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I got a splash screen that played the video. I am on my laptop though.

You brought up an interesting point. This thread was started by what appears to be an app developer. While I am not sure what there MO is, I will give them credit for coming up with a rather unique way to drive some traffic to their site.
Reminds me of a turtle shell i found hiking in the Apalachians while on Outward Bound....one of our guides convinced me to leave it in situ - important lesson.
...why?

I thought the way VCs worked is that most of their investments go bust, while a few percent do absurdly well. How do you "minimize the risk of ... loss" for people who supposedly can't afford it, by giving them access to something even professionals usually lose money on?

This is an alternative to the "detailed disclosures" the SEC requires now, the way that's presented makes it sound like this requires less detail.

Is this because more people want to directly invest in startups, or because startups have a hard time getting funding the way things are now? Either way it sounds a bit bubbly...
Except, as we've seen with wiretapping and so many other data breaches, if it's 'just there' and can easily be indexed and searched with the click of a mouse, then it will be. Searching someones house requires proper channels to be followed. Looking at files on a PC is so much easier, can be done without the person knowing and is, imho, too great a temptation to resist. The emergence of laws in the US to make such access as easy and automated as possible proves this.
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Is speed /really/ the reason people don't use Groovy?

If that were true, then I think JRuby be more popular. It is faster yet remains dynamic. There are various efforts to make Groovy fast, but the ones I have seen require you to turn off some of the metaprogramming capabilities.
The phrase "god particle" really has to go away. Do we call hydrogen the "god atom"? What nonsense.
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Bill, that's great to hear! Hope that article brings your efforts to light! Thanks for reading!
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Sorry about that! A lot of my posts come off the cuff and I usually have about 30-45 minutes to sit down and gather my ideas between meetings. I appreciate your read though!
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The problem with that is, this would affect companies outside of the US as well. As long as nameservers are hosted here in the States, the USA will have the power to shut down any site, worldwide. Even if the nameservers are moved, the US would still have the power to block all US citizens from accessing the sites. Don't pretend that won't have a profound influence on the world.

Maybe a worldwide blackout would discourage other governments from attempting something similar.
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And this is the javascript one http://www.egonelbre.com/js/jsfx/ :)
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Have you seen Sunvox? Tracker/synth/sequencer all in one:

http://www.warmplace.ru/

Lots of fun.
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How we can put down Putin
You know, we have real troubles with democracy in Russia. But, I'm don't like stay for nearest 12 years more with this hell.

Here's my point:

In order to objectively evaluate transparate elections, we need to focus international observers in one city. In Moscow.

And, we need another three things: two technical and one politic.
Technical is a simple webproject - Moscow map, distributed by vote area (they are usually up to 3K people)and only legal observers at this vote area can share number of voices for any candidate.

Main two problems of voting -
a) when a voter votes more than once (moving into the city by bus or car)
b) when a voter drop to vote box few ballots.

Second technical thing - is a webcameras on vote areas, wthat record all faces of voted citizens and solvew that two problems
1) Because numbers of voted cirizen and numbers a finite number of ballots at vote box can not be different (ballot box stuffing is not)
2) captured by the webcam face voters recognized (OCR algorithms have on github) and it means the end for the roundabouts, as a voter may only vote once.

And one politic - place on each area international observers and journalists - journalists have a right to shoot photos and video. Since the ower local journalists in 100% cant record any video or shoot photo.
And, we can only begin to broadcast the network in the real flow - video with the persons who voted and their photo (in the real determination of the number of votes (item 1) and voted on whether the site went down earlier at other sites (item 2).

This is how you can help us with simple way. Please, help me share this. I have not any code skills and I can't be at same time on all vote areas, record all video and analize voters faces at real time.
You're twelve LDs late to the party. ;-)
Within hours (minutes? seconds?) of a Wikipedia shutdown, someone else will have a duplicate up and running, touting reliability and "we don't play political games".
I did a degree in Computer Science, which I didn't _get_ at all, and I hated every minute of it. I worked in sales and teaching for a few years before accepting an offer to program full-time. I came into the field with fresh eyes, and a desire to excel. There I learned the programming not taught at my "Java school" such as: emacs/vim, bash, code control, web programming, perl, and php. I read Steve Yeggy. From there I went to a job highly focused on quality first, where I was exposed to good (or at least better) OO, TDD, Uncle Bob, and Fowler. Now, I am learning to burn off all the cruft of programming that is not directly related to quickly shipping high quality code. If I could go back: I would spend more time programming _anything_. At this point, the only thing that has slowed me is a lack of practice at the craft.
Well... was there ever a shortage of 8-bit sounds you can put into your games? These creators have been around years, i remember fiddeling with one 10 years ago when i was playing with RPG Maker 2000...

A High Def Sound Creation Tool would be nice...
I think you're just jealous, "danso"...!

I could view the video straight from the browser. I reckon you're viewing it on iOS and they're driving you directly to the app.
Why did they say "thousands of years of evolution" instead of millions?
I dont think such flippant disregard for procedure would be surprising from them
X-Frame-Options, or solving the wrong problem
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Justin,

You're right there are a lot of great startups coming out of the valley. My article is from the view of an outsider looking in and the challenges I (we) face when we're not getting interviewed by Kevin Rose.

Also, I'm not saying all startups out of the valley are for the 1%, but a majority in the Techcrunch media are.

At any rate, thanks for reading and commenting!
I'm sorry you feel that way!
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exactly my point Bill! Thanks!
True here. Groovy has truly pathological performance in some areas.

I wrote a web service that read and processed XML documents. They were large, but not enormous... Couple hundred kilobytes, usually. My first cut, using Groovy and its built in XML DSL, took up to 15 seconds to process a single document. Rewriting in Java/StAX, it was a couple hundred milliseconds.

From then on, my MO was to write my code in Groovy and then rewrite anything that got called more than a few times per request/run in Java. Groovy's fine for glue code, but its performance was a real barrier to regular use.

As for JRuby, I suspect it's because no matter how good JRuby is, it's a second-class citizen to "real" ruby in the Ruby ecosystem, and to built-for-the-JVM languages on the JVM side. It's a great product, but it does have a few impedance mismatches coming from either side.
Thanks for reading and commenting!
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I would probably switch all my years I used PHP for Python instead - and maybe eventually spice up my C skills.
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Well, promotion is obviously a welcome benefit of sharing something I thought was a very interesting take on the world of social/freemium gaming.

I apologize for the bad experience though - we're still a young service constantly looking to improve and we definitely welcome more feedback - thanks!

edit: You can now enable fullscreen on the player.
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Damn, its cutting out badly. Anyone have a mirror for the live webcast?
It's faster than it was a couple years ago, but doesn't win all the benchmarks out there, no.

That said, I've got Grails apps running in production just fine, and to whatever degree noticeable speed is an issue, it's almost always down to database indexing.

As Hamlet said, I don't think execution speed is the primary reason people aren't using Groovy. Personally, I think all the "alt.java" languages are fighting for attention from the few people left in the Java/JVM arena who are truly interested in exploring new ideas/techniques. Many Java devs who were interested in getting better years ago left for other platforms, (and many of those people will likely jump to new platforms every few years out of curiosity more than anything else).
>Incidentally, I think this is the best way to start a business if you ever find yourself in the right position. Big companies are ditching / spinning off successful products which are just not "successful enough" and you can often pick them up for the cost of supporting existing customers.

I surely would hope that the same think had happened to several of the Google services that were killed a short time ago; specially Wave and Code Search.

Although I know that at least Wave was made given to Apache, I think what that needed was a company that was willing to polish and provide the service.
I would love to have this system for documentations and articles. Imagine if you let people easily improve texts, fix spelling mistakes, or translate pages, for documentation you wrote.

More generally, this would be awesome to use on a wiki.

This makes editing even more accessible.
You can view the video from the browser and it doesn't require an app download - if you can't, its probably a bug. Please email us at hello@getdenso.com with your browser/OS details and we'd love to figure out the root cause. Thanks!
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Except Netflix is dropping the Silverlie plugin support for their own plugin that DRMs for HTML5 video capable browsers.

Chromebooks already have a beta version of this, and Chrome will ship with the plugin on all platforms eventually.
Reflective clothing?
There are startups addressing this. Sococo is one (I work there).
That's a totally different matter which has nothing to do with what you were talking about earlier. Trademark and Free Software are two completely different things… (unlike copyright and patent law, where the code itself is directly licensed under copyright law and has to deal with patent law; however there is almost never a trademark license…)
The NYC v. SF/SV debate might be a headline grabber, but frankly there's no data supporting the fact that NYC is catching up tp the west coast. A more interesting discussion can be found when comparing NY to Mass when it comes to tech:

http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/venture-capital/new-york-vent...

We haven't published the updated figures through Q3, but the trend continues: NY is consistently outpacing Mass in venture tech investment and has been dating back to 2010. We don't publish a similar comaprison of NYC vs. SF/SV for obvious reasons: it's not very interesting. But NYC has made recognizable strides in building a tech ecosystem over the past couple years nonetheless.
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You think the people small-talking at work are your Friends? That is sad.
What about to ask for Chinese censors to kindly add your forum to the Great Firewall? Problem solved.
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Miguel de Icaza works for Microsoft, and Microsoft has extended Mono developers a patent license for all relevant C#/.NET patents,...

Except, said patent grant does not extend to people who don't work for de Icaza, people who distribute Mono, or people who use Mono, or people who have compiled C# apps with Mono.

Microsoft refuses to make Mono patent free, and anyone who distributes, uses, or distributes binaries compiled with Mono _can and will be sued_.

Not only is de Icaza not a competitor to Microsoft, he is helping Microsoft attack Linux and the Free Software movement.

Mono refuses to switch to a license, such as GPLv3, to protect users, distributors, and developers from the patents; not only do they refuse, they are getting rid of all GPLv2 code in favor of BSD code. Once Mono is BSDafied, Microsoft can import all code from Mono and close source it within the main C#/.Net implementation on Windows.
I encourage people to also RTFS (read the survey). Because there's more to it than just "only 25% of the Adblock Plus users seem to be strictly against any advertising"--which Wladimir Palant gladly ignores:

* 43% (agree) to 70% (somewhat agree) believe ABP should block more ads

* 54% (important) to 82% (somewhat important) use ABP because they care about privacy. Yet they do not require the whitelisted parties to have "Do Not Track" support because they "are not yet in a position to enforce that requirement"--of course they wouldn't because the first thing they whitelisted are Google Ads which will never support "Do Not Track".

* his assertion that it needs to be default because the majority of users "never change any settings" is simply false: 63% of users already sometimes disable ABP all by theirselves on a website, 56% manage their filter preferences, 63% change the blockable items list and 60% adds or removes filter subscriptions.

Really, I think it's absolutely awesome that a software developer holds a survey to find out which way future development of an open-source project should go, but he might just as well saved himself the trouble if he's just going to ignore the data he doesn't agree with.

Finally, the result that "only 25% of the Adblock Plus users seem to be strictly against any advertising" is mentioned nowhere in either of the three posts about this survey. So there's no way to tell what question(s) this number is based on, what the alternative answers were or whether these other 75% of people consider SEDO domainsquatting ads "acceptable" or not.

Finally there's Wladimir Palant repeatedly asserting he doesn't actually have any experience conducting surveys, as evidenced by the lack of methodology (while taking a rather negative defensive heels-in-the-sand position towards anyone who questions him, or comments on the survey), and especially the nearly unreadable pie and stacked bar charts (only the two worst choices for pretty much any kind of data visualisation and they make Edward Tufte cry). And then there's the "mysterious" case of the non-English users that got a translated survey selecting the "I don't know/What is this?" option much more often! Gee ..
Wow. This is just about the best response I've ever seen. I've totally done a 180 on the situation. Honestly, I thought the CEO was a douchebag from the video, the Daily Show should be ashamed of themselves.
Hyperbole is a cornerstone of comedy and also effective at getting across a point if used correctly. Note that using hyperbole correctly doesn't mean sticking 100% to the truth, you have to be willing to accept that things are being blown out of proportion for the sake of removing subtext.
Great browser for Brew phones. :/ this is too bad but given shrinking featurephone market share understandable.
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Whoo! They finally added history so you can keep track of a few sfx that interest you, very cool. :)
Frame It For Yourself - Can the wording of a question bias the answer given?
The contractual agreement is mainly "don't piss off users, and we WILL enforce this if you fail".
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If they didn't have information from elsewhere, they wouldn't get most of the jokes.
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I'm not sure that's true, I just think that's the most prevalent/profitable type of freemium game–one based on accelerating constraints.

Give your service away for free, possibly ad supported but maybe not, acquire a lot of customers very efficiently through word of mouth, referral networks, organic search marketing, etc, then offer premium priced value added services or an enhanced version of your service to your customer base.

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2006/03/the_freemium_bu.html
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I'll believe it when I see it. If they're quibbling over a measly $1 million for real Internet connectivity, it's clear that they're not really going to get this done.

Also, what's the point of being near Silicon Valley when nobody on the boat is legally allowed to get a cup of coffee there? Might as well have your incubator somewhere where visas for techies are easy to come by. (Singapore?)
Why is that "except"? It doesn't have anything to do with what I said, really. You could say, "Not for long! Netflix is dropping the Siverlight plugin..." or something like that.
This sounds like my story exactly. I would have hacked on personal projects using Lisp or Smalltalk. My curricula was based on C++, and I could never quite grok it. Ironically,
I didn't "get it" till my senior year when I took a graphics class that was taught entirely in C.

I think CS programs do a disservice teaching with an OO language too early. The first language should be functional.
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I'm sorry to hear that you feel so crumby.

In coming to us, asking for help with your problem, you demonstrate strength, in spite of feeling badly.

Since you mentioned thinking of suicide, I must strongly recommend you talk to a mental health professional. If you don't already have an appointment, tell us your city and we'll come up with a resource for finding one in your area.
These can narrowly constrain your opportunities. If we know, we can perhaps offer more realistic help.

Do you have:
money?
car?
housing?
physical disabilities? Legal problems?
(Of course, you're not required or compelled to share any personal details with us.)

Once all that is addressed:
You need to focus on success in the place of focusing on failure.
You need to see that you can accomplish, yourself, a goal.

Not knowing anything about you and your life, I recommend:
Goal: walk for an hour every day - in any number of shorter walks, if you'd like or have to.

Steps:

Preparation: P1. Cancel broadband service at home. P2. Get a small, blank notebook as a daily log.

Daily actions: D1. Go for a walk. Out the door, or a bus or car ride away. Mall, abandoned train tracks, park, city streets, airport, your driveway - doesn't matter particularly. D2. Immediately after your walk, log your walk: date and time. D3. Shower, shave, dress neatly. No excuses on this one. D4. Go to a busy place for an hour. Bring pad and pen. No phone or computer allowed. D5. Immediately after your visit there, log it: date, time and place.

Follow-up:
F1. Repeat this everyday this week. F2. Next Monday, check back with one/all of us.

Hint: The goal is accomplishing the action, not having a feeling ("Happy!" "Fulfilled").

I look forward to hearing from you.
You are reading too much into events. MS likes Miguel because he brings some open source respectability to the NET platform. It is also a potential source of licensing revenue stream in the future. MS has no reason to want someone else's implementation of the CLR and VM.
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Problem with that is two things:

1: Those products are build to run on Googles infrastructure, which you can't have if you're not Google.

2: Those products don't have customers, they have users. That makes spinning a profitable business off much harder.
To sum it up (feel free to add corrections) one guy put a blog post saying that Parallel collections had many issues, etc etc... and the reality was that he misunderstood them somehow.

As one guy put it, the collections do nice work but you have to know what you are doing (not all work can be broken into fragments that can be computed in parallel). He was kind of expecting otherwise.

Not saying they are perfect, just what happened (more or less)
The ads are distracting (period). That's why I use blockers or disable javascript, but the latter breaks many sites these days.

Some tech sites (/.) have ads that show attractive women with large breasts wearing tight t-shirts. The ad is printed on the t-shirt so I'm forced to stare at her boobs to read the ad. That's distracting to me. I can't focus when boobs are popping-up in ads.

So I want all ads disabled. Even pure words with no pictures can be distracting while glancing at a page if it has the right words in it.
To be fair, I never said I was eloquent.
Several services tried to automate just that (artist selection, filter the "good" music), see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphonic_HMI and its followup http://www.musicxray.com/

I'm not sure if it's the right approach, but they're trying.
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TM2 seems to have a similar function. Haven't tried installing on the server side though.

Edit: Here it is... http://erniemiller.org/2011/12/12/textmate-2-rmate-awesome/
import the theme into the old textmate. then use the file that had just copying it over. no need to do anything special with uuids. works a charm.