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Came here to say the exact same thing. I am working on something that I personally consider very sexy, but most hardcore techies do not. It brings about opportunity, even if what I'm doing is extremely boring to most others.

I don't know if I needed to read 7000 words on the subject, but I overall agree with the thesis. I do know some brilliant guys working at old guard technical companies though -- those golden handcuffs are hard to cut!

The problem is, this sector has created a different "bubble" of sorts, which has largely attracted a lot of "brogrammers" to the game who aren't in it for what most of us consider the right reasons. There seems to be a very low signal to noise ratio out there, and it's a huge reason why I don't bother a lot of startup meetups and the like.

I don't believe the bubble will truly last. The ones left standing will be those who are truly passionate about it -- they have the knack -- especially if they can navigate hardware and software.

Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmYDgncMhXw
Both are direct instructions to take the coins.
Crazy. Just crazy.
For reference, Electronic Arts marketcap = 9.27B.
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And business method patents are a mistake. They should never have been issued. And the Supreme Court is currently headed in the direction of scaling them back, if not eliminating them entirely.
This article takes some pretty big liberties with the present to make Marx look more prescient than he was.

The idea that people are being forced out of inherently fulfilling object-manufacturing jobs into inherently unsatisfying service jobs isn't particularly true, and even if it were, that's not what alienation means. While many service jobs suck in ways Marx can be applied to, mass production was the original alienating job.

It's the lack of agency that's alienating, not the transitory nature of the produced work, or even the job being inherently pointless (people cheerfully do non-productive things all day)

The part about specialization is questionable as well. While there's not much use for a casual architect, the modern, deep-specialization economy means it's impossible to hire if you limit your search to people who made the life decision at 12 that they wanted to be an packaging technology specialist.

This creates a system where it is not just acceptable but expected that individuals will have various careers throughout life: What we do for a living can't be a fundamental characteristic of our identity if it isn't what we were doing a decade ago and isn't what we're likely to be doing a decade from now.

This is kind of a problem for the article author's defense of Marx because it's the alienating, interchangeable nature of 21st century work that allows the individual to increasingly have an existence outside of their job. Just look at all the weirdos over at tumblr: many of these people have jobs that are so non-identifying that they have to get together and brainstorm new identities to label themselves with.
This Python code is "as expressive" as the Julia code because it's not written in idiomatic Python. Por ejemplo:

for i in range(n):
solution[i] = y[i]

when one could simply

solution[:n] = y[:n]

Don't mean to bikeshed, but this is one of many cases.
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At $550 just for the controller, $109 for a light sensor and $160 for a temperature sensor, it seems quite pricy.
Most platformer games actually let you jump for a short time after you run off the edge of a platform. The lack of this mechanic is what causes the jump to feel inconsistent.
Henry Kissenger, for one, was a straight-up war criminal. “Worst persons who have lived” doesn’t have a very precise definition though, so I’ll pass on judging that one.
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I fear that this will never happen. In the best case scenario that I consider realistic, the TLAs will sense their impending doom well in advanced and will safely and quietly destroy all the data that might incriminate them of anything. This destruction might be punishable, but I think it is more likely that we will never even realize that it occurred.

The only way to take out a TLA and seize the incriminating data is swiftly and without warning. With warning times on the order of minutes, I don't think this is possible politically or otherwise.

The best we can hope for is to shut them down, and the best we can do afterwards is punish those responsible in absence of specific evidence against them (but I don't think that we have the guts necessary to do that. However as a real-world example of that sort of response, consider the show trial and execution of Nicolae Ceaușescu: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu)
It seems pretty stuttery on Safari running on my Mac, but was fun for a while - good job!

I didn't actually like the explanations throughout the first few levels: sometimes it would be nice to figure things out on your own; feels like you rob the player of the reward for completing the level when you explain it to them before letting them figure it out? Especially since they can restart pretty quickly: case in point, let them fall into the red and die early on rather than explain it?
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I like the growl that is administered to every video cat larger than a fat tabby. IF I ever hear that sound IRL, I won't be thinking cougar or bobcat, rather how to deter the jaguar from crushing my skull.
You hit detection is off. It you make a game with pure rectangles the detection should be completely precise.
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You didn't really refute any point he made, though. Whether or not piracy is the goal, piracy is the outcome.
Lua plays a key role in the architecture of neovim[1]

- all unit tests going forward are written in lua/moonscript[2]

- Lua will be embedded in neovim, and vimscript plugins will be compiled on-the-fly to Lua. Yes, this is really happening[3].

[1] https://github.com/neovim/neovim

[2] http://moonscript.org/

[3] https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/243
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To talk about "redeeming" oneself is a standard English idiom. When the pope uses it, maybe he does mean something else, but I don't see why we need to interpret a long-ish, otherwise non-theological piece uncharitably over the use of a single word once.
" Sedition often includes subversion of a constitution ..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition

Ah, so that's the NSA's game.
Every times I hear these sort of justification my little rage meter goes up a notch. These arguments are all based on unverified and unncessary optimizations.

* How many times have you read a project history commit by commit? How much time the occasional typo-commit took you to read? The probalbe answer, if measure would be negligible. Yet you're ready to spend time rewiting history. Which can cause real and known time wate as people have to rebase remerge, and sometimes cause all the problem that have been outlined.

* The whole point of bisect is using a logarithmic search into history. The rare typo-fix commit won't affect its runtime. Again, this is wasting time for no measurable effect.

* Stop the micro-fixing commit already in the first place!

But what really annoys me is that all these are the symptoms of a deeper disease: mis-managed repos. This first thing to do if you have the legendary 50GB log show up in your repo is not to rewrite history. The first thing to do is to make an urgent note to review your repo management processes. How did that file get in there in the first place? Are you pulling directly in your main repo!? The correct practice is to always pull into a staging repo and only merge into main if clean. How do you know it's clean? Easy: use the double-staging repo trick: pull into a staging repo make sure everything is shape (human manual process) then pull into another clean-from-main staging repo and diff the history. If the diff is not empty, you know something is wrong. Only when diff are clean do you pull from that staging repo into main.

(BTW, that double staging is only necessary if you allow yourself to do cleanup in the staging repos. If you always insist on clean pull, then all the cleaning up is done elsewhere. This is not always possible / easy /efficient to do on busy repo. And on your private working repo, do as you please, as long as the pull then comes off clean.)

(Also, I recommend doing the same on your private working repo. I always find it easier to have clean copy of the main repo, one staging repo where my own cersion of clean-up history is kept and the real dirty-work repo yet a third repo. The fact that I prefer to work with mercurial which works best by cloning rather than branching pretty much enforce this discipline. It promotes happy collaborations since you never pull into your work repo and you never push from it.)
These projects with the same goal also worth taking a look:

https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles

https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop

http://boxen.github.com

https://github.com/jpsim/laptop
But this is still the crucial flaw in Marxism, be because some greedy bastard will control means of production either way to their own benefit, and I'd rather that be owned by a professed capitalist who is regulated by the government rather than owned by the government that then regulates itself thus accountable to no one. This was really the major flaw in Marxist systems, the fat cats were given authority to govern both the public and private sector to their own benefit, no counterweight.
I worked through the fourth level. It took me a few tries, but I made it. I'm not going to finish the 5th level. The first few sections are not fun enough to make it worth replaying them repeatedly to move forward in the game. So I would be in favor of a checkpoint system (try it in next platformer you make!).

That being said, solid game.
The props are made of plastic (I have a similar unit as the person who made the video, I just don't live near a volcano). Coincidentally, I actually ordered a spare set today:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1013324-REG/dji_part3_...
They were and are using the curbside public transit bus stops. There is a local regulation stating that any non-public-transit use of the bus stop (including stopping, standing, and parking) is subject to around $250 in fines (and probably immediate towing for parked vehicles). This should apply to any non-transit vehicle: private passenger car, delivery truck, ride-share (taxis with city-regulated licenses/medallions sometimes get special transit privileges), and obviously a private bus. This is understandable because the efficiency of the transit buses depends on them being able to quickly make stops, which they can't do even if a car is dropping off a passenger in the bus stop. SF residents were complaining that they had received this fine simply for being caught dropping off a passenger with no transit bus nearby. Yet the Google buses continued to use public-transit bus stops at regular times, sometimes hindering the public-transit bus, and never received a fine that I have heard of.

Under a recent agreement, the google buses will pay $1 per use of the public bus stops. On the one hand, this option is not available to the general public, only to large corporations with enough money. On the other hand, if the city strictly enforced the law, large corporations with enough money would just go purchase local businesses with commercial loading zones, and use those for the buses--not an ideal situation either (having commercial real-estate and loading zones tied up for transit).
Ask SF+NYC HNers: What's your opinion of Diet Coke's Startup Ads?
Ex: "You moved to San Francisco with a crowd-funded website, a dad-funded hatchback and a no-funded bank account. You're on Diet Coke."

"You moved to San Francisco with an engineering degree, an app idea and an investor named Nana. You're on."

"You moved to San Francisco with an idea for a start-up, a name for a start-up and zero money for a start-up. You're on."
Indeed! But more out of ignorance than backpedaling. I'm apparently 7 years out of date, since the SF office opened in October 2007.

bizjournals.com says 2,500 seats, which is 2nd place after Salesforce at 4,000. Tied for 3rd is Lucasfilm and Twitter, with 1,500 each, and Zynga in 4th with 1,300.

(Take those numbers with a grain of salt. I see others say that Twitter has 2,000 employees in SF.)

Regardless, my questions stand: 1) why compare a company's taxes to an "average person"'s taxes, instead of to the citizenry as a whole, 2) just how much does Google bring into the city in direct taxes, compared to the private citizens? 3) is that sufficient compensation for how the company uses the street infrastructure?

Yes, of course the employees on those shuttles are paying taxes. The full analysis would need to look at who would living there if there were no buses, and the level of taxes they pay in that case.

For example, the buses are subsidized transport that provide an effective untaxable salary increase, which is a tax shift away from the city. Fuel cost alone is $10/day/vehicle, and TCO is $48 using AAA's estimate of $0.6/mile. SuperShuttle charges $17 to get to SFO, so $10/day is deliberately low-balling it.

This means that someone making $80K/year from Google/Mtn View, with subsidized transport, gets an effective $2,500+/year raise, and can outbid someone in the city making $81K/year. In which case, the city ends up with lower taxes.

I never said this wasn't complicated, only that there are reasonable arguments for why some people could consider the "buses are better than ..." thesis "having no sound basis (as in fact or law)".
Marxists, Anarchists, etc. often draw a line between ownership and possession. e.g. You would own a factory or a piece of land, but you would possess a toothbrush and your clothes. There is a subtle difference between them.

I think his idea is that if private property were abolished, the means of production would not be owned.
If there were any easy way to unlock and start any car, it would sure be easier to just grab one off the lot than to go through the annoyingly slow lines at car rental agencies.
> And I take issue with having to be redeemed. I do not need to be redeemed.

Marx thought you did. He thought you needed redeemed from an evil, oppressive economic system. He thought that, by doing so, everything would become wonderful. The point of the quoted words was not that you need to be spiritually redeeded, but that Marx's idea of redemption didn't work because his view of humans was wrong.
It's kind of difficult to compare. I actually think of submodules as being much closer to svn externals in nature, just very poorly integrated (I'm not sure anyone on the git core team actually uses submodules, in things I've read as justification for its poor implementation from core team members it seems like they only added it as a checkbox feature).

Subtrees are quite different from either. They make the imported repository literally a part of the commit graph of the parent tree through a subtree-merge-commit. It then does some extra work to help you bring in new changes or export new changes back.

I think it's a better approach than either, but it's also not exactly the same thing, basically.
Obviously smart and handy way of getting metrics for a wannabe startup but as some comments states I would feel cheated as no real product are offered, but offers are pretended to be real. Thus wasting my valuable time.
I bet this tactic will backfire soon as more and more try to do the same. I would be more positive if some incentive were offered, e.g. Thx for your interest get 3 month for free when we launch ...
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> unless you can point to a society - of any sort anywhere - that contains no anxious people

Ok, the Pirahã people of Brazil.
> I'm sorry, but that's just nuts unless you can point to a society - of any sort anywhere - that contains no anxious people.

Tibet.

That said, the level of anxiety in western society if the no-1 reason of aging.

> Suppose we completely solved the need to pay for food and housing; people would be anxious about health care. Suppose we solved that too? People would be anxious about the need for pet health care.

Hm, you have too many assumptions there. Not that I'm very fond of social sciences but do you have at least one study to support your claim? Otherwise, Newton might get displeased[2].

What you're saying that Maslow[1] was wrong? Maybe his hierarchy should be a square since physiological and self-actualization is one and the same according to your approach.

> We worry because worrying is part of being human.

Of course if my parent is not at home at 23:00 o'clock, I worry. When my parent comes back I stop being worried. It's transitory. I think that in Ethiopia, in Ukraine and large parts of 21'st century world, most people are worried 24/7 though. It's NOT the same.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypotheses_non_fingo
It's not out-and-out parody, more like halfway between parody and straight-out serious. The idea is 'what if we presented serious topics in an accessible way, with a tongue-in-cheek delivery'. It's Alain de Botton's latest project.
MMM is handling this like pros! Hopefully this will serve as a blueprint for future people in similar situations.
Yay! Thanks for the update.
Yes to "too scared to live in poverty until their ideas succeed?". I live in Uruguay, where failure (especially bankruptcy) is extremely punished socially.

I have a side project (not yet released), I know it's not a startup but it lets me tinker and learn :) . If it does well (and I manage to build some savings) I might take the plunge.
Organization who allegedly asked the lawyer to take action: http://www.kisstrust.com/

* Maybe this was just an incompetent attorney, but regardless, taking legal action against a website for a comment posted really demonstrates that the company isn't capable of using its good reputation to handle the situation, and therefore lacks said reputation. Can't compete on the merits - GTFO. /rant
possible for mac?
This is just cargo cult thinking: Java is bad. GC is bad. C++ is not Java, so it is good.

The only thing to do, is get on your coconut radio and wait for the planes to bring you some cargo. While you are waiting, Kafka is a useful MQ for event processing and is being used to solve real world problems today.
There is no doubt you'll get flooded with offers to help. Someone reasonable, knowledgeable and efficient is going to have a good time.
For a more forgiving game that does not make you loose at the first mistake try out the old version
http://connecteverything.herokuapp.com/

The (not terribly good) source code is on github: https://github.com/fela/connect-everything

It is heavily inspired by KNetWalk, to which I made some collaborations in the past. An online version based on the same concept as KNetWalk is here: http://www.logicgamesonline.com/netwalk/
I like that the "tightly coupled" service class is 3 extremely simple LOC that should probably just be in a controller anyway, which is "fixed" by creating a class with 3X as many methods and at least twice as much logic to follow, plus a spec twice as long as the original class that tests nothing other than the fact that when you call a method with a set of arguments, that method receives that set of arguments.
Their actual URL is http://getpopcornti.me/, which still appears to be up and running.
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asm.js is a subset of JS, so by the conventional definition, it is not a plugin. The game should run, albeit slowly, on other browsers.
Its not a parody, but it deliberately uses the form of the Daily Mail. However, instead of delivering the ephemeral and trivial content of the DM, it uses that form to deliver content (intended to be) more potent.

I think one reason for using the DM's form is to highlight how empty the content of a online newspaper is, when compared to something thoughtful dressed up in the same design.
Slightly offtopic, but oddly enough MMM is also a name of the most famous Russian ponzi scheme from the 90s. Laughed a little bit, but no parallels, of course. All the luck to this blog.
Looks like this has already made it to the Wikipedia page for Kiss Trust:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_Trust
Put computer next to a window and let the sun light directly shoot on your screen? I don't think this will work.
Whoops, thanks. Updated. I was thinking of Grouper when I typed this, anyway.
Pretty sure the URL is http://getpopcornti.me which is functioning just fine
For me it depends on the content and my mood. With my app [0] I read at about 5-600wpm, whether it's 1, 2 or 3 words at a time. If I'm having trouble with a particular article, changing the number of words often fixes it. Though of course, for some content, I need to drop the WPM (esp when there's a lot of technical and/or unfamiliar terms).

[0]https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hughesoft....
HN isn't "real goods"? You're stuck in the past.
Honestly I don't have time to read, so I'm going to use this heavily. Long as I get the gist. If I miss a few things, I'll go back and quickly scan those few things I missed. I can finish like 10 articles on my commute no problem with this, versus just a few.
> He thought you needed redeemed from an evil, oppressive economic system.

And now I take issue with your use of pronouns. Marx never knew me, and neither do you.
I think, as with any tool, there's a time and place where it can be useful. Personally, I don't like to use Cucumber, but I've seen a couple of Rails apps that used it sparingly for integration tests and it worked wonders.
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also both in and on courts. :)
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Maybe MMM site is a good place for it, maybe not - but the idea sounds great - to have a place where people can submit info about when this happens to them as well to publicize and share advice.
<<Capitalism is a greedy optimizer. When it finds a local maximum it goes all in. It does not explore the fitness landscape.>>

Upvoted specifically for this line. That strikes me as a key insight into the free market's strengths and weaknesses.
The problem is that the VC "lottery" creates a short horizon.

The sexting app cashes out in 18-24 months.

The semiconductor company won't cash out for 5-7 years, if ever.

Want to fix the misallocation? Make the capital gains tax more than income tax instead of less. Suddenly all the smart boys will be off to companies that have profits instead of growth.
You're right - it wouldn't but at least it'd look like they gave a crap.
Be careful - it's extremely common for people to generalize their experiences onto the rest of humanity.
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i didn't understand, so you are pro or anti popcorn time?
Myself and 2 other ZenPayroll engineers found and applied to ZenPayroll through the job posts on HN.
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> but I don't see why we need to interpret a long-ish, otherwise non-theological piece uncharitably over the use of a single word once.

Because the words are in the general sense and I'd like someone to show me why "man", as it was originally phrased, needs any kind of redemption.

Maybe we don't need a tailbone or some troublesome cancer causing genes, but fixing bad genes isn't redemption. It's a judgement-free mechanical fix for a machine, a biological equivalent to the flipping of bits in programming code. I'm not redeeming my code by making it more optimal when I fix a bug. So why would changing our genes be redemption?
Even lower : 20132
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Well this one should be slam dunk to dismiss unless they file lawsuit in Texas eastern circuit court.