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I have great empathy for what you're facing. I've lost family members to cancer. It is a very unique form of helplessness in face of calamity. That said, I'm working for a genomics company, part of our mission is to understand each cancer as a unique disease so we can diagnose it correctly, leading to personalized treatment. In my personal opinion IDEs are not the rate-limiting step to curing cancer, and a better one won't meaningfully contribute. This doesn't mean what you're doing is not meaningful though!
The more polite response gives at least some shred of a foothold on which the recipient can find out how to better themselves. "Fix your shit" does't explain how your shit is lacking, or the major things you don't understand.

e.g., if I were to post some patch that used bubble sort, one could easily say "This is total crap. Don't come back until you fix your shit". If I were a noob, that wouldn't help me contribute better. If one were to rather say something like, "This is very inefficient," and then mention something about O notation or efficient sorting, and point out that this is a performance-critical section of the code, I might be more likely to actually take the time to learn enough to be able to fix it.

Consider also the effect on newer programmers. They start, they commit crap, you tell them to die in a fire. They get better, and years later decide that they're not going to bother fixing bugs in your project because "that guy's a jerk". Constructive criticism, or at the very least politeness, helps prevent poisoning the well of talent that is interested in working with you.
Seeing your question, my immediate thought was "that's an odd question, of course it has backwards compatibility". Turns out that it actually doesn't.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/21/4350662/new-xbox-has-no-ba...

That's incredible.
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Converting externalities into profit isn't necessarily taking advantage of market failures. It may just be _creating_ market failure and taking advantage of them.

Let's say all of the restaurants in your neighborhood have to charge extra because of the cost of commercial garbage service. And you start selling food cheaper, because you're putting your garbage into the household trash and passing on the savings. Yes, that's a business, but it's basically just breaking the rules and passing some of the savings on to customers.
Some funny/snarky tweets: http://storify.com/pattheflip/people-on-twitter-make-fun-of-...

My favorite:
"Don Mattrick: 'We are proud to announce a Kickstarter for the next Xbox today... there are a LOT of great rewards for backers.'"
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On Ars and The Verge I see no backwards compatibility and a "fee" to play used games (sounds like you basically have to buy the game again).
> If you don't want your tenants doing this, then make it against the terms of your rental agreement.

It's actually a violation of most standard residential rental agreements; sub-tenancy is often tightly controlled and only permitted with the express permission of the landlord.

Source: my family owns apartment buildings in several different cities.
I don't understand the "finally" proclamation. What is preventing someone from using Stripe (ar just about any payment service, for that matter) in the same manner and saving the 2%?
This article conflates Libertarians with Republicans which I don't think makes sense in Silicon Valley. Yes, nationwide they tend to be in the same group but not in the valley.

Judging from comments on HN the valley does sound quite libertarian but not the kind that register and vote Republican. It seems more intellectual and based in logic while Republicans are more about dogma and scoring political points.
They are harder, but they eventually dominate the centralized systems. This is probably due to a combination of the O(n^2) value of the decentralized system dominating even the most valuable centralized system, and also the fact of centralization inevitably produces a whole bunch of people out to get the central player.

But I don't really know. This isn't an normative argument I'm making about what I think should be, it's an observation about history. Centralized email has given way to SMTP, for better and for worse. Centralized document systems gave way to gopher gave way to the web. Centralized newsgroups gave way to distributed forums. Centralized social media will eventually give way to a richer distributed ecosystem. I don't even know exactly how, but it will happen someday. It's just what happens. Eventually, too many people will be gunning for Facebook for them to be the monopoly.

(Probably the best counterexample is IM, which never properly federated. Arguably, this is because IM simply isn't that desirable. It's something people sorta kinda want, but not so much that it's actually monetizable, so possibly it's evidence in favor of the "success produces lots of people gunning for a piece of the pie" being the dominant factor. IM has never had anyone so successful (monetarily) that we had tons of people gunning for that space.)
A client is paying for studio time, digital copies (specified in consultation), and the desired outcome for images.

The photographer is paying for studio rental, time spent post processing, the CD/thumb drive for digital copies. The rest is divided into varying percentages for employee salaries, rent, food, and miscellaneous but necessary costs such as gas, medical/business/car insurance, clothing and entertainment. Don't forget, Uncle Sam wants a cut so a photographer must set aside money from each session and every sale for taxes every year.

Printed copies may appear outrageously expensive but, the photographer has to purchase the paper, ink and maintain the machine. They may send out images to be printed and have to pay for such services.

Photographers most often want to print their own images to ensure proper color/saturation handling - this speaks much about the quality of the image. Printable copies may be made available to the client and the photographer stands to lose much on the little profit they gain from prints when the client takes home high res images; this will show in a larger outright cost for the CD with printable images.
The photographer will(should) state how long they will retain a copy of the images in their records so you may return for more prints within that specified time limit, or purchase the printable images when you are able to do so.
Show HN: A queue for Rails
IIRC the PS4 was announced with a similar feature.
You can have two things on the screen at once. Such innovation.
Of course, they get the benefit of charging you per copy.
Google's "Play Services" library is a long-needed end run around slow carrier updates for delivering new APIs, but will it be available on non-"Google Experience" Android devices that aren't allowed to pre-install Google apps or the Google Play Store itself? Or is the Play Services library a way for Google to lock Android app developers into Google's version of Android?
I may be the minority, but it's nice that all the exclusives I'm waiting for are PC exclusives.
But that's the part that Hipmunk makes easiest: figuring out which flights suit you best.
No sample chapter?
Organizing JavaScript
To see the solution, type: show solution

I didn't see that hint until the very last level but I think it should work for all of them.
Since I moved to California and the Bay Area, I have to say I've encountered more smarmyness and arrogance than in Houston Texas. This by itself isn't a negative indicator. However, if you couple it with a tendency for people to judge you by "your cover," then it is. The real attitudes of people, and how they differ from stated ones, are a big part of the downsides of a milieu like the "Gilded Age." Success itself is a part of the problem here. Success attracts attention, both good and bad, making it necessary to bias for false negatives in various interactions. This encourages the "echo chamber" effect.

I wonder if Silicon Valley isn't reaching some sort of gradual saturation. The number of people who pretend to be upbeat and curious versus the number who actually are is disturbing to me.

(EDIT: To be fair, this may well be because I'm on the wrong side of the filtering membrane.)
Both? It probably means that you write in German and other messages are translated to your language (German).

That's the only thing that would make sense.
I'm not familiar with this channel in question, but I feel that my experiences on Freenode have been very positive as far as online communities go. Most people are still helpful and civil.

Though it's unfortunate that many channels, in general, seem to get corrupted and grow stale when carbon copies of this Brane-type of channel operator become part of the 'ruling party'.
Will the Xbox be able to power-on your TV?
With WiFi direct, I wonder if this'll finally bring Miracast/WiDi mainstream. Maybe the ability to stream audio and video wirelessly is a niche feature, but for me Airplay is the one thing keeping me on Apple's platform.
Raspberry Pi Mail Checker (in Python)
Most of those people got one because of gaming. And then used it as a Netflix machine or blu-ray player.

But why would they pay hundreds of dollars more for a "new" Netflix machine? And if they own none of them, and just want a Netflix machine, why not buy a much better (for media) $100 Roku? Or even an Apple TV?
"There is a growing body of research that shows that companies that limit their high-low wage ratios and distribute generous option plans consistently outperform more traditional, inegalitarian firms."

I'd love to know more about this growing body of research.

A basic Google search yields the ten most profitable firms: Gazprom, Exxon Mobil, Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, Royal Dutch Shell,
Chevron, China Construction Bank, Apple, BP, BHP Billiton and Microsoft[1].

I don't get the sense that oil companies and big banks are egalitarian in their approach to employee equity. What am I missing?

[1] http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2012/perfor...
Oh please. You know exactly why.
This a good point. Investment banks also generally have a very high percentage of employee ownership (50%+) because so much of their value is their employee base.
This is not a feature request by any means. I suspect that this and autocorrect would combine for some seriously funny international humor.
As someone who had a wedding photography business, my standard contract had a "client agrees to allow photographer to use client's likeness for promotion of photographer's business."* clause.

I'd go over the contract term-by-term with a client before they signed, and I never had anyone request to cross it out.

* paraphrasing, of course.
I have to say I'm pretty disappointed in HN right now. I came to this thread hoping to see some good discussion but instead there's just a bunch of crap. I see a lot of complaining and comments at a very superficial level. Can we talk about the competition and their different strategies? Can we talk about any of the new things presented and whether or not they are interesting or valuable, and why? Can we talk about the technology? Can we talk about how Sony seems to have gone out of their way to court indie developers but MS didn't even mention them here?
But now various side panes will keep popping up to distract and/or annoy you while you're watching TV.
This is correct. Basically whatever flag you choose is what determines the "From" translation language on your outgoing messages and the "To" language for incoming.
I don't understand the fascination with Google competitors needing to have an easily "verb"ed brand. People never felt the need to verb their search engines before Google. [1] Nor do they now feel the need to verb any other search engine, host, portal, network or huge site like imdb, facebook, wikipedia or amazon. [2]

[1] Hotbotted? AltaVista'd? Lycos'd? Yahoo'd? Asked Jeeves? Did any normals ever say any of those things?

[2] "Tweet" is as close as any other service has come to google-style verbing of their brand by the general public. And that's only the case when you stretch the definition of 'general public'.
He runs his own authoring system, OPML Editor (a derivative of Userland Radio / Userland Frontier). That listens on port 5337. So that's fetching something local, except it will only work on his box, possibly anyone else running OPML Editor on theirs too if there's some common shared code running in that environment.
> So I can send such an email to a woman as I am gay?

No, probably not. I painted in broad strokes, but the situation is more murky. I don't know of any situations where legal action for this kind of behavior has come from men doing it to men.

> But if I sent it back to Linus, it’s sexual harassment?

Possibly. That may depend on the state? I'm not terribly familiar with same-sex sexual harassment issues, I'm afraid. Need to re-read up on it, I guess.
If only it called for me... maybe I can look forward to that in the next generation of consoles.
Yes, absolutely. My family has evicted tenants from some of our units for repeatedly violating this clause of their leases.
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Looking forward to this. There has been a lot of FUD, and I think some of it is valid, so I'm choosing the 1 week supply option to give it a try. I'd like to replace 1 of my meals each day with this, I hate having to deal with cooking and cleaning up in small temporary apartments.
It probably is against the rental agreements for most of the people doing it.
my experience was that you pay for the shooting of one pose but they take many more and offer them to you afterwards
I've been thinking about that path for a while. If I get back into gaming, I'm definitely planning on ditching the console.
Then I'll pass. I can't get over that psychological barrier of paying to use something I'm already paying for :-(
I believe the stakeholder culture is because tech companies often have the potential for rapid growth. For example, a barbershop's capital is mostly human, but there isn't a big chance it will IPO. This means the best barbers don't have much incentive to choose their barbershop based on equity in the compensation package.
Another person's transgressions doesn't absolve you from being civil in response. That's what civilization means.

It's not always easy, but it's an ideal we should hold ourselves to if we want our community to be a place worth spending time.
Totally agree with you. But you want to follow up "Look what I can do..." with "...and here's how to hire me".
Indeed. This is probably where the biggest risks are for whatever I am working or have worked on. Finding the intersection between what technology is capable of (product) and where there is business value (market), especially given that most of the avenues have already been explored, is hard.

I have ideas where product can be built within a few months (easier product), with a lot of competition already (market challenges). I also have ideas where there is technological uncertainly (product feasibility?) where much bigger time and investments are needed (which adds to economical/market challenges).
Yes, before I saw your comment, I was going to post something similar. I am also one of those weirdos who just wants a really powerful and reliable gaming console. No muss, no fuss, no "social", no voice-activated doo-dads, just really good games and not much else.
I used to think like that but now I am finding myself increasingly relying on Xbox as an entertainment system and that despite having built a dedicated XBMC pc. Maybe its the general availability of Apps (Amazon Video, Xfinity, Netflix) or just pure laziness to switch between two systems.
BS. The market wants to pay someone for just the content they want.

Comcast wants the market to pay $100 a month and deliver hot garbage.
I imagine so, my PS3+Samsung tv does so.
I'd like it better if this kind of moderation would be more transparent.
Climate change boosted human development
Every gold rush attracts hucksters. Each time there's a tech boom, there's a wash of entrepreneurs, etc who have no real track record at anything and often aren't genuinely passionate about technology, just getting rich or famous. It comes and goes.
{{{message}}} in handlebars means that if someone one gets around your server-side sanitization your client side is wide open to XSS ...

also, rate limit the users, this is thing is managing to crash chrome!
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We haven't seen pricing information. Rumors surrounding a subsidized model (as some versions of the Xbox 360 were sold) have been thick.
I've been following this for a while, and I'm excited to see it start to come together. I hope a lot of people aren't turned off by this pseudo Kickstarter, and wonder why Kickstarter turned them down in the first place.
right, yes, that's what rent-seeking alluded to.
This has always driven me nuts. It makes Microsoft seem so money hungry to charge me to access a service I already pay for, through an internet connection I already pay for with a device I already paid for.
"Taking advantage of the difficulty of contract and regulatory enforcement" finds an equilibrium at some really sour places.
Do users who abuse the flagging feature get penalized?
Sorry to confuse you, the UX is kinda wonky. Whatever flag you choose is what determines your language for both outgoing and incoming messages. So if you choose German, that is what will determine the "From" language to translate on your outgoing messages and the "To" language for incoming.
Paul Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement
Not according to the article you linked:

> Technologically speaking, it's not wholly a surprise that backwards compatibility is off the table. Today, the company confirmed months of rumors that the new Xbox would use an x86 CPU. Games designed for the Xbox 360's Xenon processor simply won't run natively on the new hardware, since the Xenon used a PowerPC architecture instead.
Are we on the cusp of a solar energy boom?
haha, thanks. fixed now. o'clock is ignored nonetheless (maybe that should be added though)
ACT clinical trial participant improved vision from 20/400 to 20/40
Given that deaths by fire in NYC were in a record low in 2012, when AirBNB rentals in NYC were presumably at a record high, maybe the lack of fire regulations aren't actually that big a risk.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/03/nyregion/58-fire-deaths-in...
>No more console restrictions for me ever again.

But that doesn't solve the issue with exclusiveness of games.
I think this is fantastic for folks like me who have to juggle between my htpc (which has a cablecard so I can watch live tv on my media center) and my xbox (which I use to play games). Ofcourse il still have my htpc connected and use it frequently for other things (I am not sold on IE on xbox) but atleast it will make switching between watching tv,netflix, hulu and my games very simple. microsoft can take my money now, i want one of these things !
Should still be sanitizing user input, there's no reason to be passing the message as an html variable in handlebars {{{message}}} :/

You trust your server-side sanitization that much?
Working on it, any tips to keep entity encoding in handlebars without the triple stash?
Not sure I agree. Xbox is a huge driver of Netflix/Hulu traffic. There's a lot of TV/movie watching which happens inside.
There needs to be a corollary to Betteridge's law of headlines: if a headline reads "Why <foo> is not happening", that means it most definitely is happening (or has already happened).
This conversation came up within the last week, though I forget where: Rather than being "thought up" in the shower, the shower is more likely the place where the idea seeps into the conscious mind. We're generally in the shower after a night's sleep. During that sleep, we're working through thoughts, ideas, problems. Before we can make use of that processing work, we need it to be accessible to the waking mind. The shower is a place that wakening happens frequently.
They might be. I'm finding myself playing games less and less and doing more walks in the park myself.

I didn't mean it to come of with a negative connotation towards the word "attitude", I think it got lost in the ASCII. I only meant it as an observation.
This was good satire in 2000. 13 years later, not owning a t.v. is not the same as being unable to watch traditionally broadcasted shows.
A lonely table - becoming more interesting
I agree. To add, Comcast really wants to get $200/month from its customers. A premium package bundled with the Xbox One might be the solution. Furthermore, Microsoft could push the console and attached Comcast subscription through its stores. This model has been proven in the telecom industry, it's only a matter of time until someone figures out how to apply those lessons to cable.
I guess you're right about a convergence device. I appreciate, but do not use, the WiiU's tablet as a tv remote.
Bitcoin is both a payment system and a currency. And essentially all currencies have directors, too. But absolutely all payment systems do.
How Microsoft Can Take Over the Living Room
One of the main problems I have with it is that in New York, I know of people who are doing a taking account AirBnb rates when calculating a break even for their sublets/extra rooms. This will push rents up in the city and ultimately not help a lot of the actual residents.
'Why The Hell Do I Have To Keep Updating Apps On My iPhone?
Excellent points. (I earned money doing photography in college and had a darkroom).

"shooting a photo with a camera is the fun and easy part"

To which I will add that everyone wants to be the one to wash the suds off the car with the hose.

One of the trueisms about photography that I found when I did it was that there were so many cases of where you thought you shot and developed the perfect photo, and all anyone cared about (imagine this!) is what they looked like in the photo. So to your point there is actually much involved in satisfying the various stakeholders.
"I would be surprised if there were any new industry in the history of capitalism that distributed its economic rewards to its employees as widely as Silicon Valley has."

Wall street has been distributing most of it's profits to employees in the form of bonuses for decades. Though unlike SV, it get criticised heavily (a lot unfairly IMHO) for it. Having worked in both, I feel they are full of the same 'type' of people.
The boss wants putty, the user can edit .ssh/config by himself already.
Well, that, and that a few grand blends right in to a wedding budget, compared to the food and venue and band and dress and flowers. A wedding photographer would be dumb to undercharge.
git was built for linux.git. A tool for developers on the linux community to collaborate. Ofcourse the email ID is public: if someone finds a bug, they should be able to send a patch to the maintainer right away.

Please don't use fake email ids. That defeats the whole purpose of open source. Ofcourse, if you are working on something closed source, the email ids aren't public by definition; those git repository aren't public.
Live action 'Halo' TV series with Steven Spielberg as executive producer