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No console out there failed because it wasn't #1, it failed because it takes money to support hardware, lots of money, and the companies behind those consoles couldn't keep losing money and had to cancel it. The first Xbox lost about $4 billion, but with MSFT behind it money wasn't a problem.

Even before the Wii Nintendo had been either #2 or #3 for the past 3 generations without a problem, because it was still making more than enough money to even make their own games and design new hardware.

The new corner restaurant you mention is not going to beat Applebees, but is not going to stick around for too long if nobody goes there to eat either.
http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/6949/forming-a-new-s...

According to this I would count as the first employee as the company has existed for a year and is making money. Thereby ascribing 10% to me, their first layer of employees. However as this layer grows my value may gets diluted. Moreover it assumes that I am getting paid market wage. As part designer, part developer and part project manager - im not sure what that number is but lets say its at least what im getting paid now $70K per year.

Since I am not getting paid market wage I feel like it should be reasonable to ask for sufficient equity compensation. This is one of the main reasons join a startup right? Not the pay but the <em> potential <em> reward.

All this being said, its a young company the founders are my friends and I feel strongly that the company has potential and that I have a strong opportunity to grow.
Nice, love the idea of running with extra load to predict breaking points.
There is also third group: people who don't have the money (think students).
But as I said they would not kickstart 100$ and therefore will not enter the community in numbers until later in cycle.
Really? just 25-40k users for an entire console generation?
> His point doesn't depend on the accuracy of the percentage.

Then why on earth are you trying to defend the inaccurate claim?

I'd actually say it matters a great deal, because there's a huge difference between 50% and 33% (aka a 2:1 ratio and a 1:1 ratio). Especially since it's not even 2:1 in reality. It's about 2.75:1. So it's inaccuracy piled on top of exaggeration.
How else would he get backing with actual spelling? Come aaaaawn...
I believe that it depends on the model, but after some of the early trojans figured out how to do this years ago, the light is now hardware-wired in some webcams.

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/6758/can-webcams...
How we got to #2 in App Store without spending any money
I really do not know much about bitcoins, so if someone can add more info that would be great.

My question is from when you purchase bitcoin, or convert it back to your respective currency. Does that not have to go through a normal bank, which is still regulated?

Additionally, what is to stop shops from not accepting bitcoins? So you get paid in bitcoin, but can't convert it back to your currency, or no one accepts it as payment wouldnt that just make it worthless?
We are all 2 or 3 years out of college. So while I admit we could be charging our clients a lot more, I don't think that 100K per year in revenue out of consulting ventures is a bad start.
Rajiv is awesome, you should listen to him
I highly doubt that people are going to de-fund the OUYA project in large numbers. And what is the point of actively encouraging people to remove their pledge anyway? By now, I would assume just about everyone on kickstarter understands that there is a good deal of risk involved. Even if this project never makes it off the ground, people are giving OUYA money not necessarily for a console, but for the dream and hope of the disruption that the project will bring to the market.
It's somewhat amusing to me to see several comments on this thread wave away the actual hardware as an "outsourced design" or "just call Asus". I have to assume it's a result of people not understanding the complexity of modern hardware.

First, I've been unable in my (admittedly, cursory) research to discover any prebuilt systems that even come close to their promised hardware specs. So until someone proves me wrong by posting a link to an OTS solution even close to what they're promising, lets assume that the system needs custom design.

This is a whole massive can of worms. I have some experience with hardware design (though not as much as a full-blown EE), and I'd ballpark hardware design alone as a half-year effort with multiple full-time EEs. And that's a best-case optimistic estimate. People who work in software don't seem to understand how hard this stuff is. It's not like you can simply take another schematic, slap the new parts you want on, delete the old parts, autoroute it and call it a day. With parts of this complexity there's a whole host of other design issues that come out of the woodwork. High-frequency switching means if one of your autorouted traces is longer than another, you're going to have timing issues. Crosstalk between layers, capacitance and inductance of the wires themselves can wreak havoc on your busses. You need to intelligently design the ground planes, separate your signals (analog and digital components), etc etc etc.

These are only the issues I'm aware of. I'm sure people experienced with creating boards this complex can fill me in on more. It's not like a hobby arduino project - hooking up traces to debug problems can increase the capacitance of a line enough to cause a new set of problems.

This isn't really directed just towards you, but it feels like a ton of people here are missing how difficult hardware design with components this complex is.
Why You Can't Turn Digg into a Start Up
This just seems like a bad idea. What problem does this actually solve? Or is it just "because it looks cool"?
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this is old, but I've remebered today when my arduino arrived. (Anyway, isn't related to arduino anyway, perhaps it needs an update)
It was a joke (a bad one, clearly), but it was at the definition of the word literally. The OP presumably meant figuratively.
Fair enough - I've played with Pligg too, and found it really easy. I've never tried to deploy reddit, though. I imagine it to be much more robust & therefore complicated...
BTW, do you use Google Analytics' realtime features (or other realtime analytics)? It's really fun. :-)
Some of the people I work with are like that and some others are mac evangelists. Is funny when they meet and shout at each other. I prefer to just use lots of different OS's and like always having a few spare machines lying around that I can wipe and install stuff on, so don't really see what all the fuss is about. If people really cared they'd go out and code better GUIs.

However, it is stupid that apple make some fairly basic design mistakes in the GUI experience when they focus so well on the physical aspects of their devices, but then again, none of the major players has done GUI really well yet, especially when compared with some of the best output of the computer games industry.
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In the US at least there is always SBIR(Small Business Innovation Research)funding. Most of it is through the DOD, but other federal agencies includimg the NSF participate as well. The NSF grants are pretty open-ended. Come up with an idea in their broad categories and submit a proposal. it helps greatly to have a PhD on your team as the initial Principal Investgator, but at least for the DOD awards is certainly not strictly required.
There's a difference between monetizing traffic and bastardizing content (though I'll be the first to admit I'm not readily familiar with Digg's community.)

I think there's still a pretty big niche to be filled with genuine high-quality news aggregation. Even if they were to nuke Digg and start anew, having that existing userbase is a big advantage.
Yea you can get a similar list from a few places. The problem will be that manytimes the IP will return the company's ISP, which isn't useful for the user
Seems to me that PHP bulletin boards are always a (easy?) target.
BeamNG, a Fantastic Physics Engine by a Small Startup
Excellent video!

D3 is an amazing tool. I don't wanna go back to google visualization or Highcharts after using it!
From that article: he Missed bail; traces of explosives; carrying home made rockets; had a stash of encrypted storage drives with him and the authorities wanted to see what was on them. In such cases the person is still innocent but the authorities have a duty to investigate.

Don't get me wrong I am a hacker and someone who has written lots of crypto code, but i don't see this as an example to support the case against the legislation.
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Yep. Basically if you're using Google behind the HTTPS (like you're logged into Google+) they'll send back a non referral header. There ARE ways around this, but it's tricky
Yea, I am not sure if "quad-core Raspberry Pi" is that much of a selling point. CuBox is much more interesting with:

- gigabit ethernet

- e-sata port (with port multiplier)

- infrared receiver

- out of the box, already comes with a box

- comprehensive wiki for a development platform

By the way, a 150 Mbps wifi dongle is sold for about 5 USD here (I too was surprised by how cheap the wifi module is, and went to check the price list).
I'd leave also if the company's definition of "investing" is limited to some combination of polishing, enhancing, or repackaging the same milk money projects repeatedly. Its almost as dangerous as just sticking to the milk money projects (unless your company is a government contractor).
> I don't like the All-In-One version of xcode... not friendly with a small screen at all. Xcode 3, I would keep the doc window on it's own desktop, Interface Builder on it's own, etc... xcode 4 I lost that ability.

It’s all-in-one because you let it that way. You can create new windows and put IB, debugging, editors in separate windows or tabs.

This article explains one good way to do it http://brian-webster.tumblr.com/post/22060296528/how-to-make...

Life has been much better since I started embracing Xcode 4 instead of stubbornly trying to make it work as if it was Xcode 3.
When has Google or ASUS ever been known for their customer service? I was excited about the Nexus 7 until I saw the giant ASUS logo on the back.

http://thomaspainerants.com/nexus-7-a-customer-service-disas...
Is "learnt" a real word?
Share your favorite subreddits
Over in the Digg acquisition thread, there's a fair amount of talk about Reddit, and one comment thread ended up with a bunch of folks posting the subreddits that they thought made reddit great.

One thing that's always been lacking on reddit is subreddit discovery...

So, in the spirit of sharing greatness, why not share your favorite subreddits?

Some of my more esoteric/fun favorites:

/r/mildlyinteresting/
/r/BuyItForLife/
/r/PostCollapse/
Many worthwhile revelations are inherently experiential. There are a very, very few people who are sufficiently gifted in communication to be able to sell large numbers of people on them. In most cases, though, people simply have to achieve enlightenment or experience the concept for themselves.

The Zen koan of the seeker told he would find enlightenment by acquiring the shirt of the happiest man in the world ... who turns out to be shirtless ... captures something of this essence.
Mentally, I always think of multiple monitors consisting of one space. Mission Control ruins that by displaying each space on each monitor separately, so windows that are side-by-side on different monitors no longer appear side by side in Mission Control. This is a huge mental disconnect. There's also various annoyances:

* You can't drag a window from one monitor to another using Mission Control, even though it will highlight the space you're trying to drop on.

* You can't move Space 1 to another spot or remove it, for no particular reason.

* When activating mission control from a fullscreen app, it shows the windows from Space 1, yet you have to swipe left to go to Space 2.

* It forces you to have different backgrounds per space/monitor, even if you don't want to. Changing your background globally is a huge pain.
For me, it's about the interface. In descending order: intuitive, consistent, modular, comfortable, portable.

Intuitive: most commands resemble natural language, without awkward or arbitrary mappings. For instance:

- w: (forward) word;

- cw: change (forward) word;

- c2w: change 2 (forward) words;

- 2cw: twice change word;

- ciw: change inner word;

There is no intervening translation. For instance, to change a word in mainstream editors, you delete it first, then start entering the new text. In Vim, it's one command: you think "change forward word", you issue the "change forward word" command.

Consistent. For instance, double letters work on lines:

- cc: change line;

- dd: delete line;

- yy: yank line;

and capital letters work till the end of the line:

- C: change till the end of the line;

- D: delete till the end of the line;

- Y: yank till the end of the line (not so in vanilla Vim, but I've remapped it because consistency matters to me).

Modular: you compose commands. For instance, / is the search command and then:

- d/testo: delete until the next occurrence of "testo";

- c/testo: change until the next occurrence of "testo";

- etc.

Comfortable: limited usage of modifier keys. Vim saved me from RSI.

Portable: letters and Shift keys are in the same position on any keyboard, be it on a desktop, a laptop, etc. whilst each laptop manufactures has its own idea about where Control, Alt, Arrows, PageUp and PageDown should be.

Hope this helps.
"For example, it's not illegal to take photos of people on the street, yet US society has a love-hate relationship with the paparazzi. They're not breaking the law, but there are plenty of people who... uh... strongly dislike them. Kyle crossed over in to the same territory."

I think the motivations are different here, although the acts are similar the reasons are not.
From the looks of it, it will probably be closer to 100k, which still isn't much. But I would imagine that there are a number of developers in that group, which means by the time it is open to the general public, at least there will be some games ready.
I don't use Fullscreen. I have 2 27" monitors hooked up through a Dual Head 2 Go. I use Divvy, which is set up so I can put an app on either 27" screen, or on the left of right of either 27" screen. I find Mission Control to be an adequate Exposé substitute.

I don't use spaces.
You will still need to market yourself to the crowd and find work that you like but that the crowd will fund.

Some passions, no doubt, will not be rewarded.
Designing your own hardware (and the entire OS on top of it) is expensive. Using off-the-shelf components and an Android base will help that immensely. If Ouya can manufacture its console for slightly less than its $100 price (assuming the kickstarter pledge level to be the price goal), it can build its profits off the game store.

If they can make it reasonably easy to Ouya-fy an existing Android game, there will be reasonable incentive to add games to the store. In my mind, this is the riskiest part. Tablet and phone games are designed around touch. Many of them won't convert to a controller well, which will limit the number of games ported and make them more dependent on made-for-Ouya titles. They'll need to be a good-sized market for that.
Or encapsulate excess arguments in objects that represent the data that needs to be moved around, if possible.
To take over something like Digg? Everything costs.

Legal costs. Infrastructure costs. Clearing out employees and transitioning with new employees to take over and operate it. New product development to change the product into whatever they have in mind.

It's ridiculously easy to blow $500k doing nothing in tech when salaries run $100k with total compensation. And that's just the employee costs.

It'll cost Betaworks several million dollars to get Digg the way they want it, all in, including the purchase price.
Is there a reason why you wouldn't use Vintage with ST2? ci works better in Vim, for sure. But ci is still incredibly useful with Vintage:

f"ci"baz
> The new corner restaurant you mention is not going to beat Applebees, but is not going to stick around for too long if nobody goes there to eat either.

It takes a lot more money and marketing to start a franchise restaurant chain than it takes to start a restaurant, or even a local/regional chain. Ouya is more like the latter.
Kevin Rose only has Montessori Education
I'm not sure it's really driving news cycles, but I have vaguely noticed reblogging, even from high-profile bloggers (e.g. at mainstream newspaper/magazine websites) being keyed off stuff that gets big at Reddit, if not first, then at least before they blog it. I wouldn't be surprised if some of them are monitoring relevant subreddits for reblogging ideas.

You'll see something get a few hundred comments on Reddit, often in one of the non-default subreddits, then the next day there's an article on an Atlantic or NYTimes or HuffPo blog about it. It'd be interesting to trace who influenced whom, since I don't have hard numbers, and am not 100% sure where Reddit fits into the food chain. I'm certain there's some food chain though, because some of it is very unlikely to be coincidence; e.g. I'll read some interesting "weird historical episode" tidbit someone pulled out of Google Books one day, then a day later a mainstream news organization is blogging about this very same weird-news tidbit from 1913, which they clearly borrowed from somewhere (whether Reddit, Twitter, some kind of analytics data, etc., I'm not sure).
Haha...sockpuppet account!
Given that you're involved in this - why add "with cast"? I thought the whole point of the feature, in regards to classes and arrays, is to be absolutely strict about function arguments. Once you start down the path of "well, as long as it's sort of like that," then you might as well accept objects that have toString defined in place of strings. Having worked in a large PHP project for years and trying to get it to a point of letting new developers spin up pretty quickly (and use PHPStorm efficiently), STRICT type hinting is one of the best tools possible!
For the record, I use sqlalchemy 0.6.6 regularly under fairly heavy load, and have never had a problem with it. Any 'sqlalchemy bugs' are inevitably coding mistakes on my part.
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How is this better than SDWebImage or AFNetworking libraries? Any quick comparisons?
I talked with a guy who raised $220k. He saw about 8% of that "disappear" in failed charges (things like the card had expired). Of course, anybody can unpledge, but those numbers are reflected in the current total.
Indeed, my middle initial is on everything. Business cards, it is in my domain name (bertjwregeer.com), it is used in email, everything.
Some of those analytical lack enough humility to avoid the appearance of thinking themselves infallible.

Then there is a segment of those in tech who think that whatever they can get away with, they should get away with.
Yes. It is used instead of "learned" in nearly every english-speaking country outside the U.S.
Comcast unveils Passport to the 2012 Games
London Underground: NFC mobile payments 'too slow' for the tube
And now i read the article and they mentioned SBIR. i have never heard of a 21 million SBIR award though. i always though phase 2awards topped out at about 2million.
Software Transactional Memory: Why Is It Only a Research Toy?
this makes perfect sense. the Fed, over the last decade, has run a policy of credit expansion, followed by liquidity expansion since 2007. this is always priced in as a positive movement in equities, but many people believe that this is an illusion, and that "inflating" the preceived value of a stock has nothing to say about the true value.
Send out measuring tapes for free to customers (like Square's credit card readers). The tapes will be branded with your logo/URL. You let users store their exact measurements on their profile, and your company takes care of the rest (building an online catalog of well-photographed stock, all of which your team has gathered samples of and tested for exact measurements.
Processes are nothing without people dedicated to following them. Models are unreliable without taking care to craft a reliable system.

I don't really consider disciplined programming to be a branch of engineering. While I don't have a sophisticated metaphysics of code, it seems that there is an essential ontological difference between "engineering" a software system and "engineering" a bridge or a chemical process.

Richard Gabriel once suggested the idea of a MFA in software, and I think that he is onto something.

http://www.dreamsongs.com/MFASoftware.html
This sounds like a good idea at first[1], but then you realize that text is often accompanied by graphics that are not vectorized. Resolution independence when coupled with raster images is a hard problem. You can render the text at the desired size fairly easily, but you can't resize a bitmap arbitrarily without it looking pretty terrible. This is why resolution independence hasn't happened for displays despite lots of attention. It's also why Apple just doubled everything to keep it simpler.

[1] Actually, it might not even seem like a great idea at first if your first thought is to contrast your phone screen and TV screen.
It takes more effort in vim, but for each example you've mentioned some vim user somewhere stopped and thought, "That's useful I wish I had that AND had it in vim."

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2715
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1984
http://eclim.org/

Picking up Android development is the first thing that really made me consider switching out of vim. With eclim, I'm now half in half out. I do most of the actual coding in vim with eclim doing the menial work of basic error checking, automated imports, automated refactoring, etc. For debugging, and some of the layout tools I'll switch to the Eclipse instance that's already backing eclim and do it there. It's a nice compromise.
You take it incorrectly. Now what?
I suggested this feature on the last HN article when they announced Parse powered Table Views. No one seemed to think it was a good idea then, but I'm very glad parse decided to implement it! Reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3401887
Just started reading a book called "High Performance MySQL" and in one of the early pages, the following advice appears:

"It's an excellent idea to run a realistic load simulation on a test server and then literally pull the power plug. The firsthand experience of recovering from a crash is priceless. It saves nasty surprises later."

Same goes for testing network connectivity and failover. I can't tell you how many times I've heard things like "The automatic recovery _should_ have kicked in but..."

Having a recovery procedure and backup strategy is completely different from having actually restored a backup and recovered from a failure.
Hint: the maximize button splits the screen, and giving you editor/look view (like coffeescript site does for coffee/js).
Oh no, the odds of smart people becoming insane are very good!

It's the odds of encountering one on the street that are bad.
Exactly. This way, I get my schemaless datastore without leaving the stdlib, and it doesn't eat my data at unsuspecting times.
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I wonder what they consider the "core assets" to be; some specific items I'm curious about: domain name, codebase, hosting contracts, Aeron chairs, employees.
Mobile phone users sorely mistaken about how much privacy they have