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I started looking but didn't find much. And wasn't sure what was possible in the free tier.

I'm not a big fan really of any of the support tabs and am sorry they have gained so much traction (thanks UserVoice, I guess?). But thankfully they are not present on the more legit sites.
Yeah, check out "Feynman Lectures on Computation": https://rapidshare.com/files/2100994846/Feynman_Lectures_on_...

It's fantastic. Feynman dives all the way down to the very fundamentals of how a computer could be built.

Much of the information is likely dated; nonetheless, it's still viable.
SEO-friendly URL's are fine, but meaningless dynamic slugs are a really Bad Idea.

Even if you remember to implement a canonical tag pointing to the "real" page, you risk people linking to these dummy pages (producing a minor loss of link value according to Cutts) or weird mangled versions coming into existence (think escaped referrer logs that make their way public and crawlers find, etc), and then bots have to take the time to request incorrect URL's and find out they're junk. Better to return a 404 or 301 to the correct page (if you know what it should be).

See, this is actually the kind of sh*t that SEO is about: usability for bots.
TheVerge too. +1 for dropping TechCrunch unless the post is by Mark Suster, in which case, whitelist that...
The general rule is that if you are looking for venture capital, rather than the other way around, you're either not going to get very far or get a good deal. In other words, it's better to be wanted than to want. And that is the fundamental truth of every market, including the ones of venture capital and personal relationships.

In those scenarios where a startup is being pursued rather than pursuing, I doubt VCs will spend as much time lying as they will trying to make themselves the darling to partner with. If you keep in mind that VCs are situational liars, then you can separate the mercenary deal-chasers from the real value-added partners. That is, the ones that treasure openness and honesty are to be favored over those that lie out of convenience or cowardliness (and freely admit to doing so).
I wonder how well this will do considering myself and all the people I know that were playing have basically stopped as we got bored in Hell.
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Those are both good suggestions. Thanks!
I could be wrong, but has hasn't the business model for showing films changed as well? Theatres used to rent the 35mm prints by the week or month. Now, studios ask for a cut of each ticket sold, don't they? That's why studios are worried about unauthorized showings that could happen "off the books" and go unreported revenue-wise.
We use the same feature on livechatinc.com and it works great. Olark has done a great job but I must say livechatinc wins my vote because you can see what people are typing before they hit "send" - its a big help in responding faster to questions.
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If you actually are capable, and someone says otherwise, you will ignore them.
No, DoD switched from IE6 several years ago.
I'm just bewildered here.

We're banning QUALITY content?

BusinessWeek and The Atlantic are some of the BEST and most RELIABLE source of info around.
I won't address his pay, but as for his work, this guy is getting bogged down responding to emails about projects that are in maintenance mode, with no new development approved. There are three possibilities. One is that he failed to mention that he has been tasked with user support. The second is that the old projects are buggy or fragile as hell, and maintenance is a big and valuable job that deserves the time he puts into it.

The third possibility is that he is being barraged with support requests and enhancement requests which are NOT his job to handle. In that case, this guy's manager needs to run interference and get the other managers out of his face. When you want new features added to projects in maintenance mode, you aren't allowed to harass a developer who has been ordered to only fix bugs on those projects. (It's normal to do so, but that's because people are dicks.) When you need support, you don't harass a developer who isn't tasked with support. (Again, it's completely normal, but only because people are dicks.) The people taking up his time are taking advantage of his experience to get work done that they can't get done the right way. His manager needs to tell all those folks to back the #@%^ off unless they have a valid bug report. Then he can concentrate on his real job: his new development projects and bug fixes on the maintenance projects.
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It's not the 90% maintenance that's the problem, it's this:

"But then I got to hear I wasn't allowed to improve the existing code and to only focus on bug fixes when a bug gets reported."

A product that is not worth improving? This is called a hopeless product, a hopeless company, and a hopeless job prospect.
Have you tried just replacing redis' Lua dependency with LuaJIT yourself? LuaJIT 2.0 should be a drop-in replacement for Lua 5.1, it has the same headers and even builds the same way.
I'm not sure I interpret the above post you respond to as an attack.

If I were to overly simplify, the summary of the OP Post is:
"We reserve the right to lie, because we feel you can't handle the truth"

And many entrepreneurs respond:
"If you can't feel fit to tell me the truth, then we don't have a relationship based on trust. And that means, there is no relationship."

If the OP's opinion is honest and forthright (ironic given that it is asserting a right to lie), then the entrepreneur's response is just as justified in being honest and forthright (we reserve the right to not work with liars).

If the desire to lie on the part of the VC is simply to avoid the pain of dealing with upset enterpreneurs or the potential of burning bridges, then they need to accept that they may offend other entrepreneurs who more value honesty over lying for the sake of avoiding hurt feelings.
He should be glad it's not 90% maintenance and 10% meetings
Yeah, I started playing about 2 weeks ago.. played every class to 20, but played my Monk to 32 and finished 'Normal' mode. Was disappointed that the road to 60 is paved by going through the same content again, just a little bit harder. You would think after 11 years they would have been able to release a complete game.
Well, success of a job is transient and not permanent in this case. Like I mentioned before, successful boot of a dependency doesn't mean that dependency exists by the time we get to boot a host. You need to continuously check the status of your group to determine actions that can be taken for current state. A stateful system that marks a job as complete upon successful execution wouldn't work. DAG computation does happen, but inside MoreHostsCanBeBooted condition that is a pre-requisite for BootMoreHosts action. If what you're proposing is to re-run the same job until target state transition has been achieved and code job in idempotent way, then this is essentially what's being done with the current approach, except there are no jobs, and idempotency is a side-effect of not tracking progress. I hope my explanations make sense :)
usually i agree, but in this case they are non-usual sticks. While i hardly imagine they cost apple 3x the price of usual stick, it is a factor
'Action house'? sounds exciting!
Many government offices now have firefox too. Not sure about the ones with higher security concerns, but I know the normal security places have FF.
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It does not. FLV is just a container format for MPEG-4 video (and possibly other codecs).
I had a developer quit after a week for something similar. One application to do bug fixes and extend. He was allowed to do refactoring but it had to stay mostly in "experimental" branches so we could limit the risk of merging changes into production code. The guy just wanted to re-write everything he saw and refused to consider why we might not want massive changes to a codebase he saw as terrible. We were willing to let him refactor all he wanted as long as we tested and released the code in a controlled manner.

If this guy is working on 15 different apps, with no guidance about scheduling or priorities he is in an untenable position.
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They'd rather build a port than risk having Mac users demanding compatibility with their competitor.
> I remember some members of the modding community ending up becoming serious level designers or game developers.

I was one of them. COG scripting was my intro to game modding. I'd been writing small games until that point, but COG made the game a platform to develop for and that was different to anything I'd seen before.
Yeah, the distributors (often but not always arms of studios) take a percentage of each ticket sold. It's usually a sliding percentage- the distributor gets more at first and then the balance slides in favor of the exhibitor (theater) the longer the film has been out.

The big chains are all computerized and report back to the distributors and can generally be trusted to be truthful. It's the mom and pop theaters that might have cheated in the past.
At a high level I feel like we should be no more influence by those who say we're right than wrong. In a way, being driven to prove people wrong is being controlled by them. Because sometimes they may be correct, and our best bet would be to change strategies, and sticking to our guns just to prove them wrong will hold us back.
I have one, it's called a blender. The quality ingredients are up to you!
That's illegal in most states/violates all credit card agreements for the vendor.

(but still a valid comparison)
Does blizzard have a way of increasing the drop rate of items around those players who they can see are more likely to use the real money auction house?
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I visited Olark's site today for the first time and not sure why, but oddly enough, now whenever I read my HN feed in Google Reader, my Ghostry is blocking Olark.

Olark should have nothing to do with Google Reader and HN. I wonder, what kind of cookie mess I am in.
So are you saying you would rather have not heard the honest, but negative feedback at all? It sounds like in hindsight you are grateful for the honesty. Would n-years of lying have helped you any more? Would you have the insight you have now if you were simply lied to and told "great team - show me more traction", when they really think "gosh, what a sucky team"?
> Maybe not for Kogan, but most of the DOD is still on IE6, as an example that is something like 2 million daily users.

With each passing day, this statement made less and less sense to a point of absurd. And that point has been reached a long time ago.

I work for Department of Interior (the armpit when compared to DOD) and here its either fully patched IE8, latest Firefox or you are booted off of network. Can DOD be really that archaic and still allow employees to browse wild wild web with IE6?
It sounds to me like you never played Diablo 2. The basis of that game was repeating through the same content (albeit with randomly generated maps) in search of better and better gear. This mechanic hasn't fundamentally changed in Diablo 3.
I've seen some numbers that are nearly all business users. They've actually improved considerably in the last year or two. IE6 was quite common in certain sectors like government, finance, healthcare, (see if you can guess what those industries have in common) but in late 2010 and early 2011 people finally really started upgrading either to newer versions of IE or, surprisingly, Firefox.

IE6 use (even among business) is extremely rare right now. Which makes sense, because very few websites would actually work.
The problem is associating "50+" with "cannot build social startup". If the 50+ part was irrelevant, then he wouldn't have mentioned it.
I don't understand this argument. The way I use server side templates is much simpler and more powerful than any demo of client side templating I've seen. I think you're reading a little too much into the hype, otherwise maybe you can share an example of superior Javascript templating patterns because I can't find them.
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Only inferno-level items will have value as anything else is too common. Player use of it will have a similar curve to online poker in that it's a zero-sum game at high levels fed by a low-level casual group of players that is incapable of making money and occasionally makes purchases.
This doesn't seem to be anything new. bit.ly and other shorteners have had this before. Not sure why this is front page material, except that there's been a bunch of refer.ly front page posts recently.
If anything they would decrease the drop rate. They do not need to encourage sellers.
Why not fix the typo in the original article's headline?
Successfully recouped the cost of buying the game by selling off a few items I'd picked up on my way to lvl 60.

I'm glad I did this early into the real money auction house, as I can't see how the whole econ won't crash due to the fact that there is constant growth of the amount of gold and items in the system.
You could read Petzold's book "Code - The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software"

(http://www.charlespetzold.com/code/)

Or the Art of Electronics Student Manual, which goes through the process of building a computer.

(http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Art-Electronics-Student-Manual/d...)

One thing that really helped me was getting a circuit diagram for a simple 8 bit computer, and then creating a memory map by tracing the address lines and writing what numbers were needed to enable addressing or not. Uh, I've done a really poor job of explaining this. Wikipedia does slightly better - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory-mapped_I/O) but there must be something even better than that.

These slides have the limitation of being slides, but they seem (at first glance) to be pretty good.

(http://research.cs.tamu.edu/prism/lectures/mbsd/mbsd_l16.pdf)
Forgive me but I don't understand.

If the data is available for download (preferably via ftp) what needs to be "open source"?

Personally I do not care what software they use to run the site so long as the data is available for download in a open format like CSV. Compare this with offering the data in little bits via some silly JSON API or offering it in some format that requires some addtional closed source software to process.

To me, the data is what is important. What software they choose to use is not important, as long as the data is easily accesible (ftp is my preference). What's important is that I can use whatever software I want to process the data.
As others have said, this seems to be the perfect place to fight piracy. At present time most movies do not have high quality releases until the blu-ray discs are manufactured. When a movie goes to blu-ray 720p and 1080p copies are instantly released online. Having those movies available online opening weekend, if not before opening weekend, could be disastrous.
Not illegal in Australia, where kogan is from. Unfortunately there's no limit on the amount a merchant can charge for payment/card fees. For example, I believe the most popular taxi charge company here (CabCharge) charges a 10% fee when paying by credit card.
This is just a result of loose architecture. If your models are cleanly abstracted using REST principles on the server-side, then server templating becomes much more appealing.

I say this because I am doing it -- building apps with REST interfaces on the server side. It's not a common pattern yet but I think this is where things will actually go (as opposed to the client), because it's actually easier to use, understand and iterate on.

If you can write Javascript templates that interface with your back-end using REST calls like "GET /accounts", you can do the exact same thing in a server side template with better performance and dramatically simpler security.
I think this is an area that could still use improvement. It seems to have reached a point where the chances for an average HNer to get exposure and feedback on projects in Show/Ask HN type posts is really low. It's a shame because HN is a top-notch community, but it just doesn't feel accessible to people without pre-existing clout in the industry, popularity on the site, or the facility and willingness to use aggressive promotion tactics.

I'm not sure what the solution is, but I think innovation on this front could help to preserve and enhance HN's vibrancy.
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There was a top post today about a power user getting sort of banned for making a post about HN (I think it was along the lines of editing post titles). Both the post today and the one he was referring to were taken down.
Honestly what I love about this fact is that if there's an email delay the movie doesn't play. And if someone learns how to set the clocks back, it no longer matters that it's time sensitive!
Mobile devices can cope with even less client-side logic than real computers can. Why would mobile devices lead to pushing more work onto the client?

Disclaimer: I'm not one of the downvoters.
I think all of us could rattle off a list of 50+ year old "geezers" that could pull something like this off, but the reality is that many of them can barely use a cell phone.

What a load of crap. A 50 year old today could easily have been a 20 year old AI programmer in 1980, and he probably knows more about technology than the rest of us put together. Computers aren't actually that new, ya know, and are not the exclusive domain of the GenY kids.

I mean, for crying out loud, COBOL first appeared in 1959, LISP in 1958, FORTRAN in 1957, and ALGOL in 1960. There are folks around who have been programming longer than most HN readers have been alive.

There are technically literate and technically illiterate people of all ages, the 50+ thing is pretty much bullshit as any sort of generalization.
I feel it has fundamentally changed with the removal of the skill tree. Instead of making choices and ending up with a semi-unique character, I can change my skills at any time.

My character isn't "mine" any more. The only real way to progress is to grind for loot now. Or pay someone for it. (something my friends and I never did in d2)
I had an interesting test imposed on me last night. Power outage, phone almost dead, children asleep.

In bed at 9:30, asleep by 10pm and totally awake and annoying my wife with chatter at 4:30am.

6 and 1/2 hours sleep. Pretty normal for me. I work hard and am pretty happy.
Live by the sword, die by the sword. If you ask a bunch of hackers how to make a mission-critical application secure, one of the top answers is going to be 'air gap.' In economic terms, security has greater value (to the publishers) than the mild inconvenience of a few shows starting late.
What is the relationship between "assistive technology" and "old browser"? It would surprise me if that tech was only available for IE7.
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How many hours did you play to make it through on normal?

How many hours do you expect from a "complete game"?

I've now played through normal, nightmare and hell with my main character and have the mindset that inferno isn't really part of the game. I see it as a "turn the difficulty knobs up to 11 and force the unlucky people to buy things on the auction house".

Even if I decide that inferno isn't worth the hassle I've played roughly 60 hours on that one character.

I found that there was enough "hey, that didn't happen last time!" moments that the 2nd and 3rd play throughs were enjoyable.
Great idea, look forward to playing this with my daughter.

But, from the article:
"the flip side to that in the case of DragonBox is that you don’t learn the reasons for the rules. My kids (particularly my five-year-old) have no idea why, when you drag a card below another one, you have to drag it below all the other cards on the screen."

Games like this still have a place, but knowing the reasons and the why of things is still incredibly important.
Any language or framework can be tough to scale. Didn't twitter find this out in the early days?
Telling driver that he got ticket defeats the purpose of ticketing drivers? Sorry for my bias logic, but don't you think I may want to learn a lesson and become better "HNer"? Hellbanning is like the ultimate death penalty. No warnings, no tickets, no first or second degree, nothing, just "we don't want you here anymore".

If I would get some sort of warning of what I am doing wrong, I may be given a chance to learn. Isn't that the purpose behind coming to HN? To learn?
The most-analogous situation I've been with this is in hiring, and if one of my coworkers gave age or "fidgeting in chair" as a reason not to hire, I would call them out on it. I'm sorry, but that's simply not a valid measure of competence.

If these are the reasons VCs choose not to invest in companies, then the reason VCs lie is because their reasoning is bullshit, and they don't want to get called out on it.
I suggest you start with outsourcing unimportant stuff: admin stuff, small marketing stuff.

You need to get used to letting go.

This section of my website lists the virtual assistants I personally recommend: http://taskarmy.com/virtual-assistance-outsourcing
Wow.

So the Police Chief DARES to intimate that the Police should get on the transit buses to bust these thieves...

And they fire him!?!?!?

Just... Wow...

I can see why most police would just 'go with the flow'. They are not given the requisite latitude to implement innovative ideas with respect to their jobs. And frankly, boarding buses to bust freeloaders is not particularly innovative. It's just something that is usually not done.
What about the 'militia' part? Or the 'being necessary for the security of a free state' part?

The second amendment is saying 'we're not going to restrict arms, because we need a body of men to call on who know how to use arms, in order to maintain our independence', not 'fear your government, be prepared to shoot its representitives'.
Why can't we mere mortals join Yuri Milner, SV Angels, and now General Catalyst in investing in that $150k/company convertible?
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On HN, downvotes and flags are the warnings and tickets.

Hellbans are only intended for spam accounts and trolls, neither of which is going to change their behavior. Sometimes people that aren't spammers or trolls get hellbanned, but that's an unfortunate side-effect of imperfect algorithms and moderators, not intentional.
I guess the way I look at Rand is a using her works is ideally a bit like using Nietzsche (and indeed I see a lot of continuity in these two thinkers). Their actual ideas are interesting solely as an exercise in inverting the way we normally think about things and thus creating a void where we can create something new.

The nice thing about playing with inverting opposites is that it is useful in destroying what we thought we know. I wouldn't treat the inversion as any more valuable than what it inverts though.
You should check out the newest AIR release (3.3) - with Stage3D you get great gpu driven performance. You don't really need to do anything new to get it if you use wrapper frameworks like Starling (http://gamua.com/starling/)
$60 for 60 hours of play is exceptional value for entertainment. :)