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Visceral Games Montreal - Senior Audio Programmer
Visceral Games is the new home for AAA Action game development across all of Electronic Arts. Working in a collaborative environment, the Montreal, Redwood Shores, Los Angeles, Shanghai, and Melbourne studios make up the Visceral Games group. The Montreal studio is best known for the co-development of the critically acclaimed and commercially successful Dead Space 2 and multi-million selling hit franchise Army of two.

EA Montreal has become a highly successful operation in the EA network of development studios. Building new Intellectual Properties and creating titles based on established EA franchises, the team in Montreal produces a wide range of titles for multiple platforms and genres. The studio has attracted game developers from the Montreal market and around the world to work in this highly entrepreneurial, creative environment. The EA Montreal location now includes Visceral Games Montreal, EA Mobile, BioWare Montreal, Pogo.com, Hasbro, and more.

Responsibilities:

Implement low level audio features that require console specific coding (PC, PS3, Xbox360).
Implement audio related systems (VOs, Music, etc... ) on leading consoles (PC, PS3, Xbox360).
Responsible for implementing audio related game features.
Work closely with development teams to coordinate audio integration into the games.
Work closely with development teams to coordinate streaming usage and best practices.
Responsible for investigating, debugging and fixing performance issues on all leading consoles (PC, PS3, Xbox360).

Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
2+ years of experience in audio programming
Experience with audio middleware (FMod, Wwise, Miles, etc...)
Direct experience with working on the different leading consoles (PC, PS3, Xbox360)
Experience with streaming and different sound file formats
Solid organizational skills with the ability to handle a multitude of assets and tasks.
Solid knowledge of usual audio concepts, tools and techniques.

If you want to be part of a dynamic, thriving group whose aim is to make the top Action games across the world, now is the time to get on board!

Apply directly to mkalugin@ea.com or https://jobs.ea.com/myEA/profile.aspx?action=apply&postid=a0z50000000tU3k
It's fine. YC startups Etacts, Rapportive and Xobni are all competitors in the email CRM space.
A mixed blessing to be sure. It's a promising challenge to the assumption that we will give up all our dignity and privacy for security, but peel back one layer and it looks ugly. The paranoid sexualization of anything to do with the body, states' rights, secession.... It's derp versus derp, and it's strange finding myself rooting for sex-phobic states' rights derp for a change.
you can run Redis on it or any other simple single-threaded server
Hey, I did!

Did it using the software and then checked wikipedia by hand:

Philosophy -> Existence -> Sense -> Organism -> Biology -> Natural_science -> Science -> Knowledge -> Fact -> Information -> Finite_set -> Mathematics -> Quantity -> Property_(philosophy) -> Modern_philosophy -> Philosophy

15 steps to philosophy
This a a good start. At least there is some political will to recognize the TSA's conduct is wrong.
I have no way to answer that without resorting to anecdotal evidence, as you are yourself doing. I could answer with quotes from the "ex-gay" movement ... but those are anecdotal as well.

I don't think there is a way to gather hard evidence without engaging in unethical conduct (that is, any psych experiment that would give data might irreparably harm people and thus would be wrong).
Well, there is also the 10th amendment, but we usually beat that down with some interstate commerce argument.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenth_Amendment_to_the_United_S...
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How does one get downvote powers anyway?

So yes - clarification is needed. I'm willing to take on faith that there is measurable degradation of film quality. Let us grant that there is plenty of empirical evidence for this claim.

There is no empirical evidence presented besides blog comments that this measurably effects the greater portion of hedonic goodness in theatre goers. Worse - I see no presentation of empirical evidence whatsoever for Ebert's larger thesis that the degradation is sufficient enough to have a measurable effect on market share (as against dvds etc). Bearing in mind they were losing market share before 3d.

Hence there is no pragmatic reason to be upset beyond perhaps you're own heightened sensitivities - which Ebert himself may possess - I have no idea.

In any case - it's an extremely poorly argued article.

But it is truly weird - People just love the Ebert.
Three, actually. Kevin Bacon > Meme > Philosophy.
Contrary to your view, I think this is how reasonably democratic societies deal with privacy and personal rights: through politics, not bloodshed.

Your suggestion, taken literally, is a call to revolution which would directly result in a drastic reduction in many people's practical rights, including the right to not be dead.
It's not. For whatever reason, OS X installer pkg files are deemed 'safe files' by safari, which has an option to open such "safe" files automatically. So the thing that actually launches is a standard Installer.app from apple, but running a pkg script provided by the 'bad guys'. Fortunately Installer.app requires user interaction before it does anything, but it's still disconcerting.
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This article didn't really get into the part I most care about, the incredible range of custom window managers you can find that work for various *NIXes. The fact that the way X is set up allows you to roll your own window manager so easily has really allowed a froth of new ideas to be tried out - and the best ideas to be incorporated into the big desktop environments and Mac and Windows.

I was sort of worried that the move to Wayland might hurt all of this. Compiz seems to be preparing to do double duty as a X windows manager and a Wayland display server based on what plugins you have loaded, but I wonder what might happen to other window managers in the transition? On the other hand, nobody is forcing anyone to give up X.
Two things:

1. That movies are being projected at considerably less than their intended brightness seems like an empirical fact to me. Unless you really believe that watching a movie through a pair of sunglasses (the equivalent to projecting it through polarized lenses) might improve the experience I'm not sure what more evidence you need. The pragmatic basis for his outrage is the fact that movies are often projected with much less light than their creators intended.

2. Calling someone "well read" is the same as calling them knowledgeable or well informed. While I believe Ebert to be well read on this particular issue, I believe from the context of your post that you meant to write "widely read" (or else I misinterpreted your argument).
I know there are many who complain about things like the inability to copy and paste text and so forth, but I've not found that to be much of an issue.

In general I'm the type of guy who reads books but doesn't lend them out. Not that I wouldn't, mind you, but it just doesn't happen that much. And since my local Borders - my de facto place for getting computer/tech books - closed last months, I'm happier than ever to be a Kindle user. (Even though I get the irony in this).

Physical books won't go away and ebooks are still evolving. I look forward to what the future of reading holds.
"You may have reached this page due to a known problem with some UK ISPs" with absolutely no description of what that known problem that they know about actually is. Very bad UI decision there.

I'm pretty sure I can guess what the problem is (the IWF filter, no doubt) but if I were an ISP and got a pile of reports from users simply parrotting that message I'd block the site completely until they improved it. It is like me as a programmer getting "I gots an error message" from a user who then says "oh, I didn't read it all" when I ask what the error message actually was.
They should have replied with "The constitution doesn't apply in and around airports, so suck it."
Oh I don't doubt that humans can distinguish between more than 16 colors. But white/blackboards are used mostly for sciences and business, not drawing. Trying to distinguish between turquoise and aqua in a graph or formula is difficult at best. (And I really wish infographic/map designers understood this concept.)
Actually spell check, has made me a better speller. Of course in the old days when the apple ][ dominated the personal computer space you had to save your word processing file, exit the word processor, switch floppy disks, start the spell checker, switch the disk for the dictionary disk, run against your file, approve/reject suggested changes, save the file, exit the spell checker, switch to the floppy disk with the word processor on it, start the word processor load your file, find the things the spell checker flagged as wrong but couldn't find a correct word for and fix those.

Seriously, it was just easier to get better at spelling.
turtles --> 14 steps to philosophy
On your second point - yes, careless word usage on my point.

On your first point see my reply above.
Watching now, but I have to wait for 10 minutes more every minute...
Tech Founder Ditches Internet and Smartphone.
Fun

Interesting that the first three i tried took about 17 hops and got funnelled through the "Life" entry.

corndog
sensimilia
halitosis

This took a few less hops and stayed in 'techne':
voip.

Would love to see these searches graphed.

Years ago - one of my favorite sites was Everything2 (still up) - it was run on the slashdot engine. The fun of it was to follow the associated links at the bottom of the entry to see where it would take you.
It's funny how the word "coin" in that name is essentially used to refer to this distributed computational process whose purpose it is to get people to agree on some version of the state of things (i.e. what is "real").

Next thing you know, kids in 2050 refer to reality as some sort of "heavily coined world".
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In order for that to be relevant, you'd have to argue that the President does not have the authority to establish the TSA.
Thanks for putting this together. Excellent notes. It's great to see how simple PG's mind is when it comes to advising companies. Not only for the sheer simplicity (and obviousness) of his questions, but also for the organization and delivery of his thoughts. It's apparent that he's fully invested in this industry and his mindset reflects that.
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No, thats just the taskbar. For it to be a dock the icons have to persist when the window isn't open. RISC OS had the very first dock in 1987: http://www.osnews.com/story/18941/pt_VI_the_Dock
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From what I've read, there doesn't seem to be a lot of difference between SC 2 and Backbone.js. Can anyone point out when someone would go for SC 2 instead of Backone.js.
On my computer, I believe that is called App $tore...
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From my experience,a lot programmers get set in their ways. For example, I just stuck with using the standard Console font for my IDE when I installed it years ago.
Then I came across this article, or one similar, and messed around with different fonts and sizes. The difference it made was surprising. I feel like it definitely has made an improvement in how I work.
I would recommend people try testing new fonts, layouts, etc at least once a year. the aesthetics is just as important as the content, even when coding.
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Why would they use FAT16 for the file system? Seems limiting to me...
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There is also the official airbnb article and HN post here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2586652
minor correction: 20 clicks
It's only useful to those who haven't read the article. To those who have, it adds only noise (at best, filler) to the discussion. Beside, it sets a poor precedent. Novelty accounts are "OK" at Reddit and 99% of them only decrease quality. It'd be nice for them not to be "OK" here.
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I suggest that you read "A Free Nation Deep in Debt: The Financial Roots of Democracy". You don't understand how this stuff works, particularly the relevance of "fiat" currency versus an asset-based currency.

You also forgot to address the key issue with Bitcoin -- the scam aspect of it. The first half dozen people who started mucking around with Bitcoin control millions of bitcoin.

Why is it bad for the Fed to give California "free money", but OK for some Japanese programmer to give himself and his friends "free money"?
Is the upvoting from a cynicism that the legal disclaimers are 10x the code? :D It is a compelling situation, on the other hand, I have been generally impressed that Oracle has their house in order, for sure. Thanks for posting this, though!
Because it's really trivial to implement. Other file systems are a lot more complex, especially to write.
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A diagram showing the family tree of Indo-European languages
But you are a bad user...
I hate this list. Want to be good? Look at sites/apps you admire and learn to emulate them. Don't read a 300 page book on User Experience or ugh, UX... unless you're doing for enjoyment.
I still don't think the TSA can suspend all flights out of Texas just 'cause.
It seems pretty strange for you to say that given that you must also realize that the framework you maintain, Cappuccino, is veering towards obsolescence.

I think Aristo is a great theme, and better than the default SproutCore theme, but even it is starting to look dated. Web-style apps are similarly impossible with Cappuccino; I find it hard to believe you don't think there is value in bringing Objective-J to all web developers, not just those who opt-in to your view layer. Objective-J could be filling the same role CoffeeScript is now if that was the case.

SproutCore 1.5 was certainly backwards compatible with 1.0, and will continue to be maintained by companies that together have revenue in the billions. We just realized that the path we were on forced us to cater to a small niche. When you can provide value to a market at least an order of magnitude larger, why not do it?

We're not giving up on native-style interaction, and I think people will love the stuff we're working on right now. As I said in the blog post, this is just the first milestone on the way to that release.
it's always interesting to see non-Russians comment on this kind of news. for Russians well aware of rampant corruption in post-Soviet countries, it's more of an eye roll than anything else. Russia is infamously corrupt as a result of the legacy of Soviet mentalities that made free market enterprise inherently black market. until the justice system is cleaned up and held accountable, russian will remain a corrupt 3rd world country unable to compete in the global business rena.
If it finds a loop, can't it go and explore other paths?
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Unfortunately the license is necessary. Without a license the code is covered by copyright by default, making any redistribution or usage of the code a copyright violation. Although a one-liner "do whatever the fuck you want" "license" is sufficient for redistribution or usage, it gives other people the opportunity to sue Oracle if the code somehow causes any kind of damage. Granted, it's just a Hello World, but in the US anybody can sue anyone for anything so I'm sure some jerk can come up with a stupid reason to sue someone over a Hello World. All this has made lawyers extremely careful.
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I tried and I end up in an infinite loop between science, philosophy, knowledge/epistemology, and language.
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> Stupidity is not a problem that can be solved through technology.

Wait a couple decades. Kurzweil may be on to something ;-)
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So, you expect the operating system do disobey the user when it determines the user actions could be harmful?

If I tell my machine to do something, I want it to carry my orders.
> "I've always called it 'removing the pain-points'"

I call it "removing friction".

Just like in physics theory a weight would fall according to f=m•a whereas in real there is fluid friction, in an "ideal" world I'd just think only about relevant information and my thoughts would command actions I want to do on the computer instantly, but this world is not ideal and introduces friction. Which produces an awful lot of drag.

Friction can be taken away, up to the point of reaching wizardry, at which point one simply waves a hand at friction-inducing minute problems to move them out of sight and concentrate on the Real Problem At Hand.
yeah, someone at work just reminded me that the context was that someone was going round warning about a major earthquake (based on argon release? which i think hasn't been found a reliable predictor) and this was all in response to that.

while the scientists were probably correct that the earthquake warnings were not justified, it turns out that the prediction was vaguely correct (iirc the time was off by long enough that evacuations would have been impractical).

[edit: radon, not argon - http://articles.latimes.com/2009/apr/07/local/me-quake-predi... - and he didn't have the correct location or time, but was close]
I wonder how hard it would be to port redis and how it performance would compare.
Sure, but if there was ever code that deserved the WTFPL[1], this would be it.

That's assuming this sort of example code is even copyrightable.

[1] http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/
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This has been around for at least two years (if not longer?) see http://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=20946 for example.

Considering it is such a "from scratch" kind of project and given the progress so far, it seems to me like it might be more of a "let's see if we can" curiosity type thing rather than a project that an end user might actually want to use for anything practical.
> Return Infinity goes back to the roots of computer programming with pure Assembly code. As we are programming at the hardware level, we can achieve a runtime speed that is not possible with higher-level languages like C/C++, VB, and Java.

When will this reasoning finally die?
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Judging from the title of the same post on Reddit i'd say that yes, that was the original intent.

(I really don't like this practice of cross-posting stuff from Proggit, i've seen it a lot, even from top HNers)
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Apparently they can.

I don't mean to be glib, but I'm not aware of prohibition against it, and if they had done it, it is quite possible that either Congress or the courts could force them to renege on the decision. (The President has ultimate authority over them, so he could always order the decision reversed, but that's normal chain of command, not checks-and-balances.) But legally, it appears they do have that power.
So it's not just me? Good to know.
My impression -- the grief's not about how the problem is dealt with, but that it's just swept under the rug instead.

> Your suggestion, taken literally, is a call to revolution (...)

Such voices aren't very dangerous in normal circumstances, as they don't appeal to wider audiences until those audiences become quite edgy for other reasons. Such voices, taken statistically, are an indicator of how close to serious unrest the society as a whole is. Which, nb., is another reason free speech is necessary for functional democracy.
I find it most interesting that Hello World is now an "App".
Yes, it is long and the surprising part comes two links ahead. I recommend taking the time to read it all. Pretty cool. Love how math and probabilities can surprise us.
I'm surprised it's missing the standard stipulation that the code is not to be used in nuclear facilities or life support systems, and that it not be exported to Iran, Cuba, Syria, or North Korea.
If I trick a GNU/Linux or UNIX user into running a "sudo rm -rf /" command and entering a password, did I create malware?
I found this on Twitter. I'm rarely on Reddit. Just because something is on Reddit doesn't mean that's where someone found it.
I don't have a link, but something similar was done with custom kernels with Redis compiled to run native above Xen - the performance gain was only ~ 13% - so in this case it didn't worth the trouble.

But if you a large HPC cluster, getting 13% more of each compute node definitely worth the trouble.

EDITED: see link in child's post
At the end of the day the people with all the power are too apathetic to wield it.

The State doesn't want the airport shut-down, that's bad for business. It would cause all kinds of problems even if they were closed for a relatively short period of time. Dallas is of course a hub, so the impact on travelers would go _far_ beyond the Texan borders.

The airlines (especially those with hubs in Texas) are quaking in their boots. The disruption this would have on the schedules would be epic.

The TSA with usual Federal un-accountability is prepared to play chicken.

The real people with the power are of course the voters and passengers. But it would take a concerted effort of "the many" to get the TSA disbanded. And while TSA disbandment is probably too extreme, what it could use is some oversight and political accountability.

At the end of the day though this isn't a big enough issue to change a person's vote. So all that happens is that personal liberties are eroded one grope at a time.
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I didn't get the impression that he would actually be in the office all of the time.
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I remember when companies would pay celebrities to endorse them, not vice-versa.
when people fab chips that run java / vb / C++ natively. I saw a demo once using java on chip, but it was far from consumer-level.
Not only that, but airports don't need to use the TSA: they can opt to use a private security firm. (Source: http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2010/11/amid-airport-...)

Maybe Texas should make a law preventing the TSA from handling security at any Texas airports.
"Does this mean we should say that all the black are criminals and the rest are law-abiding citizens?"

No, but we should figure out which ones are actually criminals and which ones are there because of racism (which is probably a very low percentage).
I believe only a recent Windows emigrant would fall for the "your computer is infected" trick.

Oh, and wow! It evolved and now installs in a part of the system that makes the malware easily detectable and removable.

I wonder what Sophos is trying to sell... Oh yes! Anti-malware for a platform that really doesn't need it nearly as badly as that other competing platform.

Flagged because it's actually an ad.
For a more stats oriented take on data analysis (and more pragmatically useful, I think), check out Bill Cleveland:

http://www.stat.purdue.edu/~wsc/

Note, yet ANOTHER brilliant guy to come out of Bell Labs.
"One cluster runs unit tests all the time for all our code. If a unit test fails, the build is ‘broken,’ and a flashing red light goes on in the dev area (literally)."
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It took them only two weeks to create problems :)