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I once spent an incredibly frustrating period trying to sell a game demo to a number of publishers, all of whom thought it looked and played great, but didn't have a slot for it because their slate was full of licenses and franchises.

Publishers are ever-increasingly risk-averse - particularly when modern console games cost as much as they do to produce (eg. >$50MM). Movie licenses and sequels tend to do well, so that's where bulk of the money goes.

More innovative/creative games, (and Double Fine's are definitely in this category), are often critical successes, but perform poorly in financial terms. (We could argue as to whether this is due to people simply not wanting those kind of games, or whether it's due to publishers not committing to really pushing them).

I'm really glad to see Tim trying something like this, and really, really hope it works out. I'd love to see another viable mechanism for indie game development.
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You mean how they supported some small groups (mostly of mercenaries posing as "rebels", used by western powers to mimic the actual popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunis), toppled the dictator, established a puppet interim government, and turned a stable for decades years country into an unstable civil war nightmare with more to come?

Yeah, what about the Libyan intervention?
Warren Buffet is a value investor. He buys stocks that he sees as fundamentally undervalued during a bear market and sells them when they are overpriced later.

If you try to value gold objectively (its industrial and possibly jewelry use), its price should be significantly lower than what it is today. Speculation and paranoia have driven its price to amazing heights. A value investor can't touch gold with a 10 foot pole.

I know Hacker News has its share of gold bugs and libertarian survivalists preparing for the fall of the US government. My only recommendation for you all is to remember to leave a map to your buried gold in case you die unexpectedly.

For those who don't think the fall of civilization will come within their lifetime (which I hope is the majority of you), trying to match the market with a heavy diversification of stocks/ETFs and bonds (notably US government bonds), a long time horizon and a yearly re-balancing is probably a better bet.
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Probably depends on the employer. I've always asked people to write actual code, rather than pseudo-code, because I've found that a lot of pseudo-code I've gotten doesn't make sense or majorly glosses over things. (Think "and then a miracle occurs".)

But I personally wouldn't dock a person if they screwed up the syntax on a whiteboard coding interview - I really use it more as a way to extend the conversation. I do have the bad habit of correcting syntax, though, because I find it too distracting once I see it.
Thirty years ago pot was very different from what it is today. I suppose, I have to agree, I have to make him face a choice. But then what? If he doesn't change, do I leave or force him to leave?
Biggest takeaway is that everything is a PC. That ARM tablet you're holding in your arm? It's a full PC and won't be artificially crippled to being a consumption device only. Plug in or a dock a keyboard/mouse and you get the full notebook experience.
If this is an argument for gold, then it's important to note that most gold "owners" don't actually own gold. They own paper. Or, at best, they own shares in funds that must buy and sell their gold on fixed timetables (debatably erasing a lot of the real gains that would be made by holding actual metal). But they're pretty far removed from the physical good -- and, if the shit truly hit the fan, they'd be just as SOL as would stock-holders.

Hedging against the apocalypse is a silly reason to own "gold." Hedging against market volatility is a slightly better reason. It is important that we don't conflate the two strategies, as popular perception seems to.
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If you don't have an idea or a burning desire to start something _right now_, then you're probably just going to end up burning 100K really fast. Why not just put it in a savings account, earn a bit of interest, and keep it handy for when you come across that brilliant idea?
> 10 % of final price? Probably less

The only two people I know personally who have published books make more money from the amazon affiliate link on their blog/website to their book than they get from the publisher. I think it's standard to get 10% of the net per book which works out to between 0% and 5% of final price depending on the publisher.
That's not defensive, that's just a response to the statement...
And right after this adventure he should create a sequel to Brütal Legend!
...and locking out Linux (and other open source operating systems) with the help of the UEFI secure boot.

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/01/microsoft-manda...
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"End-users are technically restricted from installing a different OS (or OS version) on a device or extending the OS, so this is generally not possible, and rarely supported by the device maker. "

and

"We architected our approach to ensure that software and peripherals can all benefit from the diversity enabled by the ARM architecture, along with the choice of form factors and manufacturers, and the openness of the platform."

seem to be in conflict. How is my being unable to install an OS a good thing? These comments (along with later mention of UEFI and some other things) cause me some discomfort.

Well, looks like Apple won the hearts and minds of consumers--we now are looking at a future with much greater integration of software and hardware and much less freedom. Thanks folks.

EDIT: To clear up potential confusion, I'm not saying that what Apple did was not good business or that their success was totally bad--I merely am pointing out that the tight UX pushed by that company (and then aped to varying degrees by others) has out of necessity driven things in this direction.

EDIT2: "In fact, WOA only supports running code that has been distributed through Windows Update along with the full spectrum of Windows Store applications." Oh goody.
I agree. Perhaps I'm getting too old, but it just seems creepy to approach someone you "found with your phone" vs. just striking up a conversation in a line or at the next table in a restaurant.
I drove a BMW in highschool^. BMWs and Audis are not "luxury or premium class" cars. Luxury and premium class BMWs and Audis are "luxury and premium class".

^A 3 series almost as old as myself.
Investing money produces measurable results. It is possibly to verify that someone is a successful investor without knowing why he is successful.
Ok, some of this sounds good. Store your docs and your pdfs and you can now read them online. Google can even let you search inside your own files, and even monetize it by showing you ads based on file contents.

Dropbox is not a success, in my mind, because it is cloud storage. It is a success because of shell integration. No fumbling around with browsers to upload or download files. It is seamless, I can open docs from dropbox with notepad for god's sake.

I would like to see google offer shell integration as well. Drop all your word docs in the folder and they are now in Google docs. Make some edits with word and it syncs to Google. Turn on your computer and it pulls down the latest version from Google doc.

If Google won't do it, someone else should. Hack together a windows shell extension, with git as a backend and an online doc editor.
The Fed CPI excludes food and energy.

So when milk goes from $1.50 to $3.60 per gallon over 20 years, they pretend that never happened.

Or when gasoline goes from $0.75 to $3.59 over 30 years, they pretend that never happened.

They pretend you don't need to eat food or drive anywhere.
U Suck At Coding
Apple would've gone bankrupt if Jobs took the position.

Instead this happened.

Apple now worth more than Google and Microsoft combined
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3572487
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A sports-geek quibble:

Babe Ruth also had the second-best career on-base-percentage in the history of baseball. He hit a ton of singles in addition to his home runs. He was an incredible athlete and defied the current mindset to try for home runs when he thought the time was right. Sometimes he got fooled and ended up striking out, but he wasn't a pure swing-for-the-fences hitter.

(You should look to somebody like Rob Deer if you're looking for someone who swung for the fences almost all the time.)
Currency is a terrible way to invest. Nobody is arguing that.
I guess I don't understand the 'I failed to do this, let me give you advice now' movement. From his own description the author is woefully under qualified.

Interviewing is one of the purest Bayesian actions people do. We have to take a bunch of limited and incomplete information about a person and try to determine whether they are likely to succeed or not. Most interviewers would love to find people that are smart, able to learn quickly and well, and motivated, excited energetic. The best measure of these things isn't whether the person seems smart, or energetic, everyone is trying to seem smart and energetic and positive in an interview. The best measure is whether they were smart and energetic in the past, and the best guage of that is how deeply they learned in previous experiences. If they are a 'javascript programmer', not knowing javascript syntax by heart is a strong indicator they just kludged through without much deep interest in what they were doing.

Being unable to program on a whiteboard means you don't really know the language you are using. Relying on an IDE to prompt you every time you make an error is a huge crutch, and IDE's can only help you with obvious cases, there are many times where you can get code past the IDE as syntatically correct but logically wrong.
1) http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org/
2) grep
Buy an Android tablet and jailbreak it.
Summary: Gold is Insurance, not Investment(especially after inflation kicks in).

It's probably a good idea to have some % asset allocation for this class of holdings, for the various Doomsday scenarios.

That... and a cellar stocked with lots of tinned food.
I still don't understand why TV makes so much money and Youtube so little.
what about the opposite? example.com/johndoe, example.com/~about, example.com/~legal
Your TouchPad doesn't have UEFI and there are no Windows drivers for the TouchPad either.
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This is cool, but only slightly useful. The problem is that for major metropolitan areas(like Harris County) you may see an almost equal income and outgoing, but if you look at the map you see that almost all of the outgoing was to the 6 surrounding counties.
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True, but the chance of having picked Facebook is about 0, and there is no second Facebook, which makes your math void.
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From the job hunting end Taleo is terrible. Most of the big guys use it but it kills me not being able to go down the list of openings and open jobs in new tabs. Hitting the back button instead of clicking "back to search results" also clears your search.
how do i know you don't suck at making up coding questions?

in other words, why require a sign-up instead of just posting the questions on your site?
I'd need to find the statistic again, but it's something like 15% of the value of gold is due to its utility, and the rest is due to it being shiny/historically valued
Since Indians are notorious Gold bugs historically, this piece by an Indian Investment Blogger is relevant and illustrates several popular misconceptions with data. Oh, and Graphs.
http://www.jagoinvestor.com/2012/01/gold-price-movements-ana...
I think there is a difference between if you know the API the language provides and if you know the syntax of the language.

I don't care if they can't remember order of parameters, or really even the name of the methods. But if you can't write syntactically correct code without an IDE, it seems like a problem.
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Oh, I thought startups actually were like that, since I've never worked at one because being in perpetual crunch-mode sounds terrible. Plus I feel like any promise of some payoff in the future is really a setup to get fucked by someone who understands finance better than me. I'm not going to grind my life into dust so someone else can have 4 vacation homes instead of 3, then turn around and give me a $5k "attaboy".

DHH calls the all-consuming startup lifestyle a "pervasive myth". I really don't know how much of a myth it is, but if a myth becomes pervasive enough, it's as good as reality in many scenarios. If enough people believe a dollar has zero value, then it does.
The thing is, the Elise makes your garden variety two-seater look achingly practical in comparison. But yes, you are right on the last bit.
For a long time, reddit's mobile interface was broken in anything other than webkit, entirely because of a single -webkit CSS rule they were using to display the voting arrows.

If just a few really popular sites have broken mobile sites because of this, that's a big problem!
Indeed, it's always good to sell near the peak of a speculative bubble. What is your argument that "this time it's different" for gold? That the current exceptional run-up of gold prices over the last decade is sustainable and the current inflated gold price will be the price floor for the remainder of the 21st century?

If you're lucky enough to buy gold in the doldrums and sell it at the peak of a bubble, you make a killing. If you're unlucky enough to buy gold during a bubble and sell it during the doldrums you lose a lot of money. If you're neither lucky nor unlucky and buy and sell during the doldrums then you end up making a very paltry return on investment that is inferior to the average of other equally popular forms of investment (such as property or stocks).

Buying gold today is just as smart an investment as buying a house in 2006 or buying stock in pets.com in 1999.
a 747. all joking aside, Zuckerberg is in a different league monetarily. if you aspire to have that type of wealth, then good for you. if you're content w/ 'hitting singles' and hopefully bringing in enough to live the kind of lifestyle you'd like, then more power to you.
Yes, but suppose it was worse, suppose it was the idea of plugins in browsers. Or something like that.

What if someone right now goes ahead and patents the idea of apps for ... self driving cars? Or the idea of them using traffic maps?
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I just called his most recent phone number on the paperwork. He didn't pick up.
AeroFS is Hiring iOS/Android Developers
You've heard about us on Hacker News, and you've seen us on TechCrunch (http://ae.ro/oo9oUV).
Located in the heart of downtown Palo Alto, AeroFS is backed by some of the world's best investors (Andreessen-Horowitz, Jerry Yang, Paul Buchheit, SVAngel and others). We are solving fundamentally fun and hard problems in the system software space. Not only are we building a world class fully distributed and decentralized syncing/collaboration tool, we're also trying to redefine today's view of the "cloud".

Our team is small (there are seven of us today) and we're looking to double it in the near future. We've been building an OSX/Windows/Linux client and are looking to span out into iOS and Android where the challenges are quite exciting. Because of the size of our team, you will be "CEO" of whatever you create.

If you're interested, shoot us an email at hnjobs@aerofs.com

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Some fine print... You should have:

* B.S, M.S, or Ph.D., in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
* Expert knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming
* Strong knowledge of Operating Systems concepts
* You've built a well-designed app and are familiar with the dev environment

Benefits:

* Competitive salaries and stock options at an early stage startup
* Medical/Dental Benefits
* Free lunches, snacks, and a fridge fully stocked with BEvERages
* Build your dream development machine
* Netflix, Amazon Prime, Foosball Table, Xbox 360
* Working in a gorgeous office (see: http://www.aerofs.com/office.jpg) in Downtown Palo Alto (goes well with the free lunches ;)
* Did we mention we work on hard and interesting problems?

Email us! hnjobs@aerofs.com
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I'm not really sold on vundle (or other plugins like it). I don't really like the automation it provides. I'd much rather just install stuff by hand in to ~/.vim/bundle and do my own updates. That way I have maximum control and full knowledge of what's going on in the install process.
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It has two lines, one is for prices adjusted for inflation (the blue line), the other (the yellow line) is with absolute prices.
Except that the 40 really isn't a very good measure - if it were, the Oakland Raiders would be winning the Superbowl every year instead of missing the playoffs. Of the 15 fastest players in the last 12 years (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40-yard_dash), only 2 are stars, and most are bench guys or out of the league. The 40 has its uses, but it needs to be taken as one fairly small factor in evaluating a player, and even then it's only really relevant for certain positions.

Similarly, coding algorithms on whiteboards doesn't tell you much other than how good the candidate is at coding algorithms on whiteboards. Given that the vast majority of their revenue comes from either search (which was built over a decade ago) or companies they've acquired, and the numerous well-hyped failures (Buzz, Wave, +, etc.), I don't think it's actually working all that well for Google either.
Gold is priced in dollars. If the dollar loses real value, gold goes up. It's the same reason oil is $100, its baseline price is getting set ever higher, because it's priced in dollars. Price oil in silver or gold and you'll see that oil hasn't gone up in price, the dollar has gone down.

It's not paranoia or speculation primarily driving the price increase, but the objective destruction of value represented in what a dollar can buy today versus, say, 12 years ago.
Show HN: Crowd Sourcing Pain Points
I made an MVP last night for a site that would allow people to start topics about annoyances they have that, presumably, developers/hackers would be interested in solving if they knew there was an audience out there that would appreciate the solution.

I had written a web app that I never released a few months back that would, if modified, be perfect for such a discussion site. However, as it would take a bit of reworking, I wanted to see if there was any interest out there for such a site first.

Any advice as to what direction you would like to see such a project take or what would make this project useful to you would be highly appreciated.

Regards,
Nick
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I started playing with Arduino just a few weeks ago. I have many other kits/demo boards, mostly for PIC and ARM UCs, and while it's not that powerful, Arduino is the best for fast and simple solutions. It's nice to have the power of an ARM core or PIC32 @80MHz in a small device, but it gets less interesting when you have to program for half an hour just to get a C++ environment for your application.

The best thing is that Arduino brings together two worlds of tinkerers: the hardware/electronics guys now have a lot of software libraries available for free (drivers for a lot of hardware, filesystems), and the software/programming guys now have easy to use hardware modules, so they don't have to think too much about what kind of resistor this LED needs or how can I get a 3.3V supply for that GPS chip.
As the money supply increases, all currency is devalued and everything that's denominated purely in currency loses value as well.

This is a gross oversimplification. The monetary supply can increase without inflationary effects as long as there is a corresponding increase in the production of value in an economy.
That's a great idea! Provide funding for movies solely with advertising! I'm sure that will result in no conflicts of interest that will severely compromise artistic vision and reduce people to no better than buying machines. </sarcasm>

I'm all for free flow of information and such, and the abolition of software patents and other substantial types of patent reform, but this kind of naive radicalism against all IP protection dilutes any reasonable demands for patent reforms and makes any activism look like a joke.

When you make a movie you can fund it and distribute it as you please. But it's extremely selfish and arrogant to want to benefit from other people's expensive endeavors, for which they are requesting a small fee to view, and give jack shit in return. By viewing the material you are admitting that there is at least some potential value in it, but by refusing to pay for it you are basically saying the movie studios and artists and writers and others can go ahead and close shop already, because you don't consider their business model viable and refuse to contribute anything.

I agree nice entitlement complex you have going there.
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A school book, like holtz, or something, i have a few books from highschool, like math books
How is this different then the gem? Is it just a package of the gem?
Sorry, but I'm confused. Historically, wasn't this the whole point of going public?
"One of the most pervasive myths of startup life is that it has to be all consuming."

This supposed myth long precedes startups. If you look at the outliers in any field, you'll find many if not most are by ordinary people's standards excessively dedicated to their work. Isaac Newton and Michelangelo (to name just two of thousands of examples) were notorious for neglecting everything except their work. The fact that this pattern is so old and so widespread suggests that it is not a myth.

A startup is simply a company designed to grow at an exceptionally high rate, and Occam's razor implies that to succeed at this takes the same level of dedication as exceptional performance in any other field.
There is an episode which explicitly makes the point that the Goa'uld make very sure not to arm their minions with too much weaponry or tactical skill. The Goa'uld are very aware that they are not Gods and there isn't anything in particular preventing the Jaffa from overthrowing them.
Sabayon 8 released with Cinnamon desktop
Sinofsky also said that the Windows-on-ARM machines will come with several Office apps — Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote — that have been tuned to run in a very battery-efficient manner. But Sinofsky said that, although those applications will run in the traditional Windows desktop, they will be the only programs allowed to do so, other than components of Windows itself. [1]

I'm still trying to wrap my head around this one... why would they limit the OS, instead of saying that Metro was it, and have the Office15 team build out Metro versions of their applications?

Having the desktop/classic mode be only for built-in utilities and Office seems, at best, extremely short sighted.

[1] http://allthingsd.com/20120209/windows-on-arm-complete-with-...
The labor part is his whole point. Gold has little to no utility ("...some industrial and decorative utility"), but land can be used to build more wealth ("A century from now the 400 million acres of farmland will have produced staggering amounts of corn, wheat, cotton, and other crops").

He absolutely prefers actual production over mere investment in trends. "More succinctly, investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date." This whole philosophy is at the heart of nearly all of his letters to investors and other writings.