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The interesting thing about the Zynga approach is not the copying but the hypocrisy

From the memo

"A few of you have asked how our approach to genres relates to the situation we faced with Vostu. There are rules of engagement in our industry. Companies have to respect each other’s legal and IP ownership rights in the form of copyrights and trademarks. In the case of Vostu, you can see for yourself that Vostu crossed the line and chose to use our copyrighted IP and artwork. That’s different than competing to build the best product or out-innovate us in the City category."

So copying others artwork is ok when Zynga does it to others, but not when others do it to them.

See "Zynga stole everything they are suing us for Says Vostu" http://www.businessinsider.com/vostu-zynga-stole-everything-...
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"It is good that war is so terrible - lest we should grow too fond of it." -- Robert E. Lee
I agree with the moving fast part, sometimes you need to just get something "working" to be able to work on another piece.

You need to watch out for Technical Debt though, It will catch up to you eventually.
Right click on the files/folders you want to share read-only, go to the Dropbox sub-menu, and click "get shareable link". I use it all the time. I think it's exactly what you're describing?
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Maybe I'm in the minority but I like the beach photo.
I agree that it is not the best comparison. It is the best I could come up with... The problem might be that I compared out of context - a texture is not very different from a painting (in theory, physical anomalies aside) - I did not intent to compare paintings to complete games. However, the interactivity results from the combination of the textures ("static part", somewhat comparable to paintings) with the code (making the textures interactive, animating them etc.). So I would come to the conclusion that the interactive part has been shared freely.
Repeat: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=934669
Making collections is cheap. Having one or two extra collections and joining data manually when needed isn't too bad. Then business requirements change and management makes you add new features, so you add more collections. One morning you show up to work and realize you're doing all of your joins and aggregates manually. You start devising a plan to switch back to a relational database...
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Nice site.

When I first saw the "ad" for a developer in New York on the bottom right of the site I thought to myself: "Wow, and he's already found a business model."

It took me a second to figure out that it was the site's creator's info.
Could consider colour coding (backgrounds of the tiles) based on number of comments or points, or rough categories based on keywords. That'd provide a quick way for people to evaluate the links visually.
add endless scroll and screenshots.
I read it but i dont have seziures or epilipsy, i dont have any mental disorders that im aware of, i know the source of de ja vu is my dreams, and its not a feeling, its a for sure thing ive been in certain places. Im interested in being studied if this continues
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I'm glad that the Russian Government did not bail out of this project in the end, and instead decided to see it through. I only wish more tax dollars were spent towards research, rather than fighting.
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JG Wentworth has received 14 complaints over the last 12 months and 29 complaints over the past 36 months. The increased number of complaints within the last 12 months could be due to the merger with Peachtree.
You can easily drop the oldest month every 1st using a delete statement.

Queries can be fast with indexes without adding complexity.
For someone worth close to $30b, compromising on things like flying and security seems silly. Amazed they aren't spending more.
Just to let you know that if I have javascript disabled (noscript) on my browser, most of your links for the portfolio don't work. Don't know if it matters in the real world, but just a heads up.
FYI for iPad there is Yoot Tower. It's SimTower plus a little. A bit buggy though.
Sounds like 2nd quarter, maybe May.
newLisp actually looks pretty cool. Wish it had the speed of the other lisps but I guess it's a small price to pay.
I doubt she was responsible for the doubling of profits. (And what of all the other employees...)
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>I'm wondering if it is possible to register as a business in the US or even just have a US bank account?

maybe possible, if your customers don't mind paying in american dollars.
By Sean Parker's advice.
War is the father of all and king of all, who manifested some as gods and some as men, who made some slaves and some freemen.

--Heraclitus
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well sorry for it not being as interesting as i thought...
Yeah, it is unfortunate how terribly documented they are. Not sure what you mean by difficult to distribute though. You either load the file from VimL or you embed the code in VimL. You distribute it like any Vim plugin.

The documentation for the interfaces serves as decent reference material. What is really lacking is a long tutorial on the subject that is in an easy to find place.
That's a great idea. Just like the draft. There could even be a Constitutional boot camp, so you can learn how to be a member of Congress.
It appears that you're correct, but I'm still having a hard time believing that the legal departments of almost every major company make the same mistake. That makes me think that there is something we're missing.
That article is over a year old (January 2011). Here's a newer one from 18 January 2012:

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/01/all-eyes-o...

As a matter of fact, based on their drilling rate, they should have reached it by now.
When I see the first example -- comments as a collection of the post document -- the first thing I think of is that editing a comment requires one to retrieve the document, edit it, then save it back.

Is there some sort of repair process in mongo that prevents destructive updates in the case of 2 concurrent writes?
Yeah, that's a good idea. that would make it easier to sort visually, i've got to add something to make it easier to read and select.
with the way copyright works, is the notice necessary at all? if you put the wrong date at the bottom of your website, it doesn't invalidate your copyright. i could put © 2047 at the bottom of my site if i wanted to.
> the team came up with new, ecologically safe methods of probing the lake

Let's hope that these will work. ’Technical difficulties‘ reported make it look like the equipment may not have enough precision to keep it clean.
yeah, this weekend!
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yeah, i will probably end up cleaning it up and changing some code
LOL, gold! I would buy that one too. As for the actual posters for sale, if people actually do want these on their walls, just type it in notepad and hit print. I'd sooner opt for a cheesy new age motivational slogan than Zuck-wisdom, but then I'm not a Facebook loyal.
The network and habit effects for this kind of online business are incredible. Everyone has been expecting Yahoo to die for ages now but it keeps on churning out ~$5B in revenue and ~$1B in profit year after year and that is only using email lock-in and legacy home page sets. My guess is that social graph lock-in is even more effective. BTW, it was hardly "first mover", Zuck was worried about being "Friendstered" from the very beginning, thus the slow roll out college by college and the monstrous investments in infrastructure. I very much doubt that the social graph (family and friends) is extractable from Facebook at this point.
It's reasonably easy to do this with Stripe today, there's no reason you have to send a "charge" their way until it's accumulated enough to be worthwhile.
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They claim it is BSD for interface and GPL for dbms, but the accompanying documentation seems to describe it more like MySQL-style GPL.
Ah, we've run some experiments with that kind of RSS or history search, but haven't shipped anything.

The use case for Facebook is people who want to search for stuff their friends like. As I said, that's not me, and you said it wasn't you, but you probably know some friends for whom that sort of thing matters.
Norman Mailer describes this, in "The White Man Unburdened":

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2003/jul/17/the-whi...

In a nutshell, Mailer argues that the average, working-class white man was robbed of relevance, having to compete with women & minorities for education, athletics and work, often lagging behind. He cites their diminishing athletic performance, and the dwindling number of top-class white sportsmen.

Mailer argues the Iraq war gave them something to cheer.
A post that just says "interesting" is noise, so people will downvote it.
Steam support is garbage. I assume from their responses in the past that Steam Support consists of one guy who does not speak English who they keep in a darkened room, mostly drunk, and occasionally every fourth message gets through. They make money hand over fist but refuse to provide even a modicum of service. I purchased Jamestown, the space shooter, and the download did not work correctly. It took more than a week of repeated harassment before Steam support would respond to any question. In between replies was at least 2 days every time, sometimes more. The frustrating part is that they had the solution right there. It was something a call center could have worked out in 45 seconds. I think we should hold their feet to the fire to provide better service or stop buying stuff on Steam because the current level of support in unacceptable.
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I'm so glad my gut told me not to buy stock in Zynga.
I agree with what people say about a Facebook phone. They might offer a smartphone for a heavily subsidized price and/or a feature phone for free. They might even offer free unlimited data, the catch for either model (and the data) is the that you log in with Facebook first thing, and maybe they'll restrict you to using only Facebook services, like messenger.
See also http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/stem-cells-for-... for a good summary. Sounds promising.
Whoops, I moved media to S3, should work again
I would say it is the case.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Return - Allows almost any Jew or relative of a Jew to migrate to Israel and quickly gain citizenship.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship_and_Entry_into_Isra... - prevents residents of Iran, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen and areas governed by the Palestinian Authority from automatically gaining residency and citizenship through family reunion and marriage.
I like Vim but using Clojure forces you to deal with Java at some point - and having auto complete is crucial to me. VimClojure isn't really good in advanced functionality, eg. autocomplete is clunky and runing things in REPL can block VIM if your REPL command blocks. I couldn't even get emacs to work with Clojure and I don't like the CTR+* interface so I didn't spend much time on it. In the end IntellJ + La Clojure + Lein plugin + IdeaVim works perfect, you have a good REPL, autocomplete and debugging.
Who gives a crap about Netflix when you're the secret masters of the most powerful nation on the planet?
you should make it more obvious how to contribute or otherwise allow the user to cause more shows and stuff to appear.
Film schools would make a good first port of call indeed. They may not give the largest number of users to spread the idea though.

A lot of people want to be part of a movie. They also want to have their own reality show. Since in a sense everyone's personal reality is already shooting, why not allow for that?

http://thereality.is
https://github.com/ervandew/supertab seems nice for completing based on the current context. I seem to recall VimClojure having some kind of completion, but don't hold me to that.

Also, like I said in the blog post, there is nothing wrong with your setup if you are productive and happy with it.
It isn’t. Copyright is automatic.
Perhaps this will convince you: http://youtu.be/bKGhvKyjgLY
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By how not to write a "REST" API you mean don't use Microsoft right? Sorry, I couldn't resist a good .NET bashing.
Yeh I know it's a pretty crusty build. Just relying on the cargo collective cms, as I've had no time to build something myself.
Japan Plans To Merge Major Science Bodies
Nice to know. I believed I was alone in thinking: "if gotos and self-modifying code got such bad rep in the seventies, why is Lisp's ability to treat data as code considered any better? How is it different from other language's much derided 'eval'?".

Purity and functional style, I get, but writing code "on the fly" by treating data as code seemed to me a bad style (powerful, yes, but still bad).
There's a great book called War by Sebastian Junger, the author of the perfect storm. It follows soldiers fighting in the most dangerous parts of Afghanistan.

I wrote a post quoting some of my favorite sections but the one I remember most is this:

These hillsides of loose shale and holly trees are where the men feel not most _alive_ - that you can get skydiving - but most utilized. The most necessary. The most clear and certain and purposeful. If young men could get that feeling at home, no one would ever want to go to war again, but they can't.
You haven't told me how to do a `!!` in fish. (I do understand that it re-executes the previous command). I am used to using this in other shells like bash and zsh, and would like to know if there's some way of doing it in fish.
Sorry -- video fixed, dropbox capped the bandwidth. It's on S3 now, should be working.
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having to fill out a form to see ideas is a turn off.
I wouldn't use "#pragma once", but it's also a straightforward thing to change later. If that turns out to be the only thing you need to refactor away from later as the project evolves, you're doing great.
Unless you actually want to use a computer to do work.
Zuck has never struck me as a particularly motivating individual, but I only know his tv personality side..
I disagree. I'm comparing Google AdWords and Facebook (http://blog.foundrs.com/2012/02/02/why-ill-buy-facebook-stoc...), and I don't see any virality with Google. So I'd worry about Google's sustainability before Facebook's.

So actually I don't worry about either company's continued success. Both Google and Facebook are here to stay and grow even bigger.
Ask HN: 4-Lua JVM implementations, which is best? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3536996
Hope they won't find any Thing they're not looking for.

(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/ and 2011 prequel http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0905372/)
This story parallels my own on a nearly-disturbing number of levels. Exactly the same experience. I never thought I'd switch from emacs, then I finally gave vim a good shot (switched for two weeks and made a very conscious effort to use it effectively), and was blown away by how much faster I could edit text.
I'm 100% with you on that one. That was my biggest stumbling block in college, simply remembering basic algebra. The online resources were more effectual than my professors on teaching a subject.
I have one suggestion: for the browser test mode, allow invalid CC numbers (or, provide a test CC number), so one doesn't have to go and find and type in a real-life credit card, to try it out

4242424242424242 with any three digit number for the CVC
Copyright is automatic where it is automatic. In the United States you don't need a copyright statement. Also, no matter where you're from, "all rights reserved" is meaningless (post-Berne Convention).
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It lets you name resources and open communications channels to them, yes. It even preserves message boundaries, as I recall.
Disclaimer: I don't use any Zynga products nor have I ever.

With regard to the situation, I don't think Zynga gets nearly enough credit for its success. It is not that easy to copy software and get the same degree of success. Yet Zynga routinely copies and gets greater success. There is something there that deserves attention.

Zynga has operational chops that should not be underestimated. Whatever it is doing is cutting edge and enough of an advantage Zynga can even flourish doing nothing but blatantly derivative designs.

Eventually, those operational practices will spread to other game studios that do original designs and it will be harder for Zynga to do as well. But much like McDonalds, Zynga could enjoy its market superiority for a long time to come as long as it continues to innovate operationally even if it lags creatively.
These are too small (11x17? why wouldn't I just print them at the office?) I just ordered larger versions on vistaprint.
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There are tons of comments saying that copying these games is wrong and imoral, but no one is explaining why it is so wrong and imoral.

Please explain to me why, because I literally don't get why it is so wrong and imoral.

Disclaimer: I don't work for Zynga, but I do copy the shit out of stuff.
The Americans will always do the right thing - after they have exhausted all other options.
- Churchill
I might be wrong. But aren't those pictures copyrighted?
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Yes, you've missed the relatively consistent support of sites like Pirate Bay, which commercially benefit from the distribution of copyrighted material.
Did we expect them to go quietly into the night?
That is; the same way as before just without the X.
Eeeeeh, I think it's one of those executive privilege things.

1) If he's already flying domestically and first class, that shaves what? An hour? Please.

2) The company doesn't have to charter a jet to fly friends and family.

So… let's just call it for the luxury that it is. They're not strapped for cash, after all.

(Besides, just how liquid is Mark Zuckerberg? He's only a billionaire on paper, right?)
Let's make that statement only a hair more general:

> We evolve genres by making [apps] free, ..., accessible, and highest quality.

This is arguably what Internet Explorer did to Netscape. The "genre" of web browsers did, in fact, evolve quite a bit in response.
Obviously they think a great design matters or they wouldn't steal them.
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I'm 100% with you here. I've been arguing that there's a whole lot of gray area when it comes to copyright, IP, patents etc. I've seen a lot of people say that most people aren't black or white on the issue but whenever I see a discussion about any of those things here the majority of people express a black or white view. I want to believe that people have nuanced opinions on this but I just don't see it.
Would you mind putting the code on github?
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Interesting. If I were interested in the current recruiting landscape for high school athletes, do you happen to know of any good survey or review-type sources? I'm curious about the context surrounding your company's service.
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My interest was piqued by the mention of "space radar."
I live in Japan and here I have seen some talk/debate of wether or not to join the TPP on TV and in the news. My first time hearing about it was on Japanese TV. Many Japanese are nervous about the effect of IP restrictions on the manga/self-publishing industry in Japan:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Strategic_Economi...

There is a desire not to be left out of an important partnership, but they are wary to end up on the exploitive end of a bad deal. I think everyone is still trying to figure out what is in this thing.
It's not easy to crack a safe, but doing so does not entitle you to the contents.
They could be counting the year it was rendered on your computer. That seems a bit wonky though.
Hey davj,

I'm working away on learning javascript as well (currently fueled by codecademy!) any tips for starting a project like this? I'd be really interested in hearing how you took that first step. Oh and...Interesting little project, I really like it and I admire your drive, but you need some knitted keyboard cover pictures to really make this Pinterest-ish. Haha! Hope to hear back from you.
Very cool to see good reach come from that, do you think it resulted in greater attendance/interest? It seems like the ad you ran reached about 20% of the entire Seattle market with those numbers.
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We're the 7 years of Google vs Facebook, comparing the growth from launch to IPO. Even in 2003, the amount of people and time spent online was far less than it is in 2012.

For example, there are an estimated 2 billion people online today, compared to 360 million in 2000.

The IAB estimated $1.7 billion total spend on online advertising in 4Q 2003. In 2011, over $7 billion in a quarter, a 7x increase. (http://www.iab.net/about_the_iab/recent_press_releases/press...)