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Ha, you're right: GoDaddy would and DOES rip off customers and screw them by capriciously pulling their domains:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/03/godaddy-silence

In support of your (and my) point: Local storage is now dirt-cheap, small in size, and spacious. Exactly the WRONG time to start turning your data over to someone else to store "in the cloud."
Some of these don't make sense to me. I don't get how people use NoScript; how can you use a browser without JS by default? Also, why would someone blog and post pictures while trying to remain anonymous, that seems counter-intuitive. Finally, Chromium > Firefox for open source.
That's a problem anywhere. You have to own your own name or share it with someone you trust for life or just adapt to change like we did before cell phone number portability.
I should have clarified that the pieces of the implementation landed starting in Firefox 11, but key bugs like https://bugzil.la/730318 weren't fixed until Firefox 14. It won't work correctly on all pages in earlier versions.

[I'm a developer of Firefox for Android, which has click-to-play enabled by default starting with version 14.]
> Adding a field in postgres while setting a default value would be exactly the same as adding a field

Not true. Postgres locks the entire table for the duration of the update (which could be hours or days for a large enough dataset). Mongo will lock your entire databased for tiny fractions of a second, lots and lots of times. The difference is huge. The postgres implementation takes down your site, the Mongo implementation doesn't.

At scale, people start using Postgres a lot like a NoSQL service. Check out the Reddit schema for example, or read IMVU's blog posts on the topic (with MySQL, but same point). Or Facebook's architecture. All those migrations strategies look a lot more like mongo than postgres, even though they all use SQL DBs.

> Now I'm not anti-MongoDB, I'm just saying you shouldn't give it credit for something that relational database do just fine.

Saying "I can do NoSQL migrations just fine in Postgres" is like saying "I can do OO just fine in assembly".
Our advanced CS class (first year) has written a scheme interpreter. We were going to port it to C, from racket, but we ran out of time in the class. I might just finish it for fun this summer.
It's worth noting that if you're planning on instantiating multiple instances of the same "class" (to use the term generically/loosely) instead of immediately invoking the function, the module pattern has a much more significant memory footprint than prototypical inheritance — total memory usage should increase linearly with the number of objects you're creating, since you're creating new copies of all member functions each time.

Jeremy Ashkenas (who knows a lot more about this than I do) explains this in another comment thread here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2991904
Same here. Very neat.
With paying customers? That will continue until they face their first lawsuit...
I added it to my todo list to have an option to keep the leaderboard open until you hit close, rather than closing automatically.
Yes, it's definitely possible to do that. But switching between Firefox profiles is nowhere near as convenient as logging into two different sites with two different identities in two tabs next to each other, which is really easy to do if you don't share identities across sites. As I said, juggling multiple incognito windows is not fun. If anything, juggling multiple profiles is even less fun.

But I guess I'm just ranting here, since it is well known that convenience and privacy don't always go together.
And also, did you ever introduce a bug by getting a typo in a field name? ;)
It appears Mr. Blow has never heard of the likes of Portal or Minecraft, two of my favorite games that also happen to be tremendously popular. Neither features the testosterone-laden warrior-men or buxom bikini babes that he claims have the industry in a death grip, neither can be slotted into the "money-grubbing sequel" category, and neither is immediately understandable "on an elementary level" as Clark says. While it's true that games like Call of Duty are tailored towards a certain audience, Blow and the Clark are blatantly disregarding evidence that contradicts their damning critiques of the industry.
By installed, it just means it's added to your 'library' on clay.io. That way once we have more than 3 games, it will be easy to find the games you have played before and like.
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If a 100K people, an insanely huge number, experienced crippling Gmail failure, that is roughly a 0.1% chance that it would affect you on your lifetime. Avoiding Gmail for this is like avoiding planes and cars and houses because you saw on the news that one blew up somewhere.
I did not say it was "impossible," I said it would be "utterly unusable."

I am happy to see you agree with me.
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People actually still use ISP provided email in 2012? Really?
I think a lot of people don't experience it as singular.

The extreme is actors. You will here a lot of them talking about their characters in the third person. Even if they are the only one in the world to play that character, even if they have created the character, they experience that fraction of their identity as so distinct that "I" doesn't mean that.

Most people don't experience it as that fragmented, but I still think it's common for people to have in-person identities that feel very separate to them. I know that's true for a lot of consultants and therapists; their client-facing persona is quite distinct.
So the problem fixed itself faster than you could get Comcast to come look at a problem with your cable box.
This. If you're really worried about the safety of your Gmail account, maybe it's time to consider moving your email somewhere else. Sure, you can back your email up, but if your account is suspended you'll still lose access to your address.

I moved my email over to Fastmail.fm, a subscription email service, around 8 months ago. They've been in the business since 1999 and seem to be pretty reliable. The web interface and price obviously doesn't compare to Gmail, but all the other features are there.
Meteor is not ready for prime time as said by the creators themselves. In the mean time learn Node.js / Backone.js. Then you will be in a good place to embrace something like Meteor once it's feasible.
"Examples" and stats aren't worth a damn thing when it happens to you. When Google tweaks things and you're caught in the middle, 100% of your e-mail, Adsense, Adwords, Apps, GAN, Docs or whatever is cut off with almost zero recourse.
I agree with you. There are quite a few commercial webmail/imap/pop providers, though. I've been using one for years now. I refuse to do free email since I lost my yahoo mail over a decade ago, and I like the peace of mind of knowing I can call up some someone for support.
I think you are completely right.
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Why screwed? MobileMe migrated to iCloud seemlessly and you had to pay nothing. Plus the service now is even better for free! I don't see that people get screwed.
It is just good sense to speak politely about a crew of thousands of people who have been specifically trained to kill without remorse.
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Not sure if you're insinuating that they would have to emulate arm to run iOS. There is absolutely no reason it couldn't run iOS on intel chips. The iOS simulator in Xcode is exactly that. Devs would have to re-compile their apps, but I assume the screen size would be different enough they would have to do that already.
In the context of software development, I think his idea that we should switch from open mode to closed mode when it's time to implement something is dead wrong. I today I gave a demo of something epic at work that I had developed exclusively on my own time. The way I managed to get myself to spend 30+ hours of my free time producing something for work was by remaining in open mode: i.e. I was playing.
My line of thought was from a single persona who articulates an honest reflection of their view at the time. It won't matter if the opinion is right or wrong if social mores change, even if i changed with them, it's a reflection of who I was at that moment. But who we are changes moment to moment, day to day and year to year. What I am trying to get at is people, perhaps my great grandchildren or people I never meet and interact with will come across something I have written and never updated, or forgotten about entirely and then gone on about my day. Those people will need a tool to place that into a larger context or they will misunderstand how I got to the place I ended up. And I just want to be clearly understood, now and a hundred years from now.

What if social mores have drastically changed since that time and I have changed too? What if I am dead and gone, how do I let them know that as I evolved as a person going through life, my beliefs and my opinions have changed.

The tool that would let me do that is a tool I would love to have. Social networks do not have good tools for this yet.
(Founder of Firebase here) - The answer here is an emphatic, unequivocal yes. What BaaS providers like us do is create generic apis to allow developers to do the common operations that already can do with their own server code. Everything that can be done with your own server code can be done with our server code. So if it's possible for you to write your own secure server, then it's possible for a BaaS to do the same.

The trick here is designing an API that is simple and easy to use that still works for a large set of use cases, and this is a very difficult task. Security is complicated, so making a generic, simple API tends to lead to APIs that apply to a reduced set of problems. Any particular BaaS system will likely not solve every security scenario available, but that doesn't mean ones can't be built that solve the vast majority of the scenarios that matter.

Firebase is working hard on building this API, and we're doing it with a lot of careful diligence and input from our users. We're nowhere near done with it, but we're confident that when we are, we'll have a simple, powerful security model that works well and is secure for most apps without needing any server code, and for those apps with more complicated needs, we make it easy to hook up your own servers too.|

Also, I'm very excited you got your app working in 5 minutes : )
okay. i have a comparatively small pet project i work on in my free time, it's close to 60k lines of c++ code. now, please, tell me, how your "ide" is going to help me organize things better?

> Smallest unit of code is the function.

for what particular reason?

> Able to get instant feedback on code changes.

i've got 200 threads of execution in my fcgi module, how do you intend to eval that?

> Multiple editors with just one function in it. Show code in an "area of concern" not just in a file.

kinda interesting, but won't work really. usually you have quite a bunch of code, 100-200 lines in a function which is a regular business. put 10 of those on the screen and you've got enormous unmanageable pile of crap.

> The coding environment can show also results, app windows, graphics, other tools.

any specifics? but yeah, i must admit you can put fancy widgets on window panes lol

> Can save the configuration of the above.
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I had to go check that you actually meant customers and not drivers. Wow. Now you can get a real estate agent and a job with your pizza.
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Growing and expanding your network is a good thing to do in general. Doesn't hurt to have as many friends as possible with multiple different skillsets. Growing from an idea to a business will require many different people along the way willing to help you out. So start asking around and see if anyone you know wants to setup a little weekend hacking session. Don't worry about the present too much there are always infinite possibilities in the future.
It helps you get the most out of the patdowns.
In computing

conservative==industry

liberal==academia

conservative==C

liberal== lisp

I hope Microsoft beats-up Linux because Microsoft is not commies.

I have no problem with C++. I didn't do all of the language in my compiler. Some of it is a wash, some of it very nice, some things foolish.

In industry, you might want to keep it simple, so you can hire a replacement easier. In rare circumstances, you want it easier to make a compiler.

I like to do global find-and-replace string operations across all my files. If a function is named FileRead() and not File::Read(), then I can do replaces or searches.

I am not passionate either way on this topic. I'm not fond of the STL, though.

I don't like the "const" type system. Too many namespaces isn't always better. Is it really always better to alphabetize soup cans in the cupboard when hashing them is okay?

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Now there's something I hesitate to believe Apple would do. I would much rather pay with my iPhone than use a credit card or cash, I don't need an extra incentive!
Surprised nobody has mentioned this yet: Apple is buying Valve. Creating a new "Apple Gaming" wing of the company. Valve + Steam + GameCenter + AppleTV + Steambox === AMAZING. Launches with HL3 exclusive.

Like MS did with Bungie and the Xbox, only classy and aluminum.

Saying this not because there is any evidence of this, but because I want this so bad. shutupandtakemymoney.png
No one there mentions symbol scrambling, and how it makes C++ libraries unportable across multiple compilers for the same platform.
Most bomb plots are mentally ill or disabled people enticed, set up, and ntrapped by the FBI.
The life cycle is definitely much shorter compared to average enterprise software, but it's never just been "ship and you are done". Even before the internet, patches and updates were distributed on game magazine cd's and support telephone numbers were listed in the back of the game manuals. Support and maintenance for your average game is a couple of years, typically.
Most bomb plots are mentally ill or disabled people enticed, set up, and entrapped by the FBI.
> C is small and simple and I can fit the whole language in my brain

Except when you see Duff's device for the first time and realize that C you thought you knew what's the actual C :)

http://catb.org/jargon/html/D/Duffs-device.html
If you are friends though shouldn't you be able to work through some really hard problems together and go through the ups and downs as a team? I find that friendship is an added bonus that helps you push through tough challenges that would otherwise make you want to quit. You can't let your friends down when the going gets tough...
It's not always clear what is a "right" and what is just a socially encouraged preference. Do people have a "right" to keep their employer oblivious of their sexual orientation? Would people care about making it a "right" if they lived in a society where nobody discriminated on the basis of sexual orientation? If society is screwed up in such a way that enough people need to use workarounds to do innocuous things, at some point it might make sense to say that people have a right to use those workarounds.

If there were a single identity provider that supported multiple personas, and if it only exposed a persona of your choice and not your underlying identity to websites that used it (so that only you could associate your various personas with one another), and if this identity provider were highly trustworthy (preferably using cryptographic tricks to tie the provider's own hands), maybe it will be OK to ask everyone to sign in using that identity provider.
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I meant that it seems that real terrorism plots are largely caught by offline counter-terrorist stuff, and never by the TSA.
What if you have a friend whom you've known for about 12 years, has stuck with you through some dicey times, you've worked with on a few things and trust and respect completely, is keen on the idea of a start-up and has a pretty good business sense and gets things done, But he's not passionate about technology. What would you advice?
This seems like a unnecessarily antagonistic comment. It's not like Eul & Guinsoo are gods & IceFrog's cretin. As I understand it, Guinsoo had some good ideas but couldn't balance them well enough to make the game fair & IceFrog's done a far better job of that.

It's not like Valve or Blizzard should own the DOTA trademark.
I know thisis a really late reply, but I wanted to say thank you for your reply and input. Really appreciate it!
For the record, if Apple buys Valve, I'll never buy another Valve game again. If they make HL3 a Mac exclusive, I'll publicly burn (nonessential parts of) my paperweight of a Mac Mini in protest.
So if Tim Cook visits Microsoft, we can assume Apple is buying Microsoft too?
Who exactly is this "airport" you would hold accountable? Who owns SFO?

Have you tried buying terrorism insurance recently? Guess who the primary provider of that insurance is.

Would your proposed model have prevented 9/11 somehow?
I'm sure CoffeeScript will adopt a much more elegant syntax for the feature :)
Some thoughts:

- If you pay $50/year for Google Apps, you can use your own domain name, so you can change your mail server without changing your email address, and you also get access to customer service from Google. I have Google Apps and the one time I contacted them, they got back to me right away.

- Just like it's a good idea to backup your local computer, it's a good idea to backup the data in your cloud services. There are numerous options. Backupify, CloudPull, and ThinkUp (thinkupapp.com) are some which come to mind.
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I think this is a pretty good approach. You don't learn till you get your hands dirty. I hope kids do well.
And when the teams merge into K groups and then stop trying? Netflix paid for performance, and got performance.
Heck take a look at Dwarf Fortress for that matter. The latest update alone (and now the upcoming minecart and hauling patch) are adding enough content, for most sequels. Never mind the new content arising from the interactions between all the modules.

But the game still looks like you are staring at the matrix

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The looks vs function seems to arise often as a video game related discussion. Its not though - it applies to many other systems - take the Bloomberg terminals that your average IB kiddie has to pore over.

There are so many different commands that people have to get used to - eqs, bnd, eco, nws, MA, etc. But after the learning curve, people do adapt.

In certain cases, it is possible to get away with a tough interface, which has its own internal consistencies. OF course you won't survive the mass market, but in niche markets with a user base advanced enough, you have decent amounts of wriggle room.
And bought multiple millions of dollars worth of engineering labor.
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If Braid had failed and Blow was getting interviewed at Gamasutra rather than The Atlantic, I'd still say he's an incredibly pretentious jerkoff. I'll admit that I wish I had the freedom to build whatever I'd like, but I can assure you that jealousy has nothing to do with his wealth. Actually, the part of the article that quotes him I most agree with is how meaningless the numbers just changing in your bank account seem. Wealth is so far removed from value that it's kind of scary.

Phil Fish is an asshole, but I haven't read enough of his thinking on art, design and life to say whether he's a jerkoff or not.

Let me give you an example of what I'm talking about: "He loathes watching sports, because they yield few tangible returns on the hours you invest in them."

Now, I mean, I'm not someone who particularly enjoys sports, but if the article is paraphrasing him accurately, then that's such a boorish way of dismissing a hobby, especially from someone who is in entertainment. Some people like watching sport because they see the performance of the athletes as an art, the culmination of thousands of hours of effort played out upon a grand stage. Others see it as the drama between competing forces, with players and coaches as the actors in an improvised play. Some people just enjoy analyzing the tactics and strategy employed and attempting to know what the outcome would be. And the really weird people (in my opinion) just wanna crunch the numbers.

Personally, I just don't care for the rules of many sports and would rather be doing something less passive. I mean, I'm not gonna tell him that he should like sports, but that's such a strange way for him, in his position, to say that he doesn't like them. I watch lots and lots of movies. How many of them do I get anything out of after the film is over besides in-jokes? Vanishingly few. How much of the music that I listen to really makes me feel something? A handful of songs.

What he so out of hand dismisses in general is the umwelt of experience, the notion of being in the moment. Fully engaged. Blow doesn't seem to be happy with the idea that people like to be immersed. He wants to make people rationally grind through games, to never be in the moment, to always have their mind on and trying to analyze. He characterizes everything else as evil or wrong or garbage.

And then he goes and practices Tai Chi.
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