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You speak as if death is not an inevitable destination. You're not immortal, you know. You can't stave off your demise forever. One day your existence will end and your consciousness will be permanently obliterated.

With that in mind, do you really want to be physically and mentally tortured in the last few days, weeks or months of your existence? How about at some time in the middle of your life? It all amounts to the same thing, in the end.
They should fix the hacker thing (though I just tried and was not able to reproduce)... but I have not experienced any problems paying with a credit card in my 5+ years of being a NameCheap customer.
I've heard many stories about Jobs in his later life.

He liked to walk into functional working groups and just shit on people just because he could. On multiple occasions I and friends witnessed Jobs inciting arguments with people and then firing them on the spot.

He would approach a random person while walking around the Apple campus and ask them why they were doing what they were doing, and if he didn't like their answer he'd tell them to get the fuck out.

I once saw him approach a network engineer who had just finished implementing a wi-fi infrastructure install for a large building on the campus. He complained that he could "see" the routers that were attached near the ceilings. When it was explained that the routers were visible because the ceiling panels obstructed the ceiling he said "I don't give a fuck, make them go away. I don't want to see them." The engineer had to remove all of the routers, re-position them and then add twice the number of routers to accommodation the signal loss.
There's a world in the sun. Go hide! But: worth it. Show you to rely on the night.

My markov text came from scraped lyrics to a couple hundred hair metal songs. What did yours come from? :)
Good point. The question I would ask is - Should he be doing even that given the fact he is in complete knowledge of the situation?
Why is your target market "people who already have cars" and not "people who don't have cars and have a much higher likelihood of being on the lookout for one"?
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It's a broad stroke for sure, but, yes, no one on HN shops at Walmart.
The fact that it (authors making less via GPL) hasn't happened doesn't make it a non-issue. It just means it hasn't happened yet.

I agree it's impossible to prevent, but any rational individual will try their best to stop it until the work > return. I think the 'community' is a straw man in this case.
Was really hoping for an A/B test on this. Not, oh, we use it too.
What leapt out at me was the quote from Sequoia

His wikipedic knowledge, quick wit,

Hang on - Encyclopaedic knowledge yes but Wikipedic?

If we are looking for signs of the time the Internet goes past mainstream and into ubiquitous utility, it's when brand names become nouns.

Ah well.

My parents had a full copy of the encyclopaedia Britannia
and I would occasionally improve my mind - but I use wikipedia daily. It deserves to be the next Hoover.
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Sorry, I was a bit abrasive in my last reply. Thanks for the information, it was interesting to read and watch.
How is it different from a key on a keyboard, or a mouse button on a mouse?
Well buddy you'd be singing a different tune if the doctors discovered a medical issue and prevented you from dying.

If you were so lightheaded and confused that you were unable to be your own advocate and get yourself some fluids and food then you probably should have gone to the hospital. If you just let doctors talk you into it and you didn't think it was warranted then you have a problem with your assertion skills.
Creepy...

That's Ned Ruggeri, co-founder of App Academy (http://www.appacademy.io/). His HN account: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ruggeri
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Ask HN: Any ideas for mobile coupon validation?
Hey everyone, I am working on designing an app that involves mobile coupons. Can anyone offer suggestions for how a coupon could be redeemed and tracked at retailers that don't have barcode scanners in place, aside from providing external hardware? Is POS integration feasible. Really appreciate the help.
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Anybody who said GCC was forever doesn't know their history very well.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_Collection#EGCS_fo...
But it's weird. "Encyclopedic" has connotations of authoritative and wide-ranging knowledge. "Wikipedic" just seems chaotic or user-changable or pointless-lists-of-useless-knowledge.
My daughter showed me a bunch of pictures on her camera that she was working on so I taught her how to use windows movie maker. This is her first stop motion video and I know I will be seeing some incredible things from her.

P.S.
Please upvote and show her our hacker spirit :)
Nice answer mister, thank you very much.
Silly comment. I don't especially like shopping at Walmart but there is one 5 minutes from me--in a fairly rural locale where there aren't a lot of especially close stores--so, yes, I shop there for a lot of items.
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Sega actually just purchased Relic and the Company of Heroes IP. Homeworld, and other legacy IPs, are to be sold later.
http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=509695
The trend. The point is that energy densities are improving steadily, contrary to the article.
Uh.

Being a hypocrite does not invalidate someone's point. You're providing a 'summary' that's useless.
Sent you an email. Hacker bunk beds/couches off airbnb are super cheap here in silicon valley and I always need enough graphics work to help you make that amount any time, heh.
Ask HN: Kickstarter vs. Indiegogo
I'm 7 days into an Indiegogo campaign (indiegogo.com/centup) and am pretty pleased with results, but I definitely wonder how the same campaign on Kickstarter would have performed differently. Your thoughts?
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Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia rule the 2013 Index of Economic Freedom
Or, y'know, companies like Google could stop collecting the data.
Fuck billionaires.
One more reason I use Namecheap, and have moved almost all of my clients to namecheap. (They really do need an affiliate program though!)
I'd like to hear what you have in mind.

Personally I've always been fond of asciidoc[1].

It even has a LaTeX-backend but I imagine the impedance mismatch must be problematic (I have not tried it).

However, realistically the problem will probably just solve itself in the midterm. Paper is rapidly going out of fashion after all, and so will anachronisms like universities requiring their students to submit content in arcane file formats.

[1] http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/
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So the news is the stock quote? I got it now...
> "can't use a credit card"

I've been paying namecheap via credit card for a while, including last week.
tldr:

I, Ed Colligan (ex Palm CEO), swear to god this happened:

steve: let's not hire each other's employees anymore, m-kay?
ed: thanks steve, but no thanks.
jobs: have you seen our patents and pile of cash, ed?
you're entering a world of pain.
Interesting, only 1 British. Zero in Singapore... seems likely incorrect.
Actually, they can. They can offer a deal with shareholders where at the end of it Apple's cash pile will go to the shareholders instead of staying in the company. Typically this means the price of buying the company is reduced by that much, which is practically using Apple's cash pile to partially pay for Apple.
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I'm aware of who developed/published them :). EA is also a developer and not just a publisher. I'd guess as they acquired each one, they became more prominent in the decisions for each franchise as well as hirings of future developers. Westwood and Maxis as far as I can see, ceased to exist when they were acquired and the games they put out shortly after were running on the inertia they had before acquisition.

I played on Westwood's multiplayer servers back in the 90s. EA carried on letting Command and Conquer series be pretty good up until Red Alert 3 (bad) and Command & Conquer 4 (horrible), which were made long after Westwood was absorbed[1]. Even Sim City 4 was pretty good and that was published long after Maxis had been swallowed.

My point was, EA is where good games go to die, regardless of who develops them. It wasn't always that way, but something shifted in the company over the past 10 years. Their current mode of operation is treat PC as a second class platform, recycle instead of create, appeal to the lowest common denominator for marketing[2] and stuff as much social/online interaction as they can with no way to opt out[3].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westwood_Studios

[2] https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=red+alert+3+women&...

[3] http://www.simcity.com/en_US/blog/article/The-Benefits-of-Li...

Edit: some clarifications and citations.
I hope whomever South Park Studios does bequeath the rights to the game to will treat it nicely. Poor Obsidian, even when they find a publisher who doesn't seem like it will abuse them, the publisher goes under. Perhaps their only friend are the fans, thanks be to Kickstarter.
Clever idea although as others mention it's obviously a very biased selection, but if they are OK with that, that's fine with me. I was all set to try it just for kicks, but this turned me off and I quit the install:

"In this mod you're placed into the Wibi!Data office to reset a PIN for the CEO of the company.
You reset this by gathering reset keys and slowing figuring out the reset code."
The question was "Can the design of any programming language ever affect the security of crypto code implemented correctly within it?"

This question is extremely broad, and it requires envisioning future languages which haven't been invented yet, and looking for ways the design of the language itself might impact the security of crypto code implemented within it.

That said, the question isn't the most important one. It was his third question which you and I both responded to.
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No, nothing at all. I have an ivy bridge i5, 8GB 1600, and two old nvidia geforce 8600 under sli. Perhaps the people at /r/techsupport could help. Full screen in my VM feels just like booting into Ubuntu - no lag at all.
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Did you have to use the word "scrot"? Ergh!
I love the Access analogy. It burned me quite a few times in prior lives, when every project started with, "Let's build an access database." Ultimately it's a tradeoff in abstraction and usability.
The issue isn't skeuomorphic vs. flat design. Let's reframe it to be about the inclusion of affordances and constraints. What makes a tool easy and intuitive to use is the careful attention given to both enable and restrict the user from performing a set of actions. When a user clearly sees what he/she can or cannot do, they understand the purpose of what's in front of them. Gradients and dropshadows help with that, but even ignoring these aesthetic qualities, we have a whole host of other concepts to utilize, like consistency, proximity, structural heirarchy, and more conceptual digital analogs of real world entities.

Let's compare apples to apples: the iOS home screen to that of Windows. Let's go further and ignore the aesthetic differences, like gradients and dropshadows. What are we left with? The iOS screen has a table of app icons, all consistent in size and alignment. It's easy to see that at the highest level, these are all applications I can access. Let's look at Windows, more specifically the screenshot in the blog post. We see no consistency in size, and further, that grouped set of minicons on the left are of a confused relationship. 3 are music apps, and the fourth looks like maybe text messaging. The iOS apps are laid out in a way where a user can easily tell what is tappable from what is not tappable -- "this is an actionable element in a sea of inactionable whitespace." Contrast this with the billboard-like layout of the Windows Phone UI. You are bombarded with colors and pictures and icons, mere millimeters away from one another, leaving a user in confusion and sensory overload because it's difficult to isolate the various elements. The iOS app screen has an icon and a text label for every single app. The Windows Phone does not. It almost seems like tiles are arbitrarily assigned to be little/big or to have icon-labels/photos. After playing around with a friend's Lumia for some time, I'm still confused when I stare at the screen of a Windows Phone.

I'm not trying to spark an Apple vs. Microsoft debate. I'm trying to show that stripped of all gratuitous skeuomorphism and subtle aesthetic qualities, UIs can still be usable given they clarify to the user what they can or cannot do. I could've done the same mini-analysis with an Android home screen compared to a Windows one and Android would've come out on top for many of the same reasons.
more slow paced than the first one ( + extension by barking dog studio ), but still a good homeworld game
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Ask HN: I'm a student in IIT and i want to build a career in web apps
Hi.
I am a student in IIT Roorkee and im pursuing B.Tech in Biotechnology.
But I was always interested in web apps.
Three years have passed and im in my pre-final year.
I now have fluidity in
- Node.js
- Python
- C++
- C#
- Java
- PHP
and other web development languages such as
- HTML5
- CSS3
- Javascript
I also have experience in site administration, theme creation, responsive layouts also im a heavy user of jquery, underscore, less, stylus, jade, coffeescript and scss.<p>But lately, i've been thinking will pursuing my passion help me get a good job.
Is learning and developing in new languages going to pay me off in future?
> Would you rather have 10 times the money you have and be back in the 1930's?

If I could keep my current knowledge, yes I think so. "Hey, guys, here's some capital; look into these 'semiconductor' things..."

I recognize that this is deliberately missing your point, however.
This lesson is well taken, but seems inadequate to explain Apple. Apple has not traded at an enormous markup relative to profits for five years, and is currently priced at a significant discount relative to companies that are not growth stocks, such as Microsoft, IBM, and Cisco.
Hum? Groovy?
I wish you luck, but there are warning flags in your appeal.

Do you have someone to talk to about the "some reason" that your other leads/gigs/contacts have gone cold?
What other feedback loops like that have exponential growth?
It certainly isn't easy to get running if you don't use t regularly. I only have bad passing reasons to use maven, and every time it has been a huge timesink just to get it to spit out a jar file.

Not a fan.
Brilliant idea for a business. I would love if you guys would do simple games some day. Hoping to give your service a try soon.
slim has a monopoly on the mexico mobile communications industry.
No problem. If your interested in psychedelics as a catalyst for personal development, Neal Goldsmith's book Psychedelic Healing is pretty good. If you ever wanted to go back and revisit the experience it's one of the books you'd want to read first, along with James Fadiman's book is called the Psychedelic Explorer's Guide. These substances are reasonably safe and even beneficial, but only if you have a few books worth of knowledge before partaking and actually follow best practices.
Not to a huge degree, admittedly, but enough that more than a few of us have ended up with a more in-depth knowledge of assembly than one might expect.

This has typically arisen from working with existing OSS projects which incorporate vector transforms and the ilk in ASM, often badly or subtly brokenly, and from building optimised functions for doing fun things like creating n-dimensional maps of customer/product relationships in order to determine purchase propensity based on cluster profiles.

So yeah, ASM in a web shop. Except we're only kinda a web shop these days - client sites are our marketing platform, but our business is business systems.
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I think it's a fun. But while "brilliant" people playing* portal 2, a clever and unemployed person who has to pay his bills, will spend his time applying for jobs, networking or/and building a product and try to maximize his utility.

* : I mean really playing, not decompiling..
I'll always think of him as a) a hugely likable person the few times i've interacted with him personally, and b) the VC that codes. He built an iPhone app which I think is in the app store.

Wonder why someone would leave one of the most respected positions in tech. New things, I guess.
Crime = intent + action. Doing two otherwise legal things may amount to a crime. For example, it is not illegal to talk about killing your ex-wife. It is also not illegal to walk to her house with a chainsaw. Both those things are by themselves quite legal. But combine the two, and you can quite fairly be charged for attempted murder.
It's not so much "XBox" as a specific device, but of the lifestyle and time that younger people are more likely to pour into their early jobs. They're simply more receptive to a job-includes-hobbies lifestyle. This doesn't prevent older people from participating in this world, but statistics would tell us that more older people have children and non-job hobbies. Frankly, as an older person who owns a PS3 and Wii, it tells me that not only do they want hanger-outers for employees, but ones that play specific kinds of games.
You're generating configuration files from a database as part of your build.

OR

You're reading a file and using the details in that file to control your build.

OR

You need to loop through a set of properties and apply a specific update to each value before the build.

OR

You need to invoke complex build logic based on the platform you're building for (nested ifs).

etc.

There are lots of odd situations you end up in with real projects.

The flexibility this provides comes at the cost of build complexity though.

Obscure syntax and odd custom DSL's (>_> cmake, make, powershell) are bad because they introduce complexity and destroy the readability and maintainability of the build.

You basically need a test suite for your build code to make sure it's building correctly. Terrible.

...but, necessary. I'm not a java guy, but writing C and C++? You need to do this stuff all of the time. scons or cmake really make life a lot easier than trying to force Makefiles to do things with their obscure lambda syntax.
Yes I have a domain with 'hacker' in it registered with namecheap too, and for me it was a simple online chat with live support.
The knee jerk force is strong... just as HN excused itself from supporting Aaron because he was financially successful (he should "man up" and pay his own legal costs, etc.), weev's trolling serves as another excuse to withhold support.
One of the reasons that many developing countries such as Mexico have a hard time developing a robust economy and a strong middle class is precisely because their wealth is concentrated in an oligopoly made up of a handful of powerful families who wield vast political and economic power. You'll see this all across Latin America, and in most other parts of the world.

Also, as you can see from the Russian billionaires on the list, many influential people have made vast fortunes when state-owned monopolies were "privatized" and became privately-owned monopolies.
Weak article. Inflammatory content easily debunked. I don't recommend reading.
Complaint:

HEY WEB DESIGNER, WHY DO YOU STICK AN AUTO-ROTATING SLIDESHOW AT THE TOP OF THIS PAGE, AND THEN FILL THAT SLIDESHOW WITH INTERESTING BUT DETAILED MATERIAL AND NO WAY TO PAUSE IT?

I HATE YOU WEB DESIGNER AND I CLOSED THE TAB.

There are other websites out there that respect me.
So they've just admitted they've been asleep since the 90s? :P
They have one: https://www.namecheap.com/other/affiliates.aspx
Maybe I'm just biased after having wasted my 20s in a cube, but hanging out with KDC & his crew of henchmen doesn't sound that bad of a gig based purely on the novelty of the idea. Like it or not (and based on your posts, I know which one it is), KDC has shown some insight into how to make cash on the ol' internets... I suppose you have an argument with his ethics? Try working on a bond trading desk for 10 years. You'll see KDC as Christ-like pretty soon thereafter.
You can find some background if you read through the comments. It's reasonable to not want to have your history right up at the top.
Big mistake:

They drew eyebrows on Larry Ellison.

(Reference image: http://allthingsd.com/files/2012/05/larry_ellison1.png)
I'm ignorant of a lot of things. I liked Quora a lot and I agree everyone makes mistakes. Unfortunately they made the kind of mistake that isn't easily forgiven or recovered from so it's going to take a extraordinary effort on their part to earn that trust back.
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excellent observation! when a sovereign nation collapses, its legal fabric is what is really destroyed. until a new system is embraced, it's the wild wild west and, strangely/frequently, military-connected persons and families rise to the top after things settle.
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MIT, you will hold a nice spot in history because of what you have done to Aaron Swartz.
Biggest reason for this is that Wall Street has noticed the huge cash pile that Apple is just sitting on. A good chunk of their market cap is made up of this cash pile that they are reinvesting through their hedge fund.

There's a reason why Amazon keeps going up even though they are barely profitable. Amazon keeps reinvesting their profits into the company's R&D rather than throwing it in the bank.
Can you search wiki's yet?
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Quora hate aside, given the supposed reasoning behind this,

The Internet is full of experts with no one reading their insights. It takes a lot of work to build a following. So today Quora launches a blogging platform that automatically distributes posts to its Q&A site users who follow related topics. Thanks to its upvote system, home page feed, and a new mobile text editor, anyone with something brilliant to blog, even first-timers, can find a readership.

I guess it's too bad Quora didn't pickup Posterous.