probablycorey

46% of Costco shoppers are middle class (earning $40k-$125k) and 33% are upper class and according to market research companies.

Membership is $65.

You don't need an SUV to shop at Costco, it is easy to load the groceries into a sedan.

This is about that.

The same person built both of these.

This article is about how Javier Bardem, Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, and Mark Ruffalo are blacklisted from Paramount. Which one of those actors are Jewish?

Is this realistic though? Every time you update a dependency you would have to read its source (and its source dependencies, and their source dependencies...)

To do that well, it would be someone's fulltime job to read and do security audits on all those dependencies.

I agree with both of you.

> Glad this won't be an issue going into the next presidential election.

I wish this was true. But I think the decision will increase the discussion of marriage equality in the next election. Just look at the political impact abortion had after the supreme court decided Roe v. Wade. Abortion was used to galvanize conservative votes against liberals and SCOTUS.

Has anyone used a service like https://www.equidateinc.com. They help you "sell" the right to buy your stock options to a third party. From their site:

> Traditional stock sales are time consuming, expensive, and clutter a company's cap table. Now it's easier: the Equidate contract transfers the economic upside and downside of your shares without actually selling them. It honors all exisiting transfer restrictions on your stock, and your identity is kept private throughout the entire process.

> The contracts Equidate has designed have aspects similar to both a derivative contract and a asset-backed loan. The result allows an investor to purchase the rights now to the economic upside/downside of a share now, without going through the complications of adding additional shareholders to the company's cap table or the hassles of a secondary stock transaction, postponing any transfer of shares until the company is ready.

Just for reference, that situation doesn't apply to California because of [Prop. 13](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_%2819...). It restricts the annual increases of property taxes to an inflation factor, not to exceed 2% per year.

I really enjoyed Bret Victor's " The Humane Representation of Thought" http://vimeo.com/115154289

It made me consider all the human I/O that we currently ignore.

> He's attempting to analyze systemic changes in society accurately.

s/He/She

> Muni is the slowest major transit system in America—and among the least reliable and most overcrowded.

http://www.spur.org/publications/article/2010-02-01/learning...

The tenderloin, soma, mission bay, dog patch, bayview. It's not like current buildings were built on empty lots.

In earthquakes Taller buildings are safer than smaller buildings http://articles.latimes.com/2007/mar/25/opinion/op-little25

Also, go to the the hip neighborhoods in NYC (LES Williamsburg), notice the tall buildings being built. Units in these buildings are being bought for large amounts of money.

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There are very few clunky bits in Alien or Blade Runner. It is amazing how well they hold up.

I'm not so sure about this. Many platforms attract developers without being compelling.

I get your point that there is "ruin porn" in almost any city.

I don't think you get my point though. Detroit is almost entirely "ruin porn", there are no million dollar homes next to any ruins in Detroit, I doubt there are any million dollar homes in Detroit at all.

Sure, you can do that in certain parts of LA. But you can see these ruins almost everywhere in Detroit. It's really one of the most depressing cities I've ever been to.

Android is still much more open than Apple. A developer can actually view the Android source code, you can deploy an application to a device without Google's permission, you can access much more of the OS features from Android than with the iPhone.

The only people this limits "openness" for is device manufactures, which most developers would probably consider a good thing.

Porting ed to the URL bar would be a triumph!

If you fail as an entrepreneur, your debts are wiped. Either because the investors pay them back or you declare bankruptcy. There is no escape from student loans, even if you declare bankruptcy you are still required to pay them back.

So it's quite different than what happens to entrepreneurs, they can fail and comeback several times, tabula rasa. Someone saddled with student debt is forced to live with that choice until they pay it off or they die.

Working 6 days a week for 12 hours a day is how this guy avoids burning out? I think 72 hours a week qualifies as a death march.

I couldn't disagree more. I used to work in the game industry and one of the biggest things we would look for was a passion for gaming and the ability/history of shipping a game.

If an entry level candidate developed a game we could download and play, it was almost guaranteed we would bring them in for an interview. It didn't matter if it was text based in C, a simple card game in Python, or a Galaga clone. Sure a background in C/C++ is good, but it was pretty low on the list of things we looked for in entry level applicants.

So if you want my advice, complete game of your own as soon as you can, in whatever language works best for you. Pick up the skills and tool knowledge you need as you go along.

That book is a little dated because it deals with Lua 5.0 but is still good. The differences between 5.0 and 5.1 can be found here http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#7 and new version of the book can be found on amazon.

Where do you live and who is your dentist!

Typical pant-wearer.

  San Francisco is fun, don’t get me wrong. Compared to New York, 
  it’s boring. I have trouble even thinking about living in an 
  apartment in Mountain View, Cupertino or Palo Alto. Those places 
  are socially dead.

Mountain View, Cupertino or Palo Alto are not San Francisco. It is like saying...

  New York City is fun, don’t get me wrong. Compared to San Francisco, 
  it’s boring. I have trouble even thinking about living in an apartment 
  in Staten ISland, East Rockaway or Westchester. Those places 
  are socially dead.

The worst part is Apple forces you to use Objective-C on the iPhone even if better options exist. I created a Lua/Cocoa bridge http://probablyinteractive.com/2009/10/18/Setting-up-iPhone-... that works wonderfully. It considerably cuts down the amount of code I need to write, but Apple forbids me from using it on the iPhone.

He is at the first stage of Cocoa development. Learning a new language is fun, and you can create some really cool stuff with the Cocoa frameworks. But once that wears off you are left with Objective-C, a vestigial language that isn't suited for a majority of application development.

Here are some reasons I think Objective-C needs to be retired:

- Header Files: These are archaic and require you to repeat code unnecessarily. Compiler's shouldn't require humans to do something that computers are better at.

- No Automatic Garbage Collection: In ObjC 2.0 we have this, but not on the iPhone. Unless you are making a high performance game, there is no reason the phone can't handle Automatic GC.

- No NSDictionary/NSArray literals: [[NSDictionary alloc] initWithObjectsAndKeys:@"value", @"key", @"value2", @"key2", nil]; // Enough said

- No regex: You kind of get regex's in 3.2+, but they are very limited and require around 3-4 lines of setup to get anything done.

- Xcode: You are pretty much required to use Xcode and I don't like Xcode. Even if you use the "xcodebuild" CLI, you still have to create the project through Xcode.

- Closures: I guess we will be able to use these soon, but it is going to take awhile for all the API's to get updated to accommodate them.

- No dynamic variables: It's handy to be able to shove data into objects sometimes. It's a hack, but as long as you treat it as such you can save a lot of needless code. (You can do this via the ObjC runtime, but it's messy)

- Unit Testing: It barely exists and is difficult to use.

- No namespacing: ObjC handles namespaces by prefixing class names. Blah, that is so 1978.