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48:30 I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but it shall not be so; his
lies shall not so effect it.

48:31 Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab;
mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.

48:32 O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of
Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of
Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy
vintage.

48:33 And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and fr

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God says...

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instability //www ignoble view numberest delicious you'll_see
Adam celibacy restrains keeper HAVE XIII satiated happen
eunuchs well-being 92 mourned

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You like waffles, God? Or pancakes? Or omlet?

God says...

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Lord, Lord, Which hast bowed the heavens and come down, touched
the mountains and they did smoke, by what means didst Thou convey
Thyself into that breast? He used to read (as Simplicianus said) the
holy Scripture, most studiously sought and searched into all the
Christian writings, and said to Simplicianus (not openly, but
privately and as a friend), "Understand that I am already a
Christian." Whereto he answered, "I will not believe it, nor will I
rank you among Christians, unless I see you in t

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Smoked chicken breast... fer breakfast? Ohh!! We got a dish-thing like that -- corn bread, chicken and brocoli.

You don't like pig pit roasts. ROFLMAO. (Quoted dead rising)

Would You like to be a cook for a BBQ party, if You came to our house?

God says...

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six prescripts throng arranged guilty numbered sinner
dollar unfledged likely obstinacy resurrection outrages
tell By heeded throng ANY orderest write how_about_those_yankees
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Manning the BBQ grill is an honor. (God laughed)
Don't disagree with the power of persuasion but the approach of expecting you to be persuaded is flawed I think. It makes the other person responsible for expressing his/her point effectively enough that you understand the importance of it. Tech industry particularly is rife with people who are extraordinary developers but very poor communicators. People like these are highly at disadvantage with the "persuade me" stance. I think if you are the decision maker, higher authority then it is your responsibility to have the insight to see the value of the point being made and not really hope to be nagged like a toddler into making a decision.
Even if you moved the polar coordinate shift to the hardware, you're doing pixel ray operations on the texture, followed by rasterization. I do vertex operations only, which are vastly fewer in number even in a worst case scenario, and then rasterize that. I'm willing to bet that even if we implemented this on the CPU, my algorithm would still be significantly faster and more accurate. Furthermore, your algorithm would struggle to take into account soft shadows, which actually become a noticeable problem in certain situations in large tilemaps when you have very large light radii.

I think the polar coordinate transformation trick is really cool, but I feel like this is the wrong use for it. This is essentially a solved problem using polygons in 2D lighting engines already - to make it work for tiles, you simply scale down and back up to map to tiles.

I have to admit I'm sorely tempted to implement this in WebGL just to see what happens.
Desire to save members of your own kind is pretty universal among "social animals". Nothing particularly human about it.
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Well, we'd rather use standard stuff without Wine. I could make Wine work, but I doubt our volunteers could...

Dev systems that only work in Windows: Fusion, Unity, Stencylworks, GameMaker, and Click N' Play.

We do use Linux and Dosbox to emulate old PC games for exhibits, however.
groupons not redeemed don't cost the business owner anything. The ones that are redeemed require him to front the cash. This is cash flow management 101 (and one of the things that enrages some people about Apple and Amazon. Apple sells you a new iPad, but buys its suppliers 90 days later. Those suppliers, just like groupon merchants, are making 90 day loans out of pocket).
I always find this sentiment funny. As a programmer, and one with 15+ years of HTML/CSS experience, I find it much easier to layout a website design in Photoshop. That being said, I usually jump to markup about 2/3rds of the way through the design. Everyone has a different comfort level, I suppose.
>>The experiments cited in this paper are largely from the manufacturing age, where workers were doing largely mindless work on an assembly line.

What do you think herds of corporate Java/C# programmers do with their auto complete/intellisense laden IDE's? That is nothing short of coding equivalent of assembly line work.

>> I'd imagine that for today's highly-trained, heavily knowledge-oriented creative class, the optimum workweek is roughly 25-30 hours.

People who fit into that description probably account for a very miniscule minority in the programming world today.
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What market, the app market?

The number of apps and gross revenue from apps has been growing big. The future of software development is mobile apps.
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I think you're significantly underestimating the price of the ingredients. There are some good sites how to start a restaurant, and what margins to expect, how to calculate cost, etc.
I think it was targeted towards the people who work in the warehouses not necessarily highly paid technical staff aiming to do their MS or MBA. Still $2000 is paltry as compared to what Google and Microsoft, other major tech employers in the area, offer.
And Close Encounters, and Saturday Night Fever, which both have blue-ish posters here: http://www.imdb.com/list/_EcfN1DMzJQ/

Also The Deep, which isn't on that list but did pretty well so likely had a lot of posters. All of which would be mostly ocean. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075925/
All the apps I've done on contract have been this kind of app. All of them were free and none of them had IAP.

Honestly I think this is the future of the app business. Apps will be important but most often only as a component of some larger business.
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For me the magic factor to maximize productivity is sleep.

I have worked consistent 70 hour weeks, where most of those hours are in sprint high-productivity coding mode, AND without getting burnt out or tired. The secret is simple: I was getting 9-10 hours of solid sleep every night.

Sadly it's far too easy to stay up late at night browsing the web, losing sleep for no good reason in particular.
Groupon actually has substantially changed their payout terms, from their 10-Q http://investor.groupon.com/financials.cfm

> Our current merchant partner arrangements are structured as either a redemption payment model or a fixed payment model defined as follows:

> Redemption payment model - Under our redemption merchant partner payment model, we collect payments at the time our customers purchase Groupons and make payments to most of our merchant partners at a subsequent date. We utilize this model in most of our international operations as it conforms with the local market practice. Using this payment model, merchant partners are not paid until the customer redeems the Groupon that has been purchased. If a customer does not redeem the Groupon under this payment model, we retain all of the gross billings for the Groupon purchase. The redemption model generally improves our overall cash flow because we do not pay our merchant partners until the customer redeems the Groupon.

> Fixed payment model - Under our fixed merchant partner payment model, we pay our merchant partners in installments over a period of generally sixty days
You might be too young to remember this but people were saying the same thing about the video game business back in the heyday of the arcade. Consumers are fickle.

I do think mobile is important but I think most of the money in apps will be integrating them into some larger business. For example, I'm starting a new app for a big U.S. retailer. The app will be free but presumably it will drive more business for them.
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Ultimately I think such a design would have trouble competing with a network processor (or a switch chip if you're doing something simple).
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That would require a liquor license, which can be quite a difficult and expensive proposition in its own right.
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These are working tools. Their cost should be a fraction of the revenue generated with them. Sparrow is not a revenue generating app. It saved some time to the users. That's all.
Selling mimosas requires a liquor license, which isn't easy to get. It's unlikely that a hole-in-the wall waffle joint would have one.

Since when is $2 undercharging for a coffee? Even starbuck's doesn't charge that much.

The guy should have made a mistake, but arguably the Groupon model needs to work for little businesses like this if they're going to take over the world.
I think what he meant is the "humanizing" and a bit cliché language of that article -

you can't say that animals are "impassionate" about anything because you have no clue how they actually think, or what they think, or what their motivations are.
How would you compete on port density with PCIe? 72 port 10GbE for 1U (http://gnodal.com/Products/GS-Series/GS7200/) is already available. Once the "pure play nothing but a switch" manufacturers come out this price will be rock bottom.
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Unimpressive. $2,000/yr really isn't much, given the current cost of education. What they should do is offer full reimbursement for STEM training to employees who qualify. Now that would make me consider working for Amazon.

This only confirms my opinion of Amazon as a company that likes to be stingy with salaries and benefits.
> I heard once that the only ones who got rich in the gold rush was the ones selling pans. Too bad Apples seems to have a monopoly on the mobile-app equivalent.

Not just Apple... The original pan seller's legacy isn't doing too badly, either: http://mashable.com/2012/07/01/stanford-top-major-computer-s...
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What if the Sparrow problem was a too high burn rate ?
Apparently they were planing to integrate ads in Sparrow, probably for a free version. This could have worked since the app was very popular.
Are you guys looking into methods that don't apply widths and pixel-perfect margin/padding to everything? Obviously much harder, but until these converters can do that they just aren't substitutes for handwritten CSS.

I almost never define a fixed width for elements. Here every single element has a fixed width.
This is not a software-specific problem, see planned obsolescence in the real world. Everyone loves a steady revenue stream.
A tiny bit of research on the net will tell you what to expect

And he's contributing to that body of knowledge on the net so others who research the subject in the future know what to expect.

Someone has to make their complaints in public in order that "a tiny bit of research on the net will tell you what to expect".
I would be VERY interested to see a packet capture of the same page when you're under and near your cap.
Indeed, but they cry and mourn like humans... Do you really know what your fellow humans think and what their motivations are? The thing that separates us is structured language. I tend to trust the display of emotions more than a long discourse.

I'd also like to point that in the case of great apes and some other mammalians, the brain structure is not very different than a human brain. We can reasonably expect that a similar emotional state is acheived when a similar external display is observed. I mean that for instance, when they cry, we can assume that they are sad, because their brain is quite similar to ours.
And yet I see job ads for software developers listing 40-hour workweeks alongside the sweet perks like equity or company lunches.

Firms really just don't get that the productivity studies were all done decades ago, and mostly came to one conclusion: 8 hours/day, 5 days/week.
On Andrew Mason and Eric Lefkosky :

"Groupon's chairman, Eric Lefkofsky has a history of financial scandal.

One time he sold a startup called Starbelly to a bricks-and-mortar company that later went bankrupt.

In a lawsuit that followed, an email from Lefkofsky surfaced. In it he wrote: "Lets start having fun... lets get funky... let's announce everything... let's be WILDLY positive in our forecasts... lets take this thing to the extreme... if we get wacked [sic] on the ride down-who gives a shit... THE TIME TO GET RADICAL IS NOW... WE HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE..."

Years later, Lefkofsky hired a contract worker named Andrew Mason.

In Mason, he discovered a naive genius and gave him the money start what everyone thought would be a legitimate business.

But then Mason stumbled into a business with an explosively growing top-line (not bottom line or even middle line), and – so believe the conspiracy theorists – Lefkofsky saw another opportunity to be "wildly positive" for profit, even if it meant fudging accounting here and there.

So Groupon called itself profitable when it wasn't. It moved marketing expenses into capital costs. It confused net and gross revenues. And that's just what it got caught doing.

And when it was caught, Groupon's line was: oops, that was a dumb mistake. And while the rest of us rubes believed them, conspiracy theorists say Groupon's people are actually "dumb like a fox."
In this view, the reason Lefkofsky insists that Mason be CEO is that Mason is young, naive, and plausibly prone to innocent mistakes.

These people believe the reason Google exec Margo Georgiadis only spent a few months at the company is that she came in, looked around, freaked out, and got out.

These suspicious folks will say: Lefkofsky and company may have believed they were bending rules in order to get Groupon to a point where it could become a legitimate business with clean accounting, but that's still fraud."

Source: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-04-03/tech/31279229...
This is so so true ... I've been doing 4.5-5.5 hour nights (sleep) for years and very recently have started to see the effects in aging ... greying and balding at a much earlier age than I anticipated (for example). I've made my peace with it now, but I can't help but wonder how much I would have cheated aging if I had been sleeping 7/8 hours a night instead.

More scary is how much of the detrimental effect of lack of sleep I am yet to encounter.
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You are correct, this couldn't initially. What the platform I outlined has is flexibility and cost. But mostly flexibility. Probably the high end of port density would be ~40 (using dual port nics) and this would be for 2u. But you could start to run stuff on the switch that his historically run with ha proxy, varnish, nginx, etc. If there are sata ports, one could code themselves a backblaze pod that doesn't suck and include grep directly on the stata port.
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Passion = “any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling”. It’s definitely possible to witness powerful emotions in non-human animals. Nothing inherently human about it.
I probably am too young to know anything about the arcade business, but arcades died because better, more convenient technologies replaced them. Their form factors shifted to consoles, handhelds, and computers.

Consider now the adoption rate of smartphones, where we'll have a billion devices in the hands of users within the next few years. Mobile devices are now replacing computers and gaming consoles. Do I see anything replacing smartphones/tablets anytime soon? No. That's why the bet is obvious to me, your audience is shifting to a new platform. Apps ARE the future because that's where the audience is and will be.
There is this thing that small businesses rely on. It's called "cash flow". You may have read about it. If Groupon waits for several months to issue a cheque (who the hell pays with cheques?) and then you have to wait for 10 days for the cheque to clear, then you have a cash flow problem.

Groupon knows this. Your cash flow problem is their business. Hope this helps clarify the issue somewhat.
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I had always suspected that TextMate was a huge financial success but never did the googling. Thanks a lot for posting this.

I wonder if PixelMator is on a similar trajectory after Apple has featured them in nearly every possible spot on the Mac App Store.
The quality of Sparrow is it's simplicity. Adding features to it would make it evolve in bloatware. See MS Word. They now reshuffle menues to justify upgrades. I guess in some next version, menues will be at the bottom of the window.

This is not a long term solution. The only viable solution was to reduce burn rate as close to zero as possible. This means producing a new software.
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> A paid version 2 though produces a similar windfall again, rather than diminishing returns.

Marginal utility. The first million is worth a lot more than the second.
That is great for research purposes. This platform would use off the shelf PCIe NICs and ram. I think of it as the PostgreSQL of networking gear, cheap and all purpose. It won't have speed or density but it would have robustness and flexibility. Services that currently run on general purpose servers could get targeted towards open network hardware platforms. I don't have any proof, but I don't think there would be shortage of people doing interesting things like making hardware in memory key value stores.

FPGAs would be cost competitive in a system like this. Routing multiple 100MB/s streams of shouldn't be a problem.

Convinced? Maybe a little?
> It's a sad story, but experimentation is necessary to find effective treatments. If you're like many people on HN, you'll agree that terminally ill people should be able to commit suicide. If you grant that, why not let them consent to experimental treatments?

While experimentation is a necessity - so are ethics. Apparently they did not have the required approval to conduct the experiments.

I've heard that if you sign a contract under the threat of death that it is not legally binding. Now I know the doctors aren't making the threat, but I think the situation is remarkably similar, right?
Does Groupon not disclose their payment plans to the business they do deals with?
I too love C. And I would use it over JavaScript any time. But that's mainly because I can't stand JavaScript ;) For prototyping and problems which are just easier to handle in higher level languages I'd go for Python.

I think it's a shame that the client side of the web is basically limited to JS, because seriously, that's the only reason so many people started coding in it in the first place. I believe that if we could, many devs would prefer other languages.
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Presumably money in the bank = interest. Groupon, it seems, wants to also be a bank. Shouldn't the restaurant owner collect interest as well perhaps. In reality though, can't all this be spelled out in the contract, that would have made it un-ambiguous.
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I wonder if one thing that distinguishes successful startup founders is that they are immune to some force that limits the amount of productive work that other people can do.

Of course everyone has a point where working another hour is not a good deal. But if that varies from person to person as much as other things do, it would be very convenient for a startup founder to be a couple standard deviations above the mean.
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You seem like a smart fellow, so you tell me. Have a read of section 4 here - what does the very small fineprint say?

http://www.groupon.com/pages/merchant-terms-of-service-1