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You say tracking was never an integral part of your game experience and then say you don't understand the complaints. Heh. That's what a vast majority of people are complaining about because tracking was an integral part of their game experience. That's the reason so many of us liked the game to begin with.

Imagine if a game like Soul Caliber or Street Fighter took away the fighting aspect of their game. You may think the main fun part of soul caliber is unlocking stronger/hidden weapons, or selecting the right match-up in street fighter, but a majority of people enjoy the combat aspect.

I continued to play after they took out tracking because I thought it was only temporary. Now I finally realize it's permanent so I haven't logged in to Pokemon Go in 7 days now.
My point was frameworks are functionally no different than a large complex library, and as such, the same arguments apply.

That said, I'm not entirely happy with the way the tone of this conversation is heading, so I'll excuse myself now.
There's libjit - https://www.gnu.org/software/libjit/
> Unless the world ends soon, the most valuable company the world will ever see has not yet been started.

I hope he's wrong: I wouldn't mind living in a future where low barriers to entry and strong competition meant that we looked back on companies like Apple how we look back on Standard Oil now.
> every attempt I've seen makes widespread use of `unsafe', so the value mostly comes from Rust's modern type system with its traits and enums.

http://os.phil-opp.com/ follows the Rust way of making safe abstractions as much as possible.
That's because you're required to have a Master's to start a PhD in France, whereas in the US you get into a PhD program right after undergrad. So in the US, you end up taking some classes your first year or two, then you typically take the qualification exam, and then you start writing your dissertation.
Same here. I assumed the article would be about someone who discovered the joys of being a night owl. I tend to head to bed around 1 or 2am, but if other life constraints allowed me to stay up later I almost certainly would.

Once when I was in my early 20s I had a magical period of 2-3 months where there was no work, no school, and not really even social or family obligations. I would go bed when I was tired and wake up when I woke up. What I found was that every night I stayed up about an hour later than the night before. After 24 days my sleeping cycle went lapped the clock. At the time I interpreted it as, biologically I had a 25 hour cycle. No idea if that was true or not. Probably not. Regardless, if left to my own devices I always tend to stay up into the wee hours.

If there's an opposite of a morning person, I'm it. My entire life, I've felt completely wrecked after waking up, and it takes up to an hour to feel awake and alert. I get progressively more productive until it's time to go to bed again. Apparently it's the other way around for most people.
How does it compare to Apex? Anybody with experience on both?

https://github.com/apex/apex

PS: Besides the fact APEX is only for AWS, however, APEX is very mature.
This project is really cool. Last year I was looking into open source projects that implement something like Readability so that I could scrape articles from my RSS feeds and turn them into plaintext. But I didn't find anything that blew me away. The best I got was stealing the implementation from Firefox, and I lost interest before I could make it worthwhile. (Now revisiting the idea, I wonder why I never thought of passing a user-agent from a mobile browser... Probably would have helped a lot.)

I see you don't have a license listed on GitHub. Do you have a license in mind for these?
Think Big can address Malaysia's big data talent shortage, Teradata says
Is Stiglitz claiming that Obama is hopelessly naive, or that he's been captured by pro-China lobbyists?
Keyboard+Mouse for PS4 Remote Play
A longer commute could hurt your health, add to your waistline
This is still very much an alpha, but I figured that some folks here might find this interesting. You write a keymap file to specify how to map keys and mouse to DualShock4 inputs, and ShockEmu takes care of the rest. There's a lot to be done still in terms of mouse->joystick mapping, but everything else is quite solid.
I never understood why airlines don't have last minute rates like hotels. The plane is flying anyway, so it's mostly sunk costs but the would rather jack up the price and have empty seats than lower it and have filled ones and more money.
The Loomio Cooperative Handbook: How we run a worker-owned tech startup
> So much potential for liability

FTFY
From the UN Declaration of Human Rights:

Article 25.

Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.

http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/inde...
It's helpful to place yourself in context you are not the only person who's felt brutalized by this industry. I doubt you suck you wouldn't have ever made any team if you were really terrible this industry can be very hard on self esteem, it can get very lonely. I've survived 25 years in web development some days I wanted to cut my wrists but you soldier on. I haven't even had more than 1 day off since 1995. Keep a stiff upper lip it's a tough industry don't take things personally .
That looks like a big liability.

Imagine dad hammers it with the kids belted in a little loose. Their heads look like they could smash the rear window.
It sounds like you are suffering from imposter syndrome. Definitely look it up if you haven't heard of it as it is extremely common among engineers and developers.

Find someone that knows you to talk about this. It's very hard to give specific advice with out knowing your personality or the full story.

Try and remember that your life is much more than your work. There are so many other things worth living for.
The sad part is that this is going to be used as a case study in the future on what not to do. I can guarantee it. Every step Niantec has made has been backwards. From removing tracking to making Pokemon harder to catch. The moves they have made are frustrating their players and they're jumping ship as a result.
Semi-related, but I had issues with Docker Compose and database volumes for web-development work (where the database volume-only container to allow for persistence across containers would be recreated, thus losing the data that was there). This prompted a tiny wrapper around some patterns we were using, exposed via a CLI tool and JSON file:

https://github.com/girvo/dup

Even more unrelated: it's written in Nim, and a big refactor is coming along that works with the Docker socket directly (either the AF_UNIX or TCP socket, depending on what's available)
It is fun when those common pokemon evolve into high CP Pokemon.
Google is basically algorithms built on top of a scraping service. It's unfair to competitors (and potential disruptors) to restrict access to data that Google can fetch without limits.
because i may also come to the point where i am a direct competitor to google, but i will never get there because i can't scrap any site like they can.

your next argument may very well be a very racist one with the very same excuse you used above.
You're doing god's work.
Link to Azure function points to google cloud platform!
I think Ben Johnson also ran a 9.69 the same year.

Everybody knew it was roids, but even so it indicated that the human body was capable of it.

Johnson has a reputation in the gym for squatting as much as powerlifters.
This is basically the 1/9/90 rule for internet comments.
CloudFlare Insists on Lawful Orders Before Blocking Customers
But when you plan on using it in a way that might not be intended, and you don't check the terms of service, well, that's on you.

I don't need to check your terms of services if I'm doing something that I'm allowed to do by law anyway; the TOS cannot deny me those rights (they might, of course, grant me additional rights provided that I follow certain conditions).
Great, now when I question whether one of my thoughts or feelings is "right" I have to also question whether that thought is "right".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Civil_Service_Reform

I believe it was pushed though in the 19th century US by popular support. I think you also see that happening in China, albeit with the hobble of a less open media environment delaying communication of problems to those with authority.
They _can_ be baked into the image via build-args or the "ENV" Dockerfile syntax, but as your Dockerfile is committed to git normally this has the same dramas, of course! You're completely correct, but I wanted to mention that it was possible :)
I worked for two big-4 in the 2000s and think these puzzles are bad and often serve to make the interviewer look smarter. I never had to do one when I got hired and I doubt I'd pass one now. Don't question your intelligence based on those. See discussion in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11001259 and maybe https://medium.com/@RobertYau/why-phone-screens-for-hiring-a...

When was the last time you had holiday? This might include days away from your family to get in an extra calm environment. I'm asking because I had US-collegues who didn't take a day of holiday in 5 years. And collegues who quit because they were burned out. All in the name of meeting deadlines or pleasing the next manager. Time off is important.
Exactly. You can't copyright facts.
I get your point, but I think they are going for a slightly different strategy here. This is the highest trim level for them, produced in limited quantities and is being sold in part based upon its relatively exclusive nature.

Highlighting the price difference doesn't always hurt luxury products.
Um yes, its called 'evolving' your pokemon. Commons evolve into new high CP pokemon which fill up your pokedex AND give you high XP in the process.
The problem here is the police, not the neighbors. Why were they arrested? Did they really break the law? If not, then how were these police trained? If they did break the law, then who is making these nonsense laws?
New York Times’s Moscow Bureau Was Targeted by Hackers
They don't give raw numbers for engagement / time spent in app, but I sorta wonder if that's not a bigger factor than actual lost users. When I would walk around NYC, I would constantly see people playing this game, in the subway, on the streets, etc. I don't think I've seen anyone playing it at all in the past few weeks. Totally anecdotal, but it seems like way more than a 25% drop in people actually actively playing the game.

(Though I don't actually play it - maybe the "active" portion of the game mechanics has just changed character).
> have I ruined someone else's game just by the perception that I could have?

You probably aren't ruining anyones game if you aren't competing, but you are still cheating.
>and have it only be valid if you or the computer can prove that it meets that specification (and have the specification be complete and correct of course

Hasn't this just moved all the issues with writing code over to writing the specifications?
Many other mobile games haven't had this kind of reaction.

Gungho's Puzzle and Dragons is one of the most profitable games of all time; it was the first mobile game to break 1 billion in revenue per year. It was released to the NA market 3 or 4 years ago and has continued to increase its player base month after month. Not only that, but they have unprecedented retention. People are still playing it 3 and 4 years later, you just don't get that with any other mobile game.
I don't think the motto is the 'foundation' for gameplay. Last I checked pokemon was also about battles.
In general, kids and young adults are more unhealthy in measurable ways -- cancer, depression, suicide rates -- all higher. While this is just one aspect of what is causing trouble, the lack of independence has been linked to kids making really, really bad choices when they are finally alone. You can also ask any college professor how the quality of problem solving and independence has changed in the past decade or so.

In order to fix a problem, you need to fix the cause, not the effect. Many of the causes of the poor decisions we make are due to conditioning of our childhood. While adults cannot blame their bad decisions on their parents, they certainly can see a root cause of much of their poor choices -- if they can see it at all.
Which spec? The one for Python, or the one for C?

It's entirely possible that executing a Python program could cause C code in the Python interpreter, or C code called via FFI, to do something that the C spec defines as undefined behavior. That could affect the result of the Python program. If that happened, it would not be reasonable to say that the Python program did not have undefined behavior -- even if nothing in the Python code was undefined according to the Python spec.
Yes Minister Writer Sir Antony Jay Dies at 86
> I haven't even had more than 1 day off since 1995.

You might be in the wrong industry after all.
Not really relevant -- most of the computer systems used to actually carry out research are paid for with grant money of some flavor. The university computing systems are more incidental
> We've probably stuffed too much capital into ad-supported businesses

As someone that has recently been converted to the ad-blocking side (actually mostly tracker-blocking but that tends to kill ads too), there's no way I would want to invest in a new ad-supported business.
Doesn't mean it's illegitimate. Buying a luxury Tesla is better than buying a luxury BMW, for everyone.
Honestly it's not that hard to design controllers. It simply requires a fundamental understanding of finite state machines. Amateur / rushed coders think the if else statement is cheap way to program in a ruleset and often end up with rare corner cases as a result. The key is to define your states, and don't ever let it ever get outside of what is expected. But if it does, make sure you can detect it and revert. This isn't rocket science. A raspberrypi is faster than computers 5 years ago, don't mistake it's price for quality.
This particular collection of koans was assembled and published in 1919, so I guess copyright has expired.
Isn't that the kind of question everybody already knows the answer to?
Mobile games like puzzle and dragons have never had a month where they did not add to its player base. If it lost 10% of its players in a single month, everyone would be fired. I'm not joking.

Now before you or anyone says that Pokemon is larger, it's not. Puzzle and Dragons might not be as large in America (it's close though), but in Japan, 10% of their entire population plays the game. More people play that game, probably 3 times over, than play Pokemon Go.
This is why they need a way for players to create this content somehow. Look at the success that Quake and Doom saw with people making maps, mods, full-blown total conversions, etc. I don't think going that extreme applies to Pokemon Go, but it's an example of how players can create the content that prolongs the life of the game.

What I'd like to see is ways for players to do things that have lasting effects on the map. Whether it's moving Pokestops, or making Gyms have some higher purpose, or something I can't think of, I'm not sure.

Right now it's a fairly shallow single-player game that has some extremely minor (Gyms and Lures) multiplayer mechanics.
Yes but you can bootstrap the compiler.
> there's likely already some sort of effort-reward cycle built into the game that doesn't involve mapping.

You would think that, but there really isn't. It's easier to see if you load up the game for yourself.

Sure, it's true that Niantic didn't plan or intend for usable maps to exist. But it's also true that the game is effectively unplayable without the maps.

The real winner in this whole situation is Nintendo. Niantic has effectively given their entire userbase over to Nintendo -- and even though Nintendo's doing very little to attract or keep them, they'll probably still get some extra 3DS + game sales as a result.
I mainly play while on the bus and this has made it a lot more painful than it used to be. Now I mainly focus on it when the bus is in the downtown core (and basically moving at walking pace).
Higher education breeds the thinkers that drive popular opinion -- the thought leaders and intellectual elites. The State bestows special privilege to intellectuals in government and handles academia with kid gloves. That special treatment lasts as long as academia continues to churn out elites who magnify the State in their writings and policy recommendations.

Dissenting voices are dutifully dismissed and compromised in the halls of academia's upper echelons.
Um, give both?
Arctic shipping will eventually be commonplace during the northern hemisphere summer, bringing both sea- and land-based activity to the region for half of every year. Since north of the arctic circle the sun won't set during this time, the there is opportunity to use (some) solar resources throughout the day.

I expect solar-assisted propulsion systems for ships, solar-assisted power generation, solar-assisted desalination, greenhouses, heating, etc. to power an arctic boom. But since the region will still be far from hospitable, other industries like prefab homebuilding, insulation, and (paradoxically) resource and/or fossil fuel extraction stand to benefit too.
It's probably GPL, I'll have to figure out my dependencies and see what it's infected with. I tend to err BSD on my own cruft.

This isn't quite as fancy as readability, though I integrated a port of readability for a while. Now I just write a ruleset for a site that has stuff that interests me.
Is it me or is each link under the various providers routing to Google Cloud Functions -- https://cloud.google.com/functions/
They removed footprints to reduce server load and increase stability. It had nothing to do with stopping mapping software.
Understanding the other side is key to arguing it I think
Well getting drunk with friends in the afternoon doesn't seem like it's the answer to life either. I'm 31 and wake up at 5am during the week. Get to the gym before getting into the office at 7:30. Definitely have enough time to get drinks with friends here or there. I'm not staying out all night partying by any means, but there is certainly a way to make it work.

“Looking back over a life of hard work … my only regret is that I didn’t work even harder.”
- H. L. Mencken

Sorry, I don't mean to troll, I just dislike the strawman argument of "[being productive/working/etc] isn't everything in life."
The best (and really only) place to store that much water is in kilometer-thick ice sheets at the poles ... the melting of which is what is causing the current problems. The aquifers simply aren't close to big enough to make a dent.
Single point of integration for all of your microservices necessities (load balancing, circuit breaking, load shedding, distributed tracing, metrics, logging). It's really interesting that no one talks about this but if you get relatively large, the lack of this integration point is the source of a lot of pain.
Actually, the big problem in the US is that there are no alternatives. The last Mylan competitor making a similar product folded six months ago. If you want to blame anything about the US system for the current situation, blame the regulatory capture that is generic drug approval.

What does the NHS do about drugs that are sole source?
I think this is natural.

There's no revolution without incremental innovation.

We don't see many innovative products nowadays but it's not like there is absolutely no innovation going on. As long as there's even a small bit of advancement in technology going on, someday it will all come together and change everything once it reaches critical point.

Also keep in mind many things don't look like they're revolutionary when you're a contemporary.
Move them to existing towns? That's bound to cost less than the $300k/head they think they need to rebuild nearby.
Survey: The State of JavaScript
I've been doing react web and native apps for a while. Why do I want this exactly? Seems like a lot of stuff that's almost competing with my ide stuff but not quite useful enough to switch off?

Not attacking, just want some perspective.
Pager jobs at smaller companies are often not on shifts. Larger companies are usually much more realistic about it. Larger companies tend to give you shifts, along with the better compensation and more realistic expectations, at least in my experienice.

Legally, as an exempt employee, at least in California, my employer is in the clear. Hell, I believe they do it to hourly workers, too. I have worked in the computer industry my whole life, but I am told that it is not uncommon for minimum wage jobs to insist you come in at unexpected hours to cover unexpected events.
The implicit runtime checks in a Python program get converted into explicit if-statements if you use an ahead-of-time compiler to compile it to a static language like C. Bootstrapping will not be able to magically get rid of these if statements.

Not to mention, bootstrapping is about the compiler executable and the problem I was talking about applies to any attempt to use an ahead-of-time compiler for a dynamic language.
Bubble Wrap: The Key to a New Floating Solar Thermal System
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Why not user Nightmare with Node.js + Mongo?

Here is an example of injecting a jQuery script into a page with jQuery loaded and getting nicely formatted information returned. [1]

[1]https://github.com/adam-s/playboy-fm/blob/master/server/scra...
Very likely true. There've been a few cave studies where they shield the experimental subjects from all natural light, and then time how long their "biological" day is. It usually ranges from about 23.5 hours to around 28, with an average of about 25. It varies significantly by person, but was not at all unusual for someone's cycle to be longer than 24 hours.

(Personally, my natural sleep cycle seems to be about 25-26 hours; I'll usually go to bed 1-2 hours later each night until I reset at some point.)
In many (most?) cases, the research that the RA is "assisting" on is actually their dissertation research. It would be pretty uncommon to work on a totally unrelated project during your RA time.

Also, many universities require a few semesters of TAing, even if the student is fully funded. It's certainly free labor for the school, but it did help me understand what I was doing....
The pathological case is the same (fill up publisher's pipes -> no publishing), but by giving clients flexibility on how to retrieve, they can set their own policy for how to augment this.

Some possible general alternatives:

- Wait to retrieve from publisher directly, never from third party cloud services

- Ask friends, if this conforms to their privacy goals. Perhaps via store-and-forward mix.

- Ask public altruistic peers.

- Ask for-profit "cache providers".

- Retrieve from multiple independent cloud service(s) using a technique such as PIR
there's no reason for anybody in alaska to be selling warm soda!
Where I disagree with you is your inclusion of language implementation errors as a type of undefined behavior.

Those are compliance errors. That is, if the spec allows it (as "undefined behavior") then it's not a bug. If the spec doesn't allow it, then there is a defined behavior and it is a bug.

For example, a hardware bug is one that does not comply with the specification. Either the spec must be changed (perhaps allowing the existing behavior), or the bug fixed.
"Don't shoot the messenger for pointing out the lock on your door can be picked"