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That's a cute response, but that's not how applications are written and presumably you know that.

I'm not excusing this. If they did it the right way they'd have
1. Set a date to cancel the existing program
2. Sent a targeted email to everyone enrolled in it which said, "We have major changes to the unlimited delivery plan effective xx/yy, if you would like to continue please follow this link and accept the changes or you will be opted out"
3. Cancel the old plans across the board on date xx/yy

But hindsight's 20/20, their explanation is more that plausible, and their response is more than adequate. Do they need to put on hairshirts and scourge themselves?
It's not possible within Bitcoin. An insurer as you describe is certainly possible -- but relies on a level of trust or force outside the Bitcoin protocol. A Bitcoin insurer can never be compelled to pay out its promise. Insurance in fiat currency works because there is a level of legal recourse that can apply force if necessary: you sue the insurer and the court seizes funds from their bank account. Insurance in Bitcoin alone can't work because the insurer's promise can't be enforced. A bitcoin cannot be seized except by gaining control of its wallet.

Hypothetically, the legal system could enforce Bitcoin contracts in this way, with legislation that a Bitcoin wallet can be seized under the threat of other penalties such as imprisonment. But until that happens, Bitcoin insurance and shorting can only exist as far as you trust the insurer or the lender trusts the shorter, because there is no ultimate avenue of forcible recourse.
Billmonk seemed to exist mainly to funnel people towards their person-to-person phone-based money transfer system called Obopay. I can't imagine they have many users left after having abysmal uptime for months. I switched our group to SplitWise and haven't looked back.
One small nitpick - if you're going to put a Chevelle on your site and talk about the one Dad had, don't use a picture with 20" rims. :)
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the only issue with them is that little by little they lose more and more of their purchasing power so you should either invest or use all immediately
That's really interesting to hear. I would guess that it also potentially helps click the switch from "work, then life" to "life (e.g. kids), then work". I can't imagine any amount of work being as fulfilling as watching your family grow.
take a look at succesful startups - with exits - almost all were .com's

why try to reinvent the hot water?
Agreed on both counts.

I purchased TFU 2 at full retail ($60), and regret it. It is hands down the worst title I own.
Very small customer here. I don't know much about the abstraction you provide us and I don't want to know as long as things go well.

To my point of view, the routing is "random" thus kind of unpredictable. If scaling becomes more of an issue with my business, the last thing I want is to have random scaling issues that I can not do anything about because the load balancer is queuing requests randomly to my dynos.

I want my business to be predictable and if I'm not able to have it I'm going to pack my stuff and move somewhere else.

For now, I'm happy with you except for your damn customer service. They take way too long to answer our questions!

Cheers! :)
The trick in Argentina's case is that they have fixed the exchange rate to USD at an unfair amount and have enacted capital controls restricting the movement of currency into and out of the country. This is basically for the purpose of preventing people from trading their money into USD.

Brief Economist coverage here: http://www.economist.com/blogs/americasview/2011/11/argentin...

There was a decade in which pesos were directly convertible to USD at 1:1 exchange. That system collapsed when the government became insolvent.
Uhh, yeah. It's all about the money and the bottom line, isn't it?
Right, and that is the point: even if you accept Gold payments, you still need to eventually get Euro. Ultimately, this is why I believe that Gold cannot survive with the Gold exchanges.
Also the misleading performance metrics which hid the fraud.
Yeah, I for one am not weeping that hard.

MicroProse was stagnant for a long time and then finally went under - the resulting sale gave us, finally after so many years, a great X-Com game (with another on the way).

The death of a game studio can have a (pretty thick) silver lining. When THQ went down it auctioned off its franchises - and forced a changing of the guard for some franchises that have been stagnant.
> Is that too much to ask?

If it were a paid service, perhaps not. But, it's not....the blog is a free service. Not trying to be rude, but the adage applies: you can 'take it or leave it'.

I'm not sure why you feel so entitled that he seemingly owes you something.

If you feel that it's inappropriate for HN, then flag it.
Been a video game programmer since 93 and I totally agree with your comparison with the movie industry. If you're going to make a AAA game you need a huge budget both for development and for marketing, which means that only the 'sure thing' will get the green light. That means the same games over and over with greater graphical fidelity, just like the big budget action movies don't stray too far from the accepted formula.
Your definition of fraud differs from most: "Wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain."

They weren't intentionally and purposefully misleading people. Not having docs up to date on your website, or you not knowing how the underlying backend works is not fraud.

As I've mentioned before if every AWS customer could sue Amazon for not understanding how all of the underlying tech worked, or could sue when some of the docs were out of date, there would be more lawyers working there than engineers.
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Its pretty hard to beat Spotify unless you have some specific taste in music they dont cover well. But overall I have a hard time seing a better service than theirs.

It just works, is fast and has a large db of content.
UltraViolet solves this problem, but it's only being embraced by marginal services. (Vudu and Flixster? Sorry, never heard of them.)
Does this open the space for indie developers? HumbleBundles have been doing ok lately. What if they had slightly more budget, can they do fairly close to these games.
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You're implicitly assuming that everyone holds all of their BTC for one year before spending them.

To illustrate, let's assume that BTC are used for all transactions, but no one holds them. Everyone holds dollars, or euros, or gold, or whatever. When they need to make a transaction they hop on an exchange, buy some BTC, and buy their cup of coffee with the BTC. Then the coffee-seller unloads his new BTC immediately and holds gold or silver or tulip bulbs as his store of value.

Given a reasonably automated system, each transaction might take 1 minute. This means that you need 79 trillion _dollar-minutes_ per year, or about $150 million at any given moment. Dividing this by 21 million BTC gives a price of about $7.15 per BTC.

Even if people do hold all of their liquid value in BTC, they aren't going to hold it all for a year before spending it. A more realistic estimate might be 79 trillion $ * 3 days -- most people and businesses are operating pretty hand-to-mouth. 237 trillion dollar-days per year comes out to $648 billion at any given moment. This does give a fairly appealing target price for BTC-optimists, about $31k per BTC, and puts the upper bound on the value of a satoshi at $0.0003.
I understand your feelings. But keep in mind that the PEOPLE who made those games are LONG GONE. The NAME of the company is still there, and I understand why you're attached to it as I am too, but the people who made those special games have been gone for years.

As hard as it is, don't attach those great memories to the COMPANY, but rather the people who had the vision to make them.

If you need to remove your attachment, play the Kinect version of Star Wars.

And for one person there: Karma. It takes a long time but it does come back to bite you. Now you know the price of those 6am flights you booked.
Disney closed down the studio, which yes, really sucks for the people who worked there. I empathize for all the guys and gals that lost their jobs from this decision. Having said that, it may have been the right call for Disney. Disney has a number of game studios, and this one may have been redundant. This is what happens when one company buys another and there is overlap in org-structure. LucasFilm animators and operations people already got the axe. I worry for them more than I do for game engineers (their skills are in high-demand).
...and a good way to start hating your work is by doing too much of it for the wrong reasons. Working very hard to make somebody else rich, what's the point in that?
Right. It's also important to have good, high quality businesses on the site when it launches to give a really awesome impression to potential users and new customers. Emailing semi-personal emails really doesn't take that much time.
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The point of the book is obvious, once completely read. In fact it's wickedly delightful and has nothing to do with Azad.
I'm not saying it's a perfect model, but the alternative is having to pay $100/month for a cable subscription to watch garbage you don't want to see, or $10+ to see it in a dirty movie theater, or $15 to "buy" a movie that was $15 in the 90's for a physical DVD. Even if there are 5 Netflixes competing against each other I would rather pay 5 x $7.99 a month to watch content I actually find relevant than pay for junk I don't use.

If anything, merging content with distribution sparks competition to produce content at reasonable prices. Netflix has also resorted to releasing content in a more enjoyable manner (all at once vs. weekly with commercials).
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Elon Musk is a great example of this post.
Even so, that's a huge difference compared to the previous $50-60 people were paying for games. Sure they can cut out the publisher, printing, etc... now, but I expect they were still making at least $10 per game in the past.
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It's not easy finding that right balance, if there is one. Some people (like me at times) also like to work by doing sprints (2/3 crazy weeks) then resting (3/4 days vacation).
From playing around with the data, Stack Overflow reputation was not strongly correlated with compensation. Instead, experience (and naturally age) exhibited a stronger relationship with getting paid.
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There is no data backing it up but i think it goes without saying that companies that care about the quality of their staff would look at the work of the people they hire. The prospects work would play a major role in the hiring process if it was available. I know for a fact that 37 signals asks for applicants sample project. I completely agree with the writer.
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Finding the right balance is the hardest part, IMO. There's certainly no "right" answer, so long as you're doing work for the right reasons and can keep sight of the things which truly matter.
Thank you, I'll check them out
I hope you are right.. probably dating myself by saying this, but I remember playing MI when I was younger..it felt like magic. I felt so sucked into that world, I used to just listen to the soundtrack for hours.
It is a legitimate question, though, with an answer that is yes you can, in theory, but no large markets currently support it, and the ones that do don't allow naked shorts.

As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, two that allow shorting look pretty sketchy.

So I guess it sort of is a joke. When do the markets for bitcoins start acting like actual markets instead of hype machines for bitcoins?
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Can I ask why you used the word pivoting instead of moving? To pivot is to swing around a fixed point. What is the fixed point in this context?
"only available [...] in the US and UK"

Can anybody think of any geo-tarded service that successfully rolled out in other countries later?

Because as some not in the "chosen countries" I always feel that those services either a) never arrive, b) get beaten to the punch by local competitors or c) have to spend a shitload of money to conquer that market, sometimes by buying the aforementioned competitors.

Also, unless the likes of Google or Apple are behind it, option a seems to be the most common scenario. Not to mention the fact that it fosters a culture where everyone and their grandmother knows how to pirate content.
You might think it is dumb, but it has repeatedly proven itself to be an effective tool for piercing criminal networks.

Police don't need people to report CP on 4chan--they can easily monitor 4chan themselves. (or any other public site)

It's useful when they find thousands of photos and videos that are recent and not publicly available, on a person's HD. Since possession is a crime, they can plea that person into turning over their supplier, then roll him too--hopefully traversing the network to find the person who is actually making the photos and videos.
> The market doesn't go who gets done first, it goes to the person who dos it best.

Except when it goes to the first movers. If your product's success depends on a virtual land grab, it might be better to work those 100's of less productive hours, to get something out the door first.
I find this too. Just recently had a kid, and when I get home I want to spend time with him/wife, so I know I wont get to work at home/won't want to. It allows me to go hard for 8-9 hours, get home and not spend a day. It also lets me rethink priorities and move my schedule. Its a great thing, really is. Makes you think of ways to be more productive too!
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We’re working on a social search engine and we’re running into the rate limits on their rest API. To up the limits, we’ve applied for their Certified product Program 3 weeks ago and reached out to our friends there, but there are no signs of it moving forward.

Anyone have any good stories for working with Twitter or some wisdom to share?
Someone claims that the writer of 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl' had previously worked on a script for a Monkey Island movie.

http://www.worldofmi.com/comments.php?type=news&id=1259&...
My favourite is:

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/02/26/sand_wont_sa...

The compound also a stronger oxidizing agent than oxygen itself, which also puts it into rare territory. That means that it can potentially go on to “burn” things that you would normally consider already burnt to hell and gone, and a practical consequence of that is that it’ll start roaring reactions with things like bricks and asbestos tile.
Isn't libc just a set of libraries and therefore not considered a runtime environment? C does have a small runtime environment, but I'd say it's the existence of the function call stack, as well as the on_exit system that's built into the core language.
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Material wealth, before 1800, was usually a metal. It had legible value anywhere so you could use it to defend or attack the means of production: land. [....] You were rich if you had gold and could defend the land you had and get more if needed.

...because weapons made out of gold work so very well?
This is just awesome! Well done!
If that were the case, the why are simulated images also illegal?
"I am a Strange Loop" had quite a bit of fixation on his wife's death as well, I'm glad to hear he has re-married.
Even if that's true, you're just distracting from the main point. If I buy X from a company and they don't provide it, I expect a refund.

Like if I order a laptop from Dell and, oops, it gets lost in the mail, it's not okay to just say "oh, we changed our shipping company, so that should happen less in the future."
David Pogue writes, When you buy a cellphone — an iPhone or Android phone, let’s say — you pay $200. Now, the real price for that sophisticated piece of electronics is around $600.

Because of the subsidies, we actually don't know what the real price of that piece of electronics is. There's a very good chance the subsidies themselves are there to increase the price out the door of that piece of electronics.

In a no subsidy free market, who knows, while MSRP of a cellphone might be $600, the real price might turn out to be $450 or so.
My understanding is that ELBs are HAProxy, and they may be set to use the leastconn algorithm (a global request queue that is friendly to concurrent backends). However, once you get any amount of traffic they start to scale out the nodes in the ELB, which produces essentially the same results as the degradation of the Bamboo router that we've documented.

The difference, of course, is that ELBs are single-tenant. So a big app might only end up with half a dozen nodes, instead of the much larger number in Heroku's router fleet.

Offering some kind of single-tenant router is one possibility we've considered. Partitioning the router fleet, homing... all are ideas we've experimented with and continue to explore. If one of these produces conclusive evidence that it provides a better product for our customers and in keeping with the Heroku approach to product design, obviously we'll do it.
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Great points. I'm definitely going to look into this.
Man I had forgotten about the LucasArts games of my youth...more accurately I had forgotten they were made by Lucas Arts. Now I'm actually a bit sad.
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I don't know anything about this space, but I have some real-world datasets and love throwing algorithms I don't understand at them. Right now I'm writing classifiers by hand, it'd be awesome to outsource my job to some AI. Does anyone have a good starting point where I can figure out which modern classification algorithms are relevant or even possible given my dataset and computer power available?
If they automate table detection, then many low-end "analysts" will be made redundant. PDFs one of the worst bits for data feed automation.
This makes me quite hopeful. The way I see it, the folks who made the games I cared about were long gone; with the IP holder focusing on licensing / contracting out, they might get to work on those IPs again after all. I enjoyed Tales of Monkey Island (LucasArts-published but Telltale-developed sequel with some of the original talent on board). The internal studio that had to be kept busy was probably more of a potential impediment to that.
You know, open source.
I can decide not to take the new version or I can even fork it.
The majority decides, democracy like.
I'm sure at least one person's job depends on this working out in the direction they've been trying to go, cf. Blaine Cook (who I think got a raw deal).
Of course, it's not going to crash very far if enough people are thinking this.
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This would be the right way to use affiliate links. Do it.
kyle if you read this then please answer me. I am going against your voice. It's not make me thing that you are right.

For you You are "Former Founder". I am sure you have a lot of penny and future safe in your pocket.

What about people who new newcomer and newbie. Is this applied to us. I am weak in English and programming both. Are this applicable to everyone who just got started. I means this strategy help them to do.

You make me confused.I hope someone can tell me the difference & reason about mine and their thoughts.
Nope, that is not what I say.

I am saying that if JS VMs already do a lot of optimizations which are not going to disappear anywhere even with "use asm" because they benefit normal JavaScript code. Now if JS VMs solve a range of known issues in implemented optimizations, fix known bugs, lift known limitations and then additionally implement certain optimizations then this would greatly improve performance of normal JavaScript code including its subset used by asm.js.

I don't understand desire to have another compilation pipeline on the side, if everything that is needed can be implemented in the main compilation pipeline and benefit JavaScript as whole, without restraining users to a strongly typed subset. This also leads to an unnecessary duplication.

I also think that if you think that restraining is essential you should push for another execution platform (e.g. statically typed bytecode or language). That would be much more honest towards language users and language evolution as whole.
Its not about how you manage your week, its about how you manage your day. Instead of working 4 days hard, and then 3 days of workouts, paleo and meditation --- try blending.

Meditate. Work 3hrs. Eat/Relax. Work 2.5hrs. Gym. Eat. Relax. Work 3hrs. Read.
I remain absolutely flummoxed that we've never gotten another KOTOR. It's really the most baffling decision...ever.
Is the industry fucked or is it just the case that it is a winner take-all situation?
I assume that the big games like COD , Halo etc are still making plenty of cash. Maybe rather than seeking a profit on each game you just try to keep the lights on with the bonus of a lottery ticket that the game might make it huge.

For every big AAA developer going bust there are probably 100 indie devs who fail to gain traction and just slide into obscurity.
Ever since the SOPA 2.0 stuff from the EFF, I can't take them seriously anymore.
I meant that it can be called a learning experience to justify further development. Besides, Rust is genuinely useful. I can't be the only one who is interested in (eventually) using it as my go-to language for my projects.
I like the idea, but I'm starting to get a lot of this daily recap emails...And if just one of your VIPS has had several discussions on twitter on a specific day, you'll still need to scan through all that. We need only the interesting tweets from our VIPS ;)

I'm going to stick to using lists (not perfect, but easy to check out on Tweetbot).
This is some really interesting data. I could spend hours on this site given some interesting things to look at. I really wish SO had included salary in their survey.

Some feedback since I see you are the cofounder of statwing:

1. I'd really love to be able to share one specific stat/relation with a friend. I found the relationship between "Career / Job Satisfaction and Number of Employees at Company" to be very interesting, and wanted to share just that one with a friend. Either include a share button on each relation, or update the url to reflect exactly what I'm looking at so that if I send it to someone it'll take them to the same page.

2. Your front page looks like it was written for data producers. Write it instead for consumers. I would be much more likely to come to your site again and again if it showed something similar to Quora: a list of most popular (by views, upvotes, recency, or ideally a combination of all three) stats. Stuff that a lot of people have found interesting and I will probably find interesting so I can go look for myself.

Edit: I just realized statwing is pretty much only for privately analyzing your data. That's too bad. I could see it being a really entertaining site for public data.
I'm still wishing I could find a helicopter simulator to equal Janes AH-64 Longbow. A friend and I spend many, many hours after work playing that game.

"Sorry, sweetie, I have to work late again..."

I still have controllers in my basement, just hoping to get pulled out.