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Don't really care, as there are too many video games in the world that I never played before. Polish existing ones, instead.
Concentration of power via voting groups is a fundamental part of the democratic process, be it via representatives creating factions within legislatures or voters banding together to create political groups. (In the end, the Democratic and Republican party are essentially that.) Doing so allows smaller factions that have a single driving issue to have some political impact by focusing their voting behavior on that one axis.
Python 2 is still the status quo though.

One of my favorite things about Python 3 is its new string handling. It is fantastic and marginally more intuitive. Having an explicit (and a more general) immutable `bytes` class, no longer sharing a base class with `unicode`, and having Unicode instead of a potentially-encoded string as the default are all wonderful decisions and moves Python forward by miles in my opinion.

Until Python 3 becomes the norm, we're still stuck with the confusing `str` and `unicode` constructs.
Alternatively, take advantage of your commute. I switched from driving to public transit and I've found the time can be incredibly productive, as its in between work time and at home family time, which makes it much easier to concentrate on what I need to do.
but in Europe it tends to be used a lot by teenagers and young adults for extensive messaging thanks to BBM + good keyboard.

Actually the same is true in the US for people who want cheap plans.
I hear you - though Dan is an educator vs a sales guy. Super smart guy with a masters in electrical engineering and computer science plus an MBA. If you want a pure dev guy speaking in jeans though, check out: Selecting the Right NoSQL Tool for the Job http://www.dataversity.net/archives/6774.
I guess I don't get why other people want to re-create a barely 'break-even' business model?
> Spotify proves there is limited value in ending piracy.

Oh, that is a wonderful insight! I might tone down the word "prove", but overall, that's a really important observation!
In my experience, it's more like going to a bar and asking "where's so-and-so?" and hearing "oh, yeah, we never see them anymore after they started working for Zynga".

The reputation is: long hours, cut-throat environment, back-stabbing execs.

Just stating what I've heard.
If making a building involved stacking blocks then it would be pretty easy for humans to make buildings too. I don't see how these robots would be capable of installing an electrical socket, or applying caulk, or any number of important tasks. Not to say a robot couldn't accomplish these things, and maybe a quadcopter could deliver supplies in some limited circumstances, though a robotic crane could deliver things as well. One robotic crane could actually assemble the entire described structure, only with concrete blocks instead of polystyrene. It's the eclectic nature of buildings that makes them hard to build, not just piling materials into place.
i had the same issue but couldnt put my finger on what it was. now i know. Its strange how that works.
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Your savings here are mainly from removing types. That's another matter entirely.
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Your answers are going to be heavily biased towards those who got back into the game. Anybody that actually retired after their payday are highly unlikely to be reading HN.
I should have added this in the reply instead of as a new comment: I hear you - though Dan is an educator vs a sales guy. Super smart guy with a masters in electrical engineering and computer science plus an MBA. If you want a pure dev guy speaking in jeans though, check out: Selecting the Right NoSQL Tool for the Job http://www.dataversity.net/archives/6774.
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Clearly not everyone does. But for those who do, its a problem better solved by a custom HN client.
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I don't really care if they can no longer run their business. We have more than enough musics and movies on this planet to enjoy for a thousand lifetime.

The music and entertainment industry need consumers more than we need them.
$200 is pricy?
I already tried Mobo player and it didn't work for me. I was careful to get the version (of the 3 in the market) that was appropriate for the ARM in the Fire. It just didn't work. All videos I tried played at something like 8x with no audio.
Oops, didn't realize how old this was. I saw a link posted in the Amazon forums for Skyrim and thought I'd share it here.
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> hypocrisy ... from people that are against copyright laws

I'm arguing that 77 years of copyright is too long. Maybe 6 months or a year. That's the timeframe some scientific journals are moving toward for making their archives available. I would also argue the fair use exception should be made far broader, especially for education. Are you arguing that 77 years of copyright is acceptable? Do fully endorse the current system without reservation?
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I'm just skimming comments and haven't fully absorbed the context, but even without FTL, being able to communicate "directly" (e.g. "through" the Earth) would significantly reduce signal travel time, compared to running around the Earth on fiber or, longer yet, via bounced radio waves.

For one, financial market traders would have a field day with such.
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This is very cool. I am tied to Java b/c of Lucene and the Hadoop ecosystem as well. Some more things I would like to see:

-Templating. Something like SimpleTemplate Engine in Bottlepy. http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/stpl.html

-How do I get rid of Tomcat at least for development. I would like to run java -jar MyApp.jar -Dport=8080 and get a live running webapp in my dev environment.
I'm referring to it's introductory price.
But then you wouldn't get to see restaurant web sites.
You kinda missed the point. Consulting can be a side gig that stays a side gig.

Other businesses can start slow/small, but you reach a point where you need to choose between the full time gig and your startup. There are a few clear examples of this phenomenon in this thread.
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"all registered for various projects -- I'm not a squatter"

One of the reasons domain prices are low is that people register domains they are not using.

Just like they buy books they don't read. Or buy jewelry they don't wear. (And yes bring on all the replies about the differences that you want but keep in mind the time you picked up the last item on the shelf at the drug store that maybe someone else had a greater need for down the road. Or took the last seat on an airplane.)

No problem with buying domains and letting them sit there until you decide what to do. No problem buying domains that you think you could sell either, in general. As much as this might piss people off who feel the domain should just be there ready when they want it.

Squatting would be registering a domain that specifically (edit: and reasonably) belongs to someone else. Say you hear the local pizzeria opening is called "xyz pizza" and you register "xyzpizza.com". Despite what the media and all the typical articles say about this.

By the way when you say "all registered for various purposes" there is no qualification about what the purpose is so essentially some people would define you as a squatter depending upon the way they see this issue.
"Engineer, engineer, engineer"

Good thing you guys aren't a Canadian company, lest you be fined into non-existence. Seriously, folks, call your employees what they are. Programmers, DBAs, Sysadmins.

I personally appreciate the work that Heroku has done with PostgreSQL, but I'm ate up when I see technology companies (whom are employers of the previously listed titles) refer to their employees as 'engineers'.
If you're using name.com's DNS, then they've basically got a wildcard subdomain that points to a spammy domain-parked page.

So, say you have valid records for .yourdomain.com and www.yourdomain.com. Those two hosts will resolve as you would expect them, but *.yourdomain.com will resolve to a spam page.
So, if a user came and visited my site, which was www.zideck.com (It's not there any more), they would see my web page. If they were to visit http://zideck.com they would see auto generated spam garbage that said stuff like "What you need, when you need it." In fact, ANY subdomain would result in link spam trash.

Thanks for the tip on setting up DNS. If I create a rackspace cloud server, I imagine there is something special I have to do to make it a DNS server, right? Does it just work straight out of the box?
There are a lot of posts blaming GoDaddy. Did anyone read the post by David Airey, linked in the article? The reason for his lost domain was that his Gmail account was hacked. The attacker performed a "legit" domain transfer through his registrar. It wasn't the registrar's fault, in this case. The only blame you could place was that perhaps the registrar didn't have enough security check points.

GoDaddy is certainly annoying with their obnoxious web site and sometimes, their tactics, but this could be another email-hijack attack.
so you never skipped church yet you had no problem stealing software. interesting.
I cannot really recall that ever happening for, like, the last 10 years. I could see the case if they wanted to intercept mail or something, but then the administrator would notice quite fast what was going on (ie. not receive any mails...).
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Forbes might be the worst publication on earth. -just saying.
In addition to what other commenters have said, IE6 got huge market share then stagnated. Even worse, when IE7 came out, people didn't upgrade. Chrome continues to improve and auto-update.
Unless I'm mistaken this is true in the USA as well. I hate that journalists and even websites like torrentfreak continue to perpetuate this myth. Headlines continue to says things like "Mom sued for downloading music" which isn't true at all.
Nice I like what you're up to..Lets set up art spaces :)
Hmm can't say I've ever encountered something like that in Ruby so far. However, if you want a strict boolean it's pretty easy to get:

!!STUDENTS.remove(uid)
The thing that bothers me most about gov't using outside contractors for Security, Analysis, and Intelligence is not the incompetence of many of these companies or the degree to which our rights get trampled by them. It is that these companies do not have to comply with FOIA requirements like their respective government agencies. If the FBI outsources information gathering, and they do in some instances, then there is no way for me to issue a satisfactorily executed FOIA request. They can just say, I'm sorry but the data you're looking for is owned by a private company and disclosing such data amounts to trade-secret disclosure. Ergo, there is no way for me to ever see what my file may or may not look like. I am also very bothered by the further implication of this, which is that if there is a breach of security and subsequent public disclosure at one of these contractors the agency in question can simply wash their hands of the matter, despite having given the previous authority and legal protection for such information gathering to have taken place in the first.
I did this with a collaborator, and intend to do it again soon. The way of the future...
There were no instructions b/c the display unit had the screen foil with bezel gestures printed on it removed. Also, during the initial setup of the device (after you take it out of the box) there is a tutorial that you have to complete to advance that shows how to get to app options and how to switch between apps.

I agree that just putting the device on display with no instructions can cause confusion. Better choice would have been to run that tutorial whenever someone tries to use the unit, before switching to the real thing. But then what are the CSRs in the store for?

Once you know how to use it (and it is nowhere near as complex as mastering an HP calculator ;) ) the UI is pretty straightforward.
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> So, net cost of 3 minutes of happiness went down.

Yes, this is a key economic truth that seems almost completely missed.

Every pirated copy that is used actually adds value into the economy. It is sort of hilarious how upside-down the usual presentation is: all the figures of so many m/billions of losses are actually more like the opposite, they are gains to the public. The only possible loss anywhere is in reduced production -- but that is never demonstrated.
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P.S. And yes, I despise GoDaddy with every molecule of my being.
Take a look at Jetty (http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/) for the second option.

I tend to use 'mvn tomcat:run' to run my dev server, which I find even easier, fwiw.
The valuation is 7 billion. 1 Billion is the money they expect to raise from the IPO.

7 Billion does not seem modest to me. Groupon's IPO was valued at a bit more (about 12.5 billion) and that seemed like a much more substantial business to me. And of course Groupon is not doing too hot right now.
There's two issues here.

1. Pirating other peoples work is morally wrong.

2. You're kidding yourself if you think the economics that ruin labels and retailers are not going to just as quickly ruin independent acts.

As is painfully obvious from the example of authors - they rely entirely on people honouring their intellectual property and would have basically no income without selling 'copies.'

Just because musicians have a few alternative options, eg. live performances, doesn't change the underlying argument. What goes for authors, or filmmakers, should go for musicians or any other artists.

Why do you keep talking vaguely about alternative business models? There are none. Nobody's going to invent an ingenious new way of making money out of music. There's live performance or there's selling intellectual property. That's it.
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I'm almost in the same boat right now. I built a niche Adsense-supported social networking site around mid-2009 and my approximate revenue by year is something like: $100 (Y1), $13.5k (Y2), $90k (this year). Assuming no growth next year, it should be around $130k.

I hope you don't mind me asking these questions since I'm in the thick of it myself at the moment. I'm new here so I hope I'm not breaking etiquette.

At what point did you realize you needed help and then decide that you can actually afford it?

What made you decide to hire your 1st employee rather than a co-founder?

What role did your 1st employee have?

What kinds of employees did you end up hiring?

How did you find your employees?

Any insight would be appreciated!
And actually, Apple borrowed the swipe-from-bezel functionality for iOS 5. You swipe down from the bezel to get to the notification center on the iPhone, for example.
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Good for him. Notch has earned a well-deserved break.

Some people are better at starting new things, and some people are better at maintaining and expanding on existing things. I'm happy to hear that Notch has some new ideas that he's itching to get started on.
This article does not actually prove anything. For all we know there are twice as many artists now.
Actually, it's "Swenglish". Passar != pass, it really means "watch over" or "keep track of".
Yeah I'd definitely say we should continue to follow our established best practices until G gets better at this but Josh's evidence and our continued testing on this subject is very compelling.
Your entire comment is bullshit and it pisses me off.

You've never worked at Zynga, so to purport that you know exactly what it's like to work there is bullshit.

Your comment reflects exactly what Silicon Valley nerds think of Zynga externally. They think that Zynga is nothing but people refining skinner boxes for people to play in. You've probably seen one or two talks of Mark Pincus talking about "doing every dirty trick in the book" or something like that. Have you ever met him? Do you even know the last time he worked directly on a game? You're allowed to have whatever opinion you like, but this opinion is bullshit.

Your entire comment is ridiculously biased and unreflective of Zynga internally or externally.

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So yes, JonnieCache, there is a stigma for working at these companies. reflected by the parent comment. Is that stigma justified? Absolutely not. There are plenty of other reasons not to like developing at Zynga most people don't talk about:

* Zynga is not a technology company first. This means that product & revenue decisions are always prioritized over innovating tech. Most developers aren't comfortable with companies like that.

* Zynga isn't accepted as a legit member of "games companies" circles. You can't tell your buddy who works building a PC MMO or console FPS that you're in games because you work at Zynga. You'll get laughed out of the room.

* Developers are not decision makers at Zynga. Product managers and game designers call all the shots. So if you're writing code, you're not really "making games" in the traditional sense, you're just implementing someone else's spec.

So is Zynga the best place for a dev to work in the valley? It isn't the worst. You'll make more money and get more perks than you would working at a startup, but it won't be personally fulfilling. Do you spend all day scheming ways to exploit people? Fuck no, get over it already.
It has been pointed out several times that new items submitted to HN have increasingly less chance of being picked up because of how fast the new items page scrolls items out of sight. This problem will be growing as HN gets more users.
Maybe the approach of showing the list of new items in the "new" page is not necessarily the best one [anymore]?

An alternative approach would be to display a random subset of new articles from the past n minutes on each display of the new items page. This is particularly true for times when several articles are submitted per minute, which will only become increasingly common.

That way each submission would get more time (from a smaller audience) to be picked up and more quality items would be upvoted.
They don't seem to have an active Twitter account. Just sending an email through the contact form for now.

Wait, what? Since when is twitter a replacement for email?
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How long did the process take, and did this create any issues with live sites?
Its an interesting concept, although the definition of 'idiot' is not very precise. As others have pointed out, sometimes brilliant people can't compose gramattically correct english. That being said ...

Its fairly easy to identify forums on the web (they have a form which is generally very common, inspired by PhPBB way back when). And you could identify users, take the sum of all their contributions and try to generate some sort of 'evolved' karma score for their posts. Things you might consider are things that academics use, how many times was the post referred to (similar to citations in papers), what sort of traffic follows the posting (similar to counterpoint papers), Etc. But even if you end up with a perfect score, you won't benefit until you've been able to process several postings. If poor quality posts are the norm in your particular research area you will still deal with a lot of junk while the algorithm is learning that it is junk.

Finding a way to predict that the posting is going to score high on the suppression scale as its being posted would be helpful but new posters appear quite rapidly mitigating the benefit significantly.
Just to throw in a slightly differing opinion: I've been with Namecheap more than five years, and overall I've been very satisfied with them. However, I have had a couple of minor issues. Most recently, when making a minor change their support messed up something with my domain. They were slow to respond to my request that they fix it, and seemed far too confused about what was going on. The domain in question wasn't important to me, but if it had been I'd have been pretty pissed.
I think the accepted definition of a domain squatter is someone who registers domains with the intent of flipping them for a profit. This is more broad than "specifically and reasonably belongs to someone else" since you could merely be speculating that someone, at some point in the near future, might want to open a shop called "XYZ pizza", but still doesn't include pud.
Yeah, and it's annoying that the discrete switch is kept until the app shuts down. I have no clue what Gitbox is doing on the change set viewer to trigger the switch. I didn't see any animations.

Chrome also triggers the discrete GPU so I can't use it either. I'd really like to because of Safari's problems with the debug tools. I don't want to get used to Chrome when I can only realistically use it when on power.
I think he's dismissing the 7% too readily - to me, the conclusion you can draw is that "if you don't have talent, you'll never be the best".
Yeah i am thinking this too.

I mean a day or two ago Gmail was showing and promoting users to enable 2 step verification because thousands and thousands of gmail accounts are stolen everyday (something to that extent).

Big fish are big targets and gmail like godaddy and bank of america may no longer be safe and or wise to maintain your business with!?! I have had issues with all 3 mentioned.
Yeah i am thinking this too.

I mean a day or two ago Gmail was showing and promoting users to enable 2 step verification because thousands and thousands of gmail accounts are stolen everyday (something to that extent).

Big fish are big targets and gmail like godaddy and bank of america may no longer be safe and or wise to maintain your businesses with!?! I have had issues with all 3 mentioned.