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I'm thirty and have never talked about TSOM in a meaningful or public way. Really, my only memory associated with the film is my father humming Edelweiss to comfort me as a child.

The film may clearly have that importance for others, but hasn't played that role for me. Which makes me curious what other art/media are important enough to stand in as a cultural literacy requirement?

Perhaps, "The Matrix"? I've used it as an entry point for real conversations.
Thanks for sharing your experience. It's very valuable to me. I'm very much a stranger to this world, and I don't have anyone to ask for advice.

I don't like putting ads in the game. If nothing, it breaks the retro atmosphere I'm going for. But I also have the dream of doing game development for a living and have to make money somehow.

I'll try the paid method. I guess I couldn't imagine people willing to pay for something I do as a hobby for now.
In my experience, finding the right search terms is 80% of the battle. Knowing the phrase "Dijkstra's Algorithm" is a big leg up here, and would put me only one or two degrees of separation away from the correct answer.

If I didn't know that term, then I'd search "shortest path directed graph". That leads to a Wikipedia article with links to a variety of algorithms.
Two points:

First, it's important to keep in mind the difference between artificial "neurons" and real neurons. Real neurons, with their complicated dendritic arbors, are much more complicated than anything you'll see in a typical ANN. So there isn't a one to one correspondence between the "few hundred or thousand" neurons in a bee and the number of units in an ANN. Now is there a one to thousand correspondence? I don't know. There's probably research on it, but I'm unfamiliar. Certainly for some neurons even a thousand unit ANN would seem inadequate (look at the arborization of a Purkinge cell, for example).

Point two: Absolutely modern ANNs are missing something fundamental. I would wager obscenely large amounts of money that they are missing more than one fundamental idea, and I doubt I could find another neuroscientist who'd take that wager. What are ANNs missing? Obviously I don't know or I would have published it already. But I'll guarantee you the first step is recurrence. Hell, intelligent recurrence might be the only thing missing and I'd lose my bet. But recurrence is hard. And anyway, back in point one, even the simple facial recognition in a bee using only a thousand neurons would take a few hundred thousand to a few tens of millions of modularly-recurrently connected "neurons." Not exactly a laptop simulation.
A lot of responses I've seen seem to bag on side-projects. My experience has been a little different, but I see the wisdom in 'Don't pursue side projects if its purely for getting a job'.

Here's my story: I was a Junior in College, and had just learned Java. I was bored with the class, so decided to do something with Java, since I'd just picked it up. I decided to write a small mod for Minecraft, back before like 1.5 or something. It was a simple terrain modification, involving some basic 3D geometry. And after a few weeks, I was able to post it and had some success. I was very pleased with my Floating Islands.

That summer, when I was applying for _Internships_, They asked about my work with Java, and I mentioned the mod I had made, and explained the process as well as the logic I had used to get it done. They later extended an offer to me, and thus I started my first Internship.

As I got to know some of my interviewers, by working with them, I was given the chance to ask what I had done which made them think to offer me the spot. You see, I wasn't the strongest in CompSci, since I was actually studying as an Electrical Engineer. The interviewer mentioned a small handful of things involving problem solving, and the way I could handle changes in requirements ( they enjoyed throwing a wrench in the works during the interview questions). And then he mentioned that my work outside of school had put me over the edge because it wasn't just academic, it was personal.

So in summary, perhaps at the Professional Level side-projects of low-impact have a low rate of return, but at the college level, I believe it is worth investing your time in a side-project, to grow your skills and to show you are interested in it beyond mere academia.
HAHAHAHAHAHHA!

No
I'm more skeptical that a human can deal with this complexity better than a computer could.
While you'll keep repeating unfounded vague claims, and I'm talking for your original claim that DX12 influenced Vulcan/Mantle I'll keep posting links that prove the exact opposite.

> We’ve spoken to several sources with additional information on the topic who have told us that Microsoft’s interest in developing a new API is a recent phenomenon, and that the new DirectX (likely DirectX 12) will substantially duplicate the capabilities of AMD’s Mantle.

https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/177407-microsoft-hints-th...
But just wait ... VR is going to be HUGE!
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I've cofunded my own startup, so I don't know if this is a useful answer to you.

During the first days of our company, my co-founder and I used to do everything: coding, preparing content, teaching, marketing, sales. Everything.

As we grew a little bit over the last year, we've had to specialize on different things and stop doing everything both of us.

I've taking the lead on the "product management" part so I started researching about it. I'm a programmer by training, so I kind of went looking for "product management courses". To be honest, if you're a developer, there's nothing you need to learn. I emailed an old product manager that led a project I worked for and asked him for advice (he's a great product manager with a ton of experience).

His answer was kind of: "you don't need to learn anything special: the key is to stick to the basic principles that you already know".

For me, a good product manager is a ruthless, constant person. If you compare it to Football, it's not the guy that shines 1 match and then is hidden for two. It's the guy that constantly delivers.

You have to wake up every morning and analyze what needs to be done, prioritize it, talk to your engineers, talk to C-level, and repeat. Over and over again.

I don't know what everyone else think, but being a programmer is a great background to become a good product manager. I've been coding for over 8 years and now, whenever we're discussing a feature or issue, it takes minutes to understand how much it implies (in time, resources, etc).
That's interesting. I've got the larger iPad Pro that I take to meetings for notes. My coworker has the 9.7" and his seems more manageable / not as cumbersome. Perhaps it's due to our meetings being in large community rooms without tables, but there's something that's not sitting right with me. The grass is always greener, I guess.

As far as apps, GoodNotes is where I landed. It's handwriting recognition / search is pretty good, and I like the way it handles importing PDFs and Word documents.
And my point is that you don't need to know somebody's country of origin, since for the anti-immigrant people it's less about nationality and more about ethnicity.

It's just that the too notions usually coincide (people of different ethnicity would usually either be recent immigrants themselves or children of immigrants).

Precisely, they don't want people that are not historically from Britain to come there from outside the country, and they are not particularly happy with those that already came and have children who've been born in Britain etc either.

(And perhaps even more so about ethnicity it's about culture -- they don't want people carrying a non-traditional British culture in Britain).
Let's say you write some authorisation code using JavaScript. If it contains a syntax error, or a logic error your authentication is broken for your entire system. Checking the correctness of a program is usually non-trivial, but I accept some things CAN be checked (e.g. syntax). However, JavaScript, naturally is a procedural language and hence the bulk of your problems would be in your logic.

In contrast, /etc/sudoers{.d} config is syntactically validated using a strict grammar so that it can be validated for correctness before being loaded and used (hence visudo). It's primarily a declarative language too which means that logic bugs aren't really possible. This means that there is a robust mechanism to detect syntax issues (and some semantic issues) before breaking your system.
Thanks but I'm on Android and I sync using Google Drive.

The two primary issues I have with KeeWeb on mobile are:

- Typing my master password every time is tedious on a touchscreen, I really miss LastPass's fingerprint reader integration here.

- The back button closes the app entirely, making me have to enter that tedious password again. This can be fixed be reworking the webapp to use the HTML5 history API, but just hasn't been done yet. Issue here https://github.com/keeweb/keeweb/issues/331
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I love that show! Especially the 8 out of 10 cats version.
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I loved 3D TVs because I got into it at the end. The story of home 3D in general is a little sad, the first attempts on both computers and TVs were mediocre but somewhat expensive (really expensive on PC), which burned people. Towards the end attempts improved, but it was too little too late and 4k was the new "must have" feature.
Over 5000 3D Fans Petition LG to add the 3D hardware back, and it sounds like LG may reconsider since it doesn't affect picture quality and the hardware isn't that expensive: https://www.change.org/p/lg-please-revive-3d-on-a-2018-oled-...

I have seen a lot of 3D movies on LG OLED sets (Gravity, Mad Max), and it's remarkable. Much better than 4K UHD. With the latest LG OLEDs, you get 1080p per eye, bright smooth motion, and the passive glasses are cheap, lightweight, and you don't have to charge them.
Maybe in Colarado or Washington DC
Good share.
Thing is, at least on MacOS Firefox is quite slow compared to Safari or Chrome.

Firefox also keeps eating more and more memory the more time it's open (Chrome also uses a lot memory, but at least it's stable). Firefox devs usually blame extensions for this (and I can believe them), but I really don't care who's fault it is, I just want my browser to work nicely.

Also, these are present complains. Since at work I'm back on Linux full time, I tried to stop using Safari at home and use Firefox in order to use the same browser everywhere. But Firefox just didn't cut it.

I'm now deciding between Opera and Chromium. They have their quirks, but at least they are considerably faster (on my MacBook Pro) and don't keep leaking memory like Firefox does.

Which brothers me, because the best browser on paper when it comes to multi OS support and privacy is Firefox and would be my default go to browser in this case it weren't for these big (for me personally) problems it still has after all these years of the same exact complains from a lot of users.
> I want to get on with my tasks. An operating system linked to s fixed set of hardware provides me exactly this.

I get the same thing from [ThinkPenguin](https://www.thinkpenguin.com/), though the OS isn't linked to the hardware in any way --- they just choose free-software compatible hw.
I'm still disappointed that Kinect didn't usher in that era already.
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Corbyn was a leading part of Tony Benn's Labour Leadership campaign team.

One of Benn's campaign promises was "out of the EU on day one".

I think that's why he was quiet on the subject during the Brexit campaign and took a lot of flak from the Remain camp for "not doing enough", i.e. he's Brexit ideologically but knows it is political suicide from his liberal backers.
Ask HN: Do you really like Google's Material Design?
I have been on the Android bandwagon for quite a while using it since Gingerbread. The version with the best aesthetically pleasing design for me was Kitkat. After that with the introduction of Google's Material Design with Lollipop, I was kind of unsure with their take on the layered card like design. And even the waves that appeared when you clicked a button. Did you too have the same experience?
I tried implementing it in JS just for fun. I don't get how/why it works, but it does.

http://codepen.io/anon/pen/OWgYaP
The distro vendors are the ones who frequently pull apart commit logs to be documented.
I believe to be in the minority, but I actually enjoy watching movies with passive 3D glasses. The problem for me was lack of easily accessible content.
Before downvoting this commenter, think about how he or she is making a fair observation about technology hype, and the stomach consumers have for consuming entertainment while wearing awkward equipment. It did not work for 3D TV or Google Glass.
I actually quite enjoyed Sky Sports 3D but they had different commentators than on the main channels (due to fewer cameras and different angles, presumably), which soured it slightly.
Yes, but other languages would use optional or special null-like value which cannot be automatically converted into integer.
Haha .. I really wanted to pick up an active shutter system to play with. The price had kept me away. I was hoping that eventually the prices would come down.

As an aside, it seems 3D projectors are still around. A friend showed me his setup just the other day.
Companies are looking for experience managing a product across many projects. If you don't have that (which nobody does when they start out) show that you have determination to solve higher level problems then making software work. Did a product you worked on solve a real problem and how were you a part of solving it? Were you able to grow monthly active users or other metrics that a C-level can turn into profits for the business.
I believe the same fate awaits VR headsets. AR (augmented reality) has the potential to be be the game changer, especially AR contacts, whenever they become available!
I wonder what, if any, effect this has on the VR market. I could see investors getting spooked. Sure they are different, but enough to differentiate them with non savvy folk?
Not once.
I conjecture that 3D in movie is just an excuse to increase ticket price and lowering image quality at the same time
I'm a Sr. PM at Amazon. Typically PMs start out in a technical role, such as writing code, then get an MBA and switch into a PM role.

My path was a little different, as I am neither a developer nor someone with an MBA - I worked on some personal projects early on (startups, tech focused non-profits) where I demonstrated basic PM/getting the right things done skills, and I combined that with some early experience I had as a program manager at Microsoft and as an undergrad intern within PM groups at other companies.

In terms of how to start, the 3 ways I can think of are:

1) Work as an engineer for some time, try to pick up roles such as being the scrum master, managing sprints etc. (or whatever equivalent your team is doing), then get an MBA - many companies will hire you for PM right out of MBA school with no prior experience

2) The program manager role at Microsoft is one of the few places where you can start in a role that is essentially junior product (they hire undergrads right out of school). If you can find other companies that have roles like this, that's one way to get into the PM role. Another one is Expedia I think, an MS spin-off.

3) Another way would be to go work at a startup where you can add PM input and grow into the role. This is what I would pick if I were to start over again.

Generally speaking I think companies are open-minded when hiring for the PM role - you don't have to fit an exact formula. In my experience people look for evidence of the following in your background:

1) Being able to think big and be truly creative

2) Being able to ship products (preferably you've actually shipped something already)

3) Being comfortable working with data (though my 2c is that we're over-doing this)

4) Having good decision-making frameworks for why, what and when the org should be building things

5) Being able to dive into the weeds of any domain without hesitation.

My team at Amazon is hiring PMs by the way. If you're interested in talking, feel free to send me a note.
my glasses were never removed from the packaging.
If only so I don't need to hear "Why would you NOT want to see it in 3D?" again in my life.
Yep, I can second this. I can put up with ads myself, but I don't want my 5 year old to play a game with ads since they no longer know what they're doing once an ad pops up.
My career was like support engineer->developer->project manager->product manager at the same company. Every step forward was initiated by a "global manager". Amazingly every time I felt bored and looked for a new job, I received an email that said something like "would you like to take new responsibilities? Here is what we offer..". 15 years passed like that. I am not even sure if I can quit now.
The general principle that any problem you face, no matter how big, can be broken down into smaller and easier to solve problems, recursively, is the most important idea in human history.

Atomic theory is just a special case of this insight.
Generally a new piece of tech getting popular is a good time to buy the old tech. When 3D was popular you could buy an excellent non-3D panel for a bargain. Now, if you actually like 3D, you can buy a 3D HD panel for a bargain. But I suspect most people don't actually like 3D.
Ask HN: Info about problem/solution and product/market
Hey HN,

do you know any books or other sources to learn processes behind problem/solution fit and product/marked fit?

How to get started with the first one when you got an idea, when to look to get the second one right etc.
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Not really, the observation can be made about any new technology and sometimes will be correct, sometimes not. Without further explanation why 3D TV and VR, two completely different technologies, are somehow comparable it's just noise.

Edit: There's also little proof that 3D TV failed because wearing the glasses was awkward. I can only compare it to 3D cinema, which is basically worthless. Avatar is still the only movie I've seen where it worked, for every other one it was just money paid for nothing.
The problem with asynchronous exceptions in languages with unconstrained mutability and effects is that there is no way to guarantee what happens when you get the asynchronous exception, especially when you get another one while the handler is running, and maybe another one while that is running, etc. You can be in the middle of an arbitrary sequence of mutations that you don't expect to be interrupted, in a critical section protected by any number of mutexes or whatever, and then the exception arrives when you weren't expecting it. Then while handling that, another one arrives in the middle of your handler. It turns out there just isn't a solution to this problem for languages that don't have constrained mutation.

In Haskell, this turns out to be an occasionally challenging problem rather than an impossible one. As the article said, it does get tricky near a few of the seams, but in most code you can just ignore the problem and not worry about it. Your immutable computation gets interrupted at an arbitrary location in the middle of it, and you just throw away the pure components of the computation and run the cleanup code from "bracket"s. (And other runtime details.)

It's the same reason Haskell has usable STM and languages with unconstrained effects do not. (Yes, you can download libraries that are STM for a lot of languages, but they are generally not usable.) In a language with unconstrained mutation and side effects, you can't reasonably roll back a transaction because you can't undo the effects, and you can't constrain the programmer to not use any effects. As it turns out, STM turned out not to be a silver bullet and it's merely a single tool in Haskell's toolbelt, one that isn't even necessarily used that often, but because Haskell could implement it, the Haskell community was able to discover that by using it, rather than just theorizing about how nice it may or may not be if only we could have an implementation.
Many people think that self driving cars will lead to less cars on the road, but I believe they will lead to more cars and therefore worse traffic. Since you won't be actively driving the car, the time the commute takes will become less of a chore and you will put up with it taking longer. Think self-driving Winnebagos that go off and get cleaned and re-fueled when you are at work. Additionally, why pay for parking? Just send the car about the block for 2 hours while you watch the movie. The cost in gas/wear-n-tear will be less than the $12 for parking in some areas. That crowded concert that already has parking issues? Those are going to be much worse with a self-driving car. Also, what about teenagers? Take a blow-up doll, tie a rock to the feet, and put it in the middle of the road that leads to school. Do that in 5 places. How long would it take for a person to look up from their phone and realize the car is no longer moving? Essentially, taking the 'common sense' out of driving for an algorithmic approach is not going to work very well either. Yes, we may kill less people than before, but I believe that you can't just algo your way to less traffic. You have to use both the self-driving and the person's brain (what little motorists seem to have) together. Taking people of the picture won't work either.
Three things to try:

1. Move to close but related skill. You mention design, which is a good example, but could also be e.g. understanding HTTP on a much more basic level.

2. Alternate solutions. E.g. Sinatra is a very different approach to building web applications.

3. Get better at things you already know. Learn how to test rails better, or a new JS library you can use to write better code within same stack.

More detailed writeup:
https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/04/27/which-technology/
AFAIK, that is empirically established to be true in the US, and seems largely due to the fact that environmental factors that impede full development of intelligence are being addressed. I'm less aware of research on global trends but it seems likely to be generally the same.
Rust prevents data races, OCaml/F# don't provide such guaranties. Though it isn't so much of a problem in OCaml since it doesn't have concurrent threads.
You're making the mistake of assuming people designing self-driving cars are idiots. Being able to detect scenarios where overwhelming signage makes driving impossible would be a basic problem. Even I could do it today.
RE HDR ... I saw a side-by-side setup recently and could not tell the difference. I think you can only tell the difference if you turn the brightness way up. Or maybe it is just me.
In retail this is called a loss leader.

However, the low overhead of the service probably contributes to the lower cost as well. This isn't their main business and Walmart already have TONS of locations, they don't have to pay rent or commission on physical locations nor do they have to pay for labor, the employees would be there anyways. It doesn't cost them hardly anything to add this service to their main business.
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So what is your answer?
Was there enough content available to do so? Some movies on Blue-Ray I guess, but in my experience the kind of person doing that has a projector (and shutter-glasses for that). I guess PC gaming would be an option?