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I agree that this is cool. I would like to suggest though, that in your 3 hours here, you may not have really gained enough perspective on the community to declare what is and isn't worthy to be posted...
I think it's smart for Nokia to keep its options open. In fact it was reckless of them to do anything but that from the beginning. Betting the largest phone manufacturer (at the time) on an unproven OS was not a very wise strategy.
Any good accountant will tell you that you don't have to pay tax on money that has not yet been earned. I've seen two of these article for two different game devs, and they both take into account tax, which should not be part of the equation until the game is actually released.
Why? Do you mean the striving, self-indulgent attitude self-improvers often have?
Any time you think to yourself, "There ought to be a law!"

Just don't.
Others prefer to work on the game anyway.
Interesting layout. It's not a pleasant experience with a trackpad though.
The third installment of a series that has received universal critical acclaim and inspired several spinoffs, books and movies is hardly a risk, no matter what ending you put on it.

I have no idea what the meat of the argument was over, but it seems like the fans complained about the ending taking it too safe. I don't see how that supports your argument.
$30,000 can take you a long way. I stretched $5000 for 6 months producing a game, living like a peasant (in California, no less). These people just spent their money foolishly on a number of items. Salary is number one, whatever you have left after that can be used for other stuff. Why they did not budget salary first, I have no freaking idea. What is annoying is that it gives Kickstarter projects a bad rep, when there are those (such as myself) looking to use Kickstarter for legitimate/better thought-out purposes.

And for the record, I looked forward to this game in particular, even tried to donate money to them outside of kickstarter...

But please don't get me started on YogVentures (ugh)...
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/winterkewlgames/yogventu...
“Everything That Mattered Over the Last Eight Years Won’t Matter Anymore”
Anecdotally speaking, I know people in NYC that live in communities with high crime rates that are happy knowing that their neighborhood is being monitored by the police 24/7. Whether in the long term this is actually a good or a bad thing to have cameras in the streets, I just don't know.

Devil's advocate here, there are countries that have had no such instant surveillance and still managed to oppress their people quite effectively. I don't want to start a flame war so I won't name a country. And many times all it took for you to get arrested was for somebody to accuse you that you were a traitor or that you were badmouthing the government.
Careful with that finger-pointing:

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

http://memeburn.com/2011/07/microsoft-and-skype-set-to-allow...

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57428211/fbi-we-need-wir...
They're background images in divs measured in percentages.
It may help to use some keyboard shortcuts. I found myself going for the arrow keys to turn pages and the escape button to close stories.
"Adv. Rails tech" is just one part of the single course which aims to get someone a job in 10 weeks as a web developer ... from the looks of this they have been fairly successful ...

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/10/dev-boot-camp-is-a-ruby-suc...

but its actually hard to get into the course - they take only those who they think will pass and who are motivated enough.
State contributions to higher education (via taxes) have dropped dramatically in recent decades [1]. Ergo, tuition increases. (Universities drive up costs themselves, too, of course.)

Back in 1961, state tuition at UNC was less than $100 [2].

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Unmaking-Public-University-Forty-Year-...
[2] http://www.quickanded.com/2012/04/virginia-foxx-paid-87-50-i...
Fair point. But as someone who went to 3/4 of these meetings with the author, I can say with some certainty that the 120 number is an exaggeration. Total intros was probably in the 40s, and total calls and meetings were maybe 20. We ended up with around 10 new investors in the last round.

Batting 1000 (4 investments from 4 intros) is unique. If your product and pitch is that good, then congrats! I think for most startups with good performance metrics, expecting 1/5 of your pitches to convert is a good benchmark.
So if you're not good for the industry, you're terrible at what you're made for, what good are you?

Excuse me? Industries were made for people, not the other way around.
Its difficult to understand the attitude of people blatantly supporting hubris and arrogance in this thread.

There is a very big difference between telling 'This is where you are wrong, you may need to do x and y to correct it' and 'Your work is stupid, and you are stupid to have worked on it'. Sure you might have achieved something in life, what makes you believe somebody else can't? Using your fame to make others look like idiots just to prove your point is never good behavior, no matter who you are. Your fame is no free pass to ridicule, belittle and abuse other. Whoever you might be.

Another thing you must never do is humiliate and ridicule other just because he looks weak at the moment. Never ever ever underestimate any one. That guy can work his way out of the problem and may be even beat you, while you day dream how weak he is.

Also when you work hard, win and become famous you must be content and be happy that your efforts were well rewarded, instead of assuming that somehow you are special and have godly powers. And nobody can ever reach your level of fame and success. This is hubris.
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Because you start posted about gun ownership in Germany in response to "German police shot N people".

What is the relationship between German gun ownership and the number of people shot by German police?
How about you explain, nicely please, why taking something called Advanced Rails Technologies is a bad thing?

Because "Rails Technologies" have changed drastically in the past 5 years and do so again in the next 5 years. "Modern Web Programming" would have been a good course. "Advanced Rails Technologies" is so ridiculously over-specific and over-current that I simply can't see how it has any value for the future.
Today the same institutions provide education and certify skills. If nothing else, it's an obvious conflict of interests that's tolerated only because historically there was no other practical way around it. The war for talent and the online classes will soon disrupt that - you'll be able to give interviews/tests in a 2-day examination and get a paper saying what you really know (like SAT is for pupils).

And when that link fails, when you can get a certificate in 3 days as opposed to 3 years, when you can study interactive online courses with top-notch content at your own rhythm as opposed to a 4-year outdated programs, then it will happen: certification will be independent and traditional universities will have serious disruption in their tuition prices and budgets.

What will not happen is the demise of high-end education and student loans. The senate & president won't let it fall; US needs to keep itself competitive, especially versus EU where most states heavily subsidize education from taxes. The society and the police can't afford uneducated children.
If you think about it, every law is a threat of violence. If you're not prepared to use violence, or at least force to some degree, to enforce it, you merely have a strong suggestion. Even if you just start off with handcuffs, if they escalate, you have to escalate, or let them go.

I think this is a useful heuristic for deciding whether something should be legislated: "is this worth using violence over?"
Well UK is the country that has just passed a porn ban, and wants to pass a new law to monitor all Internet communications in the country. That puts things into perspective for what we used to think about this "modern western country".

US is actually not that far behind from doing this and more - Constitution or not. They'll just pass the laws and deal with it 10-20 years later. After all US still has the Patriot Act, and that never seemed too constitutional to me.

What's funny is that the Eastern Europe countries are probably the least likely to go this path anytime soon, and that's because it wasn't that long ago when they had revolutions over this kind of thing. But UK and US hasn't really done that in a long time, so neither the Governments nor the people there really get what it means to have mass-surveillance and have the Government know everything you did or want to do, and how bad of a thing that truly is.
Catch Flights to New York and Grab Them to Enjoy Attractions and Festivals
A holiday in New York is a dream of many. And if you are lucky to be able to fulfill this dream, you must enjoy this vacation to the fullest. Once in New York, you can also think of visiting other destinations of the United States like New Jersey, Las Vegas, California, Florida, Hawaii and so on.
It's hard to make an impression when you have no money left to make a game. Make the game first, and if its good it will market itself. If you have funds left over after the game is finished, THEN you can spend them on extras.
Interesting, although the authors note a caveat:

"As with the earlier study, there were some students who did fare better financially if they attended elite schools. The students who fell into this category were Latino, black, and low-income students, as well as those whose parents did not graduate from college."

Its worth noting, though, that the Ivys provide much smoother entry into jobs in high finance than less selective schools, so if one's only goal is maximizing salary it does make a difference.
>>Interfering with someone else's computer system without permission is criminal

Not when you ask for waiver, and put such a clause in 'Terms and Conditions', People go ahead and click on 'I agree' anyway.
Maybe you should take a business course in order to develop your abilities.

I believe it's better to try to realize your dreams and face difficulties (or even failure) than to take the safe road and 10 years later be sorry you didn't follow your heart.

I know plenty of people who took a well paying job instead of doing something for themselves. Years later they are too old to look for another job, and depend on it completely for supporting their families. It's really a shame.
Focus. Both from my own ventures now and from start-ups I've worked with previously in the past, I see focus as one of the largest needs of a start-up.

Without focus, successful start-ups move on to too many fields, dividing their resources amongst too many projects. Early start-ups can distract themselves by losing sight of the primary issue they're aiming to solve and losing traction on those core concepts can be a death knell.

Sadly there's no easy way to outsource focus :)
Fun game :)

'Batch file' should accept 'batch,' imo
I think an important distinction is also that the purpose of the math test graph is to specifically quantify prior learning (ie. it provides a reasonably realistic measurement of learning) -- this is not gamification necessarily. The badges are gamification. Our goal should be realistic and effective quantification of learning/improvement (passive feedback that generally increases intrinsic motivation), rather than implementing external motivators or artificial targets (which badges typically are).
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> Yet for-profit colleges are actually the biggest culprits driving up the student debt. Students at for-profit colleges run up more debt, are more likely to drop out, and are more likely to end up under-employed than those at traditional universities.

They're also the people that traditional universities don't admit for the most part.

We can find a subset of students at traditional universities who are like the students at for-profit schools. Are you certain about the results of comparing apples to apples?
Balance is overrated in debate. Researching and providing a wealth of multiple viewpoints is fantastic, but there is rarely a need to try and present all viewpoints as equally valid.

The need for balance seems to be something that has crept out of news debates where they want to provide an illusion of objectivity and provide lots of entertainment value, and it rarely helps get towards an actual understanding of the subject at hand.

If you think Florian has a point, then by all means post his articles and give an overview of what you think the salient points are, but balance for the sake of balance is almost content free.
codrops... This site is very legit. Thanks for sharing.

edit

Funnily enough, a question about how "legit" this site actually is... Stumbled across one of their demos that was pretty sweet IMO, "Multi-level Photo Map"
http://tympanus.net/Development/MultiLevelPhotoMap/

So I Googled "Multi-level Photo Map" and came across a handful of other demos set up the same way, with the same header navigation bars all:

- http://paulbilodeau.net/photomap.html

- http://www.youthsphere.org/projects/MultiLevelPhotoMap/index...

- http://snappermap.daysnapper.com/

In fact, that last one daysnapper has pretty much all the exact same tutorials and demos set up as codrops.

What's going on here? Is this just some gray layer of blogs that are pooling open sourced UI elements and reposting them for link bait and page view inflation?
I doubt the report. Can't see N9 on the Nokia US web site. It has also recently disappeared from the Finnish web site.
http://www.nokia.com/us-en/products/products/?intc=na-fw-ilc...

Is this really official or just some random vendor dumping the last batch of phones?
Indeed. Would be great with L/R arrow keys.
> In that case they shouldn't look too surprised if they end up hiring wrong people.

The reality is that they get so many resumes, like thousands, they are forced to do an initial culling. That cull takes about 2 to 3 seconds per resume.

If you don't have a degree, you won't make the cut. We all know that means some great candidates will be missed. But any means of whittling down those thousand candidates runs such a risk.
That's pretty badly written article. Meego and iOS are real time OSes? Really?
Ultimately, it boils down to filtering by reputation. The data says that most jobs are acquired through existing connections before it is ever advertised to the public, but in those outlier cases, a degree gives a nod to you from a known credible source.

In the world of social networks and artificial intelligence, it is interesting that nothing has come up to provide better recommendations. Perhaps because it's not really needed in the software industry at this point (at least if you believe there is a shortage of talent), so it is not noticed as a problem by the programmers who are capable of making such a system a reality.
I'd go with Spanish or French if you want fast learning. Mandarin (Simplified) Chinese otherwise for practical reasons. Japanese and Korean are much easier to learn than Chinese if it is too tough.
At least they don't try to hide it. Remember these lovely posters from 2002?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24992147@N03/2644171457/

Now available in mug and t-shirt form.

http://www.ltmuseumshop.co.uk/search.html?SearchTerm=watchfu...
I belive traction is #1. Traction will give you intros and everything else you need to raise money. By the way, the fact of getting into YC is one example of traction.
It was quick for me to make and it doesn't really require maintenance - feel free to donate to the EFF in honor of the project.

In terms of scalability, the app is doing very little processing so it's really just a matter of how many concurrent connections Node can handle in & out, but I've read it's capable of hundreds of thousands or more. Let me know if you are seeing high latency.
We must differentiate between 'Education' in the ideal sense, and 'technical education' or 'training'. People don't go to technical colleges for 'Education', but for competency in a knowledge domain, and in applying it.
If I understand it right this is essentially a DDOS tool. It surprises me that MS would help fund this.
Show HN: My personal site is like Flavors.me with HTML5 and lazers.
Can you delete messages in threads on github? I see one in there where Torvalds addresses someone named Joseph, though I don't see a message farther up in that thread with that name, in which he says "You're a moron." At the very least, all the posts above that one are pretty civil and normal, nothing to incite that kind of response.

At any rate, there are plenty of examples (no links offhand, but I imagine they're fairly easily googlable if you're curious) of lkmk exchanges where Torvalds is flat out rude to people who are clearly wrong, but, from what I can tell, at least behaving civilly up to the point Torvalds blasts them.

Regardless, though, I still would argue that even in the face of an idiot slinging insults for no reason, "you're an idiot" is a waste of energy and not particularly respect-worthy. Don't feed the trolls.
(S)he may have been lurking for a long time. Why not wait with the "noob" until (s)he actually does something wrong?
the hilarious thing, is that all the angst and pain is about about Stonehill college: collegeapps.about.com/od/collegeprofiles/p/stonehill-college.htm

...with an acceptance rate of 65%, does a computer science degree even matter?
> 4-year outdated programs

A good STEM program teaches you how to think, and that never gets outdated.

Colleges offer a smorgasbord of courses to take. If you select courses for the easiest route to a degree, you won't be that employable. If you select courses that will give you the best foundation for your chosen career, that'll do much better.

For example, although I got a degree in engineering, I made sure I also took a class in business accounting. (That class has paid off well for me.)
Works great for me in Firefox Nightly. Couldn't notice any difference from Chrome, despite the message saying it works best in WebKit.
George Lucas gets revenge on his rich neighbors
So you do not see the benefit in learning what is considered advanced technologies today because it'll change in the future? Why bother learning anything in this field at all?

Or is it just the name they chose? Because it seems really rude of you to insult an entire group of people simply because they wish to take a course of which you do not like the name.

I'm totally lost on your attitude about this.
The thing is, if this becomes commonplace, the Bittorrent protocol will just be modified to avoid it. I've had this happen occasionally - you get hundreds of peers feeding you junk data which wastes bandwidth. Torrent clients automatically ban a client after it sends too many bad parts, so the torrent would probably finish eventually, it'd just be a waste of bandwidth waiting to get connected to a legitimate peer.
Certificates are fine for IT work, but they can't replace degrees for programmers. A degree at a good school shows that you're smart, not just knowledgeable.
What's your opinion of YogVentures?

I have a suspicion that developing an open-world game not based on voxels is a very challenging thing, but then I don't work in game dev.

edit: should've read the full description.

Are the interpolated lines also used for collision/physics?
TrID[1] has a number of definitions for various executable files, but it's designed for general-purpose file format identification. PEiD[2] is built specifically for identifying packers, compilers, etc. for PE files, and should therefore be able to identify a far wider array of them (the site claims it detects over 600 PE signatures), but I've never done any checking myself, and the project unfortunately seems to be discontinued.

[1] http://mark0.net/soft-trid-e.html
[2] http://www.peid.info/
In this case Chile decided (on March 4th) that instead of going forwards to DST at midnight March 14th, they will delay that to April 4th.

It's instances like these where I wish people would push back and say, "No, we're not going to change our clocks." I was in Chile in late March. Cell phones showed different times depending on which tower they were talking to. I'm guessing some cell providers patched their systems in time and others didn't.
Agreed. While job-training is certainly a significant component of the value of education today, it isn't even close to being the most important one.

Most of us live in countries with representative governments (those who don't probably would like to if the movements in Africa and elsewhere are any indication). One of the funny things about this sort of government is that in order for it to function properly, it requires that all participating citizens have a basic understanding of the issues of the day. For better or worse, in the modern world, this requires a fairly extensive, general (liberal, little 'L') education.

For example, there aren't many people who apply the scientific method directly at work (though many jobs benefit from clear, logical thinking). But having an understanding of what "science" entails is critical to a number of public debates.

The same goes for economics, history and even literature and philosophy. These are all subjects that most people don't really need to do their jobs, but that are incredibly important for countless public issues.

For example (and at the risk of starting an unrelated argument, please refrain), Ayn Rand seems to be popular these days. But I wonder how many people out there have actually read "Atlas Shrugged" or "Fountainhead" carefully, or even have the skill necessary to do so.
1a) feel free to download the source and host yourself or write three lines of PHP
1b) not if you use the AJAX version - any response will come in as a string, so just don't eval()
2) the limit is really how many concurrent connections Node can handle, and the answer is "many"
3) It's at least useful for small mashup sites where you can throw up an HTML file with some JS - no server code needed
maximizing salary is exactly what the study looked it. the approximation of finance = top salary is less accurate than the data they used.

i'm not sure that's true either. remember the study is comparing people who could have entered an ivy but didn't with people who did get into an ivy. since state schools admit more people with lower rankings who's to say that the smooth entry in high finance is due to the degree? it could be the ability of the person who got accepted to the ivy that makes the difference.

it may be more difficult at first, but an terrible ivy educated quant isn't gonna stick around very long. and a good state school educated quant may take longer to get in but eventually get there anyways. which is what the study actually suggests.

this is odd in finance since the real measure of someone in that field is revenue generated. no one cares you went to podunk state if you outperform everyone else. i know someone who's absolutely brilliant with a math phd from a state school that is working as a quant now. now that he's in his career is gonna be determined by revenue generated, not the degree on his wall.

you can't really control for a financial job salary either. they're heavily based on bonuses and hence performance of the trader. if they are making bank it's likely related to the natural ability that got him into the ivy in the first place. which is the same level as those people who went to a state school that were followed in the study.

like most fields, the people at the top of finance make disproportionately more than those in the trenches, who are not rich by any reasonable definition. if you worm your way up in a traditional company/create a successful product the same imbalance in pay exists. but for finance, we judge salaries based on the top performers, where as for engineers we tend to think of the average.
It's hard to overstate the value of a university education... Why are you so vehement? Never went to college?