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We've had various people talk about this sort of machinations, I get it from people trying to abuse search and of course there are political allegations of various candidates 'buying' followers. The folks at Barracuda got some interesting numbers.

What I found particularly interesting is the $800/day number for a modest amount of programming. In terms of monetizing random programming hours that is a pretty good rate of return. It shows what social web sites are up against.
Could you please elaborate on how this works or point to some resources on this application of the algorithm (if you know of any)?
You are right of course, I keep seeing various reports over the years of the AOL deal [1] which clouds ones memory ...

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/02/aol-google-search-d...
I disagree. If you want to program, program. If someone can't bluff / impress / negotiate their way into some kind of programming position - and they need 'a job' - then they are better off improving their skills or addressing whatever the issue is that is stopping them succeeding. These days 'lack of experience' should not be an issue - one can always start doing something on their own, help out an open-source project and so on.
I guess I approach this from the point of view that you should never settle for less than what you want to do. Sure, some 'careers' involve a 'start at the bottom and work up' or 'start somewhere and work sideways' component, but I do not believe that coding / software development is one of those areas.
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How risky is this kickstarter project?
I have a game I'd like to turn into an iphone app. It is not just an idea; I have made an mvp version of the game in javascript, and it works well as a browser app in Safari.

I don't have the money to buy a mac right now, so I was thinking of doing a kickstarter project for just enough to buy a mac. There are other reasons a kickstarter project is appealing, including the opportunity to test how appealing other people find the game before building it out fully.

If the kickstarter project fails, none of this matters. But if it is successful, my one concern is someone whipping out their own version of the game in a couple of days, before the kickstarter project is complete and before I have the chance to follow through on the project. (I estimate it will take me about a month to complete the app, after the kickstarter project ends.) My plan would be to build my version of the game anyway, deliver on the kickstarter project, and mostly ignore the other version. I can't imagine I'd have much of a leg to stand on in asking Apple to take a clone of my javascript demo down.

Can anyone offer a little perspective on whether this is a reasonable approach or not?
Yes, that's when.
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NFC hasn't taken over yet. Pay with Square offers something pretty close feature-wise, and is establishing residence in the market. Once NFC works well, Square can adopt it and rule.
I do not understand your last comment? None of the material on archive.org is pirated. It is all freely available, legally...
I don't see why. It's opt-in, and that behavior is advertised when you download the "Pay by Square" app.
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what's amazing is that something like CDE's default look seems very "clean" and utilitarian in a sense, after so much exposure to modern desktop environments... it's like the computer screaming at you: "it's about getting things done, Sticky, not about aesthetic masturbation!"...
I can relate to not wanting to say you're smart and can't do something well. I was/am sometimes the same way. For me it was imposter syndrome plus the idea that since everyone says it how would anyone ever believe such trite, cliche pitches. Well, I've learned from experience that there's a reason so many people market themselves in such similar ways. It works. It's still unbelievable to me but it works. Plus, if it ends up being true it makes your life much easier and things just flow.

You are smart and talented though. So just say so, feel cheesy about it, and profit.
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Couple of years back, it was all about "modernism".
I read this as:

"CDE open sourced..." <audience laughter, comedic pause>

"...on SourceForge" <riotous laughter, fade to black>
I always look at my receipt upon purchase, even for a $7 latte and scone. This may require a leap of faith beyond most people's comfort zone, at least initially. But very promising.
Yup. Probably low grade possession (untold number that qualify as citation offense, but ended up being arrests), possibly warrant type stuff, etc:

In 2011, New Yorkers were stopped by the police 685,724 times.
605,328 were totally innocent (88 percent).
350,743 were black (53 percent).
223,740 were Latino (34 percent).
61,805 were white (9 percent).
341,581 were aged 14-24 (51 percent).

source: http://www.nyclu.org/issues/racial-justice/stop-and-frisk-pr...
Thanks for your input. I enjoyed your thoughts on approaching things in a "fashion nerd" sort of way and was intrigued by the ideas of date-driven and scientific research to back up a point of view. However, I'm here to give simple fashion advice to guys who are willing to take it. They are perfectly capable of doing the research to look good; my hope is they'll find 140 Stitches to give it to them.
Sorry, I personally don't think you have a case. IMDb is a very strong trademark in my mind, I don't think you could get away with using it at the start of your domain name.
Er... bittorrent is certainly not the end of the story. Anyone who's ever used a torrent tracker knows that access to data on a torrent network is only as good as the network's collective will to share data.

If everyone just hops on, downloads the data and disconnects without continuing to serve as a source for the data then the Internet Archive wouldn't be terribly better off than just hosting direct downloads (they'd get the benefit of leechers sharing bits between each other during the download process).
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Good comment.

I was using Graph500 as a decently documented public example more than the only example. There are other problems based on real-world data in the trillion edge range that serve as "hello world" models for testing massively parallel graph algorithms. Directed and undirected, cyclic, and acyclic, properties and property-free. Semantic databases and entity analytics are popular test cases.

In the specific case of Graph500, the graph is significantly cyclic which creates coordination issues if you simply denormalize the data (e.g. replicating edges around a graph cut). Being able to do a massively parallel BFS from any vertex in the graph and producing the globally correct result without replicating edges means that you cannot know how to optimize the organization ahead of time. This was an intentional part of the benchmark design. The Graph 500 does not lend itself to optimizing for a particular set of adaptive graph cuts in any conventional sense; the algorithms used need to be general over the 64 randomized runs and that benchmark was designed to favor non-replicated edges when using massively parallel systems (the coordination costs of edge replicas will kill your performance). However, obviously the massively parallel systems are partitioning up the graph in some sense.

In the specific case of the work I did a couple years ago, the systems can ingest tens of millions of new edges per second concurrent with parallel queries (not serializable multi-statement transactions, obviously). The ingest structure can be identical to the structure against which ad hoc queries are run without any kind of query optimization. The fact that ingest rates that high are sustained effectively precludes dynamically reorganizing the data to satisfy particular queries more optimally. In truth, it could be made more optimal for batch-y type workloads (maybe 2-3x faster versus the dynamic version?) but the point was to be able to throw massive amounts of hardware at arbitrary graph data models rather than optimizing it for a specific query.

BTW, metric space embedding is non-trivial algorithmically but can also be computationally inexpensive. The Macbook Air I am using now can do tens of millions of those embedding operations per second on a single core for moderately complex spaces and data models. Maybe an order of magnitude or two slower if dealing with complex, non-Euclidean geometries. However, I also spent a couple years of computer science R&D developing the algorithms to make that fast. :-) I have been working in this particular area for a bit over half a decade now so my perspective takes some things for granted I think. There isn't just one problem you have to solve, there are actually several if you are starting from scratch.

Like I said, I didn't want to take anything away from Titan and true OLTP-oriented systems have their own complex problems, not the least of which is that they don't scale too far beyond a couple hundred compute nodes for the current state-of-the-art. Not my specialty. I work in a world of more basic consistency guarantees.

Cheers!
By engineering, of course, I mean engineering from scratch.

On that last point though (splitting this off), I think there are two difficulties in engineering it. First these are fundamentally more complex systems. The more complex a system is the harder it is to spot all points of failure. Additionally more complexity fundamentally means that that failure cases are more complex.

Instead I think that the way most of these systems develop is through progressive, evolutionary invention. Ok, I have tally sticks. I can write about them in a journal and use arithmetic to track the totals. I will write the stock on the left, referring to the thing owed (Latin "Debit") and the smaller foil on the right, referring to what is loaned to me (Latin "Credit").

Ok, now I need to categorize these. So I will start putting a code by each one. Now I have a chart of accounts! Now I need to total each of my accounts so I transcribe into another book and now I have a ledger. Do the books balance? Let me add them up and find out. Let's call this a trial balance. And so forth. The utility arises largely from a large number of different people working with real issues to find other uses for the system.

We see this with the evolution of SQL over a period of time as well. SQL today may not have changed in its outlines since it was developed but the standards have evolved a lot to meet needs.

So the challenge is for something like a disconnected POS. Again a system like the real world invoice and cash voucher system might work best.
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Also, this is a big win for Jim McKelvey.

(disclosure: I am a WashU student and Cultivation Capital intern)
Starbucks' massive influence in the payment space is an asset. They're potentially a kingmaker for payment providers. Who else, besides McDonalds, processes as many payments in as geographically diverse an area?

By partnering with Square in return for equity, they are making a play to capitalize on that position. If Square wins in this space, which is much more likely with Starbucks in their corner, Starbucks gets a massive payday.

If they just stick with their existing provider, who is likely already maxed out on their growth curve, there is no such opportunity.
You probably didn't mean to phrase it as "technical vs nontechnical", and more so your friend but it could come off that way for some.

This is more specifically your friend not doing his job than it is about a nontechnical vs technical person, just that he happens to be the person that was suppose to be responsible for the non-technical parts of the idea right?

My advice is if you're clearly not happy with what he is doing, cut him loose, move on.
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But I won't thank GD for stream only soundboards:( (1) I'm glad I saved all my crispy SBDs from the glory days of bt.etree.org.

My recommendation for awesome singer/songwriter with a lot of content (SBDs) on archive.org, Danny Schmidt(2). If you live near Austin you should definitely try and see him live. When Danny was asked if it was okay to put his material on archive.org he said:

"Sure, I'm fine with your posting the recording on there. Do I need to do anything to formally give my permission -- or is this email enough?

Thanks for thinking of me -- and thanks for helping spread my music around to new ears. I really appreciate that. And thanks for the heads up about Archive.org.

All the best --
Danny"

(1) http://archive.org/about/faqs.php#245

(2) http://archive.org/details/DannySchmidt
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This design forgoes my second biggest usage of Wikipedia (and I suspect it's a big use case for other multilinguals). (My primary usage of course being reading and enjoying the vast content.)

I often use Wikipedia as a high quality word translator. I study at a Swedish speaking university which requires that a lot of the written material I produce is of course in swedish. Whenever I'm writing a comp sci text and I wonder what in gods name a "morphism" is in swedish I just look up the english article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphism) and hover over the swedish language in the sidebar and voilà I've got a peer reviewed translation (peer reviewed because it probably has sources in both languages, in most cases).
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If driverless cars eliminated the need for public transport (in the contemporary sense) you could open up rail corridors to create highways for cyclists, joggers, and walkers - it would open up alternatives to motorised travel.

Or you could turn the theory on its head - use the rail corridors as motorised transport arteries and open up the roads to the bipeds.

(From Sydney where the rail network is extensive - I'd imagine places with less ubiquitous rail wouldn't benefit as much)
It’s pretty stupid because it doesn’t follow convention – but that’s actually exactly how I learned it in school, so it’s not like there isn’t precedent.

Here is (roughly) what I learned in elementary school (in Bavaria): http://i.imgur.com/LbQ7l.png

I think the J dropping below the baseline isn’t particularly uncommon or unique. (I know quite a few famous typefaces in which the J drops below the baseline: Baskerville Old Face, Lucida Grande, Palatino, Rockwell, Optima, …) However, the I looking like a J certainly is, at least in print.
Would be nice if they offered the option to remote encrypt and you can only decrypt with a visit to a Apple store. But nomatter what you offer, there will always be a way to offer a little more.

Your approach does leae users open to there own hindsight and if you lost a device you might in some situations reset the password first and then thing about remotely wiping the device and in those situations you will be a bit erked. That said it would be nice to at least have that option, options are nice as they allow the user to pick the level of control they want, more options more choice. Still be nice if a device being remote wiped checked its location and went - oi hang on your at home I need to verify this first, scary but doable.
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Thanks for the feedback. I will definitely take it into consideration for future posts. I've learned a lot through these comments and I really value everyone's opinion.

Also, my point in saying I like The Social Network, etc. meant nothing more than to explain why I've started 140 Stiches; I have a love for technology and fashion and want to give advice to guys in technology who are willing to take it.
> Not only do they throw up a huge middle finger to non-English speakers

Yes, that irked me too, amongst other things. But intriguingly, they are from Lithuania, where Vikipedija does not start with a W.
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It's a fascinating doc. Is there a point where you cross the line from "inspiration" to methodically duplicating every last detail? Or should it not matter?
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Almost every time I call a call center, my head feels like it's ready to explode. Answers are unavailable or impossible to find. Some answers are just wrong.

This gets to me. Does anyone out there, anyone get the phone call right? Why is it so difficult to deal with people calling a company for help? Does anyone out there actually get customer phone calls right?

Are all mass facing businesses doomed to recreate this horrible experience for their customers as they grow in size?
The stakes are higher on iCloud for this user, but not someone who has their business on AWS still connected to a personal Amazon account.
I'm skeptical that the Ouya will be able to decode h.264 Level 4.1 (up to 50 Mbps). Xbox 360 can only handle up to 10Mbps peak of Level 4.1. Thus, the only solution is to transcode to MPEG-2 using something like PS3 Media Server. A 100mbit connection is insufficient for high-quality transcoded MPEG-2 in my experience
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While this is a very cool project, and I will keep a eye on it. How does it differ from puppet / chef / fabric / capistrano, etc.
Even though OSX Mountain Lion makes it simple to install Java (click yes on first use), it's one less OS that comes with it preinstalled.

Also, the slower startup time of the JVM affects clojure apps and makes simple command line scripts in clojure less attractive
Blizzard also uses bittorrent to distribute their games and all patches for their games. I'm not sure about other game companies, but I'd be surprised if Blizzard was the only company doing this.
Square works on any phone with GPS, which is not true of NFC.

And Square, Inc. is making a brilliant "Trojan Horse" series of business moves to bootstrap adoption in both users and vendors. They get vendors using the Square app by providing plastic processing, they get users using the app by providing convenient tabs... as smartphones become ubiquitous, they don't have many limits to growth.

NFC on the other hand... Who is going to be the jockey that rides NFC in the race? Google? What will Google be able to offer to vendors that Square doesn't? I can't think of a single benefit of NFC over Pay With Square from the vendor's point of view. And Google will never pound the pavement the way Square is. They just have too many other fronts to fight on.
Deleted pages are never truly deleted. A more accurate description would be "hidden", and there are different levels to which a page can be hidden:

* Blanking a page, or part of a page, is an action that any editor can perform, and any editor can undo. This hides content from the "live" page, but anyone can view the blanked content by looking in the page's history.
* Deleting a page is an action limited to administrators, and similarly, only an admin can undelete a page. A deleted page is basically treated by MediaWiki like it doesn't exist, and only admins can view the deleted content. Individual edits can also be deleted, but this is not as common.
* Lastly, oversighting can be used to hide content from even admins. Admins can oversight stuff as well, and in these cases, the oversighted content can be viewed by other admins, though it requires more work than viewing deleted stuff. For oversighted content to be hidden even from admins, the oversighting must be done by another user group called (aptly enough) oversighters. In the context of WMF project, entry to this usergroup is tightly controlled (seriously, it makes the request for adminship process look like an open door), and anyone selected for the role must personally confirm their identity to the WMF.

The main point is that, in all of these cases, the content is never gone, but simply hidden; the MediaWiki software is designed so that every action is logged and can be reversed.
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Broken window theory. The rate of civil rights outrages worldwide is more than high enough to overwhelm the forum, so the number of completely off topic stories only remains low thanks to people visibly objecting to them.
+1 for Arq (just posting this to note the correct spelling, for those who want to Google it).
There is also the chance that Square (and similar geolocation- and photo- based heuristics) will make NFC superfluous. Why NFC when a human-to-human word or gesture is faster, more natural, and just as reliable?
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All Germans I have ever met have had excellent English. Certainly good enough to read short English commits with only the occasional dictionary reference required.

The Eurobarometer report from 2006 says 56% of Germans speak English.

But I suspect that rather underestimates the case here. There is a huge difference between someone checking a box on a form that says they can speak English and being able to parse short messages in English.

And given only fairly educated, tech-savvy Germans are likely to participate in this, I think the negative effect from English commits is straight up zero, or at worst incredibly low.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-sp...
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> Also, my point in saying I like The Social Network, etc. meant nothing more than to explain why I've started 140 Stiches; I have a love for technology and fashion and want to give advice to guys in technology who are willing to take it.

OK. But you follow up the paragraph in question with 'Basically what I'm trying to say here is, I understand your language.' which implied to me that the purpose of the preceeding paragraph was largely to establish your 'geek credentials' in some manner. This (in isolation) is what rang hollow for me.
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Square is probably charging cost, or even losing money on this one, just to gain the market share.
Those comma locations are just plain weird!
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You might also enjoy Philip K Dick. His style is very different than Snow Crash, but I feel like their visions of the future have a lot in common.