joncameron's comments

From your link:

> In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

Which is of course intriguing, since cat-v.org hosts frothing-at-the-mouth vitriol about topics like women in tech and gay marriage in the always trustworthy and well reasoned medium of reposted reddit and slashdot comments. And presumably I'm supposed to click over to the technical stuff with a straight face.

I agree that it's misleading based on the title. On the site and in the text above it's more explicit about being a Zelda-like engine for action adventure games, and it looks like an awesome project. I clicked the link expecting something like Adventure Game Studio, though.

"...long writing was necessary only where quick contextualisation was impossible"

Adler and Doren's "How to Read a Book" covers quick contextualization; there were techniques and ideas about this starting in the early 70s, most of which is still very relevant and I've found very useful in my own reading life.

Wikipedia is notorious in the video game history community for its lack of accuracy and vague primary sources.

>There's value in a shorter more targeted tutorial

That's often true, but I was disappointed that this was little more than a rephrased version of what's on the Arch Wiki.

I love the Arch documentation on the Wiki. It's perfect for me– laid out well, easy to follow, arranged in a logical wiki order, and stuffed with insanely useful tips. The pages on stuff like tmux are fantastic.

This gave me a really good chuckle.

Have you used uTorrent recently? They've had an unshrinkable ad area in the main window for a while. Torrent sites are full of ads too; I'm willing to wager that there are plenty of advertisers willing to put ads up in non-traditional spaces. It's not going to be Proctor&Gamble, but revenue's getting made for sure. Not to mentioned the "bundled" crapware being discussed.

How about a non-Apple App Store: something like homebrew with a friendly GUI that's easy to navigate? I started using Homebrew Cask recently, and it seems like a perfect workflow for the average user who just wants to download VLC or whatever.

I'm imagining Grandma pulling up the "Application Warehouse", let's say, and clicking a download button under a VLC icon. It gets downloaded from a trusted source over HTTPS, gets checked against a hash, symlinked and Gran's ready to go, all without the hassle of shady installers from the search engine shitpile.

That's sometimes true, but it's nice to hear someone with status admit they're not an infallible paragon. There's value in that, especially for those lower on the pole who stew in their own minds with assumptions about how everyone else is x amount smarter and more competent, however true that may be.

OK, but what's the value in that statement–what does "discussed" mean for him? Looking at the 2009 list, there are plenty of books still circulating in discourse. Asterious Polyp and the Dan Chaon, Margaret Atwood and Jonathan Lethem novels are still quite talked about. Without context, I'm going to assume that is this just an acerbic, arms-crossed way to snub a popularly considered list.

I would assume that it's referencing cultural impact in a stricter (sub)cultural sense. The decentralized gulf of Anonymous vs. distinct hacking groups with points of view and identity is largely what the article is bemoaning.

"Notice this does not concern _collaboration_ as much as it does _collectiveness_."

Right there in the article... Moz signed up with CloudFlare "but Mr. Skinner said the attacker has found new ways to attack their systems."

Does anyone know what that might be? There are quite a few people on HN who have zero sympathy for DDoS victims who don't pony up for Cloudflare etc., but I'm curious about situations when that isn't going to help or other attack vectors that will get you regardless.

This chart gets trotted out in seemingly every resolution-related discussion... does anyone know where the numbers come from? I've always assumed they were pulled from somebody's ass, but I'd be interested to find out if that's not the case.

Very curious since it looks dubious to me but gets thrown out at as cold hard fact every single time.

That's what Wikipedia has, and the implication from this Times story http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/05/technology/techspecial4/05... that it draws from.

Here's some good journalism with the same outcome:

"Is there a time limit on how long someone can be detained? Do people have to unlock their phones, if asked? Do agents have to inform you why you're being detained? And I didn't even approach them as like an angry citizen. I approached them as a journalist, who had very straightforward questions just about the process and the protocol. And what I discovered, doing that, is that the lack of transparency that I saw during our detainment just continued up and up and up the ranks, all the way to DC, where nobody was getting back to me about anything."

http://www.onthemedia.org/story/my-detainment-story-or-how-i...

Like others have noted, most of this can be generally applied to Kickstarter projects in general. Some thoughts from someone working with consumer 3D printers almost daily:

I can't see disappointment (as he's outlined it) as a consequence of these delays. It's something unavoidably bound up in home and hobbyist 3D printing in general. It doesn't matter if you have a Makerbot or Kickstarter-backed printer... there's still a learning curve in terms of mechanical operation and maintenance, 3D modeling, etc. that the average user won't have had previous experience with.

The greater consumer 3D printing market is not on Kickstarter. Makerbot machines, the Afinia, the Cube series... these are the greater consumer market. I can't see the potential pitfalls for Kickstarted 3D printers as being much different than the usual risks/mindset of people who contribute to crowd-funding stuff.

Obsolescence also doesn't seem like as much of an issue. If you get a reliable printer in a medium that will work for your needs, you're good for a while... it's more important that the user decide what they want. Print material, build size, software and hardware niceties... it really depends on what you're doing and what you need. And the person who put together a RepRap is probably much different than the person who saw the Form 1 on Kickstarter and thought it sounded cool enough to try. There are different expectations along the broad spectrum of things the consumer can buy in the 3D printing space.