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I don't think that the author has concluded that experimental games are less likely; rather, games without a multiplayer component, such as those pushed by Tim Schafer, will not be picked up due to the churn.
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I believe it's because ack and friends skip files you ordinarily don't want by default. So there's no .svn-base duplicates, no cache files generated by tools, etc.
Hmm ok let's get more concrete.

It would have been unjustifiable in your view for Japan to have assassinated Oppenheimer during his time at Los Alamos, yes or no?
It's a shame Portugal is missing there. Portugal was once the biggest empire thanks to sailing and colonization. But oh well all we've left is a debt crisis to solve now :)
I have several thousand dollars worth of second hand games (for xbox 360), I've never once come across a scratched disc.

While I'm sure it could potentially be a problem in high-churn stores like gamestop, most places do have a replacement policy on discs that are scratched at purchase.
Consumers selling games gives them revenue they can put towards buying new games.

I think the economic incentives aren't so negative. There are many games I would not want to sell at any price that is less than for the game sold new (perhaps in the bargain bin, with age); the replay value is just too high. Good games with replay value are exactly the games I want to buy, and they also happen to be the games I wouldn't want to sell.

An anti-used game policy would really help (a) linear, low-interactivity experience-based games, and possibly (b) duds. I'm not a fan of either.
Physical distribution will soon be dead. $50-60 games at a store is giving way to $1-20 games online, I don't mind that they're DRM'ed - I'm happy knowing the developers get a bigger cut and they're affordable.

"The variety of games out there is shrinking" - that's not true! There are more and more varied games out there than ever before, thanks to the App Store, Steam, XBOX Live and Wii Shop.
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Yes, but how many bookstores sell both new and used books?

On the other hand most of the PC gamers buy games that are activated on Steam, Origin or Battle.Net and that causes the resell value of the plastic disc to fall to Zero
Apps market is completely full. There is much more offer than demand/need. Once "supports" are broken, in this case, when people get used not to pay, to make them pay again, something must change (offer, demand, rules). I'm an architect (real architect , not IT) and in this market it happens the same, people are not paying anymore for ideas, they only pay for project drawings. The competition (offer) is too high, if you don't do it somebody will.
I think those things are super-fun! You always learn something :) Discovered this super-simple "partial" pattern while doing the "functions" part: https://gist.github.com/2375986
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My favourite - Jon Skeet comparison - http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/3160/jon-s...
Better you don't work with those people. I don't want to blame you for their lack of knowledge. But if you want to do them (and you and your project) some good, order them to learn JavaScript thoroughly (which includes the unexpected but regular features that deviate from other languages and the common pitfalls), and then go back to CS! CS inherits from JS and makes no sense without it and it fixes some pitfalls but just the ones that you can fix with the constraints and additions of a new grammar.
This is not the hard path but the only path to CS.
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Nice idea, would be even better executed if the "embedded webpage" would be clipped to the device frames during resize.

Clicking on the landscape iphone while in portrait iphone mode shows the full landscape embedded webpage on top of the frame while the frame resizes, which is kinda jarring.
... or just find something else to do.

I don't think my soon-to-arrive daughter will find as much fun in Pac Man or Space Invaders as I did, but I'm quite sure the arms race in game development cost really got out of hand. Maybe the industry should focus on games they could sell for a profit for less than US$20.

With everyone carrying at least one internet-connected PS3 equivalent in their pockets, I don't see a bright future for consoles anyway.
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Thanks for the reply, but isn't that the sort of thing that should be clearer on the site?

After going back and reading the big blurb on the homepage, I can see a mention about the recruiters now, but really, who reads big blurbs like that?

I just think yous need to do more to emphasise the quality angle and stand out from the hundreds of sites that just bought a job board WordPress theme.
> Iran...has a hostile and aggressive neighbour who is armed with a significant number of nuclear weapons.

There isn't a single time in history Israel has gone to war or engaged in military action except to address a direct threat to its own security. Aggressive? No. Hostile? Only when threatened, which Israel constantly has been.

Geographically, Iran is nowhere near Israel. Israel has no realistic way of projecting force as far as Iran, and no reason to initiate a nuclear strike.

> Iran's leaders know any move to aggression would quickly result in military annhilation by Israel / US.

If that's the status quo, then it's in the interests of the world to keep it that way. If Iran gets nuclear weapons, they will be free to act with aggression against its neighbors, including Iraq, because the US will have no means to stop them.
Ask HN: What do you use for internal wiki?
I like the company wiki, but which ones are currently 'hot'?

Do you use a:

* self hosted product (mediawiki, tikiwiki, docuwiki),

* as a service (wikihost.com),

* part of a larger product (atlassian, trac, redmine)

* part of a larger service (github), or

* something else maybe?

If you can also explain something noteworthy (good/bad) about your wiki that'd be nice as well..
Nice idea, well executed. Would be nice if the URL can be exposed as a GET parameter so it can be linked to.
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Like I said below I don't think it's ever justifiable, and it goes both ways. There are thousands of good scientists working with the DoD. The US is technically at war. However I do not believe their scientists should be considered legitimate targets.

It's also debatable as to whether they're developing a nuclear weapon.
I think both of:

(a) that Iran would not be irrational. This is my considered opinion based on all I've read - Iranian politics seem subtle to me, with a tug of war between president, chief cleric and "Guardian Council" - a long, long way short of a despotic single point of failure.

and (b) if it was irrational, there's little we could do about it, unless the preemptive strike / invasion route is taken, and that level of US aggression would encourage even more countries to pursue nuclear weapons. The US would essentially be a huge armed bully roaming the neighbourhood threatening people not to get guns, and breaking into random houses searching for guns. I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest that that policy is eventually going to convince the neighbours to get some guns.

I think there's a range of options here; I tend towards de-escalation and looking at things with a cool head. There's far too much drum beating and propaganda pumping going on for my liking.

PS: I wish you would reply, rather than edit your comments after the fact. It makes things very hard to read.

1. I killed an argument (rational is just not in "kings" historically) -- you just ignored it.

I addressed it twice: firstly, that it does not apply (no single point of failure like a king, in this answer here), and secondly, it does not actually matter. By my score I "killed" your own argument twice!

2. I noted that this would probably result in a nuclear race with at least the traditional competitors of Iran -- Turkey and SA.

Sure. And your point is?

(My point is that when something is inevitable, talking about the bad consequences of it is pointless. It's going to happen. And bad consequences will happen too. Just is. But do you honestly think a US invasion of Iran would be a better outcome than a nuclear-armed Turkey? SA?)

3. This religious junta will almost certainly torture, rape and oppress the Iranian population as long as there is oil, without external intervention.

Lots of regimes oppress their populations far more than Iran does. How about starting with North Korea? Invasion, particularly as recent experience has shown, does not usually result in "saving" the population. Most countries in oppressive rule don't have the social infrastructure built up for a better system, and besides, particularly in the Middle East, they suffer from Dutch Disease. (This is actually your own earlier point, FWIW; I ignored it because it wasn't relevant, but it is relevant here to your apparent (yet cowardly silent!) advocation of intervention.)

I think you will just repeat your position while ignoring everything else. Hence, an agenda of some sort that you want to get out.

You're lucky I even saw what you wrote here, because you didn't actually reply to my comment.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi

Cycle finished :)
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I think IKEA (and others) solve the problem by making their goods fragile. If your couch falls apart, you won't be able to resell it.
I've been thinking the same thing for a while. The simplest argument in favour would be that people would immediately be much more careful in their selection. If I have to fork out money, I'm definitely not going to pick the buggy / low quality / app with dodgy permissions to the system, uses my location andor other data for ads revenue /etc. It means those apps wont have an audience and die off, because there's no incentive. And we'll all be better off...Not?

I'm so sick of all the crap that is out there, I wish I can just pay a fair amount and get an app that gets close to what I need, is of quality and without hidden agendas and issues.

Free is a funny thing, people's behaviour and expectations go out of whack. Even $0.99 is better than free. It's often better than $9.99 also. Free makes that people expect everything to be free, even quality software.

Quality software is hard to create. You cannot hold it to a developer if he gave it to you for free; he has no reason to really make it good...If you haven't actually put out software at a price, then you don't have first-hand experience of the responsibility it puts on you. The responsibility we need to create a better (app) world.

And if you want to throw the open-source argument, just remember free and open-source is not the same thing. If you're confused go read The Free Software Definition: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

I agree with previous comments, there should be atleast a trial period, I need to be able to figure out if this app will meet my needs.
No I meant the kind of people that refill vending machines at US camps.
Scroll bars are frustrating given the amount of effort put into this, plus the sites I tested aren't rendered the way they actually appear on an iPhone meaning I wouldn't be confident showing this to clients.
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Israel has 300+ nuclear weapons in order to dissuade their unneighborly neighbors from making a third attempt to push them into the sea. They exist, essentially, and literally, to prevent anyone from finishing the Holocaust. Which is not an argument that has much traction with Mr. Ahmedinejad, the esteemed host of international Holocaust denial conferences, or with his similarly inclined sympathizers.
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it shows me picture but I can't move, may be it will work for you
Shepherd University's is 4,500$/year tuition and Harvard's endowment is vastly superior to most Ivy's which enables them to have significantly lower tuition. Also, the income of parents sending their kids to collage is significantly better than the national average household income.

Part of this is Age: "Households headed by persons between the ages of 45 and 54 had a median household income of $61,111 and a mean household income of $77,634." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_...

And part of this is education: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Income_Education_91_to_03.... with a higher percentage of people with a collage degree sending their children to collage.
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It looks great but can someone give me a reason to learn this instead of just using the GUI?
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I like this idea but I think the design needs to be pretty drastically rethought. Node.js is not really the right medium for this sort of test, although it might function as a first barrier for screening the interested; "you must be able to follow readmes to install software" etc.

What I'm more concerned is the idea that this is apparently structured like an automated test. If you used it that way, then here is a function which would pass the first test file:

fn = function (a, b) {
switch (b) {
case 3: return 2;
case undefined: return 10;
case 2: return '1 3 4'.split(" ");
case 10: return [0, 0, 0, 0, 10];
case 'z': return '1 2 z 3 4'.split(" ");
default: return '1 2 3 4 a b c'.split(" ");
}
};

It was built by just looking at the "expect" calls, finding the input to the function and the output from it, and duplicating that output.

That's obviously not what you want to test. You really want to say, "you give me an object, and I'm going to generate a couple random test vectors and make sure you do the right thing with those vectors." You shouldn't hardcode the result, but the right algorithms, so that someone else's solutions can be measured against the right way to do things. And then you need to ask people not to modify the right solutions, but to duplicate them.
There is no wear and tear with digital goods, which makes them a different beast.

The games he's talking about are sold in DVDs, and Gamestop can't exactly clone them, so yes, there's wear and tear. Pure digital game sales are usually not resealable anyway.
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Nice. Do you plan to put it on the web to make some normalization and standardization of the results? Would be great imho.
(I'm one of the creators.)

If you're curious about how we did it, take a look at https://github.com/46Bit/irepl. Messages Beta for Mac still has AppleScript bindings from iChat. We're (ab)using them to pass the iMessages to Heist and then reply.
Yeah - that was exactly what I was hoping for.

I'd love to be able to send an email to some potential clients along the lines of 'Have you thought about responsive design? Here's why it matters in the context of your current site.'
I'm not sure I'd want that, but I would surely like background tabs getting throttled, similarly to background tasks on Android.

Not sure if that's feasible in firefox.
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I believe that "zoom" means "to travel very quickly" in the sentence you quote.
Good hackers have neither the time nor the inclination to jump through silly hoops like this.

The only conclusion you can draw from this is that China has lots of bored hackers with time on their hands...
Can you also get in touch with the marketing department to create a new landing page with email opt in which will put all email subscribers in to a 3 day launch sequence to demonstrate this awesome new feature along with video tutorials on how to use it. Please include the usual A/B testing and analytics features. Regards, dolan
SEO oriented crap. Please downvote it.
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Shortly is catchy.

Brilliant idea, by the way.
I agree, I also thought it wasn't clear if we were supposed to be writing tests, or code that was to be tested. Instead of modifying the test cases have them fill out a functions file and then run the random tests against those.
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In this instance I was being apolitical.

I don't think conservatives are ignorant (any more than anyone else, anyway). I tend not to agree with hard line conservatives about the majority of stuff but I also disagree massively with the hard left wing as well. Both groups are reasonably represented in my family, and I tend not to please any of them. But that is probably more because I can be an extremely sarcastic bastard and talk a lot of utter nonsense at times.
I prefer the much simpler approach of reusing the existing utils with a simple shell script, which is much faster than ack:

http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/findrepo

A quick test on a moderately big repo:

$ time findrepo test '*' | wc -l
158819
real	0m0.532s
$ time ack -a test | wc -l
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real	0m8.762s
Nice.

I also like http://mattkersley.com/responsive/ which shows different resolutions side by side, I find it easier to compare.
isnt this a privacy snafu? they are effectively publicly listing email addresses of all their users whose profiles are publicly listed.

facebook.com/myname
myname@facebook.com

I can basically do a google search to get to get a list of user urls
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Doesn't Firefox support mp3?
Does the same apply to topcoder?
http://community.topcoder.com/stat?c=country_avg_rating
I think a better title would be "Find the best templating engine for your Javascript project".

Lazy bug report: if you switch options too fast (probably while the fadeout/in is still running) the change doesn't get reflected in the list.
But how long before someone figures out a way to override ctrl+clicks and middle-clicks with a lightbox as well?
This article seems rather sensationalist -- lack of numbers, doesn't explain what "churn," is, and draws a strong conclusion from all of it.

Personally I don't see any creativity lacking in the AAA market. They've been delivering some of the best games they have ever delivered in the last couple of years. They're not known for "risky," games. Risk to them is a new title without a number on the end of its name. The kinds of games they're interested in developing are action-oriented experiences with long story arcs and mascot characters. I still buy plenty of these games and enjoy them quite a bit.

The only thing that the strong presence of a second-hand market indicates to me is that price is an issue with consumers. New AAA titles are walking into the $100 range which will limit the number of games I'll buy in a year drastically... which if I'm not the only one with a limited budget that thinks this way... could only mean that the industry will see more "hit" and "miss" behavior... but without any real numbers it's just speculation, isn't it?

I just hope the console makers aren't using this same speculation to drive the decision to include new anti-used-games features in the next generation of consoles.
By the same token, you could take a look at the top users (or just number of users in general) in project euler and note that China doesn't have a particularly huge representation:

http://projecteuler.net/eulerians

http://projecteuler.net/countries

You can't draw the kind of conclusion the New Statesman has from just one website.
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Yep. But all those guys were clearly counter culture figures: drugs, terrorism, open source (that last one is so different and hard to categorize that I just called it what we know it as).

Zuckerberg? Where's his support of Occupy Wall Street, or the Tea Party, or even marijuana legalization?

Facebook doesn't even allow pictures of breastfeeding mothers!

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/breastfeeding-advocates-hold-fa...

I know that you were providing examples where the college someone went to doesn't preclude them from being counter cultural. Zuckerberg, though, while not "square" exactly, is basically what our culture basically expects of people that go to those schools.

Leary and Kaczynski, not so much, and that may actually be a part of the reason that that they grew to have outsize influence as counter cultural icons!
Not the same thing, Topcoder is actually crowdsourcing isn't it?
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If that happens, how do you intend to get money?
so, basically you are abusing link shorteners for data storage :)

i would like something like this for binary data, with the option to specify a filename, as that is something the data url scheme does not provide.
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Great idea. One improvement might be to make the mobile view look more like a mobile device; now it looks very much like the tablet. Perhaps the borders (sides in portrait, top and bottom in landscape) could be thinner.
Some time ago there was http://responsive.is/ posted on hn, which is awesome!

this looks quite cool too, but changing between "devices" makes the iframe jump.
anyway, cool stuff!
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Also, if this page itself was responsive would be nice: resizing the browser would select the appropriate view.
The fetchnotes site with "JS off" is.. err.. nonexistent.

While I don't ask for an awesome experience, and I understand that the app behind can really need JS, it would be nice to have at least an okay-ish landing page, instead of just links to useless guides on how to enable javascript.
I like that we all ignored my mistake in saying the rate had shrunk, when I actually meant the time-to-transition has shrunk. :) Keeping focussed.
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Yup...I feel a little less dumb knowing other people thought the same!
Ingenious.

I can't wait to see what other iMessage-based services pop up now that the AppleScript bindings are exposed.
I'm running several URL shorteners and I don't mind.
Was thinking that such a bold claim seemed a little premature. But then, it is Discovery.
Great idea. Most URL shorteners offer APIs. Why not automatically create a short URL?
And if you don't by some games new, they don't work quite as well. I don't see the problem here.

If you don't like what a company is doing, don't buy the product.
that is very cool! now to hack this a bit and get it doing other weird and wonderful stuff... :)
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I am curious whether "remote friendly" means applicants from specific geographic location like Europe/US? I ask to save time for those friendly folks who make time to write to applicants that they couldn't consider the application because of timezone differences and/or other geographic factors.
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Why is it restricted to Chrome?