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Ah, I miss those long windy trails of concrete and rocket turrets built right at their base :)

Also the first game I learned to 'hack', and it's what set me on the path to learning programming: I discovered a hex file editor on a floppy and had a hunch about how things might fit together.

So I saved a game, waited a second until some money was spent in the game and then saved again into a different slot. Thereafter I went through the two save game files, visually figured out which parts were different between the files, changed the magical numbers I saw, reloaded the game and slowly figured out how to make myself rich :)

(This worked much better than my earlier attempt with the disk editor I found where I thought I was really clever compressing files by changing their size to 0.)
This seems like a good place to once again plug fish[1]. Exactly those goodies I want in a shell and the autocomplete is so convenient I no longer know how I lived without it.

And there's all the other cruft removal.

[1] http://ridiculousfish.com/shell/
I think in this case they mean losing their edge as an investment/profit wise, not their technical edge.
Indeed, and I often came up with solutions that looked like Vauban star forts[0]. I also remember having a hard time in a C&C3 mission (where you raid the Nod temple), whose defense is tiered similarly.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_fort
Here is the direct download for the portable Windows version of Inkscape:

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/inkscape/InkscapePortable_0...
>There's probably some useful discussion to be had whether Apple is really "losing its edge" in regards to making disruptive devices though.

Less than two years after they introduced their last disruptive device (the iPad)?

What "disruptive devices" has Apple's competition released during last 10 years exactly? Blackberry could be thought of as one. Any other?

(And one could argue that the high-dpi laptop, introduced less than a year ago, is also another disruptive device in the PC industry -- as was the Air that created the whole ultraportable thing and is still unsurpassed).
this "easy" deployment only works cause most webservers allready got the apache mods,php,mysql dependencys installed.

deploying a rails app on a server where ruby and the needed databse is installed is also "easy"
I'm using Console2 (http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Console2ABetterWindowsCommandP...) and Powershell. Not as nice as a real Linux environment, but Console2 has tabs which makes it bearable.
Seems useful but it looks more like a shape library than logo templates.
Why even require the download and command-line steps? You could probably wrap this all in a nice web interface
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Actually, I see your point at my faulty analogy with programming - conceded - but it's just what illustrates even more so my argument - some people just don't have mental capacity to do complex programming, and no matter how many hours they throw on it, it will still elude them.
I have yet to see the film but I'm guessing this is the part that's being referred to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa9dttNx1S8
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As significant as the content of this article is, I couldn't give it an upvote because in my mind it is world news, legal news, civil rights news, but not "Hacker News".
I think that the rise of Android is enabling carriers to push back a lot harder on the subsidies too. From their point of view, there's good demand across the board for Android phones and they can sell them with better profit, which would probably make them more inclined to negotiate harder with Apple.

I wouldn't be surprised if one of the carriers threatens to skip the next iPhone release.
Very good article. For all of you who are now just starting to jump on the bandwagon of enterprise tech, this is an extremely valuable lesson. Sales is really hard, it's very emotionally painful (and jubilent), and requires a lot of humility. But just like building products, it's all about getting in your customer's face. Do it early and do it often.
Yesterday, I downvoted your post because its tone was inconsistent with HN, its logical structure was poor, and its intent appeared to be inflamitory rather than informative or entertaining.

If these were honest mistakes, then you should consider any downvotes as feedback indicating a need to improve your
written communications to better and more clearly express your thoughts to an HN audience.
EU stands with the US against proposed ITU Internet changes
Maybe a silly question: do copyrights for games (art or whatever) ever expire?
Arduino based Ogaco iKazoo Gadget is Motion Controller, Instrument and More
When sketching objects you should be thinking in terms of cubes, cylinders or ellipsoids, not rectangles or ovals. Thinking in 3D makes it much easier to get perspective and shading right.
They still have options to open up for other platforms
Looks good. Instructions on how to play will help
Big if.

Apple has made a generic margin warning in its q4 press release, but did not make a thing of it as in past instances. Q4 was down to 40% from 40.3% a year ago. Do you think Apple plans to break with years of tradition and start pumping its forecasts?

The two questions are whether the iPad mini is actually a low margin product — but if Google can sell the Nexus 7 at break even for $200 this seems pretty doubtful to me (the iPad screen and camera notwithstanding) - and whether Samsung's processor price hike will have a meaningful impact.
Regarding HISTFILESIZE the man page for bash says:

> When this variable is assigned a value, the history file is truncated

Which I read as meaning if you export the following then you should get infinite entries:

export HISTFILESIZE=

I'm testing to see if it works for this also:

export HISTSIZE=
I'm largely the same. The only terminal app I did play around with the configs for was tmux because I really hated the defaults on that. And as I only ever need to run tmux from my client PC (it's a bit pointless running tmux inside of tmux), i don't have to arse about with copying config files about.
It really has. I was pretty surprised to find myself settling on KDE after switching to Ubuntu, but with a few add ons and a fair amount of customization, I feel like I have an environment that I mesh with better than I ever did with OS X - which is saying something from someone who used a Mac from the age of 5.

And it did require quite a lot of digging around to get everything behaving the way I wanted, but unlike Unity or even GNOME, the things I wanted to customize were easily configurable. Well, except for mapping the meta key (by itself) to launch Synapse. That was a pain.
hospitals... scary place

I think there are some advocacy groups that overestimate the role of hospital-acquired infections (nosocomial infections) as a cause of death. The ranking I find in one source that is readily looked up

http://www.cwru.edu/med/epidbio/mphp439/Hospital_Acquired_In...

is lower. A general ranking of causes of death in the United States by the standard WHO definitions

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=longevity-w...

gives a different picture of which causes of death rank highest, and which have declined the most in recent decades. Life expectancy is up at all ages in the United States, even though most people have a hospital visit at some time in life.
And why couldn't he AI buy it's own release?
"Hey! I can predict the stock market for you."
Hi,

I contribute to Guile (in a very small way); I'm happy to answer whatever questions I can about it.

You're right, I don't know of any newbie guides. If you already know Scheme, you'll find Guile easy, but if you don't, you'll need to learn that. You might be able to get started with the Guile manual, but that seems a little difficult, because it's really for reference. SICP (http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html) is the classic way to learn Scheme. If you're not interested in that, you can search for another introduction to Scheme. There are plenty of them around. The real issue for someone who knows how to program already is that Scheme is often used as a teaching language, so a lot of the introductions will be very basic.

There is a JavaScript frontend, but I don't think it's finished yet. Yes, if you embedded Guile in your program you could extend your program with JS, but you might need to do some work on Guile's JavaScript implementation first. Although even in its present state, it should be much, much easier to complete Guile's implementation than to build your own; plus you'd get the benefit of Guile's backend compiler work.

As for webapps, no, I don't think you could do what you're talking about. You can certainly use Guile to write the backend to a web app, and in fact it has a (web ...) series of modules for that, but you could do that with any other language too. You can't use Guile in the frontend of a web app, because that really depends on what browsers support. (Although it's possible you could use Guile to compile Scheme to JavaScript, if you want to do that.)
Not only does it look great it's actually quite challenging, in a nice way.. Well done!

Some controls on intro would be nice, had to look in source to make sure there wasn't some magical way to jump.
And he could have done with less unprovoked politically correct corrections on HN, especially when they are factually false. A programmer's mom may not be synonymous with "technically unskilled", but statistically speaking, the overwhelming majority of them are. Should we pretend that this is not the case in order to satisfy some "non sexism" criterion?

Not to mention that HN's readership is not just US based. It is cultural imperialism to enforce US-centric PC notions on a international platform. At the least, it is provincialism.
The carriers make way more money off iPhone customers so not likely. Also, in general, no-one switches carriers to get random android devices. They will leave carriers to get iPhones.

As android increases share of the phone market (vs. smartphone market, right?) the percentage of mobile web traffic from android has, if anything, dropped. This suggests android is winning big in the "I don't care what phone I get" market. This isn't the fat juicy part of the market.
great one !!!
I'd just like to second this. Though bear in mind that many things assume you're running bash on OS X, e.g. the homebrew installation one-liner doesn't work with fish.

Also, note that you can easily copy across your bash settings using:

/usr/local/share/fish/tools/import_bash_settings.py < ~/.bashrc

(from http://ridiculousfish.com/shell/faq.html )
Do you have a documented case for the claim that the right/left brain ideas are myth?

I ask as someone in neither camp, who found Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain to be a great introductory text on drawing.
> My prompt is usually the system default, because I work across multiple systems,

Unless you get new systems everyday, multiple systems just mean copying ssh keys followed by scp of dotfiles.

> some of which don't even have bash (let alone zsh),

If it has bash, .bashrc gets executed. If it has neither, I use the system default. Just because sometimes there won't be a shell I use or configure(1%) doesn't mean I am going to put up with whatever the system throws at me(99%).

> 'wi' is just there to remind me where I am once in a while.

Any my "once in a while" is frequent. Multiple machines, multiple projects, multiple branches.

> My general philosophy is to deal with whatever is the default and not become reliant on customisations because other systems I'll be required to use won't have any of them set up.

If I have customized my vim to hell, it generally means I am familiar enough with vim to understand how vim works. Same goes for bash, screen, zsh, what have you. It isn't like when once in an eternity, I am forced to use a machine where
I have to type "git branch" instead of "gitb", I am going to forget it.
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I don't want to have to be running a five-year-old version of Ubuntu five years from now!
Thanks, just trying to share what I've learnt as a newcomer - I know I'm terrible at writing!
Have you looked into whether it is dangerous to have a newborn infant sleeping on this matress?

A cot/bed with a poor fitting mattress can cause death by the infant rolling into a gap/crevice and suffocating. (Infants don't have the strength to lift their head or crawl out.) For various reasons, it is also relatively common for parents to sleep with the baby in their bed (despite the risk of crushing). This mattress has crevices all over it, so would seem to present a severe risk of suffocation to infants.

---

edit: crevasse -> crevice
> Django ... it is wrong to expect a CMS to be built using them.

Django was originally developed to build a CMS, for the Lawrence Journal-World
More importantly, the consumer knows that if they use WordPress they can fire their current programmers and find someone else.

Most people have heard of WordPress. Some have heard of Rails. Almost no one has heard of Django.
Imho Jackson is a lot better than GSON.
This is fun! Really great work, runs nice and smooth on my machine.

If I could make suggestions (and this should be taken as "constructive feedback" and not "I hate this"), they would be pretty minor:

- I'd have the green-star progress bar be green to match the thing I collected (maybe even stick a little tiny star next to the bar to label it), and make the it go the other way. Right now the bar fills up, but I think of it as an ability running out, not filling up.

- A collision sound when I hit something, and maybe on the high-score screen tell me what I hit when I died. "You mid-air collided with the red dude. It was both devastating and awesome."

I think that's it. Really great stuff.

Edit: one more thing worth noting, I know the music is just a loop, but I didn't find it annoying at all. It fit perfectly.
This is a clever idea, but likely to end badly in practice given the way genetics works. Any neutral trait that doesn't confer increased survivability will be filtered out rapidly and never spread. So you would need to design something that gives the bacteria carrying the trait a slight survival advantage, but at the same time has a hidden "back door" we can exploit.

Furthermore, the back door has to be intimately tied to increased survival and not just along for the ride. Otherwise, the bacteria will snip the back door part out and keep the part that gives them increased survival. Now you have genetically engineered super-bugs. Oops. Even assuming that you have perfectly designed this new trait to meet the needs of having a back door and increased survivability that are inseparable, you still fail. Eventually, the bacteria all drop your fancy new trait and revert to being plain old bacterium because that state is now the one with the survival advantage that allows them to duck your new fancy antibiotics.

Probably, the only angle that is likely to work is immune system modification and enhancement. Something like a vaccine that causes the immune system to go thermonuclear on the pathogen is likely the best route. The immune system is highly adaptable and extremely well-honed. We've successfully driven many viruses to the brink of extinction this way, but the tech we have is not as good for bacteria (though there are vaccines for some bacterial infections).
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There's a problem if your technical edge is disruptive devices. In order to maintain that edge you have to keep disrupting.

I think the iPod, iPhone, and iPad were fairly obvious choices (although I was surprised that it was Apple that released the iPod, I had expected a killer device from one of the then traditional consumer electronics companies). Apple has already addressed all of my personal pain points, although I suppose they could eventually get AppleTV right I don't think it will be disruptive at anywhere near the scale that the iPhone was.
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The main reason is that Ubuntu is Free Software. That means the users are in total control of their machine and data, because they have the freedoms to use, understand, enhance and distribute the software.
A TB of traffic will cost at least around €2-3 from most european (and other) ISPs with VPS so you basically claim to have enough spare change lying around at the age of 15 to pay €2000-3000/month just for Tor traffic because you're an idealist and after buying all the stuff a 15 year old normally buys first? ;-) I call BS, or rich parents.

(and btw., WW was not running the ISP, he wrote somewhere in this thread that he is just a normal employee)
Nice, love this game. There is a similar(very similar) game on my cellphone involving a helicopter, but without any enemies or things to collect. This is definitely much more fun than that.
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NEW low end laptops. My Linux desktop maxes out at 4GB. Not everyone is buying a new machine every 12 months. Resource constraints are still something that people have to work with. When you're developing for yourself its fine to just make it work on what you have but when you're trying to get others to use your project 'works for me, buy new hardware' isn't going to win you fans.
It's not "arbitrary" to decide e.g. that German society should not put Jews into a gas chamber. Your ideas here of not judging norms are just deranged and you should fix that, just like societies that have accepted deranged norms should fix them. You may think my standards here are arbitrary but you need to fix that.
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I'm in exactly the same boat as you (except we're at PCI level 2).

tmux on my local machine does me fine. And as loading tmux inside of tmux is pointless, I don't need to copy configs across.

though what I do have is a number of cheat sheets for each type of server, so I have copy and paste code (most of it is simple enough stuff, but sometimes having a visual reminder is helpful when you're up against tight, stressful, deadlines)
Another CMS for Rails : http://www.locomotivecms.com/ didn't have much chance to play with it, but on paper, it's support i18n, custom content types and associations (belongs_to, etc.) and also give you an automatic JSON API.
How nice it was to see Dwarf Fortress on that list!
If ants had the ability to turn you off or otherwise harm you at will, then I suspect you might develop a desire to control or destroy ants.
I've worked with military types on engineering projects. This is how they works. People in the military accept it and pass the doctrine on over and over.

It's like a crazy religion to be honest.
There doesn't seem to be as much turnkey rails stuff in use as there is PHP (or perl) stuff across the board. Other examples would be phpBB or phpMyAdmin and vBulletin.

I wonder if part of the gap is perhaps cultural. Rails comes out of 37 Signals who made lots of money doing Saas so they are going to be something that rails developers naturally aspire to.

In an instance where a PHP developer might say "I can make this software, I'll put it up as OSS or I'll make it commercial and charge a fee to download it" a rails developer might think "I'll stick it up on my own servers only and charge people a monthly fee to use it or have an ad supported model".

In other words , rails people may just be a bit more entrepreneurial. PHP also grew up in an age where you would probably be considered a bit crazy to do all your project management on the web.
OMG. AWESOME. TYVVVM!
The problem with defending against disruptive devices is that they only become so when they start disrupting your business.
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Interesting... I hadn't known that. That reduces my objection to dropping EFF.

But if it were me in charge, I'd list 3 charities. One would be the charity that, last time, had received the greatest portion of the contributions from people who had adjusted the contribution sliders rather than accepting the default value. One would be a new charity never before featured on Humble Bundle. The last would flex, depending on circumstances: it could be a charity favored by the Humble Bundle team, one chosen by the app developers, or perhaps the second-favorite from contributors who adjusted sliders.
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We've come a long way:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9414611/dune-II.jpg
They USED to make way more money. I don't know that that is still true, based on gripes from sales people about commissions I'm pretty sure it's no longer true. I do know that carriers are pushing Android (and even Windows) phones a lot harder than they were a year ago.
I have a question. I understand Pac-Man and Tetris in the collection. But what does it mean to collect EVE Online? I presume it does not mean MoMA has collected its server code and data?
[Reference counting] No garbage collection. Objective-C could still do more with respect to reference cycles, but that is primarily a non-issue, and easily solved in future versions.

I think if you solve this, you've implemented GC.

Which is not to say that you might not want some hybrid, but ref counting has its own downsides (caching, multi-threading) which the author does not mention.

[I]n a comparison with any popular scripting language, Objective-C will win, since while the scripting language may have superior syntax, it is also sure to be incapable of accomplishing many things which are trivially accomplished in Objective-C.

Such as?

The article is full of assertions which it doesn't attempt to justify, even with a link.
Thanks! I'm gonna try to add some instructions before deadline! Did you notice that you can control the camera with the mouse? Maybe that should be noted as well?
Rails is only like 2.5x as common as Django where I am.

e.g. http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/ruby%20on%20rails.do vs http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/django.do
Since the picture is described as "inside a building designed to look like a Roman Colosseum", I think the viewer can probably figure that out.
As a long time game developer, the most impressive part of this game is that when you get to the end, and you don't have all the keys, you can simple break all the locks.

That's the kind of game design that the game industry needs to learn from.
I mention some situations at the beginning of the blog post when tthere is a use case for PythonTidy - one should indeed not blindly use it
Thanks! Let me know if there's anything you think we could improve.
You NEED to make a iOS version of this game. You will make ALLOT of money.
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Yep picked that up, might be worth noting however..

A couple other tricks I picked up also, but that's game play wise so I wont drop any spoilers here.

I think I'll try making some levels later on tonight, just complete the game!
Nope, the shell. In a bigger tank (similar material and pressure) the shell has to be thicker. It's mathematically trivial.
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It's HTML5, so you can inspect the code with Firebug or Chrome developer tools.
That is absolutely not even close to true unless you are talking about solely non-technical types, who have no reason to even consider FRAMEWORKS like Rails and Django vs CMSs like Wordpress. Instagram, Pinterest, NASA, Disqus, Mozilla, The Onion, Washington Post, NY Times, PBS, etc. all used Django heavily.

Just because YOU don't use it, doesn't mean it isn't popular. You committed a social proof. Django is far more popular in many circles than Rails. As Rails is far more popular in others.
NPR discussion:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/11/19/165294248/could-...
indiegogo existed as a fundraising platform before kickstarter (but it was originally only for filmmakers).