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Personally, I don't see how such a model can work. By using this model you're spending millions to make a big game like LotR and then hoping that enough of your customer base will pay for new content. But making new content itself is costing money and you haven't payed off the initial investment yet. I don't see how you wouldn't always be chasing your tail with such a model unless your later additions are going to be really cheap to make and expensive to buy, but why would anyone buy that? Just because the initial offering was free doesn't mean people are going to be willing to pay a lot more minor enhancements later. If anything, you're probably escalating what it takes to spend money.
I still get the sense that this explanation goes backwards. It's like saying we got more intelligent because we were intelligent enough to develop writing, or proto-writing.

Sounds like something that grows out of itself. Neuro-electrical reaction to light, thermic or mechanical stimuli is not intelligence. Writing, sending messages, interpreting messages is intelligence. Heck, walking in random directions is intelligence.

Obviously, since we haven't yet explained consciousness in "the brain is the mind" fashion, we're still in reverse engineering mode. Thus the explanations will sound 'just so'-ish. Nevertheless, the questions is still there: why the sudden jump in progress.

Disclaimer: I'm a creationist, but always happy to hear alternative views.
I agree.

The library and visualizations were great, but the demo page can take some polishing still.

I really didn't understand that anything I did on the page (scrolled down to read more text, clicked the left/right arrows under one of the illustrations) was going to affect my browser history, and was puzzled when I failed to get back here with a single click on Back. Very surprising, and actually quite annoying.
Why not? It is quite natural to want your war enemies to die, and for the whole country (both soldiers and civilians) to celebrate destruction of enemy troops.

Think about the tweets and newspaper articles about the successful murder of Osama bin Laden, for example - it's the same concept.
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WebGL is really the trend at this time! Good job. Really liked the interactive part.
If A->B there are a million (infinite) things C that may or <may not> follow from B. In terms of style you have a lot of "I don't accept..." and "XYZ...serves a political agenda" which are not counter-arguments, but rather non-falsifiable statements about your own beliefs. In particular, your beliefs about C=Politics. Its generally not helpful or interesting to jump the gun to C=politics, without working your way through the discussion of A,B first.[1]

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[1] http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/waldo/2012/07/27/the-bozo-event...
Thanks for the links, they look really good. I didn't know about these two. I'll take a look at them later today.

On the alerting and customization, do you think it's a good direction for these kind of dashboards?
Filed July 2010.

I don't understand. I saw this effect on dozens of web pages over the last decade. Do patent examiners just live in a little box?
I would be slightly hesitant to put the improvement in stability purely down to Windows 8. On average, the Windows 8 installs will be newer and fresher than the XP and W7 ones, and Windows has a bit of a reputation of detioriating with use.

Finally, early adopters are far more likely to buy highly specced machines, rather than cheaper machines that are not up to the job.
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Longest known stuck price. It used be be standard here to ask for $20 of petrol. That is all fine, but if you forget and do that now that petrol is expensive, you have to refill about a day later. Turns out equating an amount of petrol by a variable that continually changes (ie goes up) isn't such a good idea.
Reality hackers? Let's badger Charlie Stross to write a novel about it. :)
The pitch itself is bad. What is your slogan? Tools like a pro or something for digital rebels? No screenshots of nothing? Not even a demo game? No disarming arguments why I should lock myself into your closed source middleware?
Better: use Moai (open source, can fix bugs on your own, can add features, etc.) with Testflight (ios only I guess).
I really do not know who the target audience is for this product. Too expensive (3 seats 150$/MO, lol) for newcomers (the video is surely targeted at those) but missing meat for 'real pros' - yo!
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It's not irony, it's hypocrisy. As it always has been. IP isn't about money per se so much as it's about power.
Unless you rely on an app that uses MapKit for an embedded app. They will still use the Apple one.
For a release the lua code is surely translated into objective-c, so lua is 'just' used as a scripting language.
I'd say the best way to stay relevant is to complement your knowledge and learn something totally unrelated to web development, and then find a way to combine the two.
>Problem is that everything else is also several times the price it "should" be.

What do you mean by "should"? The products are supporting themselves in the market, so there is justification for that pricing.
I'd like to see Kickstarter cap the maximum amount a project can raise at some (low) multiple of the minimum goal. I think projects get into a lot of trouble when they raise 6x or 100x more than they expected. That traction is exciting so people dream big and make promises when the cash is rolling in before they've even executed on the core idea.

If a project estimates correctly, they should be able to 'kickstart' once the funding goal has been met. After that they can set up their own sales and marketing channels to sell to follow-on customers after the original Kickstarter backers get their rewards. To me this matches the original intent of Kickstarter.

Obviously capping funding amounts cuts into Kickstarter's short-term gains. In the long run however I think it would minimize the risk of a high-profile project (or several) failing to deliver and sinking their whole model.
"Dude Backbone only works for trivial examples, and even then, and I mean, even with trivial examples, Backbone is almost useless."

I disagree. Backbone is a structuring framework; if you can't make it work with bigger projects, you're doing it wrong.
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Hey unconed, is it possible to drop mathematical functions into this? Or do you have to code them in?

What I mean is can this partially replace Mathematica? Can we type a mathematical formula and have the software build the animations?
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No. It was certainly constructive, just not without humor. For instance, he goes into detail on risks and challenges, saying that From Holden uses this section to talk further about how awesome it is, rather than talking simply talking about risks and challenges. This could have helped From Holden for next time; it is constructive.
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One of the cooler engineer-turned-managers I met had a BS in physics (I was the one writing drivers in high school).
UXPin also has a paper make then photo element:

http://uxpin.com/mobile-kit-for-iphone.html
It's a model that helps your whole process form paper, to digital, making personas, and creating iterations.
So what you're saying is that it's pointless to argue with such people because they're not arguing logic but rather dogma? I agree.
This was linked-to from the post corresponding to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4789747 as well as from its comments. Note that this was previously submitted as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4698111, but didn't attract any discussion at the time.
50 years ago it was very reasonable to think that we'd have worked out how to make a fusion reactor too.

Just because something uses real physics and engineering materials that already exist, doesn't mean that it's actually possible in the real world & getting to the stars requires that we solve three or four very hard problems.

Impossible? Of course not. Much, much harder than the 'whee, we're all going to space!' crowd likes to think? I'm afraid so.

NB. GDP is not a good proxy for available energy for hopefully obvious reasons: Just because you have a high GDP doesn't mean that you have a lot of energy available, it may mean that you use the energy you have very effectively.
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I agree, the article might not be the best critique ever but I think there is a need to rise some noise about Kickstarter, not because I hate it or whatever, but because it made noise and now people are using it in the wrong way so to educate it's users we must give a strong, clear message of how to use it. And it should be a message both for founders and backers.

What I get from the article is that this guys had an idea and 24 hours later they created the Kickstarter. This is partly wrong, what is totally wrong is people supporting them(please note this is just my opinion) because you can find everywhere cheap shirts, even good ones. There a huge market about it what would make you think that some random guy can do better? Just because they say so? If this would make any money companies would have already adopted this.

When approaching Kickstarter I think one(with an idea or a prototype) should make it clear what he wants to achieve without the "I will make the best at the lowest price" attitude. Remember the users that backing the project it's a donation with a possible gift and not a preorder. Also you should have thought about it more than 1 day. The day you realize that you can't maintain your promises your reputation might end up destroyed.

I think that it's important that we use Kickstarter the correct way because we risk ruining it, when too many people will realize that they will not get what they paid for people will not use it any more, resulting a bad reputation for kickstarter and therefore other projects that might be worth checking.
Don't know much yet, but: their editor is Eclipse-based. The scripts are Lua-based and can be cross-compiled.
You have write a JavaScript function to calculate the data points. There is no editor or UI for it, but the API is pretty simple. There are examples on GitHub, view source on this for example:

http://acko.net/files/mathbox/MathBox.js/examples/ComplexExp...
Obvious question but still worth asking: what about the other 'Hosted Forum Services?' (I know absolutely nothing for this domain, but with a quick googling I came up with a couple services such as http://www.proboards.com)

If you compare it to tumblr, I guess it has to do with the way a user can follow multiple ones at the same time? As such, would it be a little like "Reddit for forum?"
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I could imagine data binding geting very hairy to develop more complex apps with.
isn't never finishing it an effective way of maintaining a community?
3.4 You agree that you will not take any actions that may cause or result in the fragmentation of Android, including but not limited to distributing, participating in the creation of, or promoting in any way a software development kit derived from the SDK.

I don't actually know what fragmentation of Android means. I'm unsure that a court would know it either. Theoretically a new SDK derived from the Google SDK would actually be less of a fragmentation than an SDK for Android that was engineered totally from new.

Google really don't take open development seriously sometimes.
I agree on the cap idea. Another issue I've come across when projects have been oversubscribed is that the project's level of "customer service" (for lack of a better word) is inversely proportional to the amount pledged. In my case I contacted the Elevation Dock guys twice regarding my pledge, but I never got a reply from them - which is frustrating to say the least. A cap will definitely ease any potential bottleneck and distribution issues as well as focusing/providing good service to a reasonable number of customers.
It's really hard to do detection with hand drawing. We might make special stickers for common UI elements (botton, tab bar ...). The color coding suggestion is great, thanks!
And we all know cars are as rare as unicorns too because you can pop the hood and make changes.
Induction motors have long been in existence and they achieve the same goals too. In fact, many popular automotive companies still use Induction motors in their cars (Eg.Tesla). What makes these switch reluctance motors attractive over the induction motors , then? Could someone please clarify??

Thanks.
Interesting... so is this going to be "a better PHPBB / IP.Board / Forumcircle" or something much more customisable? It sounds like the latter, but it would be interesting to hear how that would work.

A good plugin architecture, and ecosystem of plugin writers, would probably be key, at least down the road. My recent freelance projects have been in Wordpress and Magento and IPBoard ... all powerful frameworks with a rich amount of plugins available. Makes for tedious dev work though -- "here's a plugin that does 90% of what the client wants, let's just randomly change PHP code I don't understand until I've implemented the other 90%". If you can fix that problem, that'd be something special.
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Are late applicants being considered ? (or perhaps queued up to process if there's time)
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OK, how are we Wikipedia products?

Advertising (users as products) and charging are just two characteristics that may appear in a business model together, or just one of them, or none, depending on its design. There's simply no rule that makes ¬paying ⇒ product an inevitability.
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I could not find any trolling in the post, and also no whining. I mean, how should we have a discussion about a certain kickstarter project if all you have to say is "If you don't like it, don't participate."
The complaint users have against existing software is that not everything is a post in a thread.

That simple thing means that things like classifieds are currently threads. Events, are threads. Articles, are threads. Reviews, are threads.

It drives them mad. They can't find anything, cannot do anything with the information.

They can't even compare classifieds, or find events and map them.

They're forced to then smash up their community's content and litter it around the web. Some on eBay, some on Facebook or Meetup.com. Which is a real problem for them: discoverability/search is poor, data ownership is a mess, permissions are confused, etc.

They want a basic form of all of this stuff within the forum that they're using. They want to bring it back home.

None of the hosted forum software solves this. And because of things like the built-in search, it's really hard to hack a vBulletin (or something else) instance into having this. It should've been there from day one.
I have a hard time taking opinion pieces like this blog seriously. The verbiage is so strongly connected to his disdain that I can't hear anything through the noise.

If you want to be hypercritical of companies using Kickstarter for the first time, you should try to provide real feedback. Mindless comments such as the following are as unhelpful as tips get:

"Pro tip: if I, who know your business as well as I know the feeding habits of the Springbok Antelope, can come up with more risks than you can, you’re not doing it right"

Here, let's try to write some generic, but probably more helpful feedback:

When first filling out the Risks and Challenges section your first inclination will probably be to prove how there are no risks and no challenges. Instead of taking this path, be open about what you feel the risks are and your plan for minimizing them. Talk about the challenges you currently are facing and how you've solved other challenges in the past. If I'm going to sail out to sea with you on this voyage you'll be more likely to convince me you know how to handle a storm than to tell me there won't be any storms at all.

If you are thinking about doing a kickstarter campaign and you come across this blog it's not going to help you tackle any of the issues that he outlines. At best, it's just the author posturing with, "If your campaign doesn't meet my guidelines then I'll use social signaling to embarrass your company."

I would rather see high quality writing about how to be successful in raising money and delivering on Kickstarter.
It's only for early birds. Once the service is worth you paying the give away page will be gone.
Is this game available in all locations? Does anyone have an idea if this is available outside US? India?
Did BeOS not have a very similar animation in one of its 3d demonstration widgets? The one you could drop images or videos on, flip pages and have them deformed and rendered in real time?
That was, what, in the mid-90s? 15 years before Apple's patent was even filled?
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But it turned out to be outperformed by a JIT targeting Thumb(2?) instructions.

Interesting outcome.
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With JavaScript and the GPL it is very unclear what "linking" is. Probably your entire website becomes GPL including content. Who knows as the language was written for system libraries. So I can see lawyers having an issue.

If you are not intending to modify Mongo then AGPL is not restrictive, which may be OK. The database API is not usually considered as "linking" as it is a wire protocol.
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Nothing happened. Prior to that we were mobile hunter-gatherers in very small groups. Hard to get an archeological reading from that. It is not that something happened 6,000 years (actually more like 10,000 years) ago, it is that we left no easily-found trace before then.

If you're interested, Guns, Germs & Steel goes into a lot more detail.
Anybody managed to get an API key for this service ? Seems that http://developer.here.net/myapps (which is linked elsewhere in the site and looks like the url for a developer dashboard) is broken (even when you're signed in or at least trying to sign in with a legit nokia developer account).
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I'm surprised how fast it is to switch, seems the integration in maps.google.com is a bit taxing .. anyway great idea and realization.
I think this is a huge win for Apple with all the major companies like Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Google Books and others all using page turn animations, much like iBooks uses. I could see easily in the next few months more licensing deals being made.
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Years and years ago I was a flash developer. I had a client who wanted a catalog that looked like it flipped pages. Even back then (this would have been pre-2000) there were a lot of ways to solve for this, and numerous examples.

In fact, here's a post from 2003 describing exactly this.
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First of all, it couldn't possibly be illegal.

Second, apparently Apple now allow interpreters, just not JITs.
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I'm at a similar guitar-level as you, but I'm delighted by the site. The hardest thing about ascii-tabs for me is to understand the timing. This fills that missing link.

The site is beautiful, and I'll use it, and even try to add a couple of tabs. This needs to live on people! :)
Google Maps saved my hide several times when I was staying in Saigon. The cab drivers can't find their way around District 7 even when they aren't trying to take the long route.
If spending an hour a day reading industry blogs and learning a new language or technology every month sounds like work to you, then it’s time to start thinking about an exit strategy.

I disagree with this. It could only be true for a very small subset of web developers (freelancers who are working in a variety of languages for many clients), and even then it smacks more of post-hoc justifications for activity like reading blogs and doing 'research' rather than concrete need. What advantages does reading industry blogs each day really give you? What disadvantages does it have (less time for real work)? There is a strange confusion here between work and play, and the silly illustrations accompanying the post don't help its credibility. Given the hyperbole and excited ignorance that passes for insight on most blogs, I'd say it has negative value to read them every day. Once a month would easily work if you want to keep up to date with current trends, but learning a new language each month as a requirement to stay employed is absurd.

There are many kinds of web developer, but just to take a few examples of those who have no need to heavily invest in learning new languages every month:

The majority of web developers work in-house at a firm where the technology in use is mandated, and only changes slowly (and rightly so), because the business depends on it not breaking. They are not threatened at all by the rise of new technologies, and certainly not on the timescale of months.

Then there are many small web developers who make a good living installing, customising, and maintaining CMS systems like wordpress for a wide variety of clients. They don't need to change technologies every month, and frankly it's the last thing their customers want - these developers have chosen a specialisation and will probably stick with it for decades before changing.

Finally there are freelance developers who work on lots of different projects for lots of different clients. They have to stay a little bit more up to date, but the rate of change is measured in years, not months, and there is plenty of time (years) to shift to another platform if the one you have specialised in is not growing but shrinking in usage. The above statement is incorrect even for the developers to whom he expects it to apply.

Now if the timescale were years or decades, I'd agree that a web developer has to be willing to adapt and completely change the tools they are using, but this is hardly a surprise in a fast moving industry. The industry does not change much on the timescale of months though.
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