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What the hell relevance does this have?

There were hundreds of developers at Siebel.
There were hundreds of developers at Peoplesoft.
There are hundreds of developers at Sungard.
There are hundreds of developers at Oracle.
There are hundreds of developers at SAP.

The difference is, unlike (in increasing order) Microsoft, Apple or Nintendo those companies don't give a shit and produce a crappy product.

Now stop changing the goalposts. You claimed that the SAAS people were whining, that they were no good, and that their stuff was easy to do, and that's why they were wrong to
complain about the shitty state of entreprise software.

I showed that your claim against the SAAS people was ad-hom, and showed how entreprise software was way worse than what your average four year old has access to.

You moved the goalposts, and claimed that doesn't count because the games people are in the business of experience. So I came up with Excel, which is in the business of business, and which basically runs Wall Street. (There are many other examples, that easily trounce "entreprise" software. MS SQL is one of them.)

Now you're moving the goalposts again, to say why Excel doesn't count. It would be far more honest for you to just admit that the SAAS people are right, and that entreprise software sucks.

And it's for no other reason than that the vendors are cheap bastards who care about nothing other than making a buck.

They don't want to put the effort in to make entreprise software any good because it would cost a lot and hence lower their margins. Nothing less, and certainly nothing more.
Meteor is built on top of node.

'npm install async' becomes 'mrt add meteor-async' ...

Sometimes you have to do a little configuration work to get off the shelf NPM packages settled nicely with Fibers; but its not a huge deal and almost every day someone else will turn npm-somePackage into meteor-somePackage.
In the words of Peter Griffin, "Go on." I'm interested in a larger view point, please.
One of the least known factors in American health care is that many large employers operate the health insurance directly, and at a profit.

Many large corporations are the health insurance provider for their employees, and then contract the administration of the insurance to one of the known brands like AETNA or Blue Cross or whatever.

So, they are one step ahead of you. Not exactly what you meant, but a more profitable version.
In a truly free society, I should have the right to read al-Qaeda's magazine
The open source non 'pro' version? http://designmodo.github.io/Flat-UI/
Work at a place that has to deal with regular external audits

I did.
Seems like an opportunity for a simple web page for people to report their fees and could search what others paid.

Not sure if it would make money, but I bet a lot of people would like it and benefit from it.

Anybody up for it?

Does it already exist?
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bdunn runs a mailing list that is far and away the best self-help group for entreprenuers and freelancers-looking-to-move-up I have come across.

This is HN after all, so I feel I should be more circumspect, but that group is one of the major reasons I am still pushing forward, and I get to be the old curmudgeon every so often so its even more fun.
mobile or not, its nice to see a good example of require + angular, thanks a lot
US patents last 20 years with design patents lasting 14 years. Whilst copyright and patents aren't directly comparable (design patents come close) it's hard to see how the size of this disparity makes any sense.

Engineers keep creating their entire lives, if they can help it. Why incentivise artists to capitalise endlessly on their 'one big break'? :/

Edit: or indeed by endlessly charging licensing fees for their particular idea, which is inexplicably considered to be tremendously more timeless than a similar concept in engineering. :/
The one thing that always worries me about this model, and indeed doing consultancy in outside hours is how you can balance the two.

Your employer (reasonably) has an expectation that you will give them 100% during at least 9-5 hours and also be available for overtime periods on occasion.

If you are building a product or doing consulting on the side for something with real customers (especially if they are businesses) they also probably have a reasonable expectation of being able to reach you within business hours to resolve any serious problems.

You may be able to find customers who are happy with limited evenings and weekends only support, but these are probably only going to have a small intersection with "serious" customers who are happy to drop enough cash on your product/service to make it a viable full time thing one day.

What is the best way to balance this?
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This is all good stuff, but it kind of misses out on one of the things I'm most interested in and which I feel is holding me back the most: I'm terrified of marketing and trying to attract customers.

There I said it.

I've got a hundred ideas of things I could do, and I know how to create every one of them - but no idea how to validate the market or go about finding custom.
Be aware that this isn't an equivalent of the C code. Replacing pointer arithmetic with string copy increases big O complexity of the algorithm.

An equivalent would need to pass indexes to sub functions to avoid additional copies.
Yeah, this free version was released a few weeks ago along with the subsequent accusations by LayerVault that it steals designs for Flat UI... DMCA thread here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5331766
Slight upgrade: turn on the -XImplicitParams flag and then use ?nameGoesHere instead of undefined. Detailed type information will leak out in the errors or, if it can infer all of the types, the type of the top level expression that contains your ?implicit.
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In my mind a "sheltered life" is something completely different. It's when you can get away with using 20 servers instead of 2, based solely on unproven and unrealistic productivity claims about dynamic languages and certain frameworks.
Thanks for the guide Brennan! Good practical advice.
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In case you were not aware, the iOS source code for Wolfenstein 3D Classic Platinum is licensed under GPL. It is available here:

http://download.zenimax.com/idsoftware/src/wolf3d_ios_v21_sr...

I thought this story was cool:

"[...] They were using the software rasterizer on the iPhone. I patted myself on the back a bit for the fact that the combination of my updated mobile renderer, the intelligent level design / restricted movement, and the hi-res artwork made the software renderer almost visually indistinguishable from a hardware renderer, but I was very unhappy about the implementation.

I told EA that we were NOT going to ship that as the first Id Software product on the iPhone. Using the iPhone's hardware 3D acceleration was a requirement, and it should be easy -- when I did the second generation mobile renderer (written originally in java) it was layered on top of a class I named TinyGL that did the transform / clip / rasterize operations fairly close to OpenGL semantics, but in fixed point and with both horizontal and vertical rasterization options for perspective correction. The developers came back and said it would take two months and exceed their budget.

Rather than having a big confrontation over the issue, I told them to just send the project to me and I would do it myself. Cass Everitt had been doing some personal work on the iPhone, so he helped me get everything set up for local iPhone development here, which is a lot more tortuous than you would expect from an Apple product. As usual, my off the cuff estimate of "Two days!" was optimistic, but I did get it done in four, and the game is definitely more pleasant at 8x the frame rate.

And I had fun doing it." [1]

[1] http://www.idsoftware.com/iphone-games/wolfenstein-3d-classi...
Minus five years? See this HST image from 2008: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/39/im...
I just didn’t feel like it…
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This is one difference between the US and Germany. In Germany, state governments can hold copyrights; in the U.S., states cannot.
To argue about whatever types of developers are the best, is just silly

Which is why rjempson shouldn't have started it. He was using "SAAS programmers are rubbish" as a way of dodging the crappy state of entreprise software.

if you look at enterprise, you'll find equal complexity just in different, non-sexy areas

Like the Wall Street system I heard about that ETLs its data continuously between three different databases because its developers had no idea what they were doing?

A lot of the stuff that happens under the label "entreprise" is just crap.
The sensor revolution continues. Gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, proximity sensors all packed in there with a wink sensor too. It's only missing a barometer, hydrometer and thermometer! Perhaps those will make it to a future production version of Glass.
The key point I wanted to make is that writing a paper is easier than working on it until it is accepted.
If your news source is "alduniya" or "almanar" or any other pro-regime outlet then you have no right to talk about anyone having distorted pictures of what's going on.

If you actually have a valid point then present it. What did exactly happen?
Holy cow. I cannot imagine how desperate the hiring company must have been to pay 52%. That is an indicator of very bad things I suspect.

Unless you have a contract with your agent (highly unlikely - people like 10x are starting this idea) then just do not use them.

An agency who is getting 50% out of a client company has photos of the CEO and two shameful-looking-sheep somewhere.
Yahoo's Mayer Has Met with Hulu Execs in a Preliminary Look-See
Syrian Internet Goes Dark, Leaving Questions and Uncertainty
There must have been better names for the event than a "Blitz'.
If the NATO was really involved then this war would've been over months ago.

The regime is still alive because no outside force is really doing anything.
...and was fired from it.
So great I now know that hospitals charge different fees which is still pointless since my federally mandated heath insurance will pay either one of those prices at no difference in cost to me. In reality I can get my hip replaced at any institution and pay nothing more then the $300 a month I pay for my health insurance. So in the real world the price of all those procedures _to me_ is $300 a month.

This is not a free market. Making these prices public isn't going to make it a free market. No problems have been fixed. Only new and novel problems have been introduced.
Notice I'm not recommending building a SaaS or any sort of hosted software product that requires 24/7 support.

A lot of consultants could go beyond just selling their time and consider selling training workshops, short ebooks or video series, retainer packages (one of my student's offers a CEO-ready monthly report to his clients, which shows the effect of his monthly tweaks on their bottom line), and so on.

Not all of these scale — you can't have 1,000 retainer packages or 1,000 students in your live workshop. But doing these things (think: pricing, not billing) helps condition you to be better at sales & marketing and coming up with a value proposition... experience that will really pay off once you decide to build that SaaS :-)
Cliff Click, Charlie Hunt and Doug Lea on 'The Future of the JVM'
Hear Hear. Currently I just don't bother with curating pictures I've shot, aside from tweeting or facebooking them at the point I take them.
that would imply they have a lot of it already... I would suggest it's like selling swimming trunks to greenlanders :)
> A major win for TI (FWIW), considering that it has nonchalantly quit the mobile-SoC market citing a low RoI.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Yes, it can get even better of course :)
Syria 'working to repair internet' after blackout
I'm really praying for them to do something about this. I don't know anyone who's happy with the current situation. We're all lost and in heavy "photo debt".
Doesn't the dropbox instant upload already do this (one album\store that all devices have master access to)? I am not sure if it works on iDevices
Here's a way to start: pick the simplest one that you can do the quickest, then find a group of people near you and go and present it to them for free. It's a great way to give yourself a deadline, crystallise some concepts, and find out that everyone does villify you as much as you thought they would :)

It's also a good way to guage interest and road test the content.
I make £32k/year, which is certainly less than $70k.
"Stay completely clear of them" ... tell them at the appropriate time that they are fired and that if they ignore this and find you a job, you're not taking it, no matter what.
I definitely don't need it :D
Considering the language features that Carmack is interested in, Rust seems like a better candidate than Go for him. Unfortunately, Rust isn't even in beta yet, so it will be a while before it's suitable for anything except experimental projects.

The D language has a lot of features that should appeal to large software projects, including a certain amount of feature overlap with the functional languages. It hasn't really taken off yet, but it could be a killer app or two away from taking off. Maybe.

I say all that to say that Go seems fantastic for server-side programs but I suspect other prospective languages will be better for large, performance-critical games, but I've been wrong before.
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Well i wouldn't say only. I can think of lots of other sensors that would be cool. Ultrasound proximity, laser based range or ir thermometer come to mind. The whole range of biosensors that are found in fitness gadgets like the Basis band would also be cool. Its also touching your temple, so it could even do EEG like the NeuroSky headsets. The possibilities for cool sensors are really unlimited.
Agreed. Fugitive rocks. I use it more than I do the command line. However I've never been happy with its ability to review history.

tig is one way to cover that gap, but I wanted to do my git log viewing in vim so I can more easily cut and paste. I wrote this git log viewer (vim plugin) to cover that gap:

https://github.com/kablamo/vim-git-log
EEG sensors for brain wave detection?
One UX deliverable to rule them all
Best andriod app
When you talk about 'mobile app', are you referring to an alternative mobile site the user sees in the browser or packaging it up in something like PhoneGap (or putting it in a native WebView)?
I know this is a few days old now, but by (lucky?) coincidence, I was recommended to install this on my Mac to fix Pixelmator today: http://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-cuda-5.0.45-driver.html
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Aye, particularly in London
It should really be named as 'web bytecode' or 'web assembly'.
In India we never had this concept of phone insurance. I guess Nokia was the first to introduce it in partnership with some company few months back.
I could start it in nightly on linux but with low framerate. On windows I see this in the console (and it stops at "preparing javascript"):

[15:16:42.533] TypeError: asm.js type error: Internal codegen failure (probably out of memory) @ http://www.unrealengine.com/html5/UDKGame-Browser-Shipping.js:9649
[15:16:50.798] out of memory
How Does Pascal's Triangle Sound?
Can you share the name of your provider (or their peer set)?
I think that's the whole point. It's satire
> find a group of people near you

How do I do that? Sorry if I sound pretty simple but having never done it before there's a barrier to break. I didn't use the word "terrified" lightly. Where are these groups of people that aren't just friends and family, that I can present products to?
How can I join this list?
Ha yes, I agree. There are so many things you can do even with a microphone which it obviously has. I wonder if it can hear things that the person wearing them can't hear?

I think we're all expecting the brain-computing interface to be a ways off, but when you mention that the Glass prototype is already touching your temple and packed full of sensors...they're just getting ready I guess.
Apples price gorging on disk space is a complete joke when PhotoStream is needlessly duplicating all my photos.
1) Pick a closed ecosystem

2) Have a non-standard use case

3) Beg Ecosystem owners to change to meet your needs
They note they ported Epic Citadel, it's a tech demo which uses most of the Unreal engine directly, Epic Citadel was originally developed for iOS to demonstrate UE3 ran on/for the platform (before they wrote Infinity Blade) it's not a "map viewer": http://kotaku.com/5627701/play-with-the-unreal-engine-on-you...
I hear ya Phil, it's tough. In addition to what dools said (great advice), pick the idea you care most about. Typically people who don't move on an idea actually don't care about it enough to get their hands dirty and get in front of customers. Also, I've had a few friends use Kickstarter as a tool to validate their ideas.
Web workers I guess.
So I'm not a mobile dev but looking into it.

Can someone explain the meaning of this sentence? "It uses the HTML/CSS that all the system apps use as well, which means they're rock solid, and will have a native look 'nd feel". Wot?

If there was "some HTML/CSS" that'd let me avoid Sencha or jQmobile or Dojo or whatever, that'd be pretty neat. Now I love Ratchet but it seems "yeah this is just for prototyping" and so there's no real push behind it to make it the mobile-UI lib par excellence it could otherwise easily become.

So anyway, "the HTML/CSS that all the system apps use as well" --- what does this mean exactly?
I have a couple of thoughts:

1. Why not use django-admin.py startproject --template=<url>? I typically do something like django-admin.py startproject --template=https://github.com/rdegges/django-skel/zipball/master mynewproject so I don't actually have to clone

2. No runtime.txt for heroku?

3. Not specifying version numbers in your requirements.txt is very dangerous. I prefer something like "Django>=1.5.0,<=1.5.9"
Couldn't agree more. (I am satisfied with your training, Cat.)
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http://www.dlu3a.com/Game-151.html
I cant get it to work at all, in any browser :(
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In this case: mobile website. This 'app' runs in the browser and all strategies used here don't rely on anything like PhoneGap. If you need access to certain PhoneGap features you can of course package the app up but it's not required at all.
Samsung announced 2 Tizen devices Melius & Redwood launching in August
Throw a niche/type of product at us, and someone will have some good ideas. It's hard to say without knowing what sort of thing you'd be building though because a tool for helping recruiters won't go down well at the local Linux User Group for example ;-)
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Same thing in France or Germany, you can't call yourself (or your job position) a "diploma engineer" if you don't have a degree from an engineering college.
Is there any way so that group of such people can get the work outsourced from outside India? Freelancing does not work for them as they do not have strong profile on freelancing websites to showcase.
+1

Android/PC can do what the article wants, albeit with an initial investment of research and set-up but that's the choice... do you want buttoned up, everything 'just works' but only a certain way? or do you want customizable with tinkering required?
You're completely missing the bigger picture. You may be paying a fixed rate for your care, but if healthcare costs continue to rise unabated then you won't be paying $300/month next year, you may be paying $500/month. In addition the mandate to get everyone into the coverage pool plays a factor in helping keep your costs low.

If hospitals can charge rates set seemingly at random, and the "customer" has little or no opportunity to understand what the cost of their choices are, or even make a choice of where to go, then the system will likely continue to spiral out of control. And it is out of control.

My company, with 50 employees, will paying in excess of $500k for healthcare benefits this year. That doesn't even include the contribution required from the employees. That cost has risen ~12% every year. You are deluded if you see recent attempts to control these costs as only introducing new problems. Something has to be done.
It'd be cool if someone did a twm type flat theme:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Twm...
Modern OpenGL exploits immutable data for parallelism all over the place. It also lets (and expects!) you to upload model data (vertices, colors, texture-coords, etc) to the GPU, so you only need to re-upload things that have changed.

You can even stream textures asynchronously using PBOs (pixel buffer objects), and use dual PBOs like double buffers (or using copy-on-write techniques to only re-upload dirty rectangles...)
Request: tell me the longest route that is downhill all the way.
The Firefox UI library (presented here at http://buildingfirefoxos.com) is part of Firefox OS. It contains HTML/CSS elements that are used to build up the Firefox OS core system. These elements are all included. However, the 'native look nd feel' applies to Firefox OS, not to other platforms. That doesn't mean that it won't work there either of course, it'll just look Firefox OS'y :-)
How non-standard is his use case? And what then would be the standard use case when using laptop, iPhone and iPad?
Here's a PDF version of the slides: http://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/edu/seminare/2005/advanced-...
The Internet ‘needs a delete button’, says Google CEO Schmidt
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has said that the "lack of a delete button on the internet is... a significant issue".

In an interview by economist Nouriel Roubini at New York University's business school, Schmidt was asked what he believed privacy would look like in 10 or 20 years' time once smartphones had become "stone age" technology and given way to wearables or embedded tech.
Slight nitpick, but this is Unreal Engine 3, not Unreal, the 1998 PC FPS[1].

That game blew me away when I was younger—the graphics were truly stellar, better than Quake 2 and Half-Life, games released at the same time—and for a moment I thought someone had managed to port it to JavaScript.

I would pay good money to play it in my browser.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal
I'm actually receiving a whole load of spam on one of the email addresses provided by my registrar's whois privacy service. I'm guessing that spammers don't care how ugly an email address looks, as long as they reach someone.

The forwarding thing sounds like a good idea. Not turning off people interested in one of my domain names is an awesome bonus.
DIY GMOs? I wonder what the Government response will be.
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>However if you are thinking along the lines of of gold, silver and gems, then yes, bitcoin can't compare .

I would add the dollar to that list as well.
Actually, it is free!

There are paid plans but there will always be a free tier, at least if I have anything to say about it. The pricing plans are here: https://www.wakari.io/plans

There is also an enterprise version that customers can install on their own premises or cluster.