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it seems like this is Zynga's general business plan

People seem to have forgotten this already:

Zynga founder and CEO Mark Pincus, who reportedly told his employees, “I don’t fucking want innovation.”

http://www.sfweekly.com/2010-09-08/news/farmvillains/
Typehead is really responsive too. Especially for how fuzzy its matching is.
>So it's not a 'data storage service in a remote data center'?

okay, looked at from a naive enough perspective, they have similarities. they both can be described using the buzzword 'cloud', but it doesn't go much beyond that. they do not perform the same task. they do not serve the same market. they do not have a similar interface. one service cannot replace the other. drawing any sort of comparison between the two is completely meaningless to the discussion at hand.
I see where you're coming from but I'd have to disagree. Battlefield and Call of Duty are both in a pretty much generic first person shooter genre.

The game made by Nimblebit looks like a fairly specific and deliberate Sim type game designed in a specific way for mobile devices. I think the screenshots chosen are good enough to come to the conclusion that it's a clone.
> According to some

According to a marketing guy from Betable, a real-money gambling platform with a vested interest in making you think exactly that.
"Create a virtual machine for the express purpose of surfing the internet" is a solution that should never have to be proposed.
Perhaps I should have gone into more detail, but I disagree that the analogy doesn't hold. What tobtoh described is a genre- it may be a shitty one, but it's still simply a genre. There are different game mechanics, goals, art work and so on- it's just not super complex.

Ignoring the differences is like ignoring the acting, dialog and artwork in a first person shooter because they're all just grabbing weapons, running around, and hitting the shoot button.
IANAbiologist, but not from what I can tell. the brown fat burns calories over hours, whereas the purpose of the cold shower is to produce more testosterone. (Supposedly.)
Another hyped super-feature which implementation quality likely will render it unusable. Dear Ubuntu developers! I respect you very much! Why aren't you respecting me? Why do you release seemingly untested stuff? Why your product is so unstable and buggy? Please stop making systems that hang when I lock my screen or fall apart when I switch to another window with Compiz enabled. I do not need your new fancy features. I need a system that just works. Thanks.

And the other take. Did you ever use mobile tablet device with multitouch? And after that are you really want to use that 70-ish WIMP interfaces? If you saw it one single time, when you manipulate your photos/videos "themselves", when you interact with your information and not with some buttons or menus or stuff like that, you'll never want to come back. Ones who demand full support for multitouch gestures across modern OS interfaces are not "future-oriented" people IMO. They are now-oriented. Next-generation interfaces are already here! They are the state-of-the-art for many users right today. And are you really want to impress us with tinkering around that 70s stuff? Than you guys stuck in 90s. Come on.
And tiny tower is arguably just a tweaked version of sim tower. Whoopie doo.

But seriously, the whole time I played tiny tower, all I could think about was where was the rage over copying yoot saito?
I think they are.

WoW, Farmville, all use a skinnerian model - different reward types on variable, regular and random schedules designed to make sure that you get that next dopamine buzz just right in time.
leastI don't doubt that some of these games need someone to take a look into them. Likely we need legislation such as that which covers the gambling industry or rules such as those that cover the slot machine industry.

I know the regulation idea may not be popular here though (I dislike it). Yet we agree that the gambling industry needs checks and balances, in which case Zynga does too (or at the very least, someone to check)

Edit: For clarity.
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Also: If I am getting downvoted, I'd love to know why people disagree with me.
Fuck Zynga, including whoever put together those admittedly tasty graphics.
i can't find the stats now, but i remember seeing those figures when they came out. apple wasn't the only company to see significant growth in PC sales, asus and lenovo also had similar numbers. the makers of cheap crap all seem to have taken hits, the companies that make quality hardware are all growing. apple isn't alone here.
I've been reading HN for almost 2 years now. I just recently made an account to comment.

As somebody who has beenprogramming for 5 years & has been an avid user of theme forest for the last year... i still dont find this front page worthy, down vote or not.

Somebody scraping a site and making a less useful and less attractive version is not news to me. Websites like this making the front page on Hacker News make it equally as interesting & useful to me as say... Pintrest.

Had envato sold Theme Forest, ok... that's front news worthy. But a thin, scraped, less useful version of a site that already exists? I continue to hold my stance.
Maybe it is "wrong," maybe it isn't. But it still goes to prove that Zynga is still the shit-eating company we have always known it to be (no disrespect to most of the employees, who probably want to make fun, original games against the will of their superiors). Zynga has boatloads of cash, and yet it can't afford to innovate just a little bit? Pathetic.
Yeah, do you think he meant college? I don't know what the rate is for college, but high school certainly isn't 50%.
Wow, thanks for the correction. Skimming FTL.
How so?

I want to make sure I'm reading your comment correctly: are you trying to say that people are too stupid to figure out they're being played, and that they'll run on the Zynga treadmill for as long as Zynga pleases?

I think data presents a reality less cynical than yours.
That's the beauty of full-disk encryption. Even the empty space is encrypted. So the hidden volume is truly hidden. Even TrueCrypt has no idea the hidden volume exists if you unlock the outer volume with a different key.

Truly empty-space is indistinguishable from a secret inner volume.
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This is basically why I hate the internet.
Note to self: never acknowledge ownership of a laptop with incriminating material on it (encrypted or not); especially while on the phone or in the general vicinity of a recording device.
For Steve it was personal and bitter with Microsoft. For Tim, who's been with Apple during the ascent from the abyss back in 1998, it's a different story, although I'm sure he still takes Microsoft seriously.
I'm not denying that it's a clone. I'm saying that Zynga's "ripoffs" have gone from literal feature-for-feature clones to progressively more "innovative" titles in the last 5 years. Back in 2007, my game was the second game Zynga ever copied. I've been there, I know what it feels like. It sucks.

What I'm saying is that Zynga is aware of their past and is moving towards less copy and more creativity. I think their actually released products in the last 6 months are a testament to that. Dream Zoo is a great example of coming into a genre, "Zyngafying" it, and coming out with a hit product that's better than the competition. They even built new tech that they've open sourced and shared with the Cocos2d community. But no one talks about that because it's easier to hate Zynga than it is to make a reasoned discussion about them.
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We can only hope that the college bubble will be popped. Otherwise it may take several generations before this elitist attitude toward formal education is out of our systems.
If someone has evidence on their encrypted drive that could put them away for life or a large portion thereof, or even trigger a capital case, the fine or few years of time behind bars for whatever piddly-ass crap the prosecutor can dig up is not going to be their primary concern. Worse for the prosecutor, if they go to extreme lengths to find something to charge you with, they risk pissing off the judge and/or appellate system with their vindictiveness.

You're always going to have to make a judgement as to whether you're better off cutting a deal or refusing to cooperate, but that does absolutely nothing to change the fact that a hidden volume may save your life.
"Plenty of us" where plenty equals...how many? Apple was crowned as the biggest PC maker in the world this week.
Yes, the cold showers are supposed to be taken on the lower neck area which triggers the brown fat.
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at least in Germany Mongo is short for Mongoloid (Down syndrome) and is a insult.
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> so paying dividends would be sending money out to shareholders, it gets reduced by taxes, and then the shareholders have to figure out what to do with it that would return as much as Apple would. The best return would thus be likely re-investing it in Apple shares.

Your answer is essentially fine, but:

1) There's no reason you should assume an investor would re-invest dividends in Apple as opposed to AcmeCorp. The resulting portfolio might be less risky than either all-Apple or all-Acme.

2) It doesn't take into account that investors are also consumers, i.e., they might choose to not re-invest the dividends at all, and instead "buy stuff". For instance, a retiree might use it to pay the rent.

3) Transaction costs for selling a stock vs receiving a dividend.

/nitpick
There are always horizons to shoot for - the TV, wearable computing (I see Nano's on collegues' wrists everywhere at work, and that is only partly designed for that purpose), home automation, education, military and small business use are all areas where current products (perhaps newer versions) can make huge inroads.

And that's leaving aside anything out of the ordinary/expected that Apple might be cooking up in their skunkworks labs.
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Not right now...the point is that if Apple wants to, they CAN create an API on top of iCloud to compete directly with AWS. That's the only major difference. Right now, Apple is one layer above Amazon. AWS is infrastructure, and iCloud is an application. But my point is, just like Amazon first built their data center capabilities to support their retail operation and eventually started selling their excess capacity - so too could Apple eventually do the same thing and have iCloud compete directly with AWS.

Regardless, the point is moot. My main point I was making is that iCloud is still a very small business for Apple - when what Amazon has shown us (even though they haven't broken out the financials) is that monetizing your excess capacity can be a viable business. If Apple knows how to do anything, it is to build viable products.
Huge fan of the service and have enjoyed reading about the stack and other insight on how Trello came to be. Keep that Up.

Quick question about how you are handling security for your API. Are you using a 2-leg OAuth setup for your web requests? How do you handle the security of having the "secret" in the code?
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I guess they don't need to.

If you are going to open an angle of attack, its generally good to know that you can win that battle.

To win though, would require them to commit more and more cash (as competitors start pouring in money as well). This would pollute the hiring pool, inflate long term expectations of engineers, and piss off shareholders who would suddenly see Apple engaged in a war they didn't expect.

Besides, they could just as well use that money to pay lawyers and sue over patents, hurting competition at their bottom lines.

Its an amusing thought to play with none the less.
I'm not clear whether cold and excercise are capable of increasing the number or proportion of brown fat cells, or whether they just trigger activity in existing brown fat.
Thanks for not changing it. There are way more important things to worry about.
I just use a bookmarklet I wrote (https://gist.github.com/1572878), which enables me to go to any reddit page, and then click the bookmarklet to see all the images inline.
I think maybe you read the first part of my statement and not the second. Please read my original statement.

Of course I think this still happens. I'm not shocked, just frustrated. I'm wondering what we can do as individuals to change this.
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Nice. Needs saved searches and "anded" searches that would search for more than one thing at a time without having to enter it each time. Some sort of notification app for smartphones would be a good thing too.
Interesting market, with probably a lot of emerging competition from players who understand how to get listing inventory and make interesting insights about the "value" of each listing. This is something we're testing at FindTheBest with our Cars For Sale section (http://buy-a-car.findthebest.com/). We've got a lot of the same functionality that Carsabi has, but we don't scrape Craigslist for our data. In addition, we can also show how an individual car for sale compares to similar cars in terms of price, mileage, etc. on detailed pages. For example, I know that this 2012 Audi A3 is selling for $2,000 less than the average for all other 2012 Audi A3's for sale now on our site (http://buy-a-car.findthebest.com/l/280922/2012-Audi-A3). And with hundreds of thousands of listings, this data starts to be reliable. Also can show for some cars, how they were reviewed by experts (with no effort from the posting user), by relating cars for sale with cars we've reviewed on our cars section (cars.findthebest.com). Glad there are a lot of people interested in disrupting this market though - there's a lot more we can do to help users find a great car to buy.
What happens if a friend of a suspect burns some papers that the jury suspects that those were incriminatory evidence?

In this context: what would happen in the case the crypto software deletes all the data after not logging in for 1 week? (It would be too short for the trial to happen i guess)
We'll figure out how to read people's minds before some TLA brute-forces a volume encrypted with layered AES-Twofish-Serpent. If you're going that far, you might as well just dump the 5th Amendment now.
And/or ice packs on the upper back. I did it for a while and felt like it made a difference. Then I fell asleep with an ice pack on my upper back and got a patch of mild frostbite.
see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melatonin#Obesity
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Well, sure...Apple hasn't rolled out a unifying 'cloud product/strategy' yet...but the pieces are there. iTunes Store is just an application on top of the cloud infrastructure. Then iCloud is another application - that while it doesn't compete directly with AWS it does so indirectly...because of the implicit threat that it's just a matter of time before Apple moves in that direction (if they want to).

I prolly shouldn't have used the name 'iCloud' to describe what I meant. What I meant was, Apple has a clear business interest in selling access to a 'cloud digital infrastructure'. At first it was iTunes (they sold that access to the record labels, but consumers subsidized that effort), now they are selling it directly to consumers. So they have made two major forays into the 'cloud infrastructure monetization' business....which is the same business Amazon is in with AWS. They also did it with the App Store, then the Mac App Store (they sold access to third-party developers). Sure, not in the identical way as Amazon did, but it's not that far off.

It's not that far fetched to see that they will eventually be competing head-to-head with AWS.
Just because there is something worse to worry about, doesn't mean you should forget about everything else.
Have you read Elements of Programming by Alexander Stepanov (he of STL fame) and Paul McJones? They take a similar approach as your examples except instead of declarative generation of code they break things down to very rudimentary mathematical definitions of operations and concepts and then build more complexity by bolting them together. Not terribly different than normal programmatic problem decomposition, but they tend to take it a little lower (or perhaps to a higher level of abstraction).
Independent registered investment advisers are disrupting stockbrokers.

That's definitely one that's under-appreciated. High-frequency trading gets all the press, but the stockbroker is a dying breed. People want more than someone who can buy and sell stock for them, since they can do it online easier and cheaper than with a broker.

I think two things that create large opportunity in this old, ripe-for-disruption market are personal service and a feeling of security. I know someone who is an account manager (kind of like a "hedge fund" manager for the average person) who earns his clients about 3% annually, and he does quite well. Three percent! The average rate of inflation! But with how volatile markets are and now quickly financial instruments change, people are really afraid of losing it all, so they hand their money to an expert to manage.

So anyway, if anyone is looking to disrupt the financial market in the years directly directly following a crash, personal service and guaranteeing security seem to be the key strategies.
So 'Tiny Tower' and 'Dream Heights' are rip offs of 'Sim Tower'?
AIUI, Truecrypt is actually very clever about this. Until decrypted, every TrueCrypt partition consists of nothing more than random data. This, combined with the fact that hidden volumes are actually stored within your first / outer partition it should make it impossible to analyze whether other volumes / partitions exist.

See here for more information: http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=hidden-volume
Index finger pointing sticks are not. And they are much more effective than trackpads.

You wouldn't mouse with a fullsize joystick on a desktop, because its no good, it's equally no good on a laptop.

I want to move the cursor a distance based on the distance I move, not based on the duration I move - it's comparable in wrongness to steering a racing car game with the arrow keys.

Rant aside, why do you say they are more effective, anyway?
just curious why you wouldnt just use the rss feed directly?
I will use part of my answer to the comment right above yours:

I prolly shouldn't have used the name 'iCloud' to describe what I meant. What I meant was, Apple has a clear business interest in selling access to a 'cloud digital infrastructure'. At first it was iTunes (they sold that access to the record labels, but consumers subsidized that effort), now they are selling it directly to consumers. They also did it with the App Store, then the Mac App Store (they sold access to third-party developers).

That's three major forays they have done into the 'cloud services' business, but they have not unified the branding - like Amazon has done. Doesn't mean they are not a heavyweight player.

Also, just because they are not competing head to head doesn't mean they aren't competing.

GM made trucks, Yamaha made bikes. They don't compete for the same customer, but they do compete for some customers in some market segments. So that makes them indirect competitors.

Right now, as it stands, there are some customers (technically oriented) that might have rolled their own iCloud solution on AWS - but now they might not because they can use Apple's. Sure, that's a very small % of the market right now...but my point is that at some point - within the next decade I think - Apple will be more direct. It's only inevitable - assuming they want to keep growing as long as they can.
That's how it sometimes works in Windows. But when I type vnc and there are no results, then vncviewer.ex and no results, then vncviewer.exe and one result with icon, and that's repeatable, I'm less impressed.
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What? There is so much untruth in the part about Switzerland that I have to question your grasp on history and political science.

If one rejects the military service in Switzerland, he has an alternative, civil service. He also doesn't lose any voting rights. Certain communes and cantons even have given foreigners the right to vote and to be elected.

The historical situation in Switzerland can also not be reduced to "only allowed armed men to vote" since in its core, Switzerland was a confederacy. Certain cantons had strong aristocracies, others were de facto ruled by the church and so on.
It is addictive but the little arrows are a pain on the iPhone.
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The other opt out option is to not sign in. Sign in to gmail, sign out, then sign in t YouTube. Of course that's pretty much a waste of time so the tracking in this case is no biggie. I don't see the danger. It seems like a lot of hype to me though I could be just missing something. Ever since Facebook started this when they decided to track every web user ever and now Google seems to be forced to compete. The lesson is, once one site does it the rest will be following close behind. To stop this sort of thing before it spreads we'll have to throw a SOPA-style tantrum. It might be way too late now though.
I don't understand why the TC diaspora gets so much attention. Have they earned the spotlight for reasons other than just being inflammatory?
relevant documentation links on your point “c)”:

http://lesscss.org/#-mixins

http://sass-lang.com/docs/yardoc/file.SASS_REFERENCE.html#im...

Sass, too, supports Less’s mixin model. Sass can include any block as a mixin with the @extend directive (http://sass-lang.com/docs/yardoc/file.SASS_REFERENCE.html#ex...). Basically, if a block is going to be used in the HTML as well as elsewhere, you write it normally and then include it with @extend. If a block is only going to be included in other styles, you write it with @mixin and then include it with @include. I think Sass’s approach is better because it’s more flexible – if a style isn’t going to be referenced in the HTML, it doesn’t clutter up the CSS because it is hidden with @mixin. And if you like Less’s approach better you can just use @extend everywhere.

The main reason I prefer Sass is the indent-based and semicolon-less Sass syntax (as opposed to the SCSS syntax). I find that that syntax’s advantages greatly outweigh its few weaknesses.
First, I honestly do not understand the notion that Google is being “Evil” with Search Plus Your World. How is changing your product, whether it ends up being good or bad, evil?

Second, my friends and family have no idea what SPYW is and don’t notice a difference. Heck, the majority of the searches I do are not drastically change to any large degree.
Probably, this is the first site that actually wants it's visitors to understand it's terms of use.