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Aha! I must thank you for your original design. I have a question, though: did you intend for people to frequently click "select unstarred" (or similar) and [archive] at the top to cull the list? I used to use it that way to deal with the flood of mail coming in (prod lists, oncall pages, etc.) and it always just felt right. I've always wondered if that was intentional or just something I happened to land on.

When they pulled that out in 2010, that was the beginning of the end for me. "0.07% of people use select unstarred", apparently.
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Did you run any actual tests? I recently needed to crunch a big bunch of numbers and, instead of simply comparing specs, I actually benchmarked various EC2 and rackspace configurations to find actual calculations per $. The end result was that using Rackspace (4GB instance) would end up about 30% cheaper than EC2 for my particular work load.
Great article, two great points I got:

Once you're 90% done, you've still got the second 90% to do (so much for 80/20)

If someone is selling a porsche for 5000 dollars, you wonder what's wrong. With some of the proposed budgets for kickstarter projects, you've got to wonder what's being overlooked.
No. Thats not at all what I said.
What's your startup and where are you guys located?

Your HN profile is blank!
> being parked on and going to absolute waste

1st) Parking makes money (ads). 2nd) All sorts of assets are held without use for speculative reasons; land, art, patents, options e.g. to make movie based on book, metals, money, etc.

Land in particular is very close to domain names in being a limited, exclusive commodity which you can go and see is not being "used" and rail against the "unfairness" of it all.
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There is no comparison to be made here between mathematics and programming languages as far as continually changing skill sets go. Mathematical concepts have had no new paradigms in my entire lifetime. Mathematics progression moves slower than any science or technology that I am aware of. Higher level math fundamentals may be required for data analytic companies because the math needs to be understood and applied to their rules. Figuring out different ways to collect data is not math, it is innovation of technology or psychology perhaps, but the math that this innovation is paired with is not new or changing in any way.

What I am really saying is that data analytics is nothing more than the combination of math and programming. The programming part is evolving quickly, but not the math side.
I hate contextual timestamps. Just give me the data.

2011.04.20.23.16

And cut that down as possible (changeable with a toggle). In conversions, chop off the year and date, save instances where the conversion spans days.
The prices on his website are rediculous.

thesearchservice.com - 2 million!

You don't even get searchservice.com with this domain. Simarly .org and .net are not even registered meaning after buying this you could be facing competition from similar names.

I find squatters are the bane of the internet. My little brother had a small gaming message board where he and his friends would prepare for games. No seo value.. long domain name. Parents credit card expired and we didn't notice. Domain name expired briefly. Tried to register it again as soon as we noticed. Someone else pinched it. Offered to sell it back to us for $1000. It has been for sale for the past 2 years with no interest..

The squatter has got nothing from it. My kid brother lost his domain name.. I think the majority of squatters are scum tbh.
Why would you want to ship Meteor as a library? Even if you do ship it, if you don't link to it (which I don't even think you will reasonably can) you wouldn't violate GPL.
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It's not a library.

Most users of Meteor won't even ship any code at all, they will expose sites/APIs.

There's also a difference between interacting of output code and libraries.
I am inclined to trust a Penny Arcade editorial on video game-related subjects. "Observe & comment on video game culture/industry" is basically their entire business model.
It all good advise, exactly to the point what I use except for the theme - I use "Soft gray" - it's works better with preview pane lab and gets rid of the huge red button.
What is unstructured data and how is it different from structured data?
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This article is so unsubstantiated...

1. These are the regrets of the dying. Maybe that it's not the best state of mind to make decisions about your life.

2. The regrets are so generic that every one could see himself in these circumstances, like with oroscopes.

3. It's not explained what it means to be a cog. Am I a cog? Is it possible to never be a cog? How?

4. It is implyied that having a family, dreams and feelings as priorities is a good thing. Maybe it's not.

5. In general, it makes the same error it is trying to avoid, omission. If you are living your life and you are not happy, don't have a family or many friends, maybe it's because you are doing something more important than those.

6. You could be happy and, at the same time, not doing the right thing.
Whether to go for SQL or noSQL?
They would still need to make a lot of money, otherwise they'll end up like Sun.
Mike Mann also has the dubious distinction of being the first person ever banned from Quora for being abusive.
Domain camping is scummy because it rewards specialization in a skill that adds no discernable value whatsoever to society. It is the definition of leeching off of other people's work. That it's legal and "how business works" is irrelevant to whether it's worthwhile. In cases where they hop on accidentally expired domains (this is popular) are effectively legal forms of blackmail.
Depends what you are doing. I did quite a bit of work from indonesia, philippines and singapore. Singapore no problems , indonesia & philippines it depends on what you do. If your main data consumption is video then it can get annoying, specially if your looking at more shady sites to get your movies and even non shady ones can be slow, youtube is probably the best out of all of them (mind you this was about 3 years ago so things could have gotten much better now)

For example assume an above average connection, you still cant take watching videos for granted as you do in say AU or US. If you are heavy on the streaming whilst you work then it can be annoying, so there is some wait for a video to load, not long but at times the video is not loading faster then it plays so you get pauses.

However if youre just browsing or working from a terminal screen there really isnt to much issues, its fast enough.

What i found though is the 3G connection was terrible, mainly because the population is so large (specially) in indonesia that at busy times the service providers just can't keep up and the slowdown in 3g data can be felt.
"ping heroku.com" for example and tell us your ping time
When I die, I hope I won't regret not spending enough time with my family. This is a reminder for me.
I did't read the article. gray on black ? seriously ?
I moved my domain and imported all emails from Fastmail to Google Apps because of:

1) Deficient search, the more email you keep, the more you rely on search to find something from few days to few years ago. Incredibly painful with Fastmail.

2) Lack of calendar. It's just so more convenient to have your calendar integrated with email.

3) Lack of Exchange ActiveSync support (as in protocol). This protocol allows to sync email, calendar and contacts from the same account. All these things I want to be synced to my phone. Keeping contacts and calendar in Gmail (because it has ActiveSync support) and email in Fastmail was becoming more and more frustrating.
"FYI, unless you're willing to live like a bum Thailand isn't a cheap place to live."

This is only if you live in Bangkok or maybe Hua Hin. Most other places will have you live exceedingly well for 1000 USD pr. Month all included. Cars though are indeed extremely expensive, better to get a motor bike / scooter or a motor cycle.
That's probably an extreme case. Often, knowing someone who will vouch for you will get you straight to the stage of interviewing with a technical person. You still have to go through the motions for their process, but it's a pure formality.
20 mbit/sec in the provincial city in Ukraine, a bit more in the capital.
Also, around 20 mbit/sec in the Bratislava, Slovakia.
Internet connection not an issue in those countries.
Do you use an external keyboard? Which one? Do you carry it around with you?
Avoiding dark alleys is certainly normal advice in Japan as well. http://pds.exblog.jp/pds/1/201112/13/73/b0015373_19495370.jp...
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I must be using wrong because I have to do so more clicks with the new Analytics design to see things I want, it's frustrating.
I'm not seeing how. This stuff is free, and a torrent would make it easier for users and reduce server load for the site.
Oh, you can ask for money, but don't be surprised if you don't get it :-)
> What's the worst thing that could happen if you fibbed "Oh yeah 9i, I've used that too."

Getting a job with a company where clueless people make important decisions. Not everybody handles such situations well.
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It enforces the pool of potential collaborators.

I value my work, it is not free. Either pay for it or agree to contribute your improvements.
Similar experience here, domain still on sale, no interest.
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People who don't cycle much often think showers are necessary.

In reality once you get fit you don't sweat much (I get far sweatier on the tube than cycling), and if you're overheating you can always slow down slightly.

* Shower before leaving then you get rid of the dirt + bacteria that makes the sweat smell.

* Wear clean lycra - this wicks sweat away before it has a chance to start smelling.

In London my cycling commute of 1hr would take over 2hrs by car, and 1hr15min by train. Cycling is often the quickest way. You also combine exercise and commuting time which leads to a significant overall time saving. I don't feel the need to do a lot of other exercise after cycling 200 miles a week.
Whose vehicle wastes the fuel in the situation you described? That of the, usually one, individual who chose to incur much higher marginal costs by taking the car instead of the bus in the first place. Just like you cant't blame a cyclist for the fuel wasted by the people in cars waiting to overtake him on their 2km trip...
Is this guy really a former Google employee? Those posts sound like they were written by an elementary school kid.
The full statement is probably "I would pay X more for animal-friendlier meat if it was sitting next to the animal-unfriendly meat on the supermarket shelf". Not an indictment per se but it usually takes a lot of work on the producer and consumer side of the equation to effect real change in people's habits.
> Game development projects are nothing like that though.

Game dev was very much like that 30 years ago before budgets in the millions and teams of dozens. That's pretty much how Interplay was built.

And Indie studios still usually start out that way. Playdead (Limbo) was started by a dev/des and a developer.
Thanks for this. Having forced to use the new design for a few days, the old one feels and looks so much better.

My biggest annoyance in the new one apart from the horrible colors was how the buttons change position or disappear depending on the context. Much less intuitive than the old design.

Its a shame that Google decided to force the new design, I would just leave the old one as optional as it was during the past few months.
I've always been using the Candy theme, and I like much better the way it looks with the new design. It's quite girly though, which unfortunately might exclude most of HN readers.
But I agree that anything other than the compact display density option makes the experience much worse.
It's really the same sort of difference of perspective as between industrial engineering and residential construction. If you've every seen someone build an ordinary home you know how much it looks like silly bullshit sometimes. Everything is wood nailed into other wood, and there's a lot more seat of the pants planning than you think should be necessary, and there's a lot more shimming and toe-nailing and adapting and whatnot than a lot of people would be comfortable with. And then compare that to a world where everything is planned out meticulously in autocad and everything is built out of reinforced concrete and bolted together pre-manufactured giant hunks of steel.

They are very different worlds, much as "hard" systems programming and "soft" high level "web dev" are. And it's tempting to look from one to the other and imagine that it's only a passing fad, but it's not.

As far as CS degrees, my experience is the same. I've interviewed a fair number of dev. candidates in my career (in addition to working alongside coworkers of various educational levels), and a CS degree on a resume has never had any correlation in my experience with a higher quality developer skillset. And this is down to a basic almost fizzbuzzian level too. From a few colleges a CS degree may mean something, from most it seems to be pretty worthless.
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Thank you. I've been evolving my own thinking along these lines for the past few years. Very happy to find someone who's been working along similar lines.

I'm resonating especially with the Wikipeidia article's decription that "it was never possible to separate economics from politics." That's been a key observation of mine for quite a while. Along with the observation that libertarianism is the fundamental inability to accept that money is power.
Just in time for 4G to be everywhere in my area :/ Where were you 3 years ago? Now I would just be annoyed by this when I tried to zoom in on an image and got a pixellated mess.
Thanks for the clarification.

(Also, you just made CLs sound like yet another metric that can be gamed by the appropriately cynical employee. Ouch.)
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Programmers tend to argue in favor of procedural generation, artists and designers against it. But the truth is, it benefits everyone, and does not necessarily replace anyone. I hate to break it to anyone, but almost every single game uses procedurally generation, either at runtime or pre-compile time. Did you use a filter in photoshop to produce that texture? Procedural generation. Did you perform a lathe operation on that curve? Procedural generation. Anything that takes a simple user action and produces a new (potentially complex) result via code is procedural generation. The more you empower artists and designers, the more they can do. Even if a game is completely procedurally generated, you need someone to tweak all of the parameters (material colors, building styles, character attributes, etc).

That bit aside, I am still waiting for a game to do more on the AI/plot/puzzle side of things in terms of procedural generation. As I have mentioned a few times before, emergent gameplay is key. Still, there is not one game with strong mechanics that has successfully employed emergent gameplay (aside from very basic puzzle/board games).
Wouldn't it just be a return to the days when domains were free? Back in the mid-'90s, when people I knew registered vanity domains, they tended to come up with some ridiculous expansion of the name to make it look official. Nobody ever checked that "foo" really meant "fraternal otter organization" (or whatever), so those would become the top line in whois.
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why should it be worthwhile and why should it add value to society? if registering were free i'd see your point or if not everybody were allowed to register

how would you play football? for every goal a team scores you have to score an own-goal or let the others score because it would be unfair otherwise?
Yeah, and this "solution" does false advertising. For crap's sake, it's not a HTML solution if I need JavaScript, Apache and (ffs) PHP.
As a publicly traded company, their published estimates of gained users over the past year are probably extremely solid. I wouldn't worry about bias, they would be in heaps of trouble if they lied about these numbers.
Why would I want that in my mail application?

Those features also only promote you to stay logged in on your gmail account at all times, and there have been numerous security issues with that approach.

I can't for the life of me understand why anyone would chose gmail over any native application for mail. Every time I see someone use gmail I cringe at how primitive and slow the workflow is.
"...that's not how business works."

"It's how business works" isn't a justification. A business model being legal and profitable does not make it ethical.

My understanding is, the intention behind society's laws and social norms is for all legal and profitable business models to serve the common good in some small way. What good do squatters do the world, in any way, shape, or form, whatsoever? The effect they have on the world is for good projects to be harder for people to use, by taking up all the good domains. That makes this a bug in our society, that I, at least, would appreciate being addressed.

If you register 10 domains and your project doesn't happen, don't put it on Sedo, let the domain expire like your project did. If you put the domain up for sale, you're already committing to not use the domain to "someday" finish your project.
I think the beauty of kickstart is that you lose you money, but in most cases you lose very little. Professional VC and backers know not every project ends up where you want. Not everyone succeeds. This way you lose a little money if it doesn't instead of a professional VC taking thousands on a flawed ide see groupon or pets.com. I doubt you would ever lose your shirt over a failed kickstart investment matter a fact backing for more than some extra money you have laying around complete defeats the purpose.
I've had a company incorporated in Hong Kong (HK) while living in Thailand, and a company incorporated in the British virgin isles (BVI) while living in Russia. These were both very small software development shops around 5 employees.

The cost of incorporation in both HK and BVI is around 2 to 4 thousand USD, if you pay a company to sort out all the paperwork, bank accounts etc. You also have to pay every year (roughly the same amount though a little less), to maintain the company. This again if you pay an agent company to take care of all the paperwork, which I'd highly recommend.

As for internet, both in Thailand and Russia it was absolutely fine for most purposes. You do have the occasional outage, but it's seldom. We did however have a backup 3G mobile internet line we used in these cases.

Whether or not you have to worry about handle physical mail, depends entirely on your business. We didn't have any use for it, but we were doing software so your mileage may vary. In most cases I'd think you'd be fine with a physical mail address in the US (or whereever your customers are), that can forward any mail to you.

As for tax, I wouldn't really know US rules - I formally emigrated from my home country, thereby making me tax exempt (but also non eligible to receive any services). Whether or not you need to pay personal income tax in your new country of residence, depends on the individual tax laws of the country. If you live like most expats do (on some form of a tourist visa), you usually don't pay tax there either. But you really should consult a local lawyer for details on this, as you generally do not want to risk breaking any laws in a country like Thailand or Cambodia.

As for corporate tax, this is zero percent if your company is incorporated in either HK or BVI. Heck, in BVI you don't even have to file annual accounting papers!

If you are curious we used www.ocra.com to incorporate in BVI and www.willsonn.com for incorporation in HK. Both of those companies can get the job done, but neither of them are very good at customer service. If I had to do it again, I'd probably look for a different agent.

Apart from that, there is really not much to it. Again depending on your situation, almost everything can be handled on telephone, email or fax (!).

Main issues are as others have mentioned:

You are far from family and friends.

You may have to do lots of expensive business travel.

It can be really hard to scale the business, unless you are able to work within a distributed team.
> see people commenting like that $20k for a ruby project was more than a few week's wages.

I suppose if you're 20 years old with no responsibilities and you sit in a room coding 16 hours a day you could stretch $20k pretty far. If someone has the ability and desire to work for a formal $30k salary then I don't begrudge them declaring what they can do on the cheap.

On the other hand, I roll my eyes when someone who spent 500 hours building an app says it's profitable because they have enough paying users to pay the server costs.
It takes one or two clicks to change that. If you feel so strongly about it you might want to install some readability clone.

I used http://readable.tastefulwords.com/ for this article myself.
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Football is a competitive zero-sum game. Someone wins, someone loses.

The world isn't like that at all. Everyone having enough to eat is strictly better than some people starving and some people having twice as much to eat.
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A business opportunity being legal and profitable does not make it ethical.

My understanding is, the intention behind society's laws and social norms is for all legal and profitable businesses to serve the common good in some small way. What good do squatters do the world, in any way, shape, or form, whatsoever? The effect they have on the world is for good projects to be harder for people to use, by taking up all the good domains. That makes this a bug in our society, that I, at least, would appreciate being addressed.
Interestingly, Microsoft was actually one of the more prolific early-adopters of these techniques, back when PageRank was just a gleam in Larry's eye.

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As someone who went from professional enthusiasts (web-game industry) to indie about a year ago and crowd funded my first game[1], I think I can say a few words on the subject.

First of all, you correctly identified the biggest cost to making games: paying programmers. The solution to that is to be the programmer yourself (or have a programmer friend be your equal partner).

Past that tho, making 2d indie games is (or can be, if you're smart about it) very cheap - Cardinal Quest's entire art budget was around $3000 (music, graphics, etc). Since it also took about half a year of my time to make that's an almost negligibly small amount of money.

The game ended up making a bit over $30k from the desktop and flash versions (direct sales for the former, branding deals and ad revenue from the latter) and the android (done but not yet released) and ios (almost done) versions will hopefully make at least that much again.

It's less than a normal programmer's salary (I didn't get to keep all of it as there were some costs such as the aforementioned music & graphics) but it's enough to pay my living expenses and thus fund my next game.

[1] http://cardinalquest.com