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That is a tremendously interesting (and cynical) essay, and I have learned a little more. Thank you for sharing it and helping open the minds of greenhorn idealists like myself.

"A sociopath-entrepreneur with an idea recruits just enough losers to kick off the cycle. As it grows it requires a clueless layer to turn it into a controlled reaction rather than a runaway explosion. Eventually, as value hits diminishing returns, both the sociopaths and losers make their exits, and the clueless start to dominate. Finally, the hollow brittle shell collapses on itself and anything of value is recycled by the sociopaths according to meta-firm logic." - a delicious description, even if not all that true
> Now, given that a lot of importance is given to readmes

README files are very, very old. As old as packaging software. To give you an idea of just how old they are, the file name is in all-capitals because when they were first used there were no lowercase letters in file names.

The file would be called README and it would be referred to as a 'README' in docs. We just kept it as all-uppercase with modern operating systems with lower-case characters because being uppercase kept them at the top of directory listings.

GitHub picked it up as the default description page because these files became standards in code packages, definitely didn't happen the other way around - with README becoming more popular with GitHub!
Well, yes. Indie shoots will factor camera [rent] costs normally as no more than 10% of the shooting day's budget, and as the production scales up, this diminishes faster. Nonetheless, having your own camera for the price of 5-10 days is a benefit you can't imagine. I seriously hate renting essentials, it makes any production a hassle.
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I've been using the BEM approach only for my CSS and JS. Don't need the automated tools to build my HTML markup.

But even for CSS and JS it's a blessing. So much more organized and easier to work with.
That, and there are a lot of the same files stored across accounts; DB stores it 'once' and delivers it to all the people with the same hash of that file.
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Anyone got any good Apple Assembly manuals? :-)
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Just add features incrementally, you don't have to go for broke straight away. I'd start with small ones that can give you an easy return (marketplace etc), then see how it goes.

You're lucky: at the moment the market for "social network for musicians" is wide open, thanks to the demise of MySpace and the fact that Facebook doesn't seem to mind that space.
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Of course, you need only go to the horse's mouth. [1]

It's been posted before but Jordan, the creator of both Karateka and Prince of Persia, has a wonderful series of journals documenting his travails with video games and the movie industry. [2] As part of this he has a detailed description of his trek out to California and a lot of details on technical obstacles that make you thankful to live in the second decade of the third millennium.

[1] http://jordanmechner.com/wp-content/uploads/1989/10/popsourc...

[2] http://jordanmechner.com/
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Yes I have it, but it sucks - it can't sync my whole Dropbox (too many files, takes hours, crashes, then restarts at the beginning) so now I have to set up several sync pairs. Plus I have to run it manually, because doing a full scan every few hours is a serious slowdown/battery drain.
Sign me up as well. I look forward to small-scale deployments of more 'genuine' AI in games.
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? It doesn't sync the whole dropbox, just one file at the time. That's not 'dropbox' as I know it and as it's useful, its a crutch, just barely better than ftp. I'm not sure what you mean by 'wondering what I'm missing' because Dropbox on Android is nothing like Dropbox on the desktop, the differences are obvious.
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The thing to remember is that no matter how good the output format (and this one is quite good), the biggest problem with these cameras is still the CMOS/CCD. RED cameras have a notoriously noisy output, and I've been cursing a Canon 5D for weeks now because I couldn't get a decent grade without taking care of banding. The other thing is the dynamic range (again, sensor only), which is still a setback for most cameras. DSLRs have pushed the boundary there, but it still feels experimental working with them.

This doesn't mean this isn't impressive, but cameras are something I'd like to put under a microscope (er, vectorscope?), before putting any of my precious creations at stake.
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I'd be okay with even more strict infringement penalties only if there were large fines and sanctions for misusing the DMCA process. Currently, the only way to get in trouble is for issuing takedowns in bad faith, which is almost impossible to prove in court.

See for instance how easy it is for a random idiot to get a YouTube video pulled.

It doesn't need to be "Oops, we fucked up, oh well, we're cool right?"

It needs to be "Oops, we fucked up, now we are out $1M or so, p.s., guy who drafts the notices, you're fired"
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I would say Zend Framework not the easiest to learn but very well structured and reliable.
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I think the article is accurate, and the recommended distribution is currently Debian-based. Here’s the official Raspberry Pi downloads page: http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads

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The 5D Mark III looks like it has really upped the ante in terms of light sensitivity: http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/22/canon-eos-5d-mark-iii-rev...

I'm really curious how/whether that will translate into video production.
You can always read the source "INSIDE" your company.

Many commercial products also have source code available as part of certain deals.

As much as I like open source, there are also other business models where reading the source is possible.
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Someone should write up a tour guide to the deep dark web.

I doubly wish I was indexing silkroad's prices, so we could see the price impact this event has.
>Since they don't agree with your methods, you've decided that libertarians believe that the poor get what they deserve and have no interest in helping them.

Most folks I've debated who claimed to be libertarians have pretty much stated just that, and handwaved away the problem of those in need as 'supportable by private charity' (as you have suggested in A). Like I said, libertarianism provides no mechanism for levelling the playing field - those born into poverty are frequently not even aware that they can better themselves, let alone how. Libertarianism does not address this issue, instead promoting a system that sounds nice on paper, but significantly benefits those born into privilege.

The slogans of libertarianism are nice and catchy, but the devil is in the detail. If you're not skilled, white, male, and healthy, there's a good chance of falling through the cracks.

>If libertarians really believed that the poor get what they deserve, why would they donate to charity?

The one and only libertarian I've debated that did mention that they personally gave to charity did so as a boast ("I supplied two trucks full of stuff to Katrina victims", within the context of 'this is more than you gave'). No other libertarian I've talked to has mentioned giving themselves, it's always a shout-out to faceless 'private charity'. I'm not saying that libertarians don't give, but they don't seem to be great at giving positive examples of libertarian charity.

>I can't find any statistics to back this up.

Can you find any statistics to refute it? If not, you're only making half an argument. I can't find any references saying that astronauts didn't land on the sun, does that mean they did?

>You have enough sample data to associate the word "mankind" with libertarians? Or are you more likely to take notice of the word's use when engaging with libertarians?

I was raised by a feminist and have been noticing the word 'mankind' stick out like a sore thumb for over 20 years. I've only known about libertarianism as a philosophy for about 10, so it's fair to say that no, I don't just notice it more with libertarians. Libertarian dialogue is frequently sexist ('mankind' and 'rights of man' are common) and commonly makes no acknowledgement of issues that affect women (like what happens to mothers, who bear the vast brunt of the parenting load and have less opportunity to skill up).

The thing is, libertarianism promotes itself as being fair and egalitarian - if it were really about this, libertarians would self-police their own dialogue about this overtly sexist crap. They don't, and when called on it, they get defensive (as you have) and explain it away, rather than say 'my bad' and admit that they weren't being egalitarian. I personally find that this is just more support to the idea that libertarianism is really - perhaps subconsciously - about preserving existing privilege.

I don't know if you're a libertarian or not, but you are making some of the logical errors that libertarians do.
In case there are any people understanding German and are looking for a podcast: Me and a few friends run "binärgewitter":

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It's probably one of the technically more in-depth podcasts out there. It's a weekly mix of news and topics and usually covers the top x hacker news items seeing as we're all avid HN readers. It also sounds a bit unorganized and might not be politically correct from time to time, just a fair warning :)
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Yeah ... It's expensive. I paid less, but on the other hand (which is a rather painful hand, at this point) I also haven't actually received it yet, due to various manufacturing problems that are now being straightened out by shifting factories.

And also, of course the OpenPandora is more of a consumer electronics product in a case, with custom controls optimized for gaming, it's not a bare circuit board.
Also, Dropbox is getting progressively worse over time, rather than better. The v2 of the Android client was even worse than v1 (although to be honest I don't remember in detail what it was that changed, just that it was a real nuisance when it changed, I don't use the 'official' client on Android any more). To be fair though, I just checked the Dropbox blog, and it seems that they did add file renames to v2. So, I guess that's one thing that got better. rollseyes

The recent 'update' to the web UI is worse than what they had before - less information, navigation and discoverability have gotten worse, so much potential yet so little progress being made.

I'm saying all this as a Dropbox for Teams subscriber, I'm paying these guys 800 USD / year, so I'm not a freeloading whiner.
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It's not like there was a choice -- at that time, you had to do a lot in a small space, with very little in the way of computational power. If you wanted to write a game, you had to do so in assembly. Mind you, games were much simpler then.

And sure, x86 might be easier to understand, but it's not the original PoP. That's what this is about, not just the code.
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I would be wary about running unit tests on my production box. More specifically unit tests that muck with the database.

Certainly! There's a lot of code that doesn't work with persistent storage, though, or can easily have its side-effects limited to some safe space like files in /tmp.

You can just run "python setup.py test"

Is that a thing that the standard distutils package supports, or is it an extension from setuputils/distribute?
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Yeah you might be getting burned by these, but even if you are very careful to avoid them, estimating software development in particular is pretty much impossible for anything beyond trivial. The fractal complexity of software means there are often unknown unknowns waiting inside various libraries and architectures that you plan to use. I realize other domains have similar problems (large construction projects come to mind), but to paraphrase Dijkstra, no human endeavour spans a greater scale in orders of magnitude than programming, and it's all just a heap of text with minimal transcription cost!

Given the nature of software, I think that the only sane process is an agile one, where the estimate and scope is under continual refinement as the project develops and becomes better understood. Sometimes business requirements dictate otherwise, but that will always lead to a suboptimal solution.

I think that may be the key reason why I prefer startups to other forms of programming work: in a startup you can not afford to do anything for ceremony or to CYA, the focus on optimizing the product must be relentless.
The Immediate window is cool, but you can write whole applications in LINQPad scripts if you want which I don't think you can do in the Immediate window (i.e. can you define classes in the Immediate window?). I find I often use LINQPad to mockup and run a bit of code that I would have traditionally made a full command line project for.
Depends. The CPU is "just" a 6502, so there's plenty:

* http://www.6502.org/

* Most of the machine code books here: http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/books-generic.htm

As for Apple-II specific details (graphics chipset etc.) someone else will need to chip in - never even saw an Apple-II during my childhood, Norway like much of Europe was Commodore dominated.
Maybe that cheat was only in the PC version?

I wonder how the PC version (which I've played and fondly remember) and Apple 2 version differ.
The hard part is finding the "well-written source code". Sure there are plenty that have been battle-tested for years, which we can refer to, but every day we come across tens to hundreds of github links. Some are legible. Some are clever but maybe interesting. Some are in need of serious refactoring. Some are first-attempts. Some are "drunken rants" (usually < 10 checkins, with every file marked as 6+ months ago). And once in a great while, some are worth some serious attention.

I "grew up" in PHP, and while the majority of the open source code I've read has been difficult to parse, at best, I've read some amazing code. Most from intelligent peers for whom I still hold a deep respect.

It's what has kept me inspired. It's what brought me to eventually appreciate Javascript (server and browser), Actionscript (3), Java, Python, C, Ruby, a few others, most recently including Clojure. And when it comes to amazing code (regardless of language), I will gladly sit and read with more intrigue than the best fiction has to offer.

It's the massive amount of mediocre or less that defines the divide making source code painful. I skim a lot. I look for whitespace, the occasional well-written comment block, proper variable / method naming, things to hint that this was written to be read by another human who likes to read, and from there I dig in deeper with the hopes that I have something worth reading.

That is to say, I LOVE to read code, but it can be difficult to find the code worthy of the smoking jacket and voting-age scotch.
x86 might be easier to understand for someone who happens to know x86, but frankly for someone who doesn't have previous exposure to assembly, I'd be willing to bet it'd be far quicker to pick up the 6502...
I work for a medium-sized digital agency and we use Zend Framework. I'd kind-of recommend it. Zend aren't going anywhere and their framework is a big part of their offering, tying in to all their products, so they have plans for it.

There are issues however with performance, I've found. A brand new project loads in ~40ms, and that's before you've done any work at all. Add in some forms with Zend_Form and other bits of functionality and you can start to see page load jump over 500ms (though admittedly this is in part due to poor base code written by the company). Zend Framework 2 however is no better - performance is far far worse than Zend Framework 1.* currently. I have also seen some very bad reviews of ZF2, comparing it to Java applications in verbosity and complexity.

I can't recommend any other framework as I don't code in PHP at home, I use Django for personal projects, however I can say that I've heard very good things about Kohana.
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Not sure I understand the reasons for pointing the obvious, especially using such ambiguous line of reasoning.

I disagree with:

“Oh, that’s not my job,” is the sound of doom. Maybe not imminent doom, but doom indeed.

because I have seen multinational companies [revenue $25B, $43B], where culture and many employee's attitude was “Oh, that’s not my job,”. These companies Net Income is billions of USD. Not sure I see how they are doomed. I would be glad to be doomed with $1B of annual income [after taxes].

I think it is important be realistic and understand that instilling such [make shit work] attitude is only possible in a small start-up or bootstrapped company, and only when most of the senior people posses such attitude.

As for the bigCo:

- It is statistically not possible to have A players with can do/will do attitude, when the company size grows above certain threshold. So eventually you pick-up some B/C/D people, who would start playing games.

- I have tried several times to put together a small team of doers within bigCo - it never works in the end because overall culture overpowers and draines you.

- My advice for a doer would be simple - either [1] calm down to avoid burnout [inevitable when everybody is dumping on you] or [2] run and find a place where your attitude and strengths will be appreciated, or even better, find a place and run....
Sorry but that's from the Declaration of Independence. By the way, those clichés were not clichés when they were written -- that's why they were so revolutionary at the time. England certainly didn't recognize individual rights at the time. Dismissing the Constitution and the Declaration as a few clichés is to reveal an ignorance of the historical context of those documents.

Additionally, The British had slavery until 1833 -- slavery wasn't an American invention. Disparaging the paradox of slave owners writing all men were created equal is also revealing as to a lack of understanding of history and the context in which those documents were created as well as the political realities at the time.

Stick to code, your historical snark makes you look foolish.
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I just figured out that we got an e-mail, but to a different e-mail account. I have one e-mail address in my HN profile, and I gave a different e-mail in the application.

However, the rejection e-mail was sent to e-mail from HN profile. So, make sure you check that one. It looks like the e-mail address in your application is not used.
Really depends on what you mean by x86. If you're talking 16-bit real mode code, it's pretty straightforward -- C in assembly form, largely. If you're talking pmode code, modern asm, I tend to agree. I hope this rekindles an interest in 6502 asm, though!
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I think he means that there are rarely crash bugs that need fixing, therefore, little time is spent fixing them
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There is a common OO pattern called a Repository (you might know it as a DAO).
The ones I have come across have generally stated that they will engage in private charity if the government stops taxing them. It holds all the value of an election promise. But if you're not on the poverty line and you're not already giving to charity, you won't magically become charitable with the application of more money. It's just not how people work.

And certainly, if you're not giving to charity now out of some sense of 'cave deservedness' like clarky07 above, then nothing will make you give continuously to people in lifelong need of financial support.
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I'm just wondering about selection bias, maybe some people read both HN and TM, and didn't re-visit because they had already read about it on HN. Have you got any recent examples where the story first appeared on TM and then on HN?﻿
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Is it really 'disruption' when someone just starts selling a new product at a lower price than higher overall spec competitors?

No negative feeling towards the product, I just have an intense dislike of the current use of the word 'disruption'.
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This made me laugh. The words "Apple II" and "graphics chipset" don't belong in the same sentence! The Apple II graphics were a fantastic, and fantastically weird, low-hardware hack.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_graphics#Video_output_...
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Take the 'psychology' out and insert 'software development'. We're actually really quite good at estimating things in a psychological sense, it just stands out when we mis-estimate.
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i would say, don't let what you envisioned the product to be hamper its' evolution.
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Microphones aren't that expensive though - maybe a couple hundred for a semi-decent one and a reasonable sound card? Lots of people would spend that on a guitar.

The latency might be an issue live, but there's no reason that the musicians couldn't (eg.) Lay down drum tracks, bass tracks, etc. and mix them up afterwards.