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Best example on why this advice is useful is probably Mushroom Kingdom Fusion. The fan game was designed to be the 'ultimate' video game. Hundreds of levels, about 30 playable characters, tens of power ups, tons of different graphics, hundreds of enemies and bosses and a soundtrack to rival Super Smash Bros.

Eventually it crashed and burned hard, because the codebase because almost impossible to debug and the game ridiculously unbalanced because it tried to be everything to everyone.

I also think this game (Tobias and the Dark Sceptre) is a good example to bring up in regards to giant topics and insane levels of ambition. It finally got finished, but it did spent 13 years in development because of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b0tSu0QDQ0

That said (and I'm probably going to be seen as insane for saying this)... I'd prefer more people followed their dreams and tried to be ambitious than that we got a bunch of 'safe' projects in every area. It may take time. It may sometimes literally take decades. But whether it's research, article writing, game development, programming or business, I still have a lot of admiration for the people willing to put everything into a ridiculously overambitious and unlikely project on the off chance it might work out.
A huge split is always created: sites for left wingers (usually very moderated) and sites for right wingers (usually more free).
IMO "welfare dependency" is by and large a myth. The vast majority of people want to work, want to make money, want to be self-sufficient, and want to participate meaningfully in society. A few people I know who are arguably dependent on government provided benefits (in the US) are that way because they're physically ill, have inadequate or no access to health care, and literally cannot work as a result. The others are full-time employees who work 40 hours a week but are paid wages that can't possibly support their family's existence.
Weird. Also, Amazon links are not part of the program: https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/4ldk0r/reddit_ch...
I've seen it said that Mussolini was somewhat inspired by the US mobilization for WWI. Don't have the historical perspective to evaluate that though.
Sure, but the question is whether dealing with more driver bugs is the price Nexus users are paying for faster updates. That's hard to conclude from one specific case.
It's 48 days. https://daowiki.atlassian.net/wiki/display/DAO/Step-by-Step%...
Help from the government means forcing people, through threatening them with time in the dungeon, to help.

It's collectivist ideology turned into dogmatic religion.
There's a lot of nuance to these things. For example, in the US, you can save a ton of money by living in the country. But rentals are hard to come by.
Try being poor in Greece: no chance for a proper job( people with Ph.D. and degrees work in cafe shops),no welfare, no proper healthcare( public hospitals are overcrowded and with no stuff) etc. I think more advanced eu countries are poor-friendly and really help people with bad luck get to their feet.
For the record, this was by design

I wanted the status balls to be the primary focus. The weather icons should only be looked at when all the builds are blue. If they are too attention grabbing then you don't go fixing the red (didn't built) and yellow (tests failing) builds first
Well, it is official German policy to encourage people to have more children. So, if you have financial difficulties raising more than a couple of kids, there's a policy failure somewhere.
Well-adjusted and well cared-for children are the edifice sustaining both public and private investment - their future productivity will generate the demand that gives value to savings and investment. I suspect Germany will get a good rate of return on the rabbit-raising, goatherding,beekeeping, highly-valued Ehler kids.
Quietly unfolding? This has been going on for decades. In fact I think it's prevalence is less these days. Not that I think the avg quality is constantly improving.
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Artillery isn't typically used to do infantry jobs. We call that a "war crime". Unless it's us doing it, then we call it "collateral damage".

You are correct, most bullets fired in an infantry engagement do not in fact hit their targets. Assuming a target can even be seen. Bullets are cheap and useful for all manner of things, such as keeping the enemy's head down long enough for you to get into position to use a few bullets and kill him. ;)
Coercion is not necessarily criminal. Where does it say otherwise?

> Should I stoop to the level of a common racist by FORCING him/her to speak a certain way?

You are not a Forum. On the other hand, your comment implies you try to convince someone to act (not) a certain way. The difference between the force and conviction might make all the difference, but conviction is one kind of force, isn't it?
My feeling is that the clearest way to do this would be:

self.0.stack_index = stack_index;

using an appropriate packed struct/union type such that this makes sense.

This best represents what you're actually doing, instead of faffing around with bit twiddling to achieve the same result.

Does Rust not allow something like this?
Perhaps the middle ground is a software architect who codes, yet has high emotional intelligence and acts as a servant leader. Someone who honestly wants to help their teammates, and doesn't feel "better than them".

Perhaps they lay out a system design as a suggestion on a wiki and ask their teammates including themselves to collaborate on it until everyone's content with it.

Then perhaps they code a particular layer primarily and are humble and open to criticisms and mistakes they make in their own coding. They understand that they and others are not perfect, nor is the code they or others produce.

That and good relationships and communication with the product, design, management, qa, and support teams are what I feel would define a valuable "Software Architect".
??? Whats there in it?
Agreed but when you have a generous system sometimes it's just easier to stay on benefits and putting off developing career etc. Of course we should help people who cannot be self sufficient. Those who can should be given very clear incentives (and prodding) to join the workforce.
How about "Money!".

Glibness aside, it's a private enterprise and is profitable, so even without mentioning Musk's ultimate goal of colonizing Mars, its existence needs no further justification. It makes money and its shareholders are happy.

And before someone jumps in with the "SpaceX-is-propped-up-by-the-government" canard, the U.S. government also saves money when it launches military satellites with SpaceX. According to [1] (among many other sources), SpaceX quotes around $60m, compared to the United Launch Alliance price of about $125m (or even, depending on how you count, $200m).

[1] http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/03/ula-executive-admits-...
It's definitely a very modern, selfish American perspective.

The net effect of that attitude is that larger families break up,are fully supported by the state and have worse outcomes. And when the "DINK" couples get old, society will be stuck supporting you fully after you become unable to manage without the type of support that adult children usually provide.
How nanotechnology can help us grow more food using less energy and water
Why I gave myself an unraise
> Is facebook really worse than google when it comes to privacy?

No. In my view Google (has the potential to) collect a lot more sensitive data than Facebook. All Facebook knows is who my friends are and stuff like what things I like and where I've been - mostly things that I wouldn't mind being public anyway. Google knows everything I search for, every email I receive and every web page I visit.
The US doesn't rule the world (yet).
>>>I find it strange that people proudly identify as "communists" without much stigma

Do you also find it strange that white people proudly identify as "Americans" without much stigma, even after centuries of racial atrocities by white Americans?

> That's my point.

Your point - as is the point of everyone who trots out the "Communism" is worse than Nazism old chestnut - is to minimise what the Nazis did. And there's only one reason people do that.

The only surprise here, compared to every other Nazi sympathiser online making the same hackneyed "point", is you didn't claim Stalin killed 50/60/100 million people (any number higher than Hitler will do).
It kind of makes the philosophy student in me worry to see trolling and Socratic dialogue offered as seeming equivalents. Though, I suppose Socrates was a damn good troll in his time.
Do you bill your clients for the time you sip coffee or take a shit?
If you pick your utility functions poorly, people start adapting to them with unintended consequences:

- Burndown charts: Burn lots of tasks fast, even if you are creating more work in the process.

- IBM once rated employees based on added lines of code. The result? An explosion of code. Even code that wasn't strictly necessary.

- Stack ranking: punish the lowest 20%, reward the top 20%. Sounds reasonable at first, but what happens when employees adapt to it? People stop hiring strong candidates. So over time, when people leave, their replacements get worse over time creating a downwards spiral of worsening talent.
Don't you consider free choice for consumers about what they want to eat something useful? Products are labeled as vegan so that people can avoid, for example, milk in their groceries. Cows living in captivity for milk production vs some supposedly small risk for health or environment from GMOs. At least to me it is not obvious which of both is the better reason to put a label on products.

I and probably many people in first world nations would certainly feel different if we desperately needed GMOs to feed our people, but we don't. What do have to gain that justifies taking any additional risk however small? Less usage of biocides? More beautiful and homogeneous products? Less work for farmers?

We have produced harmful things - drugs, foods, building materials - before even though we did more or less our best to avoid it. Why not let people stick with things that we know are not harmful because they are time tested?
I'd love to build a creative project that can identify superfluous animated gifs and hide them.
Non-trolling discussion aimed at achieving increased understanding, I would hope.
I agree. I also hate var++; on a line by itself. I'd prefer var += 1;
That is an interesting thing to say, so because the DAO acts as one entity, one could easily rely on a Reg S + Reg D exemption to get around pesky US laws. Reg S because the dao would be a foreign entity, and Reg D because it would be a private placement with only one investor.

So no disclosure laws necessary!

And honestly nobody in the international community cares about other country's securities laws. You can copy and paste some small exemption text from bank's private placements, so something for the UK, Hong Kong, Japan to make it also exempt.

The DAO itself relies on sanctioning from Switzerland just like Ethereum, so I'd say all the bases are covered, until it gets challenged.

But individual liability for all parties is pretty mitigated from the threat of securities regulators.
With an ad blocker disabled, the first ad says 'youtube.com', and redirects to a malware site.

http://imgur.com/a/kgG85
I wonder too and actually put such language into my TOS. I hope I never forget find out, however.
Hubski importantly applies that in a positive sense too. I only get content from users I actively choose to follow. There can be entire subcultures represented on the site that I will never be aware of.
Exactly this. I moved to Germany around 6 years ago, and I've noticed huge differences in cost of living just in the few cities I've lived in (southern Germany was the most expensive i.e. Munich).

Also, as someone who has lived in the US and Argentina, and has spent a good portion of life living in the "poorer class", I have to say being "poor" in Germany seems lightyears better than it is in those two countries, although I haven't experienced being poor here, only in those others.

The first time I saw a German ghetto I thought it was joke. A German ghetto is a pretty nice place to live in most countries, in the US it'd be like living in a multicultural poorer neighborhood where everyone has healthcare and there's no guns or violent crime.

Anyway, it still amazes me sometimes how far Germans go with the "lets help the world" mentality. One of the first things, I got asked after arriving in Germany was if I wanted Hartz IV? I already had a fulltime well-paying job, but hey I wouldn't start for a couple months so they wanted to give me money until then! What country does that? So sure, you pay huge taxes, you get safer cities and even "poor" people have apartments, healthcare, food, tv, internet, etc.

This isn't to say all is perfect. There's plenty of things wrong in Germany (aka 6 month winters), but on the issue of "quality of life as a poor person", they are rocking it IMHO.
Wow, thank you! Jenkins' appearance has been a major deterrent for me in the past.
I thought I was the only one.. yes. Up - it said more emotionally in those first 10 moments with no dialog than most movies do in 2 hours.

The recent Jungle Book was similar, my eyes were misty the whole movie. The Martian had similar effects.

I hardly ever cry otherwise.
What is your phone model? I'll have a look and try to release an update. You can use any UK banknote.

(aside: one would expect a picture taking using camera app to be fairly trivial, but it is actually very challenging on Android, where each vendor implements it with its own little subtleties)
More effective, certainly. Trolling invokes emotional reactions that, I think, drown out rational discussion. It's just taking cheap shots for amusement, with no real intention of gaining better understanding.
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Like others, I will often let a call go if I don't recognize the number. Robots tend not to leave messages. Also, if yo do answer, robots wait for you to say hello before starting the recording. If you wait a couple of seconds, a human on the other end will say 'hello?' but a robot won't.
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In short, I try to soak a call for as long as possible.

Me, too. In the last few months, the calls ramped up to a frantic pace on my cell #. The difference, though, is the caller ID was very close to my number, sometimes most digits were the same. All the calls were from the same company, I'd bet. Free trips to Mexico were the #1 subject. There were others. I started keeping them on the line for 10-15 minutes each. At the end, I'd say "I'm not going to give you my CC# because I kept you on the like since you refused to put me on your DNC list."

I've given up doing that, since having done it 10 or so times, I'm tired of it. They won, but not before I wasted a lot of their time, too.

These boiler rooms are really a scourge on our society. I know they scam lots and lots of people. On one call, I heard clapping every few seconds and when I asked what that was, they dude said someone had just "purchased" the free vacation (see, you need to give them $99 to secure that).
It'd be pretty cool if numbers were unguessable: then they'd become cryptographic capabilities in which anyone who knows your number could contact you and pass your number on to others, but no-one who doesn't know it could figure it out.

Granted, it'd take awhile to get used to numbers like YheXuVtGf/sxxXFYxZD7bY5nI2Tf/ylNrgBf9b5IA5Q, but if it's combined with a petname system (where I just see names like 'Bill' and 'Bill's wife's sister Susan') then I think it could work.
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For me, they've usually hung up before I finish saying "do not call list"... shows how much they care about following the law.
Not OP but I personally use Strava [1] for Running/Cycling and a Wahoo HR Monitor [2]. Strava works on Android and iOS and is free. Wahoo HR monitor is only $50 and works great.

[1]: https://www.strava.com

[2]: http://www.wahoofitness.com/devices/hr.html
This article is about poverty, its relevant for discussion. Refugees get free accommodation, which is pretty expensive in Bavaria.
It's an artifact of implementation. In some zany world, strcmp could return EQUAL_ENUM. What you are ideally expressing is that you want to know that both strings are equal as determined by strcmp, not that the strcmp return value is nonzero. Now it just so happens that EQUAL_ENUM=0 in this world, so a side effect is that !strcmp(...) will still work. And we also have plenty of examples using this shorthand that it doesn't seem unnatural to a lot of devs. (Doesn't make it any less boots-on-head strange... when in Rome, do as the Romans do...)
The coworker in question has some very childish traits. I find it hard he would feel insecure though, since he is definitely very smart and delivers good work. I'm not one to say I'm smarter than him or even as smart as him, but I am fairly confident in the quality of my work (boosted by positive feedback from good developers I've worked with and look up to). That's why it bothers me that he has this attitude towards me.

Initially I ascribed the somewhat rude way he acts to a psychological trait (I'm positive the guy has Asperger's), but then I started noticing it was more targeted at me.
This makes no sense. A "tide" just happens, it doesn't get "created" or "caused" by anyone, which is the case for public scientific research. A crucial difference.

What's really going on here is that some individuals aren't exactly happy/eager/willing about giving away, for free, things that they have funded personally funded (through taxes). This is a perfectly reasonable opinion to hold.

It's the same reason we have things such as patents. So as to reward individuals and groups that create something new. They then get exclusive rights to the profits/benefits that such an invention creates. Yet somehow if it applies to nation states, that no longer holds?
I look forward to the day when all of this "offshoring" of manufacturing (etc) will be recognized as the treason that it is.
Sorry for the delay. It works just the same as dalvikvm, using DexClassLoader. I guess it must just compile then run - like a JIT without profiling, as you say. But I don't know the innards.

Thanks for the info on rust.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11784851 and marked it off-topic.
None were turned into an industry of death the way the nazis did
I think right now it got out of hand. With a lowered entry barrier to development, now a regular code base feels like reading http://thedailywtf.com/

There's now a social network for developer rants: https://www.devrant.io
We have trouble with this in the US.

One big problem is employers holding passports. That's illegal in the US, but widespread. This would be easy to fix. Since the US takes biometrics on legal immigrants entering the country, anyone legally in the US should be able to go to any place with a TSA/ICE presence (any airport), get a fingerprint/retina/photo scan, and get an immediate temporary ID.
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STimulated Emission Depletion (STED) nanoscopes and how to make them better.

That and French/US history.
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Agreed -- the Brits are in a class of their own when it comes to wit. They can tell you to fuck off, and you are actually happy to do so :-)
Many years ago, I had a land-line service that allowed my phone to ring only if the number was available via Caller ID and was on a white-list of numbers.

Any other caller would hear a message prompting for a touch-tone code to ring our phone. ( Critical people knew this code in case they called from a phone outside of the white-list ). If the caller couldn't enter the touch-tone, they went right to voice mail.

The phone wouldn't ring, but the voice-mail indicator would show if they had taken the time to leave a message.
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Lenny? I just do some mundane task while I am soaking their time.

These calls are using an anti-pattern of most people who are disinterested will hang up, but those who are interested will continue to talk to the person.

Their economic model depends on uninterested parties hanging up as quickly as possible. To disrupt their economics, take their call.

I know things are a bit different in the US and Canadia where the mobile/cell call receiver also pays for minutes. Here in the UK, and the rest of Europe, only the call initiator pays for the call. If you are calling from a land you will pay a higher rate to call a mobile (an 07 number).
To be fair, Inferno was a bit different with the whole Limbo and VM thing. It really didn't have a chance being targeted at the same market as Java with a whole lot less ad / industry push. Lucent just never got it together for product pushes.

1995 was Lucent, and AT&T did enter the UNIX PC market in the 80's. I got to use a 3B2 in college in 91. Sadly, that was my first UNIX computer.
Does power really matter? 25MW instantaneous power vs continuous/average power are different things. With modern clever power electronics you could get pretty high instantaneous power from a lower powered source. The exact energy vs time curve and desired fire rate has to be utilized to make any effective prediction I think.
Thank you for the positive feedback! Instead of rating you could show your friends :p It is an interesting idea to measure RPM, but I am not knowledgeable about a concrete app. Best regards.
You asked,

What does forgetting mean here? Is it like forgettable? Google failed me.

This refers to the grandparent comment's quotation of Mike Godwin from his essay kindly submitted here to open the thread, which in full context was, "The internet has been shaping an increasingly international culture and collective memory — with the Holocaust, just as with other countless human atrocities, we have a moral obligation to 'never forget'. My view, which I've held for many decades now, is that glib and frivolous invocations of Hitler, or Nazis, or the Holocaust, are a kind of forgetting."

I read this as Mike Godwin saying that the crimes against humanity that were perpetrated by the Nazis must never be forgotten, so that we guard against the same crimes happening again. But if we just mention Nazis every time we disagree with someone on the Internet, without thinking deeply about whether or not what we are disagreeing with really has anything to do with what the Nazis actually did, then we are nonetheless forgetting the crimes perpetrated by the Nazis. Does that sound like a fair reading of the essay to you?

The way I would sum up Godwin's argument here is that it may be that some current events resemble events of the Nazi era in important ways. As we discuss policy issues online, we have to take care to check our facts and the logic of our own arguments, and if we think something going on today is like the activities of the Nazi Party, then first of all we should review the history and make sure we are correct in our thinking on that point.

By the way, I actually did learn a LOT about the Nazi Party from a thoughtful comment here on Hacker News back in about August 2014, when a reader here mentioned the book series about the Third Reich by British historian Richard Evans, which is well worth a read.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Coming-Third-Reich-Destroyed-Democr...