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On my first Virgin America flight (very soon after they started) the flight attendants were unusually attractive young women, one of them especially so. A lot of heads would literally turn when she went by. I overhead someone asking her how she got the job and she said "I was recruited." So that's one data point...
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And that is an argument that has merit.

The counter to that would be that if you hadn't noticed this pattern by now with recent id games you haven't been paying attention.

To say that id's releases are more tech demos than games is one thing. To come up with harebrained theories as to why this is the case is another.
> So poorly written, I find it hard to take seriously.

English is not the author's primary language.
If you have a credit card with no annual payment and you pay every month, should you still not pay on credit?

I'm not sure if I see the problem then.
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It's a net loss for the US if a middle class Indian high school student comes to the US on a scholarship (American scholarship), graduates and is then sent back by the US immigration system (shortage of visas etc.).

This story was was strange because I had a strong positive and negative feeling while reading it. Positive because I thought wow, India is really making it big with this coming generation of awesome students (I'm not Indian), and negative because I felt sorry for the kids. They seem to be under a lot of pressure and stress.
Carmack is a programmer. He is THE tech guy. He isn't a game designer, he isn't the one doing the gameplay. It isn't the artists or Carmack.
I thought the questions were great, and I suspect you're being a little sexist and ageist. Sexist in that if Charlie Rose asked exactly the same questions with his Charlie Rose manner, you wouldn't be as upset, and ageist in that the interviewer was clearly quite young. Woz is a lifelong teacher, and is as dedicated to supporting young people learn as anyone, and you're here shitting on their work. She's not Oprah yet, because she's not 40 yet.

My hunch is that you are all objecting, in part, to the fact that a woman is interjecting and according to our cultural norms, women aren't supposed to do that. If a man was doing it, you'd care less. It's a hunch based on 30 years of listening to people, and I'm hopeful you or someone will take this suggestion seriously, although if history is any guide you'll interpret this as a personal attack, go into defense mode and deny any wrongdoing. Fun times.

Also worth noting is that neither TechCrunch nor C|net gave credit to this woman for doing the interview. That's great journalism there, fellas.
Google uses AI for the Priority Inbox functionality of Gmail. It also seems that AI & machine learning are used for displaying ads, see [1].

[1]:http://www.quora.com/Why-is-machine-learning-used-heavily-fo...
Absolutely. Just for the curious, though off-topic, here's a link to the various things MSR is involved with: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/dp/areas.aspx.
Thanks! We'll probably disable the autoplaying soon... it's been pretty contentious :-)
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Hmm I'm not sure if VC's are interested in building relationships with entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs want money from VC's, it's purely business.

I think what would be neat is a startup community. Reddit.com/r/startups and Hacker News are great for posting, sharing, etc., but if you sit down and research the startup experience / collaboration / other aspects of entrepreneurship and created a product which addressed a certain aspect(s) of it, that would be neat
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first, thanks for providing your thoughts, it is much appreciated :)

now for the minuses

- i am aware of that but security restrictions don't allow me to read songs from the OS itself, so i have to copy each song to the app's ow file system so it takes more time.

- it does not go to next track because it is in 'explorer' mode, a playlist does that work, explorer is for managing files, i thought that was the prospect. but i guess that the difference b/w explorer and a playlist is not clear hence the confusion, i will work on that thanks!

- there is a search field, it pops up on top left, maybe there is a bug but i haven't heard of search bar not popping up before but i will look into it :) thanks! here is a screen of how the popup comes (when user clicks on 'search' tab) https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/NPI_iOXSKRiMn8bjoZ-5rzhK8e...

and i really want to work for it but i need to convince my parents to get me to drop it, its India and we are not so 'independent' :P my parents are very understanding and cooperative but they would still need a very good reason to allow me to drop college. acceptance to YC would be enough i guess. :)

thanks alot for the detailed feedback, you have already helped me to decide what i need to work on (improve underlying app and UX)
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The Viewpoints Research Institute fits the bill: http://www.vpri.org/

They want to replace the entire software industry, since it's all a huge hack (especially the 100m+ SLOC codebases that are way too common). Goal: a full GUI system (from kernel to applications) in 20k SLOC. Take a look at the progress reports they've made. They claim a 200 line TCP, 800 line graphics system (apparently comparable to Cairo), and lots of other neat stuff.
Since 90s John Carmack wrote games for hardware planning two years in the future. During his planning and development stage, those games were barely playable on standard gaming machines of the time. But he correctly knew that by the time these games will be released, hardware will get two to four times faster.

Thus for long he was the fist to come up with games that demonstrated the full capabilities of new hardwares. This formula worked until around mid 2000s when suddenly processors weren't getting the yearly speed boost as usual. Doom3 was it's first casualty. It was designed for a hardware that never appeared in market. Game designers had to trim down on-screen characters to make the game playable and released it late.

And rest is what we see now. That's my understanding of the situation.
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I would like to second jeffool's sentiment. I've gone down this path a bit (without really succeeding), and although it's cool to imagine what it's like to do all that really low level manipulation, it takes a REALLY long time to get anything satisfying out of it. Just doing basic 3D collision detection in a simple scene isn't trivial unless you have experience. Physics simulation is a whole beast on it's own, but pretty necessary to make a fun 3D type game.

Anyway, I would suggest picking a small area to fiddle with at a low level, and come up with a small project as a goal for learning it. Maybe just AI at first... text graphics, but create agents that wander in a virtual world. Or maybe just start with a basic 3D scene and try getting lighting going. Think about what seems the coolest to you, then just try to work that little part out and build a proof of concept.

I might try the Open GL books to get started with graphics. I would look around for books like these: http://www.amazon.com/Game-Engine-Architecture-Jason-Gregory... (although I haven't read that one, so I can't vouch for it's quality).
Probably not a practical solution but could you save some of it in the user preferences? If it's an image, you could probably base64 encode it and save it there. I know it's not meant to save tons of data though so probably not a feasible solution. Or how about encoding it and putting it in a Sqlite database?
> But such checks are inherently less thorough than instead having another group replicate the results, in a separate environment, just working from the published paper details.

Not so. Research into "N-version programming" shows that independent implementations tend to have bugs clustered in the same subsystems.

Besides, if scientists can invent a way to reliably communicate requirements in a 12-page paper in Nature then I have a requirements document in Brooklyn I'd like to sell them.
Without first trying an app I wouldn't recommend to my friends. However I couldn't properly evaluate this app without my friends also trying.

If all have to buy a copy, the decision to buy would become a collective one which the chance of buying this app would be even lower.

Further, as this is the first app by the author, there is no track record as a reference.

Hope you understand my reasoning for why social apps should be free at least at the beginning.
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And now cinematographers (like John Schwartzman, DOP on the new Spiderman reboot) say the RED Epic has picture quality like 65mm film, and it shoots full resolution at up to 96 frames per second! All onto a 2.5mm SSD drive.
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We wrote a Turntable.fm clone which can be viewed at http://www.soncoya.com

The neat thing though is that "media" is not limited to just mp3s--as you can see in the demo we can also serve images. We've turned off file upload and such for the purposes of the demonstration since none of us felt like dealing with security and such.
Gran Turismo and Metal Gear Solid were written in C. Ken Kutaragi used them as examples of what could be done with efficient programming techniques and good use of Sony's performance profiling tools. (citation needed: one of my old gaming mags that's probably been recycled three times over by now)

It's rather interesting how Sony went from starting with a system that was considered easy to develop for, to having the most complex product on the market--twice in a row!
But, what IS media?
James Jannard's Red obviously had something to do with this. If you can buy a Red for less than the cost of renting a film camera from Panavision, then that's the way it will go.

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I don't think they license engines anymore. I just hope their tech makes it into Fallout 4 or whatever Bethesda (which is now under the same corporate umbrella as id) ends up calling it.
Read his post about HSA and how it plays into his retirement. Most high deductible plans have full coverage ( 100% ) when the deductible is reached.

Worst case scenario it costs him $4000 ($3000 of which is pre tax) a year. Thats ~300/month. Best case he doesn't visit the doctor once and it cost him $1000 and he puts $3000 into his rainy day / retirement account.

You need to have $3000 available day one of each year to do this, but it makes a lot more economic sense.
"How could it be otherwise when there is now a six-order-of-magnitude gap between the cost of watching a Khan Academy video ($0) and the cost of dozing through the same content in a Harvard lecture hall ($250,000)?"

Oh come on, surely you know pre-calculus better than that.
>>Doesn't this sound like an opportunity then?

Think incubators like yC and others are already onto this.

>>Paradigm shift, we need it.

Perhaps, maybe there is someone like that with the time at hand.

A singular paradigm shift as defined by Kuhn et.al., strictly speaking, would perhaps take half or quarter of a lifetime of effort.

Most entrepreneurs would want to invest that energy into building their companies, not involved with too much political muck.

VCs / institutional folks are functionally services. Its like a 7 star hotel, there are some people who can afford to stay there. Some can even afford a presidential suite. They don't give a hoot about those that cannot pay the tab.. mostly because they are fielding all the demand they can get .. and have no time for anyone's feelings.

You have a better chance of getting empathy from groups like yC than VC.

" Idolatry is the name of the error which attributes a sacred character to the collectivity; and it is the commonest of crimes, at all times, at all places. "[1]

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[1] - http://www.amazon.com/Simone-Weil-Anthology/dp/0802137296
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The framework is for real-time media distribution, and is built on top of Now.js .
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We've found that it greatly simplifies writing pub-sub media distribution channels, and turntable-like rooms.
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I've never seen a $3000 blood test. A family member got an exceptionally rare blood test this summer though; I'll try and look through his paperwork, but I'd be shocked to hear even that test cost so much.
I think they are entirely right in shutting down this outward facing display of unfinished ideas/projects.

I also think they could have done much better than just redirecting it to google.com. Instead of trying to emulate Apple, they should acknowledge that their culture is different and very nerdy. So I think what they should have done instead is to highlight that and use "labs" to instead show off their technical prowess, much in they same vein as what Festo has done : http://www.festo.com/cms/en_corp/9617.htm

A flapping wings robot, how cool is that?!

Google could really do something similar, and the world would love them for it. Instead they look more and more like a big corporation with all the boring "common sense" and mediocrity that comes with it.
He needs Romero back. I think if these two were still working together, we would see some amazing games being made.
1. Carmack stopped making games for us PC gamers and started making games for the true mass market: casual console gamers. Rage is a great competitor to Halo or Call of Duty or whatever.

2. He left a huge void in the world of FPS gaming. The "best" FPS games today (Battlefield 3, Call of Duty) are graphically beautiful, watered down, crap for console gamers. Their actual game play sucks.

Quake1 Netquake Deathmatch/CTF/Clan Arena/Rocket Arena is still more intense and more a test of skill than any other game to follow in the ~13 years since it was created.

Creating a modern replacement (for no other reason really than fixing a few minor issues and bringing in new players) is on my list of Things To Do.
While I would agree that Doom3 was a casualty of the effect you outline, most of the stuff Carmack is working on now is very much within the realm of current & future hardware.

The megatexture tech is a clever use of 'clipmaps' or virtual mipmaps and runs on current-gen hardware. They are currently looking at a sparse voxel octree technique to create a megatexture-like (theoretically)infinite LOD system for geometry. This is also intended to be used on current (or near future) hardware.

A lot of the graphics techniques used by id aren't invented by Carmack, his genius is making them run in realtime on consumer computers. And yes it can be a guessing game :)
>But they're not bouncing photons up to and down from a GPS satellite; they're only using GPS for clock synchronization

by noting photons coming from GPS when neutrinos start at CERN and when neutrinos reach Gran Sasso. 2 downward legs (actually 3 as the photons at the start of neutrino run need to be noted at both points) instead of 1 upward and 1 downward that would constitute proper "bouncing" - i don't see much difference to warrant specific term in this case than talking about general approach of racing the neutrinos against photons.

Compare to running through a fiber, which length (only 700km) and speed of light inside it can be easily accounted for, with GPS we have photons coming from the 12K miles distance (in the best case, ie. when the satellite is right overhead) which is measurable much less precisely than the fiber on the ground and these photons are coming through the atmosphere conditions of which (specifically speed of light in it) are much less precisely known than about the same fiber on the ground.

>and measuring the distance, which is accurate to a lot less than the distance light travels in 60ns.

until they used the military GPS they would have positioning error in the Earth surface tangential plane of a few feet at least (say 2 feet though it would be an extremely small error). Using 20000km/700km proportionality of that triangle, 2 feet on tangential plane would mean ~60 feet in GPS signal arrival precision, ie. 60ns+ of time of flight (it is of course oversimplification, only to demonstrate the scale of imprecision inherently present in the scheme with satellite flying over at 20K km)

Very interesting reading btw, especially on atmospheric and Stagnac effect errors :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_analysis_for_the_Global_P...
Don't forget that organic bacteria/virii/fungus can also be extremely deadly. Even artificial ones. But yes, it'd be more like biological threat than "grey goo scenario".

What if they "eat" electronic devices and other human artifacts instead of organic compounds? Would that contain enough "exotics"? It wouldn't be as directly deadly as nanobots eating meat, but could do great harm to our civilization.
I've always felt BBN [1] was pretty close, not the size of Bell labs, but tons of really awesome research. They've been purchased and sold many times (now with Raytheon) but they are the company behind the original arpanet and, despite many transitions, they've always seemed to preserve their culture (Leo Beranek, nearly 100 now, still stops by from time to time) and passion for research .

[1] http://www.bbn.com/
Who's forcing whom to do anything? Why is having the option to do something such a bad thing? Windows gives its users plenty of opportunity to tinker. Most of them don't bother. With the ipad, however, the option itself is taken away.
It's a measure of business confidence and success - but, as you know, has no bearing on future success and profitability of the company.
the person asking the questions wasn't a reporter. just a member of the public asking him some questions. cut her some slack!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id_Tech

Still being licensed, just with less demand, and with the new restriction that games developed with id Tech have to be published through Bethesda Softworks. id Tech 4 is due for a GPL source code release sometime in the next few months.
> It's one of my fantasies to work on this.

Then why don't you?

No, really, why don't you? Right now.

http://nehe.gamedev.net

http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/output/html/singlepage/bgnet.html

http://developer.nvidia.com/physx

These are the (free) tools that I used to build something very close to Quake. If a dummy like me can, then so can you.

And if it's your fantasy, then you owe it to yourself to make it your reality. Go achieve what I didn't.
I think we can learn a lot from tribal societies. While it's unfeasible to have it in modern society, there's a lot to like from them including their focus on social relationships. I bet all the mental illnesses we have right now are partially cause by effects of the modern world: long commutes, demoralizing and meaningless work, less social ties, less people to confide in, overpopulation

Seeing strangers most of the day leads you to subconsciously believe you're just a insignificant cog in the wheel.. while being in a tribal community leads one to feel they're an integral part of the whole because everyone needs each other. There's a stark identity difference because of our perceived relationship to everyone else.
Can't we keep the commi's out..?
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I hope I never have to smell either (dead mouse or dead human). =/
Ugh, too late to edit. your -> you're; leas as firm a -> least as firm as

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