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The difference is this one plugin is capable of covering much more ground than Unity3D alone. Once it's there, nothing stopping one from porting, say, id Tech, Unreal, Frostbite, RenderWare, OGRE, Avalanche, Crystal, CryEngine, EGO, Source, etc. to NaCl and running it in the same plugin. Say what you will about Google's strategy, it opens up quite a few possibilites.
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A small but important attribution note: the 'Developernomics' article was by Venkatesh Rao, author of the Ribbon Farm blog ("The Gervais Principle"). As Forbes notes:

"The author is a Forbes contributor. The opinions expressed are those of the writer."

It's possible, perhaps even likely, that another 'Forbes contributor' will write an article with a different opinion. So it's not 'Forbes' expressing an opinion that can be right or wrong; Forbes is just a conduit.

By traditional standards, if Forbes itself was expressing the publication's view (as typically determined by its chief editor, publisher, or an editorial board), the piece would either indicate that clearly or be completely unsigned.

As online publications open their sites to an ever-larger variety of contributors, to broaden their audience/archives/inlinks, this tradition of distinction about the actual author is as important as ever.
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Note, Python's hash function is a very bad hash function. It usually maps sequential values (i.e. 1,2,3 ..) to sequential hash values (i.e. 1,2 3 ...) - yes, hash(1) = 1. The advantage of this is, if you have sequential keys (which is very common), you minimize collisions better than more "random" distributions.

Of course, you couldn't use it for cryptography.
You don't have to have a paypal account, you just have to use paypal to pay. Account creation is optional.
Bandwidth is pretty crazy cheap these days. I can't imagine it costing more than a quarter to send out a couple gigs.
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Patient records can be given to patients in .pdf format (human readable) and also one of two government specified HL7 formats (CCR and CCD.) The MU certification makes all vendors give patients/doctors the ability to download one of the format (CCR or CCD), but all vendors have to be able to read both formats.

The MU guidelines did a great job of forcing all of the vendors to adopt one of these two standards and to understand them both.
The lack of seriousness on the site greatly compromises the value of the data. As a captcha they they ask you enter the entire text of the USA Constitution, and give a mailing address in Antarctica. There is no evidence that large portions of the data isn't made up, no sane company would want to touch this. The agreement above sound more like an attempt to prevent people from contacting them in the first place (probably as they have to remove data manually), than a prelude to extortion.
countries can definitely be forced or rather be asked to cooperate to reduce piracy - http://croak.eu/uDKQwa
Nice Overview. It seems like Microsoft is actively trying to cope with Apple and I think they are succeeding. A lot of their concepts are well thought. Does anyone have more overviews/guides to the new concepts and technologies introduced in Windows 8?
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This is an important question, it's the kind of thing that needs to be on an FAQ somewhere. Here is the info that I've collected in the last couple of months (US-centric, sorry):

relevant YC posts/articles:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2247560

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2851224

links from the comments, or elsewhere:

https://be.freelancersunion.org/benefits/ (you probably want to look this up, since they provide discounted health insurance plans for people in and around NYC)

http://www.nase.org/Membership/OptionalBenefits.aspx (smaller benefits, not full covereage, for people across the US)

http://www.anthem.com (For people in California - a sufficiently high deductible introduces risk but can drop your deductible to around $150-200 or less; mine is $108)

If you have a pre-existing condition, then you might find a plan through your state: http://www.healthcare.gov/law/features/choices/pre-existing-... (is this an outcome of Obama's Affordable Care Act?)

deciding whether/how to claim this on taxes (I haven't quite fully understood this, though):

http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=220839,00.html

http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=223666,00.html

http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/columnist/block/2011-04-...

advice via Reuters, FWIW: http://blogs.reuters.com/small-business/2010/12/06/health-in...
Does anyone know about the future of Visual Studio? The current Express editions are pretty crippled and Pro was pretty expensive the last time I looked. Comparing e.g. a Mac Mini and a Win7+VS bundle, entering iOS/Mac development actually came cheaper.
I'm pretty sure tables had border=0 even in 94.
I play Go too - we should play a few games =)
And I thought Louis CK was awesome, this makes him more awesome :). I love his show and specials.
We're a small team of three (25, 28, 28) and the company pays for each person's individual plan with Anthem Blue Cross rather than a group plan which was more expensive for essentially the same coverage. It's about $200 per person per month.
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It sounds like a much deeper subject than I first appreciated. I'll definitely read up on this. Using URL rewriting with caching is interesting, I've not seen that before.

I work with one lady that complains about a slow loading JQuery slideshow, and smarter caching may very well be the solution (at least, after the first load).
No kidding. I live in a one-bedroom in a college student apartment complex and none of these listed downloads are mine. But from visiting that website, I just learned that the Walking Dead is on it's second season.
If you actually work in software development, you know some developer need a week what others do in a few hours....
This gives me so much hope....I think we are going to see a revolution in Art and Media as more of these guys start getting "it"...The days of Big brother and his army of douchebag MBA's is soon going to be over!
I recommend reading his explanation of why he did it the way he did (meaning DRM-free and based on trust), even though he's been advised not to.

It's very earnest and has a feel of "listen, I created this. You're likely to like it. If you give me a bit of money, I'll give you access to it. You can do whatever you want with it, but just keep in mind that I worked and paid for it being made."

a.k.a what Louis CK would probably sum up as "just don't be an asshole, ok?"
I'm not as rigorous as you are; the idea that Demarco and Lister made up historical anecdotes in the book doesn't perturb me too much, because the value of the book isn't so much prescriptive ("break your company into tiny teams and let them each pick a far-flung cool-looking skunkworks office") --- it's more that it provides a new way of looking at how your company is organized.

On the other hand, I didn't "get" Surfer Rosa for like a year after I bought it, because by the time I had (in the early 90's) almost all the music I listened to was more or less cribbed from Pixies songs. Maybe the same thing happened with Peopleware, where pretty much every blog post we read about dev teams expresses a sentiment traceable to some part of Peopleware.

In my defense with GEB: I didn't read it because Joel Spolsky told me to, I read it because a girlfriend did. A similar logic had me pretending to enjoy Faulkner. My take on Hofstadter may be oddly colored. Also: I haven't read any of his other books and am not a Lisper, so he's had fewer opportunities to annoy me.
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Is anyone wondering how long until PayPal locks his account?

Not wishing for it to happen - but realize it's PayPal.

Now if we can just get him to be making jokes about PayPal, that I'd pay to see.
> In practice, it's based on [...] man power.

Of course it's based on manpower, prioritization can only happen based on available resources, if there are no resources prioritization can not do anything. And it couldn't do any more if the prioritization scheme was different.
I've enjoyed much of Louis CK's content without a chance to put some money in his pocket. So I've bought this.

$5 feels like a good price point. I don't think I would have paid $20, especially if I knew that he would only be getting a small fraction of that. Bonus points for making it a 1.2 GB h264 encode. I hope this works out great for Louis and makes other people want to try it.
Happy to support this with my five dollars! Hopefully this model catches on.
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Louie is also available on Hulu (though I'm not sure about the first season).
The only thing it has for me is something called "Worms.Crazy.Golf" - something I have never downloaded. I also have a static IP.

This site seems completely bogus.
About 14 cents per download (streams are probably even smaller) on the lowest tier of S3 (once you're over 10TB/mo it gets even cheaper).
Chromium crashed during my first attempt to download the show and then I ran out of free disk space the second time (yeah, SSDs are a bit too small).

Anyway, my point is that starting a download and then only getting a couple of MBs shouldn't really count as using a download slot. On the other hand, I don't know if it's possible to check how much data has been transferred using existing technology. He seems to be using Amazon CloudFront.
His show "Louie" is equal parts drama and comedy. It's really an amazing show and he's easily the top comedian today, hands down.
> My read is that without id's, having broken-out calories like the GGP's is a broken data model and/or API.

IDs are not involved at any point, and are not even relevant to bsaunder's comment.

> Either that, or returning ingredient ids with their calories counts.

An API which returns identifiers is not a REST API, so this statement makes no sense.

Now more to the point, bsaunder is simply looking for a way to fetch a subset of a resource by providing some sort of filter. I truly do not see why that would not be restful, it's simply a search query, what do you think happens when you search something in Google? It returns a resource which is the subset of an other resource (their complete index, which they don't expose but that does not really matter), and as far as I can tell nobody's accused search engines of failing to be restful yet.

(the sum stuff doesn't even make sense)
First they came for the gamers, and I said nothing, for I wasn't a gamer, and already that industry was infested with proprietary tech.

Then they came for the alternative browsers, and I said nothing, for I was content to see a plug-in extending support for all those games to the rest of the world (even though the alternative vendors all objected verbosely).

Then they came for Google Earth, and I said nothing, for it was a perfect fit to the platform, and I could use Earth from any browser (even though I had to install the plug-in to use it in future).

Then they came for the video codecs, and I said nothing, for what could be wrong with smoother video working across browsers (even though I had to install the plug-in to get there, and YouTube.com suddenly grew a form of DRM).

Then they came for the Internet banks, returning to the 20th century ActiveX-alike requirements for login, and I said nothing (because I needed access to my bank).

Then they came for the well-suited open source projects, and I said nothing, for I didn't care about that, and running Audacity from a browser sounded great.

Then it ran on Android and Chrome OS, and I was pleased (even though I could no longer write native code for Android that didn't target NaCl).

[...]

Then they came for me, and there was no-one left to speak out for me or my app, for there was only one platform left that ran on every device.
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I bought this not only because Louis CK is both awesome and hilarious, but because I really, really want his "method" to become more widespread. I know it's a long shot, but I hope so many people buy this because of how he's released it that it garners some serious attention towards the issue and proves that restrictions like DRM are actually hurting the applicable industries.
Thanks for the info - that's helpful.

> That said... if you're starting a family... pregnancy (and RX) are usually (ever?) covered. So you might not have a choice.

HSA's do seem to make sense, but the pregnancy and any potential complications were my main concern. It seemed from initial research that for this scenario, and regular plan seemed like the best option, unless you had a different experience? Perhaps use a typical plan initially, then switch to HSA's later assuming health is ok?
No, they definitely have bugs. I have a static IP, not shared with anyone, and it has a single bogus entry for me too.
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The evidence he cites—that there are no 10x companies—against there being 10x-median developers is weak. How would you even define the metrics to begin with? And assuming you came to a reasonable (and measurable!) definition, why would you assume that there would be companies made up entirely of super developers, and that they would retain their 10x advantage when working together even though for every other developer communication imposes overhead?

Other than that there are a lot of great points in the article, but in terms of actually proving or disproving the 10x-median theory, I think it's impossible. My gut tells me that 10x is definitely out there for the right master programmer with the right experience and ideas to apply to a specific project, but that you'll never see it across the board because programming is just too big and free-form for talent to outpace experience.

Certainly if HR people are out there basing their hiring strategy on finding 10x-ers, they are hopelessly clueless and deluded.
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> but realize it's PayPal.

Which several hundred million people use without having their accounts locked.
> Does anyone know about the future of Visual Studio?

Driver development is moving into Visual Studio. I guess that's pretty big.
A copyleft license [1] could probably eliminate most invasive proprietary "value-add". Though that might hinder adoption, being just a dump pipe or a box mover isn't very profitable. Hopefully companies are getting desperate enough to give up on Apple-like profits.

1. A license that requires derivative works to be distributed under the same terms
The sovjests tried this, it did not work. Why should it work now? Central planning of inovation just doesn't work. And in a free society its just not the proper role of goverments to force people to give their money money to central planning, as they them selves make much better investments descisions.
And you have to remember that they rake in millions in ticket sales and more importantly pay per view deals, yet they keep salaries naturally depressed for people who are risking serious short-term and long-term injuries.
There is good reason why all major sports have a players association to negotiate he collective bargaining agreements with the owners
I synced my bank account with Dwolla. Now I wait. And wait.
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Here's the thing: I'm a long-term mac user and a developer for iOS. The training didn't include any XAML training; any interface design was copy-and-paste because writing the XAML wasn't the point of the training. If I was a .Net developer in my day job, I would be writing a Metro app right now.
Wow. His simple tone belies the brilliance in his writing here. I seriously doubt he just spent 5 minutes scribbling this out as an afterthought. He gets a few key ideas across:

- he doesn't understand torrenting and so is helpless against it

- he cares about his viewers more than taking advice about DRM

- the video is owned solely by him and not some soulless corporation, and you're directly hurting him by torrenting

- you'll destroy his faith in mankind if you torrent

- five dollars is nothing compared to all that!

All of which combines to make you feel like a huge asshole for even considering pirate bay - in the nicest possible way. This type of thing makes a lot more sense than DRM in his case, and I bet it's a lot more effective too.
Oh, the making shit up part doesn't perturb me (well, maybe a little) - I just think it's worth mentioning. Your Pixies analogy is very clever. If Peopleware is the Pixies then maybe Jerry Weinberg would be the Velvets? Maybe not. The Velvets kind of stand on their own pretty well. Maybe the MC5. There's a band I never got, though they were pretty influential pre-punk. (My point is that Weinberg's early stuff on human factors in software -- Psychology of Computer Programming -- was seminal, but not particularly readable now.)
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People use it for single small transactions.

Wait until paypal sees hundreds of thousands of $5 payments and a balance over $100k

- especially if his account is relatively new - unless his people were smart enough to pre-empt this with them.
How on earth is there not prior art (I think that's the term I want) for the functioning of a small part of the human metabolism? It seems to me rather obvious that the researcher, her/his ancestors, friends, you, and me all other humans constitute prior art to that patent. I struggle with similar questions when I see articles on how companies are patenting specific DNA sequences.

I guess my problem boils down to this. Isn't there a difference between a discovery and an invention? Logically I think there is. A discovery is a new understanding of an already existing reality while an invention is the creation of something new. On that difference it seems that the latter should be patentable but not the former. But if they truly have the patent claimed by the article, then our system allows for the patenting of discoveries! How bizarre.
Are there other fields where discoveries are patentable. (Should Einstein have patented his theory of general relativity or E=mc^2?)

If Prometheus Labs had created a machine that measured and calculated the needed dosage change in a new and innovative way I could see a patent being granted, but not on this.

Could someone who has patent experience/expertise way in and help me here?
Louie is a great show. He is the master of uncomfortable situations.
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So, is it all the people getting last minute tickets? I wonder what type of monetary effect this is having on them, might help justify building more scalable solutions...
Explicit node.js support shouldn't be surprising at all, given that MS funded the Windows port and JS is a first-class language for W8.

Java, OTOH, caught me off guard. I'd have thought MS was totally done with Java given that it's a direct threat to .NET (and previous "disagreements" w/ Sun). Then again, they don't have much of a choice but to support whatever they can if they want to compete with Amazon.
The worst that's likely to happen is they ask him to send a copy of ID and a bill with his address on it, he faxes it over and the account is unlocked the same business day. Does it seem unreasonable that a payment processor should want some evidence of the account holder's identity (much like banks are required by law to collect) once they're in a position to pay out tens of thousands of dollars?

I don't see anything to poke fun at.
You coul argue facebook has a bigger impact then twitter plus i doubt that ufc fighters twitter pages reaches the vast majority of ufc fans - numbering in the tens of millions.

I think what Dana White loves about twitter is that he doesn't have to spend the millions of marketing dollars necessary for other communication mediums
Going to the emergency room when you're on the brink of death doesn't count as "free healthcare," no matter how many times they beat their chest claiming it is. Emergency room healthcare is significantly more expensive than getting your blood pressure checked every couple of months.

The right to healthcare isn't something that only applies to the emergency room.
Any other airline sites down?
Protip: You can start playing the video in VLC/your favorite player as soon as the download starts, if your download rate is fast enough to keep up.
> Microsoft's Push Notification Service (WNS) is a HTTP-based, which is awesome. Apple introduce a TCP-based approach to push notifications that basically requires you to write a dedicated sever (again, somehow, Apple didn't specify how to do) to send your push notifications through their APNS. No one rolls their own APNS server because it's too hard and there's Urban Airship.

This is ostensibly a professional engineer, and this position drives me bonkers ("not HTTP, too hard")!

Apple provided protocol documentation and a very, very simple TCP+SSL protocol. Rolling your own client should be a matter of a day or two of work, at the absolute maximum.

Apple even provides sample code: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Networ...

The fact that people are frightened of TCP and a simple binary protocol is a mind-boggling indictment of the ineptitude and inexperience of the engineers that have been placed in a position of responsibility.

I dealt with a server team recently that refused to consider a push-based feature because it would "cost too much to send that many pushes through Urban Airship". Implementing their own local client for the protocol never occurred to them, and our doing so for them dismissed out of hand ("too complicated").
Ok, that's exciting then. Thanks for the info. :-)
Ideally it'd work where they generate a URL for you that works for 24 hours or something like that, or they give you a one time url, but you can generate as many as you'd like for 24 hours. If for instance they see someone generate 100 or 1000 or something they can then revoke their permissions.