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> DRM platforms like Steam are adaptations that do not please the sort of people who read TorrentFreak, but are necessary because of the extraordinary piracy rate of video games (famously, over 90% for World of Goo).

There does not exist a single peer-reviewed study that shows a correlation between increased sales and DRM systems.

World of Goo was one of the first indy games to reach large reception of users. Sadly, it takes time before people are willing to spend money on new concepts. Same effect can be seen in cult movies. Most cult movies do not earn a bunch of money. They barely even get copied at first. Blade Runner did not have an issue with piracy, and they still got crap in revenues. I would not be surprised if 90% of the people who have seen Blade Runner did not do so at a cinema. I would guess most people has seen it on a copied tape, copied by someone who thought "Ooo, what is this? this is nice. Let me share that with a friend".

Had World of Goo been released today, they would had much better sale numbers together with current piracy numbers. World of Goo of the past has shown that indy games a worth the risk of buying a copy and testing it out (if one would ignore the paradox).

It should also be mentioned that creator of Psychonauts got more (or close to it) money from kickstarter, than from initial sales. Ie, people were more willing to bet money on something for little or no return, than they were willing to bet money on the original game itself before it was known to be good. Do anyone actually think that DRM would have made the original Psychonauts a massive revenue source?
We're not a large organisation - we have 16 people in the team and various clients using Trello and, as you can see in the post, it's a perfect tool for our us.
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It's the Innovator's Dilemma.

For the owners and shareholders of TV networks, solutions tend to fall in one of two mutally exclusive groups:

Option #1: Take advantage of all these people who say they'll pay. In the short term, you'll probably lose a lot of money as you cannibalise your existing business model. But it does give you a moderate chance of long term survival.

Option #2: Keep the status quo. In the short term, you'll continue to be mildly profitable, though your long term survival is unlikely.

Since markets reward short-term behaviour, the first option is career suicide for any CEO. While the second won't mark them out as a visionary, it will guarantee them a large salary. What would you choose?
I'm sorry you have to rant and yell about the TV industry, and make up such an unflattering picture of them, because you can't watch your favorite TV that they made... but, let's leave that argument aside for a moment.

I was merely trying to show how the market landscape is not the rosy "piracy is always good" situation TorrentFreak tends to suggest it is.
I pirate tv shows. As couple of them.

Many people come to bother me on that. But I must say:

The alternative is just not seeing them at all it is depriving myself of culture. And not by choice, it just happen that where I live those shows are not available at all even with hackery, and I doubt they will ever be, since I like sci-fi stuff, and here what sells is oversexual soapoperas.

Do like Steam! I had about 600 pirated games here, after they launched I bought the most liked ones on Steam ( and later gog.com that I prefer) and stopped pirating games.

You want less piracy? Make a effort to take your fans money, and they will happily hand it to you.
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If I were him, my takeaway would be "top reporter apologizes for ever having doubted me".
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“At the beginning of the digital revolution it was common to say that digital was killing music,” said Edgar Berger, chief executive of the international arm of Sony Music Entertainment. Now, he added, it could be said “that digital is saving music.”

This is what I want to hear from music executives, along with other commentary in the article that mentions subscription services like Spotify.

The sooner the industry realises that what customers want is ease of access, above and beyond piracy, and that piracy isn't actually a threat if you give customers what they want, then the sooner we can get beyond this war on digital media that's been a blight on computing for the last decade.
Generally, I'm merging to master frequently (several times an hour). Things like upgrading Rails can be multi-day odysseys, however (even though there's sometimes an opportunity to make compatibility changes in master).

However, I don't see WIP branches as a problem, and certainly not one that justifies setting up additional repositories or backup systems just to avoid. If I'm working for someone else, it's not my place to set up shadow repositories all over the place, either.
Confirming that this guy isn't bullshitting about Bollywood.
Well, he is making a lot more money than me. That's the beauty of the article: it works both if it's sarcasm or not, because both sides are true.
I didn't hear about a 4+1 program, but I've heard that there is a combined Master's program where you work at a company full-time and study 2 days in the week. I don't know more about that though except that it also takes 2 years.
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Good list of countries ;) I didn't know that a Degree affects the immigration status.
Except A without B isn't a felony worthy of federal charges.

Our legal system's standard is "beyond a reasonable doubt" not what a child would infer from the evidence. The fact that Aaron had not committed B despite having the time and ability to should have left the prosecutor with a reasonable doubt that such a violation was imminent.
> Having someone human there both gives them the answer much better than they can find themselves and gives them the knowledge that someone is there to help them, so they don't give up.

Yes. Even if the human doesn't actually give you the direct solution to your problem, but just reassures you that you are on the right path and with a bit more thinkingn you will overcome the current obstacle. (Or points out to you when you are blatantly wrong.)

Having confidence that there is a solution is often half the battle to finding one.
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You probably aren't an Indian then.
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> There does not exist a single peer-reviewed study that shows a correlation between increased sales and DRM systems.

I'm not aware of a peer-reviewed study saying the other way, either. This is such a weird thing to say. Do you only believe information that comes from peer-reviewed studies?

Many indie developers who might be sympathetic to the anti-DRM cause still choose DRM platforms, because they perceive it makes money for them. Or maybe they choose to make webapp type software, which conveniently avoids the issue while being the most unfree method of all.

Since they are closest to the market, they posses what economists call 'local knowledge'. Some have released numbers to back up their claims, which is more than you've done. (Also, how many people do you think had a VHS copier when Blade Runner came out? 0% of people I knew growing up could copy VHS tapes.) Anyway, I think it is correct to look at market behavior if you want to talk about market behavior, not what bloggers say when they aim to maximize pageviews.
"Piracy Doesn’t Hurt Game of Thrones, Director Says"

Now, what does HBO say? The director presumably didn't put any money to produce it.

Personally I'd pay around $1 an episode but I understand HBO's business model and what they stand to lose if they went this route too
> I'm sorry you have to rant and yell about the TV industry

I don't get where this personal attack is coming from or why what I said prompts passive aggression, but I'll concede the point that I'm frustrated with an industry that prefers to whine about piracy instead of just selling stuff to people. And for what it's worth they don't make those shows, they just market them. Or, you know, fail to market them.
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Found it out. Eg. twitter.css over here is not a CSS but HTML file: https://github.com/connors/twitter-user-style
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Maybe, just maybe this more reasonable behaviour is a positive outcome from the Aaron Swartz tragedy.
He does write pretty comprehensive Java books though.
I am mostly self-taught, but I benefitted massively from having some programming friends when I was in my initial stages of learning.

Later I had been on the other side, too, having acted as a mentor for some learners. There is value added in connecting people. Just instilling the right values, and culture, and giving people pointer to the right resources. (E.g. friends don't let friends start off with PHP.)
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This is why we shouldn't feed the trolls, they feed on attention.. Forbes fed the troll here, as are we..
They haven't been losing money since -99, their revenue has been shrinking.
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Is there an application which I can use to create mobile phone app - one app for major mobile platforms, which is free + which can access native phone features, like accessing the file system, etc.

Please provide links.
One of the most naive statements I have ever heard on HN: "I firmly believe that private enterprise will be able to efficiently make immediate use of any important scientific breakthroughs or discoveries."

The reality is that companies don't do anything with academic discoveries until they are shovel-ready. Translational research is critical and horribly underfunded.
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My motivational imperative is to create useful technology. But I'm curious what faster ways you know. Could you elaborate?
One one of the reasons for the lack of push back from the unions over the modernization of the UK's telco infrastructure was that the people building system X etc where Union members.

and the BMA and AMA do quite well for there members.
Thank you, I made the correction.
Thanks. We have both import/export from Freemind, so you can take MindMup files offline as well.
I bet his next book carries the statement "Covered by Forbes and Hacker News".. We need downvotes in real life for this kind of thing, "Down voted into oblivion"..
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What do you think his offence was then? He had the right to access all of the articles he downloaded individually. You seem to be suggesting that he should be prosecuted because he might have distributed them.
Good article. It adds something valuable to the (anti/)cheerleading body of evidence that a lot of aspiring startup folk base their should-or-shouldn't-I decisions on.

I would add that I know several people who committed suicide, and these incidents lead us who are left behind to build a mental model of suicide reasons.

My personal suicide anecdote model says:

- If you are depressive please avoid:

- * show-business ( esp. if you have early success )

- * entering a heterosexual marriage and having children if you are actually homosexual
I knew these people, and I know a lot of people. Judging by the difference between start-up types committing suicide and people that I know outside of the start-up scene there is a huge difference between the two groups. Of course it is possible that my experience is an outlier, but it is a pretty extreme one (5:0, on groups of 100's of individuals).
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The effect is achieved by having a div with a specified height pushing down the article. As you scroll down the div naturally moves up with the rest of the content. The scroll event adjusts the position of the background image on that div, relative to the amount of scroll, until it stops when it goes off the screen.
I don't think depression necessarily means you shouldn't do a start-up.

People who know what depression is and know how it works can actually quite often cope with it better than people who don't know what depression is.
If all you've ever had in your life was happiness and success, then a depression can suddenly have a far greater impact on you than someone who knows how it feels.

In that sense, I think that people who are suffering from suicidal tendencies should stay away from startups at all costs.

When running a startup, the ups and the downs in life are far greater than when working for someone else. The thrill when things are going up is why it's so attractive, but everyone who has ever done a startup knows the horrors of crashing and burning - and you will crash and burn at one point or another.

Almost nobody I know will come out of a crash without some mental bruising, some hurt ego, some depression. They may not show it, but even the most ruthless businessmen have to deal with failure and the associated feelings of depression.

If you are unable to handle the lows that come with startups, and if you are at risk of hurting yourself, startups are not for you and I would recommend working for someone else.
Otherwise, if you do occasionally get depressed when something in life doesn't go so well, but you always get back on the saddle after a short period of depression, then startups are perfect for you.
I think we can remove the "if you are depressive" from the last one.
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> You don't start something because you want to. You start because you feel you have to.

Seconded. Though i haven't done any new startups, except work at a small one.

OTOH, as someone known to have been depressed, i would say he makes a good point. i could identify with that eiffel tower climbing as an attempt to cure the fear of failure analogy very well.
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No problem, I've re-written that sentence it now reads: "The failure rate of start-ups being what it is, if you are suffering from depression or if failure is not your thing then start-ups are the very last place that you should be."

That should get rid of any ambiguity. Thank you!
> Trello, if it becomes wildly popular, can finally pull companies from the "Gantt chart" mindset we borrowed from Manufacturing to a more collaborative model.

A more collaborative model, that we also borrowed from engineering. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Production_System#Common...
A good overview of BIND 10's architecture: http://jpmens.net/2012/12/21/completely-different-bind-10/

It seems that all apart from the performance critical parts are written in Python 3.1
I appreciate your math, but it is slightly flawed.

You can get a bigger n, not by increasing class sizes alone, but also by letting teachers teach for longer per day than children learn. I.e. use you math per hour taught, not for salary.

What this means in practice is, use teachers for higher value added work, but let computers (or somebody less qualified) oversee other parts of the learning process.

What seems to work fairly well (I remember a study about it), is to let students read material at home, but solve problems in class. That's the opposite of the traditional getting lectured-at in class / exercises as homework approach.

Khan academy is another vector for leveraging teachers. It does not replace a good teacher, but it can augment a teacher.
I agree very much ! But I would say that then the statement becomes 'general-good-advice' rather than 'suicide agent'
This article is unbelievably wrong!

If you've tech skills, but you don't find working in a noisey office is for you, then you've really got to find a way to earn an income that works for you. Carrying on, and forcing yourself to apply for more and more jobs, where you have to compete with those in their early 20s who are willing to work 12 hour days, and havn't the burden of 15 years of technology changes in their heads isn't for everyone.

Startups offer an opportunity to create a world that not only works in the economocial sense, but also in various health capacities. If you don't like working in big offices. Don't. If you want to work in teams, when the rest of the tech world you know encourages solo endeavours & alpha-male heroes then you can choose to work in teams. You get to choose with who you work with. It's not easy in any stretch of the imagination.

There's been some high profile suicides of late. And it's a waste of life. A horid and chronic waste of life. Whilst there's a few people who hold nasty views on this, I believe the vast majority of people would just rather find a way to help people out through their struggles. I've seen an unexpected side-effect, of others who in one startup forum, have been much more open about their health issues, and in particular addiction. Being more open about health issues is important. Helping people is important. Saying don't do a particular line of work is daft!

Imagine an ordinary every day office job Joe, who suffers from depression, but yet fights on every day despite massive calls from within to do nothing, or stay in bed. These people deal with far bigger ups n downs than most. I'd argue that if that person finds that they're much better off without the 'ordinary every day office job' and finds a sustainable team to work as part of in a startup that they've passion for they're going to be in a better place. Also due to the past fights they've been through, they're going to be much better equipped to deal with the ups n downs of startups than people who havn't suffered from depression.

Startups give opportunity to create a sustainable business and to have a much greater influence on creating a sustainable workplace than merely being employee number 30+ in an established business.

If anyone reads this article and thinks startups are not for me then please do get in touch. I'm http://ianmoss.com/contact

Have a great day :)
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His C++ books became canonical examples of books not to read if you wanted to learn C++.
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How does this compare to MindMeister.com ?
we liked the shorter version more than the longer one. :P
No, it won't really make a difference, but if you think that your website will, in the coming future, become popular, go for it.
This is just about the most patronising, idiotic, misguided and damaging piece of bullshit I've ever had the misfortune to read.

For some people, yes, a high pressure environment that risks failure will put some in harm's way. But if somebody is prone to suicidal thoughts, it's likely that simply living life will put them at risk. Rejection in love. Loss of income. The death of a family member. There's so much in life that can lead to feelings of hopelessness and regret, plenty of them arguably more meaningful than a startup.

And here's the kicker - put somebody who's hugely creative and talented into a 9 to 5 environment or a workplace where they can't express themselves freely to "keep them safe" as the author suggests? There's the equally real danger that they'll feel stifled, trapped, desperately unhappy and will consider taking their own life as a result anyway.

And why does it seem that depression is prevalent in startups, wonders the author? One reason that startups might be a magnet for for such people, is the same reason music or art attracts its fair share of people with depression. It's an outlet, it allows you to define yourself and explore your creativity.

Another reason might be because startups are predominantly founded by young males; according to WHO, suicide in males is twice as high as females in most countries. There's also evidence to suggest young males are most at risk of taking their own lives. And how many founders have undiagnosed depression? How many founders suffer depression as a result of being a startup founder?

Startups aren't for everyone, whether they have mental health issues or otherwise - that's fair comment. People with depression should seek help, and friends should look to support them however they can - that's only to be encouraged. But to make blanket statements about depression just reinforces stereotypes. It's stupid, stupid behaviour.

Paul (has Bipolar Disorder, startup founder and accelerator program director)
I'm extremely worried, I'm locked out of bigco (for the best), I don't want to be locked ou of startup land.

The herd mentality is so strong in this part of work world that it might really be quick.
Depending on your budget (isn't it always..?), speak to Rightscale - they provide a set of frameworks to deploy infrastructure to various cloud platforms, and can handle auto-scaling and all that stuff.
I like the numerous examples in your article.
They really help to drive the point home
There's an out of the box solution (that lacks the performance of ours, unfortunately): http://stephband.info/jparallax/

@porada, author of the one on http://codetunes.com said he'll post something here.
I was under the impression the US is the only country that have used atom bombs in anger?

I don't trust the US just like I don't trust these Muslim states. Neither are really pro-freedom.
>The title only suggests something unique about Go to those who didn't read the article.

The thing is, many people use the title to determine whether the article is worth reading. As is, the title suggests that there is something unique about Go that reduces the bandwidth needed by the program, implying that this is something that other common languages fail to achieve. This is obviously impossible (any widely used language is capable of serializing an output byte stream in any way the programmer desires). As a result, the title sets off the alarm for "Language fanboyism", and "mathematically impossible claims", and goes swiftly into the "don't bother" pile together with "universal lossless compression algorithm invented!"[1], "perpetual motion machine" and "My favourite X language is faster that C/C++/Assembler!1!1"

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeonhole_principle
Most of the people I know who have killed themselves (hrm...10 or so over the past decade?) were not involved in startups in a senior role. One had sold a successful company a year or two before, and another was a senior engineer at a fairly successful tech company, and of course the other was aaronsw (who was involved in non-profit, activist stuff; it would be hard to say startups were involved in his death).

If you excluded people with depression from startups, I don't think you'd meaningfully change the suicide rate, but you probably would reduce the number and quality of startups. IMO, if one's internal emotional state is relatively independent of the outside world, it's not so much that losing a client or having a startup fail will lead to suicide, but that depression/withdrawal/etc. will lead to the startup failing.

The question is more can depression and startup success coexist.