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"This makes getting your data (legitimate or not) into the lower levels very easy."

Bullshit. Completely unsubstantiated.

The browsers themselves are what are actually being compromised in reality, Microsoft by far more than others. The WebGL exploits are just theoretical. Every browser vendor is a third party.

Big fucking deal, somebody makes your browser or system freeze up.. like that is a new thing that you can't do with a browser or with Internet Explorer? Freezing the system isn't that easy to do with WebGL and depends on the specific setup of that machine. That's not a security concern, thats just a potential inconvenience.

I don't give a fuck what you dumbasses think, this is obviously Microsoft FUD. But its just another example of the sort of idiotic rationalizations that normally support the status quo.
err..sarcasm ?
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Good point.

To me it seems he, Luigi, is someone who maybe likes the idea behind venture capital, or perhaps more generally, the economic system it represents; likes the outcome he sees (perhaps only selects the best parts?) and would like to shoehorn the idea to higher education where investors "invest" in student potential. It seems a stretch.

How much "equity" would investors expect? 10-20% of future income? Is that comparable to a regular student loan? Why would students choose this route instead of the traditional route?
Which is t3h awesome, but not an option in either language under consideration, as far as I know. Unless you used a Haskell-to-JS compiler. I apologize if I implied that static typing = Java's kind of typing.
OK then I mispoke. How many yers has Carmack invested in C based languages?

Point is, he isn't being objective, he is invested in the old way of doing things, but so is everyone else. I should save my breath.

Its the same with everything else in this 'civilization'.
One way to do this is to show someone 3 ideas, that are slightly different. Draw a XYZ coordinate set, and plot your ideas on those continuums, where each X, Y, and Z are benefits you think it has. How automatic vs manual is it, how heavy vs light it is, etc.

Show your potential customers your 3 ideas. With a baseline to compare, they'll give you better feedback. It might have something to do with the fact that they can say "Idea 1 is better in this way, and Idea 2 is better this way." With no reference point, how can they say an idea is anything but "good"?
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I've heard EVE online described as such.

Well, not so much spells, since it's space oriented rather than fantasy, but it does have a complicated, realistic economy with corporations, wars, and economic exploitation.
Fascinating read, just like many of the other Valve blogs.

Though, I do wish this guy could explain why real-world money Steam games in the US are often half the price of those in Australia/Europe.
I find this is true for people in general, not just women. People just want to be understood.
It's been a few years since I read it, but I remember Snow Crash being filled will about 100 pages of explanation about the development of language in Mesopotamia and the basis of the plot still didn't make any sense. I'm concerned how the movie is going to approach this in 2 hours.
"it doesn’t cost Verizon any more money to serve data to two devices instead of one"

That is two connections to two different devices they must create and handle. At home, your wifi router does this and they provide you with one pipe but you handle the spectrum at home.

Two devices is two pipes and they may be in different locations or just using up more bandwidth from the same location. So it makes sense to charge more if you are concurrently connecting devices.
Open Graph is cool, but not ready for primetime
I was at a company a few years ago where the designers and execs were all about using Yammer internally, and I thought it was a joke. A billion dollar joke, turns out.
I also hate the lack of actual buttons with tactile response.
I was very confused by that, thanks for clearing up the order.
There's only like 2 dozen Sony Retail stores so the bulk of the audience wouldn't be familiar with them. On top of that the Sony stores seem to be based on the Apple experience so the contrast wouldn't be as clear?
Yammer is Microsoft's Instagram, and not just because of the same price tag.

As did Facebook, Microsoft is buying market traction, user engagement, brand equity, UX chops, and vision.
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You're right that it's oversimplified, but your alternative isn't better. Horizontal lines are lines of type, but vertical lines are container borders? Simply using 4 or 5 rather than 3 horizontal lines would be best.

Also, FTA "Twitter Bootstrap refers to it as “icon-align-justify"

Actually the latest version of Font Awesome has three line icon for "icon-reorder" and four line icon for "icon-align-justify"
I get frustrated often enough, and infuriated once in a while. But I don't want to freakin' kill my child multiple times a day. That's very sad, and a bit worrying. And if, as we all suspect, it's just to make a point, then it's still sad to hear a parent say something like that in such a public way, in a medium that may be preserved until one day the kid is reading this and turning red with shame. Or maybe it's all OK and I'm just being too sensitive.
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And gloves. It seems likely that gloves may be involved with guns. Best not to rely on it.
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Interesting you mentioned Ember, which I'm a fan of as well as Angular, though I've been using Angular almost exclusively for severa weeks.

One key difference for Angular is that your markup ends up pretty much exactly how you want it. Ember had <script> tags littering my DOM for binding purposes, which made progressively enhancing forms (and leaving the standard submit event) require manual cleanup prior to letting the page change.

To Ember's credit, it is refreshingly opinionated, and solves the very difficult problem of handling complex states and transitions to deep portions of the app.
I'm not exactly an Ayn Rand scholar, but AIUI, Rand was influenced by Nietzsche and claimed him as such an influence early in her career... but at some point later in her career she broke ways with him and adopted a more negative outlook on his ideas. At any rate, I can definitely see some overlap or correspondence in their works (disclaimer: I'm also not a Nietzsche scholar).
I guess I shouldn't mention the ex-gf of mine that with one simple mention of anything that wasn't right, I was supposed to immediately be on it, plan in hand and know how to go about fixing it. Zero excuses. Period.

Yeah, she was fun.
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I can't dig up a source, but Blizzard representatives have confirmed in the past that they hired economists to work on Diablo III -- this isn't something unique to Valve.
source (as best as I can tell): https://twitter.com/gsmith/status/213325584921665537
Hyperbole.

It's weird, every time a blog post uses hyperbole or (even mild) dark humor someone on HN flat-out doesn't get it, spawning a large comment thread. I've not seen this elsewhere...
I can't see the point of having leap seconds, and here's why: we already tolerate so much (intrinsic) inexactness in the relationship between solar noon and clock noon (ignoring daylight saving time, which I actually like even knowing that it's somewhat ridiculous) that it seems silly. First, there's the equation of time: solar noon isn't the same clock time every day anyway: it varies by +/- about 15 minutes during the course of the year. Second, we live in time zones set for arbitrary reasons. For example, the average solar noon in New York is 11:55, not noon.

I could understand inserting leap seconds if there were some specific need to have 0 longitude be at solar noon at exactly 12:00:00, but as far as I can tell there's not. If the clock drifts off solar noon by a half-second per year or so, then maybe in a few millennia London will decide to use UTC-1. I could be wrong about this, but I don't see this as a big deal.
"Sledgehammer spending" really bugs me. It says "we didn't exercise any brain cells to figure out what our purchase is actually worth, we're just throwing money at the wall because we think we can".

Investors should scream at stuff like this. How many things could millions of extra dollars buy? For one thing, maybe they could have acquired 4 or 5 additional companies, patents or other IP. If there was any chance that they could have done this for $500 million or $400 million or $50 million, that matters and should have been investigated thoroughly. Those saved millions of dollars can also be used to employ a bunch of people on projects for years (heck, sometimes entire applications are written by one or two people inside a company, and they might build something really cool that can be sold).

Microsoft has lots of money, sure. But this kind of spending isn't thinking long-term. Are they guaranteed to have this kind of money in a few years, even? There may be a time when they're completely incapable of making a key future acquisition because they overspent on crap like this.
I'm still waiting for the mini-series adaptation of The Diamond Age, which I preferred to Snow Crash, that has been "in the making" for something like five years now.
Complete tangent, but I noticed that on Yanis Varoufakis' blog, the current entry is his interview with Max Keiser.

http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2012/06/15/ponzi-austerity-intervi...

What's the connection? Max Keiser sounds exactly like the defective turrets from Portal 2. Coincidence?!
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How is that different from trying to mix frameworks in the backend? If your framework doesn't do as much, you write more boilerplate. If it does more, you write less, but have vendor lockin.

I still like using Backbone collections and models with Angular and leave Angular with the VC part.
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Another thing that annoys me about southparkstudios is you cannot view a new episode for an extended period of time. Why not just have another advertisement or two for the latest episodes and allow viewers to see them immediately?

It's like every little step towards the media availability that users deserve has to be beaten out of these studios. Granted that southparkstudios.com is a huge step forward....
Smart buy.
Advertised prices in $ exclude sales tax, because for most states it isn't levied on digital downloads.

However, VAT in EU countries (don't know about Australia) is included in the price. This causes a fairly substantial discrepancy, as VAT can be rather high (in the UK, 20%). Other discrepancies can usually be put down to exchange rate fluctuations, which with the recent financial issues in Europe have been somewhat unstable.
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[edit: reposted as top-level comment; I apologize for the repetition]

CCP's economist's reports are the real deal. The EVE game economy is I dare say more developed and complex than most other games' - it has many kinds of input factors and stages of production, and many of the production facilities/resources are player-controlled and their fate determines on political maneuvering, war and sabotage between player corporations (guilds). The price of most items in EVE (ships, weapons, components, structures) is determined by the state of production and speculation in the economy, so CCP has to consider the economic impact of nearly every single change they make to the game world.

If any of you folks are interested in reading about a truly fascinating, active digital economy, you have to read the EVE economic reports and other investigations of EVE. It's like reading about mining, manufacturing and stock markets - against a background of eternal war between corporations - in far-future space.

edit: links to additional content
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http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/eve-online/855380p1.html

>>> EVE Online was developed to have a very dynamic economy from the very beginning. It was decided that "time" would be treated as a valuable player resource: for that reason, raw materials were spread all over the galaxy map, which takes hours to traverse. This created regional pricing. Interestingly, there were no trade hubs built into the core game design -- players gradually settled into certain areas and made their own pockets of population where trade thrived.

>>> Gudmundsson had some fun examples of how intelligent virtual economies can be. He showed a graph displaying the prices of a mineral in the game known as Zydrine. Zydrine is hard to find in the EVE universe, but players had discovered that killing a certain class of drone often leaves behind Zydrine in the wreckage. This hole in the market led to lots of drone-farming, and subsequently the price started to drop. Drastically.

The developers decided to tweak the drop rate and this change rolled out onto the test server, unannounced, and mixed in with all sorts of other tweaks. Still, clever players noticed the change. Word got out. And suddenly, even though nothing had yet been done on the live server, prices for Zydrine spiked dramatically. Markets make for great predictors of future events!

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http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2010/06/21/real-economist-tak...

>>> One of his team’s first big findings is somewhat sensitive. Confirming decades of gender research by economists, sociologists and anthropologists, Mr. Turpeinen’s group found that the same biases that have historically favored men in the real world exist in a virtual economy. Their research demonstrates that both women subscribers and female avatar characters operated by male subscribers in EVE are biased toward a slightly lower chance of success in competition with their male counterparts.
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BubbleBalls.

Also, the mechanics of the game are hard to understand at first.
Pew Pew doesn't look like a large web app to me. But maybe I'm missing something?
Jeff used a rhetorical device called hyperbole. He does not literally kill a child multiple times each day.
As long as they have the scene where Hiro is piloting a boat through Rife's Raft using real-time satellite views in one eye, I'll be happy.
I'm not sure Diaspora has any enterprise specific leanings, although - to be fair - I haven't spent as much time studying Diaspora as I probably should have.

OTOH, there is another Open Source (ALv2) "enterprise social networking" project out there, and we're always happy to have other folks get involved.

https://github.com/Fogbeam/Quoddy

So far we support features like:

A "facebook wall" like event stream for various event types, including status updates, calendar events (via iCal), business events (via our business event subscription engine), and external activities (via the activitystrea.ms protocol)

Friending / Following users

User Lists

User Groups (well, this is still being worked on)

"User Streams" (sort of like Circles in G+, but more flexible)

User profiles (this still needs a fair amount of love)

Status Updates (like "post to your wall")

ICal Subscriptions

Business Event Subscriptions (for SOA integration)

And we have a pile of other features planned or in progress. See:

http://code.google.com/p/quoddy/wiki/Roadmap

Disclaimer: I freely admit that we intend to make money from this initiative eventually, but the code is (and always will be) under a true OSS license (it's ALv2 now and probably always will be) and we don't ask for copyright assignment or anything. Hack on the project with us and hopefully we can hire you full-time when we (land a couple of paying customers | raise a round of funding | win the lottery).
I would contend it's quite the opposite, it's the adoration of women and putting them up on a pedestal that makes the 'yo mama jokes' even exist. The underlying theme of the joke being that the target would be insulted or feel slighted by the references made to his mother. This implies that the target cares about his mother or least cares about her reputation.

As to the choice of adjetives, they are almost by definition negative in connotation. A fat and ugly does not seem an equal alternative in terms of value to a regular man, hence those adjetives devalue both genders. You could make a case that those particular adjetives devalue women to a greater extent than they do men, that's sexism, not misogyny.

The reason we don't see 'yo papa jokes' is because stereotypically people won't defend or get riled up over what's said about their fathers. I interpret the attacks as targeting something that is valuable, much like a terrorist tries to blow up a landmark (despite the security) and not a shack out in the boonies (because it's defenseless). I contend that socially, biologically and culturally speaking males are predisposed to protect women because they are valuable (and in certain lights, more so than males).

So no, I do not believe this is misogyny, far from it. I do, however, believe it is sexist.
Hi, this seems neat. Some points:

In Chrome 19.0.1084.52 on Ubuntu, I'm getting told to use Apple command key shortcuts.

There is no scrollbar. The scroll wheel works, but the site captures the middle mouse button (without using it?), so grab and drag (with the chromeTouch extension) doesn't work.

The little instruction sequences would make a lot more sense if they said what was happening. E.g. instead of "hold shift, click the text", "hold shift and click the text to frob the whatsit".

Grids and columns seem limited and too much work for aligning things. Check out what Inkscape can do.

There seem to be functions that are inaccessible if you don't know their keyboard shortcuts, or perhaps just not working for me, e.g. selecting multiple objects (not shift, control, or alt?!), making a group.
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A bit of a background: Varoufakis is something of a celebrity in Greece for being one of the first and the most vocal economists to speak out against the European strategy for resolving the Greek sovereign debt crisis. His predictions have proven to be tragically spot on so far, although it remains to be seen whether his proposal for renegotiating the European bailouts, a proposal that the left-wing SYRIZA political party (which has about 50% chance of winning in the Sunday elections and has allegedly asked Varoufakis to be its economic advisor) has stood behind, is actually a realistic one. He fled to the US and Valve after the doctoral program in Economics he had built in the University of Athens was dismantled during the crisis and after he started receiving death threats by people who weren't particularly thrilled with his opinions.
Four years ago one of my first startup ideas I pursued was setting up an arbitrage between virtual economies. I believed then (and still believe) that it is a huge chunk of the future. Everything that is tangible now will become software and intangible in the future. That means the virtual economy is set to eclipse the current one.

I spoke with some somewhat famous startup-type people; several I met on HN. None of them seemed interested in my pitch (I was looking for a cofounder). One basically said "I've already got my FU money. This just doesn't excite me that much."

I'm looking for some cool things to happen in this space over the next decade. When I was kicking this around we had all sorts of things we wanted to try. It'll be interesting to see if any of them come to fruition. One of the key questions in this space is whether it's even possible to manage virtual economies as this guy wants to do, or it there's always some level of abstraction that's remains out of reach. My money says the thrill of being able to finally experiment will be short-lived. Odds are each economy we create with gaming rules will simply be a small subset of a much larger informal economy. Cool stuff.
That's not the cultural issue he raised. He suggested that Scottish seed investors wouldn't ask about projections or market size because the Scottish just don't talk about such things. Yeah right: http://www.archangelsonline.com/content.asp?Page=399&Men...

Regarding your comment on SV culture: exaggeration is a losing strategy when dealing with SV investors. They want realistic sobriety, and dislike naive cocky projections.

Regarding your interpretation of my comments: there is not one shred of "enthusiastic, I'm gonna win, we've got the numbers, it can't fail" attitude in my comments. Much to the contrary: I was saying he's completely unprepared to do a startup, but the best way to remedy that problem is to dive in head first, start failing, and learn from the school of hard knocks.

There are plenty of people in SV who are deathly afraid/ashamed of failure too. They just don't tend to start companies.

There are plenty of superb UK born entrepreneurs, both here and in the UK. Where do you think the industrial revolution began? The only bullshit I'm detecting here is the inclination of certain people to hide their shortcomings behind convenient excuses.
This is the second comment related to a point of trivia about the English language. A lot of words have related noun and verb forms distinguished in speech only by the emphasis being placed at the end in the verb form.

Off the top of my head: desert, refuse, construct. You start noticing them all the time after you see the pattern.
an economy where we do not need statistics since we have all the data!

I simultaneously feel his elation and am mystified. If you have such a quantity of data that you must relate to it via statistics, how is that better than only having the statistics? Is it because you can define and calculate your own creative statistics, or...?