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Producing movies involves a metric shit-ton of work. You need a LOT of really good people to do just one movie well. Doing a whole bunch? Quality will inevitably suffer due to lack of attention. It's not just acting talent. Pre- and post-production is ridiculously hard to do right, and will ruin all your hard work if it isn't.

I have a friend who does it. Writes, directs, acts, produces. He works constantly, 12-14 hours a day. I feel bad for his new wife. Trust me, the movie craft cannot be scaled like this by solo players who aren't part of the establishment. Not with the current state of the art.
At least in 2013, you can cancel it (my client did) and Azure has a default spending limit for trial accounts which, unless you remove, never gets you charged if you consume the trial usage and simply suspends your account. On the other hand, AWS doesn't have a spending limit concept for even free, one-year micro instance trial last I checked.
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It actually works great for me using the current Chrome Beta on Android, and I've heard Firefox might have started supporting WebGL on mobile as well, though a lot of platforms are still left out... iOS comes to mind.
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While modern web browsers today may support WebGL, there's far too many computers not using a GPU that supports WebGL. For example, my 5 year old business workstations that run the latest Ubuntu.

On-hover WebGL effects only work if you fallback to a static image (an image of the non-hover state) for browsers that don't support it.
Are you sure there's no grain of truth in the complaints about today's dynamic Web?

Of course there are. But no-one has really articulated an alternative vision. That post certainly doesn't.
They can go online and search for coupons. It never takes me more than two or three minutes to find a coupon through Retailmenot and another aggregator. If no coupon exist or if they're all expired, then I'll pay full price. There is no downside for me. I don't understand why this equivalent to a "slap in the face." Frankly, this vastly improves my shopping experience through occasionally saving me money, while never exposing me to any risk or increasing the prices that I pay.
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If you start out weighing ~450 pounds, the math on living without eating is pretty straightforward. The person in question did a medically supervised fast. He consumed water, a multivitamin and a small amount of yeast. (Also potassium tablets for a few months) His weight went from 456 to 180 pounds over the period of the fast; he regained about 15 pounds in the following 5 years.

He apparently defecated every 40-50 days.

(Though the stories about this are pretty recent, the event being described happened in 1965.)

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/07/24/3549931.ht...
It may be for security reasons if there are known flaws in those drivers. That it "works" at first glance isn't the only thing to consider here. I wouldn't advise turning off the blacklist for day-to-day browsing: those drivers are black listed for a reason.
Grrr, why disable pinchzoom?
5 minutes is still a perfectly acceptable block time. It only gets problematic as network latency can be significant in block discovery chances. This happens under a few seconds per block.

There are alt-coins working with 1 minute blocks and they behave just fine. Provided hash power is spread among the network, there is absolutely no problem with this, and it won't be long until we go back to 10 minute-ish blocks.
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Sure. Fullscreen mode:

window = glfwCreateWindow(640, 480, "Hello World", glfwGetPrimaryMonitor(), NULL);

Requesting a specific version with a particular depth:

glfwOpenWindowHint(GLFW_OPENGL_VERSION_MAJOR, 3);
glfwOpenWindowHint(GLFW_OPENGL_VERSION_MINOR, 2);
glfwOpenWindowHint(GLFW_DEPTH_BIT, 24);

There you go.
Because that's really unintuitive.
Yes, it's a whole PDF!
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Both Erlang and Go's concurrency models are strongly influenced by Hoare's work in Communicating Sequential Processes. That certainly qualifies.

Erlang uses the actor model, while Go uses (a modified version of) CSP. Earlier versions of CSP were more like the actor model in that they did not introduce a level of indirection (the channel). But it's not the same concurrency model.

You appear to be interpreting "some attributes" as a deep-dive analysis into the unique traits of what makes Erlang,

What else am I supposed to do? Otherwise, it would be a statement as meaningless as 'Haskell shares some properties with Algol 68'. I am pretty sure it does.

That was never the intention, and I'm not sure what motivated this.

Erlang is well-known for its concurrency features and the reliability provided by the actor model (including supervision, etc.) (e.g. in telephone systems). It is quite easy to read the quoted sentence as an attempt to give a good reputation to Go by comparing it to Erlang. I only question if such a comparison is warranted.

Actor model libraries exist in various states of maturity for Go, as well.

Well, if they are available in various states of maturity, I am interested to know which one is the most mature. Does it cover most of the functionality of Erlang and Akka?

(The most interesting package that I found some time ago was a binding against the Erlang C nodes functionality.)
I was able to do this via Zapier, but never found a solid use case for this. Do love Trello though.
Love this. +1 to permalinks, and would love to see better typography -- IMO replacing Tahoma with Open Sans Regular, or Light would go a long way. And perhaps a serif font for the planet name...
The problem with the excellence strategy is that cost is predictable but excellence is not.

AMC didn't invent the strategy of going for the high end, HBO did, and lots of networks have tried the same strategy since. AMC has done well by it, but others have not -- see Showtime and Starz for examples. This despite the quality of their programming; Showtime's Dexter is well-regarded, for instance, but has failed to give a "halo" to the rest of the network. Starz has been trying to move up-market with shows like Boss and Magic City, but for whatever reason none of those shows ever really found an audience. (Even AMC's efforts have been fitful -- for every Mad Men or Breaking Bad there's a Rubicon and Hell on Wheels.)

So betting on "excellence" is a tough thing to do, because you have to spend a ton of money without any guarantees that the public will like the results. But the results of cost-cutting are very predictable, in the near term at least; it takes a long time for a run of really bad programming to tarnish a network so much that people stop tuning in. So for the bean-counters the "logical" choice is obvious.
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I don't think it's a compensation mechanism. For some maybe.

But a lot of people had tons of money and got rid of them to be poor(er) and win some kind of freedom or normalcy that was important for them. Some did it directly, some did it through drugs, alcohol and extreme spending that showed that they didn't value the money at all.

I know a couple of people from rich families that ended up as austere monks, living in a monastery in my country. And people like Witgenstein (huge fortune, left it behind), Burroughs (of the "adding machine" family), etc.
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How important is it to get into theatres? I'd imagine doing a deal with Netflix that says they have exclusivity for x months but it can still be shown in a limited number of theatres. The promotion Netflix would do (top of the page on netflix.com as well as the press it would generate) might offset the limited marketing budget you have available and get people who want the full experience to watch it in the theatre.
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Simple-check: QuickCheck for Clojure
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Try "--enable-webgl --ignore-gpu-blacklist "
I see people use coupons all the time. By the time I get to the register, I've already effectively "accepted the total amount." Coupons don't bother me.

Why would they? Moreover, why would I want to complain?

Are coupons really that egregious to you?
I agree. It may be useful in certain web applications, but chances are it will end up being used for advertising and "effects" that are annoying and unwanted.
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+1 Email encryption in the cloud isn't secure. It's convenient, easy to use and makes you feel warm and fuzzy, but that's about it. OpenPGP still stands.
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I think its simpler than that. Network TV can't show a boob on a football halftime show without 0.001% of the population howling like morons and the network and government of course caving into them. Its the culture everyone knows they're supposed to want, but don't actually want. They're pigeonholed into a sorta G-PG ish range no more or less.

HBO shows you can produce regular TV drama (Sopranos, etc) at an R rated level and be incredibly profitable, well, at least as long as there's practically no competition.

Hmmm. Whats between G/PG and R that could be popular... PG-13! So that's how you get gory zombie blood splatter and meth cooking on a TV show, and its a profitable sweet spot.

All this discussion about people really liking AMC because they put episodes on netflix is nonsense. They like AMC because "regular TV" isn't obscene enough and HBO is a bit too obscene. Or risque, or "adult" (I hate that characterization). They simply are better targeted to their audience.

Netflix has no shortage of goofy failed major network sitcoms / cop / lawyer / doctor dramas, and no shortage of gore and sex series/movies, so its not merely being on netflix that makes AMC beat the others.
Really? AMC makes 33 cents per month per cable subscriber. As of December 2012 AMC was making $30 million dollars a month off of an 80 million subscriber base [1]. They get that money because their product is in such high demand the relatively small number of viewers demands their cable providers include AMC. If they suddenly start giving away their content for next to free those demands go away and so does the revenue stream.

It rarely makes sense to give away new content on Netflix for next to free. You see it happen, but only rarely and in very select circumstances.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/magazine/the-mad-men-econo...
This depends a lot on whether or not you have pre-existing conditions. If you have none and are young (I assume you are), then you can shop individual plans from the major providers and should be able to get one at a reasonable cost. If you have any conditions, these could either price you out or make you completely uninsurable, in which case you must wait until January when individual plans will become available to everyone at reasonable prices regardless of pre-existing conditions.
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Are you saying that netflix doesn't pay AMC per stream?
I know what "business" means.

I know what "server" technically means, but Google is explicitly not using the technical definition of server.

I'm not using an 'ignorant mode'. Google's TOS is thoroughly broken until they provide some definition of the word server.
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If only the bitcoin algorithm could have accounted for incredibly various technical and sociological issues.

Good thing Moore's Law somehow exists and has maintained the curve perfectly despite not being a law, despite somehow not making any reference to the consumer activity that seemingly drives it, and a heavily innovation-constraining duopoly for every chip that is used in desktops/laptops.

Some times I feel like the computer industry really is driven by magic smoke.
I wonder if WebGL is a cause of global warming?

Instead of creating a server side animation and serving it in compressed format you force every single web-browser to render it.

Also nice work, because it looks good. I wonder if we will see the development of OpenGL caching techniques.
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Actually, I agree with you. It brought to mind when Facebook does that creepy "you probably know these people" thing based on knowing X and Y and going to Z school.

I gave it the data, I know I voluntarily handed it over, and yet I still pause and think "holy crap" sometimes.
Sidenote: it looks like the people behind qz.com fixed the 'feature' whereby scrolling up past the top of an article would replace it with the previous article. This has made reading articles on that site less aggravating.
There won't be much of a runtime effect as most of the ripped-out code was unused anyway. In a stripped binary (32-bit ARM), I saw 40-50kb worth of codesize reduction, which isn't nothing (especially on mobile) but not a game-changing win.

The biggest advantage was really just getting rid of a bunch of unused and unmaintained code.
I'm not sure if Djangos YAML-serializer was effected by this bug but TastiePie did (IIRC) use `load` instead of `safe_load` and suffered the exact same issue e.x.

You could argue that, no matter how prominent a library is, it does not reflect the actual framework. While this is true people could start arguing that Rails doesn't really have an admin interface and this would change the comparison I did.
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It's a riskier approach, because in order for it to work they have to get their app in all the same channels and devices that Netflix, Hulu, et al have already gotten into. And they have to train viewers to look there for HBO content instead of in their usual outlets. All of which is challenging.

But it's also potentially more lucrative as well, since if it works HBO won't have a middleman sitting between themselves and their viewers the way they currently do with cable companies and streaming services. And if HBO GO has enough compelling original content to get people to use it, they can then use that as leverage with movie studios for better deals on movies to distribute that way as well.
If someone chooses to learn the affiliate marketing business through trial and error, more power to them, and I hope they have a lot of cash to burn. There is a lot more to affiliate marketing than giving X% commission for referrals. As I eluded to in my first comment, it is common to pay near 0% commission for return customers and a hefty % for first-time customers. This is a basic scheme that wasn't even attempted before trashing the industry.

I am sure that Kogan has been in business long enough to know not to take what a low-level sales person preaches as fact. Just like Kogan, the sales person also didn't seem to have a clue about affiliate marketing. And, why should he if he can sign new clients who will drop $40K out of the gate?
By law, a US citizen cannot be deported from a US port of entry.

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>I think that this article does discredit how much smartphones have accomplished. Now anybody with a modern smartphone has a decent camera. Anybody has access to full Google search results in their pocket. It's possible that soon your smartphone will be your laptop (see Ubuntu Edge, and augmented reality setups that are being developed). Smartphones may one day be able to form their own meshnet using bluetooth.

I think the article and even you underestimate the impact of smart phones and mobile devices. There has been an incredible windfall of technologies, financed by the exponential growth of the smart phone market:

* Power saving microprocessors

* Ultra high resolution display technology

* MEMS sensors

* High power density batteries

* Many layer PCBs

* Size reduction of passive SMD components (0402 and smaller)

* High rate wireless transmission

* High fracture strengths glass

And many more I am probably forgetting.

All these technologies enable innovation in smaller markets that would otherwise not have been able to finance this incredible development.

For example Quadrocopters, cheap drones sold as toys but stuffed with incredible technology, would be multi-million secret military projects without the smart phone industry.
> and still not really be able to sit down at a terminal and "perl6 -v".

Wait, that's not entirely true

Betty:~ lelf$ perl6 -v
This is perl6 version 2013.06-200-gee08521 built on parrot 5.5.0 revision RELEASE_5_5_0
If all the vehicles are routed and controlled centrally with automated safety systems it could be more reliable than rail. I am not suggesting we build more roads as they are today, rather build a network that has the advantages of rail via automation and just happens to use new roads as a pathway.
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This is great, the next feature I'd love to see would be a way to update existing cards via email. The use case: I create a card by forwarding an email to my trello email address. In the meantime, the email thread continues and I have a few more updates on it. Now I want to update the Trello card with the updates from that email thread. If I just forward that email to Trello, it is now creating another new card instead of updating the existing card. Would others find this feature as useful as I would?
Perhaps the way of addressing your caveat is to have a strong reputation system, such as what Amazon has implemented with their reviews.
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>I'm looking at you BBC/PBS-Masterpiece joints.

What shows are you referring to? (Downton Abbey is not BBC, its aried on ITV in the UK.)
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Thanks a bunch!

Yes, I thought the first things to go would have been excess luxury. An annual budget for maintenance, I think, actually wouldn't be too hard to setup if the rest of your expenses are proportionally lowered.

I've been told that metal roofs are a better fit with solar panels, but that's an additional cost. Hopefully that will pay off in longevity.

I hadn't thought about expanding incrementally. I can see how that will significantly make things easier as upfront costs won't be as far out. Also, efficiencies are better with newer models so you actually end up paying somewhat less per watt.

Frugality is something I've had some (involuntary) experience with in the past. ;) I don't think it'll be too hard to return to some of that. Also it's better for all of us in the end.
I like that you rant about the five-paragraph essays with a four-paragraph rant.
Cable pays HBO a cost per subscriber on top of what the subscriber pays to HBO.
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Good work. The main problem here is that you only had two paragraphs of argument instead of three. You could have used that third paragraph to argue the benefits of a five paragraph structure, making your essay less of a polemic. Otherwise, your point was effectively argued, and I like how stop is your last word. 8/10.
AMC makes their shows available for streaming on Netflix faster than any other network that I'm aware of. All past seasons of Breaking Bad are available already. They usually make each season available for streaming soon after the DVD release, and before the next season airs on TV.
Very cool. We're using Asana and love it, but there's always room for innovation in task management. Also yclist.com is way behind all the S13 announcements, who is maintaining that list?
They earn 33 cents for every single cable and satellite subscriber regardless of if they watch the show.
Can a Java class add a method to itself at runtime?
Which GPUs would you recommend on Linux?
Care to elaborate? That is not the direction I pictured at all. The open standards of the web should have the opposite effect, allowing anyone to build a computer that can run the major software offerings of the time.

I do not see it really any different to how web applications are developed today, just throwing out the needless overhead. If your concerns are to be realized, it has probably already happened a long time ago.
Don't confuse a local maxima with a global maxima. Or, the dead hand of the free market always wins, err... unless you have no free market. Or confuse narrowcasting with broadcasting.

A good Hacker News car analogy would be 70s/80s Detroit iron vs Japanese imports. When its just onshore, long term trend for the local maxima was to ship junk. Then you get some competition and that doesn't work anymore... In the very long run, like the car analogy, the newcomers have to hurry up and cash in while they can, because the entrenched interests will eventually adapt.
Well, new episodes of Top Gear are still on a multi-month delay, aren't they?

We used to have that problem with Dr. Who, but I think that's now a day-after thing.
Oops, sorry, looks like I slipped again. Reminder: Don't talk about Ultramarsnet.
They should put the company information in a JSON file hosted on GitHub.
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So you've got to choose one and he's chosen apple. The previous article chose google.

I've chosen google but what would make an interesting article for me is one which explained whether iOS or android was better if / when I want to cut myself off from either apple or google's online services and replace them with self hosted email / calendar / etc.
I'd be interested to see your version.
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Another problem with coupon codes is they allow for affiliate commission stealing. Say someone visits a site via an affiliate URL and they are about to checkout when they notice the coupon code field. They Google coupon codes and find a site that says you have to use their URL (as many do). Now the coupon code site gets credit for the referral. On the surface this doesn't seem like a big problem but it is very common.