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I fully agree. But I think that this is, what the original blog post called:

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Touting strategic and market success when you’re just experiencing your competitor’s stumbling failure[...]
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The problems of the PS3 where the exotic hardware, the problems of the Wii were the exotic HID. Because of this, Microsoft won this generation, but actually it does not tell us anything about the next generation of consoles. And I think it is a bit disappointing, that this round of the console war was not won by doing anything right, but by fumbling least.
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Mark my words in 5 years time it will be Valve and Apple in the living room. Sony, MS, and yes, for real this time, Nintendo are done. The wave has crested and basically Samsung and Google are the only other companies who are trying to ride it.
Not your fault. If it crashes the whole phone, that's a bug in Firefox and/or Android. A Web app should never be able to crash the browser, and the browser shouldn't be able to crash the phone.
Game consoles are irrelevant from point of view of gaining/retaining big chunk of consumer market. There is a reason why Apple avoided this market (instead of focussing on music, then phone and of course tablet), while Microsoft was busy competing with Sonys and Ninentendos in early formative years of Xbox. In less than five years, this whole game console thing will be a feature in TV/tablet etc.
doesnt work here , what is it supposed to do ? (latest chrome)
The PSP is a console?
That quote from the solicitor general upset me enough that I decided I would go right ahead and petition the White House to address this issue. We've got this great democratic resource, so I figured I may as well use it.

Please sign and share: http://wh.gov/dZCl
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Thanks. I have been looking for a list of top downloads for perl modules (at CPAN or anywhere else). Do you know of such a list ?

I moved from awk to perl (for my scripting) around 2000, while using Java at work. However, I moved to ruby in 2004. I remember finding perl's @array and $array[n] being quite irksome. Anyway, I am thinking of revisiting perl for large shell-script apps, and I'd like to know of the most popular modules. (my work is command line/shell related, not web/Rails).

Do you have any template for your perl apps you can share. Have you put any apps up on github ?
I must be an outlier because I can't stand Duck Tales. I grew up reading Uncle Scrooge comics (and even at age 8, I could tell a Carl Barks story just from a glance, even if I didn't know who Carl Barks was at the time) but the first episode of Duck Tales I saw just infuriated me. They ruined Carl's stories.

For instance, the one episode they link to in the article, "Back to the Klondike" is nothing like the comic story. In the comic, Glittering Goldie stole Scrooge's gold nugget by drugging him---he goes back to town, forces Goldie to give him his gold back, plus sign an I.O.U. for the rest, with interest. The story is him going back to collect on the I.O.U. with a now penniless Goldie and him intentionally throwing a contest (via a subplot of him losing his memory) to let Goldie "win".

The show? Too much changed and I couldn't even watch it past the 10 minute mark when they introduced two new characters never in the original story. Goldie was presented as a love interest (there is no love story in the original comic) and the subplot leading to Scrooge throwing the contest was dropped entirely. Given that I stopped watching a very painful episode for me, I don't know what else Disney did to the story, but I just can't stand the show.

Okay, I can somewhat understand Disney's reluctance in using Donald, but really? Launchpad McQuack? And you really needed April's nieces in the stories? Ahhhhh!

I also can appreciate and admire the animation quality for a TV show. But I think I'm just too much a fan of Carl Barks stories to enjoy the TV show.
Yes, i understand the logic behind that, but had a difficult time finding the specific extention documented. That was just a recent example for illustration. What I'm trying to find is a full user manual for github. Not little tidbits scattered all over. Does that exist, and I'm just not finding it? I just keep feeling I'm missing a lot of functionality somewhere. Or maybe im expecting it to be a full alternative to something like Sourceforge when it isn't intended to be. Thanks.
Is this really true? Seems wrong... can someone weigh in?

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_to_file_and_first_to_inve...
I am not sure if I am reading the same essay as you. All it is, is an analogy comparing life to a video game. He claims that being a white heterosexual male makes everything in life easier in the same way that choosing the easy difficulty setting makes a video game easier. It doesn't necessarily mean that your life is easier than everybody's life on more difficult settings but if two people are in the same situation, the heterosexual white male will have it easier. is this correct?

I just find this a huge simplification and generalisation. Sure, it may ring true with some people but it is an opinion piece. It doesn't present any evidence for its claims. Not everyone that reads it will draw the same conclusions about it as you. So it does nothing to change the validity of my hyperbolic list which I never presented as fact but as an illustration of the frustration that many men are feeling.

As stated above, the list is not a list of facts but it describes how the frustration that many men are experiencing so it is pointless to attempt to repudiate each point. Some of these points are huge issues however, and do seem to be indicative of systemic sexism towards men. Maybe you don't feel the same way but many people do.

Your "Always appropriate" comment hit a nerve because it basically says that any issues that men have with sexism towards them is null and void(regardless if it is in the form of an exaggerated list of issues) because this guy(Scalzi) says men have things easier and it doesn't matter in what context the issues arise because it is "always appropriate". Now maybe you didn't mean it that way but I cannot see how it can be taken any other way.

I do believe that the baseline (as you call it) needs to be discussed but believe it or not, not everyone sees it the same way as you or Scalzi. It is certainly not as simple as Scalzi makes it seem. Sexism towards men IS part of the "baseline".

I also take issue that you now feel that the list represents my beliefs. I never presented them as such. I have not made up my mind about them but I do feel that there are issues here. I am by no means a mens rights nut but I do feel that male issues are underrepresented and your "Always appropriate" comment is analogous to a "Don't worry your pretty little head about it" response to a woman bringing up sexism towards women. The fact that you don't see that is frustrating.

Having said that, I am not going to change your mind and you are not going to change mine so this is pointless.
Move your mouse, and the two squares should follow. Left one with motion blur, right one without.

In motion it looks something like this (but you can't convey the effect with a screenshot, you need to see it live): https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8554242/dmitri/projects/MotionBlurD...
>In short, we are the only online store platform that actually makes you more sales.

Do Amazon and Etsy not also do this? By just searching for say 'cufflinks' on Etsy I'm searching all of Etsy's "stores", and the same with Amazon. Although granted, neither put an emphasis on a storefront for each individual seller.
Duck Tales is not on Netflix Instant, but Season One is streaming on Amazon Instant, FYI

http://www.amazon.com/DuckTales-Volume-1-Alan-Young/dp/B000A...
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Wow, if true this is huge. America's been pretty much the last to stick to the first to invent system (all of Europe is first to file, as well as most Asian countries I've looked into, though I could be missing some!) and it's been the cornerstone of zillions (ok, I exaggerate a little) of lawsuits and patent reversals.

Glad I got my patent application in last year (worry not HNers who are against software patents, 'twas an application for a mechanical doohickey).
No it's a bad idea.

You guys (Americans) had a great system which failed your weakest but managed to get you'll to the moon.

And then for some reason your country decided it wanted to test like India and China.

This is lunacy from where I stand. Having walked through the wringer in another country I know exactly what it becomes. Learning divorced from understanding.

Stop testing, break class size in half, increase teacher pay and double the number of teachers. But no one wants to do that because of the daft political climate, fund crunch, difficulty and the alternative of tests.

So a non human solution.

I've seen the end state of the path you have begun walking down, and it is flat out teach the test land.

Students by guides to the material with the shortest most efficient answers written down for memorization.

People realize that multiple choice tests are too easy, so more difficult tests are devised, in the hope of ensuring that it makes sure students are better prepared.

This results in yet more teach the test.

Tests are a poor proxy for checking if someone understands the material.

The argument is that"tests are all you have and better than nothing.".

What people assume is that testing is static, it's not. The testing process is dynamic and exerts a force on the behavior of the students and teachers, and over time over the recruitment and measures of students and teachers themselves.
My company has the following statement, which basically sais they shouldn't for any purpose outside of breaking non-compete/confidentiality.

Ability for <Company> Employees to Accept Project Work Outside of <Company> Time

It is the policy of <Company> to allow employees to accept and function as independent contractors for other companies/projects while on their own personal time. That being said, the non-compete/confidentiality agreement remains in force at all times and <Company> trusts that this binding agreement will be upheld on the part of all employees and contractors.
Call me the village idiot but is this good or bad?
Stop pretending cyberspace is owned by one country and set of laws, Salon. Idiotic article that misses the point of a lot of legitimate issues.
Contrary to popular opinion (because "first to file" sounds insidious), whatever marginal effect this change is going to have will likely be positive. The intent of the change is to harmonize the US with EU on a corner case of patent law, where two entities file for a patent on the same invention during the same window of time. The new rule says that instead of clubbing each other over the head with lawyers, the first filing simply wins. More importantly, the rule changes strengthen prior art challenges to applications.
The court-based fines are not only higher just to be punitive, nowadays.

Despite thinking this particular verdict is ridiculous, in a lot of cases, walloping unreasonable defendants if they lose is a mechanism to prevent overburdening the courts.

Courts are a wildly inefficient way to settle disputes, they know this, and they are overburdened docket-wise with mostly bullshit. There is a determined push by most courts across the country to not try cases that could be settled. Some force day-of-trial mediation for simple suits. For complex suits, the vast majority now require at least some mediation.

If you come along, refuse to settle a case that is by-the-books law and you lose, judges will generally impose enough to make you think twice about doing this again.

Whether they should, whether it's right, this is what happens.
This has actually been fairly successful on the torts side. Only something like 2% of tort cases now go to trial across the US. Results in other areas are not so good yet. Family law is an area where it is very hard to get people to settle, even when lawyers on both sides tell their clients "you won't get what you want at trial, the judge is going to follow the law and statutory guidelines, and do X. We should settle". They still want a trial (mostly because they want some judge to tell them they were right and their ex was wrong, and instead the judge just tells them both they are wasting his time), then get angry at the lawyers.

In any case, to be fair to the judges, most people truly have no concept of the amount of stupid cases[1] that the average federal district court judge sees. This kind of stuff is why the average civil lawsuit now takes years to resolve.

[1] Not person did dumb thing stupid, but cases that are so trivially resolvable that they complete waste of time for everyone involved.
Good. Infrequent colliding patent applications are cheaper to resolve, and prior art challenges get stronger.
There was a more-or-less faithful (unlicensed) remake released as a commercial title perhaps...ten years ago? I can't for the life of me remember the name, though.
I've read that anecdote, and its exactly what's being done here.

It's the difference between literacy and education, and apparently literacy is now good enough.
I would think that a second patent application would invalidate an existing patent application, as that proves the invention in question isn't novel enough (two or more people skilled in the arts came up with the same idea).
How does that work? I submit a patent, my neighbor copies my work and submits a patent, mine is automatically invalidated?
> Finally, I'm not a physicist, but from what I've read, even physicists now have a lot of trouble defining "matter" as such.

As someone with physics training I do not see physicists having this trouble.

> I don't think they even use the term much at all anymore.

Most the physicists I know use it often.

Please be a little more careful when spreading information you are not sure about. The best way in my opinion is to be specific, give concrete examples, and/or give specific resources that you drew your conclusion from; preferably resources with concise explanations, more people will look into them that way and get back to you with their analysis of the source, it's like getting a free tutor.
Funny, the comment above you says it is safer than it used to be.
I thought so too, so I wanted to experiment with applying the same type of (physically-accurate) motion blur to scrolling text.

Screenshot: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8554242/dmitri/projects/Conception/...
Source: https://github.com/shurcooL/Conception/tree/motion-blur

I've realized the effect in motion looks quite nice, but it HAS to run at full 60 FPS at all times. If there are dips in the framerate, the effect is horrible (partly because the 16.66 ms number is hardcoded rather than calculated). My implementation is very naive and not optimized, but it funs well with a dedicated card. Not so much with Intel 3000. It was just a mockup so I didn't develop it further for now.
Are abstractions like freedom, rights, and individual any more real than the abstraction of cyberspace? Author is going down a slippery slope.
You would think that based on what? Nothing?
I'm gonna participate in the time-honored HN tradition of being a Debbie Downer.

Dashboards suck. Not because they are inherently bad, but because of the return on investment. There are two types:

1) The dashboards that are created using blood sweat and tears...paying attention to every possible detail, trying to maximize information conveyed per square millimeter. These dashboards are works of art and are incredibly interesting when done right, but involve thousands of hours of trained developer time to get to this point. They exist for the explicit purpose of facilitating decision making procedures. And yet, in all my experience building them, the time spent maximizing information conveyed per square millimeter is a complete and utter waste, because the decisions that are facilitated by the information can, for the most part, be trivially automated and optimized using the same data sets and the same analysis that was used to create the graphic.

2) Dashboards that, due to some software package that eases their design, are incredibly easy to create...and completely uninformative. The developers of these packages think their software is great because it makes the creation of pretty graphs easy, but they leave the job of making the graphs informative up to the user. But making a graph informative is the hardest part! The myriad tweaks that are necessary to increase information density either do not exist, or they are incomplete hacks that are only possible due to a bug that might be fixed soon.

I believe that the only reason they exist is to satisfy the egos of executives and micromanagers. They believe that if they have all the data at their fingertips, they can command and execute with perfection. These are the people who think you are there for one reason only: "Give me the data and I will tell you what to do". What they fail to realize is that by the time the data has been extracted, transformed, and visualized, the developer understands the data and its implications way better than anyone who only sees the high level summaries.

FnordMetric has its market, and it looks like it will do very well in this niche. But it won't make your business any better. If you want software that makes your business better, look for optimization software (think Optimizely, Lokad, or my personal favorite, Gurobi)...and then empower your devs to programatically make the data-driven decisions for you.
The title makes it sound bad, and in a perfect world it is bad, but in the real world filing a patent is more important than inventing (for better or worse). The only person who can prove the first inventor is a lawyer, and this is who the change is aimed at.

This change makes that fact the law.
> We are lucky in the states that we have so much land and resources that we really have a lot of choices; this isn't as true for the rest of the world.

South Korea has much less land and much fewer resources, yet (relative to the rest of the world) it's just as wealthy as the United States. Ditto for Ireland, or UK (you could scream "but they were an empire!", but the question is -- how did they become an empire in the first place?)

Russia has land and oil. The situation there has greatly improved -- and having grown up there myself, I was still lucky to have had such basics an education, safe drinking water, and other utilities -- yet it's nowhere near as wealthy as South Korea or the United States.

Incidentally I disagree with your overall point (about zero-sum games, or that there's a binary choice between car-dependent suburbs and "dense urban living") -- but you're using a horrible argument to support it, too.
Above all, find other people in your position and area and ask them what they make.

In addition to salary, also consider equity, which is a different discussion depending on the size and stage of the company.

Piaw Na's book has a good chapter on compensation negotiation regardless of your geographic area. It's well worth the $25: http://books.piaw.net/guide/index.html

See also iaw's advice. Good luck!
This is a series of non sequiturs. "First to file" does not dispense with the need to invent. The requirement to provide a best known mode of implementation that is tied to the claims of the patent is no different under this system than under "first to invent". The difference between the two schemes is limited entirely to cases where two parties both file for a patent on the same invention at the same time.

There's an evident misconception here, and it's clear where it comes from; we "moved" from "invent" to "file", which makes it sound like you don't have to "invent" anymore. But no, that's not what the change means.

(Obviously, first-to-file does nothing to eliminate the problem of the USPTO rubber stamping comically stupid patents.)
Ohh, I see! Thanks :)
All right: which restaurant generates more revenue: McDonald's or The French Laundry?

I'm not sure what being "in the list" has to do with it.

The notion that raising prices automatically increases profits is just absurd. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. It's not possible to generalize about it.
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Microsoft make the lion's share of their money from businesses, not consumers. And the B2B software market--you know, the one Patrick Mackenzie says you should target if at all possible--is pretty much exactly aligned with Microsoft right now: per-seat SaaS subscription models.

Your point about "confusion" comes apart when you realize that there is almost nobody who wants to use Office, who then purchases a computer with Windows, but without Office. Computers bought from big-box stores already have Office on them. Computers bought in tech refreshes by Big Corporations have Office imaged onto them as part of the deployment. Office is a "separate product", but Windows isn't built to expect you to not have an office suite. The only reason it's optional at all is so you have the option to use a competitor.
“The best development teams are highly collaborative. They religiously pair program 100% of the time, they work on site in open floor plans, they are constantly communicating. These super teams will run circles around stereotypical anti-social types who lock themselves away to do their work alone.”

Says who? No citation for the quote, and the quote itself is an evidence-free assertion (a.k.a. B.S.). I actually agree with the conclusion of the posting that "pairing" is only appropriate for certain personality types or skill level.
Samurai Jack was amazing. I was really hoping for a resolution to that show.
I was actually thinking about motion over the past few days. High frame rate does matter, but it's for a different reason. Human eyes can track objects extremely well.

Here's a simple test to do with the demo. Try tracking that motion-blurred cube on the left with your eyes - it's all blurry. Now, try tracking the one on the right - it will be sharp, but "jumpy". Now, try tracking the one on the right with your 120Hz monitor - the motion should be MUCH smoother - and that's where the need for high frame rates comes in. The higher the frame rate, the better the object will look when you're tracking it with your eyes.

Ideally, if we only account for objects travelling across the screen in 2 seconds, and a screen is ~2000 pixels wide, and we want to have an error of <=1 pixel, then theoretically, we need (2000px)/(2sec) = 1000 Hz frame rate for high motion realism. Unfortunately, I don't see it coming anytime soon...
I don't have specific recommendations, but here's where I'd start looking:

Ganglia - http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/

Zabbix - http://www.zabbix.com/

Zenoss - http://www.zenoss.com/

collectd - http://collectd.org/
What he said (i'm a registered patent attorney).

It's mostly good, though there was some bad/ambiguous wording in the original AIA that is now "mostly fixed".

The thing to remember is that first-to-file doesn't mean that if i file a patent app on something you invented, before you do, that I get a patent.

It's about what happens when two people file patent apps for things they can both prove they invented.

Before, there was a complex system of colliding patent resolution.
Now, it's "first guy to file wins".

More things are also now prior art. You can't get around prior art by showing you invented before the prior art was published, for example.
> worry not HNers who are against software patents

Well I guess those HNers among us who are against all patents will continue to worry then. ;)
ctrl+C/cmd+C

That's gets the whole line including carriage return when nothing is highlighted. You could also cmd+L (expand selection to line) and then cmd+C if you already had something selected.
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