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Great interview, but he spent his life studying this shit to get to where this book was, written in 1966: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Construction_of_Rea...

Many of the ideas he's talking about are discussed therein; perception and "reality" is an assemblage of ideas, not an objective "truth" waiting to be discovered.
Maybe the year of the Linux desktop will also be the year of rational political discourse...
But there is a public perception difference (especially in the UK with our pervasive CCTV culture) between government surveillance and the somewhat inevitable tabloid "voyeur with a drone" thought process.

Constant state monitoring and Dirty Derek with a DJI are separate concerns.
"making it hard to trace where the null value came from"

The pervasive lack of defensive programming slays me.
I saw this a little differently. Not so much that bit coin is useless. He seemed to argue against using his country as an argument.

You framed it as "I can pay with Visa..."

I think you may have projected your argument onto his statement with no real correlation.
Wishful thinking, and backtracking as well. Magnitude change isn't 10x, and short of an increase in taxation, the idea that my current $2/gal gas will become $20 is just inane.
The Ocaml std library is a bit lackluster and people often replace it with something more featureful.

BTW, I think https://github.com/c-cube/sequence is more in closer to the generic iterable datatype you are looking for. You still need to convert to and from the seq type but its pretty close...
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Thanks for that. We will change it to haccast.com
Tell that to E.T.
> try to adapt touchscreen to old control methods

Touch-screen joysticks are appalling - it's very hard to interact with a game when you've got a good deal of the game obscured by your fingers. That being said, I can't think of a better way to do it - those games probably don't belong on phones as phones are seemingly the wrong tool for the job.

I simply uninstall ad rich games, but controls? I've frequently felt the desire to throw my phone against the wall.
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I'm glad I read this comment before wasting time on reading the article. Thanks!
The criteria of "usefulness" is a slippery slope. Books like The Iliad are completely devoid of any practical usefulness, they would have been discarded centuries ago by the librarians at Alexandria. I've seen libraries in Spain throw away good novels, even excellent novels, to make room for the latest potboiler.
No, not least because it's garbage collected. It may be useful for writing a DSL in which to write real-time software though: http://ivorylang.org/tower-overview.html
The answer from @fat is face-palm worthy:

> i have learned to use them, that's why there isn't one present.

Did you, really? Because that's how that bug came to be. Because of you stubbornly omitting them.

Why do these people want to avoid semicolons at all costs? Even inconsistencies? Even potential bugs? Why?? I just don't get it.

I need to leave this discussion, I'm getting nerd-rage.
It was marketed to have infinite gameplay. What game do you know that honestly has achieved that?
Single finger on touchscreen works - but tilting I think largely doesn't work. Device tilt was the dominant mode of input for earlier iOS games back when the App Store was new - in part because of the Wii's popularity at the time - but didn't stick.

Part of it's because despite Apple's pretty spectacular accelerometer, detecting fine motion is very difficult, and so the amount of "resolution" available to you as a dev is pretty limited. Variation in fine motor control between players also means that you can't necessarily rely on players being able to affect small, precise movements. Motion controls ultimately ended up being low resolution and relied on substantial/large movements of the device.

This is worse on Android, where the quality of the accelerometer varies widely depending on hardware, and getting consistent experiences across a range of devices is nearly impossible.

Add to environmental factors (say, playing the game on a bus, train, or airplane) massively screwing with your accelerometer readings, and the propensity for mobile games to be played in those exact places, and the situation gets worse.

In any case, this leads to fatigue. Turns out holding your phone up and tilting it every which way is a bit tiring.

tl;dr: Because of individual biological variation, hardware limitations, and environmental noise, fine motion control for mobile games didn't work out, at all.
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>> In the pre-Gox days of the Bitcoin subreddit

This is true! You don't have to agree with them, though. The network still exists and is cool and useful regardless. You don't even need to use Reddit! I don't hang out on reddit.com/r/visa (does it even exist?)

>> Not to mention that Bitcoin is explicitly anti-environmentalist

I think it would be fairer to say that it's 'a-environmentalist'. The badness or goodness of energy use for PoW just wasn't really a concern.

When I play Quake 3, my computer uses more energy. I consider that an acceptable compromise. Perhaps there are people out there that don't, so they don't play it.

I would find it quite odd if they criticized my habits, though. We should be trying to get along, not looking for chances to grumble at each other, you know?
Not hating on Bitcoin, but just to set the record straight - unless you're going through some extra hoops like mixers etc - the level of privacy you get with Bitcoin is less than what you get with a CC payment.
It becomes issue when mixed with spaces. Say, aligning function parameters on multiple rows. If the indentation of the second row of parameters is mainly with tabs, and then adjusted to place with spaces, it's suddenly a huge issue. And that will happen.

So spaces only for me, thanks.
Even then, most engineers of other disciplines do not need to be licensed. Safety-critical products must conform to standards and must be signed off by someone. Dozens or hundreds of other engineers of multiple disciplines can be involved in designing and manufacturing those products, but only one licensed engineer of any discipline is needed to sign off on its compliance.

Companies that have the kind of engineering culture required to produce safety-critical products already treat software engineers like any other engineering discipline and expect them to act with the same rigor has other engineers. That's actually why I cringe every time I hear about a Valley software company wanting to pivot or branch into products like that.
Historically I've noticed that libraries are often terrible at distinguishing good from bad when it comes to technical books. Sorting through the books being thrown out, I've often found real classics mixed in with the likes of Learn Excel 98 In 24 Hours.

This also happens with used bookstores, but in that case the upshot is, instead, that used bookstores won't buy technical books, so they never make it onto their shelves.

Nowadays I almost entirely get my technical information online, in part because of having moved to Argentina, where there weren't very many technical books in the first place — our famous national abundance of bookstores are dedicated almost entirely to fiction and opinion, rather than knowledge in the sense of falsifiable propositions.
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TL;DR: person preparing a product to sell finds existing competing products lacking.
Ask HN: Why hackernews hates Bitcoin so much?
Can someone explain?

Related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11588065
So Optional.get() is similar to Rust's Option.unwrap(), right? A method with a short name, which newbies often use just more than they should, and which should only be used when it's a bug if the Optional/Option doesn't contain a valid value at that point?

(I still don't quite get the point of Optional; you're replacing a direct pointer with a pointer to a pointer, but the outermost pointer can still be null, so you are still vulnerable to a NullPointerException, and now you have two "not present" values to check for: null and !isPresent().)
>Honestly, the lack of dedicated controls will never allow for mobile gaming to be anything more than a time diversion for most people.

Isn't gaming precisely a time diversion?
It was a unique game and worth the money, but the replay value is close to nil to me because it's more a game of luck rather than skill.
There are companies whose sole purpose is to encourage addictive design and IAP - see http://vungle.com/
I confidently predict, in my lifetime,

- Nearly all cars will be electric.

- Nearly all cars will be self driving.

- Nearly all cars will be Uber, or something like it.

- Exceptions to the above will be owned by the same sort of people who currently own Ford model Ts. They will be lovingly maintained, proudly exhibited, and illegal to drive on the public highway.
Airbnb has a decent styleguide - https://github.com/airbnb/javascript
"A mostly reasonable approach to js"

but style-guides should be just that style guides ...not standards
1 minute of hard exercise spread out over 9 minutes of gentle exercise.

Still, sign me up!
I'm on the fence about this syntax.

var
foo = 1,
foo = 2;

The reason being that things will align whether you use a tabs with a width of 2 or 4.

I also use spaces for mid-line alignment and tabs exclusively for identation. I think this is called "smart tabs"?
>Not all games require precision, so it's not a fatal problem, merely just another design issue to deal with, but it does sound fatal to a lot of "old school arcade" ideas.

Not sure what the issue is. I've used tons of old-school arcade games in the 80s. They had horrible precision joysticks, guns ("operation wolf"), etc.
Yep, I was playing it from Australia on dialup, had about a 200+ms ping. What ended up happening is my character would be running in the wilderness, then after a few seconds it would snap back because I hit the side of a house/castle.
Because credit card payments and wire transfers take less than hours to complete?
Bushnell has created a lucrative post-Atari career out of coasting on his Atari successes, duping a string of companies into bringing him on as some kind of golden prophet to give the startup some credibility.

He's had his own streak of noncompelling products over the last 4 decades. Sente. Catalyst. Aristo. uWink. I wouldn't expect anything different.

But that's just my opinion.
This is probably part of the reason why power lifting is so beneficial. If you are doing near maximal weight for few reps, every set is very hard exercise.

The problem I have seen with intervals training is that few people really go all out.
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the underlying premise to the marketing campaign driving this article is that there is a "right" way to entertain. I reject that premise outright, even though it's practically tailor-made for old men, but from reading these comments, it's a smart market segment to chase.
They're probably trying to minimize contact with the art - the same way that they don't allow flash photography of paintings.
... In untrained people.
For you and I maybe. Touchscreens are very natural for people who have grown up using them. My 3 year old cousin (once removed) can destroy most people I know at touchscreen games because she has grown up using touchscreens.

My cousin's mother gave her a glossy magazine to read a while back, and she tried swiping the pages to turn them.
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That's intentional as it is a translation of a German blog:

> Because the roots of my blogs are in German, I will continue to call him Modernes C++. That is not by mistake.

http://www.modernescpp.com/index.php/warum-einen-blog-zu-mod...

Not saying it's a good decision...
If anybody's looking for a side project, I think there's a curation opportunity here. I'd subscribe to a newsletter focused on great, non-IAP-driven iOS games.

It could be weekly or monthly, with a mix of new games and classic gems that maybe aren't so well known. I'd tolerate a fair amount of advertising or sponsored content in the newsletter as long as it was clearly labeled.

The key thing for me is quality. I think that's true for many (extremely) casual phone gamers. I'd much rather get 1 outstanding recommendation per week/month than 10 of varying quality. And I know game enjoyment can be somewhat subjective, but there are still some games that are generally well-done and broadly appealing to fans of a genre. If the top recommendation is a racing game, I might skip it. That's okay. I don't need a new game every week or even every month. I just don't want to waste my time sifting through bad games or games that start fun but quickly ramp up the IAP pressure.

HumbleBundle kind of fits this niche, but I found their volume to be too high. And frankly, I don't want to buy a bunch of games at once. I think I'm less of a gamer than their target audience.
Hardly. Obsolescence is designed into the very system.
i will happily trade away your effort unto the end of time if it means I get a broader selection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLfK35O91gE a honda fit versus a honda accord of the same year. It's pretty clear which one would take less damage.
Yeah, it's for reviving posts that are unfairly [dead].
It requires Congress to pass a new law repealing the old; alternatively the Judicial Branch can invalidate the law as well, which would culminate at the level of the US Supreme Court.
To many people, I'm sure. But to anyone following certain organizations (the EFF comes to mind), Snowden basically "pulled the curtains open" on what was somewhat known for quite some time (perhaps not to the depth that Snowden revealed, but people knew that there was some computer surveillance going on before Snowden.)

The EFF has a timeline of quotes / stories that basically extend back to the September 11th attacks.

https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/timeline

I personally don't think paranoia, though. To me, this whole collecting data on everyone instead of targeted individuals is more this: a huge data storage that is both subject to both internal abuse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOVEINT) and data leaks (Snowden); a wasteful process that didn't really stop a lot of terrorist attacks (eg, San Bernadino, the Boston Marathon bombings, Fort Hood, the Charleston church, etc.); a process that damaged America's reputation considerably (even from a pure business perspective); etc. Honestly, the NSA spying appears to end up being a colossal waste of resources and a general failure overall.

If some NSA database records this opinion, good. :)
You can always go the extra effort to locate the factory workers who make your clothes and start sending them money directly. You have that choice too.

But back to your original point, do you believe that a shirt made in England that you would pay twice the amount of money for, would be 2 times higher quality than a shirt made in Bangladesh?
thanks, bro. but according to my handy dandy anecdata, that's about 99% of the population and about 100% of the people who need the exercise.
Two things:
1.- It's very interesting that the brain+eye can't fix some perceptions, that's why it's impossible to _correctly_ see optical illusions like these: http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01121/same-color...

2.- ...it's fine as long as the future doesn't make us live in here:
http://imgur.com/gallery/hD2Tm1O
(Safe for work: it's a picture of Mark Zuckerberg and about 200 people using VR headsets, with the Matrix pods as background)
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> anti-environmentalist ... vast amounts of wasted electricity

Ironically uses politically-charged language when discussing how bitcoin gets political.

How about: "I'm concerned with the amount of electricity devoted to mining."

Some of the bitcoin-is-going-to-take-over advocates could counter with, "That electricity cost is a lot better for the environment than the standing armies required to secure fiat money."
Sometimes, you _know_ that something will be valid. Rust has an unwrap method that does the same as get does, and legitimate uses of it come in cases like this:

use std::net::Ipv4Addr;

fn main() {
let addr: Ipv4Addr = "0.0.0.0".parse().unwrap();
}

Here, I _know_ that the call to `parse()` will always succeed. More verbose handling isn't helpful.

(We almost changed unwrap to assert to make it even more clear, but not everyone agreed that it was more clear)
so does https://PhantomJsCloud.com but single pages, no site crawling.

Disclaimer: I'm the founder there ;)
If you buy BTC with cash and have it sent to a fresh wallet, that's quite some privacy—but yes, it's important to be aware of this stuff.
Post WWII US was ~50% of world manufacturing. That's a rather strong starting position.
"Awkward" may have been an understatement…
>How do you discover quality games?

You can't because the discoverability is terrible and the various app stores just care about raw sales, not quality. So that means that devs who want to make quality games never get noticed and that's a major disincentive to produce such games. Mobile gaming doesn't have the tech press, steam-like reviews, etc other gaming has. Its a lot of impulsive buyers feeding a market that delivers crap because crap is good enough for them.

This is like asking where the chess table at a casino is. The casino and the people who go there have no interest in chess. They just want you to toss your money into a skinner box, which is what freemium games are.

Google and Apple could fix this, but prefer to lean towards the 'popular' discoverability than the 'quality' discoverability. I think they're wrong and have turned mobile into a ghetto in so many ways - its not just games, but obviously they prefer this method, which I imagine is more profitable. See the recent reports on how freemium games are powered by 'unicorns' who pay vast sums of money for in-game purchasing, all of which Google and Apple get 20-30% of.
Thank you, all very good points.
My statement had to to with a specific individual who's posted a massive amount of pii online; if you have a specific claim related to bulk data collection, happy to address it.
> US still has a significant chunk of WWII debt after one of the greatest sustained economic booms of all time.

Let's pretend this is true. (I doubt it.)

Let's keep in mind that US debt is owed in bonds, redeemable in US dollars.

If I get a 30 year mortgage in 1945 and simply rollover the debt whenever it comes due, but my wealth has increased dramatically, my mortgage does not matter. If I take out a 100k mortgage and then go on to found Apple and become a multibillionaire, then yes, growth was the answer. My debt may not have changed, but it is completely and utterly irrelevant when considering my financial situation.

> Inflation sounds great, just default without technically defaulting, until you actually see what it does to the economy.

Which is why the 50s and 60s were known as horrific economic times, right?

Assuming by "inflation" you just mean an increase in the money supply - quintupling the money supply since 2009 doesn't seem to have led to the sky falling.

> The real solution is to simply spend vastly less money accepting that pain now is better than letting the US become a failed state.

No, the real solution is to spend more money now, taking advantage of historically low interest rates that at times have been negative in real terms, to do whatever you can to kickstart economic growth, and let the debt inflate away 'naturally'. Preferably you do this by investing in infrastructure projects, education, and science, and other things that produce real benefit, but if you want to fill mines with hundred dollar bills and fill them in so others can mine them out, that's fine too. In this case there is no pain.

Spending less money now isn't accepting necessary pain, it's causing unnecessary pain.

The US will not become a failed state because of mild inflation. Hyperinflation will never be a problem in the US barring a world war or huge resource or natural catastrophe. People have been preaching the doom-and-gloom inflation story for probably a century now. Every year, it's just around the corner.

Well, it isn't. I can only speculate why the story is so popular. I can only assume that people have been taught to internalize all debt as a moral issue: less debt is Good, more debt is Bad, and there must therefore be dire consequences visited upon the guilty nations that don't treat debt as it must be treated. But the debt of sovereign, money-printing governments bears no resemblance to the debt of individuals, and there really are no consequences to a government being in debt forever. (Actually there's no consequences to individuals being in debt forever either - I am in perpetual debt to my credit card company, and spend the majority of my paycheck on it...but I pay it off every month.) It would in fact be a bad thing if there were no US bonds to purchase; you've suddenly eliminated a huge source of safe investment from the market.
> without having to worry about confirmation times

Card payments take far longer to process than bitcoin payments

> exchange rates

Just as much as with bitcoin.

> getting scammed

Why?
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I believe less Scala developers do "IDE-driven-development", where they just briefly look at the auto-complete to find a methods that vaguely appears to do what they want.
You just described west Omaha.
Not complaining, only stating that common questions can be trained and faked, diluting their value. Of course letting you explain yourself about what you are good at etc is better than narrow tricky questions, at the end there's only so much you can learn from a person you just met in one hour. Asking a candidate about themselves is good, is just no silver bullet.
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the people who made the most money from bitcoins were the ones who had them when they were worthless (nerds). The people who lost the most money from bitcoins were the ones who had them when they were expensive (investor types).
Cool. This type of market is perfect for Bitcoin:

1. worldwide - which gives them large customer base without access to other methods of payments (unlike US where it's really hard to convince customers to use BTC instead of Credit Cards);

2. Digital goods with licenses that can be revoked - so the merchant doesn't have to worry (too much) about confirmations/double spends and is able to "ship the goods" instantly. They obv have to factor the potential case of tx not going through into their flow to catch these but it can be done without impacting their users whose txs do get confirmed.
And for comparison, the variation in surface height relative to sealevel is over 10 miles (6 miles down to the bottom of deep ocean trenches; 5 miles up to the top of mountains)