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Yes it was popular... The majority of business owners are not techie. They probably do not know about StackOverflow. So answering questions asked by business owners on Linkedin was a great way to make an impression. The biggest problem with with linkedin it that it's just overrun with requiters and social media experts. It's not professional anymore.

Answers evolved from a Q/A section to a just another portal for a social media expert to just refer to someone in their network. It was really annoying... The shutting down of Answers should be a warning to anyone that is trying to build credibility on a network, it can close at anytime and all your answers/reputation is gone
What "Children protection" means really is "we want to shelve children in a dark dry place until they reach age".

The problem with that kind of thinking is that it will yield toddlers of age. Able-bodied but socially infantile.

The solution to that problem is that those rules are largely ignored by everyone. But this creates the dangerous law relativity where you have these laws but know they're never applied to you. And when they suddently are applied you are in a deep trouble.

Stupid people -> Stupid laws -> Stupid society.
Americans have a perception that Europeans pay much higher taxes than we do. It's perhaps true in certain countries in certain times for certain kinds of income but generally speaking the rates are quite comparable.

What's worse is: Europeans get way more for their taxes: namely medical which is 18% of the American GDP. In other words even if our taxes were way lower than their's (which they aren't) the medical piece likely would make up for it.

The key reason our taxes are so high compared to their's (I believe) boils down to military spending. I think you can make an argument that America's massive (more than everyone else combined) military spending is benefiting the whole world's stability and in that sense Americans subsidize the whole world through our taxes. But this means our taxes are inherently quite high.
I fully agree about things that require native apps. When I click on a link to a YouTube video or a tweet and instead of showing me the result in the browser, it pulls me out and brings me to the YouTube or Twitter app, it means I can't bookmark it or share it. I hate that.
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For a narrow definition of "cross platform":

> XNA was Microsoft’s toolset for cross-platform game development between the Xbox 360, Zune (when applicable), Windows Phone 7, and PC titles.
This is great! Last year, I worked on a project during a hackathon to build an energy meter and gamify saving electricity by building a game where the user is fighting vampires. The more electricity users saved in the real world, the more virtual energy they built up in the game to be able to defend against waves of vampire attacks.

Once products like this become mainstream, it'll be nice to see developers work on more polished ideas that use energy usage data in interesting and meaningful ways.
fwiw, local and VPN/tunneled work - they can set up a tunnel to your machine, at which point the data is entirely in your control (there's a "local testing" category in the support area). And I entirely agree with your earlier points, and there are probably other benefits to having that kind of SSD setup.

But did your setup cost $200? And that includes hardware and software. If you had waited a year, would you have saved $200? (depending on when you bought your SSDs, those alone could be a 'yes').
No upvotes on Hacker News: Still awesome to submit
Not just you. The Google translation is not that great, either.

To the OP, HN is not a Swedish language site.
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There was nothing special about it... just a simple Q/A site. The concept was to get points for answering questions and those points made you look better to potential business partners. Quora and SE, are websites built around Q/A... Those are products... this was just a feature of linkedin
I hate endorsements. People who i hardly know, saying that i'm good at "Cloud" does not help me at all!
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I suggest the following books:

- The Lean Startup [http://amzn.to/X3SYp0]

- Rework [http://amzn.to/14DHIXG]

- Art of the Start [http://amzn.to/Vt4aMj]
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Yea, this CNET story is a badly rewritten and less informative version of Nokia's press release which includes the fact that the winner of the money is the Graphene Flagship Consortium which consists of 74 different groups including many universities and governmental research institutions. Nokia is just representing the electronics sector in the consortium.
Tell them Google (TM) is using it. That should still carry some weight.
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NPT
We can easily produce enough energy, it's storing enough for a month that is the issue !
And therefore every kid out there learns that 1) adults are stupid and coward and, 2) you should lie to them all the time, before reaching the age of 13.

We are all miserable idiots for allowing this.
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A is something HackerSchool can answer, given that they are paid by startups to recruit (https://www.hackerschool.com/faq). In addition, the participants range greatly in experience, so you can a lot more datapoints there.

B. There are different types of 'becoming powerful'. Given that you are self-taught, you may want to identify and fill some holes in your knowledge. Maybe you could go through SICP, Algorithms, learn about functional programming in scala, etc. I would personally try to find something really challenging to learn on your own that I've really wanted to learn for a long time. On your website, you mention doing predictions with twitter. Maybe you could go deeper into AI / machine learning. I'm currently going through Algorithms, and it's been a really frustrating / rewarding / mind bending time, and it's definitely shown in my code.

Powerful in the sense of creating new and innovating things seems to come more from ideology / beliefs than from using a specific programming language or framework. You might want to read more into Bret Victor and Richard Reynman if you haven't already.

Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle comes to mind:
http://vimeo.com/36579366

Richard Feynman's approach to research problems is also really enlightening. Have 10-20 hard problems floating in your head, and as you go about your day, reading, looking, exploring, match everything against those problems to see if you can make any progress on them.
"hotting up" hmm is this correct in British english? I swear I've never heard this in place of "heating up"
I agree that the estimate of amount of time it takes to make their site responsive seems high to me. Even if it's not perfectly designed it's better than not being responsive at all, and getting it pixel perfect will probably be cheaper and reasonably performant as designing a mobile-only experience.

However I disagree that making a design responsive today is an investment for the future. Designs change much quicker than demographics, so if they don't have significant mobile traffic today it's unlikely they'll have it during the lifetime of the design.
Well the title does say "Xbox 360/PC cross-platform". One way to read that (and the way I read that) is cross-platform between the two platforms.
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Sorry for my meta-snark, but:

This is an example of bad editing of the title. The original one was much more descriptive and got to the core of what is interesting about this article. The edit has made the title bland and uninformative.
i was part of the team running/ organizing this program last year... incredibly fun, very helpful for startups, businesses, and students who want to learn to build a startup...

great example company from the 1st year, https://getbanyan.co/

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Interesting, usually when I submit a duplicate it simply adds a vote to the existing submission. Guess I'll start searching first. Thanks for the heads up.
Is America losing its innovative edge?
Thank goodness they got rid of Apartheid!
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and this is why I don't do business with godaddy any more. And SOPA. And the elephant. And...
Backbone is more popular, almost double-ly so (6k stars vs 12k stars for backbone on github). What's interesting is angular's is newer, and appears to be accelerating in growth. Backbone doesn't come with baked in features like data-binding, which is hugely awesome. Angular is backed by Google who makes Chrome, the two teams communicate. Given these two benefits I think angular will be the long term winner.
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Real-time database + real-time 3D engine = explore the universe
Worked fantastically on my iPad. Excellent idea and execution.
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Really? Not having fun with your team seems like an even bigger risk. Plus, what's the point of working your ass off and not enjoying your life? Not something I'm interested in.
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I haven't heard of any major enhancements or killer features. The last time LinkedIn as in the news was when they released their iPhone app
Stay away from open source
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Haven't given it much thought but here are a couple of ideas:

1) Users pay to list their domains.

Pro: Guaranteed revenue from every user
Con: Low motivation for user to pay up as there's no guarantee for reward

2) List up to 20 domains for free anything over that falls into a tiered annual payment plan

Pro: same as 1 but better because of larger free user base who might be more likely to convert to a paying user
Con: Could a user just keep rotating hundreds of domains through their free account? (imposing a limit on how many times a user can list and de-list domains would prevent this)

3) Users pay a flat fee only when a successful trade is made

Pro: more motivation for users to pay up as the reward is imminent. Also both users can split the fee making it more affordable for each of them
Con: Revenue is conditional on successful trades. Could the users use the service to simply list their domains then use outside channels to complete the actual trade/transaction?

4) User pays a fee when they want to take a domain they received through trading off of the trading block. This would require the site to actually assume ownership of all domains being traded then hold them hostage for a small fee when a trader wants to take possession of them (or else they are still up for trade/in limbo)

5) Maybe the site handles trades as well as cash purchases. Trades are free.. purchases incur a 2% fee.

6) Ads for other internet services. Perhaps the domains could be contextually paired with the ads so that if a user is searching for mma-website.com he/she sees ads for mma training equipment and facilities.
All is fair in case of C++ ( http://xkcd.com/303/ )
Against such effusive praise, I wonder why someone would leave after such a relatively short stint. (Maybe the next post?)
Can someone change the title? This is written at the bottom of the article:

Updated: Microsoft has emailed Promit Roy to say that the first email was in error, and that “DirectX is evolving and will continue to evolve.” Like Roy, though, we’re still musing as to why it took a leaked email for Microsoft to clarify its stance on DX and XNA.
I remember when I bought Minecraft, at the time Minecraft had grossed less than 100 Euros. I wish I could go back and tell myself that the game was going to gross 1,500,000,000 SEK... hah.
I think you're right that the huge inroads free software has made contributes to a declining feeling of urgency in the community at large. I'm a huge fan of his but admit to the same general feeling most of the time.

The depth of his impact and contributions is really only obvious with the benefit of hindsight, though. Even among relative friends, it would be hard to find a time in that evolution that people weren't questioning similar issues of net future benefit, practicality and the reliance on strict dogma at the expense of practical compromise.

Based on that I'm inclined to believe his vision is as vital as ever and that the traits that at times make him and the FSF hard to work or deal with could very easily be the same ones that lead to long term benefits.
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Exactly. This was one of the two European flagship projects that were selected to receive a big research grant. The other was the Human Brain Project. These grants are given to consortiums that include universities and private companies. These were the contenders:

http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/programme/fet/flagship/6pilo...

And here's the consortium for graphene. Notice that the leader is the Chalmers University of Technology, Nokia comes in 8th:

http://www.graphene-flagship.eu/GF/index.php
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The article answers this. "The biggest cost, 640 million, are license fees to Minecraft Creator and Mojangdelägaren Markus "Notch" Persson".
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Pretty neat, but I'm not sure what else it wants me to draw here http://i.imgur.com/rfU10rj.png

Also it seems to fail on badly-drawn birds http://i.imgur.com/IZgrRkq.png
no differences functionally. it looks to be a theme, similar to the ones available at bootswatch.

from the projects readme.md:

Overview
Because I'm a fan of the new Google UI seen in Gmail, Docs, Calendar, etc, I decided to reproduce the look of these new UI elements for my own personal use.
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Minecraft is owned by Markus (Notch). Mojang licenses the game from Notch. The biggest cost was paying Notch, which was ~640 million. Also, worth noting that this is a Swedish article, it's SEK not USD. 1 USD is about 6 SEK. The revenue was closer to $250,000,000 USD.
Great video! And you could give Weavly a try - we're an easy online video editor and support Vine since Wednesday this week! Here is great video mashup made with scenes taken during the first week of Vine: http://weavly.com/watch/k1bhGlloSwb
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You may not know this, but he founded Demand Progress. He was also the keynote speaker at Freedom to Connect 2012 in Washinton, D.C. So yeah, he probably thought about it a lot more than you have.
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