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It's hard to convey how absolutely transformational it was for me to play Space Harrier in an arcade back in the day.

The graphics were mind-blowing. Big part of why I became a programmer, even though I went down a different path than game development.

Those big, bright, detailed sprites moving around with hardware-accelerated scaling at a smooth rock-solid 60fps!

There had been nothing like that before.

I mean, we'd sort of seen all this before. There had been wireframe vector 3D games like Battlezone. And even in 1986 it's not like we'd never seen psuedo-3D scaling effects before; even the arcade version of Pole Position from ca. 1982 had smoothly-scaled sprites.

But nothing had ever come remotely close to putting it together like Space Harrier. The entire screen was filled with a mindbending number of these huge scaling sprites, and the sprites themselves were as wild as the pseudo-3D motion: dragons, mushrooms, robots, and other bizarrities all rendered in a color palette that was much more nuanced than many games that had come before, predominantly rendered in that signature 1980s "Sega" look that used vibrant colors sparingly amongst predominantly pastel shades, a look that was beautiful and functional.

Love reading interviews like this, where the devs talk about how hardware limitations shaped their design decisions.
For those believing that subsidizing Amazon is net gain:

"After the Retail Apocalypse, Prepare for the Property Tax Meltdown"

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/11/property-tax-dark-sto...
The proof of this is what happened elsewhere. the Dallas and Houston metro areas grew more in each of the last two decades the Bay Area has grown total since 1980. But prices haven’t skyrocketed because development has been permitted.
I appreciate that this is next to an article called "Privacy not included: Holiday gift list for privacy and security".
> Will Amazon help to pay for the transit and housing required by their move

In a sense, it will, in the form of the salaries it will pay to the employees using said housing and transit.

One might say that MTA operates at a loss and is subsidized, but this is a known problem of MTA being anything but frugal.

Realty prices in NYC / Brooklyn / Queens are not exactly low, and new construction is incessant everywhere (which is good). Paying renters or even buyers, the new Amazon employees, will finance their part of that.
I don't discount that possibility, but I use hangouts to talk to specific people who don't use any other PC-based chat. That's the downside of tying your email address to your chat I suppose.

I've taken to using Windows Mail for my gmail usage half the time anyway now, even though I'm still on the old web client.
MLB also doesn't deserve the antitrust exemption it has as a pure accident of judicial history, unlike all other sports leagues.

(The exemption was subsequently narrowed by Congress but not eliminated, which MLB effectively argues means they implicitly endorsed the remaining exemption and that any change would need to come from Congress. SCOTUS has upheld the exemption twice on the basis of "we don't want to disrupt things" and has refused reconsideration as recently as this year.)
They charge 2 different prices at the same time for the same ride to 2 different people. And they aren’t clear about this.

I didn’t say it’s a con and sometimes they charge less. But it’s certainly a practice that makes me skeptical and check out other services.
A contractor is a third party.
Manufacturing output has risen in terms of revenue. That's different than saying it has risen in terms of widgets sold or some other hard measure, just as its different than in terms of per capita employment.

One reason why it's important to note the distinction is because revenue can continue to rise even if manufacturing efficiency and expertise has remained the same or even declined. High labor costs in mature economies means those economies will tend to have a comparative advantage producing high-margin products even if their manufacturing expertise is declining across the board relative to low-wage countries, and even without automation. This is Economics 101, though professional economists don't always appreciate this, especially academics with an agenda like those at the Mercatus Center.

Without knowing more, the fact that US manufacturing revenue has continued to climb (either in absolute or relative terms) does not refute the argument that American manufacturing is dying; not for most vernacular meanings of dying. In fact, it's perfectly consonant with that argument, and increasing revenue isn't particularly probative one way or another.

(Note that I'm not arguing that US manufacturing is dying. But it does that mean that increasing labor costs in China and the shift of low-margin manufacturing elsewhere should make US manufacturers even more uneasy as it means the economics might finally be in favor of increasingly higher margin industrial processes moving to China. Depending on other factors, that could lead to a rapid, precipitous decline in American manufacturing revenue. Long story short, in the cut-throat world of global capitalism, we should be skeptical of anyone who suggests its okay to rest on our laurels. In many ways such views are even more detrimental than those who bash free markets. The surest way to be caught flat footed by free market volatility is by pretending it doesn't exist.)
There is a lot of inconsistency out there. I have seen csv files saved in Excel not be import-able by Access because the latter doesn't handle breaks in fields correctly. I've seen csvs saved from various systems such as sql mngmnt studio grid view and wufoo exports not generate csv correctly. There are many lazy attempts at csv generators out there that just throw breaks between records and commas between fields and call it a day.
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I wish more people talked about this

I attended a talk by the president of a major academic hospital system. He talked about how his friends who were independent physicians would call him up and ask him to "save" them. Their practices were failing (probably bc the big academic center was so massive that it crowded out any smaller practices). The big system bought the small one, and overnight the previously independent practice doubled its billing rates. This was a core part of the strategy of the hospital system, as it is for hospital systems nationwide -- buy up small practices and use them as loss leaders to direct patient flow to the hospital profit centers (I've talked to people at these systems who view primary care as a loss leader even after their rates double when they are acquired). Then negotiate higher rates with payers since you control the market

There was no talk of benefits of better care coordination or data sharing through integration. Not in this talk or any of the other half dozen similar talks I've been to. "Population health" is a PR play that big hospital systems use to justify monopolistic behavior. And we wonder why healthcare costs are so high
"President Nakayama used to visit our office from time to time. The thing with Nakayama was, if he saw that the graphics were complete in your game, he would tell you it was done and it was time to release it. Nevertheless, we couldn’t just hide the game from him and show him nothing when he came by. So I rigged up a little switch underneath my desk…when I pressed that switch it would wipe the color RAM. You could wipe the color RAM, and it wouldn’t affect the rest of the game—everything would keep running, just the colors would get all glitched. To a layperson, it would look like the game wasn’t complete yet."

Yu Suzuki's boss button made him look less productive than he actually was.
They burn money to expand on markets where they still have competition from conventional cab companies or local competitors who come to market earlier. And they also tend to buy or sell into partnership in case they lost battle for said market like in middle-east Asia or Russia.

As for large network effect this is my layman talking, but it's only important on markets with highly mobile population like US or EU. Problem of Uber is that high percentage of population in many countries rarely travel outside of their city, region or country. While you travel a lot Uber is great: you arrive and it's working almost everywhere, but if you stay within borders of your home city 95% of time you can as well use some NotUber app instead if you like it more of it cheaper.
Gmail periodically logs me out and I'm still on the old client as of today.
Compare that to SF's roughly equivalent payment per homeless person

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-spends-recor...
I worked for a cell phone company. They had a large piece of software that is used by all customer-facing employees to manage accounts (billing, network, provisioning). Over its life, the software had been rewritten in many languages. Prior to my joining the team, someone thought to take a .NET application and rebuild it as a web application (Spring MVC and ExtJS4).

The first day on the team, before even looking at the code base, I ask our development lead what unit testing framework we are using for the Java code and what we are using for the front end code. He gives me this funny look and tells me to speak the guy onboarding me. I of course go and ask the lead onboarding me and he gives me an answer that turned my world upside down.

"Automated testing is a waste of time. You will spend too much time writing test then developing code and delivering stories to the business"

I need to point out that this guy eventually goes on to an executive level position. proving that it is not the quality of work you deliver, but the optics of delivering quality software that counts in large corporations. I digress.

I receive my SVN credentials later that day and come to the realization that I have made a very poor career choice. The front end code alone is over 5k Javascript files with functions spanning thousands of lines long all full with 100's of nested asynchronous callbacks. Not only is the code crap, but the tools that we had were not used correctly. For example comments.

//01/01/2018 - Fix bug - Begin
//01/01/2018 - Fix bug - End

The code base was riddled with these. What story was this for? would have been useful to pull the Jira story and see what you were trying to do. I guess I'll spend the day going through your 5k line function that does everything, but nothing. Or, better yet, let me check the SVN commit date. Maybe they committed some good notes for me there.

01/01/2018 - Fix bug

Damnit!

I did my year, which is the minimum you can be in a job before posting out. I left without a second thought. When I left the business was complaining because the testing team was larger than the development team. I wonder why?
Zapier is a killer app for non technical marketers.
Maybe not:

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/11/property-tax-dark-sto...
This article reads a lot like one of the best frustrating books I have read: David F. Noble's Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation. Noble's book is about the introduction of computer numerically controlled machine tools in American manufacturing after WW II, covering the technology but focusing on CNC's effect on the balance of power between skilled workers and management. The technology was very expensive and fragile when first introduced, and was more effective at cowing workers than at quickly making high precision parts. American makers of CNC machines started with defense industry applications and couldn't manage to make machines competitively priced for civilian use even after they had stopped making wholly defective ones. The chronology ends in the late 1970s; the book was published in 1984.

Management forces crazy process changes into a business, and is forced to backtrack after wasting years and huge sums of money -- a familiar story, right? Except that's not how it ended. There was no backtracking. The optimistic early claims about CNC became, after much time and money, realistic claims. German and Japanese machine tool manufacturers eventually produced the priced-for-civilian-work machines that American tool manufacturers couldn't or wouldn't. Nowadays, no American manufacturer would pay high wages for someone to precisely guide the motions of a lathe by coordinated hand-eye movements. They wouldn't even pay low wages for that particular task; human performance is too inconsistent.

What of this vignette from the article, that also takes place between the immediate postwar and the 1970s?

In 1946, some 550,000 auto workers had produced a little more than three million vehicles, but in 1970 some 750,000 auto workers had produced a little more than eight million vehicles.” The rapid pace took a devastating toll of people’s health and lives, leaving millions of workers disabled or dead; one study from the period estimated “sixty-five on-the-job deaths per day among autoworkers.” Auto industry executives credited the industry’s productivity boom to advances in machinery, but the predominantly black workforce knew it was in fact due to old-fashioned exploitation, not automation: heavier workloads and unsafe, unhealthy conditions.

Today, General Motors employs 180,000 people and sells 9.6 million vehicles per year. Simultaneously, injury rates in manufacturing are down a lot since the 1970s.

I think that both Noble's book and this article would be more persuasive if they committed to one major rhetorical thrust. Either "management is bluffing about how labor can be substituted by machines, so workers shouldn't be intimidated" or "machines can substitute for labor, so workers shouldn't expect the market economy to always provide paid work", but not both.
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Even in Saudi Arabia. The government might chop your hand off for stealing but even they take you to the hospital immediately and you won't go broke when you get the bill.
For global or namespace functions you can hide the implementation in the .cpp file.

Doing the same with objects require pointers to hide the details of any private members. A common pattern is called Pointer to IMPLemenation (PIMPL).

Not sure why we need to exclude pointers?

In c++14 this is very much simplified with the use of unique pointers.

std::unique_ptr<Foo> make_foo(...);
$2,400 for a 2b apartment in upper Manhattan? I want that apartment!
Opinion articles are labelled as such and are written in a different style and tone than other articles. They are written as an argument, not an objective presentation of an event.
Weak symbols
To what extent should that be a major concern of NY legislators?
To be clear, we spent $10M+ annually on AWS at a previous company. We do not spend that amount at my current employer.
I use grab extensively in SEA and they have a rewards program built in.

Generally shun company rewards but I didn't mind their system.

Sample size of one but having gold status did seem to get quicker rides in peak hours. The points you can cash in don't add up to much, get a free or discounted trip every now and then. They also offered food /cinema vouchers etc.

Overall it's ok, you can't opt out but no one is forcing you to use it.

Your arguments are probably right about the downsides but is it truly uncommon to treat higher spending customers better?

They aren't a public service.
It is incredibly naive to think any major retail center exists without substantial investment by local and state governments. In many places Walmart made money just building their supercenters in many dying towns across the country.
Discussing can be productive.

Calling for a blanket incarceration of legislators and Amazon executives is not.
I predict they will settle for fourth - after Apple.

Give it 2 years, 4 tops.
The most realistic current proposal for an interstellar science mission is to avoid onboard propulsion altogether using a fleet of tiny laser-accelerated probes. Each one would be a very thin mirror, shot from orbit to the stars by a ground-based laser array. httpss://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot
> What Ilieva makes each year varies but, in a typical year she brings in between $80,000 and $150,000

So $150k at the top, and much less than that is possible. Who knows the frequency of how often it's $80k, and how often it's $150k.

I don't think your numbers include taxes, which if you're self employed, are higher than if you are working for a company (where they pay those payroll taxes for you). So there's federal taxes, social security (both parts) and medicare, and state taxes (for NY). There's also apparently an additional income tax for working in NYC.

https://smartasset.com/taxes/new-york-tax-calculator

This says $150k might be more like $100k after taxes. Then taking out the monthly expenses (let's just say $60k), and travel ($15k) and retirement ($15k) and there's only about $10k left over on the best of years, with no unexpected expenses.
Journalism is also not peer-review. It should never be viewed as such. Anonymous sources, the tendency for people to shy away from being recorded and just the speed of the news preclude some of what you are talking about.

That said, I agree that journalists should be held to account. One of the victims of the decline of print media are local news outlets who are checking each other. I've noticed a trend in my own local paper to view themselves as above reproach, the singular check on all that is evil, but not likely to correct their own mistakes. Perhaps some of what you are talking about could check that.
Ahhh -- yeah, I didn't blame them too much, since of course they need to monetize somehow or maybe even were being crushed under the server load (giving bad service even for free might piss off people or invite bad press).

In the end a bunch of these companies are really just using WebRTC under the covers + some improvements/management on their side, so they should be avoiding most of the load (especially since most of them say they can't support >4 people in a room or whatever since that's the traditional limitation of truly p2p webrtc implementations).

thanks for the pointer to talky.io, I also took note of some of the other suggestions in this thread, will be using them as well.
Just post some terrorist stuff on there and the NSA will do that for you
Nothing comes back. You are left with a husk where anyone still living there travels dozens of miles to get groceries. Its becoming a legitimate problem across the country, especially when the population that often chooses to stay are retirees who often shouldn't even be driving.
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Makes sense, actually /:
However, in the case of UPMC, it's not due to CON, as CON laws aren't in Pennsylvania based on that link.
To nitpick: Neither Coke nor Pepsi actually sells sugar water. They sell syrup. It's the independent local bottlers that actually add water.
But a contractor working on your codebase (which is what I believe you were implying) isn't the same as providing user data to a third party (for processing or for advertising and so on).

Providing data to third parties for processing is clearly different (and as an ex-user of one of Fitbit's products I definitely wouldn't have expected that this is the case -- Fitbit's fitness tracking is so core to the company that I wouldn't expect the processing of said data to be outsourced.) Yeah, it's in your privacy policy but that's just a cop-out (by that metric, no product can unexpectedly send data to third-parties).
While this is true, I feel like there are more 'average' folks looking to pick up extra income on the Lyft platform, as opposed to Uber. In US cities like SF, NYC, LA, Seattle, Chicago, it seems like most of the Uber drivers I encounter these days are former taxi or livery drivers -- Uber is clearly their profession. It's apparent in their approaches to discussing the destination (particular landmarks, hotel names, business names, cross streets), and in sometimes in their driving style. And they're usually driving a car that optimizes for rideshare/taxi service type driving: Accords, Corollas, Camrys, Prius, etc. The conversation tends to be all business with a few pleasantries.

On Lyft in the same cities, I always get a much more oddball mix of vehicles, with much more diverse conversation from the driver. I've had biotech founders looking to recruit and make beer money pick me up on Lyft rides going from the South Bay to the SF in the Bay Area, real estate agents and recruiters drive me in many cities, and many others that are clearly doing Lyft as a side gig rather than a profession. On the downside, this usually means that they're less aggressive drivers in terms of optimizing for speed and route efficiency, but it can make for a more interesting ride and better chitchat along the way.

As a result, I almost always default to Lyft unless there's a huge price spread in Uber's favor.
> Heck, even Franco was friends with Castro

Nitpick: I guess you meant Fraga
Failure in turning a process that could have taken two minutes into one that took a week.
Pushing the limits of GPU performance with XLA
I take your point, and it's a good one. My counter would be that I would like to encourage the less-narcissistic to be of a little help and make contact, in part because, just as you say, right now those who aren't homeless but are willing to interact with them are not always the best people - they often have selfish or trivial agendas. We need a few more making real contact who don't. You know, actual mature human beings.

So I wouldn't want to think that I've encouraged "poverty tourism" (which has a long history, right back to Victorian slum tours, and probably further back than that.) I'm absolutely not trying to indulge my curiosity when talking to a homeless person; that seems exploitative at best. If a question would be intrusive and unnecessary if you posed it to a billionaire, it's probably not polite question for a homeless person, either. You've better expressed what I meant when I said I always made sure I had time to talk: sometimes homeless people are new to town, or just have something on their mind, and I'm happy to brainstorm (or help fix a bike one time.) But that's up to them of course.
The part about Chuck Schumer protecting Facebook from the inside while they raise money for him and employ his daughter are new to me.
Very interesting, looks like it used the same design language as the iBooks/iMacs of the era, with white plastic and an outer layer of acrylic. I wonder what OS it ran… Given the device’s thickness, I would guess it used iBook/PowerBook hardware and ran a modified build of OS X.
In Florida Recount, Sloppy Signatures May Disqualify Thousands of Votes
Hi, I am the tech lead for this project, happy to answer questions.
Clickbaity title aside, Zapier is achieving $35M ARR because their product is amazing. I'm infinitely suspicious of SEO articles but I'm convinced that Zapier could have Slack'd (word-of-mouth'd) their way to where they are now. They're in a league of their own when it comes to integration/functionality/UX -- I don't even know who their bigger competitors are, if they exist.

The first time I saw Zapier, I got the tinge of developer/engineer/builder envy that I get whenever I see products that just are obvious in retrospect, and seem to be very well and flexibly implemented. I heard of it from a forward-looking product manager I respected at a famous internet security firm that I worked at in the past and it absolutely blew my mind (also he gave me a short demo) because of how easy it made things for end users despite the complexity I know the must have had to deal with.
That is fascinating. I'd always wondered why Space Harrier's world was so goddamn weird and psychedelic, and reading that they consciously based it on Roger Dean makes so much sense. For reference:

https://www.nme.com/photos/the-far-out-prog-rock-album-art-o...
https://gallery.rogerdean.com/