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> In that sense, it's no different than any other value system, other than the fact that it includes existence of X deity.

While a recurring feature in practice, I don't think believe in a deity should be a defining feature of religion. (It is probably a sufficient feature, though.)
You would think there would be some comments on that blog article page for such an important announcement, but there are zero comments. I wonder why.
Well:

A) These are all software companies. The hardware that they would ever make is few and far between.

B) There is no saying that they DON'T already have an investment in this company. Obviously this kid has enough capital to demo at E3, have office space and prototypes already made. At the very least, these companies may have deals made where they won't have to pay exorbitant licensing fees to put their games on this platform.

C) Perhaps this is the ultimate give back to the community from these companies. They all create tools now to extend their games to the next level. Perhaps they want to see how people will use their tools at a hardware level.

D) I feel like a $300 investment here will go a lot longer than OUYA. There is a prototype already built. They aren't trying to sell a end-user, consumer-level product. At the end of the day, you're getting a likely shitty looking developer kit. For $300, they are probably taking a significant loss just on the technology going into the kit.

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"Legally rightful" is often different from "morally rightful". Craig is morally in the wrong - he seized control over classifieds market, and is now using that position to stall the progress and harm consumers.

By way of analogy, saying "build your own stuff" is akin to saying "build your own popular OS and sell it to OEMs" in the face of a crushing Microsoft monopoly on the nineties. The network effect is far too strong for a free-market approach to work its magic, and as a result we all suffer.

I wonder if Craig realizes he became a Microsoft-style monopoly. That should be a very uncomfortable thought to him.
If you say "Reddit is essentially falling apart for many users" then you do miss the point of subreddits.

There is no Reddit, there are communities united by the same platform.

In fact, I see this complaint all the time and it is usually coming from people who didn't discover the beauty of subreddits.

Again, there is no Reddit. There is nothing to fall apart.

That's unless you refer to the default front page as Reddit. The front page is falling apart because the default subreddits are being swarmed with teenagers. But the front page is not Reddit, subreddits are Reddit.
Fair enough. To your last point, this is weak rhetoric but in this case its also a financial tool that is commonly employed to determine rates of return. The comparison is made between investment 'X', and keeping the money around during the time X would be implemented (the 'do nothing' option). It tries to capture the opportunity cost.

To the 80% question, my claim is that this is exactly what Google did, they got 80% of the way there and in phones that worked. In tablets however the additional screen real estate magnified this weakness in graphics below the 'good enough' threshold. It was great that the Nexus 7 made great strides in this area, the Nexus 7 is manufactured by Asus (which made the Transformer Prime, and now the Transformer Infinity) that the graphics did not improve until Google made it the 'Google Nexus 7' (which sounds like they drove more of the decisions) was a problem for the Android ecosystem in general.

My thesis is that 'fixing' it so that Asus and anyone else can build a fabulous graphics experience on Android is possibly the best investment they could make.
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"Involve the community" is a vacuous statement. It doesn't mean anything. What involves a developer community is company support, some indication that the work they do will exist and be profitable. If Gabe Newell really liked it, they'd all be wheeling around desks at Valve by now, and Source engine games would all support this in a couple of months. And then you would see other developers eat this up.

You don't need to "involve the community". You need to show them a reality.
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A while back I wrote a greasemonkey script for craigslist that allowed you to filter out any for-sale listings that didn't have pictures. It was called, NoPicsNoService, and after I was done I emailed Craig the link. He emailed me back that day and said it was cool.

Less than a year later, that feature was built into craigslist.
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A paraphrasing of "other people have it off worse, so stop complaining" isn't an argument.
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The way I see it, the success of Windows 8 is pinned on the success of the tablets and phones. If they're really great products, at the right price, people will want more of the same on their desktop. I don't see this as a straight desktop refresh.
Doing a kickstarter is part of marketing campaigns these days. It gets you crazy exposure (think of the news stories) and engagement (people are unlikely to dismiss something they donated 2 USD to), and is paid for by the customers (in terms of the cut that kickstarter makes).
I'm curious, why would Intel need to give Apple any influence over their SoC designs?

All phones are basically moving toward the exact same shape and size.
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Just worked fine for me here.
Yes I agree, Many software engineers frequent HN while on work breaks.
This isn't a personal attack. It's an observation. I sincerely lack a better way to characterize Craig's behavior. Since Craigslist is as small as it is and is named after the founder, it's very difficult to explain these seemingly irrational decisions without understanding the man behind them.

I think at heart he's a good guy, but he's clearly not thinking correctly here.
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That's... not true. Have you tried a recent XBMC build on Raspbian?

No, it doesn't play my 13GB copy of Tron, but it plays every single 720p MKV I've thrown at it.
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i really dont understand why metro apps run full screen on desktop pc. i have a 30" 2560x1600 monitor and metro apps seem ridiculous. i have 4 million pixels but i cannot see three metro apps together. what a silly idea.
It's a press release, of course it's rendered in market-speak. At least the writer got to the point quickly and presented the meat of the announcement in the first paragraph, instead of burying it in the middle of a wall of text as he could have done.
"Given the fact that many interface functions in the Windows 8 UI are undiscoverable from within the UI"

such as?
When did we stop being allowed to judge people by their actions?
I'm quite interested in productivity hacks and I've adopted / created a few systems of my own. The key insight in the OP, that you'll eventually do what you truly care about, is one that took me a few years to realize, yet unfortunately it's also a vast simplification.

For me, there are many tasks that I know I enjoy, whose results I know I care about, yet, if left to my own devices, I don't go and do them because the activation energy is too high. I offer two examples: running (I always feel great afterward and I know it's good for me, yet it's a hassle to actually get out there and run) and working on side projects (I love learning and building, yet I don't do it as often because I get mentally blocked by how overhelming a project is before I begin).

Previously, I would make up excuses (I don't have enough time... too busy... much school work... overcommitted) and my personal projects languished as I got caught up in external commitments. The biggest tip in my productivity system is this: Every month/week/day, write down the one thing I most want to accomplish for that time period, that I would likely not accomplish otherwise. If I can accomplish that one thing, I can call that day/week/month a successful one. I track my progress and results as well.

With this one objective system, I found myself delegating time for these projects and implementing all sorts of hacks to reduce the energy barrier of starting these projects.

Another way to think of this is how you structure your priorities. Instead of saying 'I don't have time', try saying 'it's not a priority' [1]. This lets you tell exactly what you do care about, and frequently, that set of things you care about is still larger than the set of things you get done.

[1] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020335870457723...
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It looks to be down again.
The company goes to some effort to maintain that "we're almost a non-profit" angle though; Jim Buckmaster's "About" page calls himself a communist, for example:

http://www.craigslist.org/about/jim_buckmaster

Like it or not, Craig is basically the brand identity for Craigslist. It's going to be awfully hard for Craigslist to separate themselves meaningfully from Craig. The more discordance there is between the two, the worse it is for their brand image, whatever the motivation.
It seems like more of the people dissatisfied with Craigslist would be directing their ire at the CEO (Jim Buckmaster), and not Craig himself. Of the two I would assume (perhaps incorrectly) that despite the "Craig" in Craiglist, it would be the CEO responsible for the decisions this company is making...
Nah, look at the history of XBMC (started on the Xbox), it's a nasty piece of work when rendering to the screen.

However, it was very naive of the grandparent poster to think that slow CPU powered menu screens means that the hardware accelerated video is lacking.
Note however that there's nothing to indicate this isn't happening in parallel. Valve may have a good sized team working on making the Source engine work very well with this now, and for all we know contributed $250K that's not included in the Kickstarter.
What about Visual Studio? RTM as well?
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Is it not abuse of your monopoly if you demand that their suppliers do not supply competitors?

Because thats essentially what this "exclusive" liscence entails?
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Hi Jeremy, thanks for writing about this. I actually think Craig has removed himself from the decision-making there, which probably explains the seeming conflict between his personality and the company's.
he seized control over classifieds market

You say "seized control" like he showed up with a bunch of armed goons and wrested it away from its rightful owner. Craigslist dominates online classifieds because they recognized it was a market worth serving years before the incumbents in classifieds did, and served it. It's not a crime to get there first.

I wonder if Craig realizes he became a Microsoft-style monopoly

I must have missed the part where Craigslist used their dominant position in classified advertising to unfairly benefit other products they offer.
Exactly! The way they're targeting business related processes with their business specific channels enables all sorts of possibilities in terms of automating tasks and such.

LOVE it.
A company is just 1:N people trying to accomplish something (usually earn profit). I would usually agree that it's best to treat a company separate from the individuals there. But in the case of Craigslist it may be fair since Craig has full control of the company, and the companies latest actions are clearly done by either his command or with his consent.

Not to mention his name is on the freaking company! Hard to separate the two when that happens. If you have a problem with Craig's List, why not complain about Craig?
Looks cool. In the demo I would love to be able to change the font-size beyond 20-40 px as well as add a 2nd font with regular text to see how it looks next to that.
You don't need to gauge interest if you believe in the product. The story they are selling of a truly immersive environment is something core gamers have been looking for for years, and there is a pretty full graveyard of companies that tried and failed to reach that holy grail.

There is no reason to look to a Kickstarter in order to prove some point that there is consumer demand for it. There absolutely is, and this Kickstarter is pretty much certain to succeed. Which, again, leads me to think that something is going unsaid.
Basically none. Before I added/changed maybe 50 lines very recently to reflect a significant change in the data model and UX, I had pretty much never touched our JavaScript.
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This might be a good opportunity for a kickstarter campaign for an open source project. Rewards? No more (or at least, less) frustration for all.
Craig of Craigslist isn't exactly the same as any old employee of any old company. I understand the distinction you're trying to make, but the fact that it's hard in this case is a side-effect of the context they've worked very hard to create. In other words, they're asking for it.
Study shows blank ads on Facebook get as many clicks as average ad
Palmer Luckey has stated that he has declined at least one buy out offer from a large company.
I ask because alz needs to know I care.

That, and I'm lazy. Which alz also needs to know.
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At this point, I'm willing to settle for "A lot of fun to play with as a developer for only $300." ;)

But if it could bring VR gaming into the mainstream, that would be awesome.

Maybe people will start making games use the Razer Hydra natively, too. The only game so far to do that is Portal 2, and it was amazing. Everything else is emulating a standard gamepad, and it's horrible.

(There's an indie game using Unity that uses the Hydra and it's showing promise, but it's not ready yet.)
Article title should be "Reverse index of where people went to school who talk about various topics".

Obviously, the author chose a more wieldly title, but a far less correct wrong.
The time between RTM (release to manufacturing) and GA (general availability) is such because OEMs need 2 months to take the gold image of Windows 8, image it onto the tens of millions of new PCs that will be sold during the Holiday season, and then ship those devices back to all of the retail stores where they will be sold.

The October 26th date effectively acts as an embargo to make sure that all of the OEMs get enough time to get their devices into market and can start selling at the same time. It would make the press / sales cycle extremely difficult to manage if the devices were available only from a few faster moving OEMs in a smaller number of markets, versus having everything everywhere at once.

Hopefully that adds a little more clarity to it.
No because only 1/10 of my friends that use it now would continue using it.
How and why I built a social app without running a single server.
The default state of almost every subreddit is endless meta discourse about the subreddit itself. Then there is the inevitable fracturing when some participants disagree, while the original sub descends into the most vapid of the commons.

/r/atheism is the pinnacle example (this is a trend that becomes exaggerated the larger the sub).

The subreddit approach alone does not scale. Or rather it does scale by endless manual fracturing, which is a half-assed, luddite solution.
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Problem: Small rental car, wife and two kids, luggage volume exceeds rental car volume.

Landing at SFO today, destination Saratoga, CA

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Lockers at the airport and two trips?

Think of this as the Relocating ETL/DW Engineer problem.
It would not be a smart move for any major game developer to front a significant amount (i.e. $100k+) money for a project like this. For a good reason, most game developers are not in the business of hardware (even Valve has stated it would rather other people produce the hardware, but will make its own as a last resort).

Plus, even if it were funded, it would be foolish not to put a product like this on Kickstarter and raise whatever additional money you could. This might also give one an idea of how much traction the product would get. I'm a bit skeptical of OUYA, given its not much more than a glorified Android device, but this product looks a bit more promising because (if the reviews are any indication) it really is a leap forward in VR tech.
"They’re not concerned with fixing anything for newspapers because Craig refuses to accept responsibility for helping break them."

Newmark's repeated donations and support to both new online journalism endeavors and old-line journalism institutes like Knight Foundation are a matter of public record. An example Google search: http://www.google.com/search?q=craig+newmark+donation+(journ...

Newmark has expressly stated that he makes these donations of time and money partly because of the role Craigslist played in disrupting newspapers. I find it especially impressive that he does this given that he has nothing to apologize for. Newspaper classifieds were insanely expensive and huge cash cows.
Different strokes for different folks. After having my list styles reset, unindent and unnumber everytime I edit some of my Word documents, and having the cursor disappear in documents (where the fix is, make a new document), I now vastly prefer document creation in Latex. It also makes versioning my documents easier.

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