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I do a bit of freelance design work each month, but I've been working on a few products for designers to generate recurring income and solve some annoyances I have in my workflow and tools.

The first ( http://www.mockuprocket.com ) is close to finished and will be a desktop app to help quickly create design mockup presentations and upload them to your server. There are some services that do a similar thing but I've always preferred to keep client work on my server...especially for designs that need to kept under wraps until release. The app will also handle different layouts and let you customize the templates for each client so you can setup branding and so forth.

I'm a designer and front-end developer so it is my first serious attempt at building and creating something more involved and it's been a fun learning experience. Hopefully some other designers will find it useful and I can make a few bucks on it.

My wife is a self-published fiction author (http://www.amazon.com/Stephanie-Void/e/B0035Z08GI & http://www.stephanievoid.com ) mostly young adult fantasy/scifi. Visibility is the hardest thing when going independent because the Kindle/iTunes book stores are very hard to get found in. I actually think there is some sort of opportunity for a startup offering some kind of better book shopping experience with a bit of Netflix's recommendation engine or something.

She hasn't gotten enough visibility yet among her young adult audience to really take off but has been making enough each month that it is worth it. She keeps writing more books though so it should slowly increase over the years.
Current Steam lets you add non-Steam games. No word yet (AFAIK) on whether or not that will continue when it becomes its own OS.
There's a very strong individualist current in Scandinavia, but interpreted differently. Many people actually view Americans and southern Europeans as more collectivist, in the clannish sense, because of their reliance on family, extended-family, and churches for safety nets. The ideal in Scandinavia is that each individual can go it alone roughly equally, rather than e.g. having to rely on your parents to pay part of your university, your kids to take care of you in your old age, family to take you in if you're disabled or broke, etc.
I'm not sure if you're serious or not, but I am. Steam has already started to offer non-game applications. If SteamOS gets a large enough installed base and provides a good-enough platform for desktop/couch-side apps other than games then things could get interesting.

EDIT: Of course, it would help if Valve had someone in charge with a record of success in desktop app platforms. Well http://www.computerandvideogames.com/172835/interviews/creat... fancy that.
We'll be under a different regulatory regime by then. :) We also will decrease our costs as we scale.
The biggest source of latency on the LAN would be encoding the video on the PC. If you're doing that in software it's going to suck for twitch games.
>BTW, can the Pro 2 run Linux?

I know you can on the Surface Pro 1. So I don't see why you won't be able to on the Surface Pro 2. Its an x86 machine as per their own requirement, bios have to be unlocked and the ability to disable secure boot must be present.
I'm not a software dev, so this might be a really dumb question, but how hard is it to port/co-develop Windows/Mac games to Linux?

From what I can find out, PS3 is based on FreeBSD and WiiU is a heavily modified version of Linux, possibly Android. XBOX obviously Windows. Would it be that much harder to also have a SteamOS version in the mix too.
Or people that dual boot and keep Windows around just to game.
in other words, they'll wait until they are fully embraced...;)
I've usually read these threads without thinking about my own situation, but suddenly realized, I'm getting checks every month. It's not much, only $100-$250 per month, based on advertisements on my youtube channel, most coming from a 24 part series I made on locks & lockpicking a few years ago, but it's passive to the point that I literally forget about it.

Unfortunately I'm the sort who is very uncomfortable asking for money, or even advertising on my content (only about 50% of the videos I put out have ads at all, and many of the most popular do not), but at the same time I'd love to have the time & resources to produce more & better content in the future.

Not looking for advice, as my disposition away from revenue is much stronger than my wish to get money, and I've learned that lesson many times, just adding another voice to the thread.
It would be an amazing boon to Linux and gaming on Linux if Valve bought (or heavily funded + added resources to) Crossover/WINE.
I wonder if they will white-list any games are not natively ported to linux that have good wine compatibility. SteamOS could manage the wine configurations for those games. With enough platform adoption, this should help game companies to start targeting linux natively.
The interesting thing is that convincing AAA publishers to port merely requires them to think it'd be profitable.

20 years ago, if someone asked to raise a quarter of a billion into a video game, they'd be laughed out of the building. Now it happens often. Over the years, increasingly big-budget games got funded and created.

So, all they need to do is to replicate a similar process. First you move all the indie games and source engine games to linux to "bootstrap" your market. Maybe make them free or a few bucks. Once you have a paying userbase from that, you show financials to bigger fish in an attempt to draw them in. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Even better is the fact that publishers love "free money" that doesn't require them to gamble. A port of an already successful game is much less risky than a new game. And (conditions permitting, like engine support) it costs a very small amount compared to the actual budget. So they can work on smaller margins to still turn a healthy profit.
As someone who's had a lot of fun writing game hacks for ET:QW and QuakeLive back in the days and while I greatly enjoy seeing this move to Linux, I'm quite worried about game hacks on SteamOS.
There are so many attack vectors on Linux and, currently, VALVE's Anti Cheat (VAC v3) does not, as far as I know, cover any of those.
You can still inject your hack via LD_PRELOAD + detouring dlsym/dlopen. Even were that not possible, you could have fun with, e.g., ptrace.

I'm looking forward to seeing what VALVE's done to fight this, especially as I expect SteamOS to eventually be repackaged to run on any distribution...
Take a look at my edit above - I'd be happy to share more about this stuff.
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or you could just rotate your fingers/toes/nipples?
I don't know of any off the shelf ones, but there are "data centers" like Google and Microsoft and Amazon build for their "gear" which they resell as "services", and there are "data centers" which are built by Real Estate Investment Trusts which are designed for 'unknown' gear and 'unknown' services.

It is more expensive to build the latter since you cannot know ahead of time what gear to support. Whereas if you're building a box full of Open Compute servers you're in a much better space.

The "services" data centers are really much closer to building sized servers than they are hosting facilities for rack mount servers.

I expect like other specialized facilities part of the 'value add' as a construction agent is both procedural generation tools and experience with various cost trade offs which really only comes from building several of them.
Altar. You pray at an altar, you get your clothing altered. This should help you to remember: "A bachelor is an unaltared male."
BlackBerry was just sold for $4.7B
We've been reporting delayed inbound emails to Gmail (Google Apps) since Friday 13th.

Glad to see they're now acknowledging it, though the percentage affected listed here seems remarkably low, considering an informal survey of employees and clients suggests from 1 in 50 increasing to 1 in 20 affected over the past week, with delays up to 24 hours.
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I think all of the products are surprisingly compelling, but the naming has arguably become an even bigger and more glaring issue.

The original Surface lineup was very compelling. The only real issue with it was the majorly confusing marketing message with having two products with a major qualitative difference sharing essentially the same name.

It kind of pains me that rather than learning from their $900 million mistake, they've essentially doubled down on it and somehow managed to create two products with even more similar sounding names. I think that they're once again going to confuse some people about the respective capabilities of each machine with this naming scheme.
This is the beginning of Bubble 2.0. I'm a libertarian, but this decision is fucking scary.

I invest a lot of money for people in my life (for free), so I fairly regularly get emails effectively saying: "Oh look at this stock my friend forwarded to me (pump and dump scam)" which I then have to explain why it isn't going anywhere. So it is already pretty bad (especially on venture exchanges), BUT when thirty thousand startups start taking investments from mom and pop investors the consequences are going to be massive. We're talking tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars from MILLIONS of people. Right into the lap of startups that don't even have a merchant account.

So the lesson here is get in on this early, profit harvest, and get the fuck out before it crashes due to irrational exuberance.
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"Tentatively sold" is the worst description ever for what is really happening.

BB has just received an offer, the board has now approved this, but needs to advise shareholders if this is a fair or not offer, dd is pending, and shareholders have to decide yes/nor by tendering their shares... add to that to the possibility of more offers being made, making this entire thing last months (a la Dell et al).

Source: http://press.blackberry.com/press/2013/blackberry-enters-int...
Add in Netflix (or a competitor) integration and you've got the potential to put all 3 major consoles on the ropes in a few years. Given Halflife 2 launched steam my bet is HL3 will be used to launch this.
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Instead of ads, I decided to try affiliated "buy this song on x site" buttons on my site (www.tunecrawl.com) under each song. It generates so low income, however, that I would have removed it a while ago if users didn't find it useful. Might be worth a try to see if you have the same result. If nothing else, it adds some additional functionality to the site and is easy to set up. I honestly think you could get away with some well placed ads on tubalr, though.

Great redesign, btw!
He got his PhD in the pricing of derivatives, and wrote the book Dynamic Hedging almost 20 years ago, far before he started with his so called "philosophical musings".

If you are gonna criticize someone, it would be better to criticize something that person has said rather than calling him a crank.

That aside, the book you posted seems interesting indeed.

http://www.amazon.com/Dynamic-Hedging-Managing-Vanilla-Optio...
Headline is wrong. 2 data points that the article is based on: 1) Google has spent 21 billion dollars on Capital Expenditures since 2006 (presumably gathered from SEC filings) and 2) "Google says the majority of its capital investments are for IT infrastructure, including data enters, servers, and networking equipment." (source unclear)

So, Google has spent at least 10.5 billion on "data centers" since 2006. There are notable disclosed expenditures that are clearly not "data centers" mentioned in the article, including 2 billion spent to purchase NYC office space. Still a huge number, but off by many, many billions.
Well, just perusing through the files in my computer's home/.steam folder, it seems as though the binaries are packaged with all required dependencies, so as long as the Steam client works, the games should work on any Linux distro.
Except that the PS3 has a dedicated SDK... Up until now Steam has instead allowed games made with any technology AFAIK

that means, among others, Python (Analogue: a Hate Story) and Mono (Bastion)

As long as they let developers have freedom over their tools of choice, I don't think we risk any embrace/extend/extinguish outcome
At last, all the unresponsiveness, bugginess, and ugliness of Steam in OS form!
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Thank you.
https://github.com/k4rthik/git-cal/commit/2c6b50b57fa818d943...
should solve it partially (exit(1) if tput colors < 256)
Totally agree. The locations that are most conducive to "the flow" also have internet that is worse than non-existent. I have learned to just shut it off completely rather than sink time trying to get blood from the turnip. Local copies of documentation and projects that take little outside research also help.

When going on another extended adventure, we will definitely stay in one well scouted location for awhile (6 weeks to 6 months). Nothing ever gets dialed in if you're moving all the time.
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Don't be ridiculous -- Canonical has taken control of Ubuntu development and now they have a reputation for being authoritarian and secretive. There are fewer ways to alienate the open-source community than that and yet Ubuntu's popularity soars.

The more critical people are of Canonical, the more fervent Ubuntu supporters become. "How will they make money" will be parroted just as loudly, if not more-so.
very interesting move. i currently have both a blackberry for personal and work (yeah, one of those guys). i am converting the personal blackberry to an iphone, and the work to the q10. the iphone arrives tomorrow. i've been waiting a month for the q10. i still have high hopes for the q10 device but the only thing i get out of blackberry is the keyboard, and cloud synching of notes from the device on an enterprise account. i don't think it's enough.
Also Valve is not scared of piracy. Steamworks have been a joke since day 1 and kept that way on purpose.
Google 'Gaikai'. It's a 'good enough' playing experience even when streaming from an internet server (though the server needs to be local to keep latency in check). Streaming over the LAN should be very acceptable.
You must have an Android phone ;)
Us too. Seems that when you attach a file, it's even less likely to go through.
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Every year around Halloween I make $400-600 via adsense with http://trickortreattimes.com/ which lists trick or treat times for cities/towns. It felt like a good service to provide as you really have to hunt for the data. First year I did the aggregating myself, last year I added user submission which made it much more passive.

It's time for me to update it for another year!
Well done... those numbers are impressive to reach. How many other people do you work with or are you solo?
It worries me too, although an acquaintance of mine has a bumper sticker that reads "just one more bubble, this time I'll sell."

My concern is that non-qualified investors will once again be participating in a complex equities market with technology companies that are pushing the edge of the envelope. That will fund companies that should not be funded, lose money for people who cannot afford to lose it, and create another period of ill will for "tech" investment.
Well they'd have to work real hard to stop people running everything else on it...
My opinion, for a long time now, is that I'm just mildly anoyed that my games are not open source. It's not an important enough problem to do something about it.

Yeah, I really care about my software being open source. The most important a piece of softawre is, the more I care about it. Games just aren't that important. They are nice to have, and losing them is a disconfort, but won't have any practical effect on my life. So I don't care that much about them.

That said, because they are not open source there are security problems that must be dealt with. But, even if they were open source, if I really cared about securing my LAN, I wouldn't trust them. Not much of a change.
Also, this map pretty much demolishes the 'violent USA' and 'loose guns controls cause homicide' theories:

http://www.unitednorthamerica.org/images//MurderRate2007.jpg
In context: Apple likely made more than $4.7B in revenue from its weekend iPhone launch.
So, you're a web designer, right?
up to I looked at the draft for $5082, I did not believe ...that...my friend was like actualey earning money in their spare time on their laptop.. there moms best frend has been doing this for less than eight months and as of now cleared the loans on their villa and purchased a new GMC. look at more info big57.CoMONLY
Most Steam games require keyboard and mouse. I don't see how that can work in the living room
Good post. Thanks for sharing.

I'd be fascinated to hear your thoughts about investors in a company soliciting investment on their behalf as is the case here. Some of the comments on Tim's blog are cringe-worthy:

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Hi Tim,

Thank you for this opportunity, I was just looking into Angel investing but found out that I lack the capital required for most investments.

Does your offer apply to international backers? I’m based in Europe.

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just funded.
question – if I sign up for automated backing, is that what it says it is, ie I am committing $2500 every time you make an investment? or – is it guarantee that I can back but get approval before I have made the commitment?

thanks!

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Does the money in a 401k count when calculating the net worth for an accredited investor?

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Gak, I don’t fulfill the needs to be accredited, so close though. I’d love to invest with you :(

I even dropped my lunch and ran home from campus to jump on my computer. I guess I will have to wait.

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In order to invest as a syndicate it states; “You must be accredited to invest.” How does an individual invest if they are not accredited???
I was furious to discover that a replacement iPad stopped working when it got replaced under warranty.

This was to an account that I have had for years. All that changed was a new device.

I would have paid $5 a month for an ad free experience and exchange support.
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I'm skeptical that they can convince regular people to put PC hardware in their living rooms. Microsoft and manufacturers made a ton of effort in this direction last decade, and it wasn't half bad: Windows Media Center was a pretty decent user interface for TV-watching, and lots of "living room PC" form factors popped up (remember the ubiquitous Shuttle case?). But nobody cares. It was just too weird and clunky for the average consumer to put OEM PC hardware in his AV stack. Hard core geeks will do it, but that's not a big enough audience. Maybe that's changed enough to make this work, but I kind of doubt it.
Two random thoughts:

1. Shyp is raising $2+ mil at a $5mil valuation — doesn't that seem a little iffy for a first round.

2. I hate it when people capture my scroll, please stop that.

Other than that, Shyp looks awesome and syndicates looks great.
"In SteamOS, we have achieved significant performance increases in graphics processing".

I assume they mean in comparison to other Linux OSs. Beating windows drivers seems a bit far fetched?
Its a(nother) sad day in tech-Canada. You don't have to like their products to appreciate how they change the mobile landscape.
That's interesting. I was setting up a server the other day and wanted to document it in a repeatable way but, having used Chef and Anisble in the past made me not want to go through the hassle of setting up a whole "thing"...

So I looked through the Puppet docs for about 5 minutes and found I could just run "Puppet apply whatever.pp" on the server and got everything working in about 15 minutes. And I'd never used it before in my life. So for now, I'm quite impressed with the ease of Puppet.

Chef and Ansible both are really great for 80 to 90% of what I've needed to do in the past. But that last 10-20% is really painful. It requires huge contortions, or poking through the source code so that you understand the details of the system so thoroughly that you can write an new module, or abuse the existing modules and bend them to your will. I suspect that, in the end, Puppet will have the same sorts of limitations as the others. But it did have a very nice way of setting things up that didn't require a whole infrastructure.
I'm really interested in this. I work full time right now but am thinking about opening a consulting firm. Could you please share details of how you started and took the first few steps? I don't plan to quit day time work to concentrate fully on consulting work (at least not initially)
Exactly what is going through my mind :)
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Hello,

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Is there even an expectation that anti-cheat utilities can work? They're worse than DRM - unless the anti-cheat software is certified and your system can do hardware trusted execution, it's going to be worked around. (it's most likely also possible in case of trusted execution...)
Decorators

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decorator_pattern
According to John Carmack its a few weeks worth to port, and maybe even less to extend wine.

But that is like saying that according to Superman going to the moon is a few minutes of flight.
It's just me, working from home or wherever I feel like bringing a laptop for the day.
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This comment seemed to me a perfect specimen of the type that drags down forums: vitriolic and ill-informed. I've hypothesized before that the problem is not that people make such comments (which seems inevitable if you have open, anonymous signups) but that others upvote them. So I analyzed the votes to see if there was a pattern, and indeed there is. The median karma of upvoters was 644, and the median karma of downvoters was 1814, almost 3x as high. If this pattern holds up it could be very useful.
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If the compile options in both platform matches.

And nginx is full of compile options and modules to enable and disable, so maybe "the same config in the same version" does not work on different platforms.
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BlackBerry bought for $4.7B