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I had my first business at 14. Now 34 (20 (?!) years later. gosh...). Have never knocked one out of the park, but have have some good base hits, and a few doubles. Its all about the game, and how you play it.
It's really going to depend on your group of players. There's a wide variety of board and card games available with different mechanics and play styles.

I can recommend Race for the Galaxy:

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/28143/race-for-the-galaxy

Browse around the BGG website, read reviews, look at the top games, etc:

http://boardgamegeek.com/browse/boardgame
One of the architects of Tent (https://tent.io) here. Happy to answer any questions about Tent (the protocol), tentd (the reference server implementation), tentstatus (the reference client app), and the rest of the ecosystem.
Sounds incredibly dangerous, I hope they have some kind of backup or rescue plan. Also without air tanks he could easily suffocate.
Yeah, I felt like that before I started Parse. This isn't like X-Factor. You will never really know if you have what it takes, until either you succeed, or you give up. That's just how this works.
I would imagine the ease of sharing, searching, following, comments/discussion, pull requests, etc.

I don't have any experience with Bitbucket yet other than making an account and poking around with the interface, so I don't really have a frame of reference, but GitHub does seem to do the above things quite well in my relatively limited experience.
I'd probably put it after the parameter lists:

(defn foo
([x] *docstring* "bar")
([x y] *docstring* "baz"))

because you want to be able to document the different implementations differently. The semantics would be: If the function body starts with a string literal, the latter serves as the documentation. If the body consists of any other code following the string literal, it will be ignored for run-time processing; if it's the only thing in the body, it also serves as the return value.
GitHub definitely has more users (4.4m claimed https://github.com/features/community), but I meant the social interaction capabilities and features that GitHub offers.

GitHub is much more organized around community and public feedback (search, stars, comments, etc.), than BitBucket. IMO, neither is claiming to be something they aren't. It just happens that for private repos and hosting where the focus isn't discoverability or community-driven, BitBucket seems like an easy choice. However, if you want to integrate with communities or popular open source groups/code - GitHub is probably a better option.

They're both great overlays for Git, it's just important to keep in mind where their core focus is. For GitHub, community is clearly a front-runner. BitBucket is more focused on private repo options and process management/tools.

I put some sweeping claims in this comment, but there's a lot of really good data in this post to supplement.
Maybe the art department having a dance party in the late afternoon while engineering is trying to get a release out?
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Talking to users? I don't know if you saw anyone play Draw Something, but unlike every other social game I've watched my wife play, she seemed to talk about it as a horrible chore after the first two days.
I recall the launch documentation specifically saying generics are "... a work in progress". Ignoring academic progress is easy when programming is far more often a trade than the application of computer science. I once saw a video comparing Go to an unnamed which matched or surpassed Go in all the ways the video compared the two. The language was Algol 60. Naturally, can't find the video now.
I love bitbucket and even paid $10 before I had users for personal projects, now I pay since I have so many biz and client repos up there and growing teams. I have been recommending it for private repos/companies ever since and have gladly paid for it. You can store so much up there and unlimited repos in either Mercurial or Git which is awesome.

For company/private repos I always use bitbucket, for OSS I use github. The prices are right, it's flexible and you can have the comfort of serviced repos off your local. It is great for remote teams or getting companies to open up to remote access to repos.

I started using bitbucket when it was primarily python focused (github started ruby focused) and liked Mercurial since it was Python based and better supported on Windows back in the day for many windows clients. But they have definitely kept up and after Atlassian bought it they haven't dropped the ball. I also use SourceTree before they bought it and Atlassian knows good tools when they see them, bought that and opened it up (with a windows client in beta).

Congrats to bitbucket from a happy customer for a long time.
This has nothing at all to do with the network. Also, amazon's machine to machine network internally is flaky.
Most likely because Red ochre paint is also easy to make. Around here (Finland) every other paint is bought, but Red ochre is occasionally boiled on site for painting out farm buildings and summer cottages. Partly for economic reasons, but mostly because it continues centuries old Scandinavian tradition. This and log cottages found their way to America with immigrant Forest Finns from northern Sweden. They practised slash and burn agriculture, which became frowned upon because it was thought to threaten the wood supply for building ships. So they had to find another frontier. This shared heritage could explain why some commenters point out never seeing red barns where they grew up, when they are commonplace in others.

Instructions for diy Red ochre paint: http://www.kaupunkiyhdistys.jns.fi/punamulta/english/redtext...
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Except that's not what happened here. Zynga dominates the facebook games market and always has. Everybody else, including any newcomers looking to become "the next Zynga" all fight over the small piece of the pie left by Zynga. I can't remember who here said it, but nobody's going to be a better Zynga than Zynga.

The problem is the market itself was never as lucrative as it was made to seem and it's shrinking fast. I can't say a whole lot about that last part, but let's just say Zynga isn't the only social gaming company laying off staff to refocus on mobile...
I signed up for virtualpostmail.com recently since I was moving abroad.

It is similar to outbox except all of your mail goes directly to their facility. As in, you forward you mail to a new address provided by them.

Then there's scanning/ forwarding (including international) and package consolidation (i.e. you order multiple packages but would like to forward 1 to save money.)

The service has been good so far. it was cheaper than other mail-forwarding services and provided more of the features I was looking for.
I know Bitbucket maintain a list of student Emails, I imagine Github do the same. They send a confirmation Email, you confirm, you get upgraded - all automatic. No reason to manually approve that. Bitbucket give students unlimited collaborators, but you probably don't need that for Coursera courses anyway.
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Which social features would you say are missing, bearing in mind that Bitbucket has teams, issue tracking, wikis, pull requests and code review features?
That's great then. Yes it would be very interesting to hear how this works.
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Taking a bold dive into the depths of despair that is HN's Microsoft-friendly sub-community. Kudos, good sir, I applaud you!
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I see. I suppose that makes sense if you mostly work on a single machine. (Since I usually oscillate between two machines I never think about backing up in addition to the normal work-flow.)
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That bit is definitely wrong for EC2, which is notoriously slow in dropping the prices.

The web hosting business has always been cut-throat, where price cutting and overselling are the norm. And since we started to have fast enough CPUs several years ago, the price has been dropping ever faster, as the CPUs continue to work after the initial costs have been recouped. For example, nowadays there are a lot of deals for dedicated servers with Xeon L5420, a quad core 2.5Ghz processor released in Q1 2008, before EC2 went public.

The sad part about EC2 is that it doesn't shy away from overselling while keeping the same high price. The micro instance with its meager CPU allocation would be the poster child of overselling. There are some naive crowds here who believe EC2 doesn't oversell. Well, just ask Netflix: http://blog.sciencelogic.com/netflix-steals-time-in-the-clou...
the word is cachet. I offer this only because the sentence as written is confusing.
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I work in this field and when we say "social" games, we really mean flash-based facebook-hosted games. The games you mentioned, while they do have social components, are classified as "mobile" games. The former is dying quickly, and will completely die out, it's just a matter of time. The latter is still going strong, growing even. Which is why Zynga (and every other social game company) is focusing mostly on "mobile" right now.
"There is a catch with Incentive Stock Options, however: you do have to report that bargain element as taxable compensation for Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) purposes in the year you exercise the options (unless you sell the stock in the same year). We'll explain more about the AMT later."

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Reading through the comments on the current front-page stories about Bitbucket and Zynga, I don't see a single comment saying that their free services aren't really "free".
You shouldn't be downvoted. It's not obvious how to use git to communicate between two client-configured machines.

If one of them has a public domain name or IP, or they are both on the same LAN (likely when one is a laptop and they are owned by the same person), then it's simple to communicate via git.

But, it wouldn't be so easy for, as an example, you and I to share code between our laptops in different time zones, unless we used a stable server somewhere.
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In China you can have Amazon (and other major e-commerce firms) ship things to your home or office and pay in cash on delivery (for most items).

The amount of delivery people in Beijing, especially near lunch time, is quite impressive.
Relatively little danger, with the proper care and attention (it pumps oxygen from the surface). Also, watch some of his interviews, he seems very competent.

Finally; sometimes a little bit of danger is what makes things worthwhile :)
Unless you have GC pauses, or run out of memory, or have flaky ram, or bought shoddy nics, or hit a kernel bug, or have a WAN link, or use EC2, or rely on a hosting provider or colo's network. ;-)
I think what you have said is correct of how, but not why.

However I think what this whole discussing is missing is the properties that you derive by adhering to a REST design.

I think there should be some tests of a design to see if you are actually getting the benefits of REST.

For example in a REST design you can re-arrange the internal URL's in a server and the site is still usable to clients because they are following links from the root.

Why do we want this ability to rearrange URLs?
What's an example of "banks exposing merchant APIs"?
But the additional pressure the sub has to counter is 1atm.
IBM have been running what we'd recognise as private clouds or private hosting for mainframe workloads for decades.

The thing is that they don't want to cannabalise their own business. If they made zSystem mainframe linux instances accessible with a credit card (~2-5 seconds to boot, RAM-speed local networking, 5-9s hardware availability) they'd risk severely cutting into some of their most lucrative lines of business.

So they won't do that. Not right now, anyhow.
Wow, this is a great link and the games look good. Thanks a lot!!
Thanks for replying! Thats good to know that it happens more than I thought.

I actually signed up at whitetruffle and thats what got me thinking about it. I saw that some of the jobs had "Remote OK".

I will definitely keep looking around for a job that will fit my skills.

Thanks again!
They had one I reported Oct 2010, took a while to convince was an issue and they finally fixed a few months after saying they would. The URLS for attachments to private issues in private repos were guessable and publicly accessible if you guessed right (ie no authentication for them).

The URLs were like this
https://bitbucket-assetroot.s3.amazonaws.com/<username&#...

Obviously a bit tedious to guess for humans, but no big deal for computers.
Imagine trying to get out if the water bursts, especially if you try to go under the current 6 feet.
This is so cool and I've followed others doing similar "personal" submarines. I hope this continues trending and we see more private exploration of the seas. It's quite an engineering feat, analogous to space travel in some ways. The more work done in the field the more the cost will drop and the more accesible it will become. I imagine one day we'll see the ocean in a much different way.
Ha, ha, me too. Maybe a cool version of Monopoly might be fun vs. the traditional board. I think we'll definitely add this to the mix. Thanks!
Assessing Coursera, the LMS
It seems more complicated to me to define a document format that provides URLS, than to just tell people what the URLs are.

In my mind I think of some things e.g.: google search, as a function not a resource. Trying to think about what the resource might be seems tangential to what I am trying to do.
It's an interesting idea but I don't think the ID problem is as trivial as the proposal makes it. For example,

http://www.nlchp.org/content/pubs/Photo%20ID%20Barriers1.pdf
Give him access if he's a co-founder. Just read-only access so he doesnt go breaking things.
Thanks, both sound like a good one. I'm going to run it by my boss to see if he likes one or the other.
I found this document - http://www.uspto.gov/patents/stats/ex_parte_historical_stats...

Is that what you are referring to? I don't see it saying 88%

Can you clarify or provide an alternate link?
I find that I use channels mostly when working with goroutines. It's also a convenient mechanism for connection pooling.
- Open Source Stance

- Links to public software contributions
- API Documentation

- Delivery/Deployment methodology (shrink wrap, separate releng process, continuous delivery)

- Who is on call for production, process or code issues?

- What software code metrics are tracked/graphed?

- What process metrics are tracked/graphed?

- What is the companies take on security?

- How are tasks assigned to engineers?

- Do you have a separate tools/devops/process team?

- Is there a separate project management department?

- Does the company contribute to meetups, local communities?

- Who goes to conferences, career training sessions?

- Is there internet access at the office?

- What is the office setup like? cubes, desks, offices?
standing desks?

- What are the office amenities? snacks, dinner, drinks, showers, gym, yoga, surf, video games?
I have no insight into this, but I suspect the ads in the sidebar bring in more revenue than you might imagine. Most of the bandwidth requirements will be handled by the CDN, keeping down AWS traffic costs. CDN pricing is almost certainly less than S3 + traffic costs.
Maybe he's referring to the way the mainframes are sold with performance-limiting logic. When you want more performance, you ring IBM and they remotely activate more cores or upclock them.

IBM often writes "performance test" periods into their contracts -- you get x weeks per year to trial the higher levels of performance. This is a sop that realises that mainframes are busiest at financial reporting times, especially at the end of financial year.
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still working out on the best method to do international postage. Its in the works.
This is true but with the proper precautions one can take measures to reduce the risk. Never to complete zero of course and it will probably always be relatively dangerous to travel underwater. But it's already dangerous to travel in a minimal atmosphere, in a pressurized vessel, at the speed of a bullet, and it happens everyday via air travel. More work in the field from pioneers like these students will help reduce the risk for future travelers.
Bashing z-cloud is unwarranted and irrelevant to the point you make. A piece of technology that saves a company millions of dollars has no place in your diatribe against its management or creative output.
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So if you were in a foreign land and knowing only a few words I saw a sign that said:

CMWOHGHSJE!
mvw pxx
MVORUW the DUCKS

What would you think?
Because homes are built out of different materials. Stone houses get whitewashed. White wash is a very thin plaster - lime, salt, water, sometimes molasses.

One Indian town - Jaipur - has pink houses. This is because of the local stone, and because they painted everything pink when Prince Albert went to visit. It's pink! (http://www.sherwin-williams.com/homeowners/color/find-and-ex...)

(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jaipur_city_palace_in...)
Could it also be that the red paint lasts longer since there are so many coats?
"why is garbage collection needed to begin with?"

Well, think about this: what would a declarative language like Prolog look like if you had to manually deallocate memory? At a high enough level of abstraction, it does not make any sense to manually deallocate memory; it may not even make sense to speak about "memory" at all for some abstractions.

"So, what makes garbage collection different than malloc/free, and why is it necessary? I'd love to learn more about that."

It is the same as the difference between having a compiler generate the instruction sequence for setting up stack frames, and writing those instructions yourself in assembly language. As a programmer, your time is probably better spent on higher-level things than how stack frames are being set up. Likewise with allocating and deallocating memory: you will probably be more productive if you spend your time on something else, like the design or logic of your program.

Remember, programming languages exist for programmers, to make us more productive. We are able to do more when we are not being distracted by things like figuring out when it is safe to deallocate memory or ensuring that we do not create memory leaks.
Although there are compelling changes in the gaming ecosystem described in the article, there's a pet theory of mine I wish to forward: people can become resistant to skinner box addiction. We get bored with just simple mechanics, eventually.

I see this with my kids (all under 12), they crave more interesting gaming than they did a few years ago; they do still play skinner type games occasionally, but more often they are searching for higher quality content.

This is cool! It makes me hopeful for gaming.
This must at least in parts be a cultural thing - I'm not from the U.S., and I've never seen a red barn in my life.
I'll agree with that.
Take a look at e-commerce in China. Lots of people forget, that the big Chinese players are now orders of magnitude larger than the Amazon's and Ebays in the west.

The "end result" thanks to "protectionist legislation" is not as straight forward as people imagine.

If it was wouldnt Alibaba have been allowed to buy Yahoo ;)
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I don't believe Lisp was even viable without garbage collections given that lists are created and shared left and right, not to mention closures. Sure, McCarthy could have used "malloc," but making the right "free" calls would have been impossible.

Garbage collection is the main reason why lambdas were slow to be added to C++, as the objects they close over have indefinite lifetimes.

> Because if it didn't (UNIX wasn't invented until 1969 either) it would make sense for memory to be available for a single process. And it would mean when people said garbage collection they were envisioning malloc/free.

This doesn't make any sense, sorry. Manual memory management works well when objects have definite lifetimes, and fails miserably when they don't.
Seemingly often enough that it deterred them with Go. No, you may not be able to revert to before the bug was introduced as it may be the bug was there ever since that feature was added. As soon as it is self-hosted, the old compiler becomes quickly irrelevant, i.e. the code rapidly diverts from what it can compile.
If everyone is up-front about the legal fees, what does it matter?

The legal fees are paid after receiving the investment. If you negotiate for a pre-money valuation, and the terms require you to pay the legal fees, you simply take it out of the valuation.

The VCs can offer slightly more money and have the company pay the legal fees, or offer slightly less and the VC can pay the legal fees. There is no difference between these two things.
Only to someone that doesn't actual know Perl, which tends to be the people who disparage it (see the Blub comment above).

(()())))lambda())((((())mapcar '5'(34343)()))))

"Lisp" sucks too, just look ^
I've increasingly found myself using both GitHub and Bitbucket. In this vein, I just pushed up some changes to my list of Git utilities (https://github.com/mhartl/git-utils) that includes full pull request support for both GitHub and Bitbucket on OS X. In particular, if you're on branch foobar and want to issue a pull request to merge with master, you just type

$ git pull-request

This pushes your local branch up to origin and opens the pull request page at GitHub or Bitbucket (depending on the relevant URL from .git/config).

The same Git utils repo includes git open, which opens the remote page for your project:

$ git open

As with git pull-request, it works with both GitHub and Bitbucket (OS X only).
By "ID", I don't mean government-issued photo ID, necessarily - just the ability to know how a person is will do.

It may be that the person is a repeat user so that the staff recognizes them, or it may be that someone else can vouch for them. And some will have photo IDs, too. ;)
By 'non-optimal results' do you mean heap fragmentation?

If so then yes that's a major concern with dynamic memory allocation in real-time environments. These systems must be designed to run continuously for years at a time and have limited memory, so any allocator that causes non-zero heap fragmentation is right out.

There are allocators that don't do that. One way is to use a pool allocator which allocates fixed-size blocks. Since all blocks are the same size, fragmentation can't occur.
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