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No, this article is talking about the first stage in Pinboard's piece, 'The Monastery':

"You run your site on an 'application platform' like Heroku, Azure, or Google App Engine. You design your application around whatever metaphors and APIs the service lays out, and in return you are veiled from all the mysteries of implementation. You never interact with the computer directly, but upload your code to the platform with the proper incantations and it runs. The orders vary in strictness, with GAE requiring that you purify yourself of all worldly design habits before writing your app, Azure insisting you renounce the demon Unix, and Heroku somewhat more welcoming to the fallen. On all three platforms, when your application needs more resources, you press the 'more resources' button. A lot of fancy sandboxing, monitoring and administration tools come standard, and it's very easy to deploy and test different versions of your app."
The closest you could come is probably an Atto SAS card in a TB enclosure, although that will be expensive.
Fairly obvious reasons.

-price,time,skills

They do not do it intentionally. It just is not worth it, or possible.
I don't think it's accurate to group in ACM and IEEE with Elsevier. Taking from something I said last week, the ACM and IEEE are professional organizations. Their main purpose is to represent the interests of the community of professionals in computing. If they stop charging for articles, they can still exist as an organization. Their members just need to elevate the issue to the point that the larger organization changes its policy.

Elsevier, on the other hand, will cease to exist if they stop charging. Their main purpose - their business model - is to charge for access to their journals. This business model is no longer necessary, and these companies will eventually die.
Very cool I almost gave up hope that the will come out!

Video and Audioquality is very good, you can see the speaker and the slides, all confrence videos should be like this.

I watched "Concurrent Stream Processing", the talk nicly shows how you can build up nice abstraction layers and how easy it is to creat DSLs. There code simular to normal sequence processing but it runns in parallel on a ForkJoin threadpool.
I believe Google has a moral responsibility to fight censorship. I understand your stance, and it makes sense under the assumption that Google should do what's best for themselves (and shareholders), but that's wrong. Following local law doesn't absolve them of that evil.

Edit: In response to having a better idea, Google isn't a powerless agent in this situation. They can take a hard stance without being completely cut out of that country. It may suck short-term, but it creates a better Internet long-term and that matters for them.
* google, gmail & co

* http://bitbucket.org

* http://mixcloud.com

keep it simple, that's how I be.
I wanted to reduce the amount of constantly running computers. I still want a desktop/media center, I wanted to combine that with [ZFS] file server. I'll probably end up running FreeNAS + a desktop. The reason I don't want a FreeBSD or Illumos-based OS as a media center is because of no Netflix streaming support, and Flash performance is poor too.
NoOps is the very first item in Pinboard's piece: "You don't have to spend any time worrying about backups, load balancing, configuration, hardware, or anything except your app."

Pinboard's point of view is vertical within a single organisation, whereas Gigaom's is horizontal across an industry.
Etsy would be very happy to hear from any of these folks. Reach out to us or me.
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No, they'll probably take it to the local Pep-Boys or whatever. Which is even worse.

Far worse.
I assume you're talking about the Anomaly icon, which is the only one without gameplay (and is also the third icon, but maybe that changed). I'm not sure why you'd base your opinion of a game, let alone the continued success of the bundle and the indie game industry itself on the content of a single video link. The Humble Bundle continues to provide what it always has, and the game it promotes continue to be created by small independent studios, distributed DRM free on a large number of platforms. The choice of using a cinematic rather than gameplay video hardly impacts these other factors.

If you're concerned about the game itself, it's been out for a while on a number of platforms and is well-reviewed, so finding gameplay videos should not be difficult.
I'd suggest a sophisticated investor would hedge with derivatives in anticipation of the substantial downside risk.

At the $100bn valuation there would likely be far more downside risk than upside, despite the likely initial upside buying. Which could last just a few minutes or hours. With the lower $50-75bn valuation, the initial upside is more likely than with the higher valuation, though a flat pricing band for several weeks or months is more probable. Profit capture would be difficult in this scenario.

* These are general comments on Facebook's valuation and is not investment advice, please consult with a registered investment adviser. :-)
I pre-ordered the Kindle version and it showed up on my phone about a week ago. Haven't finished it, but so far - excellent.
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Wow, great site, thank you so much for creating this. I've been looking for something like this for a while.
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If you look at the list of names, those are largely math and computer science academics - the very people who produce such papers and articles.

I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of how academic journals are structured and managed. The editing, typesetting, handling of communications and such are all done by the academics themselves. And those academics are not paid by the journals.
I'll add my data point as well. I needed a no-brainer payment system. I didn't even have to set up a server - 5 minutes, done.

I've tried on paypal. I can add a PayPal button to my own page but I didn't have a page for my project this time. I would have had to set it all up (again). No, thanks!
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What follows is my 2 cents, all my unsolicited yet thought-out opinion & advice tailored for you. I hope it makes a positive impact.

I see what you're doing. I don't know how successful you are, but it has to be suboptimal. You're publishing books in such a way that you mistakenly believe is optimized for monetary gain -- reusing content, publishing many small books for cheap etc.

Your last book is about how to gain blog viewers, yet you're not doing the right things in order to achieve real success. Market research is the old way. What you need to do today is say something new, talk-worthy, & something that really worked for you.

Make your webpage more navigable, polish your books and give them away for free (and have a paid donation option), market your books effectively, read what Cory Doctorow has to say about publishing success at craphound.com. I would love to read about future experiments with giving polished content away for free.

That you even used a DMCA takedown request tells me that what you write is not interesting. The DMCA is not really there to protect your works, friend. It exists to serve established publishers. You're not one of "them", and you're not going to become one of "them", because "they" don't want you. But no doubt you can be a wildly successful publisher on your own if you do the right things, but first you need to think outside the box.

ps I appreciate this thread we've been building up. I didn't know that you are a publisher yourself. I give you "legal" permission to use my words here on HN for your benefit as long as you give me attribution.
Focus on gameplay rather than graphics.

Which is to say; make a game with compelling and interesting rules that doesn't rely on performance
No, however there are numerous hacking groups that would perform the same task for as little as $1000
You absolutists have really tied their hands. There is no country with a concept of something being more illegal than something else - there is only legal and illegal with (theoretically) higher sentences for worse crimes. Denying the hololcaust in Germany is just as much of a crime as fraud.

I'd hate to be in Google's shoes right now. They can't win. If they keep going in a country despite the laws, they'll just be shut down and then the shareholders (and anyone else with a rational mind) will be miffed. If they follow the law, the shareholders will be happy, but some people in some areas will have their rights trampled on.

I think your fight is with the government passing corrupt laws that everyone is beholden to, not the company following the law like everyone else.

Asking a company to break local laws on principal sounds nice, but in the real world, it isn't gonna happen, for a number of very good reasons.
Every time I hear the term "kill-switch", it instantly lowers my opinion of the developer. Something about it just irks me.
metatables don't involve dynamically mutating / self-modifying data structures. They're more equivalent to javascript's prototype, except slightly more general-purpose. You can easily use them to build an OO system, among other things.
Look into an assumed name, or a DBA. It costs around $100 and takes an hour. (You will need to see the County Clerk at 60 Centre Street).

It doesn't give you much in a way of legalities but it does enable you to open a business banking account, which you can do jointly with your partner. Coupled with a one-pager contract, the business account will establish a business entity separate from your persons and will allow you to keep track of profits and expenses.

You can always convert it to an LLC or a Corp later on, should your app get traction. Good luck.
Jake has an article in the works that will go in to this stuff in much more detail - keep an eye on http://lanyrd.com/blog/ for the link when he finishes it.
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Yes, it seems to be A/B (or maybe multivariant) testing. Tried the site through hidemyass.com and got the numbers running in bottom-top order while loading it directly I got top-bottom order. I hope the creator will publish the results when finished :).
Do you have a "b2b" api so I can host most of the data and services in Parse, then have an external server handle the stuff you can't do? So you call back to my external server when something I'm interested in changes, and my server can push stuff into Parse and to the clients.
We have a box of mobile phones in the office - Jake even had to take them down to the local London Underground station to check how they behaved with no signal (since airplane mode doesn't necessarily behave the same way as a genuine weak or gone signal).
Lua has great C integration, but LuaJIT's is even better. You can natively interface with C code without a recompile, just by defining the C function prototype in Lua, and using it like you would any normal lua function. Better still, LuaJIT can frequently inline the calls to C code, so there's no cross-language marshaling penalty.

Check out http://luajit.org/ext_ffi_tutorial.html
That would never pass, but assuming that it did, it would cause a consumer revolt when people saw the higher prices on their toys (even if it only applied to luxury goods).
I think it was more that Baidu.com is the state sponsored competitor to Google China, and pretty much have been wiping the floor with Google in that country.

That move, claiming they were going to pull out of China because 12 email accounts were hacked (of human rights activists that weren’t even living in China) was pure PR that everyone was more than willing to lap up.

Same thing with that "Microsoft is indexing our results". As soon as you looked at the details, the PR dissolved.
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What a lot of drama over a product that has the same features today that it had yesterday. I like the redesign and it has not affected my workflow at all
The previously mentioned luvit (http://luvit.io) has them (they call them Fibers).
I've used Lua for a couple of personal projects. My main objection to it is that accessing an undefined variable or member returns nil rather than throwing an exception. If you make a typo, you don't find out until you try to call or perform arithmetic on your nil value. Since inserting nil into a table just deletes that key of the table, the use site might be several steps away from the typo.

Other than that, I agree with the other posters here. It's an impressively lightweight and elegant language. It's especially good for embedding: its C integration is next to none, it's easy to sandbox if you want to run untrusted code, and the interpreter doesn't use any global variables.
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Write your code in C++. Use OpenGL 1.x for graphics. This will allow you to easily target pretty much every platform in existence now. People used to use SDL as a general wrapper for OS specific stuff like setting up your window context and getting UI events, though I'm not sure if it's still in vogue now.

That said, writing games is one of the hardest types of software engineering task, in my experience. On top of that, all but the best games tend to have a very short lifespan compared to other kinds of software.

You've really got to love making games to stick around in the field long enough to get good.
If this style of interviewing is so awful, then how do these companies have such great engineering teams?

(1) Companies like yours (Foursquare) hire conservatively to avoid false positives. You can afford to do this because...

(2) Great orgs have selection bias. You receive so many applications that you can afford to toss out all but the best. Put bluntly: only great devs make it to your office for an interview.

(3) Whiteboards are not the only test. We both know that, while Foursquare asks people to code on whiteboards, it isn't the only component of your interview. You vet people very heavily before inviting them in.

(4) This article addresses shitty whiteboard interviews. From what I recall, you guys don't have shitty whiteboard interviews.

I'll turn the question around, actually: can you point me to a great company who only hires people through whiteboard coding?
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You're welcome. In the second edition, which is what I happen to have, it's column 9 (because the old column 4 got split into two) and the code is in a pseudocode that's much more like C with the semicolons deleted than like any version of BASIC.

I wasn't quite right to say that the inner loop is very tight; rather, the code assumes a particular size of array and unrolls the loop completely. But, indeed, the size doesn't need to be a power of 2.

Here's the (pseudo)code, in case anyone cares. It's for an array of size 1000. I've changed a variable name from "l" to "m" because of the usual l1I| thing. I've removed a couple of helpful comments because anyone who cares enough to bother reading them will probably have more fun figuring everything out on their own. I've also elided some obvious repetitive code and formatted it slightly differently from Bentley. Any errors in the code were probably introduced by me.

m = -1
if (x[ 511] < t) m = 1000-512
if (x[m+256] < t) m += 256
if (x[m+128] < t) m += 128
/* ... */
if (x[m+ 2] < t) m += 2
if (x[m+ 1] < t) m += 1
p = m+1
if (p>1000 || x[p]!=t) p = -1 /* i.e., not found */

Bentley says this is "not for the faint of heart". I agree, but I do think it's lovely. Though personally I'd be inclined to use a value of m offset by 1 from what Bentley does (initialize to 0, look up m+255, m+127, etc.) and save a line of code and a couple of cycles.
Friend passed this on and I thought it was interesting - could offer various gallery modes (slideshow, grid, etc), white label options so that designs can use it to show concepts to clients, annotations, etc.
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He's writing for business people. Business people often request new features late in the game without knowing how hard or easy they are to implement. So a new feature may require a new or modified API on the server, for example, which means updating the server, updating the app to use the new API, updating the interface, getting the new app reviewed, etc.. Now if the change affects other things in the system, like a new way to cancel a record that all the other display logic has to respect, for example, you can end up modifying almost every part.
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changing coilpacks isn't that hard...here is a DIY for the A4:

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Thanks for the feedback. I live in the Triangle too. There's plenty of demand for developers here, with decent average salaries, but not great. So merely getting another job is no great feat. What I'd like to know is, was it worth it monitarily or do you think you could have got a similar job in a couple weeks without all the networking?
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The wikipedia article on sweatshops does a good job of covering both sides of this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweatshop

The pro-sweatshop argument is encapsulized in this example:

In an article about a Nike sweatshop in Vietnam, Johan Norberg wrote, "But when I talk to a young Vietnamese woman, Tsi-Chi, at the factory, it is not the wages she is most happy about. Sure, she makes five times more than she did, she earns more than her husband, and she can now afford to build an extension to her house. But the most important thing, she says, is that she doesn't have to work outdoors on a farm any more... Farming means 10 to 14 hours a day in the burning sun or the intensive rain... The most persistent demand Nike hears from the workers is for an expansion of the factories so that their relatives can be offered a job as well."

The contra argument seems dominated by appeals to emotion ala Mike Daisey:

"_____ can't even afford to buy the ipad he makes",

"_____ only makes X dollars an hour/day/week/month/year."

"X workers were injured/killed in this accident"

"workers often have to work overtime"

"workers have to stand"

I think Mike Daisey should spend some time in rural China with the relatives of Foxconn employees who do backbreaking farm work. But who would go to see that show without "Steve Jobs" in the title?
I'm just an anecdotal data point here, but I was likely going to travel to the US from work sometime this year. That's not going to happen anymore. Because of various political moves, extradition requests, etc. which happened lately, I no longer feel comfortable visiting US. That also triggered some talks with my friends, from which they learned a couple of uncomfortable facts... This will have next to no real effect of course, but I'd be surprised if I was the only one rejecting to travel there for similar reasons.
Is ability to break compatibility due to being embedded?

I recall that MS ships with each game the exact version of DirectX it need, so they are free to improve it without being hamstrung by back-compatibility.
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Not really similar. You go to an Apple store to buy Apple products. You go to Barnes & Noble to buy books. Who gives a shit who publishes it, you just want to consume the material.
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I guess I should say that the reason I gave up on them is because of their layoffs and stagnation. I lost faith in their ability to survive.
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It happens to me, too. Perhaps they can learn something from 37signals?
The lead developer, Don Brady did a lot of HFS development for Apple:

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Aopensource....

I understand that HFS compatibility/graceful degradation of native applications was a high priority for this port.

That's not saying it's implemented, but I it's a goal.
__index and __newindex are the key ones - effectively equivalent to method_missing in Ruby. __index gets called if you try to read a non-existent key, and __newindex gets called if you try to write to a non-existing key. You can use these methods to implement inheritance, proxies, getters/setters, all sorts of stuff.
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I had the exact same experience. At my last startup webuilds a social publishing tool used by multiple fortune 500 companies. We tried to get a commercial API for months, but never heard anything back. We sent email, filed support tickets, but nothing. Eventually we gave up and the companies we serviced ended up just publishing pictures to Facebook and Twitter instead.
I think WePay is easier for non-developers to setup (no website or programming required), while Stripe is more focused on making their API awesome for developers.
What's the best way to find out when you do that? Twitter?
To nitpick your nitpick: in Lua tables are the only composite data structure. Everything you listed is either atomic or opaque (you can hide composite datatypes in userdata, but you can't introspect the values).

If you think about it, this is very similar to C where the only composite datatype is a struct (arrays are just sugar on pointer arithmetic). In fact, I think if you wanted to make a scriptable dialect of C, you'd create Lua.

Of course, by being simple, add in dynamic typing and first-class functions, and Lua does feel a bit like Scheme's kid brother. Or, rather, Lua (in my mind) reveals how C and Scheme aren't so far apart after all!
Lua's original focus as an embedded language has been a huge handicap here. There's almost no standardization, because each developer builds their own set of libraries based on their needs. It's sort of what server-side javascript looked like before node.js.

Lua is in dire need of an opinionated killer platform. Unfortunately, unfamiliarity with the language (vis-a-vis javascript) means that the road to mass adoption is a tougher one.
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Wow, that's awesome. Thank you for the link.
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500px feels like it's evolved a culture that values very carefully curating your photos and posting only your very best to 500px itself; the expectation seems to be that the bulk of your work will end up on ${SOME_OTHER_SITE}. People seem prolific if they have 50 pictures up on 500px; I don't think I've seen anyone with 100.

It can be a great adjunct to a Flickr replacement, but unless the usage patterns change radically, it won't be that replacement itself.
You sir, are correct in that. Slim also merits a looking at, but I write everything [static] in Jade first and then transfer the output to whatever, yeah, JSP's. There's a significant performance hit from using non-HTML at run time, +40% in some cases, as was Haml back a couple of years ago. Probably a good reason why RoR adopted Sass yet shied away from Haml.
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