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I've played computer games since the 1980s, considerable hours as a single player. I hadn't realized I was bored that whole time.

Just to add: I prefer single player games. Multiplayer is a commitment. And I've been there. I put thousands of hours into Everquest and I've also put over a thousand hours into Fallout: Las Vegas. I've completed Doom. I was Elite in Elite. Finished Gran Torismo, Burnout 1 & 2. The Getaway - all great single player experiences. More recently the F.E.A.R series back to back.

You can't lump single player games into a single experience.
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They're fine as long as they're short enough that the novelty does not wear off. On the other hand, I can play any realtime multiplayer game without ever getting bored of it.
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I've heard that Inline::Perl5 is klunky

What's your experience?
Not to shamelessly self promote, but if you like pass but hate GPG, then I already built you a command line password manager that is almost exactly the same as pass

It can securely save files, generate passwords, save passwords and optionally can sync using git.

https://github.com/ejcx/passgo
> CS degrees are not standardised

In most countries they are, by law. Is the basis of the educative system. Degrees are certified and strongly regulated by the government. I can't just print and flash one without a license to emit degrees. This would be to falsificate a public document, wich is a crime in most countries in the world, if not all.

In those countries you can't discriminate something for a public job based only in their university, this would be also illegal. Any degree of type "X" emited by a valid institution must de accepted if you ask for an degree of type "X". All are equivalent. In many fields, physicians for example, you can't work without a degree. But you can work as physician in UK with a Spanish or Chinese degree for example, because this is regulated. Private companies of course can lie themselves in any way as they want. Is their money after all.

Your reality may be different.

> You cannot directly conclude anything based on the graduate's degree grade

If your candidate show a CS degree, you can directly conclude that this people have skills related with computer science, and related with having a CS degree. You don't know if he/she is able to drive a truck, this is true.

> or individual scores

Also standardized.

> Without eg. the institution where they studied.

Information casually written in big fat letters in the CS degree.
The front-end part looks ok to me. I hope your invite queue advances quickly enough so I can try it soon.

The instant-meeting-setup feature is nice, but the main email/agenda solution have this covered in an acceptable way already, IMO.

I know for a fact that providing a search feature in a mail service isn't an easy problem to solve. Can you tell us a bit about the infrastructure behind this service ?
Yup. As long as youre under the limit underwritten by the government it's not a problem.
Maybe it's the cause (or result) of their 95% drop in profit last quarter.
Not for supercaps, most have a breakdown voltage below 5 V.
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Why were Lastpass and Dashlane better than 1Password for you?

I've used 1P for a few years without looking at the competition, so curious to hear what they can do.
I know and you can just use your phone nowadays. But be careful at doing what you shouldn't contractually do. If your boss is looking for a way to fire you, you're helping him even in those countries with strong protections for the employees.
So the risk of something happening is larger (but not quite 3x due to shared vulnerability and multiple event), however is risk of being locked and unable to function is significantly smaller as long as you can operate with the subset of accounts.

If you are in the position (like most) where all your account contents are guaranteed and the only thing you are hedging on is convenience vs risk of cashflow problems.
> But I have read about Ricardian comparative advantage. When I looked into the assumptions behind that model, I realised they were utter nonsense.

I don't think I've ever seen anybody criticize Ricardian comparative advantage before. What assumptions did you find to be nonsense?

Personally, I've always thought the model to be too simplistic (in the real world, there are often unrelated issues that have greater effects), but never could find a systematic flaw on the model itself.
I think there's an even more general disdain for commodity offerings, at least in American culture. There's probably a guy who's in the .01% of his ZIP code because the regional store brand paper towels needed some of those cardboard tubes. But "success" looks like Zuckerberg or Jobs, not like that guy.
What if the system described in the article was the current system? would we switch to time zones?
In this article author clearly states that they loves video games.
Thanks for the links, I understand the issue a bit more. I am still not convinced it's the right solution though. Why not a compile time option?
This captures a lot of what I've been feeling lately. I can't stand most games, they just make me anxious and I will quit playing them after a few hours or even minutes. Too much stress and surface experiences has had me looking in the other direction. Take, for example, GTA 5. I've probably spent more hours riding cars and bikes in GTA5's beautiful countryside and outback than playing actual missions. Just hours and hours of riding during rain or sunshine, dawn or dusk, in the city or the most remote mountains. It's beautiful and serene and made me realize that I don't really need dozens of hours of frantic gameplay. But as amazing as those experiences are, they aren't the core focus of GTA5 and that's a missed opportunity.

I am ready for video games with these beautiful moments - and please keep them short! I don't want to spend hours and hours on a game anymore, at least not traditional ones - but I have no idea where to find them.
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I just signed up for 2 Tesco accounts the other day to dump 3k in each for the 3% interest.

I'm certainly not going to be doing anything with the accounts until Tesco give some more clarification on what actually happened (although the way these things work, I doubt there will ever be a full technical response.)

Also if it is some sort of internal breach, would any other data have been taken?

Back in 2012, Tesco were storing passwords in plain text.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19316825
Are you kidding?

I love games, and I was expecting another article bashing video games in their current state, and that isn't what was written here.

The entire POV for the article is from a traditional video gamer (you know, people who like games) trying to understand her friends who are not appealed to by what she considers traditional video games, and how understanding your audience is key to unlocking the market.

What if you could get everyone who isnt interested in traditional games to understand what they are all about, the entire Skyrim subplot in the article is a person who loves video games trying to share her love.

I really hate to say this, but you clearly did not read the article.
Excuse my ignorance, but why does everyone seem to hate on Freud, considering he has had a tremendous influence on modern psychology? Honest question.
Multiplayer games are also boring. I just bought Battlefield 1, because I read there was a great solo campaign. I hope it will be fun, and I've no intention to multiplay that.
I'm 36, and I really did like war games before they were that much multiplayer oriented. Call of Duty and Battlefield series had great solo campaigns, jadis. Then for a decade, there was this multiplayer trend. Being obliterated by teenagers, cursing your mom, being much greater than you. That was no fun at all.
When I buy a game (especially a ~70€ worth game), I expect to have fun. I guess I'm not a great gamer, I can't spend 8 hours a day playing, so I suck at multiplayer shooting games. But I LOVE solo campaigns. I can quit, then rejoin 2 hours later, I can become better, finish a hard mission, and I'm happy with myself.
I can't do this on multiplayer campaigns. Those kids are way better than me, so much better than I can't get fun.
Single player games are great, also. I LOVED Metal Gear Solid V, even if it was not finished. I loved it because I could play alone, replay if I failed a mission, redo it better if I wanted to.
I'm not a great player, but I still want to have fun. So multplayer games are not for me, and that's a shame.
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> ideally in at least two different countries

Is it generally easy to open accounts in countries you are not resident in?
Good points. Thank you. About searching the email inbox: Upon first signing on, all emails (and filenames) in the inbox will be indexed and cached to MySQL and we're also working on providing an option to use WebSQL to cache this locally.
Could you explain "lack of upstreaming?" I get, via context, and know what upstream is, I context of OSs, I've never read a "lack of."
This was not written by someone who hates video games. This was written by a woman who has worked in the games industry for some time, and has been lead programmer on notable titles. She is exploring why some of her friends find games uninteresting, and to what extent poor designs and limited scopes can be blamed for the fact.

Titles are not articles.
Also with citi bike people can find themselves biking home from a spot they didn't bike to and not have a helmet on them.
Agreed we don't really understand it well yet, but it's more of a loophole in our current understanding, vs "wizard free energy bull-shit." It's, sort of, a rounding error in the universe. But I agree, there's obviously things we don't understand yet.
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I published a musical toy (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/circular-bells/id1062362784?mt=8) that is going to be used for some scientific studies soon.

I have a quick write-up about how I made it here (https://medium.com/@morpheu5/how-i-made-an-artsy-app-based-in-science-a3690164a9ce#.mwt0sz75k) and how I failed at releasing it here (https://medium.com/@morpheu5/how-i-messed-up-my-artsy-apps-launch-e684111de532#.gdgyn1k3k).
I'm surprised they didn't mention the fire at The Station club, where 100 people died in the fire because they couldn't get out in time. Mostly because they headed back to the door they came in (a behavior mentioned in the article)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Station_nightclub_fire
Yes, a lot of people don't like the design, so the design is something that I'm going to start working on changing asap. Going to talk to my designer friends. Do you have an example of a GUI that you think would be fitting for this kind of webapp? Something similar to PolyMail?
Well there are different levels of description here.

First, I think I am pretty representative of the target audience for the main website (it's sad, but most non technical people still don't know what a password manager is or why they might want to use one).

Second, there is a difference between "What it does" (A password manager that re-computes the same site-specific password on every use, meaning that no syncing of passwords is necessary) which you can still make pretty informative vs "Me telling you why you should use it" (The cliches I quoted). Even if the website was aimed at those with zero technical knowledge, it could still give more concrete detail on what it is and why you need it rather than the empty marketing phrases.

The github repo should be where I go if I want to know what hashing libraries they're using, if their Math checks out, and who the contributors are. Not if I just want to know what it actually is (apart from "The best ever super duper password manager that you really need to download right now before tomorrow") and kind-of-how it works.
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I went into it a little bit in a reply to lmm
> Half of the people refuse to move.

When someone shoves you, you can't "refuse" to move. Momentum has to be conserved somehow.

> Half of the people start moving in the opposite direction.

Which half?

If you can somehow split the crowd cleanly and get the two halves moving away from each other that might help, but this is usually not possible. And getting a randomly selected half to move in a different direction than the crowd as a whole is simply not possible, again because of physics. A dense crowd is essentially an incompressible fluid. All of the particles in a local area have to be moving in the same direction.

> Half of the people stand still and try to hold hands with other people (of that group), effectively blocking other people.

You really don't have a good mental model of what a dense crowd is like. There's no need to hold hands. You are already pressed up against neighbors on all sides of you. In a dense crowd you are going to remain stationary relative to your neighbors whether you like it or not. That is the root of the problem.
Well, O(100GB) is where I start thinking of "big data". Processing 100 GB is slow in a single "normal" machine (depending on what, sure). Between 10 and 100 I usually do it in a cluster since it is less hassle (even if I could process it locally with some tweaks or patience). Less than 10 is usually locally run unless I'm already computing something else
How much smaller would it be if it only had 1 USB-C connector instead of all the other connectors?
I think it doesn't work in this case because

If the strictest (largest) alignas on a declaration is weaker than the alignment it would have without any alignas specifiers (that is, weaker than its natural alignment or weaker than alignas on another declaration of the same object or type), the program is ill-formed.

Also, using alignas on pointer variable will probably specify alignment of the pointer itself, not the pointed object. I suppose you can create a wrapper class around int with alignas(32) and specify the pointer as pointing to that, but this is going to be nasty given that you can't derive from int and have to write all those operators by hand.
I don't like playing single player games at all because I can't get into the story. I'm always down for multiplayer games from MMOs to MOBAs to FPS probably because it's competitive and just more fun in general since I'm not competing against AI but real human beings.
The board requires custom modifications to the kernel. These modifications never get cleaned up and submitted as patches to the kernel. So you are stuck with a kernel frozen in time.
I'm aware HTTP is built on top of TLS in HTTPS. I think what you're discussing now is a little different from the HTTPS as a transport vs bespoke protocols running "naked" over TCP/IP (unless I've badly misunderstood any of the previous posts?).

Warning: nonsensical brain dump follows:

However to address your point, you might be able to use SNI (which is sent from the client before the TLS connection is encrypted) to make some assumptions about the content. Granted this would be more in the realm of web filtering where you'd blacklist suspect domains or - in extreme cases - banned terms within hostnames. I wouldn't be surprised if SNI is one of the "statistics" the Chinese firewall uses (I'm not familiar with the implementation details of the Great Firewall of China")
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Yes there are crazy cyclists out there. Once a year I meet one.

Do you know how many careless car drivers I meet? At least one each time I bike more than 3km. Not crazy (those I find every 100km), just careless. But thats enough to threaten my life.

Either way, the cyclist is on the receiving end of the risk (we're not talking about bike vs pedestrians here). So no Symmetry. Mass matters. A lot.
I don't know if that's true but save for electric vehicles, has there been any major interest in improving batteries much beyond what they do?

Batteries have been mass marketed for laptops and cellphones in the past couple of decades and have improved steadily for the increasing needs in those markets. It's okay for cell phones to last for a day and to charge in an hour. But with electric cars, which are only really starting to pick up in the last 2-3 years or so, demand for longer range and faster charging is quite different.
This is exactly how I felt about Red Dead Redemption. Years after beating the game, I couldn't tell you much about any individual mission.

I do remember staring at the in-game sunset as it cast shadows across the open prairie and thinking, "Wow."
I love Perl. My favourite language.

But i hate Perl6. It feels like an obnoxious showoff who people prefer not to talk to.

It offers little that I crave for in Perl. And those bits I can do with Go already.

Perl6 is a distraction from what we should have had .. I'm still dreaming of the day Perl7 comes out with these features: (i) full Perl5 functionality (without having that klunky Inline::Perl5), and (ii) built-in concurrency.

Perl6 is late to the party. Sorry kid, nobody likes you and besides, it's time to go home.
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musl lets you have statically linked C nice and easy. (glibc can't really be made static). It produces executables that can fit on a floppy disc even for large stuff. Alpine has a statically linked ffmpeg, though it can be difficult to compile occasionally.

Bandwidth can be cheap, depending on where you are, but giant applications just sort of smell of "get it working now" instead of "make sure it will give the user a good experience".
If you're only dealing with people geographically close to you, you might as well all agree on a convenient local timezone, with features like not changing the date in the middle of the work day.
The vote is in: I like the idea and my wife hates it :-)

I agree that using Earth Time would harmonize business and personal relations around the world. I work remotely, and time zone calculations for scheduling meetings, etc. are a small inconvenience, but why have any inconvenience at all?
Multiplayer games sadly are much more time consuming, and the older you get, the harder it is to find a regular schedule and buddies to play with. Been there, done that. I even play WoW these days mostly solo - I love the game, but can't facilitate raiding into my schedule.
The problem with writing passwords down is that I need to fly places and it's not unheard of if you work in financial tech or military tech to have your things riffled through at the boarder. Plus a mugger can say "give me your things!" or "Empty your pockets!" and now he has my credentials.

Passwords are not easy. My current solution for the long tail of things that need passwords is two factor + really strong password I generate then don't save anywhere. If I get signed out I do password reset to my gmail. Gmail is two factor (obviously) with a really strong password and recovery email to an email address nobody knows.

This is still a huge pain though.
This was actually one of the reasons I loved No Man's Sky. I will spend some time finding a nice planet, and then I will just hike to and fro places. Sometimes it's very much like walking through some of Roger Dean's work, and can feel nice and peaceful.
Breaking systems only really need to contain enough energy to stop a car. So, up to 1/2 * 2,000kg * (40m/s)^2 = 1.6e6 J which is a lot of energy, though less than 3.6e+6 J. Going down a mountain is an important edge case, but frankly not something that you really need to use super caps for as these systems still have mechanical breaks for backup, and the lower peaks is more acceptable for battery's.

In an electric car you would then use that energy to speed up again, thus allowing for 10s if not hundreds of charge cycles on a single trip.

Note: 2000kg ~= 4,400lb, 40m/s ~= 90mph.
To sync, use a CouchDB database you control; or start two clients in the same channel name and LAN; or specify the path for the websocket server (the default address is already set, just change the path).

To create a card, write a message "/card <card name>".

To create a new channel, go to /channel/<channel-name>.

Source code: https://github.com/fiatjaf/chat-cards
I had a Toshiba Tecra M11-17z and it worked flawlessly with Linux. Before I bought it, I made sure that the Wifi, Graphics etc were Intel and not some iffy RealTek/Broadcom nonsense.

The first boot after it arrived (to check it was working before I installed Arch) took an hour, it downloaded updates to the vast array of crapware that came bundled and did all sorts of other 'customisations', truly awful. Look at the bundled software list on the link below, it actually makes me feel sorry for Microsoft.

http://www.toshiba.co.uk/discontinued-products/tecra-m11-17z...
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A) Complete is when the compiler(s) actually implement all of the spec, for starters.

B) Nice examples. Well done. But it's not about whether you can do the simple things. It's more about the impression of the community and where its interest and focus lies.

I'd rather use a language where the mundane day-to-day stuff is the most important consideration. My impression of Perl6, however unfair that may be, is that the day-to-day functionality is the boring necessary evil that must be in there somewhere, but the true focus is the amazing stuff you can do with a language that's simultaneously trying to be a better Perl, and a better Lisp, and a better Erlang, and a better Haskell.

In my mind, Perl6 is a huge lumbering beast that tries to do absolutely everything. I'm sure if I ever feel the need to write a lazy asynchronous parser script, it'll be the first language that leaps to mind. In the meantime, I don't have the time nor the interest to bother.
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The most I get here is 1.5 megabits. Yes, Australia. Yes, a terrible data cap: 100GB.

Electron apps don't get downloaded. One app is one less Netflix video I can watch.
It's in the spec. From RFC 791, "Internet Protocol version 4", page 13 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc791):

Total Length is the length of the datagram, measured in octets,
including internet header and data. This field allows the length of
a datagram to be up to 65,535 octets. Such long datagrams are
impractical for most hosts and networks. All hosts must be prepared
to accept datagrams of up to 576 octets (whether they arrive whole
or in fragments). It is recommended that hosts only send datagrams
larger than 576 octets if they have assurance that the destination
is prepared to accept the larger datagrams.

The number 576 is selected to allow a reasonable sized data block to
be transmitted in addition to the required header information. For
example, this size allows a data block of 512 octets plus 64 header
octets to fit in a datagram. The maximal internet header is 60
octets, and a typical internet header is 20 octets, allowing a
margin for headers of higher level protocols.

Note: That was published in 1981, when internetwork speeds were likely around 1 Mbps or lower.
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I doubt you can count on all items being allocated at addresses that are multiples if their size.

It's not optimal but you can always use libc::posix_memalign()