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Ok, so a dozen every 5 years, according to who? Nobody pays specifically for medieval history education, it's usually part of a larger liberal arts program, so there's pretty much zero Econ 101 factors in play as far as the employment of medieval history experts.

Your contention that we're producing a couple too many, ok, I can buy that. But the people in the article have jobs -- and it doesn't seem to stand that the depts in question would pay more for medieval history experts if there was a smaller pool of talent.
Mysterious how HN submissions get picked up... I submitted this yesterday via VentureBeat:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3931173
actually, your point about being a film major is right on target. yea, it was awesome for 3 semesters, but if you'd spent 10 years getting a phd in that and then discovered that you aren't going to make coin, then yes, may your parade be rained on.
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or how about guns that won't fire because you aren't the registered owner (or approved on 'firing list' of some sort, in the case of, let's say, a wife that's home alone when a burglar comes).

Brings a whole new meaning to hacking, also.
Thanks Kaizyn, this is very encouraging. :) I consider myself very fortunate to have a broad range of options.
I emailed Daniel Hooper (the originator of the idea) about this when I did my own version and here's what he said:

"I'm glad to see others like yourself implement my idea, and it would be great if you could give me credit when you release your app."

I think giving him credit is the right thing to do. It costs nothing and is more than a fair deal given how brilliant a concept it is.
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I suppose this puts the tech in Minority Report to shame. Now I'm thinking Google Goggles/Glasses + Touché.
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Hi everyone, I just went online with a beta site that I am building, so, if any has a free moment to walk around a minute or two and throw me some bugs/ideas would be awesome.

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I appreciate your help, thanks

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By the way, I'm new to this HN so in case this is neither the place nor the way to ask for help, I'm sorry, and will delete it right away.
How much time do you have? I see a lot on tumblr just for convenience. It's just super simple and that's really all you need.
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You might be on crazy pills.

M2 research says it's $10m to do a AAA title on a single platform, whereas it's 5k-20k to do a mobile title[1].

TUAW's figures show that there are approximately 42,000 iOS titles produced, which dwarfs the 18,000 console titles that have been produced in all of history [2]. So as for backing up the claim "the majority of games are created by large teams of highly talented and well-paid individuals" it's simply wrong--very wrong.

Now if we're normalizing per dollar (that is, considering how much industry $ are going to triple-AAA vs appstore crap, instead of number of titles), the argument is overwhelmingly in favor of the AAA titles, even when considering only the latest generation of console titles--about $60b to $40m, by my back-of-the-napkin arbitrary-cutoff estimate.

But that's exactly what jbri said [3] and an argument you rejected [4].

In general, the etiquette here is that if you're having an argument about facts, you bring facts to the table, and you don't respond by calling the other person "insulting" or "incredibly wrong", especially when you quote no sources and the available evidence contradicts your position. These types of replies add nothing to the discussion.

[1] http://www.m2research.com/the-brief-2009-ups-and-downs.htm
[2] http://www.tuaw.com/2010/11/17/the-staggering-size-of-ioss-g...
[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3937135
[4] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3937200
All you can eat buffets work because there's a physical limit to how much you can consume in a meal. It's comparable to a one-day train pass not a lifetime membership.
2 x 10^13 years: Estimated time for a self assembling system of the complexity of Adobe's software lineup to reach equilibrium, e.g. to balance out new bugs with fixed issues.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3936320
Ah, good call on Gabriel Weinberg of DuckDuckGo. He is obviously very talented in many areas.
It makes no sense for a business to offer this. I'm surprised it has taken them this long to finally do something about it.
If she's going to dip her toes into ecommerce there is no point in developing a site and trying to build up traffic. Thats a losing battle. Start with a platform that has a built in network where the marketplace and infrastructure is already there for you like eBay stores or Etsy. If she nails it on eBay then you build a site and drive sales to her site.

If she's willing to put in the work and knows a market pretty well it shouldn't be hard to acquire things for below their value, pretty them up and flip them on eBay. My girlfriend made a few bucks buying shoes at sample sales and selling them on eBay, but she knows the market pretty well.

Back in the day I used to snipe music gear auctions with bad listings on eBay for below value, clean them up and take some nice photos and flip it back on eBay. Bigger ticket items mean good margins.

I would also have her take a look at some of the types of gigs on ODesk or one of the personal assistant micro task sites (FancyHands, TaskRabbit, Zaarly etc), she might be able to build up a skillset out of random virtual gigs
1-page version here --> http://nymag.com/print/?/news/features/mark-zuckerberg-2012-...
At all of my past companies (the current is notably different), and the majority of companies where my programmer friends work, QA requires no meaningful knowledge of programming, just knowledge of

the product
how programmers (the people) think, and how to cope with them

That said, it's not at all clear to me how this is a work-from-home job.
Yes, artificially introducing predators has worked so well in the past (see: Hawaii, Guam, etc.). I'll take my Roundup, thanks.

GMO will feed the world and I welcome them with open arms.
"unlimited for life with a fixed initial cost" products

Interestingly, this is the same problem that bedevils Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid. Consider the change in perspective that AA underwent when it realized how much these passengers were costing the company:

Rothstein, Vroom and other AAirpass holders had long been
treated like royalty. Now they were targets of an
investigation.

The same thing happened with Medicare. For any costly program that doesn't put financial caps on utilization, cost can ultimately be capped either by queues or by various kinds of fraud charges and investigations into the users of the program. This is why we have the Stark Law and Medicare fraud investigations:

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

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

Some of the asserted frauds are actually crimes. Some of them are in a gray area and arguably abusive, like Rothstein. Some are really just attempts at innovative business models. Whatever the reason, though, if you are costing the government a lot of money, you are going to get hit with a Medicare fraud investigation. It doesn't matter if it's because your product is amazing and the cost is due to organic growth. All that matters is how much money it's costing the government.
I saw a demo of this at Intel Labs on a Windows machine about 15 years ago and it was very impressive. I don't think they optimized startup, but application launch was incredibly fast with their disk layout optimization.

Isn't this essentially what DiskKeeper does on Windows?
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Uh, some of the best games I've ever played (and I'm a long time gamer ex-Blizzard programmer) were on Kongregate, built by a single developer (or sometimes an artist and a programmer). Honestly, it's really really expensive and difficult to build a cutting-edge FPS or MMO, but "great games" don't always fit the FPS or MMO mold.
Can't help noticing that she's unpacking her food stamp purchases in front of a $300 KitchenAid mixer.
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In the past few months I’ve moved to named functions for any timers/event bindings/callbacks longer than a single statement. Keeps things more manageable in general, and as a bonus, sidesteps this issue.

Spaghetti’s tasty, but belongs on your plate, not your computer.
Given that you didn't have this information before, it's highly unlikely that this was why you felt uncomfortable. Most likely you just don't like ActionScript. It's OK — you're allowed to have personal taste.
There seems to be a lot of confusion in this thread about what one another is saying. sparsevector said that colleges are not oversupplied, because there's a lot of demand for them. wtvanhest replied with a comment that sounds as if colleges are oversupplied, when in fact his evidence suggests that teachers are oversupplied. That's off-topic. So I was trying to point that out, and now you're repeating wtvanhest's argument that teachers are oversupplied. That's not a bad argument in itself, and I'm not downvoting you (HN doesn't allow me to downvote replies to my own comment) but it's still off-topic in the context of sparsevector's argument above.
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They're the Microsoft of food: they create things, they have the potential to help the world, but their legal practices can be pretty shitty.

I've got nothing but hope for the future of genetically modified food, I just hope that Monsanto can learn to relax a bit more.
"It is a huge sum, even in context. Zuckerberg’s impending fortune is more money than Wal-Mart’s 10,000-plus stores made last year."

This line is a little disingenuous. It's more money than Wal-Mart "earned" last year, not "made". Wal-Mart earned ~$15B on revenues of $447B in 2011.

Still, sort of surprising given the company has annual revenues higher than many countries' GDPs...
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Something anyone working on a startup idea should bear in mind. You may find similarities out there to what you have vision to do once you get started working with your idea. However, it is helpful to realize that just because something is similar to you does not mean that it has to be the same. Adding your own personality, twists to the product that differentiate yourself, and your own insight as well can set you apart from others. That's getting it right by focusing less on what others do with their ideas and more on what you want to do with yours. Focusing more on innovation & less on the competition is a much better way to succeed in the long-run.
How does that saying go? "Anyone can predict rain, but the real prophet builds an ark."
Would anyone actually pay $10 a question?
> these are pretty trivial in Ruby and Python
I wasn't arguing that they're difficult, I was saying they're quick, dirty functions you can use to get something up quickly (the RAD way).

> fwrite/fread improve quality of code? As opposed to what?
as opposed to just using file_put_contents() and never checking for the number of bytes actually written. The point I was trying to make is that you could use quick, high level
functions (like file_put_contents()) and then replace them with more low-level functions like fopen()/fwrite()/fclose() to have more fine-grained checking of errors (you could complain that the script failed to open the file when calling fopen() and then you could print the exact reason why, as opposed to just printing 'could not write to file' when using file_put_contents).

> How does a language using strlen equate to not getting in my way?
I switch between languages pretty often and so keeping an active context for each language in my mind is rather difficult. I have to recall if it's len(), str.len(), str.length, str.length() and so on for every other type of task I need to deal with. If the language is really similar to C, it is more natural for me to use strlen() even if I have to come back to it after 6 months. That's what I meant by 'not getting in my way'.

> it doesn't mean all criticism is invalid. PHP has warts - warts that go beyond personal preferences.

I agree. No language is perfect, but why do you feel compelled to say 'PHP has warts [...] that go beyond personal preferences' without actually bringing evidence. It makes it sound like you're speaking purely out of hatred for PHP and I can't respect that.
Many people actually really enjoy playing slots. It's fun to win money, and it's fun to enjoy the dramatic moment before you know if you've won money. Some people get addicted to it, just like some people have gotten addicted to immersive PC games or really anything enjoyable. The distinction you're trying to draw is basically non-existent, except perhaps that social games and slots are simpler and revolve entirely around the unknown-reward mechanic.
Exactly. Put your money where you mouth is. Especially if you'd make a lot of profit out of it. But of course, he didn't.
I can't access it from my android phone.

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> It usually comes down to not pitching it well enough or being unlucky.

Many companies don't even apply to YC because it's geared towards tech companies that do not require capital (and when they do eventually, it's for people, not physical resources).
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Drunks cleaning their gun, kids, poor training. All factors in fatal shootings.

I am not saying it will solve all this - but if this can be applied, it may easily reduce it.
The question that comes to mind for me: how do we define "entities" in the context of writing software?

Especially given gorelik's observation that complexity really derives from the combinatorial explosion of connections, are objects with internal state the best way to manage that complexity? If every call of a public method from another object is a connection in the graph our entities are an (object, message) pair, and a situation involving 3 objects with 3 public methods each exceeds our limitations.

Contrast this with a pure-functional approach. If you can express your algorithm with immutable data and operations that create new transformations of that data, you could (hypothetically) have fewer things in mind at any one time: the data being operated on, and the single operation being performed. It doesn't break down quite so cleanly in reality, but use of pure functions where possible largely obviates the benefits of state encapsulation as provided by most modern OO languages.
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Congress is already limited in what it can do, not that they care.
I LOVE the idea of the T-shaped person -- that's a fantastic concept, and seems like a great target for my own skill development. Plus, it makes me an even bigger Valve fan than I am already. :)

There are certainly many, many skills that go into building and running a tech startup, but I think the technical skill continuum looks (broadly) like this:

systems > back end > front end > design

The best teams I've been on have included members from each discipline with overlap into their neighboring areas. When transitioning from phase to phase (or, in the sort of rapid development that we're seeing more often today, where several tasks are occurring in parallel) it's super important to not have any gaps between segments.
It's not really a big problem in the grand scheme of things. If you follow the 4 safe behaviors(google it if necessary) it's pretty much impossible to have an accidental discharge.

But mistakes happen (and idiots happen), and occasionally someone has an accidental discharge while handling or cleaning.

I think where this would really shine is for user recognition/unlock as mentioned by a previous poster. There have already been attempts at user recognition, but those relied on magnetic rings or RFID chips.
I don't know how TiVo feels, but I always thought their lifetime subscriptions were a good way to seed their initial customer base. Lifetime is a little misleading because it's tied to the TiVo hardware, not the lifetime of the customer, but I still think it's relevant. TiVo started with a big problem of knowing they had a product that people would love if they tried it; in that instance, getting people past a hurdle of paying of monthly costs kind of makes sense, especially if they become devoted customers who tell their friends. I'm sure it also didn't hurt their cash flow.
I do not know about medicare per se, but when social security was designed to support people 65 and over, I think life expectancy was around age 62. So it was designed to support a relatively small number of retirees in their extreme old age. Then people began living longer.

Somewhat similarly, welfare was aimed at a tiny fraction of "the deserving poor" but was poorly worded/thought out and thus inadvertently changed the social contract and thereby actively grew the number of poor moms. At the time it was created, having a kid out of wedlock was strongly taboo. Poor single moms were thus mostly widows. The authors apparently could not imagine it becoming more socially acceptable to have children out of wedlock.

I worked at bigco for five years. Similarly shortsighted wording for contracts and the like is pretty rampant from what I have seen.
Bu this doesn't provide the ability to ID, just the ability to sense particular holds.
Skype for the sick, create a service that does scheduled calls (ideally video calls) to the elderly and infirm for a fee.

I had this idea because my father suffers from Parkinsons disease and gets quite lonely in the house during the day. He lives in Florida and I life in California and I can't call him as much as I would like to given the time difference. I know he gets lonely and would love to just have a conversation with someone during the day. I would pay to have someone skype him for 20-30 minutes in the middle of the day just to provide some conversation.

I am guessing that there are many other people who are in my situation with sick or elderly relatives. I know I would pay for a service like this and you would be bringing happiness into peoples lives.
As a professional game designer of 16 years, I disagree. The designers of these games are not following the traditional idea of game design wherein you are trying to make something fun or interesting. They are deliberately trying to engineer addictive cash syphons.
I hope people don't just schluff off BrowserID like OpenID or others. It has a lot of really cool potential and can be as secure as regular user/pass or as secure as certificates depending on how it's setup and used.
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Not to defend Zynga much but please take into account the broader market when doing any kind of stock analysis, all stocks have been shaky since late March/April. Also it is typical for stocks to lose value after large acquisitions. Zynga could have even timed this more or known that the market would be going on a typical late spring/summer correction (from lower volume) and bought during that (Facebook launching in a low volume window is strange but that is another story).

OMGPOP wasn't just Draw Something. They have actually been around for a while since 2008 at least. They have had decently successful web games before and probably have a fair amount of assets that Zynga could use with Draw Something being the big icing.

Take a gander at OMGPOP.com and see what they have. They used to be called 'iminlikewithyou' http://www.crunchbase.com/company/omgpop This wasn't really a one hit wonder, it was a one BIG hit wonder but a pretty solid gaming community before and the people and tech created Draw Something. So there was something there... It is hard enough finding good developers, then there harder to find good teams, then harder to find good teams that can make hits, when you find one or the systems used to build it then it is valuable.

Let's face it there were plenty of pictionary like games available before (isketch.net comes to mind, or Doodle or Flipbook at Benetton Play have been around for ages: http://www.benettonplay.com/toybox.php), but they got the right juice. That might be what they bought.
Apples and oranges. ZeroMQ is a library. Erlang is a language+runtime.
Simultaneously developed as a Cydia plugin called SwipeSelection: http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/06/editing-text-on-your-ipad-s...

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It has been that way for years, at least since Windows 3.1. You trade off skill in programming for speed and memory usage in programming via GUI tools that do an OK job but not great.I'm not sure it is better but it does make programming available to much less skilled employees that you don't have to pay as much.

We used to run 20-30 user green screen systems on UNIX (386 Interactive) with 256K of memory. It would never happen today. Most systems won't boot with less than a gig of memory.