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In fact, you don't have to learn C++ either.

You can use any native compiled language without problems (say, Pascal). You can also use any other language as long as its runtime is small enough.

Most important though, much more so than whether you know C++, is knowing graphics programming. In fact, I've been calling myself a democoder for 10 years now, and I still suck at graphics programming, which is why my demos suck. Focus on the graphics, not the language. A fondness for math is much more important than a fondness for compilers.

I'd recommend making a demo in your favourite programming language. Don't care about size, care about looks. Once you've learned to make it good, you can consider learning, say, C(++) to make it small enough for the 64k or 4k categories.

Sidenote: most 4ks these days are entirely coded in a shader. This means you can mostly copy&paste the entire C part from somewhere, and start hacking GLSL or HLSL. Sure, you'd need to learn the shader language, but it's smaller and simpler than c++.
You can also just do this with Qt and QtWebKit. Qt5 is supposed to focus on this usage specifically though I haven't tried it.
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I funded a video game (No Time To Explain) whose frankly was garbage. I didn't think at the time that kickstarter was responsible. I made a bet, and I lose. I still put money on projects I find awesome. I am not everyone, but I have the feeling that consumers are more relaxed when they put money on a kickstarter project.
"The Real Animal House" [1] is also worth a read--it's about the Dartmouth fraternity experiences of one of the authors of Animal House. Somehow it makes the recreational vomiting seem more fun than the Rolling Stone article.

(It was amazing and disturbing how many of the "traditions" described in the book are mentioned in the Rolling Stone article, 50 years later...)

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Real-Animal-House-Fraternity/dp/B0...
Eh, no. Or, well, not the last 15 years at least.

And especially not in Germany. Saying you're proud of Germans when you're a German in Germany is considered scary.
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It was shown in the governers report to be Barbra Hall and the principals doing the pressure. People who are quitting/being fired/etc right now.

http://www.ajc.com/news/volume-1-of-special-1000798.html

http://www.ajc.com/news/volume-2volume-2-of-special-1000571....

http://www.ajc.com/news/volume-3volume-3-conclusions-why-100...

It's actually a pretty interesting read, with testimony and specific allegations.
Pandora's recommendation system is not based on a social graph, nor is it particularly "computer generated" compared to most other automated recommendation systems.

It's based on the Music Genome Project. For over 8 years, they've been having highly trained musicologists listen to each song individually, then manually categorize them on ~400 attributes (e.g. is it syncopated? major or minor key? does it have vocal harmonies? etc). Pandora uses this data to find similar songs to the ones you like.

You'd think it wouldn't scale but Pandora seems to be doing it.

"The Music Genome Project's database is built using a methodology that includes the use of precisely defined terminology, a consistent frame of reference, redundant analysis, and ongoing quality control to ensure that data integrity remains reliably high. Pandora does not use machine-listening or other forms of automated data extraction."
http://www.pandora.com/about/mgp
The javascript common API path is very interesting. This presentation explains a lot better why the guys who built cocos2D were picked up by Zynga. Using this JS API they will be able to design an app once and deploy it across the web, iOS, and Android all at once.
my view is that yet another blog post trying to split concurrency from parallelism is counter productive: http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/21142396188/stop-...

If CSP is simply thrust forward as the defacto way of achieving parallelism we can really move things along.

Because the parallelism vs concurrency split is put forward by people who 'get it', and they're just bursting to explain to the other 99% who are indifferent programmers and wouldn't really care about the existing definition of threads etc anyway.
'The main reason middlemen exist is information asymmetry'

I don't think so. The main reason middlemen exist is because there are many , many things people just couldn't be bothered to do themselves.
Interesting, but it's very hard to imagine Apple being MORE open than Microsoft or Sony with their consoles.
Having 28 members isn't really considered a big accomplishment in the demoscene :-)

I can get together a group with 28 members in a single demoparty. We'll all be drunk idiots who forgot we signed up the day after, but we'd be 28 members.

Many of the Farbrausch guys work or have worked in the game industry. In fact, for a long time .theprodukkt (FR's somewhat more elitist and commercially feasible spinout) was planned to become a game company, but it never really did.

The same holds for most other good demomakers currently active. The entire Finnish demoscene makes mobile games, the Norwegians all work at ARM to make mobile graphics chips, and p01 works at Opera winning js1k competitions.

Meanwhile, the only somewhat active Spanish demoscener left codes Three.js at Google.

The Dutch are all unemployed.
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For a counterpoint, my company is one of the larger players in our field measured in terms of user numbers, but we have zero visibility in Google on anything but brand searches. We survive in part thanks to decent visibility through Apple and Facebook where word-of-mouth recommendation actually works because the recommendation networks are human-powered.

If the aim is promoting a healthy online ecosystem, Google is a greater threat to startups than either Apple or Facebook in the sense that it is heavily biased against new entrants, and encourages a competitive equilibrium in most markets which encourages the gaming of its search algorithms by actors working in bad faith. Google meanwhile insists that the ranking problems of good sites are the fault of webmasters rather than its own problems measuring site quality, focus and user engagement.

The problem here is with Google, not with Facebook or Apple.
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All popular internet services used to be designed in a distributed fashion, with no central servers, no single point of failure and no single organization to tell you whether you get access or not.

Then came Google.
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There was a recent BBC podcast by Peter Day which examines this very issue:

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio/worldbiz/worldbiz_...

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So what is going on here?
In the US, the migration to the suburbs was also motivated by racism. Europe, at the time, didn't have the same conflicts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight

Another part of the governmental subsidy problem is that governments by design tend to redistribute wealth out of cities and into rural and suburban areas. It even happens at multiple scales; Seattle pays taxes to the Washington State government which are then redistributed to outlying towns, but Washington pays taxes to the US federal government which are then redistributed to Wyoming and Alaska. Until governments are redesigned along the principle that human beings, and not parcels of land, are the true stakeholders, this will be a systemic problem.
Good god, that was INFURIATING. Let me summarize it:

Dev 1: MNG sux, lol. It's like, 100kb of wasted space.

Many Users: MNG is good, and the space is nothing!

Dev 1: Oh...well, lol, I'm bored maintaining it.

User: I wrote the library and I'll maintain it!

Dev 1: Oh, lol. MNG sux, and you suck too. Just use Flash or gifs, k?

Many Users: Those are proprietary and patent encumbered, and MNG has features they don't anyhow. This will break a ton of stuff, including the default theme! And MNGs are used a ton in Asia!

Dev 1: ...whatever, lol. Only losers use MNG, and I'll make a new gif for the theme.

Dev 2: Sounds good to me! Say goodbye to MNG support, losers.

Dev 1: lol!

Meanwhile, Firefox is still bloated, there's still a need for something like MNG, and Chrome is busy eating Firefox's lunch in large part because of the exact behaviour displayed on that bug.

sigh It makes me want to slap the two people involved. That thread should be used in a textbook of "how open source projects become large, bloated, and end up being run into the ground via a concerted effort to annoy users and keep people from joining the dev team". I don't think I've ever seen such a concerted effort to try and discourage a potential maintainer and rip out perfectly working useful code before.
True, but GoogleBot's user agent isn't set in stone.
Just tried and at 23andme it is possible to check this gene, at least with the latest version of their chip (v3).
Just got to "Browse raw data" and put "rs10784502" on the right of "a SNP:" and press "Go".

p.s. CT here, the most diffuse variant (the "best" one according to the article is CC).
Oh boy, that "interview" was horrible. I now got a headache and want to punch something.
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Did you have something in mind for how a modern design of such systems would work?
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If the person can't execute the idea, you're still legally bound not to disclose it yourself, which renders you legally liable. Later, you may be sued because you pursue something superficially similar and the other party believes they have grounds because you signed an NDA.
My professional field is statistical genetics. I don't actually want to bet, but if I did I'd give odds of three to one against this replicating, and ten to one against it having anything at all to do with the genetic architecture of human intelligence. My money is on the result reflecting population stratification.
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Well, I could point you to the presentations at http://www.slideshare.net/netflix, but the first thing you'd find is my presentation, since I work there. :)

None of this is really secret insider information -- you can get it all by Wiresharking your connection, if you have Netflix.

Price has nothing to do with it actually. The client downloads a small file from all the CDNs, and then picks the one with the best response. If the quality of the connection degrades during playback, it repeats the process. So "best" is actually the one with the fastest performance at that time.
I've been working on a JS framework to make this simple in web apps. http://github.com/pfraze/link It's not ready to use, but I wanted to mention it here so nobody starts a duplicate effort unnecessarily.

The use case goes in both directions: extensable code means plugins to do what you need, and reusable code means multiple remote services can use the same UIs. Think of a single inbox which natively sends & receives messages with email, private social network(s), twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and anything else with a web API (or that can be wrapped in one). Adding new services and/or UIs is just adding a JS file.

So I'm building this HMVC-like mediator framework that uses command objects (which behave like http requests / responses) to try to make that happen. It's kind of like a set of UI-building proxies in the browser. Each module is a contained set of resources which should drop into a URI structure and start working.

I need to refactor the API a bit and write the docs. I also figure it would be cool to package it with some node servers to allow users to install it and run it purely clientside, since all it really needs is config persistence, a proxy to deal with cross-origin, and some gateways to handle oauth.
You know who I feel sorry for? Microsoft -- who doesn't even rate as being a threat to the internet...
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I think we're just one big Kickstarter failure away from everybody rethinking things.
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"First thing I'd say to Brin, if you're sincere in your concern for the open web, why aren't you leading it?" -- Dave Winer

https://twitter.com/#!/davewiner/status/191579280034103296
Artifacts in the alpha channel are surprisingly subtle. Well, it makes sense if you think about it: The opacity is low, which makes those little details very hard to see.

A gray-scale JPEG with medium quality (even if it was written by a somewhat crude encoder) will look perfect if used as alpha channel in the vast majority of cases.
What interest could you have in their search algorithm? Or should I say, why should they disclose it? It would only allow SEO spammers to game the system so much easier. This would fill the top results with crap so I would think it's in everyone's best interest that the algorithm is kept secret. Also the quality results are what separates Google from the competition. Are trade secrets not allowed anymore?
I guess I never really thought about it. I've never gone looking for things to fund -- I've only funded stuff my friends are doing.
Id just like to point out the gross disparity between the title "First intelligence gene discovered" and the psychologist quoted in the article who was "a little wary of thinking in terms of a gene for intelligence."....
"You have to play by their rules, which are really restrictive."

Applies to Google just as well. The more they talk, the more disrespect they earn, seriously.

When Android companies like HTC, Samsung were on a losing side of patent litigations, Google claimed "patents are wrong, hurt innovation" -- and look at the very same people squeezing every last dollar out of their patent portfolio now, when they have some.

Announcing Google+? "Sharing on the web is broken". Yeah, right.

Now this, too. IMO Google poses much more substantial threat to the Interwebs than Apple, while also being 20% more assholes.
The better question is, why are people wasting their time trying to invent a federated Facebook instead of a federated Google? People already have lots of ways to share pictures of their cats. But they only have one way to find information on the internet, and if the people running that monopoly did something like compromise the quality of that service to promote their sharing-cat-pictures product, we'd be screwed.
You can still get access to the internet without Google. I do not get your point.
As fast as a ukulele loses its tuning!

It is harder and harder, and maybe it does not feel as relevant as before anymore, to preserve the pseudonymity the scene valued.

It's certainly something that always attracted me.
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We don't have a lossy RGBA image format. WebP is about 20% of the size of a PNG32 image. That's a pretty big deal.
DailyBooth was first to this 'just photos' social network scene. I just don't know what happened to them.

Before, I'll say first to execute well wins. But I thought DailyBooth did well.

Maybe they did not take mobile as very important?
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Winer put this whole debate succinctly.

Hypocritical comments like this often seem to stem from one of two things: a desire to drum up needless press conflict or a complete lack of self-awareness. Perhaps Google has gotten the best of itself and in their all-consuming "must be, er, kill Facebook" dogma not realized that they are likely more a threat to privacy and openness as those they criticize.
In Japan, robotic manufacture is on of the primary way they have improved efficiency over the last 20 years.

For a long time more than half the industrial robots in the world are in Japan.

Foxcon recently announced plans to build 1 million industrial robots, which will essentially double the number in the world[1].

I've noticed some people in the thread saying the Japanese programmers aren't good enough to program robots. That simply isn't the case - they lead the world in industrial robotics.

[1] http://www.gizmag.com/foxconn-gears-up-to-build-industrial-r...
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So what you're saying is that my Facebook data is visible in Bing? Do you have a link?
Sweet! Might be needing this library very soon!
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How could a video that awesome only have 680 views? Makes me wonder what else I'm missing.

edit: Can you explain this line (from the beginning): "Whenever the date flips, it represents the point of least distance between the departure and destination planets."
A former roommate of mine is finishing a game (inspired by Ender's Game) with Kickstarter funding, and they've actually released a playable prototype for backers--even though the Kickstarter campaign isn't even over yet.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mercenary-games/vigrior-...
I appreciate how smoothly the article bridges qualitative clarity and quantitative concreteness.
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If you are into this kind of stuff, check out "Star walk" and especially "Solar walk" for iOS.
Probably having seen these apps makes me fail at seeing the mind-blowing part of the app in submission :(
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And yet better still, why implement a federated anything when you can hypothetically have a framework off of which you can spawn a whole host of distributed integrated web services.

Or maybe that's just impossible, haven't really done the research.
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I experience it first hand as I am implementing a machine learning algorithm described in a paper. There are questions arising on what and how they did their experiments and on details of the algorithm, which I can't deduce from the paper . Hence, I'm guessing but still unable to reproduce their results. Leaving me to wonder if I have a bug or if I misinterpreted something....
There I agree with you.
Hellbanned? What is that supposed to mean? I don't remember having done anything wrong.
I think the argument against Facebook and Apple had nothing to do with the problems with Google. Both Facebook and Apple are pushing systems that are very easy to get data into, but almost impossible to get it out. As an example, try sending an MP3 (M4A, whatever) from an iPhone to anywhere else other than iTunes, iCloud etc. Now try it from an Android phone. See the difference?
> edit: The code had already been changed to an if when i suggested the jsmin issue be filed as a bug.

They worked around the bug some time before Crockford refused to fix it.
> Google claimed "patents are wrong, hurt innovation" -- and look at the very same people squeezing every last dollar out of their patent portfolio now, when they have some.

How is Google squeezing every last dollar out of their patent portfolio? By defensively protecting themselves against offensive patent suits?
Perfect competition is a term of art referring to a specific competitive scenario with no product differentiation, no economies of scale, no barriers to entry, and a huge number of well-informed buyers and sellers.

The net result is that the sellers become "price takers", accepting whatever the market will give them. An example of this effect near an extreme is in the securities markets, where you sell stock for whatever price the market will give you. You can't reasonably argue that if my shares are selling for $600 that somebody should purchase yours for $601.

When you think of competition, it's quite likely you're envisioning monopolistic competition in which products are differentiated, and aimed to appeal to slightly different buyers. This is a form of competition where profits are possible, but they're hard to sustain without continued innovation, and the establishment of new differentiating factors.

A monopoly is the other end of that scale, where they have substantial pricing power and that power is quite durable over time, even without substantive innovation.

But I absolutely agree with Thiel that perfect competition is terrible if your goal is to turn a profit.
AOL preceded Google by a large margin, and was much, much worse for the Internet. Google has its problems, but it has been by far a net positive.
Well, Gates did feel that this whole 'Internet' thing was a fad. They're preparing to be a major player in the post-Internet era.
I think he is talking about the POV of the enterpreneur, in which case monopoly over something people want is often desirable.