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some of the "weirder" games they released because they wanted to.

In fact SimCity 2k they made because they "had" to, they didn't wanted to make it, but it was their obvious cash cow.

SimAnt, was a prototype for "The Sims" (then named "Project Dollhouse") that ended becoming what was released instead (they made the "house" and the human and the dog in SimAnt before the ant farm simulator part).

After they released SimCity2k, the CEO quit (I dunno why), the VCs then started to meddle directly, and demanded they released 4 games by the end of 1996, they ended making SimCopter (that started as a 3D engine and AI prototype for The Sims again... later when they released the actual The Sims, they used the actual engine from Sim Copter, but "converted" back to 2D), SimPark (that also had parts of its engine used in The Sims and SimCity 3k and 4), Sim Tunes and FullTilt Pinball

It didn't went fully well, although SimCopter people liked it, the rushed release was problematic, for example with the buggy bimbo easter-egg (one of the programmers introduced without permission an easter-egg where men in speedos and nipples that glowed would run around named "himbos", a bug, not caught due to rushed released, made the easter-egg trigger in a frightening pace, spawning hundreds of "himbos", that would run toward the helicopter, get sliced by the blades and killed, heavy PR fallout ensued).

Then the VC demanded that they dropped everything (including The Sims) and started doing the next SimCity, but they wanted it in the SimCopter engine, despite the dev protests, knowing it would never work... Indeed, it didn't, SimCity 3k in SimCopter engine was throughly bashed at E3, with journalists extremely disappointed, and the team morally dropped like a rock, being forced to work in a product they knew it would never work.

So they ended needing the early exit to EA to save them, it was EA, or risk the entire team quitting.
My personal opinion is that it has to do with the kind of people starting and running the companies (startups) that hire programmers in the first place. Company culture, after all, obeys the law of gravity like most things in a company. And I think it would be a useful exercise to study the source of the culture propagated in the stereotype you mention.
> You were trying

I know what I'm trying. And you're wrong. I'm not claiming Putin wanted an airliner shot down. I'm saying that when Putin's forces shot down an airliner he kept supporting them.

In other words, Russia doesn't care.

> So, yes, Russia DOES care about ISIS.

No. Because if ISIS wandered off into Iraq, they'd be done.

>> If we actually collaborate
> How do you propose to deal with the power vacuum

You want to plug it with a dictator? Brilliant.

> how are the Syrians being "held hostage" anyway?

Their dictator has ordered his security forces to fire on civilians.

> A large chunk of the Syrian population wants the Assad regime

Got a fair vote that shows that? And see below.

> just like a large chunk of the Iraqi population was happy with the Saddam regime.

Yeah, those in his good books, whose power came from him.

But it's irrelevant anyways because even popular support for an illegal government (ie, not recognizing human rights) doesn't legitimize it.

> You haven't actually come up with any kind of viable plan to "fix" the problem

Move the goalposts much? It's not the job of the guy who says "Stop throwing gas on the fire" to have the entire roadmap planned out.

You're the one who proposes we take an active stance - to shift our alliances and protect a dictator we'd previously told to leave power. You want to commit military resources. The burden of proof is on you.
> In the email, we encourage people who believe their app is within the bounds of acceptable use cases on Twitter to contact us directly, and provide a link to do so.

I don't see any encouragement or really any path to recourse in the email. It reads as though the decision is final. Email linked from blog post: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/1*MoLgPNLiQwQ8s-Y1D...
I've been keeping my resume in Markdown form in a private Gist for as long as I can remember. This approach has stood the test of time despite Markdown offering zero intrinsic support for either document structure in general, or the task of writing a resume in particular. In that, it's a good light-weight format that doesn't really get in the way. The plain-text nature makes it a good choice for VCS. There are lots of ways to turn Markdown into a user-friendly format like HTML or PDF. In short, it does everything I need and nothing I don't.

My rule of thumb is to keep it simple and convenient. Compared to this, most other approaches I've seen - especially ones that try to shoehorn everything into some kind of data model - smell more like overengineering than anything else.
regarding the walk cycles on terrain, good work is seeing use with inverse kinematics. For modern era games the technology is readily available and generally robust that solves this issue.

I wouldn't describe the usage as trivial, but it's in line with other toolsets that deal with different issues.
Where machines would be if they increased the available input sources? We know that as little as we know where a kid will end up when we put them into the world and they start to interact with it being the patter recognizing feedback loops that we are.

The point is that premises allow us to make logical reasoning but the premises themselves are not necessarily logic or universally true or objective or any other notion of right or wrong.

Look through history. Most of the really big innovations weren't a product of some objective but rather incidents and curious phenomena we never expected.

Rational reasoning will take you some of the way as long as you have the premise, but the question is how to get to the premise.
> Over the last six months, we've started contacting all of those API key holders with elevated access and asked them to clarify what they're doing. In some cases, we know the business and business owner and reach out personally. In other cases, like this one, the business is listed in our systems as "N/A", so we send the template mail.

> In the email, we encourage people who believe their app is within the bounds of acceptable use cases on Twitter to contact us directly, and provide a link to do so. The owner of this app elected to blog publicly about the situation before contacting us, which is unfortunate. We have contacted the owner of this app and hope to resolve this situation, as we do with hundreds of other developers on our platform. We do occasionally provide exceptions for apps that are non-commercial (not-for-profit, no ads, etc.)

If this was the intent, the template email was kind of poorly drafted, because that's not what it says at all.

It says multiple times, without qualification, that they're going to be cut off — "this type of elevation will no longer be available," "your current elevated rate limits will no longer be available," "we will remove this elevation from your account," and "we encourage you to evaluate alternative options." At no point does it say that keeping the elevated access is an option.

So I mean, can you really blame the owner of this app for reading these absolute statements as being absolute and believing their app was cut off, rather than seeing it as some kind of sideways inquiry as to whether they think their use is acceptable?
Logical reasoning is a tool we use to form an understand the world, but it is not the foundation of the understanding itself. To use an analogy, saying humans are fundamentally rational because we use reasoning to make decisions is like saying birds are musicians because they communicate with song.

The article was absolutely not saying that we should abandon logic. It simply said that our efforts in building any sort of "understanding" with computers have been more fruitful when relying on analogy and classification as a basis rather than "pure" logic.
Is this a joke? That email clearly states that such an access will not be available. Not what you claim here. Am I missing something?
So, the OP provided the email he recieved.

It did not ask him to clarify what he is doing, it did not say anything about bounds of acceptable use cases or what they might be, it did not encourage him to contact Twitter directly, or provide a link to do so. It did _not_ "inquire about why the developer needs elevated access", there is no such inquiry in the email. It _did_ say elevated access was going away.

It said he could use the free API with rate limits, or the commercial Gnip API.

It kind of half-heartedly suggested he could "reply to this email" if he had "questions". From the email, there was no reason to think elevated access might still be available, it pretty clearly said it would _not_ be, so I'm not surprised he didn't have any questions -- the email was quite clear (at saying something pretty different than you are saying).

So when you describe the email that goes out -- it does not seem to describe the one he received, according to him in the post. Are you talking about a different email? That he did not receive, or that you think he should have received in addition? Or do you actually think that email somehow communicates what you describe above? (It really really does not, which is why I think you must be thinking of a different email he did not receive or post, or you were internally misinformed about what the email was going to say).

With the email he actually pasted into the OP it is not surprising that he simply publicly notified his userbase and other interested parties that the service would be going away -- what else do you do when your upstream provider tells you the service is going away? This is all very standard and professional.

But, if you are saying that you do continue providing free elevated access to certain projects that seem worthwhile and meet some 'boudns of acceptable use', then that is nice, cool, I'm glad Twitter is doing this. (Maybe you should have told him that in the email though! And it would be great to actually advertise that fact, and what the bounds of acceptable use are, and how someone can get in touch with you to request access.)
What leverage does he have? I'm pretty sure if the NSA wanted it, he'd be dead already.
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Yea I meant the native binaries in the recent ahead of time compilation work.
Lunch at work is a great idea, for both company and employees, especially if the company is kinda far from food options. I'd probably rather work at a company that pays slightly more and is located near lots of good food in a downtown/walkable area than one that feeds me, unless their kitchens are as good as Google, but it's kind of a toss up. I'm always excited to get invited to Google for lunch, but I doubt most companies do it anywhere near as well as Google.

But, breakfast and dinner, too? I begin to question the motives of the company. If it is to enable/encourage a flexible schedule so that employees can make their commute at low-traffic times, awesome! If it is so that employees feel compelled to be in the office 12 hours a day, it's much less awesome. I think Google is a decent example of the former (while still having some traits of the latter). Again, it's easy for it to be used to enable age discrimination and discrimination against people with children and lives outside of work, without ever explicitly doing so.

Anyway, I'm not actually trying to say a company feeding their employees is a bad thing. I'm trying to say that there's been a trend of taking tech workers right out of college and sort of continuing their dorm life well into their late 20s and even 30s, and I don't know that it is particularly healthy (for the workers or society in these areas). It's easy to lack empathy when every interaction is with people just like you, which is why I think there's been a recent clash against Google and other tech behemoths in SF communities. There's a lack of engagement in the rest of civil society when you live and breathe work, and live surrounded by people who do exactly the same kind of work, and are living exactly the same kind of life.
A poorly calibrated sense of self preservation. Plus it's a pretty foreign concept, it's hard for someone to evaluate the danger of such an abstract premise that is unlike anything else they deal with in life.
Thanks. It means a lot coming from somebody who is basically a hiring expert. It is just super weird valuing yourself. I know I am really good at communicating, thiunking about biz dev and sales and execution. However, I am ostensibly just a nobody and the founders (although they don't treat me poorly or anything) have much better credentials being Ivy league and technical, financial and business oriented.

I also didn't add this, but the laptop is being given as a bonus. I told them they could subtract the $600 of pay from the accelerator/pitching from this past weekend and that I needed a new machine.

I think a third is a bit much, but I don't think it is unreasonable to ask for a bit more and for a salary if/when it is possible for it to be paid.

I just have a net worth of -6,000 right now. So, it is hard to bootstrap with limited upside. I want to help them raise a 1m round, get my salary retroactively paid, help them hire a few people to execute and then amicably depart.

Thanks a lot for the insight.
Ad blocking is indeed very much moral.
> I think the reasoning is that 2X vs 0.2X barely registers a difference for the VC.

I thought this was worth calling out. This is more believable than the reputation/pride argument for holding out. The business model is built around homeruns and busts. Middling exits are essentially busts.
Mostly irrelevant to the article, but fun nevertheless:

More people live in the San Jose/San Franciso/Oakland metro area than live in Norway, Denmark, or Finland.
If the accelerator is getting 6% for 25k than the company would be valued at 416k pre-money. If you should be getting 5k per month, I would want .25% per 1k I'm not being paid. So, if 4 mo's go by and your getting 2k/mo, I would think you should get .75(3k short per month)*4 mos = 3%. Make sure you get it in writing even if an email(better than nothing). Other than a down round you should always make out better money-wise with each round. And this should be equity not options.(BS opinion not legal advice.)
It's foolish, and, honestly, kind of offensive, to imply that pushing diversity and at the same time pushing business success are somehow at odds with each other. There was an excellent segment that talked about almost this exact thing on Reply All a few weeks ago. If you skip to the second half, I'd recommend listening to it. They talk about how businesses benefit from diversity, how diverse groups perform better and get better results than groups chosen just on "qualifications", and they also address the annoyance at the fact that "success" and "diversity" are seen as competing goals, in stark rejection of evidence. They also talk about how things that don't seem like a big deal can really wear minority employees down:

https://gimletmedia.com/episode/52-raising-the-bar/
You sound like aesthetics is a bad thing you need to disavow for some reason.

> Fine, TeX is an ugly language that only a programmer could love, but in over twenty years nobody has yet been able to replace its expressive power and flexibility

Which doesn't make it less ugly. If we can't cure common cold yet, that is no reason to praise it and making it sound as if it's a great thing. It is a problem and so is the need to use ugly language to produce aesthetically pleasing papers. The fact that we don't have solution for this problem yet does not turn it into non-problem. It just says nobody yet was good enough to solve it.
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While you're here, I recently switched to an iPhone and the Inbox app, yet I've received multiple e-mails from GMail saying, in part, "You're currently accessing your Google account from your iPhone but not using the official app from Google, the most secure way to access Gmail."

A few questions: Is Inbox actually less secure than the GMail app? Is there a reason why using Inbox (an official Google app) doesn't prevent these messages from being sent? And will these e-mails ever stop?
>Debit cards however, are very common,
Agree. Sadly most of the times the stores are only accepting the shitty domestic "girocard" scheme and not international brands of debit crds.

>visiting the local bakery.
Kamps usually accepts credit cards, even contactless.
There is a very interesting 'robot cameraman' device called Swivl which helps creating better educational videos in classrooms http://www.swivl.com/
Gibson was already alluding to these in Neuromancer.

> Now he slept in the cheapest coffins, the ones nearest the port, beneath the quartz-halogen floods that lit the docks all night like vast stages; where you couldn’t see the lights of Tokyo for the glare of the television sky, not even the towering hologram logo of the Fuji Electric Company, and Tokyo Bay was a black expanse where gulls wheeled above drifting shoals of white styrofoam.
Thanks. I haven't seen this, I did read about the incident in Brian Burrough's Dragonfly.
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I would enjoy reading more about the actual problems you are facing with your business. To me this just read like the rambling thoughts of a sad unmotivated person on a monday afternoon.
I'm 26 and have been the technical lead on my team for just over 2 years. Yeah, I'm relatively fresh out of university, but I have 17 years of programming experience under my belt. No, I don't consider myself a "rockstar" programmer. I just consider myself someone who has been programming for nearly two decades. I'm not the best programmer who ever lived, but I do think I'm pretty good at what I do.

Yes, over half my team members are older than me. However, most of them come from electrical engineering backgrounds and have less professional programming experience than I do. There is no friction, though. They're great guys, and they don't demonstrate any sort of ageist attitudes. There's definitely a level of mutual respect and trust, and I try to foster open communication throughout the team.

Three years out of university, I got an offer to be a senior software engineer and technical lead. It came with a 50% pay raise. I'll admit I had some reservations before taking the position. What if I'm not good enough? What if I fail? The thing is, the people who hired me (I was interviewed by no fewer than 7 different people at the company, all in one day), thought that I had the skills necessary to succeed (otherwise they wouldn't have offered me the position). I took the position and I'm glad I did.

It has been the best job I've ever had. Until now, I'd never worked in an environment that placed so much trust in, and demonstrated so much respect for, its employees. There's a good bit of freedom, and the company is very good at rewarding its employees for good work. My only complaint is that the development environment is less than ideal (Oracle Grid Engine, all work done in the cloud, Perforce, SAP, lots of shitty products to deal with in the development workflow). I'm only willing to put up with that because the nature of the job (and the people I work with) is so good otherwise.

Maybe you're right that the term "lead" is thrown around too much in our industry, but I don't think it's insane to put a young person in such a position as long as they're otherwise qualified. As an aside, if you're ever doubting yourself, listen to what your peers are telling you!
how do I assemble this and fire it up in qemu / kvm?
Build your own Hardware down to the core, like Google and Dropbox do
Conveniently, section 1.1 of the current link [0] covers this (it's one of the earlier sections).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11300075
Our computers run on transistors being turned on or off. Thats the premise that creates the rest and allow us to use it for boolean logical circuits which again allow os to simulate almost anything.

The logical part is our interpretation of phenomena not necessarily "out there".

We are pattern recognizing feedback loops the rest is interpretation IMO.
All very valid points. It would be a shame if the project died. QML and Go just seem to be perfect partners.
It's pretty but the demo doesn't have a hint of motion in it, and such organic objects as there are (plant leaves) are very plasticky. The HDR bloom is lovely, but presumably being faked just as it would be with any other render pipeline.
Spreading the story out allows the entire story to be told.

Ok, I can see that but who is he to decide that? He's not a respected journalist with an established track record. He's the guy who stole a bunch of insider information from his employer. We don't really know what he has or what he isn't sharing with us.
>> clustering does scale

I was reading Lin & Wu [1] today; have a look in there for this bit:

to create 3000 clusters among 20 million phrases using 3-word windows, each K-Means iteration takes about 20 minutes on 1000 CPUs. Without using the indexing technique in Section 2.4, each iteration takes about 4 times as long.

So, sure, clustering scales... if you have a um, cluster, of 1000 CPUs lying around to spread it over.

You're saying something fundamentally wrong here. There are classically efficient algorithms (linear and sub-linear in time) for first order logic with search, as in unification, RETE etc, whereas all the machine learning algorithms are typically starting at quadratic times and then increase in crazy, mad, insane rates of complexity that would never be accepted in any other field.

It's machine learning that "doesn't scale", not logic.

[1] http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P09-1116
With numbers like that I bet that the people that remain are barely able to maintain their existing systems and hold on to existing customers.
So you are still accessing the streaming endpoint, but you have more keywords than they normally allow? So you are not accessing the entire Firehose and parsing from there, right? Do you regularly update it to include new emoji when they come out? I am thinking about ways to do it on the free stream still, just trying to see where you are already at.
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Apropos of not a whole hell of a lot: I remember my wife laughing at the neighbor who had his 11,000 sq ft house on 30 acres of land (fantastic view!) for sale at $4M because it would never sell for that much.

I really, really hope the $4M bungalow is an exaggeration, but I suspect if so, it's not by much.
>Right, I think the individual should continue to get special access forever. It's a terrible idea to cut off people doing something cool with your platform because of what?

Because "special access" means free in this case.

Do you realize you are arguing that a customer should have free access forever, while others customers pay? Do you know what type of liability that is for any business?
And he's the right person to be doing that?
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Yea I can't stand Zach Holman's writing because its written in 14-year-old style and doesn't leave me any wiser.
What could the heat source be?