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Even following this restriction on a grid:

I'm at (1,1) and I want to get to (4,4). Assuming a restrictive interpretation of most direct[1] and no one-way streets factored in[2], there are still two equally direct and valid paths:

(1,1) -> (1,4) -> (4,4)

and

(1,1) -> (4,1) -> (4,4)

Which is most direct? If the cab driver chooses to go with the later because his buddy pays him to go past the billboard at (3,1), what's to stop him? What's wrong with that?

[1] If most direct means "shortest path", then there are many more equivalent routes.

[2] One way streets also offer a nice choice of where to do turns around a block under favorable circumstances. Similarly road construction offers extra choices by detour.
Ethernet was invented at parc. Viewpoints has both vint Cerf and david reed on its board...
Seriously brilliant. And the video is spot on in answering questions/concerns that anyone would have.
Well it's a Shark Tank, right? Most of the companies are jokes anyways. The ones that are the hits are getting "free" publicity. ABC often revisit success stories in their consecutive episodes.
I love the show as it gives some insights on how successful people invest: revenue, patents, dedication, etc.
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Weren't <img>, <li>, <ul>, and <ol> experimental, non-standard features added by Netscape? Due to Netscape's dominance, everyone ended up implementing them.

I'm not saying non-standard features are always a good idea...but is everyone always waited around for standards bodies to come up with new things, we'd never see any new features.
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In my current project, I've decided only to support the chrome browser and all other user agents are redirected to a not supported page asking them to install chrome.

I dont see the point in sacrificing my programmer happiness.
Ah, very good point. The last thing I read on the Level3/Comcast spat story lead me to believe Comcast was paying Level3 for the peering. I apologize. However, this line lead me to believe the author had a misunderstanding of the costs of traffic:

"...they almost certainly traverse fewer fiber route-miles and physical router ports (Comcast’s two primary costs of delivery)."

That is, unless the author meant Comcast's primary costs within their network, which is not what I read it as. Without providing reference to the cost of the peering, the comparing the _geographic_ distance of traffic seemed irrelevant. Even in this case, the reason that it is more expensive for Comcast to send traffic is not that is coming from Seattle, but because they are losing money on having Level3 pay them.

Edit: I also need to read more on this as I'm curious why Level3 is paying Comcast since Comcast is (as far as I know) not acting as a transit network. But I suppose this is what happens when you violate valley-free routing.

Edit2: Also, just wanted to add, the fact that Comcast controls the peering links is why this is so sketchy. By raising the costs of peering links, they could make it way more expensive for the competitors to send their users traffic, forcing the competitors to raise their prices, allowing Comcast to be the only content provider to have reasonable prices. While the part about the bandwidth to them not counting towards your cap is sketchy, the practice of charging you less, a lower flat rate, or not at all for traffic that stays within the network is reasonable. Where it is sketchy is when that difference is leveraged to make the service cheaper. If the service is more expensive, it's the fact they are charging competitors more that is sketchy. So... in general, providing content and the network is all around sketchy.
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However, if you look at the music industry, online music has become more of a means of marketing for the vast majority. I think most midtier musicians make money by touring and selling merch. (Which may be combined with teaching or day jobs.)
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OTOH, overhyping stuff that is unlikely to succeed starves more reasonable approaches.
It very likely will; but then something else will come around that will help us review these stories, and it'll probably make money off advertisments (for books, even).
Great article thks
Is this really dependent on any particular Lion feature? I was about to buy it but I'm still on 10.6.8 (never bothered to update to Lion because of the myriad annoying new 'features').

tl;dr: if you can make it work in 10.6.8, I think you might get some more $love$ from some of us.
To use Occam's razor you need a competing simpler (less assumptions) theory.

"Common sense" might be a tool to produce such a theory but it is not a theory by itself.
This is so awesome. The video is great!
A lot of people would like to think that.
emmett was talking about efficiency, safety, and the ability to travel without having to drive. You're talking about convenience, which is an advantage to cars (self-driving or not) but self-driving cars still can't deliver on efficiency, are still less safe than most forms of public transit, and have greater expense.
This is a fantastic app, not just because of how much of a great utility it is (does anything like this exist for windows?) but the name is absolutely brilliant. Not only is it very easy to remember "Dragon Drop", it's also an excellent wordplay ("drag'n'drop"). The video is very good too. So wonderful, a perfect combination.
Has anyone on an android phone been able to get thumbkissing to work? I have not.
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The word "claim" has a very specific legal meaning. It's not just "Bill gates offered me more money, so I want out."

A "claim" is something like--the producers let loose a pack of wolves in the studio and now I am disfigured, or they broadcast on TV that I am a cannibal and eat live children on Thursday nights, and my reputation is ruined. A "claim" is something that you can (normatively) sue ABC about. Bill Gates offering you $8 billion dollars is not a tort committed by ABC. "If I had known X, I wouldn't have done the deal" is not a claim. (Deliberately lying might be a claim, but that's a topic for another day...)

It's a convention in contract law (see meeting of the minds, unconscionability) that you have to have some idea of what you are signing for a contract to be valid, and there's a lot of arguing about what that means state-by-state, etc. California has specifically (attempted to) codify in Section 1542 that if a claim is "unknown" to you it doesn't meet that test. So if you are signing a waiver of liability of injury thinking about things like falling off a ladder, but not considering that the producers deliberately attack you with a pack of wolves, the latter might be an "unknown" claim that you didn't consider when signing the release. Under Section 1542, you could argue that even though you have signed a waiver, the waiver only covered things you would have reasonably considered, which do not include being deliberately attacked by wolves.

What this section does (IANAL) is say "Even though contract law doesn't let you waive a right you don't understand, and even though California has specifically exempted you from being responsible in this instance, fuck that, you're responsible." Which, I don't know if it is an enforceable clause or not, but it's certainly not moral, and it has nothing to do with "got a better deal, now I want out."
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2% royalty, even if you don't make a deal!?

Effectively, this makes it the new QVC model, because the exposure helps even the non-deal companies.
Personally I admire him for taking the opportunity he truly wanted and believed in. That's so much more important in the long run

For those of you who think money is the only thing that matters, go make a good bit of it then see if it changes your life so dramatically like you think it will.

The reality is unless you're an asshole money does not change you much at all. And if you're an entrepreneur it's not gonna make you stop from moving on to the next big idea either.

It's easy to sit on one said and say "you know he's actually upset about this" but until you've sat on the other side of things and realized he has a job he loves at a company he truly believes in you're probably better off saying nothing at all.

Just my $.02
If only HackerDojo would auto-add these spams to an email list we can set as the reply-to....
You're about to get HackerNews'd. Great app!
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Here's a nice article on figuring out what's important for you when you are looking for a job: http://ceklog.kindel.com/2012/04/26/the-job-decision-matrix/
Missed the point, check. (Over the top) Rude, check. FUD about webkit, check. Faaaantastic.
I just realised that with the new update to Alfred (it lets you drag out of the results bar), that this could be one of the most useful little utilities that I've invested in.

I just hope it works as I expect.

Navigating the filesystem is so 2011 :)

edit: would be cool if you could post an update here on just how you did after you were fireball'd _and_ HN'd!
Seems that way. Took me about 30 seconds to get through to your site.
>" It might seem like a semantic argument"

I guess it is semantics:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_capital
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You write that as if cognitive dissonance were a bad thing...
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Wait, does this mean Mac OS isn't already perfect as is?
As far as I know, to date only 2 films have actually been filmed in 3D, Avatar and Sanctum. Which is probably why the 3D is done well.
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Seems like a royalty would be against the shark's interests, that's money out of their pocket whereas equity is just another chunk of your company you gave up.
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Your site failed to load for me, can you redirect straight to the App Store?

Edit: here's an App Store link for people to check it out - http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/dragondrop/id499148234?mt=12
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In a way, the game is a collaboration between the judge and the truthteller - they both get the same number of points. The liar can definitely win, but the truthteller and judge can only tie. The fun part is, the judge is collaborating with someone - but who?
Let's assume that a 1080p movie encoded for streaming using H.264 ends up at 8GB (a generous overestimate for most movies). At entry-level datacenter pricing of $0.10/GB, bandwidth costs will leave $4.20 for the rest of the supply chain.
are there any differences in terms of features between the Mac App Store version and the one you can buy directly from your site? curious if the "sandbox" in the Mac App Store caused any file system issues.
Looks like a hoax http://kottke.org/12/05/abraham-lincoln-invented-facebook
Can you tell us which groups are considered less desirable?
Suspects win by convincing the detective that they're telling the truth. Detectives win by correctly guessing the liar.

Technically, you really win based on the final detective guess. We give progressively more points for each question plus a bonus if you won on all three rounds.
I work at a SV giant. I'm aware of the infrastructure we have in place. This infrastructure is primarily here to combat the increased complexity brought on by having x employees running around. Configuring something like github, automated deployments, change management policies, marketing/advertising campaigns is significantly easier with fewer employers.

Further provided you're targeting niche markets where the economies of scale don't matter nearly as much as meeting the needs of the market you can see decent returns per developer with out pushing your wares out to millions of users.
I haven't seen the show in a while and forgot about the types of companies that go on there. Even still it is 2% of operating profit which will still be a small number. If it were 2% of Rev that would be hugely different
I'm gonna back you up here, though from a slightly different perspective. People like you are exactly why this course seems easy for some other people. As what is essentially an introductory course for this subject, it should not be aiming to really challenge the top quartile of the class (or whatever). It should aim to provide the best possible foundation for the next course for as many people as reasonable.

The fact that the course has managed to reach out to all sorts of people (including someone like you) is something that should be celebrated. That it was designed so that someone who isn't 'good at math' (whatever that means) struggled a bit, but still got through it all is amazing. That's something that really makes a great introductory course.

After all, it's stupid easy to make a course hard, or to assign shit loads of work. The real trick is making it just hard enough.
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Level 3 is paying Comcast because the alternative was for Comcast to let the peering links congest, which would hurt Netflix streaming performance. Basically Comcast has a new business model for their Internet service: Everyone pays Comcast and Comcast pays no one.
Just bought it! Skipped the trial because the video demo was enough. You should really be proud. Works like a charm, somehow feels like a UNIX tool. Hope you get rich in exponentially faster increments of five bucks.
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That's true. Like the US, France has a presidential lame duck period. Hollande doesn't take office until May 15.
I was one of the people in that fireball. Bought it through the App Store. Great app.
Isn't this like saying by choosing Oracle as your database you are 'locked in' to it vs. MySQL? I'm locked-in to OSX right now typing this on my Macbook Air.

I think the phrase lock-in should apply only when a vendor makes it purposefully difficult to get your data out of their system only so you keep paying them, not when you freely opt-in to their service since it is the best choice for you at the time.
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Congrats Mark! Looks like you'll surpass your 2013 goals before it even starts. I'm a very happy user of the app and have known Mark for years. He is awesome!

He has another really neat and surprisingly useful app on the AppStore: Lidpop - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lidpop/id441887602?mt=12 - "Lidpop makes your Macintosh play a sound when it sleeps or wakes up. Close the lid with a resounding clank or a happy slide whistle. Open it back up with a laugh or a whimsical chime — it's up to you. Lidpop brings a dash of personality to your computer."

When I open my Air, Scotty (Star Trek) says "Hello Computer" and when I shut it down, Vader (Star Wars) says "Nooooooooo." I know it seems trifling but always brings a smile to my face wherever I am, including work meetings.
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He said that a testing environment costs $300. If developer time were free, then yes, he would have agreed that his argument is invalid. Developer time is rather valuable, especially when considering opportunity costs.
I've noticed a chain of grocery stores in my area installed new card readers recently which appear to have a slot above the LCD screen. What I haven't figured out yet is whether or not that slot is aesthetic or a chip-and-PIN reader.

I have a Wells Fargo credit card that has a chip in it, I just haven't bothered to try yet.

Has anyone else seen these readers?
That is not the same thing as asking about malloc.
Agreed. I may not be a fan of Python in general, but it is a good language for instruction for precisely that reason: less incidental complication so you can focus on inherent complexity.

As someone who’s well versed in C++, and who had to tutor CS students in it, I certainly wouldn’t recommend anyone use C++ unless they already know it and can use it effectively.
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So... what are you building next? I'd like to buy it. =)
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Reminded me of: http://www.zug.com/pranks/credit/
Thank you brilliant stranger! The Alfred combo tip here just made my day.
Neat App. The most surprising thing about it for me was actually the name. Not that it was a cool word play, its just that I'm so used to the good names already being camped by completely useless crap that its weird to see a neat name and a decent app attached to each other.
> For those of you who think money is the only thing that matters, go make a good bit of it then see if it changes your life so dramatically like you think it will.

This is kind of predicated on you not hurting for money now. If you're fighting to pay off $100,000 worth of medical bills, or trying to figure out how to move to a different state for a job without getting totally hosed on a house you bought six months ago, money could make one hell of a difference.
It is when trying to explain one's motivations in a structured and informative way. Not so much when trying to emotionally deal with a missed opportunity. But this is presumably meant to be a reasoned response.
We still know almost nothing about 80% of the matter in the visible universe. Ordinary matter is less than 5%. Physics has some explaining to do.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_energy
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You had my five dollars within 10 seconds of the video starting. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Thank you!
Is TechCrunch really allowed to post entire Quora answers as articles?
Re: "His take could have been close to 5Mil+[1] had he joined the team."

So let's say he was hired. Maybe his engineering decisions send Instagram on another trajectory - one that doesn't involve a billion dollar exit. Maybe his impact on candidate interviews causes Instagram to end up with an entirely different-looking engineering team, one that isn't as successful. Maybe he develops considerable influence within the organization, and convinces the founders to take an earlier exit.

This isn't a knock against Robert. This is just suggesting that things could have played out entirely differently were he onboard - even if he was by every measure a successful employee.
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How on earth is implementing a new feature harmful to innovation? This blatantly contradictory.
All this discussion -- and no reference to Fred Brooks?!

A classic opinion piece on why building software will always be hard is Fred Brooks’ “No Silver Bullet – Essence and Accident in Software Engineering” — there’s a version of this available at:

http://people.eecs.ku.edu/~saiedian/Teaching/Sp08/816/Papers...

And if you don’t agree, one of its rebuttals, “What if there’s a Silver Bullet … and the Competition Gets it First?”, by Brad Cox — with a version available at:

http://www.virtualschool.edu/cox/pub/92ByteWhatIfSilverBulle...

…even gets into the idea of an “industrial revolution” for software.

Good classic reading… 8-)
I'm not a lawyer yet, but from the little research I did the answer is: it depends.

Relevant links:
http://www.nossaman.com/catching-waiver
http://michaelreiterlaw.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/waiver-of-c...

Hopefully that helps.
I would describe Alan Kay's attitude as arrogant and patronizing. I speculate that this contributed to Xerox's failure to take advantage of the great technologies it pioneered. I would avoid working with him.

I think that to be successful, and by successful I mean "multi-millionaire", it isn't enough to be at the right place at the right time---you have to be the right person.
This is a cool app. The functionality is not as extensive as this but Path Finder for Mac (Finder replacement) has a featured called "Drop Stack" which essentially allows you to pile files somewhere before you decide what to do with them. http://cocoatech.com/pathfinder/
Congratulations Mark! A well deserved fireballing. Have fun with it!
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Eek, that's a pretty good argument. Severely limited resources should probably be used for public good. There are plenty of cable channels upon which companies can make a buck.
I know Robert and he genuinely does embody the "money doesn't matter" philosophy. Besides, he sold to Zynga and he's an early employee at Quora, I somehow doubt he's hurting right now.
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Yeah I can't believe this works for them. So I assume Comcast pays Tata, right? I was under the impression at some point that was their primary provider (paid transit). They keep these links so congested [1], that in order to actually provide reasonable service to Comcast users, a content provider needs to pay to peer with them (or pay someone else to) in order to give reasonable performance. I guess if you have enough users and enough of a demand to reach them faster, you can charge others. I take this to mean that Comcast should be paying me to subscribe to their Internet service! (or at least to watch Netflix on their network)

[1] http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg15911.html

Edit: Although it is not my exact area of research, a colleague of mine has done some interesting work that discusses the costs of P2P traffic for some of these ISPs that is somewhat related: http://torrentfreak.com/large-isps-profit-fom-bittorrent-tra...
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Nice app. I'm going to steal your idea if you don't mind.
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Awesome for the linked talk alone

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy

If you haven't seen this just take time to watch the first 15 minutes. Really worth it.
Single page link for those who would prefer to read the article whole instead of broken up into four pages:

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It is simply not possible for all 400 movies to have a simultaneous global release. Theater owners must take a "wait and see" approach for many films.

Who cares about theaters?

I haven't been in a movie theater in 5 years - it just doesn't appeal to me at all. And I know for a fact that many of my friends who used to be cinema-buffs don't care much anymore either.

We prefer to watch films in our home-cinemas now, on a big flatscreen or beamer.

Consequently we use the first release in watchable quality that we can get. And often that's from PirateBay. Not because we'd be unwilling to pay $9.99 for a HD movie on iTunes, but simply because most movies appear 6 months earlier on the torrents.

If iTunes launched in parallel with the theaters we would buy all movies.
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Freelancers or company that builds prototypes for startups...Which route would you take? Any suggestions?
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Look up "embrace, extend and extinguish".