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His arguments seem a big reach, though. Lots of investment means opportunity recognition, and there are a finite number of engineers, so supply/demand takes it course.

He's arguing against capitalism, and not making a very good one at that. While trying to sell this as an industry-wide issue, I suspect his real concerns are more immediate -- for his own ventures.
Cheap? Really? In corp world java dev with 80-100$ an hour is normal (in AU), not cheap, really.
Uh, I dunno. I lived in the Bay Area (Santa Clara & San Jose, specifically.. far from the city but still enjoyably commutable by rail) for a couple years. I then moved to Indiana and took a 65% pay cut. The bay is expensive, but it's not THAT expensive. As long as you live within your means and understand that 80k in the bay area is not the same as 80k in Indiana (where I live now) you can have a very nice lifestyle.

Housing "eating up all the salary" is hyperbole, plain and simple, unless you're talking about the segment of people who make 100k+ but are still living paycheck to paycheck because they live outside their means.
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Really? I don't know how many people who would know that the correct answer is actually 116.
It seems like every couple of weeks for the last year and a half something about this thing gets posted, but still you can not order it.

Can you say vapor ware? I predict the Raspberry PI board will never ship, it will forever be hyped. They should just call it Raspberry Hype.
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Did he call Quake 2's campaign mode something to savour? Quake 2?
Actually from your description it sounds like letters are the way to go.
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Jer-what?
Basically the 'card' is in your phone, which has a battery and a CPU, so it can secure the communication of your identity which is tied to your bank information.

The radio frequency is identical.
I just added a made up email just to see your game. Does that really help you?
Thank you, that was a fascinating read
You do realize that with the exception of one or two of the IDEs, the "mac dev tools" run or originated on Linux or other similarly now free systems, right?
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Send over the examples when you come across them (or if you have it turned on, try www.google.com/searchhistory/ to find queries you've issued in the past.) I'll make sure they get to the right place.
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How many amateurish shuffles would it take to randomize a deck?
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If you are really serious about taking a stand on this bill, then the most impact will achieved by going to the source of it, not Congress... unless you have more to offer Congress' incumbents and the nation's economy than the industry source does.

They are a very important constituent.

If a large number of consumers stopped purchasing a certain entertainment company's products for one day, would it have a noticeable impact on their revenues? How about a week? A month?

The industry claims it's losing business to pirates. While it's probably true to some extent, it is speculative and nearly impossible to measure accurately. How many of the consumers of pirated content were never consumers of paid content to begin with?

The products this industry sells are not life necessities.

In summary, a branded entertainment "hunger strike" by actual existing, paid customers. This would cause real loss.
And, if it's a noticeable loss, it would send a very strong message.

Good luck.
This isn't a new trend. Whenever a new formula is successful, that formula is aped for years, particularly by large-budget projects that want to avoid the risk of new ideas. It's not even restricted to video games: the same can be seen in movies and television as well. The larger the budget, the less likely media is to be innovative, because the harder it is to justify the risk to those funding it.

Innovation typically seems to come from two sources: the few companies that are willing to throw large amounts of money at innovative, risky ideas (often led by a famous "auteur" of sorts, e.g. Suda51 or Peter Molyneux), and independent developers who aren't risking as large a budget. This has gotten us FPSs like Team Fortress 2, which completely bucked the trend -- and has been wildly successful as a result. Counter-Strike, still the third most popular game on Steam after over a decade, was originally developed as a mod by fans. But remember that not all new ideas are good, hence the risk: even incredibly innovative and critically successful games often fail commercially, as in the case of Psychonauts.

A near-identical trend can be seen in anime. Over the past half-decade, there has been much complaint about a huge number of shows aping the style and setting of past blockbusters, Kyoto Animation in particular being a particularly large target due to their extraordinary success with franchises like Haruhi and K-ON. In some seasons there have been half a dozen shows following nigh-identical formulas, much in the same way that there's so many identical blockbuster FPSs. Just like with FPSs, to avoid risk, companies pander extremely heavily to the perceived demands of specific demographics that they believe will buy the show or game no matter what -- instead of trying to make something innovative and interesting.

But what was the biggest anime hit this year? Not the Battlefield 3 or Modern Warfare 3s of anime, formulaicly aping past successes. No, it was actually Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magicka, which not only broke to pieces most of the stereotypes of its purported genre, but came out of the nowhere to become the most wildly successful show in years.

A genre of media becomes stale over time, with new ideas stemming to a trickle. People become disillusioned and disinterested, and stop buying new titles. This makes it more urgent to try new ideas, generating more innovation and more fresh content. This content is then aped due to its success, and the cycle repeats.
This is especially true on Android and other low bandwidth/hard to type devices, where I have time and again searched for the specific exact thing I am looking for only to have instant search and spelling correction help me find something I could not care less about.
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What if the engineer's goal is to have the biggest possible impact on the world?
That is like saying that I must make sure my programs work for people who don't have a computer and rely on anotated screenshots being sent back and forth. To my programmer brain, that is just stupid.

It is one thing if we were talking about a webpage ala 1995 for joes autoshop. At most it will have a comment field (or, the horror, a guestbook) and each url will map logically to a specific public part of the site. Most likely there will be no concept of users at all.

The same thing goes for a blog although you won't get the auto updating twitter feed and, if the blog uses diques, you may have to click a couple of links to see them.

But a webapp is more like Google writer. It just lose all meaning to make it work without Javascript.
Not that I disagree with the message, but I think a bit of perspective is important. The two games being flaunted as single-player failures here are MW3 and BF3. DICE, BF3's developer, has never been a solid single-player production house (though the campaigns of Bad Company 1/2 were far better than BF3's is). Infinity Ward, developer of MW3, was gutted following Activision's dismissal of the studio's two founders and the subsequent exodus of talent after MW2 was released.

That's not to say that the overall state of FPS campaigns isn't disappointing. I'm looking forward to seeing if Respawn (the Infinity Ward founders' new studio) can do anything to reverse that trend.
I think Preston Brigg's PhD thesis is great: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~mckinley/380C/lecs/briggs-thesis-1...

This is also great: http://hall.org.ua/halls/wizzard/pdf/Vaughan.Pratt.TDOP.pdf
My take is that SOPA is about a great deal more than digital goods. The global economy has enormous minor/innocent IP infringement as well as blatant copying. Companies want to circumvent tradition legal approaches to protecting their IP and it looks like they may get it.
Wow, is there anyone using Freescale's iMX SoC anymore? TI is cleaning up in the non-iOS market.
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Can you confirm or discuss more about what this does to the "filter bubble?"

In two windows of the same browser, I typed gyros, one immediately offered me an instant search result of gyros Phoenix (where I currrently am), the other window, in verbatim mode offered me gyros, gyroscope, and gyros recipe.

(Don't ask me why I tried gyros as my search example.)
As an average end user, what specific problem is NFC going to solve for me? I just don't get it.
I bought my first PC when I was eight (at a very discounted price from my parents). I already knew how to do trivial graphics programs in Logo. I had a "100 in one" electronics kit as well, but didn't have anyone to teach me how to read schematics. So, I got the example circuits running by following the numbered wiring sequences printed below the schematic. I learned how to use DOS before that by watching the output of my parents' first computer as it ran through AUTOEXEC.BAT (I was insanely excited when I typed "prompt SpSg" into a command line and the computer actually did something -- later on I figured out that the S should have been a $). By the time I was 13 I was buying scrap computer parts, assembling working computers, and selling them. Don't underestimate the potential of children.
Actually, the probability that all decks ever shuffled are unique is also very high. We can approximate the probability that any two of the n decks shuffled in human history were identical as p=1-n^2/52!

Using the same estimate as the OP for n (1.56x10^23) gives p=3.02x10^-22. Still fantastically low.
Thanks Matt. This helps with at least one of my complaints about the direction Google search has been heading.

(Now if you'd just eliminate that godawful slow URL redirector on result links…)
Congress uses multipliers to figure out how predictive each piece of communication is (ie, how likely it is that a certain piece of communication will result in a change in voting behavior).

I don't remember the exact numbers, but the hierarchy goes (in descending order): in-person visit to DC office, in-person visit to local office, physical handwritten letter, physical typed letter, phone call, email. The multiplier attached to email is close to zero.

(The exact method varies by congressman/senator, but the relative rankings are the same throughout).
The first 10 or so shuffles of a new deck of cards may be relatively common, but after you put a deck of cards away you are not going to reorder it. Most aged decks are therefore going to be completely unique in their ordering.

The only people who use new decks frequently are casinos, and they have very good shuffling machines. It is likely that every deck dealt in a casino is unique.
> You will always be inconvenienced by security measures.

Ah, but we won't. Curious people will find a way. Look around you, they always do.
Yes, but Miami and Salt Lake City aren't the center of the world.
My point is that "went after my company" implies that they targeted him specifically, which doesn't seem to be supported by the facts at all.

It's like saying "the government is after me!" because of the Census.
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If Google understands what's at stake hear, they need to stage a "government backed hijacking of their search engine" for a couple hours during peak business with a written statement explaining the evil of the bill.
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I always considered it solid. Why?
I think the important point is these are two of the biggest budget/selling FPS games on the market. True there are other FPS games out there, but BF and COD seem to be setting trends.
Valuations are set by the current value of the company and the projected outcome. Lower costs to launch and iterate actually increase the likelihood of success, as well as mean that net margins can be higher than if you had to invest in significant infrastructure. The fact that you don't need very much money and will be able to try all kinds of things on a shoestring budget is exactly why valuations are so high. Since VCs still want the traditional 20-40% of companies, they give them more money than they need out of their own desire to take a big stake - not because the valuation is out of whack.

Said another way, the less a company needs your money, the more you have to pay to get in.
The first Modern Warfare came out in 2007... four years ago. It's a little soon to be decrying the entire genre because the publishing companies are wringing all the money out of a waning trend. Remember when there was an endless flood of World War 2 shooters?

Once someone hits upon the next big thing every GameStop will be bursting at the seams with Panda themed RPGs (or whatever). Whining about how one's beloved genre is stagnant is just, well, whining.
This is amazing. Some years ago, I wanted to build a site that did essentially the same thing (but for a different issue), and this API either didn't exist or wasn't complete/accurate enough. It's remarkable how much power the web has to effect political change - seems like we're only seeing the beginning of it.

...that is, unless SOPA passes, in which case this may be as good as it gets....
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That particular problem is a trinary response, true,false,error, or in general a datatype of:

type Response<d,e> =
| Data of d
| Error of e

which would be handled by a statement like:

match response with
| Data d -> doSomething(d)
| Error e -> doSomethingElse(e)

Or perhaps

match response with
| Data d -> Some(d)
| Error -> None

Any errors coalesce to error on the client and the client responds:
"We're sorry this doesn't work, we've been notified and are investigating, here's your ticket #"

Each system in the chain should have a reference identifier to make tracking the requests across the system easy.

Chatty APIs often exist because a lot of programmers think that everything happens at the same speed and they think that having a getter and accessor for every field makes their code "object oriented". Putting in 400ms latency gets programmers to stop thinking that, it gets them thinking about "How can I issue a bunch of requests simultaneously, go do something else (like issuing more requests for someone else), and then respond to the client when I have all the data I need". It gets them writing async code, or using MARS. Maybe, 400ms is really excessive, but 100ms should still let your code run on systems with reasonable geographic separation.

Chatty APIs aren't simple, they're generally really annoying, because for decades the predominant idea in programming has been put as thin a veneer on top of the implementation as possible and lets call that an interface. It makes for a simple implementation at the expense of a horrible interface. APIs are about the interface.
Counter example:

I just tried googling [how pronounce resig]. It thinks I want [how pronounce resignation]. Both +resig and "resig" didn't work (heck, I even tried +"resig"). Had to add -resign -resignation.

There is nothing technical about this search (unless Resig is such a unique last name that belongs to only John Resig). I'm sure there's lots more counter examples. I really doubt normal non-technical people actually likes the new google search.

Btw, what's the answer? Only link I found was [1] someone says it's REH-sig, not REE-sig (not too sure what's the difference). But I'm more interested on how to pronounce the second part, is it more like "side"("sign" minus 'n'), "seed", "sad", or something else?

[1] http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/09/22/sau-drs-sour-not...
Ah, so it's postfix you want?

fxx2^1+→=

:-)
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Consider the fact there was four years between DOOM and Goldeneye 64.
Just FYI, while I agree that it is all in the lighting, as of March of 2011, iFixit did not use a light tent. I don't work there anymore, but when I did, most of iFixit's lighting equipment could be bought from Home Depot. I thought there was a blog article on the setup, but I can't seem to find it.
Makes a good hide-in-plain sight crypto key. I could see James Bond using this and destroying the key as the bad guys approach with a little 52 pickup.
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I often think that if I had $500M, I could buy 4 companies whose assets and teams combined with ours would create a company with massive potential, huge remarketing opportunities and defensibility that the companies alone do not have. There is definitely an opportunity to do this in theory. The issue is the problems that arise when you merge 5 companies with different cultures, strong-headed leaders and passions for solving problems that the new company may not find as much value in addressing.
Well that is a pretty good stamp of approval.
Also makes for a great interview question why a pseudo-random generator initialized with a 64 bit seed will not produce all possible shuffles of a card deck.
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That's an interesting throwback to the days when all astronauts were test pilots, but it's kind of stupid nowadays, for reasons Robert Zubrin points out in his Mars Direct plan. It's simply easier to train a qualified engineer or scientist to be a pilot than it is to train a qualified pilot to be an engineer or scientist--and on any mission that's at all interesting, it's silly to waste space on an astronaut who isn't an engineer or a scientist.
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True. The reason why this went well for the developer is that he did direct sales to find early advocates, and didn't rely on an app store magic wand. Of course, that is possible with a $199 app, not so much with a $1.99 one.
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so can someone actually explain how this works?
Thanks guys! I donated a small amount, hopefully it will pay for my letters.
Hell, it's not even necessary. You can make something people want, or you can make people want something.
Because Haskell is evaluated lazily, two maps doesn't imply two iterations over the data. In this case, I would expect only one pass through the data for both of the maps.
Out of curiosity, I did a quick criterion benchmark for both functions. Here's the result on a list of 100 elements:

benchmarking spark_mggcl
mean: 49.29483 us, lb 48.77776 us, ub 50.25594 us, ci 0.950
std dev: 3.495423 us, lb 2.140951 us, ub 6.373469 us, ci 0.950

benchmarking spark_ocharles
mean: 60.12347 us, lb 58.95586 us, ub 61.48084 us, ci 0.950
std dev: 6.434853 us, lb 5.529613 us, ub 7.824865 us, ci 0.950

The simpler version appears to be faster.

(As an aside, is there something in particular you dislike about do syntax? I find that it often makes things more readable, though slightly more verbose.)
I see the "why now" aspect as adding a level of consideration as to opportunity cost -- why should I spend my time on building "something people want" vs. anything else? It's much more relevant in terms of the solution/product being developed.

The ideal scenario is one where the answer to the "why now" question makes pulling the trigger on building the "something" worthwhile, and avichal makes note of some of those, such as Foursquare.

That said, "why now" is not as important as building something people want. It simply contributes to the conditions about whether or not it's a worthwhile endeavor.
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I don't think the iMX was ever targeted at smartphones or smartphone-ish tablets. And as far as I am aware it's still in things like digital photo frames, appliances, automotive infotainment, and other applications where it's nice to have Linux driving a big color TFT, but there's not a big demand for processing power.
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What I meant was that after shuffling, all orders are not equally likely. The ones that are "close" to the previous one will be a lot more likely. That probably doesn't change the conclusion that it's "very unlikely" that two independent decks are shuffled into the same seqeunce, but it sure means that the chance of getting the same sequence back again after shuffling the same deck is a lot larger than 1e-89.
Thanks for mentioning that, very interesting. Link for the lazy: http://www.volumerates.com/product/genuine-tp-link-tl-wr703n...
The 32MB of ram restricts the applications quite a bit unfortunately.

Amazing to think the impact of these low-cost computers.. goodbye expensive routers, NAS, set top boxes, PVRs, media centres. It can't be too long before they (ARM devices) start eating into the low end laptop market.
Have always wondered if an online service for political mailings like this couldn't introduce some randomness to the opening, key statements and closing (Sincerely, Regards, etc) and varying the layout and style so they don't look too much like they were cranked out with the push of a button.
Alright, fine, it is comparatively lower. Better? :)
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I think they're very different messages. Sean Parker's message comes off as more self-serving - saying don't start a company because it's not as good for the world as joining one that can effect change to a greater degree. Zuckerberg's comment was about not starting a company for the sake of it, the same message PG had and a very good one. Start a company because they're the most efficient vehicle to solve a problem you care about. Don't fabricate some problem that doesn't exist because you want to start a company.
Not that I don't want to support you guys for doing something awesome like this, but I wish the "Like" button showed appropriate meta-content on my facebook wall, instead of just a generic description of SendWrite. Also, donated. :)
I've read all of Joe's comments in this thread, and I'm not really surprised. He is either a troll (and not a very successful one if he is), or, more likely, a bigot who believes that the any software worth running costs >$100 (office, photoshop).

Unfortunately, he represents a non-negligible majority of users out there. But I care not discussing anything with him and his like on HN. I've got better use for my time.
Understood, but what I'm trying to say is that four years isn't a long time. That we got GoldenEye only four years after DOOM is a testament to how fast the industry moves.

Edit: Sorry to pull the comment, but my recollection of the release dates for DOOM and GoldenEye made me want to double-check them first.