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Start by being a multimillionaire.... /sarcasm

Drop the time limit. The added pressure could easily lead you to walk away from lucrative projects that are not "fast" enough.

Find something people want, build it, figure out a way to monetize, and then scale up with increases in demand.

Alternatively, make flashy interesting things that investors are willing to throw money at (Your age helps you here), pay yourself well while hiring solid talent, and have a fast exit strategy like aqui-hire. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Either way, a solid accountant, as well as a solid personal grasp of accounting, will be a lifesaver.
And you were probably travelling in a simple shuttle or cheap frigate, against multiple players or smartbombing idiots. Likely not consensual, and you were probably not expecting combat. Yeah, it sucks, but that too different from other MMOs (WOW, I am looking at you).

Many of my small-scale engagements took several minutes to resolve, one way or the other.

Not to mention fleets. In fact, one of my fondest memories was taking part in Agony Unleashed's PVP classes. That took several hours of intense playtime - we had to have multiple 'bio breaks' for people to be able to go to the bathroom and eat something - while being guarded and with scouts to give early warnings to the fleet. And it was amazing. Instructors teaching game concepts and military-like tactics and command and control (and actually enforcing discipline).

I've never seen a game getting even close to that sort of organization and discipline. CCP should hire those guys as teachers to introduce players to more advanced game concepts.
There is nothing ridiculous about that regulation. 80% of it is common sense written down. The line you quote is describing where to measure the thickness, since it varies across the length.

According to the article this regulation is still in effect.
Yes, a daddy of 3 children including one daughter. It is still a stupid list.
They're making a bigger deal about their company than their products. Am I missing something?
You're right, the stats on that are somewhat hard to find, or hard to qualify as definitive. I've seen articles that say "NO legally owned fully automatic weapon has ever been used to commit a crime" and I've seen a few articles that say the number is < 10. I don't think I've ever seen anything that even tries to argue that the number is higher than that however.

Guncite only comes up with two cases, one of which may one of the same ones you just mentioned:

http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcfullau.html
"when in the last, say, 100 years has the US government posed a threat to American citizens"

I'll name one -- Japanese internment camps during WWII. Forcibly imprisoned over a hundred thousand citizens against their will, depriving them of their liberty and property.

But I suppose in your world view the government has final say over your life and property, so being able to deter or resist attacks like this is unnecessary.
It sucks when hard drives fail, but it isn't that "uncommon" for drives to fail in under two years. A lot of disk manufactures only offer a 1 year warranty for a lot of their models nowadays.

Google did a study on failure rates:
http://storagemojo.com/2007/02/19/googles-disk-failure-exper...

The trick is to buy stuff with a credit card that offers warranty extensions (usually 1 year). Just call up the credit card company and they will tell you what you need to do.
The problem is defining "crazy" such that the sane are not labeled as such pursuant to ulterior motives.
I have a PhD in computing (of some sort, I forget) and I know about 3 SQL commands. I've been developing for decades, and I never need to interact with databases. Like everyone in my field of research, I keep my data in text files.
We also only charge the employer for benefits the employees actually use.
Order of execution is a great second stop on the road to SQL, after learning what all of the words mean.
Because in my experience, the "maintaining/debugging" step is almost non-existent (isn't that the point of the ORM?), and the "optimizing" step hasn't been an issue for the traffic our sites get.
If we assume that every blunt object murder is a bat and every rifle murder is an assault rifle, then there are twice as many bat murders as assault rifle murders.

That assumption definitely does not hold for the technical definition of "assault rifle" which includes full-auto capability. Murders committed with fully automatic weapons are very rare, and with legally owned ones, almost completely unheard of.

Now if you use the Brady Campaign definition of "assault weapon" - which basically just translates to "scary looking gun that I don't like" then you may find different numbers.
I think IN is equally fast in Oracle, or at least it was when I was working with 10.2.

In Postgres, it appears that this does the same thing as IN.
Come up with a good idea and develop, it's that easy.

I say easy, but coming up with a good idea is easier said than done. Find a market that's missing something. Something people will use. Do some research, plan your project and work like hell. Startups aren't easy. It takes a lot of dedication..
That's really interesting, our social networks are very different: Basically no one I know uses AIM anymore (In highschool it was the only thing) but as I started playing games with others I used MSN, QQ, ICQ, IIRC, but now most of my friends are college grads and have gmail accounts so gchat/gtalk is it. It's kind of sad to log into AIM and no one be there, it's like a graveyard.
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>Europe's not some corruption-free idealistic utopia

I never said it was. Just in general Europe is driven more by what is good for the people, not what is good necessarily for big business.

How else do you explain the gun laws of USA despite the numerous atrocities committed by people with easy access to huge quantities of ammunition and semi-automatic weapons? Can you say that the NRA has nothing to do with the gun laws in the USA?

How do you explain the inclusion of so many European banned substances in common food production in the USA? The alternatives are generally more expensive and less convenient, yet they are banned in Europe, not USA.
Ask HN:  Bad Beta Expereinces
I am in the process overhauling my company's bets program. I have previous experience managing betas, so I know what I should be doing. But I am very interested in your experiences. What are examples of bad beta programs you participated in and why were they bad? (lack of transparency, feedback went into a black hole, no communication, etc).

Thanks in advance for taking some time to help me out.
There is no real definition of what an "assault weapon" is, and few restrict that to only automatic weapon.

I would say that an AR-15 is most certainly an assault weapon. It is a high power weapon (ignore the rather ignorant people who fail to understand the difference between a .22 and a .223) designed and built for military purposes. Being automatic fire or not has remarkable little relevance to its deadliness.
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Sorry, you'll need to speak up. I can't hear you over next quarter's share price hitting the floor.
OP's query is not the same as an inner join; it will only return each employee only once while your query will return each employee for every assignment it is associated with.
I am actually really curious, in what ways is it rewarding outside of loving anyone else?
You can use Samba shares (win<->nix) or NFS (nix<->*nix) if you don't have Vagrant, or whatever it is :)

That being said - don't! As others said, X protocol is network transparent, let's you display windows on a server from everywhere. That means you can open a GUI tool on VM and see it's window(s) on your desktop, with your window manager decorations and basically indistinguishable from an app on your main system. It's possible on Windows thanks to xming (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/) which is a lightweight X server for Windows.
Experience with introducing change?
Are the Yin-Yang II's both broken?
Is C training wheels on assembly?
We made this to make dumb work easier for a developer.
Well the 2nd amendment was written in a time of muskets and militias. If the spirit/intent were fully what some people say, why don't we each have a 2nd amendment right to an attack helicopter, nukes, chems, bios, and UAVs? (Because assault rifles instead of muskets doesn't add much to the equation.) Since that would be clearly insane, reductio ad absurdum. Right?
It is sad that the sort of bigoted opinions you're espousing here are what us firearms enthusiasts have to endure. It has nothing to do with machismo, nothing to do with Obama, and nothing to do with birther garbage.

The right to bear arms is a right of last resort. Its the right that protects all others and, as such, it is the _most_ essential right.

As for naming incidents in the last 100 years where armed resistance to the United States government would have been productive or useful, I recommend you look up the forced internment of Japanese Americans during World War 2. I also recommend that you read about the Black Panthers standing up to corrupt Oakland police and marching on government buildings, loaded guns in hand.

You don't have to be a crazy conspiracy theorist or a right-winger to realize the thought that "something like that couldn't happen in America" is naive at best.

edit: I omitted an "n"
Maybe you could go with a single friend and try to find a date for him/her?
Actually, your comment is more valuable than the article itself.
unfortunately yes, when i have to interact with someone posting nonsense, the result is sometimes ugly. On another note, it would be good to see the same level of scrutiny shown towards my rebuttal, be applied to the original reply of my post about "Google Chromebook", which is right up there with the price of tea in China.
Yes, this is definitely an intriguing idea. It's too bad nobody is seeing this post because it's stuck at 4 upvotes. :-(

Also sad that this is one of the few very egregious cases of "title editorializing" that should actually call for an admin to fix the title, and it's been sitting here like this since it was posted.
So they profit from idiots? That is a pretty good strategy, they will never run out.
Would love some feedback...thanks!
Just goes to show how hard it is to monetize on ads. Any startup that tries to monetize on ads is basically betting on becoming Google or Facebook level big.
There is only slide that matters on the slide deck and that was really impressive! It had all the necessary numbers. Kudos!
MapQuest.
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?
http://openpgpjs.org/
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This is broadly true for me too, but there are some notable exceptions which I think are informative.

A big one is Newegg. Most things I'll search for on Amazon first (or sometimes Google if I suspect there might be review content somewhere else). But computer parts are always cleanest on Newegg, and it's not even close. Their selection is better, and their parametrized search is far more comprehensive.

Now, computer parts are a shrinking market, and Amazon isn't hurting because of this. But I think the broader point is that while Amazon does things really well, they don't do everything perfectly. And customers (like me) are fickle, and will happily kick them to the curb if something better comes along.

Basically Amazon, for all their power, are still selling what are essentially commoditized products. And the barrier to entry there is very low for a player that can actually compete on price or quality. Whether Google is such a player is an open question.
The example you're using applies to traditional products that otherwise couldn't exist, and who's consumers are well aware that it's made from non-pasturized milk.

That's a completely different issue from your standard supermarket meat of which consumer blindly assume that it's safe.
It's much easier if you do it right after taking them.
Throwing caching at poorly written database code is exactly like when parents tell their children to tidy their room and then they shove everything under the bed. You can only do that for so long, at some point you need to clean that room up.
"Sufficiently advanced trolling is indistinguishable from ignorance." I'm leaning slightly towards troll due to the smiley face. But I find myself forced to reply anyway, because such a good tutorial came out recently that covers doing exactly what this question asked about. http://www.haskellforall.com/2013/05/program-imperatively-us...
There was a Feynman, but not much since then.
It was, but since then the means has become the end.
AOL also own Winamp, my favorite music (and internet radio) app since the 90's :(
> If you managed to convince then that the government isn't out to get them, they'd just find another excuse.

It's interesting you think I need an "excuse" for owning a firearm. As if it's our natural place in this universe to require permission from said "authorities". Here's an excuse -- I want one. You don't want me to? Come and take it.
Everyone uses an ORM. You use a well known, documented, and supported ORM, or you're writing your own wether you realize it or not.

Don't believe me?

1. Do you have objects?
2. Do you have relational data?

There's the O and the R. How do you get them together? That's where the M comes in. You use a library that knows how to do the M, or you do your own M with a bunch of getters and setters, for loops and case statements.

Eventually, any little change to the database becomes a regression nightmare.

Once you find yourself saying "I know, I'll build a code generator to create these DAOs", that's when you should finally realize you should have used a real ORM. Sadly, many people still won't get it at this point and will go ahead with the code generator.
A coworker mentioned to me that she came in early every day so she could run a report that took about an hour and a half before the CEO got in.

I looked at the code, nothing looked THAT bad, so I did an EXPLAIN, noticed a missing index, added it. I ran the report in 4 minutes.

Clearly, whoever wrote that report didn't know nearly enough about SQL.
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But what could we base 21st century policy on, if not the divinely inspired actions of 18th century European colonists?
> the "maintaining/debugging" step is almost non-existent (isn't that the point of the ORM?)

Nobody can agree on the point of ORMs, which is a large part of the reason why there's so much debate over whether to use them and how. I must say, if their point is to eliminate maintenance and debugging, then they are failing miserably at it.
Thanks for the tip Ryan.
The number for assault weapons you're using is AR-15 type rifles. That doesn't include AK-47 variants, Ruger Mini-14s, or many others that are considered "assault weapons".

There are estimated to be around 1 million Ruger Mini-14 rifles alone.

Adding all of those rifles to the number and the total number of "assault weapons" and baseball bats are likely to be fairly close--at the very least more than half of your estimate for baseball bats which would put baseball bats ahead.
>What would you suggest people put their money in then? Gold? Guns?

How about: potable water, non-perishable food, gasoline, batteries, tools (including weapons), and other commodities that will be scarce and have intrinsic value during a crisis?
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Royalist! Traitor!

You defy the very premise of the United States of America's existence: The God-given right to live free from the oppression of a Draconian Regime!

(I kid, I kid, I like to hear people's opinions)

But it's got to strike you as interesting that I have taken many history classes, along with reading many historical books, and still evidently lack the profound knowledge of the 1770s that you have. I wonder whether my classes and books were somehow deficient, perhaps as they were written and taught by the victors, the same sort of people who benefited from these Colonial Opportunists, and may thus be unwilling to besmirch their hallowed reputations...
yep, also regarding the web, as it goes more in the direction of supporting vector images in the browser by using svg files and icons fonts for example, it will hopefully become easier soon.
What is the advantage you get from having a sophisticated software stack on a top of rack switch? I was under the impression that you only really configured vlans and maybe a span port every now and again. Someone care to enlighten me?
>Everyone uses an ORM

Bullshit. You are making absurd generalizations based on your personal view of how the rest of the world operates.

>1. Do you have objects?

No, I do not. That makes it pretty obvious that I do not use an ORM doesn't it? "Everyone" includes more than just people using OO languages.
For me, photo storage had become so incredibly complex that I ditched the entire effort and piece-mealed my own.

Here's my workflow:

1) Take photo from my iPhone

2) CameraSync.app automatically uploads the pictures & videos to Dropbox when I get home (Geofencing & wait for wifi)

3) Computer Automation automatically sorts photos into Dropbox/Photos/YYYY/MM folders (Hazel, DropIt, etc). Videos go into external folder (Outside of dropbox)

4) Manual verification of photo upload & delete from camera roll (unfortunately, Apple doesn't allow automatic deletion of photos)

No huge photostream (only a few small shared photostreams). Not tied to a single platform (Mac/PC/iOS/Android/WinPhone/etc). No slow apps (iPhoto). No databases to corrupt, just folders of pictures. Easy access through the Dropbox app. Easy backup & restoration (Dropbox + CrashPlan).

This system can easily expand to accommodate other cameras too.
Sure, Wolf3D is almost a quarter of a century old by now.

But the performance limits of immutable structures for simulation and graphics are certainly interesting to me.
5 years ago, someone at google told me this: our biggest weakness is amazon, because we make a lot of money from google searches that end up with an amazon ad getting clicked on. If people take those searches to amazon (where the purchase ends up anyways), google gets cut out of the transaction.

Google is vulnerable in this case because they are acting as a middle man.
After seeing the slides, I'm not clear on what they do.
The latency is a pain. I like being able to work from anywhere by tethering my iphone5's LTE connection.

Easier and more reliable to have everything working locally (With local dev environments using vagrant/virtualbox) and use the internet connection for syncing git changes or doing research.
For those interested in sharpening their SQL skills I have found these two books to be a great resource.

1. Joe Celko's Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties
2. Joe Celko's Thinking in Sets: Auxiliary, Temporal, and Virtual Tables in SQL
I deal with pretty complex queries daily, and I completely forgot what HAVING did exactly. I guess it's because I long ago realized that if I had to use HAVING in a query, I'm doing something wrong. That's almost always a Reporting/BusIntel tool's job, not mine.
Consider these two queries (untested so they might have typos):

select order_number,sum(line_value) as order_value from order_line
group by order_number
having order_value > 100;

And:

select order_number,order_value from
( select order_number,sum(line_value) as order_value from order_line
group by order_number )
where order_value > 100;

I'd expect them to have the same explain plan and runtime characteristics. Isn't HAVING just syntactic sugar for the fact queries can be arbitrarily nested? Syntactic sugar isn't fundamental IMHO.
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Getting a "Sorry, this tree took too long to generate." from Github on this project. Was working fine earlier, what gives?
So this is a bit of a tangent, but I'm a bit of a fan of economist Hyman Minsky (fascinating, accessible writing on economics btw). One of the really interesting things that Minsky repeatedly points out is that advertising isn't technologically necessary.

It's kinda mind-boggling to step back and think that the main service (advertising) that one of the most valuable companies in world charges for is entirely unnecessary (I put it that way because I think google provides a lot of valuable services they don't charge for). Its always fun to noodle a bit about a world without advertising. I'm sure we'd get along just fine. We'd still figure out what food, clothes, cars, household goods to buy.
"you're talking about the number of households that admit to owning a gun, not the real number"

Looks like you either didn't read the short sentence I posted, or didn't think about it before responding, because that doesn't say anything against the evidence that there is lower gun ownership today than there was 20 years ago, only that the actual percentage back then AND now is likely higher than surveys suggest, but there is still a strong trend downward in gun ownership.

And for this "so called research", I'm talking about the NIH and CDC research into gun violence that was cut off under pressure by the NRA in 1996: http://www.apa.org/science/about/psa/2013/02/gun-violence.as...

Research for example that showed that owning a gun increases the likelihood of harm done to or by a family member or acquaintance.