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Nobody said it was impressive, and they care only because it came up in the conversation. If you bothered to read the comment thread, you would see that Macha said:

>I understand Zynga even less now."

So saraid216 explained their motivation, i.e. that they're able to make money doing things like this.
It is tough to pull a coherent thesis from this piece but it seems to be close to "be aware of the costs involved because, although specialised hardware can be useful in many situations, it is not a magic wand you can wave." The way it opens he seems to imply that he is used to people excusing slow/inefficient ideas by handwaving that doing it in hardware will be fast without doing any real critical evaluation on what gains hardware can actually bring. The fact that some systems can see real gains from specialised hardware does not serve as a counterargument if this is in fact his thesis.
You can always use Bootstrap for scaffolding (the grid is the coolest thing), and use jQM for interface elements and rest of the stuff. They are two different tools with different goals, just that several bits (or "features") of them overlap.
It's amazing how it's 2012 and we're just now getting around to what flash did years ago, the only difference being a more open, more reliable, standards compliant runtime.

Thinking back on the last 10 years of web dev, it seems like Adobe really squandered a good thing with a bad implementation.
I believe just the starting of the timing is done by hand. The stopping is done when a contact is automatically detected.

I am on the "fence" about this article. It seems within the capabilities of a 15 year old to press a button when a referee shouts a word. The responsibility is great when the controversy hits, however.
Steam on Ubuntu is a great idea and has outstanding potential. Linux gaming has always been a chicken and egg problem. Steam solves the distribution problem. It also has the added benefit of Windows gamers who already paid for games, so making a Linux version makes it that much easier for them to ditch Windows.

Steam is a great step forward. Next, get World of Warcraft, Diablo 3, and Starcraft 2. Then, League of Legends, DOTA 2, etc. All of a sudden you have a legit gaming platform.
The real technical question concerning the judgement made is:

Just how late was the restart of the clock.

If it was more than 200ms then the hit should not be allowed to stand. Was it more than 200ms late in being restarted? The video should make that clear - there should be sufficient logging to know for sure.

But the question shouldn't arise - the processes involved should not allow the clock to be restarted at a time other than when the official says "Allez"

Secondly, the contestant should never be treated like that
I remember this showing up on HN before! It's really cool, and it's been on my to-do list for my mail server ever since.
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How does the perfect media looks like?
Lately, I've been wondering about creating a type of open source media for normal people to use and read from. However, everyone have their different opinion on how media should look to be perfect.

So if you could decide, how would the best and most perfect media look like?
>how to make writes immediately consistent to the originating user and then fan them out to other users over the course of the next few minutes

How is this done?
This is your second comment that has details I've been unable to find elsewhere. I'm interested in trying to track down what actually happened here, and your sources seem better than mine, unless I'm just missing something.

Can you provide some links for me to check out?

Thanks in advance.
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One of the biggest problems with the 1.8.x versions of MRI (or CRuby as it's referred to in this article) is that the GC is pretty slow and tends to get called a lot. A good explanation of the reasons behind that can be found here:

http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2010/mri-memory-allocation-a-...

As Rails got more popular and sites built on Rails got bigger, people started running into performance issues that could often be rooted down to GC being called over and over during a single web request (due to instantiation of lots of AR objects, causing lots of memory allocations which lead to GC being called.) This lead to people exploring other implementations of Ruby (REE, Rubinius, etc.) and more importantly, becoming a lot more familiar with how GC works in MRI and how to program around it's shortcomings.
I've done a ton of SMS research, and the price Twilio charges for SMS is very competitive.

One time I had this crazy idea that I never followed through on. Take several pay as you go cell phones with unlimited texting, connect them (bluetooth or USB) to your server, and send out messages through the phones. It's likely to be against the Cell company's TOS, but it seems like it would work.

Also, investigate the SMS alternatives. Since almost everyone has a smart phone, push notifications (or even boring old email) is almost as good.
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It's tough though, because often the inventive thing is framing the problem correctly, or even identifying that there is a problem to be solved here. By assuming that, you're in danger of a hindsight bias.
Patents aren't about doing something new. They are non obvious ideas - read the definition please. Amazon 1 click patent was an example of idiodicy of "something new".
This blasé attitude to patents is extremely dangerous. It stifles innovation and hurts society - the exact opposite of why patents were created.
Imagine if i patented RGB 128, 179, 253 because I couldn't find that value hadn't been used before. Should this be patentable? What about patenting a piece of timber 3.914 ft x 1.234 ft?
This is where Apple deserve a really hard kick in the balls. They patented something so generic and obvious that it is almost impossible not to breach it.
You've heard the saying "standing on the shoulders of giants" - what it means is that technology has enabled a bunch of potential inventions. Patterns of these combinations emerge naturally - sine pick up on it quicker than others... But such incremental steps should not be patentable because someone else would have easily come up with the same thing.
Now if you tell me that someone invented a new DSP, or a new compression algorithm that was genuinely different, then that is a good example.
Ask the question: would someone have easily come up with it, roughly at the same time ... And... Does it help of harm society to grant this patent... Then and only then should a patent bd granted.
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Fantastic site! It'd be great if there was more metadata ahead of time to such as:

- Memory management model (ARC, GC, or refcount)

- Min/Max OS X version or SDK

- If it is sandboxable

It'd also be fun to see a list of projects which use the controls.
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Thanks making this available.
This is true of non-Russians as well.
The fact that there's too much demand means that prices are too low. Scalpers (apparently called "touts" in British English) -- those who buy tickets with the intention of reselling them at a profit -- are simply the free market at work, attempting to equalize supply and demand.

It's always puzzled me why the ticket industry doesn't just sell tickets by auction. Then the event organizers could pocket most of the money that currently goes to scalpers, and it would make sure everyone who wants a ticket and can afford the final price is able to get one.

It might make ultra-popular events only accessible to the rich, but from the ticketer's point of view, higher prices can only be positive, as long as all the seats are full.

Even if, for some reason, they want to sell the tickets below the market price, it seems like an organized lottery would be a fairer way to make sure everyone has a chance, rather than first-come first-served, which unduly favors people who use automated scrapers and/or repeatedly refresh the site manually.
The title makes no sense. Even if QDOS had been copied from CP/M, it wouldn't have been Bill Gates who stole it. It would have been the guy who sold it to Bill Gates, and Gates would have had no way of knowing that it was stolen.
The MRI Ruby 1.8 garbage collector was sub-optimal for the large web applications it ended up powering, due to both blocking / performance issues and a lack of predictability and instrumentation. In 2009-2011, many high-profile Ruby 1.8 implementation enhancements focused on garbage collection, as the MRI 1.8 GC became a major pain point for a lot of growing high-profile Ruby + Rails shops. Both Ruby Enterprise Edition and Twitter's Kiji were very popular MRI 1.8 enhancements that focused on improving the performance and visibility / instrumentation / debuggability of the garbage collector.

Now that JRuby is much more mature and YARV / Ruby 1.9 has enjoyed wide adoption, more of the Ruby community are able to ignore GC (or only tune it once) - but that simply wasn't possible with MRI 1.8 and a large-scale web app.
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Yes, you can surely create a plugin for sublime text. But if you want to edit a lot of remote files, maybe sshfs is the answer for you.
Actually, part of the criteria for getting a patent (at least in the states) is that the invention is non-obvious to those in the trade. So patents kind of are about doing things that are hard.

And you could argue that zooming in on an HTML bounding box would be obvious to an engineer developing web browsers.
Phrases like "mom-and-pop store" or "family business" aren't cliches with no reason or justification behind them. I think any reluctance has more to do with the sad state of the modern couple than any inherent flaw in the business model.
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I'll see if I can dig up any German media write-ups with details. If so, I'll reply (also with a rough translation)
This is a really neat idea. I'm never sure how close to the airport I should be to refuel- too far out and it might not be "full" enough for return, but too close and you might miss the last gas station!
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They would be if they killed someone though. I agree the American system isn't exactly fair either, but the problems are different from China's
I got the idea after my girlfriend and I went to Maui for Christmas. I had never been there before, and had no idea where I should get gas on our way back to the airport. Like you said, too close and you might miss the last station. Plus, I was already concerned about missing our flight. The last thing I needed was the extra stress of watching for gas.
My pleasure, glad you like!

edit: hi, fellow Seattleite!
Something I find very strange.

Many criticize Pigouvian taxes as being "anti-poor people", on the grounds that they will disproportionately affect the behavior of the poor.

Yet it's quite uncommon for the same critics to levy their criticism at the poor for engaging in socially harmful behavior. Why is that?
There are various tiers in the intelligence of criminals.

Tier 1: Get caught. Go to jail.

Tier 2: Get caught. "Fix" the legal progress in your favor. Don't go to jail.

Tier 3: Bribe the people doing the enforcement. Don't get caught, because there is no one to catch you.

Tier 4: Bribe the people doing the law writing. Don't get caught, because you aren't doing anything "wrong" (technically speaking).

Tier 5: Buy out the mass media, so that no one thinks there is anything wrong about what you are doing any more. The clueless voter who lives from the juices of the media mogul is the tier 5 criminal's best friend.

IMO, most of the global financial system is somewhere between tier 4 and 5, with a bit of 3 (recruiting away the SEC regulators to big iBanks). Thankfully we still have a relatively free press in the US, so even if there is some lockdown there is a lot of ability to get alternative information.
What part of your app requires that it be "Chrome only"? There are tons of Javascript UI libraries that can handle date inputs cross-browser such as jQuery UI. http://jqueryui.com/demos/datepicker/
There are some changes happening, but certainly MySQL will dominate pre-existing installs for the foreseeable future. Switching databases is not trivial for most applications.

Here's a blog post from 451Group in May 2012 about a survey they did: http://blogs.the451group.com/information_management/2012/05/...

And a specific bit of the presentation linked from there that I found interesting: http://www.slideshare.net/mattaslett/mysql-vs-nosql-and-news...

Slide 20.

It's certainly not conclusive, but it is interesting.
SMS on Twilio is a penny. So drop $20 into your account and you should have lots of room. You can also limit/throttle messages to start.

I got a ton of traffic from being on the front page with this Twilio app last year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3364942

And, to be honest, it didn't cost me much.

Also, I know the folks at Twilio pay attention to HN, so if you get some exposure, you may hear from them (I did).
They're rabid. But I think it's kind of an interesting side note at this point.
Executives are day traders. I've known day traders to argue that they make more money trading in the first and last 30 minutes of the day than they do if they're trading all day, because they end up getting involved in "boredom trading" that is break-even at best (and blows out their variance) and quite possibly losing. As for executives, they're disciplined, they can enjoy their easy jobs and high compensation and accept the boredom associated with rarely being needed, because if things are running well, they aren't operationally necessary. Unfortunately, they're rarely content to work 2 hours per day at their cushy jobs. They become forces of nature due to a combination of (a) a need to feel active and important, and (b) a theater in which it's hard for them to have real positive impact (because performance assessment of executives is impossible and most just don't have the talent).

"Trading boredom" sets in. The executive's job is to Make Decisions and to gamble with the company culture and operations. In order to feel useful, executives pull this shit. Like "saving money" by gutting the IT organization.

What's worst about this is that the executives who do this sort of thing rarely suffer any consequences. They shift blame to subordinates whom they can fire, and if the heat is turned up on them, they move on to other jobs. The employees and the owners get fucked, but executives get to flit about from one cushy job to another on account of building a web of connections that makes them effectively invincible.
Sure, it made Microsoft rich and let them survive in a market where very few entrants did. I don't know if I'd repeat them again, though. While Microsoft made tons of money and had a minor inconvenience with their lawsuit, repeat offenders tend to be judged harsher. The first time they flirted with being split into different companies. The next time they might not be so lucky.
Thanks for link. Given your experience, do you have any thoughts about a small circuit-breaker on every security that trips for, say any 3-standard deviation event?

In a quick Google search, it seems circuit breakers do not kick in for first 15 minutes of trading:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/business/unusual-volume-ro...
There is a bug being fixed in chrome for composite 3d artifacts ;)
> It seems within the capabilities of a 15 year old to press a button when a referee shouts a word.

When we're talking about hundreds of milliseconds, though, I begin to have doubts.
I'm not sure what role the word "fair" plays in this argument. Why is it unfair to learn from a predecessor's mistakes or take advantage of progress since then? What matters is actual results.

But even if you want to grade on a curve, there's something to be said for appropriate use of what you have. It's easy to argue that the Space Shuttle was not a good design, even given 1970's technology, due to political constraints.

I suppose you could ask, "given both political and technical constraints that NASA was operating under, was it a good design?" but I'm not sure what the goal would be of that question. Is anyone blaming individual engineers for management problems?
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I have put this in my very small file of "things to share when I leave."
Ah, that's good. I was worried, with my own experiments, that I was doing something wrong.
While a great feature, as Jon does mention, it's not novel invention. He cites NaughtyDog, but it has been use in many major games for quite a few years.

The nice part is that since it uses a 3D lookup table, it can do most LDR color correction that can be done in Photoshop.
> technically you're supposed to use a short code for automated sms sending

FYI, I believe this requirement is USA only.
That's a pretty loaded statement. Your implication is that the credit default swap industry is rife with fraud but it'd be helpful to be more specific about what that fraud is, who committed it, and why they're not receiving an appropriate punishment.
I recommend Elise Huard's recent talk on Ruby GC: http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/home/ruby-bin-men

(Also, I'd love to see the Hungarian Folk Dance interpretation of different GC approaches http://t.co/l8ADbEQR)
eh, not always

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-06-03/news/ct-met-le...
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http://www.abendblatt.de/sport/article2355249/Eklat-um-die-l...

> Csar ging zur Planche, befragte beide Fechterinnen, ob sie damit einverstanden seien, die Uhr nochmals auf 00:01 zurückzusetzen und das Gefecht ein letztes Mal freizugeben. Heidemann und Shin A Lam stimmten zu. Csar gab das Startsignal. Heidemann attackierte - und traf nach 0,84 Sekunden. Die Uhr zeigte 00:00.

Rough translation:
Csar walked up to the planche and asked both fencers whether they would agree to reset the clock to 00:01 and re-start the match one last time. Heidemann and Shin A Lam agreed. Csar gave the start signal. Heidemann attacked - and hit after 0.84 seconds. The clock showed 00:00.

If you search for "lam 0,8 sekunden" on the German Google News, you can find similar articles. However, they usually are an exact copy of the article mentioned above. The real source of the above claim is probably the "Sport-Informations-Dienst (sid)", a German sports news agency that provides content to those publications. I haven't yet found any other primary sources with the exact time.
Also: good management is like oxygen -- you only really notice it, much less recognize that you need it, when it goes away.
What exactly are you considering "socially harmful behavior" in this situation?
Copying also means moving to new addresses. What strategies are used to update the referencing pointers to the new location?
Prior art: double clicking the application bar with _ O X on it for a web browser. Double tap is as old as the GUI.
What have you done to elicit so much hate (from the hacker and the commenters)?
Assuming the video here (http://www.buzzfeed.com/ktlincoln/an-olympic-fencer-refuses-...) is accurate, I make it 28 frames, in a 30 fps video, from the start of the "Allez" to the beep of the hit, so I reluctantly have to agree with the judges.
They don't need to charge for membership. It doesn't need to be black or white. That's what apps are for. You should be asking, would users pay enough for facebook apps to grow their profits?

Facebook has had reasonable success with apps. But the whole app use/discovery/interaction/development experience on facebook has a lot of room for improvement (euphemism to mean it's terrible). And they do seem aware and willing to improve on this arena.
Just stay out of medicine.
Apologies. I withdraw.
the second bit is bad logic - programming may make a lot of great things possible while itself being a sucky but necessary part of the process.
Sounds like a great opportunity for a startup!
I've read in multiple places and wholeheartedly agree that it's important to focus on visibility in your work.

If your managers can barely describe what you do, or how you do it, then your job is just asking to be cut.

When I show my clients an update, I always focus on what "looks" or "feels" different with the user experience. I wouldn't (maybe couldn't even) convey the awesomeness of all my fandangled SQL subqueries.
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Learn by doing. And don't worry too much about it until the need comes. Luckily, the problem itself implies you're doing well, so the effort of dealing with it when the time comes will pay for itself.
The hacker rage is misplaced. The student is in the wrong. This is not a story of a bureaucracy run amok; this is a story of a student exploiting a university computer system and causing technical problems with their back end.

TL;DR: student creates a for-profit registration system that abusively scrapes the university's registration system, causing system slowdowns and preventing students who are not using the app from registering for classes. University policy bars any for profit applications from using the University's computer systems.
You'd probably get better results if you share it before you leave. The value and influence of an exit interview is questionable, at best.

Just my 2c. :)
Robot dustbin. Put this on KickStarter immediately.
Not that I was making any comment on patentability.

But if the process isn't difficult, and we can assume that people individually have used zoom to zoom in on text, then the extent of the innovation is having it as a preset.
I wonder how that business would work.

Do you have a list of "candidates" that are willing to go to jail for a certain price?
Or would you get a client first, then try to find someone who looks like them, and then offer the person some amount of money to go to jail?

Both seems tricky, the 2nd one if the body double is not reliable they can go to the cops and everything falls apart.
There are plenty. They do not advertise open positions because that always results in a flood of applications that overwhelms their ability to scrutinize the applicants.

Find someone in the U.S. who is in the django market, and get to know them. (Google Plus, etc.) They can get you in touch with the right company (i.e., willing to help relocate, including visa issues) at the right time. You will probably have to do some contract work for U.S. companies first, however, so they can scope out whether its first going through the expense and hassle of relocating you.
The effort Valve seems to be putting into bringing the platform up to speed, including hiring a lot of Linux talent and cooperating with driver vendors, seems to imply that there is a (hidden?) agenda here that goes beyond selling a few game licenses to the set of today's Linux desktop users.

(Especially when you consider the recent gaben statements about win8 being a "catastrophe", and the windows app store stepping on steam's toes)

I think Carmack's response misses the mark. Valve ain't targeting Linux as just yet-another-platform.