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I liked Far Cry 3, but it is the perfect example of what I was talking about. Far Cry 2 took a lot of risks (and failed in some ways). Far Cry 3 is polished as hell, but basically dumbed down so that anyone can pick it up and play. Objects you should pick up glow and even beep when you look at them. There is a mini map with arrows telling you where to go. There are pop ups constantly telling you what to do. And it is the third game in a franchise. I liked it, but found it very safe.

The Witcher 2 was developed in Poland for ~8million. Great quality from a relatively small company and team. Compare that to Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (I know it is old, but wanted to find citable numbers). $50 million dollar dev budget, and $200 million dollar launch budget according to the LA Times (http://articles.latimes.com/2009/nov/18/business/fi-ct-duty1...). I'm sure the spent lot more on the development the most recent Call of Duty - Black Ops 2.
Norton is not a current advertiser (neither is Bing or Real), assuming Withinrafael is correct about how the Offer Screens are gathered. See his post about how to download & view the offer screens here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5086435

Quoting Rafael: "You'll find they only have 42 current advertisers... and not Norton/others listed on the site."
Look, this is fairly simple.

The names of the top people at Dawson 'College'?

Richard Filion, Director General, Dawson College
Robert Kavanagh, Academic Dean, Dawson College
Diane Gauvin, Dean, Social Science & Business Technology, Dawson College
Ken Fogel, Chairperson, Department of Computer Science, Dawson College
François Paradis, Director of Information Services and Technology, Dawson College

The name of the supposed 'perpetrator'?

Hamed Al-Khabaz

I'd bet an insane amount of money that if the guy had been named something like Stéfane Latrimou, he'd have gotten off far more lightly.
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - So I guess my forever project is learning
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funfact: in the expression "reach exceeds grasp", your reach is what your fingertips can brush, your grasp is what they can wrap around.

The common-sense way of handling impossible projects is to break them down into doable sub-projects: components, layers, aspects etc. Then you can get satisfaction out of completing each of them. A psychological problem I have is accepting these as goals in themselves - if it doesn't do all of the project, it feels like it doesn't count.

However, this is silly of me, because it is still progress. A journey of a thousand miles consists of steps - not just the first one, all of them. And even for a commercial project, an inadequate beginning (that still does something) is beneficial: people love the sense of progress more than everything already done, your updates give you publicity, and give customers a reason to upgrade. Even with regard to competitors, it's good to have room to improve, because when they've copied you, you've moved ahead. If you're already perfect, once they copy you, you've nowhere to go. You're a sitting duck (wrt engineering competitive advantage).

Of course, this article has a more joyful attitude towards such projects. Maybe I should try it.
It sounds like he's being screwed over by the vendor, who forced him to sign an NDA.

To be honest anyone using Acunetix isn't looking to hack into anything. It's an enterprise scanner that looks for general web app issues rather than something that's typically used to conduct actual attacks. You'd expect an actual attack to be conducted with a tool like Havij, Sqlmap, Burp or Zap proxy.
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my forever project, of course, is to build the metaverse. I loved this article because i can reassure myself i am not crazy after all ... or at least that I am in good company :)
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Completing an internship in Hieroglifs Translations will give you an idea of what it's like to work in a team, to have responsibilities, to have deadlines to meet and to be part of an international company. http://www.hieroglifstranslations.ro/en/career/find_internship/
Not strictly true, really. Ygddrasil was a bootable Linux distro on a CD which was available during the '93/'94 period .. I was always pretty sad that they stopped the project. It could've been a contender ..
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Here's mine: http://www.pubsoccermanager.com/ It has gotten really slow in the last year, but I am planning to do something around it full time. Most obviously it would be a game, but I also have a couple of other ideas of how to monetize.
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I actually thought this was about those projects you make for a client that will never end. Clients that keep coming back with more and more changes. Usually accompanied by a Project Manger that's afraid of the client. I ocasionally have nightmares of pressure cookers after working on a terrible website for more than a bloody year.
An admission in writing is not the same thing as a disclosure.

You're using uncorroborated dates in a document that's clearly worded to paint the student in the worst light possible to infer a 'detection' which it doesn't mention and for which there is no evidence. You're then sharing your inference as documented fact. That's a smear.
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Almost all the big EC2 outages have been due to EBS, and you have to pay extra for it as well. Netflix steers clear of it [1].

Does anyone know why Cluster Compute and Cluster GPU Instances [2] (including this new one) make using EBS mandatory?

[1] http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/04/lessons-netflix-learned-...
[2] http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#Does_use_of_Cluster_Compute_...
Good catch, I missed that. Probably still some way off from having PDKs (physical design kits) and a pricing sheet for Nvidia or other random fabless design shops to make their chips.
I love the way the comments have steered into technology nonsense, while the issue has nothing to do with the way in which Heroku screws him over, just the mere fact that they ARE screwing him. Commenters who have suggested 'just pay $35/month for not having 10 second lag' are idiots.

Heroku is a great and easy service, but I find the add-on 'no lag for $35/month' which is what the dyno basically is to the poster, unacceptable. But if most commenters are willing to pay into the hype, go ahead.

Just go with Linode or appfog or something.
I pretty much relate to that. I've started my "Forever project" two weeks ago. And yep - it's a game :-)
Perhaps we need a startup that produces craft to deorbit all the junk...
Holy moly that was tl. I did r, but I regretted it.

The big problem with this article is cherrypicking examples. Even though it contains a list of 120 game companies (yes, tl) that folded between 2006 and 2012, it doesn't set them in context. How many companies are there of which these are a subset? How does this failure rate compare with historical norms? How big are these companies really? Other lists of large budgets, large layoffs, large numbers of units required to break even make similar non-points.

The larger point is that game art is expensive. Will Wright was making the same point with Spore, I would say. The art was so expensive he outsourced it to the cheapest laborers he could find, players. It turned out the tools were better than the game itself; nevertheless I think you have to feel he was on to something.

There is not going to be an asset apocalypse in a world with a Minecraft mod API (Real Soon Now), the Steam Workshops, and procedural generation. Unless you mean the kind of disaster that kills off dinosaurs.

Is AAA gaming unsustainable? Of course it depends on what you mean by AAA. But I think the big studios have an eye on their wallet at all times. They make big games because at the end of the day they are profitable on the average. There is just a wide variance. If a smaller studio has all its money on black on its AAA title, you might wish them luck, but not be completely surprised when their success is raked away.

The AAA titles that succeed do so through solid gameplay. That is unlikely to change no matter how shiny they become.
There are not many games that spend as much as Call of Duty. There is probably NONE, in fact, so it can hardly be used as a benchmark for the whole industry. And the numbers for the expensive productions are never really given so I doubt what the real numbers actually are. It's far from being as transparent as Hollywood.

Most AAA games spend about 10-20 millions for multi-platform titles, that much we know, and it has not increased significantly over the past few years.

THe Witcher2 's cost of 8 millions is not small by any standard. It was a PC-only game when it came out, and spending as much for a PC-only title is fairly expensive, on the contrary. ANd they spend some more when they made the Xbox version, too - besides, take in account that 8 million in Easter Europe probably means double the budget if it were made in the US or Western Europe. It's not apple-to-apple.
Interesting, do you have some kind of blog/log/other where I can read more? (or are you planning on creating one)
This is a great comment for ShitHnSays.
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Why does everything you do have to be important? Do you not have hobbies? Don't you enjoy relaxing with something that is totally pointless?

I feel sorry for you if you don't have space in your life to enjoy some unimportant things just for the sake of it.
Sales vs Profit.

Mobile titles can have much better ROI.
That's awesome! I assume 27.3 (C?) is the temperature of your house right now, or else you run a mighty cold oven. :)
If you are curious about North Korea, just look across the border from China. You can see plenty. Near the town of Changbaishan (and slightly west of there) is the best area. You're only a few meters across the river, and you can see everything, even a full scale city. If you're a train nut, you can even satisfy your curiosity by seeing a failed short-haul train the North Koreans took years to build. There's no need to go there and fund them.
I read a couple of days ago a blog post written by a 17 years old in which he was stating a rather interesting fact.
He was saying he prefers to omit mentioning his age on forums and discussion boards (such as HN) because he wants to be critiqued for his work regardless of his age.

I found that to be incredibly accurate. Most of the kids want to just show-off their projects, but there are still a lot of them who want genuine critique.

So, if you want to get real opinions about your project and you post on HN or reddit, you should put on your big boy pants.
I was merely communicating the content of the letter. Whether its claim or the contradicting ones of the student are true, I don't know. What I do know is that mrtron's "translation" of the letter conveniently leaves out the actual exploitation of the SQL injection and the blocking of the account that are claimed to have happened in the letter, and is therefore completely unfit as a summary of the letter.
This is chrome 18 on a nexus 7. There are no browser plugins.
Whoa, prejudice much? I'm an Apple fan and I don't restlessly bash others about their phones. If anything, there is as much fanboyism going on on the other side, and probably more given the user base.
> the prosecutor was seeking decades in Federal prison for punishment. (The idea that she was seeking less punishment has no evidence behind it, and if were true, she wouldn't have needed to add nine extra felony charges a few months ago.)

On the contrary, the idea that they were seeking decades in prison has no evidence behind it, and contradicts the statements Ortiz and others have made.

As long as people are still spreading factoids like this, I think larrys comment is spot on.
Corp people handled it via HSBC bank account. Certainly not via randompaymentrelatedwebsite.com. But yeah, that sounds right!
Sorry but that's bullshit. What you've said is that the guy simply got caught and therefore this was not a case of responsible disclosure.

The letter doesn't say that. No other sources say that. You're the only one saying that.
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I think Pomodoro Technique works well against interruptions or at least against unintended interruptions. That's why I made and use regularly Tomatoes[1] pomodoro time tracker (now I'm on my long break).

[1] http://tomato.es
Exactly - it's a little late for cooking right now. :) The stove is gas with pilot lights, so it's always a little warm.
"The easiest Linux install was a sad chore"

It really wasn't that bad - not quite as super slick as OS installs these days but most of the grief tended to come from having to do things like install it from a stack of floppy disks.
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I hate the font. It's practically unreadable in Chrome on Windows. Not eased by the fact that I'm dyslexic so struggle to follow a line of text anyway.

I really wish web developers stopped cocking about with type-faces. Most of the time they don't test it on other platforms, and nearly all of the time they don't consider the usability for people with either poorer eye site or other reading difficulties.

Quite frankly, I'm gutted and annoyed at this site because the content looks interesting but I can't read more than 2 lines of the fucking thing (thus ended up having to edit the CSS in Chromes inspect tool). Very annoying and completely necessary.
If found the font pretty hard to read, being so big. Evernote Clearly made quick work of it: http://evernote.com/clearly/
Yeah, my impression is it can (wrongly) seem like a rational choice among all the options. A friend of a friend recently jumped off the Bay Bridge. Before he did it, he explained that his schizophrenia meds made him mentally dull, bloated and unable to hold a job. In his mind, he was facing a life where either he constantly heard voices or couldn't live on his own, move out of his parents' house and so on. I hope researchers manage to solve this soon without the blunt hammer of current meds.
Those poor college aged kids and their sweaty dorms enjoying the benefits of youth, low overhead, access to information, and sharing knowledge.
I use Hacker News'd which is a pretty cool Chrome extension that tells you (and links to) HN submissions for any URL
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-newsd/njdnd...
Charts that show a decline in console retail sales don't really reflect the health of the gaming industry. One thing that must be kept in mind is that there has been a shift toward online sales, both on the PC, which is currently enjoying a renaissance, and on the console, and these are not reflected. Furthermore the console industry is cyclical, and sales are expected to decrease in this fashion prior to the launch of new hardware (Wii U just arrived, more coming in 2013).
Hey just fyi, I didn't develop this, just found it online and wanted to share here. I'll let the developer know.
Interesting perspective on long-term projects. I too am working on a service I consider my forever project, but one which may actually be launchable quite soon. I can definitely relate to the dreamy state the author refers to, as I too dream of a constant barrage of features I want to build into the service. This can quickly get out of control though and become endless as a developer delves deeper, but maybe that's why it's a forever project. You want this service to exist so bad for yourself, it doesn't matter if you're the only user. It's sort of like a nagging child. It's a part of you, no matter how many diapers you got to change.
How about running it as a background to the website, over say, a month, at the end of which you'd have pretty good confidence that you'd have hit all paths.
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You are correct. But they are several reasons why the situation might seem complex for a foreigner.

French people regularly use the term "carte bleue" to mean "debit card" (and most of the debit cards still feature the legacy "carte bleue" logo). Even worse, most of them say "carte de crédit" (credit card) when they really mean "debit card", because credit cards are very uncommon and people don't know the difference. I have no statistics, but from my personal experience, credit cards not linked to a bank account barely exist here.

On the other hand, we have a lot of companies offering short-term, small-amount credits easily — directly on your bank account, without a dedicated credit card. Maybe those play the same role as credit cards in the US?
Thanks! The blog is on the todo list.. I'm preparing some presentations for next month so that might be the kickoff. For now I've just put up a FB page for a first device: https://www.facebook.com/vaporware.robot
I can't read this article.
I did read the blocking of his account to mean that he was detected in some form. You may not agree with my reading of that letter, and I certainly don't agree with mrtron's reading of the letter, but that's why I asked people to read the original letter anyway.

I never said that it was not a case of responsible disclosure. I simply don't know, the evidence at this point seems insufficient to support either conclusion.
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I wrote an article on my blog about this very topic. A common theme amongst college graduates with no job is that they "want a fair shot." Not quite. They don't want a fair shot against Chinese nationals with their same skill set with an order of magnitude less in wage requests!
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It's Anthem all over again, times a thousand.
That's a very nice quote. :)
Learning Haskell... It wasn't supposed to be a forever project, but c'est la guerre :-)
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Modeling dynamic systems is kind of where I'm moving towards with my project at the moment. It's a visual programming language where you create "non-casual" models instead of functions. My current lead is to use a modelica-like library, Hydra, as the back-end.

A somewhat outdated and presentation of the idea (it's a bit buzz-wordy):
https://patch-tag.com/r/worldsayshi/nodespace-staging/wiki/

It is very much a project of taking on more than I currently grasp. But I have already learned a lot by working on and thinking about it. :)
Cant see anything :-(
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I had different forever projects at different points in time. I often come back to a planet renderer based on a certain algorithm (P-BDAM), but it lost its lure on me in recent times.

The older I grow, the more I know the way I work, my strengths and weaknesses.

I recently decided to create a behavior- / attribute-based framework for MonoGame, with functional reactive programming thrown in, and to my surprise, I currently make quick and steady progress.
Having nearly been fired from an university for responsible disclosure, I agree completely, there is substantial risk and no reward for public disclosure of any kind in university environments.
If you are in a position to work for years on a philosophy to give you a reason not to commit suicide, then probably you are not really in the kind of position from which people normally commit suicide.

Existentialism is a hobby and a thing to talk about, not a tested therapy for major clinical depression.
Why? These are brands and products the vast majority of the public use and know. It would make a film less realistic if their products didn't appear.

I agree that blatant product placement is offensive (Bond), but just having a Macbook on a table doesn't annoy.
The maternity and paternity policies outlined are really great at Google, and isn't it fantastic they Google show such desire to keep their team happy, ultimately makes them all the more successful.

I think even more radical thinking on employee benefits is required in general by most companies.

Taking my own personal case, I am a software dude as is my lovely wife. We now have 2 young babies, to look after.

I like what I do as does my wife, but we are definitely not willing to outsource our kids upbringing to some random childcare provider, so the only choice is, one of us must leave the workplace....now both of us are highly skilled and experienced ( seriously) and I guess maybe if the projects were planned in such a way that smaller contributions could be made to them, then there might be a way for me or my wife to continue with our profession! If you get my drift...
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There are many standards of ethics. I am talking about professional ethics in information security.
Example of this: https://www.isc2.org/ethics/default.aspx

If you are in business of finding vulnerabilities in IT systems, you should be aware of it. If for noting else, to save yourself form situations like this.

This guy is not a security professional (yet), but running vulnerability scanners on other people systems definitely puts him in context.
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I think it largely depends on the type of website you're running. For example, the kinds of websites I visit are relatively text heavy - I want to see the text regardless of which device I'm using. These websites are pretty light on images and few use any kind of 'novel' widgets or fancy animations. For these kinds of websites, I think responsive design is a pretty nice solution to the problem of different screen sizes. By and large, implementing a responsive design using the methods outlined in the OP is a nice solution which has the best trade-off between results and development time.

However, if you're running a photo-blog, then you probably want to only serve smaller images to mobile clients, and larger ones to desktop clients. Same goes for interactive websites. If your website has some novel navigation mechanism, or is very JS heavy, then you probably want to think more about whether you simply need to split your website into two separate versions: one for mobile, one for desktop.

I think a decent 'cut-off' point is when you start needing to muck about with handling viewport sizes through JS. At this point, it seems to me like your design isn't capable of handling the various screen sizes: if my mobile browser needs to run a bunch of javascript just to display correctly - by turning a menu bar into a drop-down menu for example, or modifying the page's navigation mechanisms - then in all honestly you might save yourself time and effort by simply creating a separate mobile version.

Obviously, there are exceptions to any rule, and I don't think there are any true clear boundaries, and even the 'JS boundary' can be managed nicely through progressive enhancement and dependency management.

Personally, I'm pretty happy with the 'one size fits all' solution. I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with media queries and simply modifying the CSS based on viewport size. It seems much more work to create and maintain separate versions of a website's theme for different viewport sizes.
I think that part of what the author is trying to convey about such projects, rather than they being de facto 'forever projects' is that such projects are worth it by the journey alone. Even if you don't ever reach the end of it - the inspiration and learnings it gives you is enough to motivate continue working on it.
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It's http://vishnumenon.com/2013/01/21/im-35-months-old-and-i-mad...
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