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I've been working on a Social Baseball Management Game for a little bit, and the basics are working. Want to see what people think. I am pretty new to coding so I have been teaching myself as I go. Thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
I think there's another factor. Even if you have talent for both programming and UX, it's hard for the same person to do both those things well on the same project. To program well you have to know the implementation inside-out. But to do UX well you need to see the places where implementation complexity is leaking through and confusing users. For that, it's helpful not to know too much about how the sausage is made (not sausage in general, but this particular sausage). Once you are habituated to the internals, many details will feel natural and obvious to you that are anything but natural and obvious to users.

The best thing, of course, is to have the program's internal model and the user's mental model be the same. Eliminate contradictions rather than hiding them with complex mappings. ("Design is how it works".) But even then, there will always be much complexity that the user should not have to know about.
I'm happy that the team took their passion to execute one something so effectively.

But not all ideas are good. It violates Fitt's law by placing all user interaction within a vertical band next to your computer. This is very uncomfortable and decreases the usefulness for most applications (because missing the interaction band is likely).

If these were wireless gloves that I could more easily (with my arms in any location) then I'd love this.
We use Errbit heavily internally at Cloudfuji in a way that's not really possible with most open source setups. We're able to track all the errors when apps are run on our platform, so we can funnel that back into app development - and any open-source developer putting their app on our store can do the same.

One of the major challenges of Errbit currently is the Javascript error reporting, which we have some internal work going on to help make it much better (for everyone, Airbrake users included).

Major thanks to the Errbit project for such a well-made, solid product. And of course to the Airbrake (/hoptoad/exceptional) teams for making this a standard in modern development.
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You got flamed for that comment because you called generating SSH keys "scary crypto stuff." If that scares you, you probably also enjoy the simplicity of storing passwords in plaintext...
This is so messed up. It's just sick the way power was abused, and damages applied so randomly.
If I recall correctly, it is possible to modify a pull-request by deleting the "active" commit of the pull request on github and adding something else, i.e. if I do something like rebase -i and then a push -f (which I can, because, after all, it is my own repository I am pushing to.)
It's normal to be curious but for very important and personal stuff like this a little restraint is the least you can do. Let's stop now.
>Just to pick a nit. To date Facebook's P/E is high because Facebook said so. Facebook's value has never been set by an open market until about 3 or 4 hours ago.

Not an open market, no, but a market nonetheless. Anytime a company takes a funding round, whether from a single incubator or a dozen VCs, the transaction implicitly prices the company pursuant to growth expectations. (And that's not even mentioning Facebook's heavy trading in SecondMarket.) Just because a market is restricted and low-volume doesn't mean it doesn't exist; any time a transaction occurs, you'll find a market behind it.
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Most likely what will happen is what usually happens when the RIAA wins a big judgement: they will offer to settle for an amount that is approximately $1 to $2 per song shared.

Note that I said per song shared, which will be more than the 24 songs that were specifically in the lawsuit. Generally in these cases the person is sharing thousands of songs. The RIAA only names a dozen or so in their suits because there is no point in suing over all of them. They have to prove proper copyright registration for each song and that they are authorized by the copyright owner to sue, so suing over all of them would require a ton of evidence.

With 24 songs, if they win and if they get the MINIMUM POSSIBLE statutory damages (which only happens if the court finds that the infringer was not aware and had no reason to believe they were infringing), that works out to about $5k. If the court finds that the infringer knew or had reason to believe that they were infringing, the minimum statutory damages on 24 songs would be $18k.

So, here's the situation from the point of view of someone that the RIAA catches distributing a few thousand songs: the RIAA will offer to settle for somewhere around maybe $3-5k. That will work out to about $1-2/song. Considering that it is typically $1/song to buy a copy of the song for personal use, being asked to pay $1 or $2 for a copy that you were sharing online is quite reasonable.

If you decide that you are going to make them go to court, and they sue over just a handful of the songs, and if you actually did share the songs and so are guilty and they can prove it, then you are GUARANTEED to have damages of more than what you could have settled for.

It doesn't take a game theorist to figure out that settling is a strictly dominant strategy here.

Note that there is no question of innocence or mistake. Tenenbaum basically admits he did it, that he knew it was illegal, and that he intends to keep doing it. The other defendant who was taking their case to trial (three times now, I believe), Jamie Thomas-Rasset, also was clearly guilty, although she still hasn't admitted it. She did perjure herself, got caught tampering with evidence, and tried to blame her children and boyfriend for her actions.
Did anyone get an email confirmation after applying for the dev kit? After I hit the button, it reloaded to the home page, and I haven't seen any emails.
Yes I've been keeping a close eye on this project. Based off the readme, it sounds exactly like what I'm looking for. You make a good point though, as it was authored by the same user but ClickOnce was chosen instead.
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Lua has built-in support of this functionality through coroutines [1]. Serializing the coroutines to a database does requires a library [2].

[1] http://lua-users.org/wiki/CoroutinesTutorial

[2] http://lua-users.org/wiki/PlutoLibrary
One point of note is that you selected "bug" for the category/tag for your feedback. By almost anyone's definition of review vs. bug report there is a big difference and posting a bug report as a review doesn't ensure that the developer would see that info.

I'm not claiming what they're doing is ideal, but I can see a strong argument for not sending bug reports to the app store reviews.
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First of all, don't panic. I have received this email countless of times and aside from checking the logs/files to ensure that there isn't any hack (I have a bunch of notifications which inform me about changes but I still just check to make sure) there's nothing else you can really do. If there is a hack then there are a lot of things you should do but, as you highlight that its not then we can skip this part.

You have not been removed from the Google index, you can check if you are still in it by typing "site:snipt.net" likewise you are still also #1 for "snipt".

As a result you should not submit a reconsideration request in fact, if you are ever deindexed I believe its the last thing you should do to get your site back in Google.

However, you may have lost some serp rankings for other keywords (I haven't bothered to check them to see if they have moved) although, they generally restore themselves once the GoogleBot revisits your site - which is a lot more than any other search bot out there at the moment - if someone is going to beat Google they want them to work a lot harder and smarter than them ;)

P.S. You should add a robots.txt file and sitemap.xml files to your site (the sitemap may exist but I couldn't see it)

Also you should .htaccess your site so the dynamic pages appear as natural pages - by this I mean change ?page=199 to /page-1 or /1 or even /page/1 (but don't use file extensions as its just an extra hassle if you decide to change your codebase later on).
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In general, if a company’s stock goes way down and that decline is attributable to bad management, then some entrepreneur can gather together a bunch of investors and say “I can run that company better than the yoinks that currently occupy the boardroom. Loan me enough money to buy up 51% of those undervalued shares, and when I take over and turn the company around, the appreciated stock will make us all rich.”

However, FB Inc. is structured so that Zuck will retain a majority of the voting rights, even if every other investor stands against him (http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/02/face...), so even if the price goes down to a dollar a share, investors’ only recourse will be to sell before it drops to fifty cents.
Well, in the situation you are describing I most certainly agree. CSS-only solutions tend to be quite lacking in real-world terms. But this was a demo and I saw no indication it was anything other than that. If you were meaning to aim your comment to people that think the way you describe then I apologize, but I didn't get that from your comment.
Thanks for this.

We know what people call the probkem we solve and are actually already shaping the discussion quite a bit over here in Switzerland but now aim to increase our reach.

I have never been a big fan of Apps such as Tweetdeck or Hootsuite but might just have to go with them. I have to say though that the desk.com integration sounds intriguing. We are a Uservoice customer but this really looks very neat and helpful
"Github as resume" is about transparency. If everything you've written is useless, showing it off is not going to help you.
> I decide to view the profiles of all those who clicked the ads

What? I thought advertisers didn't have access to that info. That's pretty creepy. And while he's talking about them in the article, he should have thrown in their names and links to their profiles for good measure.
I'm sure it could be done in a regular guitar, though you'd destroy the tone.
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As a guitarist, I don't think this is a useless tool for people learning how to play, but "the first guitar that anybody can play" is a ridiculous title.

Anyone with two working hands and no cognitive disabilities can learn how to play a guitar already. It takes effort, but if you keep at it, learning how to play is inevitable. What they are promising with the title is that this device will take all the effort out of learning, so that even those who don't want to put any effort in can learn how to play.

But it will still take effort to learn. Lots. It's not just having to learn where to put your fingers. It's learning how to make your fingers move the way they should. It's learning to keep going even though your fingers just refuse to do what you tell them to do when you first start out. It's also learning rhythm, and musicality, and a whole host of things.

I'm sure this tool would make it somewhat easier to learn how to play. But you'd still have to actually learn how to play before you could play.
Announcing GTar S with support for the iPhone 5
"This is very uncomfortable and decreases the usefulness for most applications"

You are forgetting that "most applications" are designed for a mouse and keyboard.

A more useful critique would be to analyze the type of applications that can be built with LEAP in mind.
This will take off once the user can rest his hands on the desk and gesture with his fingers. But not before.
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Looking at the 2nd pic on the kickstarter page, it looks like the iPhone dock is modular.
Dev Kits (free) Ship international within 1-3 months.

Pre-orders ($70) only ship domestic (for now) around winter.

20,000 dev kits are being made. We want to ensure this tech becomes ubiquitous.

We're getting slammed with launch response. But if you guys have questions, we'll try to answer them here shortly.

-Chris
Community Builder
Mike Monteiro is actually https://twitter.com/#!/mike_ftw - FTW, not WTF. (he's got a fairly NSFW twitter background incidentally)
Yeah, seems to be an odd bug. Behavior for me is exactly the same as for you.
Nope... haven't gotten anything yet. :-(
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It's Google that decides what features and protocols are implemented into Chrome. Since they control a large share of the market, it basically gives them life or death power on new features of web languages.
I was considering buying paid tweets through your service and ultimately decided against it. You shouldn't be forcing your own URL shortener on paid tweet placements. If I don't care for your click reporting, I should be able to opt out of it.
A few issues:

First, if you don't tune it (the write up strongly suggests that tuning is optional), the strings will still make a sound, and that sound will be awful. I think the optional-tuning should be kept on the down-low, since taking advantage of it is sort of a bad idea.

Second, I don't think muting wrong notes is actually helpful, since you lose auditory feedback. Knowing whether the note you just hit was too high or too low is a valuable thing for a guitarist to be able to hear instantly.

Lastly, does it do string bends? Video isn't working for me and it's not mentioned in the write up. If not, somewhat serious limitation.
I would never stop to think that the x's could be the same. The fact the {} instead of do syntax is used and the fact that the parameter is called 'x' instead of something more descriptive tells me that I shouldn't be concerned with the parameter itself.
Right, this is a very good point. Many one star app reviews are there because the user is frustrated and doing something wrong.

I have one review in which a person said my app only allows 10 entries (it allows unlimited entries). One-star review, and I can't contact them to fix the problem. If I had a system like this implemented, likely they would have gotten in touch with me, I could have figured out what they were doing and solved their problem.

In that case, it would have eliminated bias by preventing an incorrect negative review. And helped resolve that person's issue.
I agree, these things tend to come at us in waves. I just wish we could see the light a little bit sooner so we can at least start speculating on what's next as opposed to rehashing the same hype over the same stuff.

For instance, I would like to see more speculation on making web apps that behave like apps in the browser instead of being web pages that try to act like apps. But I guess the native apps on mobile devices is already addressing that plus the other usual suspects in the space that are trying their best with what we have now.
Is "mental health detainment" in this case an involuntary psychiatric commitment? Is there law for this being used punitively to effectively put someone in jail for 30 days without regard to the criminal charges? Or is his detainment for "mental evaluation" somehow actually legitimate in the context of the charges placed against him? This has shades of the old Soviet Union practice of declaring political dissidents insane and holding them indefinitely in locked-down psychiatric hospitals without any criminal charges. Someone assuage my fears.
For most company interview applications, they ask for a phone number without alternatives. ... I never hear back from these.

I've seen the same kind of thing. When I started looking for work in the bay area in 1996, when my email got a response, it was always with "give us a call" or "what's your phone number?" (when I'd already noted I couldn't do phones -- this was before internet phone relay). I'd write back politely reexplaining the issue and offer alternatives, and always, always, that was the last I'd hear from them.

To the recruiter or whoever, the deaf candidate is a bit more trouble, weirdness, uncertainty, which apparently was just enough to consistently push me into the wastebasket; to the candidate, any one such episode can be shrugged off, but when it happens repeatedly, for months... that's something else. Try to remember this when you find yourself on the other side of this dynamic.

(I finally got an interview with Peter Norvig's startup because he personally remembered me from a bug I'd found in his book. Similar story for other job offers -- contacts matter.)
I agree what you say, but chess is not only who is the better database, though. Analytic reasoning (and home preparation) is still what defines who wins among similar "databases".
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Nesson is no doubt brilliant but he's done some pretty maverick things:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091207/1149277233.shtml

Additionally the other big case in this domain, Capital v. Thomas, has seen much of the same. Some very talented people working the case pro-bono, but seemingly doing this for the spotlight.

It's good to have options. It's good to not have these things turn into a circus if it can be helped. But then again, IANAL.
Is there a standalone installer? I am behind a proxy and the installer doesn't seem to get along with Tunnelier.

14:32:19.309 (unrecognized proxy protocol) connection from 127.0.0.1:3743 failed: Unsupported client protocol; the client may be expecting a regular HTTP proxy.
I think they should relocate where the iphone goes.
Do you have a site up? I wish we could come together as a community and crowd-source the f* out of this issue. Something to take away the fear that RIAA is sowing and give people who downloaded or shared a few songs their lives back. I'm not wealthy, but I'd donate a respectable sum to a legitimate fundraising entity for the defense and support of RIAA targets.
This was my first reaction, then I realized that for people who are trying to teach themselves guitar, this would be way easier than learning to read tablature, and even easier than watching youtube videos (since the mirror effect can be tricky at first).

On the other hand, you risk becoming a guitarist who struggles to read tablature or learn by watching other guitarists, so the trade off is arguably high. At the very least, one should learn these things after getting off the ground with gTar.

Of course, you're right that there's more to guitar than putting your fingers in the right place, but at the very least I think we can say that for learning individual songs, this would be a big improvement on tabs.
The NIH has a budget of $30B, so it's not just one of a dozen.

http://www.nih.gov/about/budget.htm

If I recall, it has the largest research budget of any non-military US government body by far.
This is not a "Metro app" in the Windows 8 sense of the word. This is a "desktop app" that looks like a WinRT/Metro/"modern app". Just as a heads up since there is already terminology/tech confusion.
We started out specializing in software, so we rarely get these types of applications. But you can build important infrastructure using software (indeed, most of the examples you give are largely or mostly software). And the companies we fund that are building such things do not have a harder time raising money than the companies building social apps.
Not $100 :)

I've got a lot of subscribers through betali.st (can't recommend it enough) and it costs me exactly 0. Reddit promoted post generated some subscriptions, but these worked out to about $5 a piece. StumbleUpon cost was +inf, because not a single Speedy Gonzales of theirs managed to stay on the site for longer than 3 seconds, leave alone signing up.

I posted a bit more details on this earlier, have a look if curious - http://swapped.tumblr.com/post/22485539186/pre-launch-promot...

(edit) And, why is this at -1?
>Imagine if Google's stock price would decline significantly in the period of next year or two - wouldn't that spell doom and gloom in people's eyes?

Would you stop Googling things because you read a news story about their stock price declining?

(Caveat: There's some economic work that models real-world feedback from irrational "noise" trading. If you're interested in learning more I'd start with Subrahmanyam & Titman's 2001 "Feedback to Cash Flows.")
The abdication of duty to truth in favor of balancing competing ideas is a disease. Sometimes some ideas are just empirically more correct and some are just empirically more incorrect. If some partisans happen to hold the more correct view, and others happen hold the more incorrect view, then to speak the correct view cannot avoid being incidentally partisan. To therefore preclude that speech as "partisan" is ridiculous.
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Also see: http://chordbuddy.com/.

If I were to use one, I'd use Chord Buddy because there is an extremely objective learning process: take one chord-helper out at a time until you need none.

Having a source for songs to learn might be cool for some people, but the drawback of having to learn by site rather than touch makes the gTar something I'm not interested in.

Awesome project, though. Godspeed.
Reminds me a lot of Arc's square bracket syntax:

[* _ 2]

becomes

(lambda (x) (* x 2))
Python folks might be interested in Brubeck. It too pulls messages directly from mongrel2 and provides coroutines for its concurrency abstraction.

https://github.com/j2labs/brubeck
The thing that gets me about a lot of these products being built around the iPhone, iPod, etc... is what happens if the next generation changes the physical form factor? It may mean getting a new iPhone also means having to replace 10 other gadgets you have come to enjoy.

Edit: looking closer this one does seem to have a module the phone sits in so it may be future upgradable however... you still require the upgrade, and it seems the module isn't much wider than the iPhone4... not much room to adapt if the phone gets bigger.
I regret mentioning HIV. I just thought stigma and that's what popped in my head first. And yeah, I do wish to respect that privacy and if he's not going to say it then I wouldn't press him. But it is natural to really wonder when you read a letter like that. I really hope what I said wasn't offensive. I had no bad intentions in writing it. I just got that feeling you get when someone comes up and tells you "I have a secret but I'm not telling". I don't feel it's wrong to wonder and even ask if somebody knows more but if it is then I'm honestly sorry in advance and I really do wish him the very best and hope he stays well and continues to do the great work he loves doing for a long time to come.
This tool lowers the barrier to positive reinforcement, which is key in continuing any activity.