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Actually, as I read the article, I didn't get the impression that he meant:

free play algorithms --> demise

In fact, he seemed to mean:

transferable skills --> disparity in skills --> demise

And free play algorithms were actually what kept the industry going for slightly longer.
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I think this article doesn't actually address the obvious question of the stigma of actually eating in-vitro meat.
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30% would be an unfair expectation to set for John :)
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mechanically changed the playing field at certain thresholds

More moving parts means harder to maintain means costs more money to maintain. However, I guess this can be done by... for example, having parts of the board that open up as you get to higher scores. Still, there's only so much you can pack into the space a pinball machine has.

using different sorts of balls

Spectacular!
Depends. If he can narrow down the search by finding a specific area of the field he wants to go into it might be more tractable.
This sounds perfect for custom MediaWikis.
What?

Are you suggesting that the researchers made one of these errors?
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With my degree I've become a design problem solver generalist.

Wow! That sounds like a spectacular job... any advice on how to get into that field?
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The graphics tricks that e is able to pull of on some very skimpy hardware are simply amazing. I am not surprised somebody thought these libraries would be great for embedded devices too.
So would it be possible to plug in another garbage collection scheme...just for iPhone apps?
I've been following WPI for awhile, but I'm missing the actual connection to Azure here. From my perspective as someone who has been working in the Windows cloud ecosystem, Azure is more of a platform as a service than an infrastructure as a service play -- I'd love to hear how arbitrary apps a la WPI fit into that.
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Interesting. Pattern matching, eh?
I'm pretty good with regular expressions... sign me up!

:)
People are used to more, and we need to do it with less time. They don't want to wait for loading screens, they want to load their smoothly scrolling images over the WiFi on-demand from Flickr while performing high quality interpolation to produce the thumbnails.

They want to rotate the device to CoverFlow, and we'll have to load all those images as GL textures and pay the CPU hit for rendering the text labels as they rapidly scroll through their caturday pictures, all the while downloading and caching images in the background to provide a seamless and smooth user experience.

I can't add loading screens (so I have time to preload/pre-render), or restrict my data accesses to loading to optimized textures I have on disk, or spend months (years?) working on optimizing out every CPU cycle. That's not what people want.

So yes, for the things people expect from our applications, we're up against serious resource limits.
Looks like the old Simon Says game to me ...

http://www.timewarptoys.com/simon1.jpg
I was just going to say the same thing! For those not familiar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_(game)
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I dunno about killer app - but the Web Platform installer is pretty sweet. Glad to see it's finally coming out of beta.

Scott Hanselman blogged about web platform / web application installers about a year ago: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/MicrosoftWebApplicationInstall...

I haven't looked it at lately, it will be interesting to see how many of those apps they can integrate with Azure..
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under or overestimate?
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> maybe it will bing more consistency

Freudian slip?
Sounds promising. I'll be sure to give it a try once I get the chance.
I think dynaTrace guys did something insane. Kudos!

Believe me I was doing some IE stuff (BHOs) and working with their COM extension model is one of my worst experiences (right after creating installer using WiX system).

btw. check out my web-dev tools at http://binaryage.com :-)
Didn't know they were running CakePHP, but I can understand it being insufficient. Unfortunately, its attempts to copy Rails have left it as a framework designed for the wrong language. It's OK for beginners, but not something you really want to get locked into.

Good luck and godspeed on the migration, AMO.
Good golfers take risks. When Tiger Woods starts playing, they stop taking risks, so they end up being worse golfers.

That's another explanation.
Dynamic difficulty is a terrible idea. It reduces the potential difficulty-space of the game to two basic cases: Always too easy and always too hard. It means that if you lost, it's because the game chose to make you lose, not because of an effect on your choices, and if you win, it's because the game chose to let you win, not because of your skill.

Every couple of years I'll play a game with this new, innovative idea, and it's still the same story. It's sort of fun for a bit, until your brain catches up and realizes that as meaningless as most games are, this one is even more so. It's not a new idea and if it were going to work, it would have been made to work by now: http://www.intellivisiongames.com/bluesky/games/credits/spac...

(No, there is no in-between "just right". Simple control theory shows how you can't hover at the "just right" point; as you are at "just right", the system must dynamically adjust the difficulty above your level (or you even just hit a bad patch) and cause you to fail, at which point you're back at too easy. There's nowhere near enough data to get to "just right" even in theory.)
Jeff Bezos once said his favorite business book is Built to Last (http://www.amazon.com/Built-Last-Successful-Visionary-Compan...). You can still hear him use language from that book in recent interviews.
As part of Google's ever-growing marketing efforts, next week's episode of Stargate: Universe will reveal that the Kinos were just unpainted prototypes of the Google Flying Spybots that will see all, record all, and send all back to the Googleplex for processing.
The one thing that fascinates me about pinball is that unlike an arcade game, a PC can't properly simulate it. It has a physics/reality component to it that a computer can't touch.

Just like playing tennis or golf on your wii isn't quite the real thing. Why is it that for arcade games (think Doom for instance), the disconnect with reality is not as noticeable?
Yeah, your right. I guess I shouldn't say "remove technical details" but rather "use enough regular sounding English so that most people will get it."
That does make sense, but the article is saying that people screwed up because they overthought their current strategies and played worse than normally, not because they overcorrected in the other direction and took more risks.
It does. It suggests that Europe will take it up before USA, for cultural reasons. It might also be popular in the developing world.

Our food is already processed within an inch of it's life (then a good three yards past it). Tour Spam will be grown in a vat, rather than fed hormones and ground in a factory. Big deal.

You think PETA is unethical? Just wait for the smear campaigns that will crop up when MegaCorp can actually make some money off scaring people out of living meat.
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What stigma? When it's been gussied up with sauce and a fancy abstract plate, the average diner won't even taste the difference - or notice the fine text on the bottom of the menu, next to the Ethical Meats stamp.
I'm not sure both of those links show what you want to show- the first one looked like it put the company back on the private equity treadmill: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmons...

Just because the PE firms showed profit over a five year period doesn't necessarily mean they're doing the right thing for the company. What would be more impressive would be PE firms buying, managing, and hanging on to firms for the long term, which doesn't seem to be as fashionable.
So, what's the catch, other than having to have annoying Microsoft naming conventions like ASP.NET show up in my field of vision?
Assuming I believe in this taking over the world, can anyone point to some startups or larger public companies I should be following?
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There always are situations where you need to squeeze out performance and there always will be...So this argument is a dead end.

What argument do you think is going on here? My position is "all system programming doesn't have to be in C." It's not "C is dead" or any such nonsense.

The "argument" is a dead end because it exists in the imaginations of other posters. My position isn't such a straw man!
So this is a feature? I thought it was just broken in Linux.
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Go offline.

1.

Find a list of bloggers in your niche.

2.

Find their contact details. (Either their contact page, or their whois.)

3.

Send them a snail mail letter explaining your offer.

This seriously gets more high profile bloggers to review your products - because it cuts through the clutter. Its more work, but a lot more effective than email.
Perhaps you don't need another developer at this time. I find that operating at n-1 developers forces a team to really consider what the most important features are. As a developer, it's really easy for me to start thinking of really cool features, and if only I had another programmer or two on my team, I could do those features. But those are usually the superfluous features.

Joel Spolsky makes the same point in one of his posts on Joel on Software, although he uses a schedule as the limiting factor instead of number of programmers. (Skip to item 13: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000245.html).

I'm saying this because based on the first sentence of your post, it sounds like these projects in the pipeline aren't mission-critical. Of course I could be wrong. You know your business better than I do.
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My introduction to the way that businesses work was an "Engineering Economics" course. It is about how accounting works, i.e. "financial accounting" vs. "management accounting", the time value of money, what the numbers on a quarterly report mean, &c. If you find a course syllabus online you can see what topics are covered, and a find textbook.

Also when I was seeking this type of knowledge, I read chapters 2,3,4 of http://pmbook.ce.cmu.edu/ , which I found by looking at a MIT opencourseware course on project management. The textbook is about construction but the important aspects transfer to anything.

I think the most important thing is to learn the nuts and bolts. When you get comfortable with all that, then you can start to think at a higher level.
Maybe because I don't have specific experience of running through dungeons destroying invisible monsters with my bfg? (Yet.)

You raise an interesting point. At a guess, I imagine if you asked a big game hunter or combat soldier with experience tracking a target and firing weapons with the intent to kill, they would probably notice the disconnect. I wonder if Guitar Hero has limited fans among those who can actually play the guitar, for this reason as well?
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And I think the article takes a bit of a wide berth with the term "designer". Steve Ritchie actually designed those machines, Larry DeMar did the software for them.

As other posters have pointed out, innovation really did not stop in 1992. Pinball 2000 was actually a success, but Williams decided to pull the plug despite that. The Pinball 2000 platform was quite revolutionary - from how the player played the game, to how the game was designed, maintained, and even upgraded.

I don't think free play really had anything but an ancillary role in the decline of the hobby. It was likely the rise of video games, and specifically home consoles, that really hurt pinball. People played video games at home, and then played newer/better games in the arcade. Due to the cost a pinball machine in the home is a rarity to this day, and so the exposure it received was never the same. Kids learned Mario and Nintendo, they didn't learn the silver ball and flippers.

Along the lines of the article, the most "interesting" idea I heard in pinball circles was that clear coating playfields was a harbinger of doom. Williams started doing this and called it "Diamond Plate". It was designed to reduce the need for mylar to protect the playfield.

The premise is that the idea worked TOO well. Playfields on the machines could look like new forever. A machine's lifetime was extended, the impetus to replace the machine was lowered, and sales suffered.
Interesting. Sort of like Heroku with "instant install", no admin. I don't touch .Net with a 10 foot pole (yeah, letting my M$crosoft biases show), but this does look cool.
I have tried Azure and I have to say it is super cool
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That's a very poor representation of bioinformatics. There's certainly a lot of data munging and cleaning (like in any field with lots of data), but bioinformatics/computational biology is not about dumb pattern matching or just writing code. Biologists can code just fine (I got a job at Facebook off a PhD in computational biology).

It's all about data mining and machine learning on biological data, to gain real insight about the functioning of an organism, often then doing the experiments to test that insight. I've seen lots of computer scientists and programmers jump in and flounder, because they're under the misconception that all it takes is the application of canned algorithms to a new data set. You need to understand biology (genomics, molecular biology, genetics, structural biology), first and foremost. Then you need to understand a significant amount of statistics, information theory, and computer science.

This isn't meant to discourage you, but you're not going to get far beyond doing more web programming for biology websites if you don't teach yourself some of these areas.
This really is true and under-appreciated. Carsten's (raster, rasterman.com) early work on EFL was fantastic, and even though the delays of E17 became a bit of a joke in some circles, the progress was always impressive.
It suggests that Europe will take it up before USA, for cultural reasons.

This mystifies me. All you have to say is "genetically modified" and Europe flips its proverbial wig. Aren't savvy English cattle farmers going to say "Oh-my-Gaia this is Frankenfood! It is unnatural! It is cloned! It probably has DNA in it! Phone your representative, this should be banned!"

(The reference to savvy farmers is an oblique reference to the fact that the difference between GMO soybeans/corn/etc and non-GMO soybeans/corn/etc is that a preference or requirement for non-GMO product shuts American-grown stuff out of the market. What a handy coincidence.)
I think the coolest way to write a lexer is to use the derivative of regular expressions:

http://matt.might.net/articles/implementation-of-regular-exp...

It's surprisingly easy to implement, as the prior example demonstrates in Scheme.

This is the technique I recommend to my advanced compilers class.
but... but i thought django was only for making blog engines!

i kid, i kid...
It reminds me of the morph ball from Metroid.
Hyphenation improves readability tremendously. It's a time-honored practice whose results have been proven repeatedly.
I'd recommend Carl Sagan's "Who Speaks for Earth?".
I'd like to point out that if we assume that the infrared wave travels at the speed of light in empty space (I know it's somehow slower but good enough for the back of this virtual envelope) to a subject 1.5m from the camera and comes back, the total time would be 10.007 nanoseconds, so the timer should be accurate enough to measure fractions of nanoseconds to perform a correct autofocus.

So, I don't think that's how it works. Now, for the sound wave, maybe?
Postulate two sets of people. Set A consists of those who regularly eat meat, deeply care about the origin of that meat, but care very little about the environmental impact of raising meat and are dismissive of any cruelty or health concerns. Set B consists of folks who are vegetarian or who avoid red meat because of health, environmental, and/or cruelty considerations.

I suspect almost all of set B would eat vat meat and that set B is larger than set A.
So my graduate databases class recently took a look at several of these cloud computing environments, and Microsoft offering is clearly compelling both from an tool integration stand point and from the technical side.

For instance Microsoft's incremental innovation in their S3 like utility, called Simple Data Storage (SDS), is that SDS provides guarantees for Durability and Consistency, while Amazon really only guarantees Durability. There has been some work on implementing idempotent logs on top of S3, and SQS to provide similar guarantees but this is third party academic work see http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1376616.1376645 for an introduction.

While at first glance Microsofts innovation is an improvement however, there is the question of how SDS performs at scale. Providing consistency for such a system will incur some amount of overhead. Has anyone here used SDS to serve larges amount of data with frequent updates? I would be interested to know how it compares with S3.
It can't be -that- great. It's all junk traffic, so the CPMs probably suck. My friend owns netflicks.com which redirects to Netflix with a referral link and makes a bit more than www.com probably does.
Hi Snorkel,

Thanks a lot for feedback. That's correct. Unfortunately we have only 2 books as of now. Talking with lots of authors and publishers to get more books on the store. Soon we should get some books and users should be able to browse through them.

What is your opinion about core idea/product? Feel free to write to us at support@roorky.com.
"When it did work it would return enormous nested arrays of data causing massive CPU and memory usage (out of memory errors plague us on AMO). When it didn’t work, we’d end up doing queries directly which kind of defeats the purpose."

For what it's worth, I believe a lot of these issues are solved with 1.2 (AMO claims to be still on 1.1 which is at least two years old now). It sounds as if their system is just defining relations in their models and letting the database layer pull up all the objects for them. Which of course creates problems. They should shift to using "contains" to limit the depth of the objects retrieved.

The only real issues I've run into in the most recent version of Cake have been an inability to define a separate join table on one of the basic relationships (hasMany?). I seem to remember rails making this possible through an intermediary table, but it is somewhat advanced in any case and the easiest solution ended up being to write an SQL function in the model and use that to fetch the data. It was not hard.

Good luck to them with the re-write.
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After seeing http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/developer.aspx, I feel sad that Google App Engine (GAE) still does not have a "click to install"

Currently, there are two options for application developers in GAE

1. The code needs to handle segmentation of customer data based on login and also arrive at billing strategy for the resource usage.

2. Ask customers to sign up for GAE, create an application and invite the developer; after which, the developer can manually deploy the application. Code need not have segmentation logic and resources can be purchased directly from Google.

Though my application http://crm.ifreetools.com supports both options, it could be better if there was a marketplace allowing a "click to install", rather than the current marketplace which focuses on services..
http://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/

..and a GAE application gallery acting as just a directory...
http://appgallery.appspot.com/results?q=crm
Any guesses who? Who are the top-5 electronics makers, that make mobile phones, televisions, and sound systems?

Hmm, Samsung said they're releasing their own mobile OS stack:
http://gizmodo.com/5401326/why-did-samsung-just-announce-ano...

Which would correlate as a top electronics manufacturer, including phones, tv, and sound systems.
The only facts quoted in the article are: Tiger woods in dominant, and "[w]hen the superstar entered a tournament, every other golfer took, on average, 0.8 more strokes. This effect was even more pronounced when Woods was playing well."

Based solely on the above they draw their conclusions. I'm just pointing out that there is a simpler and more rational conclusion one could draw.
Yeah the Valley can suffer from tunnel vision sometimes..

Glad to see there is a pulse in NY, with the added benefit that hubs like Boston aren't far away.

The article is a little full of itself.. but hey.. it's New York City baby!

EDIT: Bit stuffy in here (loosens collar)
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