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Hang on, what about consoles? AMD are doing the CPU and GPU for the PS4 and presumably the next Xbox if rumours are true.

Surely this is quite a windfall? Particularly if they're pumping out the same part for ~5 years, much longer than the average CPU stays on the market. Is this not a cash cow?

I'm disappointed AMD are no longer competitive on the CPU desktop performance market, but I'm not sure I understand why they cant compete with Intel on CPUs given the stable revenue offered by consoles and their competitive GPU line. Is it Pure R&D budget? Or Intel are too far ahead tech wise? Intel have the best engineers? What is it?
Cheap country is a no go, got it.

Freelancing is a great option for bootstrapping in cases where you can live cheap. It gets more difficult as your situation gets more expensive. Most obviously, the higher your expenses, the more you have to work (while also raising your rates) and this cuts down on your "start-up" time. With freelancing, your clients have to be your first business priority. You can't give them a lower priority than your start-up. Work / life separation goes away and it can be difficult to fit start-ups in there. If a start-up can be hell, consider that your freelancing would be yet another start-up. Again, it's a great option when you can tame it (which is easy to do when you can live on next to nothing) but it can get really hairy as you need to scale up your earnings. It might still be worth a shot though, you don't know until you try. Who knows, it might blow up and go much better than you expect.

Argument for sharing your ideas.

Look at the logistical problems that you are running into.You need a lot of talented labor and you need a lot of money. You have no idea if you are going to be able to make money and you haven't yet been able to convince anyone to invest in it. Investors don't even care about the idea so much as they want to make a lot of money. In many cases they are investing not in the right ideas, but the right people.

Who is going to make the insane sacrifice with the same passion and the same vision as you? If the idea were easy to steal, then it probably would have been easy enough that you would have built it already.

I think people generally get these things backwards anyways. The best time for someone to steal your idea is when you have already built up some traction. At that point, you have done all the hard work so the copy cats can see that your idea is worth stealing. They can also watch your mistakes and possibly roll out a better service. You might as well tell everyone about it now.

There is also the possibility that your successful idea may look entirely different than what you are thinking about right now. As soon as you get real users, it starts evolving. It's better to get that process going as soon as possible.

Otherwise, I don't have much more info for you. Good luck!
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> If you "diversify" now, though, you miss out on cool Chrome features, or you spend your weekend maintaining a web browser fork when you could be at the beach.

Sorry but what you are saying doesn't make sense. It is your proposal (fork when Chrome turns evil) which could end up with him maintaining a web browser fork on the weekend. "[M]iss out on cool Chrome features" ... well you miss out on cool Firefox features if you don't switch now ... I think switching the browser is really the least complicated thing to do of all those things.

> This lets you defer the cost of switching until you actually need to switch. If that happens to be never, you win. If that happens to be tomorrow, you still win.

No. Because now you have the time to slowly migrate and adjust. When you are with your back a against the wall the "costs" can be much much higher.
> Ultra-Orthodox boys and girls are educated separately, and have little interaction with the opposite sex until their marriage night, when they are expected to consummate their union.

Pardon my lack of cultural relativism, but why do people do this to themselves?
Sure - their core concept was adding a walkthrough with a voice over. Since none of our team was native english speaker, we didn't feel confident enough in having our voices in the walkthrough. This means we'd have to hire someone at http://voicebunny.com - which would take time. Then I would need to slice the voiceover and configure Kera to trigger properly, which would take even more time.

So we opted for a better solution: we hired a UX architect (or whatever the title is) from http://dlabs.si/ - He performed live user testing and analysis with us and delivered high fidelity wireframes, which resulted in understandable application flow, without the need for a walkthrough (or me spending time learning Kera). Granted, it wasn't free, but it was well worth the money, and it was one-off payment, as opposed to Kera's subscription model.
Well, this is actually a little better, with 'font dithering'
Adam doesn't just work on the Go crypto packages. He is almost solely responsible for writing them.
Yes, but I think what ksec was driving at is there isn't an intrinsic reason what you said should be true.

Why should Ruby (and scripting languages) be used for RAD and not performance? That's because implementations range from really slow to somewhat slow. Self, LuaJIT, V8 and IonMonkey, and increasingly PyPy are ample evidence that this need not be the case, and that's just listing the dynamically-typed languages.

The bar has been raised the past few years. Increasingly we can pick three of: productivity, libraries, performance. Ruby lacks the last, which makes it a less interesting prospect for future greenfield projects compared to its competition.
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I was channelling Rob Pike when he described Ken Thompson as someone who had "done some Unix stuff".
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Although both rockets have roughly equivalent upmass, their respective delivery vehicles are completely different beasts: Dragon is a compact spacecraft, designed to safely fly humans in a shirtsleeve environment and return them to Earth, whereas Cygnus is more like a large pressurised can with some thrusters attached. Cygnus has no downmass capability at all, but has a LOT more pressurised volume -- and in some cases (including, possibly, the recent SpaceX launches to the station), volume rather than weight can be the limiting factor for payloads. It's not implausible that NASA used some kind of formula which prioritised volume over weight, and arrived at the respective payments for each type of mission.

Of course neither is it implausible that Orbital Sciences simply has better lobbyists than SpaceX.
The problem was PHP and Python are slow too, and yet they are still faster then Ruby. And not to mention there are many other implementation of the two that gets them further along. So if Ruby was 1x, and PHP / Python are 1.5x, there are things that can get the last two to 3 - 4x. While Ruby is still just there, 1x. ( Numbers are for explanation only ). I really wish more resources were pour into Rubinius.
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After Apple hit the marked everyone was buying an iPhone. Now most of the people have Android phones.
Goroutines are not primarily about performance, they are for modelling concurrent processes in a natural way. This can have a performance in some cases, but I wouldn't classify goroutines the way you have.
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goroutines don't help with parallelization, they only help with concurrency.
Several is "more than two but not many" according to Oxford Dictionary, so three should count as several.
I'm sure Adam would appreciate the understatement, but IMO he deserves more kudos than I can possibly give. :-)
Do you really think more human foetuses are aborted than dog?
I'm a medical student and never seen an abortion performed (even though I know they're commonly performed), however I grew up in a country area and know dozens of stories of people who have drowned puppies or kittens (whole litters) because they were not wanted. Way more stories than the 1:3-1:4 females that supposedly have abortions during their lives.

Anyway it's an anecdote so doesn't mean anything really.

I am more interested in where you heard that the brain 'boots up' on day 18.

The neural tube doesn't close until day 23-27, and until quite some time after this point the 'nervous system' is essentially a hollow tube of neurons only a few layers thick, that doesn't contain the identifiable layers of cortex.

In fact it isn't until week 4 that there is proliferation of the layers resulting in an alar and basal plate (representing sensory and motor neuronal pathways respectively) and it is not until after this differentiation that the neural tube begins to divide into the 3 vesicle and 5 vesicle stages- the 5 vesicle stage being essential for the differentiation into what will eventually be cortex and various regions etc.

Even if there is neural activity at such a young stage, you just have spontaneous depolarisations of action potential, not any information processing
> Rent control is the quickest way to turn one of America's best cities into vast slum.

NYC has rent control, and it's hardly a vast slum.

And as a counter-dynamic, overbuilding and its associated crime rate increase is another way to turn a city into a slum. Few things breed crime like abandoned housing.
I would love to be a fly on the wall of a room with Bill Watterson, Banksy, and some beer.

What other artists work with such passion, independence, and integrity?

I'm sure there are others, but they come to mind.
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At the time of contract being awarded, it was rational. Orbital had a lot of experience building and launching stuff (not just rockets, and you also forgot Pegasus air-launched rocket), and was in business for almost 25 years, while SpaceX has just started with their business and had almost no track record - 4 launches of light Falcon 1 with only 1 of them successful. So a more experienced contractor got a better price, which is natural. Now it seems to be the reversed, but it wasn't back then. It only demonstrates how much progress SpaceX made in these 3.5 years.
Not really a trick, but pry-rails has helped me in a lot of sticky situations.
> You can use orthodox to refer to any especially conservative group in any religion.

You can also use it to refer to non-religious contexts e.g. "medical orthodoxy" is simply the established medical order, what is currently accepted as "true medecine". In a religious context, orthodoxy generally designates traditionalists.

Without qualifiers, but generally easy to disambiguate through context, "orthodox" is commonly used for both judaism (where it means "traditional") and christianity (where it usually means either "Eastern Orthodox Church" or the distinct "Oriental Orthodox Churches", which split from the "catholic" church in 451 by rejecting the Council of Chalcedon where the Eastern Orthodox Church split from the Catholic Church after 787's Second Council of Nicea)
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You're right. I went overboard with my conclusion, the intention was to focus attention on the fact that using a single tool results in lots of similar results and to highlight the flaws in that tool. There are plenty of other tools we could use, not just the one.
Interesting movie but the data that they presented is not really backed up by the studies. All the time I've heard about global warming studies there was no reference to the said studies so we can see how the research was conducted and what methods were used to get those numbers.
This is really a good introduction to device driver programming. Thanks for sharing this.
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Nope. N-1 which have flown 4 times with 30 engines on each first stage didn't use NK-33. It used NK-15, a very different engine with similar thrust. N-1 never flown with NK-33, having been scrapped before NK-33 were ready to fly.
I can't read that from the original comment. In fact, he didn't even mention Google Reader specifically.

If you are referring to the original article, the article makes it fairly obvious that the GReader event was the proverbial last straw, not the main motivator.
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Exactly. In a certain way, you could call jQuery UI effects a very limited physics engine.

I don't think the author is saying everyone should use a physics engine now. I think he means that we should use real-world physics as a guide to making more realistic animations, be it with a simple effects library or a full-fledged physics engine.
You need to check again, then. Hotmail no longer exists.
Anyone knows how one could compile to Factor VM? Slava once said that would be a good idea - imagine having a Lisp in that modern environment? (I love Slime don't hit me).
Thanks so much for sharing.

Great article from a fantastic writer. She, apparently, hates me, and I disagree with a lot of what she's said here, but still, great article.
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Well that's a bit underwhelming
> It was announced two months ago.

But was started more than a year ago (the first commit was made in April 2012)

> Would you trust it enough to use it in production in the next two to five years?

Why not?
You miss my point they should have extended v4 and not tried to do a totally new standard.

As the register commented "IPv6 was neither designed for small biz nor consumers. IPv6 was designed by big-ticket network engineers bearing global infrastructure and enormous enterprise networks in mind. Learned gentlemen who live in a world where buying IBM and connecting it with Cisco never got anyone fired"

They have reinvented the OSI stack and we know how well that worked in practice ( I was third line for the UK's X.400 so I know what OSI is like)
This is exactly like in nineties and also later some were trying to do anti-microsoft movement.
I'm hopping between a few machines at the moment.

I don't find the fonts on Chrome under Vista[1] particularly bad. Not worse than other OSs. I have lousy eyesight, so most sites have lousy readability, so I often change the fonts.

It's weird that fonts on Windows, OS X, and Linux are all so differently blurry / sharp.

It'd be great if there was some user-understandable standard language so that users could chose the setting they prefer. You do get used to the differences, but it'd be nice to not have to do that each time I changed machine.
I'm not sure of the relevance of this article to Hacker News. Is it relevant as a business opportunity?

In at least one way, Israel provides a tremendous degree of reproductive health assistance. It provides in-vitro fertilization at no cost to the woman up to age 45 and two children, regardless of marital status, sexual orientation, religion, or ethnicity.

However, providers of sex therapy to the Jewish religious community are reportedly few. (By the way, while that community is large, most of the Jewish people in Israel are not part of it.) Here is an interview with one of them, in which she describes what scholars know about sex education in that community. http://www.amotherinisrael.com/interview-with-an-orthodox-se...
Cool. Now show me how you're going to expunge server-side Google Analytics from your life.
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This would be why my iPhone displays the page without text for 30 seconds until the font loads. Much as I like web fonts, using them for body text is painful.
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Welcome to the world of government contracting. There was a requirement for two vendors, they got 5 proposals, they chose what they believed to be the best two, at the price the vendors specified. They weren't allowed to haggle.
So, without relying on cultural relativism, it's because they have priorities and they absolutely do not compromise their priorities. If it's time to do something, they do it. If it's not time to do something, then they don't do it.
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I believe you're tripping over semantics. If you split all the living things in this world into groups by species, and then check which groups have the biggest say over what's going on, then it's clearly the humans. That's what I meant when I said that the humans rule Earth. I didn't say that all the humans have an equal say. I even didn't say that every human has a bigger say than any animal.

It's like saying that the mafia rules southern Italy. They do, but the underlings who do the families's shit jobs don't have a whole lot of input as to how and when, even though they're part of the mafia. Really, it's the obvious interpretation of "group X rules place Y".

Oh, and, what does the whole pro-life rant have to do with any of this?

In fact, the fun part of being the species that rules the planet is that you get to change the rules, or freely go somewhere where the rules match your opinion. You can't do this for your personal perfect cocktail of rules, but you could get rather close.

I, for example, currently live in the Netherlands, where there are 37 pro-life people in total and the rest thinks they're lovely people but a bit odd. I share the majority view so I'm good here. If it'd make me very angry however, I'd move to Kentucky. Did you consider something like that, rather than rant on a forum, knowing that you're not going to convince a single person who wasn't convinced already?
Don't understand what the "twist" was for... were they afraid of bots spamming orders or something?

Other than that, it's an excellent deal - roughly 0.08 BTC for lots of tools I was considering buying on their own anyways. The Bitcoin purchase went extremely smoothly once I got past the silly Konami code.
Phonesat only has a down link. Anyone can receive that data and decode it. It's pretty simple to do with a simple hand held antenna, a tracking program, and a $10 rtl-sdr device.

The only time you need an amateur license is to send on an uplink frequency that's in an amateur band. With a couple weeks of studying you can easily get your tech license which will give you enough privileges to send on the sat frequencies. If you're close to a club that tests under the Laurel VEC [0], then the test will be free. Even the most expensive tests are only $15.

[0] http://larcmdorg.doore.net/vec/index.php?pg=Exams13
In my opinion the problem lies in planning. The bigger the project the more the entropy can start to have fun with it :)
Create a new GitHub account, give it write access to the repo, generate a fresh RSA keypair, post the private key.
This was my take, too -- there are lots of players, many of them have strong incentives that are misaligned with many patients' priorities, and for a patient and their caregivers to even understand what decisions will help them have the end-of-life care they want is quite difficult.

Even when the patient has really good advocates who have the expertise required (like their primary care physician in the article), the system is so fragmented that very few of the professionals involved in these decisions talk with each other... so the advocate may not be able to help at all at the critical moment.

These are hard problems to solve; I'm proud to be working on part of the solution (the fragmented patient record and broken communication), but there's a lot more needed before this kind of experience will be a thing of the past.
Rather than designing to better fit the pixels you can see like on Windows, I'm pretty sure the Mac OS X hinting was designed to get progressively better as screen densities increased. Like their reliance on hardware acceleration in the window manager, it was a forward-looking technical decision built in to the OS.

Unfortunately, we got stuck in a 96 DPI rut throughout the 2000s and are only just coming out of it with high-DPI "Retina" displays. Now the Mac hinting decision makes more sense, and the ClearType technology looks bizarre, whereas for all the last decade it was the opposite.
Saw this posted by Mikko earlier. It's an interesting ploy, and I'm interested to see what comes of it. Specifically, I want to know whether the media, as it were, is going to be willing to propagate this sort of story, even with the plan being relatively well-known at this point.

Of course, this could be a long play. "Leak" this plan, build confidence that the media isn't going to propagate false stories, and then when a similar plan is effected, people are potentially more likely to take this manner of news seriously.
This is the comment that should be at the top of this thread.
"But if it isn’t yet pursuing such a goal, it should"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_law_of_headlines

"This story is a great demonstration of my maxim that any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word "no." The reason why journalists use that style of headline is that they know the story is probably bollocks, and don’t actually have the sources and facts to back it up, but still want to run it."
> IPv6 was the smallest possible change to fix the problem

Really? Going from a 32 bit addressing scheme to 33 bits would double the amount of addresses, pushing the problem a way down the track. Sticking to octets for simplicity, going to 40 bit addressing (five octets) would provide as many addresses as we need for the near future. But they went for 128 bit addressing with IPv6 - I fail to see how that was the smallest change that they could have made.

Making it backwards compatible with v4 would have been an even smaller change and we'd probably be using it by now if they hadn't broken compatibility.

And how was picking an address size that didn't match up to the native integer size of any common CPU good for performance? Maybe they expected us all to be running 128 bit CPUs by now.
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The answer from Twitter Support, they just focused on the bot account profile picture.

"Hello,

Thanks for providing this information. As a policy, we do not mediate user content, including images, unless it violates the Twitter Rules (https://twitter.com/rules). Based on this policy, we will not remove the reported image."
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This could be possible though, no?
Doesn't whitelisting amount to closing of interface? They may very well use the CalDav protocol which is open, but how good is it if the consumption interface is not open?
That is one way to look at it. The other is: Google is creating a walled garden on Google Plus, and pushing it with all its might. Walled gardens are contrary to the ideal of an open web.

In that vein, boycotting Google is as much idealistic as boycotting closed software.
I've had some success with removing specific fonts entirely:

font-family: sans-serif;

You get Helvetica on Mac, Arial on Windows and various other default fonts on other platforms. Users can also pick their own font via browser settings.

For pixel-perfect alignment, you need to deal with some minor size differences between the fonts, but pixel-perfect design is not really achievable in many designs anyway.
Amazon reserved instances cost 2 to 10 times the price of renting a private dedicated server at your random dedicated server hosting service.

Compare youself: https://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/
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> and you gotta go where the majority goes

... which is why we all still use Internet Explorer.