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They have value, of course. But I do think that on the upper end they might be forced to lower their percentage in time. If for no other reason than someone else will come along and compete at a lower rate.

Their execution isn't that hard to compete with, it can be commoditized with enough resources, and for someone with actual fame I don't think they increase the amount raised by much.

If not Whedon, think Lady Gaga or JK Rowling. What would Kickstarter offer them that some private white label processing service couldn't copy?
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My favorite part about games is the ability to explore. I love the feeling of discovery. For reasons I have difficulty explaining, this feeling of discovery is dependent upon my assumption of intent in everything I see. If I believe everything I see is arbitrary, then I get no satisfaction out of discovery.

It's a fine line, because also important for the feeling of discovery is the illusion of being in a real place. So I want a place that is designed, but not constricting. Skyrim is great about this. When I discover something in Skyrim, I know that a human being decided to put it there - which means that if I think this thing is connected to some other thing in the world, then, yes, it probably is. Skyrim has little touches like this, where even minor caves and huts have a story behind them.

Perhaps another way of looking at it is that I'm discovering someone else's story, but I have agency the entire time. If everything I see is randomly generated, then there's no story to discover.
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Schliefer is only summing up the current state of economic theory, not speculating on his own. Economists have gone looking for some evidence of economic equilibrium and haven't found any in real economies. It seems to me that the pseudo-intellectual is the one who believes in the economic equivalent of luminiferous ether.
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They do not allow the AdWords spending to directly influence search results. There's likely some higher-order effects which could influence the results, though.
I had previously registered for the email notification, and I received the notification at 9:28 PDT this morning. It's inspiring to see how fast you took this from idea to implementation. Well done.
The vibe that OpenLeaks gave off was that it was founded by Daniel Domscheit-Berg, the guy that was rumored to have betrayed (in some way) Julian Assange of Wikileaks. Say what you want about Assange (like him being the Jason Russel or Michael Arrington of whistle-blowing) but with Julian it felt like you were protected and anonymized at all cost. Whereas with Daniel it feels like the moment he's threatened with jail time he'll sell you out.

Also,

"[OpenLeaks] will allow leakers to anonymously submit information to a secure online dropbox. But unlike [Wikileaks], it won’t publish that information itself. Instead, it will allow the source to designate any media or non-governmental organizations he or she chooses and have that information passed on for fact-checking, redaction and publication."

Sorry Daniel, but it doesn't work that way. In the world of whistle-blowing, it's all or nothing. You either publish the leak or you don't. Not go through 3 extra steps and a whole lot of "if/then"s and still not be guaranteed that your leak will be published. A broken model in my opinion.
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Minecraft is Turing-complete too. You just have to build your own CPU and there's no way you're going to get 100 kHz out of it. Heck, so is Dwarf Fortress. People have built CPUs in both.

Personally, I say the difference is that Notch makes meta-games. That is, he makes game worlds in which people create their own games.
I don't think it's a technical issue -- I'm pretty sure I've seen a country that hosted something at the tld itself, but I can't find it now.
I have a fundamental problem with the phrase

"Most of us leave Wi-Fi on by default, in part because our phones chastise us when we don't."

I enjoy having more than 8 or 9 hours of battery life, WiFi is carefully turned on and off. Heck my phone came with a giant WiFi toggle switch on the home screen.
I'm extrapolating on all industry actually, but I have a friend in a small (<100) company in ex-USSR that does exclusively patent reverse engineering for Freescale/Motorola. This one company (there are at least several others working for F/M in Czech and few other countries) does at least hundred patent researches per year for 10+ years at least, meaning buying devices by Apple, Samsung, TI, Microsoft etc. demolishing to bare crystal and then photographing layer by layer microscheme structure, restoring it on PC to reverse integral scheme and find patent infringing (and maybe a little more, some interesting tech things that wasn't known publicly, i.e. TI does very innovative tricks that are interesting for F/M).
So returning to your question,no, I don't have sources, only second hand experience which I find very believable.
I like how powerful the d3 framework is, great use for it! I think the popup when you mouse over the ranges on the graph is distracting, might be better to have a fixed area that gets updated instead of the floating popup.
Suffice it to say that Israel's Arab neighbors, and the rest of the world in general, have been trying to wipe out the Jews for much, much longer than the occupation of the Palestinian territories. Whatever wrong the Israeli government or Israeli settlers have done since that point, while worthy of criticism, shouldn't be used to excuse or justify a preexisting anti-Semitic agenda.
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These tools are awesome for generating

a) A first draft of a map. Just build _something_ so you can playtest. Shape it up as time goes by

b) Fleshing out all the areas the player is less likely to see. I'd say about 80%-90% of map space don't directly influence gameplay and are just there to give you a feeling of a complete world.

When I was futzing with that stuff, I used to call it "Computer-assisted content generation" instead of "automatic content generation" or similar. Bonus points: Communicates to the designers/map builders that you do the work to help them, not to get rid of them ;)

(Edit: fixed typo. Or grammaro, really ;)
Wtf is an "idea person", really? If having ideas is someone's defining quality, they're useless in a business anyway. Everyone has ideas, execution matters.
"a bit exaggerated" or "wild distortion of facts" ?
Despite this not being in iTunes yet, you can still subscribe by going to "Advanced" -> "Subscribe to Podcast" and pasting the RSS feed: http://www.hnpod.com/episodes.rss
frankly i think the recursion is both deliberate and good--if it's written properly (i haven't reasoned through the fine points completely), it partitions the world into two groups: those who've never started a patent fight (against anyone), and those who have. members of the first group can't sue each other without being reclassified into the second group, at which point everyone left in the first group can sue them without being reclassified.
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First off, not all ore is created equal. Meteors have an incredibly high concentration of the better metals, so this might not be a terrible idea.

On the other hand, you're right: it's worth more money in space.
It's funny because it's hard to understand the value of experience until you have some.
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Any chance of a write-up on how you managed to get this together so fast? Id especially like to know the software used and how you managed to get organise the guest speakers as the time zone difference must have been a challenge. 3 days for this an impressive feat and I will definitely be a regular listener.
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Name.com offers this service free of charge. I use it on my domains.
Skeumorphism design may help me to adapt to the piece of software the first couple of seconds. However, after that it distracts me the rest of the time I am using the software.
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Try this: http://nuget.org/packages/Neo4jClient
Heard a beautiful quote related to that on NPR. They had a guitarist who was heavily inspired by Django Reinhard, but does his own thing now.

The way he put it: "At some point, I realized that I could either imitate Django and live in his shadow, or learn from him and live in his light". (Paraphrased)
Yes, none are show stoppers. Lua suits perfectly for for the use it was designed: small embeddable scripting. I hope no one is writing millions of lines of lua code! For me even small amount just does not "feel right" the way for example ruby does. That's why I've been eagerly waiting for mruby but unfortunately it does not (yet) fill the void.
Y scale in Log?

I understand wanting to fit it in the screen space. Is Log not generally reserved for large differences in magnitude and for power laws?

(I don't have an intuitive understanding of logs, so this is a genuine question).
"if in" is not the preferred way to check for the presence of a key in a dict. You should use setdefault. The thing is, you aren't searching for a key in a dict only. You're memoizing. And try/except is the most efficient way to do that. This article isn't teaching you how to program, it's teaching decorators.
http://hg.readify.net/neo4jclient/wiki/Home and https://github.com/SepiaGroup/Neo4jRestNet are both .NET Bindings for Neo4j
Please don't downvote Taphangum for asking a question. If it were chit-chat or a non-contribution style opinion downvote away, but not when it's a quest for knowledge and bettering oneself.
Technically, you don't usually do wifi "triangulation". With triangulation, you measure direction - not something most wifi sensors and antennas are capable of. You'll use trilateration, which involves distance (you have a signal strength measurement) and turning that into circles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilateration
Ahh! :( I had new-lines and spacing set out but it doesn't show up above... trying to fix now.

EDIT: Updated the quad spacing to --, seems OK, complain if otherwise.
A fantastic write-up, thank you.

> For the coastline, I wanted to make island/continent maps that are surrounded by ocean, so that I don’t have to deal with people walking to the edge of the map. For the mountains, I started with something simple: mountains are whatever’s farthest from the coastline.

You mention in "Impassible borders" that there are no cliffs yet. I'd be interested to see how that gets implemented.

I'd also love to see someone code a Roguelike for this - one polygon per move, maybe?
yes, they offer this ONLY if you have "a Reseller, VPS or Dedicated server" service with them. In other words, if you just use them for domain names, then chances are you don't get this.

Name.com offers this service for free to domain registrations: http://www.name.com/faq/create-my-own-name-servers

EDIT: I stand corrected, please see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3869727
I've had the iTunes link approved. It's now on the site, but for anyone who missed it:

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/hnpod/id521083409#
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There are a few places doing #5 as well. http://wealthlift.com for example.
It's not a "gimmick", it's called marketing plain and simple.

It's why we have brands and markets. So we can associate them with _something_ and move on from terms such as 486DX 33Mhz.

People want to buy an "iPads", not the Apple K48 tablet (the internal name for the first iPad.

... And when I bought a laptop in 2005, yes, I did buy a "Centrino" one because I knew the Intel Wifi chipset combination was compatible with Linux.

... And Intel put out some other requirements and called them "Ultrabooks".
Please do it for Silicon Valley (South Bay)...
Absolutely, I'll write something up this weekend.
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Experience is not a track record.

If there's one skill thats invaluable in any industry, it's a track record; of problem solving experience. An education simply won't give this unless you're possibly in some extended research role.

If you are lucky enough to get an education, it's another foundation to work from, but it will not make up for experience resulting in a track record.

Assuming this post refers to the track record of positively learning from our experience; we see the world does kind of run this way. Can't always fake it till you make it forever.

Having a bit of both:

Experience and track record of results will always beat education. Why? Education and theoretical stuff isn't in the real world often enough.

Experience, resulting in track record of successfully overcoming challenges is very, very valuable.
Awesome! I was browsing Downcast to see if this was up yet but no luck, but now subscribed manually.
I know it's brought up again and again, because it really is the perfect counter example to this, but have you tried Dwarf Fortress? If you get past the ASCII art there's a tremendous opportunity for discovering really rich stories that just kind of bubble up out of the chaos of DF's various simulations going to work.

I think part of the reason it has been so successful (in its own way) is that people share these stories and retell them to other players, which results in something closer to collaboration between player, game engine, and game creator. It boils down to taste, but I find it much more interesting and awesome.

It's definitely different from the kind of purposeful designed stories that are hidden in Skyrim, but I think it's a promising place for game devs to explore, especially if a large team of writers and designers isn't in their budget.
And yet, over time, a "range" develops. I've got 20+ years in low-level, C++, systems, desktop client work. Yes, I work on other areas. But if I want to really shine (or make nice amounts of money), this is my "range".

The same goes for music. Your range is not cast in stone, but it takes a lot of hard work to push it. This is not what you do on stage, or even in most of your practice. That's what you deliberately work on, without using it on stage for a long time.
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"...so long as whatever you say is true when you come to the interview, you’re OK. Do note, however, that if you list it, it’s fair game for questions..."

This is really all that needs to be said. I just had an interview with a kid right out of college who listed SQL on his resume. Since I've stepped into the role of DB guy where I work, I was asked to gauge that. In the space of about 10 minutes, he went from "Yes, I know SQL" to "Well, my experience was on MySQL and not Postgres" to "It's been about three years since I wrote any SQL so I'm rusty" to "Three years ago I watched someone else write SQL as part of a group project." My feedback was... less than positive.

Don't put something on your resume if you can't claim any knowledge of it!
Truth be told, I use YouTube to listen more than I do to watch.
It took 3 days to blatant advertising. Good call, I laughed heartily. I copied it to pastebin. Just a warning, it is about feminine hygiene. http://pastebin.com/A99zWncj
That's not exactly correct. You still have to trust that the third-party code is extremely performant.
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In fact, something very similar to what you describe is what's being implemented right now: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80322

I'd like to propose a new function for the Images module. This function will allow developers to provide, in a compact manner, multiple variants of the same image at differing resolutions. Using @media pushes the two asset references apart from one another, whereas such a function keeps related asset references together. It also helps keep selectors DRY. We've called it image-set(), and it takes one or more image specifiers.
Somehow I don't think Linus was thinking about Light Table when he wrote that...
It's already beautiful. My God. It's glorious.
So, let's see your Social Security or other government-issued ID number, your credit card numbers, and your mother's maiden name.
Kudos on getting decent audio. Are you using a Rode Podcaster? I'd love to try one.

I've had to unsubscribe to countless podcasts with decent content just because they didn't invest the £100-200 on a decent microphone & pop filter.

As you can probably tell yourself, it's harder when the guests don't have decent mics, but a good first effort.
Get a Windows Phone - it will ask every time it does everything if you want. It's "opt out" by default which is more than I can say for Android or iPhone.
I was actually looking at doing something like this about a year ago, before I figured it was virtually impossible at the time. The idea did come out to me after seeing kickstarter a couple of times. I even remember that one of the names I was playing with was Bootstrap.it or something similar. My logic went along the same lines as your edit. People would not only be able to donate monetary funds, but then each company would have access to a network of different individuals, some of whom would be willing to help out with advice, or maybe if one was a lawyer, he'd help them get incorporated, that kind of stuff.

Essentially it's because of SEC. First of all you have (had) the 500 limit for investors, so any fundraiser where only, let's say 400 people, could give money would be rather shitty.

Then the other part was that if you wanted to invest in early stage startups, you have to be an accredited investor. That is you have to either make 200K a year for the last two years (or 300K together with a spouse) or have $1 million in the bank. So again, not too many people fill those requirements.

In terms of companies that were still attempting this, http://www.profounder.com/ is one of the bigger ones. They (sort of) made it work through some loopholes as far as I knew.
Apple, as always, was not available for comment...
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Same here. I often take advantage of the playlist feature and listen to songs, at least those not monetized upon yet.
I would like to see that as well. Your idea came to life very quickly and I thoroughly enjoyed the first show.
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The usual spelling is whoosh, by the way.
Experience is practicing making mistakes on somebody else's dime.

It gives you the understanding that something is a good or a bad decision sooner than somebody who hasn't had this practice.
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Um... I'm never one to shy away from a good platform flame, but your linked article doesn't say anything like the bullet list you provide. It's not even close; it's actually a very positive review on the whole. What you just posted amounts to pure distortion; you're basically lying your face off. Stop it.
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I have yet to try it. I was fascinated by the depth of the simulation back when I read this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2793615

But as you said, that's a very different kind of game. Part of the reason I have not tried it is that I would have to play it on a computer. When I play games, I want to sit on my couch, looking at my tv.
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Python, neo4j-rest-client. That is GREAT to hear
After introducing Retina displays and graphics.. Apple has unknowingly disrupted the whole display industry. Suddenly all of us now start noticing pixels on our laptop screens as well as HDTVs, which existed since a long time now. I believe this will actually thrust the current internet into a new era of HD internet and soon computer makers and tv makers will jump onto making high pixel density displays. This makes sense. Till now, all was about resolutions and the larger the resolution the smaller the icon, window etc in the OS world. Apple's retina implementation has changed that. You still see things in the same size or aspect ratio but the sharpness is 4 times that of what we used to see earlier, making the whole data consumption experience to be overwhelming.. Kudos to Apple for this. I hope most of the internet 2.0 and display manufacturers are thinking alike on this..
One of our goals at Leanpub is to create a world where authors can make a living. This seems like a crazy vision to some, but why should it be?

I believe that we will look back at right now as the start of a golden age of writing. We just haven't realized it yet as the signal is masked by the noise of all the gnashing of teeth from publishers.
NPR was covering this here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1510518...

Not sure how I hadn't heard about this yet....
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I like that. My LY and RW are pretty raggedy, and I've basically written my own indexes for those books. (Let's not forget the other books: Hutton, Thompson, Road to Logic, Bird's Pearls (which i haven't read))
Hopefully with the Pirate Party starting to gain support, that will change.
Skyrim (6 instance designers) is good to contrast with Oblivion (1 instance designer) because they're by the same developer in the same game timeline--Oblivion instances have a lot more pointless content, like a bridge that leads to a blank wall with no rewards. I think you can almost certainly procedurally generate "soulful" content, but we're not there yet.
Not to the engine, but to the (low pressure) fuel pump. And that's because that pump is cooled/lubricated by the fuel. A few seconds won't hurt but longer is definitely not good.

You'll likely also have to bleed the system because the injectors won't open on air pressure alone, but that's not really damage (it just makes it a lot harder to get it started again once it is out of fuel).
Is this the pendulum of 'lean start-up' swinging?
You are absolutely right -- in the sense that even a dead-simple Turing machine built inside one of those other games is Turing complete too.

0x10c feels like a milestone, though... I guess it's because the in-game CPU this time around is usable on a human timescale. If in-game networking is ever added to 0x10c, one could even imagine a usable minecraft clone inside the game. It feels different this time.
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No issues with the 710 and it's a shit load cheaper!
If you want to learn how to develop iOS apps, then you should learn Objective C. I'm a Ruby developer and as much as I love the language, when I decided I also wanted to write iOS apps I bit the bullet and started learning Objective C. In the process I've found that learning Objective C is actually pretty easy - as the author of this post points out, it's CocoaTouch and the overall Xcode and iOS ecosystem and environment that takes time to learn.

This is fairly analogous to learning Ruby on Rails if you know neither Ruby nor Rails, although because I had experience with curly-brace/semicolon languages and pointers (a bit of C, plus PHP and Javascript) I found that learning Objective C was easier for me than learning Ruby. But just like Rails is a steep mountain to climb, so is CocoaTouch.

However, learning Objective C and CocoaTouch has been fun, enjoyable, enlightening, and well worth it. As the old saying goes, if something is worth doing, it is worth doing right. If you believe developing iOS apps is worth doing, then do it right with Objective C. You won't regret it, and by adding another language, framework, and way of doing things to your toolbelt, you'll become a better Ruby programmer too.