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"In a novel feature for the life-sharing apps, the new Path will also automatically post your location (“Arrived”) every time you travel a distance far enough to be reached by plane." Path is the first? Really?
It's obviously all numbers.

How much do you pay for Spotify a month? $5 or $10? Or free, in which case how much does Spotify get for an ad impression, and how many ad impressions do you get served in a month?

Now, how many songs listens do you get in a month? Assuming Spotify takes absolutely $0 for themselves, how much money can that possibly be?

Now, what in your opinion is a "fair" amount to pay artists for a listen to their song? Multiply that by the number of songs that you listen to. Would you pay that for a service?

I'm guessing that I play a few thousand Spotify songs a month (I don't know where that statistic would be). I pay Spotify $5 a month. If I only listen to 1,000 songs, that's $0.005 per listen. And that's assuming that Spotify passes EVERYTHING along to the musician (how to studio techs get paid again?)

If people won't pay the "fair" price for music to listen to it, then the price isn't fair. It's a consumer's market. It sucks that the musician got $16 for 90,000 listens. That's $0.00017 per listen. That's clearly not enough for that artist to live on, but there's no mention of how many sales they received from their attention on Spotify.

It's a complex problem. There's probably no simple solution that will satisfy everyone. Clearly, the main people who are making money with Spotify is Spotify themselves (since they minimize the amount of bandwidth by using P2P technology)...but even if they passed more along, it wouldn't make the artists happy.
For H1B visas there certainly was an expedited process - a couple of times our firm paid ~$1000 to get the response within 2 weeks, rather than 'several months'. Reducing uncertainty was valuable to us, since otherwise we might have been mentoring an excellent employee who could be plucked out of the workplace by the INS on any random day : and due to the whole bureaucracy thing, any 'appeal' would be a huge, huge waste of time (and life).
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You could program a game like Myst in almost anything -- even BASIC with line numbers.

Edit: With the same amount of effort.
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> You're talking performance-critical code already, wouldn't you want to avoid the wrapper?

Trivial wrapper classes that just delegate methods to a final ivar should end up inlined.
I'd completely agree. However, imagine the next news item is that Spotify increases their prices 5 fold, to pay out more to the artists. The comments would be full of "there is no way it should cost that much" and "I'm not paying that"!
There is a place called Kota in India. It is a hub of coaching institutes trying to assist highschool students get admission into top engineering and medical colleges(IIT,AIIMS) of India.

>5000 hours of counterstrike is pretty common game-time that students living there spend and you would easily find >25000 kids of age 15-16 such types. Millions of students go there each year. Competition is so tough that hardly top 2% get admissions into IITs.

As a result, >90% do not study.

You see them playing they are experts! Most of them don't even know how to log into a server. The cybercafe would set up the LAN for them. All they do is play, all the time. As per rule the shops are supposed to close after 11 pm. But these shops have eating/smoking and toilet arrangements inside. They pull down the shutter, as if the shop is closed from 11 to 6. Students stay 'voluntarily trapped' inside for a LAN party at a discounted rate of 1-2$ for the whole night. Once the course is over, the gig is too. they go back to their hometowns, never playing again.

I work in Delhi and I see clans participating and even winning international competitions like WCG. But even the gameplay of the best, is only at par average as per Kota standards.

All this time spent for happiness, curing boredom. Rajasthan would be the biggest consumer of CS, DoTA, Tekken, AoE if pirated stuff is counted for.
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Why not with a magnetized needle, too?
just a sidenote - if bittorrent software ensure that no peer-to-peer interaction exceeds 30 sec. for any given title, would MPAA/RIAA/etc... still be able to claim "illegal dowload"?
I'm with you on every point. I'll even go as far as to say that they don't want you to use the menu.

I'm just throwing this out there, but I think they want people to stay on the search screen. They want you to search for everything to get to something. Reader? Search for Reader. Gmail? Search for Gmail.

If you use search more, they have more opportunity to make money from ads. I'm not sure how much they care about any other product so this could be why every other product is now harder to get to.
HyperCard is very near and dear to my heart. When I was a kid I taught myself how to program with Hypercard. I'm a software developer today, and despite the crazy verbose syntax of HyperTalk, I still acquired an intuition for programming that remains helpful, 15 years later.

I actually approached Steve Jobs about the demise of Hypercard in 1998, when I was 15, at the Seybold SF conference. IIRC he gave a pretty dismissive response about it, basically saying that there wouldn't be a market for it anymore. It was pretty obvious that he didn't care about HyperCard or HyperCard-like products anymore. That, or he didn't want punk teenagers questioning his business strategy.

As a side note, I got my photo taken with him. When the photo was developed I saw that I was wearing a megawatt smile (shit, I met with Steve Jobs!), and Steve was looking distractedly at something in the corner.
And it's fair, in the sense that applicants from the UK might now also have to wait a couple of decades.

In my case (as a UK citizen working in NYC), it's a good job that the E-2 Investor Visa (which only exists for countries that the INS deems 'worthy') can be renewed indefinitely.

The flip side of this (and where it starts to get comical) is that as part of the E-2 approval process one has to "intend to leave" once the business is finished - which means that one cannot intend to embark on the Green Card path prior to getting the E-2 visa. It also means that all my (mandatory) payments for unemployment insurance are strictly throw-away money - since I could never claim unemployment in the US anyway. Ho Hum.
To generalize this to other industries, the subsidy model I detailed can be described simply as offering reduced service quality at a reduced cost. This is a universal strategy of marketing.
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Is this particularly different from other industries?

When I buy clothes, how much of it goes to actual factory worker / designer?
True, but there is nothing appearing at the left if I wait too long on the File menu, and the indicators are hidden.

Perhaps this is an extreme example. I actually rather like Unity on small screens.
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So if you can do this with concerts, presumably you can do it with any collection of video shot in the same place, if there's enough audio in common.

That makes me think that all kinds of crowd video (protests, speeches, etc) should be stitchable, which seems like it would open larger (and potentially morally ambiguous) markets.
> They either want a full system, or just a product.

While I think this is true at the moment, it seems that there is an interesting question behind that, as well. Why don't more people want to create their own software? I do think the author has an implicit point: because, frankly, creating software stinks. Jon Skeet's talk [1] demonstrates this admirably. I spend a shockingly large part of my time working around bugs and leaky abstractions in other software rather than implementing my own ideas.

I don't know if it is possible to design a system with a solid enough abstraction that these problems don't exist. I do know that HyperCard came unusually close, as I know several folks who made HyperCard stacks who wouldn't imagine creating software in any typical fashion.

I hold out hope that such a useful system could be created again, one that gives people enough flexibility to create software solutions of their own (perhaps within a genre of software) and that is able to combat the currently-accurate stigma of programming being "hard".

[1] http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon_skeet/archive/2009/11/02/omg-pon...
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This is actually a wonderful invention. I am going to try to use this exclusively as a search engine, it seems productive.
Check out the Duolingo video. It's kickass. I want an invite.
Here's a link from the OP saying Spotify royalties really are as bad as he's saying:

http://matthewebel.com/2011/07/20/spotify-let-the-money-pour...
"You're stupid." = name-calling, of course, but you consider "What you did there was stupid." to be name-calling? I don't think everyone would agree with that.
Another great article by Jonathan Zittrain. If anyone is interested in delving deeper into the ideas expressed in the article, I higher recommend you check out Zittrain's book, 'The Future of the Internet- and How to Stop It.' Zittrain has put up an annotated html version here:

http://yupnet.org/zittrain/

He has also made a pdf of the book available here:

http://futureoftheinternet.org/download
I'm not sure that is true for even the majority of cases.
Remember that most of the web is not applications but simply pages of content server from a database.
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Spotify is worse than that; even the labels are getting virtually nothing. But you have a good point; when you buy something at Wal-Mart, the company that makes the product doesn't make any profit either.
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Sure, you can use an SSD as swap (unless you're in the cloud where SSDs have inexplicably not been invented yet).
DIY with a screen recording product like Telestream/ScreenFlow(Mac) or TechSmith/Camtasia(PC). Record a walk through of your web app (or mocked up screens), while also recording yourself doing the voice over.
This seems unlikely to be possible. If you haven't captured any frequencies above 15kHz (which an average cell phone mic is unlikely to do), no amount of averaging, filtering, or combining will get them back. There will also be a considerable amount of distortion, since concerts tend to be so loud that even one's ears are distorting. Good luck separating physical distortion in the mic, limiter distortion in the analog or DSP stage, and clipping distortion at the ADC.

I think the best you could do is use the video to determine where someone was standing, and try to reconstruct some of the stereo information based on multiple recorders.
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As an early Rails adopter who rarely gets to code directly on projects anymore (I'm a victim of my own success) I find it really curious when developers feel the need to post expository essays about framework switches. Things move fast and it would be bad for tech evolution to stop, so there's nothing to be loyal to unless you've placed awkward bets on the future of any given tool.

DHH said at the first RailsConf that he was tired of people asking if Rails would "hit critical mass" or become "ready for the enterprise" because Rails as a tool hit critical mass the moment it was useful to him and the core team that built Basecamp and Shopify. If anyone else found it useful then awesome, but everyone else can pretty much go fuck themselves.

Cocky? Sure. A lot of fun to be part of? Hell yeah.

I've never been on core but I can arrogantly speak for the early Rails community when I say that we excitedly encourage all Rails fans to try out Node, Django, SC and Backbone. Anything which captures your imagination and makes you see coding in a more whimsical, _why?-like way.

I recommend anyone that hasn't seen it check out Foy Savas' amazing talk from FutureRuby in 2009, Polyglots, Unite!

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/savas-polyglots
I don't know about you, but I don't choose my hobbies based on how likely they are to get me laid. And if people don't respect my hobbies, that's their problem, not mine. It's also a good indication of what kind of person they are.

Although as an aside, you do forget one significant downside to playing sports - injuries. This is especially the case if you play at all competitively. Also, are sports really a valid "long-term hobby"? You can probably only play most sports for so long... (barring golf/tennis/etc).
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I think HyperCard was special in that other people's stacks were easy to come by, and easy to disassemble. There was no compiled distributable form, all stacks could be cracked open if you wanted to see how they ticked, and just modified just as easily if you wanted to see how the program's behavior would change.
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An honest question: what use are realtime metrics if you can't act on them in realtime? If it takes a day or more to gather enough data to make a decision and react to it with code or otherwise, then anything more than daily metrics seem like a distraction. I suppose it can be useful if you have some automated systems in place or if you're using it for alarms.
I remember making a game with hyper card when I was at school and loved that I could visually script the buttons.

We hand drew pictures of 3D rooms and then scanned them in and put big invisible buttons over the doors etc.

I personally think the www killed hyper card, suddenly you could do very similar things but have them instantly shared globally.

In my mind hypercards real innovation was creating your own links which would take you to any other card you desired, I think plain old simple HTML came along and killed the poor thing. HyperCard lived in a time of share it on a disc and I imagine Jobs seeing it's days as numbered.
Cool idea but when I tried "Arcade Fire - Austin City Limits" 2011 http://switchcam.com/event/arcade-fire-austin-city-limits-20... it was far from correct.
It's not a terrible idea. How many of us use Alfred or Quicksilver or the like?
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Bill Atkinson, the creator of Hypercard, is on record [1] wishing he'd had the foresight to extend the links to the network. Hypercard was inches away from being the first "web browser".

[1] http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mac/commentary/cultofmac/2002/0...
Not trying to be funny. I posted this because this is the best thing I've read of Jon's - and I felt there was something universally resonant about the sweet pain of aspiring to greatness. What I didn't expect were the multiple comments from those who play or used to play CS and draw lessons that apply to programming and teamwork. If CS produces colleagues like Jon, then more please.
I'm a techie and I don't know why it's different/better than just posting everything on facebook.
Personal metrics apps (i.e. Daytum) suck. I think Path is moving to fill this void. Auto-recording of location, sleeping habits & making it easy to record memories across networks are killer features. Not to mention that it looks great.

Tumblr took off because they took the content-creation out of blogging. Path works because it lets me keep a great journal without writing.
That's the real problem: Spotify seems to be anchoring prices at an unsustainably low level. Netflix streaming is trying to do the same to video, but Hollywood is resisting.

(Although some are claiming that Spotify's pricing is similar to the amount that the average person used to spend on CDs, so why are labels getting less from Spotify than they did from CDs/iTunes?)
Broader video format support or an established standard would be nice!
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Hilarious, for a minute I thought I was reading an Onion article. I can't believe there was a paper written titled "The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't".

Hilarity aside, this article was great. But I felt the use of Steve Jobs as the main vehicle for the argument was a little clunky. I think the point about asshole management style could have been made with Steve Jobs as one example.
Thanks for the clarification. The other entry on HN has IMHO much better wording, and goes more in depth.
Artist royalties have gone from dollars (physical albums), to dimes (digital singles), to fractions of pennies (streaming). Once you can track how much it actually gets used, it becomes readily apparent just how overvalued it's been.

See the progression in advertising from print and broadcast to adsense.
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Presumably they thought nobody would ever be foolish enough to actually implement the HCF[1] instruction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire
Or, more accurately, which the minimally-accountable American government seems to try endlessly to do.
1) Your idea of replacing law enforcement [of illegal wiretaps] with even stricter laws without enforcing them - that's what reminds me about alcohol prohibition.

2) You again are attacking a straw man.
I'm not suggesting increasing surveillance.
I'm suggesting not to pay much attention to it and focus our very limited resources on what's really important:

- Freedom of law-abiding citizens from government persecution.

- Reducing legal restrictions on citizens.

- Freedom of speech.

Government surveillance abuse is not nearly as important as these three principles above.

If you insist that limiting government surveillance is more important, then please name what item in my list you consider less important.
> As soon as campus IT departments catch wind of this strategy, they will fight in every-way to make it as amazingly inconvenient as possible to go this route.

Is there really a university IT department out there that's going to prevent students and professors from using an offsite, external website? Especially if it's keeping professors happy (who, let's face it, probably complain a lot about IT's offerings) and doesn't cost them anything? Coursekit in its current form isn't dependent on IT for anything -- they host on their own server, use their own logins. IT can either ban it (and face the whiplash), or politely ask the tenured professors to stop using it (and they wouldn't even know which professors are using it, since it's external). The one thing they could kick up a storm about is student grades being stored on an external server. That's a pickle.

Faculty won't pay for this, true -- thankfully, there are other ways to make money in the industry -- but a much bigger problem is that faculty aren't even looking for it. They've been conditioned that software comes from IT, so while they may hate using Blackboard, most aren't googling for "Blackboard alternatives". That'll need to change. I think Coursekit's strategy of creating student evangelists might actually work though, especially at smaller schools where the relationships between students and professors is stronger.
> which can be radically changed or even destroyed at any time

This was the nail in the gaming coffin for me. Imagining all those hours spent to be completely worthless once the servers are shut down- and then imagining that all that time had been spent playing guitar and writing code. I still like to play games occasionally for fun, but not with the drive to be the best.
Gaming taught me a lot and made my life better. I was depressed and with few positive catalysts.
Warcraft 3 made me play with other people, meet people who I am friends with today and also taught me to be excellent.

I got to compete, set up a clan which trained other people, and held tournaments, and taught me how to take responsibility for my team.
Like someone else mentioned, I learnt how to maintain morale, how to take on the jobs no one liked and to excel at them. Having people have faith in your strategy, making people follow your plan, knowing how important it is to even have one, no matter how bad, I learnt that from gaming.

But above all, like the OP, i learnt what it means to be the best at something. I look back at that time and am glad I did it. It helped me start building myself back up and taught me the basics of team work which I use everyday.
Anyone here using Path a lot?

I wonder in a world with Facebook domination, if there is room for an app like Path. But if your FB stream gets flooded with low-quality posts and activity from tons of people, then people might want to gravitate toward something with higher quality posts from the people they care the most for. But not sure.
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