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On the mojang point, that is simply not accurate. It's marketing spin. From the original Kotaku article about the console:

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There are some smoke and mirrors here. The Kickstarter video shows Minecraft on Ouya's system dashboard, which might be possible without further development given that Minecraft is available on Android. But Carl Manneh, who helps run Minecraft development studio Mojang told Kotaku that he and his colleagues "haven't seen it nor committed to anything." He added: "but we do like the idea!" Loving the idea and wanting it to succeed seems to be the status for a raft of top indies, including Canabalt creator Adam Saltsman and Wasteland creator Brian Fargo.
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I'm working on something very much like that.
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Thanks for sharing. I feel like a lot of the time we forget what problem we are solving. The client rarely asks for new technology or a specific stack as much as they ask for web presence, some system integration, or an app to fill a specific need.
Implementing the display, collation or suchlike manipulation of Unicode text isn't feasible for the nonspecialist, to be sure (in practice that means you call an appropriate library/framework/API and hope they got it right).

But storing a stream of UTF-8 and retrieving it on command is not remotely difficult. You almost have to go out of your way to screw that up.
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Reddit was Paul Graham's idea (interview with founders)
Maybe turn it into a raffle? Every month a random VM host gets a huge prize (all the money that would have been distributed)?

If the service was really successful you could be giving out n * $100k prizes every month. Just treat it like the (much cheaper) server hosting bill.
Knowing a lot of VCs and having seen many startups pitch I can tell you that "amateur hour" isn't a word that is used.

The problem for your argument of course is that they got much more than they asked in just 24 hours so apparently they aren't amateurs which you would know if you saw who was behind it.

So as much as I defend your right to express yourself in any way you want, the joke is kind of on you don't you think?
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Now tending to $58 million.
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Thank you! Django happens to be the one thing I've experimented with outside of simple python scripts for PEul, so this will not be terrible foreign.
I am curious about the scalability of such an endeavor. If you have to verify the fares by hand, you need a certain minimum amount of return before it becomes worth it.

For example: I live in SFO. I might want to fly down to Vegas for the weekend, any weekend from now till (say) September, for $150rt. How much overhead would you charge to make it worth your while?

Also: how do you settle disputes? Say I get an itinerary from the contest (supposedly verified by you), and it doesn't work for me. Now what do I do?

And finally (apologize for too many questions): what about travel documents? Apparently, even if you're transitioning through LHR, you need a British visa if you're not from a certain blessed list of countries. What if I don't have a visa, but you end up sending me through London?

Please don't get me wrong: I like the idea. I'm just trying to wrap my head around how it can be scaled.....
It's hard to accidentally turn all the text of your blog post into jpegs. It reflects a deliberate decision (and in the opinion of people here, a poor one).
But is there any hope that medicine will find a way to enhance or strengthen any of the body's mechanisms for controlling these mutated cells and this erroneously copied DNA?

Is that just a dead end?
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I' still surprised the SEC doesn't actively try to game the system. I mean we all know that we aren't dealing with the worlds best people, why not try to play the psycopath game ourselves?
I did that with Django -- I feel on the cusp of getting it, but the tutorial ends kind of abruptly. I'm working on a project to get my feet we, though (a simple tiered to-do that I am planning on integrating with a little under-construction site to show true %-done of aspects of a site).
Yes, I suppose the joke is on me if they collect $10m, flame out violently, and inflict tremendous negative harm on the game industry and android game development for years to come, isn't it? I'm laughing already.

Money isn't success. Congrats to them on having money.
This is good news. What was proposed before (a price floor five times above taxis, assuredly to prevent disruption of the taxi industry) was not at all in the public's best interest.
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A good middle ground is using a collection of well written libraries that achieve the function you're looking or. Doing that instead of using a monolithic framework has some nice benefits:

1) The libraries are guaranteed to be decoupled.

2) The libraries are better maintained individually.

3) It's much easier (sometimes painless) to replace them if they don't suit your needs.

4) ... probably many more.

The hardest part of bootstrapping a new application is the boilerplate. Let someone else take care of managing session state, generating SQL queries, URL routing, DI containers, buffered logging, templating, etc. If you haven't found something that suits your needs, sure, write it yourself.

I wouldn't say what you're doing is stupid. Do what makes you successful and happy. Just don't be stubborn ;)
While there's nothing wrong with Rails 2.3.8, there's also a lot you're missing out on. Maybe you don't start your next project with bleeding edge software, but it's definitely worth exploring to see what is out there.

Web apps behave so differently and have different requirements that no one framework will fix it

If that's the case, why stick with one framework? Why not explore as many as you can and then pick the best one for each new project?
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Context matters in communication. Each of those platforms has vastly different expectations of the speed of the response. By unifying it all, what you've essentially done is made me wade through every message as if they actually had the same importance and priority to me. They don't.

Now certainly some things can be unified, but let's not pretend like every form of communication is equal just because in the end, a message is delivered to the intended recipient.
Puppet is so 2011, the future is nixos. Once we have year of the Haskell desktop that is.
I'm dying to know what 'utility fog' will be. The only thing missing from this great display is a wiki link to each item he lists in the upcoming years.
Do we prefer websites that take longer to load?
App Engine will serve SPDY from https automagically.
I've never seen this as especially paradoxical. As long as you choose not to speak, you are free to remain silent. As soon as you start speaking, you are choosing to speak, and not be silent.

The only effect of verbally invoking your right to remain silent, as far as I'm aware, is that the police have to stop interrogating you. It would make sense for the police to have to stop after you refuse to answer their questions for some defined period, but it also makes sense (and this is more or less the reasoning of the court as I understand it) to say that, while you are free to be silent, the cops are free to keep asking questions unless you affirmatively indicate your desire that they stop.

The main problem remaining, I think, is the fact that people do not know they can so ask.
The case of encoding/xml
Had the same reaction, but you can't judge so quickly. Memcachier's home page explains that they set up servers in the same datacenter as your app (currently supporting Heroku, appHarbor and cloudControl), so you get LAN latencies.
In this case money actually is success since that was their goal.

Whether they will succeed with their next phase is another question.
This reminds me of a conversation I had with a coworker recently about how possible it would be a for an object to check itself for null. Based on this explanation, it seems like this would definitely be possible in C++ (our conversation was in the context of Java, but it's interesting from an academic perspective)

class NullChecker {
public:
bool isNull() { return !!this; }
};

int main() {
NullChecker *nc = 0;
if(nc->isNull()) doSomething();
return 0;
}

Forgive my C++ syntax as it's been a while, but this seems like it would work to me.
The applications are very limited, but it’s nevertheless incredibly awesome for a particular niche.
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Well if I backed the $700 level and got a pre-release version of this thing, I'd have to sell a game at $5 to 140 people in order to make my money back on the hardware. Considering there are already (as I am writing this) > 15k backers I think it's fairly safe to assume that with the promised promotion that I could at least make that money back. If I don't get paid for all the time and effort I put into making the game... oh well. I like making games so it's not time wasted even if I don't ultimately get paid for it. Sounds like a cool hobby project at least.

And what if it does take off?

For a growing population of gamers there is no need for highly optimized hardware designed for crunching polygons and shaders. Not everyone wants to play CoD: Modern Hate Machine 5 Extreme. It would seem that this project is hedging its bets that this population of gamers is large enough to support building a specialized hardware platform for these types of games that they like. Seems pretty reasonable to me.

I think I side with @notch (https://twitter.com/notch/status/220971663003623427): it would be awesome if this console does well. I think having a low-barrier development platform with wide adoption and a captive audience would be great. As it stands I can't just make a game for XBLA -- I have to suffer in obscurity in the indie store or create a real corporation with funding and a history of decent games and pitch my idea. Neither option is very attractive. I can't even imagine what developing for the PS3 would be like (as I haven't done any, but I'd imagine it would not be very fun). So I hope this project does do well. I think it will open a lot of doors and create new markets. That isn't really a bad thing for anyone.
I'm curious why they're designed their own controller and not just going with something from, say, Logitech. Seems like one less thing to worry about.
> As frustrated as I am with what seems like an unnecessarily immature software industry,

Could you expand on this?
If the data is not confidential, but you’re worried about someone messing with your computations, it still might be worthwhile to use defensive strategy and just run the same task multiple times on separate instances and compare results before accepting output. Since the task can be scheduled in parallel, there’s no significant overhead and it’s still way cheaper than Amazon/Google.

It’s not exactly replacement for EC2, but there’s a lot of applications that would fit Gridspot just fine.

But I guess one has to be much more aware of all the security issues when writing for a platform like this. The Gridspot folks should perhaps consider creating solid list of best-practice guidelines.

Now can someone also create Gridspot for storage? :)
Sounds promising! Is the app going to be available for other platforms such as Android, BB and Samsung's Bada ? If yes, then how soon ?
This has become a serious problem for me in my search for a better job.

Interviews are nothing short of awkward.

Interviewer: So what do you like to do?

Me: I'm a Python/Ruby guy. I also have worked in Java/C. Currently playing around with node.js, machine learning algorithms, some functional programming and pet project with my Arduino Duemilanove.

Interviewer: Sounds good, you'll hear from us in the next few days.

:(
Remaining a global corporate tax haven.
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I understand where the author is coming from, and it can be hard to figure out where to even get started on new projects. On the other hand, I am thankful from the obscene amount of great software coming out of the open source community every day.

While things like paradox of choice and project abandonment are worth discussing, let's not forget that thousands of developers have found something that they think is lacking, fixed it, and taken the time to give it to us gratis so that we can use and learn from it. I, for one, am excited.
Has anyone ever double checked the megaupload business model? Like, comparing how much s3 would cost to store all the data, and how many customers?

I couls never get it to work out...
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Same here. It would be great to get end-to-end encryption, but I don't think that this is currently practical.

Some recent research [1] has shown that it's theoretically possible to delegate the ability to process your
data, without giving away access to it. But from what I remember, in practice the computation becomes orders of magnitude slower than on the unencrypted counterpart.

[1] http://crypto.stanford.edu/craig/easy-fhe.pdf
Does this not fly in the face of all the buzz to create platform-independent HTML 5 apps? On my iPhone 4GS, FB is slow - compared to my desktop web browser version.

It might be that HTML 5 mobile web apps are better for cutting costs when performance is not a main customer criterion.
Windows phone does this. It collects everything into one place.
Same thing as with Spot Instances on Amazon. Save your work often, reschedule eagerly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcPNnUo60pc&feature=play...
Agreed. I don't understand preservational methodologies such as this. If the demand for taxis dies as a result of better alternatives, then let it. How else will we progress without being willing to give up our old habits?
How consistent you are about the patterns you use must have an enormous impact on how easy it is to resume work on something three projects ago.

If you're switching between frameworks all the time, it would be even more difficult because you wouldn't have deep knowledge, but at least there is presumably a group of people somewhere to consult. If you're lucky they even had some plan when they came up with design decisions.

I can see how you avoid a lot of cruft, but how do you discipline your own projects? How much documentation do you create for your own later reference?
Apple innovates. It does not invent. Invention involves true discovery or creation; innovation is introducing existing ideas into new areas (in Apple's case, new markets) or changing existing ideas.

But you did get the third part right, about the sheeple...p
Any expert ready to venture a guess on how fast SPDY could be adopted by most of the biggest websites on the net? Could it spread like wildfire when all the main browsers and web-hosting softwares adopt it, or are we talking about years and years (like getting rid of IE6)?
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I guess the people funding this project haven't heard of a free browser extension called AdBlock Plus?
I've been their customer for the past few months and I have to say, this service is quite amazing. It's not cheap, but it is extremely convenient and the cars and the drivers are really good.
Likewise, a small fraction of startups become successful.

Also, your allegation is wrong. Generally the reason for failure is not adverse events, but lack of efficacy/effectiveness.

Will this likely fail? Yes. Will it likely fail due to adverse events? No. Will it likely fail due to inefficacy/ineffectiveness? Yes.
Screw College, Let’s Turn it Upside Down. A la Entrepreneur.
Sounds like you're not applying to the right companies. Any developer that comes to me with an obvious love for code moves to the top of the list. If you're coding in your own time for fun, it's not a job, and I'd want to hire you - in some capacity :)
Didn't one of the original studies involve choices of jam at a supermarket? Seems like it applies equally well to products.

Compare and contrast the number of iPhone or iPad models with the rest of their respective industries. They're delineated along good/better/best and the tradeoffs are obvious. It's a lot easier to shop for an iPad than it is an arbitrary laptop.
And most likely you only have a handful of these templates, so if you're nice you'll actually just put some effort into each one:

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(it's much less egregious here than it is in some emails that have 7-8 footnotes)
The fact that they've included HTML5 Boilerplate is nice. I use them together so frequently that I rolled my own solution not too long ago: https://github.com/brianchitester/hotplate
It's been slowly turning into Reddit, and it looks like it finally reached the point where you noticed how Reddit-like it is now.
The emoji unicode range was created to standardize the various characters used on Japanese mobiles. Hence why it contains e.g. the Love Hotel icon.
You could replace the SOC too for another arm.
No, you can't, because that generates one-off links with gibberish in the URL and forces the disposition to "download" instead of just sending the file.
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I'd just like to point out that the word "tax" does not appear in the article. You need to be sure to include taxes inside the E_n term. This is a bit problematic, since tax rates can and do change, but you can estimate using historical values if you like. Other than that, it looks good to me. :)
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I just reference a piece of code where I know I've done something similar in the past, even for public frameworks like rails.
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What is the difference between real speed and the impression of speed? If it feels fast, is it not fast?

Automated website speed tests aren't a good measurement the way you're using them. They're good for a site developer to find bottlenecks but can't tell you much else one way or the other. Perhaps most of the page load time is spent loading images below the fold.

You're much better just loading the page by hand and seeing how fast the content shows up. And when you do that, the impression of speed is important.
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The gist of it ...

"The system uses a camera to track the motion of raindrops and snowflakes and then applies a computer algorithm to predict where those particles will be just a few milliseconds later. The light projection system then adjusts to deactivate light beams that would otherwise illuminate the particles in their predicted positions."
Do you know why the plane doesn't use GPS as a backup method for airspeed measuring?
Fake it till you make it? I don't know for sure, but could they be subsidising the launch by running instances on EC2? ... When they get enough hosts signed up, switch over to their distributed model, or even run a hybrid combination to handle demand spikes.
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I am a SWE by day at bigco you've heard of. I've thought about trying out enterprise software sales. It seems to me that it may be easier to dream up enterprise opportunities given more customer interaction. Would you mind if I contacted you offline to learn more about the enterprise sales side?
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It's true that nothing really stops you from just doing it, but in my opinion without anyone there to anticipate your accomplishment it's hard to motivate your self. Sure if you have natural talent, meaning you can naturally generate motivation without anyone's positive feedback. But without any positive external feedback your natural motivation will probably die out.

I can relate to the author in many ways, but I didn't take that lesson away from my time in school. In my view, I was born with a natural motivation to invent and analyze things, and my struggle was to find the right environment, with the right people and tools that could grow this motivation rather than killing it with indifference. It's all about meeting the right people who gives you that push.

The author said he didn't need any professor to get started, it's true, but he did need a friend to give him that push, that showed him that at least someone wanted to see him "do it".
Increase the attack surface area. With anycast the nearest nodes to the attackers "sink" all of the traffic. The rest of the nodes continue to serve other customers with no I'll effect.

With this product you will have a very wide base of unicast addresses. Treat each node/address as disposable. Use fast failing health checks and an out of band control plane. As each node falls to attack remove it from your service discovery layer (DNS/http 302/etc). See "fast flux dns" for implementation ideas. The attacker will spend a disproportionate amount of resources (packets/s) attacking each of your disposable nodes. The majority of your "good" customers will continue to be served.
In a traditional tiered architecture the L3->L7 routing layer (LB/Proxy) is very expensive to scale vertically. Your data store & compute end are clustered behind these choke points. Remove/minimize shared state and you can have independent units of compute. Remove those L3->L7 choke points and you can get a wider & flatter L1->L3 network fabric. Besides increased durability you get more aggregate bandwidth per $.
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