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What, not "Desert Bus"?[1][2] (Now available for IoS and Android.)

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/desert-bus-the-very-w...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBr7EhL6Jpg
This. I played the hell out of that game when it came out. I mean, who in their right mind would rank "Skiing" or "Combat" higher that this game?
Get a copy of Racing the Beam to get some insight into how programmers were able to wring out every bit[1] of potential from the Atari 2600: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/racing-beam

[1] Yes, I see what I did there.
Saudi programmer here. I can count 4 immediate cousins who are programmers, from the top of my head; not to mention a number of my high school classmates, a few friends from college, and others that I've met here and there. The webdev team at my previous job was all Saudis; there were even girls in the team. Absence of evidence is not an evidence of absence.
Freedom always requires some effort. Because its never the easiest path to take.
Well you also have 128 bytes of RAM to work with...
But that's fine isn't it? If companies don't genuinely need the employees to be in the US, then there is no problem.

The issue is the insistence that they do need employees here, because of a supposed local shortage.
> I propose the Dutch don't like English because their language is also bastardization of different languages.

You're calling out Dutch as a bastard? Seems a little backwards, seeing how it's basically English without the French-ification from the Normans. If anyone bastardized the Germanic language group, it was English.
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Maybe get some indication from Octopart[0], quick scan tells me that there are relevant prodcts by at least TI, Fairchild, STMicro, Intersil, Maxim, New Japan Radio, Diodes Inc., NXP have parts in stock. I'd be surprised if those are all just old stuff and not still being produced.

[0]: https://octopart.com/search?q=555&start=0&filter%5Bfields%5D...
"The DAG of Life" doesn't have quite as nice a ring to it.
ad blocking is such a simple topic. I don't know why they call it a war. War requires two nearly equal powers. Here we have the whole world who is willing to pay NOT to get free ads served, and then there are a few people who got free money in the past and now cry because they need to find a real job. Just find something people are willing to pay for, or go broke. It's your decision, the same as everybody elses.

And for us it's also quite simple in my eyes. There are ads and we block them. There are ad-block-blockers and we just don't visit that page again. There is enough other content to read. If you don't believe it yet, have some faith. I avoid paywalls and ads since I was able to use a keyboard and never lacked stuff to read. (And in fact if you look at my amazon history you'll see that I actually pay quite a big percentage of my monthly income on written content, it's just not blogs I'm paying for)

If you look at both paragraphs it's easy to see why there is no war. We don't need these content providers who push ads onto us that we don't want. So there is no way they can achieve their goal. They can fight as much as they want. The same as the copyright industry.
The history of consumer computing - especially the existence of the word "crapware" - suggests the opposite happens.

Corps tend to offer what execs think consumers want, based on a consumer model which is irrationally similar to an idealised version of the exec - who inevitably seems to think more is better, for very noisy values of "more".

Which is why printer driver installers, smartphones, operating systems, and hardware products all acquire barnacle encrustations of crapware that literally no consumer wants.

IoT could easily be more susceptible to this than desktop and mobile computing.

Corps that truly understand their customers are incredibly rare. Many corps seem to get along by throwing crap at the wall and hoping some of it sticks.

Genuine customer insight is practically a superpower.
It sometimes blows my mind that this would be $100 in today's dollars, or $12.50 per kilobyte.
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It was never released for sale, and it certainly could not be blamed for destroying an industry.
> Companies such as Verizon Communications Inc., Comcast Corp. and AT&T Inc. are among interested parties, as well as buyout firms including Bain Capital Partners, KKR & Co. and TPG, the people said, asking not to be identified as the situation isn’t public.

So if it's not public, why are they making it public by talking to the press? What do people get in exchange for leaking information like this? I've always wondered.
Curious how you define a "low-end" job, and what year this was.

I've lived in the Bay Area my entire life, and at her age, over ten years ago, I never had to live with less than 3 roommates. Things like saving for retirement, vacations, or emergencies were laughably impossible. And the kicker is: I made more than her, about double minimum wage ($15/hr, full-time with benefits, circa 2004). By no means should you assume I am complaining -- I didn't know anyone my age who wasn't in a similar situation.

Now I made nearly twice that, and I still have to choose between renting a room in a house with 5 other people, and being able to save money for retirement/etc by living at home.
No, I had to have an off-season job. That rusty trailer wasn't cheap, and food was also quite expensive in that location (some canneries provide room and board, at a high rate, of course, but the one I worked in didn't).
But, can it go too far in the other direction? Can ads be abusive or is anything a content publisher does to monetize fair game?

For instance, apps that use dark patterns that make it difficult to dismiss an ad without "accidentally" clicking through the ad...are these cool? Or would you say that one simply should not use the app?
>The problem is definitely the companies. They're the ones exploiting the system.

Who implements the system? The politicians that you and I elect and the corporations buy off, right? So who's fault is it really, the people who exploit the system, the people in charge of that system, or the people who put faith in the system giving it power?
Played that game for a good hour and a half at least. Fun for the whole family.

Also, Desert Bus for Hope raises money for charity: https://desertbus.org/

At time of writing, they've raised $3,112,329.72.

More info here: https://desertbus.org/about/
Site is clearly not served with C++. :-)
The HTC Vive VR headset will cost $799
$100 is a normal (Xbox One/PS4) game price in Australia.
Just trying cutspel - that's quite a cool idea.
> Humans are farmed like
poultry - City humans are
caged chickens, suburban
humans are the "free range"
variety.

…and rural humans are space aliens.
Another contender for the title of worst video game:

Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing was critically panned.
The game's criticism is largely directed at its
"blatantly unfinished"[2] state: lack of collision
detection and frequent violation of the laws of
physics, frequent and major software bugs, poor
visuals, and severe lack of functionality. As a result,
the game is now widely regarded as one of the worst
video games of all time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rigs:_Over_the_Road_Racing
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Desert Bus doesn't count - it was purposefully bad.

Big Rigs Over the Road Racing, meanwhile, was for all intents and purposes an alpha build sold as an actual game, in a box and everything.
Yes there's plenty of them. I thought this article was going to be about Daikatana.
Note that the video is from 2014 and the article from about a year ago. That said, I want this so badly.
8K is 8192 bytes. Atari runs on MOS 6502, for which each instruction takes up between 1 and 3 bytes. This gives you about 2K instructions, give or take (you probably want to make space for some data). Given how simple most atari games are, I think you could reasonably get away with 1-1.5K instructions for code if you hand-write the assembly and optimize for size.
The Haskell server provides the WebRTC signaling, which is the only part of WebRTC that is not handled by the in-browser APIs. Basically before a peer-to-peer connection can be established, you have to provide some way of sending messages between the two users.
That doesn't seem to address the parent's point that no one is forcing them to take the job,

No one forces self-employed independent contractor tradesmen to become self-employed independent contractor tradesmen, and yet when one comes to your house to fix your plumbing or electrical work-there are still requisites under the law that they're entitled to.
You are conflating language constructs with words. More words may be fine, but more "features" are not. Frankly, those "features" are more like bugs. What on earth is the usage of masculine or feminine nouns, or irregular past tense/participle, or to/ing difference?
It's hyperbole, but if you were in the decision seat (which the person in your hypothetical is not), I think it's best to stick with a powerful language to ease development. Not trying to incite a flame war, but I have to agree with Paul Graham on this one.
>Killer 'app' for the smartphone is pocket sized PC.

Yea but that's like I was saying, it's not one thing. So there isn't really one killer app, the killer app is whatever it is for any given user.

>What's the shopping angle for AR you are envisioning?

Well our startup Pair lets you put products into your environment like they are real, walk around them, take pictures or video and then purchase.

[1]https://www.pair3d.com
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Here are a few cons as someone else who has one.

* The shape of the actual phone. It's completely ridiculous that the phone doesn't sit naturally on a flat table. However, Google's case completely fixes this problem.

* Good luck finding a case that offers non-trivial protection.

* (This could be a pro) You likely cant walk into your carrier's store and buy one which means you have to buy it directly from Google and without an upgrade 'subsidy'.

* It's pretty expensive. Nexus phones have been historically cheap but this isn't really the case anymore. If you want cheap and near-stock you have to look at Motorola...

* You're being gouged for internal storage. If you want more than a paltry 16GiB of internal storage you'll be paying out the nose for it, and with no microSD card slot you cant buy a large and cheap storage for your photos and music.

* The battery isn't removable or user replaceable. This should be combined with my first point because the two are most likely linked. If the phone had a uniform thickness there's no doubt they could have fit a removable battery. Form over function seems to be the motto of every hardware designer. I haven't read the iFixit guide yet so it might be replaceable by you or me but it's certainly out of the range of your typical consumer.

* Since you bought the phone from Google you get to deal with Google's legendary customer support.

* This might be a weird complaint but the LED light on Samsung phones is much nicer than what you get on the 6P.

* Rooting the phone is trivial but requires a complete wipe of the device and disables the use of Android Pay. Maybe not a huge deal especially considering other phones in the ecosystem but it was nice when older Androids could be rooted in place.

But despite all of this it's still the best phone experience I've ever had and as long as the person isn't a die hard phone gamer or in the Apple ecosystem I would recommend them the 6P over just about everything else that's currently available.
I'm giving this one a try. It's pretty annoying when the man starts speaking to be honest. At least when I want to concentrate. But the music is good.
Interesting read. Could you blog about the math/techniques/algorithms you used to determine the best fiber paths?

Consider writing a SIGCOMM paper about it!!
That's a good question.
We're currently talking about this.

But, even if our app and website works perfectly in english, there's little chance the driver will speak english.

In Hong Kong we have a "speaks english" service you can pay for.
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Those guys committed treason by sharing with the Soviets. I don't see how that's relevant. The reason for the wall is because they have conflicting mandates.
Likely not quid pro quo, but rather "help me now and I'll help you later (with info before it hits press)".

In that way it's a bit like the lobbying dynamic.
Like this: https://gist.github.com/tluyben/f8b19965eaab6d236f9b

Btw: http://benfry.com/distellamap/
Probably because it's satirically bad, not actually. Expectations are different from the outset.
Can anyone see the cost of this? I can't find it.
Let's not forget, the same person also created the best-selling original title for the Atari 2600: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yars'_Revenge
I would definitely rank Combat higher.

I was quite young when ET came out. I loved ET, but the game was basically impossible for me to play because I couldn't get out of the pits very well; which was exacerbated by falling into them when I shouldn't have.

In contrast, Combat was easy to figure out and play and I could play it with loved ones.
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IIRC, Whatsapp is the first popular app of smartphone in Taiwan. In the beginning, A.P.P stand for Whatsapp in TV talk shows, just like F.B(Facebook) & I.G(Instagram) nowadays. Hence people trend to spell the word app as A.P.P.. As more and more apps came out, the word app became more general, but the spelling didn't change at all.
One of the reasons ET flopped was because the game was confusing. Combat, meanwhile, is literally just player 1 and player 2 trying to shoot each other. In terms of accessibility, engagement and gameplay Combat is objectively better.
"Trending" in a p2p sense is whatever has the largest swarm size. The more your peers know of that magnet link, the more that thing is trending.
Regarding using 3rd party libraries: you don't simply "reference a library". You include their source code into your project, and compile them together.

Ideally, both your project and the referenced library should be using CMake, and the library's CMake file should be referenced from your project's CMake file. If the library doesn't use CMake, you write a CMake file for it.

This is the only approach that worked well for me on all platforms. So, save yourself the trouble and just use CMake. Yes, I know it has a horrible language, but it's like the PHP of build systems: it works and lots of existing libraries use it, making it easier to use them in your own project.
Pitfall was probably my favorite, along with all the arcade game adaptions (e.g. Space Invaders) but I also really loved Haunted House and Berzerk.
I'll update my readme, on my arch-linux it has notify-send so it works on mine :)
I love the English language. Its quirks an inconsistencies reflect the turbulent, chaotic history of the speakers of that language. From the original ice age settlers, who left little or no trace of their language even though the British are largely descended from them[0], to the Celtic invaders who brought Celtic language and culture to the British Isles around, 2500 years ago, to the Anglo-Saxons who came 1000 years later laying the base of the English language, and finally the Norman invasion which brought its own words. Apart from migrations and invasions of the homeland, there was direct borrowing from French and Latin, as well as probably many non-European influences from the colonial era.

But I can see how these things are just annoyances to people who are just trying to learn English to communicate. In any case, we are stuck with English, that's network effects for you.

[0] http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/07/0719_050719_...
You are saying it isn't my right to consume what I choose? Like is lynx an ad blocker, because it's text based?

What is the difference between lynx and an ad blocker?
Yes, everyone has personal insurance that covers your car for personal use. You can't register a car without that in all places I know of.

The issue is they also must have insurance that covers them for business use when they are using their car for business. Every personal insurance policy I've read says it isn't in effect when the car is being used for business purposes. If I tried to file a claim under my personal automobile policy it would go something like this

"...and you were driving for Uber at the time? Yeah...lol."
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JB Rye has little to say about why Esperanto didn't catch on - indeed if the kind of inconsistency he writes about was a reason for languages not catching on, where would English be?

Take the clockwork morphology which Rye derides because, genuinely, "truanta" in Esperanto doesn't mean the same as truant" in English(??) That same clockwork nature was described by Claude Piron in these terms:

You never feel quite secure in a foreign language. I have more than 40,000 hours of study and practice of English, but when I improvised the inaugural speech last Friday, since, as you know, I had to replace the Secretary of the Club of Rome at the last minute, I mistakenly said costed instead of cost. I suddenly realized that I did not remember what the right form was. Irregularity of grammar always puts non-native speakers in an inferior position.
[..]
In Esperanto you feel natural and at ease because you feel secure. You know that you can follow your natural reflexes. This is never the case in another language. I once pronounced indict as rhyming with convict. Why? Because I knew the word only through reading and I generalized the pronunciation pattern I had assimilated from derelict, depict, afflict and similar words. This happened to me forty (18) years after I had started learning English, a language I have never ceased to practice ever since. It shows that really mastering English is out of my reach, as is confirmed by the fact that, in spite of so much more practice than the average European, I still cannot publish a text in English without having somebody correct my language. - http://claudepiron.free.fr/articlesenanglais/effects.htm

These kind of claims are what makes it stand out as potentially useful as a second language, despite being imperfect, compared to learning other natural languages.

Rye is doing the kind of 'Unix haters handbook' of nitpicking.
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Yeah right, and after 10-15 years you'll be able to perform tasks without a problem that a 2-year experienced programmer can perform in a scripting language if (s)he wants to be expressive, or C if (s)he wants to achieve performance.

"Clever solutions give rise to artificial problems that can require even more cleverness to solve".

Not to mention the mad scientists sitting in ISO conference rooms constantly thinking "how can we top our previous clevernesses?". So good luck with the language being the same in 10-15 years.
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I remember learning about this game on a G4 special, and seeing Warshaw's spots talking about how it was made. I wasn't alive when this game was released, but it seems to be very frustrating to play. But hey, that's what you get on the first try when you rush things (coughJavaScriptcough). I'm glad to see someone's "fixed" it just to see what it would have been like had Warshaw been able to get the time needed to really complete the project. It looked like a great idea, just a terrible execution.
Languages have always spread through invasion. English is spoken in the US, Australia, much of India etc because English troops arrived, latin America speaks Spanish because Spanish with guns went there.
If we're going to rate Atari games adjusted by the level of effort and time put into them, I'd say this is one of its better games. This is one developer coding non-stop for five weeks straight, and he had the temerity to push back on Spielberg's ideas. I wouldn't say he caused Atari's demise, but rather he almost saved the company.
Sure, the article seems to acknowledge as much:

> "I actually prefer it when people do identify it as the worst game of all time because I also did Yars Revenge and that's frequently identified as one of the best of all time. So between the two, I have the greatest range of any designer in history!"

I really liked Yars' Revenge. That constant droning sound -- it was really unlike anything I'd heard at that point.
ArsTechnica says $699 for a Core M3, 4GB RAM, and 128GB SSD. Another $59 for the pen, $129 for the keyboard, and $89 for the USB adapter if you want USB/HDMI/VGA/Ethernet out of its single USB-C port.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/02/huawei-matebook-hands...
I cannot completely tell from the app pictures on the site, but it would worth thinking about it how much English people need for delivery? E.g. Uber is in English here, and was using it pretty fine without much Chinese. It's less of an issue for me, have an "everyday" level of proficiency, but in general.

Also, do you have different apps for the different markets?

If it's the same app everywhere, then it would make sense that the people can bring the "service" with them e.g. going from Taiwan to HK on a business trip, or Singapore for a few months work stint (or any other direction), and they can still use it the same way.

It drives me crazy to no end when there's an international company, and language is completely tied to the location. Your case make a bit more sense than others, and it's a ton of work, I know. Just some thoughts.
Their watch is best in class IMO.

Different perspective Did apple just rip off Nokia with its "phone"?
Of course this game did not lead to the 'videogame crash' of 83, other videogame areas like the arcades was doing just fine, and home computers as well.

The problem was that the console games of the time were incredibly poor in graphics/sound, and typically also in game play.

Consumers wanted better games than what the console hardware at the time could produce, once something came along which was a technical leap compared to the Atari, Coleco etc, it did fantastically well, this was the NES.
Long distance calls? Remember those? :) It was probably short distance in PA.
"Gang" (in that sense) isn't all that weird. It's just "going" with different vowels. "Uitgang" -> "out going" -> exit.
...or that his biggest failure still sold over a million copies.
Right, and the branding power of advertising is significant. It's been argued (persuasively IMO) that targeted advertising is counterproductive in this regard.

Much as I find the practice annoying, a large stadium or other facility endorsement programme has a sticking power for brand awareness which a microtargeted, microsecond-auction online placement doesn't. Much the same as investing in streetfront retail space speaks to a certain confidence in your own products or services.

Don Marti and Doc Searls have both written on this many times and at length.
> With an innovative power saving mode that maximizes the use of an already impressive 33.7 Wh high-density lithium battery, you get hours of use on a single charge.

"Hours of use" on a single charge. That doesn't bode well.

It seems to say nine hours of video playback or 29 hours of music playback (screen off?), but that's an optimised use-case for most computers.
I hope he is better in C++ than creating frontend for websites.
That's a shame. When I rode in cabs in Taiwan, I'd get ripped off because I was a foreigner. Uber had consistently better cars and was cheaper too