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It turns out that my interest in sports did not exceed my hatred of cable companies. I canceled cable and don't watch nearly as much live sport coverage as I used to. Every so often I'll catch something in a bar or go to a friend's place to watch the Super Bowl, and that's it.

Point being, I don't think live sports is enough for cable to survive on. Once that's all that cable is good for, I think an increasing number of people will simply give up on sports, especially at $100+/month.
"Why would you work at a place that has such a long standing, very tenured network of people that trust each other more than anyone new"

In general, trust and longevity (in addition to a smallish size) are desirable qualities in a technical team of experts.

The product itself signals then the technical merits of the team.

There is the 'expert beginner' idea that it's easy to stagnate and entrench oneself in a dysfunctional organization.

A long lasting team of expert beginners is an antipattern of course.

But the way to get a high quality team is not by churning through hires - it's by successfull hiring.
Not only that, Netflix even does a decent job of handling multiple people watching the same series at different points, even on the same virtual account.
"Keep the cost of failure low and the value of success high"

I wonder if this approach to iterative building is applicable to other fields. You can iterate on a plane or a website, even a stand-up comedy routine. But what about a novel? Or song?
So did Pizza Hut
You're looking at a wrapper around libopenage, which is written in C++:

https://github.com/SFTtech/openage/tree/master/libopenage
That a pretty funny irony you pointed out.
Yup, as a forgetful person, I have a similar system - make sure I have inhaler, keys, bankcard and then I'm good to go. Secondary things (like metro card) can be sorted by having the first three.
Don't know if the catalogue is the same here in the UK than in the US, but in the UK Netflix is only good for TV shows. The movie offering is very light. The other thing is the lack of offline viewing, which is useful when travelling.

The media industry is so backward. I can't believe most of them still live in the 90s and these problems haven't been solved yet.
Likes are extremely cheap in the world of young people, so I can see how "only" 15 likes is a signal that the post wasn't greatly received. I watched my nephew (12 year old) use Instagram over the holidays and it was interesting to see how he used the app. He rapidly scrolled through his feed, barely giving each post enough time to register what it was, and he double-tapped (liked) around 80-90% of all posts as they went by.

If people are liking 90% of the posts on their feed, the "like" doesn't become that useful of a signal to determine what people truly like. It is being used for something else at this point. Some way of extending and re-inforcing a persons graph of friends? I'm not entirely sure.
Sky UK has Go too, plus thousands of films available to stream, built-in catch-up TV and Sky Box Sets which has loads of programmes, from HBO, Disney, C4 and many others - all built into the Sky Box and accessible via the remote.

Truthfully, it's not as cost effective as Netflix, but hey, where else can I watch the Premier League and La Liga?
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In that case the OP is missing the point.
Netflix has a different catalogue for each country they serve.
> The GC has been drastically improved recently and going to get another improvement in the next release - Go 1.6.

I wasn't just referring to the GC.
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It's amazing to see so many community powered open source projects dedicated to keeping old games alive (while also preserving the same look & feel these games had back in '90s).

Along with the OpenMW[1], OpenRA[2], OpenTTD[3] and OpenRCT2[4] listed on openage's GitHub page, lots of others exist. To name a few:

* OpenXcom[5] for X-COM: Enemy Unknown and the later Terror From the Deep games.

* Nuvie[6], Exult[7] and Pentagram[8] for Ultima VI-VIII respectively.

* GZDoom[9] (and various others) for running Doom, Doom II etc.

* Freeciv[10] for running Civilization.

[1] https://openmw.org/

[2] http://openra.net/

[3] http://openttd.org/

[4] http://openrct.net/

[5] http://openxcom.org/

[6] http://nuvie.sourceforge.net/

[7] http://exult.sourceforge.net/

[8] http://pentagram.sourceforge.net/

[9] http://forum.drdteam.org/viewforum.php?f=23

[10] http://www.freeciv.org/
It's like the old programming interview, someone sits down and is asked to write a program that sorts a file containing a list of 100 random numbers.

The programmer enters the UNIX command sort -n numbers
Nice work! Kind of hard to believe someone would go to all that trouble now, but fun is fun, right? I remember at least one game that was less fun to play than it was to remove the copy protection. Some of my old articles about removing Apple II copy protection are also posted on archive.com, like this one: http://archive.org/stream/computist-scan-14/issue14#page/n9/...
I'm sort of curious as to how well their infrastructure would handle something live as opposed to their current "asynchronous" stuff. It's not that you can't get live streaming sports now but I don't know enough about the actual content delivery system to tell whether they'd have to invest in the tech side as well as the content rights for something like live sports. I agree that it would be a great thing for them to try out with something people want to watch but maybe doesn't have the massive demand in the US (since that's their main base of ops).

Still, I wonder if it would really go over well because even for something less popular, they'd have to buy the broadcast rights and then people without Netflix (and potentially without the bandwidth to even get Netflix) suddenly can't watch their games. It would be like putting pro hockey or football/soccer (in the US) on HBO. Sure, those don't have the demand of NFL football or MLB baseball in the states but they have enough of a fan base who's used to watching on ESPN, etc that it may seem like an unwelcome paywall.

Honestly not really sure what sports would have both enough of a viewer base to be worth the effort and are underrepresented enough that fans would just be glad someone is giving them coverage.

I agree though. If Netflix has outdone cable by beating them to the trend of video-on-demand, they may eventually need to address those areas where cable and broadcast remain the norm. I suppose cable and broadcast could focus more on that live content and leave the rest to streaming companies but eventually the competition will come down to people only wanting to pay for one or the other.
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Moving the goalposts to "every single advantage C++ might possibly possess" isn't very interesting. The idea that using a new language can only be justified if the language surpasses C++ in every conceivable way is very 1995, pre-PL Renaissance thinking.

In reality, you can only choose programming languages by balancing all the factors in question, and C++ has plenty of disadvantages for databases: it's unsafe, it's difficult to learn, compile times are poor, there's no package manager, etc.
Yes, no one is a renaissance person any more. But I don't think that there were as many renaissance people in the past as we think. Admittedly I don't have much evidence for this. In the case of maths, I think our idea that many more mathematicians used to be polymaths in the past is slightly skewed dues to the fact that until about 2 centuries ago, 'mathematician' and 'physicist' were not distinct categories. We think of Gauss and Euler as polymaths, but Euler was by all accounts a terrible philosopher.

EDIT: I just remembered that Gauss was an extremely competent philologist, so maybe the above is no longer valid.
Duff on his Device: http://www.lysator.liu.se/(nobg)/c/duffs-device.html
I've tried using these things in the past. They're too bulky for some purposes, and when the battery dies you're out of luck.

My bigger problem is not forgetting where I've left things, but forgetting to take things with me when I leave the house. I've often had to turn around and go back to the house to get something I've left behind.
Yup. I started doing something similar when I was a teenager. I appointed a single place to store my outdoor gear - i.e. a container on a cupboard next to my room's door to put wallet and keys inside (the phone almost never leaves my pocket). It quickly started to feel natural. The only adjustment I do is for colder seasons - instead of storing things in a container, I just keep them in my jacket all the time. Each one has a dedicated place, and stays there whether I'm outside or inside.
The Doom ecosystem is huge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doom_source_ports
Same in Portugal. The movie catalogue is severely lacking, most people just used the free month Netflix gave and then they canceled the subscription since there was not much point.
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This may seem like a petulant response, but it's one that most therapists would initially ask:

Have you tried to remember them?
The PuffHo article is vapic & narcissistic the same way.
most definitely true when it comes to retention, but with regard to understanding its more or less taking the information at face value.

Working through the code may lead to deeper understanding or appreciation (or rejection) but not necessarily some coding examples can be rote.
Interesting, I thought ZFS required a 64-bit system. Is this no longer the case? (I am using UFS on powerpc32 since it's not supported for 10.2.)
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Why does the screenshot have one tile have Gabe Newell in it? is it a dig at an ex-microsoftian or something?
At least where I live, the cable companies are the only real option for broadband internet access so we're already paying Comcast for something. And once you are paying for internet access, cable TV is typically a lot less than $100/mo. The only reason we still have it is because internet access is $70/mo while internet plus cable (major channels in HD, minor ones in SD), plus HBO (main HBO channel in HD, secondary HBO channels in SD) costs $100/mo with their tuner/dvr rental.

So for a lot of people, they don't need to be worth $100+/month but they do need to be worth $30-ish per month. Whether they are is debatable but if anyone in your house still likes to "flip" channels and watch the latest cable/network TV, it's not always a done deal. If it were up to me, I'd ditch the cable TV because I hardly watch it and would spend less just renting "season passes" to the handful of shows I do.
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Wow, artists have a rich inner life? Yo-Yo Ma feels happy, but also sometimes he feels sad? Isn't this just describing a human being?
Yes true. So much information to consume and Today Read later apps are helping to bridging the gap. But yeah if you are more into books then you need to Balance.
> satisfies some market need, discovered either by genuine insight/ingenuity or by luck

.. or by looking at what has succeeded in the past and trying to learn from it, and extrapolate those lessons to the present.
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That is like claiming that the world is better off with heroin. The discovery and manufacture of that drug were a chemical curiosity. Unfortunately, it short circuits the pleasure receptors and people develop all sorts of maladaptive behaviors just to obtain more of that drug. Their behaviors are maladaptive because they are focussed on ONLY obtaining the drug. That drug is no longer useful medically but it continues to be a significant market all on its own. The traditional way of stimulating the pleasure receptors of the brain (which involves work of some kind and usually involves other people and thus imbues those 'other people' with value) is bypassed.

In like fashion, the volume of currency trading has diverted massive amounts of a resource (money) simply into making more money. Those 'priests' managing this activity reward themselves with a trivial fraction (slice off the top) but the amounts are so gargantuan, that these few people become an unattainable anomaly that the 'rest of us' gawk at, and many 'have nots' envy with despair. This inequality is the side effect that people are looking at and writing about, but it is not the real failing of our system. The fundamental flaw is the colossal hoarding of resources (that could otherwise be put to 'good' use - investment in stuff that people need to make and use).

In addition, the measurement and observation of this hoard of money is distorting our perception. When we talk about productivity and GDP, our numbers look passable because we only talk about the dollar amounts. Increasingly, the production and measurement of value is reflecting the 'effort' and 'success' of money multiplying itself. Yet unemployment, average wage, and educational achievement for the 'average American' are falling dismally. How can it be that wages for teachers are so low? How can it be that tuitions are so high? Simple observations like these are the song of Nero heard while Rome burned.
User rating according to whom? Is it all standardized?
Good suggestion; I've cranked it up to 5 GB from the default (0.75, iirc) in case the problems were stemming from the garbage collector spinning. Haven't tried it out yet, but thanks :)
Is this only appropriate for the case where we want to iterate over all the elements? Don't we lose the O(1) access using a name? I'm assuming you're making 2 arrays.
God works in mysterious ways. Last night I remembered that someone, some time ago, showed on HN a JS library to handle video torrents. I thought: well, I should fork it and add a subtitle function. Now I see Andrea's work. Sweet!
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I suspect the UK will do what Germany does, and charge all households a tax, regardless if you have have TV.
I like this suggestion. I'm of course very much in favour of streaming as the primary mode of watching TV, but I'm very invested in seeing the BBC survive in a recognisable form into the future. Despite its considerable watering down of its original mission statement, the BBC still remains my best answer to the hypothetical "What's the best thing about being British?"
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Grandperspective seems to be working very fine on OSX. I like the NCurses ncdu very much as a more general solution since it works in my mac but also on my servers.
Because we don't need a second car ;) Sorry if I worded that wrong and implied it was generally a bad idea. I don't make any claims for anyone else's financial policies. It's just an example I used for my case since we've got one car and we work about 3 miles from home in the city so I can ride my motorcycle during the nice 3/4 of the year (free parking at work!) and carpool during the nasty 1/4 of the year.

I've considered getting a second car and I guess I could take out a loan instead of just buying it but it would cost me more in the long run due to interest and we don't really need the second car so either way it's money spent unnecessarily. Either way, needing to establish credit is not enough reason to sway me at the moment.
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Indeed.

Fuck huffpo. The mainstream media is a joke. Pushing status quo so that only pussy bitch made assholes pursue art.

Where does this leave the alpha male artist who can take criticism and has no fear?

Clearly no place for such masculinity.

Fucking fuck off liberal die hards. Steve Jobs said "great artists steal."

If that isn't a war mentality I don't know what is.

Again fuck all forms of mainstream news stop posting that garbage here.
Good start. Couple of quick thoughts:

I agree with others the look and feel can be improved. A great solution to that problem is the open source project JSONResume [0] and its brother-from-another-mother HackMyResume [1].

The exercise of entering your information as structured data may be beneficial in itself (both projects run off a JSON file), as the schema forces you to adopt generally accepted best practices (e.g. each job should contain a short intro summary with a few bullet points to showcase accomplishments/highlights). The primary benefit is it gives you access to dozens of well designed templates, many geared towards recent CS grads.

Good luck!

[0] http://jsonresume.org/

[1] https://github.com/hacksalot/HackMyResume
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The tools he mentions support "resume ability".

https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/wget.html#Time_002d...
A quick glance at the world of software engineering would seem to disprove this as a claim about engineering. We have the opposite problem.

Perhaps you mean that people don't want much variety and the market responds to this? Better engineering is also the answer there: the more we improve the process and reduce the costs, the easier it becomes for people to service niche markets with more obscure products. Again you can look to the software engineering world for parallels.

In a world of well-engineered food, your personal "farm" is a box in the corner, which you put seed in once a week and it spits out finished produce. The coffee machine of the farming world, if you like.
Stop posting MAINSTREAM news fucking drone.
Netflix has sold distribution rights abroad to some of their own shows such as House of Cards, then entered the market shortly after.

As a result, you can now subscribe to Netflix in these markets and not get access to their own programming. Yes, it is as terrible as it sounds.
How many virtual machines are hosted on a server?
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I have a question, I have a server Dell M910 with four processors Xeon X7550 8x2Hz) and a lot of memory (128 Gbs per server). I want to host virtial machines on the base of Xen. How many vms my machine will be able to host?
Another, similar post:

http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2011/12/more-shell-less-egg...

The point of both of these posts is more that Unix style tools are extremely powerful and expressive, to the point that writing more involved code for most simple tasks (especially one-off tasks) frequently isn't worth the effort.

Complexity doesn't improve things, especially when it doesn't add value.
> This is a bit of a pattern with D folks

Nothing D specific here. That's the pattern for every language, be it Haskell, Go, Common Lisp, JavaScript or Java ...
We may be using the word "understanding" differently.

I don't think you can really "understand" things unless you do them. I can read all the martial arts books I want, but without practice, it's generally useless. The caveat for that, which also applies to programming, is that with decades of experience, it's (relatively) easier to absorb and utilize unpracticed "knowledge" because you can relate it to skills you already have.
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How to break down html-text on several parts?
Lets say we have an article framed wit html. We have tags <p>, <h1> ..etc.
The text is received by ajax-request as one piece.

Is it possible to break it down correctly into several pieces such that all structures of html tags are preserved? ..so that we did not got that there is a tag <p> which is opened in one part and closed in another.

May bee there are any ready solutions to similiar proble,s pr JQuery plugins?
I've used Linode increasingly since 2008, now consuming 10 times what I did at the start. I'm preparing to move to AWS today but genuinely hope that Linode comes through with a reasonable explanation of why I can expect this to not be repeated.
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