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Is that a comment about the free-to-play or about the actual quality of the simulator? If it's the later, carry on, I've not looked at it yet.

I think that free-to-play makes a huge amount of sense for simulators. Train Simulator 2012 [1] isn't free to play but if it were, I think that it would still be a money maker. Digital models cost real money at $19 for a locomotive (and some scenario type things). If you buy all of the DLC for Train Simulator 2012 you'd have spent $1,700.

I'm not a sim vehicle sort of person. I enjoy city building and SimAnt (so /r/OpenAnt's OpenAnt [2] makes me happy). But I can see the DLC model (which I hate) causing companies to invest resources into more modern simulators. I think free-to-play also allows younger players and unfamiliar players to be exposed to something that they could really truly enjoy.

[1] http://store.steampowered.com/app/24010
[2] https://github.com/Rinum/OpenAnt
$10k is the most common threshold Ive seen. However, there are other issues that come into play, like if your product requires the exchange of NPI (Non-public information).
> full disclosure, i am co-editor of this site

Awesome site. I tried subscribing to your newsletter, and the server responded:

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This has nothing to do with Google Latitude and everything to do with Google Maps starting to charge ridiculous amounts of money.
Proving that there are cases where it's faster than C doesn't prove that it's faster than the JVM ;) There are plenty of cases where JVM code will be faster than C too...
It depends on how motivated you are :) If you really want to learn not just Scheme but some really cool CS stuff, then SICP[1] is the best option. It's an awesome book, but it has about as much material as a single semester CS introductory course.

[1]: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/

I learned Scheme (and a bunch of other stuff) with such a course and it was awesome. Most of my friends and I thought the course was easy but apparently others didn't, and I gather it actually has a reputation of being relatively difficult around here.

If you're less motivated or have less time, I've heard really good things about The Little Schemer[2]. Our course also suggested Simply Scheme as an introduction to it. This book was written by our professor, who is the best teacher I've ever had for anything, and it's available for free online[3], but I've never read it.

[2]: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/BTLS/

[3]: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ss-toc2.html

I don't know of any really good shorter tutorials, but I'm sure they exist. That said, if you have a little bit of time, you really should read SICP--you'll learn a ton about CS as well as learning Scheme.
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"Blizzard went on to note that its development and publishing schedule has not been impacted by the staff cuts. "

This is easy to say when your publishing schedule is, as it has always been, "When it's done".
When you want to write an essay, do you use something that draws your essay as some complex graphical representation, or do you use something like Word or a text editor, that for the most part shows your essay as just a bunch of boring characters on the screen?

Sure, there may be some fonts and indentation and colors. (Eclipse and VS use those, too.) But the text is the point.

It's the same with code. Code is a means of expression, best treated as text. Every attempt at turning it into something graphical always reduces the expressiveness.
The point being made is that the health care costs in the US are very high. The author editorializes that this is "due to Obamacare". Costs were high before Obamacare, and they're higher now, and non-partisan projections (CBO, etc.) indicate they're going higher still. How you want to apportion blame is up to you - the fact that costs are high is inarguable. So is the fact that it costs jobs.

Also, you apparently don't know much about Singapore. Their (quite excellent) health care system works by forced savings - it's not, in any way, "socialized medicine" as the term is used in the US.

In fact, government spending on health care in Singapore is around 3-4% of GDP. Government spending on health care in the US is approximately twice that, as a share of GDP. So yeah, moving from the US system to the Singapore system would be "offloading your corporate health care costs onto the government" if by that you mean "transferring health care costs from the government to the private sector".

But please, don't let me get in the way of a good partisan food fight.

(And as for the "meme" that high taxes in the US aren't really killing jobs... Let's see, unemployment in Singapore these days is around 2%. What's your explanation?)
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Eloqua does every single one of the the things on the list of 'wrongs' here. It was one of the worst purchasing experiences of my life, they practically talked me OUT of the service.
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I dont think you should provide housing, however I do believe it would be beneficial if there would be the opportunity for new companies/teams to live with each other if they choose so. Clearly, for some people, that is contraproductive (you mentioned Larry and Sergey), however I think for especially smaller and newer teams, having this community that lives and works together can be great.

In some senses, it is like on and off campus housing: Sure for some people off campus is less of a distraction, cheaper or just totally sufficient, but it is arguable that the on-campus philosophy of American colleges has contributed to Americas success.
Layoffs are bad for morale either way, but one big round is much better morale-wise than 20 small rounds.
The 'high corporate taxes meme' is 'anti-Obama'? Then why does Obama himself wants to reduce them?

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/obama-proposes-corporate-tax...

Granted, he doesn't want to reduce them as much as the Republicans do, but he does think they're too high.
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Ah, thank you. I've only had to make purchasing decisions twice or so, and it's always been for a pretty small and cheap product where I just tossed a credit card at them, and software/serial arrived in my inbox.
But in this case, the price-point is highly sensitive. The reason there is so much demand is because it is insanely cheap. It's exciting because of what it signals, and even modestly raising the price changes the narrative.
Unfortunately, that's not going to happen unless we will see some x86 tablets. WOA will have Metro-style apps only.

And I doubt we'll ever see x86 tablets
Asked by an Iranian member of the audience if Google will stop blocking Android or Chrome downloads in his country, Schmidt said that the ban was due to US sanctions on Iran and that "we can't violate US law."

Is this due to crypto within the software or what?
Is this a hobby project or are you aiming toward getting adoption? I will confess that I don't understand the point. If we accept the Church-Turing thesis then there's no reason that by the time you catch up to Clojure's performance on the JVM it will have been optimized beyond the measurement you made. The only real guarantee you can make is that you will have added an abstraction layer to Python.

While I definitely think this is a cool project, when I think about using it in production it strikes me as more Sisyphus than Prometheus.
Would you mind to provide examples of B2B software that we rarely heard of?

I have interest in B2B more than B2C occasionally but don't really have a lot of domain knowledge. Would you happen to know a few general tricks how or where to get such knowledge?
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What you gain in "readability" here (debatable), you lose in terms of screen real-estate efficiency. The last screenshot has a function filling the entire screen that would, under ordinary circumstances, occupy about ten lines of code.

You're going to get frustrated having to page up and down continually in order to understand any remotely complex function.
> I can find and talk to your other customers basically instantly in order to determine what they paid for your product and if they’re getting the value they expected from it. I will do this.

The joke is, quite a few enterprise vendors will ask you to sign some sort of NDA before they'll even show you a demo. And of course you'll pay before ever having tried the software. "Trials" – are you mad?
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SQL Server was in that range for many forms of licenses, and so was Windows Server when I worked at Microsoft. Actually I could think of a lot of software in that range.

Today, I was looking at UBS in South-East Asia..... A basic system may be a bit below $2k, but a functional system is probably about $4-5k.

Also a basic functional system of Sage ERP for smaller businesses is often well above $10k and below $50k
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Here's a quick benchmark on my machine (a EeePC 1001HE). I used reduce1 with clojure-py because there doesn't seem to be a reduce BIF. I don't know if that effected this benchmark any:

Python:

(time (reduce1 + (range 100000)))
Elapsed time: 3882.57193565 msecs
4999950000

PyPy:

user=> (time (reduce1 + (range 100000)))
Elapsed time: 259.984970093 msecs
4999950000

Clojure via Java Hotspot:

user=> (time (reduce + (range 100000)))
"Elapsed time: 75.35225 msecs"
4999950000
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Yes, by voting or becoming politically active if there are no viable alternatives to vote upon.

One easy method is to join a existing party, involve yourself in activities you care about, gather followers within the party and try to advance to a position where you can influence the parliament votes of the party.

The not so easy method is to create your own political party, but that is much harder as you need to broaden your focus much more.
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TSA is a resounding success. As a jobs program, that is. What difference does it make whether they stop terrorists or not? The main thing is to create careers out of whole cloth, and photographing people nude is a much more dignified employment than digging holes and filling them in again. If you weren't totally against the working poor, you would see that.
Beware: Windows only. I know, it should be obvious, but it's been a long time since a large company dumped an .exe onto my downloads folder without even checking what OS I'm on.

I'll stick with X-Plane. It works on all major platforms and it's an awesome simulator. I miss the ease of use of the old MS-FS, though.
I agree about the sense of entitlement. However, these people get paid. They are not gifting anything to us anymore than Microsoft gifts us with Windows.
If all he has is an idea then you're basically taking all the risk. I've been approached by people with "the next most amazing iPhone app" ideas. They expect you to do all the work and split the profits. Everybody has ideas but they're worthless...unless they succeed :).
Don't like callback hell? Use fibers.

https://github.com/scriby/asyncblock

(My pet project, a flow control library built on fibers that gives you all the benefits of async programming without the callbacks)
The app store is 3.5 years old, not one, and has been so successful that the original poster mentioned that "practically everyone buying software does it that way."

Nobody is suggesting that the app store should sell software the way that Oracle does. In fact, the point was exactly the opposite: that there's a reason that software is sold differently in different price ranges. And the reason for that is that customers expect it that way.

Some vendors may be bold enough to tell their customers to get bent and that if they want to buy their software they have to do it the way the vendor tells them to. Most of them will go out of business as a result. Ignoring your customers is rarely a good way to sell to them.

What usually happens is that we see segmentation that's pretty close to what's described in the original post: non-enterprise software is sold via a transparent process and aims for scale by selling to small and medium sized customers. The transparency is a business requirement: you can't invest $10000 of a salesperson's salary into selling something for $99/month. Enterprise sales run with enterprise processes because enterprise customers demand that it work that way. The point here is that these processes aren't ordained by vendors, but by customers, and the economics around the deal size.

For vendors that are focused on the enterprise, usually, they're not super concerned about losing the folks on the low end (just like SMB product sales aren't worried about losing enterprise customers). Usually the folks that are frustrated are because they're in one category and trying to buy from the other.
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I love this mentality about YC, but I'm curious: if you had unlimited resources to build any kind of environment you want, is it possible to build a space you would support YC founders working out of, even just post-YC but pre-Series A? We didn't want to work out of our apartment when we got our first hire, and had to go to an office space, since we wanted privacy that most coworking spaces didn't offer.

I agree about the need to build you own culture, etc, but there are some undeniable benefits to being near other YC startups and sharing resources such as a kitchen (which seems pretty rare in a ~5 person closed-off office space) or food delivery. The YScraper in SF does seem to be pretty popular for this stage, but I imagine there's a better hypothetical option.
I use exec all the time -- it's amazing. We use it at parse a lot as well.
I have to disagree. While I understand your points and where you are coming from, I love event and callback based code. Maybe it's from the days of mIRC scripting... ;)
What about contributing the Venues to an open places database? AFAIK Foursquare is one of the only companies in the Factual Crosswalk API that is included but not an active cooperative partner.
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perhaps the alternative you are looking for is making parts of the software easy to access allowing huge mods to be made through modification of the mechanics. Its probably why skyrim will be playable for the next 5+ years due to the thousands of mods that are already available bringing even more content in..
> we occasionally try commercial software. Mostly, we don’t end up buying it

Given that, I'm not sure why I should pay too much attention to the rest of the post. I'd rather take advice from people who successfully sell a lot of software or otherwise have experience in buying it.

> Practically everyone who’s paying for software is doing so through an app store

This is a very myopic view, though unsurprising given the previous disclaimer.

Besides the enterprise "shrink-wrapped" software market (see wheels commment), there's also a huge market for custom software.
I wouldn't think so, as long as you describe what you're doing and describe it as SSL (honestly, of course... I would strongly discourage claiming that it's SSL unless it's really a fully-compatible implementation, with no additional encryption mechanisms, etc.)

There's really very little paperwork required these days, and the process is quite streamlined -- I got approved (fully online) about 20 minutes after submitting the form. I have a hunch that they're getting tired of processing forms that just involve SSL and are more or less rubberstamping 'em. That makes perfect sense -- SSL is a standard technology, they've granted the same export permission a zillion times in the past, etc. I'm not trying to suggest that they're not doing their duty, just that SSL is routine.

However, there's only one way to find out for sure. :-)
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Mixpanel looks great, but by my calculations it seems really expensive. It looks like their CPMs are on the order of $0.30 to $0.08. If I've got a Facebook app, maybe I make on the order of $0.30 CPM per impression through ads or purchases.

For each impression I'm going to make at least one mixpanel call, maybe more if I'm tracking CTR on different page elements, so mixpanel fees would be a significant portion of my revenues. The only way I can think to get around it is to sample the calls, e.g. based on FBID.

How do people afford it? I'm not trolling, people use them and they are growing, so what am I missing?
See the dots connect looking backwards? What about focus?
So, Steve Jobs said “Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.” But if you are focused (i.e. doing what’s relevant to the end goal, assuming you have one) then shouldn’t the dots be connecting in some way as you proceed, otherwise, you are doing it wrong? Or is it that only after a certain point in life the dots need to start connecting?

The more I think about it, the more I want to understand what he meant. I have read that after coming back to Apple he stopped majority of the projects and focused on the specific things that we are seeing in the market now. Isn’t it possible that some of those now stopped projects could have “connected” in the future in some way?

I can relate to his thought about looking back and seeing the dots connect. In the past I have tinkered with a lot of different things because I enjoyed them, e.g. doing .NET programming while exploring Linux. But this odd combination is now proving very useful because it is providing me with a very unique perspective and giving me the ability to do things that I wouldn’t be able to do if I was very focused on one technology or platform.
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Fast? No problem. GWT. Done.
yeah right. Correspondance school courses aren't for everyone, even if they are hosted online these days(shiny and new, nothing like the old!). not everyone can grind it out in solitude. most people need strong social interaction associated with educational experiences to keep them interested. witness the prevalance of fraternity/sorority life on campus
Yep. My business takes the following approach:

1) Open source

2) Get in a consultation with you to see what needs to be changed

3) Submit a proposal.

4) Engage in further discussion to ensure we stay useful. Some degree of included support is good to do that.

I have been told over and over that we charge too much for the SE Asian market, but once they start comparing what they get for the money (focus on delivering value) that goes out the window.
I know it's a minor thing but:

> Heck, even free/open software people have an app
> store these days

Little off the cuff remarks can expose ignorance quickly. Not something you want to do when trying to convince your readers of a more complex point.

It also makes the reader wonder what else you just threw in there because it sounded kinda right and you maybe heard it somewhere.

If you couldn't get that little thing right, I have so much less trust when I get to a part of the post that I don't know as much about.
I agree that it is hard to focus on multiple things. Certainly I am not "running" Justin.tv/TwitchTV by any means: my cofounder Emmett Shear is in every sense of it. I don't think I could have a day to day operational role at two companies. At JTV/TTV I focus on providing value by advising those people who are in operational roles.
and we'll have referendums till the government gets the result they want.

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Daniel and Amir had a company that focused on restaurant apps that turned into the company that is Exec.
exit x86 market, there`s merit in that, check

exit the x86 market, enter the vertically integrated server hardware space, this is insane.

why aren`t they spending that over a quarter of a billion dollars on building better cpus/gpus. not trying to become some sort of ibm.
First of all, it should be mentioned, that this is not an abstraction layer. Clojure-py functions are actual Python functions (not classes as they are on the JVM). This means that the speed of clojure-py is almost exactly the same as python code.

Secondly, there is some benifit to not having to worry about static typing in a dynamic language. Anyone want to explain how to read a binary file in Clojure? Here's a hint, it takes the use of FileInputStream, DataInputStream. In clojure-py it's as simple as (py/open "foo.bin" "r").

And thirdly, why are we writing a dynamic language on a static VM? Fast Clojure code on the JVM these days takes little hints. You have to tag parameters with ^Integer and ^Double to kick the compiler type inference into gear. None of this is required on a dynamic VM. In fact, it's completely pointless.
Ok, just read this and absolutely have to comment, since I used to work for a telcom services agent. I learned there that where consumer services (low monthly recurring cost) could be sold online sight unseen, customers requiring business-level services (high monthly recurring cost) wanted more handholding, more discussion, and assumed there would be more paperwork. We actually tried to provide them with instant pricing on T1s, and sales dropped considerably. This is the story in almost anything, and its the reason cars and houses are still sold primarily by people, not websites. Websites may provide the in, but people close the larger deals better in the current day and age.
The boxes seem to be an unstable medium between the stable points of S-expressions and indentation as nesting. If there are lots of nested expressions, you either push them to multiple lines and it becomes indentation, or you keep them on one line and the top and bottom boundaries of the boxes run together until you effectively have parentheses.

Have you looked at Chuck Moore's ColorForth, though? It might be a neat direction to take this in.
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Better sims:

http://www.flightgear.org/

http://www.x-plane.com/desktop/landing/
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>> Practically everyone who’s paying for software is doing so through an app store

I think that software developers that eat, sleep, drink, breathe the Apple / mobile world need to be careful not to let this define their worldview of the software market. As big as the Apple / mobile market is, it's still just a small piece of the overall pie.

> And how well's that working for them?

Although I think the premise is wrong, but Al3x has a lot of valid points. There's a huge gulf between app store apps and enterprise products like Oracle. There are still a lot of companies in the B2B market that don't put pricing on their sites - even when their products aren't that expensive. Worse yet, some don't show any viable means of buying their product on the web site - not just "plans and pricing" but no clear "how to buy", etc. The visitor is expected to divine that they need to call the company. When I see a site like that I assume that it's a "if you don't want to contact us, you can't afford us" filter.
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