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I've always found old-style letterpress businesscards beautiful (actually letterpress print in general), but it seems hard to find. Does anyone know a good place for letterpress businesscards?

I'm not really familiar with what an application server is (even less what makes it enterprise-grade).

What is the typical use-case for this or TorqueBox?

I would be more interested in generating pass-phrases like the "4 common word password" of XKCD.

There are three things I find annoying by this game.

I shouldn't be driving a car if I don't have money for it. I should sell the car and always take bus, since later in the game it says I have that option.

I had to choose if I should stay with an hourly paycheck or work by the piece. I choose piece because then I thought I could put in some more work, but then it just said I couldn't work that much. Well if I had known that I would have stuck with an hourly check, that's math you can actually work out in real life before making that decision.

It says I have a college degree but that wont help me, and then it says I'm probably too uneducated to help out my children with math homework.

All in all some interesting facts about the american low-income society, but the choices and different aspects of it are very strange. You could do a lot more to save money as well as make more money than is presented here. Well basically, kind of annoyingly simplified.

If this could become the centralized way to handle packages for Sublime Text like npm has become for Node I think it would be a big step forwards towards Sublime Text replacing TextMate.

Maybe I've just not kept up to date with what goes on with TextMate but to my knowledge there is nothing like this for TextMate and looking for packages for TextMate always becomes a googling quest for me.

Now of course, with TextMate, there's hundreds of packages doing more or less the same thing to different authors tastes, if the same thing happens with Sublime Text, there would need to be some sort of filtering in this package manager?

I'm not sure what the point of living off the coast of SF is if you can't go in to land now and then. The whole point of being in SF is the networking possibilities, not some magical sphere of influence that surrounds the area.

If you still can't enter the country you might as well be in your own country working in comfortability.

I agree with you on everything except that he should skip college. This would land him a salaried job at a lot of places, but if he's truly interested in computer design he would probably want to work at IBM/Intel/AMD research departments and they certainly require a college education to just get through the interview filters.

Not to mention there is a lot of stuff he could learn at college that would actually be tremendously useful if he wants to continue in this path. Everything from the physics of conductors to more advanced electronics design are things that can be quite hard to pick up from tutorials online.

As jasongullickson said, a reasonable price.

But I think the question is really strange. It's like asking "What is the Porsche sedan lacking that the Volvo sedan provides?"

They're for different people. Photoshop in my mind is for professionals who use a lot of different tools to master their craft. While Pixelmator seems much more focused on photo-editing and some quick work.

Pixelmator makes design and (more advanced than iPhoto-) photo-editing more easily available to non-professionals.

If you really use everything Photoshop has to offer, I don't think the price is unreasonable. But few people do.

I've had this exact experience as well. Where everything turned out perfect, I coded, went home and went to sleep and woke up with a perfect solution and got going _right_ away.

More often than not though, this method has left me lying in bed awake for 2-3 hours of inability to sleep due to thinking about nothing but that problem.

If I could get over the sleeplessness somehow, I would do this every time!

Is it possible to get a hold of video of the presentation anywhere?

Then what do you see the use case is in the future? I'm not sure I can envision what function this would actually fill.

I'm more interested in ad-spam than this kind of botnet fraud spam.

For instance, if I built a twitter bot replying to anyone saying "iPad" with a link, then the page at the end of that link was absolutely filled with ads. How much money would I make?

It seems to be a somewhat viable method of getting some cash because you see a lot of those bots around.

There's a bug on the front page. First the mentions said 0, then I tried mentioning it and now it print out JSON. (http://i.imgur.com/zRC3i.png)

Otherwise it looks really nice. What metric services do you plan to integrate with?

This article seems thin on facts and big on sensations.

Two things strike me as pretty weird sentences in the article.

>Worst-case scenario builders consistently underestimate the statistical probability of separate bad things happening simultaneously

There must have been more than three accidents at nuclear plants in the history of mankind. Yet three "misjudgments" make them consistently wrong?

>Actually, ever major nuclear accident has been worse than worst case, and that's a fact

How can something be worse than worst case? I don't understand what the article tries to claim that "experts" have deemed the worst case. Clearly Fukushima is not worse than worst case as there haven't even been a full meltdown or anything like that yet.

Second, what is "Every major nuclear accident". Have there only been 3 major nuclear accidents? What constitutes major?

Can you add a 3D graphics library as well so we can have an awesome (modern) replacement of http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/ ? :P

But what do you do when you want a question answered that you can't google?

Isn't that the idea that all the Q&A sites stem from?

I feel roughly the same as you. But I have actually asked questions both at StackExchange sites and Quora (and answered others in return for the help I received). And it certainly has it's uses to me.

Ah. I'm not very good with colors unfortunately :P Do you have any tips? It's all CSS so it's very easy to change.

It started very factual and nice and then in Part 2 it went into a very extreme conspiracy theory explanation. But while I am inherently skeptic to conspiracy theories; I've heard this one so many times. It's actually quite believable.

If it's true, how could it possibly have happened? Could a powerful enough organization actually terrify all presidents from JFK and forward enough to not oppose them. Or do everyone see it as a decent system?

If it truly is "evil" what can be done against it?

The only real info on the webpage as to how the pages are generated is "Pages are driven by Markdown rendered into HTML templates."

Looking at the demo template all the content is in txt files and there's html templates with {{tags}} in them like that.

It would be interesting to know what's behind it all, it kind of looks like jekyll. But I'm not familiar enough to say so.

Did I miss something or do they not count the expenses for TwitPic?

If they only get $10,000 for 3,2 millions views it seems almost likely that they're losing money, not making it...

Edit: A quick calculation tells me the expenses are actually quite negligible. The picture is 174kb * 3,2m servings * $0.03/GB for amazon cloudfront traffic (which I think they're using) means it's only cost them 16 bucks.

I'm in Tokyo myself and this post made for some very interesting reading! Even though I want to be in Tokyo my biggest problem in thinking about startups is a reason to be here as you said.

You should come to the hacker news meetup in February! I'm sure there are a lot of people who would love to meet you guys!

You could have one global list that essentially is a bot-competition (which I think is interesting in itself) and then allows users to create named lists, allowing friends to compete internally.

Very nice game! As some others have said the progression speed was too slow, I got to level 25 before I got to see any ships basically...

There was one thing that bothered me multiple times though, I couldn't distinguish between t and f fast enough on some occasions, I would suggest switching to a different font.

Also, a High-score list would make things complete.

It's just the same old piracy arguments as always. Using a legal loophole is not the same as selling drugs or not follow safety regulations.

Grooveshark is not doing anything illegal even if they might be "abusing the law".

The fact remains that people want to consume music in a way that the music industry does not allow.

If it werent for legal loopholes we wouldn't have YouTube and we wouldn't have tourism in eastern Europe. The world isn't as black and white as you portray it and Grooveshark provides an amazing service of much higher quality than Spotify.

We can't all sit on our hands and do nothing because someone in the world thinks we shouldn't. Innovation sometimes requires using loopholes.

Doing what Spotify did isn't that easy. They had years of lawyer negotiations before they got any label to sign up. They had to have some serious dough before they could even broadcast the first tune. And that's with the swedish STIM organization that pretty much lets you broadcast any music as long as you pay per listener.

Grooveshark is trying to build a business. To build a business on music you have to let people listen to music. Once they have working business-model (if they ever get there) they can get to paying the artists.

I agree it's somewhat twisted, but I think that's what is necessary.

There are also sunglasses that filter out IR only, we wear them in the laser labs in school all the time.

What exactly is "Old-skool" in virus-writing and what is new-school?

I don't think you're being downvoted for reporting facts. The article was about an editor that you're not even mentioning. And on top of that, what you're talking about is very obscure. Why would I ever want to open a 450mb file in a text-editor?

What tipped you off to start talking about large files in a thread about UltraEdit?

EDIT: Just saw the thread about large files further down. Maybe you meant to make a reply?

Everyone seems to be very negative here. I will still definitely buy one of these. It's an absolutely unnecessary product that had many alternatives already when announced a year ago. And none of that has changed.

I see this whole process as a fun learning experience of how difficult it can be to ship a physical product (fun because i'm not on their end).

I don't need the product so who cares if I have to wait for it...

I won't be able to make it out this time but I sure am looking forward to the next! These meetings are always entertaining with lots of inspiring and insightful people!