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I've been trying since 7:00.00001 and still got nothing.

Edit: All tickets sold out. There goes my plans to visit the US!
I think a good test is to see if you keep thinking back to the idea without having to be reminded. If it appears in conversation or the problem you are fixing is mentioned frequently - it's probably an idea that will have impact!
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Academic tickets sold out, and I can't afford the full price. Skipped class to try at 7:00 PDT on the spot, oh well.

Some people on Twitter are still getting tickets. I imagine that if you're in the queue and someone fails to pay for their ticket on time, you might get a chance.
At SEOmoz, we use riak for our rankings collection service, which is written using sinatra and resque. We blogged about, in case you're interested:

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I know of a couple other ruby shops that use riak. Github uses it a bit. Spreedly uses it as well.
It wasn't actually 30 seconds. It just was timing out. I got one in the first six minutes or so.
and as of 7:26 PDT there are still regular tickets left.
It's this kind of rah-rah self-congratulatory unquestioning cheer-leading that is bringing me back to Hacker News less and less often.

Read more and you learn the truth: this guy practiced his ass off for a long time, and that's how he got good. "Speed learning" is bullshit. There are enough studies showing a direct correlation between the time spent practicing an activity and your skill level that I don't need to mention them here. But this correlation of practice time holds not only for music but for chess, flying an airplane, basketball, virtually any activity of skill. And yes, programming.

It takes around 3,000 hours of study to be competent in something, and about 10,000 hours to be an expert. There are no shortcuts. You can be Bobby Fischer and in your first chess tournament you're still going to get your ass kicked just like he did. But if you do all chess, only chess, all the time, for years, you can compete.

One of the most important thing I teach my kids is, there is no magic. People are always trying to force magic upon you, usually when selling something, or to puff themselves up. But the reality is there is no magic. It's all hard work just to get to ground zero. Then you need luck.

Some may see this as pessimistic, or self-destructive, but I see it as just the opposite. It's only when you've been liberated from spoonfed bullshit that you can start to live and experience life in full.
I could see using BrowserID for auth to save some kind of leaderboard on the server-side or something.
Most US workers are considered at-will employees. There is no contract and either party can stop working with the other for almost any reason.
Being an introvert in an extraverted world isn't all that bad. For being so much inside our own heads, we might actually have more experience, well, thinking, which is always nice.
Oh good. Let's repost this every single month.
Its definitely not sold out yet (academic tickets are gone though). As someone else mentioned it looks like they are releasing the tickets in batches.

Edit: it is sold out now: https://developers.google.com/events/io/register
Find driven people. Go to conferences and other such events where the really passionate people are. Now? Just copy them!

It might not be a one on one coaching, but seeing how much others do while slacking of on the couch and reading about all their doings on Twitter should make you more productive.
I will recommend this to everyone I know that works with iOS in some capacity. What a great resource! Thanks!
It's sad we don't generally have this master-apprentice system anymore.

Be the change you want to see, right? So maybe just start by being a Kimo yourself?
I call bullshit. A contact is always between separate parties and is always able to be adjusted and changed.
Their 'you don't matter enough for us to take your needs into account' approach is totally reflective of their culture of behaving badly, if they valued the team as people not just numbers there is no way the few dollars it would have cost a lawyer to clarify the intent of the wording of a single section of a single contract would not have been totally reasonable.
Tickets are officially sold out according to the registration page. [1]

[1] https://developers.google.com/events/io/register
Sold out as of now. I had been trying since 7:00:00 - and still could not get a ticket.

And I need one for work, damn it - I actually care about Android development. I couldn't care less about a free device.
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Have the exact same story. Always next year I suppose.
One big difference between typical pathogens and cancer cells is that cancer cells have much more unstable genomes. Cancer cells divide rapidly and when they do, all sorts of mutations occur.

Even for someone with a diagnosed cancer (i.e. ovarian cancer), there are typically hundreds if not thousands of different types of cancer cells. This is what makes treating cancer so difficult. A drug may knock down 95% of your cancer, but the cells it didn't kill have no problem coming back and are now treatment-resistant.
That would be a cool experiment. I would wonder if, in measuring two superimposed patterns, the order of measuring is important. Does measuring the small pattern destroy the large and vice-versa?
That is a tempting idea, but I'm on the east coast, so I really can't handle the cost of a ticket plus airfare there and back, even if I got reimbursed a little by the swag. I'll probably just end up taking a few days off and watching the live streams like the rest of the world.
I like the idea of timed lockout. Teaches the kids how to budget.
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I also feel that the article was very well written and set an excellent tone in discussing the decision, with respect for the other party, with no personal attacks or other techniques trying to elicit an emotional response.

It came across as very professional to me.

The argument given was also understandable and deserving of my respect.
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looks to be officially sold out now. I have been trying since 7 am.
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both ticket types are all sold out now... can't even try again.
I was more contributing to Stack Overflow than asking. Frankly I used Stack Overflow just once to ask a question for a problem I though had no solution. And surprisingly I got the solution within a day. The best resource for programmers ever!
Actually, look up a company called Oncolytics. It's based around a technology that you can create viruses that only infect cancer cells. There is a lot of work going on in this area.
There are plenty of drugs that work for cancer type A, B, C etc. Unfortunately, there are billions of people in the world all randomly generating Cancer's so all possible mutations are going to show up eventually in somebody.

Which presents the problem, let's say the most common 50% of all cancers are easily cured by drug X. Well the other 50% are all less common and moving to 100% is only going to get harder as you progress.
Lots of great answers here, but only a couple really get down to brass tacks.

TGFlynn answers the question of why we can't use fusion bombs: "Thermonuclear bombs require a fission explosion to trigger them (in fact I believe most produce more energy from fission than from fusion)." So in short, even setting off "fusion" bombs produces lots of bad byproducts.

The other part of your question is, "why not a big piston and cylinder?" Car engines are heat engines as well. They convert heat in to kinetic energy (motion). The problem is that they're relatively inefficient when compared to the typical means of heat/motion conversion used in a power plant. They're also far more complex and require more maintenance than other, simpler designs.

The design of a car engine has advantages that suit it well to use in an automobile. Namely that it's power output is easily variable. You don't need peak horsepower when sitting at a stoplight, so you throttle the engine back and generate far less power. This requirement is almost nonexistent in power plants. There is some variability, but you're dealing with average power consumption from thousands of households. The rate of increase/decrease is much, much slower than you find in an automobile.

Because of this, power plants use heat engines that might require a lot of energy to get started, but are more efficient once operating. Steam generators coupled with turbines are most common. The heat is used to boil water, which creates steam, which is used to drive some type of turbine. Turbines are wildly efficient if they're designed properly. The primary inefficiency in a steam/turbine power plant is startup and shutdown, but plant operators try to minimize this impact by employing operation strategies that distribute load in a way that can scale up and down minimally.

So, why not use a large piston in cylinder design? Because it's less efficient, more complex, requires more maintenance, and requires more materials to construct.
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Now both sold out...
Getting a database error, Hamey.

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It's still a long way to compete with Flash in the area of games but it's nice to see this effort.

When I talked to Flash developers, their main concerns were having to worry about different browsers and their belief that everything became "open source" automatically because you can just view the source. They don't want to spend weeks on a project that sets them apart from other competitors only to be copied by the next guy within a day.
All tickets sold out as of 7:29 AM.
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I guess that's what happens when everyone who attends gets a free phone/tablet. Maybe registration should have a quiz requiring knowledge a developer would have.
I took 4 spins waiting, but I got my ticket at 16 minutes past the hour.
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I'd like to see a home server. A central computer hooked to everything shouldn't be a pipedream. It should be hooked to the media center, handheld devices, thermostat and security.

Why shouldn't cable tv go to my computer, which then controls my dvr for the home, and also incoming video/video/audio calls through the media venter, or handhelds, as preferences determine.

Stream a desktop or any media to any hardware you have or buy with a login and password.

(The deaf community already uses third party set top boxes for video calls. I bet there's room for a platform agnostic solution there alone. Maybe a good open source project for someone.)
Yeah I managed to grab a ticket at 7:00:34 PST, Looks like it's only academic tickets that are sold out.
On one hand, breeding change is a brave and good stance.

On the other hand, most often than not, you'll be tilting at windmills.

You have to recognize when you have a real chance, and not fight a losing cause. I guess the standard advice works in this case as well: fail fast :)

I've ignored my own advice and am stuck on a company with a toxic IT department, I tried for years to change it, but upper management is not interested and the IT managers were clueless and only interested in keeping their jobs.
Thank you for the TWX pdf, but is now a good time to point out that the entire paper was dedicated to proving that HFT is a good thing? Their solution to the order priority is also removing artificial regulations, not adding more. I feel like I should have been the one to post that link.
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Oh well, I was wrong. Official page says that it is sold out! https://developers.google.com/events/io/register
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I'm around the Detroit area. I've hit up a couple startup meetups, and things of that nature. The few places I've talked to really don't have the wiggle room to hire at the moment which seems like a bummer.
If you were to modify the calculator to account for this, the fixed costs should be deducted from salary and divided among all the hours worked?

So if you made $40,000 a year and had $10,000 in fixed costs, you deduct taxes & whatnot, the $10k, and then divide by 2000 hours. This gives you a true "net income after expenses" per hour. Yes?
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Yes, I managed to claim an academic ticket and then the payment page was timing out and I wasn't sure why. Turns out it was Ghostery, but once I disabled it, it worked. I wonder what happens for all the people who have claimed a ticket but not paid. Will Google release their tickets and sell them? Call them and tell them they owe 300/900 dollars?

It's pretty clear that Google needs to restructure this event if they want it to continue to have meaning as a developer conference. This sort of waste of people's time, only to have tickets sell out in 30 seconds or whatever ridiculous number is just not valuable.

What would Google have to do to maintain the substance of the conference? Simply promise that there won't be any free toys given away? I missed out on I/O 2011 after having attended in 2009 and 2010 because bad people went simply for the hundreds of dollars worth of free and early-release hardware Google hands out.

I would have paid 300 dollars for the conference regardless of whether Google gave me the latest gadget.
It sold out in 30 minutes, not 30 seconds.
I'm not sure this is the definition of 'first come, first served', I hit the register button the first time around 07:00:06, watching painstakingly as every spinner eventually return "No tickets found". What a slap in the face.
Just to pile on more here, the government has another $0.20, so he only really has your $0.50.
I work so hard and am always just getting by. Never ahead of the game. This effects my happiness because I feel a lack of freedom when money is always such an issue. I'm looking for a way to accept what is and find happiness in other ways, than say, my dream of going to Europe. Meditation seems to calm me but I feel a sense of disgust in myself because I am not making a good living, even though I should be proud of myself for working so hard and being good at what I do. Thanks for any thoughts.
6 hours has always been enough for me.

Yep, that's at least one genetic advantage you have on most of us.
I also didn't get a ticket even though I was on the registration page at 7.00 on the spot. After four retries the tickets had sold out.
Sivers, just wanted to thank you for sharing your wisdom and experience. I know it has had an effect on me. Everyone, I highly recommend you check out Derek's "Uncommon Sense" videos, available free here: http://www.appsumo.com/sivers/
Here is the direct PDF download link for the people who don't want to have Flash on their machine: http://www.slideshare.net/Wolfr/ios-design-a-case-study/down...
RiakCS looks interesting, is it/will it be open source?
'I don't see a reason, with your next game, why you should not use the term: "Programmed by 'Draw Something'(r) Developer"'

You mean beside him saying he never worked on that project, right? Seems like a step backward off of the moral high-ground he's taking to lie about something like that.
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How do they refuse to let you run adwords for them? What is their reason?
College hardly taught me anything.

There were only a few good teachers. Most were half-assing it.

But once I realized that they weren't going to teach me anything, I got inspired. I realized that I was in an amazing place that held all the knowledge I want. I just had to go get it!

I treated it like a library. I pulled information out of people, recordings, books.

More than anything, it was a great environment for learning. It kept me 100% focused, every minute of every day, on getting better at music. No job or real-world stuff to distract me.

But that was also before the internet!

Now, I imagine that since the environment is the most important thing, you could find your killer environment in many places that don't charge tuition. Whether it's moving to Silicon Valley to be surrounded by your peers, or moving to India to study with a teacher.

Same reason some people go to a health spa retreat to get healthy. They could have just stayed at home to do it, but going to a dedicated place can really help.
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its annoying because when I finally managed to draw something (see what i did there!) it was really fun!
Newton a famous mathematician? I know he was, but the general public will only know him as a physicist.

I guess most who do know him as a mathematician also know Leibniz.

As a mathematician, Pythagoras probably is way better known than Newton.
Uh, awesome. Hope you had your finger on the button if you are an actual developer who wanted to go.
He mentioned he was in Texas, so this is indeed the case.
It is, but since this isn't a sustained reaction you're talking about this is actually just a lot of fission explosions.
And none of those problems are, well, are particularly hard or complex, at least not enough in my mind to justify ego as you've portrayed it.

I wish I had a dime for every time someone underestimated the difficulty of solving or optimizing a real-world problem. I might have agreed with you if you claimed that executing a solution is not as complicated as coming up with one.

There's a line between having an ego and being a jerk. I don't think that line is so thin that we have to resort to suppressing ego.
Thanks Jon! I really appreciate it. That's really nice to hear.
Analyzing what the code should do is insufficient. You must also know what it does do. Somewhere, someone is depending on that and they will be angry when your rewrite, perfectly spec conforming though it may be, doesn't work the way it used to work.
I just sent my first contract via Right Signature. I work for a small business of around 15 people and growing. Would your tool be relevant to me?
They should probably allow one day for people to request the tickets and then assign them at random.
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I just did an interpretive dance to explain my answer.

Man, you shoulda seen it. I'm exhausted now, but it was awesome.
Shouldn't the beauty of games be the gameplay and the art, not the technology? Isn't it a good thing that the technology behind a game is no longer the primary selling point?
Here are the announcements on dotCloud's blog.

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We saw a huge jump in conversions at work when I compared our product's price to a cup of latte on the landing page.

I believe that we make most purchasing decisions based on comparison to another product or a default no product state when even spending a dollar mentally seems like a lot of money. One way to counter the default state is to compare your product to another product the person is very likely to have purchased recently or does not consider expensive.

So many hosting companies compete on price between a buck/month to $9.99/month. Honestly, I think you destroy the price argument for vast majority of users if you just get 'em to think about the $5.99 grande coffee purchase every morning.
I wrote about my process recently:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3721015
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I think this is a really good idea. So far I have been using Enunciate to do exactly this (http://www.sonatype.com/people/2010/02/documenting-the-nexus...). I have been happy with Enunciate so far but they seem to have lost traction and their API does not work with Java 7 for instance. Swagger looks a bit cooler too ;)

That being said, there are some thing that they do that Swagger seems to be missing (or I am just missing it). For instance Enunciate does not require any custom annotations but uses the normal Javadoc instead, which is a very good feature. And how do I run Swagger, can I plug this into my Maven build process and include in the generated war file?
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Why is this getting so much less attention than the mandate?
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I concur - brilliant quote. I was thinking about this earlier today, how to put into words the seeming inadequacy of 'green' / 'alternative' energy projects. Some of them might really be good alternatives by now but what we really need is an 'exponential' breakthrough.
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The world may need such people but the majority of the scientific population is very quick to ridicule them, and existing industries like oil do their best to prevent them from executing. So not only must the entrepreneur have a unique viewpoint on the problems but they must be very courageous too. I'm glad someone like Bill Gates is standing up and saying this but I'm anxious that it's too late, and that it won't be possible without big changes to the way our society is structured.
I happen to like the fact that the US does not work that way in most cases. Isn't it a bit humorous that UK laws so contort the employment relationship that an unwanted employee has to "be made redundant?"
Am I the only person that finds these things beautiful to look at? They're captivating to me.
An interesting place to compare comments at.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=970945
I did, no such luck. Same as every single year I've tried. You'd think having been invited down to Google for other summer events would help but it doesn't. I'd buy a ticket that doesn't qualify you for any swag if I still get to talk to people but it seems like they don't care about that.
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Can you tell us what you said exactly on the landing page to make the comparison?
I hope they do a dive into the stack behind this, this is pretty cool.
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I've been doing php for 12 years, and I still learned a lot. This book pointed out a number of areas in which I can improve my own code & processes. Well worth reading.

Disclosure: I know the author, but I didn't know he was this smart ;)
If there's such huge demand, you'd think that maybe they'd move it somewhere larger where they can satisfy more of that demand? If you want developers to get and stay excited about your platform, making it impossible to come to your conference doesn't help.
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I find a lot of geeks are actually not crazy gear-heads. You don't see many geeks falling for $1000 gold plated audio cables or CPUs with massive GHz ratings either. I'm a mediocre photographer, but I know how to get the best technical results out of my gear, and can tell what kind of gear and configuration is needed for a good shot.

It's often geeks (and genuinely good photographers) who shout the loudest that any camera with a decent sized sensor is fine. Yes, we love spec porn, but at least we know when it's a con.
Last year, they claimed they'd be doing something like this. For some reason they backpedaled.
Every company that has given me an offer has been willing to modify my contract to some extent, and I don't think I'm special. This includes big game development start ups, established independent studios and developers owned by large publishers. Having a list of exclusions, especially for preexisting work, is standard in the game industry afaik and doesn't require special requests in most cases.