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I had a similar experience to yours -- when I was in college. LD was run on an infrequent basis then. I participated in two, as well as some student-run ones, and figured, "ah, I think I've done enough jams, I should do bigger games. These little ones aren't serious, they aren't what I want to be doing."

Years later, LD started getting run more frequently and got more popular. Remembering having a good time with it previously, I participated again and put in a lot of effort, thinking I could crush it with more experience, and soon realized I was wrong about both my experience and my prior perspective. Here's what I realized:

- Most of the time I spend on a big project is spent on learning something specific to that project. Minimizing the schedule means that I only learn things necessary towards finishing. This is not an easily dismissed skillset. It isn't the only skill, but it's your most easily monetized one.

- Tangibility is really really important towards motivating future work. This is why prototyping software is worthwhile in the first place. When it's finished, you have a reference, one which you own and probably understand better than anyone else. The reference isn't the code(which is probably butchered) or the assets(which are necessarily cheap) but in the possibilities suggested for future improvement.

- Prototyping - and creation itself - is a fractal endeavor. Each time you build a new feature, you have to do the same kind of work that goes into a game jam in order to prove and flesh out its capabilities. This is repeated the whole way up the ladder, until the project is complete. At each step you can prototype until you hit tangibility, polish it a bit, then move on to the next feature, etc.

While I agree that of 1000 entries, most are going to be half-baked, that's kind of the point. You're being encouraged to go in and pick up the experience of every stage of the project, so that when you want to expand scope, it's not hard or surprising, it just involves more learning and specialization.

As well, it helps you in identifying bad, unmarketable ideas faster, which is the real problem that plagues game developers - a lot of time and money sunk into something that could never sell.
interesting - that first one looks like it might be a bug. When you inspect it in the debugger, the h1 is entirely within the container, though the text is well outside.
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Not only does it have to be really reliable, you have to convince businesses to buy it. I suspect that impacts the enterprise-ignoring significantly more than a lack of desire to make something. I.e., a lot of enterprises ignore developments in "the real world", often to their detriment.
SOA is less obvious up front, as most good architecture tends to be, but the benefits are there over time for sure.

Also, SOA is not always brilliant on day one, but you can give your small app a head start by writing a web api first, then build your app on top of it by making HTTP requests to itself basically or by writing your app as a service layer but not as a separate set of HTTP calls.

The point is you don't have to have a monolithic architecture to start with SOA, you can use a simple RPC or RESTful pattern and evolve it over time as your needs grow.
It is worse. Fedora is Linux. OS X is BSD.
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Honestly i've loved Stripe. Having used Paypal in the past in Canada, its nice that I can accept Amex cards, my account has never been frozen for some obscure reason and when there is an issue I always get someone through support that is friendly and well informed.

If you're unhappy, there are alternatives...but i think Stripe is the best option available.
Lisp has a literary tradition stronger than other languages. See Richard P. Gabriel, or Paul Graham for that matter. Python and Cpp may have polemics, but none as useful as Let Over Lambda.
CoFounderLabs.com is an option.
Worked (and still working on iOS 5) in Sydney, Australia. There are posters up everywhere advertising the fact.
Has anybody sane proposed that we pursue the opposite case?
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Of course in the terminal world you could chain it all. But rar provide a convenient package of it all and with a gui.
Zip files are painful to deal with when the system encoding is different from the one that created the archive.
I wanted to query 100 remote ports each second. Since it takes less than 0.01s to make a successful call and get the 2-3 bytes of data from each server, I thought doing 100 calls in parallel wouldn't be an issue via goroutines. But if 100 x 180 goroutines are waiting to die any given second when there are prolonged connectivity issues (which are possible in my environment), I don't know how stable the app would be overall.
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> I find that organizing things with goroutines and channels makes my code very easy to reason about. That, to me, is the biggest win of Go's concurrency model; that it's very easy to reason about.

Absolutely agree. I just wish the net.Dial calls would let me specify a timeout and wouldn't hang around for 3mins in case something is down.
I felt the same way for 2012
$1000-$10,000 is a difficult goal for people who are learning or starting out. Realistically, if your game is good enough to make $1, it will probably make more than one dollar, but the goal of the October challenge is to finish a game that is good enough that you want to sell it. I'd argue that the emphasis is finishing and polishing vs. LD48's emphasis on game rapid creation and innovation. In either case if you want to have an inclusive community that also emphasizes learning and experimentation, you can't apply an arbitrary quality bar to entries, it's just not in the spirit of the jam. That's not to say it wouldn't be cool to have a depth, quality or value jam, but you'd have to limit the entrants to skilled game developers.

There are also games that have come out of game jams that have made $1000-$10,000 or more. Galcon, Depict1 and McPixel come to mind as games that started in LD48 or Global Game Jam and have had decent commercial success after the fact.
I think their license is due to end soon and it would probably be a logistical nightmare.

If you live in the bay area or NYC area I've not experienced any major issues with Maps other than it asking me to take slightly more roundabout routes (but perhaps marginally faster ones) than necessary once in a while.
I'm going to patent See-Saw balancing on a tree stem. That's just the beginning, I'm headed to Children's Park to get more ideas now...
I think the OP came up with a conclusion without evidence and walked backwards to prove his point.
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To be fair... I learned python by starting with django. I didn't realize I didn't know anything about python until I switched.
lol.. just saw this. I would modify my statement for your pedantic approval if I was able.
Package management in Ubuntu is not second to none, it is second to Debian. Dont get me wrong Ubuntu has done a lot of wonderful things, but lets give credit where credit is due...
Patrick built up good karma and now he's CASHING OUT.

His advice wasn't free. Oh no. The invoice is in now. Ka Ching!

I actually like Patrick, but come on people.
After the "death" of webos, I watched the developers videos and wondered why the whole web community wasnt building apps. The dev tools seemed to be everything that the common web dev wanted.
What can I say, the problems under Jobs weren't as obvious. He was able to spin it.

Apple's maps application is just provably worse in terms of maps. Period. There is not much to spin there. It was obvious.

Apple shipped an iPhone without YouTube and without Maps. The whole set of decisions, including the form-factor, seems very un-Jobs-like.

However, owning up to the problem is something I applaud Cook for doing. Not only that, but look at what he suggests -- adding web apps to the desktop. Because he knows that once they fix the Maps app (by getting a better database), it will be superior to web apps!

Notice what Tim Cook did not say: download the alternative APPLICATIONS. Are there any?
This is not about account being frozen its about transfers not working as stated previously
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Yes, someone had to do something, except Cook /hasn't/ done anything except put out a shitty map app. Unless you count apologizing and pointing to Bing Maps as doing something. Why not tell people to buy a Microsoft phone as well?
Why are we apologizing for and defending Tim Cook? The fact is that the difference between Cook and Jobs wasn't that Cook apologized for putting out an incomplete product -- it's that he would put that product out to begin with. Jobs was infamous for signing off on and testing his products himselves. This version of Maps would clearly never have been released by Jobs -- that's why he would have never apologized for it.
I don't think I would ever "trust" a map application from any vendor in the way you describe.

What happens if your battery dies? What happens if you drop your device and it breaks? How are you going to cope? Are you going to miss your 'once-in-a-lifetime' job interview?

The sort of dependency you describe ("emotionally hurt", "life damages") is foreign to me.
I for one appreciate Tim Cook's straightforward honesty (a total operations guy who knows you can't bluff physics) to Jobs's bluster (salesman/style maven)
> I don't have to download monstrosity that is Xcode just to get a damn compiler.

They fixed that. On newer OS X versions you can download the Command Line Tools (just 110mb) from Apple's website. You just need a free account: https://developer.apple.com/downloads
And they could fix the confusing off by one naming mismatch between iphone and ios at the same time.
This is a very hypocritical stance. I don't know what you do for a living, but assuming you're a programmer, aren't you "monetizing knowledge" every day?

And you say there's "no need" to monetize this, but what about the need to put food on your table or pay your bills? Patrick gives away 99% of everything he writes for free, and when he does start charging for that last 1% you still find a way to complain…
Moral of the game: When you grow big, you will have big enemy. If you keep yourself small, you will just face small enemy.
Does anyone know of any stories of Google engaging in this kind of content inspection on Drive? I haven't heard any.

Pretty interesting that Microsofts competitive FUD is that Google is reading your email when it appears that they are doing similar here.
It had infamous case cracking problems, like the white ibook did later.
Seems as though they create the "disordered carbon" in one of the figures by heating sucrose. I'm not sure that using sugar is an integral part of creating the disordered carbon, though.
Advantages over multi-gpu core?

Other than the obvious of running a standard OS...
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No, I really don't network.

The lunches et al weren't initiated by myself. Someone has a problem, my phone rings, they suggest lunch, and I figure it's a good excuse to get some fish and chips. I don't think I've gone out of my way to reach out to someone for career purposes in nearly a decade.
I was digging into webOS development back when the Pre came out and was hoping for a pretty upbeat development community _because_ of the use of web languages. Looking back, however, it felt like webOS (as a mobile OS) seemed too early for its time. The push for more web stuff didn't surface until way after Palm/webOS was deemed toxic to the touch.

It was a pity, but I hope the open source efforts end up redeeming itself. I'm definitely rooting it on and supporting it.
What's so funny about all of this is that the functionaliity at issue is so basic. It's 1990's. Remember getting door to door directions from Mapquest and print them out?

Now add text-to-speech.

Now add lots and lots of hype, branding, smaller form factor, etc., etc.

This is door-to-door directions and text-to-speech. Perhaps greatly improved since the 90's, but certainly not new or cutting edge.

This is the type of stuff Apple, the world's wealthiest company, cannot get right. Because it's not their focus. They do not focus on something as simple as directions. That is just raw facts, nothing creative. No magic. Apple focusses on other things. Design. But if I just want to go from A to B and need directions, fast, I really don't give a shit about design. Apple cultists might. I don't.

Well, if you are an Apple cutltist, you won't be getting simple accurate directions the way the guy using Google, or Mapquest, or ..., is able to get them.
Something else that broke is if you have your home page set to multiple URLS. I don't mean what comes up on startup (set to whatever was open last) but rather what happens when you press the home button which can happen at any time.

Other browsers do allow multiple URLs to be specified, but Chrome doesn't. The workaround from time immemorial has been a chunk of Javascript that calls window.open on a bunch of URLs. In Chrome 22 only the first will open.
to be honest the problems with the maps app really weren't -that- bad

It's astonishing that people keep saying this even after the CEO has taken the almost unprecedented step of issuing a formal apology. Maybe the new maps were ok for you, but they're clearly a disaster for a lot of users and well below Apple's usual standard. Apple fans are doing them a disservice by refusing to admit and address their weaknesses.
Having lived in the Mission a dozen years, I think you are incredibly hasty in your judgments.

The last year has seen a spectacular boom all along Valencia, but the whole Mission has been getting shinier for 15 years at least. And certainly whiter; Latino population is down 22% between 2000 and 2010.

And yes, you did make claims outside your experience. You opened with "rest of the Mission is as fucked as ever". One year, forever: they're practically the same thing, so I can see how you confused them.

And in regards to your claim that "the rest of the Mission" is "still a crack-ridden hole": go fuck yourself. I especially love the "still". Gosh golly, you've waited a whole year! And nobody has gotten around to living up to your imported standards. How dare they!

Stick around for the next anti-gentrification wave. You'll see that, as with the last one, there is a lot of involvement from people with much deeper roots than the 20-somethings you mock.
well, satellites can be geostationary. Not all are. Some travel through a layer of space. You could do this for layers and cover both.
The hagiography of Jobs.hasn't been approved by the Pope yet. So we don't have to ignore Jobs' mistakes yet.
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Great concept. But very difficult and frustrating in its current version.

I think a good improvement would be for the player to be controlling speed rather than acceleration.
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As I understand it, it was a SciGen paper that was enhanced to make it more readable.
I don't understand the hatred of Java and love of JS. Is Java not open source? And isn't Android open source as well? Note that Google apps are not part of the core of Android.
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Right, forgot about that. My bad.
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How do you imagine that working? There's a law that allows them to ban disclosure under penalty of law. Is there some other law that allows them to compel people to lie?
Obviously their massive sales numbers were unimpeded by their horrible color choice that did not affect the device function at all.
I worked with Patio11 on the WP Engine project his info product revolves around, and know very well the caliber of his character (especially when it comes to helping startups).

Knowing that, This comment is the funniest thing I've read all day. I SRS LOL'd.
I'd love to know the reasoning behind the archaic password requirements. As a rule there's absolutely no way I'm changing my extremely secure password just for their app.
At a higher price.
I didn't see where in the post, or comments here where that was said. Do you have a source?
> if you want widespread adoption, you need to target a course.

You may be right about that, but I think there is also value in a single book which covers all these subjects in an integrated manner. Especially Calculus and Physics, which are very co-dependent.

Imagine the use case of someone who wants to learn science on their own. Perhaps he/she is taking an online course which has calculus, physics and linear algebra as prerequisites. Traditionally this would mean he/she has to get three different textbooks (400+ pages each) and slog through all that material. There are excellent free books out there on all of these subjects so money will not be an issue, but going through 1200+ pages will be very time consuming.

This is the gap I want to fill: (1) textbook for self-learners, (2) add-on material for a university class, (3) reference book for adults who want to review the material they learned while at uni.

For audiences (1) and (3) having an 5-in-1 product is definitely a good thing. For audience (2) having all the extra material might make my book appear off-topic and decrease interest. In the next iteration, I am going to think about splitting the narrative to make books for individual subjects to cater more to (2).
Same here, the verification SMS never came.
I'm a total contrarian to the HN conventional wisdom on this, IMHO SOA has the opposite affect on all three bullet points here:

Effect 1: Maintainability - when you have N (say 3 - 5ish) environments to maintain you have more to maintain than when you have 1. Its literally that simple. Also, the example of knowing the account code is over in the account service is just absurd, choosing to pollute or not pollute your namespace with interdependent code doesn't require separate server clusters, it just requires you not do it.

Effect 2: Scalability - what is the problem at all with "scaling your entire application" when one subset of functionality needs to scale? None of you are writing in languages or at a level where you're worried about whats in L2 CPU cache, so who cares if the same cpus are switching back and forth between all your different features? I don't understand why that's a problem that needs solving. Nothing is cheaper or more scalable than cpu cores, its not a boundary that makes any sense to shard on.

Effect 3: Simplicity - this just on its face doesn't make any sense. N interconnected parts are more complex than A part. I mean you can say you believe its worth it, but you can't say its simpler.
I think it's possible to get many of the benefits by decomposing your back end into logical subsystems (still running in the same process, etc.) or vertical slices from the get go, rather than starting out with some fixed number of layers that horizontally span your app. I'm building a JSON API right now this way. My take is that Dividing first by subsystems and then by layers prevents the growth of monolithic layers and lets each subsystem evolve independently. If you have contracts between the systems, you can later split them out onto separate boxes. So far, it feels reasonable. You do give up querying across all your tables. We're trialing Mongo (jury still out on that choice) which means we don't have the option to join anyway. The bet is that we'll need other data systems for reporting style queries or other data processing, but that's not the major concern of the JSON API.

I believe that breaking up the code this way makes it easier to reason about the app (isolate probs, etc.) and provides more modularity and flexibility then when your primary division is layers. Not sure why, though, you'd want to go the extra step of physical isolation from the beginning. Why? Unless, perhaps, you feel it is the only way to enforce the separation of systems.
Well, about that "usable" part...
Those are all webkit based browsers, so it seems normal that they'd all behave the same.
The dev tools seemed to be everything that the common web dev wanted.

The dev tools are useless if the platform is a failure. Had HP not prematurely aborted the platform, and a Phonegap port been maintained, then I can hardly see what would have stopped WebOS from being at least modestly successful.
The point of this project is to save students money, so it will be judged a failure if people keep buying proprietary books.
> "Apple deciding not to allow Google to add in turn by turn"

I find this wording confusing.

It is more fair and more clearer to break the two sides up: The old "Maps" application and any new feature was done by Apple. It was Google who decided to explicitly disallow the usage of their back-end data for turn-by-turn. Which they are of course free to do. And it was Apple who decided not to allow Google control (and user data collection) in a key app. Which is also understandable.
Hello! I'm Erica, and I consulted for WP Engine at the same time as Patrick. I worked side by side with Patrick during the week he was at WP Engine--Jason (their CEO) hired me to jump-start their entire marketing department for 3 months, vs. Patrick's specific "email drip feed" task.

I'm intimately familiar with the details of the open rates and conversion rates from WP Engine's email series; in fact, I was the one who helped sequence them and proofread/edit some of them after Patrick left.

I can tell you with 100% authority that you are dead wrong. That email converts extremely well. In fact, it used to go directly to Trafton's inbox and he had fun showing me all the responses people sent to him every day.

If you want the spoiler details, it converts well because people love to know there's a real human behind all this nonsense that we call "the Internet." (And it also converts well because Trafton is a machine who seems to never sleep and responds to everyone's questions quickly...another key ingredient. Everyone was always asking Jason how they could "hire a Trafton.") It speaks well for the people Jason hires, as well as the effectiveness of the email itself. There you have it, from the horse's mouth.
Cores are actually general-purpose: not SIMT/warps with expensive branches.
It was really easy to make a tiny amount of money from adbrite.

The minimum payout is only $5 iirc, which is much more easily attained than the $100 from adsense even though they pay less per click. The annoying thing is the 90 day delay.
I have no doubt Patrick is a stand up, high calibre guy. But he is also cashing out on his HN karma. He understands the herd / lemming mentality around here. That's okay, I think it's smart, and the product will be good.
It would take 2 days for a fork to replace bootstrap in that case. Look at Hudson vs Jenkins.
> Frankly, if it were free, I probably wouldn't bother to watch it

Excellent point! I feel the same way about most free Internet-busines videos. Plus, I'm much more inclined to listen to, and take action on, advice from trustworthy sources. By contributing so much to HN, Patrick has built up a tremendous amount of trust.