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I think that's a pretty strong argument in favor of piracy being a distribution problem that's solvable by better legitimate infrastructure. People take the path of least resistance. iTunes, Netflix, and Steam are all wildly successful because they've made it painless to obtain music, movies, and games - enough so that people use and prefer them over mechanisms that let them pirate the same content for free.
right. maybe you need to address that then.

because in your hero section all I see is a) big picture of email-looking app, then b) text that says "email ticketing"

really makes me think that it's just an email client with some bells on it. what's the benefit of Support Bee? Tell me that. You say it doesn't kill my human face but how do I understand what that means from the video thumbnail? (there aren't even many faces on the video thumbnail, so now I'm really confused).

Perhaps everything becomes super clear when you watch the video but that's not good enough. I need to be interested enough to want to watch the video in the first place.
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You might be able to do it with a random subset, but your accuracy would not be as good. For companies with this much data, 0.1% increase (or decrease) can cost millions. If you use a random subset, you won't be able to accurately find this teeny little variation/
Because the bribery is done completely in the open and legally. You get campaign contributions or a cushy contractor position worth millions to you personally. It's not illegal so "exposing" the companies engaging in this behavior won't have much effect on them.
Fedora has a KDE spin and I've been using it for something under a year. The reason I chose KDE over gnome was that I could configure things. Gnome2 (and even 3) has almost no configuration (accessible to user via the UI at least). It's almost like Chrome.

But it's still nowhere close to perfect or even fine. It's broken in many places. But it might be Fedora's fault, didn't try it on any other distro.
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How about you back up calling it nonsense?
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Yeah, Mario Kart is infamous for it's rubber banding. It's possibly a case study in going too far - it's prominent to the point that almost all players notice it. And it's frustrating to get spammed with blue shells when you're in the lead and not be able to do anything about it. Ideally, as the article says, you'd never notice.
well, OK let's take a guess at median filesize 4KB [1]. Then the 4KB cluster wastes some space only for half of the files whereas 16 KB wastes space for bigger proportion plus they waste additional 12KB for 50% of the files.

On the other hand the paper also shows how ridiculous it is to talk about the wasted space - look at figure 14, files smaller than 16KB occupy ~1% of all space. Even if we waste space 4:1 it's still ridiculously small amount of space

[1] http://www.usenix.org/events/fast11/tech/full_papers/Meyer.p...
I learned my lesson about never talking about the security flaws i found in school.

Our web access went over secured proxy servers, which determined via our windows login which services to allow or disallow us.
As our deputy rector considered himself an open IT advocate, he ensured all browsers we're installed on all machines, including Opera. Back then Opera couldn't use the Windows login to auth with the proxy server, which he "fixed" by using a pre-configured user which just had student rights.

As i'd never use opera i didn't notice it until one of my teachers tried to block me from using any webmail client as a way to transfer files to the school pc.

Trying different things i got the tip from a classmate to start opera. I was struck by a preentered login box which i was told to just hit ok. I got curious and inspected the fields. The loginname had admin in it, so i thought the password might be used elsewhere...

Well, i've seen our deputy rector on our central win 2003 server via windows remote desktop before, so i connected to it, using the user and pass from opera and logged in to an open session on the server which stored all critical school data, including grades of all students attending that school and the transfer tool to send the grades to the statewide server which would make the grades final.

As it was so ridiculously easy i got scared that someone from my class would do the same and then get into deeper trouble for actually trying to change grades or something, i immediately went to our deputy rector and told him all about it.

He banned me from using school pc's for the rest of the year and afterwards all teachers were told to keep their eyes on what i was doing on the school pcs...
I've created a WFOE (Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise) in Shanghai. The red tape is incredible and it took us almost 6 months to complete the process. Also, in between the law changed and employees became significantly more expensive due to the new social security law...

As a software development consulting company, the pro is that there's a big market but if you want to do your own product then HK is the way to go...

Launching a web based product in China is dangerous because it's very hard to predict what will happen (you could be shut down by the government for one reason or another). Also cost of living and salary wise, Shanghai is anything but cheap (housing is cheaper than hong kong but the rest is not that much cheaper).

For the internet connection, it's manageable when using a ssh tunnel to a private server in the US... But it's a bit of pain (without that and tsocks even doing a bundle install in ruby takes a very long time and often times out)
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Sadly, "educated" people aren't the people you need to make aware of this.

By "educated", I'm not inferring that that "un-educated" people are stupid or ignorant, simply un-aware of the issue by virtue of not being part of "that world". I would hazard a guess that people with a passion for Wikipedia are probably the kind of people who already know what SOPA is and why it's a batshit crazy idea.
Uh, what? You're claiming that those in congress are doing great things for us and the culture of greed and corruption is a perpetuated lie? Surely I've misread what you're saying because I can't imagine any person intelligent enough to even post online would say something so ridiculous.
He listed so many must-have items that virtually no non-Zelda game will hit all of them.

One entire series that was obviously Zelda-inspired (in both 2d and 3d incarnations) was The Legacy of Kain games. Blood Omen played very much like a 2d Zelda and Soul Reaver 1&2 played very much like a 3d Zelda.

After those games the series kind of switched gears into Devil May Cry territory, but the first 3 games were very Zeldaish, only with a dark emo coat of paint.
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> For one data point: as an employer, if someone asked me that in a job interview I'd think they were complete mercenaries and highly distrustful/cynical.

Now this is interesting. What triggers that reaction? Is it asking for the particular documents, or is it the request for meaningful information?

> Perhaps 50% of the people we interview don't end up getting a position. What if you take that info and share it with competitors, or plaster it on TechCrunch?

Good point, and looking at it from your perspective, sure, I'd be reluctant to open the kimono too. The main thing that stops me, since we're swapping data points, is that it would be the wrong thing to do. Betraying confidences is both unethical and often contrary to the protections of common law.

> This is particularly true if this was a follow up to a previous question (which is borderline) about how many months of cash were in the bank.

If you then smiled and cut me short, I'd be suspicious. It sounds like we both lost.
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That problem is easy to fix. The problem it won't fix is that the real bribery is when these guys are given jobs in the same industry for outrageous salaries (compared to market for similar positions).
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Move the headline text to the middle of the page (or into the box that holds the video). Choose a better font combination.

Don't make your sign up button Red. Make it green or blue. Red means "Delete" or "Cancel" or "Eject" or "Make wings fall off".

Lose the "our customers" bit. They're not well known, so they don't infer anything. Put a screen shot gallery there instead.

Product looks OK thought. It's not something I know much about, but it looks OK.
The funny thing is that the screenshot (http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7160/6532001299_e08f052149_b.j...) on which this post is based is actually a request of making and unavoidable decision (how the phone should present itself to the computer plugged via USB), and the "clutter" is a clear description what both options mean.
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Also interesting is this deconstruction of Super Mario World's camera logic. I never noticed so much thought was put into something as trivial sounding as camera movement.

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It looks like Canonical are rolling out power-saving kernel patches pretty aggressively. It's up to the distro which kernel features to enable, especially when it comes to testing new ones.
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Not a chance. Election is coming up and we're talking about 100s of millions of dollars of contributions from the entertainment industry. He'll sign it.

On the other hand, if he veto's maybe we can make up the difference. I'd be happy to contribute to a president who is a proven proponent of internet liberty. I just don't have the bankroll of the hollywood execs. Maybe some of the recent internet billionaires can fill in the gaps.
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I remember a study about language learning that concluded that it's a matter of age and that the older you get the more efficient you learn by using a systematic top-down approach. On the other hand, immersion over a longer period of time doesn't guarantee you make any advancement.
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Heroku has very much to offer for shops that don't have much of an ops team. They solve a couple of problems quite nicely:

- Deployment (git push)
- Backups
- Database maintenance
- Database Backups
- Lots and lots of addons that are simple to install and provide consolidated billing.
- No server-maintenance at all.

Especially the last point is something that gets underestimated a lot IMHO. Having a linode VPS implies that you have to take care of that box, which is a major pain if you're not an ops guy. It's simple for people that do ops, but sooner or later I always find myself tangled up in some special sort of (Linux/BSD/...) problem that takes me hours to solve, hours I could spend much more efficiently in building a new feature. Having a single VPS won't cut it if you're trying to have a load-balanced setup that scales out when needed. You need at least two. And maybe a database. And then, the moment your app takes off, you'll need to provision servers faster than you can manually, so you need scripting. Go learn puppet. More time gone.

So while it is expensive, there's a lot of teams that benefit tremendously from using an expensive service that solves that whole sort of problems. And it's not that expensive either. If your app is somewhat conservative in what it does, you probably can get 5-10req/sec on a single worker.
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Lol, this is awesome. Now, if only I needed to film an episode of CSI, Die Hard 8, or some other drama that happened to have a hacker ruining the world...

For what it is worth, I was expecting to be further informed on how my language choice was not appropriate and how fortran was the one true language.
I think most current games already strike a good balance with the use of ratings, bonus quests and achievements. Basically anybody is able to complete the game by simply spending 8-40 hours playing, but getting a perfect rating, completing all the hidden quests and completing all the achievements will take the same sort of skill and dedication that those fabled games of old required.

As an old-timer with a job and a family I really appreciate being able to enjoy and make progress in games despite only having a couple of hours a week to play.
Oh man, bugging people in pine with talk was the worst/best. Kids, it was a world in which someone could destroy your email session and spray characters all over the screen just by IM-ing you. Everyone knew how to do it, and everyone checked in on one another all the time (using who or w of course), so the odds against your completing a long email and sending it before someone wrecked your pine session were pretty long. The really hardcore kids figured out how to compose emails in pico or vi and then mail them from mail.

A year or two later everyone started using gopher and Mosaic and Eudora instead, which was obviously way more civilized.
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I enjoyed Secret of Mana a lot, but,

(1) the combat was unsophisticated, for the most part you kind of button mashed;

(2) the magic spells mostly all did the same thing;

(3) the world didn't have a lot of topography, and mostly you used the cannons to jump from one area to another;

(4) there were not a lot of puzzles in the dungeons, and those that existed were not as sophisticated as in Zelda.

I admired SOM for its lush visuals, dazzling soundtrack, expansive world, and compelling story. But to me it did not have the feeling of getting the small details right. Zelda, in contrast, was pitch-perfect on the small scale (IMHO).
I mentioned that in a context of application which is crossplatform already and when something is being developed, it affects (in most cases anyways) all platforms in the same way - so this limitation is "built-in" already.
how is not being able to serve everyone who wants to buy one a problem?

This is a charity with a very clear goal:

"promote the study of computer science and related topics, especially at school level, and to put the fun back into learning computing"

as long as they can achieve that they are a success and not being a business means they can gladly "ignore" everyone else.

I really want one (or three) but if they are hit but astonishing demand and decide to give priority to those who will serve they overall purpose the best and not me I'm fine with it. I will not start complaining all over the interweb and accuse them of being a failure.
It's true that The Legend of Zelda has 25 carryable items (see http://www.zeldadungeon.net/Zelda01-the-legend-of-zelda-item...). But it also has a bunch of other items: hearts, heart containers, fairies, pieces of Triforce, blue and red rupees, the magical clock, possibly other things (this is off the top of my head). That's 32 items, which is I think the count in the article. Of those, at least 18 are classes of things (eg "key", "sword", "potion", "health"). Each class has a unique function (almost -- the wand is arguable). By comparison, half of Doom's items are the same class ("gun"), and most of the others fall into one of the two classes "health" and "armour". I think the OP's point is quite well made here: Zelda, even the first one, made in 1986), puts a huge emphasis on unique items and incorporates them into puzzles.
Why is the Hobbit being filmed in 3D ?

If Red has made 3D more common then I regret that part happening, extra especially if it changes the script or action just to appeal to the effects.
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Edit: Upon further review, the best part of all of this is the various conversations cited in the blog and especially the comments there.
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> I think I'm one of the five people on HN who do not hold Zelda as the pinnacle of gaming.

You're not alone, I find the Zelda series a handholding, restricted, and shallow experience. Ironically it's the opposite of what is described here. I've played a bunch of The Legend of Zelda and Zelda II (can't even be bothered to look the name up) on NES, and completed A Link to the Past, Link's Awakening and Ocarina of Time (at that point I just stopped caring) when I was bored playing Chrono Trigger for the nth time (I think it was n=8 or so) or some other games in the corresponding era. The whole time I expected something to happen, really, anything, but there was nothing remotely like the magic countless people recommending them to me seemed to experience.

> I'm finding that this response is growing rather uncontrollably and frighteningly I could probably write an entire blog response to this article.

I was myself writing a comment earlier that turned into an article draft.
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And the companies ability to pay that paycheck every Friday are of critical importance. We are all investors either with our money or our time (a paycheck is just a return on a time investment). I don't invest either without plenty of research.
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