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Why worry about value? I make art mostly because I enjoy the process, and don't usually care about the result at all. It's much easier to handle that way, and I pretty much never get block. If I feel tired of what I'm doing, I just resort to doing exercises or copying and analyzing other people's work. I think the point "why must you tell this story" is not about whether you should make art, write that story, draw that picture, but for you to research your inner reason to make this piece. Obviously you tell the story because you want to, this question just helps you make the intention clearer, so that you can structure your work around it in order to bring that essence out. In photography/painting, you would pick a main subject, which can be anything you find interesting, images you see or images you imagine or just abstract work, and then build the image around the reason you find that image interesting. Not about whether the image or the work of art has any inherent value, of course it has because you are making it.
Me.

We're just quiet about it, because we'd rather not draw the attention of all the people who think we should be.
Real swordfighting is not about the sword, it's about the footwork. Just physically do not be where the opponent's sword is heading.

See: relatively little blade contact in extremely high level fencing.
Most of us have cloud backups like Mozy or Carbonite, or keep our documents in the cloud with tools like Google Docs, iCloud, or Zoho. To us, losing a laptop is an inconvenience... but not a cause for canceling future engagements. But RMS is different. He's ethically opposed to the "cloud," calling it a "trap." That is his prerogative. But you can't cry when you lose your data!!
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i would certainly go with it first, if i had such kind of service running myself.
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I'm about thirty pages into the Dramatica PDF and am finding it very interesting in how it specifically codifies some things I've observed about stories while working on my comics. This promises to be an interesting read, thanks!
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As far as entertaining Kickstarter videos go, this one is certainly off to an auspicious start.
I understand that Stallman is an important figure in the software community, but this really doesn't qualify as news in my opinion. To be fair, the server went down so I can't access the article, but unless he had something really important in that bag, like the only copy of a new C compiler written from scratch, this article is just a minor inconvenience in the life of a celebrity.
I don't understand the downvotes. Care to explain?
Seems a rogue bot/spider was causing some trouble, it should work now.
What's the worst thing that could happen? It's only on the frontpage because there are obviously a lot of people interested in this, including me.
>in a much more intuitive way than pulling a plastic trigger or pounding a key on a keyboard

A bit unfair to make that comparison. At the very least, the Wii Motion Plus in games such as Sports Resort fencing offers a better experience than that.
"Robbery" is often used when force isn't involved. If the object is stolen while you're nearby, people will often refer to it as a robbery. Outfielders rob batters of home runs all the time.

The word "rob" is particularly useful because lets the victim be used as the direct object. If you want to emphasize RMS as a victim of personal theft, that's the verb to use.
to make it irrelevant if s/he signs or not at the exit interview
Knowing HN, it will inevitably trigger discussions about the organization of conferences. For better or worse.

The article is not about rms, but about the venue where the celebrity got robbed.
But that doesn't apply to the maps, sounds, and textures which are really the heart of the game.
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Hi guys, I'm a coder myself and at the moment I personally code on a laptop. (It is bulky, can't take it every where but it gets the job done.)

Anyway, I was wondering what you guys prefer to use to do your coding?

There's a wide variety of choices starting from Netbook, Notebook, Ultrabook, good old Desktop and some people even code on an Ipad!

Anyway, please state what you use to do your coding, why do you prefer to do it and how your experience is different or more efficient compared to coding on other systems already mentioned above?

Thanks.
He had his passport.

I believe he is currently traveling through South America to give FOSS talks in many universities. I believe part of the issue is that because of this very details, it puts an end to his trip which has been rough and marked by health issues.

What I don't understand is why the post's author dares mentioning how RMS reacted. A bit of decency is always a nice thing to have, not to mention due respect.
You made an account just to post this?

This must be the most downvoted comment I've ever seen.
I wonder if he'll add some basic security precautions (a locking area for his stuff while speaking) to his fairly detailed rider.
I wonder if he had a "free software" sticker on his bag. Maybe the thief thought the bag was free also.
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Surely, you'll be more likely to solve big problems if you come in with the intent/desire to solve them, no? such as building the Atom Bomb, or sending a man to the Moon. We did those things deliberately.
Why not buy white tshirts instead?
I remember your post when you guys launched. I went to your site and spent about 5 minutes trying to figure out what the hell it was. I see now that you've greatly improved this, and added several clear examples that show it. Great work!

Do you mind answering a couple of question? I'm curious how you guys have advertised this product, and where your users come from.
Agreed. All classes are derailed by jerks like this, not just women-only classes. Everyone rolls their eyes and tunes out, not just females.

And a simple "let's save the rest of these questions for after class" to the jerk is often effective.
Is there anything in the article that leads you to believe he meant important in that sense? Cause I don't see it. He constantly puts important in quotation marks and really doesn't specify what he means by important. Take this paragraph:

For instance, GPU hardware was developed to run first-person shooters with increasingly fancier graphics. Today, it powers some of the largest high-performance computing clusters where “important” science is done.

Would you say that science aided by high-performance computing is automatically important in a cultural sense? What if that science is actually military research? Because I see developing weapons and other means of violence to be detrimental to civilization.
I suspect the reason he was having a hard time, was because he was insisting on replicating some existing workflow structured around other tools.

If you just want to use vim as a simple editor, it doesn't seem very hard. I mean, I don't really remember a difficult learning curve.

I still only use vim that way. I let my window manager handle the complex stuff, like how to arrange windows and then how to have multiple sets of window arrangements with different things in them (i.e. tabs).
Like I wrote, he enjoys the ritual of interacting with the audience after the talk. I think most people at this point stop looking at their stuff for a minute.
Have worked out the math behind one-time purchases supporting unlimited perpetual service? I suspect it is possible if a substantial amount of users leave the service after the purchase, but I can't see how this is not a form of pyramid scheme - new users effectively cover obligations made to eariler users. How is this sustainable with a non-trivial volume? Or do you (plan to) charge API users?
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I agree that would be ideal, but it's hard to expect someone who is so accustomed to not having to worry about such things to keep this in mind. This is especially true in situations where you are excited (eg: after giving a talk about something you are passionate about). Clearly he will not make this mistake again, it would have been the right thing to do for the organizers to take better care of him though and protect him from the risks of the country that they invited him to visit - at the very least within the walls of the conference venue.
I don't think you should be doing anything you don't want to. It was an honest question.
Cameo by Gabe Newell http://i.imgur.com/6vDza.png, who is swordsmithing a crowbar :)

Neal: "Hey is that about ready?"
Gabe: "These things, they take time..."
I think the larger problem, for him, is procuring another laptop that is 101% Free. I'd be surprised if he didn't have backups somewhere online, but a system he controls.
Good points! I also have used the word app for programs as far back as Win 95, and know where you're coming from.

I didn't realize that Apple really did attempt to claim that "app" came from "apple." Interesting.

Thanks for taking the time to comment.
In my opinion, most of this is just replicating stuff that is better handled by a good tiling window manager.

Same goes for browser tabs. Just a kludge for the rarity of good window managers.

And most other applications that use tabs inside them.
Sorry to hear what happened.

It's interesting that he was at a conference, presumably speaking about what he always speaks about.

This means his bag and things were to advance his mission, which is kind of to advance a 'commons'.

it nicely illustrate's RMS's philosophy (gpl). Even though he was speaking to advance the public good, a private enterprizer took his bag, removing it from the commons he worked so hard to advance.

RMS's philosophy, code, and bags require the protection of law.
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Glad there are people out there taking advantage of this. How tough was it to acquire that domain?
The passport replacement is relatively easy, right?

The bigger concern is the medicine. How does that work with prescription medicine outside the US?

The laptop is rather unique, so if someone pawned it you would think it could be hunted down.
Could you explain how to pass through immigration using a passport stored in the cloud?
not true. well, it kind of is if you don't configure your vim "right". any sensible configuration I've seen includes the "set hidden" option which will enable you to switch to another buffer w/o saving the current one. w/o this config option vim is barely usable imho.
I host sensitive data and perform backups on my company's servers. We're renting a rack and handle the hardware ourself. All happily running on FOSS. I don't think RMS has anything wrong with that.

Medicine has no backup, but you can buy some more.

A passport has no backup. Fortunately, embassies can issue emergency passports, but Visas are lost.

If anything, I'm sure he was not sad for his laptop.
Actual quote is "You may ask, why am I doing this? The answer is: no fucking idea :)"

Not sure why you would censor that when the author didn't.
Until I came to visit the comments, I was convinced this could be a hoax/joke site.

"Wish you could spawn a human thread to help you?
If you have a task, small enough to delegate to someone, then this is it!" (Spawning humans!)

"Are you currently overworked, exhausted and have too much on your plate?" (Don't most people have too much on their plate?)

The site and its copy are vague and universal, which makes it funny, especially the 'Submit Problem' screen.

Only when I looked at the About Us page did I start to think this could be real.

However you also say "We find sites like stackoverflow very useful, but what if there was a middle term between them and small consultancy firms?"

You are basically trying to become a small consultancy firm it seems. Unless you let people sign-up and handle tasks themselves, like a crowdspring/99designs meets mechanical turk for programming.
It will also have to drastically downplay the importance of footwork. In a real swordfight, where to put your feet is nearly as important as where to put the sword.
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You being an atheist really has nothing to do with this. Being offended at how women are objectified/marginalized in the tech industry and being offended at someone's personal religious choice are two completely different things.

Also, it's "women", not "females".
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Thats gr8, looking forward,
by the way, nice service! and nice idea!
I'm curious how people are finding, and then using your service. Are most of the users people who use another app that provides pushover notifications, or are they developer or power user types who want a way to push notifications to their phones? (I would assume the former, I suppose.)
I'm surprised there was no mention of the Mount and Blade[1] series, which took a serious look at this sort of combat through the use of contextual mouse movements for parries and attacks. I wonder if he's unaware of the franchise, or just didn't feel the need to mention it.

I'm also not convinced that today's odometry based controllers will give you high enough fidelity to model swords convincingly. Any sort of wiimote or kinect based sword/lightsaber game has always seemed very waggle centric without any deliberate movement. Also, I'm not really thrilled about the thought of having to buy plastic swords to swing in my room.

[1]:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psLA87SgZcw
Your 1, 2, and 3 would have saved me (and others) quite a lot of time in some places I've worked. It helps for new hires and (in a large company) transfers from other parts of the company. Sometimes it even saves long-time employees a lot of effort when setting up a new machine or helping out on something they haven't touched in a while.
Well he is not the first celebrity to get robbed in B.A.
Bush daughter was visiting the city, the whole neighbourhood was crawling with CIA agents and her purse was still stolen...
It appears 'rastingerzoh created an account just to troll this thread.
I can't resist wondering if RMS has brought up the licensing of his medication with his doctor, who looked at him quizzically.
It's a technical talk, not a subway car. He's a guest. It's not realistic, or hospitable, to expect him to watch his belongings while he's interacting with his audience. Plus it's a new account that's trolling.
Yep, that and the controller has no weight. To make a realistic game you would then need to make the character have a max swing agility (slow than the player) and also give the character a stamina bar. Anyway that's not to say you can't have fun sword fighting motion games. It just means you can't approximate reality 1:1 in all dimensions.

But you can still approximate reality if you just accept the control dimension will be abstract! Consider that Sim City uses an abstract interface to simulate city planning. Surely thats not the interface real city planners use (meetings, proposals) but it's still approximating a reality of city planning much more closely than other games.
if he had a chromebook he wouldn't be crying in the stairs. childish
If CLANG stood for something ridiculous then I'd be in.
The never pretended "everyone's invited".

In fact, the first iOS didn't have third-party apps, and when the API finally appeared, it had very clear restrictions and a $99/year fee attached.
Well, also, NeXTStep's application bundle was .app
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_bundle

So, Apple's usage of it probably came from NeXTStep (still Steve Jobs) which became OS X, which was also basis for iOS.
Have you tried using 2 PS3 move controllers in the gladiator mode in Sports Champions? It's not great but it's not bad either.
Oh man, I can't wait to yell "big board" to pull up the cheat mode screen.
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Like the other guy wrote. He had his passport in the bag. The number one rule of traveling: your passport is your life. There are things in that should not be somebody else's task.

Edit: you guys might be right about the troll thing. I'm terribly confused now as I must confess I agree with a troll..
I see what you're saying, and there is absolutely some risk involved, but I feel that replies to this post provide an incredible amount of value to the HN community. I hope that people will take the risk, so that we can all learn a little bit.
And, of course, the other question: why don't we figure out how to get them to stay once they're marketable?
You can back up and restore your data securely over the internet using only free software on both ends, if you really want to. And if anyone knows how to do so, I'm sure RMS does. Perhaps he even has a full backup of all his important data from the stolen laptop.

However, no backup, be it cloud-based or not, can get you back your stolen passport, money, or medicine. So I think you may be a bit out of line implying that RMS is crying merely over something that he could have saved if only he had been willing to compromise his deeply-held beliefs.

(Even the laptop itself may have been quite difficult to obtain, since if I recall correctly, RMS uses a specific laptop that has a completely free software stack, including firmware and such.)
Some people may use it that way but that doesn't make it right.

The baseball example is a figure of speech, not a description of an actual crime. This was a real crime.
Maybe I'm downvoted for this, but I feel a lot worse for RMS than for Bush's daughter..
And even then, it's rare I work out an entire DB schema on paper first.

One scenario: building a new django app on top of an old database.
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It's hard to work out accurate numbers because users can have such drastically different usage patterns. Some users have signed up with one device and have only received a few notifications, others have many devices registered and receive dozens of notifications daily from chat plugins.

The API is free, though applications are limited to a reasonable number of messages per month. That was put into place out of fear that a large company would use the app/service as a dirt-cheap platform to send large amounts of messages every day to its employees (like routing/dispatching directions, etc.) and burden the service. And rightly so, since shortly after launching, I got an e-mail from a large US company looking to use it in such a way (they ultimately decided not to use it). If such customers do come along, their API fees will cover them being on segmented servers.
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A very good and reasonably approachable discussion of the pros and cons of how CUDA programming actually is realized in hardware. The explanation of how the GPU's handle context switching is particularly thoughtful and enlightening. It took me a long time to figure this out a couple months ago, a guide like this would have saved me a few nights.

I was surprised that the author didn't once use the term CUDA though, they even discuss actual syntax from it, but don't mention the language (extension) once.
> It might be smart to deny science depending on what you want to achieve.

This is not the kind of smart I'd like to be promoted. I'd prefer people being set free by the truth, not to be enslaved by fairy tales.
You should try out Mount & Blade series then.
Indeed, at least from my American Midwest perspective, I agree it's all in the conjunction, with no ambiguity at all.
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It's one of those things that bugs me about the early chapters of the novel Nine Princes in Amber:

He glared at me, I don't know how long.
Finally, "I haven't got a thousand here," he said.
"Name a compromise figure," I said.
After another pause, "It's larceny."
"Not if it's cash-and-carry, Charlie. So, call it."
"I might have five hundred in my safe."
"Get it."

Larceny is what happened to RMS, and I like to just remember it as "walking off with someone's pen" -- maybe a bit of an extreme example, but if you mentally call that "larceny" in your internal classification you more easily remember what larceny is.

Anyway, in the above case Corwin ("I") does in fact have a gun pointed at the doctor ("he") -- albeit the doctor's own gun -- and arguably that's dangerous enough that it goes from being "larceny" to outright robbery.
It might be hard to find a Lemote Yeelong (at least the particular model he uses, which lets him use a free BIOS).

Here's one, though I'm not sure if it's the correct version: http://www.lemote.com/en/products/Notebook/2010/0310/112.htm...
Ok. So a famous author decides to make a sword fighting video game. Awesome. But.... I feel from the video that what they are really trying to create is a sword fighting simulator. Big difference, playability is incredibly important, we're all familiar with 'arcade modes' where realism is suspended to create an engaging, fun game. So I'm wondering how successful this 'game' will actually be.
For my first ten years of school, I was at a small private Christian school that taught science from a series of "Science for Christian Schools" books. The world was only thousands of years old, etc. It's not a strawman.
> It certainly doesn't mean you have to become an atheist.

Technically, you're correct, but believing in a deity similar to the Abrahamic god and also accepting evolution is usually a sign of compartmentalization. You reach an acceptance of evolution by examining the evidence, and you reach a belief of god by starting from an unfalsifiable conclusion.

The processes required to be both religious and accepting of evolution are so diametrically opposed that, while technically possible to reconcile the two, it's rationally inconsistent to do so.

Beliefs like deism are much more understandable, although I don't personally subscribe to them. But if you're a deist, you wouldn't need to think that evolution isn't the sole source of biological diversity on Earth, either.
When the Wii appeared, sword games was the first thing that came to my mind, but I don't there have been too many of them on the Wii. I was also hoping we'd see some martial arts fighting (or training) games for the Kinect by now, although the Kinect needs to dramatically increase its accuracy for that.
Fencing raises another good point: realistic swordfighting is actually pretty boring compared to movie swordfighting. (If it weren't, then movie swordfighting wouldn't need to be so unrealistic).

If I'm gonna play a swordfighting video game I wanna be Errol Flynn, not Benjamin Kleibrink. [Who? 2008 Olympic foil champion. Yes, I had to look that up, that's the point.]
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That's a little stupid, isn't it?