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> what's the monetization policy that would work for you?

Just make a paid app - it's that simple. I won't hesitate to put down 99 cents, or $1.99, or $2.99, for an app that my child will get enjoyment out of, especially if it has some learning value.

Speaking of learning value, I think a more sophisticated approach to learning would be useful. For example, the standard approach is to make the game involve numbers or letters, but I find my child gets bored with these. But he's fascinated with strategy games, so a tower defense game built for kids would be perfect for him. He'll just play it for fun but he'll be learning how to strategize, how to plan, how to react to changing situations, how to choose between different options, etc.
HDMI => DVI would be enough for every monitor I've owned in the past 5 years.
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Indeed. It'll be interesting to find out what ops he organized after becoming a ci. Any defense lawyer would make a strong case of entrapment for those situations.
I would say it continues to build upon what Windows 7 (and even Windows 95) was doing. Instead of a desktop full of shortcuts and a start menu full of shortcuts, you now have a full screen start menu to replace all that. Like the desktop, the start screen scales to your screen resolution, allowing more icons when the resolution is higher.

It lets you scroll around all your shortcuts and allows you to see relevant information about them without even opening them (replacing the sidebar, which was the cause of quite a few "Vista is slow!" complaints). You can use the Windows key to simultaneously perform the action of "open the start menu" and "show the desktop".

I'm not sure I understand the point about mouse gestures. Mouse gestures have been around for a lot longer than Windows 8 (see, Opera browser). If you're specifically referring to the unlock screen, just press a key on your keyboard. This will likely be included in a tutorial for the release. If you mean mouse gestures to perform shortcut actions, Windows 8 has a pretty extensive keyboard shortcut list for power users.

http://www.windows8news.com/2012/03/12/microsoft-release-win...
Oddly, old article about testing 64-bit app is becoming increasingly important.
And privately designed/built/owned particle accelerators? It's definitely a new era.

I actually worked at a startup from about 2007-2009 that was designing particle accelerators for another company pursuing what appears to be the exact same technology (possibly some of the same people).

http://www.sigen.net/solar_technology.html

No idea what came of the project. Very high current ion accelerators in the +1 MeV range is quite the trick without a huge budget. Our company was full of people from Los Alamos. We were actually focusing on a different application that needed higher output.

There is a quite sizeable commercial accelerator market for medical, industrial imaging, and radiation sterilization use (and of course various "homeland security uses".
It's a tiny, low power, low cost computer. The uses are almost infinite.
Excuse me for not being cut up about how the BigPharma companies will be pulling in a few less dollars.
Thinking about some of the corrupt and downright unethical practices employed by these companies - this would almost seem like just payback.

- They use Drug trials in lightly regulated developing countries to get FDA approvals for medicines. There was a famous case in India last year I think where 10-12 children died due to an experimental vaccine. The company involved was one of the biggest vaccine manufacturers in US. That case got hushed up quick.

- Drugs that get banned in US/Europe get dumped in Developing countries where the science/regulation may not have caught up yet. So even when the deadly consequences are known, these companies push dangerous medicines.

- Medical Reps employed by these companies routinely pressure doctors to over-prescribe expensive medicines. for a uneducated public this ends up costing them more for the same effects.

Against the backdrop of these practices an occasional such judgement is indeed good news against these companies.
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2.4GHz doesn't sound like a great frequency for smart grids if the nodes are spaced far apart.
This looks pretty much like standard JPA stuff.
This guy doesn't even mention the claims of the patents in suit, so why should I trust his opinion about their merits? If you don't know how to read a patent, you're absolutely not qualified to make pronouncements like this:

> None of them represent unique and new ideas at the time of the filing. I supect they all can be thrown out over prior art if Facebook takes the time and effort to do that.

Also, even the article that he links to just quotes the damn abstracts of the patents, as if that has anything to do with what they cover.

Honestly people, I know you like to rail against software patents and the patent system in general... but educate yourselves first, or you just come off looking ignorant to anyone who knows the first thing about patents.
Python does not include:

* a self-documenting editor

* a doc browser, which integrates with said editor

* a high performance compiler, which integrates with the above two

* a debugger that can step through OS code as easily as program code

* the ability to stop a program midexecution, change it, and continue from where you stopped.

Python is a script interpreter running on UNIX. Nothing more, nothing less. It's terribly misguided to compare it to a LispM. You don't even know what you're missing.
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The one place lacking with customer support for Amazon is Amazon FPS. I actually had to completly abandon my integration because the support wasn't there. The only way to get support was via an outsourced forumn and responses would take days if one was ever recieved at all. Response times like that make it way to risky to use for payments.
Getting yourself flat on the floor of a free-falling elevator could be interesting, as you will be experiencing zero-G at the time.

You could wait for air resistance on the elevator to take effect as it accelerates, but I imagine that its terminal velocity would be quite high so this might take a while.
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The 20-year Harvard School of Public Health study links regular consumption to higher mortality.
Why would it be bad?
Thanks it really was - although I regret not spending as much time on it as I could have.

I basically ended up doing no marketing for DomainPolish whatsoever besides a few posts on my blog which were popular on HN. A few other people tried out the service and wrote popular blog posts as well. I think doing the thank you videos in the beginning was key because it gave people a huge incentive to tell their friends about the site.

I wish I had more to say on marketing but that's something that I'm working on a lot now for my new startup. Hopefully in 6 months I'll have some more lessons to share :)
There already is a Github Desktop client... it's your browser.
It's different than code. First of all, if the designer gets the job done without renaming layers, then it's his business. (In my experience, a lot of them don't need to name layers). Unless he hands over the design to someone else. I'm not sure how often it happens. Code is very often handed to different people. I doubt graphics need the same level of maintainability.

But anyway, that's a thing between designers, and we're talking about designer vs. developers.

The other difference is that in Photoshop you can easily find layer by using Move tool and CMD+clicking on the picture. And you can find text layers with Text tool.
My experience is from a couple of years ago because I missed out on a ticket last year (I am not very good at having to do something at a very specific date and time).
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Thanks! That's one part of the experience that I'm definitely upset at myself for. But I'd rather get the mistakes out of the way while the stakes are low right?
Probably Xitrum? https://github.com/ngocdaothanh/xitrum
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Historically, they've always made a big deal about repeat attendees (better seating, better shirts, etc.) to encourage people to return habitually.

It's going to be hard to be a repeat attendee if you have to fight for tickets in the middle of a workday.
This is why I love authoring content in Markdown (or Pandoc). I can send the nice formatted versions out to customers, while retaining Terminal friendly documents for myself.
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I'd be surprised if they just opened the floodgates without warning, though the article does seem to imply that.
I have no problem with someone being down on ridiculous patents. And think it is great that Joel stood up for Fred to say Fred isn't being hypocritical. However, i think that Fred should have dialed it back a bit before posting. He was trying to get noticed and Yahoo is an easy target as it has been sinking like the Titanic for a few years. But just because it is an easy target doesn't mean you should shoot at it.
I don't think of AVRs as being particularly cheap relative to their competition but I haven't tried to buy any in quantity lately so what do I know. Maybe things have changed.
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Take a look at 500px.com; it seems a large swath of the higher-end of the community is migrating there. At this point, it's probably where I'm going to land with my archive if I have to move.

Unfortunately, I don't believe they have the ability to automatically import your Flickr photos.
I totally disagree. A $3,500 should absolute qualify as an exit. Congrats to the OP!
Offtopic, but related: http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/csarchive/Show-212---The-V...
Patent system doesn't need to be reformed. It needs to be flat out abolished. It's a disgrace to the human race. You can't own ideas. Patent system is a form of control, just as is oil, or just as the way the monetary system is run. All these must go, will go.
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Ask HN: Why is everyone spending time at Hackathons and not at Sellathons?
I've learned that 5% of a business is the idea, 15% is the product, and 80% is the selling. The number one reason companies fail is because they do not know how to sell? Isn't it better to spend more time at "Sellathons" learning how to sell - and less time at Hackathons?
I was in a similar situation and gave a month notice. It was awkward to stay that long. I would give them two weeks of your normal work along with one week of training for your replacement.
"If you're a web designer and you can't do this, it's time to learn. You're a theoretical web designer drawing pictures of websites."

I couldn't agree more. At this point, if you're still designing the same way you would for print (and honestly, most designers I've worked with still do), you are going to be replaced.
It's usually 10000000 shares at $0.00001/share par value, so the TOTAL capitalization is $100, not $100 per share.
Human lives are at stake if we screw up the drive to discover new drugs that will save future lives.

Imagine if you had eliminated Bayer's incentive for even creating this cancer-saving drug in the first place. How many lives would you have ended prematurely? Imagine all the new drug research that depends upon Bayer's initial research that will save yet more lives.

Like I said, it's not so cut and dry. The pharmaceutical industry has had quantifiable and demostrable success at a level that is almost unparalleled in history. But your claim is that it's backwards.

I think your statement is inherently backwards. The "reality" is that the pharmaceutical industry produces something that society has found to be extraordinarily valuable. The people I see warping models that don't reflect reality are the ones that disregard the cost of keeping the pharmaceutical rate of discovery going.

I'd love to see improvements to the industry, but "human lives are at stake! It's all backwards!" along with the "senior management should be held accountable" just don't seem to be statements that head is a direction of improvement.
I'm not arguing that it can't or won't change; I'm arguing that it won't change back to what it was before.
I would hesitate putting my head against a flat surface, maybe sitting down would be a better alternative assuming that a few broken bones are OK but serious head trauma is a lot worse.
It's not desperation it all. It is blackmail (or as it was once, and perhaps still, known, "claim-mail").

Facebook has a lot to lose if it is perceived that Yahoo can hurt them, now that they are going public. Which is exactly why Yahoo is doing that, and why they did exactly the same thing when google went public.
Who manufactures the memory in Apple iOS devices? Samsung.
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I've been more than happy with the services offered by Skrill/Moneybookers [1], and AFAIK they have no issues working with UK merchants. Might be worth checking them.

[1] https://www.moneybookers.com/
I think this might stem from the fact you've finished your academic studies for the first time in your life.

You studied CS and you proved you're capable of learning to a high standard AND you achieved a great result.

Now it's up to you to choose what you study next. What areas do you feel you are missing? Even outside of tech.

When you leave uni it's not possible to have studied every concept. I did CS in the UK too and I went down the analytics, data, ecommerce route and left with very limited programming skills. That's something I've had to address since leaving.

Follow your interests and plug the gaps that are worrying you.
Far more valuable than this contrarian response would be an analysis of the claims on their merits, since you allude to a knowledge of the subject. Care to share?
People say the same things on Mac: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3584609

It represents a fundamental misunderstanding of how modern OSes work. That misunderstanding is not the problem; modern OSes are complex pieces of software, and most people shouldn't have to understand them. OSes should just work. The problem comes in when people who don't understand how they work get the itch to "improve" their system.
I also heard that tickets will be non-transferrable this year. Last year people were scalping them on eBay and craigslist because of the free hardware that is usually given away.
Yes, if I were appointed dictator of the world I would certainly arrange things so that another frequency could be used.
Thanks for your reply. I appreciate the engagement.

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I think you set up a false dichotomy between corporate open source and non-corporate open source. A better division would be between single organization projects and multi-organization projects. For example, OpenJDK is very much a corporate project - but in addition to Oracle, IBM, Apple and RedHat all have people heavily involved in development. That means that if Oracle were for whatever reason to lose interest the project wouldn't necessarily die (leaving aside patent issues).

On the other hand look at GWT, see in particular your colleague cromwellian excellent comments upthread. Here was a technology that Google was at one time devoting a great deal of resources to and was moving quickly and in exciting directions. A lot of companies built businesses on top of the GWT library. Now, for what seem like very good and valid reasons, Google has scaled back its efforts on the project. That's fine, but there is no community ready to pick up the slack. The reasons there is no one to pick up the slack are not technical or legal, but as you describe it "governance and social issue[s]".

When there is no path to becoming a committer, you are walled off from discussions about the future of the project and your patches are accepted reluctantly at best - why spend the time to deeply familiarize yourself with a codebase?

Except by being hired away by Google, which isn't exactly going to make your company thrilled to sponsor your work on a project.
I feel slightly more disgusted than usual because I bought YHOO stock a while ago, because it was cheap (when factoring in Asian assets, etc.).

I had hopes the new CEO would try to turn Yahoo around. I don't believe in shitty display advertising long-term, but it could be viable for another 5 years. At least, I had confidence he could fire enough Directors and VPs to make Yahoo at least as innovative as eBay (also not a particular paragon in Silicon Valley), and I was hoping Yahoo's boardmembers would start actually acting in the interests of shareholders.

I guess I was wrong.
No one is dismissing anything. I'm only suggesting that one of the primary factors is marketing in most sales dealing with consumers in the fast food industry. Marketing doesn't mean a tv commercial itself, but it does mean the underlining messages that consumers begin to wrongly believe to be true.

If you go to a fast food chain, and go to an organic shop, the difference in the look of the customers is drastic. You might be getting your food quicker, maybe even cheaper, but you end up losing out at the end.
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I also think developers are getting much savvier about design, and the tools helping developers with design are getting better and better. So the person who winds up doing all the design/html/css/js may not be the person who started out as the designer. So designers, by all means, harvest that fear and push yourself to learn some new skills.
Am I the only one who thinks about the implications of these 3D printers? I read somewhere that an entire cell phone built with a 3D printer (circuits & all) will be possible soon. No "put it together yourself" stuff, either - entirely built and assembled at once.

Doesn't that create a disruptive influence for any company creating smaller products and devices? Not suggesting that it's a catastrophe...but where does this road eventually lead?
You don't rename anything, you name them correctly when you first create them. He's right, your behavior is shocking, and worse, you're trying to defend such bad practices.
Now if we could just strap a rickshaw to them they could be really mobile hot spots.
> Thus solar and wind fit in with our natural rhythm quite nicely.

It's not that nice, because power output from wind/solar plants is random (depends on things like cloud cover or wind strength) and it causes problems in power grid, where power demand must meet the supply exactly, or bad things will happen.

"Without Hot Air"[1] covers this, and other renewable-related issues quite nicely and with real data. I recommend it, it's a good read. It has some good ideas on how to solve power supply/demand problems.

On TED2012 there was a talk about a new kind of batteries designed to solve those kind of problems in the power grid; the video from the talk is not yet up, though (but I think it should be soon, at [2]).

[1] - http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/withouthotair/

[2] - http://www.ted.com/talks?lang=en&event=2012&duration...
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All that work to create a responsive layout, then they put an omnipresent, fixed position social bar that covers the text when viewed on a phone.
> if the energy industry changed focus to solar panels and other renewable energy technologies, we would get there a lot faster

This is probably true. But as always, the problem is money. More specifically, the money that entrenched interests possess (and throw around).

I'd love for solar energy to happen as soon as possible too. It shows great promise. But it might not happen for a while.

> Nuclear technology will probably never be gone, or at least not within the next century.

100 years is a mighty long time. Who knows, nuclear reactors might be completely replaced by renewable energy sources within the next fifty years. Let's hope for the best.
>I disagree here. Pure laissez faire capitalism works no better than pure communism or socialism.

Relevant citation please.
Dev and consumer preview are out there for a reason - MS wants to hear a feedback. So here, you have it. It might be not a feedback they hoped for, but it is feedback nonetheless.
Cool stuff. I am curious how hard it would be to implement something like fu -e #, so you can just pass desired arguments, instead of manually tweaking command from clipboard.
The iOS devkit is Mac-only. You will also have to pay a $99 yearly fee to Apple for the right to develop apps that get listed on the App Store.

However, that $99 fee also includes the right to get a testing certificate that lets you push what you develop onto an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch to test with. So if you sign up for the developer program, you can test on a real device. You just can't get it loaded onto other people's devices without going through the Apple approval process.

Xcode (the IDE) itself is free. You can probably run iOS apps in a simulator (note it is NOT an emulator) with the free download, but forget about testing on an actual device.

Clearly this program is aimed at professional developers, and for them it is worth the price -- the iOS ecosystem and SDKs being far more developed and refined than Android's. But for a bunch of young padawans just starting out in coding it is prohibitively expensive unfortunately.

Aside from these problems, Objective-C is a bit much for a rank beginner, especially a kid, to bite off and chew. So, for that matter, is Java. It would be possible, and probably a lot more practical, to introduce them to JavaScript and have them develop "Web apps" that run inside an iPhone's Safari web browser. Some quite sophisticated games are possible this way with HTML 5.
Depending on the failure, you could fall up rather than down since the elevator is counterweighted. If the cable breaks, the car will fall down. However, if the drive train breaks in a car that is loaded less than the counterweight (very likely), the car will likely fall up since the counterweight will weight more than the car. My MechEng prof in college was involved as an expert witness in a case of this: the bolts holding the drive pulley sheared, letting the pulley free-run. Bad.

Interestingly, Otis is famous for his invention of the elevator safety brake. http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/elevator.htm
I thought that's what I said. Guess I just suck at explaining things.
I couldn't disagree more. Good HTML/CSS/JS code is not easy. It's hard work to make it look right for all browsers.. and these days you use actual programming languages (i.e. less/Sass) instead of CSS, anyway. It's hard work involving programming expertise to implement all JavaScript bells and whistles a modern website is expected to have. So it requires a good front end PROGRAMMER to do.

On other hand, a good designer is a creative person. They're not coders and shouldn't be expected to muck around with code. They're artists, who draw beautiful designs from blank page. The need for separation of roles couldn't be clearer to me, and I run a company that makes websites.
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How do we start that??
I highly recommend reading "Sustainable Energy - without the hot air"[1] to anyone interested in topic of energy sources and use. It covers lots of things mentioned in comments, like storing energy in pump storages or car batteries in order to make solar/wind plants able to provide a big contribution to power grid without breaking it.

What is important, this books talks about those ideas using real data and carefully estimates what's really feasible to do (like, how many pumped storages you'd need if you'd like to switch 50% of your energy sources to solar).

[1] - http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/withouthotair/
> I think the minute Django supports Python 3, we'll see the level of whining drop to almost zero.

As the grandparent's author for perspective: I don't use, nor have never used, nor intend to use Django. My issues with Python 3 have no basis in Django's compatibility.

Carry on.