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It was a DIP setting on the board, so it would be up to the arcade operator to set it. Many old arcade games had difficulty and pricing and other settings that could be changed by the operator with either DIP switches or built in menus to update CMOS settings.
This is why Google needs to start penalising lightboxes.
Well... if you have 20/20 vision, you can resolve about one arc-minute. (That's at your fovea. Everywhere else, not so great. But we will probably find it easier to render everything than track your eyei saccades and re-render fast enough to fool them.) Your field of vision is about 180 degrees wide (not really) and about 135 degrees vertically (full eye movement).

So: 60 arc-minutes to a degree, 180 wide: 10800 pixels.

60 * 135 wide: 8100 pixels.

An 8192x4096 is not there, but a 16384x8192 is.

Now double that so you can get stereo vision (though really there's a lot of overlap that's going to be hard to arrange), update it 100 times a second in 48 bit color... 420 billion bits per second. Double that if you believe that we need 200Hz updates.
What if the application does have compiled libraries generated from the authored source?
Not the GP, but if I'm going to use make anyway, sure. init/systemd/upstart scripts for a system install, make run for a local install. It's exactly the same idea as running "node start" (apologies if I have the invocation wrong, I'm not really familiar with the node ecosystem).
followers is not a 1-1 indication of service benefit
Having just watched CirclMastr's Let's Play of Covert Action on YouTube, and playing it myself (and I think I came across this article too), I have to say that Covert Action really feels like what it ended up as: an unpolished rush-job that someone put a lot of thought into that maybe didn't come out onscreen. There's a lot of good there and further development of the ideas would have turned it into a real classic. There's a reason it's one of the long-lasting underdogs; it's not just Sid Meier's name.

I'm glad it exists, and for anyone who wants to teach kids about very basic crypto (i.e. letter replacement, removing spaces, etc.), I suggest the "training" for the Crypto skill; it's also good to go and brush up on your own skills. Similarly, the wiretapping is a genuinely interesting logic puzzle which can be used to teach the concept of physically representing 1/0 and logic gates (and how the result may not always be what you expect).

As far as "The Covert Action Rule", I guess the question is how you approach the game. If you look at it in terms of "older" games (i.e. Zork et al), having a notepad beside the computer to take notes seemed the most logical thing in the world to me. In many cases while playing games with complex storylines and puzzle-solving, it still does. I never found the tactical sections making me "lose track" of why I was in a building - either I was there to grab an Agent or I was there to get information to go and do so that I hadn't gotten by wiretapping or crypto.
It's like programmers who start learning a hot new language before it's production-ready. You want to get ahead of the curve so that you understand the technology and can take full advantage of it once its time comes.

(And I'm sure that for a professional video person, it's not just "use it like your old camera, but it produces better output." There will no doubt be subtle changes needed for the best output, whether lighting, scenery, filters, workflow, or what have you.)

We programmers just happen to be really fortunate that the hot new tools we want to learn are usually free.
Few people would accuse airline pilots, surgeons, construction engineers of snobbery for demanding high standards.

When it comes to software, challenging this "everything goes" culture is called "snobbery".
People are called "senior engineer" after 2 years of copypasting javascript from stack overflow - and become "proficient" in a language in a week.

And yet we wonder why so much software is bloated, unreliable, insecure, overly expensive to develop.
I agree. I couldn't use my 4k Dell monitor with anything but my mbp on OS X because I couldn't read much on Windows. Windows does not do display scaling very well.

I imagine 8k is not the easiest to use on Windows and there do not seem to be any Apple products with the right amount of power to use a display like this correctly (i.e. With the same power you'd put on a custom machine running Windows.).
I think the go language has taken a position along the lines of "re usability and abstraction are overrated". I certainly think there is some truth to that, I am really enjoying working with go on smaller projects and it is this philosophy that has made understanding the code much easier.

But I wonder how it really scales on a large code base like this? Some of the best projects I've worked on leverage usability more effectively to create a sort of vocabulary. They're far more concise, there is rarely more than one source of truth, they're far easier to change and improve. Does this hold true for 540,000 lines of go code?
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I cannot possible believe that rendering at this resolution is necessary. Most VR users don't turn their eyeballs while wearing headsets, but opt to use controls to adjust their perspective. I've read several accounts of hacks developers have taken when rendering VR games, but one that has kept cropping up is reducing resolution of areas in the periphery.

While you certainly could use 16K displays for VR, I think it would be entirely unnecessary.
42 seconds.

Just tried it with go 1.8 and a clean gopath (after downloading). That's on a 3 year old quad core i7 laptop w/ SSD. That's `go install github.com/juju/juju/...` which actually builds two binaries - the client and the server.
Retina is determined by view distance and visual acuity. You can get retina on any 4k tv right now at several meters of view distance (hell, you can get "retina" on old 1080p tvs when you are sufficiently far enough away), but if you stood right in front of it it would be obviously pixilated anywhere from 30"+ resolution.

Same applies to desktop monitors and phones. The reason phone screens pushed high DPI first was because you were much closer to the screen to make it fill your view.
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Any current gfx cards featuring HDMI 2.1?
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That the maximum is a loss doesn't negate it's place as the maximum. They could do worse for themselves. A house could burn down faster.
Interesting! I'm working in this space as well if you ever fancy a chat. My email is in my profile :)
>That mixed with the above always lead me to believe those "gods" were just visitors from other islands or lands.

Makes you wonder if the "gods" that other religions worship(ped) were also just visitors from elsewhere with superior technology... Of course, there's no physical evidence for this, but it does make me wonder.
Ask HN: The socio-economics and behavioral economics of programming
I am starting some research on this topic. I want to start by asking some questions from you guys and get cues on extant research and sharpen my intuition about relevant question. Here is my first stab at the kinds of questions:

Q0. What do smart people think is an efficient learning process for high skilled profession like software? i.e. what are the heuristics.
Q0.1 Do these work for people who are starting out?
Q0.2 What heuristics are used by people who are not as good(or not perceived as being good) for programming? IOW do heuristics of people who do it well differ from others?

Q3 What are the relevant questions along this line and who are the leading researchers working on it?

About myself I am a student at Columbia University School of Social Sciences and a software professional by career. I have an itch to want to answer questions such as these. In some sense, I want to take what authors like Daniel Kahneman and other behavioral researchers have done and see if there are more specific advancement/inferences I can draw for professional software development.

PS: Sorry if the questions are a bit broad but I am just starting. I will certainly want to engage in a discussion and follow up.
I'd be much more enthusiastic about their frustration free packaging if fraudulent items weren't so endemic.

I know it isn't guaranteed, but blister packs from the manufacturer are less likely to be tampered with, right?
How ironic is that comment coming from a throwaway account... Given that both frameworks are products of multi-billion-dollar corporations, used mostly in commercial applications, and keep a fair number of people employed, I think it's a bit more than just getting riled up.
It is impressive.

Do you think there's a chance of decline if Bezos leaves and the next Ballmer comes along? Profits up, but ultimately company declines and lets competitors eat it's lunch?
ok, so there are certain functions that keep rising forever but are still bounded above. So what I mean is that physical extensive quantities are all bounded above. Black holes will run out of matter, and there is only so much accelerant in the universe. Like you said. Conductivity is not an extensive physical quantity like mass or energy.
Really? Because your profile says you've been a member for over 2700 days, so you should be used to HN comments by now.
You can suspend the modal pop ups, at least the majority of them, by detecting if they use Bootstrap or Foundation and add CSS code to take over the modal classes from those libraries. Most sites use one of those two framworks anyway.
No, I don't want to chat with someone either.

So please stop beeping at me and popping up a chat modal.
I don't think it's just the US, most developed countries seem to be going down the same road.
I don't understand your argument. What's special about a days/weeks that would prevent you from shortening this value for your tests? In other words, if I want to test my timeout logic, it should be independent of the timeout value, so I should be free to use a shorter timeout value in my timeout tests.
I would recommend CxJS as an alternative. It has the best mix of Angular and React features such as JSX based view, two-way data-binding, controllers. On top of that, a large collection of widgets and charts is included out of the box and we're soon to release a Material Design based theme.

https://cxjs.io/examples

Disclaimer: It's a commercial product and I'm the lead developer.
Recently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13839540
Thank you for the comment! I think there are ways to represent this better (just with a URL bar for example). Will look into it.
I am aware of that. Call me idealistic, but I am hoping that he, like his father, also cares to spread the ideas of liberty more broadly and is therefore wiling to explain the principles behind his votes.
Rsync works just fine on Android.

Unfortunately, the version I use seems to have been hidden from Google Play. It still shows up in my apps, even when I activate a new phone, but searching for it on Google Play goes nowhere. In any case, it works fine for me whether the phone is rooted or not.

http://android.kowalczuk.eu/rsync4android/
That's not exactly true, Rog. If two people have changed the file, which causes a conflict, then you have resolve the conflict manually. Recreating the file with godeps would populate it with whatever commit happens to be in your gopath right now, which has no relevance to what is conflicted in the file and could be a completely different hash.
I just found it problematic that aaron-lebo was specifically and snidely attacking a user's personality, whereas grabcocque was attacking an article author.

At this juncture the conversation had shifted from Go to a question of conduct.
Apparently Google already is for mobile contexts: http://searchengineland.com/interstitialgeddon-google-warns-...
I would argue that for IT manager being good at politics is sometimes more important than being good at technology. Especially if by politics you mean the ability to communicate with rest of the company (but also subordinates). It's useless to have technical knowledge if you are unable to negotiate a budget for the technology required.
Comparing 1.0's is a much better comparison, except in cases where there was huge adoption before 1.0.
That's a good reason not to own an iPhone. Android may have its (many) faults, but at least I can transfer music onto it from my Linux command line with "adb push". Or I can take out the SDcard and just pop it into my computer and transfer it like I copy any other files.
I think you need to look up "forever" in the dictionary! I'm not saying a long time, I'm saying forever, which is different. I mean the reducto ad absurdium would be, the sun is going to burn out, the universe is going to suffer heat death. The question is, given that rents will stop rising at some point, what will the constraint be that actually stops the rise?
It's certainly elitism. Dog whistle, I don't think so. More of an elision of the implied "high" in high culture.

Point taken that you like small town culture, though.
>Can people advertise that they have M&M's for sale without the permission of Mars Candy Inc?

Yes.

Lets say I buy a box of M&Ms. I didn't get around to eating them. Next month I decide to change my diet and get rid of the M&Ms. Copyright and trademark does not (and should not) prevent me from advertising "1 box M&Ms, $10" and then a buyer giving me $10 for my M&Ms.

The first sale doctrine gives me this right. Retail would be totally and completely non-functional otherwise.

Amazon, however, is free to disallow someone from selling something if they want to.
Linux has had a fair number of video drivers that damage monitors due to oddball timing issues.
I'm also generally +1 on iTunes Match. However recently I've noticed my iPhone skipping songs frequently, no matter how hard I try I can't get those songs to play. I'm not sure if the fault is with my phone, itunes, match or something else, but it's not as seamless as I'd have liked.

It took me a while to notice as usually I'm not watching the screen of my phone when I"m shuffling around and such, but now that I know it happens i've been watching for it.
Apple fixed those particular exploits, yes.
> It is imperative we figure out a way to get it right, and the discussions of GMO or pesticides are frankly a distraction from this problem

They contribute to our contemporary vision of agriculture, which is intensive, mono specific, high yield, mechanized, subsidized, etc. Short term.

GMO and pesticides optimize our current way of growing stuff but won't change it.

I don't know about scaling progressively the permaculture ideal to world scale but it feels like a good ideal. I would not be shocked if a sustainable system would require us quadruple our effort (which is pretty much what third world is up to).
Project your teammates into a shared VR world. Just think, finally you can gesture wildly at the whiteboard without whacking people in the head.
Let's just say that comments are important when you write Perl.
Well, it'd definitely be easier to change than something that had the wrong abstractions.
Coming from Angular 1, having tried and enjoyed React, Vue is godsend! I've been working with it for a few weeks and my productivity has skyrocketed. Debugging is amazing and their webpack templates just work. The learning curve with an angular background is almost flat, and the ecosystem is surprisingly mature already.

I don't care about templates being "bad" a as long as it works for us. I'm sold.
I don't think that's quite right. E.g. if you do call a method, it's complexity is unknowable with only local context, so it can't be obvious. I would rewrite that to:

> Magic is when the run or space time complexity of code is misleading by its on-screen representation.

An apparent field access that is actually a method is misleading. Calling a method explicitly just directs you to check that method to know for sure.
If you create a bunch of stuff then don't dereference/unlink/whatever you want to call it in JS-land it you're going to have a bunch of references to stuff laying around. I don't fault Backbone for that.
So these will be made into functions with uncertain O complexity. How's this situation preferable?
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Side note: This is my conference. For videos from past events see: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjeM1xxYb_37bZfyparLS3Q
What is the consensus here on HN? More and more I feel like Amazon is becoming the next Standard Oil. In the case of Amazon, they are leveraging technology in all spaces and optimzing everything. Could they be the next Standard Oil?
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The growth trajectory of Amazon baffles me. In its early days, I had heard a lot about Amazon's failure prophecies from luminaries of the Tech world. Their real power is behind the scenes, far away from their shopping apps. There's no doubt they will be in the forefront of many initiatives over the next decade.
This is a case study; no one is proposing that this case applies to all or many other projects. You're the only one extrapolating here.
I buy CDs, rip to FLAC with EAC, store on external hard drive, transcode to MP3 with Foobar2000, and upload to my Android phone--or anything else except Apple products, really--with an ordinary USB cable, with no additional software required. I recently got an M-Disc capable drive, so that I can stop messing around with rotating DVD-R backups. Those things supposedly last 1000 years with no bit-rot, and 25 GB media are about $0.08/GB now. That's still 8x as expensive as tapes, but probably more than 8x as convenient for me. I want to ensure that my descendants will always have the option to play music without paying anyone anything more than I already paid for the privilege, for as long as 12cm digital disc players exist.

I have never had a streaming subscription. I typically have the maximum number of songs that will fit on my device playing on random select. If I am not in the mood for a particular song, I have unlimited skips, so I use them. It ensures I at least have the opportunity to listen to everything I have ever bought/received while at my home computer, and a subset of whatever I like everywhere else.

Streaming services are still useful for discovery. I use them when adding new CDs to my gift wishlist. Whenever I don't want to be in complete control of everything that I listen to, I can always flip on OTA FM radio or a free music service. That's plenty good enough to be introduced to new music and possibly new (to me) artists. But then I get that CD and continue as usual. Never will I ever give up my option to be in complete control.

I think buying music on vinyl records would be ridiculously stupid for me, but fortunately for everyone, I am not in charge of what other people are allowed to like. The encoding format of pressed vinyl analog music tracks has been fixed for decades, after all, and anyone can build decoding devices unencumbered by patents now. I just prefer digital. Everyone can still hate iTunes for their own reasons.
A physics professor in college brought a meteorite to class and wanted everyone to touch every nook and cranny of that thing because it was high in iron and our oils helped keep it from rusting.
Transpiling is I think the _in_ word.
Music players on Android suck? All of them?

I'm just using the standard one that came with my S5 (running Android 6.0.1 I think), because I'm lazy and it works OK I guess and I haven't bothered to look for something better, but with the enormous number of apps in the Play Store, I assumed that when I got around to it, there'd surely be a nicer music player out there.

Music syncing isn't bad on Android, if you keep your music on an SDcard. Just pop out the card, stick it in your computer, and use rsync.
I haven't yet seen any online retailer compete on time to ship compared to prime. One of my few online purchases OFF Amazon was some Vet-only cat food - and it took them 2 weeks. Not only that but I ordered it on a Thursday, and there was a label that was generated that day, but watched thet tracking - it didn't get into UPS' hands until Tuesday. I would have shit a 1000 bricks if Amazon did that.

I do get however that the company itself has a lot of internal problems to fix.
Physics research 1.0
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>that somehow Postman never remembers my state. I have these "tabs" open, close them all, close the app, and when coming back there are tabs open again. When I want to close them it asks me about unsaved changes. (Which changes???)

that's an anecdotal remark but it seems to me that I hear this a lot about webapps.

is there anything that makes cleanly handling state harder in a web based app ?

Or is it just that the quality bar is lower ?
What happened with Standard oil?
The sentiment is lifted directly from the linked post.

It's hard to argue with given the subcontinent had agricultural, seafaring populations while Australian populations never made it past Paleolithic hunter-gathering.
For me as customer, Amazon is almost the best, some times I think it could be better. The UX for their video service is awful, but okay.

For its employees I hear only bad things, like that Amazon won't talk to the union in Germany or what The New York Times wrote a couple of years ago.

I'm so conflicted about this company. But it matters. Both sides matter.
Unfortunately they're too busy exploiting human nature for their own advantage than to exploit it for the good of humanity.
How about extension with some kind of machine learning? You know, all 4 borders and all 4 corners going dark w/o user interaction. At the same time some kind of form input appear at highest z-index.

Extension would delete that DOM subtree rightaway. + some kind of cloud harvest from users reporting false-positives.
I don't.

Amazon is successful because of its fast moving, demanding culture. No product is ever left to coast - everyone is pushed to be bigger, faster, cheaper, etc. Amazon realizes this, and does a lot to reinforce its culture internally. They do an excellent job of this, even in remote offices. I think Bezos has done a terrific job of building something that will succeed without him. And that's a good thing for him - he's free to play with space travel, now.
There's having standards and there's snobbery. Rejecting a language simply because it doesn't fit your conception of what a language should be is snobbery.

I've chosen Go for projects specifically because it produces better software (within certain contexts). A fast simple binary, a simple language (so co-workers can look and hack on the code), etc.

To act like people are picking Go because they are ignorant or stupid or lazy (which is what the notion of "blub" always is) is unfair and lazy.
> In the days of C64 and Amiga you could safely say "No".

Goes back even further than that. It's probably always been possible, but maybe it was harder on timeshared systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_poke#Commodore_PET

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_poke#Commodore_1541_Dis...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_poke#Commodore_Amiga