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Rdio and Spotify do typically get albums the day they are released (assuming the appropriate contract is already in place with the artist and label).

Movies and TV shows are completely different beasts. For Movies, you typically can only see them in Theaters long before buying, renting, netflix, pay-per-view, etc. TV shows aren't available until after their broadcast date, and sometimes not until months later. And the completeness of the catalog for TV shows on hulu/netflix/etc is EXTREMELY thin compared to the music catalog of Rdio/Spotify; even if you only consider current TV shows.
I understand and don't disagree with everything you are saying, but the focus of my attention is on what you're talking about in your 3rd graf. When you talk about your example problems (1) and (2) with routing to concurrent systems on large number of dynos, what you're really discussing is an engineering flaw in the typical Rails stack.

There's a tradeoff between:

* a well-engineered request handler (a solved problem more than a decade ago) and

* an efficient development environment (arguably a nearly-unsolved problem before the Rails era)

And I feel like mostly the Heroku drama is a result of Rails developers not grokking which end of that tradeoff they've selected.
MIT OCW Scholar has an excellent Multivariable Calculus class that i am currently self studying.

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-02sc-multivariable...
Because if I'm rich I can work on what I want to work on, not what the rich guy says I have to work on.

[and there are a thousand other reasons that money helps out in life, but I use the above example to show that your argument is self-defeating.]
"and yet those games made money for their creators."

Did they make enough money to offset what would be fair salaries for their creators throughout the time they were being made? If not, then the comparison isn't very valid since the creators would have been working for free.
> And for one person there: Karma. It takes a long time but it does come back to bite you.

Er... no. That's superstition.

It's simply not real.
> since then I've been doing all my work remotely from a very rural place

Excellent! I'm in Paris but my wife's family is in Charente (Ruffec) and I go there often. We should setup some kind of local meetup group!!
Very clarifying, thanks.

Fire-fighting during the scaling phase is a problem that every fast-growing software-as-a-service business will probably have to face. I think Heroku makes it easier, perhaps way easier; but I hope our marketing materials etc have not implied a scaling panacea. Such a thing doesn't exist and is most likely impossible, in my view.
Hmmm. I don't know where they are in terms of sentience, but I kinda feel sorry for the jellyfish. It's the main reason I don't keep pets of any sort, but particularly fish. I love aquaria, but even the truly huge ones don't seem large enough - take the Lisbon Oceanário for example - hard not to feel sorry for that one Sunfish (maybe a metre across) just swimming in circles around a huge cylindrical tank.

Keeping cephalapods would be a great engineering challenge, in terms of what's necessary to make a viable habitat, but it seems so cruel given their apparent intelligence. Perhaps these things shouldn't be cheap?
Sorry, but I can't help but feel you're looking at the industry through rose-tinted glasses. There were hundreds upon hundreds of games for NES/Gameboy/DOS/PS that absolutely stunk. The vast majority were rotten, rotten games that were plain unfun from the title screen through to the end credits. I'd happily contend that the opposite is true: that if you go into a GAME store today, the vast majority of games will be at least /ok/. Whilst I don't think it's yet true that the majority of titles are AAA (check the reviews section of your nearest games mag, only a few releases per month are evidently AAA), a declining market for medium-budget games is possibly more of an issue.

And what happened to the $5 games? Since 2007 the industry has seen a huge, massive surge in (successful) indie game development, primarily on PC but also distributed digitally on PSN and 360. It's definitely there, alive, strong and very visible. (Sure, they might take more than 2 weeks to make, but not many games can be made in two weeks to contend well on quality).
I for one believe the barrage of attacks and attempted thefts will inevitably make Bitcoin safer. Just like Google Chrome's pwning contests, eventually nobody will be capable of claiming the prize.
But then it gets harder again. And then easier. Etc.
While it is a cool project, I hope I never have to work on a project that use this. I hate when people overwrite built-ins, but that might just be me.
LucasArts as a developer hasn't made a good game for at least a decade. All of the good Star Wars games were third party like KOTOR by BioWare. So it makes sense to use the LucasArts as a publisher only. Still I am saddened that an iconic developer from my childhood game days has been put to pasture.
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Agreed.

After having kids, I have become more productive simply because you have to be. It seems like I "wasted" the time before having kids. For example, even with - at the time - a three-year-old and 20-month-old twins, I managed to start a very small, niche web-based business all at night after the family went to bed. (It took me about two months to start this side-business.)

Edited for clarity.
FWIW Alexa isn't accurate and can easily be gamed.
And when all of their wallet URLs were indexed in Google, I am pretty sure they're saying that nobody is getting a refund here.
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I'd say there's a major flaw here - "the new world of concurrent web backends" - If now was 1995 I might agree with you, but having concurrency in web-app servers is not new.

Sadly, concurrency is relatively new and unfamiliar territory to many in the Ruby on Rails community.
I think it just doesn't work for everyone. While many people seem to love it, I failed to read it, twice. I think I got his point about self-reference and conciousness in the introduction, but from then on I found it so mind-numbingly boring I just couldn't continue reading past a couple of chapters. To me it seemed like he was going round and round re-explaining the same points over and over. In fact I thought reading GEB must be a hazing exercise for geeks. But then, since lots of people do seem to enjoy it, I guess it might just be one of those love-it-or-hate-it things.
"So what do we do about this?"

Use TLS, warn customers about a malicious ISP attacker their connection, set up an encrypted proxy/VPN service for people to use, etc.
Awesome. Really appreciate that feedback. Thanks a bunch.

Edit: Also, we do actually allow you to sort the descriptive by Count, alphabetical, or manually chosen. There should be a "Sort" button to the upper right of the table.
Oh, thanks again for limiting region availability. I think I'll have to stay in permanent vpn state:(
I am aware, but at least it doesn't look like this: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bitcoin.org

Faking a high alexa ranking may be possible, but faking a low alexa ranking is not.

You can't fake the fact that next to nobody went to instawallet.
Wayback machine has to be the best thing created online. Its not just about the nostalgia it about the growth and keeping all necessary information always available.

I really like how they quickly and smoothly accepted bitcoins. They truly listen and understand the Internet.
It's pretty obvious, but country is strongly correlated with compensation.

If we want to get paid, we have to move (or get a job) in the U.S. or Australia (didn't know Australia was that well-paying)
I don't think the AAA industry has to be fucked. I think if you cut out the publishers and all content is downloadable, you can provide higher margins the to studios who actually create the content. Right now the distributors(publishers) are the ones who come out like bandits..
I've tried both and have stuck with Rdio. The social aspect is superior. I love being able to see playlists and recommendations from random people beyond my Facebook friends. Spotify's desktop app is definitely faster, though I find Rdio to be better designed.
Fate of Atlantis, King's Quest 3, Monkey Island 2 and even Full Throttle is available:
http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/IPhone
Maybe we should all start packing our own TOS's in request headers... :)
I don't understand the issue, or why he is right.

Care to explain?

What stops language X from targeting asm.js and still having higher-level parts in plain JS to deal with the DOM?
Awesome - have needed this so often.
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This probably has more to do with the environment that these developers learned to code in. Stack Overflow was a huge part of my journey as a programmer, but their journey probably included more reference books and colleagues.
It just sounds like you meant to say "capital is ABUNDANT in comparison to the talent." Capital being scarce in comparison to the talent has been the case for decades if not centuries.

>"With convex work in the technological era... your limiting factor, instead, is the time and attention of the highly talented people"

Right, not capital, which is why I thought it odd you said capital was scarce in comparison to talent. I think you meant abundant.
I might be wrong, but I don't think that it's actually possible to mock built-in objects (written in C, not in python) using pytest.

A very quick test would be trying to do something like this:

>>> monkeypatch(str, "blah", "bleh")
>>> assert str.blah == "bleh"

I tried it here with no success though.
So? If Comcast does it, what are they going to do?
I will agree with supersaiyan , you are doing something wrong. I live in same area and except junior developers I don't know anybody making 50k/year as developer. Change job.
Be still my beating heart! But no, I doubt it - I'd love for a single player RPG, but expect nothing but MMO's here on out.
Pivot is a term of art popularized by Eric Ries and the lean startup movement.

Pivots frequently keep a large part constant, thus the word makes sense.
Would be awesome if the connection part of jackdb could be open sourced so the community could help bring NOSQL support. I understand you've got to make a living though. Just think of all the DBs you could support if you used an ORM (just thinking about Ruby there us Sequel, ActiveRecord, DataMapper).
I don't think that there's any implications for that, but I'll probably relicense this library as MIT or at least LGPL pretty soon.

I just used my default licence template, which defaults to GPL.
> You’ll need to convince me that “e^ipi = -1” is actually a “thought"

Then what is it?
I'd be really interested to see some public information resulting from debugging Python apps. We're holding pretty steady, but see a fairly constant stream of timeouts due, apparently, to variance in response times. To be sure, we're working on that. But, in the meantime, our experiments with gevent and Heroku have been less than inspiring.
If only "Keep the rest offline and encrypted." didn't sound like Charlie Brown's teacher speaking to 99% of the world...
Growing pains.
At my current age (25), I don't necessarily agree with this. I do understand the philosophy behind "work smart, not hard", but when I come across these posts where someone is claiming "work less, do more", i question whether they're truly passionate about what they're doing.

My personal opinion as a startup founder, is that there is no such thing as work/life balance. Your startup is your life and your work should contribute to it.

That aside, the post is rather misleading. You're giving advice to others on working less hours and smarter but had you worked smarter previously, you may have a different opinion.

I prioritize my health, take a 5 minute break every 25 minutes (pomodoro technique), and get at lest 7 hours of sleep each night, all things which you seemingly didn't do.

For now, all I can say is that I hope my competitors are reading this and nodding their heads.
I absolutely agree, I am working on this
Haters gonna hate.

I wonder how many people bitching here are actual customers who are having problems that haven't been address with a solution. I'm guessing that number is low.

Oh, you're a potential customer? That's why you're bitching? About a problem you may or may not have if you actually choose the product? Think about that argument for a second.

I've never seen such a transparent response and follow up as I have from Heroku on this issue. Most other companies would have gone into immediate damage mitigation mode and let the wound heal instead of re-opening it and giving feedback on how to fix the problem as Heroku has.

I applaud the Heroku team for their effort on their platform and being a kickass company.
The Fed chairman should open the liquidity window so the game company can trade securitized expected game sales notes to the Fed/taxpayer for hard cold cash!
1) We’re not actually using Python for OpenCV, just ruby-opencv and possibly some bindings in Java/JRuby. (I think Python’s in the build instructions due to a numpy dependency in OpenCV. Though that might be specific to using Homebrew on OS X. Definitely looking into it soon.)

2) No plans at the moment, though that's an awesome idea.
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From the description, it sounds like a money laundering service.
This type of incident is a key reason the US Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ("FinCEN") issued sensible guidance requiring those who offer wallet (bitcoin transfers between persons and/or merchants) and currency conversion services to be regulated as money transmitters. While money transmitter regulation isn't perfect and is expensive for providers, it can provide some consumer protections in these scenarios.

Edit: Forgot to link to their guidance

http://fincen.gov/statutes_regs/guidance/html/FIN-2013-G001....
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I wonder how much pressure IA feels to convert its donated bitcoin holdings to cash, given the run-up in exchange rates that has happened recently. Does IA prefer to support Bitcoin as if it were, as its proponents suggest, a real currency with sticking power for the long-term future? Or is there more real and permanent good to be had from converting that money to dollars to support the Archive's excellent programs today?

Clearly the latter must trump the former at some price. I think that price may be well below the $/BTC exchange rate today.
It's interesting to reflect on this number, when you realize that the latest AAA platform title (whatever AAA meant in that particular day/age) have always cost about $50-60 in the past $$ terms of that day, regards of when in the past 20 years we're talking about. So you paid $90 worth of value in 1990 and we pay $49.99 today. What I mean to say is that games were EXPENSIVE back then!
Saving is usually motivated by having a need to save money. If you have some goals, you'll save for them. Sometimes, you need role models who show you how to save. I was fortunate and had one parent who was a great saver, and later in life, one friend who was even more into saving. Both people were poorer than I, so I know how to do it. (In fact, they are still poorer, but know how to save money. Saving isn't the path to wealth. It mainly gets you some financial breathing room, and the ability to take risks.)
It's not really comparable to Pwn2Own. Pwn2Own's only vector of attack is by finding flaws in the software directly.

All of these wallet service companies employ people and many, many successful hacks are performed by exploiting the people involved / mistakes the people make.

So while software with enough hardening can eventually get to a state that's quite safe, as long as people are an active part of the security chain, you're going to have valid attack vectors.
Never EVER "redesign the whole system from scratch". There are years (usually) of history documented in code in a legacy system.

I've heard this over and over and have experience with projects where this was attempted. It's never gone well.

"...the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make: They decided to rewrite the code from scratch." -Joel Spolsky

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

Also read: http://timross.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/if-you-must-rewrite/
Netflix? Hahaha, good luck with that anywhere outside Canada, USA or UK. Amazon? The same. No need to describe the rest of them. Same story everywhere. Other countries are just not on their globe.
I guess this explains why their booth was empty at PyCon this year.

(Though I think they may have had an empty booth at previous PyCons...)
CEOs and directors aren't primarily "knowledge workers", they are networkers/connectors/presenters. It isn't the same sort of concentration as programming or accounts payable.
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The bitcoin community spends a ton of time trying to educate people on cold-storage wallets and two-factor authentication for online wallets.

MtGox has even given away free YubiKeys in the past to help keep people's accounts secure. Does Chase or BofA anyone else offer that kind of security? :)

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Cold_storage
https://mtgox.com/press_release_20120215.html
It's not that it's impossible to for online wallets to be secure, it's that most of the people implementing them are amateurs when it comes to security.

The Bitcoin industry needs bank level security. They're doing some things right (most exchanges offer 2FA), but they've got a long ways to go.
I hope your pile of money is in bills, as those are softer than coins. Or maybe money isn't your happiness, but merely one means to an end.
I like this idea. Great job!!

However, Twitter already sends emails out of tweets that are popular in your network. My only concern is that they could easily shut your service down & do the same thing as your app if they wanted to.
if they just went to unlimited internet, they wouldn't need this thing.
Could someone with experience in the field, please elaborate on how the unit-expectation numbers are calculated? At the risk of sounding obvious, is it possible that the models used to gauge expectations are outdated?
Oh, now I see the light. I don't even need templates, just dozens of str.replaces littered throughout my code. Now I can throw away all these weird screw things, and just have nails!

/sarcasm

My point still stands, no matter what you think you read in my post, different tools for different jobs is OK, there is no "silver bullet" (or magic-hammer or whatever).
Given the current tax code, I really don't want the IRS to have enough information to properly fill out my taxes for me.

Ideally, we get past the lobbyists and create a simple tax system. I do wonder what the revenue neutral standard deduction + flat tax rate would have to be.
You think it might be worth starting a competitors page for each service?
I think your parent comment means runtimes in the sense of a garbage collector or other services that run concurrently with user code or are scheduled periodically, which will put you in a world of hurt if you touch one of their objects without asking its permissions and/or playing by its rules.
(I'm going to have to stop with this comment. Maybe you can find someone else willing to go over the basics of wealth with you.)

If you were to just abandon your land, there is no reason to expect it to belong to you when you come back 100 years later.

Instead, say you set up a corporation and hire people to use the money made renting it out to pay for taxes and management on it. You might still own the land in 100 years. Or not, if the people you left in charge of it couldn't manage it well enough. But people got to use the land in the meantime, so there was economic activity being assisted by your asset.

This would not, of course, give you any claim on any new land that is made, like new landfill in Boston.

Bitcoins sitting out on the chain while you are sleep do not provide any benefit to growing the economy. They have not bought any factory equipment. They have not trained any workers. They have not invented any new technology.

Any system in which people can end up with the same portion of an economy after sitting both their labor and their capital out on the sidelines for 100 years is fundamentally broken. Exactly how is an exercise for the reader, but like anyone purporting to have a perpetual motion machine, while the exact problem may be different from machine to machine, the laws of physics mean that there is some definite failure in it.
What type of e-commerce platform are they using?
I think you're being downvoted because if anyone knows about the pain of using C++ to develop a browser engine, it's Mozilla. They have some pretty strong empirical evidence to back up their statement.
> That said, does Forth have a runtime?

It depends if you mean one of those Forth CPUs there were common in the 80's or the more standard Forth environment, both of which have nontheless runtimes.

Because in the end, you will be using a set of words besides the basic stack manipulation ones, those words are the runtime.
I'm talking about the sites with a lower alexa ranking who potentially are gaming the results. For instance, I have a "junk" site (its kindof lame) which took about ~30 minutes of my time to make in 2007 and I haven't touched it since and this site is by far the largest in its niche. I know it’s the largest in the niche because, I know some of the other webmasters in this niche & we’ve shared traffic info. Anyway my “junk” site has a significantly higher alexa ranking than its competitors - for instance they are nearly in the top 100k (they get ~60-70% of the traffic) and this site is nowhere near that.
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Startups, FGPAs, Certs, and Agile Adoption. Big Visible’s Alan Dayley (video)
This [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5475389] conversation suggests that there might have been a very large withdrawal of funds just prior to the system shutdown.

It points out again how careful you have to be when suddenly there is "real money" on the line.

I've yet to see the "exit strategy" where an enterprising crook sets up an exchange and then loots it once its net value is high enough. But I would not be surprised to see that happen. It has happened in the brick and mortar world with banks, no reason it shouldn't be any different in the digital world.
I got hung up on the same issue.
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What about Blizzard? They seem to be the exception to the rule. They deliver very few titles but they seem to be raking in cash on each of them.
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What kind of confidence interval indicates it's statistically significant? In the sciences, in my experience, a lot of times you see 95% as the standard of confirming correlation, or is it something else?

This is awesome.
Inflation helps for capital and labor. It forces capital to be involved, and it lets labor be devalued. Wages are extremely sticky, but only nominally.
The first mover advantage is actually quite rare, though. For example, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook were not the first companies in their domain. First movers only have the advantage when you have strong network effects and strong lock-in.
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It's been awhile since I've read it, but I remember reading something along those lines in "Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us" (http://www.amazon.com/Drive-Surprising-Truth-About-Motivates...). The thesis is that our motivation to do things is along a spectrum of intrinsic (for the love of the work) vs extrinsic (e.g. money). Generally the former yields better results. Some studies even showed that paying people to do things they love can be detrimental, because you're now adding an extrinsic motivator to something that they are intrinsically motivated to do, thereby making what they love feel like "work."