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Online Games and Tourism:Cold-arm confrontation simulation related to the actual
Online Games and Tourism: Cold-arm confrontation simulation related to the actual terrain
Email: ourunix@gmail.com<p>To minimize the players’ time invested in games and maximize the players’ “array of troops for battle” in the tactical and strategic confrontation.<p>Based on the actual terrain, it clearly shows the roles of terrain, mountain passes and rivers in the cold-weapon era, supplemented by the introduction of historical knowledge, an increase in fun and<p>This project is multi-language. Currently there are Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English and German versions.<p>At present, it has been released in Southwest China and Europe (the historical knowledge related to the regions is to be improved upon).<p>Current online games require players to invest too much time and their levels are basically proportional to their time input.<p>Due to the lack of intellectual confrontation, it is difficult for players to get know the tactical strategy of the “array of troops for battle”.<p>Based on this knowledge, it is necessary to achieve a tactical and strategic game while lowering the time investment as much as possible. This game is based on actual terrain and will maximize the realization of an array of troops in ancient battles.<p>On the above basis, the game combines historical knowledge, the actual status of the terrain and tourism resources.<p>Thus, it integrates a knowledgeable, intellectual and entertaining interactive community.<p>In summary, the project is briefly outlined below:<p>1. High-definition screen;
2. True terrain;
3. Multiple types of interactions;
4. Reducing time investment in the game;
5. Puzzle game;
6. Strengthening cultural identity;
7. Learning historical knowledge;
8. Related tourism knowledge;
9. Enhancing social responsibility;
10. Improving team spirit.
You're reading too much into my post. Employer-based health insurance is a terrible idea. Single-payer is IMO the only reasonable choice, but employer-based private insurance is just about the worst conceivable option. Unfortunately, it is deeply embedded.

My point was that the only reason the current system hasn't completely killed new business formation is that employees and founders are able to freeload. Freeloading takes a broken system and makes it even more unfair and dysfunctional.
He's probably getting exasperated by the virtual lynch mob which seems to be downvoting everything he says and upvoting every angry comment, which is ridiculous. He's actually saying quite a lot of reasonable and useful stuff which is sitting at 0 or below.
Yep, they're even streaming TV shows as they come out like Spartacus.
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Download the Vimeo movie (using one of the many sources on the internet, google finds this: http://clipnabber.com/ ) set as your screensaver (make a quartz composer thing, or use an app like this: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/icons_screensavers/mov... ).

In terminal, run this command:

System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background > /dev/null 2>&1

Warning: completely untested.
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Class-based Programming as Syntactic Sugar
How class based programming sucks
There's actually a whole lot more to this patent reform bill than the article lets on. Here is an article listing the proposals:

http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2011/02/patent-reform-act-of...

I'm particularly interested in the new third-party challenge procedures, which would let people submit arguments during patent examination and then oppose patents on any grounds after they issue (for example, you could contest the patent at the Patent Office for being vague; right now you can only do that in court).
Sure, LA is in California but it is far away from SF and Silicon Valley that it is a different place.

I speak from experience - I live in SF having moved from London in 2006. At the time I had a large offer from an LA based firm, a firm I later did a year's stint at by commuting between SF and LA.

LA is NOT SF. If you move to LA you will have a ton of fun outside of work but you will still lack the buzz that is SF.

Take a week's vacation from your job and travel out to SF for interviews and meet people. Hit me up (email in the profile) if you want meet up. You'll almost certainly get offers and that should be enough to prove it is worth moving out here for.

The bottom line is that many startups won't make offers or even interview you unless you are here in the city and so you gotta be out here even just to plan the next move.
I prefer having a private offices for "home base", with a variety of open plan workspace, small conference rooms, etc. for temporary use, with a laptop or rolling desk. A private office where the entire front wall could roll up or slide away, turning it into an alcove rather than a room, would be ideal.
Working from home, or outside in the garden, or in a park... Everywhere except in an office.
The growth rate?

Imagine a big upward curve... then rotate the graph 90 degrees clockwise.
I'm exactly like you. Everyone looks the same to me. But my ex-wife is exactly the opposite. We once walked into a very crowded baseball game at Candlestick park looking for a friend who was somewhere in the crowd (we had no idea where). She found him in less than 30 seconds a quarter of the way around the stadium. I think most people are somewhere in between these two extremes.
You’re either in a crisis, coming out of a crisis, or about to go into a crisis.
DHL is actually a part of "Deutsche Post"
The comparison in this case is not to the alternative. Rather, the comparison is to other decisions have been made. That's why the statement is "best decision ever made", not "best decision that was possible".
To be fair, Windows 7 made some great strides, and ended up being faster than Vista on a lot of older hardware. However, that does tend to be the exception. The general perception of performance (at least in the areas of MS that I had contact with when I was working there) is that it's important to hold the line in performance, and it's not generally valuable to invest in actually improving performance over time. MS spends a lot of resources measuring performance very accurately, but not nearly enough resources in making appropriate architecture and design choices, or in making big performance improvement pushes.

My experience and observation is that performance improvements of substantial magnitude are often available for the taking in almost all software projects, but it requires a concerted effort to realize those improvements. MS instead spends its efforts on merely making sure that the software doesn't get slower by too much.
One thing I've noticed in open-plan offices is that mid/upper management almost always has private offices, with desks that face the door. Funny how that works, isn't it?

It's always struck me as a little strange and off-putting that some people can be enthusiastic about open plan. Companies only do it because it's cheap. Most of them don't make the slightest effort to minimize disruption. Open plan is only a step above Dickensian rows of writing desks. It's something to put up with, perhaps, but to applaud?
I most prefer working in a private office with lots of glass and blinds and desk space for two or more people, so I can choose whether to see or be seen and have other programmers come in and brainstorm or code as necessary. An added bonus is being able to play my music on speakers instead of headphones. Unfortunately I've only had one job like that. Working now from a home office on a startup comes close, but there's not the wealth of colleagues with whom I can whiteboard or review code.
What wrong with a for-profit system? There should be MORE profit, not less.

High profits attract entrepreneurs to compete for customers by offering lower prices and innovating - consumers benefit.

The current system is the exact opposite - there is relatively little and uncertain profit (and high barriers to entry) in insurance and hospitals, and a ton of government interference and regulation. Few entrepreneurs want to get involved, which reduces competition and innovation and keeps prices higher.

"Plunging revenues from investments have forced median profit margins for U.S. hospitals to zero, according to a Thomson Reuters analysis of hospital finances published on Monday.

And half of the more than 400 hospitals studied are losing money, the analysis found."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/03/02/us-hospitals-usa-i...
Digging Techcrunch got me this story: Twitter and Joyent splits (Circa Jan 31, 2008)

http://techcrunch.com/2008/01/31/twitter-and-joyent-split-am...

Twitter moved to Verio and here's Biz Stone's reply to Techcrunch:

We’re still very much engaged in our efforts to bring solid reliability to Twitter. Achieving our goals is a sustained effort, not an overnight fix. Performance is our most important measure of success and we appreciate both the patience and frustration folks are sharing with us.

With regard to discussing technical specifics about last night’s efforts, we’ll be more keen to do that once we have a chance to come up for air and cover it with some perspective.
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> Employees are paid according to their value. If you are making low wages it's either what you're worth, or because you're too stupid to realize you're being exploited.

Somebody ought to tell that to Goldman Sachs or just about any big american corporation which pays insane amounts to people who have a track record of running businesses into the ground.
Will Joukuu.com fly with supports from Google Docs, Box.net & Dropbox?
Online Games and Tourism: Cold-arm confront simulation related to actual terrain
Online Games and Tourism: Cold-arm confrontation simulation related to the actual terrain

Email: ourunix@gmail.com

http://thinker.cc

http://dingdongquan.com

To minimize the players’ time invested in games and maximize the players’ “array of troops for battle” in the tactical and strategic confrontation

Based on the actual terrain, it clearly shows the roles of terrain, mountain passes and rivers in the cold-weapon era, supplemented by the introduction of historical knowledge, an increase in fun and This project is multi-language. Currently there are Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English and German versions

At present, it has been released in Southwest China and Europe (the historical knowledge related to the regions is to be improved upon).

Current online games require players to invest too much time and their levels are basically proportional to their time input.

Due to the lack of intellectual confrontation, it is difficult for players to get know the tactical strategy of the “array of troops for battle”.

Based on this knowledge, it is necessary to achieve a tactical and strategic game while lowering the time investment as much as possible. This game is based on actual terrain and will maximize the realization of an array of troops in ancient battles.

On the above basis, the game combines historical knowledge, the actual status of the terrain and tourism resources.

Thus, it integrates a knowledgeable, intellectual and entertaining interactive community.<p>In summary, the project is briefly outlined below:

1. High-definition screen;

2. True terrain;

3. Multiple types of interactions;

4. Reducing time investment in the game;

5. Puzzle game;

6. Strengthening cultural identity;

7. Learning historical knowledge;

8. Related tourism knowledge;

9. Enhancing social responsibility;

10. Improving team spirit.
Voted for Open Space.
Though the optimum setup for me is Open space with lots of exchange of ideas and partial cubicles for teams. However the infrastructure should have spaces/couches/rooms people/groups can use depending on the need/mood/requirement.
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Everyone certainly does not get their own office. The way it works is that people are given offices sorted by their seniority (years at Microsoft, not your pay grade). So it goes:

* 2 people in a non-windowed office

* 1 person in a non-windowed office

* 1 person in a windowed office

* 1 person in a corner windowed office.. etc

and people just starting out do end up getting paired up with someone else.
Many of these awesome time lapse sequences are shot with hacked Canon cameras running custom firmware.

http://magiclantern.wikia.com/wiki/Magic_Lantern_Firmware_Wi...

http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK
I'm wondering whether you mean a work area where each employee has his own office, or an office for an independent programmer without coworkers. The latter might be similar to home working, though without the casualness (coding while undressed) or ability to attend to home/family tasks at the same time.
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"The majority of people, given the knowledge they had at the time, were likely just doing their job."

Please do not take this as an example of Godwin's Law but I think Nuremberg trials made it clear that 'just doing their job' is not an applicable defense. Of course the magnitude of the acts is way different but the precedent exists.
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No, for the fact that the 99.99% (you heard it, four 9s!) of time that my mail server is up, I have full control (and responsibility) for my mail.
There's a major flaw with this poll. It was started around midnight PST on a Sunday night so most US office workers already went to bed.
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If your using Express you might want to look at: https://github.com/1602/express-on-railway
> Use $() and be happy, and I recommend never touching
> the backquotes again.

Any clue why the 'sh' filetype in Vim highlights $() as an error unless it reads "#!/bin/bash" on the first line of the file? (Zsh actually has its own filetype, but unfortunately no folding built-in support like the sh filetype) There's gotta be a reasoning behind that. Maybe $() isn't POSIX, but unofficially standard b/c most shells support it?

[ Note (IIRC) in vim shell filetypes are like this: sh=(sh, bash, ksh) zsh=(zsh) csh=(csh, tcsh) ]

> Either way, those examples aren't actually related to point
> #3 in the article.

They were sort of related in that I was talking about the shell implicitly quoting the contents of the variable. I was just pointing out a different context where (I believe) that it also does something similar.

> They fail in zsh, when zsh isn't in "sh compatibility" mode,
> so perhaps you're using that.

I ran into issues with that a few years ago, and then steered clear of using things in that way. I may well have been using zsh at the time as I was using it for a while before switching to bash, and then back again to zsh (and I didn't keep notes on that timeline).
> why don't you believe in a free market for health insurance? Forcing people to pay into a health insurance is kind of scammy - let's say that I have a genetic condition that is certain to kill me rapidly at age 30. I want to live my life to the fullest, and I'd rather not be forced to buy health insurance that protects me from things like adult onset diabetes, alzheimer's, cancer, parkinson's, etc, that I'm just not going to get. Why should I be forced to pony up for other people's healthcare, too?

Don't you think that your argument might be somewhat flawed if the most plausible scenario you can come up with is this?
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private office or work from home or work at Starbucks or wherever I want, whenever I want

private office with insect robots & board games and plenty of blank wall space and table space to cover with ideas or prototypes

in other words, exactly what I have now
It's not like you can just pick what to call them. An employee is an employee and a contractor is a contractor. If you want someone to work in your office 9-5 and commit their code changes to your server each day, they're an employee, and you can't call them a contractor.
I use 6 at home - it's awesome. Shortcut keys to move monitors around are great, dragging and snapping etc are awesome. Only thing missing is the multiple monitor taskbars which Ultramon provides for a fee.
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I think he will explain that in private PDF document he is going to send to angels.
You've just marked yourself as somebody who is very likely still in college and/or under the age of 25 and/or does not have spouse and kids and dog and cat, etc. :)
working from home sucks, i find myself depressed "finishing work" then going to another room, your stuck at home constantly,

got myself out of the house and got a shared office space and productivity went through the roof
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I would prefer a private office for me and my team, rather than totally isolated. I could do without hearing my other colleagues have phone calls and meetings at their desks.

However, working from home means I don't have to worry about my company's internet policy and I can just get my work done and have my fun. Pisses me right off that they block sites rather than get rid of unproductive workers.
> He was raving about how great it was that he could ask anybody anything at any time, and everyone could have all kinds of collaboration.

Yep. Great for the asker. Horrible for the askee.

Been there, done that, have t-shirt, hope to never wear it again.
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Start learning how to code and try and flesh out your idea/app on your own. This will give you a better perspective from which to interact with potential founders and go a long way towards helping you flesh out your idea.
That's a very powerful example. The Expression Blend interface (though it's showing a completely different function) feels very uncomfortable, while the Lightroom interface feels natural inviting. I'm glad to have learned that alignment lines make up a big part of that difference (I also prefer the Lightroom typography).
Looks like $() is really really POSIX:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu...

In general, beware of trusting the people who wrote your editor instead just trying it to see if it works :)
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I appreciate your skepticism. There really -isn't- any way to know for sure. For me, the best I can do is compare what would have been to what actually happened.

If I had stayed in college, I would have finished with a masters in CS and Mathematics.

I dropped out instead. By the time I would have graduated, I managed to:

- Co-found a startup

- Build a million-user product by myself

- Speak at half a dozen conferences, including GDC and RailsConf

- Help kickstart a multi-billion dollar new industry

- Get married

That seems like a damn good decision if you ask me.
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I love the right-click interface in GIMP because it makes almost everything I need to do immediately available. But why on earth don't they sort and/or categorize the tool palette icons?
> and everyone could have all kinds of collaboration.

it's funny that he used that word. because I've developed a theory that "too much collaboration" is one of the main reasons why larger companies turn into Big Dumb Companies who then get their lunch eaten by smaller, more nimble upstarts. They collaborate too darn much. Instead of just Making Things Happen and moving forward.
This is what my and my cofounder do with coworking, spend a fair bit of time working from home but it is good to get into a communal space every now and then. Even if the productivity is lower, being around those your working with leads to things that wouldn't have been thought up or noticed otherwise. The same with others not working on the same thing as you, even now and then things come up and tend to kickstart something or give new insights.
You might find this interesting:

"People who have misophonia are most commonly annoyed, or even enraged, by the sound of other people eating, breathing, coughing, or other ordinary sounds."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misophonia
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Who cares about the nature of the world when you can explore the nature of the machine?
I have still to come across a laptop which does any music justice.
Ive mostly been using HP and Dell, will have to look at a thinkpad next time :-)

Ive listened to those powerd by a CMOY, great bang for the buck.
What amp do you pair them up with?
Well, that explains my unanswered support emails! Sorry to hear this guys, Djangy was a good service and I'm sad to see it go.
Ask HN: Have you noticed drop in adsense revenue after Adblock came?
I have been running multiple blogs for around 5 years. Recently (after Adblock extension for Chrome came), I have noticed a big drop in my Adsense revenue. My pageviews are still the same, but the number of clicks have reduced very much.

Has anyone else noticed this or it's just because people are not clicking?

Also, on an average, my 60% traffic is from IE, around 20% from Firefox and 10% from Chrome and Safari.

So, if Adblock makes its way to IE also, will we see a massive drop in clicks (which means a massive drop in Google revenues)?
Experience? Apparently SSH tunnels could be used for more than just allowing an external server gain access to a service running on an internal server.
At first I thought it would be less risky to do LA first and typed up as much. But now I'm thinking otherwise. You absolutely can do it in one step if you are motivated enough and can sell yourself. With $10k you can expect to live for at least 3-4 months in a cheap fashion(carless, renting with roommates) in the Bay Area. So start by planning for a long vacation out here - get a weekly-rate motel, AirBnB, or go couchsurfing. Go to the local hackerspaces, go to meetups, make some contacts. Get a good demo side project together. Maybe complete the demo, then quit your job and move. If you like the demo as a product, you can try pitching it. You might need funding to take it further, but that route is as possible as a job in the current environment.
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I actually never worked in a private office, so the comparison is mainly on what I imagine, but I think it's the best solution.

However, working in a shared office/open space does have its advantages, especially if you get to work with people you like to interact with. Also, having worked next to my bosses' cubicle has allowed me to learn a lot about how it is at his level - before eventually reaching it.
Thanks - really useful advice :)