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The virtual theater (or TV screen) was one of the first things I thought about when I heard about the power of new VR technologies. People don't want to switch devices if they don't have to and projecting output to a single rectangle in a virtual space makes a lot of sense on paper.

I would be the first to say that of course seeing people in real life would be superior, but with the internet I'm finding that some of my closest friends are sometimes thousands of miles away. This is a way to keep in contact that's as good or better than something like facetime and far, far superior to buying a plane ticket just to hang out.
Maybe because you're on a cramped public transport like a plane?
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There's also a corrupt regime that's more interested in revenue generation (shopping malls and restaurants) more than people management and control. I'd think that for such an important event, there should be no other interests involved. No wander the Saudi say it's God's will while the Iranians insist they should accept responsibility for a change.
If there are specific people on your job that you don't like, you do have to be professional & cordial when working with them, but you don't have to socialize with them besides that.

If you don't like anybody at your job, it's time to find a new job.
Replace "virtual living room" with "virtual IMAX theater" and you might have your answer.

EDIT:

But the real answer is that the question isn't that different from "why would you want to play a video game on a VR headset?" The answer, of course, is immersiveness. Existing video games (and film/TV) may not be optimized for VR, but future content might be.

Imagine being able to look around 360 degrees in a film. It will be a totally different experience from a traditional film where the director precisely frames every shot, and may or may not be more enjoyable for certain types of content.
It's an interesting though, that it's possible (no idea how likely) that violence could be decreased through a reduction in laws such that the amount of enforcement -- and thus violence -- is reduced.

I really wish that we had good stats on this stuff so that the laws could be crafted to minimize violence. Anyone who says we're civilized and "beyond that" isn't paying attention, it's just that the violence has largely been outsourced so that a portion of affluent society can feel that we're "beyond that".
Hi, my name is __________ and I'm a mediocre programmer.

I've just kicked off the first 2 weeks of a significant project using only Javascript. This was entirely my own choice. I knew I'd have to write a lot of JS in the browser. So it made sense for me to bite the bullet and try to become as good as I could at JS. Equally I had to make a choice that I believed would work for my client in the medium-term, especially if I was not able to continue with the project at a future date.

This is my perspective (from the intellectual gutter): Javascript is hard to read and hard to reason about. It's also hard to achieve a style that I am entirely comfortable with. It's changing very fast. You learn things on the backend that are years from being universally useable on the frontend. Also: I seem to write so many lines of code.

That said I think I made the right choice. Ultimately the isomorphism argument is correct: at least I'm reasoning about the same kinds of things every day. I just came off 6 months of programming only Elixir and I could have used Phoenix for the backend, but I think I would have found the constant shifts in perspective very disruptive.

Which leads me to my main point: It isn't about the language.

After all, multi-threaded programs in a more conventional language are also very hard to reason about. Shared data is hard to reason about. Immutable data is also hard to reason about (or rather its consequences are hard to reason about). Message passing can also become hard to reason about. Pointers are hard to reason about. Functional composition starts out simple and then...you guessed it: it gets hard to reason about. Once things get to a certain level of complexity, once you get using anything to its full potential you find the place in which it's going to make your head hurt.

And for the plodders among us the answer is: libraries and patterns. Specifically, other people's libraries and other people's patterns.

So my recommendation to anyone that doesn't like Javascript: if you don't have to JS, don't. If you do, at least enjoy the good things:

* Promises: One of those things you only appreciate by trying to do it the other way: http://callbackhell.com/
* ES6: a lot of great features here. Makes an Elixirite feel almost at home: destructuring(pattern matching), arrow functions, generators and iterators
* Libraries: Amazing number of libraries. I have barely had to code one really smart thing myself.
* JSON: Think in JSON all day - now that's nice. Serializing things to Lists, Maps, Tuples and what have you gets old.

And also read books:

* David Herman: Effective Javascript
* Marijn Haverbeke: Eloquent Javascript
* Daniel Parker: Javascript with Promises
* Douglas Crockford: Javascript, The Good Parts (well actually I found this one hard to reason about :) )...
You forget that Sun was in charge of Solaris for many years and was pretty open about such things.
I understand what you are saying now.
I'm a deeply unsocial person who's often lonely, and unexpectedly got a dog a few years back. My 2c on this:

a. the physical exercise that a dog needs is also good for you and can help stave off the depression that can easily accompany loneliness.

b. social interaction is tiring for some people. How you got your dog, what your dog is like and so on is an easy, low-effort conversation to have, and it's also one that can be managed without causing offense - if you're tired or having a bad day, you can always cite a need to walk the dog home. This allows you to enjoy some friendly conversation without needing to locate it in any kind of semantic framework (eg 'is this person being friendly or just networking with me').

c. dogs are very generous emotionally and also very reliable. They will try to trick you into playing ball or possibly destroy on of your shoes and try to hide it, but basically you don't need to second-guess them the way you do people (including yourself). Your dog doesn't care what anyone else thinks of you and likes seeing you happy. It may be a simple friendship but it's a very sincere one.

d. over time, your dog is in many ways a reflection of you, a four-legged psychological mirror, if you like. If you choose, you can learn and adjust things about yourself through observing how your dog responds to you. If you need to make life changes, your dog doesn't need you to explain them.

So while a dog won't cure loneliness, they're excellent at helping you deal with it.
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At first I balked at the idea of watching a movie in VR, but the more I think about it the more I like it. I could easily watch it while lying down on a bed for instance. It would need to be very high resolution however.
If anything I find people putting on a face more offline. Online, you can be yourself with far less consequences thanks to anonymity. Yes, this leads to some showing they are horrible people, but it lets others show vulnerable sides they are too scared to show face to face.
Nope. In QM you have probabilities where energy conservation is violated for a little bit of time, or where a particle appeared to jump in a distance longer than allowed. This doesn't mean you can have reference frames moving at the speed of light.
That's the joke, literally.

This is a blog post about how docker is insecure when you can get root perms over a socket the docker daemon exports when you explicitly map it back into a docker container... as if it's unexpected when it's explicitly docker's design and the command line you provided.

Oh well, I did think it was funny.
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we know that alcohol is connected to violence. Lets outlaw alcohol and thus decrease the violence... Or as they say here (that pearl of government-hypocrisy-speak has just made my day, i'll probably add it to email signature :)

https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/brief-history

"Prohibition created a new federal medium for fighting crime,"
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It's your living room, but on a computer!

http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2916

(Expect to see the Virtual World idea that prompted that post pop up again for VR, too. Expect it not to work any better this time.)

It's cute but it's just demoware. Once the novelty wears off, the usual thing to do will be the "void theater". That's our subjective perception of a good movie anyhow, that the entire rest of the room is gone.
The key overlooked point for VR - a point that Carmack had enough pull to persuade Samsung to address - is latency. http://oculusrift-blog.com/john-carmacks-message-of-latency/... The system must render "motion-to-photons" the image in less than 20ms to avoid discernible (& disorienting) lag. That's fast enough that the graphics system doesn't have time to buffer the image (which would cut available render time by a large percentage); Carmack was able to convince Samsung of the importance of "unbuffered display" in a market where otherwise nobody cares about such minute timings.
The same could be said for a theatrical film on a 42 inch TV or Netflix on a 5 inch phone screen, yet here we are.
US only, what else ;-) I live in Germany and drink better beer and enjoy better food :-)
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Open office layouts are the worst for interruptions because of the inadvertant visual interruptions that occur constantly e.g. people passing your desk

You can turn off IM and email for extended periods to disable popups, and you can wear headphones to shield you from noise, but it's hard to shield your peripheral vision from constantly moving people (who may also smile or wave - expecting a response in turn) without a structure like a private office or cubicle
That seems to be in full agreement with his quote.

Understanding the purpose of something is necessary precondition of evaluating it on its merits. Using your "back of the bus" example, the purpose of that was to reinforce the idea that black people were somehow inferior. That's a pretty terrible purpose, which is why society has harshly rejected and removed it.
Really? Which ones? I'm pretty sure local privilege exploits that give you root don't magically jump you into JID 0 (prison0), escaping the jail. You'd just have "root" in the jail.

edit: well i guess if your attacker knows you're on FreeBSD they could override to prison0 in the exploit. But it's a good thing we dont have a ton of local priv exploits, eh?

edit2: and that was a pretty ignorant statement of mine about root exploits anyway :)
Amram is trying to become his own brand, so I skip articles that he's got a quote in simply because he's not out to solve any problems, just get an agency job in a few years. I don't think he actually understands ad fraud at all.

Here's the thing: The (Boris Boris) sites that myspace is selling are obviously crap. Absolutely worthless. The traffic he's buying is a bunch of fraud redirects, and he thinks that it's the media buyer's responsibility to be choosier.

However Christopher Barnet of Myspace is selling these sites as genuine video preroll that retails at around 6-8$ per thousand views. He's selling them on ad exchanges and they're buying it like crazy because it reports as highly "viewable", it's in "demo" (meaning a lot of these users have a comScore cookie), and of course, because nobody believe's Myspace is defrauding them.

So here we are: At least 80% of Myspace's ad inventory is fraud, and nobody's going to ask for their money back because "hey, we got fooled too".

And life goes on.
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Meh. I generally enjoy what I'm getting to do here, and the options were unexpected when I accepted the offer, so I'm not really upset at it, per se.
State and local police and prosecutors don't work for the federal government at all. Any avenue for mass surveillance is also an avenue for legitimate law enforcement investigation.
* Freakonomics

* Radiolab

* Comedy Bang Bang

* Planet Money

* This American Life (sometimes)

* Everything by Gimlet Media (when I remember)
To get an idea, this is sort of related: https://snowdenarchive.cjfe.org/greenstone/collect/snowden1/...
For people that dislike ads the statement, "I have never ever been positively influenced in any way every by one" is literally a definition because if you purchase anything because of an ad you've been made worse off.

If you were going to buy it anyway then the ad did nothing, if you weren't then you are now worse off as you bought something you wouldn't have otherwise -- you've been manipulated.

From this there is no such thing as a positive ad.

Also, he didn't say that ads don't work on him, they certainly do but they're not having the desired effect which makes them worthless to the advertiser. Sure, they get brand recognition but if you consciously make an effort to avoid brands which advertise to you and recommend that others avoid the brand too then you've actually cost the advertiser money, making the ad worthless.
Except it's not because it's completely subjective.

The reason why people continue to visit all those sites and click all those links? - Because they like it.
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I would use it lying on my back in bed or in the fetal position. Sometimes sitting up straight to watch a screen is just too much work ;)
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>> The root of this for me is that you don't reject it entirely, you just reject the portion you don't like. You (like most of us, let's be clear) reject the pitch, but take the stuff.

There are sites now that block access if you block ads. I am happy for them to do this. But to get technical - on the web I request content and it is sent to me, I make no promises about rendering anything.

>> I do object to casting it as positive for the ad companies and the content producers though.

I didn't say it was positive for the producers, it's clearly not. It's positive for the advertisers because they don't have to pay for a 'view' that is useless to them though.

>> Otherwise, if you don't owe the content producers anything after consuming the content, why bother paying for something like Google Contributor?

I don't actually owe them anything as at the moment they don't charge, except in an implied way. They can charge, either by insisting I look at their ads, in which case I won't use their service, or by insisting on something like Google contributor or Patreon before I get the content. I'll say again, if sites make it clear I'm not welcome without viewing their ads, I won't go. It's OK with me. I don't think I find any online content or service compelling enough to change my mind on that, with the possible exception of Google's stuff.

>> I don't think the uptake due to that will be enough.

To be honest I don't think the uptake will be very high anyway because people are used to the current model and most don't object as strongly as me. Just as I think the number of people who use streaming services for the convenience probably vastly outweighs the number who even care that they enable ad-free viewing.
There are mental gymnastics involved anytime the umbrella term "drugs" is invoked; the behavioral differences between cannabis, LSD, PCP, heroin and crack cocaine are so staggering, it's absurd to talk about them lumped together. You might as well try to include roller skates, go-carts and fighter jets into traffic laws.

Anecdotally, there are instances where there is a correlation between some drugs and violence, which is why the myth persists, even if the statistical likelihood of violence is identical for non-drug-related circumstance. But the vast majority of drug violence is a product of inevitable black markets, and a reflection of the misused violence of the state.
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So, if say, you were inserting a recipe into a db where you had 3 tables (IRL there'd be more, surely), recipe, ingredients, directions. Are you saying you'd use the ORM or the SQL?
When Uber publishes audited GAAP numbers, we'll know. Non-GAAP numbers are total junk.[1] Uber's latest "leaked" numbers still show losses.[2]

[1] http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-08/wsj-looks-non-gaap-...
[2] http://gawker.com/here-are-the-internal-documents-that-prove...
Prison-industrial complex up in this :(
Boris buys "links", not "likes". Some of the companies fulfilling Boris get those links by simply buying iframes on doubleclick, so Google makes money, Boris makes money, and the advertiser gets a comScore cookie to "prove" it's in-demo.
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Hearing I'm older than 46% of the worlds population is pretty interesting. I'm only 27.
If you want to make a survivable wage after prison, you pretty much have to become a drug dealer. There are very few jobs open to someone who has been to jail.
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Just a few quick points, this is going off-topic:

1. Let's replace "essential" with "optimal". The original point still stands.

2. You conveniently omitted the 9-month bonding time.

3. Formula is good enough, but breast milk is optimal. Never heard of midwives breastfeeding other women's babies in 21st century.

4. Researchers have long known that newborns recognize – and prefer – their mom's voice. http://www.babycenter.com/404_is-it-true-that-babies-can-rec...
I would personally arguing that a deep copy necessitating an explicit function call is a good thing, though. It makes potentially expensive operations obvious, and improves your ability to reason about program behaviour.
It's not your call to make on what's harmful to society. So you don't want to read the "bad" stuff? Ok that's fine, just don't go to those sites.

But dont impose your ideals on everyone else who is reading that content voluntarily because they clearly enjoy it.
And yet all HD content is still easily available for pirating.

When will content producers learn that they're losing money because of terrible distribution strategies and not because it's technically possible to pirate?
The penalty for rejecting the state's assertion of its authority over you (whether legitimate or not) is generally death. At the hands of whatever agency has noticed your rejection.

So if you think you shouldn't have to pay taxes, because the state isn't a legitimate authority, it's quite likely that you'll end up dying.

Finally while taxes aren't collected directly by a person with a gun, failure to be sufficiently subservient while dealing with the state can result in your death. It's unfortunate that the state grants itself (in all its forms) much, much more privilege or leeway than any non-state actor would enjoy in a similar dispute.

In other words, if you fail to pay a debt to another citizen or non-governmental entity, it's usually handled much, much differently than failing to pay a debt to the government. That double standard definitely doesn't feel right to many folks, and I think that's a very reasonable point to make.
I was Employee #1 at thredup.com, which just raised $81 million at a $500 million valuation. I'm no longer with them (parted amicably), but I still have a bunch of stock there. At the time, I had it reviewed by a lawyer, but as a tech guy, I probably didn't get a great deal.

The CEO and CTO have not responded to any inquiries by me yet on what the current valuation of whatever I still own might be. I'm sure they're too busy growing the company :P
Just more evidence that the war on drugs does far more damage than drugs themselves.
Imho Eclipse has never been a good ide. Its confusing user experience never appealed me. But then, it was free and had certain features and was quite extensible.

Then Netbeans began improving quickly, IDEA had a free edition and Jetbrains released many good IDEs for other languages as well.

Game over.
The article conflates drug users and drug dealers.
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This is true. The most successful Russian rocket line is the Soyuz family. It's unrelated to the Energia rocket that was used in the Buran programme.

The Buran was basically a money pit for the USSR.
The idea is great but the UI does not work imho. No visitor will understand the idea. It is no self explanatory enough.
Boris bought iframes on doubleclick (among other places). That's how he gets legitimate users' cookies.

Assumptions about video are that it not be clicked, so post-click analysis just isn't done.
Perhaps not the actual CS:GO binary - but one built on Metal could certainly come close to CS:GO on lower settings.
Sounds like a poor ORM. I've never had to enumerate the entire schema, just the tables/columns I actually utilize in code.
Blocking adblock users is not as easy as it sounds. Many of the adblockers also maintain rules and filters to actively get around this.

Paywalls are the only sure fire way to keep people out.
I've always despised Eclipse. It was always a PITA and was a resource hog. It turned me off of all IDE's for years until I came back and saw the light with IDEA & friends.
That's $99 plus a $600+ smartphone. If you already have a Samsung phone that's great, if not... it's a very powerful Google Cardboard for $700+.
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You know it's pretty childish to dismiss someone's experience right? He didn't say he was seeking approval, he said that when he does the most minor childcare thing he gets praise, while when neither he nor his wife do some completely asinine thing (dressing their daughter as a pirate) his wife (not him) catches flack from the teachers for not being "more involved". Dismissing this as "narcissistic" is completely misreading his comment.
Women will also take most of the blame if they suffer negative consequences from walking alone at night. People say things like, "Well, she shouldn't have been walking alone at night, it's dangerous." (Perhaps another example of the artificial frailty.) It's less common for these things to be said of men when something bad happens to them when they are walking alone.
There is also Ascetic (https://bitbucket.org/emacsway/ascetic), which looks pretty minimal. So far I've been keeping it simple and have only been using SQLBuilder (https://bitbucket.org/emacsway/sqlbuilder) by the same author.
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I personally think its a pretty cool product. However, their insistence on having everything routed through the cloud doesn't seem appealing to me. If they close down or even if Google has some sort of service interruption, this thing becomes nothing more than a paper weight.

After watching their video on tested, I think you are spot on with the concerns. It looks like the laser printers does generate some nasty fumes [1] and there is the section where you actually see the wood catching on fire [2]. Not sure if plastic should have been the choice for the enclosure.

Regardless, cool product but could have been better.

[1] https://youtu.be/0R3mMUsHFvU?t=16m5s

[2] https://youtu.be/0R3mMUsHFvU?t=13m15s
> I'm not too worried they'll jail people so they can get cheap firefighters anytime soon.

You do know that the private prison system is literally leaning on state governments and threatening them with breach of contract for not keeping prisons full, right?

... and that not only does the US have the highest per capita incarcaration rate of any country in the world, but California has an even higher per capity incarcaration rate?

... and that many US corporations have business models which rely on prison labor?
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