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I understand. Sounds like you might be missing a greater purpose. When possessed by the sense of a long range mission, the slow and steady burn of quiet conviction sustains us through the inevitable lulls and frustration.

Experiment with reducing stimulation. Learn mindfulness meditation, which is proven to lessen anxiety. Take some walks in the mountains or nature. Climb trees. I remember when I recently re-discovered pleasure in the simplest things, like the sound of wind moving through trees, or the feel of the green moss beside the forest brook. These things only appear to have lost meaning because we have come to think of them as abstractions, as mere information or symbols, rather than in four dimensions that flow within and through us. The second chapter in Ray Bradbury's "Dandelion Wine" captures this well.

Take your pen and notebook. Experiment with and appreciate incremental change to habits. Forgive yourself and others.

Until you discover a greater purpose, then your greater purpose IS that process of searching and assimilating...your life already means more immediately the moment you take the decision to get serious about it in this way. And by the way, software engineering is a powerful craft. You can address almost any purpose through it.

Listen for these long range signals, and in the end, you'll feel truly satisfied in proportion to your creative generosity to the world.

All the best.
Pretty funny, but ... there's only been one new iOS mail app in the past year, right? I understood when people skewered to-do and weather apps, but I don't really see a glut of mail apps.
It's not a virtue to not know matrix algebra, but it's not particularly un-virtuous either. I have great respect for mathy engineers, but I also know the world needs its Jobs's and its Wozniak's, and it needs them to work together.
Ask HN: What would you want to see in a nutrition facts food label?
I'm the current founder of a start-up that generates FDA compliant food labels (www.quickfoodlabels). As all of you know, reading those labels are notoriously complex.

For example, I think the number of servings in a package is confusing, because you need to multiply the servings by the calories to get how many calories is in a package.

I was wondering for the HN community, what would you want to see in a nutrition facts food label?
Not quite sure why you even thanked them for that response. Wasn't worth the electrons it is printed on :)
Yes, our PoPs are different sizes depending on the load. San Jose and Los Angeles, for example, are larger than Seattle. We've designed the system to scale relatively linearly by adding additional servers. As a PoP gets more traffic we can handle it in two ways: 1) adding more equipment to the PoP; or 2) adding another PoP to offload a portion of the traffic.
Submitted this as one of those technology vs fun vs security things. The innocent use of an observation drone near the airport could easily see a drone get 'ingested' by an engine. It's really really hard to appreciate just how much air mass a widebody jet sucks as it goes by.

Given the metallic components, such a strike would have a good chance of damaging the engine which could cost the airline hundreds of thousands of dollars, not to mention put passenger safety at risk.

So look for some rapid rule making in this area and don't be surprised if you're arrested by the FBI if you fly your drone near an airport.
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Filing a DMCA request when you don't have a very solid copyright claim can be dangerous:

https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2004/10/15

I doubt this case will escalate to that, but at the very least I think I can safely say LayerVault is the loser here. I was only scarcely aware of LayerVault previously with no specific opinion and now after hearing the claims and seeing the supposed "proof" I have a negative opinion. And for what gain?
Additionally: Since you already have a web-playable version of the game, you should have a feature where a user can share a puzzle with a friend.

Once they complete a challenging puzzle, say something like "Congrats. You demolished that puzzle! Want to share this with a friend?" Then when they hit the FB/TW share icon, you can share the same exact puzzle (http://playadrift.com/?puzzle=3653) as a link. This will improve your virality.

Also, what toolkit did you use to write the iOS game? cocos2d? Or is there some magical toolkit that allows you to render out an HTML version of your app too???!!
If you are talking about the US "Flash Crash" that theory is little more than urban legend.

Here is one of the "b" instead of "m" stories published on the day of the crash:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/36998463

Here is the Wikipedia summary of the event which lists "fat finger trade" as one of the discredited theories:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Flash_Crash#Early_theories
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Wow - that version on your website was brilliant. I was hooked by the second puzzle; and would have happily paid for this app. You must have spent a lot of time making a web version, but I can only imagine how well that is going to pay off; I probably never would have downloaded this game otherwise (I don't download games, basically, ever). But with it, you sold me very quickly, and definitely left money on the table...

edit: I would also love a shake gesture to clear the cube.
So seriously, what about blockquotes? They are just text that may be related to the source (not a stretch of imagination I hope), and which also may internally contain links in the quoted section?

Going back to the img example: What if I want a navbar? The semantically linked thing is not a random div, it is the whole button area, not just it's text. What if it contains a "help with this option" icon with in the area, that is semantically different from it's surrounding button?

The argument is that if an image is "text", then other elements that aren't just words, can in fact be "text", because they have semantic value.
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Does anyone have any experience with this? It's something I might be interested in using if it's a solid product.
> Nice, but the DMCA needs more reform than that. There is a severe imbalance in the fact that parties who feel that they have been infringed can serve financially disastrous take-downs that must be complied with immediately. The only recourse for served parties is a long expensive legal process.

This is demonstrably false. The first line of recourse is counter-notification, which reinstates the content.
I thought this was going to be about the first final fantasy games...
Seriously?

Apple paid $21 million for a clock design after first adopting your attitude: http://www.law.com/corporatecounsel/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1202...
I don't play a lot of games, but this is really cute. It reminds me of Freefall by Denis Auroux (http://math.berkeley.edu/~auroux/software/freefall/index.htm...: a Java Applet (1996)).
The hamburger menu is a pretty bad anti-pattern in iOS design.

Worse, in the screen shot, there are only five items. They could fit in a conventional iOS tab bar, which is significantly less clunky to navigate.
Last time I ordered a mini pro, a bluetooth bridge, and a couple of dht11's it took two weeks. I'm in Europe, and Sparkfun is not much faster for me. If I want something the next day I usually go for a local provider.

The great thing about dx is that they will ship a single $9 board to your house for free :)
Date slaughtered for anything meat.
An example of doing it wrong? The Facebook chat sidebar, on the right (when trying to access a friend's profile from the hover box).
I wanted to make a glib comment about overuse of antibiotics in farm animals. Reading a little deeper, that 50% mortality rate is really scary. I guess, those are people already in the hospital, so their immune system is already taking a hit, but wow. 50%.
> The emergence of deadly, bacteria resistant hospital superbugs is on the rise according to the CDC.

Given this crisis produced by natural selection, it's amazing to think that only 39% of Americans believe in evolution:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/114544/darwin-birthday-believe-ev...
At that point shouldn't it be adopted by the HTTP2.0 people and simply renamed to that (with some minor changes)? I think if that happens it will speed adoption but I'm not clear on the timeline.

Also, curios, Facebook is using Version 2 and Google is serving Version 3.
How did Etsy get its name?
Not just the javascript either, Chrome becomes horrendously slow with week wifi signals where Safari is fine. For some reason only Apple apps can do the 3G/LTE/Wifi request pooling magic that they added in iOS 6.
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I favour "hah, nice try."
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Why do you insist on picking the most unlikely interpretations of whatever someone is saying? :-) What I meant was that people will still write even if not getting paid, not that they actively prefer not getting paid for their writing and putting it on the web for free. And when there's tons of supply (as there will be if people write regardless of demand), prices go down, meaning that very few people actually will get paid.

Here's another way to look at it, if you're still not following: http://www.roughtype.com/?p=1220
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Resources? Afterward they simulated flights using the Ariane 5 systems and duplicated the errors.
Thanks for correcting me, that's pretty neat stuff.
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I'm also not able to get it to work. The only link that seems to work is the one to the iTunes store...
Yeah, when I went to the tour page, I was trying to figure out why the whole page was greyed out.
I thought it was interesting they completely avoided the evolution issue in there response to:

How Do Certain Bacteria Become Resistant?
The books by Howard Wainer, Edward Tufte, and Bill Cleveland are good starting points; it also depends a lot on your particular interests. Andrew Gelman's blog [1] is very good if you're at all interested in non-experimental data and/or poli sci applications.

[1] http://andrewgelman.com/
As others have pointed out, Allan's "reply" is quite the non-reply with the lack of concrete proof and evidence of the supposed "copyright infringement". What I personally found interesting, however, was Allan's initial reaction to the Flat UI Kit on Twitter: "Has nothing to do with us. Very distasteful."[1]

Later on, after the pitchforks had showed up, he tweeted the following: "It's neat that someone made a flat ui kit"[2]

That tune sure changed quickly!

[1] https://twitter.com/Allan/status/308937462221254657

[2] https://twitter.com/Allan/status/309346292902014976
You forgot about "colorblind users"! Best and easiest way to make the game accessible for people with color vision deficiencies would be to also use a unique symbol for each color and a variation of the same for the connecting tiles.

Very nice presentation!
In a lot of law firms, the resistance to change is simply because completely changing workflows is not easy to accomplish. They have a lot to do, and given their system works for them, you need to demonstrate the advantages for them. Show them why this will make their lives easier. They wouldn't really make less money, since if they are really spending this much time, it's probably time they could spend billing two clients instead of one (usually better to run up two small bills instead of one large one).
In any case, this is true in trying to change any enterprise, law is no different.

I converted a group of lawyers, who were still using Corel Wordperfect for drafting multistate legislation, to using an XML based workflow, after showing them why it would make them faster, not why it was "better for the world who was trying to look at drafts".

Imagine you used emacs all day, every day, and then someone came in and says "we're all moving to VIM".

Personally, I do all my drafting in text and use version control, but use word as an interchange format when stuff goes outside of the company.
I'm pretty sure it's a specific parody of Mailbox.
While it's bad enough already, note that since bacteria can "hot swap" genetic information it's the CR property itself which is surviving and spreading. This is a pretty fascinating example of evolution at the sub-individual level.
I don't know if it is just a mis-telling of the F-22 bug (I suspect it may be), but I have heard of a bug in the autopilot software of some fighter plane that would cause the plane to flip upsidedown when it was south of the equator on autopilot. Presumably this bug was discovered during simulations, and was never actually accidentally triggered in the wild.
Ask your host to drop you at a TechStop once the meetup is over. Shoot me an email (in profile) with the building the meetup is in and I can recommend the nearest visitor-friendly area :)
(I work at CropUp)

We can't reproduce that issue. Did you try to clear your cache?

If you're still having that issue, can you send me an email: robert@cropup.com
Fun game! I'm colorblind, though, and on level 10 the orange and green look very similar to my eyes. The ability to adjust colors, hues, or even just the "star" icons would be a huge help.
Who says you need completely novel gameplay mechanics to charge money for an app? Surely more polish, hand-built levels and an app are sufficient. Whether OP would make more on ads or IAP remains to be seen, though. An IAP to get more levels would be a good way to hook users.
I think for programmers the constant state of learning (code techniques, browser quirks, new tools, new libraries, new algorithms) takes the edge off of learning "a bit of linear algebra" for one little part of your program. Would it help to really know linear algebra in and out? Sure, but that list of things worth learning is near infinite and the times you'll need linear algebra like this is quite small.

Web developer especially need to get their sea legs and be comfortable working on unstable ground all the time - it's inherent in the kludge we call web standards. So if you take a list of all the things a web developer needs to know to be effective, let's just agree "high math" isn't going to be near the top of that list.
The problem is that the implementation of the 'why' can be scattered over many files, classes, functions, etc. So where to put the comments?

You put them everywhere that might be relevant, along with cross-references to other relevant code/documentation. Humans aren't robots -- redundancy is a good thing, because it helps our feeble minds more quickly reinforce key concepts.
No. IANAL and TINLA, but in the USA, software is licensed, not sold; and you are bound by the terms of the EULA, especially if the EULA terms restrict your further transfer of the software. See the Ninth Circuit appellate ruling on Vernor v. Autodesk.
as i remember, iPhone sdk was released after Android. it seemed to be that iPhone sdk was not intended for developers, but Android forced them to, because it seemed like an obviously good idea.
well, I am not sure, why it is on hackernews, but it growing resistances of bacterias to antibiotics are indeed a huge problem.

If you think about giving birth to your next child in a hospital, think twice about that.
Multi resistant bacterias, like methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus are a danger.

A friend of mine and his newborn just had such complications to endure.

New research shows that 4% of hospital patients get infected anually in Germany and another 4% dies from those complications.
The world must benefit from all the developers who get frustrated and say "screw you guys, I'll do it myself with blackjack and hookers", and quit to start their own company. Right?
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There's something to be said about time investment. You're suggesting that tinkering takes time. If I want to keep current on all the math I learned in school, I'd have to invest a significant amount of time in addition to the time I already invest in keeping up-to-date with languages/frameworks/platforms/algorithms/datastructures/databases/etc.

How often would I use this level of math? I know I use the others on an almost daily basis. Coming up with something I need linear algebra for, though? Few and very far between. Maybe you use linear algebra often, but most of us don't have a need for it.

And if you disagree, then I think you should actually know abstract algebra, number theory, topology, etc., so that when the next problem comes along, you can 'quickly come up with an optimal solution'.
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Wow, that is considerably less egregious than I had imagined it would be.

From my initial reading, it sounded like images were outright copied, or copied and slightly altered. That is hardly the case in these examples.

If there aren't any stronger examples than these, then LayerVault wouldn't seem to have much of a basis for all this.
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> "Calling Vault - a private Google Voice (sort of?) (callingvault.com)"

Is this somehow implying that Google Voice is public?
I'd bet there is a market for a "plug-and-play" way to get SPDY working on top of IIS.
you're right, but since I only ever used it for urls I never had noticed these problems
iPhone was released on June 29, 2007. The iPhone SDK was made available in March of 2008. The App Store opened on July 11, 2008.

If Apple really only started working on the public SDK and the App Store after consumers started buying iPhones, they did it at a superhuman speed.
Maybe instead of saying "you should listen to your customer", we should say "you should observe and learn from your customers".
Very nice game! I couldn't stop myself from wasting 10 mins playing this.

One minor feedback: when the tile color is yellow, the star should be colored different (because when highlighted, it is also yellow)
Innovator's Dilemma is much more academic and research-filled, Innovator's Solution is more "here's what you do with it." I'd recommend Innovator's Solution first as it's a somewhat lighter introduction. (I haven't read Seeing What's Next, so can't comment there.)
I saw someone charging for a game based on the exact same principle last week. No reason not to.
Holy shit, that's addictive.
I don't think resource is an issue given that they spend a lot of money on its development.
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I think this is amazing!
Apple's clock design was indistinguishable from the original. This is not.
So Streamy...
I'd say that number is probably higher - I know a number of people who believe evolution happens but think that humanity didn't evolve from monkeys. Because we are special, or something. I generally don't query further.
There is a small delay, so they don't use the Amazon technique.
well there are Windows 8 users!!!!..the main feature as a web developer i like in Windows8 is its native support to JavaScript...wen i get free the next task is to make some JS apps for Windows8..also i got to know that UbuntuOS and FireFoxOS does give JS as native support...and hopefully in future they together improve HTML5 support than their own API in JS..
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>The first line of recourse is counter-notification, which reinstates the content.

Sec. 512(g)(2)(B): "upon receipt of a counter notification described in paragraph (3), promptly provides the person who provided the notification under subsection (c)(1)(C) with a copy of the counter notification, and informs that person that it will replace the removed material or cease disabling access to it in 10 business days"

What can the victim of the fraudulent takedown do for those 10 days? Maybe go to court (I have no idea), but if so that certainly sounds like "long expensive legal process" to me, and if not then it's even worse because there is just no recourse at all.
Just adding to what MediaSquirrel mentioned:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/24/betterworks-shuts-down/
Nice idea, but I couldn't find a demo product or some place with current customers so I can check how it looks, etc
I'd be interested to see a blog post that details what "adjusting the way we handle [TCP] protocol negotiation itself [for Anycast]" entails.
Two sides of the same coin. Whether you know math or someone on your team does, no good programming is getting done without it.
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To be fair, a copyright message isn't something we need tons of contrast on. There are definitely places that could use extra contrast in their designs, but the copyright in their footer isn't one of them.
The BBC programme "Horizon - defeating the superbugs" showed an experiment of bugs developing resistance to antibiotics.

They had a large tray (about a metre by three metres?) divided into several sections. At each end was regular gel food. Then in slices the gel had anti-biotics dissolved in it in higher concentrations. In the middle they could not dissolve any more anti-biotic, they had reached the solubility level. (This would have been toxic for people). The bacteria had no problem evolving to this level.

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ms5c6)

Unfortunately, it's not available on BBC iPlayer anymore.

I ahem 'found' this clip on YouTube. (http://youtu.be/2w38Ry1WHh0)
Actually it's not, it's just different and less common (for now).
Just googled it and lots of articles say they are $4-$5 but where you can buy them, they appear to be $9.99 now. I wonder if they bumped up the price recently.
Always With Honor should go after LayerVault.
Saul Bass should go after Always With Honor.
Picasso should go after Saul Bass.

Any designer that doesn't understand that design is an iterative process, shouldn't be a designer anymore.
Yeah didnt mean to write that. Pale brown is default. Duck eggs are bright white...
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Sure, try this product: http://crop.to/fW
Thanks for all the feedback, it's all really good advice, We've gone back and forth on the ad thing and we're still not sold on whether to integrate them or not. The game was written in cocos2d, and I wrote the initial prototype in html5, so thats whats being used on the website. Also yeah "Adrift" was taken as an app store entry, so we had to figure out something else for the title, I agree its a bit clunky.
Background: http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2013/03/06/startup-fa...
Without intending any disrespect to elderly British homosexuals, I read the whole article in the voice of an elderly British homosexual. One who is easily impressed.
It seems like there's two sides to creating demand for a product, natural customer desire and customer desire plasticity.

Of course, focusing on both is the best approach. Personally, I've never gleaned the appeal of apple products. They don't seem simple or intuitive such as how they're sold, from my perspective. Maybe this is my advanced user perspective talking, but it seems like just another UI with a different terminology and tropes. A new interface to memorize. So from this perspective, the trick is getting users to want to invest time and money in that new system. In that, apple is quite successful.
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Indeed, Cluster II was a brilliant success, with over 10 years of successful scientific operations in space. Kudos for any part you played in that.