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> can you not find something more worthwhile to do?

Games have a straightforward business model easily understood. Let me explain...

I'm developing a game in the evenings & weekends. I do not have to go to all the local business networking groups to find some SaaS problem to develop into a solution for B2B sales. I don't have to poll everyone I meet about my new social local mobile wotsit to figure out my B2C sales. I don't have to look for a problem. The "normal" people I know who have computer problems have problems that are solved through education or using a comprehensively better toolset: both solutions are not wanted solutions. My "awesome app" ideas would generally take years to develop and may not even be wanted. Remember, people like & usually want what's familiar (faster horse, etc). Games, on the other hand offer a simple business model: entertainment. If it's catchy and entertainy enough, you wind up making some money; if you really get lucky and the game is smooth enough, you make lots of it.

All that said: The probability of my game making 'f u' money is, loosely, nil. What I'd like to be able to do is make rent money; what I'll probably do is make beer money... for one six-pack of microbrews. :-)

The big problem with solving "hard problems" is that they are (1) time consuming (aka expensive) and (2) often they are solved in an ad-hoc fashion already which makes the switchover brutally difficult or (3) there is simply not the infrastructure to support your solution. If you've done enterprise development, you'll have a glimpse of the grief involved with simple problems on a complex domain.

Given the above, games seems like a low-reward low-risk way to make some cash (to me).
Show HN: Warming up a cold memcached cluster in production with Ruby.
Tesla outsells Porsche, Jaguar, others in California
Not much info out there.

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/webmasters/Yfaoy...

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?929539-variab...
The NSA is spying on American citizens. It's off mission and thus rogue.
My thoughts exactly. Vacuum cleaner anyone?
Piracy is easy on Android, and harder on iOS, and the rate of piracy is much greater on Android.

The simple explanation would be that Android users pirate because piracy is trivial. Other more nuanced explanations may be that Android users are cheapskates, or hold strong beliefs against paying for software. I'd like to be charitable and assume it's just because downloading APKs is easy.
Think of the children man... I wondered how long until I see this argument
The article has two main points:

1. The Inca state had no internal trade system whatsoever. This is, if accurate, indeed unusual for a society of its size.

2. Despite this, they still managed to acquire great "wealth", which the article defines as infrastructure and public works. This is not surprising at all, since historically even societies that had markets did not usually rely on them for civil engineering projects.
Heroku recently deprecated their memcached addon offering. Existing users need to migrate to Memcachier by Oct 31. I published this code to help with that migration.
The use of the full-body scanners at Schiphol is optional. The agents there are not very well-trained about this fact but people do normally succeed in opting out. For example, I succeeded after OHM earlier this month, though I was given more push-back than when opting out in the U.S.

Here is a Dutch government site about the scanners confirming that travelers are allowed to opt out:

http://english.nctv.nl/themes_en/themes-a-z/Security_and_civ...
Let control to keyframes via JavaScript and it could be interesting.
Show HN: I took a script off of ThemeForest and turned it into something nicer.
Pretty sure voters would like a higher standard of living.
This is why I chose to make my game 100% login based; no access without a connection and an authentication.

Piracy is simply too rampant.
Yeah I'm not sure either about the down vote. By not storing passwords I meant delegating to an external authority for authentication services. Whether that's OpenID, Persona, Facebook login, direct OAuth integration with a limited number of parties (ex: GitHub and Google Plus) can be decided on a per app basis. The important thing is the if your app use case allows you to delegate out authentication to an external party (again it's a non-trivial "if" to decide this) then you don't have to store or deal with passwords at all (and by extension don't need to worry about handling password DB leaks or hashing algos).
Why do you care what other people use, if it's not preventing you access to your preferred tools?

We're not talking about a 100x price multiplier here, where clearly one's into the land of diminishing returns.

This kind of self-righteousness is just as faddish / cliquish as excessive fan-boy-ism.
I have been surprised by the phone. Didn't think my $80 would go so far. A few complaints here and there, but not enough to keep me from using it as my full-time phone for now.
> You wouldn't start building a webapp by building your own web framework first.

Umm, yeah, I kinda did this. And as I am not ready to promote either the framework or the app, I can certainly relate to the OP.

Having said that, I don't regret my decision at all, and I'm now using the framework in some production work for clients. This is very satisfying.

I also have a mortgage and two kids, and I am paying the bills while my wife is in grad school. So my side projects must remain just that. But they keep me sane, so for me it's not just about the end result.

Having kids makes moonlighting much harder than having a day job does, IMHO. (But what do I know, I've been freelancing since Katrina.)

And I really am going to publish them this year! Really!
Functional languages generally encourage the use of persistent data structures. Algorithms that modify persistent data structures do not generally return 'fresh copies'. If you use the proper data structures in Haskell or Clojure your 'typical algorithms' will not return fresh copies.

That being said, whether data sharing is a good thing or not depends on the situation. For example, copying to a cache can expose more memory parallelism in an application. I feel like you are taking this opportunity to take a jab at FP here ("the purists detest mutation"). While FP is my preferred paradigm of development, I wasn't trying to push it on anyone--I was merely making a technical point.
For folks who liked this post, you would probably find Indie Game: The Movie interesting. (It's on Netflix.)
I do find many applications of metal detectors and places where I'm required to show ID objectionable. While relatively minor, I do consider such things unnecessary intrusions in to personal liberty, and I would rather live in the sort of society where they are rare. Instead, they've become more common.

I am willing to accept an increased risk that a criminal might bring a weapon in to a sensitive place or that a teenager might get drunk and hit me with a car in exchange for an increased sense of freedom, even if the actual freedoms involved are fairly trivial. Leaving slippery-slope arguments out of it, I think that the collective mindset of a culture that accepts these risks and spends less time and energy worrying about them encourages more people to strive to reach their full potential.
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If you bought an annuity, you would expect it pay for the rest of your life -- that's how annuities work. If you baought a special discounted annuity that only paid in case you were injured it should. That's not hubris, that's a contract.

On the other hand, I would be very surpised if someone offered 100% salary long-term disability -- the potential for claims at the margin and actual fraud increases dramatically.
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There's the concept of a loss leader: you lose money on one product because it gains the company money when the consumer buys another product. Remember that the Xbox lost billions year over year for 8 years until it was profitable.

Microsoft has repeatedly shown us that they're playing the long game. If they're predicted to make money even a decade from now, they'll keep posting losses until that point comes (Xbox). If they're predicting a failure, they'll very unceremoniously pull the product (Kin/Zune). To steal a line from Breaking Bad, they're not in the software business. They're in the empire business.
Did a Quarter of a Billion Just Boomerang Itself Back From Uber to Google?
That's the thing - I'm not sleep-deprived (except on occasion by choice) and I'm quite healthy and happy. I like to think I'm reasonably productive. Sure, output depends on how I'm feeling, but I still would rather be working than not.

You know what it is? I get paid money to play with computers. As much as I want to think of what I do as work, I come back to the fact that I'm lucky enough to have made my hobby a profession. Do I think that everyone in technology is in the same boat? No. Not by a long shot. But would I happily swing by on a Sunday to help a coworker with a problem, you bet. I love hard problems. Hard problems I get to solve by using technology are even better. I choose to surround myself with those individuals who feel the same way, I don't see why that is a bad thing.
" If a place has really good food, it can be in an obscure location, charge a lot, and have really bad service, and it will still be popular. If it has bad food, boy, it better do something really special to get anybody in there."

The "special" can be "location". Food on the NJ Turnpike (or similar) is an example of a captive market where quality of food is not the key ingredient but landing the contract and being merely acceptable can still be very profitable.

Likewise being in Times Square, if you can afford the rent, can be profitable because you are not worried about repeat business but simply grabbing the tourists that will only be a customer one time.
In some limited cases it's a perfectly valid argument. I'm against most of the current internet legislation, and hate seeing children used as a reason for it, but that doesn't mean there aren't any good laws.

Take my specific example. If someone hosts a childporn.com that is exactly like any legal porn website but with children, should that be legal or illegal?
Sounds good! I will look into starting something. I'm at Runway shared workspace in SF, and I can use the conference space for free. Small groups and higher rates sounds like the plan.
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It seems that you agree with Scalia and Stevens [1], who also ignore the 10th Amendment of the bill of rights [2].

[1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/03-1454.ZD1.html (control-F "Tenth Amendment")

[2] The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Yes. No laws whatsoever online. Let it remain out in the open on the internet. A site like that has content that much be illegally made in real life. Real life is where the police should be enforcing the laws. Letting it exist out in the open would probably make their job of finding the people exploiting kids to create such content that much easier. Those sites aren't the real crime, they are the documentation of the crime. Allowing these the consumption to be out in the open, would probably reduce the stigmatization of such content to fall to the level where those doing the consuming can feel comfortable seeking help and therapy to overcome their vice. Hiding things away and criminalization of consumption just leads people to go longer and longer down their own dark personal rabbit hole without getting help.

If such sites existed, you could probably, at the country level, inject ads for free state-sponsored psychiatric therapy services for users.

AFAICT any thing that is illegal on the internet is usually also illegal in real life. Things that cause no real life damages have no reason to be illegal.
On the other hand: if it were to split up then the parts would have to be more open; more open protocols and less lock-in games; less fire and motion. Maybe that would have had benefited the Windows ecosystem in the long term. Who knows, it is hard to tell.
Child porn is already against the law. We don't need legislation that takes existing legislation and adds "..but on the internet" as it's generally ill-thought-out, "feel good" ineffective garbage. As the cookie law shows us.
The address of the domain is now 41.77.118.2 which is managed by a service of French origin.
"He is brilliant and hilariously funny."

How is being hilariously funny an advantage in terms of working for YC?
Your proposal, as it stands, doesn't warn the user until /after/ they've typed a non-throwaway password into a site served over http.

You'd need to warn them before they even start typing a password in on an http page.
Go ask someone running Ubuntu to recompile their kernel. 5 bucks says they don't know how. Hence, it would be inconceivable to them that everyone did it back in the day.
The last place I worked was a Swiss organization that built web sites for the European Commission. Dealing with the EU cookies directive was an amazing waste of brain cells for everyone on the team.

For instance, were we allowed to ignore it because we were Swiss (non-EU)? If not, which version of the law were we required to comply with? For instance, the UK implementation of the law says that you can assume "implied" consent if the user ignores your popup altogether. However, the Dutch version of the law is much stricter - the user must click "I accept" before you can save any cookies. And the French version of the law allows for lots of exceptions, e.g. for setting the user's preferred language.

Plus, we needed a cookie just to store whether or not the user clicked "yes" or "no," so in effect we were forced to break the law no matter what we did. (The only alternative would be to show the "no" users the popup every time they came back to the site, since we were supposed to forget that they had even clicked "no"...)

So all in all, it was a huge mess. In the end we just copy-pasted a JQuery plugin from GitHub and chose the strictest setting. Now our site is uglier, it's more confusing to users, and we still have to cross our fingers that we didn't miss a corner case in Bulgaria or something.
I can tell you that there is no marketing department. They are engineers first and foremost. Check out Bjarni Einarsson's online OSS projects (which are not all he's done).
Not even close. These solutions we have seen, both legal and from the browser level, are the equivalent of walking around nude in a busy city with a sign hanging around your neck saying "Please no photos." (I gave a slightly different analogy in another comment.)

A browser "do not track" request presents absolutely no true privacy, nor does fining forcing all web sites to implement custom pop ups which block site usage if the visitor doesn't agree.

These solutions are stupid, the things they claim to accomplish are already possible by the user's own choice, if someone could be bothered to tell them how to do it.

If these political entities really cared about privacy here are some of the things they would be doing:

a) blocking foreign intelligence agencies from openly monitoring all internet traffic in their country (and I don't just mean the NSA)

b) pass laws radically reducing or eliminating ISP logs rather than increasingly them

c) investigate private companies engaged in mass-surveillance that also use cookie-less tracking techniques. (Facebook mass facial recognition, several nameless companies claiming to prevent ecommerce fraud, etc)

e) spend money educating the public about simple, free, existing techniques to ensure their personal privacy

What you are witnessing in regards to cookies is a hoax, meant only to distract from the real issues.
I had to upvote you, simply for your last sentence :)
The problem there is that "Newspeak" is itself a placeholder term for a certain set of behaviors, not to mention that 1984 quotes carry about as much weight as Simpson's ones.

The term you're probably looking for is "euphemism treadmill:"

http://englishcowpath.blogspot.com/2011/06/euphemism-treadmi...
There is third category

* Cheapos. Won't pay for it unless it is the only way to get something that they like. (it's hard to find pirated copies, the risk (legal, malware etc) is high etc)
Honestly HN out to ban CNN links. I haven't seen an article from them that wasn't linkbait.
In any risk assessment, you have to balance impact with likelihood. Yes, it could have happened, but the likelihood is so rare that it's not worth the premium.

Once again, that's the entire point of the insurance company. They balance impact and likelihood.

Even if I had the insurance to cover me, you're still going to get slightly higher insurance premiums. You're actually more likely to receive a higher delta because I was covered than I wasn't, as the hospital will recoup its losses across all insurance providers, while the insurance company will recoup across only their own constituents.

The health insurance system is an oligopoly that allows insurance companies and health care providers to collude to set artificially high prices. Drug companies, hospitals, surgeons, medical schools--they all get their payday and the insurance company gets to make a "small" percentage margin on top of it. Which just so conveniently means that they're some of the most profitable companies in the world. Just look at the bottom dollar. If they weren't making out like bandits, they wouldn't be making out like bandits.

It's specifically because of ubiquitous health insurance that health services prices are so high. If more people covered themselves, the price of services wouldn't be high, insurance payouts wouldn't be so high, and thus insurance premiums wouldn't be so high. I'm actually doing you a favor by sticking to my principles.

EDIT: and regardless of all of that, nobody has the right to mandate what others do with their lives. I could have chosen to be a burger flipper for the rest of my life and your argument would of social impact would still hold, even be worse because society would be out my higher tax revenue.
Are Wooden Skyscrapers the future?
Actually, the insurance company would probably do some checking and, finding the proof that you were diagnosed before taking out the policy, would invalidate your policy based on your "fraudulently" filling out the application - and pay out nothing.
Queues were a saviour. When passing work between components put it into a queue. You get a nice little buffer.

What does reddit use for queuing?
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From the paragraph preceding about the graphics engine: "My fellow indie friends advised me I should start small, perhaps making a puzzle game for iOS/Android using Unity and building the company from there. Arrogant as I was, I completely ignored this advice..."
Those are the relevant first principles according to you. As the linked writer indicates, others believe the relevant principle is something like "whatever policy will produce the best outcome, according to statistics such as firearm deaths, is the right one".

I agree that we would be better off eliciting these sorts of underlying assumptions, and acknowledging them openly, and trying to discuss them - instead of stating value-judgment conclusions on the basis of unstated assumptions about principles.

In other words, people talk past each other, failing to address one another's real concerns. Taking gun control again, the "liberal" thinks the statistics (which may or may not be valid, etc.) are dispositive, while the "conservative" sees instead an issue of basic rights, to which the stats are hardly relevant. There is no progress unless each is willing to directly address the premises the other relies on.
Much more time may be wasted if you end up hiring someone that doesn't fit the job description.
as both a professional and independent game developer, i take issue with this statement for a couple reasons.

1) this is a life-cycle thing. the game has only been released for 3 weeks and has no marketing budget (i assume since it's only sold a couple hundred copies). that means, it's still too early to tell if the piracy correctly acts as "free advertising" or not. grassroots advocacy is NOT overnight.

2) piracy has been proven over and over again NOT to lead to lost sales by objective measurements. anecdote? sure! everyone is getting completely screwed when you take in anecdote. for examples, just google "game piracy lost sales" and read things from industry news sites (techdirt, for example) to developers (notch as another example) on why that statement is a load of crap. or, alternatively, you can just check this research paper outlaying the data and methods (pdf warning!): http://www.mit.edu/~ke23793/papers/Drahchenetal_paperID16.pd...

basically, we, as a community should simply wait another 5 weeks (october 1st, maybe?), then ask the developer for a post mortem to see if they've only made another 350 sales or so. and when they say "whoa! we've exploded!", we can say "but i thought piracy stole all your sales."

m3mnoch.
It wasn't just IBM. Everyone except Microsoft made a mess of the 80s and 90s. On the whole, computers sucked. A few didn't and those companies made a terrible mess of the business side.

Think of the hapless operating system efforts, or the terrible application ports from DOS to win16, or from win16 to win32. Platforms or products that were just unusable. And the web was awful.

Even the capable unix companies managed to run themselves into the ground - vast resources wasted in fights over nothing. Not one of them made a sustained or convincing appeal to this emerging market of consumers.

The main change is in the competition. Being boring-but-adequate used to be enough to win. But these days Google and Apple create exciting, affordable, responsive things that work.
This is what I'm worried about way more than NSA spying: the potential for companies using Facebook data and data in your GMail, and the like, to screw you. This is where the real money is. I've had several friends who had trouble with background checks for jobs because they had collections on their credit score and the like. The ridiculousness of it: people hindered from improving their financial situation because of their past financial situation.
I believe they use RabbitAMQP
While I agree that a functional implementation of something usually copies more, it's a little disingenuous to say that most algorithms return a "fresh copy" of a structure. Most of the collections in most of the functional runtimes use clever tricks (hash array mapped tries, hash consing, etc.) to avoid copying the whole structure.

In the face of these techniques (and others, e.g. re-structuring things to use zippers and being clever manually or whatever), I suspect the actual amount of redundant data might be quite a bit less than you might think.
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The web interface part of it
Windows includes Windows Server, and Office is their sprawling business suite. It's hard to say where one stops and one begins, as SQL Server is sort of in both camps.
And that's why CmdrTaco would rather have a Nomad
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I've built something very similar using Vert.x, which is sort of like Node on the JVM. But instead of Redis, we have full on state machines at the network turn publishing on the event bus. It's pretty sweet, and I hope to open source it soon.
Data comes directly from twitter live. Canvas is much more performant. Your gut is wrong =). Look at the network tab. All data is delivered from the source. I've thought about more features. Stay tuned.
Microsoft bought the Kinect teck from PrimeSense to prop up there XBox division which has yet to outpreform a simple stock buyback and is this a failure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrimeSense