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Here is an editorial from a couple of years ago by a couple of professors echoing this idea:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/opinion/24conley.html
I agree. The control in the demo looks cumbersome.

I've come to the conclusion that touchscreen devices have a lower information throughput than traditional desktop machines. Relative to a mouse, the touchscreen is inaccurate, unreliable, and (using it) blocks your view more. You can't rely on there being a hard keyboard, and if there is one, you can't rely on it being big and comfortable enough to use at high speeds.

So it's hard for me to imagine, even in principle, how you'd port something like Starcraft. It uses almost all of the desktop's information throughput -- two or three mouse buttons and most of the keyboard keys going like mad the whole game -- and you just don't have that kind of bandwidth on a touch screen.

I would love to see a Real Strat on a touch device -- not just a lot of tower defense games. But I think you'd have to do a lot more than port what we have. You'd have to go back to the beginning, back before Warcraft, when they were still figuring out how to make the controls work on a PC, and reinvent the genre for touch screen.

Touch screen games seem biased toward the turn-based and the scripted, rather than the real-time and manually controlled. Perhaps, with a lot of scripting and game redesign, RTSs could survive that transition, but I think they'd come out looking pretty different.
If you really believe that the populace are so stupid as to think that they can get services without paying for them, why would they not elect representatives that promise the same thing?

Representation rather than direct democracy does not help at all here.
Not many people believed me when I told them iPad 3 will actually be slower than an iPad 2 when all apps become "retina-ready". They were too excited hearing about "quad core graphics" in all headlines, to pay attention to that. And with iPad 4, Apple barely reached the performance of iPad 2.

Another thing that got affected was storage space, with apps becoming 2-4x larger, yet Apple keeping the $500 iPads with only 16 GB, even with the latest generation.
Nope definitely not computer generated.

I seriously recommend getting professional voice overs. Originally the demo was narrated by myself, but having a professional do it makes a HUGE difference. If I showed you the same video with my voice, you would laugh :)
I'm not sure what's so flawed. I've been developing for over a decade. And the more senior you get.. the more languages are simply syntax.

When I hire a senior developer, I'm hiring their senior thinking and senior analysis abilities, not their ability of having worked with one particular syntax or framework.

Senior ultimately means built, scaled, and managed a code base that you have a relationship with for more than 1-3 years.

I would guess than many Rails developers have not had a deep relationship with a large Rails codebase for many years, but may have with other languages, so it's where I was coming from.
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The logo/icon is weak, it does need to be replaced. (and will be)
Background:
1. Loads of people have iDevices in China.
2. It's hard to get a credit card in China.
Good point, expect this feature a week on friday. (11th Jan)
You don't have to design a work process such that failure of one deliverable jeopardizes the work down stream. Alternative is to make an asynchronous process - for each spent you only schedule to build things which don't depend on incomplete work. If there is something you need before you start on a particular work item, you schedule that prerequisite you need as a work item in itself, and then only schedule the downstream work when all prerequisites are complete.

You can't make all jobs like this, but that's hardly the point - lots of jobs can be like that, and they aren't only by choice.
Switzerland is just over 2.6% the size of the U.S. and much, much more homogenous a culture. They're not remotely comparable.
likely less distracted, and more civil (in my experience anyway). but it varies by subreddit/topic I guess.
Ask HN: I need a full featured open-source HTML5 media player that runs on JS.
I need a full featured open-source HTML5 media player that runs on JavaScript. I will be serving the content from a Node.js server.
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a) http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=express%20js%2C%20rub...
b) http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=javascript%2C%20ruby%...
I think state level misses the point. The underlying ideology is applicable at all levels, which is that a representative can better represent fewer people rather than more people. You trade off accuracy of representation for protection against popular interests. Currently, we are at an absurd extreme in terms of human history (one president for 320 million, then in Cali its 1 senator per 25 million people).

We already have governmental overhead of 1 person on public payroll for every 6 people. I figure you could easily have 1 direct representative per 1,000 people if you change the system to an elector tree like the old US Senate rather than direct voting for too many positions.

Also, +1 for username 😉
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But then you assume nobody wants to use the default browser... Safari is a super decent browser on the Mac, its multi-touch support is more functional and less fiddly than Chrome's. I actively prefer it. And I make websites for a living.
Assuming successful election, a large number of people would have shown interest in this, and those people could be engaged through a variety of outlets to vote. Senators also have a sizeable budget to send mail for free to voters.

Senators have access to a list of registered voters, which could help curb fraud.
An inflatable torus might be a good way to create a friendly working environment for further construction, but further construction will be required. There're still the issue of docking to worry about, and you get new problems when you allow inhabitants to move around an arc; some active system is required to ensure that, as people and equipment move about, other stuff gets adjusted to ensure that the center of rotation always remains at the center of the torus. Otherwise, it will start to wobble, resulting in different gravity levels around the torus and inducing stretching force along some axis. If the balance is successfully restored (and the station does not tear itself apart) but not quickly enough, then you have vibration damping issues to worry about.

These problems become less severe as you make the structure large and larger (and thus the mass of the inhabitants less significant), but larger structures are of course more difficult and more expensive to construct.
Right you are. I am not at all arguing for using any of those languages. I too think automatic buffer overrun checking is the sort of thing a true C replacement should not have.

Nor should it have _even more_ idiosyncrasies like C++ or automatic memory management or even a runtime (so no rust).

You bring to light the painful question, who is going to do it? Language designers are far too keen on fancy features. All C replacements that have been suggested in the past decade, Java, Go, Rust, Vala, rely on runtimes that take away true control in trade for features like typesafety, memory management and security.

The person who is going to be the creator of the next C has to be a hero in an epic tale, first he should grow up with clean comfortable languages like C#, Ruby or Haskell, but then dark times will force uncomfortable languages like C and C++ on him. But the rough times will make him stronger, and in the end he will slay the dragon with a tool that unifies his love of comfort with the cold pragmatic of bare metal code.

Someone should make a movie out of it ;)
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Currency pledges to the IMF are not foreign aid.

Some ministers may have asked Britain to stop providing development assistance, but programs are still being coordinated with Indian ministries and assistance being delivered. At least according to the first link, the 280m pounds is hardly 'peanuts', considering it is targeted development aid that may well have a far greater impact on those it helps, for particular issues they are addressing, than the current government spending.
Thinking of your cause, these two organisations come to mind: http://pystar.org/ and http://www.blackgirlscode.com/
I'm sure there are many others like these, though.
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I'm curious about what changes have you noticed when enabling CloudFlare, and whether you considered PageSpeed as well. Do tell?
It is a terrible idea. Too many decisions would be based upon an over-reacting emotional response to the latest disaster. The Patriot Act is one such stupid response that happened right after 9-11.

Direct democracy permits the majority to trounce the rights of the minority.

A better answer would be that candidates for public office could only accept campaign contributions from registered voters in the candidate's district. This would beholden the candidate to his voters.
It does give more targets to potentially get an insider into office, but the benefit gained by corrupting you local congressman by lets say forcing him to learn clojure is now limited as he is only responsible for .0003125 of the congressional power. If you managed to convert your congressman to be a lisp hipster you would control .001 of the congress ( and potentially more due to the current power arrangement )
I like this. I need to put it somewhere as a constant reminder.
Given that mobile photo sharing has been done to death, I'd be interested to hear what you think makes Pixit a significantly better solution than all the other apps out there for some usecase.

(Not trying to sound confrontational--it's just not a space that I thought had much more innovation left in it, so I'm curious to hear what you've come up with.)
Yeah that's the point I was trying to make. CF turned me onto Olympic lifting and after awhile, I just really learned to love Oly lifting but lose my devotion to CF.
From a usability perspective WS-Federation is far superior to BrowserId. Not least because BrowserId is hobbled by the browser, whereas WS-Fed works across any platform, any architecture (native desktop/phone/tablet, browser, cloud ...), any OS.
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I can understand how cultural homogeneity could impact the decision-making process (though Switzerland is a country of four official languages, so it's not that homogeneous), but I don't see how size matters. Care to elaborate?
Even though a balanced budget is in everyone's general interest, it is often specifically against a huge number of people's interest. Direct democracy of the kind Hollingsworth is putting forward is possibly an improvement, but it doesn't solve the issue of people voting for other people to pay.
interesting... tell me more
do you mean something like http://flowplayer.org/ ?
I've been maintaining this schedule for the past year and consistently tweaked it before then to find the schedule that resulted in the greatest productivity -- this was it.
I heartily support this idea; however, the problem I see is that the secret ballot is not enforced, either in the process, or through the threat of legal enforcement.

If I can reliably observe someone voting, even with their consent, votes can be influenced through purchase or coercion. And unless new laws get passed to cover online pseudo-voting, such things wouldn't even be illegal, and I could roll around poor-income neighborhoods with a bullhorn advertising $10 per vote.

It's a solvable problem, and maybe I'm overstating the risk, but I think it's a problem worth paying attention to while pursuing these (worthwhile) experiments.
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There's a theater one town over, population about half of that (edit: 1/3- it was 960 as of 2011). They've been doing pretty well, better than ten years ago even! Their prices are the same as every other theater (the next one being 45 minutes away), but now they have a gallery and cafe upstairs. Before any previews start, they play a slideshow of ads for local businesses. A subscription sounds nice, but I think the only way it could really work is if people actually want to be there, in which case all those other improvements become twice as helpful.
Indeed, it might be a good idea to have 2/3 separate threads for US/Europe/Asia... or US/Rest of the world since postings regarding jobs in Europe are hardly visible at all.
I also believe that this is the wrong solution, but I agree with the spirit of it. The people need a voice on individual laws, but the vast majority of the American public will not (and should not have to) educate themselves on the ins and outs of every issue brought before the legislative branch.

I think the right solution would be to allow the public to overturn laws. Let the House and Senate do their jobs, but enable an electronic voting system by which the public can automatically overturn any law that enough of the public feels is wrong at any time. This is a more balanced approach, and would also curtail the divisiveness that we see in our political system. The public wouldn't spend the time in between elections either pouting about or praising the results of the last election. Instead they could put their energy toward helping us craft a better country regardless of who is in office.
I think the real issue here is that most people don't understand /how/ to use MongoDB.

The best use case for MongoDB is as a document store. I can essentially cache numerous MySQL requests into a compiled set of useful information. Especially if the information changes somewhat infrequently, then instead of running MySQL requests for every page load I can pull the information from MongoDB. In most cases when I use MongoDB, its not as a persistent data store, but as a "compiled" data store.

MongoDB also has some useful set operations.

I for one don't believe that MongoDB is /directly/ competing with MySQL, Postgres, etc. but rather enhances these databases.
While this is a wonderful book, I don't think it will give you superpowers.
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The theater in my hometown[1] took a different approach. About 3 years after its original closing in 2000 due to money issues, it was reopened as a nonprofit volunteer-run theater. Since then it has been successful enough to have been able to refurnish the seating and other parts of the theater, upgrade to a digital projector, and provide sponsorships and scholarships to the community.

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Politicians don't really poll what everyone wants. They poll to see how to boost their numbers for a specific group, such as NRA or unions. They now that certain people will always vote for them.
Nice catch, updated!
What you didn't take into account is that getting .1% control of anything would be a major coup for us in the lisp world :-p
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I guess writing is still a poor form to record the whole spectrum of human emotions. Until we find a way to do that, context would necessarily have to be lost.

If only there was a way to make a person relive the same "memory" or "experience", like a Pensieve[1]

[1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pensieve#Pensieve
> I could roll around poor-income neighborhoods with a bullhorn advertising $10 per vote.

I'm pretty sure lobbying is socially acceptable.
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Hollingsworth would be running against Jeff Merkley, considered one of the more liberal members of the Senate, who won in 2008 by just 3 points. Essentially, he'd be running as a spoiler for the GOP.
"14 is the smallest even number n with no solutions to φ(m) = n."

(http://www2.stetson.edu/~efriedma/numbers.html)
This isn't a paradox. It's simply a proof that all natural numbers are interesting, if we accept the premises. We shouldn't accept the premises, because there really is a real paradox lurking around the corner, but this isn't it.

The paradox occurs when we replace "natural number" by "ordinal". Then the same line of reasoning demonstrates that all ordinals must be interesting. But surely there can only be countably many interesting ordinals! (Because "interesting" is really code for "definable".) Which shows what the real problem in the premises were -- we failed to distinguish between definable in some particular theory and definability in the meta-theory.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_paradox
A 3am wake up time is crazy impressive, puts my 5am wake up to shame. Really like the recommendation of the review in the evenings.

I too have found that when I don't review and clearly lay out what I'd like to accomplish that day (or week), I tend to work just to work -- another post in and of itself. :)
Totally agree. I've been building a rails web app and have been trying to work out how to do the PR. I'd be super keen to see your site cater for the web and not just iPhone.

Also, love the design. Clean, crisp and very simply and elegantly tells your story. Well done.