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Depending on your definition of "top of the line", I don't think Nintendo has had any sort of monopoly. I would argue that in most terms, the PC has offered a superior gaming experience for most points in the history of gaming. Where it falls down is the supporting needs of gaming, such as system maintenance, game installation, etc. Even so, I think the top of the line title could be said to have been on the PC.

But hey, if you want to compare Doom on the PC when it came out in 1993 to Doom on the SNES when it came out three years later, and consider the sub-standard SNES port that's three years late to be a top of the line game, go ahead.

Although why Doom was used as an example (not by you, I'm aware), I'm not sure. I don't remember any copy protection on it.
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Best coding I do is with a pen and paper.
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Hasn't Aaron Swartz's http://www.jottit.com solved this problem for years now?

Go ahead - type in some markdown, then edit the page. You'll be presented with a two-pane view. Your markdown is rendered dynamically. When you're done, just choose the access level for the page (public/private) and you're good to go.
It does print the web page. But when it comes to print-friendly reports and quotes you need some library or print ready web page. So we allow developers to create a template that is print ready. And then using an API call they can merge data and generate PDF.
I feel exactly the same way. I've worked on a few large node.js projects, and I really don't like it when people think, "I'll make a blog" or "I'll make a forum" and use node.js simply because it's "cool." Node is powerful if used in the right environment. I just don't think this setup provides a better solution than Ruby or Python frameworks.
worse idea ever.

if you need to have branches in your code, learn how to use your source control environment. even cvs lets you branch your source tree.
I've got high hopes for this. The currently popular web framework for Node.JS is Express (built on top of Connect), which has built on the success of stuff like Sinatra and Rails, and (dare I say) improved on them in some areas. Express/Connect uses the concept of middleware which helps to make defining functionality extremely modular and encapsulated, so hopefully together with the active JS community, plus the excellent package manager npm, should make it really easy (and not too spaghetti-like) to work with a Node.JS based platform.
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I posted this in the other thread, so I apologize if it's redundant. I agree, auto-scrolling the preview panel is important. In my personal blog, I didn't use Markdown, but rather just plain HTML (with some minor tweaks). What I did to synchronize the editor and preview was:

1. Find the shortest path out of a currently-edited tag (look to see if the cursor is between a nearby set of < and > characters). In most cases, the cursor is not in a tag, so this is not needed.

2. Insert an empty marker span.

3. Find that span in the preview pane.

4. Find the span's parent block, add a class to that block to highlight it, and then scroll to its location.

Seen here: http://tiamat.tsotech.com/images/tiamat-authoring-2012-10.pn... (the yellow paragraph at the bottom right)
I hope he makes this into a small poster. I find myself making this calculation often, since as a programmer I want to script repetitive tasks, but only if it makes sense. Wouldn't mind a non-cartoon version of this either.
I suppose so, but that's a pretty severe bug. The whole sandboxing system is pretty controversial in the first place, the idea that bugs in it are causing users' GUIs to lock up is pretty horrible.
Impractical for you. I particularly enjoy the rigidity of the compiler.
You're the one not knowing how to read and comprehend. This is a trick, I hope you learn some some day. My god this is tiring...
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Have the same problem for mine (www.splitbrain.org). It complains about unclean URLs which look just fine to me.
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>Putting someone's picture (that happens to be on the web, publicly available) in a post on a site, where you happen to have ads does not count as "using your image" for commercial purposes.

To me it does. I don't understand the operational difference between putting someone's image within whatever div has been designated the "ad" div or outside of it, other than location. If I don't understand it, surely teams of lawyers in opposition can create complicated rationales that justify any parties' usage of any other parties' work based on how much money the first party has to spend on lawyers.
This is a nice trick for quick comparison and thats it.

I actually use this a lot for performance comparison.
This way it is easy to toggle between the olt d and the new implementation and see how long it takes to run the code 1000 time in javascript.

But I think anyone who check ins something likes this should be slaped.
Em, no. Of all the possibilities, I’d say that is one of the least likely.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_versioning#Sequence-ba...
Shouldn't this point to their homepage (http://iioengine.com/) . Aside from that, this actually looks interesting and I might use it for a app.
TLDR;

This is a Kickstarter pitch, in which case I'm quoting myself:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5610715
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http://i.imgur.com/sfVaQS9.jpg

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Jesus H Christ, knee-jerk harder why don't you.

Any browser add-on could be monitoring your entire on-line activity. Why the hell does that suddenly become a problem when one's up-front about what data they collect, when they collect it, and what they do with it?

And no, they don't say "trust me". As I mentioned in my first comment, they say "if you don't trust us, unpack the add-on and check the source yourself". Which you definitely can - I just did it myself to verify, and it looks like easy reading to me.
That said, it seems like there are enthusiastic players who enjoy the game and who continue to play the pirated version (see the forum posts he cites in his original article).

I think this is an interesting measure, because presumably if you got far enough into the game that you saw this message you like the game reasonably well. You've gotten past the point where you're not sure if the game is worth the money (nevermind that there's already a demo exactly for that purpose) and you have chosen to continue playing the pirated version.

He didn't mention whether or not savegames from the pirated version can be loaded by the legitimate version, but if they can then pirates who then buy the game wouldn't even lose much in the way of progress.
Funny, if Apple trawled through your email, calendar and search history to pull a stunt like this people would be up in arms.

Guess whether a walled garden is a bad thing depends on your particular brand of fanboyishness.

Personally speaking, the idea of Google displaying things based on my email history, diary and a knowledge of my location makes me shudder, "You're near that motel where you had that quickie last month, want to make a reservation?".
I think they should rebrand until they at least get a craft outside of the solar system.
This is not an attempt at branching, this is a trick.

The protip is not to use the trick, but to know about it. Read the tip, try to understand the intention - then criticize. Thank you kind sir.l
Wildcat was already used as the codename for the iPad, though I suppose it's possible they could repurpose it.
My thoughts exactly. In many foreign countries, the "street address" for a particular location is literally just a name. For example, in Costa Rica, the address for a house we stayed in was something like "The Blue House." No number and no street name.

I'm sure if one were to try hard enough, they could find issues with this scheme in the US as well.
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What differentiates you from hubspot? I'm impressed with the design/interface, but agree that you should try and improve the response time if possible.
As did most of my EE brethren in school in 2009. Trust me, writing code in pen does not a master programmer necessarily make.
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Thanks for the feedback. We are going after the SF market, but there is already competition. As far as pricing model is concerned we would do that on the no of pages one generates. Do you think developers are not the right market? Can we offer it to developers in some form?
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They really have been doing very well on iOS recently. So much so, most of the stock Apple apps have been replaced by a Google app. It is really making me think about switching to Android.
This is exactly what this trick can be used for. Thank you for voicing your opinion. Happy coding!
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Thanks a lot for sharing your work, looks amazing and fun! I want to start developing some very basic games and did some research a couple of times ago, found about a few GE, such as Crafty.

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Hear hear! I just installed 13.04 on a relatively modern computer yesterday (C2Q, 8GB RAM, an "old" 9800GT) and had what I consider the typical linux experience. Any one of these might halt or scare off a newbie:

* It wouldn't let me choose the encrypted/LVM option when formatting the drive before installing. Unencrypted worked though. I didn't bother to really investigate why, maybe the HD is at fault?

* Defaults to the nouveau drivers for obvious reasons and I swapped it to the NVidia binary (for specific reasons). Screen dumped to console on its own while it reset X. Functionally fine, but scary looking compared to anything you'd see in Windows or OSX.

* Changing the GPU driver now makes the system boot up in a not-native resolution until LightDM loads. Visually unappealing.

* The computer has a Broadcom Wifi card installed that I'd like to use. Oh boy! (read that as... fuck broadcom). Obviously not handled by Ubuntu out of the box so I drag out an ethernet cable. Trying to install their binary driver requires command line magic which temporarily breaks dpkg/apt when a installing kernal module stalls out. I fixed that and then installed an open source version which grabbed the binary for me, which worked, but I wouldn't ever expect a layman to figure it out. Requires a reboot to finally function.

* Numerous "application encountered an error" popups in the 10 or so hours I was working with it. Nothing that halted the OS, but several apps had to restart. It dings my confidence in the quality a bit. And the computer's RAM checked out fine a couple months ago and all temps were normal, I'm going to lean towards either my suspected aforementioned drive issue or actual errors with the apps. Didn't investigate, but they could happen to anyone.

* Annoying Amazon and Ubuntu One monetization techniques defaulted into the Unity. It's not a functional issue, but raises concerns about the future of the free software ethos at Canonical and treads awfully close to the adware and spyware that plagues Windows users that the OSS community has been railing against for years.

Compare that to OSX where I could just turn it on and have none of these problems, it's not quite rainbows and unicorn farts. I like linux for many reasons and Ubuntu has made great strides towards making Linux available to the masses, but it's still relatively easy to want to do normal things and encounter rough edges that require technical prowess.
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Wasn't it? And for that moment, you could look out and imagine "Damn, I could code the whole freaking thing like this!"

Then you realize it would take around 30 years, but still -- it was doable. You finally figured out how it all worked. You could make the computer do anything it was capable of doing. There was no more mystery there.

Fun stuff.
I fell for Google Now when I booted my old Nexus to test test something, and Google Now had read through my emails and showed me a tracking status for a UPS package I was expecting. I was pretty jealous of that functionality, but never convinced to go back to Android just for one feature. Now, I really have no reason.

It's also pretty telling of something when more iOS devices have Google Now than Android devices do.
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Is it really that unrealistic in 2013 to expect my machine to be able to update a few graphs once every couple of seconds without falling to its knees and weeping? I know it's having to make lots of calls into the kernel to get the data, and I can live with it taking up a little bit of CPU now and then, but I have a right to expect it not to hang the OS.

I guess the ugly UI of the thing should have been a warning.
This. Oh my gosh, this.

The idea that people in India are regularly dosing themselves with antibiotics just to get by is a terrifying prospect for disease outbreaks.
Thanks. Do you think by using an HTML template that can be filled in later is a better idea than visual designer?
That would be a more compelling argument if the startup community hadn't spent the last several years claiming that participation in online forums like StackOverflow is a good metric for evaluating the quality of potential hires.
I'd like to back this but, it looks great but there seems to be some conflicting info between their words and the kickstarter parameters. They say they want to deliver something, I'm guess it's alpha-ish code by summer, but the 120 pound pledge level says you get access 3 months before everyone else (meaning it would have to be right around the corner) but it's slated for a November 2013 estimated delivery?? Are they tying the Nov 2013 date to the release of the community site?

I'd just like some clarification of when I can get my grubby little hands on some code, especially if that date will change based on funding levels.
* not all languages have macros
* you don't use test frameworks for enabling and disabling code inline while you're developing

Please read the protip, understand my intention (keyword TRICK) and have a delightful cup of coffee. You've earned it.
Beautiful to see how earth has evolved. Wonder what the next few million years has to bring.. Will we be looked upon as primitive Neanderthals?
The linked post doesn't make it very clear, but the evidence that OVH itself was compromised is that two otherwise unrelated bitcoin services running on OVH (slush's pool and bitcoin-central) were compromised at around the same time.
Yes, but Android doesn't also have strict limitations of what an app can do in the background.
Yes, it puts some cards in the notification center on Android.

However, Android push is significantly more flexible than iOS push, if you push information to an iOS app, that information must appear as a notification, and the app can't process it until the user opens the notification.
> However, the minute a powerful person decides to "pick up a phone" and make someone unfundable or unemployable, the targeted person has the right to destroy that adversary (through exposure, or violently, up to killing) and is doing a heroic and hygienic act if he does.

Do you mean that the solution is making your own justice? Moral considerations aside, do you REALLY think that this way the system would be more fair?
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Don’t worry, your personal information is safe with Google. It’s a company that makes all of its profits from selling advertising, surely that has nothing to do with you.
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Has anybody else tried it on iPhone? Mine only shows a wether card, and a map card showing me the way home now; nothing more. I even tried creating event in my calendar (both Google and iOS calendars) but no card is added. Is there a significant sync delay for Google Now to retrieve information?
Why not use Node.JS? It's technically feasible to use it, and it'll be fun to fill in the blanks in terms of coding new tools and utilities that are missing the community right now. If they make something good it'll remove a lot of the friction for web developers to write plugins for it too ... we get to use JavaScript and a first class modern package manager. For non-developers I reckon it'll be much easier to host and deploy their own Ghost apps ... using npm its practically the equivalent of a one click install, and super easy to get onto a Cloud host like Heroku too. Much easier I'd say than provisioning Apache, PHP, a database, then installing Wordpress.

Anyway, what's all this negativity towards somebody trying to do something with new tech? I thought we all like that sort of thing?
You'll claw Misc Fixed SemiCondensed 6x13 out of my cold dead hands. Nothing beats a good bitmap font for crisp rendering at smaller sizes.

http://i.imgur.com/afWazoB.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_(typeface)

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html

http://www.twoevils.org/html/files.html (TrueType version)
I don't think you can build a vibrant community if you use the hostage model. Without a community, it would be hard for an OSS project to stay relevant for very long.
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I'm not in Europe but they (+ Google Maps) are not available in our App Store.
Try hitting the refresh button at the bottom, that did it for me.
Looks like it doesn't even use notifications on iOS. That's a big bummer :(
I have a brand new 2013 model MBP (Retina display, 16GB RAM, Apple SSD) running Mountain Lion. I actually upgraded because my 2011 model was getting these freezes, and I assumed it was a hardware problem.

But my new MBP has been sluggish from day one. That is, from the moment I migrated my user files from my old box. It's possible that I got some stuff that affects performance. Three things helped:

* First, disabling the dynamic pager [1]. This one has a dramatic effect on performance. In theory, it will prevent OS X from swapping out apps unnecessarily (which it will do even when the apps are active and there is plenty of RAM). I did have some, but not much, swapping going on, but it still improved performance.

* Secondly, I uninstalled iStat Menus. I can't be sure that this contributed to the performance problems, but I won't risk reinstalling to find out. It seems to have helped a bit.

* Thirdly, I disabled Spotlight indexing of my home directory. This way Alfred will still autocomplete apps. Some apps lose their search functionality, but I never use Spotlight, and I find that I can live without it.

I tried the sandbox config fix, but it made no difference to me.

The remaining sluggishness seems to come from the graphics layer. For example, doing the Exposé "reveal all windows" command takes 3-4 seconds on my box and has a frame rate of approximately 1 fps. It's not great. I notice the reduced graphics performance when scrolling pages in Chrome, whereas Safari is smoother. I suspect this is Retina being a bit too ambitious compared to actual current graphics card performance.

As an aside, I believe OS X's I/O system has traditionally been its weak point, being a Mach-based hybrid-microkernel architecture. You can cause GUI scheduling problems by overloading the I/O system, and it's possible that this is exacerbated by having a SSD.
As a relatively new (5 or so years experience) programmer, 1985 sounds like hell.
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It refers to the Console app, which has a "Clear Display" button.
I did that, and re-opening the app. Still didn't work :-(
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The USPTO is likely well aware that they have nothing to do with copyright, just the Patents and Trademarks mentioned in their name.
That's a good point, although a huge part of that is how good the trackpad is and how deeply it's integrated into the OS.
So, are you suggesting "Truth in Advertising", or something? Since when has advertising ever failed to be hyperbolic?

8-/
Don't panic. You have at least a project manager, they don't. They're good at copying features, you're good at implementing new features. You have deadlines and restrictions that ensure that new features, bug fixes and versions come out on a timely basis, not "when they're ready".
No wonder people pirate when the game is advertised at €6.49 but they don't mention until you come to pay that this is without sales tax! It actually costs €7.85.
Imagine how useful intelligently feeding google reader data into Now would be... oh wait, whoops. Aside from whining about Reader being cancelled I am serious that sniffing relevant RSS feeds would be a highly useful feature to add.

I've had it for a few months on my Nexus 7. In summary its travel and shopping push notifications. I had the usual intense short lived "oh that's really cool" reaction and haven't used it since then and its had no measurable impact on my life. Kinda like my relationship with facebook and linkedin and twitter.

In the eternal wheel of IT, where nothing is ever really invented, merely recycled every couple years, this is the reincarnation of the pointcast internet screensaver app from the mid 90s. Back then the complaint was it was spammy and didn't provide real value, so after a similar intense publicity wave quieted, they dried up and blew away with the wind, until now (literally, "Now", get the pun? Yeah well bad pun; bad puns never really go away just get recycled later...)
why isn't there a production studio which concentrates on crowd funded movies?

What you're describing is a movie producer, and as these appear in the Kickstarter space - as they are apparently doing now - I'd expect them to be essentially the same people that have been producing movies for the previous century.

The "conventional media", which is to say "the media", have the cameras and the lights. They have the theater-chain contracts and the distribution contracts. They have the agents' phone numbers and the union contracts and the favorite-son politicians and the sound stages within driving distance of your favorite actor's home. They know how to advertise and they have the lawyers and accountants.

And today's movie producers have connections to all of these things. Acquiring these connections is the hard part. Learning to put up a Kickstarter campaign is easy by comparison.

Kickstarter can change the shape of the "development" phase of movies, by giving producers (and writers or actors who want to self-produce) an alternative source of seed money and a way to cheaply drum up and demonstrate fan enthusiasm in advance of the product. But it will swiftly be incorporated into the existing media infrastructure, just as, say, the San Diego Comicon was.
Wouldn't an expert have such a special position that he could be coruptable in the end?
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I wonder how much the preference for youth has to do with the fact that younger workers are (1) generally cheaper and (2) more open to working longer hours since they are less likely to have families and more likely to be looking to make an impression.