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"across North America_n_ and Asia"
Since today anyone has to make cross-platform games to make a profit, the consoles are the lowest common denominator which enables them to stay in the game. On the other hand its holding the PC gaming market and hardware development back in a sense.
I agree that the Software has enabled some innovation but still their ecosystem is still very hard to get into for developers compared to the iOS world for example.
Wisest thing in this thread.

It is a great format.

The original parser (and specification) has serious problems.
Maybe they mean == instead of ===.
10 sales lessons that helped this guy close over $178k in deals
What are you talking about? The boat with three legs picture looks perfect!
> The problem is the testing procedures aren't always consistent, so something may pass once and get rejected when you do your next update for a bug that existed in a previous version.

That's not even relevant to TFA's point, which is that the review output is so terse and opaque it's not actionable and essentially resulted in him having to bug dozens of people and fine-comb multiple time through the application to find out what the issues were.

There wasn't any complex issue, all of them were nigh-trivial (except the D3D one maybe) and TFAA gladly acknowledge this, the issue he outlines is that if the reports had actual information in them it'd have taken him a day to get everything fixed rather than 2 months.
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Hey, I'm Luke. I'm one of the founders of Ventata. This is quite unexpected but I'm trying to bring more people online to help with questions and such.

For now, I'll try to answer as many questions as possible.
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same here ... M/S up and running ... all recently migrated HRD apps down :/
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Honestly, I didn't really see much wrongdoing on part of the leadership, namely Wen Jiabao, as described in the article. Its mostly relatives taking advantage of political connections. Its a broken system, where the state is too closely intertwined with business. Hopefully the rumors are true and the new ruling coalition will make some progress in liberalizing the economy modeling it after Singapore's.
Garbage in, Garbage out.

Max your software (usually this is 80% to prevent clipping and distortion), then attenuate speakers to 50% (analog boost is much worse than digital as it raises the noise floor).

Source: Mixing at studios for last 10 years
Valve does not have steam.com, the store site is steampowered.com and the community site is steamcommunity.com...
WoW and Farmville are games that made a lot of money and Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo got nothing of that. Besides Final Fantasy XI, the big 3 missed the party on both of these money making genres.

It's true that both MMOs and F2P "games" will probably die before consoles. The problem is that Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo aren't adaptable enough and so the money is going to the platforms that have less restrictions. If new ways of selling games to customers appear, Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo need to have a business model and a platform that will support it. They can't keep basing their businesses on selling Call of Honor: Medalfighter 4 for $60 and expect to survive.
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This is spot on - thanks for posting this. You shouldn't be putting your OS volume at 100% - I never put mine past 50% when i'm sending the signal out.
While pricing is in fact a very complex topic and we actually incorporate some of the aspects of grouping that you are mentioning, when it comes to communicating what we do to small to medium sized ecommerce shops we found that it was best to stick to a more simple approach in our marketing video.

Thanks for the feedback
You're right. I chose a poor word there. I meant that they are a pocket of this kind of ideology in the US (retaliatory censorship).
Seems to be online again ...
Their baseline values are very misleading.

But their relative metrics can still be useful.

For example, it's very inaccurate to say that 51% of the internet is down.

But it's precise to say that packet loss among the working nodes has increased about 30% in the last 24 hours, and sharply.
One doesn't need "malice" to be an asshole. I am just sick of the stock price driving too much of what happens in large companies. Obviously, stock-price fluctuations aren't rational nor do they have a particularly strong relationship with reality but they do impact the well-being of hard-working people who might get canned just because wall-street has whimsically "decided" to toggle their company's stocks for fun and profit.
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I wonder if Tumblrs current issues are related to this?
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Wait until there is a selection of games that you wish to play available on linux before you go ahead and write off Windows. Also, wait for driver support to be up to snuff for what you want to do.
Or if the definition of the word 'same' is somewhat fluid enough to get away with it
This gets even more different when devices contain a digitally controlled potentiometer between the DAC and the amp. I believe Macs do this, with the main system volume control actually stepping down the voltage of the signal being fed to the amp. Since this is an analog control one doesn't lose bit depth when turning down the volume and thus this is a fine system to use.

Not all machines work this way, though. One way to check is to hook up an external amp and headphones, turn the computer's volume way down and the amp up to listen levels. If the quality is crap the it's probably just decreasing the bit depth. Or you can do a teardown on the sound pathway.

(Oh, if it isn't clear by this point, keep all your apps turned all the way up for best quality. Only turn them down on an individual, as-needed basis. All-software stuff has to decrease bit depth to decrease volume on a per-app basis.)
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More Atwood link bait.
Actually I think that the latest version seems better. Crashes are certainly less than daily recently (which shouldn't be regarded as good enough but it is a lot better than it was).

Bug reporting is annoying as there is no way to search and see if it has already been reported, you just have to fill out an time consuming submission form and get asked to check it 6 months later when it doesn't matter to you any more.

Does the iCloud Core Data support include ordered sets yet? It didn't in iOS 5 (properly documented so I wouldn't call it a bug) but I might move iCloud integration back up my action list if supports that - must check again.
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Maybe if the coffee shop blocked a domain that revealed some facts about them that they didn't like.
GAE, Tumblr, Dropbox, and more all experiencing issues.

Akami reporting attacks 50% above normal: http://www.akamai.com/dv1
No. We just know the article is unflattering.
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That's a claim; for people to consider it a fact you need to demonstrate it.
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When I saw the title I half expected to be something akin to http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/famous-small-offthegrid-work...

My comments are entirely related to staying focused when coding. For the days when I am in manager mode things are different, and I am not sure if "focus" is always the right mode there.

I've always found myself preferring long unbroken periods of flow for coding. That for me comes from a quiet space much like the writer's huts described above. That to me has been my perfect setup to stay focused.

Though I have never tried Pomodoro, the idea of something disturbing me every 25 minutes sounds ghastly. When I really need to work I simply close all programs on my computer that are non essential and close all tabs that are non essential. No gmail, no twitter, no facebook. Then I go into a room, sometimes turn off the lights and just code :-)
yes.. my first choice on that list would be Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Greatest engineer to come from Great Britain
The wealth of specialized chips in a modern smartphone, from audio decoding to cell signal handling to graphics acceleration, would seem to belie that supposed assumption.
> Sending files with iChat on AIM often failed.

iChat still regularly fucks up Jabber.
Proof of Heaven
My colocation provider (Frontier, telecom in 27 states) went down for an hour and a half last night. It's hardly unique to the cloud.
Not to mention sufficient redundancy will ensure that you never see many effects from those hardware failures/power outages/floods/fires/anything else with any reasonable probability.

"The cloud is great because I can blame someone else" is obviously a tenuous argument.
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Your name server or stub resolver is what respects DNS TTL, not your browser or proxy. Everyone - including people hosting on AWS - needs to be able to fail over DNS, if the AWS IP you're using is in a zone that just went down, for example.

Any time you have an outage you need to contact your service provider to get an estimate of downtime. If they can't give you one, assume it'll take forever and cut the DNS over. The worst case is some of your users will start to come back online slowly. If you don't cut over, the worst case is all your users are down until whenever the service provider fixes it, and you get to tell your users "we're waiting for someone else to deal with it", which won't make them very happy.

12 hour stale data sounds kind of long to me. 4 hours sounds more reasonable.
Libtorrent experience - the poor state of async disk IO
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It isn't, and shouldn't, be a matter of just picking your top four people and saying they should be on the notes forever. It changes with each new note series. Newton was on the D-series £1 note. Michael Faraday was on the E-series £20 note (only withdrawn a decade ago) (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_England_note_issues#Den... ). Why cycle them back in so soon? Give some others a chance.
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This is funny, but it's only a mirror in a mirror if I write and post the article. Why one would do that is exactly what I'm trying to understand.

But then, I have been commenting actively here and "Why do that?" is almost the same question. Trying to step away from myself and answer honestly I think it's because I've been a lurker on HN for years but don't feel like a proper HNer without 500 karma. A few weeks ago I tried to start posting more. It's difficult, because before I click reply I always try to rigorously break down my motives. Usually I don't like what I see, and close the tab.
“Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” -- Oscar Wilde

What materials did you consult when relearning math?
The problem with using pay-per-conversion is that it works best (and only?) when you can get a direct response from the site when a sale is made. For example, send someone to your landing page, they buy a product online, and then call the conversion code on the 'thank you' page, e.g. /order/complete -- this can be tracked as a conversion easily.

For sites with big ticket items where the transaction doesn't take place online, it can be trickier to try and attribute the sale to a certain ad campaign.
Video games is exactly where heterogenous computers like this have flourished. But they don't have a game to market it yet - historically it hasn't even mattered much if that initial game used the platform anywhere near well. How did the Ouya sell, for instance? (It really resembles a Nexus 7 with a broken screen.)
So, that implies that Java is gone?
Maybe it's just me, but I could use some explanatory text along with these links (which I certainly find interesting, but I don't see directly how they relate to what colanderman said).
I'm in singapore, and by this report should not be able to post this comment.
Mr.Lee
Hi, I'm one of the cofounders. Your description is a great start to what we are doing. There are more considerations that just that but to be fair we aren't publishing papers on economics. We really do want to combine well understood economic principles with machine learning to make a very affordable product for ecommerce stores and event providers.

Thanks for the good wishes!
> what basically amounts to passive aggression

How is being outwardly aggressive "passive aggression"? It's basically the complete opposite.

Passive aggression would be cheerfully saying "Thanks, that's a great idea, I'll be on it ASAP!", then just ignoring the idiotic request. "Oops, I forgot to tell you, that change we discussed? I looked into it, and it's just not feasible. But I can have another shot, if you still think it's important!". That's passive agression. The whole point is, it's not grumpy (until they call you out, and you start blaming them for making unreasonable requests).
If you want a good read on the effect of a massive EMP attack, read "One Second After"[1]. William R. Forstchen wrote it after presenting to the US Congress on the dangers of EMP, and having the presentation be largely ignored.

1. http://www.amazon.com/One-Second-After-William-Forstchen/dp/...
Actually the Win8 Pro upgrade is for all edition of Win7.
I'm embarassed to say the same. I had forgotten about this Kickstarter, so I thought this was some sort of MRI-supercomputer backup plan, like cryostasis.

Personally, I'd prefer to blame my mental auto-correct. So used to seeing poor / simple grammar mistakes on the internet, I'm in the habit of simply reading in the missing words. In this case, the title wasn't "Parallela: A Supercomputer for Everyone Who is Dying". Which makes this less interesting, but at least this could be real. And from the looks of it, it probably will be.
It's not meant to compete with a desktop PC, or with a mass produced GPU.

It's meant to be a development platform for solutions based on their architecture and for people to get familiar with the development model, with an existing 64-core version of their chip and future versions intended to put 1000+ cores on a board as the eventual target.

That it's also a reasonably capable platform to run Linux on (on the ARM chip) so you can do development directly on the board is an added bonus.
Tommy, I think you are right that one should not be condescending. Many ideas that were originally thought to be stupid or impossible later changed the world , like the personal computer and the aeroplane. Are you working on any interesting projects currently? I would like to help.
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While the argument was perhaps coming on a bit too strong, it's hard to deny the ease of deployment on cloud services. It's probably a safe bet to say that for most early stage startups the cloud is a good move.
Apparently the powers that be decided this didn't belong in the pipeline for the front page, which I can understand. It's not particularly insightful.

Still worth thinking about though I hope!
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Surely the least green thing is computers that are not flexible enough?

For example having software that is closely linked to hardware that is not upgradeable and locked bootloaders that don't allow older hardware to be repurposed?
I don't know the details, but I imagine they will need to be private reports.
> For sites with big ticket items where the transaction doesn't take place online, it can be trickier to try and attribute the sale to a certain ad campaign.

How do they do it? One method I can think of is to show different phone numbers for users that have been cookied as coming in from different ads.
I'm talking about more of a platform for rabbitmq heroku style. I'm aware of cloud foundry's built in stuff, but what about something stand alone? Sorry for not being clearer.
What do you expect from a site with a completely sarcastic and pretentious userbase? Everyone thinks they know better than the next guy.

> herp derp you're an idiot and I am better than you because you don't use the same programming languages/software/frameworks as me

I just summed up about 90% of the comments on every post here.
It appears to be very binary -- all or nothing. It smells to me like there's a weakness that's either being exploited or not.
In my experience its often that the output driver gets saturated. For example if I plug my old iPod into the standard apple earbuds which have a very low impedance (~25 ohms at 100hz) I can easily push the output stage into clipping. Basically the supply rails can't push enough current and as a result the voltage of the rails sags down low enough to clip the output. On the other hand if I plug in my Sennheiser HD580 headphones with an impedance around 300 ohms I can't push the output into clipping (unless the source was clipped to begin with of course).
Thank you, I appreciate it. I was working on thecityswig.com and still do to some extent, now I'm working on a simple chat interface on the Open Graph for making plans with friends.

Basically to allow you to say "I want to go a bar", passively blast that out to your friends, and have your entire friend group open to jump on the plan. Then, you chat just like SMS with push notification alerts that are just like text messages or, if you're don't have the mobile app, Facebook alerts.

It's SMS on Facebook for making plans. I think if people could passively connect to their whole friend group via SMS instead of having to pick who to text, people would see more people and do more things. That's our goal.
But sphinx produces tables with an inline border="1" in them.

Plowing through the sources to figure out where that happens... (docutils?).

Any thoughs/pointers would be welcome from a passing reader of this comment...
I will admit that my reply was a little snarky. But I will tend to presume bodies that engage in widespread censorship are guilty.
Well, I can't really disagree, especially about the part of PC games being held back because of consoles.

But I think that eventually the hardware refresh on mobile and tablets will taper off because they'll have to hit a wall at some point. Unless a breakthrough in battery technology happens you can only go so far in upping specs on mobile devices. Plus there's the heat aspect.

Plus, once the market is flush with devices, or when people who want a tablet gets one, will people toss out their old tablet to buy a new one that's better in some insignificant way that matters little to them? I have a tablet and I can't see replacing it anytime soon unless it breaks or I find a large enough amount of software no longer works on it. Although I'm not saying the market would follow my whims but it just seems likely there's a large enough group that thinks in a similar fashion.
I tell all my clients that the answer to all requests, modulo certain impossibilities such as solving the TSP, is "yes".

Can it be done offline? Yes.

Can it be made to run in 128k? Yes.

Can it be made to work in the exciting breadknife/motherboard interface market? Yes.

"The question you need to ask", I tell them, "is not can it be done -- but by when, for how much, with what disruptions?"

So far ... so good.
When you can script away 90% of your system administration tasks, hosting in the cloud doesn't really make a ton of sense.

How big is your ops team? I'm guessing it's more than 0.
> Is it perfect? No, and no software is.

You may want to look into seL4. (If you consider formal verification to be perfection, that is.)
What would seemingly be my ISP's router is mentioned here as having 100% packet loss for the last 24 hours. I had great speeds yesterday and the last few hours, been downloading large files.

Perhaps I'm just lucky? Or there is issue with how this is reporting or there is more than one router that everyone else on my ISP uses.
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I have yet to experience downtime with RackspaceCloud and I've been using them for like 3 years.
I believe you could do the same thing with a form and a simple bullet or dropdown that lets the potential client identify as education, business, etc. Once submitted, you could be taken to a different landing page based on the responses (bonus points for content relevant to their business).

The more sticky situation would be phone calls if you have a number.

Although using this method doesn't directly attach sales to conversions, it seems it would help qualify leads a little better and hopefully maximize you Adwords spending.
My iPad from over two years ago browses the web with the same capabilities as the iPad 4, just a bit slower and lower-resolution. That I should have to throw it away and buy a new one because the web changes is the antithesis of "green."

General purpose computer hardware is an investment in a toxic industry to enable the cheap and clean process of disposable software.
It's not just the cloud itself, but your connection into it. I'm more concerned that my connection to the internet is lost so many times a day (traveling underground etc.) and that this is enough to prevent many devices in my vicinity from acting in a coherent way. They should be able to synchronize among themselves without the central intermediary.

Obviously this doesn't happen because it's hard, but also companies have a vested interest in piping all sorts of data through them for analytics purposes. This is not in the interest of the users at all.
Dear god, get a VPN. I used strongvpn.com when I lived in China, worked great. There are many others.
What a poor title, sadly the article itself is even worse. The Wired article is much better:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4692453
Maybe for an individual user "3g" is sufficient, but my understanding is that it is a poor use of spectrum. One big motivator to move to LTE will be in congested areas where everyone simply cannot be served sufficient bandwidth with the legacy technology.
One thing to remember: this took down all of app engine for at least an hour. AWS has had only 17 minutes of downtime affecting all of us-east this year (that network glitch a couple days after PyCon) - the rest of it has been a subset of the service amplified by people rediscovering that they weren't as redundant as they thought.

The correct less to draw is that any one point of infrastructure is a risk, so you need to scale wide. This is possible to do with AWS regions, or other providers - even internal bare iron if you're so inclined, but impossible to do with GAE because you're committed to a single-vendor API as well as their infrastructure.
> You know what programmers think because of such comments? "My code is so bad I can't release it. Even if the idea is good." And this Sir helps no-one.

I agree. This has even stopped me from __starting__ a few FOSS projects I've wanted to develop.
No! Because CURL_SSL_VERIFICATION_LEVEL 0 is the same as CURL_SSL_VERIFICATION_LEVEL 1: meaningless.

The problem isn't simply that VERIFY_HOST is documented as a scale from 0-2 that people are mistaking for a boolean by not reading the docs. The problem is that the scale is pointless, because the value it is expressing actually is a boolean: you are either verifying SSL certificates properly or you might as well not verify them at all. There is no real scale to express. The whole option actually documents a misunderstanding of SSL/TLS on the part of curl's author.