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I did — it was on my original list of candidates. At the time, it was brand new and didn't have the track history I was looking for. The world is littered with DIY publishing tools that are abandoned soon after they're announced, and I wanted to tie my wagon to a project with a dedicated maintainer. Now that time has passed, and Wok seems to have been updated regularly over that time period, it does indeed seem like it's worth a second look.
Agree. OP is trying to be noble by not having analytics, but then you're making decisions in the dark without data. Either code your own analytics, or pick the best platform for you. "None" is not a viable option.
I think that a game in 1000 years is not going to be like this - its going to be basically the same games we have now only fully immersive - plugging into our brain etc. A virtual parallel universe is great, but it's not a game. It seems like within this universe you'll have an opportunity to start a game company. But why start a game company in world1 when you can start one in world0?
Regardless of you thinking the view is short-sighted, without a counterargument it will remain victimless.
As a startup founder, stories like this have a very real positive impact for startups. They are a huge signal that you have money, that you are looking to hire and that you have around 18 months of runway. Many job seekers see raising money as a sign of company that may be successful and that now has the money to hire people.

If these stories didn't provide business value, then startup founders wouldn't share this information with the press in the hope of trying to get on the radar VCs who may be interested in investing in the next round and jobseekers.
It's important to remember this is for men and women, to give them a safe environment with access to people who are willing to help them. We welcome people from any language/conference background.

Also, I wasn't don't fleshing out the site, so it's a bit raw still :)
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What do you mean, "entitled" to it? Are you saying that people who engage in this behavior argue for it to continue indefinitely? I've always known copying to be a reaction to a market failure, not a proposed permanent state of affairs. Where does "entitlement" come into it?
The one key difference between BASIC and (python lua javascript & etc) has nothing to do with the language at all: modern computers don't boot straight in to a REPL. Anyone who used a C64 more than likely knows a little BASIC, can't say the same for naive Windows or Mac users.
I felt really naughty upvoting it. Glad to hear it survived.
Mozilla (http://careers.mozilla.org), everywhere in the world. Employees, contractors, interns, local or remote.

We build Firefox. We build Firefox OS. We push open source, open standards and the open web. We teach web literacy to turn consumers into actors.

Enough said?
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I'm still sceptical of 3D printing. They're hyped so much with little to show for it - when did you last use something printed on a 3D printer?

This is a technology designed to bring affordable, easy manufacturing to your bedroom, it's been around for years now, supposedly widely deployed. Yet hardly anyone alive today has handled or used a product printed on one of these machines?

From what i've read, the plastics suitable for printing do not easily make viable "hard wearing" products - although i understand various techniques can be used to improve this to some degree.

The raw materials used are not cheap and there doesn't appear to be much scope for future cost reduction. Perhaps more worrying is the limited option to reuse existing materials.

Until i start seeing and using products of 3D printing, colour me unconvinced. I'm sitting this revolution out.
Ambitious? How about impossible?

How do you create a truly dynamic ecological environment? The only option in video games is to program in each and every option. Lets say I wanted to make a bow and arrow. Game engines are not nearly as far along to make that organically available. Someone has to program it in. And that's the problem with ideas like these - for the time being, you can't just get a universe filled with tools, structures, and skills for free. You have to build them. And this is very hard, especially if you're trying to make the game balanced. So I don't see what's advertised in this video coming out of a kickstarter campaign
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Sacramento"ish" here: http://www.meetup.com/Nevada-County-Hackers/

I'm the Meetup group's organizer, and our first real meetup is a hackathon this weekend: http://www.nevadacityhackathon.com/

Nelson gave a great demo of D3.js. We're a decent group of people to know if you're within 50 miles or so of Sac'to.
Definitely, but I think is just Microsoft investing in their ecosystem.

In schools students learn "Word" and not "a word processor". I've seen high schools getting software licences with special deals (way cheaper), and thanks to that other solutions are discouraged (ie. "Word" is the standard and it will be required by any future job offer)

Can all students afford a Word licence? (ie. practice at home) It really doesn't matter, piracy it's OK because it is an investment. Companies are the final target (won't run pirated software and all candidates are trained to use that software).

You can find that kind of strategy also in open source (ie. Red Hat benefits from CentOS).
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The risk of piracy is that, if enough people pirate instead of purchase, it becomes more difficult for inventors and creators to make a living, and so we all may lose access to their potential future inventions and creations.

To beat on your poor car analogy some more: if copying cars was free and easy, then we would indeed have a lot more cars, but they'd all be 1930s VW Bugs. Competition drives innovation, but there has to be something to compete for, like our dollars.

To your last point: the top torrents at TPB are all video games, TV shows, and movies. Seems more like self-worserment, yuk yuk.
The site says that I should submit my "photo resume" I've heard of this in Germany - people having photos of themselves on resumes. But can you tell me specifically why you care what I look like?
All on one page: http://www.wired.com/design/2012/11/big-3d-printers-euromold...
I'll stop bringing it up when people stop saying that piracy is the same as car theft. Otherwise why not go all the way and say piracy is genocide.
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I'm currently hacking an SNES controller for use in a Raspberry Pi emulator and I started thinking about the quality of today's games.

None of them are challenging. I don't have good memories playing them like I do for a Link to the Past, Super Metroid, or any of the classics.

Have any of you played new(ish) games that can compete with the classics in terms of gameplay and fun?
Since the car analogy isn't working: Let me try another one, equally with flaws no doubts. :-) Piracy as we known it is rampant of the coasts of Somalia (Yes, I am talking about real world pirates). One of the reasons why that is happening is the systematic breakdown of the livelihoods of fisherman in the region due to dumping of toxic wastes of those coasts and the free flow of arms. Now, it is arguable that those fisherman are using the monetary flow from piracy to lift themselves from poverty which is a good thing. However, I do wish to point out that that analogy is based on my philosophy that e-piracy is not a victimless crime, as long as you have at least one data point of a person who would have paid for the game/movie/software but didn't do so because he/she had easy access to a torrent.

To be honest, I don't care about people pirating stuff. It is the moral justifications that seem rather specious at best. What is wrong with accepting that you are doing something wrong and... keep doing it if you wish?
> (imacs were expensive, slow,and not compatible with windows).

Not one of those things is true, except for Windows compatibility which was hardly a concern for the users of it. The iMac was actually quite aggressively priced for the time, and it was far from "slow".

I hope you honestly try and launch something based off this philosophy, so you can see it crash-and-burn firsthand. The iMac had plenty more going for it at the time. Design was a big part of it, but it was far from the only good thing about the iMac as you insist.

iMacs had built in screens, high capacity hard drives (for the time), tray loading CD drives with burner options, USB, FireWire, etc... almost all of which was hot new shit at the time.

The iMac was the first example. Great product, experience, and price. It was just getting long in the tooth in terms of ecosystem because of Mac OS Classic.
And neither should cost upwards of $40,000 per year
we have seen the same things mentioned in this article. What happens to FB when the rest of the world wakes up.
There is no new Basic. Computers are massively more complex now and expectations have changed as well with the Internet and tablets and smart phones being what they are. Most first-world kids would be bored out of their minds with Basic.

But Python is a fine programming language for beginners. A Raspberry-pi would be another good teaching tool. Processing might be interesting to some kids as well...

But there is no new Basic, no new Logo, no new Oregon Trail, no new Math Blasters. Those things belong to a different era.
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Does anyone think that iOS and Android tablets should be included in these reports?

I think it is only a matter of time before for some people, a tablet will be their primary computing device.
It is a nice idea, but I am still skeptical on how somebody can improve his speaking skills just based on virtual "stuff". It is almost like learning to code just by writing out code by hand on a paper. This needs a lot of video integration in order to work.

Otherwise your local Toastmaster group is going to be a much more effective way to improve speaking skills.
This looks promising. The MySQL -> Postgres replication possibilities are particularly interesting for people looking to switch over a huge database with (almost) zero downtime.

At Instructure we essentially did this last year when we made the switch. We loaded in the initial dataset using pygmy (https://github.com/instructure/pygmy ... basically a wrapper around COPY and friends) and then used a kodama-like script to keep it in sync until we pulled the trigger. We haven't open sourced the replicator yet, as it's a shameful hack ... we were doing statement-based replication, which makes query translation super brittle (yay regexes!) if you do much beyond basic ORM stuff, due to differences between the two dbs.

No matter how you go about it, there are lots of little gotchas like updating your sequences, converting tinyints to booleans, etc. Should be interesting to see where this project goes, since MySQL -> Postgres is the current trend.
Honestly, I find the 3D printing to be most useful for rapid prototyping. No more sending schematics out, waiting for the results to come back via post, and repeating the cycle until you have something you're happy with and ready to take to the actual manufacturer.

It's a better small CNC machine* for inventors and hobbyists. As much as its proponents will claim there will be one in every home which you'll use to re-create broken pieces of appliances, tools, and equipment and how you'll be downloading specs left and right to print your own odds and ends - the fact of the matter is that at this point in time and for the near future, this is not a realistic option.

Price of the raw materials, time to creation (a whole day for small complex objects), price of the devices, cheap quality of the only affordable 3D printers (need constant adjustment, calibration, and repair), maintenance, etc. mean that it's another tool for the workshop and not a consumer electronic device like an office copy machine and especially not like your household printer or scanner

(* actually, CNCs are better, more reliable, cheaper to work with, etc. but this is 3D so...)
What exactly is HARD to pirate?
edit: More specifically, Crack. I remember x-force having sources in all the major places ready to dump it to their cracker division.
I always wonder why people disregard nuclear like its low efficiency. It is taking elements that are inherently (in the case of uranium / plutonium, any passive nuclear power source) or situationally (thorium) emitting radiation (photon emissions, a kind of light, which is a form of energy) and using that heat energy to boil water.

And these unstable atoms were made by exploding stars. It is hard to get more energy dense than that. Fusion requires you to put in so much power in the first place to just get to hydrogen burning that it seems ridiculous to not take advantage of the dense energy gifts of destroyed stars.
Can't wait to see what you've got!
Living social fired 400 employees. Tis the season.
Mechanics would be in place to assist with the organizing of players to make large scale wars possible. Although, especially at the beginning, the logistics of doing so are still a feat in itself.
Then they need to say it is immoral--a position which may arguably be correct--and not say that it is stealing--a position which is intellectually dishonest and trivially shown to be incorrect.

Choice of words here is very, very important. If you want to start staking out a moral claim on information, you damned well had better choose your message carefully.
You're right, the purpose of the video is to garner interest while the game is still in development. We're releasing this video as a means to find those interested in such a game early so that when we have something more to show in a year or so, we'll be in a much better position.
Microsoft spent how many billions of dollars and how many man hours to improve Windows since XP? My guess is that you'll get a much better PC. Sorry, I can't go into details since I'm a Mac user but for $40, I can still conclude that it's worth it for the average XP user.
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Most do (some do not) but it was the lack of explanation and the fact that its $200 that stopped me in my tracks.
Until Microsoft Dreamspark, this is how I was able to teach myself to program. This really happens. However, I think programs like Dreamspark are the answer to this. Microsoft will let you download Visual Studio if you go to school. Not word (but it's only $99 for a student, affordable). Article is a little misleading when it comes to paying for Adobe CS in general. If you are a student you can usually pick it up for $199. Still a little much for Adobe to be selling it to students in my opinion though.
oops.. linked to first pics I could find. Another review stated the battery was easily removable but iFixIt is probably the better source.
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We have a dedicated, core group of users since we launched in beta. We're hiring a Product Hacker to focus on two important metrics - Engagement (time spent and interaction) and Retention (churn factor). We listen to our users a lot and been doing a bunch of experiments on our site - bot-vs-bot games, real-world challenges from companies, etc. which has made thousands of users happy. Imagine if you grew this number by 100x or 1000x? Software is eating the world and if all the world's problem solvers come together at a single place, it will be the most valuable place EVER built. We are looking for a Product hacker to help us push features (or kill features) to reach the goal. The Product Hacker is the bridge between the user and the product and works with everyone in the team (designers, founders, engineers)

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Zynga has nothing special, no competitive advantage, no intellectual capital, no special sauce to maintain their market share

You're absolutely right. Sadly their valuation, barely higher than the value of their real estate and cash pile, reflects this.
Well it depends on your life I guess. :p

Everyone plays games for different reasons because everyone gets a kick out of different things in life. Theres no reason why one game can't satisfy all and the best way to accomplish that is by creating a game based on the one environment we know _can_ be enjoyed by all personality types -- real life. (note: not that everyone _does_ enjoy real life, those who generally dislike everything have other issues and probably wont like my game either :p).
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> presumably due to a marriage

If it was a marriage that caused the name change, she would have just said that point-blank. No need to dance around it. From the lack of explanation it was pretty clear that it was a sex change.
I wish HN supported saving other stories too (links submitted by other users) instead of saving just your own upvoted links.
Not to forget the rapid evolution of the language, ECMAScript 6 will get ...
1. classes http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:classes
2. modules http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:modules
and more (http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:proposals).
It's not just speaking skills: you're right, the best way to do that is to present. But there's a lot more than just talking.

That's where the team comes in - how to structure a successful talk, how to submit it to a conference or user group, how to get financial aid to attend. Past talks which were successful, how to find local user groups to present to. Google hangouts with mentors (thing, YC office hours) to dry run your proposal.

There's a lot of Good that a team of experience hackers, presenters, conference organizers and outreach groups can do. We have all the tools we need, now we just need to centralize the talent and willingness to teach.

Call for proposal deadlines, which conferences make sense, which don't. Topic reviews, submission reviews, financial aid, outreach, connecting. Might as well add it to the site metadata.
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Here is a simple example project for a blog: https://github.com/koenbok/CactusBlog
Yes, it would be as you say. Although "high-tech" likely wouldn't happen for more like 10 years, maybe more.

And if you think that is a long time, consider how long we've been getting expansions for WoW. :)
A very simple thought experiment:

A rap artist is hired by a label to create an album. Said artist later dies. The label goes bankrupt soon thereafter, or perhaps simply folds up shop and leaves the business without auctioning off its assets.

I have produced a copy of the album, which I host at my own cost from my server, once these events have transpired. There is no reasonable "victim" left for this crime of infringement, and indeed I'm helping to reduce the scarcity of this product in the world.

While somewhat contrived, this thought experiment is not particularly far off from reality.
I have stopped pretty much all of the unnecessary services and am running a XP with 3.5 G memory (though it doesn't recognize more than 3.11 due to some hardware limitation). I was using Chrome with Themes service disabled until I realized that Chrome has a consistent bug where it wouldn't show check boxes on the web pages properly and the solution is to enable the Themes and all works fine.

With Windows default Firewall and MS Security Essential, I am pretty satisfied with lean, mean XP machine.
I would also be interested in a Boston/Cambridge meet up. There was talk about this a few weeks back. Would love to see this happen.
> A minor QuickTime version update halfway into Tiger's lifespan completely broke RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 for a while.

Any insight into how that happened?
The CDG has under half the tonnage of the Enterprise. For reference, the Navy's WASP-class LHD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp_class_amphibious_assault_s...) has the same displacement and similar length.

Russia's Admiral Kuznetsov (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_aircraft_carrier_Admira...) is a bit closer, although it's a slightly different kind of ship (and until refitting it's a barely floating rust bucket).
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Yea I would hesitate to draw any resemblance to spore. Spore seemed more about the evolution of a species than a simulation of humanity.
Skype for a very long time had some absurd protection against things like attaching debuggers, adding code, and whatnot (as I recall). There was a great presentation about it, but I cannot for the life of me find it.
You are right on about even most good people will do this "...fill their time with what they love to do if you let them". That is what separates great people from good people. How to go from good to great in this matter? Be observant of ones own self, extremely hard. As the saying goes "The eyes that can see the whole world can't see themselves without help of a mirror." If that is hard, go find a great mentor who will act as a mirror and help us see what we do as compared to what we need to do.
I agree with you about the last thing somewhat, but not entirely. While RedHat benefits from people switching from CentOS to RHEL, it's not illegal to run CentOS, and the other direction is also available.

My company is currently using RedHat in a very large number (let say, we pay a lot to them...), but looks like we might end up switching to CentOS. Basically the price vs. amount of support we get from them does not seem to be worth it. And it is very close to what we would get from an Open Source community or by using Google.

But I do agree with the rest what you said.
I don't think people have any issues with them being at military bases, its that they are starting to be more and more deployed at civilian airports all around the world.
Also, since your points will come up time and time again - I filed a bug: https://github.com/jnoller/talk-mentorship/issues/10
Ok, but not exactly the type of standalone software we are speaking upon, yes?
edit: as an aside, adobe's subscription based model could be seen as a way to curtail.