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I made a game in my spare time. With your help, my game can beat Zynga.
Trailer: http://youtu.be/BbEJ3x4mI3M.

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/7djb7.png.

Yesterday was a crazy day. I released my first game, Polymer, to the iPhone app store. It did exceedingly well, especially for my first game on its first day.

Here are some current rankings:

* #4 in US strategy games
* #17 in US puzzle games
* #58 in overall US games
* #107 in overall US paid apps
* It's also quite highly ranked in many other countries: http://i.imgur.com/UEo0i.png

Anyway, here's a graph of the US rankings from yesterday: http://i.imgur.com/8GbCE.png. As you can see, it was rising throughout most of the day, but it sort of stagnated near the end.

I truly believe my situation is a perfect storm for little old me (one employee) to overtake Draw Something, which is owned by Zynga (3000 employees). Here's why:

* Polymer is currently featured by Apple in their New and Noteworthy games section

* It's on 50% off for launch ($0.99 instead of $1.99)

* It has a lot of 5 star reviews already on the app store

* I've gotten a lot of great reviews, including IGN: http://wireless.ign.com/articles/122/1223839p1.html), iMore: http://www.imore.com/2012/04/26/polymer-iphone-review-addicting-shapecreating-puzzle-game-iphone/, Touch Arcade: http://toucharcade.com/2012/04/25/polymer-review-a-puzzle-game-for-creative-types/, Gamezebo: http://www.gamezebo.com/games/polymer/review, AppAdvice:http://appadvice.com/appnn/2012/04/designed-by-accomplished-ios-game-music-composer-polymer-takes-shape-in-the-app-store, and 148 Apps: http://www.148apps.com/reviews/polymer-review/

* Twitter has been buzzing like crazy about it: https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/%23polymerapp (view 'all' tweets, not top)

* People are in love with creative games right now, which is why Draw Something is so popular; Polymer is all about creativity

Touch Arcade describes the game well:

"The game draws me in because it lets me be creative. It's freeing to play a puzzle game that lets the player decide when a piece is finished. It's great to have the choice to create something pretty, or huge, or sophisticated. Polymer cuts away all but the most necessary of rules, and the game is all the better for that."

If that sounds like something that could interest you, I'd greatly appreciate if you gave it a try. If I could take the #4 spot from Draw Something, it could literally change my life.

IMPORTANT: No in-app purchases are necessary in the game. ALL non-cosmetic gameplay elements are unlockable without paying anything extra.

* App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/polymer/id499490016?ls=1&mt=8

* Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/wtrebella

* Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/polymerapp

* Site: http://www.polymerapp.com

TLDR:

* Zynga, which owns Draw Something, has about 3000 employees

* I made a game, Polymer, all by myself, including the programming, music, and art

* I truly believe that Polymer can overtake Draw Something

* If you buy my game, I will love you forever

* Even if you don't buy my game, I will still love you forever just for reading this post and spreading the word
Firstly: no, it should not be the case that many of the .rb files are generated via rails. Or at least, it shouldn't be. Generators are a crutch.

Secondly: the sort of conventions you're talking about in Haskell modules also exist in Ruby. They just aren't enforced by the compiler, and because Rails is an application framework rather than a library, it has its own set of completely different conventions which make sense for application code. This is a double-edged sword. On the one hand you get a convention which makes more sense for the specific type of application Rails assumes you're building; on the other you are encouraged to write code which may end up difficult to extract out of the application you're writing, and may be less well-designed because of it.
"Estimated Shipment May, 2011" - I see what you mean by remarkable services and exceptional products...
There's an option in general settings to add text button labels.
It also must be much harder to actually watch reel-to-reels. You can just pop a DVD into any computer at any time without worrying about the additional logistics of space, trained projector operators, and time constraints.
I really like the importance system. My inbox is in 3 sections: Important, Starred, and Everything Else. I look a Everything Else once per day and can typically blow it all away without reading in a couple of clicks.

edit: As for knowing what you've acted on, I always archive an email when replying. There's a Labs feature called 'Send & Archive', which makes this easy.
For one, it cost a lot of money so it had a limited audience. Afaik, VisualStudio drew a lot of inspiration from it, which propagated outwards to the Java IDEs.
when i ordered, i shared my apprehension with the credit card phone, but they wanted only the last 4 numbers to be visible, i blacked out the other numbers with mspaint and sent it across.
When I hear this, my only response is simply WHY THE GENTLY CARESS IS THE POWER GRID ON THE INTERNET?
Call me a cynic, but I find it much easier to start with a blank slate. It may be slower to begin with and I may end up missing out a few edge cases, but I find that I end up painting myself into a corner with css frameworks as the project grows.
Something that I've written about a lot...yesterday I looked at it from the testing angle:

http://openmymind.net/2012/4/24/I-Rather-Have-Silly-Tests-Th...

It essentially comes down to less code. Some of that is simply less language clutter:

public virtual void Add(int a, int b)
{
}

vs

def add(a, b)
end

Some of it is just what's possible due to dynamic languages, whether that's because of the type system, or, more likely, meta programming.

The benefit of meta programming compounds itself through libraries too. So not only is my code able to leverage it, but I can use libaries that leverage it and end up with User.find_by_name("leto") (as a classic, but certainly not singular, example)
Yup - they updated the article.
Oh. You noticed? :)
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Twitter doesn't seem to like these compilation feeds. A few weeks ago, I compiled together the rss feeds for the websites, facebook event pages and twitter accounts of all the nightclubs in my city together into one twitter feed. They deleted my account almost as soon as I set it up.
Mike, thanks for continuing to be awesome.

I'm working on a hardware startup. So, what would really help me right now is your thoughts on this question I posted earlier - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3899105
You forgot Myth :)
Thank you! p.s: I'm the other guy who started this project.
If only it had WiFi, not just 3G, I would have bought one as soon as it came out...
BizSpark can be a big advantage, especially if you're bootstrapping. You get quite a bit of capacity for free in the first year.
Students Push for Tech Entrepreneur Lab at NYU
To me, it seems like they must have omitted the iPad share on purpose to come up with this huge share number that actually doesn't matter.

I'm sure that they have the numbers - but if they included iPad, we'd probably see that the Fire's share one the overall tablet market share is some unexciting low number like 1%. Capturing a massive share of the Android tablet market isn't that important when Apple might be selling like 50 or 100 iPads for every Android tablet sold.
Quite a few organizations hire on a contract basis for a period of time to ensure that it is going to work out for both parties. It's fairly standard practice to avoid committing to the unknown on both sides.
I like this idea a lot. Frameworks like Rails come with excellent log messages, granularity and a pub/sub mechanism. Often this can be a lower hanging fruit than throwing in a ton of custom instrumentation for some third party analytics tool, especially when you're pressed for time.

My question is how fluentd can be hooked into Rails so that Rails' native messages use it and how does it work in the Heroku infrastructure?
Yep, which was a big reason why I did it the way it was. I was paranoid that I'd make a slip up in the throttling code and send too many emails (I guess they actually check it over a 10 or 60 second window), and the rest of the batch wouldn't go through properly.
It's not US only. These work for me:
[selbstmord] on google.de
[suicidio] on google.es
[zelfmoord] on google.nl

Even longer queries like [como suicidarse sin sentir dolor] on google.es worked. I tried a bunch of things on google.fr and couldn't get it to work.
Scala Less Popular Than COBOL: Programming In The Real World
Vauxhall Zafira - The Ultimate Family Mobile?
More "run-up" to another middle east war? Given the population of Iran, it's hard to imagine that the US could invade, conquer and rebuild, even without Iraq and Afghanistan going on at the same time.

Also, who pays for this one?
You can turn it off. Under Inbox in Settings.
University of Florida drops plan to cut CS department
My sense is that the Fire is unusable for the technorati, but actually well-liked by mainstream users who don't know any better. I think this demonstrates different sensitivities in the two populations, in particular the mainstream is (apparently) very sensitive to price and not at all sensitive to performance, battery life, or general purpose computing (all of which are abysmal in the Fire).
"it feels as though the battle has been 'won' now. Everybody uses Linux and open source; it is accepted in industry alongside commercial software"

Linux is definitely a mainstream OS on the server side. It still has a long way to go to making a dent on the desktop, however. And it's made some powerful enemies (like Microsoft), which want to see it wiped out -- and may still do so, using things like "trusted computing" (DRM) and UEFI, not to mention possible patent or copyright threats ala SCO (though that particular threat seems to have been abated, for now).

The war is far from won, though some battles have been won. And it probably never will be won, even if free/open source software ever becomes dominant on the desktop -- because it could always lose that dominance. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

That said, Linux users groups aren't really about fighting this war. They're mainly just about getting people who are already interested in Linux together to talk about interesting aspects of the OS and interesting software, and to help each other.
Problems with Illustrator for App Design
How SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft will dock with the International Space Station
Why you say that messaging systems are not designed for queueing? You seem to imply that servers like RabbitMQ won't do the job.
Bring your supercomputer to the power
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C'mon now, anyone seriously into electronics --even as a hobby-- ought to own more than a cheap soldering iron, a flux pen, copper wick and a pair of tweezers. A toaster oven is, what, $30? Yes, you have to get a prototype stencil made. These are also cheap. Google it.

Here's someone who wrote about the proposed approach:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Toaster-Oven-Reflow-Solderin...
I'm seeing lots of comments talking about how they will bring all this platinum down and it won't be worth anything but not very many people talking about using platinum as a raw material for something worth far more than just platinum.

What if Planetary Resources creates a lab to have the world's best researchers across a variety of fields be able to invent with a nearly unlimited source of free platinum?

Could they make a product that is worth more than the raw platinum (or whatever else they pull down)?
Building with Twitter Bootstrap
My point is that you can't establish criteria that will predetermine your response to a given situation unless you subscribe to an extremely simplistic ideology. Politicians with these ideologies don't generally get elected for executive office - and it's NOT out of fear they won't faithfully and honestly apply their ideology, rather the opposite - so why would an algorithm?
True, but just this morning I was asking people which Android devices should I get for testing on (for web development), and this really helps answer the question. The overall share may be small, but of that share, Kindle Fire is the most common — and, it seems, getting more common all the time.

So: still a useful article.
Yeah, it's really the last point that I was making - that it was a point of pride to keep it small, even after there was all sorts of "stuff" that could be added to it. The fact that it was small to begin with was probably a combination of luck and intuition.
Maybe you could use most of the money to invest in kickstarter-type projects, who in turn use sinkorship with much higher costs for not shipping, creating a loop of funding
Beating a Skills Shortage
The ideal sprite system is one that is automated.

I wonder if the growth of SPDY undermines the entire foundation of using CSS sprites?
How CISPA would affect you
If you're wondering why Ron Paul didn't vote, he didn't have a chance because the vote was abruptly moved up a day in advance and rushed through while he was campaigning in Texas.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120426/14505718671/insani...
Looks good, but should "What to make changes" be "Want to make changes"?
> No, they would turn you down because you cannot present to them their risk guarantee criteria that enable their low prices.

What kind of risks are they putting up with without a photograph of my credit card?

Stolen cards? People deactivate their cards when the cards are lost. And if people don't, then the thief has an active credit card and can very well send the copy.

I won't make my payments? How does the photo of my credit card help? It makes sure I have a credit card - it doesn't make sure you can make transactions on my card(limit reached, card blocked, payment disputed) etc.
So if I want add a year to a date and time I just have to add the number of seconds in a year which sounds ludicrously easy I agree.
I want to know the exact date and time one year from February the 29th at 12:00 hours 2012. I want the answer to be consistent so what is the date and how many seconds do I add?
I would also like to know the exact date and time one year from February the 28th at 12:00 hours 2011. I want the answer to be consistent so what is the date and how many seconds do I add?
You're talking about public statements. Of course, any company ridicules competitors' strategies. Where are statments from Apple heaping praise on the Kinect?
Auto: veilige autostoeltjes voor kinderen
FWIW, Visual_Age_ (not to be confused with VS), the ancestor to Eclipse, was originally Smalltalk based before being rewritten in Java.
It doesn't matter what your age is. What matters is what you do and how you do it.

Not being able to drive needn't stop you. You might be able to get a ride from someone else (family, friends) or take public transport. Not to mention the possibility of learning to drive.

As for income, you don't need it to organize a user's group. And if you did need it, you could try to get a job to earn some. Participating in and organizing users' groups is a good way to make contacts which might lead to job opportunities, by the way.
ramen noodle, aqui-hire, ..., facebook
Forgot one: "Go for profitability, make poor decisions, bounce along the bottom for awhile, and then liquidate."

The most likely path.
I think he's alluding to the (in this case, unfortunate) difference between moral and legal rightness. Whenever there's a large difference between actions prescribed by these, there's a problem either with the law, because it has to mirror current communal understanding of morality.
The government will still run the city. The good ones have always stayed out of the implementation details, because they are no good at it. That's why we have a permanent bureaucracy of full-time unelected government employees, as well as civilian contractors.

Do Ford and GM run cities now, since they implement everything from police cruisers to garbage trucks? Do plumbers and engineers run the city because they implement the details of the sewer system and running water?
I'd argue that something has radically changed within Google.

Personally, I don't mind the new interface that much -- once it's in compact view and you change to a darker theme. They did make some significant improvements for folks who live in multiple Google Accounts, and I think the Google+ integration is pretty slick.

But, there is no way that incessant testing produced metrics leading to the default white-on-white theme and non-compact view configuration. Maybe they surveyed people with poorly chosen questions or did something else that caused the testing to fail. But they didn't do a meaningful usability test that involved using a mail app.

GMail originally moved email UI forward with the conversation view -- I think they saw this new look as a similar thing, and pushed it out.
The driving may be an issue depending on how far you are from a city centre, but I wouldn't let the fact that you're 17 get in the way. The biggest applause during the lightning talks at RailsConf was from a high school senior who came up and presented.
Here's a post by Joel Kaplan, VP of US Public Policy for Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-washington-dc/a-mess...
We had a few ideas on how to iterate from here. a kick-starter model is something we considered, but wanted to start with something really small for people to try out first.
Honestly, it's a pill I simply haven't swallowed. I'll admit I'm a ton less apprehensive now that they've been forced to split from Novel. The risk of them being shut down (and then what?) always bothered me..now we know, and it doesn't look so bad.

If I have compelling need for a static language (performance?), I'm not sure if I'd pick C#, Java/Scala. But I maintain that all three are less productive than Ruby/Python, so unless you are building Cassandra/Lucene/Redis/Nginx/... I won't be too compelled about performance arguments.
Making the future
Klout does rank as 'quite a nice person' http://klouchebag.com/#klout
> hackermom 3 hours ago

Best mom ever??
I am so jealous of him :<

I'm in the middle of the sticks at the moment, but hopefully to a town with a train link to London, which would be amazing if I could pay for trips to London for meetups :D
The word "should" is ambiguous. Here it doesn't mean some kind of moral duty, but just that you'll generally have better results.
Juicy couture purse
I'm sure it could. Alternatively it could also just be down to his personality.

There countered that negative seed in everyone's mind. Are you a tabloid newspaper headline writer?!
Why edit the less file? Isn't this order

1. Compile LESS/SASS

2. Sprite Generation

3. Minification

easier to do ?
But it's one thing to learn a UI for your whole OS. You learn it once, and you're done.

For websites, it shouldn't be necessary. I personally abhor the "hidden until hover" buttons that are becoming increasingly popular. I spent ten minutes trying to discover why GitHub had removed it's "edit issue" functionality until I realized that I had to hover over the issue text for the button to appear in the corner. It's horrible.
“We are grateful that the entertainment we produce can bring some enjoyment to them while they are away from home,” Mr. Gantman said.

I really hope the MPAA decides that they can let one slip. The real interesting thing is what the politicians will say. It's a catch 22 if I've ever seen one. (Can't be mad, he's helping the troops, can't be happy, he's doing something "illegal".) The answer is that something like this shouldn't be illegal, but who knows if that'll ever happen.
Oh no, the income is for paying for public transports to get me there

At the moment, I have a terrible, terrible portfolio/resume, so getting a job isn't on the horizon yet, but if I do I'll be learning to drive pretty sharp-ish

At this precise time in my life, one of the most important things in my life is getting code written for a portfolio
You know, I tried to hint at where your logic breaks down and be a little funny while at it, but you just don't get it. Let me be more direct.

1. It is most definitely not a small minority that would be excluded from high-paying jobs if these jobs are to go only to men, and only so they could use money to get women. You would have to exclude gay men, married men, men with girlfriends, and many more groups that when taken together, would comprise an overwhelming majority.

2. I really hope you take this next point the right way. If you genuinely believe that the formula of the sexual marketplace is money≈sex, you really need some introspection and perhaps a radically different environment - friends, reading material, TV shows, parents... whatever sources you are getting that information from. I am not trying to be glib. You are being misled, and you are the only person who will pay for it in the long term.
House Votes to Approve Disputed Hacking Bill
Well if you want to help, Sign up for the Dropdock beta at http://getdropdock.com and give us your feedback next week when we launch our private beta ;)

PS: Your awesome, Keep doing what you're doing. You are an inspiration
Not listed under maps, but a blog I highly recommend if you're from/familiar with Boston: http://bostonography.com/
Astronomers find new planet capable of supporting life
Maybe Gmail 's spam detection is too good. It's the octagonal "stop sign" icon.
Tinnitus Awareness Week
What a horrible analogy. You're offering no evidence that it's harmless. Any system trying to analyze price discovery on a security is going to look at the depth of book and try to use the imbalance to determine where in the spread the current optimal price lies. Stuffing quotes is going to make that information meaningless. Stuffing quotes when you have the ability to do so faster than other market participants is evil.

The problem could be solved if there was a latency buffer on quotes being placed and canceled on the market. If HF algos had to wait 100ms before cancelling a buy or sell then quote stuffing would disappear. Tell me why having to wait a tenth of a second before cancelling a quote is horrible.
FYI.. Posterous is blocked by my corporate internet. Thus, all the images on your site are blocked except your face at the bottom.

Based on your corporate access policies, access to this web site ( http://posterous.com/ ) has been blocked because the web category "Social Networking" is not allowed.

Notification codes:	(1, WEBCAT, BLOCK-WEBCAT...
Banks might be less likely to reverse a charge if you have a photo of the credit card and an ID of its holder. [citation needed]

My company provides a free online form service and I've banged my head regarding the abuse that hits the fans: Nigerian spammers using our service to do identity theft, disguised password collection forms, harvester accounts being automatically created on a daily basis and what not. I'd hate to imagine what Hetzner has to put up with.

Ultimately it's their choice to set their abuse verification threshold and their prices, and your choice to accept it or go elsewhere.
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From the post: "Speakin' in a different language changes the way you think—it's a well attested phenomenon."

A great answer for the perennial questions "why should I learn math or science." It changes the way you think -- only instead of learning about culture you learn about patterns and nature.

I got a physics degree before leaving the field. People who didn't take science ask if I still use it. How do I answer so they'll understand that I use it in every thought?
I just upgraded from 10.04 and it stopped my 32 bit processes from starting.

The ia32-libs package somehow uninstalled itself. When I tried to reinstall it, it installed 300 mb worth of random libs instead of the usual 30.
https://twitter.com/#!/yukihiro_matz/status/1957201505473126...

Matz: That's rails, ruby's official site is uglier than python's.