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I love Ludum Dare, although I always have bad luck and worst timing when they are scheduled. I was able to participate in 3 of them so far and I always take the occasion to try and learn a new language/try a new development process just for the hell of it. As an added challenge.

First I started with C++, as a C programmer, it was a pretty big jump for me http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-23/?action=preview...
Then a year later, while I had just started playing around with Clojure, I went all the way and wrote a game in ClojureScript http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview... which turned out for some parts to be easier than I thought. Last time I went with some plain Javascript instead http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview...

Honestly, this time around I wanted to try out my new Clojure game engine but it's still in development and not quite ready, plus I have finals next week and I'm studying like crazy. Unfortunately I'll have to skip this time but I suggest anybody who's interested in game development (or just wants to have fun) to go try a Ludum Dare, it's really a self-rewarding and enriching experience!
I clicked the link to figure out how they solved the numerous technical problems of running native applications in a browser. It's a deceptive claim, and the web page is content-free, all marketing. I don't think it belongs on HN, at least not with that headline.
Wow.

Been working on a pure-BTC retirement portfolio fund that I'd luuuv to sell you. Step right up...
Keep up the good work then :) At your age I spent my time reading TCP/IP Illustrated Volume 1: The Protocols and discovering unpublished operating system detection mechanisms in ARP and ICMP, putting them online and running home from school to see which governments' agencies had visited my website that day. They didn't bother hiding their tracks very much in those days.
Maybe it's the difference between programmers who have little motivation to try anything new and programmers who try new things on the side.

I've been fortunate to work in circumstances where it's allowed and expected to spend time experimenting with new ideas or technologies to see if they'd fit with the project--so it's not a distinction between people who put in their eight hours and go home and people who work twelve or fourteen hours a day, seven days a week.
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This seems consistent with my experience working with Iowa farmers from 1997-2001. We were seeing consolidation of family farms into even larger family farms at that time. Many small producers were forced out of business due to low commodity prices at the time. And the bulk of the landowners were cash renting their land to the producers. So, a "family farm operation" likely included land that they rented but didn't actually own. You would be shocked to learn of the amount of millionaire landowners in Iowa who live on small, humble acreages and simply rent their land to farmers.

There was a large contingent of "hobby farmers" who owned land through their family, but it was a "side project" for them. They often had jobs with the USDA, etc or other sources of income. Equipment was insanely expensive and capital intensive.

I'm not in the ag industry now, but computer technology in '97-'01 was like a magic elixir to farmers. Very little software existed to help them turn data into actionable information. I'm sure today it's very different.

Edit:
I'll add that the "state-of-the art" at that time was to use military-grade GPS receivers (which we got as a part of USDA) to track soil samples and create GIS heat maps and basic fertility plans. There were no on-board computer systems. :)
And C# "fixes" the deficiencies by heaping features upon features. Already it looks like the MS version of Perl.
Looking at "Pillars of Eternity" it looks like a bit of a step back. While I like the artistic style, the whole thing just looks very dated. They're definitely going for the nostalgic demographic here. I think what bothers me the most is the relative lack of interactivity with the environment. There is some lighting things that looks kinda neat, and some water level stuff... but it seems limited. It just looks like a polished Diablo/Baldur's Gate clone.

That being said, I think if the game has a great story then that may be good enough. Though honestly - there really should be a tool like RPG maker so that amateurs can implement their stories in a game using a simple drop and drop UI with maybe some very simple scripting
This reads like someone reading a 1995 article about a company switching from writing Netscape Enterprise Server code in C++ on a Windows machine to Apache code in perl on a Sun server, and then writing a defense of the x86 processor against SPARC.

I might have missed something but I don't recall the original PayPal article arguing that the switch was motivated by moving from a slow virtual machine to a faster one.

But just as switching from C++ to perl would trade some computing power for productivity in getting a site built, I don't see it as controversial for an organization to say they achieved the same productivity gains going from java to javascript.
I think it's because a MacBook is a high quality device, and you can install other OSes on relatively pain free.

Also OSX covers the bases well, both for regular users and developers. One noteworthy group that are left out are the gamers.
I think your analogy makes a whole lot more sense when you keep in mind that you'd be a automotive engineer and not a consumer.
Ebay is a marketplace and gets tons of traffic and exposure.
Techies like me will be puzzled by the incredible claim they're making without any explanation. In truth, I wouldn't have given it any credibility if it hadn't been on the front page of HN.
Universities are not going to pay as well as the private sector, or even many government or non-profit organizations, for the same work. Using that as an example doesn't help your argument.
Yup, thats a great analogy. I never really thought of product management but that does make sense. I'll add it to the list, thank you
Maybe you should read CTM, which illustrates many paradigms.
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Mainframe2 Beta supports the latest Chrome (Windows/Mac) or Safari (Mac).

It doesn't run on my Linux setup.

Too bad, if it ran on more device types, especially mobile, this would be a killer.
... then you must enjoy this classic: http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM

I've toyed with the idea of setting up mainframes-as-a-service. I would probably just run the various Linux distributions running inside Hercules and abstract it away as cleanly as possible. You'd never get the performance or capacity, but you'd get a cheap, easy emulation for coding and small-scale testing. It's been a while since I had time for a side-project but I'd still love to work on this.
Good point. In the early exercises I'm trying to limit the number of possible routes I throw out there - but I'll modify the exercise in question to mention some of the other possibilities!

Hope you find the site useful.
This seems like a good place to start:

http://learn.adafruit.com/how-to-build-a-hardware-startup

I don't know if you want to do a startup, but there is good information in the guide.

Here are some other blog links that might be good starting points for further reading:

http://octopart.com/blog/archives/2013/10/electronic-compone...

http://octopart.com/blog/archives/2013/11/what-every-hardwar...

http://pinocc.io/blog/open-source-hardware-business/testing-...

By the way, Octopart and Adafruit are really great.
Not a big fan of that first infographic. The splits in the overall block aren't at all correlated to percentages -- which you would think they were, amongst other things
Looks wonderful - I've been meaning to learn xpath properly for a long time, so I've signed up :-).
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phones inherit from an old business model where they were subsidized by mobile network operators

Only in the US.
Except that of all the things you've named, dynamically typed languages are hardly "a fad". It's surprising (?), though, that the lousy ones are the most popular ones.
AND this is the reason why Twitch won't touch this with a ten foot pole. They would lose everything if copyright = seeing someone play a game.
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I don't think it's just about collisions, in fairness. There's also the aspect of managing user permissions by schema, searching for tables, and so on.

Obviously this only becomes super-useful in pretty sizeable projects, but I tend to consider using schemas a good habit to be in.
It seems really dumb of Google not to just go with the flow here and let the AppOps feature exist. Whack a giant disclaimer on it that it will break stuff, disable Play Store comments and ratings, let the users use it, and collect the giant PR dividend for looking like you care about privacy. They can do all that and lose virtually nothing because such a tiny percentage of people will ever use this feature that it will make no difference to them at all.

On the other hand they can go the other way and take a giant PR hit for virtually no benefit. Out of some sense of stubbornness or beligerance Google often seems to desire to shoot itself in the foot like this.
Sounds like there is an idea in the works here - submit code and have the public vet it and decide, ultimately, if it is good and bad. Allow discussions?

That could turn pretty sour quickly though.
I was considering early stage startups but yes the main concern with that would be the financial constraints. I agree on all the other points, thank you.
I think if MIPS were going to get in this space (which really they should have been trying to do, instead of chasing the mobile tail) they would have succeeded already, since things like the Cavium chips seem closer to what a lot of these people really want than anything ARM had until recently.

The end of MIPS as an independent company has definitely created huge questions about the future viability of the architecture. If I understand the deal right Imagination (of PowerVR) got the day-to-day company, and a holding group, including ARM, got access to the design patents. That means future ARM chips are likely to incorporate more of whatever advantages the MIPS teams had been hoping to get.

I think the only certainty in all this is Intel are going to be upset one way or another. ARM can simply redefine what people mean by ARM architecture every couple of years, whereas x86 does not move so quickly. Intel will either end up fabbing ARM designs, which is a way to expose just how much they've relied on (great) fab tech to stay ahead, or they'll stick to the x86 guns and slowly but surely the combined mass of everyone else in the semiconductor business will chip them away.
Thanks - I'll put it on my list of things to fix :-)
nice visualization!
I'm pretty good with Spring and have even given trainings on it and I'd argue that Spring's main problem is that it needs to be seen in the right context: a poor man's DSL for declarative system configuration (it is last 10 years old after all.)

That it creates untestable applications seems like completely nonsensical FUD however since the entire point of Spring is to keep code easily testable. Spring is an almost direct response to the lack of testability of the ServiceLocator anti-pattern.

I'm not saying you can't make untestable code in Spring, but if you do the problem is most likely more with the people than with Spring.
"What we have gained in efficiency and by avoiding the overuse of scarce and potentially environmentally damaging inputs, we may be losing in the connections of the farm family to the ancestral place."

What a stupid quote. If it's a tradeoff, call it a tradeoff--you are not losing environmental savings by losing the "connection of the farm family to the ancestral place", you are trading something sentimental for direct benefits to the environment and cheaper food.
It can run on AWS: http://venturebeat.com/2013/11/13/mainframe2-which-pipes-win...
Good thought, I'll put it on my list.
If you ask me as a developer of my apps, of course, I'd say all my apps that I developed during 2013 with a special shout-out to my Quotegram iOS app (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quotegram/id705700846). It taught a bunch in terms of planning, marketing, interacting with bloggers and the whole 9-yard.
Images may also be stored in one of the available private registries. <shameless plug> As the Co-Founder, I am partial to Quay.io [https://quay.io], which in my not so humble opinion has the best features, reliability, and support for businesses and organizations, but there are other options if for some reason Quay.io doesn't meet your needs. For those who prefer to self-host, we've also got an enterprise option, which brings all of the index and registry goodness behind your firewall. </shameless plug>

That said, we love the Docker ecosystem and way of doing things. A sibling comment mentioned how complicated Docker is, but I think when you realize that they are trying to offer DVCS like features and paradigms, you will realize that it is complicated for a reason. We all thought git was complicated at first as well.
My iPad is sitting on the table across the room. Everybody I know, if asked, would say it's off. But it still receives push notifications. Crazy, right?
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This sounds like a good option for SaaS providers.
It's amazing the insight that is uncovered about a farming operation's efficiency and potential lost revenues when one takes the time to gather all the information in a useful way.

We believe so much in the benefits of using technology to better manage a farm can have on the bottom line that we give Farm At Hand away for FREE.

www.farmathand.com
The plural of snark isn't intelligence, either.
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bahahahahaha.
Your logic is bewildering. In your scenario, you're still essentially transacting in USD and using BTC as an investment or a store of value. You're not actually spending BTC, since you expect the value to continue rising, and you buy back the BTC. Another way of looking at it is that there's no exchange of goods in BTC, since the BTC you sell doesn't transfer to a merchant, but to another investor.

Either way, this implies BTC doesn't have intrinsic worth. The OP's argument stands: deflationary forces make it even harder to create a market in bitcoin since no one wants to trade an asset that they think will appreciate in value.
To start with, only 7 of the 26 letters (uppercase and lowercase letters are only different in the first digit, which is never higher than 7 in ASCII, so I'm ignoring the difference) in the alphabet have an A-F in one of the digits, so in a text composed only of letters with all letters being equally likely, the frequency of A-F would be 26.9%. Additionally, A-F occur disproportionately in infrequently used letters. Adjusting for the frequency of letters in English[1], the expected frequency of bytes with A-F is 21.7%.

The space character also doesn't have an A-F, so that will lower the frequency further. If we assume that the frequency of spaces is the same as in "America Can Code ", (17.6%) the expect frequency of A-F comes out to 17.9%. That's very close to the number in "American Can Code " (17.6%).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency#Relative_frequ...
You're slipping. You started with even when it's powered off and now you're at appears to be off.
Disable JavaScript > The blue pill.
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Why not show us a Wireshark screenshot?
Thanks for those links! I will go through them carefully. Doing a startup is what I want to do but before any of that I want to do the due diligence part first and learn things.
Were you worried about giving up bitcoin that could dramatically grow in value later? Or did you buy back bitcoin after spending it?
Sell an empty usb stick and 'free 50k LTC to an address of your choosing!' :)
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Do you have a link to a description of that firmwared flashlight?
Users of Android should realize that they are the product. If Google gives too much privacy control, advertisers won't pay as much for ads, and Google's core business is ads.

Given a fight between privacy and ad dollars for Google, privacy will lose almost every time (within reason; Google doesn't want to kill the golden goose (i.e., you)).
Why would you say "she"? Is "her" somehow offensive now? Or have they forgotten objects of prepositions are, well, objects?
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I think The Onion put it best:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/40-numbers-under-40,32809/
That's what everyone on Youtube should do. If no one put up with their bullshit bot takedowns, they wouldn't happen.
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`Blog' and `tweet' are at least neologisms. `Ask' on the other hand has been a verb for a very long time, and has so far resisted being made a noun. That suggests to me, and probably to most people, that it's a verb, solidly so, and not to be used as a noun.

Fighting this kind of tradition will be an uphill struggle. A losing battle. A tall order. (For those still in primary school, those are all different ways of saying "a big ask", by the way.)

It's a real shame that the article's author had to drop this particular clanger, because the article provides sound advice in a succinct fashion.
Apologies, we ran into rate limits that we had applied on our server so the experience was very poor when you hit it (we really didn't expect HN to pick it up!)

You're right that there are too many requests being made. We're fixing this very soon, stay tuned.

Thanks for your feedback - we're in a early private beta and your inputs are very valuable to us.
I take a very cynical view of these things, and from that perspective it doesn't surprise me at all, really. My cynical view is that the "lousy" ones are popular because they are easy even for non-technical people to learn well enough to be useful in the majority of business settings.

This sets up a kind of feedback loop: there is an abundant supply of "cheap" labor who can use these languages, which companies love, and so they create more jobs for this labor market to fill, which means more people want to fill it (since there are jobs there).

Edit: 1) I would disagree that python is a "lousy" language; 2) To give some perspective regarding where I come from, the vast majority of my experience is with statically typed languages like C, C++ and Java; I prefer them and in my experience they are at least as easy to develop with as any of the dynamic languages that are popular.
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Like this! ;)

http://satoshibox.com/5229a1864c347bfd2b0041a8

(Protip: The above link is probably a scam)
Normally, the answer to your question is "nothing". In this case -- a bit of short term research -- you should read what the paper actually says:

Content was then marked as “censored” if it was not shared
within the subsequent ten minutes; using this threshold allowed us to record only the presence or absence of text entered, not the keystrokes or content.

If content entered were to go unposted for ten minutes and then be posted, we argue that it was indeed censored (albeit temporarily).

These analyses were conducted in an anonymous manner, so researchers were not privy to any specific user’s activity.

Furthermore, all instrumentation was done on the client side. In other words, the content of self-censored posts and comments was not sent back to Facebook’s servers: Only a binary value that content was entered at all.
You are making an emotional and anti-science argument. Even having to quote from a Lyndon LaRouche website.

Here's a few articles that counter your argument:

http://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/bad-s...

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...

People have done seed breeding since the days of Mendel. The only difference today is that we have better tools.
Dota2 is Valve's first multiplayer game where they run all the servers themselves. It's also their most popular game (by a factor of 10x) [0]. Scaling to that number of players takes a lot of work, and from what I've seen (comments from Valve devs), their devops team is only 2 people [1].

The current server instability has to do with a large patch (550MB) sent out yesterday that added a new game mode that is actually an addon[2]. This addon system looks fairly new and may be taking its toll on the servers.

[0] http://store.steampowered.com/stats/

[1] http://dev.dota2.com/showthread.php?t=83787&page=24&p=777194...

[2] http://www.ongamers.com/articles/dota-2-12th-december-patch-... (search for "custom addon")
It's not 100% proven that "souls" don't exist, but I would bet money that intelligence can be explained by the laws of physics just like every other scientific mystery. At one time people thought life was basically magic and too complicated to understand.
I'm fairly invested into bitcoin. I buy bitcoin on a regular basis and often get paid in it. I'm not too worried about the bitcoin I spent going up in value later.

I like to think of myself as a user of the currency, not necessarily an investor.
Note that any such comparison would have to including load/conversion time for each system.
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How much of that effect persists across games?

Within a given game (site), I'd prefer to have consistent frame-rate (latency). But if GTA (Gmail.com) is consistently faster than Need For Speed (NYTimes.com), that would bother me less.
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+1, love the different options/heuristics you can play around with.
On mobile (KitKat, Chrome) the actual annotations obscured the text, and I couldn't figure out how to actually see them. It was easy to scroll through the unannotated bits though.
There's no need for speculation here. Open Facebook, right click, select "Inspect Element" then the "Network" tab.

On a self-censored status update, they send a request to /ajax/bz that triggers their censorlogger, but don't pass the content itself.

On messages & chat, they send a request to /ajax/messaging/typ.php to show the other person you're typing, but again, they don't pass your message to their servers.

On search, they send a request to /ajax/typeahead/search/facebar/query/ which passes everything you type to their server to power their auto-complete functionality.
We are pulling a RSS feed of "mobile news" from a website called intomobile.com (this is one of the features of HTML5stac)
After a lot of back and forth I went with the late-2013 15" rMBP and I don't regret it for a minute. I know, it's expensive but if you can afford and as someone else said here, after you spend some time with the retina display it's hard to get back to a non-retina display, I can tell you that for sure, especially when you work on the high-resolution ratio...you can fit a lot more content at that resolution and is quite useful when you design.
I don't think he means java is popular in the "cool" sense. He means it is popular because it is so widely deployed and still in use everywhere.
BlackBerry actually gave completely granular permission controls for every app you install, as far back as five years ago. It's a shame that neither iOS or Android have come anywhere close in that regard.
Right, but my point is that an adwords account exec/manager does not have any managerial responsibility at all. They would be more properly termed account technicians or analysts.
Most people don't make a good use of BCC.

Another instance where it is useful is when asking a question at a mail list but asking that anyone who answers only addresses the you not the whole email list.

Just send the email with the list in BCC, and that's gonna be automatic.