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As others said, instagram wasn't the first to do this, and that is certainly not why they were bought out for 1 billion or why so many users adopted the service. Instagram didn't fill a huge gap, they made something people wanted to use. The article misses a couple beats, but I don't think the focus of it is completely misguided. A valuation and a buy out like this does not happen very often, and when it does happen, it draws the wrong kind of attention. All of a sudden a lot of people think they can do the exact same thing, that they can spend some time on the weekend and release a better version of instagram, then BAM money--fame. It's just now how things work.

I don't think instagram is completely invulnerable to the market. As a user of it, I'd happily adopt a different service that did the exact same thing better, and I don't think I'm alone. So in that sense, this article misses the mark. But I'd rather read this article than one that tells people they can do it too. It's a once-and-a-lifetime valuation. The service itself may be reproduceable but the results far from it, and in that vein the article speaks the truth. Your time is better spent elsewhere.
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I've come across that contract before. I think it was actually a $20 download-a-contract-from-the-internet and they had no idea what they were actually handing me. When I pointed out what it was that it said and asked for it to be changed, they were fairly happy to comply.
Then there's the open source project "leaders" who're nice and smiley to people publicly, but snide and nasty through anonymous backchannels.
Good move.

Could you briefly explain your decision of using CodeMirror instead of Ace editor?
Gruber's commentary:

"The assumption here is that the only way to search is through Google, and that the ”open Internet” is only what Google can index and sell ads against."

That's it...that's the entirety of the original content of his post. Whoopty Fuckin' Doo
Northgate might not be "in the suburbs", but it's more suburban in character than many neighborhoods.
Seems like Kickstarter is also disrupting the game development process, allowing game studios to produce games without being beholden to publishers.

Examples:

* Double Fine Adventure - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/66710809/double-fine-adv...

* The Banner Saga - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stoic/the-banner-saga

* Wasteland 2 - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2

* Shadowrun Returns - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1613260297/shadowrun-ret...

Even smaller games are getting funding this way:

* Valdis Story - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/460275866/valdis-story-a...

* Echoes of Eternia - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1465600975/echoes-of-ete...
I still think ideas are basically worthless. That's certainly true literally; 20 years in software and I've never heard of anybody selling one for significant money. First-mover advantage can sometimes be helpful, but it rarely determines success. Look at Amazon, Google, and Facebook, for example: leaders in their categories, but none of them was first.

A person with a brilliant idea who can't execute well is almost certainly screwed. A company that starts with a bad idea and executes well can turn out fine, though. That's because in the startup context, great execution involves a lot of exploration, validation, and the now-ubiquitous pivoting.

Take PayPal. Their first idea was two-factor authentication for handhelds. That turned into money transfer via handhelds. Which turned into a web-based money transfer product. But that wasn't the real deciding factor; the IP that let them win was anti-fraud software. And the reason there's a PayPal Mafia is that the execution-focused culture kept creating successes long after the original idea was played out.

Even supposing that there's an occasional rare idea that actually has some value, I think we should still keep the mantra because it's inarguable that there are an ocean of chumps who think that the idea is the hard part.
I think American Idol is a really good analogy. Companies like Instagram and OMGPOP are not technical wonders nor do they have great business plans. Hell, even the ideas of their winning apps are not new. But they won the popularity contest and thus cashed out. They CEOs instantly becoming the tech worlds equivalent of pop stars.

There is a more interesting question for investors and observers: Is this trend permanent or is it signalling that we are in another bubble that will one day collapse? If these companies lose their popularity is their value zero? Popularity is a volatile thing to ride billions of dollars on.
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No, it just makes things worse. If people are going to follow the spec, they should follow it and reject bad input. Otherwise, you get a mess of code that tries to guess at what to do. This leads to inconsistencies, possibly security bugs.

Imagine if invalid HTML had been flat-out rejected by browsers since the beginning. Cross-browser compat would be, at least, somewhat easier due to less bad HTML surviving in the wild, since it simply would not have worked. In XML, for instance, I've never heard of the need to deal with invalidly formatted messages.

There's enough problems interpreting semantics, why do folks want to add syntax to the problem, too?
Sorry, maybe I should elaborate. Professionalism is the act of work for pay. Exactly what you just denounced.

I've worked for many places where we joked about being "professionals" simply due to the fact that we were being paid.

The term "professionalism" is a dinosaur that has nothing at all to do with quality or attitude or really anything beyond someone paying you.
Hey,Tim,none of Gidsy,Vayable,Sidetour and the rest of the 'airbnb for experiences' apps seem to get a lot of traction.Is there any growth in profits ? Good luck!
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It would require a lot of capital investment, but building and maintaining highways and automobiles already requires a lot of capital investment. It's just a reallocation.
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I starred the article for later reading on google Reader as it looks interesting. I had to do this instead of reading it now because whatever javascript is being used for paging makes it unreadable on my android phone. Text won't scroll, and swipes just show the next page.
What keeps one from implementing a pure javascript implementation that renders to canvas? Do we need browsers to support formats anymore? With WebGL, WebCL, high speed JS and the canvas tag don't we have everything we need?
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But not infinitely many pieces of ice which will fit within a finite universe [if there is one].
I have been grappling with a similar problem and have been developing a system to track time without individuals continuously having to login in somewhere and update a database.

Essentially my idea involves an auto generated email every Friday which asks the user how they will be spending their time the following week. They are given several options in the form of unique URL's. These URL's update the DB automatically without the user having to login anywhere.
Such a demo would be possible, it would just take an infinite time to run.
Personally, I've always been happy to give modest amounts of free advice. My standard rule when I was consulting was that I was happy to meet with anybody for lunch. The overhead of signing a contract isn't worth it for an hour or two, and it was fine free advertising. It's no bad thing to have a lot of people know you as that smart person who really helped them out in a pinch.
Originally I started using it when I was building a platform to teach coding and it had the best Clojure support :) I remember getting annoyed by ACE's setup, whereas I just dropped CodeMirror in and it worked. The code definitely seemed easier to approach to me too.
Here's the major change. Jobs don't last 5+ years on a regular basis anymore. It's very hard to have a real career without moving around, because people are either "tapped" for the best projects in the first 6-12 months in a new job, or they're not. The "not" case means that it's time to move on. You have to move around a lot (a lot more than most people are comfortable with) to have a real career.

What this means is that living outside of a major city is just untenable, because changing jobs means changing cities, and no one wants to do that every few years. If you loe uour job or just need to change, and you live in New York, you're OK. If you live in Dayton, Ohio, though, you're somewhat out of luck. The appeal of the star cities is skyrocketing because of this change: because the rest of the cities just don't have large enough job markets, considering how specialized most modern work is and how frequent job changes are becoming.
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I wish I could downvote this shit. His attempt at dramatic finality is boring at best.
I find it odd that they (Github) don't really bother to justify their stance on this. The guide just says "don't use them", not why they find it in their interest to do so. It'd be interesting to get a better understanding of why they think this.

Personally I don't see the point in omitting something that leads to known problems instead of including it and encountering zero problems.
As in, served through Github's CDN (akamai)? Google's App Engine has a few GFE's around the world as well.. :)
There is no technical reason preventing you from creating your own ebooks & distributing them and having them work on the kindle.
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There is a difference between those two situations. In the many-worlds-ish interpretation, the Earth _never_ goes to either 0 or 100%. Instead, once the moment of reckoning passes, observations of earth return _both_ 'destroyed' and 'non-destroyed' values, entangled together. When you observe this at Andromeda, your own waveform ends up containing "you, having observed Earth's destruction" and "you, having observed Earth not being destroyed" simultaneously. Note that this doesn't require FTL - the combined waveform from earth arrives after however many light-years it takes to get to Andromeda.

The key is, you can never observe that this quantum-mechanical weirdness happened to you, because your point of view only admits a single result at a time. In otherwords, "you" observe everything simultaneously, but each observation happens independently, so you can never think about two mutually exclusive results at the same time.
Various people, e.g. Titus Brown, have been trying to take a different approach. Titus doesn't practice open notebook science, but he does try and practice "replication". More on replication: http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/apr-12/replication-i.html

The paper gets it own website: http://ged.msu.edu/papers/2012-diginorm/; which includes arXic preprint, data and code repositories and even an AMI with everything loaded. Basically eveything you need to replicate the work in the paper.
I'm sorry I must be missing something, that link seems to reinforce Xfinity's position on Xbox streamed content,but I can't find a link where Comcast claims that content originating inside their network shouldn't count because it doesn't cause congestion.
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User Experience (and to some extent User Interface) design are, I think, the two most misunderstood things in the valley and startup world.

There are so many words thrown around UI, UX, IxD (interaction design), etc. So confusing! Concretely, most of the people I've met who qualify themselves as practitioners of these disciplines are really graphic/web designers. But the field of user-centered design (a term that I think encompasses well all of the former) is so much more than that!

People like Don Norman, Bill Moggridge, Bill Verplank, etc. who pretty much founded the modern field of interaction design did not make their career by pushing pixels on Dribbble or implementing fancy JQuery transitions between their website's forms.

User centered design is much deeper, fuzzy and humanistic than that— if you claim to be a UI/UX/etc. designer, please step out of {Photoshop | Firebug console} for a bit and delve into the works of the aforementioned authors, as a start. It might be harder to read than colorful blog posts, but your work will be so much deeper because of it.
I think it's the instant spam button for Hacker News.
Perhaps this attitude contributes to the problem (I am not excepted from it). If you were given an earful about how your code is an unsalvageable flaming pile of rubbish by everyone you showed it to, would you want to release it alongside a paper to which you've given years of your life?
Metered it is right now (see caps) but if you want 24/7 ESPN and HBO and I just want to email and access CNN.com a few times a day why should I pay for you?

The "internet" has changed, it was pages and images, now it's videos and with Xbox, Hulu and Netflix it's also cable. The net providers have a point, it costs a fortune to lay, expand and maintain the pipes as demand increases. Not sure how it's solved, but Netflix and others have to shell a few bucks, the money they are saving by not mailing DVDs might come in handy
It's an interesting idea. My assumption is that stronger JS engines already do a good job of optimizing simply-written JS, whether the JS is hand written or produced by a transcompiler.

Transcompilers that were target-specific could probably target server-side JS at first. e.g. If you're just building a node.js app, there's no reason for the polyfill language to make any concessions to IE, for example. So one "optimization" is simply avoiding legacy cruft in the generated output. But I could also see exploiting specific features of cutting-edge JS engines.
Your HSI connection is just a channel on a QAM. Your statement "On Demand & CATV set-top boxes never transmitted data over your HSI connection" is just backwards your HSI data is always transmitted over your CATV pipes. The only core differences between the Xbox content and your TV content is the protocol.
The article missed the economic point, I think. If we live through another major economy crash (that cannot be ruled out, seeing the huge public deficits everywhere) this means high paying jobs in big cities will be harder to find, and therefore the cost of living in large cities will be unsustainable for many. If this happens, moving to the suburbs in order to have decent standards of living is very likely as well.

It's very difficult to make predictions on such trends, however, and the article's points rely on a great number of undisclosed assumptions on the future.
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Absolutely exciting. I will help fund the Kickstarter as soon as its available. Ah! So excited.
I diagree with the thesis.

An art project like the one mentioned is relatively small. CE projects, which want to ship millions of units is an entirely different affair, usually costing millions of dollars and large teams composed of many different specialities.

Even if you did raise $5 million USD you still need a design team and manufacturing. And there's no guarantee of success either. I just don't see Kickstarter helping much.
This actually made me laugh a bit. This just isn't how it works...

Researchers are not judged by the quality of their code -- they're judged on ideas (and more specifically, papers). And to be fair... have you ever written a quick, hacked-together script to prove some point and then move on? That's the same thing that researchers are doing. If they want "high-quality" code, that will probably only happen as the research systems are hardened and/or commercialized.

I should say, I'm still a big proponent of open-sourcing it all anyway -- perhaps just a few months later to maintain competitive advantages (or file for IP protections). All my dissertation code, hardware designs, etc. are online and documented for posterity. And I find that some other researchers genuinely find it useful (which kinda scares me). But I try to be a good citizen and support 'em anyway.
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I completely agree. If this is publishable science, then a strong and reproducible description of the science and algorithms used is all that is necessary.

I would be very interested if the author had actually given even a single instance where the lack of software code that merely implements the experiment has completely impeded progress on the science in a paper. Even if this were the case, would that not imply simply more algorithmic detail is required?

Of course, for all of the above, I am referring to non-computer science. There may be special circumstances in computer science where the code itself is the published algorithm or an intended description of the underlying science.
Depends on what’s meant by “fully described”. Some ideas may be proposed succinctly, yet also be impossible to execute without a technical edge—how about a time machine?

It is precisely those “frighteningly ambitious” ideas, to borrow the term from PG, that can be succinctly described, have inherent value, and deserve to be capitalised on immediately. Specifically because it’s presumed impossible, there can be no established players to oppose you. Of course, there is always the immensely probable outcome that your edge is in fact not an edge at all…
Wow this is really cool! I would love to an editor like this for nodejs!
IMO it's especially heinous because I didn't see a single piece of jQuery use in the code (I may have missed it, though). All they seem to be requiring jQuery for is to add to the $ namespace.

That pedantry aside, it seems like a decent enough chunk of code, and it's very easy to read. More libraries should be this clean.
You make a good point in your reference to gentrification. It is the reason Gen Y-ers from cookie cutter backgrounds feel more comfortable in urban areas. Many cities are simply turning into condensed suburbs. However, I think this "migration" is only temporary as Gen Y-ers will likely move to outlying suburbs as they mature and start families. Metro area suburbs are ultimately where they will end up as they provide the best of both worlds, convenience and comfort.
If anything the shows you list are exceptions that prove the rule. Parks and Rec, Desperate Housewives and the Office are not exactly aspirational portrayals of non-city living.

Modern family is about people older than Gen Y members and is set in Hollywood. While they're not downtown, they spend "fun" time there.
We had such a format. It was called JNG. It's a JPG/PNG bastard which allows you to combine PNG or JPG color channels with a PNG or JPG alpha channel. Typically, it's around 20% of the size of a PNG32 image.

Unfortunately, Mozilla killed the format back in 2003, because the MNG (JNG is a subset) library added about 100kb to the installer. Yes, that was the primary reason. Their suggested alternative was to use Flash instead.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195280

(Note: The sizes of the libraries are the uncompressed sizes. The uncompressed size is completely irrelevant.)
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I couldn't easily find any contact info for you.

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Chicago mostly lost population in black neighborhoods. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/us/16illinois.html
He likes to point out (what he sees) as the implied motives for things that happen, particularly when Google is involved :)

Maybe he's right, but is indexing and a common access mechanism really such a bad description of open? Sure they want to sell ads against it, but they can still do that even if they just aggregate content from 1000 different access mechanisms.

They've tried to crawl Flash sites before, but those are still distributed through a browser, contrast that with an app that has a (sometimes limited) JSON api but requires a specific platform just to access the interface. If they don't "crawl" the actual interface while it's running, they can't see anything.

That's a dead end though if the person searching has to install an app built for a device they dont have just to follow a search link.

Maybe the real answer is that not everything should be crawl-able in the first place? Or not everything needs to be instantly searchable?
Super excited about this. Will definitely be looking into CodeMirror's vi key binding support and how I can help there.

Can't wait to see alphas and play with the bindings, as well. I would love to get a chance to see if it would be possible to run an out-of-band process to run some of the same stuff for a compiled language that does have a REPL and stuff that produces nice ASTs from code (e.g., Scala or even Java).

I also get the feeling there's going to be some space here to ease things with regards to testing… Not only because you'll be able to see your tests expanded instead of having to step through, but I think there's potential for just running some test code, seeing the output, checking it's right, and then hitting a key combo to codify that into an automated unit test.

Definitely feels like there's so much awesome lying around the corner. Mad props for putting this together and deciding to carry through with it. I'll be keeping an eye out for the Kickstarter.
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It's worth noting that the problems he mentions are specific to Common Lisp. Other lisps make it possible to implement egal.
It seems like all these stories about Wal-Mart's effect on local economies focus almost entirely on the vendors and not at all on the cost/convenience savings that is reaped by the local consumers

I'm not denying the effect on local businesses but it seems like the other side of the ledger needs to be considered also.
Oh, I don't know. I remember CD's being more expensive than records. And DVD's were more expensive than VHS tapes.
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This is fucking AMAZING!

The music reminds me of the original Homeworld game.
I don't see why it would be impossible to make an unsinkable ship. Just make it out of material that's less dense than water.
Publishing a version controlled source repository is actually more stringent than publishing the results of a lab assay, because it contains a record of everything you tried, older versions, and errors (that have hopefully been fixed).

When publishing on wet-lab data, you only publish the assays that worked (i.e., you didn't contaminate the samples, etc.). The wet-lab equivalent of a source repo would be like publishing a video recording of your lab.
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