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As in Gang Garrison 2?

Not really. A Python port, PyGG2, is currently in development, and that might have a chance of mobile support, but I don't expect so. The current GG2 is written in Game Maker. While GM has cross-platform Mac/HTML5/iOS/Android support, we use a custom-built windows-only networking library, so this isn't really an option. Also, we've been meaning to migrate away from GM for quite some time, due to its performance and limitations.

(I used to be a GG2 and PyGG2 dev...)
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It wasn't to give us a boogy man, it was just that the whackjobs that thought the USSR was a huge boogyman (before we turned it into one) were listened to. There's a decent section on this in the book Drift.
The divide between rich and poor was never related to the number of people on the planet. People have been starving on earth for many generations and, probably, a considerable fraction of the human population will always be deprived of basic needs. And if someone could come up with a solution for this, for providing everyone with a fair share of everything, I don't doubt he/she would be promptly killed :P
> Obviously many orders of magnitude more useful code has been written in COBOL and C++ than in Smalltalk and Lisp.

That may be true, but it is not at all obvious that it is. Do you have some sources to back up that claim?
If that became a problem, the U.S. could simply eliminate copyright protection for child pornography. Thai producers could not turn a profit when faced with Mountain View pirates.
I was excited about the prospect of a 13" MB Pro Retina. But I'm going to say that not having upgradable memory or SSD is a huge deal killer for me (right now I have a 512 GB SSD that I'm going to throw into my new MB Pro). I can deal with carrying the extra pound around. The Retina screen isn't a big deal to me as I use an external monitor most of the time, and I wasn't really that impressed when I saw it at the Apple Store.
Snow Leopard doesn't have the drivers for new hardware.
Could this possibly be a result of the "Power Nap" feature rather than some jiggling keys?
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Making decisions based on conventional wisdom prevents you from "farming black swans." By asking the other person to do some basic tasks, they're at least passing the equivalent of fizzbuzz in execution ability and motivation.
He didn't say anything about a die-off. He said we need to decrease birth rates.
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Hi, I'm an iOS developer with a device running iOS6. I'll try to stick to the NDA, but I'd just like an answer regarding what I view as a major privacy issue. By the way, I had another account on HN but lost access to it in the transition away from clickpass.

To summarise the issue: iOS6's Facebook integration allows me to simply add a stranger's phone number and then, in most cases, retrieve their Facebook photo, URL, name and occasionally email addresses and sometimes, though infrequently, actual addresses, depending on the user's Facebook privacy settings.

Steps to recreate the issue:

1. Link your Facebook account to the device

2. Add a person's phone number

3. Go to Settings > Facebook and tap "Update Contacts"

4. Return to the Contacts app and there is a high chance that you will now have this person's photo, a link to their Facebook profile, and potentially other information, all from a phone number. Something which I don't believe can be done through any other means.

I find this to be a major breach of privacy, and I don't see how Apple or Facebook would allow this. I thought the point was to synchronise information from existing Facebook friends, not strangers.

I apologise if this is old news but I'd have thought this would be a huge issue with the tech community—particularly since it involves Apple and Facebook—and I check HN, Reddit, etc. daily.

Thank you
Do you hear dozens of people dying from starvation everyday in the papers?

No, because it's not news. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr60/nvsr60_03.pdf There were 2,850 deaths in the USA directly from malnutrition in 2009. That's almost 1 per 100,000 people, every year. That's more than twice as many as Hodgkin's disease.
I like how he keeps being positive about "our democracy" and all that, but unfortunately the "democracy" of US has become worse and worse since 9/11.
I am also always looking for a co-founder. When a geek approaches me (or I approach them) to be the suit for their project, I usually give them some simple soft skill to do - like go out and talk to potential customers and get feedback from say 500 in a day.

Finally, before I even consider hustling customers and investors I want some paltry measure of ability. If you can hack something together in 24-48 hours or even a week, then they're quality geek co-founder material. Any longer and it's a judgement call. Most won't get past step one, and you certainly didn't want them as a co-founder.

I have learned this the hard way. I raised money only to find out my tech co-founder couldn't push code in a timely manner. This street goes both ways and that is why teams of 2 work best, one to build it and one to sell it to the world. The question for me is, can the geek cut it?
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In todays market with Unity3D, UDK, CryEngine all offering free versions this doesnt really stand a chance.
But its free and for hackers who want to dive deep into C++ Game Engine code its a cool thing to hack with!
Absolutely. I do hope pedigree will matter even less in the future as formal education hopefully matters less as well.

The important thing shouldn't be education, but what is done with it.

Here is a messy and incomplete list of cool things created by people from lower ranking universities:

Python: University of Amsterdam.
Ruby: University of Tsukuba.
PHP: University of Waterloo.
Javascript: University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Rails: Copenhagen Business School
Django: University of Bath and Missouri School of Journalism
Drupal: Ghent University
Linux: University of Helsinki
MySQL: Helsinki University of Technology and ??
Perl: Seattle Pacific University
Java: University of Calgary
Objective C: Furman University and ??
C++: University of Aarhus
C#: Technical University of Denmark
Because these things rarely work out. Either company takes it in wrong direction or developer now has money and gets itchy for something else. (yes, a major generalization I know) Have there been examples of OS project developers hooking on with a company and the project becomes better? May be helpful to be reminded of those in this situation.
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I am volunteering to not have children (that are biologically mine).
The dropping of the app from iOS 6 won't affect you anyway, your iPhone is stuck on iOS 4.
As long as it doesn't become abandonware, I could certainly see this serving a niche segment of developers. There continues to exist a surprisingly large number of RAD tools on the market despite many having innate limitations that drastically limit their scope and applicability.

But they continue to exist because there are countless businesses demanding customized software for cheap. My thought is that a tool like this could very well be a welcome addition to the marketplace if it lowered the bar to entry of building web apps by a not-insignificant margin.

As long as DubJS isn't viewed as an effort to replace standard web app development, but merely another way for getting from A to Z that some developers find useful, I think it has a lot of promise!
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Totally agree. But the other ones were not as ridiculous as this one.
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Boo, scary websites want to know where you are.

Honestly, I don't see the problem, this is not worth raising the cat-signal for.

And you are right about the referrer. They don't generate it, use it or do anything useful otherwise.

May be doing it right is a good plan for another YC startup.
Usually I would agree 100%. This stuff reeks of scaremongering however given the source you would have to assume that the Complex Systems Institute wouldn't allow themselves to be susceptible to overfitting.
I love C++ and I know guys who love Java. And they are great systems programmers. I have nothing against Java the language (I do dislike the focus on OOP), but do have issues with JVMs (I prefer real machines rather than virtual ones), however, I would not say that no one loves Java. It has a place and is useful, and is appreciated, by many.
What is your point? There are many things we can predict intuitively, but thats all we can do until someone puts in the time and effort to use the scientific method.

Once someone puts in this time, we can see why there is a cause, and how to affect it or learn from it.

For instance, the real reason people are rioting when food prices go up is that, in those parts of the world, the people spend 80% of their money on food.

Without knowing that, you could make all sorts of predictions about why people in Syria are rioting while people in the U.S. are playing Fifa.
The first app I ever recruited technical people to was thecityswig.com. It required a ton of industry knowledge and foot work, all of which I provided, so we all felt like we were equal.

Now, when I present ideas I come at it from this direction: if you want to work with me, you're the boss. You decide how much I'm worth and we'll go from there. I know you're going to be more valuable, especially initially, so your ownership should reflect that. However, I'm going to work my ass of to make sure you don't have to worry about anything but building the product. What's that plus my experience and hustle worth to you?
Um, you don't have to have people currently living die. Even if you found 5-6 billion people to sign up to die tomorrow, what would you do with their bodies? How would you provide for their children, if any? Would you allow parents to sign up their whole families? etc. etc. I'm pretty sure the GP was just talking about capping reproduction for a while.
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This was submitted to HN some days ago. http://cssdeck.com/labs/creating-single-element-iphone-using...
I find it hard to believe that people will go to a grocery store and expect to find brushed-metal fruit with a shiny touchscreen. These are wildly different industries.
Somebody was in the news the other day because their clever country-code TLD was taken away by the registry. All of the country code TLDs have weird restrictions with which you can easily fail to comply. Recourse for smaller registries can be harder to obtain.

In this case I'm not sure why they went with 'sleepio' if they weren't going to use '.io' other than perhaps it's trendy right now, but I think they probably made the right move getting the .com.
I wonder what the optimal population is for modern US quality of life. Clearly at 3000 or so, we wouldn't have enough specialization to have a decent quality of life. At 10b (and even at 7b), we're stretching available resources. I do think 1-2b would be a good number (if optimally selected).

Arguably if we had better technology, even an increase over current population could be an improvement (assuming a marginal extra person was engaged in productive activity); most of the constrained resources seem like they could be dealt with using cheaper energy (making recycling/low grade ores/etc. recoverable, better transportation to reduce crowding, dealing with pollution, etc.)
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It isn't up to Eric anymore. I wish him well, personally, but the product's fate is in the hands of Telerik.
A very common sentiment, but just wrong, in my opinion.

If there were fewer humans, the price of resources would drop, so we'd start using more of them frivolously, resulting in no significant benefit.

On the other hand, if there were more humans, the price of resources would rise, and we'd start using them more efficiently.

Quick quiz: what's the only commodity that has consistently risen in inflation-adjusted cost over the last few centuries, signalling that demand is greater than supply?

Answer: labour.

The large population of the world is what has allowed the intense specialization of the modern economy, leading to the technological revolution. Without the technological revolution we'd still be burning wood for heat, which is far more harmful on the environment than what we currently do, just to name one effect.
Thanks, but I actually think we need to be even clearer. It should be obvious what to do without reading anything. And if high-functioning HN users are making that error, your average Boots customer almost certainly is.

Unfortunately there isn't an obvious affordance for this sort of interaction (that I've yet come across) - it looks like an email signup, when in fact it's more like 'play a game'...an interesting challenge...
What a phenomenal waste of ink!
This is not true.
The INDEC, the national statistics agency, says that with that money, you are a destitute.
But local newspaper got the info and says with that money, you can eat.
And then went viral, I guess.
Idea guys these days don't even bother, it used to be that they would make a serious attempt, make documentation, mockups, a .ppt, etc...

These days I get emails from people who don't even know how to make an executive summary, how am I supposed to believe this guy can take care of the business side while I get 5 hours of sleep a day trying to code the app?

And that's the problem, if your pitch email is less than three paragraphs long I don't even bother, because I know it's probably the same one you sent some other coder and you couldn't even bother to write a proper personal request.
Since it's on Github - I guess it's for anyone who might fork and modify it, so that there's a link back to the original:

https://github.com/braziljs/js-the-right-way
All similar manufacturers have the same exploitation in manufacturing. Apple copped a beating over it essentially because they market to expections of quality and high ethics.
Hope they'll be ok. Espionage is a big word, it implies malice, which I am sure was not the case. ArmA players know what I'm talking about.
Is it because it's CC BY-NC-SA? And showing you how they prefer to be given attribution?
And MBA's don't have super drives!
unfortunately being beginner , i also came across same people as mentioned here, just offering idea and just seating next to you, doing nothing and asking for percentage in project/start up.Soon after i realized, people should be credited depending on their contribution and not just for sitting. We famously call this people as "Associate Percentage Partners" :D but this time lesson learned !
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Any analysis of this kind is by necessity an oversimplification of complex reality, but I have lived, traveled, and done business in several 'developing' countries, and this makes a LOT of sense to me. In my experience, when most adults in a country can earn a living and feed their children, people don't take to the streets.

These findings by complex systems theorists also remind me of a powerful map I saw in the book "Collapse" by Jared Diamond (of "Guns, Germs, and Steel" fame) -- a map showing that the areas around the planet which are currently suffering from the most political, institutional, and even societal breakdown also happen to be those that have suffered the most ecological damage, such that self-sustaining agriculture is not a viable option for them in the immediate future.
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I don't why you are being downvoted, you have excellent point in your post.

Having made to work like a donkey in the mill migrating large code bases in Mega corps, I felt the post was a template biography of every engineer like me.

Besides I see no end to 'Java Shop Politics' any time soon. Like somebody else on this thread- 'Java is basically a Insurance policy'.
Thank you very much for your feedback! It's hard to find the right balance between functionality and ease of use. I was very usure regarding the category chooser, thanks to your feedback I now feel confident to remove it and just go with the best category hit.

Your idea regarding displaying items even if no real result could be generated seems so obvious, I am a bit ashamed to not think of that. :)

Again, thank you!
Some speculation in the thread about whether or not it's JPG artifacts, but if you make it to the 2nd page (post #21) someone included some information proving it's intentional: http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/world-of-warcraft/world-of-w...

Edit: Page 6 includes confirmation from a (supposed) Blizzard representative that this is for NDA leak tracking: http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/world-of-warcraft/world-of-w...
How "obviously not?" All three languages have changed significantly since 2000. I took a good look at C++'s TR11 just last week and was amazed at how much stuff is in it. Java's gotten generics, real inner classes, all the good stuff they've ripped off from C#...It seems to me like the article is spot on, unless you interpreted "at a turning point" to mean "about to go away."
As they say the site is very amateurish but if it's your first website you've ever built it's really good, keep up! If you need help with something just ask for it
Partnerships are harder than marriage. I have learnt so much about successful friendships and relationships from successful partnerships.

Getting on the same page, and staying on the same page is the defining challenge of partnerships.

If reports of how much YC focuses on the co-founder relationship are true, I think it's a big part of the secret.

The healthiest partnership that I enjoy is based on a tough/fair love approach of mincing no words, but having a deep, deep respect and trust for the others abilities and judgement based on one thing: We know what we know, and we know what we don't know, and we don't bs.

We work to get the hell out of each others way and instead support and push each other forward so we keep moving, inward, onward, and upward. I want to make sure in partnership, that 1+1 = 11, not 2. If our collective footprint isn't larger than any two normal people coming together, the leaps we have to take will take that much more work.

When finding a partner, one relationship for me has been forming since high school, through university, and now a friend doing some consulting for me. We have solved complex problems with differing opinions for over 15 years. I have found the bliss of knowing everything that we build will be built at least as good as I would have imagined to do it. (I code or can sell, but not both at the same time very easily). If he's hell bent on doing something a particular way to be kinder to ourselves in the future, great. He's usually hell bent on avoiding premature optimization, though, so again, the balance is there in a way we both agree. Having the chance to work together on in consulting, with one of us

I don't care to argue details that my partner understands better. If there's a scenario I need explained until I get it, I focus on asking for input and teaching on that. Likewise, my partner treats me the same.

Partnerships reveal not just the good, but the bad and ugly. You need to know how your partner will be at your side and have your back in times of challenge, stress, trouble and disagreement. Stress, and disagreement is guaranteed. How you both approach resolving and being in a place of mutual agreement is critical. Really, it's about learning to communicate early, often, and openly. If you can't do that, like any marriage, the relationship suffers from what it could have accomplished. You need to know how to disagree and be able to constantly say "You might be right / I don't know / Let's find out." without fear.
Definitely goes both ways. "Dear Business Person, I have a side project" and I heard you are good at getting customers/funding/partnerships/employees - can we get coffee for an hour so you can tell me how to achieve these goals so I can raise some funding, or maybe you'd like to be an advisor and we can meet a couple times each week for free. Sometimes a polite no works, but often I am surprised by the degree of entitlement people seems to feel when making this kind of ask, and have to decline multiple times before they get it.
Why would they have to make compromises? Both possible solutions for this problem doesn't require any compromises at all...
'Out of this World' had its own virtual machine! Source review below:

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> Purposeless high-resolution backgrounds

So you're against textures full stop, not just skeumorphism? Because of course high-resolution textures are not necessarily skeumorphic.

> Time/money spent adding a fake leather texture is time/money unspent on functional aspects of a product.

Using a fake leather texture takes about as long as using some other texture or choosing a solid color or choosing which direction the gradient goes in... You're either spending time on design, or you're not. Even being minimalistic takes time and intention.
Don't fall for that idea trap. Just ask for money. If they don't have it, tell them to get funders and hire you as a first programmer AND equity if they really want you.

It is always better to have something in your pocket than 50% of nothing.
Draw wheelbarrow icon on your command / apple key.
Hold down said key, drag menu bar icons to desired position.
Any early stage startup where there's so much polarization between geeks and suits at the outset is in trouble. Basically geeks need to learn to sell and suits need to learn to code. I could elaborate on this in a longer post. But I have to go back to working on some new channel capacity ideas. Stay tuned.
I don't think the Air can fully turn on in clamshell mode, unlike the pro. This is (I believe) because the air uses its body as a heat sink.
Charles web debugging proxy is a similar tool, that works on OS X and Linux additionally:

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A post on Reddit, HN, etc, can get plenty of views for an interesting idea.
We'll add this one to copier watermarks, printer watermarks, and fax machine watermarks.

So your account id and realm is available as a watermark in the screen shots, what nefarious problem does that cause? (I can imagine it helps identify griefers and people who cheat and brag)
Very interesting technology. Would be cool to see this put to good use. It's a lot easier to get someone to post a screenshot than it is to get them to email a dump.
Why would Blizzard want to watermark their own screenshots?
HN has novelty accounts now?
The reason Hotmail has stagnated under Microsoft is because of the programmers, not the management. Since there aren't any interesting technical problems in it, none of the hot shot programmers want to work on it. I'm positive that inside Microsoft the view is that Hotmail is something a clueless manager saddled some unlucky programmers with.
It looks very iOS6, actually. Not that I'm saying it doesn't look like the Android app (I don't have my N7 handy to check), but the Apple iOS6 apps have mostly moved to a gray/slate look very similar to this.
Apples aren't spheres, so they don't match either.
If you've ever dealt with giving support to people, they usually love to give as little information as possible. I suspect this could potentially help solve any issues or disputes.