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> We had a period where one of the projects accidentally got the static analysis option turned off for a few months, and when I noticed and re-enabled it, there were piles of new errors that had been introduced in the interim. Similarly, programmers working just on the PC or PS3 would check in faulty code and not realize it until they got a “broken 360 build” email report. These were demonstrations that the normal development operations were continuously producing these classes of errors, and /analyze was effectively shielding us from a lot of them.

Something which corroborates this: When penetration testers break into systems, they're often using new 0-day exploits. Think about that. Most of today's software development practice produces such a steady stream of low-level bugs, that penetration testers can assume that they're there!

> Trying to retrofit a substantial codebase to be clean at maximum levels in PC-Lint is probably futile. I did some “green field” programming where I slavishly made every picky lint comment go away, but it is more of an adjustment than most experienced C/C++ programmers are going to want to make. I still need to spend some time trying to determine the right set of warnings to enable to let us get the most benefit from PC-Lint.

This could be encouraged using game dynamics. Have a mechanism where a programmer can mark parts of the codebase "green-field." A programmer's "green-field score" consists of the number of lines of green-field code (or statements, whichever lousy metric you want) that he's successfully compiled with no warnings whatsoever. Combine this with random sampling code walkthroughs, which has many benefits but will also catch boilerplate, auto-generated, or copy-paste programming by a "Wally" who's trying to "write himself a new minivan."
The previous post mentioned "Playthroughs" which to me suggests single player games recorded from start to finish.

I see it being unlikely that they will disrupt traditional "TV" that focuses on stuff like narrative driven dramas or documentaries. I don't see many people wanting to watch a playthrough instead of Game of Thrones or whatever. Maybe a small niche will, but not the mainstream.

In terms of multiplayer game tournaments then yes, perhaps these may be successful in the way that traditional sports broadcasts are.
On the contrary, there are companies blossoming based on people doing "let's play". Youtube is filled with partners making incredible amounts of money doing "let's play" videos and frag highlight reels with dramatic music and editing. Any random video garners between 500,000 and 1 million hits within days of uploading them. They become viral instantly. And, their subscriber lists hover in the millions, every one of them sitting through both pre-fill ads and sometimes interstitials (for 2+ hour playthroughs with commentary).

This market is not niche. It rivals cable TV shows in reach. And, demographically? Forget about it. They are the youngest and money-spendiest one out there. MTV wishes they could pull Machinima demographic numbers per piece of content (and for the price of content, which is an order of magnitude cheaper than the Situation and Snooki, that's for sure).
Non-rhetorical question: How do we say "Please, perform a cursory Google search before posting questions like that."

That's less snarky, but still pretty snarky. It's hard to sugarcoat the fact that the parent poster literally didn't read the title of the first Google result.
I did, and generally agree that humility about achievement leads to the best results, a sense of entitlement to the worst. My only beef was 'our parents understood this'. WW2/depression generation, maybe, boomers, no way.

The comment I was responding to seemed to take serious offense at the OP, and I don't.
If I'm a student, and there's a switch in the teachers' lounge that connects to the same network that I am allowed to access in the rest of the school, then I can illicitly enter the teachers' lounge and plug in to that network with the same authorization that I would have outside.

Edit: doesn't have to be wifi.
That's probably what Microsoft were thinking when they designed the Surface. We'll see how well it works out for them.
This may be of interest to you (non-free):

http://www.pixelscript.net/monodyslexic/
"The problem is the price is not right for me at this stage."

Well, I'm pretty sure Whitney's enlightened path to k went through LISP, so maybe the author will get there one day. And LUSH seems a pretty nice choice of LISP's to work with - extendable, but not too big out of the box.
> mind-warping justification of why 4" is now great

Did we read the same article? Gruber clearly seemed to think it was more unwieldy to use and spent a lot of time weighing tradeoffs on that issue. His conclusion seemed to be little more than his resignation to get used to the iPhone 5's 4" screen. I think you're expecting Gruber to be a loyal apologist, so you're a little thrown for a loop when he seems a little unsure about the merits of Apple's decisions.

He does spend the 750 words raving about the industrial design of the phone. The lede is that the iPhone 5 is "nice", not that it's a technological breakthrough (other than the manufacturing processes at least). It's clear that that's where Apple focused their innovation for this cycle. If you're only looking for technical specs and you're blind to this sort of thing, don't be surprised when other people interpret you as an Apple hater. To be perfectly honest, the fact that you now come out claiming to be an Apple fan indicates more than anything that you were trolling the whole time.
Yet http://www.isxkcdshittytoday.com/ still isn't impressed.
I don't follow, but then, we're not talking about wifi networks.
"Materially harm" is such a broad term (it's been used to escape one-penny raises in phone bills) that, in the context of CFAA, it might as well be strict liability. Depending on how big of a dick legal is feeling like on a given day, they could make the argument that having the sysadmin dig up logs was materially harming.
The software used to make this is on Github, plus some scaled down originals:
https://github.com/dagar/xkcd-1110
1 million views worldwide is pretty niche in the grand scale of things. You would need growth on a massive scale before HBO is going to consider airing them.
League of Legends may well be that big breakthrough - major events draw more viewers than an average MLB game.
I'm just happy to see they've moved away from a hacked-together plywood and screws case and have switched to metal. They've finally discovered that some things are better made if you get away from the limitations of low-end laser cutters.

That said, I think it was stupid of them to drop the kit versions of their printers, which more people could actually afford, although this is coming from someone in a "fly-over" state, where a mortgage payment on a nice house in the 'burbs is less than half the replicator2 cost. I suppose if you live someplace where the cost of living is much higher (New York City, for example), then spending $2k+ on a toy isn't really a big deal.
Don't confuse prototyping and making one-offs or small hand-made runs with mass manufacturing. You can make anything you can nearly imagine in a garage environment. That does not translate into a shippable consumer product.

My comment specifically stated that this lightbulb could not have been done for the stated goal of $100K. This is absolutely true.

I won't get into all of the details. I'll just mention that regulatory testing alone could easily eat-up anywhere from $25K to $100K. And, BTW, you cannot sell a device such as these lights without full FCC, CE, UL, TUV and other certifications. And, BTW, you can EASILY burn-up two months going through regulatory testing.

Beyond that, you have to develop tooling and dies. That ain't cheap.

Making a mass-market consumer product requires a lot of up-front investment and planning. It also takes time. Unless you have full in-house expertise you'll have to hire qualified mechanical designers well-versed in the technologies at play (plastics, stamping, machining and die-molding are different disciplines).

There's also the requirement for extensive testing on something that could potentially set fire to a home. This is serious business. You can't assume that production units will perform as a garage prototype might. There are manufacturing variances and issues that need to be tested and accounted for.

The project just passed the million dollar mark with about 20,000 units sold. We'll see what happens. It sounds like a lot of money, but you'd be surprised how quickly it can become "not enough" once real design and manufacturing costs start to pile-up.

My rough educated guess is that you could make a run of 100K units for about $20 a piece, packaged and landed in the US.
That means that you need two million dollars plus engineering and other costs, which could reach $500K. In my eyes, at $2,500,000 the project starts to make sense. At this rate they could reach that number as they nearly have two months to do.

My real question is: What would they have done if the project only funded just past their original $100K requirement? There's no way to get this done with only $100K. Save outside investment it would have been a mess. Not sure how Kickstarter deals with such cases.
Wouldn't that just be #1?
I'm not sure if I am interpreting your last sentence correctly. Can you rephrase it?
Great product. Great team. The fact that these guys are not reliant on YouTube makes it that much more attractive.
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I'm dyslexic and I love this idea! However this font is much harder to read.

Here are my trouble letters in this font: http://i.imgur.com/ilkUV.png
Note that there is no indication what letters these are other than by direction (which is really hard for many dyslexics).

Compare this to a regular font: http://i.imgur.com/mbi54.png
Note that there are hints in the serifs that distinguish direction.

By reversing the regular serif font, you can see these hints: http://i.imgur.com/t1sxB.png=

Also, the kerning is pretty bad: http://i.imgur.com/A9PJk.png
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I am a maker, I am self-made, I am not indebted, and my job is damn sexy. The fact that I stand in the shoulders of giants does not mean that I am not self-made. We all make our choices given the opportunities available, some of us choose some things, some of us choose others. Given that we make our choices and everybody around us is free to make their own choices, we are not indebted to anybody. We might be generous out of good will, but I refuse to accept any unearned guilt for my success, or any debt or duty that I did not incur. I love my job and I think it is damn sexy. If I didn't, I would do something else.
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It was unclear if what you were implying was that you shouldn't violate a ToS for your own profit (or at someone's expense) because it was a federal offense. (I can see now that that was not what you were trying to get at)

What are your thoughts on PadMapper vs CL? What is the distinction between scraping that data vs scraping this data that makes one worthy of federal prosecution, but not the other? Considering in both cases it was done for profit or detriment
Not sure why this was down voted. I was thinking of that the whole time reading the article. And I feel the same way now - bologna! I don't know any small business owner who doesn't work crazy hard (including myself). It's one thing to feel pride because you were handed a trust fund, but I don't see a problem with looking at what you've achieve and feeling a sense of satisfaction.

And regarding all those people who I owe a debt. There certainly have been people who helped me along the way. But you know what, other people helped those people. And I have helped many others as well. So aren't we all even.

As a Christian I have no issues with humbleness. Believe me, I'm extremely grateful for all I have. But I'm not a fan of "no one is better then anyone else and you have more just because of luck".
Most of the reasons you listed are either wrong, or easily addressed.

2. People who get in shape are more likely to want to participate in sports and activities that require being in good shape.

3. Reward cycle is not fast enough because most people measure their progress wrong. They jump on the scale, look at the number, and get demotivated by the short-term fluctuations. Whereas if they measured other things, such as how far they were able to run, how heavy they were able to lift, or how many inches were subtracted from their belly/chest/shoulder, they would be more likely to see positive results.

4. Compared to playing video games or watching TV, exercise sure is boring. But there are many ways to make it fun - listening to action-packed music, using apps like Fitocracy to track progress and earn points, etc. Having some variety in exercises also helps. If all you do is run on the treadmill for 60 minutes, you'll hate it.
When I saw this announcement my instant hope was, "Maybe it's one in my price range!" My excitement was sapped fairly quickly.

I think it's neat they're offering more advanced machines, but I'd also like to see them release a budget model.
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maybe i'm really missing the point, but once you attach a keyboard to an ipad you've are bound to have a sub-par user experience.

in terms of portability, i see no difference between ipad + kb and a macbook air. heck, i see very little difference between ipad + kb and ipad + macbook air, which is what i carry around. ipad for reading, macbook air for coding and writing.

iOS does not seem like an environment designed for people who spend most of their time writing and typing or otherwise creating. rather, it is an environment optimized for what most people do with their computers most of the time: consume information. that doesn't mean you can't create on the ipad. OSX, on the other hand, is such an environment. there is no reason to pick either or, you can have both at relatively low cost.
Heh, I wonder if back in the 60s, HBR said Business Analyst or Statistician were the sexy jobs of the 20th century.

Because that's all a "data scientist" is... but without the experience to realize there's already a job title for what they do.
All of which doesn't necessary mean that their 3D printer they're selling have to be expensive.

They could have keep the spec of their first generation and try to figure out how to make it cheaper over time without losing quality.
Good question, there aren't exactly any good tools that interweave several languages into the same environment. Not just for php-mysql but also for php-html or html-javascript or php-javascript. Phpstorm gives you intellisense for sql-strings embedded in your php code but that's the most advanced cross-language-feature i've seen, except for LINQ in C#.

Imagine a tool that could analyze this:

//sql table T having columns int x, string y

//php
$data = sql_fetch_from_column(T)

//javascript
var d = <?=json_encode($data)?>
for(a in d)
var b = a.x / a.y; //Type error, int division by string not defined
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Is the weird kerning on the lowercase i intentional?

More than anything it reminds me of the Team Fortress 2 font http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Fonts. I wonder if they're both the result of some optimization process.
There is! If you sign up at https://stripe.com/global, we'll reach out once we're ready to start beta testing.
You're missing the magic ingredient which is the personality of the person playing the game. Don't think of it as a "play through" only but rather playthough talk radio.

http://www.youtube.com/uberhaxornova 1.1M Subscribers, 650 million video views

http://www.youtube.com/ssohpkc 660K Subscribers 380 million video views

www.youtube.com/user/TheSyndicateProject 1.3M Subscribers 500M video views

Which is pretty impressive bearing in mind most of those channels haven't really been around that long, 2-3 years probably. But these guys are making a lot of money through ads and they're all pretty young, oldest is probably 24-25 of the three I just linked. Which is important because I think their audience is mainly in the mid to late teens although I don't know for sure.
With Cupcake -> Replicator -> Replicator 2 the devices are getting physically larger and more capable. Larger machines are more expensive to manufacture and assemble, and this is still a small-volume, mostly hand-assembled (in Manhattan! {edit: sorry, Brooklyn. I misremembered.}) industry.

If you want a 3D printer and cash is an issue, look to building your own Reprap. Assuming you get it right the first time and don't need to buy tools, a total cost of under $500 for a Prusa Mendel is achievable. Obviously you have to build it, but given the target market that's often not a problem. Most people who want to build 3D printed stuff are generally happy to assemble robots too.
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A lot of people would rather watch experts play a sport than play it themselves. I have met quite a few people that sort of gave up on being good at Starcraft 2 and instead watch the experts play it.

Watching experts execute highly trained strategic and tactical skills in real time is fun for a lot of people.
How about

http://www.machinima.com/

2.25 billion monthly views.
I was told in virtualboxes's irc to check back tomorrow for an update. apparently the devs aren't around right now.
Yes it is because it is interstate commerce. Even if you are located in the same building as the server, just being connected to the internet raises the potential for it to be interstate commerce so it falls into the federal domain.

18 USC 1030(a)(4):
(a) Whoever—
...
4. knowingly and with intent to defraud, accesses a protected computer without authorization, or exceeds authorized access, and by means of such conduct furthers the intended fraud and obtains anything of value ...
It's more interesting to watch pretty much any sport if you have participated in it at some point.

I guess this is why soccer more popular than sailing. Most people have kicked a ball around with their friends before but wouldn't have access to a yacht.

With F1 for example , plenty of people have driven a car and probably at least wanted to drive it fast, F1 is basically that desire taken to it's logical conclusion.

With e-sports, the barrier to entry for picking up a games console or PC with some games on is pretty low. What will be interesting though is to see which games dominate.

FPS games don't lend themselves as well to spectators as fighting games or RTS do for example.
I get 7 hours on my retina MBP, too. At 4.6 pounds, it's about as portable as anything I've ever used--I actually sold my 11" Air a little while ago because I was annoyed with the small screen.
They thought you were dyslexic? (Otherwise, there's no reason to send people text with those fonts---as opposed to using that font in your editor.)
There are several versions of the font available, and the newest on github and dafont have some of those issues fixed.

There are Windows specific issues, and those are being worked on.
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Far superior user experience and a safe, consistent ecosystem that has a ton of content.

I want to like Android. I really do. I have tried several Android devices over the past couple of years, including the S3, and I haven't found one that doesn't feel clunky and odd. The S3 was actually decent, but I suspected that was because it copied the iPhone so thoroughly.
Isn't this purely subjective, especially re: semantics? It's a lot harder to measure the value of simplicity, but I'd argue that it has implications for the lifetime of your program well beyond benchmarks. It seems shortsighted to trade-off on performance alone. Would Java have been so widely adopted in the first place had that been the prevailing attitude?
Aye. "No pool?"
I've always thought that the rooms should be allocated based on their utility.

I personally agree with you, but I guess it all comes down to how much utility you put in hospitality and being a good host. My girlfriend feels really bad about only being able to offer guests a sofa bed in the living room to sleep on, so do her being able to offer guests a private room with a comfortable bed has a huge utility.
I am a huge Makerbot fan and they really do a great job improving every year. Bre is also a great pitchman, looking forward to my Replicator 2
Take a look at a "Type A" - $1200 fully assembled.

http://typeamachines.com/details

Disclosure - don't work for them, but I've met them at Noisebridge and perused the design. I've also built my own 3D printer, so I know a little about these things. The Type A design is a very good design! It's built for low moving head mass, thus high printing speed, but without the disadvantages of a Bowden cable.
Those don't really look like playthrough videos , they seem to be either live action stuff themed around games or shows that use video games as a mechanism for doing CGI.
Best rationale for why Twitter is @ $6-$7B.

-- They have the potenital to destroy N-times more value than they can create.
Check out Machinima. They have 18 billion views in 2011-2012. That's billion with a B! Even with standard YouTube ad rates, that's a nice business. But they can bargain for higher rates because of their scale and audience demographic.

Nearly all their content is UGC gaming + parodies around that. Shockingly big market (shocking to a non-gamer like me). Twitch has a big opportunity.
Fascinating read -- when I was a bit... less mature, I used to use this service for many a prank call, which at one point apparently accounted for 85-90% of the calls according to some operators: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_relay_servic...
Some that would act like this toward waiters, et al, won't take kindly to being told, even very nicely, that he's very rude. If he was the type of person that would take kindly to it, he wouldn't have done it in the first place.
I'm assuming they were dyslexic themselves and found it easier to read that way and assumed everyone else did too, either that or they just forgot to change the font.
Harm has nothing to do with strict liability.
This is a good thing, right?
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And yet millions of people tune in to watch two groups of men kick, throw, and fumble an oblong ball back and forth down a 100 yard field every Sunday (in the US). They're not playing, so why tune in?

I've not spent a lot of time with Twitch, but what I've discovered is that it's not always about the games. There are personalities developing. Certain players are more enjoyable to watch, because of the way they engage the viewer. With team-based competition games, it can be a lot of fun to listen to players try to work together, and experience the, often hilarious, mishaps that occur during a competition. In other cases, it's just fun to watch someone perform at a level that deserves appreciation.

People like to watch other people. It's in our nature. Gaming has become increasingly social, so I don't find it at all surprising that gaming as a spectator sport is taking off.
Absolutely. I follow Starcraft 2 primarily, and I make it a point to tune into Day9's show. Lately he's been averaging 6,000 simultaneous viewers for one show. That's not as impressive as the 100k views that watched the WCS European Finals this weekend, but it's lot more consistent.
Ask yourself what their incentive is to make it cheaper. The market probably won't increase by much with a slightly lower cost, but it increases considerably when you improve the capability. For many people, a e.g., 30% larger work envelope along with a smaller feature size can be worth 200% higher cost.

Then again, I'm comparing it to milling machines and lathes; perhaps the market for low end 3D printing is sufficiently different that what I know doesn't apply.