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A lot of the CGI seemed bad to me. It would have been better if they had just dropped the far away scenes.
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Get a book about your language.
Learn how to declare variables and the types of variables available.

Learn how to declare arrays and other structures.

Learn how to make your own structures.

Learn how to use input routines and output routines.

Learn conditional statements (if then else endif or equivalent, switch statements), loops (do while/ while do (they're different), for next or equivalent, do until).

Learn how to do arithmetic stuff, subroutines and functions.
If available learn about pointer referencing. While reading C, I prefer to read * as "content of" and & as "address of". Much easier.

Learn about all other available functions for graphics, web, Input/Output, System calls, Library calls, Sockets.

If you can, learn procedural programming with structures first then learn object oriented programming. You're just starting: don't try to be an architecture astronaut yet.

Most important: have fun.
I think the title needs the distinction that it's that amount in shares, not in cash.

I appreciate it could go up, but the more likely is the opposite.
Well I don't think it's a shame when Opera is to blame ;)
But thanks for your reply.

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I think this comes down purely to opinion..I watched it at 48 fps and thought it looked great. The story line was interesting and well developed from the book - the frame rate and quality weren't issue because I was engrossed in the film.
Had the film been a run-of-the-mill hollywood action flick reliant on the latest HD and VFX to mask a reptitive and overdone plot, then I would likely be complaining about 48 fps and why it looked dull.

This is a natural step forward in terms of quality of medium and before long will seem normal.
> I thought, "We run a business," was a blanket excuse for intellectual dishonesty in general.

So, uh, what are you doing on a site dedicated in no small part to startups? Are you calling all of us who run businesses intellectually dishonest?
His comment also seems to imply that the rich are guilty of wrongdoings simply by virtue of having a lot of money.
thats because the camera quality on most android phones is awful. Iphone is clear, crisp, sharp and most importantly QUICK!

I love my galaxy note to pieces but I still take photos on my iphone!
>> Zuckerberg didn't "take" wealth. He created it.

Well, Myspace was kinda destroyed in the process. So let's call it reshaping, refactoring and some creation.
It's not a given that there is always something valuable to do. And even if you start some venture, success is not a given either. I agree with not giving up, but what if you need money right now, to eat and get a roof above your head? Starting some venture that creates value might take a while, too, and require some capital which you don't have.
I completely agree with you. The problem as I see it is that basically the whole dev world knows javascript to some degree, heck even if they don't its a pretty basic language and similiar to most others you know. Erlang, however, is its own thing, completely different in terms that most imperative lang/oop devs are used to, and means you can't just install erlang and go, which is largely the case with node.js
Well he deserves the hammering. The guy is clearly immoral and has damaged people's privacy and the world wide web forever.

$500mil doesn't suddenly make that ok, especially considering the charity is basically a quango.
One could argue that Facebook helps spreading democracy in some countries, and thanks to Facebook companies can target customers more efficiently.
Agreed - a bunch of pie charts (not great communicating info at the best of times) could hardly be called a "visualization" in the modern sense of creating a graphic that makes data easily understandable, visually appealing & useful
I saw it last night in HFR 3D. It's actually the first proper feature film I've seen in 3D and I enjoyed it a lot.

There definitely were moments where it looked like you were looking at actors on a set. The fidelity was so good that it was obvious the characters were wearing prosthetics and makeup. However there were plenty of scenes where the increased detail and clarity were a huge advantage, especially some of the CGI scenes. The flight of the eagles was gorgeous and the feeling of actually being there you got from the combination of HFR and 3D added a lot to the experience.

It very much is a question of trade-offs. I'm very glad I saw it in HFR 3D because for a lot of the scenes it gives you an experience you couldn't get any other way, but if I were to see it in a cinema again I'd go for 2D, and I look forward to seeing it on TV at home. I'll quite happily watch the next film in HFR 3D.
What would you self-teach yourself at a library that would land you a job later? It might work for programming, but not for that much else? "Hi I'm your new physician, I learnt how to operate reading books in the library" :-)
A large social network called Facebook.
"At that time monopoly market share (operating system)"

What do you think Microsoft has now? Microsoft isn't quite as lethal at this time, but in all honesty, they still dominate. It's funny to see people complain about Google's 70% search monopoly and Apple's 20-25% iOS walled garden, but 9/10 of the people in the world buy PC's with Microsoft Windows.
The current (2012) pie chart seems to be very close to ideal for pushing everything forward.
Maybe 3D HFR could be made to work if we had much more realistic lighting, makeup and VFX?
Considering he's focusing on the fact that it's a 48FPS movie when watching it, a second time no less, doesn't that kind of detract from the conclusion that it's a bad thing?

I thought it was pretty magical for a movie to flow like this, I felt the 3D was well focused and in many cases hard to notice (As it should be), and not just a layer slapped on.

All in all I'd rather watch it in 3DHFR first, and 2D later, to make a fair judgement on whether it's a good thing.

I agree that in the start I was a bit focused on the looks of it all, but after a few minutes it added to my immersion rather than detract from it.

Isn't it possible that the reason you're distracted by this new way of doing things, is because it is in fact new, and different from other movies? If everything looked like this, we can focus on the right things instead.

I thought it was pretty damn magical.
I believe browser.js (and if I remember correctly, browser.css) are files that are inserted to every page containing JavaScript/CSS mods that you set in your browser (either through settings, or in the Opera folder).
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I'm on 32-bit Windows 7, and it works fine. The plunger is a little sluggish to respond, but otherwise no sign of the gravity bug!
Yeah, he deserves kudos for this, but he also deserves much of the shit that people talk about him.

Facebook is a company that is loathed roughly in proportion to the degree that people understand what they actually do to make their money: adorn your baby or wedding photos with fart app ads, put your own face on various ads that you know nothing about, make you play whack-a-mole with their settings UI to preserve what little control of your information they allowed you to have last week, sell your instagram sexts, etc etc.

And he's the guy who calls the shots.
nice work, and +1 for the name ;)
"Surely you can answer my question why the wages went up and then down."

Pretty funny - explain some complicated topic that scientists have probably been debating for decades in a HN comment. While you're at it, could you also explain Quantum Mechanics to me, I always wanted to understand how that works.
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Do you have a blog or website? I would like to read more of your thoughts and commentary (tech/housing/whatever).
There are plenty of people who need help in San Francisco.

It has a relatively high suicide rate, for example.
I suppose you could use that for stylistic effect. Like a change of mood in the story, or a changed attitude of the character.
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Community Foundations[1] such as the Silicon Valley Community Foundation can receive stock donations that are tax-deductible to the owner. If the donation was in dollars it would also be deductible for the owner, but the owner would need to sell the stock first, which would mean paying capital gains taxes.

1. Differences between Community Foundations / donor-advised funds and Private Foundations can be found here: http://www.programforgiving.org/charitable/pages/considering...
The studio decided not to release the 48fps version in 2D, so no.
It's a static site, you have no idea what files depend on each other. So everything has to be rebuilt.
Still $11 below IPO. So much wealth!
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Inspired by Corey Haines' year-long, Journeyman pair-programming tour (see his bio on http://www.coreyhaines.com) I wonder how someone who wants to do the same (pair programming for room and board) can find projects or buddies to pair with. Corey himself used Twitter and personal contacts. Any recommendations? Any sites to use?
Higher FPS and higher performance aren't necessarily identical.

Give me a say year-2016 machine and I could target 300 FPS with what currently reaches 30 FPS, but no-one except some GPU geek would notice. Or I could use all that added performance, do many more interesting things at a much higher scale than today, at once -- physics, fluids, crowds and all other kinds of sims -- by still targeting "only" 30 FPS.
I was one of those who flipped from using Netscape to IE.
I was using Netscape since 2.0 days. Comparing Netscape 3.0 to IE 3.0, Netscape won handsdown. It had far more features than IE 3.0 and was fast, responsive and easy to use.

Then came Netscape 4.0 and IE 4.0. This was were Netscape failed horribly.

Netscape 4.0 Communicator was slow and buggy and crashed often. When Netscape 4.0 Navigator crashed, it brought down the entire suite (Email client, Web Composer) along with it.

IE 4.0 on the other hand was really slick, stable and cool. It loaded up faster and rendered the pages faster (bear in mind those were the days of dialup).

It didn't matter that IE 4.0 was bundled into the OS. I was using Win 95 and I downloaded and installed IE 4.0 because I loved it.

To me, it wasn't the bundling of IE 4.0 into the OS that killed Netscape, it was just that Netscape 4.0 sucked compared to IE 4.0

After IE 4.0, I discovered Opera and have been using it since.
From the API page (http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/Concern.htm...) it seems to do two things,
1. resolve module dependencies
2. eliminate some ruby boilerplate in the module code.

I kind of liked the idea of extending the instances instead of including in class, to add functionality to instances instead of all objects of the class, but this keeps your model's fat, just the fat is distributed so it's not in the model's single file.
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Agreed that most people still have a Windows OS in front of them. But the wild card on the upswing now is mobile - which Microsoft has very little strength in.

Also, web applications provide real diversity of application experience beyond the Windows OS. For a lot of people, applications like email, twitter, photo-sharing, game playing, social networking etc.. are no longer tied to a particular desktop client operating system. Indeed, Social Networking, where people spend enormous amounts of time, is an example where I would say the Desktop OS is as irrelevant as your BIOS.
In hindsight you can of course always identify indicators for the coming catastrophe. Even a storm needs some build up. The problem is we can not see the indicators in time.

Otherwise they would not be black swans, they would more be like the whale falling out of the sky in the Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy, that has formed spontaneously out of random particles.
this is a great gesture on his part, I applaud him.

== Why? Can you explain?

How is this not a PR exercise: Oopps. Here's $500MM.
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I love DHH but passages like this "concern" me (lol):

> Here’s a Dropboxed concern that we mix into just the Person model

Right. So extracting a section of code into a mixin .. and then mixing it into a single model? That's just moving the code elsewhere and using a fancy method to inject it back in! It's not cleaning up anything!

For anyone interested in practical techniques to rethink, refactor and really take the knife to your overweight models this post is a good start: http://blog.codeclimate.com/blog/2012/10/17/7-ways-to-decomp...
At the time the web-browsing market was a subset of the PC/laptop market - that's no longer the case with smartphones and tablets selling so fast.
There is a small cynical part of me that thinks that being the first to use HFR could be very profitable if everyone is so curious that they pay to see the same film several times in different formats.
I agree with your observation. What I find interesting is that most people I know don't actually 'follow their dreams'. They do apply the principle on a surface level, but in actually just kind of stumble through life, often unhappy that they didn't quite 'realize' these vague non-specific dreams.

On the other hand, I have a number of friends who did follow their dreams. Their dreams often changed, were often crazy, but they had them, and worked relentlessly toward them. And they achieved a lot.

And finally I have friends who don't really have much of a dream that they want to follow, and they seem pretty happy too.

The problem is that many people apply a watered down version of 'follow your dream' that really is nothing more than 'do what you like'. Those are two different things.

I personally feel that it is possible to follow your dream, if you have one, but only if you realize that you might not make a living, you might be unhappy for long stretches of time, and it will cost. But I've seen so many people who went through hell following some crazy dream, but even in the process, and especially if their dream led them somewhere, they seemed somehow happier. Including the homeless broke ones.
Even if you change one post, you still need to 'rebuild' every thing. I can't see how this can be reduced.
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True, which is why I'm happy to be at a point in life where 'making my own opportunities' includes packing my bags and leaving for greener pastures. I truly feel for those who don't have that option, and are in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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Our guys are mainly in the field so its probably a different model.
The Vedantic school of Indic thought got all of this distilled to a ' T' , rather a 'OM'' a few millennia ago.
I’m not sure if this is what you were alluding to there, but I think there is a real problem with experimental research in this kind of field that often the test subjects are students, who tend to have much less skill and experience than working programmers with a few years of practice behind them.

It’s a specific instance of a more general problem: it seems clear that programmers often work differently depending on their familiarity both with programming generally and with the specific domain they’re working in, but we’ve only scratched the surface in identifying exactly how they work differently, and therefore what practical steps we might take to make things better for programmers in different situations.
Silicon Valley Community Foundation is a Community Foundation (in contrast to a Private Foundation), which means that they manage lots of different pools of money from different sources. It also means that donations to them are tax-deductible in the exact same way it is with other charities[1].

I'm not familar with the specifics of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, but it looks like SV Community Foundation, similar to most Community Foundations, does a lot of work managing what are known as donor-advised funds. Check out this Wikipedia page for some good info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donor_advised_fund

1. Private Foundations have a few different rules in place, including lower maximum deductibility for donors, required 5% funds disbursement to charitable organizations, etc. Check out this link for a comparison http://www.programforgiving.org/charitable/pages/considering...
Spot on with the "obvious makeup" in certain scenes. I still think 48fps is amazing. I wonder how it will look in non-fantasy-themed movies!
Marc Andreessen, headed out west. Brought most of the Urbana-Champaign (key) Mosaic Brain Share with him (or recruited people like Eric Bina to work on the project). Jim Clark sunk a ton of dough into the project - and they worked hard at making it successful. Mosaic was then Licensed to Microsoft (and some other companies, but Microsoft made the most of it) and became the heart of IE.

There was no "Mosaic" left to be Mosaic after that.
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Hindsight is 20/20. Luckily, so is MadDog.

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Hey, I'm on topic for once!
But do you realize that this (subjective) locus of control is also, at least to a degree, part of your skill set. I have problems with statements like 'they give up and choose to see no path forward', because it seems to imply that somehow they're lazy, or dumb, or whatever. It's a step away from 'poor people are poor because they're lazy'.

I am very 'entrepreneurially-inclined', but I have no illusion that this is all my choice or doing. I just happened to have certain personality traits, and the right ones have been developed through my unconventional upbringing and schooling.

I understand what you are saying, but for some people pointing this out doesn't do much. They need to be taught and encouraged to understand that they have more control than they think.
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Half-agreed. A stacked area chart would be perfect for this.
This guys full of it. There's no way you can see the same movie and tell me you "connected" more when it was just 2D. If he wants to be a film purist he should say so, I'm fine with people preferring one format but I bet he'll be watching the film when it comes out on Blu-Ray and NOT his VHS...
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I know this topic has been discussed to death, but there is so much contradicting information on the internet.

Here is the situation:
My dad owns a business since '95 here in Germany and owns a worldwide trademark of its name. The name is a made up word that is very unlikely that somebody else actually uses (nothing else shows up on google). We do own the ".de" domain. But we have more and more international customers so it would be nice to also own the ".com" domain. Unfortunately the registrant of the".com" domain is one of those shady domain protection services. They are based in the US. They registered the domain in 2000 and it will expire at the beginning of 2013. The DNS doesn't resolve the domain. As far as I can see the domain has never really been used.

I was thinking about writing a little script and trying to snatch it back next months, but I am not sure if that is the best option. How expensive would it be to take legal actions (just a rough idea $100 or $10,000) and how likely is it to be successful?
30fps?
I remember the mid - late 90s "3d accelerator" boom and the games that came out of that. Unless you dumped serious $ into your PC you were lucky to get 15fps.
Articles on co-founder equity issues and splits
I've been spending a bit of time researching information about Co-Founder equity scenarios as well as how to find the right Co-Founder. Some links below I found helpful.

The only wrong answer is 50/50: Calculating the co-founder equity split
http://www.geekwire.com/2011/wrong-answer-5050-calculating-cofounder-equity-split/

Foundrs Calculator
http://foundrs.com/

The Founders Pie Calculator method
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/fd0n/35%20Founders%27%20Pie%20Calculator.htm

How much a non-technical co-founder should receive?
http://blog.nahurst.com/how-much-equity-a-technical-cofounder-should

High Tech Startup Valuation Estimator (More for fundraising, but good things to think about)
http://www.caycon.com/valuation.php
I'm not sure if the organization has the option to keep or sell the stock (I think they can do either). For the donor, there are tax benefits- besides the usual lowering of adjusted gross income, you don't have to pay capital gains on stock you donate.

Let's say Mark plans on donating $500M to an organization and this month he also wants to buy $300M of Christmas presents. He only has about $600M lying around, but he has a lot of FB stock. He can donate $500M cash, then sell stock to have enough money to buy the presents but he'll pay capital gains. Or he can donate the stock, avoid taxes, and use his cash for the presents instead.
Yeah, that was brilliant.

One idea that struck me: given the classical role of the operating system, doesn't this sound like something an OS should be able to provide?

I imagine an OS service that, if requested, sits in the background and does what that game code did, in order to detect those kinds of errors. Does any OS have this? It really seems semi-obvious, now ...
Also, I saw it in 3D HFR and thought it looked amazing! Everything was so clear and I could see the pores on peoples faces and the battle scenes flowed much more smoothly. The only thing that bugged me was the glasses which wrapped the head too tightly.
Foundations can get tax-deductible gifts, they just have slightly different other rules.
In my case I prefer sensible pragmatic names with some sort of hierarchy rather than random words from the dictionary.
1) Myspace provided a large social network with free web hosting and some PHP doodads before Facebook did. Did Mark Zuckerberg create anything new?

2) Facebook is a weapon deployed against the integrity of human personality. Does facebook quality as wealth considering that it is a destructive force?
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I think the intent of the OP was to address a possible solution to the problem of school shootings as was seen recently in CT. The article explained this quite succinctly as well.

I personally think it's a good idea. Texas has a strong gun culture, so it's a completely reasonable solution to a potential problem. The kids would be accustomed to it, and I'm sure the parents would support it. This type of thing would most likely not work in CT though, given that they have a strong culture of gun control:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/12/17/co...

America as a whole has a pretty strong gun culture, so I doubt any bill that tries to emulate the UK's gun laws or anything similar would ever be signed into law. Since we can't get rid of guns, I think putting guns into the hands of people who have been trained on their use isn't an entirely terrible idea.

I don't even own a gun, but I do think that gun-free zones can be more dangerous than allowing trusted people to have guns if there's no mechanism to detect guns. Adding metal detectors to all school entrances is not the answer, so I think this article posits a very plausible solution.
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