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Yes. Quake Live also works on Linux (until they remove the Linux and Mac support for their Windows installer).
I want the developer one :)
Don't take this the wrong way Jay but HN is not in any way a professional adviser that would be your lawyer or other "approved" person

So you signed a compromise agreement (which you have now broken) without getting anything for it or having a lawyer check it out.
Personally that would be a big negative for me. I like to go to different places than my friends. Yes it's irrational, but I find it boring talking about something we both know; "Did you stay at the.. oh yeh, of course you did. The view from the bar was... oh yeh you know that too"
oh yeah kdot, please tell us about it. I was also going to buy my first smartphone and thought it should be a nexus, because google updates them more often and I could more easily find hacked firmware.
Nanosatellites Will Give Everyone Access to Space
> There's no such thing as a G+ account and a 'Google Account'. They are the same things

Thats not the case if you registered for a google service (i.e. gmail) pre G+, which I imagine includes a TON of users. If you fall into this category (like me) and don't have a G+ account (i.e. a "Public Profile), you get spammed like crazy and constantly asked to join up.

And the service isn't free. I'm paying for it with my user information. Let's be real, Google isn't some savior upon high blessing us with "free" services from the goodness of their hearts. Be honest.

btw I'm a huge fan of Google, I just find their hyprocracy of "we're not a cunning business trying to maximize profits, we're a social enterprise saving humanity, that just happens to make money" annoying and insulting.

We need to get rid of this narrative that creators = god and users = proles that don't have the "right" to complain.
Is that lifespan number a conservative estimate? Solar panels are just high-purity silicon (simpler than drywall, as Musk puts it), what can make them stop working?
I wouldn't doubt it. I suppose it comes down more to personal opinions at some point, but I'd rather see an Internet of mass availability and resources. I can start a web service from my house because I can rent a VPS (including IP) for a few $'s per month.
I'd highly recommend both of these games. I'm really hoping that the lack of Mac/Linux support in Quake Live will bring more players to the Xonotic and Warsow community. If you are into quake-like FPS, do yourself a favor and check out Xonotic or Warsow.
I only use Chrome for testing and when asked if I'd like to sign in, I always hit no. Somehow 14 bookmarks made their way to my account. I've disabled sync now.
The longer I use youtube while signed in, the more useless it becomes to me. I have a wide range of interests. If I'm watching the Dead Skeletons - Dead Mantra music video, it's not helpful to have 5 Starcraft 2 VODs in the recommended video list (i.e. I enjoy watching professional Starcraft 2). I'd much prefer recommendations similar to the Dead Skeletons. I've found no way to turn off this recommendation bubble and have since decided youtube is best used without an account if you want to actually explore its content.
I find it funny when people complain about shit they get for free.
I guess you're not on FB either, or you'd be upset that half the websites you join want you to sign up with FB Connect. Similar with Apple's services. Single shot services are growing few and far between on the web.
> I like my YouTube account. I don't like Google+. Stop forcing it on me. I'd be happy with a YouTube that doesn't let me comment but let's me upload videos and everything else I'm doing now. Instead, I'm packing up and leaving.

Literally nobody cares.

> The irony is your moral might just work. Google will end up with less and less customers if they keep behaving in this way. Only people willing to tolerate Google+ will be left. Maybe that's what they want.

I hope so! I can only imagine if Youtube was as full of interesting content as G+, and not so filled with people whining that a terrible terrible system isn't being kept soley for their own preferences.
I agree with this. I am a business guy with a marketing background. I can tell you what needs to be done with marketing and probably fill your "knowledge coffer" in about 5 days.

Programming is the truly hard part, it takes months to get a handle on and as soon as you put it down for a few weeks you must re-learn much of what you've forgotten (at least that's my experience).

If marketing was harder than programming, I think we'd have dozens of programmers trying to find marketers on Craigslist and forums... instead of reality which is marketers scraping for programmers to join projects on an equity basis.
$1.2M Hack Shows Why You Should Never Store Bitcoins on the Internet
This is whats termed a compromise agreement basically if you pay me x I will go quietly and your right just paying what your owed is not acceptable.
Link to the license under which the data will / is being released. Pretty ok!

http://ddata.over-blog.com/xxxyyy/4/37/99/26/licence/Licence...
>> The pdf version of my resume is : https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7tZUA6L0bdtSGlVQXRMYVFFdEk....

That's a lot easier to "consume" for me. The formatting/etc on the text file is just a bit much. When I try to "review" someone's resume, I find it almost impossible to only review for content. Presentation is so much a part of a resume that I don't think you can separate the layers into "content" and "presentation layer".

Couple of things (all superficial):

1) It doesn't say that you are authorized to work. The spelling of your name is the first thing people see - and their first thought is, "Is he a US citizen, on a visa, or what?" You need to be clear about what you are seeking rather than making people guess.

2) Why are you seeking an internship? Many people seek an internship b/c they hope it turns into full-time work. If that's you, then you might want to find a way to shoehorn something in that makes it clear that you really like this company.

3) The GPA - I'd flip it around so that the 4.0/4.0 is listed first

4) Better filename - include your name. resume.pdf in all lower case shows me that you weren't really thinking very deeply about me once I get your resume.

5) "Software engineering" is such a broad term - you want an internship in "software engineering". Is there a way to make that more specific, possibly for each company's specific needs?

6) Cover letters and targeted responses matter - the resume is only a part of the entire process

Good luck!
Part of the point is that according to their own numbers, YouTube is the only part of Google+ anyone gives a ____ to interact with: http://marketingland.com/google-hits-300-million-active-mont...
All about Conversion Rates
I started using Ubuntu in 2005, and fell in love with it almost instantly. It was great for a long time before the slide began. It's sad that this site exists.
> Thats not the case if you registered for a google service (i.e. gmail) pre G+, which I imagine includes a TON of users. If you fall into this category (like me) and don't have a G+ account (i.e. a "Public Profile), you get spammed like crazy and constantly asked to join up.

Right, because they're amalgamating the accounts. They've been telling people this forever.

> And the service isn't free. I'm paying for it with my user information

No you're not. It's free.

> We need to get rid of this narrative that creators = god and users = proles that don't have the "right" to complain.

Who said anything about creators. They /OWN/ Youtube. They have made it /VERY/ clear what is happening. If you want to ignore that that's up to you, but you can't turn around and act as if it's some inexplicable weird move that makes no sense when they have detailed every step of it.
Rebuilding Lego for Today's Kids
Google has claimed right from the beginning that they want G+ to be a "social layer" across all of their services, which could also be seen as a "social network", but not in the same way Facebook is a "social network.
35 photos from the past that you should see
For my bachelors, I did a dual degree in EE and CS, and had a decent programming background before starting. Watching most of my EE colleagues programming was incredibly painful; it was very hack & slash until it works, and then that's it. In EE, we weren't really evaluated on the quality of our code at all, just whether or not the final product worked (as determined by a 'scope or other physical output).

My limited EE experience after school (I mostly do higher-level programming these days) reflects this; this is the education they left school with, and they didn't have anyone afterwards to teach them any better. Makes me cringe so hard, knowing what some of these guys are up to now.
I'm pretty sure the 'universe' on the last slide should be 'galaxy'
How to Dynamically Pick Up Logs When Scaling Your AWS EC2 Environment
Isn't "Native Quake Live" just Quake 3 with adverts?
You can revert the change. In the settings menu.
At least it wasn't showing images from frontbutt.net.
Again, "Says the guy who obviously doesn't have children" haha
A Testing Process That Fits Your Mobile App
Your comment really confused me until I viewed source, apparently this plugin also silently does the keyboard > leopard swap.
> I have at most a few hundred actual friends.

I was going to complain about the impossibility of being intimately acquainted with hundreds of people enough to call them friend only to find out my dictionary had a new definition for friend:

> "a contact associated with a social networking website"

In which case, carry on I guess.
I agree with this. I should have changed it to talk about my startup trying to get the startup pack, instead of a blatant form tweet for them.
Since they've apparently got sails on this thing it's even more likely to be this:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/by_and_large#Etymology
If you are using Windows you might want to give Pale Moon a try, on my system it is much smoother than the official Firefox/Aurora/Nightly.

Pale Moon feels as smooth as the official Firefox does under OS X, for whatever reason the official Firefox for Windows feels terrible on my system (clean profile of course).
According to a Tumblr post, Pokédex users are kinda probably 10 times more likely to avenge their cat in spaaace than users of virtual boy. these dudes I know is guilty and everyone knows it..
Actually, there was an early version of Greenplum that was open source. Nobody seemed to care much.
The act of forcing someone to retweet a message could be reasonably construed to violate the consideration clause in Federal and State sweepstakes laws.

http://contests.about.com/od/c/g/consideration.htm

Any sweepstakes that requires consideration from an entrant is illegal.
Yep, YouTube accounts are used in the apps shipped with smart TVs. Move to Google+ made it pretty much impossible to populate the playlists in a computer/phone to watch it later on a Vizio TV app. The app doesn't accept Google+ logins, and the data under YouTube login (playlists, subscriptions, watch it later) has been wiped out.
At least they are offering more bandwidth at a price. Before it was a hard cap at 250GB with no way to buy more.

But still, it makes me want to up and move to Chattanooga.

http://chattanoogagig.com/
Sad that it exists or sad that it needs to exist?
I got really addicted to Warsow for a hot minute. Great action in that game and I like the cel-shaded graphics option.
If the quality is so bad isn't it a good thing to have fewer of them? ;-)
I think you're dead right on point number 2. The reusable components that are pouring out of today's "big data" boom make building simple-but-large services much, much more approachable than even just a few years ago.

But point number 1 is a bit like saying "of course you can factor a 2000 digit number into the two primes which created it, it would just take a while."

This is an awfully oversimplified way to put it, but without launching into a long diatribe wrought with lots of smaller generalizations, I'll just use one big one: it's been my experience that the average programmer is typically no better than a very buggy compiler for a fairly low-level subset of natural language.

I come to this perspective as someone who does a fair amount of hiring for a government contractor. Government contracting is the place where the average to sub-par programmers go to find work. The pay is "good enough" but crappy compared to private sector, and the people you work for range from disgruntled (if you're lucky) to incompetent. But it's a very stable and reliable way to earn a living, as cost-plus contracts have promoted an environment where anyone with a resume can get a job, and where your pay is dictated by how many years you've been in the business (correlated strongly to how old you are).

Very few people have the "dive in and solve the problem" mentality that it takes to build something like Twitter, even using bleeding-edge tools. Fortunately we live in a world where the number of people who do have that talent is quite large, it's just that the number of people who don't is much, much larger.
These days, you need a Google+ account to back it up. As I don't have one, I'm pretty boned ...

Gotta love that lock-in.
I'd wonder whether methods that make use of zeroing or /dev/zero'd be staved off for longer on Mavericks - perhaps it'd compress the recurring patterns that'd result?
The issue isn't any sort of optimization for chrome, FF just chokes when it tries to render SVGs quickly. See also: http://roadtolarissa.com/twisters/
Dovecot MTA
Yes indeed it is. after reading that I wanted to withdraw my application.
Explainshell.com
Buzz didn't keep hassling me when I was trying to use youtube.
Prebrowsing
You could say those images are up in the butt.
True - I went back and checked, but I would prefer if they didn't do it at all. When a brand tweets on my behalf in this way, it always makes me feel less favourable towards that brand.
Just use Xubuntu!
The most difficult part of being a marketer is finding out what actually works. There is all sorts of advice out there from people that give you tips and recommendations, and 99% of them have no idea what they're talking about. In that way it can be a lot like programming; you can either pay some kid $10/hour to slog it out and figure it out as he goes, or you can pay a premium for someone who can say, "oh yeah you do this and this and this," and he's done.

It's a lot easier to pretend to be a marketer than it is to pretend to be a programmer, because you can sell something that doesn't work all day and people will still unknowingly buy it. Some people, I fear, discount what great marketers can do because they never actually learn the difference.

One of the reasons marketing and finding a good marketer is hard, is because you don't know why (or if) it's not working. Imagine if every time you coded something up you never actually got to run a program and see what the results were. Marketing can feel the same way; you build something, and it is probably failing somewhere, but until you finally put it together right you don't really know where. Are you advertising or marketing in the wrong places? Does your landing page suck? Maybe your product actually sucks and no one cares? You just have to test and test and test to try to create some semblance of data.

Then when you do actually do it people say, "Oh, that's it? That wasn't hard." Like when a great designer creates a very simple logo that communicates the essence of the brand in a beautiful way, and someone says, "Well that only took you five minutes." It's not about the five minutes it took me to create that; it's about the years of work I put in to learn how to create that. It takes a hell of a lot of work to get to simple.

I had some serious cognitive dissonance when I started giving out some of my hacks in "The hacker's guide to user acquisition" (first chapter - http://www.austenallred.com/the-hackers-guide-to-the-first-1...), the only reason I'm spilling some of my hard-earned secrets is because I see too many good products die because whoever built it never got it out to the right people.

I'm not sure how programmers can differentiate between a marketer that knows what they're talking about and one that doesn't; that's as difficult as a marketer discerning who is a gifted programmer and who isn't.

So, knowing what actually works is hard. Is marketing harder than programming? Not for me, it took me a week to figure out how to get my first rails server live and on Github. But just like any other field, there is a long, long learning curve if you're going to do it well.
I'll let him blog in detail about it but one suggestion I made was that a single page website could be harder to get visibility on just simply in terms of Google search. At least in terms of the people he believe to be his direct competition.

If he's looking to attract specific types of developers he should consider create pages targeted to those developers. So those pages would get indexed for the specific developers who are searching for a jira/github/fogbugz tracking app.
Africa is much larger than you expect if you grew up looking at Mercator projections: http://brucemctague.com/tag/illusion-of-mercator-projections
"The most hated social product in the entire Internet" is a pretty big claim. I personally have never had a single problem with G+, though I've had plenty of issues with Facebook.

My YouTube and G+ accounts merged just fine, and I've never lost a playlist, favorite, submission, comment, or anything else.
I had to keep on telling YouTube "no" for a long time that I didn't want to flip my YouTube account into a Google account, and then demanded I explain why.

It's gotten better recently. On my first connect to YouTube after signing in, it asks if I want to use my YouTube account or my Google account, and then it never asks again as long as my Google session doesn't time out.
Changing the content of the textarea with the inspector doesn't affect the final tweet text sadly. Just tested.
Impressive list of some of the best tools / SaaS out there. If they add Heroku and New Relic next year that's basically all I need :)
I don't understand, why would it be a brick? Using an Android without Google's services is totally fine. For each Google service or app, there are plenty of alternatives available.

The only pain point you can have is if you refuse to use Google Play for installing apps. Well, Android allows you to install apps from third-party app stores or websites (e.g. Amazon's App Store), but most devs are on Google Play.

I'm a heavy Google services user, however I'm using lately K-9 Mail instead of the GMail client, because K-9 does encryption. I'm also using OsmAnd+ in addition to Google's Maps. I don't even have Google+ installed (though I do have a Google+ enabled account).
> If marketing was harder than programming, I think we'd have dozens of programmers trying to find marketers on Craigslist and forums... instead of reality which is marketers scraping for programmers to join projects on an equity basis.

That sounds true on the surface but actually we've no idea of the number of programmers who failed but would/could have succeeded had they gone looking for a marketer. That marketers go out and try to 'market themselves' to programmers shouldn't be a surprise.
WPP Acquires Bottle Rocket
Apparently his email for his (her?) kickstarter account is akusukaiphone@gmail.com, so yeah. This is why we can't have nice things.
Does this read like a red herring to anyone else? Some of the quoted text sounds like a google-joke:

> “The artistic structure combines innovative architecture with a bit of nautical whimsy,” says the proposal, “creating a surprising environment that inspires conversation, community and ‘a-ha’ moments.”
> But is information asymmetry becoming larger or smaller?

I think the asymmetry is becoming larger. Certainly in absolute terms we all have more information about one another than we did before, but the problem now is not having the information, it's searching through it to find the relevant information. Or being able to act on the information.

What can you as an ordinary individual do with a publicly available list of corrupt government officials? What can a corrupt president or FBI director do with a publicly available list of political opponents?
Not only YouTube but everything Google is trying to integrate with G+. When showing a colleague a photo from a trip or looking at a review of something, I don't need to be shown as being available for a "hangout".

I'm not "always available all the time" - I just want to get mundane things done sometimes.
I made playr.me. Make your playlists, rearrange them, bookmark them, share them. Haven't worked on it for a few months mostly because I'm happy with what it does... although I will fix a few minor bugs and add a couple of features soon.
Just to add to your point a, I'm often less interested in what a friend thinks about a book, and more interested in what another author thinks. Depending on who the review is by, it helps me understand the character of the book. If I'm unfamiliar with the reviewer, I might look into who the reviewer is and read their books. Dumbing this down into "my college roommate clicked like on this, so I'll like it too" degrades the entire experience for me.
They did not really. You can still go back by thumbnail>switch accounts.
I can't agree with this enough. The same goes for targeted advertising. I already know what other things I like, show me stuff I'm looking for now.
the community is great, and the game is fun. It's too bad that almost nobody plays it anymore :(
> But the issue with cheap gadgets goes both ways. Chinese factories allow people in India and other 3rd world countries to have a cheap (read: affordable) mobile phone.

And why people in 3rd world countries cannot afford expensive mobile phones? Because corporations have robbed them the value of their labour, or the environment where they live... You just seem to be confortable with the status quo, and making excuses.
If I had to guess, Kickstarter probably has looser fraud protection.
http://www.debian.org

There, fixed.
I mean, I read it all the way through, but yeah, there didn't seem to be anything that wasn't in The Forever War. Did it really top the Locus poll just because of slapstick humour? shakes head
Alternative to Youtube
Never happened to me either, but I don't have a G+ account with the Google account I use for YouTube and have said "no" every time they have suggested I change to a real name or when they suggested some other change.

Most people seem to hit trouble when they have a G+ account or have accepted any of the changes that Google suggests. Which is really lousy user experience and Google should really know better.

So far, keeping out of G+ has kept things usable for me on Google. I am heavily dependent on Gmail, consume a lot of content on YouTube and use Keep extensively. There is a different G+ account that I use for Hangouts for work.

But I don't see things getting better from hereon. In fact, I fully expect Google to mess this up even more and I am saying that as a fan of the company. That's the day I'll pack up and leave. It has been a good 10-year run, and all good things have to come to an end someday!
Who is this guy who pretends he invented Twitter?
I am just using Elementary Os.
The anterolateral ligament: Wrong information on the Internet
Slightly related story, first time I ever played Quake Live was against F4taL1tY, with instagib railguns. I lost by one point and challenged him to a CS match. (played cal back in the pre-source days) He declined... but I got a signed t-shirt.
Check out Mint XFCE; in my case it was the most suitable distro/flavor. Simply because of the lowest number of additional overrides and configuration I had to do to make it comfortable for use.
Always Be Blogging
It's so depressing that I need to keep on devoting mental energy to Linux environments. When I use Windows or OSX I don't have to keep on guessing on what-the-what is going on.

Then I go back to Linux for something and everything I used to know is now completely useless.