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I didn't say go without, I said that it wasn't expensive.

I know because I've actually done it. Have you?

I've previously quoted the price I paid out of pocket for a very comprehensive policy and I'm expensive because of age and gender. We've now also heard 2nd hand from a broker.

The same policy costs young people, the ones that we're talking about, a lot less.

That's why I mentioned car costs.

But, you'd have to actually read instead of regurgitating what you've "heard".
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Hmm, there's a HUGE difference between LA-style suburbs and the Bay Area. In LA-style suburbs, you have drive about 10 miles to a shopping mall, i.e., residental areas have no businesses apart from the occassional gas station.

That's because these areas were unpopulated desert or something which got converted into housing.

By contrast, each of the towns in the Bay Area was a standalone town of its own with its own downtown and rail station etc for a long time. Even today, most Bay Area towns are reasonably mixed wrt residental and business.

All (afaik) new construction for about 10 years has been townhomes, not single-family homes, so I'm not even sure this author is correct wrt housing code.

Just my two cents.
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Two word summary: navel gazing.
I don't disagree with you per se, but I have spent nearly a decade living in a city which has amazingly great public transport, very dense living arrangements (30-story highrises are the norm), and people walk constantly.

Are you ready to go grocery shopping pretty much every single day or every other day? Or can you manage to be at home during a 6-hour window for the grocery delivery if you want to shop once a week for that stuff?

Would you get stressed waiting, at least twice a day (leaving from your floor and returning from the lobby), for elevators in a 30-story building? Remember that people in wheelchairs, kids taking their bikes downstairs to ride, workmen w/materials/tools, people moving house, etc. are all going to be using the elevators.

If you're out somewhere and buy anything (in my case, yesterday, it was a new electric toothbrush) that's not groceries or something large, like an air conditioner, you're going to have to lug it around with you until you go home, even if you have several other stops to make or errands to do. There's no such thing as going to your car and putting something in the trunk until later.

Are you ready for even short trips to take much longer? You'll need to get out of your highrise, walk for some time until you get to the public transport pick-up point (bus stop, train platform, etc.), wait a while, ride the public transport (which usually moves slower than a car even if it weren't making a bunch of other stops between your home and ultimate destination's drop-off point), and then, finally, you'll have to walk some more to reach wherever it was that you wanted to go.

If you already live in a highrise, use public transportation exclusively, and don't own a car, then I'm glad that the experience hasn't soured you on high-density living and public transportation.
I apreciate the links but I wish they were from less biased sources. Any peer reviewed academic citations?

Quote from NMHC: NMHC is a national association representing the interests of the larger and most prominent apartment firms in the U.S.

Cato is obviously infinitely more reputable than an industry trade group. But lets face it Cato is not exactly an unbiased source for discussion of government policies.
That's the Google I know, everyone has a "Google pulled the plug on me without a good reason and refuses to reconsider" story, or knows someone who does.
Actually, it turn(ed) the system volume all the way up.

But mplayer (command line) itself is awesome. It's the only thing I use on Linux.
San Jose, which is ostensibly a city, is only a little more dense than Nassau County, which isn't anything like a city. Manhattan is more than four times as dense as San Francisco. Although there are a bunch of geographical barriers preventing super-high population density in the Bay Area, there's still a lot of room for more people.
I think you slightly underestimate the degree to which that can change your life. When the average American lives paycheck to paycheck, having tens of thousands of dollars in checking account means that you simply don't have to worry about things like treating your kids and their friends to a movie and popcorn. You can buy things other people would see as a great luxury (e.g. transpacific plane tickets) without batting an eye. You don't need to worry about going to a job you hate because you ultimately don't need it.

What money buys you is freedom. If you've got a few million in the bank, provided you don't spend it recklessly, you've got yourself a middle-class lifestyle for the rest of your life. That's freedom from a lot of worries that the average American is perpetually troubled by. Sure, you can blow it and have one hell of a decade, but I respect the average HN'er enough to assume that's not what was meant.
Ask HN: Need rules suggestions for my multi-player snake game
So I'm building a multi-player snake game with HTML canvas, MooTools, node.js, and socket.io as a learning experience. I just completed what I thought was the hard part, which was making the bare bones of the game like having 2 snakes in an arena, making a snack/score system, and most importantly having the two browsers be perfectly in sync with each other while updating 15 times a second (spend all day removing lag from responsiveness and synchronization).

I just realized that I completely suck at making rules for a compelling game. The rules in the game as of right now are simple but flawed. You get 100 points for each snack eaten and you win whenever your opponent dies. You get a bonus if you kill your opponent, which means they crash into you and not the wall. The flaw in this is, you getting a high score is entirely dependent on your opponent not sucking and not crashing into walls and such, because when that happens, the game is over and you can't score any more. I definitely want a leaderboard so this can be frustrating to good players.
So I guess I'm just wondering, what kind of multi-player snake game would be the most fun for you? Would you want more than two snakes per arena? What kind of bonus should you get for killing other snakes? Should you win via a point system from eating snacks or how many times you kill your opponent?

Here was my main thought process when starting this project:
1) You grow your snake by eating snacks like a traditional snake game
2) The longer you grow, the easier it is to trap your opponent

However I'm having a tough time assembling these ideas into rules for a full game. Any ideas or help would be very appreciated!
You (ahem) forgot Blackberry.

It has been a while for me but from what I can recall you are ready to go once you download the blackberry IDE. There may be an eclipse plugin for that now so you don't have to download the whole monster.
You really can't compare Europe to the US. They are tiny. For example, one of the largest countries in Europe is France: slightly less than the size of Texas. It's metropolitan population is 65m. Texas is only 28m. Other countries there are even more lopsided. Just as with cellphone networks, smaller area is easier.
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When it comes down to it, isn't "translating" and "meta-programming" the same thing? It's an honest question -- how do you make the distinction?

To add some context, I'm in the "interpreters all the way down" camp. On other words, it seems to me that hardware vs software is an arbitrary distinction. After all, someone had to decide how the hardware would respond to code, in other words, someone had to physically program the hardware to behave a certain way. In that sense, isn't the code we write (in lisp, C, C++, etc...) just a way to meta-program the hardware?

I'm not sure if that was very clear... Another way of saying it is that simply declaring "software should never modify software" or "software should never be treated as data" is an arbitrary and almost meaningless declaration.
It's great to see that Jython development has picked up! For the interested, details are at

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=jja...
I may be (read: am) biased, but I don't think there is (currently) any finer system in the world for technical, more-or-less-science-based Q&A than Stack Exchange.

So the open question is, how many technical, mostly-science based topics exist that work on the Stack Exchange Q&A engine -- and how large can they become? Many have been tried, some are working; see the statistics at http://stackexchange.com/sites?view=list#traffic

At the very least, Stack Exchange produced Stack Overflow, which is already absolutely enormous, growing like crazy, and well on its way to becoming the Wikipedia of programming. We can't really say that about Quora for any topic, can we? Will Stack Exchange ever recreate that level of success on any other topic? I don't know. I suppose you could plot growth curves of the various sub-sites and estimate how long it'd take for them to reach the size of Stack Overflow.
Sure. But I think the problem space for databases has changed quite a bit in ways that aren't true for TCP, and are only partly true for C.

My dad was writing code at the time, and he saw the big benefit as allowing developers to manage larger amounts of data on disk (10s of megabytes!) without a lot of the manual shenanigans and heavy wizardry in laying out the data on disk and finding it again. Plus, the industry thought the obvious future was languages like COBOL, what with their friendly English-like syntax and ability for non-programmers to get things done directly.

So little of that is true anymore. For a lot of things that use databases, you're expected to have enough RAM for your data. We don't distribute and shard because we can't fit enough spinning rust in a box; we do it because we're limited on RAM or CPU. A lot more people have CS degrees, the field is much better understood, and developers get a lot more practice because hardware is now approximately free. And nobody really thinks the world needs another English-like language so that managers can build their own queries.

TCP, on the other hand, is solving pretty similar problems: the pipes have gotten faster and fatter, but surprisingly little has changed in the essentials.

C is somewhere in between. A small fraction of developers working these days spend much time coding in plain C, and many of its notions are irrelevant to most development work.

But unlike SQL databases, you could ignore C if you wanted to; there were other mainstream choices. That wasn't true for SQL until recently; the only question was Oracle or something else. I'm very glad that has changed.
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He neglected to mention PDAs (push-down automaton) - which is basically the same concept as a DFA or NFA but with a stack.

State transitions can manipulate the stack, and the top of a stack can be used to pick which state to move to.

PDAs aren't as powerful as Turing machines, but they are able to parse any context free grammar, so they are able to recognize languages that contain any number of 'a' characters followed by the same number of 'b' characters.
If you had joined them, you'd also be wondering "what if" you had stayed and worked on your startup, especially after seeing Instagram's sale: "what if that was my startup"? Now you know.
He's not - he's comparing them to two of the densest cities in the Bay Area (San Francisco and San Jose). The New York boroughs each have a bit less than half the land area of their Bay Area equivalents, but have much higher populations.
I've been using SQL Server 5 hours a day for almost 15 years now and yes, I've taken databases to the limits of the hardware many times. We've upgraded our SQL Servers' hardware many times due to increasing load. We've never had a scaling problem that we could not immediately and easily resolve.

If your server falls apart it's usually because of a single bad query and with SQL Server it's super easy to determine which query is at fault and kill it, at which point everything is immediately back to normal with NO LOST DATA. You can even set limits to how much resources a query can consume if you want.

As for the 'no warning' thing, all you need to do is monitor your server. It should not run at 99% CPU or IO capacity at peak times! If you know the limits of your hardware it's really not difficult to monitor the actual usage and plan your upgrades accordingly.

It doesn't matter how bad things get you can rest assured that you'll end up with a consistent database once the dust settles. You can even do database restores up to an arbitrary point in time if you need to! We've fucked up in every way imaginable but we've never lost any data let alone an entire database. I have nothing but praise for SQL Server.
What is fascinating is how strongly and without proof many people believe the argument that "Consciousness is mortally bound to the physical body". If anything, this fixation seems like both an interesting study of the blind-spots of human mental process and as evidence that the situation is, in fact, rather unlikely.

This particular, uh, delusion, seems similar to the recurrent theme that an "intelligent" enough computer would/could "develop self-conscious" (whatever that is) and start "thinking for itself". Here, we have strong ideas about the properties of "self-consciousness", without, as you say, having a ghost of an idea of what it is.
I use the Fb app a few times a day and I'm happy enough with it.

The interface is attractive enough and doesn't have any glaring usability issues.

Performance (on my Nexus S w/ 2G connection) could improve but isn't so bad that it causes frustration.

And it's available for free and without ads.

I get the style sheet bug up to a few times a week, but it's no big deal. Just pull the page down to refresh and it's fixed.

Maybe my standards are low but I suspect 95% + of people are the same, so why would Fb bother doing it any differently?
If it's really weather, why are almost all of the east coast sun states significantly cheaper? And two of them don't have a state income tax! (Florida and Texas). New York also has fairly shitty weather comparatively and it's even more expensive.

It's more complicated than that. Prop 13, cities forcing a lack of density and other polices and forces I don't know about push California to it's sky high rates.
The Facebook app worked quite well a year ago, but I uninstalled it many months ago. The newer versions use a webview, which is horribly slow, and continuously poll the gps for some reason. There are alternatives like Friendcaster, that uses a third-party facebook application and Tinfoil for Facebook, a desktop/mobile site wrapper.
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For this to work, they have to be able to use your work to make more money than you charge them. If they can't, politely explain that to them; tell them they need to think of a way to get more out of what you do, or you will have to find other clients.

It's hard, and I am bad at it, but I think doing this is key to "growing up" and being a successful freelancer.
In fact, now that I'm reading up, the closest equivalent to a borough is a county of the Bay Area (each borough was originally a county, before the NYC consolidation of 1898).
discussion is only tolerated on Stack Exchange insofar as it allows us to get better questions, and better answers to questions. Just that amount, and no more.

See also: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-su...

(note: I do not disagree that the Q&A format may not be appropriate or even correct for all topics. Particularly and perhaps most of all those with no remotely verifiably "correct" answer possible.)
I worry less about the missed opportunities to join Facebook.

I worry more about the impact this sudden injection of cash into the local economy is going to have on the rest of us (a group most economists would call "the middle classes").

What we're about to see is going to be an example of micro-economy inflation.

Don't expect any deals when you go to buy a car next year - the dealership will have more than met their sales target and have a steady flow of Facebook stock holders coming through their door. House prices will shoot up too, although I'm not in the market to buy a house so that worries me less.

At a micro-economy level, local bars and restaurants in Soma, Mission, Pac Heights and other places popular with Facebook crowd (note how many FB busses their are in these areas at commute time) will no doubt try to charge more and probably get away with it.

I actually can't quantify how many people are getting made by the FB IPO but I reckon it's enough to have some local impacts on the rest of us.
Europeans tolerate more onerous restrictions on individual liberty than Americans do. The combination of high degrees of individual liberty and high population density tends to produce a less predictable, sometimes disheartening and sometimes dangerous environment that wealthy people in the U.S. tend to prefer not to live in (at least after their young adulthoods).

The point is that there are good reasons why most Americans with the ability to do so choose to live in areas low enough in density that cars work better than public transportation and that America cannot simply copy Europe's urban planning without also copying some of Europe's laws and attitudes regarding individual liberty. (And laws and attitudes are hard to change.)
MPlayer OSX Extended[1] is your friend. It has playlist, it has nice interface and you could swap out MPlayer player binary with a newer one (e.g. mplayer2-git[2] or build your own via Homebrew[3]). I like MPlayer OSX Extended far more than MPlayerX or any other alternatives, shame that it didn't get the attention it deserves.

[1]: http://www.mplayerosx.ch/

[2]: http://code.google.com/p/mplayerosx-builds/downloads/list

[3]: https://github.com/pigoz/mplayerosx-builds/
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It's absurd for a bunch of hackers to think about, but this is what has made Apple billions of dollars, and it's what made them the best technology company on the planet: the construction of devices completely defined by their simple interfaces, with all else hidden from the end user.

Then you would agree that Macs are unsuitable for normal users, since they ship with a command line and lots of geeky Unix tools preinstalled?
Please tell us which city you just described.
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Re: oDesk data - what do you want to know?

I regular post data from oDesk on my own blog (I work at oDesk w/ these folks: https://www.odesk.com/info/l/research/): http://onlinelabor.blogspot.com/.

And there's the "oConomy": https://www.odesk.com/oconomy/
There's also lots of info available via the API.
I have used Bootstrap and it requires considerable effort to make the site look different. Some simple things like changing header color and height require external help (stackoverflow etc.)

Over time I will be able to build a site as good as any on Bootstrap.
Banksy's Exit Through the Gift Shop is a fantastic movie about how art is PRed up to stratospheric prices. I interpreted it as a tongue in cheek satire on himself and other street artists.
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IIRC correctly most of the older MP3 players didn't need any software beyond what was built into Windows.
Of course this was the era of Windows 95/98 so how well that worked overall it's difficult to say.
> A criticism that has sometimes been levelled at Stanford is that once you are admitted you can coast your way to graduation.

This is an odd criticism. While I was at Stanford, the school administrators were extremely concerned with a ubiquitous problem on campus called "Stanford Duck Syndrome": looking serene and peaceful above the surface, but underneath the water, paddling as hard as possible to keep from sinking.

You could say I was an academically-inclined kid. I started high school a year early. And during that year, I passed AP Calculus with the maximum score of 5. I studied for the SAT for a week, took it only once, and if I recall correctly scored in the 98th percentile. And finally, I matriculated at Stanford at age 16.

But still, Stanford was by a large margin the most difficult thing I'd ever done up to that point. And it would not be a huge stretch to include everything I've done ever since.

I've come to understand since graduating that, for many other institutions, the professor applies a curve to an exam in response to the overall performance of the class being poor. At Stanford, it is expressed at the start that the exam will be curved -- because the professors intend to make it so difficult that they are confident that, in their classroom of highly motivated, intelligent students, only a small handful will be able to get As; it is intended to be a way to differentiate the very top students.

Let me give you a sense of what this feels like. I was taking the freshman physics series with the world champion in physics. Blake Ross, one of the guys behind Firefox, was attending while I was there. Even while I was learning how to swim at Avery Aquatic Center, I saw Don Knuth finishing up lap swimming....
I think about how awesome are the problems I get to solve every day, how much php sucks, and how much I really don't care about getting people to push the like button more times in a day. I do fine on a day-to-day basis, I'm paying off my debt. I value the time I enjoy at work much higher than a couple million that I'd probably just blow on nonsense anyway.
Wow.....it's May 2012 and 'tech-savvy' companies still don't know how to handle basic stuff like copyright infringement by employees, bad customer service experiences and disgruntled partners (and employees) as a direct result of your own actions?

Say sorry.

Shut up.

Avert PR crisis.

Move on.

Is it that hard people?
This is what I call "user interface".

Will it be possible to modify this to work with other OS's such as BSD, GNU/Linux, Solaris, etc.?
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I've never quite understood why they require a Mac for development. Surely it wouldn't be insurmountable to port the tools to Windows/Linux?

They might sell a few more Mac desktops this way but I can't see it being a large number in the grand scheme of things.

One of the reasons I bought an Android instead of an iPhone was because I can develop for it using the computer I already have.
How is this different to LinkShare, TradeDoubler etc?