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It all depends on which games people intend to write.

Apparently younger generations are unaware that C was seen as a managed language in the 80's and early 90's, with compilers not generating good enough code for game development.

In the 90's I have seen lots of Turbo Pascal and C code where the functions where plain wrappers for inline Assembly.

So unless you intend to write Crysis in Go, there are lots of games you can write with it.
Great story. I'll bet that principal thought about that exchange for a while. Fun stuff!
This is why I posed the original question. Treating somebody "differently" is discriminatory. We should deal with those that look funny at women and not treat women in a special manner.
I have vim-mode in Atom, so its just about exactly like editing in Vim.

If you are editing a gist or inserting a code snippet in a comment then editing in Atom would be nice because you get syntax highlighting, snippets, auto-complete.
s/VI/vim/ in case you were wanting to use uu in a standard way
It was a turbulent time. England(+) had just emerged from a period of Puritan military dictatorship following the overthrow of Charles I. We went from an absolute monarch to a dictator to an absolute monarch to a limited monarchy in 1688. Arguably the UK wasn't a fully parliamentary democracy until the Parliament Act 1911.

(+) Not the UK at this time!
What does integrity have to being a customer is already right yes man? Sometimes the customer is wrong. And sometimes you need to fire a customer. He did it in a fine way. Its not like Musk posted to twitter. He just quietly cancelled the order. I would have done the same.
Here: https://www.w3.org/TR/css3-fonts/#propdef-font-kerning

Question is, how do you find fonts that have proper kerning information attached ?
Perhaps I'm being too paranoid, but has this extension been externally vetted?

I'm reluctant to give access to all data I type in input boxes to a developer I'm not familiar with. While they claim it works only on textarea elements, what's stopping them from reading other input elements, including username / password fields? It seems like an awfully convenient credential collector.
I am excited to see start-ups tackle new forms of food production. However, I am worried that it is going to be similar to how the diamond industry has been able to defend themselves from manufactured/synthetic diamonds.

You can see the arguments being very similar here with animal cruelty, purity of the food and pathogens, etc. Synthetic diamonds don't have the flaws of regular diamonds, much less expensive, don't have the same toll on humans and our planet. Yet, the diamond industry has positioned them as not real and most people will gladly pay more for the "real deal".

I am optimistic that there is an inevitability to this market, but the first generation of start-ups are going to bear the additional cost of being the educators. It may be decades until the "educator tax" has been paid. From a product perspective this makes for a very unattractive market. The opposite dynamics of network effects. Where the early entrant has significantly higher barriers to entry than later entrants.
The Acorn system font brings a rush of nostalgia and a shudder of revulsion every time I see it. Good grief was it ugly.

One of the first things I learned to do was write a script to load something else on boot - Acorn's Arial knockoff I think. That was ugly too, but better by far.
Not to pick on you, but it looks as if I can go to Tesla's website, fill out a short form to reserve a Model X, and click on a Visa button to give them a $5K deposit. I don't see anything on there about being a product tester or working with Tesla to build a great product or being fired as a customer if I don't keep my mouth shut about my experiences.

Of course a beta program is a different situation. When I've been a beta tester for various products, I expect them to be buggy (and typically have had to sign NDAs or at least have an implicit agreement not to talk publicly about my experiences).
As heads up when talking about Unity3D, please be aware of the pre-historic .NET runtime they still are shipping versus what Xamarin and Microsoft deliver.

So always take the JIT/GC complains in Unity3D context with that caveat in mind.
The kind of bullshit you can find in the comments section on a post about acid.
Right, and Facebook totally swears not to archive all conversations for "market research" and optimization.

Seriously, their reputation for doing whatever they want with your information is well earned, what business would willingly expose their internal operations to this company?
I don't want to get too far into pedantic nonsense, but most of your time is not spent at work unless you are working far too much. Even at a full 40 hour work week, that's only 1/3 of your day for a part of the week. Even if you get 9 hours of sleep every night, it's still well under half your waking hours.

For most people, especially us privileged white collar technology workers, the ability exists to show up at work, punch a clock and get something done, then go home and do whatever we want.
I do it as an employee of a company, but it's a pretty sweet fit for consultants/freelancers (I used to be one).

I don't have any particular advice, beyond the generic stuff: You'll need a network of people who might (know someone who might) want to pay you to help them achieve business outcomes. Remember that you're selling business results, make sure every line on your invoice is part of a narrative that makes (or reduces risk of losing) money for the business.
This is an editorial by an external author. It does not necessarily represent Nature's leadership's position.
Just get the expensive all-time classics from the big guys like URW++, Linotype etc.

EDIT: Or just go to MyFonts.com, to any font and type a sample text which includes some kerning, such as the word 'WATER'; eg try it here for the Helvetica Neue family and voilà it has kerning: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/neue-helvetica/
Secret US flight flew over Scottish airspace to capture Snowden
How to build a press list that gets coverage
Any aspirational luxury good does that to an extent. I suppose it's all about how people see you and treat you when you wear expensive clothes and Breitlings.
Interesting. What limitations on search warrants are you thinking of when you say that? What are some examples of things investigators wanted to search, or perhaps could search pursuant to a warrant, that were later found to be so beyond the pale that no warrant could authorize them?
Hopefully Java will get value types around version 10, but that is still quite far away.

In the meantime, Azul and IBM JVMs JITs are able to optimize "value types" if the classes follow certain patterns or with some annotation help.
If you make anything in a testing laboratory, it's going to be extreme. It's a whole other process (even profession) to make industrial quantities of something for production. I think the market demand will be considerable for a tasty protein source.
Could you explain what essential things JVM does better than Go at this point ? Does it stop the world less ? Or does it do more things in parallel ? Thanks
This recent article is also useful if you want to learn a little more about typography:

https://medium.com/martiancraft-s-syndicate/why-san-francisc...
Me neither! Personally, I would either just use uglify for its speed, or use Closure Compiler since it does much more than just minimizing the source code, to me, Closure forms its own kind of JS compilers.

Due to the ES6 drama, I have to live with Babel for now which I really don't like, now I will have to reconsider this whole stack, shame on me that I missed it last May.
The kerning is dreadful.
I work for a Large Corp., and FB is not blocked. What is blocked are services like dropbox or google drive. But I can't imagine the security department would allow publishing work-related information to other company cloud.
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On FF 44.0:

- The header is cut off

- Slide 20 gives an error when running [c: template: redefinition of template "list"]

- Stable sort example does not seem to work. Gives same output as regular sort
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Couple of possible reasons of the drop off at the 95% mark could be kids feeling entitled and so they didn't work as hard as they needed to. Maybe they saw money does buy happiness so they rejected the whole game to "find themselves". Just couple ideas not mentioned in the article. Obviously, I'm sure it's multiple contributing factors.
Looks good! :)
How long will it stay free?
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The more you know, the more you know you don't know. Interesting article, even if I only really understood the title.
Well promotions are by definition zero sum. Promotion of any individual is at the expense of every other qualified individual who wanted the job.
LVE: an alternative container technology to Docker and Virtuozzo/LXC
Spirograph drawing
I joked on the Libreoffice IRC developer channel that we would include them in the 5.2 release :-) nobody trouted me, which is a worry.
Yes it's a technical limitation which he would not have chosen today. I agree.

In the silent era they had to work around the missing technology and that affects acting style, story points, the pacing, lighting, set design etc. This created silent film. To reverse those creative decisions you need to redo lot more than color and sound.

Even today when you shoot b+w movies and probably use color camera you light it totally different. Just simply desaturating the image does not work.
Spree Commerce is not dead.Roadmap 2016 from the new core team
Possibly more correct to say that "We went from a dictator who was also an absolute monarch, to a dictator who wasn't, to a dictator who was".

But we do love a bit of heriditary military dictatorship here in the UK.
In-house dev: What could possibly go wrong?
In this case, the acquisition was by Microsoft's Technology and Research division, not a product or service group. It seems like the goal is to integrate SwiftKey technology into many of Microsoft's mobile applications.
From Wikipedia:
The Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) reactor is an experimental stellarator (nuclear fusion reactor) built in Greifswald, Germany, by the Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (IPP), and completed in October 2015. It is a further development of Wendelstein 7-AS. The purpose of Wendelstein 7-X is to evaluate the main components of a future fusion reactor built using stellarator technology, even if Wendelstein 7-X itself is not an economical fusion power plant.

The Wendelstein 7-X reactor is the largest fusion device created using the stellarator concept which was the brainchild of physicist Lyman Spitzer. It is planned to operate with up to 30 minutes of continuous plasma discharge, demonstrating an essential feature of a future power plant: continuous operation.

The name of the project, referring to the mountain Wendelstein in Bavaria, was decided at the end of the 1950s, referencing the preceding project from Princeton University under the name Project Matterhorn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendelstein_7-X
Does anyone else find it concerning that our new and best technology is so fragile that even the slightest fezz-up in what should be a passive signal-cable can cause our otherwise state of the art equipment to fry itself?

Is reliability, durability and robustness nowhere to be found in any single spec for our new standards?
> their handmade kerning provides value to customers

Did it?
Diamond jewelry is a luxury good whose primary purpose is to signal wealth. A "discount diamond" inevitably fails at that purpose.
I'll be honest, I find this hard to believe. Any employment attorney would absolutely jump at the chance to take a contingency case where there was verifiable proof that a company and coworkers fabricated evidence in order to terminate someone to avoid paying benefits.
I can't decide if this is sarcasm or not, so forgive me if it was. These are monospace fonts because the character modes in which these fonts were used were strictly grid-based.
So no onsite data storage and no at rest encryption? These are the reasons we have been having issues with Slack. I was hoping they would address these clear gaps in the enterprise market.
sorry I left the non-technical terms in there I didn't mean to piss everybody off. Thanks for answering.
"There are 2^1024 - 2^1023 = 9.0e307 1024-bit numbers"

This is the count of 1023 bits numbers [(x - x/2) = x/2]. 0 is a valid leftmost digit.
I've had my resume in markdown for a long time, but I have plans to convert it to json resume format as I feel that is the better approach long term.
Can you give me an example of why you can't refactor across service boundaries? In my mind, refactoring a service interface is the same as refactoring the interface (API) of an object. It's real work (tm) but definitely do-able.
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I am just glad the constant linkedin is not facebook posts might stop. I don't understand why people keep these people as contacts if they feel that is detracts from their professionalism. My circle is small, but I have seen 3 facebook type posts (solve x or whatever) and now one to two a day to stop treating this like facebook posts.
:-) always appreciated, well by me at any rate!
Kickstarter as a Path to Grammy Nominations, Far Beyond the Indie Scene
This is similar to an experience I had. Me and the small dev team were being micromanaged. But we were getting lots of new customers for version 2.0 of our main software product and specifically targetting feature relases to snag certain customers, I feel like it worked from a business perspective.

We didn't have time to refactor, didn't have time to anticipate how something would be used in the future and build extensibility into it and the number of hacks in the codebase grew daily.

most of us on the dev team knew it was going to be a complete disaster at some point. It was going to take a week to fix a simple bug because it's copy-pasted in 7 different places and something derivative now relied on the bugs behavior.

But we were releasing fast and getting money because of it. Initially we fought it but eventually I just figured that if I wasn't on another project when it came time to pay the piper then I'd just find another job.

I had given my warnings - when I did have time I still tried to do things right and refactor old code. Ultimately though, the business tradeoff decisions weren't mine to make and I wasn't going to lose any sleep over it.
The Guardian about ITER: "(...) is considered fairly easy to build but extremely difficult to operate." If this is true, ITER is so failed. Wikipedia: "Construction of the ITER Tokamak complex started in 2013[6] and the building costs are now over US$14 billion as of June 2015, some 3 times the original figure.[7] The facility is expected to finish its construction phase in 2019 and will start commissioning the reactor that same year and initiate plasma experiments in 2020". It's so easy to build, that is already 3 times more expensive. And it will be so hard to operate, that it will never work.
Is fusion something we could expect to become a real source of energy in say the next 15-20 years? I assume just building a fusion reactor will take more than a decade.
click-bait title

It says Bill Gates used to check the parking lot on weekends to see who was working. He worked 80h/week himself.
Well as far as we can tell, the guy suing Yahoo! hasn't lied or had an affair, and by all account is qualified for his job.

So it's not exactly an apples to apples comparison.
>However, I am worried that it is going to be similar to how the diamond industry has been able to defend themselves from manufactured/synthetic diamonds.

I think the difference is that diamonds are inherently a luxury good.

I don't think that Michelin-starred restaurants or families who buy organic grass-fed beef are going to switch to synthetic meat anytime soon.

But, unlike diamonds, the vast majority of the meat market is cheap, price sensitive, and commodified. I think a two dollar synthetic meat burger is a much easier sell than a twenty thousand dollar synthetic diamond.

A huge amount of change is possible even if synthetic meat gets zero traction at the premium end of the market.
I know that’s the WashPo’s title, but it would be really nice if HN could be free of clickbait headlines.
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>>designschool

Got a big pop-up over my screen asking for signing the mail list while reading the article. I'm sorry but into the trash it goes.
you should look at marketplaces. possibly even ones run by crypto currencies. There are alot of ways to configure a marketplace and it would be nice to abstract that from CRUD operations and such.
Watch Germany Switch on Its Experimental Fusion Reactor Live
Not everything is supposed to be immediately applicable. I'm guessing it will be a while before we start some stuff like this in consumer products but seeing the first steps of it is pretty cool still
Am I in the minority to think of Go as a completely unnecessary move-along-now-nothing-to-see-here project? (as if we didn't have enough of that already). The only niche I see for it is for those poor souls who are still wasting their time with Python/Ruby but that by itself surely can't lead to great things for the language, especially since it's riding on air. More dense air than Python but air nonetheless.

Also Rob Pike. If there's a guy with the king midas touch of shit, it's Pike.
I don't know unfortunately. Here's an old discussion on the emscripten discussion group, may be this contains helpful information: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/emscripten-discus...
Livestream is live here: http://www.mpg.de/9915939/wendelstein7x
USB C is not a passive signal cable.
Their solution to the template whitespace thing underlines a fundamental difference between what the Go core developers consider to be good language/library design and what I do.

To me adding the - to the template tag {{foo -}} to get rid of whitespace on that side of the tag is totally unintuitive and a really kludgy solution. Sure, it's terse and being terse can be nice, but terseness to me probably doesn't even make it into my top 10 concerns when designing a language or library.

In my mind a lot more thought and consideration should be put into solutions for problems that are going into core libraries. Stuffing cute hacks into the core libraries willy nilly leads you to PHP. The consequences of which I deal with daily.
Controlled magnetic fields!
Dreyfus does not appear to have claimed that computers would never be able to play chess well. At least, not in that book.

He reacted with skepticism when Newell and Simon said in 1957 that a computer would be world chess champion by 1967 and, well, he was right to.

He said that the computational techniques in use for computer chess in the 1970s wouldn't be capable of producing a world-class player, and he was probably wrong about that -- largely, I guess, because he didn't foresee how big an impact a performance improvement of ~10000x could have.

If he actually claimed that playing chess better than humans was impossible, can you say where?
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"Merkel, who is a doctor of physics, is expected at Wednesday’s event, which is happening in her constituency."

A nation lead by a leader that is both a women and a scientist. I would say this is progress regardless of the experiment outcome.
For the same price as a grad in the US, you can get an Impbridge post doctorate with 3 years post-doc experience. Get US investors, but hire engineers in UK.
Microsoft imagines future NFL games played out on your coffee table
Yes, but 1/2^80 is ridiculously large compared to 1/2^1024.
> What sets me off hard on this article is that the writer hallucinated from hash. I suppose anyone can have an off-the-charts response, but I've never seen anyone hallucinate from it.

I guess it depends on your definition of "hallucinate". I don't know anyone who's had the sort of obvious visual hallucinations associated with many psychedelics but plenty of people (myself included) have experienced mild auditory hallucinations and strong distortions in the perception of time and physical movement under the influence of a strong dose of cannabis.
> I have a non-scientific suspicion that performance reviews are going to become the next industry "thing" that prospective candidates evaluate before joining a company.

It's not already? The performance review system is something I evaluate very critically before deciding whether to join a company. Use Microsoft-style stack ranking? I'll pass.
> The real problem is not providing great technology but actually getting people in corporate environments to use it in a meaningful way.

At VMware we use SocialCast[1] (not sure if we used it before we bought them or not, that was before my time) and it's certainly used in a "meaningful way". Not everyone in the company uses it regularly but certainly more than enough for a sufficient critical mass that if you have a question you can ask it in the appropriate group(s) and you'll most likely have an answer within hours (and often minutes).

[1] http://socialcast.com/
Dreyfus was defeated at chess by MacHack in 1967: https://www.chess.com/article/view/machack-attack
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I've used Markdown Resume Builder before (http://there4development.com/markdown-resume/) and aside from sometimes fighting with a few layout issues it is great.

From a markdown source file it produces a pretty clean PDF/html version of my resume and can choose from multiple preset styles.
Maybe.

However, You can see the same debate being played out around genetically modified foods. Fear is being created about the products. As opposed to diamonds that are worn on the outside, these are things being put in your body. I think it is fair to expect that the PR campaign from entrenched food companies will be significant here.
The problem then is what whitespace do you keep and what do you ditch? The default behavior you want is to maintain everything inside. But I agree the - tag seems like a really inelegant hack.
So what about Android?

(Said the guy whose work is related to Android...)
"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others." - Winston Churchill
Probably off topic but is it an "ASMR" type thing? I only ask because guided meditation audio/video tracks are very popular in that area.
It was actually first published in 1967. Debord's work was somewhat foundational among the Situationist International, who were highly involved in the unrest of May 1968 in France.