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Surely the price of Lego will plummet if 3D printing ever lives up to its promise.
> Microcenter sells one @ $399 with the same warranty

No, according to your link Microcenter is selling with a one year warranty. The OP article indicates Monoprice will use a three year warranty.

I wonder how likely a monitor like this is to fail in year two or three.
Oh, this was back when we were tired of supporting 640x480, hence the message of "best viewed on 800x600" :)
I think you mean 50% of something is better than 100% of nothing. :-) Same dif though, I guess.
1. 50/50 partnerships are absolutely dreadful for conflict resolution.

2. $3000 for marketing is nothing and will most likely get little results even if op is a marketing guru which does not appear to be the case.
Interesting article, but did nothing to explain the cost, it merely assumed that tight measurements means they would be that expensive or why they wouldn't keep getting better and better at making them such that the cost would go down over time.
One provider of "next-generation" firewalls that do this is Palo Alto Networks:

http://www.paloaltonetworks.com/products/features/decryption...

It works for SSH too, if you are not careful about host keys and fingerprints.
Also note that "Middle class" doesn't translate well between British and American English.
Better advice:

make sure you have Gemfile and Gemfile.lock checked into git so you can rollback if necessary. Then type "bundle update rails".

rvm gemsets are not necessary for bundler controlled apps.
Very cool! Is it just me, or has the web kind of gone full circle?
Our brains love to use profanity, but we don't want AI that imitates our brain to use profanity?
Thankyou for changing my perspective. I've used a fair few high level programming languages, but it's time to get closer to the metal.
Actually, I think the "chromosomal difference" that will pull some companies ahead and leave some in the dust is open allocation. See: http://www.quora.com/Software-Development-Methodologies/What... . This is related to telework because project allocation is one of the first things to fail in a badly-designed distributed company (the main hub takes all the interesting work for itself).

Remote work I have mixed views of, because it's obviously a good thing in the abstract, but I also think there are major benefits to having people eat lunch together and discuss ideas through informal channels. Also, having a culture where some people cannot participate in those benefits, but others do, is, I think, problematic. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that completely distributed companies do better than semi-distributed ones. I'm glad to see it becoming more common, though.
Doesn't this ...

> However, there is a flip side. Although startups (and some incumbents) are working hard to bring the whole travel decision funnel online, most group travel still happens through travel agents — much of it offline.

contradict the very next sentence?

> A recent survey conducted by Travel Weekly and TravelAge West found that nearly 80 percent of travel agents booked 10 or fewer groups in 2010. So, all in all, groups account for a relatively small portion of bookings.
(In this case, "immutable" is not just a property of the function, but the exact keyword you must use while defining the function.)
MyPaint and Krita are actually both great programs for digital painting. David Revoy is an artist who uses both (and also created one of the brush sets for MyPaint) and his work is worth looking at: http://www.davidrevoy.com/2-portfolio.html

He has a number of tutorials available on his site too: http://www.davidrevoy.com/4-tutorials.html

I believe he also uses Gimp with the Gimp Paint Studio presets for some things: http://code.google.com/p/gps-gimp-paint-studio/
In addition, walk down a toy aisle some time. Lego sets aren't cheap but relative to toys in general "legos are expensive" feels more like truthiness to me than truth.
MSSQL calls them filtered indexes. Best thing since sliced bread.
If you follow the issue tracker the octane boost they've chosen is the exception rather than the rule. Other benchmarking tools indicate worse performance.

Having just ran browsermark on both browsers, new chrome got ~100 pts better.
>the government ability to set prices for another corporation makes it a little bit less like a corporation, and a little bit more like a government run

There is nothing inherent in the definition of corporation saying that corporations are 'more corporatey' when left unrestricted by an external legal system. In fact the only way a corporation (a legal entity) can exist is within a legal framework. That is, corporations can't exist without being regulated into existence.

>Governments dictating prices of textbooks would be a step toward communism

No, if anything it would be shifting the socialism/capitalism balance towards the former. Regulating a market price isn't making a claim on ownership of the means of production, and so has nothing to do with communism.

The US government sets price floors on almost every crop produced in the country. Nobody claims this to be communism or a step towards communism, because it isn't. Price guarantees are a transfer of wealth from non farm-owning taxpayers to farm owners, which is an economic policy rooted in socialism. Price-setting for textbooks or diamonds would also be a policy rooted in socialism.

If your argument is that any socialist policy inevitably leads to communism, then I don't know what to tell you. Do you really think the USG has communism in mind as an end goal?
A better heroku db:push and db:pull
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CNET parent CBS bans Dish from CES awards
I came here to post the exact same thing. Those are some funny comments!
Framework aspiring to solve HTML5 woes
Terrific post, right on every single count. But ...

There's a lot of people out there who think they have got the massivest bestest idea since Zuck's IPO and it will only take a good programmer a couple of days to implement this awesome idea and then they'll be rolling in it.

So your startup shark is P T Barnum's great great grandson ... and cashing in on $8000 here and $8000 there and before you know it he's got the best gig going.
I think it is missing mentioning that these are home-based travel agents so that they have very few bookings in total for the year, but that there are many home-based travel agents.
this is exactly how many modern frameworks do it. your response body is assembled and cached as your application executes, along with any variables it needs, and before the template is rendered the variables are sanitized.
3D Printing A Human Kidney
Cells Derived From Embryonic Stem Cells Rebuilt an Artery
How so? I can't imagine printing your own bricks will ever be cheaper that mass production.
i really doubt 3d printers will make pieces of the quality of lego pieces any time soon. (i'd be very happy to be proven wrong, of course!)
No. Not at all. I think it's too shallow for anyone to be fooled by it though.
Sure, but the materials costs would almost certainly exceed that of the equivalent lego set (for now).
Is your startup costing you your life?
Developing on a production server
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Here's the writeup at the wirecutter:

For months, people who know what’s up have been buying Cheap Korean 27-inch monitors because they’re made from the same panels as high end monitors. But for a third of the cost. Monoprice is selling 2560×1440 IPS monitors for $390, in that same spirit. They use the same LG panels as the 27-inch iMac (except Apple only takes the best; these are the rest), but Monoprice is offering a 3 year warranty and they check every panel for dead pixels–most Korean monitors, which are imported or sold on ebay, don’t do that.

http://thewirecutter.com/2013/01/some-future-gadgets-id-mayb...
You're conflating different issues.

A browser based on an open-source codebase with many people auditing its source-code and network traffic (there was much paranoia about Chrome when it was released). And even in that case, you have the choice to use a completely open-source browser that has a different stance on user privacy (Firefox).

An NPAPI plugin that can be easily disabled.

A third-party BOX MITM all your secure connections without your knowledge.

I don't think the above are comparable in magnitude.
I am not sure I grasp your point entirely. Could you rephrase or reiterate this idea?
problems should be solved by describing a linear sequence of steps (as opposed to logic/declarative programming)

Linear sequences of steps processing data arrayed in some linear fashion or others is what computers do. It is certainly what a single core does.

So you would rather have someone else write a C program for you that abstracts it away and calls it a new way to program? That's k, just know that you'll still have those pesky linear steps under the hood. You know, at some point the neat source you write actually has to get converted into stuff CPU can make the slightest bit of sense out of.

Of course it's nice to try to "get the computer think like the programmer instead of the other way around" (kind of the motivation for the inventor of the compiler IIRC, in times when people really had to "speak binary" to the computer), but it also kinda sucks when people completely loose track of the machine they're programming, and think their abstraction layers du jour grow on trees or something.

a variable can have different values at different times in the execution of a program (in contrast to standard mathematical conventions)

Your problem is nomenclature? Why not simply declare constant variables where you need them and move on? And are you really trying to twist C giving you the choice into "forcing preconceived notions" on programmers? That is hilarious, I will give you that much.

a function can return different results when called multiple times with the same arguments (again, in contrast to the standard mathematical meaning of the term)

"Function" can also mean a lot of people coming together for a wedding or something. I think that's why you would call them "C function" if you wanted to be precise.

there is random access storage of information (with constant time access and update)

Again, that's just how "the world" works. But C hardly came up with that, which is why all languages have it.. yes, all of them. Some abstract it away from you, sure, but they still have it. So you pay overhead and control "tax" in return for convenience and and expressiveness; that's not a bad thing per se, often it's the sane and productive choice, but to me dissing C is just shitting where you eat. The only reasons I can imagine for it are jealousy or ignorance.
There was a reddit comment the other day answering the exact same question. The person worked in a factory that cast plastic pieces for Lego as well as other companies. He said that Lego had much, much tighter tolerances, that they threw away many more pieces which weren't made to spec, and that they required much more expensive and frequently replaced molds.

I can't find it at the moment, unfortunately...
I get what he's saying, however I'm divided. If you truly enjoy all that goes into a startup, or even you career/job, is it all that bad?
Meh, for the traveling programmer probably weights a ton.

I've got a 23" LG here, weighs 6.5 lbs. with adapter ;-)

Of course, if I was rooted in one place, I would love 2 27" monitors, the more screen real estate the better
> The social necessity of implementing a decent C compiler may have stifled our architecture development

the idea that specific requirements of c had started driving architecture development blew my mind the first time i came across it. it is still a point that does not get discussed nearly enough at a popular level.
This might sound fairly stupid, but I always thought longevity had something to do with price. It's plastic, and will last many, generations.

This might also be why they keep coming up with new shapes for blocks.

ps.: longevity assumes one doesn't use ones teeth to pry apart blocks.
Do they have to educate their customers as to the meaning of terms like "SSL" and "encryption" as well? Otherwise many won't know what to make of it.
It was hypothetical; why would I own a Maroon 5 album to start with? Jokes aside, I mostly mean that if they treat the disks as fungible you don't know what condition you'll get it back in, which might matter for certain albums.
Would it be legal to make compatible bricks which are called differently? If so, why is nobody doing it? If not, there is your answer why LEGO is expensive; to quote the dude from Idiocracy, "ohhh, I like money".
I'm not sure why I'm getting sucked into this again :-) but it doesn't have standard, portable libraries. It also doesn't have the right abstractions in the language to provide clean and safe (i.e. no void* and no brittle preprocessor magic) implementations of such.

I've written C for most of my life, you can do great things with it. I also have a love/hate relationship with C++ and Python. There is no perfect language, they all have to make tradeoffs.
Curious as to why you aren't hosting this on github? I would have loved to star it and then come back later.
Meet the 20-year-old woman trapped inside a toddler's body
Also bugsnag.
Yes. See the link to Lego_clones elsewhere on this page.
Stop writing for loops in JavaScript
your web browser might have a feature similar to the github "star", called a bookmark.
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5699
Would be sweet if Apple was developing a quality dumb phone a la iPod Nano or Shuffle. I like my phones small and with the iPad, I don't use my iPhone nearly as much as I used to.
oh so many comments
Fifth marketing, is it really that hard that you have to give away 50% of your stock to do it? You mean to tell me you don't know how Google Adwords works, or how to give a speech at user groups that have an interest in your MVP, or how to create social networking pages for your MVP, or how to make a web page and use SEO to bump it up to the top of Google? You really don't know how to set the pricing strategy, product, promotion, placement, process, and people? You don't even know how to use Vistaprint for cheap Business Cards that you pass out to people in real life and meet them at conventions, business meetings, or just bump into them at sporting events or whatever? You don't know how to contact web sites that do reviews of MVPs and can help promote it? You don't even know how to submit your blog or web site about your MVP to Hacker News?

Interesting to mix very easy (vista print business cards) and very effing hard together and act like it is all one level.

I do, however, agree with the overall article.
Yes, and they are doing it. For example, "Mega bloks" [1].
We have both at home, and in my experience, Mega blocks are interchangeable with Lego.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Brands#Lego_lawsuits
I don't use github. I use cgit and gitolite. I also don't use Google Music or Amazon Music; I use ZX2C4 Music. I don't use Picasa either - I use PhotoFloat http://zx2c4.com/projects/photofloat/ . Pattern? I don't like relying on cloud services I can't maintain myself. Schneier's got some essay out there called "Feudal Security" or the like that's a decent summary of this position.

(I also happen to be the maintainer of cgit...)

Anyway, if you really must have it, I do mirror all my git repos to github as a free backup. Look under my account -- zx2c4.
Nice presentation. Did you use a tool to create the slides?
Ask HN: Would you hire a dropout?
Assume that they
1) Are fully qualified for the position, and
2) Dropped out to purse self-employment/self-education/work, not because they couldn't handle school
Nope. I would love a super thin bezeled screen. Would also help with the minimalist aesthetic.
Hell, I'll pay $5001 for a 50% total ownership of your entire new company and all its developed IP in perpetuity, provided I get to check out your secret idea in advance before deciding.

That's a no brainer, and I'm even being honest about what you're getting, not saying it's $8000 when I'm actually paying $5000 for half of all your labor for however long it takes for you to get it all working, then investing $3000 on some hand wavy "marketing" thing.
Be sure to do a coupon google search if you're using the Dell Store. Everything that I've bought from there has had some 10% or 15% discount voucher which works ON the sale price also
Hadoop Platform as a Service in the Cloud
The way I would put it is: most of the things we call "wisdom" are more like "fashion." It's fashionable to be "in the cloud." It's fashionable to "fail fast." And so on. These are cyclical attributes; one can always find, at the least, an anecdotal situation which demonstrates or disproves their worth. And over a period of time - one year, five years, 30 years - the fashion runs its course, gets replaced by something else, and then gets revived again.

And - the other part of this is - tech businesses, and consequently tech employees, are entirely reliant on staying within the fashion to make their money. Any single product you push out today has a good chance of devaluing within a few years, if the industry as a whole moves on. And so, over and over, part of the fashion cycle is the monopoly play - every company races to monopolize and lock in its users so that it can break through the fashion cycle, sit on the product with old tech, and maximize extraction. But then, some time later, it gets disrupted by a startup, which then proceeds to lock in its users...

Triple-O strategies (open standard, open source, open development) seem to break the fashion cycle in software over the very long-term and force business to move to new categories(a good thing for the global economy, especially with software demand being ever-increasing). This is especially true when an open solution can break out of the "back office" and improve its UX. But one of the big, largely unanswered questions is whether businesses can be given economic incentives to remain open, and whether this phenomenon can escape software and move into hardware.
This. Gemsets seem like an unnecessary step when a specific commit (maybe a tag too?) will do the same thing.
I agree that finding product/market fit first is much more efficient than building a product with unknown market response.
Rocket Internet retreats from parts of Asia, other clones spot an opening
Based on your description, why wouldn't you? If those are your requirements, and a degree is not, then I don't see the problem.
I see from other comments you're from non-London-area England, so excuse my comment - I was thinking of the US or Australia, where demand for programmers could only be described as "red hot".

I'd advise your unemployed CS grad friends to come over here (Sydney) for a working holiday; they'll get work within days if they have in-demand skills (web/ios/android).
my web browser (and the device I am using changes several times a day - so I must store my bookmarks in cloud). Of course, I could use a cloud bookmark service, or cloned the project to github, but as I said, I was just curious :)
Of course it is. But that's beside the point. The fewer servers that I interact with that have giant targets and potential security holes the better.
But everyone sees the tedium. The tedium is obvious. You go in, you sit at a desk all day typing, and you go home. This is obviously not the case for every job, and very simplified, but it's the case in most jobs, and, more importantly, it's the popular conception of programming. The blog posts explain the gold at the end of the rainbow - why programming is enjoyable.

Many people write posts on why exercise is rewarding, yet exercise is often soul-crushingly tedious. Everyone knows about the tedium - it's obvious. The light at the end of the tunnel is not.

It's also pragmatic - people don't want or need to be reminded that coding can be boring, so posts on that don't get as many views. They do exist in large number, however (the best example that comes to mind is the one on how it takes ten years to master programming - don't remember the link off the top of my head).
High-DPI doesn't work in Windows (officially it does work, but if you try it you'll find that every app is broken), so that's effectively an unsellable product.
I would add a question: how many jobs ads are asking for a degree?
He Wrote, "No one ever went broke making a profit." I am pretty sure this covers your concerns about covering your costs.
the replies are interesting (image enhancement, dropping orbit, low angles, synthetic aperture, deformable mirrors, etc.)
Nice! But note Lego tried their best to fight them.. instead of welcoming friends and competition in this huge undertaking of measuring bricks correctly. Those Lego guys must really have figured out some hi-tech stuff there, so much is obvious; and it must weigh hard on their shoulders to not be able to share that with the world through a medium other than selling colored plastic blocks :(
I'll add side towels to the list. They're great for picking up hot things (but not if they are wet!), drying herbs, keeping the bottoms of bowls from sliding around, covering dough while it proofs, cleaning up miscellaneous spills, and tidying up the edges of plates. I like to keep a tall stack of clean ones on the counter, and throw them into a dedicated kitchen hamper as needed.
Very important questions here. Also it's much better to validate the idea before building the product.
A call to save our only home
Virtualization 2.0
What I really like is that he's illustrating that a startup is a LOT more than just writing some code!!!
Another really good piece on pricing is:

http://neildavidson.com/download/dont-just-roll-the-dice/

By @neildavidson
To me is the other way around.

The article assumes that we don't know when any particular piece of knowledge will experiment decay and we can't know until after the fact, just as it would happen with a particular atom in the physics half-life.

The lesson is of course to never assume any current practice is the end-of-all-arguments that never should be contested. Have an open mind for everything.
Redshift ( http://jonls.dk/redshift/ ) is a generally better piece of software with far longer transition times and better configuration options, rather than the abrupt change that f.lux provides.
Depends on the job requirements. For a R&D related or senior position, I might be a little on the edge. School is not just about the degree it has a lot to do with development of the core educational foundations.

Remember anyone can program, not everyone can find a solution.
Sorry to disagree, but I don't think we are going back to seriously think the earth is the center of the universe and it is flat.
lots of theories on price, but none seem to start with the more important question. WHO WILL PAY THE MOST FOR YOUR PRODUCT.
If you sell a vitamin that improves eyesight, are you better off selling it to the mass public, or to hunters to improve their hobby, or perhaps to pilots to extend the life of their career. The value proposition here is vastly different...

Pricing a product should not start with what can I get away with charging, it should start with, WHO DOES THIS PRODUCT CREATE THE MOST VALUE FOR?!
I need to see the Optimus Prime
Debugging Is Twice As Hard
More specifically, it's just the nexus 4 (and 10?).

Does this mean that HTML apps (phonegap etc) will use the chrome engine on the nexus 4?
Dear display industry,

Please please please increase vertical resolution. I look back on the days of 16:10 fondly and wish we could end up back there or better.
Perhaps there is a good chance here to organize a collaborative effort to write open-source (free) textbooks from scratch.