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Article doesn't go into detail about that, but for anyone that missed it - it may be not the only game from Tim Schafer that is funded by unconventional means.

In recent interview, he said that he'd love to make sequel to Psychonauts (game that was acclaimed by critics, has huge fanbase, but didn't sold well), he even pitched few publishers, but nobody would give him money to do it.

When notch (creator of Minecraft) read that article, he tweeted to Tim: 'Let’s make Psychonauts 2 happen'.[0] He later confirmed he was deadly serious - but of course neither him or Tim confirmed anything.

You can probably dig relevant tweets at [1] and [2].

[0] https://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/166838426207924224
[1] http://twitter.com/#!/timoflegend
[2] http://twitter.com/#!/notch
Hi, Sahil, I'm getting a small glitch in the right-hand side menu on the FAQ page:

http://imgur.com/kjh5n

That's in Firefox 10 on Ubuntu 11.04
In the US you call it lobbying and you can publish a colorful chart with official data who paid whom what.

In eastern Europe it's money passed 'under the table' of which you hear after a few months/years if ever, and cases take years to prove and sentence.
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> Intellectual property is more or less dead.

> culture

IP is a huge game, but culture is a tiny speck on the landscape of it. Try selling Äpple computers or Nyke shoes on the street of any Western-ish country, and don't even get me started on patents.
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If it's so hard, do you really need a monopoly enforced by statute? The harder it is, the more natural temporary monopoly you get until others start copying you.

I say, nothing is worth infringing upon a creator's right to create. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Even if there are some cases where a patent might have been beneficial overall, you still have to weigh the benefits against the costs of having a patent system at all. How much GDP is spent on patents in general?
It's fascinating to imagine what the tech world might look like with no (or radically different) IP laws. I doubt it would be anywhere near as simple as the blog author makes out.
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I personally think it's a bit off that a crowdfunded project like this is offering a DRMed deliverable to its customers. I expect the choice of Steam is more due to convenience than a consideration of its DRM scheme, but I'd be much more comfortable funding this if supporters were given access to a unencumbered standalone release.
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The 2nd edition explicitly uses Capybara instead of Webrat. As long as people pay attention to their Gemfiles, they should be fine.
I thought this wasn't a valid use of multitasking by the App Store rules? Are Apple just not policing multitasking use at all right now?

edit: does this fall under "Local notifications"?

> Multitasking apps may only use background services for their intended purposes: VoIP, audio playback, location, task completion, local notifications, etc.

This could also be seen as violating this

> Apps that provide Push Notifications without using the Apple Push Notification (APN) API will be rejected
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Yeah, the Prime Directive seems to be more "we don't want to completely fuck up a less developed culture by accident" than anything else.
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"Country A has weapons of mass destruction, and is the only country known to have used two of those in a war, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians, just as the war was ending and the enemy was surrendering."

Actually the statement that they were surrendering is erroneous. Peace overtures were being felt out before Hrioshima, with the last being the Potsdam Declaration. This was rejected by Prime Minister Suzuki with the following statement...

"The only thing to do is just kill it with silence. We will do nothing but press on to the bitter end to bring about a successful completion of the war."

Now consider the time that this is occurring. The armed forces of the Empire of Japan have, for four years (and for other nations like Britain, Holland, France and China, even sooner), showed that they will fight for every last scrap of land, and die trying. To be taken captive was a grave dishonour, while death in service to the Emporer, a shoulders highest achievement. Predictions for a conventional land invasion like Normandy were predicted to cost millions of allied troop lives, based on the experiences that they had witnessed first hand over the war.

Even when the first bomb was dropped, there was resistance to accept the terms provided, due to the belief that the United States could not have more then one atomic bomb. This was believed due to the difficulty of constructing one at the time from Japan's own research team. Even when Nagasaki was bombed, and the USSR invaded Manchuria days afterwards, there was resistance to accepting the Allies terms. 50% of the cabinet wanted the terms changed to allow Japan to disarm itself, and try it's own war criminals, and there to be no occupation of Japan. All of the cabinet demanded that the emperor's position not be touched. In fact, if the emperor's position of power could not been guaranteed, there was no opposition to continuing the war to the very end.

There's a lot of things that the United States, I mean Country A's, foreign policy can be lambasted for, especially as of late. But to revise history to fit a narrative is no better then those that gloss over the failings of the past when stating it was superior to today. To do so places your argument on a foundation of fine sand, ready to crumble the moment someone blows in facts that contradict your statements, like usaar has done in the statement below mine.
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Steam is such a good, user-friendly platform nobody really cares that it wraps everything in DRM.

Even if the world ended and Valve had to shut down Steam I feel pretty comfortable in the assumption they would "do right" by their customers in the end times to get around the DRM issues.
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I love Wolfram Alpha and I'm definitely excited to trial the 'pro' version. I find it more helpful for looking up conversions, anything to do with money/finance and looking for a short history on stuff.

It's quite exciting watching what they do, definitely one of the few companies I respect, for some reason! :)
Mine too. I really hope this type of funding will become more and more common in the entertainment industries.
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While it would be lovely if we could find a way to get rid of harassing trolls on the internet, suppose someone on Facebook posts a comment disparaging [the founder of a certain faith known to try to assassinate people for disparaging said founder], then members of that faith might make formal complaints to the service demanding his account be deleted. So yeah, probably best to just try to make options to permanently block specific users/ip addresses from EVER posting to your feed.
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I'm a hacker. It kindles my knowledge. Speak for yourself.
Geometric Folding Algorithms: Origami video lectures by Erik Demaine
I watched the documentary called "Between the Folds" the other night, which is all about Origami. One of the sections featured Erik Demaine, which I realized was the same guy from the Advanced Data Structures post today.

He has the Origami lectures here:

http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.849/fall10/lectures/
I had them in my RSS reader for a long time, but I think in the past 3-4 issues, they've really gone downhill. I admit I'm pretty far from them on the political spectrum, but I appreciate rigorous research and data when arguing. Part of the problem is that I confuse it with H+ magazine (which is basically the polar opposite in view).

It might just be that I'm getting old and crotechty; my former favorite magazine (Foreign Affairs, from CFR) is falling prey to the same thing -- http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/136917/matthew-kroeni... was inane enough to make me cancel my subscription)
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NaCl is not platform agnostic.
Myths about static analysis. Propose to discuss at Intel site.
http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2011/11/16/myths-about-static-analysis-the-first-myth-a-static-analyzer-is-a-single-use-product/

http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2011/11/16/myths-about-static-analysis-the-second-myth-expert-developers-do-not-make-silly-mistakes/

http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2012/02/08/myths-about-static-analysis-the-third-myth-dynamic-analysis-is-better-than-static-analysis/

http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2012/02/08/myths-about-static-analysis-the-fourth-myth-programmers-want-to-add-their-own-rules-into-a-static-analyzer/

http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2012/02/08/myths-about-static-analysis-the-fifth-myth-a-small-test-program-is-enough-to-evaluate-a-tool/
The problem with domain-specific systems like R is that, as software systems, you can't "hack" them far outside of their contraints.

Integration into other systems (like the web, or robust big-data pipelines) can't be taken for granted. Doing "standard" stuff becomes nonstandard, thus hacking can hit a wall.
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Would be neat to see braile, voice-menu outputs.
I am thinking of releasing new versions once a week and putting the hash of the torrent of the newest version on some public site. (Say, some twitter account.)

But it would still be more proof of concept than really anything useful - the comments and descriptions ARE important.

edit: More I am thinking about it, the less useful it sounds.

First, the information about seeders vary constantly, especially with the new torrents.

Also, it STILL depends on single point of failure - the Pirate Bay itself. If TPB will be down for any reason, I will have no place to scrape this from and it will all fall apart anyway.

Plus, I think Pirate Bay itself should make dumps like this. It would probably be much better for their database anyway :)
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Very nice Vic. I will use it.
Many of us would say and do crazy things on Usenet (in my defense I was aged between 13-17 when I used Usenet). News servers would delete the posts after 30 days and there was little to worry about, or so we thought.

...until Deja News came out - a cached, searchable store of all Usenet posts, which Google later acquired.

Everything we put out on the Internet can and probably will be stored by someone forever.
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I agree, do side projects until you can convince somebody to pay you for similar services.
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This needs to be taken into account, thanks for bringing this up, didn't think about it!
First, thank you all for your comments and suggestions.

1. You are right about the license. It’s (unintentionally) misleading. I’ll change it soon to pure MIT license.

2. @okal, @Turing_Machine: yes, ePub will be supported and more formats will follow.

3. @gnufs: it uses PrinceXML for PDF publishing because it’s, by far, the best library I’ve found for HTML to PDF conversion. Do you know any other free/open-source library with the same or superior features?

4. @mrleinad: yes, I’d love to use a shorter and cleaner URL; but it’s really tough to find a good and unregistered domain with the word “book”.
It's a lazy mistake. The tools are provided by way of a command or two on just about any platform available to any programmer. Hashing information and matching against said hash are problems that have been solved and simplified in as many languages as asking for the bathroom.

It's easier to send the raw data. It's foolish to send the raw data. It's a lazy mistake. We all know it happens. We all know WHY it happens. Stop fucking with our data. Pay attention because sometimes you should not be quite so lazy.

Path gets off easy because they're Path. I'm ok with that. But I would fire your ass if you did this under my watch because I know for a fact that this is a stupidly easy problem to resolve. Don't be so damned lazy when it matters.
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Troll as a marketing asset?
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I think that it is important that at least 2 levels of access can be asked by an app per resource (location, contacts, etc):

1. Permission to access a resource just locally for the benefit of the user;

2. Permission to transmit the data about a resource for social purposes.
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Inventing hard things is hard, but copying other people's inventions is significantly easier. Don't forget, part of the point of the patent system is to encourage inventors to publicly document how their invention works so other people can use it (with licensing), instead of keeping it secret and possibly having the knowledge lost over time.

It seems to me that if someone can describe superficially what an invention does and you can build it on the spot, then it probably doesn't deserve a patent. For example, if you were to describe the appearance of an engine block to me, I wouldn't be able to replicate the combustion engine, and it's probably worth patenting. But if you tell me that the user clicks on one button to purchase an item without going through a checkout phase, I can easily replicate that without any knowledge of how it works. Although come to think of it, that basically negates all business method patents.
Your mistake is thinking about brands like Charles Dickens and Disney. Of course they make money, and of course they would continue producing work if copyright was only 20 years.

What you have to think about is the author who is not famous, but who makes his living off of selling books. Not the millionaires, the ones with a regular salary. They often sell old stories to short-story collections, for example, for a few thousand dollars. If this happens often enough, they can continue the life of book-writing. If not, we'll have less authors.

At the end of the day, if less money goes into writing books, we're going to lose some authors who won't be able to afford writing. Some great authors will also never be discovered, because they couldn't afford to keep writing for long enough.

It's a balance, and I'm not saying that the balance is right at the moment. But it's very disingenuous to say "Disney will still make movies", because they're not the only ones around.

Note: I talk about books, but the same is true for indie bands, indie software developers, etc.
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Going back to the days when businesses handled Content management manually would be unthinkable. In fact, someone rightly said, Content management system software is the right hand of the management.
They're not using multitasking. They're using the basic limited background task functionality, whereby you can request additional time to complete actions when closing the app. The system puts a hard limit on you at 10 minutes, at which point it will kill your app. This is designed for doing things like saving data, posting that tweet the user just wrote, syncing modified data to your server, etc. This app is abusing this functionality in a very stupid way.
I am planning on adding support for the first feature when Transporter (http://www.transporterapp.net/) opens up their source.
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That's a valid reason for using a background task, but it doesn't require constantly polling the server.
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current status: https://twitter.com/#!/TimOfLegend/status/167414243858202624

"These things take time to figure out--if they can be figured out--so please don’t expect any Psychonauts 2 announcements any time soon."
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I'm also a fan of Pathogen (and tpope's stuff in general), but now I would recommend Vundle. It's like Ruby's Bundler for Vim. The difference is that you define the bundles (plugins) you want to use right in your .vimrc. With :BundleInstall/:BundleUpdate clones/updates these plugins.

https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
I hope so too. This is super exciting. (I'm an early investor in Kickstarter, so I was hoping this would happen. Exciting nonetheless.)
It varies by country but assuming this troll is in the UK hate speech is not a protected form of free speech in his country. So in the UK he doesn't have the right to spread his hate speech. Now that his name is known perhaps somebody will take him to court, who knows. The US is one of the few countries where hate speech is technically protected but even still there are some exceptions including "fighting words" and harassment which could possibly be relevant.

This guy seems to be aware that his behavior would be likely to land him "9 weeks" in jail which he dismisses as an insignificant punishment.
I have to disagree with you. The price of something is a function of supply and demand; monetary value is determined through price discovery in a market. But not all things are traded, nor are supply and demand perfectly elastic. You will get distorted prices for things through lack of markets and market inefficiencies.

More specifically, you can't always do something else revenue-generating instead, and nor would you want to. What's the value of spending time with your children? Can you see how some people would not accept any amount of money to displace all of that time, whereas some others may would (in cases of paid-for adoption / slavery)?

I think your outlook is lacking in a specific economic concept: utility.
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It's getting old, but the early editions of O'Reilly's "Java in a nutshell" (by David Flanagan) books were targeted specifically at C/C++ programmers learning Java.
In my opinion, it's extremely well-written, being correct, clear, concise and engaging.

From the 4th edition (which was for Java 1.4), it bulked up from 1 inch thick to 2 inches, and stopped specifically targeting C programmers. It's still good, just not as good.
Also, since then, Java has added generics, annotation and several other things. Some of these (esp. generics) have a widespread impact on coding. Also, it doesn't cover the ecosystem. But if you want to start with the basics, it has them.

For an introduction to the basics of the language, in terms of C, the earlier editions can't be beat. (your local university library will have several copies - chapters 2 How Java differs from C and 3 Classes and Objects are what you need)
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$300,000 pledged in 6 hours. Maybe the article[1] earlier today about Kickstarter record being broken by The Elevation Dock was premature and it will be a shortly held record :-)

[1] http://pandodaily.com/2012/02/08/kickstarter-fundraising-rec...
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Could you expand on your point about loading more content as the user scrolls? Why would that affect power usage?
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What? The unbalanced armistice was a big cause of world war 2. If anything it serves as a lesson that accepting the conditional cessation of hostilities would be, in the long run, a decent exit option.
Too bad that you can't easily judge upfront which of those data structures and algorithms are really usable in practice. For example, fusion trees may seem like a cool idea, but they're totally impractical, as also admitted by the authors (Fredman and Willard) in their original paper.
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It's a matter of personal preference, really. As long as you can be productive with it and ship a product, go for it. Personally, I'm disgusted by both of those languages, but you can't deny the fact that people create useful with them. After all, a weapon is only as good as the hand that wields it.
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I love Wolfram Alpha. Every time I think about it, I think it's a grand achievement and an absolutely amazing tool.

I just wish I had any idea what to do with it.

Once in a long while, I'll think of trying a query on it. Mostly for city populations, past Academy Award winners, etc. But I have nothing to do with it on a day-to-day basis.

What do Hacker News users use it for?
Hadoop is free for 400 (or n) computers. Let's say you need 100 computers (full time) to process the equivalent clustered query in Oracle, given the time needed to get the formatted data. How much do the licenses for that cost? (And if it's a free system, you're still going to have to do an ETL job, so why not ETL it to a free solution?)

You need to process a couple terabytes of data, but you only need to do it once a month. However, even the highly tuned SQL will bring the system to its knees. So, 90% of the time really expensive servers are idling because of these peak processing needs. Once a month. (And Oracle isn't going to be available on a cloud service.)

So, yeah, if someone had a free/cheap SQL solution for these kinds of ETL datasets that was able to handle these embarrassingly parallel problems, people might be interested. Perhaps you are aware of solutions I am not.
what kind of money/finance info do you find in this tool that you don't in yahoo or google finance?
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Some tips:

* remap jj to ESC: imap jj <Esc>

* align on "=>" with (Tabular plugin): nmap <Leader>t> :Tabularize /=>\zs<CR>

* for project-wide search (and replace), I recommend EasyGrep plugin ([1] see options)

[1] https://github.com/sohooo/vimfiles/blob/master/vimrc#L384
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What will they do if we find a crazy enough way to make, say, the number 5 infringing? And who owns 5, anyhow?
I'm not trying to be pedantic here. If this actually did get blown up the way I describe, it'd be indicative of some serious problems in journalism today.
On a different note, would Pete even be allowed to work on a side project? I'm considering joining a BigCO and the contract really makes it seem like that would be forbidden.