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I ran technical operations for Turbine for several years, from just before Asheron's Call returned from Microsoft to the LOTRO launch. Asheron's Call was the first MMO I played, as well. It had an amazing run: I think the very small team model they adopted for the last few years before updates ceased was really smart.

It was also kind of technically cool. In AC, you could literally dodge projectiles if your twitch skills were good enough, which made PvP way more interesting and tricky than most games could muster. The no-zone model beat the crap out of Everquest even if they did have to teleport people out of population centers now and again. The cost of that was hardware, though... we needed a lot of servers for each world, relatively speaking.

Man. So many memories.
> Nobody takes even pennies and throws them in the trashcan.

And yet they should. https://what-if.xkcd.com/22/

If you spend more than 3.6 seconds actively thinking about a penny, you value your time at less than $10/h. This comment is unfortunately self-referrential. Oops
79% of Americans shop online; cost more than convenience sways them
Oh yeah, the custom installation checkbox! Had forgotten about that, thanks for the memories.
In other news, CEO lies to employees. Oh wait, that's not other news at all.
Thinking about $GOPATH
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California also has 14x the population of Nevada, so that's not too surprising
MathJax by default doesn't use $ as a delimiter for inline equations, but instead uses \( and \) to avoid confusion with monetary quantities. Perhaps a similar thing could be done.
A related finding was that the more scientifically educated an American conservative is, the more likely they are to deny various elements of climate change. The conclusion of the researchers was that the smarter respondents knew what they were supposed to say better as well as knowing the real answer better.
Here's another problem.

apparently there are 6 different numbers...
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/07/unemployment-rate-shows-at-5-...

So, when they ask which one are they talking about?
> And what is the technical term in Arabic they used that translates to "slippery slope?"

Does Arabic really have no phrase like "house of cards", "fell like dominoes" or "give them an inch and they'll take a mile"?
>Are those 2 ideas incompatible?

Well that is that the point of a republic/representative democracy/federalism?
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Star Trek, for all it's technology, was always a story about humans. Even Data's journey is about as human-centric as you can get. In that way even the recent series have mirrored an older age of science fiction ("Using science to opine on the human condition" etc).

The Culture novels managed to convince me that a story about true AI needs to not only look a little different, but fundamentally different. Not least, answering "Why still humans around?"
Thanks, that's a real confidence boost. My formal education was in biology with an almost minor in computer science. I am a little self-defeating sometimes because I don't have a stats/marketing or CS degree, and a lot of job postings have a relevant degree as a requirement.

The IT may be terrible, but I'm very thankful for the opportunity I've had to develop these skills. It's really unfortunate how one or two people can ruin an organization. The rest of the people here are incredibly kind and incredibly driven people.
Hey, after I learned clojure and haskell I started liking javascript. Maybe you should learn some good functional programming and open your mind to other ways of thinking.
I ran into the same exact scenario. I tried to get moving with the devtools and while it looks similar and breakpoints seem to work better, getting acclimated was wasted time that I would rather have spent after the production issue was resolved.

That being said, I can't fault Mozilla for this. I've known for some time that Firebug was on it's way out.
When the Saudi government built their giant tower clock near the Kaaba in Mecca, there was talk of running it on Mecca solar time. But that didn't happen.

At least we have only one prime meridian, despite Jules Verne.
"That’s bad for employers but good news for cybersecurity workers, who can command an average salary premium of nearly $6,500 per year, or 9% more than other IT workers."

I think $6,500 per year is very low...
Well, <some_average_mega_corp> is paying my salary in a particularly non-shady way.

There is more to any group of people than what hits the news. (This insight is not limited to businesses.)
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You need to be able to trace individual queries which MSSQL also makes it easy since you can pass the user identity and map it to a set of credentials on the DB side automatically.

But in general again this isn't about security it's about complience so it's more about doing things by the book and a very specific one.
this is so crazy it might work.

Automatically sending the click beacon for every blocked ad will increase advertising costs but it will also increase vendor profits, motivating them to add even more ads.

Until the 3rd party click validators start to filter out clicks generated by this somehow. And then we will have yet another arms-race besides the adblockers one.
Python is an example of an OO + imperative language with a built in REPL.

My point was that it has to do with if there's an interpreter for the language, and if the interpreter works with your toolchain.

And that with the advent of JIT, that distinction becomes increasingly blurry, because the techniques to compile and link small blocks of code can be used by languages without an interpreter, per se.
Yeah was curious about this as well.
Damn, you stole my chance to link to the xkcd comic. Randall does have an xkcd for everything.
I bought the Dell XPS 13 with the hidpi display. I didn't buy it for the touchscreen and I couldn't buy it without if I wanted the resolution.

I'd have happily paid less for the same resolution but longer battery life (low power for driving the touch sensor and more for driving the display to a greater brightness to support the same display brightness).

I figure I should have put up with a lower resolution display tbh, which is sad.
Because intermixing Markdown and HTML is ambiguous, and if you're authoring HTML, you clearly know HTML already?

I'm not actually sure I believe this yet. But I think I'd see a lot more use case for something that lets me do a very tiny amount of things, maybe just headings and bold and italic, and avoids not only ambiguity but any risk of ambiguity.

It just feels like we've reinvented HoTMetaL (https://support.novell.com/techcenter/articles/img/ana199609...) but with bonus ambiguity.
Can you give an example? In virtually every case I've seen it's people don't knowing powershell, winapi or not having the right tools for the job.
> Transporters and replicators are another example: Suitably used they could be terrifying weapons.

One thing I was always wondering is why it took as long as ST:VOY to see transporters being used as a way to deliver armed torpedoes directly into the target.

In later seasons of Stargate SG-1 they sidestepped this problem cleverly - when humans received transporter technology from a more advanced species, they had non-overridable safeguards[0] (and an inspector on-board) preventing them from being used as a weapons delivery platform.

[0] - which, in the best fashion of this series, were overridden several times anyway. A lesson for those who think that if something is banned, it won't be used.
I don't understand why it's such a big deal with the GC.

Ok if you want to build drivers or OSes related stuff.

For AAA games, I can understand, but they will not switch to a new language as long as there is no engine like Unreal or Unity3D (GCed) that worth the switch. And the rest are indie and a GC will not affect performance.

For web services, GUI application, the GC would be desirable because it will enable the developper to work on the business model and not the computer model and it will removed stupid memory management kind of bugs. Plus, 1200 fps vs 1120 fps is not faster since we can't see the difference.

Is it that the D's GC is really slow or really memory inefficient?
They could at least be good citizens and use their success to beef up the NTP pool.
> So they support policies that sound good to the uninformed. And here we are :)

It's too simplistic to put the entire blame on voters - I don't think the US has a monopoly on "low information"/uninformed/apathetic voters when compared to other OECD nations.

Surely different social expectations on the issues squeezing the middle class (health/child/education costs), a different (more partisan?) media landscape, geographic size, a polarized judicial system (who weigh in on the "culture wars", campaign financing, war against drugs etc), and deeply entrenched financial interests have some significant influence upon our elected officials.
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Totally! I just want to make it clear that I'm not trying to disparage the game itself.
That doesn't strike me as being a very useful quiz. Would doing well on that really imply a stronger knowledge of policy?
The following statement from the article addresses this:

As Go is a relatively ordinary imperative language with value types, its memory access patterns are probably comparable to C# where the generational hypothesis certainly holds and thus .NET uses a generational collector.

I think that's reasonable. I would say it is on the Go developers to point out why they think Go would have seriously different performance characteristics from similar C# network applications using Task-based asynchrony (similar to goroutine + channel based asynchrony in Go).
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You can't easily grow crops on your barns' rooftops. It's a great place for your solar panels, though.
I too would love to have a beefy desktop build and dual monitors. I miss the days of shopping around for parts and doing it yourself.

Sadly, I live abroad and move a lot, so not an option.
I am a developer with these types of skills, but was mainly testing for a pet project scraping data. What are you referring to with the "whitehat stuff" to get in the 100k+ (/day) club?
For what it's worth, when I switched from Windows I was looking for a 17" macbook because I have a vision issue. I ended up buying a used 15" retina MBP and it's actually easier on my eyes than my 17" Windows laptop was. The retina makes a huge difference and the weight/form factor is very convenient.
Except if you review, my experience did match the study, or at least the article.

The uniquely human behavior that takes place in discussions on topics such this is often as interesting as the original article itself.
Makes sense, language is a key aspect of a community if you speak the language you feel identified and usually the community welcomes you.
The hundreds of millions of people that have used a mouse can attest to how 'natural' it is.
Yes but for all the components: ram, CPU, ssd/m2... hell being able to slide a new box in that contains a new mobo would be amazing.
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You're assuming one can expect the knowledge of chemical reactions to apply to particle interactions, and that is not the case.

For example particle accelerators can shoot particles against some target one by one, and so there's no need to look at averages. Some interactions never occur, to the best of our measuring ability (i.e. highest energies and number of repetitions). Some others are right away forbidden by laws much stronger than entropy in thermodynamics, in the sense that they're not averages, but mathematical derivations off the symmetries of the universe.
Unfortunately a bunch of stuff uses java. Like Android.
Oh I can read "tonal nuances", as you put it, perfectly well. On the contrary it's you who's not able to spot typical manipulative patterns.

he is clearly not placing himself in a position of greater success than his readers in order to sht on their ideas;*

He is. Just read the article or the quotes that I've extracted from it.
I don't understand. Can you elaborate? Have there been previous plan like this by old Opera?
Fascinating article. Great, long read.
While I agree that it is impossible to take Jesus seriously without also taking seriously his claim to divinity, I do not understand the example you've given concerning adultery. Not everything that Jesus taught was a matter of revelation. Much of it can be arrived at with the use of unaided reason. In this case, adultery and lust are moral concerns that do not require an appeal to Jesus' authority. It is entirely possible for a non-Christian to come to the same conclusion just as it is possible to consider many moral questions without appealing to God. Whether something is good for human beings depends on human nature. God comes in when we wish to account for the existence of human nature (or anything at all) in the first place. Typically, those who base morality on arbitrary divine command hold to a mechanistic metaphysics that permits no other basis for morality.
>As for the specs, I don't know where you got that the point of the MBP is to be leap years ahead on specs and I'm pretty sure this is a straw man that you set up just to argue against it.

The post I replied to says:

"- Bump the specs. The whole point of the Pro is it is leap years ahead of everyone on processor, HD, and RAM."
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Hi there,

I'm one of the programmers at Mooi Studios. We intentionally avoided being very specific in the article because we were expecting some skepticism :) Because of this it might sound like we made this decision without putting any thought into it, and that's not the case at all.

I don't want to argue about what is the best tool for the job, because honestly I don't think anyone can say something like that and be 100% certain about it. All I can say is that I've tried those tools before, and I'm pretty sure I don't want to write software that way anymore.

We are aware of the challenges, and we know that using C# would be easier in some ways. But enjoying what we do is a big deal for us, and we're willing to do some extra work to get there.

Ultimately, whether our games succeed or not has little to do with the technologies we use. I just finished Hyper Light Drifter which is probably one of my favourite games of all time, and they made that with Game Maker.

Anyways, for now we're only using Clojure to replace C# for game scripting. We're not writing a full game engine or anything with it (yet, hehe). We believe the differences in performance for these purposes should be neglible, and initial testing seems to confirm that. The gains in simplicity and workflow are real and are huge. And most importantly we're enjoying every minute of it.

Cheers,
Avoid using these whenever possible. Readability is more important than WoahNeat Factor.
I like how the author organizes 'levels' of rolling cryptography, and generally agree with his assessment of how those strata should be organized.
That is definitely what happened. One manager found out about this and called him and ended up verbally tearing in to him for like an hour. She is really task-oriented and gets really frustrated with how often I want to change things just to see what happens. It felt really good to hear her step up to defend me, because she would only do that for someone who she really respects.
> Historically one couldn't draw conclusions without an exhaustive study, does that now also apply to anecdotes on forums? I've read hundreds of anecdotes on HN so far this morning, are all of those inappropriate?

In a word, yes.

I'd push back on the word "inappropriate" specifically though. Whether they are inappropriate is a matter of context; in the context of a discussion about a study published in Nature Neuroscience, an anecdote that supports a causal relationship between the research and unsubstantiated interpretations of the data is inappropriate, in my opinion.

I think the disconnect here is a difference of approach - I am approaching this discussion as one of analysis, while there are other commenters approaching this as a friendly conversation. There's no right or wrong there, but I feel compelled to point out that the latter approach is how biased data frequently becomes parroted without real support in the original research.

In your original comment, you mentioned that your wife exhibited a significant personality change that appears to match the article. You also point out that you realize this is an anecdote. However, there is research[1][2] that demonstrates people will begin to internalize what they continually read, regardless of whether or not they know it is not true. In a discussion about a loaded topic such as pregnancy, where people are commiserating with each other or exchanging anecdotes, my claim is that it is not merely enough to acknowledge that the anecdote doesn't represent datum. Rather, that will not do anything to prevent the anecdote from having a positive impact on the audience's impression of the research (positive here used in the dialectic sense).

Of course, I'll admit I'm a stickler for this. Whether or not this is a point worth making in subsequent threads is up to the HN upvote/downvote roll :)

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1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8366418

2. http://psycnet.apa.org/?&fa=main.doiLanding&doi=10.1037/xge0...
Because water is arguably the most important substance to mankind.

In the celsius system (and at standard pressure and bhawawa please point out technicalities) - water freezes at 0°C and boils at 100°C. That's pretty simple to remember and makes actual sense.

In fahrenheit, body temperature was supposed to be 100°F but its not because when the guy measured his temperature, he had a fever. Congrats dude. First strike.

It freezes at around 30°F but not quite. The scale just doesn't make sense for any intuitive application.

If you think that body temperature should determine the scale of temperature measurements, think about how often you need to know your body temperature vs. how often you need to know how hot it is outside. "is it tornado season? nah, its only about 0.7 body temperatures outside". Besides, to anchor a scale, you need 2 reference points. Not just one. Fahrenheit is just a turd.

On top of that, Celsius scales just like Kelvin. 0 Kelvin is the point of absolute zero. The point of "No temperature" - to keep things simple.

0°C is 273.15K and 100°C is 373.15K - which means that Celsius is essentially Kelvin (the unit that makes scientific sense) adjusted to a level that makes sense for common man applications.

That explains why everyone is using Celsius. Nobody can tell you why the US does not. Its clearly because they are some very special snowflake. Same reason they use retarded units like inches, feet, yards, miles, ounces and pounds.

Metric systems be damned.
This. Thanks for clarifying to parent poster.
I know your pain, and there is also a big shift regarding dev tool chain as well. But once all thats over, I've found the resulting framework and experience pretty superior.

Especially when working across desktop/mobile/web/docker domains - using core everywhere works pretty well.
I'm not sure how big that subreddit is, but it sounds like the place I'd go to get views - that is game my videos if I were unscrupulous.
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If the client is coming back with clearly unscoped changes, it's generally out of the question. Be polite at first and let them know that it's "out of scope" and that you could estimate the time required to do it.

When I said "clearly over budget," I meant in terms of your own estimate. Sometimes feature X takes longer to build out, and there's the inclination to cut corners to get things done so you don't drive your effective hourly/day rate down, assuming that the poor estimate was yours and you'll eat the cost.

But expanding on that, do quality work regardless of the scenario, such as:

* The codebase is already a pile of s* left behind by someone else
* They're miserable, complaining, sons a' biches no matter what you do for them
A fix could be sloppy and take 1 line of code, or quality and take 10

That kinda stuff.
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Just like the old-school radio scam, where radio DJ's were paid to say they played certain songs but they didn't. Then people created charts using that data and paid artists found themselves popular... system(s) have been always gamed :)
And to think that SC's engineering is praised among college kids is laughable.
I think you're grossly under represending the porsche thing. Porsche did a very very well executed short squeeze on VW and very nearly succeeded in acquiring VW.

Look it up. It was a very ballsy move. Even by failing, it still went down in history as a pretty masterful move. It also caused Germany to change their accounting laws around things such as that. In the US an equivalent move would be illegal. The US learned from Short Squeezes when the NY City Council tried to punish Cornelius Vanderbilt and he exacted revenge on them.
Meh. Some of these are no longer problematic in recent versions of the language. Braced initialization obviates the most vexing parse, for example.
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Oh no! You see, they work for the queen of CANADA.
Nintendo is extremely conservative fiscally and will have no trouble surviving purely from a corporation point of view.

In my opinion, their largest threat is a new generation that does not know who their characters are. Mario has a ridiculous level of nostalgia for me as someone in his early 30's, but who knows if my son will have anything close to that.

Disney solved this problem through a literally awe-some multi-channel strategy combining movies, both new and re-releases on latest platforms, theme parks, video games, TV shows, toys, etc. My nieces are very familiar with Cinderella and Snow White, who is as old as my grandma, but their brother probably doesn't know who Yoshi is.

I think the trick is to ride the generational wave. Again, something Disney excels at. A young mother takes her daughter to see the live-action Cinderella movie because of the nostalgia she has for the character, which she in turn got when her mother bought the VHS for her because of the nostalgia she had from seeing it in the theater as a little girl...

There is a limited window of opportunity that Nintendo has. Personally I would love to share Mario, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, Link, etc. experiences with my son vs. random new IPs that mean nothing to me.

Speaking of Disney, the Nintendo catalogue is one of the few remaining significant cast of characters not owned by Disney. If Nintendo does hit dire straits and I were Disney, I would aggressively try to bring them into the fold, although it is extremely unlikely Nintendo would capitulate.
Toyota also has legal subsidiaries in most major jurisdictions.