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Still, sad to see the once-great China, who gave us paper, movable type, gunpowder, the compass, and too many other world-changing inventions to name here, devolving into a dystopian nation of bean-counting surveillance monkeys. A great society (and I am not implying that America and the West are "great" in this sense) does not police private communications between adults in order to detect the use of lewd or subversive words...period. Such behavior is symptomatic of a system of government that is rotten to its core.

I doubt you can extrapolate from your experiences on a single MMORPG to the industry as a whole. Grind may well be intentional in your case, or in WoW; but in (many) other MMORPGs, the designers put a lot of work into reducing grind. Grind is always a double-edged sword, and rather than focus on grinding for grinding's sake, I recommend you focus on creating a compelling gaming experience first; worry about metastructure when you've managed to do that.

Well I guess I'll be the only one saying it: this entire article reeks of male geek condescension. I didn't know Clay Shirky was a feminist-apologist but I certainly grow tired of messages like this delivered from male bloggers about how women need to change, to do this or that or the other. This is a thin rewrite of a post that appeared I believe here on HN a few weeks back; only that post was actually written by a woman. These outside-looking-in pieces that male bloggers do are almost always a bad idea.

Italian dictionary... $20.

Magnifying glass... $15.

Internet connection... $40.

Using the Internet Anagram Server to help decode an ancient esoteric manuscript?

Priceless.

It's extremely difficult for a global warming skeptic to get published in scientific journals because the decision-makers are beholden in one way or another to the global warming movement. This is why we've yet to see a fair and honest debate of this issue. What we have today is 90% politics 10% science.

It strips content down to plain text, removing any advertising, promotional links, social networking buttons, etc., and it does so without the permission of the originating site. Digg tried to pull something similar when they introduced the Digg toolbar (embedding original content in a frame) and people got hopping mad. But I guess on the iPhone anything goes, since Apple owns the copyright for rounded rectangles.

I don't know if technology diminishes human creativity, but it certainly increases our love for big, intelligent-sounding words. :)

Well I'll be the lone dissenting voice here. Downmod away...

First, I think illegal immigration is still ILLEGAL immigration and yes, the laws need to be reformed but until they are, let's not be too devious in how we aid and abet criminal behaviors.

Second and more to the point, anybody who's considering immigrating to the US of A (or Canada) for "technology" will face a rude awakening in another 5-10 years. You're immigrating to the wrong hemisphere. Now if you think you might be a good producer of trash reality TV then hey! Come on over. That's where America truly excels.

Frankly, I found this article a little insulting, and the comparison of the USA to Germany prior to the Nazi movement completely out of line. The fears the author voices may have been a real possibility 50 years ago, but the author makes a load of assumptions here, real leaps:

1. China and the U.S. will compete for resources 2. They'll compete in a brutal way 3. This will sour "Americans" against ALL Asians 4. Racism and genocide will result.

Give me a break. Well sure, and an asteroid might hit the planet tomorrow. It's possible, but it's entirely unlikely.

Does anybody else feel like there's just been a rash of this kind of stuff lately? Apple really seems to be dropping the ball on a number of issues. Whether it's the attempted trademarking of "glossy chat bubbles", lethargic update cycles, or app rejection decisions like the one in this article, I really feel like the Apple user and developer experience has soured. I think the iPhone store (and the iPhone phenomenon) is perilously close to jumping the shark.

Android, anyone?

Fabulously written? Please. The writing was sophomoric and cluttered with pretentious metaphors and turns of phrase. The fledgling writer's first attempt at self-aggrandization.

Heh.

I looked at the HN comments page expecting to see the usual: a bunch of sycophantic comments to the effect of "America is evil! Her immigration policies are backward!!" I wasn't disappointed.

But I'm glad somebody else noticed the pretentious, creative writing 101 nature of the writing. This author is someone who has yet to learn the value of simple, effective language.

Now where's that copy of Strunk and White....

Yeah this article requires registration anyway and NO, the New York Times never offers content which is compelling enough to get me to actually register. NYT is fast becoming the re-blogger par excellence, with virtually no original content or research.

Please skip the article and go directly to the source.

Finally... this has been blogged about for at least a year.

http://www.codingthewheel.com/archives/online-gambling-priva...

There was not even close to enough content here to justify the shameless plug for the book. I agree it pays to be awesome to people, but come on... give us more than 3 paragraphs if you're going to try to get us to buy something. Sheesh.

From the comments...

"Can I build a multi effects processor for my electric guitar using a DSP with the Fourier stuff and the C++ programming?"

"Sure!"

Lol.

I thought DARPA ceased to exist when they moved the island.

Then again: if you build it, they will come.

The title.

Anything is better than the Lotus Notes "Egyptian Hieroglyphics" password protect. Entering a password iPhone-style has a nice fluidity to it, as each leading character melts into a dot.

Dziuba's a clever writer to be sure, but to me, part of being a 'professional' journalist is that you refrain from the ad hominem. Hurling clever insults is easy there are a million writers who can do it but to create a piece of informative, interesting, relevant content, not so much. Calling out Michael Arrington like that...was kind of unprofessional. But I do like Dziuba's writing and also of course Verity Stob.

Ah, my apologies. RTFM I guess. Also, I'm a disgruntled Redditor.

Interesting, but what does this have to do with programming, software, computers, hacking, etc??

Is HN just a slightly-more-programmer-oriented version of Reddit?