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I've thought for a long time that internet connectivity was the worst thing to happen to console gaming. I liked consoles because games worked out of the box, without dicking around with accounts, services, etc.

If i want to deal with that, I'll just play on my PC
Gamer Network | Brighton, UK | Python Web Developer (mainly back-end) | http://www.gamer-network.net/ | Full-Time | ONSITE

We are looking for talented Python developers at all skill levels to grow our in-house development team. We are building a bespoke, scalable content platform as the backbone of our award winning editorial offerings. The platform will deal with 100s of millions of pageviews per month and run our industry leading editorial sites, including; Eurogamer.net, Gamesindustry.biz, USGamer.net and many more.

We’re looking for developers who are passionate about Python and excited about working in a fast moving games media company. We’re offering the opportunity to shape our editorial offerings in a very relaxed, friendly environment. The company is highly cross-functional; developers work closely with editorial, commercial and events teams. Gamer Network runs EGX - the largest consumer games event in the UK - and all members of the development team have the opportunity to go along to help out.
Some things about our culture:
* Friday at Four - weekly wind-down with beers in the office
* Work-from-cafe/home if you need a break from the office
* Help run EGX (if you want to!)
* Standing desks on request!
* Get an idea, prototype it, pitch it!

Your ideal stack (you don’t need all of these things!):
* Python (virtualenv, python3)
* Django
* MySQL, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch
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* Git/Github/Gitlab
* Any devops (Ansible, Linux) is a bonus

Hiring Process: Get in touch with your CV, we'll review and schedule a quick phone interview. If you're a good fit we'll get you to come to our office, meet the team and we'll move from there.

Contact: careers@gamer-network.net
And three teaspoons in a tablespoon. No wait, dammit, it's four teaspoons, or is it ½ a fluid ounce? But is that a US fluid ounce, an imperial fluid ounce, or whatever they use for US food labelling that's different again? What part of the world was this recipe written in?

Meanwhile one litre equals one litre (regional spelling variations notwithstanding).
Alexa, SQS, and the "E-Commerce Service" were the first services announced for beta testing and what made up the first set of services billed as AWS.

Have a look at the AWS page from 2005, pre-S3:

https://web.archive.org/web/20050504101424/http://www.amazon...
Switch them to lubuntu. It is as close to Windows 98 as you can get. I mean it in a good way. It is my standard Linux distribution. All the Ubuntu packages but a simple UI.
>> Internet of things needs a point.

Why ? the $1 bullshit app industry, for example, is thriving.
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Fantastic write up! Good work.
Where there's smoke, there's a pyre, too.

Where there's circle, there's a pi r two
Alexa could be considered as the very first (but it did not remain in the AWS fold): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12024095
When you are learning a new language and in the beginner to intermediate chasm, reading in your native language is like speed reading compared to reading in your new language. It depends on the context of what you are reading, of course but it can be 10x - 100x slower.

However, many polyglots write in most articles about reading in a new language about one of two approaches:

1) Reading and understanding everything (to the point of dictionary lookups ad nauseam)
2) Skimming the text as fast as possible to build your pattern /phrase recognition abilities.

I wonder what applying speed reading techniques to reading a new language would do. Would it help you "skim" faster? Skimming the text of the new language as fast as possible is still pretty slow. Does anyone have experience with reading quickly/reading a lot to build their new language ability?
on the small end of asymmetrical warfare, they always make sense
"We've encrypted your washer! If you ever want clean underwear again, you'll pay us $300 in bitcoins."
This wasn't in the last 10 years, but Louis Gerstner turned around IBM in the 90s and wrote a good book about it:

Who Says Elephants Can't Dance: https://www.amazon.ca/Who-Says-Elephants-Cant-Dance/dp/B00DJ...
I think what bothers me the most about all of this is how criticism of the national policy of the state of Israel is reworked by certain opponents as anti-Semitic attacks.

So often it feels like proponents of questionable Israeli policies seem to use the Holocaust, Israel's fight for survival through the endless wars from its creation through the 1970s to justify an aggressive and hostile stance.

Why is this?
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The SCRUM Master isn't on all agile projects, but the SCRUM Master can be any combination of rotating team member responsible for following up on team tasks and facilitating SCRUM rituals to a full agile coach responsible for team coaching, organizational-wide systems/process analyst and change agent. Sometimes they get saddled with traditional project management deliverables as well.

The product owner, however, controls the backlog, and the yes/no in what defines the product is most often the most important (and difficult) position of the PM.
I use a dual monitor setup: a Samsung 34" curved monitor along and an Apple Thunderbolt Display. I fill the curved display with my IDE (Visual Studio) and display my graphics/computer vision outputs on the Thunderbolt Display.
The wide monitor allows me to display 2 code files pages side by side with a large font. I really like the combination.
> Anyways, I also argue that there's only room for 1 secure PoW blockchain, and that's basically Bitcoin.

I read your blog post, but I didn't see where you mentioned that, so it's a little hard to argue with. I do disagree, however.
Safari Reader Mode worked a treat over here
Except that graphics drivers on OSX are slower than their Windows or Linux counterparts.

There is a lot of problem with Windows, GPU driver quality is not one of them.
You should probably look into https://www.getlektor.com/ which does exactly this but you can host it yourself.
I meant original signatories, but I'll be impressed enough if anyone knows that anyone can sign it. :)
> Using the American customary system of measurements is like using Roman numerals - everything is possible, but harder

And there's the money quote.
I mean a cite that Feynman made that joke; where can I find that?
>Great now what's the killer app?

You know all that stuff you bought and just use? That's all subscriptions now. So, enjoy your toast subscription! Just don't try bagels. That's a premium add on for an extra $2 a month.

Oh.. You meant for consumers. Yeah, I got nothing.
You mean like Apple taking the name of a primeur business ?
I'm one of those weird people that uses free software even if it isn't better. The quality of the software is beside the point.
I worked as a system engineer there from 2001-2006. That all sounds a wee bit apocryphal. At the time S3 came into being Amazon was rather insanely jealous of Google and Google Mail's storage capacity and the Google File System whitepaper published in 2003. I can certainly believe that aggravation over not being able to provision storage may have been used to 'sell' that to the S-team and/or might have been the proverbial last straw, but those ideas were all in the air -- "we should build our own GoogleFS" was very common talk. The number of home-grown, shitty distributed filesystems that had no replication and N single points of failure caused all the SEs to pull their hair out -- "oh another royal clusterf*, hand built by yet another software dev team, and tossed over the proverbial chinese wall for us to maintain, when we had no input into the design, awesome..."

I also don't think that EC2 was borrowed from Alexa at all. There were political reasons why that development happened in Cape Town (it insulated them from Seattle politics and in particular from the VP who was over my head who hated the whole idea).

I think Alexa led to the Amazon search engine -- which i thought was called something like a6 (kind of like i18n is short for "internationalization" but with a6 being short for "amazon" -- but that doesn't quite sound right and I think I'm thinking of an Audi -- it was something like that though). They were in SF and setting up a satellite there to hire engineers away from Apple and Google. I also recall them doing some good work on SEO and fixing our URLs and such to get better search placement on Google which drove significant revenue. I don't think they had anything to do with EC2, but there could be some kernel behind the scenes that I wasn't aware of -- however it all smells wrong to me.
Precisely. Don't use RDS when you are just starting, for example.
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AWS is incredibly convenient, but it's priced at a premium. The main cost liability to building on AWS is the cost of bandwidth is insane, 5X the cost of DigitalOcean or Linode, 10X the cost of co-location.

Of course this depends on the type of startup you are building, a video startup is gonna be crazy expensive on AWS, Non-media heavy SAAS it may not matter.

Of course you can always build on AWS and place a caching layer in front of your bandwidth heavy media using DigitalOcean boxes to save big.
The issue is, that Outlook sends crappy emails in the default setting. And since nobody changes those everybody is sending crappy emails. Also, we are talking about email. Maybe it is good for an address book, calendar, tasks, etc. pp. But as an email client it is awful, also because it is as complicated as mutt but actually less powerful.

My biggest complained about Outlook is actually a bug in their HTML engine. From Outlook 14:

> font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";

What's the issue here? Simple, if Calibri isn't there, my browser looks for a font called "sans-serif" and doesn't use the default sans-serif font, the result the email is presented in a serif font. Correctly, it should look like this:

> font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;

I know this is nit-picking but for me it is annoying.
To you, it sounds horrifying. To your children, or grandchildren, though, It will be completely normal.
And when the year is over, you'll be paying +$50/mo for your setup instead of $5.
The salary may be monthly. This is common in European job ads.
People used to pay ~1$ for some paper to be delivered to their front door. The content is not what they were paying for.
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It is about the configuration of Outlook, not about the email if I understood that correctly.
>Having a million device that's that are difficult to audit, configure and sensitive to internet and service outages is a nightmare recipe.

Seems like an opportunity.
I'd be surprised if that's relevant to Fujitsu, though.

I wonder how much better the library is than the free alternatives.
>This logic masks any real problem within a "well, the larger problem has always existed"

Or not. How do you tell the difference?
There are a lot of commits in the history of this repo that seem like actual typos on the behalf of the creator of the repo. For example, the line "that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" was accidentally removed here[1], and re-added in the next commit here[2]. It seems silly to have a project purporting to be various drafts of the Declaration to contain diffs which are entirely anachronistic/accidental/have nothing to do with the actual drafting process.

It turns out[3] that Jefferson wrote a first draft (of which only a fragment survives), then wrote the "original Rough draft" which is very similar to the document we know. 47 alterations were made before the vote for Independence, and 39 more between then and the official adoption of the document on July 4th.

I'd really like to see a version of this git repository accurately reflecting the fragment, original draft, all 86 revisions (in approximate order and attributed as well we can), and final version published as the Dunlap Broadside, instead of this anachronistic heap.

[1] https://github.com/usgov/forget-the-king/pull/1/commits/f9ff...

[2] https://github.com/usgov/forget-the-king/pull/1/commits/d041...

[3] https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/declara/declara3.html
The real Emacs of email system is properly Lotus Notes.
Would it sound more reasonable if we say "Ethnically cleanse at the rate that the international community allows"?
How can Amazon alone reach more people than Amazon, Netflix and Hulu combined? The difference will have to be huge to allow production of enough programming to offset the reduced streaming audience.

I understand they cannot neglect the broadcast TV segment, but this is nuts.

BTW, it's odd to me the Department of State doesn't see PBS as a powerful propaganda tool. It's your BBC.
Or Emacs, for that matter.
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Some allege that parts of Night are too implausible and historically inaccurate. But then again, I think he wrote it as a novel rather than a historical document.
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I'd be interested to know what drove the technology choices for Java and Apache Solr.
They would pay $1 for a newspaper. On HN, every day you have links for about 10 different publications, each requiring a subscription. That's more like paying hundreds of dollars to read the same number of articles for which you used to pay $1.
Do you still need to be in the windows fast lane preview for access to bash on windows? I want to try this but im a bit hesitant to run the earliest of beta software on my only productivity machine...
>You're adding complexity to a situation that doesn't need it, and masking some serious social problems here with what can only be described as FUD

I disagree on both counts. Maybe there isn't a serious social problem here - how do you know?

>Perhaps its a sad fact that the work of women sells more copies when sold as a memoir and the publisher is make a shrewd decision. Perhaps its possible that the publisher is just can't conceive of women in a contemporary way.

This is pure speculation, masquerading as insight. How do you know that your interpretation of this situation is actually correct?

> This is a journalistic work and it should be presented as such because that is that only way to publish it with integrity.

Ok. I have no opinion on the work in question. However, when you take money, you lose flexibility. It wouldn't be the first time that pressure from the publisher compromised the author's vision.
I've been eying one of those Rigol DSO's that people seem to really like. They're not crazy expensive, but get pretty good reviews. I think I'll wind up getting a standalone frequency counter as well, at some point.
I'm really liking Kubernetes — we're in the process of migrating to it.

If there's on area that is in dire need of improvement, though, it's the documentation. If you look around, there is essentially no documentation that starts from first principles, going through the different components (and their lifecycle, dependencies, requirements and so on) one by one, irrrespectively of the cloud environment. There is a "Kubernetes from scratch" [1] document, but it's just a bunch of loose fragments that lacks almost all the necessary detail, and has too many dependencies. (Tip: ask the user to install from source, and leave out how to use images, cloud providers and other things that obscure the workings of everything.)

Almost all of the documentation assumes you're running kube-up or some other automated setup, which is of course convention, but hides a huge amount of magic in a bunch of shell scripts, Salt config and so on that prevents true understanding. If you run it for, say, AWS, then you'll end up with a configuration that you don't understand. It doesn't help that much of the official documentation is heavily skewed towards GCE/GKE, where certain things have a level of automatic magic that you won't benefit from when you run on bare metal, for example. kube-up will help someone get it up and running fast, but does not help someone who needs to maintain it in a careful, controller manner.

Right now, I have a working cluster, but getting there involved a bunch of trial and error, a lot of open browser tabs, source code reading, and so on. (Quick, what version of Docker does Kubernetes want? Kubernetes doesn't seem to tell us, and it doesn't even verify it on startup. One of the reefs that I ran aground on was when 1.11 didn't work, and had to revert to 1.9, based on a random Github issue I found.)

[1] http://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/scratch/
>The only reason to remove the memoir-ish aspects of her books is because some don't find the genre respectable or prestigious regardless of a book's merit.

Truth be told, I didn't realize a memoir was something not respectable.
I'm pretty sure people wouldn't pay $1 for a stack of blank newspaper sheets delivered to their front door.
Your original point was that "99.999% [of FOIA exemptions are] ass-coverage through secrecy" and that's a bad thing. I disagree for the reasons I specified.

If stupidity were cause for dismissal, we'd have a hard time staffing most of the jobs in the world.
> Edit: Also, why cannot I report/flag your post?

You can't downvote or flag comments that are replies to you.
In an Australian pub you can ask for a pint, or a pot, or a schooner, but ask any bartender how big that is and they'll tell you in millilitres.
> - can this thing detect certain apps like FileZilla and then say "user entered <FTP site creds>" and send individual fields, and is that what is meant by supporting say FTP and FileZilla?

FileZilla simply use a file in your personnal directory to store passwords exactly like your browser too.
>There are some other options, like changing color or alternate fonts, but those are generally just more complicated.

The all caps thing is a holdover from the era of typewriters. On most typewriters, switching to bold face required changing the daisywheel or type ball; alternate colours would be lost on xerox- or carbon-copied documents. All caps was the most convenient option.

It's now a vestigial convention, like the floppy disk save icon.
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Good research. Can I ask what you used to make that graphic?
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The specific case of terrible video drivers might have been slightly better these days (because part of it has been moved to user mode, so crashing it just means your screen flashes and weird for a second).

Spending more time with it can let you find _different_ things to hate, of course. In general, all software suck.
Why don't you think the range covers an order of magnitude? Salaries certainly do. There would have to be an explanation for why companies are behaving wildly irrationally for that to not indicate a similar range of employee output.
Glad I found this blog. I am trying to build analytics engine for offline world and have chosen post-gres as my storage layer. These posts are invaluable and simply awesome. Thanks for sharing!!
I'm a bit surprised that in mentioning law, photography, and distribution he didn't mention whether or not he was asked to sign a release, or if there was signage implying the consent for photography.
>The specific social forces at work in creating this author's particular problem are not at all universal

How do you know? Police brutality and disproportionate harassment of black Americans is a well-studied phenomenon. It has also been in the public consciousness, has been the topic of presidential speeches and debates, and was covered extensively by social media and mainstream press. On the other hand, this is the first I hear of some sort of bias against Korean-American women authors writing investigative books. I didn't even know that memoirs are not respectable.
> Yes, but with a crappy implementation. There's really no comparison.

Very subjective. Apple's setup UI and default settings both leave a hell of a lot to be desired.

> Magnetic close "lock" mechanism for the display, as opposed to some protruding hinge.

Oh, that. Standard feature...?

> Yeah, everything is "Quickly becoming a standard feature". But I've had it, and other things, for a decade or so on my Macbook Pros...

This is 2016, not 2006.

> Yeah, because sturdiness is not a thing to ask from your laptop.

No, but the a MBP is not the thing to ask for sturdiness in.

> Perhaps weight, thickness and battery life are not issues in the real world that you live in.

The weight and thickness differences aren't significant. The battery life difference can be, but is rarely an issue. Road trips, I guess...?

> Oh, and premium quality HW. E.g. check the first response in TFA.

Yay, circular reasoning...?
A little off topic but I'm curios if most devs use debugging tools? My main debugging tool has been printf and it's stdlib equivalents on other languages for 20 years of coding. I used to do some C# dev and used VS debugger, I feel like it is less efficient than print statements / assertions.

Am I missing out a lot?
> in this forum, where single young adults are commonly making 2-3x the median household income and yet are fond of complaining about disenfranchisement.

No problems with offering your opinion. Everybody should be free to metaphorically weak noses. Here is my opinion.

This is only a paradox if you think the median household income is a lot of money. It isn't.

With respect to their power and positions, geeks in our society earn a lot less value than they generate, from scientists to programmers.

The truth is that the USA and Europe contain corporate cartels which control programmer wages. We've already seen this at [Eric Smith]/Apple/Microsoft but it's even worse in Europe where the government endorses wage suppression for STEM employees as part of some insane plan they thought was a good idea at the time. That's why Britain and Germany have shit tech and science sectors in comparison to the States still, despite its factional political disputes threatening to drag it down, which still maintains a certain level of meritocracy.

You'll be unlikely to hear much of this from the established media although the SV wage collusion did come out.

A General Strike of computer programmers would cripple the world economy overnight. I'm an extremely capitalist person, not a communist, but this much is clear. The powers that be are painfully aware of the fact in inverse relation to most engineer's obliviousness to the fact. That they're pissed at that guy in the E-Embassy is not a coincidence because among many things, they're perturbed by his attempts to get a geek rebellion underway.

So we get paid better than most, but nowhere close to a real market wage, which would be in the millions easily. Is there any rational reason other than a power play that makes a programmer earn a similar wage to the white collar professions? This is entirely arbitrary!

If a dentist or lawyer could affect millions of teeth or cases at a moment's notice, you better believe they would be looking to be compensated for that reach.
Rich people have many tax loopholes available to them that everyone else doesn't have, including hiding income overseas. And many of them simply break the law, as the Panama papers revealed. And the tax loopholes are there largely because of lobbying and campaign contributions they paid for.

You know, if the rich were actually suffering under confiscatory taxes, their percentage of total national income and wealth would be in the decline, but actually it has been steadily going up. Were you really not aware of that?