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Gold retains its value over time only on average. Guess what? So does real estate. Gold over the past 30 years has retained its value relative to gold a century ago. But right this very minute we're in the middle of a gold bubble. If you buy gold today and then sell it a decade from now there is a great likelihood that you will lose, not retain, perhaps 75% of your investment.

There were booms and busts in the value of gold in the 70s and 80s as well.
Really, then why aren't all 100meter dashers excellent football players?
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Apple wouldn't release something like this because they are a black box. At least Microsoft is blogging about the process and eliciting feedback along the way.
For that matter, I hated Rails.

Also, it seems to me you're starting your own company. Why does it matter what the current market demands then?
Oh, eat a dick you, pretentious scold. Your comment wasn't even meant to add something to the discussion, just gratify your ego, and worse, is dishonest in the way it does so.
Pretty much thanks to google by the looks of it. I wonder why google hasn't yet used it's heft to cut a deal (a la itunes) with movie makers for distribution. Google already knows our surfing habits, so they could deliver the same ads we get now at the movie theaters, excepts individually targeted. I'm guessing that the ad revenue alone would replace cinema revenues and allow for the "free" movies everyone wants these days.
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A great way to build my network. Time to implement.
How did he get into Reed? SAT?
Using "view source" on an app like Gmail or Maps is a terrible way to judge their front-end developers. The JavaScript might have gone through the Closure compiler, which is a seriously cool piece of software. They might treat the markup with something similar, I don't know. I would base my judgement of their front-end team on the quality of the software as a user, and I think Gmail is the best web-based email app and Maps is the best web-based maps app... so I have a lot of respect for their front end teams, regardless of what the source looks like.
Everything is "(c) All Rights Reserved" unless it specifically says otherwise, just to clarify a superficial point.

So am I crazy or did whoever this person talk to at Sliderocket give her ludicrously bad advice?
The distinction that I'm making is this:

- Fair use isn't granted by some license-issuing or -exempting authority. It's determined in court. Meaning: you get sued for copyright infringement, you get lawyered up, you get a court date, you defend yourself. You're still out the costs and time, provided your accuser wishes to follow through. Law is very often a battle of attrition and wills. And often stupidity or arrogance among one or more of the parties involved.

- It's a defense. You're still making an unauthorized copy. That is, limiting a copyright holder's "exclusive rights to do and to authorize" reproductions, derivative works, etc. In order to assert the defense, you've got to be challenged at it.

Simply asserting "fair use" is not sufficient, though a reasonable copyright holder (or her legal counsel) might look at this and say "hrm, he's probably got a point".
I hate hosting Wordpress.

I don't host it for myself. Over the years I've collected a small blog network. I'm proud of the blogs I host, they're the some of the best and most influential in the Australian blogging world.

But by god do I hate hosting Wordpress. If I made more I'd push the whole thing onto WPEngine and be done with it.

Nowadays I have it running smoothly. The performance keys are:

1. Exorcise Apache. You don't need it. Nginx + PHP-FPM is the correct option.

2. Caching, caching, caching. Enable the MySQL query cache. Install WP-Supercache or W3 Total Cache. Have them spit out gzipped HTML to disk and tell Nginx to serve it directly.

3. MySQL should be on a different server. Annoying but it causes a dramatic improvement.

There are other tweaks I haven't applied such as serving static content from a cookieless subdomain, pushing stuff onto a CDN. If I get to the CDN stage it's time just to turn it over to WPEngine.

It's now sufficiently fast. During the Brisbane floods last year, one of the sites got > 100,000 visits in a few hours and I didn't even notice a slowdown (in fact I didn't notice the visits until a month later when I logged into Google Analytics to check something else). I am now preposterously over provisioned but at least I don't have to think about it any more.
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Wow, thanks so much! High praise indeed.
If the real rate of crime is varying, that's something of interest to the user. The problem is that in a neighborhood with 1000 people, how am I to distinguish between a rate of 1 in 10,000 and 10 in 10,000? In a short time span, that's impossible to do.

That said, you're right that one needs to make sure that real changes aren't smoothed. That's why considering an average over a period of demographic stability likely makes sense.
"People really do not want..."

People or you? To me it seems that "people", as in the majority of users for such a product, don't really know or care.
Google redesigns navigation bar again, mail isn't as important as social anymore
Ask HN: Review My Prelaunch Page - eFolio.me
Hello, I'm developing an early start-up called eFolio.

Not much information is available yet but, it's being developed to solve many problems pertaining to employment.

I think the launch page is straight to the point.

Any feedback is welcome.

[Repost, there was a bug that stopped the launch page of the site from working on certain versions of chrome and FF, thus it died in the vine].
Then ask about browser caching, expires headers, js/css minimization, yslow (or page speed :/), CDNs, and generic front end stuff
yeah, I'm too old for this.
Clickable: http://eFolio.me
If I get this right, the only apps you will be able to run in the Desktop are:

- Internet Explorer 10

- Office 15 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote). What about Outlook, Visio, etc.?

- Windows Explorer

- Wordpad? Solitaire? Remote Desktop Client?

And that's it.

If I want to, say, unrar or un-7z a file I just downloaded, I'll need to go back to a Metro 7z app to do that?

Or what if I want to use Chrome or Firefox? Does this even comply with Microsoft's EU obligations (the browser ballot, etc.)?

Leaving the desktop environment only available to Microsoft apps is a very slippery slope, and I think it'll be a serious point of contention for developers and users. It really has to be all-or-nothing.
I really wish the terms 'chart' and 'graph' were not used synonymously.
"I made a single exception for Google, and I had to take tranquilizers not to throw up during the interview. I consider this kind of interview to be borderline abuse. It serves no useful purpose that can't be better achieved through different means other than to humiliate those whose brains don't function well under this kind of pressure."

Is this really because of the whiteboard though? Interviewing is a stressful thing to go through, and no process is going to be perfect for everyone. I agree that in general it can be harsh on candidates who are not glib and extrovertive, but this doesn't have much to do with the whiteboard.
These discussions often remind me of Little League parents debating the best way to teach preteens how to throw a curveball.

Teaching teens a bit of programming is another matter in some cases, but regardless of approach, most won't care enough about it to pursue it as an adult.

Exposing young people to programming is as important as exposing them to Faulkner, but probably not much more important.
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No surprise really; no publisher will support an adventure game. If it's not an FPS/Action/Sports game no one will touch it. It's the reason Schafer started doing "indie" games in the first place.
That much is easy to explain: no-one will invest the money needed to fund it. That's where kickstarter wins (in this case, at least).
I wonder if the interest in programming is even there anymore. When I was a kid, it was amazing to draw lines and colors on the screen (and sometimes, colors weren't even an option!). These days, I wonder if kids still delight at making the computer render simple drawings and programs, or if XBoxes and Facebook have rendered such trivial programs uninteresting.
How to relaunch your zombie blog?
For games, yes I think there is. If you have too much money, you can drag it out, always adding new things, etc. If you are making a new OS (or web broweser, or something), then with more money you can develop more/better software. Linux has been under active development for 20 years, and will likely continue for many more years, Linux will probably never be "done", but a game can be "done".
You're not crazy; it was ludicrously bad (or at least ill-informed) advice. And you are correct - unless published under a specific license, music "fixed" into some format is (c)All Rights Reserved.
I don't know the context here (full audio is not loading for me), but doesn't it seem reasonable that it was just his way of congratulating her for recently getting married? I could imagine a similar intro being used for a guy that was just married too.

EDIT: I got the full audio to work and the introduction is longer than the quote he pulled out. Judging from his tone and the earlier part of the introduction, I really don't think he was doing anything but trying to compliment/congratulate her (though admittedly he could have done a better job).
Kaitlyn spent the last 2-3 months learning Python just to build this, with no prior programming experience.

What's your excuse, Mr. Non-technical Person? :P
And I'm sure the frontend guys were working on that.

Don't you think it's better to hire compiler experts for that exact problem rather than worrying about whether some frontend dude can write his own JS parser?
Curious - did you consider Jekyll or Octopress (static generated pages) on heroku or something similar?
According to the article, she started in December from basically scratch. She used Zed Shaw's Learn Python the Hard Way and learned enough Python to then figure out Django and deploy to Heroku herself.

More importantly, she learned enough to gain this insight:

“Learning to program isn’t the hard part. The biggest challenge is figuring out how all the moving parts of a web application fit together. There’s no book for that,” she said."
For all the talk of folks crying out, "bring back adventure games". The simple fact is that many many times more people queue up to buy the latest Call of Duty than will ever buy any adventure game.

No different than the movie business. Publisher's want $100M hits, not $10M hits.
Hey arolek, We're still playing around with pricing but it will probably be based on storage.
I love the page after that where they say he was "not a member of the communist party." Even for the government that seems not even worth writing down.
Start of a series "Survival guide for tech founders in startups" in my blog :)
It's staggering that in 2012 we still have to remind people about this.
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Trusted or not, but would you care to publish your build, on bittorrent maybe?
I think he chose a pretty bad example to lead in with. Yeah, the comment to Lovell lacked taste, but it was hardly the worst thing that could have been said.

That said, there was a good point here:

Think before you open your mouth.

Couldn't agree more. Far too many faux pas (including some that I've made) could be avoided just by thinking about what you're about to say before you say it.
Perhaps. Still seems a little strange to me- if someone described my (at this point, imaginary) wife as "sexy" I would probably be more weirded out than complimented- especially at a professional event.
Do you do this also?

No, and I believe that there are a lot of people like me, I think there are two types of people, those that default to negative projections and those that default to positive projections. I may be in the minority, but I tend to project positive attributes to people. Now I do see an occasional person from time to time that wears a certain thing or does a certain thing that will cause a negative thought but those are my own prejudges and I try to quickly correct myself.

Most people crossing the street probably think that about me also. Who is that freak?

I think the author struggles with projecting, it appears that they project negative traits on others and worse they project that other people are doing the same things. This creates all kinds of imaginary issues that can cripple an individuals ability to find profound connections with other people. I have come to believe that this is done as a defense mechanism by some people and it is an effective defense. Being an optimist I do sometimes get the worst end of the deal in believing in the good of people, but I also am afforded a lot of undeserved opportunity for doing so as well. As such I think I am no worse for wear because of it.

The rest of the article is pretty good advice, one area I would add is to the last personality type, the one that will do you harm. I don't think the article goes far enough, it recommends ignoring them, which is sound advice but I would go so far as to say learn to forgive them the thing about forgiveness is it frees you, if they are truly that bad of a person they care nothing about your seething disdain for them, they may rather enjoy it, so in the end your lack of forgiveness is just eroding you. Forgiveness allows you to put them completely in the rear-view.
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a) we have an insightful comment from gibybo.

b) the incredibly sexy gibybo commented.

one of these is better. sexy.
Iran has NOT threatened any one with nukes, it does not even have a weapons program.

Iran only has an enrichment facility for medical isotopes and for its power station. This enrichment is under full IAEA monitoring. Iran even agreed to stop enriching and buy the fuel from abroad, but the US killed the deal.

That Iran is not making weapons has been confirmed by the US National Intelligence Estimate, by the Mossad to JCS chairman General Dempsey, and by National Intelligence Director Clapper to the Senate.

link:
http://antiwar.com/radio/2012/02/05/flynt-leverett-8/

How can you expect Iran to "disarm" itself when it does not have nukes in the first place? The same way Iraq was supposed to "disarm" in 2003?
Cool idea but I suspect by the end of this year anyone who seriously uses Photoshop will be using Adobe's Creative Cloud solution to solve the same problems.

Granted, Creative Cloud isn't fully released yet, but it will be soon and it is basically this plus Dropbox plus full native integration into all the Adobe apps.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned it before, not that it's revolutionary or amazing, but just so damn helpful:

Turn your /etc/ into a git repository. It'll save you hours on end of maintenance and debugging in the long run, especially when you update packages and find that your configurations have been overwritten or lost.
Here are a couple of other good resources on MapReduce:

A tutorial talk by some Googlers at Sigmetrics 09: http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust...

Also, a paper on using MapReduce for data-processing on large clusters: http://www.usenix.org/event/osdi04/tech/full_papers/dean/dea...
You're right, since this isn't just streaming but also use in a larger work — you can't just use someone's song in what's essentially an advertisement without their permission

Kickstarter must have to deal with this shit all the time in the project videos
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This is cool, and a great advertising story for instagram (which is almost more of a present!)

I think my valentine gift will be "why didn't you make the reservation earlier?! Where are my roses???"
Gold is a universal make-believe store of wealth: it is precious because "we" (i.e. most people) agree to consider it as precious. The fact that it's rare, cannot be manufactured and doesn't corrode over time are nice to have properties but are neither necessary nor sufficient conditions of value.

The context of this subthread is SHTF situations, where all that matters is inherent value determined by the laws of nature. What good is your gold if nobody wants to take it for even a tuna sandwich or if you have a loaded gun pointed at you?
Thanks for the links.

I try to stay away from the term "gamification" because of the stigma associated with it and you're right, it's the new buzz word. But as an avid gamer, I think the achievement/rewards portion of a game can be used across other mediums, like websites, to incentivize visitors and foster discovery of content. I agree that just slapping a badge on a site is a massive FAIL, but providing achievements that drive others to discover interesting content on your site or acknowledge their participation may have some merit.
This philosophy is definitely a step in the right direction.

However, I think we really need even more fundamental reforms to our institutions and belief systems.

The enterprise or corporation predates the widescale use of wages for labor. Originally the labor was motivated and organized by whips and shackles.

Maybe I just watched too many Jordan Maxwell videos, but I actually think that the words "enterprise", "prise" and "prison" share common roots.

Enter - _prise_ :

"From Middle English prise, from Old French prise (“a taking, capture, a seizure, a thing seized, a prize, booty, also hold, purchase”), from French prise, from pris, past participle of prendre (“to take, to capture”), from Latin prendere (“to take, seize”); see prehend. Compare prison, apprise, comprise, enterprise, purprise, reprisal, suprise, etc."

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/prize#Etymology_1

It is time to prise open the irons.
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>"Now just think how awesome you would be if you had learned how to code when you were seven years old."

Probably as awesome as I am as a baseball player, which I actually learned at age seven...and quit for spring soccer at age 9 because games and practices were so incredibly dull.

However, I suspect at age 9 I would have traded the prospect of a Saturday afternoon programming in a New York minute for sitting in the dugout during a baseball game.
Argh. This continues to happen. Was in a boardroom meeting with a company recently with my female cofounder, and she was all but ignored by the CEO (others were fine). On the surface, nothing will come of it. In actual fact though, the behavior spoke volumes about what kind of environment they offer in terms of a deeper integration/commitment, and who knows what opportunities were lost for them (and, in theory, for us).
The concept here is encouraging, but at the same time a bit disheartening when I consider how many of my peers have recently graduated or will soon graduate with expensive, decreasingly valuable degrees in subjects they love, but will have difficulty securing employment with. For instance, I have a good friend studying history right now who has recently taken up programming in an effort to spruce up his resume. I can't help but think "Why so late? Why didn't anyone nudge you in that direction when you were younger?"

I know my parents wanted me to truly understand new technologies, not just interact with them, so coding was an integral part of my life from an early age, but I fear many more parents probably saw the rate at which software was advancing and the promise of the internet and thought "Well, programming probably isn't that important anymore" (assuming, of course, that they had any opinion on programming at all).

He's a bright guy, so he'll be fine, but the fact that so many people my age will likely need to spend much longer acquiring and honing these skills (if they even bother to try) than children of the iGeneration is a bit depressing in the "Born just a bit too soon" sense.
I had a very hard time parsing your comment to understand what it meant. Probably I'm not alone in that and probably a lot of the people that downvoted it thought it was incoherent.

Maybe you should take a bit more time if you're trying to say something complicated to make sure the point comes across.
You don't congratulate someone for getting married as an introduction when their technical chops are what got them there. This was an awful intro - you want to establish someone's right to be there with an introduction, not comment on their personal life.
For me the biggest thing about Github is the ability to learn for other programmers. I am a CS grad student though so I recognize that for others collaboration is the secret sauce. Provided this solved my problem of trying to learn something about design, I'd use it frequently.
post in question: http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201103#24

HN discussion at the time: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2362207
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We have fixed the problem for Firefox. It should look great now!
doesn't the size of the family almost completely account for the difference in price?

say you do a simple, stupid analysis - 12k / 3 = $4k/person/year, which is greater than 17k/5 =$3.4k/person/year

of course, that's not entirely fair, since children eat less than adults, right?

if you ballpark daily caloric intake, the family of 3 eats (2500+2000+1000)365 calories a year, for 4.4 cents/Cal.

The family of 5 maybe eats (2200 + 1800 + 1800+1600+1000) 365, for 5.5 cents a Cal (I'm assuming the aging adults moderate their diet for their decreased metabolism)

yes, that's a 20% increase, but given other factors (possibly more dining out, errors in the ballparking, etc.), it's really not a huge jump in food prices.
That much is true. I guess you're lucky with your son. My daughter sleeps so badly I've discovered a new side of my wife called "apocalyptic night mommy".
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One interesting response in the reddit thread about this was someone saying "...now you can fund the shit that nobody still wants to play?", followed by "20.000 is nothing", when another poster pointed out that over 20.000 people were already backing this project.

This seems to be exactly the publisher's point of view. If you consider marketing, development costs, console licensing fees, ... paying everyone involved in the project and to make sure that there's still profit left over for everyone involved, then 20.000 people buying your game is not that much.

However, for me this kickstarter project is kind of the opposite of pirating, where the developer gets the money before the development process has even started and they don't need to worry if they will break even, since the original goal has already been reached anyway.
Plus, as already mentioned several times, they cut out the middle-man with this approach, so that this could definitely open doors for new & interesting projects.

Even though 20.000 is not much for a publisher of a AAA title, I am pretty sure that the final amount will turn heads in the gaming industry and might spawn some new developer <-> customer relationships similar to this kickstarter funding.
> "communism" can be completely peaceful and nice

Perhaps some forms of Anarcho-socialism could be argued to be both completely nonviolent (peaceful) and voluntary (nice). However any form of Communism calling for the abolition of capitalism, which asserts that others do not have the right to continue asserting claims to private ownership of capital independently, most certainly cannot be considered either.