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Agreed for some things. But in most languages it's one line to send an email, sms, gtalk message etc. I honestly couldn't believe they were trying to charge for email sending or other messages that do not cost money to anyone?

Best of luck to them, but pass.
What's wrong with the noprocrast setting? Just set it to keep you away for at least 5 hours at a time. It can't be overridden anymore, which is sweet.
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We use it and it's awesome. Pricing isn't too bad either.
Agreed. I hope they know something we don't :)
The license situation with this game is interesting. Carmack based this new port on an updated "Redux" version of his original codebase which is under GPL, so the resulting iPhone game is under GPL as well. But the iPhone user cannot benefit from the free license: although the source is available, it's not possible to install a freshly compiled version of the game on the device.

I suppose that someone could submit a free version of the app to the App Store, but Apple would probably reject it as a duplicate. (I'm not sure if Wolf3D includes artwork or other external assets that are not GPL'd. If so, then a free version would have to provide replacements for those assets, which would essentially make it a different game.)

Here's a question which I would love to have answered: does the "anti-tivoization clause" in version 3 of the GPL prevent the distribution of a GPLv3 application on an iPhone-style closed platform? Or is "tivoization" strictly limited to code that's shipped with hardware?
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Open source at it's best:

1. original developer releases project as open source

2. 3rd party developer ports to OpenGL

3. years later original developer ports OpenGL version to iPhone

4. releases result as open source.
Thanks for the answer, spontaneously I would love Xobni to do one thing : automatically integrate the contacts into Outlook's address book.

I might do it wrong but when I compose a new mail, the autocomplete function of Outlook doesn't show me contacts from whom I have received a mail.

Xobni could add those contacts without having me to manually do it, it would save me some time. By the way if you can make the autocomplete function work better... (allow me to enter a last name instead of the begining of the email or the first name).
Or: "3 euros a month is too much". 10c per day -- too much!
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"Can mathematics unlock the secrets of x?" seems to be equivalent to "does science work?"
> Are they just wrapping web apps inside a WebKit window with a special javascript library?

I'd be curious to hear what they're doing too.

It's doubtful you'll see Hecl for the iphone, as I'm not interested in platforms that are that restricted, don't allow interpreters, and in any case, it's based on Java. It does, however, run on all the zillions of J2ME phones that are out there, even if they're not the 'latest and greatest' thing.
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Good idea! ;)
Lots of 'alert()' popups when I click on things eg "null:6:4"

Don't understand what I should be doing...

Looks like a good start though :)
I don't think you are ready for this game to be reviewed. Mainly because I could not make the game do anything except tell me NULL:2:2 in an alert popup.
I think you can override it by logging out of HN (no commenting then, but you can still read).
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Taking into consideration how the U.S. came into existence, it's understandable that helping one's community is deeply ingrained in American culture.

However, your argument that people who had this tendency came to America and the other stayed in Europe does sound sketchy. I am an engineer, not an historian, but if I remember right, the ones who came to America were the starved, and the persecuted. If you were an aristocrat in England or the Netherlands in the 16th, 17th or 18th century, why would you bother to risk your pleasant life of luxury and debauchery to cross the Atlantic in a fragile vessel?
I really like the game design. It is simple and really fits a board game.

That said I don't know what I'm supposed to do. And I only got pieces to move once. Now I only get error messages.
Could fire once but now only error messages ... and one squad went under another.

Will be looking to play again when fixed.
Unprofitable firms and crippled fianancial insitituions are a libability to the economy. Proping them up with stolen taxpayer money is not a sound way to run an economy.

Profit and loss exists for a reason, they finetune the allocation of resource to ones we find most efficent. If we don't allow the bust to run the course, than we will be less prosperous in the long run.

Beside, this is not the end of the world. We suffered worser recession like the recession of 1921.(Yes, worser than the Great Depression) Then the 1920s became the roaring 20s.
What motivates you? Money? Or is it like climbing Mount Everest, "dealing with the hardest API on earth" or something like that?
Some people study a subject they are interested in, and not one that might make them better off.

I've met my share of smart people that are unhappy or bored out of their skulls, because they pursued a career for "socioeconomic status". Me included.
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Technically literate or not? If yes, I can give you some links to some areas where you could address these sorts of people directly and get some ideas from the horse's mouth, so to speak.
this is the link: http://web.mit.edu/alexmv/6.001/
I did even better - "NULL:NaN:NaN"

I'd be more than happy to review your game, but in addition to debugging, please include instructions!
videolectures.net has the problem of insisting on displaying stuff in the browser, which sucks. I want to download things and watch them on my ipod or iphone (or Plex media center), without being chained to my computer screen.

Choosing "windows media", a proprietary format, for an open site with lectures is extremely annoying.
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Wearable systems like this can be in the shops in just a year. The 3M projector used in this demo was made available only a year ago, but several phone makers have already started making projector phones. The next step is simply to add a mirror to the projector, attach a string so it can hang around the neck and start write some software for it.

It probably won't be as hugely successful as the iPhone, but for many users it will be very useful.
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Hello!

We're from Russia and getting a US visa turns out to be a much longer process than we expected. Now we're rather sure it won't be ready by April 17th.

I understand that the interview is crucial for making better investment decisions, therefore the question – does it make sense to apply for us?
You forgot a third good option: customers. No doubt it feels good to make something people want.
I think a lot of the points are good, but the wording is dangerously wrong on some:

"Wrong: Find people to work for your for free and let them do as they please | Right: Selectively recruit people to work on your team for free and tell them exactly what they should be doing"

Yes, you have to find the right people. Even those working for free might be too expensive if they hurt your overall progress. And their interests have to be perfectly aligned with yours, so that even when left alone they produce good, useful results. But this comes off a bit as permission to micromanage, which would kill any normal hacker.

The emphasis on results is well placed though - in my experience, people crossing over into startup life don't always realize that "hours worked" doesn't equate to anything really useful. It all comes down to the progress made. Big companies can afford to estimate the average production per hour for a given employee and pay appropriately, and then take some time to see if it works out. Startups don't financially or strategically have that kind of leeway for key employees.
Is there any way to find out what the original URL was on "dead" items? There really should be a way, even if it's some crazy tiny nofollow link someplace ;-) (I can Google in this case, but that's not always true.)
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Depends on the assignment?

Basic programming? I am working on that:
http://www.spoj.pl/AKADEMIA/

(note: Polish only)
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I watched this as a child and still remember his example for the 3d apple interacting with the 2d world!
I have recently tried to rent this in the uk from lovefilm but it is unavailable.
So I was very happy to find it here only to be disappointed that it is unavailable to me in the uk.

On a purely theoretical basis how might I go about viewing this?
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Great, another attempt to standardize something with no existing implementations. I predict it'll go the way of ECMAScript 4, SVG 2 and HTML 5.
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That is actually one of the better intros I have seen, which surprised me some-what (there are quite a lot of introductions to git now!). Possibly I've just used git enough by now -- albeit not intensively -- that it was easy to follow, but I completely agree with his contention that you have to understand the repository format to understand git, and he does a good job of of covering that in context.

Scott Chacon's gitcasts included a keynote he gave which also has a good explanation of the repository and how it works: http://www.gitcasts.com/posts/railsconf-git-talk. He has a peepcode book covering the same material, which I bought out of appreciation for gitcasts at the time.
I noticed this too. In one of the admissions tour groups passing by, I heard the guide comment that it was probably a Literature convention.

So I suppose beards either mean lit gurus or lisp hackers.
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It's definitely all for the users.

But!, I think our engineering team has a secret love affair with the code. There's some pretty fun stuff going on under the covers. I'll give three quick examples..

1) Xobni's data store sits strictly underneath the sidebar code in the stack. It was originally built to support Xobni Analytics, our first product from 2006 that bombed. Fortunately we got to leverage the same data store when creating the Xobni sidebar.

It's very cool. When someone is building software leveraging our backend, say the sidebar, or the Invite Your Friends feature, the code ends up looking like this:

foreach(var mail in new MailIterator()) {
Console.WriteLine(mail.Subject);
}

This code will print 10k subjects per second, from disk! And it's from a key-value store, so it's easy to add new data fields and types.

2) Not only that, but the data store is built to be client agnostic above "layer 1" where we interface with the mail client. So when we wanted to integrate Yahoo Mail all we had to do was build the adapter piece that knew how to speak Yahoo's language, and suddenly the mail floats all the way up the stack and appears in the sidebar right next to Outlook emails. :-)

3) The areas where we display information from Facebook, LinkedIn, etc are all little embedded instances of Internet Explorer. The code for those extensions is all just HTML and Javascript. When the user changes the current email we invoke a specific JS function called updatePerson(), and there's a callback object the JS can use to make HTTP calls and write lines to the log file. This architecture, which was invented by someone smarter than me, allows us to pump these babies out quickly and without much QA risk to the other parts of the program.

It just doesn't get any cooler than this!!!!

(Commercial: if you're a developer and are interested in being part of the team, send your resume to jobs@xobni.com!)
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Worked for me after an intial NULL:2:2 error.

Some instructions (there's plenty of chrome on the RHS to put them in) would be handy. The game would be improved immensely by having some sound effects too. The objective wasn't at all clear nor how to improve the chances of defeating the opponent - I did notice a "woods modifier" mentioned on one turn.

I'd do single left-click to select the troops, have a cursor move then with the mouse movement highlighting the cell that is active, then single left-click to reposition them or to fire. That would remove the need to click a button to end your turn at the possible expense of people making a mistake occassionally (though I couldn't move troops back once I'd moved them anyway).

That said, I don't really care for games like this.

HTH

pbhj
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For someone like me that has never played this kind of game, I have no clue what to do. I don't even know which color is my team. The only thing I can get is NULL messages. I clicked a lot of times on "I am done" to see what happens, nothing moved and then game was over. I expected maybe my ennemy to do some movements. You should really include some help or instructions at start. At this point people will try just a few minutes and won't come back to your game again.
Only the code is open source, the assets would have to all be replaced (he talks a bit about this in the development notes).
Loved the original. Fix the bugs. A. the null messages. B. What happens when you move into the same square.
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The bandwidth necessary to serve Google's minimalist web pages is trivial compared to that to stream music.
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I am also a fan of "Darwinian Capitalism", but AIG and other huge financial institutions aren't called "too big to fail" without a reason. I advocate pragmatism over blind ideology. As much as I would like to see AIG implode, I think one should be careful and take into account what that would imply, and how the shockwave of destruction would affect the rest of the economy. All in all, all I am saying is: analyze the problem, make decisions based on data, not based on gut feelings or dogma.

Last but not least: the financial world in the 1920s was completely different than what it is today. Unfortunately, in Economics experiments are not exactly reproducible. For one reason they call it the dismal science, right?
I have always thought a good business model for sites like academic earth would be to offer tests (using the many test centers around the world) to users to certify them in certain classes.

Kind of like a DIY degree, but verified.
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Your service is _almost_ there - I have no problem to committing to $10/month in pictures as I already spend that, so I am asking for just a little more value. The printing on the back is something my current printer doesn't offer. Will you add date/time picture was taken to anything I put there? The iPhone inserts latitude/longitude into the picture's EXIF data, how about reverse geocoding that and printing a street address. Can I switch the address to where the pictures are sent? Here is my situation: two young kids and two sets of remote grandparents. So I want to save 3 addresses (or more) and decide maybe one month my wife's parents get the prints and maybe next month my parents do.

There is no commitment, is there? Be explicit about when you will charge my credit card so I know the window to cancel the service - the best from my perspective would be charge right before you ship.

I already have my workflow: take pics->upload to online service->send to printing service. Maybe you could grab pictures from my online service, maybe grab ones I have tagged somehow.

You are very close to something very useful, experiment
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Gotta say, that's pretty interesting. I've become very curious recently about "The Botnet" and just exactly what it is, how it is maintained and what resources it relies on/consumes ... which might be ignorance?

Some purists may be against my referring to what is a distributed and loosely organised menagerie of differently compromised systems as a singular entity, but I find it inspiring to think of this as the common enemy that binds the internet civilisation.

I have heard many a deeply fascinating story about the exploits of this web marauder, such as the well known Estonia ddos:
http://tinyurl.com/3ashwk

as well as theories that dispute the controlling agents of the botnet, arguing for and against the autonomy of "The Botnet" itself. With some stating it's defence mechanisms mirror those of immune systems or other organic systems. (not sure where my reference is for that one)

With this being such a massive force on the internet, what do people know of vigilante justice that seeks to control "The Botnet"? I find it hard to believe that the old-school "white hat hackers" would allow themselves to be pushed aside by this mother of all script kiddies!

I had a quick look around and all I could find was this interesting little morsel:
http://tinyurl.com/de4t5l

essentially a distributed proxy shield that (if I'm not mistaken) inverts the tor architecture and incorporates a relatively expensive authorisation to perturb the activity of a botnet attack on a particular server.

But what I'm really looking for is a legitimate attempt to set up some distributed system to attack the botnet itself?

just some food for thought, I thought.
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I'm surprised to see decision trees referenced: they are unsuitable for modeling real-world situations unless _every_ possible alternative can be determined aforehand, something simply impossible for terrorism (or for most human activity, for that matter).
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The network equipment producers use cheapest programmers, which never ever will read Red Book (
http://www.amazon.com/UNIX-System-Administration-Handbook-3r... ), or File System Hierarchy Standard, or any other standard.

My mobile phone (Motorola A1200 with MontaVista Linux) has "root" user with empty password. It was very non-trivial to change password, because root file system is read only. :-)

IMHO, equipment producers should use persons with experience in both programming and administration (like me ;-) ), or use experienced administrators to review embedded systems before they are shipped to end users.

Government should also try regulate minimal acceptable level of security in network-connected devices, because ignorance of these security related problems creates huge risk for everybody. Imagine robots, which are controlled by hackers. Network devices can steal your credit card number and/or open doors for other trojans. Robots can steal your credit card and/or open door for breakers.

See also: "Researchers Demo BIOS Attack That Survives Disk Wipes" http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/23/1248214
I did my MSc project using VRML and Java, At the time most of the implementations were missing large parts of the VRML2.0 spec. It had some nice stuff, like being able to embed a program to create geometry.

Part of the problem was just being a little early with most machines lacking 3D graphics chips, really limiting the type of scene you could create. Today even some peoples phones have 3D chips in them, so that less of a problem.

Having real 3D building without a plugin like live maps currently requires would be nice, I know the mapping provides have the data already. Plus loads of other ideas I've not even thought of. I still feel it will have an uphill battle but really hope I'm wrong
My experience with "stud technologists" is that they never call themselves "stud", "rockstar", "ninja", etc. The truly outstanding developers I have worked with were humble and a little on the shy, geeky side. Some may even have had Asperger's, which made socializing difficult.
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Good tutorial. I think this is a more meaningful approach than e.g. trying to explain git in terms of SVN, because that reminds the reader of too much conceptual baggage, only to note later that it's largely irrelevant now.

It's actually a relatively simple model, when you focus primarily on the data structures.
Perhaps books will still be published? As far as I know, SICP gets sold as a book despite being open access.