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I'm not sure if you're asking for input on how to maybe make the game more attractive, but here are my thoughts.

Firstly, realize that most games/apps get very few downloads. It's a hits market. You're not alone. You need to have good marketing or pr to get noticed.

How did you think people would discover your app when you created it? Would people be talking about it? What would get them to talk about it?

I like that your game seems simple, but what market are you targeting?
Did you think this was a game for adults? Alphabet games instinctively seem pointed at kids, so you might be fighting an uphill battle there. But that also may be your opportunity to differentiate yourself.

Have you done the research in the market to understand the alphabet games genre? Is there such a thing?

For skill based games (which I suspect this is), I think people like knowing it is a somewhat related to a skill they 'could' use in life. Not necessarily a skill they would use.
I don't know if anybody cares that they know the alphabet well enough that they can pick out the 'closest letter to their previous choice'.

Compare that with something like Sudoku, and people feel like they know math and are becoming better at it, and therefore, I think, get more enjoyment out of it.

If they were improving their vocabulary, maybe your game would be more valuable.

Just my thoughts.
I'm currently building a business (not a startup by acceptable HN standards) and our key point of differentiation could easily be copied by our competitors, but none currently are. I'm worried every day that one of them will launch a similar product before we do. Has anyone here been in a similar position?
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If your startup idea's legit, you have at least a 2-year head start.

This isn't necessarily true. Poke, for example, was supposedly developed and deployed in 12 days, including App Store approval time. Powerful companies like Facebook do have the ability to steal great ideas and crush the start ups that created them. However, this has been known for a very long time and it has yet to have a discernible impact on innovation.
Money would surely make it more bearable for those few summers months.

And damn, http://www.university.firstround.com looks great. Unfortunately I'm not American so I'm pretty sure i'm at a disadvantage. But I'll look further into it!
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Imperfect code that's done cheaper and faster could be more acceptable to your client with no moral or legal ramifications for you (ie as long as you make the client aware of the drawbacks and nothing bad like people dieing could occur). An exception would be programming in the medical fields. Other than those cases, comparing most programming to bridge building is silly.

The next difficulty is defining correct code. It's going to be difficult to find consensus beyond anything basic.
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A backup doesn't make sense without also backing up the key.

Caching could make sense without caching the key if the key is way smaller than the data, but why cache something that only needs to be read once?
I don't think a functional (or even a dynamic?) language has really made to the enterprise yet so I, for one, don't feel too concerned with that question.
The course is copied from CMU's. I have a friend who TAed the first iteration of the MIT course and was a former 251 ta @ CMU. The goal of the mit course was to offer their students the same experience as CMU's class because it was highly successful and they relied heavily on my friend's experiences as a ta at cmu to build the course.

In general, I view this as a good thing. Universities should take the best material they can find and offer them to students even if it's not original.
The course is copied from CMU's. I have a friend who TAed the first iteration of the MIT course and was a former 251 ta @ CMU. The goal of the mit course was to offer their students the same experience as CMU's class because it was highly successful and they relied heavily on my friend's experiences as a tax at cmu to build the course.

In general, I view this as a good thing. Universities should take the best material they can find and offer them to students even if it's not original.
GPUs have throttling as well. They happily burst up to the maximum clock speed, but in benchmarks that stress the GPU at max capacity for prolonged periods, one will often see the clock rate drop by as much as half to prevent overheating.

... at least, that's what my Nvidia GTX580 does!
I too have been wondering if it'd be beneficial to start taking smart drugs as I'm working long distance and many hours a day.
They found an asymptotic series for p(n) -- the number of partitions of n, i.e. the number of ways to write n as a sum of positive integers where you don't count 1+2 and 2+1 as different ways -- with the property that if you take an appropriate number of terms, the nearest integer to the result equals p(n) exactly. Hans Rademacher later tweaked this to give a convergent series that gives p(n) exactly.

The first term of the series (both Hardy&Ramanujan's and Rademacher's) is 1/(4 n sqrt(3)) exp(pi sqrt(2n/3)), which is already a good approximation in the sense that the ratio p(n)/this_approximation(n) tends to 1 as n gets large. This approximation theorem was conjectured by Ramanujan before he came to England, and proved by him and Hardy jointly.

You can find the actual formulae at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_%28number_theory%29#A... and more details at http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Sp7z9sK7RNkC&pg=PA68&... .
I dunno -- most who know me would say I have a sense of humor, but that doesn't mean I think the word "fart" is funny in and of itself, or expect anyone around me to either, beyond my 3-year-old.

I'm also occasionally aware of how others build their concept of me. If someone had known me for years and I recommended this service, I can't imagine it would make any difference.

If we'd had only incidental interactions, this could easily remain the first thing that pops into their head when they think of me in the future. I worked once in the same company as a talented designer who told a hilarious but quite scatalogical story at lunch one day. That's still the main thing that pops into my head when I think of him. I don't know that it'd stop me from recommending or hiring him, but it remains a significant part of how he's defined in my head.

I'm not sure if this makes me seem like a wet blanket, or overparanoid -- my real point is that I have quite a few different filters, and for most parts of my professional life "fart" doesn't make it past at all.
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Ive asked this question plenty of times, with no answer.

Where does the copyright 'license' exist at? Is it in the medium, the UPC, the box, or perhaps more intangible than that?

Why aren't thefts of media (music/DVDs/games) filed as copyright infringement due to lack of meeting of the minds?
Is your GitHub repository down?
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It's the only part of the business (which is also named Snapchat) that's worth cloning. Or are you suggesting that we're talking about something else?
Thats not what he meant. Ugly sites can convert and do extremely well. Visual beauty (aesthetics) and conversion/UX are not mutually exclusive. Not that it lacks a call to action or any sort.
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Neither can you store the money for long (5+ year) periods. The rate of inflation, and taxes, exceeds the interest on standard bank accounts.
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I assume they're taking advantage of systems that are already in place, at scale, at Facebook. Then, to ensure that this app has the privacy that people expect from an app of the ephemeral kind, they are baking in additional precautions. In this case, a key that gets destroyed is the precaution.

I am not an insider, this is just a guess, etc.
From my experience, the sales guys seem to recognize the importance of engineering and product. It's we engineers who generally fail to see the value of sales. I cite this blog and this HN thread as evidence.
While I also agree that it's a great idea, the challenge is that it's a complex system of hardware components. An error in one component won't necessarily show up directly associated with the component generating the error.

A simple mem test like the article discussed is a nice test, but what if the comparison tables are corrupted? Then it would falsely claim the memory was bad, when it might be the network interface, hard drive, or bus!
The moment the producer places the movie on pirate bay themselves and encourages you to download it, then it is no longer piracy, it is using torrents as a legitimate, distributed downloading service, like it was made to be.

If anything, they uploaded a shareware version of the movie to the pirate bay. Them saying you're pirating it is inaccurate. Instead it should be something like "Hey! I see you torrented our movie! Thanks for watching it; and if you feel like, please download the pay-for version of this movie to support us! (We'll even remove this ask for money from the official!)"

Piracy is, in the lazy short verison, acquiring without permission. Torrenting != Piracy when you have permission. e.g. every World of Warcraft update.
This site is hosted on GitHub Pages, which seems to have gone down (http://status.github.com). Here is a quick copy of the post, in case you can't load the original. http://markdown.me/50d647e6c4fee09771000000
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Are you saying that it's possible but both Snapchat and Facebook failed to figure it out? I just took a screenshot of images I received on both services and the screenshots certainly worked.
I think it also depends on how much you value the work experience vs. the money at this point. I interned with a small company where I got paid just enough to pay my bills, but eventually that work experience helped me find an awesome full-time job.
The best I can suggest (maybe others here can do better) is tell him to YouTube tutorials. There are ton of videos specifically on how animation software works and he can start there (similar to how phototshop tutorials or final cut tutorial works).

I'm not familiar with all the animated software used but Maya and 3DStudio comes to mind. For example: http://usa.autodesk.com/maya/
If you continue this line of thinking, putting items on todo lists and checking them off is a "placebo completion". Getting a fancy title instead of a promotion or raise is a "placebo advancement".
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But because of laws of physics and mathematics...

-- you mean cost/benefit.

Nothing is impossible, if one is willing to pay the price.
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The notion that it's the name of his startup is pretty hilarious, but I think it's just a name for a command line tool
English books made Ruby hot. Not Rails. Rails was only possible because Ruby was already gaining enough users and an international community.
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I'm just an engineer, so I'm not actually trying to challenge accepted thinking.

However, it is well known that any QM system can be simulated using a classical computer, with the penalty of exponential slowdown. Let's say that I have a hypothetical, ultra-powerful classical computer and I want to simulate a gigantic system of particles including aggregates of particles (e.g. people) performing measurements of other particles. When it comes time to determine the particular values for these measurements, I must generate a random number from a Gaussian distribution. So I use something like the Mersenne Twister. From the perspective of the simulated people, their observations would entirely match our own observations in studying a quantum system.

tl,dr: state isn't necessarily a one particle concept or a local concept. Individual particles have their own properties (spin, charge, etc.) and then maybe a collection of a million particles also has unique properties.

But my proposal is basically superdeterminism, which -- while being a loophole that has yet to be ruled out -- is unpopular. Since I'm not sure why, I guess I would need to get a degree in theoretical physics to find out.
These are messages that last 20 seconds, there is no time that they will be on disk and not cached to ram anyway.

(edit: well I guess it is 20 seconds after it is received)
This is a short sited move by Facebook. If they do this enough, the platform will be abandoned by developers and they won't have any more ideas to cherry pick. So over time the platform gets stale and their fickle user base will move on.
Neither an conventional undergrad class nor this are "better." They just have different focuses.

But many (perhaps "most") intro stats classes don't involve any programming. So if you want to "implement" anything, an intro stats class may not get you there (even if it gives you a better foundation to understand what various statistical manipulations actually mean.)
I can't connect, is it down?
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All disagreements aside, I'm deeply grateful for the efforts made to maintain and extend tools like sed.

I can't help see posts like this and worry about the perpetuation of open source, and wish I had the chops to do more to help.

As I write I'm downloading a Raspberry Pi image for my son's hardware. I'm getting him an Arduino, a soldering iron and a book for Christmas. I'm looking forward to learning along with him. I don't claim to understand the particular flows of code or inspiration, but I don't see how those projects happen without open source.

I also don't see how the Pi happens without industrial scale chip production. As I understand the matter, the Pi was developed by Broadcom staff on their own or 20% time, and its production occurs on interstitial time on production lines that could never be justified by a $25 SOIC. Pi is basically a cheap add-on to a massive industrial base.

Of course one point of vision is describing a realizable potential not apparent to the rest of us. But vision can and does proceed despite deviations from its perfect realization -- and sometimes is corrected by those deviations. I deeply disagree with RMS' politics, I'm deeply grateful for his technical contributions. I hope the community can always find a way forward.
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Yes, I'm very glad I found it. With the exception of graphics, it seems to deliver on all of the "maker promise" that originally excited me about the raspi, for a lot less, and with no issues actually getting hold of them.
The article was a bit light on details, but it's always exciting to see genetics-driven research (I am quite biased in this regard). I believe [1] is the compound they were discussing. I looked for trials with this compound on clinicaltrials.gov but found none. At this point I suspect that the NYT article conflated the HDM2 inhibitor with compound AT-406 [2], but I don't know (and this is well outside of my field).

[1] = http://www.ascenta.com/development/index.php#hdm2

[2] = http://www.ascenta.com/development/index.php#at406
proprietary OS products?
> I'm fairly confident the threat of not being able to buy a general purpose computer is not a high probability outcome.

I already have to go very far out of my way and pay a huge premium for getting an unlocked Android phone. As phones/tables supplant many "general-purpose" computer use cases, this threat is only increasing, if current trends continue.
You do not buy a license when you buy a DVD. You buy the DVD, period. You buy the good. The physical item. Consumer protection laws are adamant about this.

There is no "limited license" embodied in the good. You buy the physical item and the whole physical item, in all its aspects. Courts have repeatedly rejected the notion that additional terms can be applied after the sale (and if I'm not mistaken, this is part of the first sale doctrine).

Monopolies such as the copyright monopoly are indeed not included in the over-the-counter purchase, nor did I claim they were. I am, however, stating that they limit the property rights to the good you have legally acquired.

I apologize for coming across as aggressive, but I can get frustrated when people are not clear on the concept of property and what you buy over-the-counter as defined by law (as opposed to what other limitations may apply to the property you have legally acquired), and assert things that are plainly false and misleading.

Cheers,
Rick
>the coolest thing he could possibly do would probably STILL be that same startup, or something equivalent.

The coolest thing he could possibly do would be getting his Ph.D. and becoming the next Newton, Gauss, Turing, or equivalent.
Usually when people say that something is "voluntary" they mean that you are not compelled to do so under threat of force.
Agreed that that's a good reason not to promise to delete the data. However, they don't even say they'll try to delete it, do they?

Of course, "trying" is legally just a terrible way to not promise and still get sued. I get why their lawyers would want them not even mention the data itself.

Still...Facebook is not exactly trusted when it comes to the privacy of just about anything. They're trying to operate a service in the grey area between what they want to do and reality, and doing so depends heavily on people's trust in their intentions. You can guess how much I trust Facebook to keep my data private right now (if not from my timeline, then from the government, etc.)
It's hosted on GitHub so not likely it's down.
Scala was originally released in 2003, and Clojure wasn't released until 2007. There's your difference, I think. I still see Clojure as having a strong chance of becoming a major language. The language itself is relatively stable now, and the I've noticed the community shift towards making it easier for newcomers to get started and improving documentation.
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Salman Rushdie has called her "a weird woman who seems to feel the need to alternately praise and spank".[9] In a June 2005 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, author Norman Mailer criticized Kakutani as a "one-woman kamikaze" who "disdains white male authors" and deliberately "bring[s] out your review two weeks in advance of publication. She trashes it just to hurt sales and embarrass the author." Mailer also said that The New York Times editors were "terrified" of Kakutani, and "can't fire her" because she's "a token", "an Asiatic, a feminist".[10] Jonathan Franzen called her “the stupidest person in New York”[11] and an "international embarrassment".[12] Moreover, in recent years, Kakutani's particularly harsh reviews of books by famous authors (for example, John Updike's The Widows of Eastwick[13]) are followed by usually milder or decidedly positive reviews of the same titles by other Times reviewers.[14]

-- From Wikipedia.
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That is an interesting wide political vision of how the current society could change into something a lot better by following an idea. It also sounds a bit like Frederick Engels. Good read, anyways.
No they won't. Twitter was doing this sort of stuff for the longest time and no matter how many warnings were given, people still hacked away at the nth Twitter app and they would've continued to had Twitter not imposed those limitations on their API.
Copyright subsists automatically in the 'work' provided it meets the definition in the Copyright Act.

The license itself may be entirely separate from copyright. It can restrict your rights under copyright, or it can grant you more rights (provided that they own it), or it can restrict you from doing things not related to the copyright at all. The license is merely a contract. It's important to know that it's a contract, because there are legal protections and doctrines that apply only to contracts (i.e. the meeting of the minds).

On physical products sometimes it is located on the packaging (i.e. "shrinkwrap" contracts) - last time I opened a Microsoft Office DVD (not that recently) it was still printed on the package. Most software nowadays have their license agreements in the installation procedure, where you click "I Agree". For music/DVDs, sometimes that is less clear (sometimes there is no license at all). If there is no license, you are still bound by copyright law - that is, if you copy it, you're infringing the reproduction right, etc.
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I think you are taking his comment too literally.

From the part he quoted, it is clear he is saying that Leo is still working hard rather than simply relaxing, as the analogy would suggest.
> You either have to compromise on users or on developers.

Developers are users.

> There are either strings attached as in GPL or there are not, as in BSD.

From the way you're phrasing this, it's clear you miss the free software paradigm altogether. There are no strings attached. The ability for some users to limit other users' freedoms isn't one of the four freedoms.
Copyright infringement occurs when you infringe on the (exclusive) right to copy, hence the name. Stealing DVDs doesn't create new copies, therefore it doesn't violate its copyright.
Here's a good talk from Rich Hickey about the underpinnings, mechanisms, and rationale behind reducers: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Clojure-Reducers. I highly recommend it.

As he says, it's based off of some concepts from Enumerator/Iteratee, which AIUI originated or was explored initially in the Haskell space: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Enumerator_and_iteratee. I found Hickey's presentation a lot easier to understand.
A little bit more info here:

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Oh you mean the GitHub that is having a scheduled maintenance right now? :D
And this is why I use Google Code: supports git and is more reliable than Github.

It's a shame that they don't offer a paid service for closed-source software.
The title doesn't properly summarize the article.

He is just saying that because Haxe can target WebGL, he could now dump Flash when performance of WebGL is good enough.
I have a Retina MacBook at work and it is the biggest deal for me since the switch to LCDs. For the first time ever, I cannot see the pixels! The curves are just curved, the gradients are just gradients, the text is just.... text. It's as sharp as if it were printed. It's like the computer is a Hollywood movie prop - the experience of looking at text on a monitor and not seeing pixels is that strange. The machine feels like something dropped in from the future. Every other computer display suddenly looks a bit old-fashioned.
I appreciate the response. While I agree that there is no assignment currently present in the CLA or SGA, the preamble makes me think it once did have one. Searching deeper I do find that the ASF _requires_ you to list the Apache Foundation as the copyright holder: http://apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#notice

As for for the legal role of the NOTICE file, I think there may be more complexity than that. Here, for example, we find Lawrence Rosen and Roy Fielding (among others) discussing what must go in NOTICE instead of in LICENSE: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-62
A placebromotion, if you will.
Well this is fucked up - punishing people for not doing anything wrong.
Indeed, I can punch you in the face or stab you to death, but that's okay because you can punch me back, right?

Freedom is funny that way.