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Zynga's fine. They correctly figured out that once you're the biggest on Facebook, it's very easy to stay there. It'd take a competitor insane money to buy up the advertising necessary to introduce a game, whereas it takes Zynga an intro to their 'try these games' bar. When a smaller competitor happens to beat the odds and get to the top for one game, Zynga must make a copy-or-buy decision. Copy if you think the competitor can't leverage (or be used as leverage by a bigger competitor) the game's temporary eyeballs, or buy if you can make good use of those temporary eyeballs to cross-sell your other games.

Draw something is a fad on fire. So rather than build (and cross-sell existing Zynga users who you 'own' already), buy the fad, cross-sell hopefully new users, cut off anybody who could have done the same. Extra points if those new users are a different type of user who wouldn't normally be caught playing X-ville junk.

Now if in six months Zynga is raking in tens of millions of dollars a month on Draw Something I will eat crow. I have a feeling that isn’t going to happen.

Zynga don't have to. Zynga doesn't care which if their games you play once you're in the system. They care about the total customer lifetime value of each user, not the 1-game value.
Making this material attractive to people who would just as soon work as quants is probably not Apple's goal here. If you don't react favorably, you probably aren't what they want. (I'm not saying this is necessarily a bad thing, just that if money is really all you can think of in a job, some companies are more OK with that and others prefer passion, and it's good that people suited for one kind don't end up at the other.)
Ask HN: Browser/Mobile Bank Interface Technology?
Technology companies that interface with banks and credit companies are becoming more common as banking itself is more and more driven by technology.

My question is, relatively speaking, how complex are the systems developed by Simple (in particular), Square, Mint, Paypal etc in relation to interfacing with banks/bank accounts?

They're mostly proprietary I'm guessing, suggesting there's significant IP and talent involved. Paypal in particular would probably be a leader here, aside from credit card companies themselves.

The reason I ask; right now I'm looking to open a business bank account in the UK and the UI's look pretty uninspiring. Given that I'm likely to do a lot of banking online, an independent service that could provide a better UI and importantly, could advise or save me money, would be something I'd consider paying for.
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Just a side note. I noticed that when you quoted the first line, you subconsciously added the first two contracted "is" words. When I read the text, I found the first line difficult to read due to the contractions. I wonder why they did it that way.
It's beyond rude. Saying something like that without knowing anything about the people involved, their relationship or what they do for each other is extremely nasty.
Actually, putting swap on an SSD == great idea. If you need swap, there aren't any better places to put it. I quote from [0] (for Windows), because it is fairly large wall of text and the relevant point might be missed:

_Should the pagefile be placed on SSDs?_

Yes. Most pagefile operations are small random reads or larger sequential writes, both of which are types of operations that SSDs handle well.
In looking at telemetry data from thousands of traces and focusing on pagefile reads and writes, we find that

> Pagefile.sys reads outnumber pagefile.sys writes by about 40 to 1,

> Pagefile.sys read sizes are typically quite small, with 67% less than or equal to 4 KB, and 88% less than 16 KB.

> Pagefile.sys writes are relatively large, with 62% greater than or equal to 128 KB and 45% being exactly 1 MB in size.

In fact, given typical pagefile reference patterns and the favorable performance characteristics SSDs have on those patterns, there are few files better than the pagefile to place on an SSD.

On the other hand, attempting to defragment an SSD is truly a bad idea, and pointless at that. Unless you are defragmenting free space, which does get important as the SSD fills with data.

[0] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009/05/05/support-and-q-...
What a troll! The problem is we have pedantic editors that do not want the text to flow fluidly. They want to control every extra dash like it is print. They need to realize that to work on landscape/portrait mode, you have to program the text to flow fluidly, you can't use 'screenshots of text'. Simple fact: the publishers are stupid.

HTML5 works the same in an App's Web View as it does in Safari, so the lies at the end of this article are particularly grating.
Nice site. Good luck in getting HN feedback. Unsure if you can change the title to 'Show HN: '?

http://hackful.com/posts/963
I'm surprised nobody mentioned the wonderful

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yet :)
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Yep, sounds like 'work' and these people don't 'work'.
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Seems like the kind of message you want to see on your first day or during a recruitment drive. I'm sure the ecstasy of the moment wears off after a while as the reality of a business/work environment settles in.
So... what your saying is that my master thesis won't write itself by some random fluctuations after all? I might have to alter my strategy.
Yes its played by the poor, yes the odds are riciculously low. These people don't 'expect' to win, instinctively they know the odds are low but it is the only chance they see themselves as having. The lottery is a tax on desperation.
I'm good at what I do because I'm passionate about it, and I want to be justly compensated for my time.

The rest of what they write isn't bad: everyone likes to feel like they're working on something that matters.
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How can you effect a change in culture down the barrel of a gun while claiming to be friends? That was the gist of the plan at the time. Anyway, we're probably straying too far from the point of the article...
Well, I'd flag a spammy-looking first post as spam when I'd give the same post from an established account the benefit of the doubt, so it would've helped in its own way.

I'm trying to get into the habit of genderless singular pronouns, hence "hir", but, TBH, simply forgot to when I typed "their" instead of "eir". I guess singular "their" just seems less jarring to me than singular "them", for some subconscious reason.
AFAIK the story on the Apple IPO was that he didn't intervene for a good personal friend which was only working half time and so was not eligible for stock.

That is an assholish move! But it was also in a sense fair for the other full time working engineers.

Aside from that, the early Apple stories about Steve are showing that he not only was a dictator, but a clueless twenty-something kid. How to lead a company Jobs learned later at Next and Pixar. Not that he wasn't then also famously difficult, but he did manage to attract very good talents and have decade long working relationships with them.
Lottery, as a form of innocent betting, can really provide a lot of fun for a small price. I would be bored to death to watch a soccer game, but when I bet 1€ on it, it suddenly becomes 2 hours of fun. And I don't expect to "win the ticket", cause I already got more than I paid for.

Looking at everything from the profit/cost point of view can lead to a very boring life, for most of the people.
Yeah but you don't have to just sit there and twiddle your thumbs while your machine boots. You can just do something else. I'm sure we waste far more time during the day doing other things. We don't necessarily obsess over those types of time inefficiencies. If you wanted to save time you could brush your teeth in the shower etc.
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...and if someone doesn't buy it, they've lost a smart person who sees through bs.
But winning those $66 while your friend just lost $2, (or the other way round) could be fun ;)
It wouldn't surprise me if Facebook snaps up Zynga eventually. But Zynga is definately heading in the wrong direction.. But basing this off Draw Something is silly. It's one game, and people could of seen this coming a mile away. People get bored of games eventually.
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If there was a war with China (thankfully far-fetched) why would they want to use 5th generation fighters at all? How many drones could Foxconn make in a day?
Ok, maybe I'm missing something, but reading the article I see some weird ideas:

RED is hard to deploy, so let's change the base protocol instead. - how does that make sense? Everyone would have to start using new libraries and for backward compatibility we'd have to preserve the tcp layer too. That means standards like http would have to get extensions to use SRV records or suffer delays while utp availability is probed.

There's also a complaint that RED will drop packets once the queue is full. I don't get that at all - it will always happen...

In addition I get an impression there is some tension/implied superiority between us (people doing uTP) and them (ones doing RED). Why does it look so ugly? There's a known problem, there's an interesting solution for new software (uTP) and some plan to migrate old protocols transparently (RED). When did that turn into some bizarre conflict and why?
UK lottery prizes are not taxed and are paid in a lump sum.
Most sites could use pre-made systems with a minor amount of look and feel tweaks. So I think a lot of it comes down to sales/con men and snobbery. And possibly programmers getting lost down rabbit holes.
It is even longer than that. The first British adventure there was in mid 19th century:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Anglo-Afghan_War
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That is the whole idea behind fashion. There is a big difference between fashion and style.
Very cool! I love seeing Chrome usage graphs - it shows how awesome their updater is.
You don't have to provide credit card to create an iTunes account. There is a "no payment" option and Apps can/have to be bought then with gift certificates.
I wasn't being totally serious, of course. And I could nitpick that Gentoo has binary packages - build from ebuilds (which I tried to compare to these chef receipts, with a grin).
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No I hadn't. Thanks!
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Switching costs.

They already owned the old version, having paid for it and installed it in their home. The issues were a minor annoyance but the effort to find a new one and risk it being worse was far greater.

However software, especially web applications generally have a low switching cost. So while your application might fulfill a need if you don't fix the annoyances you make it all the easier for a competitor the sweep in a grab your business.

The history of the internet is littered with examples both large and small.
$10M in US $100 bills would take up over 100 liters of volume, which would fill about five rather large briefcases. The cash itself would weigh over 200 pounds. Strictly speaking, it's impossible for someone to walk up to you on the street and simply "hand" you a briefcase full of $10M. They would have to wheel them to you on a cart, which would undoubtedly attract far more attention than is safe for this sort of transaction.

Incidentally, it's amusing to note that $100 bills are actually more valuable than gold relative to their weight. The obvious next question would be, what's an even denser store of value. For one amusing example, Cristiano Ronaldo has a transfer value in excess of $130 million by last valuation, and weighs less than 200 pounds, making him more than ten times as valuable as $100 bills per unit weight, let alone gold. Judging from the transfer market, it would seem that many top-flight athletes are literally worth their weight in gold.
The author seems to claim that is is implausible for a router vendor to sell a router that drops more packets.

The marketing plan is that the because router
vendors are unwilling to say ‘has less memory!’ as a
marketing tactic, maybe they’d be willing to say
‘drops more packets!’ instead. That seems implausible.

Yet he concludes by suggesting the router should drop all the packets.

The best way to solve that is for a router to notice
when the queue has too much data in it for too long,
and respond by summarily dropping all data in the
queue. /snip/ Of course, I’ve never seen that proposed
anywhere…

Based on his earlier reasoning, that would also be implausible.
If your laptop has an optical dive which you don't use, you may be able to get the best of both world.

Put your HDD in the optcal drive bay, and the SSD in the main bay. Adapter frames exist, at least for Apple laptops.
> You'll run into a set of requirements that no one has run into before.

Inevitably. Which means you'll have to resort to "real programming" (as opposed to component assembly) for /that part/ of your project. I don't see this as a fundamental reason why component-assembly can never become viable. As we get better at creating flexible components, these situations will get less common, but they will never go away.

> you'll run into a requirement that's simpler to implement directly than it is to write the glue code for all the components you could use to solve it

100% this. For me this pretty much sums up why component-assembly isn't viable today. For all but the simplest components this turns out to be the case. (e.g. date-picker, file-uploader, or maybe something a bit bigger with /very/ fixed requirements, like a disqus comment trail). But jumping from this to "I don't think it's every going to happen" is overly pessimistic. The glue code is too hard to write? We need a better way to write glue code. That could be a fundamentally different type of language, or a fundamentally different conception of what we mean by "component".

(Aside: In my foolishness I am working on such things).
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On a fundamental level the tools we have to build software are still pretty bad. If that wasn't true we wouldn't be seeing the massive increase in languages & frameworks that try to take the pain away.

It just takes time to make an entire industry work smoothly and software engineering is still a young discipline. When I look round at the innovation going on lately - the rise of alternate JVM languages, increased expressiveness in languages like Ruby, frameworks like Rails, Django, Bootstrap, Less & SASS, compile-to-JS projects like CoffeeScript & ClojureScript, renewed interest in visual programming ideas like LightTable and many more, it seems we've put our foot on the gas again. I'm pretty optimistic the programming tools of tomorrow will fix the day-to-day annoyances, leaving us more time to concentrate on the core problems.
The treasury bills owned by SSA are special non-marketable ones that are only sold to the SSA. They do not have any market value.

I have no opinion regarding the solvency of social security.
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Not being able to pay something twenty years from now given current income is much different than defaulting. Specially given historically low tax rates and an economic depression, and a spenditure that has mostly not been made yet.
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I personally encountered experience where no such option was provided. If you google around a bit, you might find I'm not the only one, and I kinda think that ain't a bug.
Also, the Facebook requiring me to send them copy of my ID might also not be accidental.
The NASA pen story, is it real or just a myth? In an attempt to answer myself, I found this:

http://history.nasa.gov/spacepen.html
If your cats sit on your head at 5am to remind you to feed them, then if your auto-feeder thinks 5am is another hour off, your cats will not. they will howl and sit on your head, only now its 4am.

Arbitrary change or not, at 4 am cat on face always wins
Man, every post I'm reading is negative, it's just a motivational poster, I liked it. You only have on life, give it 100%. Whatever you are doing, do it like you only have one day left to do it with.

I'm disappointed that HN would blow out of proportion the one cloud on the beautiful day.
I was looking for notes and commentary, not simply a restating of UNIX principles.
There were quite a few of these globally, but Google on mobile killed them I think.
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Some blame the American bombings, which started with Operation Menu in 1969, for giving Pol Pot the popular support he needed.

I do not know enough of Cambodian history to tell if it is true, but at least it sounds like a plausible scenario.
Yesterday I spent 2 hrs to figure out why dotcloud keeps telling me that it finds no uwsgi. I managed to load another flask website with the same structure. I am now thinking numpy and pandas may be too heavy?

Anyway, a detailed log of pushes would really help a lot.
By this line of reasoning, anything that is more popular among poor people is a tax on them? People pay to gamble to get something in return (entertainment as you say) and that makes it not a tax. It is quite natural that the gaming company makes a profit on that, just like, say, a movie theater company.

There is certainly some truth in the vision of the poor guy being a more vulnerable gambling victim but I would not generalize that to non-addicts. Gambling vs. other kinds of entertainment is a matter of personal preference.

Actually gambling is quite popular among rich people, in the form of financial speculation...
Actually they did change the before in a not backwards compatible way at least two times (IIRC), so there should not be much pain in doing that again...
At least from the updates/compatibility preserving point of view they have it sorted.
Obviously, the folk around here ain't the one to "keep in line".

EDIT: Up-voted the replied-to comment, because I respect the contrary opinion when it's underdog.
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Wow.. that just sounds like "we expect you work over hours and weekends".. just sugar coated with nice words.
Do you know any companies that "did it first" and are still in the lead after a number of years? To my surprise, I cannot seem to think of any.
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Wait a minute... Is that a tear-stain on the word "anywhere"?
Since my SSD-equipped, btrfs using laptop (Thinkpad X60s running Debian testing, kernel 3.2.15) boots from power on to graphical login in 27 seconds (13.5s of which is the time taken to get through the BIOS boot sequence) I suspect it's something specific to the parent poster's system.
Ah true. I meant explicit version control (e.g. you can tag/name a version and go back to it later).
Let her make and sell stock photography. Maybe it's not usually a good way to make money but it's lots of fun and seeing even small bits of passive income is very pleasant.
In Canada a major pizza chain uses stay at home people to take telephone orders. Needs a good Internet connection from what I hear.
Even then, lifetime subscriptions were rendered useless in the UK when TiVo dropped support for the original product and teamed up with a cable company. So it was neither a lifetime subscription for the hardware nor the customer.
It would be ugly. For many architectures, locals are referenced relative to a [stack] frame pointer. The local variables from the original context of the function containing the catch would need to accessible, and any additional local variables allocated during the execution of the catch could not be added to the area addressed by the frame pointer because that portion of the stack would contain return addresses and locals for the function throwing the exception, the exception data and any additional functions between the catch function and the throw function.

If is far from impossible to implement, but it would be messy.

IMHO try/catch blocks for this kind of retry logic would have to be very small in scope to be practical and maintainable. Any significant complexity in the scope of the try block (multiple nested functions, etc) is going to create two very tightly coupled sets of code non-obviously separated in the source. This kind of pathological coupling is evil.

Since the scope should be kept small, I would always opt for comprehensive sanity checking before the operation rather than complex, oddly coupled code that is almost impossible to test.
> she doesn't have the best formal education credentials

Tiger Moms are sort of snobs about formal education, so they may not want to hire her.
Somehow, I feel that the following short anecdote is appropriate here:

"There are ancient cathedrals which, apart from their consecrated purpose, inspire solemnity and awe. Even the curious visitor speaks of serious things, with hushed voice, and as each whisper reverberates through the vaulted nave, the returning echo seems to bear a message of mystery. The labor of generations of architects and artisans has been forgotten, the scaffolding erected for their toil has long since been removed, their mistakes have been erased, or have
become hidden by the dust of centuries. Seeing only the perfection of the completed whole, we are impressed as by some superhuman agency. But sometimes we enter such an edifice that is still partly under construction; then the sound of hammers, the reek of tobacco, the trivial jests bandied from workman to workman, enable us to realize that these great structures are but the result of giving to ordinary human effort a direction and purpose. Science has its cathedrals, built by the efforts of a few architects and of many workers."
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