works of art, not your time. Effectively, SHIP A PRODUCT PEOPLE WANT.
You can still sink a lot of heat under the chip through the PCB, and you can still put a thermal sink on top. But yeah, these packages need to run pretty cool. This particular CPU runs at 1.8V now.
I think the overarching fear of tight coupling is what drove enterprise Java to the brink of madness. I blame people who got screwed by frameworks like EJB (pre-3) and Struts (pre-2.0). After the frustration of being "stuck" with these architectural decisions, the community did a 180 and went to excessively loose coupling and fear of inheritance.

Now the complexity of frameworks like Spring and Hibernate drive people away from Java because setting up a simple website is such a chore. It seems like libraries like Play and Stripes aim for the middle ground that makes web platforms like Rails and Django so popular.

Admittedly, they serve different audiences. It seems like frameworks like Play are better aimed at simple public websites and not "enterprise web services" or whatnot. And that's fine.

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You should check your facts because your view seems to be outdated by a couple of years at least.
A corollary of this article is that experience is also undervalued. It is experience and the ability to reflect on it intelligently that prevents people from making a mess. Its that mess that is killing productivity in most shops.
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Seems in line with Rich Hickey's "Hammock Driven Development" (Here if you haven't seen his talk: http://blip.tv/clojure/hammock-driven-development-4475586 )
It seems like the backlash against "the fold" has been taken a bit too far. Yes, we know that people scroll. But it's still essential to have the important parts of your site visible in the three seconds a user takes to make a decision on whether to stay on your site or not.

Plus, Matt Cutts recently said at Pubcon that Google now analyzes the content which it decides is above the fold, and places a higher value on that content in terms of determining SEO results.

I completely agree that we shouldn't stuff the top of the page with every important pieces of content and navigation option to the point where it makes the page a mess. But at the same time you can't treat a really long page as if the content in the middle or bottom gets the same attention as the content at the top.
The cost is "quite low" relative to the value of property and information that may be protected by this type of device.

Also, 3-7 hours for a typical attack time is notable because it fits into a typical human sleep cycle. You could pick the target's pocket on the way out of the office, and return the card as "lost and found" the next morning.
The reason behind "yet another template language" is that we compile down to both Python and JavaScript. Allowing us to render templates both on the server-side and client-side.
Sharing templates between these two gets very important when you develop real-time web sites.

(I'm one of the developers behind Planet Framework)
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> marketing of perl core dev is terrible

A link "Current Developments" in perl.org would be helpful. Thanks for the links but I'm not interested in minor changes of Perl 5 (Unicode etc.). I was very interested in the new features of Perl 6.

No matter, I lost my patience and left Perl years before and returned into the Lisp and Scheme world where I was before. Sometimes I still use Perl 5 but merely for small scripts.

Perl 6 got stuck in Parrot while Lisp enjoys a revival in Clojure, Qi/Shen and Racket Scheme which are all usable and under heavy development.

The new Lisp versions support multiprocessors and compile to JVM, Javascript (V8), Lisp, Scheme or C. Lisp and Scheme macros are still superior. In Qi/Shen I can even write attribute grammars in BNF style. I can compile my source to standalone native EXE files which are really fast. For that reason I prefer Scheme and Lisp over Python and Ruby. I don't need Perl 6 anyymore!
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Have you tried it? (Don't forget to make sure it works in all the browsers at decent speeds!) It's not the most difficult thing, but it's reasonably complex, it doesn't seem like a bad example. How many teams have one person working on satellite code in Common Lisp and another doing a basic e-commerce site for a client?
I tried signing up as a reseller of LiveDrive but there is no reseller agreement on the sign up page. There is only general Terms & Conditions which apply to the end user that is signing up for backup plan from Livedrive. From their sign-up page it seems there is no contract between LiveDrive and their resellers, which would explain why LiveDrive has no obligation.

Can anyone confirm the existance of reseller contract?
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I'm a happy tarsnap user, but there are real reasons not to use it: the bus factor is 1, restores of large amounts of data are slowish, and data is stored at S3-ish prices - which is to say, not cheap if you're storing terabytes of data.

But tarsnap is indeed excellent.
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That's great... I somehow never ran into that before. Thanks!
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I was hoping this would open a debate because from outside the US it just seems like we're missing something especially on the money aspect.

You mentioned that you've always worked with "employees" and "investors", but nobody that ever started a company anywhere from nothing has "investors" from the outset. so either you can only have joined "post investment" which is not really a start-up, or after the company's founders had already created a viable business. Ie you were not working for a start-up.

Let me put it another way; is the US like some fantasy dreamland where money gets given to anyone who starts a company?

In Europe, starting a "start-up" generally means you start from scratch. Sure you' could get loans against your house, but the way the media and to a certain extent HN portrays start-ups as being founded by teenagers and graduates, most will not have this to offer.

That surely is the purpose of seed funding, but seed funding is not enough to start hiring, because it will get you two months down the line at most, and it does not make a viable business.

So again, it's just not clear what is really going on, what are start-ups and whart are real established businesses calling themselves start-ups because its fashionable.
I do use the cards metaphor for passwords: http://github.com/gaiustech/MkPasswd
I do appreciate the grace you've shown in replies.

> 1. there are too many non-obvious ways to do simple things

To a person who learned Lisp first your pythonish ways would be similarly non-obvious. Obviousness depends always on previous knowledge and you seem to know a lot about python; and as such expect things to operate like there.

Consider how confused a foreigner would be when he hears the word "bowling" and does not know about the sport and thinks it has to do with bowls.

> map is short for "apply function to every item" not "filter out an item" - i hate doing "go over every item in a list and execute a function that returns the item if it is not 'dogfood' and return that new list, overwriting the original one" when all i want is "delete 'dogfood' from my list"

But that is what filter does. Literally, there is no other way to implement this, unless you're operating with linked lists, which are not arrays. Filter is a map with a negated search func - wait, i'm an idiot. it should've been grep. But yeah, filter is just a grep with a negated search function.

@list = grep { $_ ne 'dogfood' } @list;

Let me ask you a question though. In Perl, if i have a list of objects representing links and i want to remove all SSL links, i can do this:

@links = grep { $_->protocol ne 'https' } @links;

How would i implement this in python? Does array.remove() accept lambdas as parameter? Or would i need to go another way?

> At the end of the day i will still try to find and fix bugs in other peoples perl code, curse frequently

Good luck and hop by on IRC! It will increase your curse frequency a LOT. (Until you meet mst and start to pick things up from him.)
jquery (UI, mobile, formalize, etc.)

I heavily use its Jobs to keep ajax responsive. I do full-text autocompletion off of Postgres' native seaorch against 65k products. Works great. Its a great piece of software, see chat demo for Comet example.
Ahem. They have one product and it's... a todo-list. And not even a particularly good one.

Atomico desperate for investment opportunities?
People use it to mean "a company that can grow very quickly over the coming years". Hence some people pointing to "startups like Facebook and Twitter" but ignoring the recently-opened restaurant.

(Is this what the word should mean? Probably not, but there's no way to change it.)
If the purpose of schools is to teach 90% of the students to comply as accurately as possible with the orders they are given then this is a success. This is what businesses expect from the 90% when they enter the work force.

If the purpose of schools is to encourage the 10% free thinkers to explore and grow then this is utter failure. It's hard to reconcile both views in one school system, but I wish we'd err on the side of the 10%. Those are the ones who will make a difference.
Because no one has found a good way to improve the quality of information in the job market for programmers (yet).

It's still very hard for an employer to detect skill, and for a job seeker to select good potential employers.

Could be an idea for a very useful startup :)
I second the recommendation of Crashplan. Setting it up so my parents can remotely backup to an external drive connected to my machine (to which my own backups of course also go) was a breeze. Ironically, I regularly switch that drive with the offsite backup that I store... at my parents :).
Writing a CRUD app with business logic sounds more complicated.

The tough part is extracting the business logic and correctly mapping this to code. If done well, this will create more value to the business than a drag-and-drop framework.
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I agree with this to an extent. When I visit a website, I often skim the top of the page and scroll down immediately to get to the meat of the content. The fold is not meaningless, but worrying about a good design is significantly more important than worrying about "the fold".
I linked you to a repo where a meta object protocol for the perl core is being developed and you say you aren't interested in minor changes?

Shine on you crazy diamond! :D
I don't see the 37 signals site as a great counter example. Their main products are on a 2x2 grid above the fold, with an intro paragraph beside them.
And the 'call to action' elements at the bottom of the page are a reiteration of the products at the top.

It's a nicely designed site, but I wouldn't say it puts essential material only below the fold.
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In Portuguese, it's "soup", which also is a somewhat archaic slang for something that's very easy.
I think the headline might be slightly over-the-top, especially since the article is basically a plea for better university. The fact that non-university-educated developers can, fairly regularly, turn out to be better developers than those who did get a university education (at anything other than a top-tier university) proves there's a problem, but the solution is probably a rethink of how university treats the subject. Kudos to Harper for putting together his own internship program rather than just complaining about the standard of state provision too.
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Isn't the IDE similar to IntelliJ Idea or PyCharm?
Presumably, just getting close to the card is not enough to initiate a payment? Most tables/desks are less than 4cm thick...
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That would be a better title: "Skype Founder paid 4m$ for a To-do List" -- damn ;)

> Atomico desperate for investment opportunities?

You can get that impression if you take a look at their current portfolio.
"Programming at the level of HN readers isn't a science, it's a creative art."

Can we please stop circle jerking like this? I have no reason to believe that there aren't a bunch of idiots on here, just as most anywhere else.
Sweet. Nice hardware and US$50 cheaper than the Nook tablet.

The only downside is that they probably subsidize the device and it doesn't feel right doing that to Amazon.
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I actually expected a paywall but was pleasantly surprised to see only a donate button. I hope that works out just as well for them.
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If, like me, you thought "linear algebra" meant "stuff without exponents", you should start here:

http://www-math.mit.edu/~gs/papers/starting2matrices.pdf

It's the most accessible starter I've found to date. There is also a linear algebra group-learning thread somewhere on HN.
This is why I manage my backups myself. The data I really care about (mail, documents, source code, ...) is small enough to fit a couple of full copies on an inexpensive VPS, so inexpensive that I run two so if one dies I can replace it and rebuild from the other backup (which would be much faster than pushing the data back up my ADSL line). For me to lose my important data my main machines, my local offline backup device, and two VPS providers all have to die at the same time.

It isn't something I'd recommend to a non-techie though (backups are something you have to get right, and not everyone has cocked up enough to call themselves "experienced"!), it isn't free, and I don't get room to have hundreds of Gb of stuff backed up (though if I needed that, I could just rent larger VMs or even an inexpensive dedicated server), but I'm not beholden to a single company for my data's persistence.
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Not to disagree with you, but ...

It astounds me that there are still jobs for developers. I'm not talking about SV stars, I mean the hundreds of thousands of programmers writing CRUD apps around the country. That is eminently moveable, and if the stereotypical code quality of the stereotypical foreign outsourcing shop is sub par, it's not because they don't have the same brains as we do, it's merely because a) they haven't caught up with us yet (they will), and b) they haven't captured that work as primary developers yet, they're still learning to take that work by being (at the moment) sub contractors.

Japan after World War II, for example, broke into the market by making "cheap plastic crap" and motorcycles. Then better plastic crap and small cars (remember the Honda 600?). Then really good plastic crap and really good cars, and now that pie is divided among many more people around the world, including "our" pie.

Why will software be any different? It takes no resources except a brain, a computer and a connection. The whole world has the same quality of brains and computers as we, and their connection quality is often much better and cheaper than ours.
Yep. Unfortunately, you can't get there without cleaning a lot of glassware.
What's really cool about Solitaire is not so much that it uses the deck as a RNG and keystream, but that it uses the deck as a computational tool. You can easily sit down and securely encrypt a (relatively) long message without writing down anything but the cipher text.

The algorithm is also pretty straightforward. I learned to do it a couple years ago-- if you're interested in crypto and get invited to parties, it makes a neat party trick. It took a couple of hours, maybe, before I could do a couple characters a minute. I'm sure I've forgotten the specifics by now, though; it's not something that comes up a lot in day-to-day life :)
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On the other hand, everyone crucified DropBox when it turned out they had the ability to arbitrarily access user data. Turns out people don't want companies to have access to their private data, right up until they do.
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Mmmh, unless I'm missing something, I don't understand why the iFixit teardown is related with this supposed rooting of the device. Does anybody have more details or an other source? It's nonsense to me.
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why did I expected a serious article and feel a little disappointed now?
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