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You also have to realize the availability of a webplayer and the complete IDE for linux are different things. What that vocal minority seemed to aim for was the ability to play the unity games and not to have the IDE for linux.

This will be the first serious game engine to be released which has Android support. Hopefully we can see some ports of the popular iPhone games running on android in the near future :)

Yup, this is the worst part, he is getting away with this even though tens of Google employees, and i'm sure including Matt Cutts, have read these articles. They do nothing about it..

I guess as long as you bring in a lot of money for Google they will look the other way. I'm just wondering if their anti spam team is aware of articles like this and why they don't respond? This is really a clear case of spam and its going on for ages..

My Flash debug player gave a connection timeout to querytrends.php, hope you can fix it :)

If you mean the general public with "people", like consumers that might be true. But there are a lot of companies willing to pay you truckloads of money for the right information.

Well regular mainstream sites aren't, but mobile web applications/sites are making use of css3 and html5 features not present in IE8/7. In the mobile industry Microsoft has such a large marketshare that it will be safe to ignore the browser of Windows Mobile 7 (for now).

That browser better has to support the exact same features as webkit for android and Iphone else I don't think this phone can match up against the iphone and android phones due to the lack of developer interest in developing for this browser.

Developers are fed up for years with Microsoft's browsers and here they can safely ignore it because it doesn't have a huge market share.

I like the idea, but the execution can definitely be improved. It lacks too many features to be interesting for me. Such as being able to login and edit my profile, international support (why not do this from the start??), ability to provide some links and stuff.

but its a good start! Iterate your way to the top ;)

Oh: looks like I can edit my profile!

True, hence "I wonder" when they do..is wondering something enough to downvote comments?

And yes they do care about controlling the users, they just use other ways to enforce that (appstore, hardware lock-in)

It's definitely fair of Microsoft to try and protect its intellectual property. However I'm a paying customer and I expect that if I pay for their product I will not be hassled by their anti piracy measures.

Personally I rather have them invest the money they get from paying customers on creating more value for other people to buy their products than to create more "measures" against piracy. We all know that products with any form of DRM have a worse user experience than those exact same products without.

Apple has other products which could incorporate this behavior (not trusting their customers) like itunes content, iWorks or potentially jail broken iphones. I mean there are various ways for Apple to gain more control over their users.

This is absolutely ridiculous, I wonder how long it takes before Apple to take over this behavior. Crackers will always be able to outsmart Microsoft. The only victims of this technology are paying customers, like me. Maybe it's time to cancel my Action Pack and Websitespark memberships and use software from a company who trusts its own customers and doesn't treat its customers as potential pirates.

As student I joined a startup which has shown me a lot of insight which will definitely useful in case I ever join another one. I can also recommend joining startups which operate in slightly different industries to get a broader understanding of different aspects of a startup.

This sounds exactly like Google Wave but better..

Update: they brilliantly integrated the product into another product millions of people are already using.

I wonder if the benefits of this product outweigh the cons of the costs of all the MS Windows 2008 licenses you need to get to run Dryad.

Recent graduates need opportunities to work together with the "stars/ninja's/samurai's" so they can be the next "rockstar" programmers.

I can comment on all of your statements, but I just want to say that you have to realize that there are other channels to point people at interesting content other than the /new link. Whether you like it or not, there are people who link their submissions on any of those channels and might ask to upvote it. Just like it happens on all other communities. #startups is not an organised voting ring. The regulars only upvote/flag/downvote people/submissions if they would do the same thing as if they stumbled on that content in "the natural" way.

If you feel like we (#startups) are part of the problem and not part solution, then feel free to reveal yourself in the channel and confront us with what bothers you.

As I see it, #startups is a channel which has very smart people involved in the startups community including many people working for YC companies. As the channel is realtime we have the great opportunity to point others to interesting stories before they will go to hackernews and see what's new themselves. Certainly not all people will just up vote articles blindly without seeing if it's actually a good article. Just like I think swombat's response was good, I gave him an up vote. If you sticked around in our channel longer you would know that we often joke about taking money and "giving free upvotes". Hiding in the channel anonymously and posting the logs on this channel is exactly why people get annoyed with the content you submit which in turn results in calling names (which I should also apologize for) in an informal semi-private setting..

The people in the channel submit interesting and relevant articles on regular base and I think those submissions are one of the main reasons I visit this site on a daily base. The channel is certainly part of the solution and not the problem. We submit good content, why worry about the way it happens?

Which gamejam were you part of?

This pretty much proves once again that gaming search engines is here to stay. There is still a lot of research to be done to make it harder to get away with this type of websites, but luckily there are more and more ways, other than Google, to find the content you are looking for.

There are more types of websites than just content based websites and sometimes websites who have to compete for the exact same content. The one who understands internet marketing the best will have better rankings than the ones that don't. A webshop selling airline tickets won't rank better if you add "interesting content", thats just not the way it works. Also the "interesting content" might distract people from what they have to do, order tickets. People have to realize that internet marketing is here to stay and it is something you have to think about.

Also your statement about spending time on interesting content gives your the highest ROI is not true. Hollywood and the game industry prove from time to time that they can create hypes and market B quality productions and still make tons of money. This also counts on the internet. Content is evaluated by machines (Google, Bing etc) who determine if it is interesting or not. Doing A/B testing to test which landing page works best is better time spent than spending your time hiring people to create interesting content. Just changing your button can increase sales by over 100%.

Ask the developers in the appstore whats more important, interesting content or a position in the top 5.

"What? Yes it will. More recent links from people will give it more page rank score. If it's a new algorithm that helps find cheaper tickets and beats out the major competitors, for example, it'll get tons of links really quick from blogs talking about it."

Right..so if e-commerce businesses just hired smart people to build algorithms and hope for viral effects they will rank high. You make it sound so easy.. unfortunately I would say this is unrealistic in most cases. In a realistic world you have to admit that it is very hard for businesses in saturated markets to just add "interesting content". Having a budget for online marketing, including seo, adds measurable ways to achieve sales. Spending a fortune on technology might be out of proportion compared to your business size. Having a sale, good customer service, coupon codes will give the same kind of buzz in the blog scene around your product. It is still part of the puzzle and you need more than one part to solve the puzzle.

"I don't think you get how this works."

Then tell me whats wrong with my statement about the appstore. Just telling someone he doesn't get it has no added value. You can make your statement more useful by, for example, adding some links to blog posts from people who write about the process of gaining a steady income stream using interesting content.

edit: oops deleted the original post, had to repost it :/

http://djangogigs.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=50788

What about Google Wave? :)

This is not true, the moment I saw it it had 4 upvotes, now it has 10, it was down the entire time.

Why do people upvote this when the website is down?

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/arantaday.com

I'm from the Netherlands and can recommend you to settle down in Amsterdam. There are a lot of tech startups/companies located there which have more interesting jobs than the local consultancy branches of big international corporations. If you can't find interesting jobs in Amsterdam there are various cities within a very reasonable distance such as Utrecht (25 min by train).

Some companies offer opportunities to work from home for 1 day a week.

Personally I'm a little bit jealous on the tech communities of other countries. They tend to have more interesting jobs and companies than over here. Search on crunchbase for some of the startups in Holland. Else you will most likely end up in some consultancy job or web design agency, which is fine, but it has to be your thing. For linux sys admins Amsterdam is also perfect since the majority of big hosting companies in Europe have servers in some datacenter in Amsterdam.

There are some ruby meetups around Amsterdam too as far as I'm aware, you might want to search for amsterdam-rb.

This is not neutral, the guy works exclusively in Clojure as freelancer, so it is fair to assume he is sort of biased.. as others mentioned here before he misses some important aspects which Scala has to offer.

Not sure what the news value of this is, GVR is a very good programmer, but not a frontend engineer. This is kinda like a famous CSS expert/designer like Mark Boulton or Veerle Pieters giving up on SQL because it's so much more pain than what the MS visual studio wizards can generate for you.