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Thanks, and yeah I've been stuck on alpha for a long time now. Since your comment is so detailed let me go into a bit of the thinking behind it.

One of the leading goals I've been following is design by subtraction. The idea that you should take away everything but the core gameplay and let that drive the game. So the format settled on focusing just on the color matching gameplay and each gate that comes adds its own mixup of the core. There were times when I tried messing with the core gameplay and tried some more complexity, but it just didn't feel like BoxByte anymore.

It could always use some more polish, I'm really a one man team though so it's been a struggle to get even what I have lol.

I'm not sure what's up with the warning. I think that's just a Unity thing because there's no actual networking code in the game itself.

I agree about the text. I find ui design to be some of the most boring work involved with a game so there are some instances where the ui could definitely be better.

The tutorial seems to be something that people are the most divided on. Some people really like it and some really hate it. I just think that's how it goes with tutorials. No one wants to be stuck reading when they want to be playing. But I found it was really important for people to understand the game. I tried to make it as short as I could if that helps :)

It's funny that you mention those three, because every one of those had significant changes in the past three months. Ultimately the game is one big challenge though, so what I did was try to focus on what the hardcore BoxByte player would want. The downside of course is that there are a lot of cool things later on in the game that some players will never see. In the end I just didn't want to make it easier at a detriment to those core players who will play it most.

I really would have liked to have had more puzzles, but it's mostly a game about skill and tactics. However I don't agree about there being artificial difficulty. But I definitely think it could be too hard and that's part of the reason I'm posting this to hear experiences.

What makes you think it's a general sci-fi world? It's actually a very dark oppressive world. Is there a game world? ;)

I can't comment much on the background, I've already said too much on the world... But all is not as it seems...

About the score, I guess it could be handled better. But it's really meant to be a kind of goal. I don't really want to gravitate towards a kind of participation award though. Of course that leaves it with some sharp edges but that's part of what makes it BoxByte. It's unforgiving but always fair.

With a game like BoxByte I don't think it's something that can cater well to every demographic. I definitely made efforts to try to smooth it out, but in some cases I decided to leave it as is and hopefully the demographic that likes it will like it more for that.

Having said that, I might be completely off. This isn't an exact science after all. In that case I'm definitely willing accept that and take input :)
Yeah, that seems to be a reasonable conclusion here(esp since Sanders campaign reported a similar breach in other software but we don't see the DNC acting the same).
Can't speak for parent, but I didn't even realize those were links until someone else in this thread pointed it out to me. I'll try to avoid turning this into an aesthetics vs usability rant, but gray text on a gray background with no underlining doesn't seem like a great choice to me.

Incidentally, I have no trouble distinguishing the nice black underlined link in your post here on HN. =P
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I know I'm inserting an unrelated topic into the conversation but....

I absolutely agree with you, and this is why I think FOSS culture has taken off and built such effective tools. Sure, corruption can and does happen with FOSS, but it's hard to hide when the entire process is transparent. That forces you to do things the "right" way, rather than "in the dark"
During times when I lack rewarding work and relationships, I get diagnosed with clinical depression. During times when I have those things, I feel great. I don't think everybody will ever agree on the distinction.
I hadn't read that. I was probably too dismissive of the claim and the distribution of phone usage was definitely not what I'd expected it'd be. Still I'd question the language of the original article. Saying that "smartphones are mostly used when you’re sitting down next to a laptop" isn't quite true to the data in that article. It suggests the person has equal access to a smartphone and a laptop but picks the smartphone because it's a strictly better experience. A lot of the at home phone use they're seeing in that study is coming from people who have just a smart phone. Which is really the beauty of smartphones, it covers all your basic needs in 1 device. But I'm not quite ready to believe that smart phones have some better version of the internet and that's why people like them.
How old are you? The world wasn't really fundamentally different twenty years ago. Maybe try a hundred years.
You need to quit saying "a metropolitan area" when you mean "Silicon Valley and a few places that have satellite offices for companies based in Silicon Valley," is the thing.

Show me the companies in Columbus, OH that pay that way. Or Milwaukee, WI. Or or or.
To set people's expectations properly, this guy is high-tier dev that focused on his niche and probably had his payoff event 10 years into work. (Presumably his 8 year stint at Centaur and the buyout had some of that.)

AFTER all those 10 years, the Sr. Engineer plays at Google and Microsoft were probably 250k+, when they needed that 10 years of specialized experience for a $10M+ project and can pay to play.

Anec-data: As an SV person who's worked at BigCorp and funded startups (from co-founder to CTO)... these numbers definitely trend high amongst my friends and acquaintances who graduated Stanford CS in the early 2000s.
Also there's a redirect through something called https://oauth.io which I've never heard of so now I'm thinking that oauth.io has some kind of access to my Twitter account rather than openhunt.co?
This "threat" was made in 1996 (not 2004 as some other commenters are noting—the _thread_ is from 2004). This is a fascinating view into how things have changed between then and now. Honestly, in 1996 you could make a threat like this and a vast _vast_ majority of recipients would recognize that you weren't being serious. It's a little sad that we've lost so much innocence on the web since then.
I'd draw exactly the opposite conclusion. What matters isn't individual niceness but organization imperatives.

One thing to consider is that "Tech" encompasses a number of organization types. Organizations vary in both how large and bureaucratic they are as well as how ruthlessly competitive they are. Working at Intel years ago, I saw an organization committed to equality in the work place but with a brutal demand that everyone produce.

The worst offenders for sexism seem to be small organizations with a brutally competitive environments but not having bureaucratic restraints on bad behavior - Zillow, etc[1].

Honestly, the answer seems to be that you need more regulation and especially regulation that will hit small bad actor companies hard. The rules hardly have to be "special", just a basic demand for proper behavior and an understanding there will be serious consequences for violation.

[1] http://fortune.com/2014/12/05/zillow-discrimination-lawsuit/
i very much agree it's really sad that such a high quality language is held under the radar. Maybe poor marketing? The community is pretty good though.
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I was just in Japan and they had ads for this coming line that we weren't quite sure what they meant. Interesting to hear that it opened, and is the last subway line planned.

I don't have comments about the economics of Japan's railways, but I was extremely impressed with the system itself:

- The app to direct you through the system was really handy. Enter a starting and ending location, and it told us how to get there perfectly. Over the entire week we were there, we didn't have any issues taking the wrong train.

- You pay by distance traveled by tapping a card when you enter the subway and again when you exit. Different from the systems in the US I've travelled (specifically Chicago) where you tap once at the beginning. Also impressed with how quickly the system read your card.

- The stations where you can make connections are labeled really well with arrows noting where to go next and how far away they are. However those connections can be really long distances. I think the longest was 700ish meters, a little under a half a mile. Seeing 400m on a sign seemed normal.

- Despite the distances between the connections, I don't think we had to transfer more than once ever. The lines were very well related.

- The stations themselves covered a giant area under the ground and had a ton of numbered exits. Take the wrong exit and you could be a long way from where you were trying to go. But we also used the numbers to specify where we were coming from if we were meeting people, and guides used them in directions.

- The trains themselves were impressively quiet. Granted Japan is in general, but these were notably quiet. Kind of a shock to come back to Chicago and hear the secondhand music or people yelling on the phone.

That's all I can think of off the top of my head. Really impressed with Japan in general though. Highly recommended for people to visit.
I'm pretty sure the author of the medium article was conveying an entirely different point. Namely, that they noticed they wrote poor code, some time ago, when they were depressed, not that they got depressed, now, when they saw poor code they'd written some time ago.

There's more of interest in this very brief article: the broader role of the state of mind of a coder as they write code; that coding might be more art than science; and where's the research in to these things?

These are familiar issues to me and I'm sure some folk in the game but the author is right that much of the industry seems to ignore them with presumed* profound consequences for the quality of code that gets written.

* What little science I'm aware of on these topics is generally weak. This may be because the industry is mostly ignoring them so there's no money in studying them but it's also clear that the things to measure (state of mind and quality of code) are really hard to measure in a way that leads to useful science.
Did you do an 83b election? If so, the tax liability may be somewhat lower (capital gain instead of ordinary income).

Two words for anyone joining a startup as an early employee or founder: early exercise.
How is making property tradable "about rent seeking"? It's about pursuit of profit, sure. But rent seeking? How so?

Or are you defining pursuit of profit to be "rent seeking"? If so, your definition is in error; that's not what is meant by the term.
It's the classical "I'm sorry you feel like this".
The idea that a government would give itself permission to spend massive amounts of money isn't news.

The tucking of unrelated legislation into the budget however, is news, especially since it had been vehemently opposed over and over in every previous version.

Guess which part is reported in detail.
Make sure you guys get a daily newsletter going out asap. I don't have inside information, but I'd guess it drives a ton of PH's daily returnee traffic. I for one know I won't be checking this every day, but I would read something in my inbox every morning (same with PH)
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I'm certainly not singling out U.S., or Europe as "culpable offenders". The U.S. is my society, so I know it better and I feel its societal obligations more strongly. As you point out, the Western countries were simply the ones that got there first. And they are also the first to be figuring out how to fix the problems they've caused. Doesn't make them morally better or worse than countries that for historical reasons (smaller economies and lack of technology) have caused less environmental damage.

Also, given that you seem to already agree we have the obligation, your insistence on dis-acknowledging our cultural past as a source of the obligation seems odd. Nobody said the obligation had only a single source. The only reason to get angry, so far as I can see, is if a person thinks current steps are perhaps nice to do, but not obligatory. I fail to see how a "never-ending tower of recrimination and anger" can arise from someone simply giving an additional reason that supports the decision we've already made (that we have an obligation).
I think that in most contexts the vast majority of recipients would think it was dramatic exaggeration now; there might be somewhat more people who would think it was serious, and those people who think it most likely to be dramatic exaggeration might weigh the potential risk of seriousness differently, and most important it might be more likely to be relayed out of its original contexts into other forums now, and thus be seen by more people, and thus more of the people inclined to take it seriously.
fixing this ASAP. thanks for the heads up

tracked via https://github.com/OpenHunting/openhunt/issues/13
Nope. China (365/sq mile) has less than 1/2 the population density of Japan (836/sq mile) and they instituted population control recently. Slowly shrinking populations are generally good for the average person and with most of there debt being internal Japan does not need to grow total GDP.

As to rail lines losing money, how much do you think the average road make per year exactly.
People like to hear what they want to hear. "Ghost cities in China," "Sweatshops where your clothes are made." Funny thing is in the back of their mind they actually do believe their Nike Shoes are made by Children, are outraged, and continue to buy them.
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Let me correct what appears to be a miscommunication.

The numbers I gave don't prove anything, other than show that there is a huge range in cost, depending on the intersection type. You say "the lights, cameras, and network connections are already installed and paid for", but how many intersections are that way?

More specifically, the numbers I showed are that a fully equipped signal, like what you want, costs $450,000, while a roundabout is cheaper. If all lights already have "lights, cameras, and network connections" then it's a sunken cost. If 1% of the signals are that way, then it's entirely different.

I certainly don't know how interconnected the lights are. But even with hard numbers - and you haven't made any claims to any numbers - that's only a part of the point. (FWIW, the best numbers I found are from http://readwrite.com/2014/01/22/ai-traffic-lights-intelligen... which says "According to el-Tantawy, many of today’s traffic lights at intersections operate based on pre-programmed repeated cycles that run with little or no input from fluctuations in traffic.". That's not really helpful, other than to show there are a lot of dumb signals in the US.)

Yes, construction is cheaper on average for signals, but bear in mind that signals with 'lights, cameras, and network connections' are definitely not average signals.

But construction is only part of the cost-benefit analysis. The signals need to be powered, and replaced about every 10 years according to one of the URLs I gave. Roundabouts have a 25 year lifetime. Roundabouts are also safer, so there the benefits to human life must be included. And as I pointed out, you also have to consider the failure modes.

Sure, yes, there's 'low hanging fruit' (which is a misnomer, as the really 'low hanging fruit', like traffic light coordination and in-pavement detectors, have long since been picked). But that's because you have a goal in mind, which is to "improve traffic signals", not "improve traffic systems" (which roundabouts do), or "improve quality of life" (which 'complete streets' and livable community advocates want to do).

Thus, if you think that '"The reductions of 40 percent in vehicle wait time, nearly 26 percent in travel time and 21 percent in projected vehicle emissions realized in this pilot are remarkable,"' is a good justification, then you have to compare it to other solutions which achieve or improve upon those same goals, and not just cherry-pick (again with the fruit metaphors!) the numbers that best support your goal.

As I also pointed out, the pathway to more roundabouts isn't to wholescale replace existing signals, but to use them for new intersections, and for those with high accident rates where it's most worthwhile to switch. The over time, as the old signals need replacing, switch many of them to roundabouts.

That too "would substantially improve things, even without an AI".
I guess the problem is the focus on the rules, mechanics or syntax. It's like trying to understand roundness by having some explain formulas involving Pi.

Just forget the math, look at all the squares, triangles and circles. When you start to notice the sameness between ovals and circles and how they aren't squares you start to get the notion.

When it comes to monads, it's just the mechanics behind why some things, are intuitively composable. You don't need the mechanics if you just get a feeling for it.

In linq this is the feeling that you can stack a bunch of from x in xs from y in ys from ... together and get sensible results without too much thinking. As long as the xs and ys implement SelectMany as a monad it doesn't matter what it does, be it transforming collections, building sql queries or scheduling async tasks, the safe feeling will be there.

If you really want to do the math it might help to identify the level of abstraction we are talking about. For this I found it easier to reach for abstract algebra. Lookup the concept of a monoid and how it relates to you everyday arithmetic, it's roughly the same abstraction leap as the difference between your code and the concept of monads.

Now, monads really are just monoids for a particular kind of binary operation and values. The problem is that understanding monoids in the context of multiplication and addition is easy, you already have good grasp of both the arithmetic and the algebra there. But the compositions that monads describe (kleisly arrows) are probably not something you think about most of the time. Which kind of is like trying to understand abstract algebra without a good grasp on algebra.
Here's a pointer to a couple of engineering studies I found interesting, personally: https://www.motorists.org/blog/how-should-speed-limits-be-se...
I'd really like to know how much is malpractice insurance. Google search tells me that it is ~25K max, which does not seems enormous for someone earning 500K.
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Based on what they say you are probably right. They first say some things that are true but then give completely unjustified explanations about the medical profession. The regulation of the medical profession and the health market also exists in most European countries, even in Poland for example where doctors are not paid well. But somehow he attributes the high cost of care in USA on the high degree of regulation which is in most Western countries...
Americans also pay more for drugs, nurses, and insurance. Hospital CEOs and administrative staff in US also gets paid considerably more.
As a foreigner in USA with experience in the field, I would say that they are doing a pretty good job to make sure that the doctors that get to practice medicine in USA have passed through multiple filtering by ensuring that even the worst doctor is in a good enough level.
If you want to have cheaper care at any cost, I think you could do it but there will be a price to pay. Medical travel is a viable option but then if things do not go well is your life valued according to Indian or American standards. In other words how much coverage do you get from their malpractice insurance. The medical profession is already very stressful and most young doctors feel that they are not well compensated for their long education, 8 years of student loans, training and skills on top of basically being converted to bureaucrats that their practice is ruled by compensation agreements (do not spend more than x time for each patient).
Most doctors are smart and very few are "missionaries". If the medical profession keeps becoming less attractive you are just going to end up with less smart doctors and more smart programmers/engineers/finance/e.t.c. There are choices to be made...
On which platform?

Seems to me that OS X El Capitán pretty much quiets a CPU in a background program, especially if the window is not even visible.

Having said that, it would be nice if they tone down the pointless animation in web pages or web-like interfaces.
There is even stronger evidence that there is a 2:1 hiring advantage for women in STEM fields[1]. That study first looked at real-world hiring rates, which showed this 2:1 advantage and then tried to see whether the advantage was due to the women applicants being generally more qualified (which would obviously explain the empirical finding). The study went on to show that superior qualifications were unlikely to be the cause for the real-world hiring advantages.

Note also that the departments selected in the study you cite were Psychology, Biology, Chemistry and Physics, not tech (Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Engineering in general). In Biology women are the majority, in Chemistry the ratio is close to 50/50. Physics is close to Tech at around 20-25% and in Psychology women are the vast majority of students and practitioners at around 75%.

Therefore, this study shows, if anything, that there is no link (causal or otherwise) between the discrimination it purported to find and participation rates.

Also note that the study you cite looks at sending the exact same resume and changing the name. Another study (that I can't find right now) showed that if the qualifications are noticeably different, gender and other factors play no role. People are competent at spotting differences in qualification and will select on merit if possible. So whatever discrimination there may be (in whichever direction) apparently only plays a factor if the resumes are carefully calibrated to be the same, an unlikely scenario in real hiring situations.

Another issue I had with the study you cite is that they write that the resumes were identical apart from the name, so not real-world resumes. I could imagine that male and female resumes are different in practice, and a female name on a "male-style" resume would look odd, as would a male name on a "female-style" resume.

Some people want to believe that tech and STEM are this maelstrom of sexism, but the evidence doesn't support that...

[1] http://www.pnas.org/content/112/17/5360.abstract
When the rich and powerful lay bear their secrets then I will happily follow. Until then, they and you don't get to decide unilaterally.

I do detect a bit of ego in your arguments about being a "special person" and it makes me distrust your stance even more.
Death threats are the worst. I got one really serious one from buyer, he went ahead and started to post around things to my family. For B2C it is normal to get bad reviews once in a while, but this was just ridiculous. Getting real death threats is something that can hurt like hell.
I'm not actually there anymore, but I know they were moving a lot of stuff to Elixir and Phoenix and some of my friends have given a few talks on it... I went to the last two Elixirconf's but haven't really used it much professionally myself yet. Another media company called Inverse is using Phoenix and Elixir for a lot of their infrastructure. They're still small, but growing rapidly. inverse.com
Is the free market economy “stable”?