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Let me clarify what I mean by "rockstar programmer"....A rockstar programmer is someone who is orders of magnitude more productive that the average programmer of his generation....Someone who can build technologies himself that can disrupt entire industries...Some notable examples in this category are Linus Torvalds,Mark Zuckerberg,Doug Cutting,Mark Andressen etc....Now show me someone in this category from a purely business school background!

I am not talking about the business people who want to dig into Javascript (Although I have a lot of respect for the guy you are talking about).I am talking about someone who can build a technology like javascript.
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The beautiful theory of statistical gambling, started by Dubins and Savage (for subfair games) and continued by Kelly and Breiman (for superfair games) has mostly been studied under the unrealistic assumption that we live in a continuous world, that money is indefinitely divisible, and that our life is indefinitely long. Here we study these fascinating problems from a purely discrete, finitistic, and computational, viewpoint, using Both Symbol-Crunching and Number-Crunching (and simulation just for checking purposes).
Love this. Couple quick comments, hope they're helpful!

1) Page load time is a bit slow, so it kills the desire to keep going because an action is going to make me wait. Maybe insert some mechanics like CubeDuel, where a fade in and fade out happens, buying you time.

2) Let people submit two different logos for a fee, and promise them X hundred reviews within a day. I would pay for that today.

3) Don't bias my voting by showing me the results before I vote. Show the results once I've voted and let me know if I'm "right" or "not". It's almost discovery at that point, I want to know how I'm "performing" so to speak.
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Damn, my Nixie Clock Radio app must have hit the zealous end of the pool. I was rejected 3 times, pretty much validly really, with 6 - 10 day review cycles. Yes, it took around a month to get in and accepted, during which I removed features, simplified others, and added and added and added resilience.

On the bright-side, the app is now pretty bullet-proof, works correctly with the AV panel controls, handles interruptions tidily etc., etc.

I'm totally grateful to the App store reviewers for being such hard-asses.
Thats why policies, like contracts, should never be evergreen. Policies simply amount to internal contracts and any company that does not regularly review and refresh them is doomed to this kind of waste.
> The real issue is that no one but Google thinks NaCl is good for the web.

Are you sure about that? I like NaCl. I don't know about depending on x86 instructions, but I like the idea of NaCl. I think it's pretty clear that the web needs some kind of low-level VM that's closer to the metal than JavaScript. It's been argued that LLVM isn't the answer, so maybe PNaCl is on the way out, but overall I think NaCl makes sense in Google's strategy: they want to see web apps take over. They want the web to replace Windows and OS X. Therefore it's natural that they want to download native or near-native code to the browser, and NaCl is just a way to do it safely. It's _not_ the same thing as ActiveX, I really believe that. However, it's clear that it's necessary to be extremely careful, and I'm not convinced they need to go 100% native -- I think a solution like PNaCl is more along the right lines. Web apps and games are not going away, and I think it's clear that we need something easier to statically optimize than JavaScript as the runtime system for the web.
People seem to be misunderstanding my post. I'm trying to differentiate between:

"I hate those MegaUpload people. I'll issue a false take-down notice to shut them up! Bwahahaha! <twirls mustache>"

and

"Oh. Another hit from our crappy YouTube crawler bot. <rubber stamps take-down notice>"

There is a difference between malice directed towards MegaUpload and (willful) negligence.

[ Also, don't reply with something stupid like, "but that won't hold up in court." Because a careful reading of the above text will reveal a lack of me making any such statement. ]
I was thinking "Hadrian's Wall 2.0".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian%27s_Wall
The statement is very general though. I think it suffices. The economy is not a zero sum game. To deny that today, I think, is to lack sophistication, not gain it.
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I still can remember when he was a celebrity here. I never felt sorry for the people he ripped of, it was so obvious.
I always wondered about his secrecy, he seemed to be someone who needs the spotlight.

It's quite impressive what he pulled off with Megaupload, it is a competitive market and his infrastructure has to be quite big.
When you look at the numbers of MU, i don't think he is short of money.
I find this the most likely case, but it highlights the fact that UMG is probably flagging these videos without a person actually looking at any of the results (something a lot of people have known/suspected for a while).

Hopefully they can sue the ass off of UMG for this, and bring to light how the flippant attitudes of the media industry towards the law when they feel that they are owed something.
Are there any other UI "hacks" for performance?

I've always thought that watching a bar fill up is much more satisfying than just a displayed X%.
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Yes, it's designed to host illegal pirated content. I know there are plenty of legitimate uses for it, but it doesn't change that it's still a shitty site.

I'm not saying that nothing should be done about this Universal thing. I actually enjoy seeing the music industry taken down a few pegs.
I like Derek Sivers' approach: http://sivers.org/multiply
They may be in very bad legal trouble under the Griggs v. Duke Power Co. decision from the United States Supreme Court

http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=8655598674229196...

unless they have carefully validated that test for that specific purpose (which is not very likely). If you have new management who are taking silly legal risks without a good business purpose, you probably have little to lose by calling them on that. You might win an unlawful labor practices settlement that would give you time to look for a better position at a better company. And you would win your self-respect, which is more important than money even in a recession economy.
More or less because reasonably-priced health insurance requires a risk pool in which membership isn't voluntary, and large companies provide such a pool by requiring that all their employees enroll in the company health insurance as a condition of employment (and pay their portion of the coverage fee with no opt-out allowed). The insurers assume that the number of people who'll turn down the job solely due to disagreeing with the mandatory-insurance aspect is small, so the coverage pool is in effect a large, mandatory-coverage pool selected for mostly-health-unrelated reasons, which is the kind that works as a risk pool.

Entrepreneurs don't have anything similar unless there is a way to aggregate themselves into a pool where the opt-ins don't correlate with health condition too strongly, which currently there isn't. Insurers for good reason don't give good terms to non-mandatory-coverage risk pools, because of the strong bias towards high-risk people in such pools. And good luck if you have any congenital health issues; my friend who has a from-birth heart defect is essentially banned from ever doing a startup due to the employment-tied nature of the U.S. healthcare system and the preexisting-condition rules that make the health-insurance-via-corporate-job approach the only one open to him.
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Simple: if you're not a part of the RIAA, you aren't a part of the music community.
The labels going against the artists they pretend to "protect"? I love this. Because if the artists get angry with the labels for stuff like this, it means next time the labels will try to push a law like SOPA "in the name of the artists" - the artists will be there and call them on their BS, and say the labels are representing nobody but themselves. I predict this will become fun to watch.
This is really really messed up. Besides the usual patent troll options of:

- (costly) settle

- (costly) fight

There is now a third option of:

- (profitable!) join the bandwagon, not get sued (by this particular company), strengthen your own IP defence position by gaining licenses to the entire portfolio that was threatening you in the first place. There's even profit-share for settlement revenue!(Edit: profit-share might be for "board" seats only, but it sounds like it costs IP contributions to get in anyway.) All for a low low cost of transferring over some patents (that are just licensed right back to you). Of course this just enables more of the other companies to get sued.

This has a potential to get really out of hand, really fast. :(
So you are saying that when you replied to a group MMS, it didn't only send it to one person? Have you tried this on a feature phone? I believe this is the same thing of which you speak, but generalized about MMS: http://omaskon.wordpress.com/2011/06/22/caution-when-replyin...

I always thought what you turn on or off is the UI for the grouped message roll up for all subsequent replies. You can't opt out of Group Messages that are MMS because they are Group MMS.

¿Am I misunderstanding?

Edit: 1st link was about a Blackberry w/ Group MMS. Here is one for an Android phone w/ Group MMS: http://www.droidforums.net/forum/htc-rezound/183344-replying...
As much as I enjoy developing in dynamic, interpreted languages with a repl, I think this is a perfectly valid perspective. If a few seconds savings per compile is really multiplying out to a significant chunk of time, maybe it wouldn't hurt to take a more meditative approach to the code.
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Does the signal processing tech enable a Guitar Hero with actual guitars?

A problem I found with guitar hero is latency (actually, with the drums, where the discrepancy is more obvious, because you can hear both); a common response I've heard from professional drummers is that these drum games are no right (including from standalone arcade versions).

Is the iPad, as a platform very concerned with minimizing latency for UX, in a position to address this?
Kim is not one to back down easily, if ever. He loves to win. He placed first in the infamous Gumball 3000 rally twice, and on one occasion faced a certain loss so drove down a packed pedestrian promenade honking everyone out of his way (see around 9 minutes into http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIXYuusRIxA ). What a guy.

In http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boSUCzJB2Gw#t=6m35s you can see him make an almost impossible gap in traffic at high speed, actually clipping another car, and.. he keeps on rolling :-) Not a guy I'd want to be taking on, that's for sure.
Neither can $15k in credit-card debt racked up eating at fancy restaurants, yet that is dischargeable in bankruptcy.
To be honest, I don't think it really matters. The point is, Universal is blocking access to content they (allegedly - I don't know if the artists involved have copyright assignment agreements or something) don't own. Whether or not this was intentional, it shows that the system is broken, and that we cannot afford to give them any more power than they already have.
> Forking the project is less than ideal.

Except when the author of the project says he won't roll Win32 support into mainline development. Then it's the only option, but it's an option available solely because the author open-sourced his code under a license that allows it. Which is awesome.

> Client libraries will have to spend time making sure they
> comply with both versions

I'm not sure that's the case. If I'm writing a Redis library (say Resque), I'm going to ensure it works with Redis. If it's also usable on Windows because of redis-win32, awesome, but that's not something I'd go out of my way to ensure.

> development in general will slow as each project will have fewer total
> devs.

What? Why? Why would a project have fewer devs? Are you assuming some developers will work only on redis-win32 and not on mainline Redis? I don't think that follows -- changes to mainline Redis will probably be merged downstream into the win32 fork by that fork's maintainers, who wouldn't otherwise be working on Redis.
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Which category?
You should really have a Team page
I did say "which sounds to be the only thing redis would actually be wanting for once ported to libuv, as this patch does", a critical aside that you seem to have ignored.
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I now want to learn guitar. This is great. It is like Guitar Hero (which I was absolutely addicted to for a while) except it uses the real guitar. Can't wait till this launches in the U.S. I'm wondering if when you add more instruments if you need 2 ipads or if you can play in the same room with one ipad and 2 instruments.
In the long term I think we need both 2to3 and 3to2, but for now 2to3 is more important. As long as both my dependencies and the users of my library are mostly on 2.x, I want that to be my primary development platform. If the only way to support both platforms was to do most of my work in python 3 and then backport to 2.x, I'd have never gotten started because that's too much of a change to take on at once. 2to3 gives me a way to support 3.x now (even as a second class citizen), and then a path to flip things around and make 3.x the primary platform when I'm ready.
Have you seen Rocksmith?

http://rocksmith.ubi.com/rocksmith/en-US/home/

It is a guitar hero for real guitars. They address latency issues as well. I bought it on black friday and am amazed...
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For several months now I've set myself the rule that I only access FB from home; I've broken this rule only rarely and it's been remarkably successful at toning down the constant-checking behaviour---even when I'm at home. Because I've broken the "24-hour-IV-feed" nature of it, I've found that even when I have access to it I tend to spend a little while, check my updates, read a few things off the top of the feed, and then log out. And then I do other things.

Very helpful, and a nice compromise that stops short of "quitting facebook".
Nobody really calls themselves an "idea person" unless they actually have no real-world entrepreneurial experience to bring the table. It's like wrapping yourself in a giant red flag that says "I'M A USELESS LEECH".

Did Mark Zuckerberg not conceive of the idea of Facebook?

There was no "idea person" behind Facebook or Twitter. They were founded by the engineers who came up with the idea and built the product. Nearly all successful technology companies are founded by engineers.
Apparently being a nutter gets you different results from a Bloomberg terminal than everybody else.

Who knew?
Cool. If only they would integrate this with statistical research methods that offers the “geeks“ info about themselves based on the photos, logos, designs, etc. that they chose. I once participated in a study similar to that at University and it was quite interesting. A photographical Myers-Briggs… my $.02
I don't know - the nullification of the 4th Amendment thanks to the Patriot Act, and the recently voted 93-7 NDAA law that allows US military to arrest American citizens indefinitely without due process, is a pretty good start for totalitarianism don't you think?

And please don't use the argument "but if you didn't do anything wrong, then you have nothing to fear" because that completely misses the point.
I like the very clean design. I get annoyed with some of the flashy plugins that have tons of options, get really complicated, and are 10's of KB in size. This one is simple and clean. Well done.

One a site note... for the duration example, is it possible to make columns to line up the time and duration in columns rather than just with spaces? I have some auto-suggest code where I'd like to make two columns that are aligned rather than just with spaces.
While I don't agree with what they did here (or SOPA), I have a problem getting on the same side as a site that thinks piracy does no damage to the copyright holder.
Will the new managers be taking the test too?
I am just curious ;)
It seems to me that there is a large luck factor involved. I submitted an app a month ago, and it just got approved today.

The reason for the delay?

My service is invitation only. I had a 'login' and a 'request invite' screen in the app. The 'request invite' screen accepted the email address of the user requesting the invite.

Apple said 'We do not permit invitation only apps on the app store. Please remove the request invite button'. I tried arguing with them, citing popular apps (like pinterest) which behave identically.

But to no avail. I had to remove the button before they approved the process.

Apple were really thorough. They actually logged in using the credentials I provided and played with the whole end to end service.

They even called me to explain their original rejection.

So I was both impressed by their thoroughness, and miffed by their lack of standards.

On the whole, I don't like this approval process. It seems whimsical and is not good for the small-guys: sometimes they land hard on us, or at other times let total crap in, which devalues the trust people have on non-popular apps in general.
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Are you really suggesting that a few ethnic diseases would render the Canadian healthcare system unworkable? I find it very hard to believe that a few more cases sickle cell or whatever would have that kind of effect.
Yeah it does. It is a relief that the search actually finally works in win7 so no one has to care about the uselessly horrible menus and dialogs fixing the control panel.
But who will regularly review the policy on reviewing the policy on regular review of policies?
If a boot does it, then it is much more difficult to pin the crime on any one person, therefore much less likely to result in any consequences for any of the guilty parties.
I'm not bashing Fog Creek, you guys make cool products.

When you decided to write an application in .NET, meant to be run on Windows, why did you also decide to use an in-memory datastore that doesn't run on Windows? That seems like a really bad design decision for that product.
Bash all you want but this is why we need universal healthcare. We can't have campaigns like this for every person but I strongly believe that everyone is entitled to a better life. My hope is that stories like this will raise awareness of why universal healthcare is sorely needed.

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I have had the exact same experience, though my rejections were more legalese like: "we don't accept invitation request screens in apps".

But it did take 3 rejections spanning a month before I got through.
> Ever considered moving back to the states now that you're established?

Not without a Green Card. I'm Canadian, not American, and the constraints that you have to live under on an H-1B visa whilst in the multi-year wait for a GC are IMO intolerable.

I may complain about the high cost of living in Australia compared to the US, but I am thankful for much greater personal freedom I have--although that's mostly thanks to my Aussie wife. :)
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> Are you sure about that? I like NaCl.

Sorry if I wasn't clear before, when I said "no one but Google thinks NaCl is good for the web", I was talking in the context of browser makers. I meant the fact that Google is the only browser maker that thinks NaCl is good for the web.

> Web apps and games are not going away, and I think it's clear that we need something easier to statically optimize than JavaScript as the runtime system for the web.

We can do that in a portable, standards-based way without a complete break like NaCl with its downsides.

Consider what the PyPy compiler does to RPython: It compiles RPython, a subset of Python, down to C, by statically discovering all the types and so forth. The same can be done for JavaScript, since the performance-sensitive code people are writing is almost always statically-typed (but implicitly, without writing types) anyhow, just like RPython.

In fact we are already moving towards that now, with technologies like the global type analysis in SpiderMonkey TI. With a few more years of work, that approach should make performance-sensitive JavaScript as fast as we need it to be. There is no technical impossibility here, it just takes time - we are half-way there, with things like RPython showing this is definitely feasible.
What the fuck, downvoters. Seriously, health insurance is regulated differently on a state to state level, and some states have more consumer-friendly laws than others on the matter.
To those wondering "why"? He's creating artificial crowding in a very niche market, which will ultimately deter competitors, effectively creating a monopoly for him in that niche.
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HackerNews makes me sad sometimes, too. Seeing everyone's successes, silly stories with the gang, witty blog post, mind-blowing hockey-stick-shaped-charts of "how we got to our 900 millionth user!" ... I'm working 12 hour days doing like 11 jobs, making just enough money to convince myself "in just a few months" I'll find that thing that ticks and then it'll be us making hockey-stick-shaped-growth-charts and finally buying that island ive had my eye on... but even then, the island isn't totally private, so i should probably work harder then i can get a bigger and more private island, one that is fire-resistant and erosion-proof. But shit, look, is that guy competing with me? Do I need to burn his island down? Are there enough customers? Where's the money gone? Wait, why aren't there any customers? Where's all this retail revenue going? I don't see them in the stores, the postal service can barely make ends meet (must not be ecommerce), and then the search volume is low, too, but the customers are coming in, we're selling stuff, we promise... not in America, you're not.

........

I've noticed that by cutting out HN, I am happier and feel more positive about my business.
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