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No depth? Most games played on smartphones are designed for playing in short increments, many of them for playing with a single hand. That's what Super Mario Run is. It's designed so you can play in just a couple of minutes, and you can play with one hand while commuting, or like I did today, play with one hand while eating lunch.

As for clearing it in an hour, clearing each of the levels once isn't a challenge, nor is it the point of the game. If you want to complete the whole thing you must play each of the levels 4 times, and that's assuming you play perfectly each time (and you won't). And that's just for Tour mode. For Toad Rally mode you're competing against other people (not live, but against their time trial ghosts) and doing tricks to try and impress toads, where winning gives you a bunch of coins and a bunch of toads. And then you use those toads in the kingdom builder mode to unlock new items to put in your kingdom and to upgrade your castle, etc.

So yeah, you can play through all of the levels once pretty quickly if you want. But that's not really experiencing the game.
If the web had been strict from the start, we would never have had a problem: people would never have been publishing invalid documents because browsers would have been rejecting them outright. XHTML failed because HTML existed and was good enough.
One day, when the author gets a bit more seniority, he'll learn what we all had to learn at some point in our careers:

Don't write software that can't be debugged.
Yeah, the video made me want to go outside and run, not take my mobile with me, and certainly not stay in and tap a screen.
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Well, there money offered aren't that much considering the growth in the area.
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The graphics are nice (similar to New Super Mario Bros.), gameplay is smooth, and I really wanted to like this, but I just can't get into it. I think it comes down to this:

My favorite games are the ones that embody some sense of freedom, and I just don't get that here (at least not from the first 3 levels). I completely understand Nintendo's decision to go with the single-finger jump-only game mechanic for a touchscreen device (I've never been a fan of virtual D-pads). But unfortunately, that decision has transformed Mario from a game about discovery and freedom into a game where you're - quite literally - not allowed to stop and take a second look at something.

As a natural consequence of this change in game mechanics, we seem to be forced into a constant state of hyper-focused speeding through what might otherwise be an attractive setting with subtleties to be explored. If I pass something that looks interesting in Super Mario Run, I'll likely never see it again (no, I'm not really motivated to repeat levels for coins - but I would be inclined to explore new paths through the game if I weren't always forced to be on the run).

Making matters worse, the few times I did attempt to explore a little (by jumping back off the walls), the clock ran out in what felt like an unreasonably short time compared to other Mario games.

In the back of my mind, it feels as though this change reflects something more profound about how society has evolved in the past decade. Maybe our competitive and demanding nature has overshadowed the desire for individual discovery and creativity. We don't need a landscape-oriented view of the horizon anymore; we only care about what's immediately at hand in our myopic view of the world because, let's face it, this is 2016 and we're too lazy to flip our phones around to landscape mode, let alone to confront the harrowing idea of plotting our own course through life. Just put us on the conveyor belt and tell us when to jump - and how high.

OK, that may be taking it a bit too far, but I'm still not buying the full game - and it has nothing to do with the price.
Opalgate:

https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941

TLDR: Some possibly transphobic person said something on the internet that got traced back to his github account. Some person not connected to the project complains and get's transphobic person removed from github. Github hires complainer to "improve diversity".

That and a couple of other things like their code of conduct have indicated that github wants to be the PC police more than a service provider. I want a dumb service provider.

I don't know if google has cleared out their "fake news" but the top hits on the subject are from heavily biased sources (geekfeminism.com and breitbart).
Thanks so much, haven't kept up with Canonical since switching off of Ubuntu, didn't know there was another option like this

[EDIT] After spending some time looking at Ubuntu Core... is it just a smaller Ubuntu distro + managed updates?

I do like the "snap store" concept... marketing jargon aside, it seems like Canonical is paying attention to both developer and user ergonomics more than ever

[EDIT2] Ubuntu core & snapcraft.io are pretty exciting
On 3) Why do you care about types when teaching programming? (Not being facetious, this is a genuine question).

I've always thought that the advantage of Python (or even JavaScript) as a first language is that you can defer thinking about (to the layperson) unintuitive concepts like types, and focus on the core concepts behind telling a computer to do what you tell it to. (Functions, variables, control flow, maybe classes if you're feeling fancy).

I've talked to a super-smart Hack Reactor graduate who was blown away by the concept of static typing when I explained it to him in detail; it was simply irrelevant to his understanding of functional programming, data structures, and algorithms, subjects which familiar with at quite a high level.

On 2), what's missing in Python beyond the unittest package?

On 4) and 5), are these things that you introduce early in your curriculum? They seem like quite niche aspects of programming. I've found that most python programmers haven't had cause to use an event loop in production, for example; only really if you're implementing a web server or networking stack, something that frameworks usually abstract from you.
Dreamweaver's still around (and just got a big update as part of the Adobe CC 2017 wave of apps), but Adobe seems to be positioning Muse more as the code-free WYSIWYG HTML editor now-- modern Dreamweaver's very code-focused.
Contrary to the author's opening statement, my biggest complaint is google killing services all the time.
Sometimes it's better to ask forgiveness afterwards than to ask for permission beforehand.
Why is this? Are most windows users using 32-bit windows? (I refer to windows, because most other OSs will use their own package managers, probably).
"There are shit doctors and great doctors, but they all have one thing in common... the Dr. preceding their name!"

I usually look at a doctor's reputation, experience level, education, publication, etc. as signals for "quality." It CAN vary drastically, as in, one doctor might overlook a diagnosis or even mis-diagnose something that another, more experienced doctor would catch correctly.
The conversion factor is not that important because without storage the excess energy would be lost anyway if we assume electricity demand doesn't shift from night to day.
They're not sending any identifiable information, which is what makes the huge difference. Just hardware stats and alike.
Oh, interesting. Like a whole new kind of financial indentured servitude that you can't even die your way out of.
METFORMIN also does the same http://qz.com/431663/scientists-want-to-treat-aging-like-a-d... and http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21704788-fight-cheat-...
it's not so cut and dried. For one thing, suppose that someone really wanted to study history and loved their university studies, it was the best years of their life.

Firstly, perhaps having a degree lets them get a job - even outside of history. It can be a plus in any corporate job, regardless of whether it's related in any way to history. Among other things it creates cultural fit, makes interesting colleagues. This has direct positive effects all over. It also shows people's ability to work through a complex and long degree program.

There is another thing though: the fact is that this can be kind of a "white lie" that they needed to go do a degree in history. Perhaps they didn't - perhaps they could have started their corporate career 4 years earlier with no bad ramifications.

Still, they wanted and enjoyed that time and expanded as a person. It can be in people's interests to keep up the white lie that it was 'necessary'. And not just a splurge. Not just, "yeah I did it as a lifestyle thing."

So for all of these reasons and more, it is far from cut and dried. It's not as simple as people in this thread are saying.
Yeah, I expressed myself poorly when I said shrunken Earth at the same distance from the object as the magnet would lose.

What I wanted to convey was that if you could get the mass closer to the object, you wouldn't need anywhere near 5.972 × 10^24 kg anymore. For instance, if you had a sphere whose center of mass was 1 m from your test object, and wanted it to exert the same force that the Earth exerts 6.7 x 10^6 meters from the object, you would only need your sphere to have a mass of 1.33 x 10^11 kg.

If we were using a sphere small enough that we could get its center of mass 10 mm from our test object's center of mass, it would only a mass of 1.33 x 10^7 kg.

So, the magnet is still winning in the sense that it still takes a lot of mass to counter the magnet, but we're talking 10^7 kg, not 10^25 kg.
Just a little note, since some people, that don't know how it works ended with wrong conclusions:

Stolon has a very different architetture than governor or patroni. It has much higher consistency guarantees like avaoiding that a partitioned master is reelected (losing transactions), very strict sync replication to avoid losing any transaction, point in time recovery and many more advanced features.
i think the name change makes sense and it's a power move, it basically says: hey if you want to run containers on linx, we are -the- software to do it instead of just one among many. this only works if you're already fairly established and I think CoreOS has some justification to do it
There are VIA motherboards with build-in CPU and GPU for one (I had one of these for a small NAS, which could have been used for a very lightweight computer as well).

Raspberry Pi and stuff like that use other brands of GPU as well.
Just the active on, probably.
Yeah, that should work (well, "def x: 3" should work). In my preferred language it does work.
It is what the rich want to hear, so there is money in saying it.
Does anyone know if it installs that Google Updater Service also on Win?
That's really interesting, thanks for sharing. I think your interpretation is basically correct.
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> I think Atlassian is the company that makes the most out of the git marketplace

Think or know? For enterprise version control, I would be surprised if they made more than Github. I'll take enterprise Github over Stash any day.
It's a runner game. The character autoruns and you tap/swipe the screen to jump or do other moves. This is a pretty well established genre of mobile games, which avoids the usual usability issues of on-screen D-pads and the like.
What exactly did you think the "I" in IOT stood for? Also, like Android there's no need to use Google services. Just patch it and update it yourself if you're so inclined.
You're an iteration of an AGI system that has been improving itself for hundreds of millions of years. The rate at which biological AGIs improve over time is very slow, but it's not like nature has any good reason to be in a hurry.

But interesting things happen when you network billions of biological AGIs together, it leads to all sorts of emergent phenomenon, and now the biological AGIs are working on these newfangled mechanical AGIs, which, while still crude, aren't bound by the same constraints, they can iterate much faster. Biological AGIs have crippling bandwidth/memory issues which aren't really a problem at all for their mechanical counterparts. These mechanical AGIs, I think they'll go places.
One thing that comes to mind is that a language that prioritizes pedagogy would probably have a vastly different perspective on backward compatibility. And historically, that's a huge constraint on how "real-world" PLs can evolve in practice. Every language I've spent any amount of time with is either deeply encumbered by suboptimal design decisions on the past or has experienced extremely painful version transitions. A language whose first priority is pedagogy can presumably evolve much more freely. I don't know enough about Pyrets to say whether that is the case here.
Just couple of days I saw this documentary by national geographic about world's largest solar power plant in India completed in ~8 months.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM-0lrIxCnE
12GB must be really weird because you'd have 3x4GB modules, which means no dual channel.

7GB = 8GB minus one used by the GPU.
The biggest reason is that WYSIWYG doesn't really work on the web. What you see on your screen isn't what someone else will see because their monitor is a different size or they are on a mobile device.

WYSIWYG requires a fixed layout size, which was common back when dreamweaver/frontpage were around.
In the past creating rich experiences was in things like Flash. With it's premature flogging, the side effect was there was little to actually and reliably replace the rich experiences it was able to create 2007-08. That's one reason seeing tooling like this, and Adobe Edge is something to look forward to.
I'll cite a single program not even leaked by Snowden which would allow any unencrypted email sent to by intercepted https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A?wprov=sfla1

Snowden leaks showed that they get billions of hits each month from the various submarine cables as well as direct access from telco backbone fiber stations in the US, Europe, Middle East, and elsewhere.

> As this map shows that almost 3 billion data elements from inside the United States were captured by the NSA over a 30-day period ending in March 2013, Snowden stated that this tool was collecting more information on Americans located within the United States than on Russians in Russia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundless_Informant?wprov=sf...

In addition, the MUSCULAR program involved tapping the data links between data centers of Google and Yahoo.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSCULAR_%28surveillance_pro...

So I'd say there is an 80-90% chance the NSA has a good chunk of his friends email. Closer to 95% if he was located outside of the US.

The only thing stopping them from getting the full content of each Americans (plus 3 hops) passive data collection (besides 100% of metadata they get legally) is a FISA warrant. They have no restriction for foreigners.

Maybe you need to reread some of those slides because you clearly missed the big picture.
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Thread provides a network, but no application-level semantics. In other words, Thread is to 802.15.4 as WiFi is to 802.11. Once you've set up a Thread network, you still need an application layer like CoAP or Weave to control your connected devices.
this makes me wonder how many of their hires actually add value rather than just consuming company resources
Wow, I didn't know the higher ups at GitHub were that unethical.
I understand that signing it doesn't mean much. I signed. But it's a first step. Perhaps after that, you'll consider supporting/volunteering for the EFF or ACLU. It's a small action, but you have to stand for what you believe in.
Yeah, that sounds useful. However, I would caution against making such a thing the default since it would bloat the space it takes on disk. In the past when I was a student with a crappy laptop I never worked on Chrome because it just took too much disk space to build and I didn't have enough. Not sure if it's because it built all dependencies locally instead of relying on the OS or something else.

So yeah, would be nice to have, but I'd be wary about making it the default.
How well do you feel that this has worked? I was under the impression that telecom prices in New Zealand were pretty painfully expensive?
I heard linux is secured!! Should I (we) stop using gui to be secured?
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but is throwing all this money at a company who clearly doesn't know how to effectively deploy it to grab that land (those expenditures are ridiculous) the best way to do it?
Hostility to minimum unit alcohol pricing is hard to swallow
Well... what's the ISBN, title?!
The Vive has this feature although its not used in games.
but it turns out you can represent a language pretty well in a mere thousand or so dimensions

That makes sense, considering that Basic English has only a thousand words yet can express most concepts with enough words.
Thanks. I've seen that but hadn't connected the name to the syntax.
If he lived today every single answer would be on stackexchange. ;)
Dude yes! That's exactly what I thought too. Oh well.
That's an interesting paradigm. I do take my Casio Protrek off during sleep, but I kinda enjoy the fact that my watch is the single gadget in my life that requires zero maintenance. It'll outlast my body in any and every circumstance. I basically only need to replace the battery once every 5-7 years, since it just charges through the solar element that's the surface of the watch dial. I feel like having to plug the watch into a charger is yet another thing to worry about during the day. And with my chaotic life, there'll be a few days during the week where I won't know where the charger is, or I left it at work, or it's in the car, or the nearest outlet is occupied by the kitchen blender, and I'll be too lazy to reach the outlet in the next room, etc. I feel like a month would give me reasonable legroom to keep it constantly running.

In my perception, a watch should be something that is zero hassle, and smartwatches just ain't it.
Optus in Australia offers "free social" including Facebook and Twitter. For most normal people, network neutrality takes that away (that's how the big players will spin it).

Keep in mind, Wikipedia benefits from non-neutral networks in some developing countries where Wikipedia doesn't count towards the bandwidth cap.

It's a pretty complicated world.
> And the situation has literally reached biblical proportions.

Not sure what part of the bible is literally in proportion here.
I think Pingendo [http://pingendo.com] qualifies.
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this is incorrect. almost every modern WYSIWYG editor includes support for media queries.
Serious question: What if he forgot?

Totally not defending him, but if it's been some time since he had to unlock the device, it's not totally unreasonable for someone to forgot the code to unlock a device.

I change my passwords regularly, and I've completely forgot my password several iterations ago.

If you do passwords as you're supposed to (with random words you memorize). They are very forgettable once you stop having to use them regularly.
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Really would want to play this.
I don't mind the concept especially the game is on par with those Rayman runner games. At least couple of the early ones were really great.
The price is perhaps steep for what it is, not that it would stop me from buying this. Well the hype and interested might have mellowed down once the Android version comes out..
Swedish authorities told to prepare 'in terms of war' amid Russia tensions
Thanks -- I just realized this, looking at some of the thread groups white papers and some of the cooperating companies' sites. Updated original post
Hello? Hololens did it already and tether-free. Here is my mixed reality capture tape taken on HoloLens. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Av3Fdx5RnUI
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That would be a whole different situation from the get go, it would be a fact based question based on credibility. Courts evaluate people's credibility all the time and make determinations of credibility. If a judge believes that you are telling the truth when you say you forgot, he would let you off, if the judge doesn't believe you, then you'd have to go to jail.
These systems tend to shift the burden to the collective. There may be some burden on disk or network that I don't experience in California, but I find these kinds of systems win for me.
It is a bummer though that, from what little I know, the process to manufacture batteries is not good for the environment. That said, probably the process to manufacture all the parts of ARES is not either. And, probably, both of those issues pale at the moment in comparison to the need to shift to renewable sources of electricity.
There is also rumor about Image projection being part of the feature: http://www.metaculus.com/questions/398/image-projection-pate...
What's SENS?
As a long-time emacs user, I have recently taken a look at VSCode, and while I am not ditching emacs anytime soon, the experience was a lot more pleasant than I would have expected. I plan to use it for some toy project over the holidays, see how that works out.

> Moving around the code with just a keyboard (ctrl-v and the sort).

That is something I have missed in pretty much every IDE I have ever used, except OpenWatcom's, which allows to use vi-keybindings. (Okay, so Eclipse supports Emacs-ish keybindings, too, but it felt really weird using those.)

I think, there is a plugin/package for VSCode that implements emacs-style keybindings, but I could not get it to work properly. :-(
Purpose behind disabling PAM in SSH
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Alcohol in UK is sold by Alcohol By Volume (ABV) %. Spirits are normally 37.5% ABV.

A unit of alcohol is a public health measure. Units were introduced a while ago when beers and wines were weakers. A small glass of wine (125 ml) at 8% is one unit.

A litre bottle of spirits at 40% is 40 units.

Number of units = serving size in L * ABV

Scotland has wanted to introduce minimum unit pricing for alcohol. They could have done this with taxes and duties (which would have taken funds from alcol producers) but they chose to try minimum unit pricing (which seems to give the producers more money, even after declining sales).
J on the cross.
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The sub-text under 'USE TEMPLATE' is 'Use a pre-built ad template', to it's right there what this is ment to do.
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if you catch patients in their 20-40s

That's a big "if" for a Medicare Advantage insurer, since we can't enroll someone unless they're eligible for Medicare. Although it's possible to become Medicare-eligible prior to age 65, it's much less common, and some of the ways it happens make someone ineligible to enroll in a Medicare Advantage plan (for example, someone with end-stage renal disease is Medicare-eligible regardless of age, but unless already enrolled in one cannot join a Medicare Advantage plan -- they must opt for traditional Medicare instead).

So by the time a typical diabetic becomes eligible for a Medicare Advantage plan, the intense regimes you're talking about don't (as far as I know) offer any realistic chance of reverting. Which means most of the effort instead goes into proper management techniques to prevent progression and complications.
California to Regulate Energy Use of Desktop Computers and Monitors
Did you just say Snowden is equivalent to Jesus?
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Hey, I figured it out!

https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/savedquery/809799891616:6b...

There's a learning curve. Getting in without giving up your credit card isn't exactly intuitive. And Leslie isn't the most popular name in the US -- it's gender neutral name, so there are lots of rows.
Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence

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