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Why get a job as an iOS developer when you can be your own boss as an indie dev? (Unless you truly crave the structure and stability).

I learned iOS development (and OOP programming for the first time ever) 8 months ago, and I make the same amount I'd make as a marketing/business salary, WITHOUT having to go to work.

However let it be noted that it's not as simple as releasing a good app. The app ecosystem is like a game, and like all games, you must play, practice, and study it to be good.
sure, physical addiction. But what drove those people to try the drug in the first place? its a set of circumstances - such as poverty, lack of other leasure activities etc.
This is great research, as it provides more empirical evidence on what is actually happening vs bureaucrats fiddling with numbers in excel.. think China`s Official GDP vs Electricity output.

There was a good post a few weeks ago where sea water samples were taken in and around Fukushima area + further out. What was interesting is they detected high continuous levels of radiation in the water south of the power plant which should have diffused by now (half life of I 131)... their hypothesis was groundwater contamination.
The one thing the author fails to address is what is actually revolutionary about the OUYA: It is a TV-based console without a developer licensing fee.

This is revolutionary because on any other platform, the developer produces the software and the distributor takes a cut of the earnings, and the console manufacturer takes a cut of the earnings. (Remember all that "loss leader" talk when new consoles come out and are cheaper than what it costs to manufacture them? This is why.) By the time everyone gets their slice, you have a pit of dedicated game developers making $15k a year that have put up with distributors telling them what kind of game to make, who then ultimately get fired when they've done their job as commanded. Seems like a career you'd need to love to stick with it.

Even if the numbers don't work out in the end - if OUYA's cut is just as big as the big guys, if the CPU doesn't cut the mustard, if developers can't sell big enough numbers to stay afloat, etc. - it still seems like a worthy enough idea to back it if you're a gamer and want to see what developers could do, free of the shackles of conventional distribution. I can also completely understand people being relentless about personally promoting the console if having more gamers is actually what it needs to get the game developers to break even developing for it.
Why do you need tutorials?

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If Groupon would reimplement its account system to adopt App.net, (i.e. paying the annual fee by a ratio of each bill), App.net might scale.

What Groupon get is a new role that introducing customers to companies by letting customers inquire information of services in the long term. Especially, companies who sell massive online education can attract more shoppers through Groupon.
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Push, push, push. Expanding your comfort zone
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You are assuming that the butterfly is the only part of the ecosystem that has changed. That seems highly unlikely.
The Pixar code seems to be released under the "Microsoft Public License" (Ms-PL), which is reportedly* (and no doubt intentionally) incompatible with the GNU GPL.

So it's a nice gesture, Pixar, but, well ... muh.

[I am curious what Pixar were they thinking when they decided to use the Ms-PL... Or was it just ignorance about Open Source?]

* http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ms-pl
Addiction is a valid folk concept: everyone is aware of someone who can't get off cigarettes or booze, for example, or gambling, or occasionally heroin or meth or crack - to the impairment of their life, past the point of ongoing pleasure. So there are real phenomena to study, of some social importance. And I don't dispute that many people lose control and mess up their lives in various ways, in addition to running afoul of the law. So be careful with drugs, not even once, blah blah blah.

But the term 'addiction' does not correspond to any natural scientific category. Because unless it is made impossibly rare and unlike our folk concept, any definition will drag in all routine motivated behavior to the point where a lot is included which we all like and find healthy and normal.

There is no actual distinction between 'physiological dependence' and 'psychological addiction.' The relevant phenomena are all psychological and all have biological basis - just as one's behavioral responses to hunger, dehydration, embarrassment or sexual arousal do. Avoiding withdrawal might be more or less motivating depending on the drug - for example, cocaine doesn't really have much of a withdrawal compared to heroin. But the fundamental reason people use heroin isn't because of withdrawal, it's because they love it. The situation where one takes heroin simply to avoid symptoms is just not the primary mechanism of heroin addiction. And since heroin is the paradigm case for this kind of explanation, it is just generally not a good one. We have confused the different phenomenology of the cravings with a spurious major distinction between physical and ghostly causes, when we should really be considering the specific neural systems which are engaged by the different drugs.

I appreciate that what I am saying sounds controversial. If what I say is true, why do people keep talking about addiction? Because the word has an important function OUTSIDE of science - it applies a specific kind of pressure, an important feature of which is the appearance of being scientific. It is an implicit value judgement said in a scientific tone of voice, making it more legally and secularly palatable.

Addiction is nothing more than the pathologized version of desire or enjoyment. If you wish to cast shadows on anything people enjoy doing, simply call it an addiction. In particular if you wish to conflate social disapproval of an activity with a scientific judgement of unhealthiness, call the activity an addiction.

Suppose, for example, that a certain person goes to a bondage club on a weekly basis... so easy to make this into an addiction. Doing the same thing with 'normal' sex is just significantly harder. (Though still possible - in a situation where someone has an interest in pathologizing sex)
A lot of people have commented that they do not agree because most people could not come up with Git, invent (from other ideas) modern-day MapReduce, etc.

I don't agree that the article is wrong for those reasons. Those people who invent those things are able to do so because they have spent years learning the underlying principles. And this does not only apply to programming; it applies to any scientific field. Somebody mentioned Terry Tao; well I would say that Terry Tao is a "superstar" because he has combined talent and more importantly because he has studied maths for years.

Talent + (a lot of) practice = superstar!

Look at the story of Andrew Wiles's proof of Fermats last theorem. He is undoubtedly a talented person, but was able to complete that work because he had studied math for a long time and combined the insights of many fields into his proof. Practice and talent makes a superstar!
The final demo in the video is amazing, in case anyone has not watched it through to the end.
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I was responding specifically to..."I think addiction has less to do with the 'drug' and more to do with the person.".
Ask HN: Is go a system programming language or a web language?
I ve seen many startups using go as a web language. Have i missed anything?
Pixar and ILM sim systems are based on PhysBAM.

http://physbam.stanford.edu/
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"Google just announced that it will produce its highly-acclaimed Nexus 7 tablet in the United States. " wow! I didn't know Google was doing this. The fact that they can sell that tablet at such a competitive price and make it in the USA is saying a lot.
> And, people familiar with the companies say, Google could decide to follow Apple's lead and build a phone from silicon to software, perhaps by creating a separate operating system for Motorola that other phone makers cannot use.

The only way I could see this happening (within the next few years) is if Google makes a Firefox OS-alike. They have way too much invested in Android to give it up so suddenly.
Am I the only one experiencing weird ass issues? The editing goes fine, but the produced gif was mixed with another video. Some olympics crowd video of some sort. Very buggy
Just make the next Android OS Motorola exclusive for 6 months, and then Open Source it... They just have to balance between what they want to do and their OEM partners.
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A lot to be said about difficulty in finding a culture fit, personality fit... basically evaluating the person as a whole vs their skillset.

Most people say they want a rockstar engineer (or insert other rockstar positions here). What they really want (or should) is to find someone who fits and can reasonably do their job well. Some times this means learning something fast, but other times, its a bunch of other nuances in between and traits a person may have about their personality or who they are. The smaller the startup, the more critical and true this is.
lol, repost. My bad.
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Of course everyone knows that alcoholism is garden variety addiction, and cigarettes are addictive as hell.

Nobody is actually saying that being an alcoholic is any good at all; that's a straw man. But we do have some level of cultural accommodation to and regulation of alcohol. By now we have nearly the same level of facility in dealing with marijuana, which is also a drug of abuse which is not that hard to use safely.

But every compound is unique. Taken in the ways they are almost always taken, alcohol and marijuana are pretty mellow and easy to dose and don't have wild side effects like immediately blinding you or shutting down your lungs if you screw up slightly. But they are not the same as each other and neither is the same as datura or belladonna. Many psychoactives are blow-your-head-off powerful tools that should never be used in the casual, vacuous party-time way that our culture likes to do for the last 60 years or so. And many, it's just prudent never to use at all.

Heroin is (or was) legal for UK hospitals to use in killing pain and I believe in its usefulness for that reason. But I am not going to defend high-dose, party-time heroin use as a reasonable and prudent practice any more than I am going to defend promiscuous, unprotected sex with many HIV+ individuals (which also has a very surprisingly low per-instance probability of doing anything - yet that is exactly how it continues to spread and ruin people's lives).

In any case, saying 'alcoholism is also bad' is certainly not a reason to suppose that heroin addiction is not bad.
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Selection bias can easily account for that.
Not to overstate the value and power of Facebook, Twitter, and Zynga, but FB and Twitter, along with Skype, have played a very significant role in coordinating and communicating between parties engaged in both the Arab Spring (and ongoing) protests and revolutions, as well as the Occupy and Tea Party movements in the US.

The US State Department has funded numerous projects to enable and facilitate URL sharing and communications particularly within China and other totalitarian regimes, employing channels including social and gaming platforms to both popularize and piggyback these tools.

So, yes, social media can, even if it pains me somewhat to say it on both atheistic and privacy grounds, do God's work.
The only problem is how to deal with casting arrays of integers (or whatever) to arrays of bytes. But that's a problem for portable C software anyway.

Byte-wise access to objects is legal and completely portable between conforming implementations. What isn't portable are arbitrary type conversions through pointer casts as these violate the effective typing rules. Such casts may break in practice due to mis-alignment or because of aliasing behind the optimizers back.

In a way, C is a strongly typed language - the type system is just really unsound.
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>i imagine a majority of people are not like that.

The studies cited in the article seem to challenge that assumption.
Your "summary" is bullshit and has completely distorted the article. You're not just biased, you're also completely misinformed.

> You haven't really developed any skills that are useful, and now you are going to be paired up with some 25 year old that has 3 years of experience more than you do at 30.

More likely, you've spent 3-6 years coding, learning to communicate, and work well in a team.

> This is all going to make you very depressed since you are facing 50 hour weeks doing work you don't really care about, instead of 9 hour weeks doing only what interests you in Academia.

Most recently hired academics on a tenure track work 80 hour weeks. You've got to teach course, mentor research students, write grant proposals, and produce research. If you don't, you're out the door.

Imagine I were to suggest that because you're a dropout, all you're good for is saying "do you want fries with that?" That's about the level of what you've done with your comment.
Heh, so there's going to be just under 10,000 people on app.net.
I went to Exeter. While the math curriculum is awesome and unique it is not without its problems. Students who are not already highly exposed to math tend to struggle, and whats more there is a lot of room for students to slack off and not reap all the benefits from the class, falling rapidly behind. Overall it's a great program and works well for the best math students, but for the mediocre math student it seems to me to be lacking.
Well done for commenting though (I mean it, no snark coming). A lot of the current crop of singularity-ey, TED-ey, 'digital revolutionary'-ey mouths seem to get away with all sorts of logical crimes and unimpeachabley general proclamations. A lot of them are basically posers and pseuds. As the excitement and breathlessness and novelty start to wear off, we should be applying a little more intellectual rigour to the output of these people.

There was an amusing frontpage HN story a couple of weeks ago which was a refreshing voice to see in a forum like this:

http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/105703/th...

Note: I'm not saying it's all guff, just saying we should apply the same critical process to this material as with anything else.
I could not find any references about Google's announcement to produce Nexus 7 in US. On the other hand, Nexus Q is indeed manufactured in the US. Is it possible that this is a typo on the part of the author?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/28/technology/google-and-othe...
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Crazy investment offers
I'm founder of a two-man bootstrapped company writing B2B financial risk analysis software out of London. Lots of interest, we're in advanced due diligence with a couple of very large banks and expect the first sales and rapid growth in the next couple of months. So far, so good.

We were toying with looking for some angel investment, and about eight weeks ago were introduced to a local angel investor. After a a few meetings and lunches he came up with the following offer:

- Investor puts in £200k in return for 20% of the company. Rather more than I wanted to part with but OK as a starting point for negotiation.

- Investor promises to help drive company growth as he has contacts and experience, wants to be involved. Not ideal as we have no idea how he'd perform - in a two-man startup we can't carry a third person who wants to help.

- Investor requires the company to pay him back the £200k at 12% interest rate, personal guarantees no doubt required but I didn't stick around long enough to ask.

The reason the offer was interesting was the light in which it showed the investor. To make such a bizarre offer (basically, to lend us money at a crazy rate, and in addition to demand a large chunk of the company in return for the unproven value he said he could add) made me ask: what would he be like to deal with on a day-to-day basis?

We walked away.

What other crazy offers have startup founders seen?
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"I cannot understand being "offended" by an easy question."

My thought process: Reverse a string? Really? Is this how they hired their existing programmers?
I think that's too drastic of a move, and would severely alienate partners, especially since Google has cultivated strong relationships with OEMs via their GED programs.

A more sensible differentiating move would be to simply strive for a better user experience and more seamless HW/SW integration in their MOT phones by leveraging their deeper understanding of the OS and the framework.
I am not a fan of marijuana (or any street drug) but it is incredibly hard to mess it up. It has a fantastic 'therapeutic index' - a big fat window between the dosages where it starts having useful effects and those where it starts potentially harming you.

(anecdotally I would wonder about impact on lifestyle, but killing yourself with pot would be pretty tough, and expensive)

This is a big contrast from serious downers which put the happy zone right next to the off switch, and build up tolerance...
By competing with piles of incumbents. Who are already comfortable with illegal, armed action outside the free market...
Well, yes, I do like to read more than that. But I am not selling myself off as an expert on nutrition or whatever? I'd rather find someone who reads more, so that I can avoid the garbage.
This is just the first of many projects CloudFlare has in the works being built with Go and is looking for more developers interested in Go.
Libertarians believe that ending drug prohibition would reduce the harm to society--that the problems caused by drug use are exacerbated by prohibition.

You can argue with libertarians all you want about whether you think their proposed actions will help or hurt society, but stop acting like libertarians are monsters who don't care about the welfare of others.

>"I know this would destroy people's lives and society would decay but it is immoral for the government to do anything about anything."

You seem to have fallen for the reddit caricature of libertarians. Again you can argue with the methods, but stop acting like libertarians are heartless bastards. As a group they believe that reducing regulations and limiting government will help society.
> Of course everyone knows that alcoholism is garden variety addiction

Really? Try doing a straw poll of everyone over the age of 50 in a British pub at the weekend, see how many of them think alcohol is addictive. Then ask how many of them drink every day.

I think you are repeating the party line boogey man mantra regarding "hard drugs", alcohol does far more harm than any other drug, so how do you draw the line for "hard"? Not based on harm, clearly, not based on lethality, but instead based on... what?
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The major distinction I've found from having a PhD is that you come with built-in "social proof". If you're going for a job, you're very likely to get an interview. If you're talking to investors, you're very likely to get past the first triage. After that it's up to you of course, but that's pretty useful.
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I think justin_vanw wanted to show that the article was not really informative. I agree with that, I haven't learnt much by reading it.
It might, but there are thousands of people with awful stories about Heroin. Negative effects extend far beyond the individual user, entire communities can be crushed by it's use.
How would you possibly know how many of your friends use heroin responsibly and in secret with no effect on their lives (a la NY business man in the article)?
>... Dennis Woodside, Motorola’s new chief executive, in a rare interview.

“We’re excited about the smartphone business,” said Mr. Woodside, who previously led Google’s sales and operations for the Americas.

Interesting. They put a Sales/Ops guy at the helm of Motorola, which implies that (in a way, naturally) all strategic decisions will be made by Google and passed down to the subsidiary. (I think this is actually an important piece of information to confirm, since a good portion of subsidiaries do make strategic decisions for themselves)

>In addition to the coming cuts, Google has gutted Motorola management, letting go 40 percent of its vice presidents.

Great move, I'd have much more confidence in Motorola's engineering staff than the (former) upper brass.

>They will focus on Motorola’s storied past and the ways the products are better than the competition’s, like battery life.

Not too sure about this; every OEM on the face of the earth is utterly obsessed about battery life. I don't think any OEM can make battery life a differentiating feature. Every OEM presses all its suppliers and solutions providers for maximal power efficiency, and of course, said suppliers cross supply for many OEMs.
That's from a long time ago.
40mg oxycodone is on a different level from 300mg of heroin; although the mechanism of action is pretty much the same, you are talking about radically different doses and time courses. As well as a prescribed, regularly taken drug vs. one taken ad lib for pleasure, building up a self-driven habit.

When drawing conclusions about why people have trouble getting off opiates, I'd suggest taking the same care comparing your experience to heroin addiction as you would take comparing your weird dreams to a schizophrenic's psychotic episodes.
> I wonder how this business man was doing with his teeth, pancreas and kidneys.

Would uncut, correctly dosed heroin have an effect on those?
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The love of truth, maybe?
"but killing yourself with pot would be pretty tough, and expensive"

It seems to be impossible to actually overdose from the THC contained in marijuana. No one has actually managed to kill a large mammal with THC, but they have managed to kill small rodents.

Extrapolating up it seems that you might be able to obtain a lethal dose of THC by consuming somewhere between 1/3 of your body weight and 1500 lbs of marijuana (all at once).
I agree, someone who is 10-20 times more effective is a big deal. Imagine if we had pilots who could fly you to your destination 10-20 times faster; farmers who could produce 10-20 times more food; or civil engineers who could build skyscrapers 10-20 times taller.

There aren't many fields where a 10-20x improvement is feasible.