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Steam's price disparity between countries
In Australia the traditional price point for new release PC/Console games is around $100. There used to be a number of justifications offered for this. Including local distribution costs and the value of the Australian Dollar.

However Steam uses the same distribution model in Australia as it uses in the US. The Australian dollar is almost at parity, which shouldn't even matter since Steam purchases are made in USD. Yet games here are consistently priced higher. For example Skyrim is priced at $89.99USD.

Am I missing something, or it this just an opportunity to extract more money from Australian consumers?
Which is one of the problems with the Valley. These incubators operate on the same premise. Take Techstars, where they openly said, "It's about the people, not the idea." We're literally throwing money at people to think of ideas, and it stems from our obsession with "stars". Is it that hard to wait for a tangible product?

There is so much money sloshing around, and people are so scared to miss a deal that they're willing to take all the risk up front. It's crazy, and doesn't work like that in any other industry I can think off..
To add to the pedantry: H.264 is a video format, a bitstream specification, not a codec. A codec is a compressor/decompressor for said format, so in this case that's x264/ffmpeg.
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fascinating article. It looks like Color raised a lot of money, then launched and found out why customers didn't want it, and now they are trying to pivot. Basically the opposite of what YC and 37signals recommends.
The closest I've ever come to a "Kindle Crash" was a multi-second delay on page turn, which has only happened once. I've been using mine every day on my commute for the last year.

No idea what the author was referring too. Maybe the new Kindle Fire?
This is all new to me so perhaps I'm misinterpreting it completely...but if Fabric works by analyzing program/data flow to automatically add parallelism, what's stopping it from being applied to a single-threaded C or C++ implementation and raising its performance to the level of the multithreaded-by-hand C++ implementation?

With all respect for the developers' showcase involving a bridge to Javascript, my gut sense is that the world would pay (more) money for a tool that takes single-threaded C code and makes it run like multi-threaded C code.

Also wondering how much of the underlying technology is patented, or if this is an implementation of publicly-accessible (and cheap/free licensable) academic research.

Finally, thanks to FabricPaul for very informative comments in this thread.
Yes, I had not seen your post.

Regarding Open Sourcing, it´s also one way to stop support sooner and avoid bad PR.
You'll also notice I never said I reinstalled because of the error I was having (I eventually found a FixIt to do it), but the reinstalls were for other things.

The corrupted registry is just indicative of a problem which really should not happen.

a) If a corrupted registry key is stopping something happening, then why doesn't it take any action to try and resolve it?
b) If an error code has a documented fix online, why was I not taken to it, or, even better, the fix placed in the distributable?
c) Why should I have to remember random error codes at all? Why doesn't it give me an error message I can understand and at least try and take some action on?

What I find a bit odd about this whole thread is that you seem to take issue with the idea that one of Microsoft's own libraries not working means the OS is otherwise fine. Why not take the view that it's a library that's not distributed with the main install, but is a part of Windows? The Visual C++ libraries are used all the time. I feel like if we were talking about Ubuntu, where the packages are always separated, we wouldn't be drawing this invisible line between what is and isn't the OS.
My reaction was the same. This pull-quote makes me think of a little kid:

"There is no one in the world who I won't outlast. There's no way. There's no way. There's no way."
>' "When you're binary, you just pick a side; whether it's right or wrong doesn't really matter. You're all in. So you find out all the good and bad things about it instantly. When you find that it's not right, you just move on," he says.'

I'm reading the Isaacson book, and he reminds me of Steve Jobs. Everything is black and white, everyone is either a genius or a shithead.
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Hahah, maybe, but I'm happy doing it. I have control that way. I can't tell the computer to stop auto-saving can I? That way I can take risks when I'm coding etc and always revert what I did if it was a mistake.
That how YC works, I think.
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While you can point at how he conducted himself at Apple and scream "Monster!", what isn't mentioned in this post but is dealt with at length in his biography is how he conducted himself at Pixar.

He was much more low-key about the 'products' at Pixar, he mostly was an enabler and negotiator for them. In Pixar's early days he invested an awful lot of his then-fortune into keeping it alive, and it was his cunning negotiation skills that kept Pixar from being swallowed by the then flailing Disney.

If you contrast his behaviour at Pixar and at Disney, I think it illustrates that he didn't consider the work at Pixar to be 'his art'. There were other people at Pixar who were leading the 'art' there and it was all in hand.

At Apple on the other hand, it's completely clear that Jobs' considered the products to be 'his art' and his conviction was such that he literally was going to drag everyone, kicking and screaming, to realise his vision. And that he did, in a world of horrible consumer electronics he would not abide, he set out and truly lead the creation of some very awesome and uncompromising products. It was his Art.

Imagine if Andy Warhol or Piccasso or any other famous artist relied on the expertise of many individuals to realise their creations. Do you think they'd be considering that all you want is your 9-5 job and your 401k and 4 weeks holiday a year. Nope, they'd be behaving in exactly the same way: aggressive and fervent conviction. Work ceases to become merely a job and you're no longer working, you're crusading.

In a world of unambitious and mediocre individuals, you have to move mountains to do great work that requires multi-disciplined collaboration. You're going to upset people along the way but that just comes with the territory.

I don't think it's fair to blame him for his behaviour. The world needs more people like him: true leaders who will stand up for their convictions, no matter what the cost.
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From the article "I am thinking – does this guy not want to hear me? I am detecting a pattern: not only he doesn’t want to listen, he actually doesn’t care to consume any information at all."
"free for non-commercial use" == commercial.
Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, they're all sausage factories. You really don't want to look too close at how all this stuff is made.
You complain OSX is different from your previous experience. That's unreasonable. Macs have always been about simplicity and consistency building a predictable user experience.

My experience with Macs is, like I said before, as a casual user with occasional work done in terminal sessions and Emacs (which is consistent on every computer I have), but you can trust me on that - the differences between the environments will get burned into your brain soon enough and you'll be able to easily switch between contexts.
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I don't really know how venture funding works, so pardon my stupid question: Why did he need/want to raise $41m from outside when he sold his company for $850m a few years ago?
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Flex is a library that sits on top of Flash that provides controls and a layout system.

Flash itself doesn't have the concept of a checkbox, drop down list, grids or any controls beyond a button. Flex adds these.

Flash also doesn't have any sort of layout system other than absolute positioning. Flex adds various layout controls.

It works pretty well, but also increases the size of your .swf file quite a bit.
What does writing tests count as? Especially if you're doing TDD or BDD.
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On many fronts including security, I think Adobe lost a marketing battle to Apple.

Nothing to be proud of but for the last couple of years, Apple products have had as many security vulnerabilities as Adobe products, if not more. Adobe still gets much more flak owing to their ubiquitous nature (maybe they should).
On the other hand, the market treats Apple like a security expert's dream (which it is not).
Exactly right. Companies do not get ahead by having mellow pushovers at the top.

People having been talking a lot about how he stole all of the design credit from Ives. This might be the case, but I'm willing to bet you that Ives would be the first to admit that Jobs helped him unlock his true potential.
I think what's more is that police can use their time for more productive uses.
Weird.

1) The url would suggest this is done using the canvas element. On my browser, though, it's implemented using SVG. Is anyone else seeing this?

2) SVG is a really terrible medium for this use case. What should be used instead, and would probably give better performance, is... canvas.
It's a long way from $20-150k to $41 million.

And many other industries work this way. Biotech and oil & gas come to mind. In fact, the tax laws around carried interest were enacted to encourage oil & gas exploration.
I'm pretty sure there are more efficient ways to create data to test - and probably data sets that can be used.
At the very least it could be made into a business on donations alone I am sure.

PG has a great thing going here that is far more valuable to him than money. He isn't aching for food on a daily basis so I doubt he'll ever dream of jeopardizing HN the way it is.
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Not to mention that it would make people smarter/more savvy - although of course, having them "protected" from this kind of stuff gives the politicians control over them, which is hard to let go of.
A) He probably didn't own very much of it at that point.

B) Using other people's money is always a lesser risk.

C) Raising big money = big PR ("social proof").
Heck, I'll go so far as to praise Adobe. While it's easy to "see the writing on the wall" from out here, history seems to say that it's often really hard for companies with dominant/historically strong positions in a market to see that revolution before it completely passes them by... I think Adobe has been more quick to change than many large/dominant companies in tech and other industries in years past.
The SDK will continue to be developed, the roadmap for the commercial product will be outlined.
What I'm missing here?
Pro-Apple troll. Go away. Who was the idiot that crafted the headline?
I know this is really stupid and the initial quality of some of the code i write is really low but when I am just making things for fun its kind of like freestyle rap to me so 0% planning 100% coding.

http://i.crowdfunded.it is an example of this.
Actually there is a lot of software in that robot.
It is not accurate, it's a lie.
The product hasn't been cancelled, the SDK will continue to be developed.
Which bit didn't you read?
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I'm not exactly sure what you mean. I'm not an old-timer on HN, but what I do know is that opinion for opinions sake is treated with very harsh scrutiny and I enjoy the site for particularly that. Ask HN's may be slightly softer on that rule and since this years 'eternal september' there have been a lot of new people who don't understand the rule in general - yet, but the crux is this: This is not reddit.
There's a difference between being an effective drill sergeant and being a jerk. Parking in handicapped spots has nothing to do with driving your employees to excellence.
really great feedback thanks. I'm just thinking of a quick way to get that idea to a diverse group of teachers ( for example ) and get feedback in real time as opposed to just the ones I know who are likely to just say "yeah we'd use it" so they can make me happy.

I was thinking of creating a service where you can blast out an idea. If enough people signup and maybe categorize themselves, you can possibly get valuable feedback on whatever idea you just had. What do you think?
the biography has actually made me think twice about buying anything Apple-branded again.

This seems as asinine as refusing to buy a Volkswagen because VW was founded by Nazis.
"I don't know any Flash devs with CS degrees. They're all artists and designers and musicians who somehow got into development"

Nice to meet you. Even if Flash is not my main language, i do enjoy it (AS3/Flex), and i am the proud owner of a CS degree.

The problem is actually related to this, the problem is very simple: 99% of the articles, blog posts, etc that talk about "Flash is dead" are written by people with either no clue of the Adobe ecosystem and its spread in enterprise, or by Flash dev who are not dev but glorified banner maker. Flash is not dead, never will be, how long internet will take to understand this, it is not going away, HTML5 is not on level on key features, its a fact, not an opinion, end. of. story.
Ya I posted a few of my problems with C++ in the comments of the post, mainly with things like std::map<int, std::map<int, int>> being fixed in C++11 instead of the compiler thinking it's shift right. So c++ can have bugs but far less often. The point I was trying to make was that people do a lot of "real work" with VB, Applescript and other high level languages and it's completely unacceptable for them to have a bug this prevalent. I just had one of those canary in a coal mine moments where the whole language is now suspect for me.
"The premise was to create a mobile social network of people you didn't know, rather than ones you already did. Nguyen believed Color would be the Facebook killer."

I have a theory that conflicts with his thinking. If an app connects people it will trump an app that requires people to physically connect themselves. My test for this is "does this app work for users coming from a rural setting?". Facebook works amazingly well because it connects people. Color works horribly. Your app can be profitable and cool not working in a rural area, but it won't be a Facebook.
I'm naive when it comes to anything related to VC's and funding, but I'm pretty sure if I had a ton of money to invest, it wouldn't be anywhere near someone like that. Even after reading the article, I don't think I fully understand why he can secure funding so easily.
This is one thing I Never questioned...
Putting aside BA work, I seem to do most planning in code - ie, fleshing out an example implementation in code, mocking up some models, etc. That eventually morphs into the end result. So, don't think it's as cut-and-dry as coding OR planning.
even if the cost is other people? your last statement is a dangerous stance.
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Because I say so. And this is no editorializing.

It is a fact that the scientific community agrees on, that at some point before the universe dies out because of entropy, Hacker News will die.

Keep up the good work, idiots.
Taking credit for other people's creative work is a shit thing to do. Whatever benefits Ive may have drawn from the relationship aren't relevant. Daddy doesn't get to beat the kids just because daddy puts food on the table.
Totally agreed. To add more reasons:

1. I don't have money for an SSD right now, and Mission Control can take up to 10 seconds to start, presumably because some stuff on another Space had been swapped to disk. I just used a friend's 800 MHz iMac G4 at a party and damn, Exposé was instant!

2. I don't even want to see stuff on another space. I move apps on spaces to FOCUS, not to see my unwritten report at the top of my desktop when switching apps on one space.
I'm a fan of Steve Jobs for his vision and ability to see things we all blatantly are unaware of. He changed technology, but also advertising, movies, music, etc.

But I'm glad to see someone holding him accountable for his life and the consequences of his actions.

The iPhone rocks, but the Foxconn factory it was made in is so fucking hard to work in that they have suicide nets on the roof; almost a dozen have killed themselves to escape the 14+ hour days.

The MacBook is beautiful, the iMacs are amazing, the software (before Lion) had a simplicity and aesthetic that were unmatched.

But to ignore the fact that many people were screwed over by Steve, that many people were payed a few cents an hour to make his products, and that he was a cold, arrogant man is just ignorant.

Thomas Edison was a shrewd, competitive, harsh man. Does this mean we should ignore his contributions to science? Absolutely not. Nikola Tesla , Leonardo Da Vinci, Howard Hughes, etc. etc. all had negative qualities like every other human. They contributed a lot to the world, though.

So some of the comments that are accusing this post of being over-dramatic or don't want any criticisms of Lord Jobs are foolish. He did a lot of good and a hell of a lot of bad. Acknowledging and accepting both, and then learning from both, is fair and rational. Facts are facts.
Really? What do you think would happen to a stock that missed it's quarterly earnings estimate?
This article has a gaping whole: most/all of the people mentioned would not feel that they were mis-treated by Jobs. Quite the opposite, in fact: most people who worked closely with Jobs consider it the highlight of their lives.
As the browser has been heading towards the capabilities of Flash, Macromedia/Adobe long ago added a layer on top of Flash for application development similar to HTML called Flex/MXML.
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Yeah because Enron and Worldcom were small ripples in an ocean.

Edit: Also financial crisis.
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A political article that entirely avoids discussion of politicians and partisan politics and has only a tangential reference to public policy?
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Perhaps the title should have read "Flex is terminal..." But you'd be splitting hairs. The eventual outcome remains the same.
Sure, but I think that definitely qualifies as a win/win for those who want to see flex have a future (I'm fairly agnostic on such things, fwiw).

Further, I do think it says something that a large corporation, such as Adobe, is willing to open source products it's leaving behind. Shrewd move for them or not, ultimately, if most/all companies did this with the IP that they had EOL'd, I think it'd make a real difference, fostering grass-roots innovation in interesting ways.
We're working on it, and so are a number of other startups (I'll have to refer you to BuySimple - https://www.buysimple.com/ - I guess, since we're not operative yet, and there are dozens of others)
It seems like you've just rephrased the original question.
and coming from startup mecca of baltimore.. oh wait.
Yea.. Knowing his IP was pretty useless considering he got the same using just the email address' domain.
I'm not sure what type of UI design you have in mind but as far as Web UI design CSS Zen Garden was a revelation for me:

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It is a classic sales technique to ignore objections and to turn them into new lines of attack.

- ... You have to go to HR first.
- Okay… in that case why don’t we have coffee or lunch next week?

Bam. Objection ignored.
Right in spot. I spend a lot of time in test files. It is not actual development, but not planning too. It is something in between.
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One recommendation, you need to pitch what you bring to the table and you need to pitch it hard. Your first paragraph should be why a technical person should join up.

You have to realize that these kind of posts instantly read like hey stop working on your idea that you get 100% equity in and work on my idea, what idea, well I cant tell you that until you sign an NDA. They then go on to list a set of demands that you want from the candidate. It leaves the potential candidate with the impression that you really don't understand what you are asking for and that you see them as a necessary evil to get the thing built. A good way to look at a technical person in this situation is to think of them as the product, because they are the product. Are you excited about the product, what would you do to get the product in your hand today, how would you do it, those are the thing you should be doing to attract this person.

If it where me, I would lay out the idea, what I bring to the table and how I have done X amount of leg work so far to get it off the ground.

I am sorry if I sound harsh but seeing how these posts are viewed may help you to better formulate a message that will reach the potential candidate you are looking for.
This is completely irrational and irrelevant. A misogynist is someone who hates women and/or girls. He's saying he's never encountered a bad business woman, which is not hatred at all under any circumstance. He's a man writing about a man, so the gender of pronouns shouldn't mystify or bother you. And "those seeking to better their own image while perpetuating a problem" isn't any form or category of misogynist. See the definition at the beginning of this comment for reference.

And he did not say "negative businesswomen do not exist". He said he's never personally encountered any.
Right, but Dwolla is still an option to fund tradehill/mtgox/etc. I.e. PayPal similar problems, but is not listed as a funding option on any of these exchanges. My gut feeling says Dwolla profit a lot from bitcoin exchanges and that's a reason they allow exchanges to use their services.
It does but it also requires the payee to give away personal information (e.g. routing and bank account number). It also means the payer needs to get this information before they can send money. This is essentially EFT payments but simplified. Instead of needing banking information from the payee you can just send it to them using their email address, phone number or Facebook.
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