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As it happens, last night, I came across this talk featuring Jeffrey Katzenburg from Dreamworks Animation: http://te11.techonomy.com/innovation/entertainment-and-techn...

In it, he discusses the enormous investment they are making in real-time technologies for future animation projects.

Animation is absurdly labour intensive and highly iterative and, as he says, new real-time technologies will revolutionize the industry.
Are you using that term for effect, or...? The most expensive Pixar films to date have cost around US$200m.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and commit heresy:

Logos are not that important. And I say this as someone who used to do graphic design professionally.

If you're a startup, the most important thing is that the logo is professionally done - typefaces properly chosen and kerned etc, proper colour choices etc. There's no need to navel gaze for months on end about how the company values are or are not represented by a particular shade of blue. You have much more important things to worry about.

This goes for design in general. There is a lot of mental masturbation in the design community. Just ensure that your design comes off as professional, and that will usually be more than enough.

As for 99Designs et al, I'm all for it. For a smallish fee, you get tons of concepts, which you can refine till you're satisfied. Done. Now, back to building your business. (Sure a lot of them will be crap, but the sheer numbers usually makes up for it - A single designer will NOT have that many concepts.
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I do some advising for the GoParti guys. I'll hassle them about that :-) Hopefully Rasheed (author of above article) will get to these comments soon and jump in.
I moved to SF 4 months ago and absolutely love it. I've lived in major cities in Europe and New York, and SF blows all of these cities out of the water.

SF is a city of micro-cultures, sure there are some areas that are extremely sketchy (e.g. Tenderloin, Western Addition, Hunters Point), but most areas are pretty safe with open green spaces, good restaurants, interesting bars and an incredible tech scene. Whats not to like? How are you defining quality of life?
I think openbsd developers are better than most at realistic threat assessment. :)
Again, you are repeating this idea that all these other non-coding skills can be mastered on a whim. If you truly need an MBA type doing MBA things for your company, then you should go get one. Lord knows there's a zillion of them out there, almost all of which have a better resume than "I read MBA for dummies".

Or to put this differently. If I was working for some larger company as a developer, and I went to management and said "I have decided that I want to quit development and work in marketing", they would turn me down. And rightly so, because A) it would be bad for the company to lose my development skills, and B) there is no reason to hire me as a marketing person when there's many more out there far more qualified and experienced in marketing.

So...if this would be quite clearly the correct course of action if I worked for someone else, why would I not follow the same thought process for my own company?
For a typical pixar/dreamworks movie, it takes about $1.25 million/per minute of film.

It can take a week just do 3 seconds of animation and all the labour is, of course, exceptionally talented and extremely expensive.
You do, of course, understand that when a Ruby project gets large, it's still about 10% the size of a similarity functional Java project, right?

I don't like all the magic involved in Ruby for web (in particular Rails), but it's much more concise than Java.
This is really similar to the story that Ruben Gamez tells in his mixergy interview about Bidsketch. He started off building it in Grails (IIRC) but later switched to outsourcing to a Ruby dev.

He was then able to focus completely on the marketing side of things.

I think that one of the biggest problems that developers have when launching a business/product is that we know how to code, so we assume we should do everything.

I see this repeatedly with friends of mine who have an app idea or an idea for a website that they could get made for a couple of grand but insist they need to learn to do it themselves even if they're not already app/web developers.

People that can't code lament it - they look for technical co-founders and whatnot but the stories I hear from non-technical (and technical!) folks who either choose to (in the case of techies) or are forced to (in the case of non-techies) outsource development they generally get something released at all where as many of the technical people that I know personally are paralysed by the initial time investment required to learn a new technology and being unable to balance that with their full time job elsewhere.
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While your advice may be prudent, that does not excuse poor security.
Actually, it isn't. Ad hominem is an attempt to negate the truth of a claim by pointing out a negative characteristic or belief of the person supporting it.

In this case, he is referring to a third party (the monarchy) who actually did use it as a monopoly priviledge for the monarchy. Saying that it is frabricated does not make it so. In fact, if you look at all that was said, it was "Historically, Intellectual property was created as one more monopoly privilege for the monarchy."
$200m USD is $158m euros.. so yes, that's, an order of magnitude more.
> A good on-boarding process is very tough

a-fucking men to that!
Oh man. I'm considering how much money I'd earn from the {{fact}} (now {{citation needed}}) tag on Wikipedia... :-)
cheald has an excellent comment regarding MessagePack, JSON, and Protocol Buffers in the post from 15 hours ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4091051

MessagePack is not smaller than gzip'd JSON
MessagePack is not faster than JSON when a browser is involved

Other comments from that post include:

MessagePack is not human readable
MessagePack has issues with UTF-8
Small packets also have significant TCP/IP overhead

Really, anyone who hasn't read the other comments should: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4090831
I thought the "informal economies" in places like Spain and Italy was well-known. At any rate, I don't understand why a bunch of people evading taxes is supposed to make us feel better about Spain's ability to service its debt.
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An order of magnitude generally means a multiple of 10, as I understand it.

So yes, a Pixar movie ($200m) is an order of magnitude more expensive than this film ($18.6m).
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So, they pay once for that time and effort. That doesn't mean that they should be paid in perpetuity! Imagine a cobbler who fixes my shoes. Should I pay them for every step I take? Of course not, I pay them once for the work they have done.
Fourthing Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial book/screencasts. Great material.
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The same was true of Raspberry Pi, in that the complete item got taxed once if made completely in China, whereas to assemble it in the UK would've resulted in them being taxed more on separate components pushing the price up.

It really is utterly stupid.
I live in Denver right now, and while I've not lived in San Francisco as an adult, one clear area I'd say Denver wins on is cost of living. Six figures in Denver can go pretty far (owning a nice house or downtown apartment, vacations, private schools if you've got kids), whereas six figures in San Francisco almost certainly won't buy you that. I'm intentionally limiting this to San Francisco because, just as you can get more for your dollar by exploring the Bay Area and commuting, you can also get more for your dollar around Denver by living in some of the less affluent areas (e.g. Aurora, Erie) further out. Denver's got enough of a tech scene to support salaries in that range without fuss or lack of interesting work, so you're not harming your career prospects by moving here.

Denver's also got many other qualities worth mentioning. There's great weather and a laid back culture that is surprising given that many in Denver identify as "Midwesterners" - a term I associate with negative qualities that I've not found here. The populace is very educated, there's plenty of good beer to be had, if you're interested in such activity the mountains are a short drive away, and if you want to travel there's a national hub just east of the city. Boulder's close if a college-town atmosphere is more your scene, but Denver is a large enough area that you're not necessarily tied to what that atmosphere brings in the same way you might be in other towns (e.g. Charlottesville, VA). There's a decent public transportation system, relatively light traffic if you must drive somewhere, good food - it's got quite a lot to offer.

Really, there are only two things I dislike about living in Denver in particular: curiously small yards and the lack of easy access to the ocean. That said, the pros vastly outweigh the cons, and until I leave the country, Denver's where I plan to stay.
The quote includes the phrase "agreed to license" :p
Well, the Ubuntu part came from HD Moore [1]. I haven't been able to confirm it on my Ubuntu 12.04 virtual machine instance though, nor does my virtual machine appear to trigger the bug using the CVE-2012-2122 checker [2].

But, that is just my single VM instance and I would assume HD Moore knows what he is doing.

[1] http://pastie.org/private/903voijkkz8nmde3yqj4rw

[2] http://pastie.org/4064638
The template you are using makes your blog seem like it is jus a collection of trackbacks. It looks too busy for my tired old eyes.

Maybe you could include less posts in the frontpage, and have more of the post show up.

The default font size is rather small.

I did like the content. It is a good blog. Just looks to busy.

Good luck.
This is amazing. I remember being a kid and asking the question, what kind of matter exactly is a flame? Is it plasma?

The first satisfying answer I've ever seen. (And please, if you've seen other good resources, post them here too!)
Fascinating, because the Wall Street Journal said on February 3 "Total corporate federal taxes paid fell to 12.1% of profits earned from activities within the U.S. in fiscal 2011, which ended Sept. 30, according to the Congressional Budget Office. That's the lowest level since at least 1972. And well below the 25.6% companies paid on average from 1987 to 2008." [1]

So I would argue that the title of the article is false, and in aggregate US corporations have engineered around taxes. Alternatively, you could say that they haven't engineered around anything, and the system is operating as designed, it's just that you can't characterize its behavior by a single number.

EDIT: To make the point more explicit, OP says the US is losing business to China because of China's 15% corporate tax rate, and yet that rate is higher than the effective tax rate in the US. Perhaps there's an argument to be made that US taxes really are higher, but the evidence cited in this article isn't it.

[1] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020466220457719...
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I think this game and controller is targeted at the superset of people who was to sword fight "realistically" while playing a fun game, without all the bruises and sore muscles and years of training that accompany using a real sword.
The linked article is inaccurate. While the US has the highest base corporate tax rate, it has the lowest effective corporate tax rate of any major nation.

The US favors a deduction/credit-based system for lowering taxes. Manufacturing and research deductions/credits are especially generous. Ultimately, service-based businesses pay the highest effective rates, but few properly advised service businesses pay a 35% effective rate. (For example, choose a tax entity other than a corporation unless you have a compelling reason for being a corporation.)

It is very possible to engineer around taxes. This is what I and others in my field do for a living.
"The maxim trends towards being universally true"

I realize it is a little pedantic but I think it is reasonable when an encyclopedia article contains a line like that. After three or four minutes on the terrible NYT and Washington Post advanced article search I found the following:

Who Will Be Next to Call Nuclear Energy Indispensable? http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/08/who-will-be-n...

Who Made Those Fingerprints? http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/magazine/who-made-those-fi...

When Should Juvenile Offenders Receive Life Sentences? http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/08/when-should-juv...

Who Should Teach Our Children? http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/07/who-should-t...

What is IPv6 and Why Does It Matter? http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/what-is-ip...

In light of a comment about NYT / Washington Post being off topic to HN and or scoped to assertions only:

Is It Worth It Being Wise? http://www.paulgraham.com/wisdom.html

Could VC Be a Casualty of the Recession? http://www.paulgraham.com/divergence.html
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Can An Anti-Piracy Patent Stop Students From Sharing Textbooks?
Ridiculous distrobution method. Piratebay upload could have gotten this out in a few hours.
So I think the concept here is that nations are in competition with each other to attract businesses by undercutting each other on "price" (i.e. tax rates). If true, does this mean that corporations, as the buyers in this "market", are beginning to dictate prices?

I can see how some science fiction writers (Neal Stephenson comes to mind) have extrapolated this trend to futures where corporations supplant nations and governments as the dominant political entity.
I have got to correct you there. It's way worse than NYC as far as cities go in crime-rate. The crime stigma with NYC is still heading back towards pre-2000.

However, San Francisco is comparable to most cities and much safer than West Philadelphia.
Surely. Every single yuan spent on construction -- whether what is being built is useful or not -- gets added to GDP; so, if one takes all the spending in Ordos and divides it by its near-zero population, the number is surely impressive.

The same logic applies to the entire country's GDP, BTW: take out spending on construction, and China's GDP growth looks a lot less impressive.
As nice as Message Pack might be, 'The best way of serialization' I'm not sure is a very helpful statement. It can't be 'the best' because 'the best' depends on the specifics of what you are doing. As noted in the OP: "...its pros and cons should be carefully considered, and there are many situations where it simply does not offer enough advantage...".

I, for instance, am still using the much-less-cool yaml, because I need to reference the same object at multiple points within the same serialization. JSON and (AFAIK) msgpack just dont do that, so in this case there is simply no argument. It took me far too much playing around to figure this out, because the internet is full of "JSON > yaml" and similar broad statements, and very few plain descriptions of what the actual different use cases for each type of serialization might be.
A bowling ball is inelastic; whatever you thwacked your nose with (your hand?) definitely isn't. Drop an egg 1 foot onto a carpet, then try onto concrete.
Aside: Let your comments stand and take your knocks. Deleting a comment after it's been responded to is weak.
That's kind of the problem. Once you can pay for the tax engineering, great, but you have to get to critical mass first, and having a credit/deduction based system instead of an overall flat rate prevents small players from getting there.
VAT is imposed only once, albeit at multiple levels in smaller amounts. In effect, the VAT is a more hasslesome sales/services tax.

Imported items are subject to higher VAT, but usually only once...if importation was a way to avoid VAT, the EU would not have any manufacturing facilities at all because it would always be cheaper to manufacture in Asia.
I was about to say it may have something to do with the fact that they're separate letters in other languages, like in Polish ą is a different letter, as are ć and ź. It may have something to do, though, with the fact that the ą sounds very similar to a, but ć and ź sound much different from c and z. (I'm only speaking from my very limited knowledge of Polish, I'm not sure about other languages.)
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That's insane import taxes rather than corporation tax. It is good to incorporate in London, (and Dublin, of course), and as long as you don't actually try to make anything in Britain and just ship it all in when it's done, then everything's fine. Meanwhile, the country falls to shit cos less and less people know how to do anything.
The social media bar is interfering somehow on
chrome 21.0.1157.0 (Developer Build 139621 Windows)
(with plugins set to click enable) and 1024*768 screen on xp.

Mainly, all the page under the bar is blank. this affects where the overview map thinks the center is, when you double click to zoom in. also, made the individual site pages uselessly narrow.

edit: deleting this node "<div id="share_btns" class="panel">" makes it usable.
Or they could just visit the IRS website. There are taxpayer-friendly guides for understanding the tax system. The NOLO series also has good advice. Alternatively, spending about $1000 on tax advice from an accountant or tax lawyer could pay for itself in weeks. Taxes aren't due until the following year. If you can't afford to pay for basic tax advice after a year, you are either (a) undercapitalized or (b) lack traction and need to pivot.

Also, the reason the US uses a deduction/credit system is that it is (politically) easier to balance credits and deductions (which effect fewer taxpayers) than to balance an alteration to the base rate that affects everyone.
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The author has completely misunderstood the problem. The problem is not using passwords that are too short. The problem is sharing passwords between sites. 12 characters is plenty, but no password length will protect you if you use the same password everywhere.

Also, your bank is not the most important password you have. That would be your email, which is used to reset all other passwords.
how did you make money from your dating site if the market is very crowded with competing service and most of them available for free?
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salvation.

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5:11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another,
even as also ye do.

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I believe the parent knows that and you are missing the point, "the apt way" is what Chrome did before this change - you could simply click-install extension from any source and future updates would automatically use its custom update_url (if any).

Now after this change it becomes analogous to "the App-Store-only way unless you are technically inclined enough to google up how to workaround". Definitely not "the same model that every Linux distro uses".

The closest thing is Android, but Android has an obvious easily accessible checkbox "Allow installation of non-Market apps". Chrome didn't get such a checkbox in Options (nor a toggle in chrome://flags/).

Technically, there is a new command-line switch, but its current full name was never mentioned even in the related bug tracker issues (http://crbug.com/128748, http://crbug.com/55584). You have to look into the source code to find it: --enable-easy-off-store-extension-install
Yep, the moment it couldn't encoded a datetime I knew it wasn't going to work for me.
I'd second this, but it's difficult to follow it without the screencasts, that has to be purchased. I've been trying to follow the web version of this though. Not too bad.

Was learning on version rails 3.1, but now that rails 3.2.5 is out too many things have changed.
What was Apple supposed to do, fire all of their existing PPC C++ programmers and hire a whole new team? No, they utilised their existing resources very effectively to finish the Mac OS X project in surprisingly short time. Apple made the smartest possible move considering commercial realities.
As the author, allow me to address this.

I agree with your statement that sharing passwords between sites is a bad idea. And I don't do it. But I would assert that longer passwords of wider character sets will be harder to crack if a database is compromised--as was the case with LinkedIn. If my password is 8 characters, alphanumeric, it doesn't matter if it's original to that site. If there's a compromise, I'm not going to be in a good place.

Also, my bank doesn't allow for password resets via email. But I would agree that my email account is at the top as well. Fortunately, Google is much smarter about their password rules.
―Attackers should never, ever be able to connect directly to your MySQL database directly.

mySQLgame[1] demonstrates that domain logic can be successfully implemented within a publicly accessible database[2]. It would be better to reword your statement to:

Minimise the attack surface by preventing unnecessary access

There are times where public access to a database server make perfect sense. It is the reason why database servers implement TLS client certificate verification, Role Based Access Control (RBAC) and other security features which a typical application (with domain logic at the application layer) has no hope of implementing correctly.

[1] http://mysqlgame.com

[2] http://martinfowler.com/articles/dblogic.html
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"Best" is a subjective value judgement here. Difference scenarios call for different strategies.

Once upon a time, I had to write a serializer that was expected to be run hundreds or thousands of times a second, once for every request in an AJAX app. The solution I chose was to not serialize at all; always keep the data in a binary blob (a byte array) and write a facade of ephemeral objects on top of it, essentially containing nothing more than their offsets into the blob. Because the ratio of read/write operations to serialization operations was so low, this made a lot more sense than building an object graph, only to throw it away a millisecond or two later.