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Agreed. It all depends on perspective. That's why I've always found the term to be needlessly dismissive.
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Comments are a poor substitute for collaboration.

Of course they are, seeing as how they're only one form of collaboration. I wouldn't think that writing a comment to draw people's attention to some non-obvious aspect of code would count as anything but a form of collaboration.

As far as I'm told, 20% projects always had to be approved by your manager. So I suspect that they are not quite as open as you are thinking.

Which is why I did say, in continuation, that the 20% has been subverted at Google. From what I've heard, it hasn't always been that way.
If anyone has any questions or feedback, would love to hear it.
Why are there so few dunks in women’s basketball?
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I think you just answered that, right before asking it.
How to create a successful webcomic?
My "how-to-make-awesome-comic-site-like-no-other" ideas so far:

- Make animationed shorts. People are vlogging with a video camera, but no one is doing that with animation.

- Make comics with HTML5 animations.

- Provide a new comic and a new video every single day.

- Mix and match infographic-style layout with personal comics and doodles.

Any thoughts? I'd be really thankful for any ideas or thoughts. Any thoughts.
You just put it back into the system if it doesn't fit.
So maybe it would work? You just need a way to handle the radioactive waste, and a way to engineer on a very large scale.
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Not that i use it but it really helped me in the beginning of my learning of html and php. Dreamweaver.
Right, energy is awfully political.

Between the technical challenges and the political challenges, I recon the political ones are the harder of the two. Get the politics right, and the technology will sort it self out. Don't get the politics right, and the technology doesn't have a chance.

I'm also glad Gates has turned his attention to energy. 'Tis good to have someone of his resources and temperament focused on the problem.
GVim and MacVim. I'd probably use Sublime Text 2 if it supported vim modelines.
Bah. Real men program with a personally-magnetised needle and a steady hand.
1983 was also the year the bottom dropped out of the console market, loads of firms went bankrupt, it was not a good career move to get into the industry in the mid-80s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983
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It's irrelevant. We have to find ways of generating electricity cleanly anyway. So, we can kill 2 birds with one stone by making cars use that electricity. Better than driving hydrogen bombs around.

IMHO running out of fossil fuels and their escalating price is a much more compelling reason to use electric cars than the emissions argument.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3717754
I don't think you'll get different results 9 days later.
All the info are here: http://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/03/browserquest/
Watch this: Jonathan Haidt on the moral roots of liberals and conservatives
http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind.ht...
Well then, maybe your hackers circle is usless and you should reorganize your circles or something. Thats the only conclusion i can make from your statement :(
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Very few nations are as big as the US.
In the description he says the ticket is in his name.
Awesome! And again great work. The game was really enjoyable and the code inspiring.
The third option is to start a disruptive new competitor doing what they do only better and more ethically, supporting long-term relationships and sustainable development.

As long as anyone but you holds the gold, it's much harder to engender change. Putting them out of business, on the other hand, has the awesome side effect of getting one rich while doing the right thing.
> how we really think about our players instead of taking on what is essentially an uninformed and cliched conventional wisdom opinion about the company.

Judging a company by what they do publicly rather than what they might say or think privately seems like a smart move on his part.

If you want your peers to think better of Zynga, the onus is on you, not them.
You would think this is an obvious fix ... but you wouldn't get the hype, now would you?

I didn't get a ticket this year on purpose. 900 is a bit too much for my blood (I pay for it out of pocket and don't want to resell the swag). I went last year and it was both fun and sad. The concert, robots and devices made me go to geek heaven. The sad part was that it felt a lot of folks were there just for the swag. I also went to pycon last year and had an amazing time. The production values were far less but I felt that almost every single person in the room was a craftsman (craftsperson?). In terms of contacts, both events were a bust ... I don't think I socialized properly .. didn't make any lasting contacts in either places. This year, I'm saving my cash ... have already watched a lot of pycon talks on video. Will do the same for I/O
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Let's make some distinctions. I'm not saying this is the ideal way to hire. I also dislike recruiters, and Java for that matter. But I don't find this practice indefensible, because:

1. Whenever you open a position, you get a ton of applicants that simply aren't qualified, and the faster you get rid of them the better.

2. A majority of programming jobs use Java, C# or C++, which all have 4 or 5 of these keywords with similar meaning.

This is a quick and easy filter. Of course, any quick and easy filter is going to have a false negative rate, and it's fair to protest that. Fundamentally, hiring programmers by their programming language competencies is also a very poor idea. But there are a lot of places that simply need a bunch of competent cogs and I don't think it's worth getting too worked up over the unintended negative consequences of their poor decisions. They want a ton of cogs, this is a great way to get a ton of cogs. You're not a cog and neither am I. I don't think either of us would want one of these "supercoder" jobs anyway.
I think there was a heavy geographical element involved. All my programming friends from OC got in, some hitting the site as late as 7:04. Those in SF and LA were all locked out even after constant refreshes.
> "has been to eliminate the monopoly of trade guilds"

Exactly. By making their knowledge public.

> "But has software ever had this problem?"

While the history of software looks nothing like Renaissance Italy, the future may -- particularly in a hypothetical world without software patents.

Historically, the root of even arguably-patentable software is expressly unpatentable math that has largely been developed by publicly-funded institutions. So that even when, say, the Fraunhofer Institute was granted patents over parts of the mp3 codec, even absent the patent disclosure, it drew attention to the root math and gave rise to alternatives.

But looking forward the situation is more worrisome. As public funding has failed to keep pace, only the potential to patent research has brought in the private funds that have continued to drive innovation. Without that patent potential, there'd be little reason for anything beyond the hint of promising research to be shared publicly. It would be pursued privately, without published articles, without any public disclosure on the other end.

And given the trend for modern software research to manifest as internet-accessible services, it doesn't seem like there would even be an opportunity to reverse-engineer or decompile the ultimate products that such research generated. To say nothing of the rapidly increasing complexity of modern software and the increasing rate at which it's tied to custom silicon.

Consider an example: How in the world would someone be able to reverse engineer Siri in a world without software patents or the potential to patent publicly-funded core research?

The public has no access to the server-side source. We have very limited access to the client-side source. We have even less access to the client-side custom silicon [1]. Even if it were plausible for a not-for-profit effort to untangle a project of that magnitude, they simply do not have the access necessary.

[1] Though client side silicon is less integral in the current implementation, it's no stretch to imagine that Apple will continue to refine and accelerate its algorithms through heavier use of custom DSPs. Nor is it news to say that it approaches the implausible for not-for-profit efforts to reverse engineer modern silicon. And the relentless pace of fabrication promises to only make things more difficult going forward.
That book looks... reasonably promising, I guess; however...

"How do you handle stress and burnout?" "Power through it."

I'm sorry, but that's terrible advice. You might as well tell someone with depression to "just get over it already".
I've enjoyed the game, but it seems to have a short shelf life. I started playing with about half a dozen co-workers last week, and now almost all of them have quit playing. This may in part be due to a.) not enough words (I'm seeing a lot of repeats), b.) time required to play -- drawing an elaborate picture (or watching it be drawn) takes considerable time (on an iPhone), and I often find myself shying away from the game for that reason.

Finally, I'd add that the game has a few annoyances. For example, the popup requesting you to rate the game in the app store can't be ignored. You must either rate the game, or postpone doing so. I also lost all of my purchased colors after an update. Clearly they're having growing pains, but my enthusiasm is waning.
I understand your sentiment if these images were meant as "portraits", but it seems their intent was to be informative of the details and content in the same way that most bodies of water aren't a solid, bright, pasty blue but it helps to identify them on a map or globe that way.

Viewing celestial bodies/events with the naked eye (or as they would be if we could) can certainly be compelling but I thinks it's only pragmatic to acknowledge that even the outer planets only hold a passing interest to the public at large in an unaltered view.

It must be appreciated that we can capture these views at all, and with such detail!
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Hahaha. The stock options were already mentioned, so, here's mine:

"Hey, let's make a carbon copy of this popular tower game."

"Sure! That sits pretty good with me morally."
Where's Pico?
> I'm curious to see what will they do to differentiate themselves from Facebook's version

Not to mention Disqus and Echo offerings
> Also, in my personal experience, she is quite well known.

True in my experience, also. My very first college math professor took 15 minutes out of lecture, in Calculus I, to tell us about her. He culminated by naming his dog after her, which I guess was his highest form of praise.

Don't get me wrong. Deriving conservation of energy from time invariance, conservation of momentum from linear translation invariance, etc. is totally cool. But it's not really accurate to say that she's not well-known.
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It depends on the language. JavaScript in Sublime. PHP in Netbeans. Java in Eclipse. ObjectiveC in XCode.
Perhaps speak more about the ideas that you want to work on, industries, types of customers etc. People can contact you because they then know they have something in common with you.

For example, I'm interested in designing, building and selling creative products. I'd rather build several small things that create regular income and then move onto a larger project full time.

Here are examples of things I'd like to create work on or have already started working on :-

A review site

A browser app/add-on

A clothing site

A range of notebooks

A site selling a product subscription

An iOS game for charity

A software application specific to personal trainers.

A Wedding Directory

From these things I can see that my best type of co-founder would be a graphic or web designer.
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He is right in that you don't hear much about Riak success stories, even though from the word on the street it's a good product. Perhaps this is something you guys could focus on putting together?
It's a good thing he created (and you posted) that followup, because otherwise I would've spent the rest of my morning implementing the same idea.
Yea, that's what I use. I'm very pleased with it.
What is the license on this?
Eye tracking machine is better lie detector than expert interrogators
My optimism is a little bit innate, but mostly learned.

It was something I got from Tony Robbins : that you can choose how you want to feel about anything. (We usually act like we can't help the way we feel. But we can consciously choose and change how we feel.)

No matter what happens, you can choose to ask, "What's great about this?" Even if you're not in the mood. Even if cranky or pissed-off, you can still force yourself to ask that, out of habit. Then the pessimism slowly dissolves, and you start to get optimistic again.

Then it feeds off itself. Somehow when you're optimistic, things go your way more often. Then that encourages you further, etc.

Actually these days I'm SO optimistic that it can work against me! I optimistically over-estimate my ability to do things. I optimistically think I'll just get fit and healthy through good intentions. Etc.

Sometimes a dose of painful pessimism can achieve more. (Though I guess if you realize that's the attitude that would be more helpful for you, you can choose to be pessimistic, too. As long as you know it's an intentional choice.)
Parse offers its mobile backend-as-a-service on a freemium model
I'm currently using Parse for data and S3 for file storage. I will give it a try to PFFile in another project to see how it works.
what's the ??? quest?
I think two important metrics are being left out of the author's perspective:

1. What value do I assign to my personal free time?

2. Does my purchase have the ability to save me time?

For instance, a cup of coffee will cost me 15 minutes of my salaried time PLUS 15 minutes of my personal time (to drive, order, pay, etc). However, perhaps I am a writer and the coffee and coffeeshop environment will help me accomplish 2 hours of writing in 90 minutes. Then the whole thing is a wash.
And for those not in the know, this is literally how the conversation takes place. Which is why there isn't a default option to root.

Change will require a (major) disruption.
Interesting, no Textpad?
> simple games like Dwarf Fortress

Simple like DF?
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Please add Wing IDE
Sublime 2 + Vim package. You get best of both worlds
Google Pushes Play Front And Center
I believe the difference is you ask a question to a specific person. And all these questions and answers are laid out on a single page in a nice interview style. And considering that most of the guys being asked and those doing the asking are all pretty smart guys, it makes for super interesting reading. Not that you would get any of that from their landing page though. Read the page for Patio11 to get an idea of how great it is.
I use Sublime Text, but I miss Emacs every day (you can't really extend ST2...)
Not a great example. Samsung phones all (AFAIK, though I'm sure exceptions must exist) have a bootloader that allows unauthenticated booting and reflashing to arbitrary code. "Rooting" a phone with Odin/Heimdall is generally straightforward. They're easily the most open of the Android hardware vendors.
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For those having a hard time getting to the article.

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1. Watching friends screw up is fun

This is genius. Draw Something combines the benefits of asynchronous gameplay (easier to play with friends instead of strangers because they don’t have to be online) with the benefits of synchronous gameplay: watching the action in quasi-realtime. Watching your friends painfully draw a crude Tom Hanks stroke-by-stroke is just good ol’ fashioned fun. Even better, this acts as an indirect communication channel for users to write messages and clear the screen before starting the actual drawing.

2. There isn’t a freaking back button

When you tap on a game to have a turn, there is literally no way back. You are forced to complete the turn before you can view your other games. Given most players have a lot of games on the go, they are keen to get back to the home screen and see who is ready to play. If you play Words With Friends, how many times have you tapped on a game, not thought of a move then tapped back to try another game? Draw Something forces you through the turn which keeps the whole machine ticking over faster.

3. Play for seconds or hours

The amount of time you want to dedicate to playing is completely variable. If you are waiting in a queue you can spend 10 seconds drawing a quick move on a single game. If you really want to knuckle down, you can slave over every pixel for 20 games and spend hours playing it. This is vital for a mobile casual game to fit into all sorts of time-killing / entertainment situations.

4. Natural encouragement to start new games

You just finish 5 moves and are waiting on everyone to have their turn…what do you do? Start another game of course! Why wouldn’t you when you can see all those other fun Facebook friends are ready to play?

5. Cooperative playing where scoring actually doesn’t matter

Most game developers spend a huge amount of time trying to tune scoring systems and get the balance right. In Draw Something it’s all kinda a bit vague…and that’s a good thing. If you are really into scores, you can dive into it. Most regular players just have fun guessing drawings from their friends (and maybe getting a decent streak). You are essentially working together, which can be a lot less intimidating for people who are worried about not being good at games.

6. Virtual ice breaker with Facebook crushes

Seriously, don’t tell me you didn’t start a sneaky game with that guy/gal you don’t really know but thought “why not”. Given the tight Facebook integration, it makes it socially acceptable to start a game with someone on the outer edge of your social circle. Because there isn’t a chat option, it forces you to communicate purely through drawing which can be far less awkward.

7. Words are taken from pop culture

Rather than just ripping a bunch of words straight from the dictionary…you end up drawing things like Lady Gaga or Dubstep. Far more stimulating!

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I built something similar (in Ada O_o) when I worked at Blockbuster video 12 years ago... until today I have been amazed that IMDB haven't done this.

Gratz, I will start using it when I get home :)
"or watching it be drawn"

I believe there's a skip button? Never tried pushing it, though.
I can only imagine they're a YC startup, based on the people I see active there after I registered. (PG, JL, other YC partners) With Demo Day today, things are picking up PR-wise. :)
That's a very america-centric view of things. Europeans who buy phones for a couple of 100 euros instead of investing in a life long relationship with a provider sees things differently.
Indeed, it took me some 24 hours to revert. I reflected about it for some time.

After thinking about it for a day, I was convinced the commit was sending the wrong message, and felt it had to be reverted. The commit message explains the rationale.
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I was wondering that myself!

So I wrote my first Android app, to track every minute of every day. See https://github.com/50pop/NowNowNow if interested.

Most of my time these days is spent studying some new programming languages and techniques (Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, Sequel, JavaScript, jQuery, Backbone). Less time spent turning that learning into real creation. Soon... soon....
If you haven't tried Sublime Text 2 yet, give it a go. Once you get the hang of installing packages and customizing it, you'll be hooked. It's a pretty incredible package.
For instance, at present Facebook makes just shy of $5 per user per year.

I think $1 per month could be reasonable, Spotify charges 5 - 10 times that. The idea is that you're changing the priority from building an amazing ad network to building an amazing social network.

The things that are good for users are nearly always bad for advertisers. Such as total privacy.
You trust? Unfortunately, unless something is put in place that makes it clear this is intended (in the site guidelines, or by changing the down arrow to something else), this won't change.
This argument is a tautology. "Power users" are just a synonym for people who want stuff not in the default. To the extent that the default installation lacks desired features (wifi hotspots are a good example) we are all "power users".

But yes: gaming, browsing and texting don't require it. And a big portion of the user base never leaves that box.
Show HN: A site for code reviews
Create a review as you would on pastebin, then any line in a review can be clicked to leave a comment. Comments appear under the line they reference and can be hidden by clicking the red tabs on the left or right. You can optionally toggle all comments by clicking the speech bubble at the top of the review. You don't have to have an account to create a review or leave a comment.

I plan on adding multi-file reviews as well as version control access in the next few releases. After that I plan on making some IDE plugins to allow users to send code directly to the site via their IDE.

Let me know what you think. (I haven't done a lot of IE testing yet so there could be some issues there)

https://codetique.com
I hope you all get chromebooks, hahaha.
http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/vintage.html
30 seconds? Vic Gundotra's post on the page says Google I/O has officially sold out! It took just a bit over 20 minutes!
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well it's kind of an official feature on Nexus phones, there's a script to unlock it on the phone, you just gotta execute it. So what more exactly do you want? Besides that I don't even know why a normal user would want root access, even I only use it on a dev phone to quickly flash another ROM to test my App in different Android OS versions. For people wanting to get rid of branding etc., they should just stop buying carrier customized crap. You can get vanilla devices at Amazon, or just get an iPhone or Nexus, it's not that hard. If they aren't capable of doing some basic research before purchasing a product, I don't think giving them root access to their phone would end well.
Yeah, but is it a deal breaker? The comparison is between Draw Something and Words with Friends, which does have a back button, but also a gazillion of users http://www.insidesocialgames.com/2012/01/23/hidden-chronicle... It seems to be a minor detail.
It's nice to have an inside perspective on what makes an accelerator tick.
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Ah, that was not immediately obvious to me that both Darwin and Turing would be on the note. I could see them both being there as progressive scientists. Here in the US, we only have one person (usually a former president) on our notes, and a reminder of our religion on the back.

So, leg up with Darwin already.
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you'd think so, but it probably doesn't make much of a difference. The london driving tax was supposed to make a difference, and I don't think it did much - there's not enough good alternatives.
James Cameron's first footage from the deep
Also mentioned in the article:

"we’re seeing them with light that left them shortly after the Universe itself formed."

That means, there could be a lot more, but their light has not travelled to earth yet.
Care to describe this in more detail?
I haven't applied to a stealth-mode startup in a while, but yes, last time I did I was asked to sign an NDA.
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