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In regards to the infographic How Our Laws Are Made[1], where does SOPA and/or PIPA stand currently?

[1] http://www.mikewirthart.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/howla...
Nice and lightweight- I like it!

Seems like a really nice addition to this would be to demonstrate a quick integration with git bisect (http://book.git-scm.com/5_finding_issues_-_git_bisect.html). That could help you quickly identify troublesome commits where the speed dropped significantly.
Maybe he thought that cryogenics is as much an emotional crutch to hide from death with as the concept of heaven? I certainly do.
If SOPA passes, surely this will be a regrettable decision...
I wrote a post about this last week saying why this sort of thought is wrong. In summary it is basically this:

As people of power in a position to make important decisions it is their PROFESSIONAL. ETHICAL. DUTY. to know all the facts that pertain to the situation. At no point is it our fault to not understand their system in its entirety but it IS their fault to be making conscious decisions that effect people and systems they do not entirely understand.

As an engineer it boggles my mind to see someone weighing in on an issue they haven't rightfully studied before attempting to tackle. If there is a project I'm asked to assist on and I'm not confident I can work with my current level of knowledge> I tell my employer and I either get reassigned or scheduled for training. There is no faking it in my industry, why should they be allowed to fuck everything up because they were willfully ignorant.

It goes past that though. They HAVE experts talking to them, or at least trying. The engineers, architects and experts that practically founded the internet have weighed in on how this is a bad idea and yet THEY'RE IGNORED! Don't pretend like this level of ignorance and pure negligence is acceptable for one minute because it just shows how complacent people have become with their representatives.

/rant
Though the author seems aware of his subjective limitations ("...there are almost ZERO clones of Zelda. I’m probably missing a whole bunch but..."), he is nevertheless very quick to make sweeping pronouncements. And he defines the Zelda subgenre more or less recursively; to be like Zelda is to be Zelda-like in ways X, Y, and Z.

Through it all, the primary conditions for being like Zelda seem to be: a) to have been noticed by the author in his game-playing travels, and b) to have passed the author's retroactively applied taste test.

All of this is a shame, not because the author gives short shrift to every Zelda-style game out there, but because he does so to Zelda itself. Given his passion for the series, he could have written a very insightful dissection of what makes it work. Why is Zelda so revered, so timeless, and so enchanting? These are questions the author seems overly equipped to handle, and their answers would make for a very interesting post (or series of posts). I, for one, would love to see him take a deeper dive into the mechanics, psychology, mythology, setting, and style of the series. Relieved of the burden of proving a categorical declaration, he could instead focus his energies on a lively study. Rather than talking about what makes Zelda an exception, he could talk about what makes Zelda exceptional.
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How SOPA could actually break the internet
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> Here in Australia, as well as in Canada & most of Western Europe, universal health care is a lot closer to reality.

The US has universal healthcare. Americans either don't know about it or don't like it.

And no, I'm not talking about the emergency room. Even folks well over the poverty line are eligible for medicaid, (In fact most of the so-called "uninsured" are eligible for medicaid and are signed up as soon as they actually need care.) There are free clinics almost everywhere, and county-level care is free. Most people don't know about the latter two.

Yes, folks who get chronically sick have economic problems - not being able to work does that so healthcare isn't the solution.
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"I don't complain about politicians because everyone does. This politician sucks, that politician is a fucking idiot. Yeah, we'll guess what asshole? YOU KEEP VOTING FOR THESE MORONS! You keep arguing about democrat vs. republican, you keep asking for things from the government, you keep on voting for the people you complain about. You legitimize the bullshit. This is what you get for wanting to be led like little children."

- George Carlin

I have this from an .mp3 I got from some weird torrent, but I haven't been able to find it on YouTube or on iTunes. I'll try to get it up on the web if I can...
>Most of these just wind up saying "Interstate Commerce". In other words, you'll never be able to enforce this in any meaningful way.

In my imagined utopia, all these justifying messages would be listed on a lawmaker's github profile-style page next to a big picture of their face, and any lawmaker with a long list of "interstate commerce" type messages would look like an unelectable crypto-fascist in the eyes of the public. I'd put the messages in speech bubbles emanating from the headshot photo, like you see in some commenting systems, just to drive the point home.
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Where does it say that the "digital first" part led to profit?

From my point of view the quality of the journalism online made me fork over money, but I don't see how "digital first" comes into this.
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I bet The Guardian is looking very closely at this - they have been losing money for years, and they're going "digital first" too. Let's hope it works out as well for them.
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That is what I was insinuating.
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That's definitely on my todo list.
Yes, but this is the crux of his reaction:

There was something about the idea that I might have died in a grey train full of grey commuters, having not truly lived, that I could not stand.
FWIW, a HTTPS version of Reddit does exist. It just happens to be on the pay.reddit.com hostname instead. See:

https://pay.reddit.com/r/SOPA/comments/nhfes/do_you_guys_rea...
There was much speculation at what price point online courses from big name universities would be offered.

Now, Stanford and MIT have offered theirs for free. I wonder if this will anchor the market at this point.

Couldn't be better for the large number of people out there who seek quality learning. Let's hope it will work great!
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Dunno, they picked up twitter pretty fast.
One thing I would really like is email notification of new posts, even if they don't specifically mention you. Since there is no G+ app for Windows Phone and their mobile website sucks, it'd be nice if I could set a couple people to be an "always notify", where whatever they post that I am able to see, it emails or texts me to let me know.

Right now the only way I see to do that would be to have them specifically mention me in the post.
I don't know where you've interviewed in the UK, but the type the of interviews you've described in the US are pretty much the standard in the UK at major tech companies and in the financial sector.

The purpose of questions such as reversing a linked list is to test your understanding of fairly fundamental computer science, to see if you're someone who understands the technology you're using or if you treat it as a black box. For more technical companies they need people who fall into the first category hence ask that type of question.
In the production video blogs he seems legitimately excited sometimes, and other times it's like the people on the blog are in a commercial for 3D. We do see Alan Lee and John Howe illustrating and story boarding in 3D which is cool.

As a side note, it's insane to watch those production videos: I remember Jackson saying they have 48 RED cameras (2 per rig), it shows them scouting locations in 5 helicopters, and it's amazing to see the amount of people and work going into making the movies.

First video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjMEYjCNGmg&feature=relat... (there are 4 so far, I believe)
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> It was a brilliant tactical maneuver. First, it delayed discussions while members of the august Judiciary committee wrangled with how to handle this unusual conversational detour. Second, it put SOPA-supporting chairman Lamar Smith, a conservative Republican whose district is largely Texas Hill Country, on the defensive by appearing to show him siding with the intellectual-property rights of people who create triple-X movies.

> Third--and this may have been the point of the entire exercise--it gave Polis an excuse to insert the full lyrics of the popular Internet meme "The Internet is for Porn" into the official congressional hearing record for SOPA. (Representative excerpt: "All these guys unzip their flies / For porn, porn, porn!")

> Because the amendment goes further than obscenity and encompasses "pornography," it could have imperiled the remainder of SOPA. U.S. courts have ruled that pornography is not a legal term of art and is presumptively protected by the First Amendment.
> Polis' amendment, in other words, could doom SOPA on constitutional grounds: which "R" rated movies would be pornographic? How about Maxim? Explicit rap lyrics? More to the point, which MPAA and RIAA member companies might have to worry about their products being deemed "pornographic?"

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57344507-281/internet-is-f...
SO is quickly approaching reference territory. It is my go-to authority on most programmatic questions.

And not all content takes the form of a how-do-i-solve-this-problem format. Would be good to see them re-purpose that good information (like this particular entry) into a useful format.
The volume controls for circles are a great idea. I prefer this to the algorithmic approach taken by Facebook.

It's a pitty that pseudonymns are still not mentioned here though. NSFW controls would be nice too (as opposed to the blanket ban on NSFW content in place at present).
And now, after lv. 3, I think I understand your approach. IMHO you should explain that buying for cash is an alternative for the lazy. Still I think that if you go down the IAP road, you should only ever charge for additional content (e.g. the next 50 levels), and not for power ups for the game.

Just my 2 cents (sorry, couldn't help it).
Well we obviously didn't enable PGO/LTO for GCC either when doing these tests as that would have been pointless.

It would have been interesting to compare the quality of the respective compiler's PGO/LTO optimizations (particularly PGO given that for GCC and ICC code is sometimes up to 20% faster with that optimization) but not interesting enough for us to purchase a Visual Studio licence.

And yes we use floating point math in most of our code, and if MSC doesn't vectorize then that would certainly explain worse performance. However this further denies the blanket statement of 'VC++ generates significantly better code than GCC.' which I was responding to.
I think the decision only has to be made at the top level, the graphical UI.

One of the things I like about Mac OS X is how solid the command-line "defaults" mechanism is. It has allowed me to expose everything that might be useful to configure, while still trimming the graphical preferences UI and setting a series of factory defaults. So an app can be both simple and flexible at the same time.
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Thanks. No CMS.

Everything is hand coded and designed by me from scratch. I use Rails/HAML to make things a little easier.
The theory behind the technical questions is not whether you can reverse a linked list, but rather:

-Do you know basic computer science concepts
-How are your problem-solving skills
-Can you move beyond "obvious, yet flawed" answers
-Do you exhibit passion (passion to get to the right answer, enjoyment of problem solving, etc)
-Can you present and justify solutions
-Integrity (If you've seen the problem before, tell the interviewer, don't 'fake solve' it!)
-Are you thorough (probing to understand problem, handling error cases, boundary cases, etc)
-Can you communicate/collaborate with the interviewer

Anyway, that's the theory. In reality, many interviewers use whiteboard questions as a crutch to an easy interview loop and don't really understand why they're asking what they're asking.

My biggest piece of advice is to remember the technical interview isn't just (or even mostly) about the technical aspect. Communicate constantly, verbalize your thoughts, ask questions, show passion. I've hired plenty of people who have done not-so-well at the technical portion, and I've given a 'no hire' to plenty who have aced the technical portion.
There's a bunch of stuff about the huge increase in online ad revenue. I think it's a reasonable to assume that this was driven by their "digital first" approach.

Personally, having been a past subscriber to the Atlantic but given up on it owing to never having time to read magazines and only being interested in a subset of the articles in a typical issue, I like being able to read interesting stories when the mood takes me rather than piling the magazines up in the unread pile and then feeling stupid when I realize I missed a really compelling article. (I often found out about articles in my unread magazines on NPR or online.)
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Isn't the callback juggling just cognitive overhead given performance is less often a consideration with shell scripts and that they are frequently IO heavy?
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I'm going to nitpick a bit and say this article would be better titled, "Accounting for Geeks". Over simplified, finance is more forward looking, while accounting is a reflection or recording of what has happened in the past. Income Statements, Balance Sheets, and Cash Flow Statement are accounting instruments.

To be fair, the article talks about funding, which is finance, but brushes over the differences between debt and equity finance and doesn't provide the tools to evaluate when, what, and how to finance.

Tech start ups are probably in a, take what you can get, position for funding. Still, having an understanding of finance could help with evaluating things like convertible notes which start as debt and can optionally convert to equity.
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I concur with the rest of the comments - I don't understand how the author can dismiss the plethora of RPG/adventure games, from GTA to Skyrim, as not being inspired by Zelda's gameplay in the same way platformers can be said to be derivative of Mario.

What's surprising is the fact that the "fanboyism" would only be augmented by this conclusion, in that imitation is the greatest form of flattery. I'd say the message would be even more powerful if he could articulate this genealogy.

On the other hand I realize the Zelda series is absolutely unique, but that this is due its minimalism, its art, and its' developers' refusal to sacrifice artistic continuity for the sake of graphic realism. The directing through the history of the series is the element impossible to replicate.
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> In the long run they can NOT justify to give those remote learners not a "real" MIT degree

Why can't they justify it? If the deal is MIT degrees for residential students and 'distance' degrees from an MIT subsidiary, that's just fine.

Edit: It's trivial to argue that a 'real' MIT degree includes the experience of being resident and directly interacting with profs and other students.
It comes down to conversion rate, the CPC you earn as an affiliate is roughly the same as you could earn from an ad network (affiliate marketers doing price arbitrage ensures this is the case).

But if you can produce a significantly higher conversion rate by integrating the affiliate links into your core product then it may be able to generate you more income.

You can get the affiliate payment rates fairly easily from someone like Amazon of an affiliate network like CJ so use them to make a spreadsheet and figure out the kind of traffic and conversion rates you'd need to make a viable startup.
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Very interesting. I'd be interested in potential uses for other languages. I might do some research.
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I like the tactic the petition used by even if they took the time to treat it seriously this is the only 2 outcomes...

1) The petition gets removed for containing infringing content

or worse...

2) The government moves towards removing imgur.com because it is doing the hosting of the infringing content

I know, I know its absurd, but who really believes that that link can bring down whitehouse.gov?
Open source segments need the design considerations - Even with its size and limits with scope.

An important read but not very relevant to open source whitneyhess.com/blog/2011/04/23/youre-not-a-user-experience-designer-if/

The user perspective is the most important gain for any designer/team. Build a team to challenge each other in user perception and details. Settings and preferences are the most valid arguements for such choices.
Clutter is unacceptable.

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In principle, I agree with you. But that gets us nowhere. Would you prefer to be "right" and not get what you want, or concede that this is just how things work and get what you want?

I agree with the author of the article: we need to figure out a better way of educating Congress. I don't know how, but their ignorance makes this obvious. Blaming Congress for being ignorant does not get us what we want.

I'm going to assume that we (where I define "we" as those people who have technical backgrounds and could explain the problem to someone in Congress given the chance) have done a poor job of educating Congress on how the internet works. With that as a given, and further assuming that we know organizations likes the RIAA are actively lobbying Congress, the current situation is inevitable. People in Congress are like passive journalists: they need to have a basic understanding of a wide range of topics, but sources come to them, instead of them going to sources. If only one side of an issue talks to them, then they're only going to understand that side.
cheapness may open new frontiers. 10(or more)-pack raspis available at your local store at the cash register next to the cigarettes may open new ways to computing where hackers and admins may install to places previously unplanned.

for example, i may feed my cat remotely and get a mobile webcam at home to by deploying several rasperries, some usb equipment and apt-get install and a full linux, or create a videochat only computer for gtalk sticked to the kitchen wall. instead of arduino, a standard pc, and usb may provide more values. of course battery will be a problem.
I thought they were encouraging such questions to be posted on http://programmers.stackexchange.com/ instead.
Since 1.5.1 git has had `git-bisect run` which can fully automate the whole thing.

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Only used this a couple of times, but I highly recommend it. It's one of those tools that's so clever you feel a bit like a jedi just using it.
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In my experience, you don't have to be careful. I've written lot's of C++ that compile fine on Windows (using mingw/msys) or Linux/Mac using gcc. Can you provide an example of where gcc specific features are included w/o the developer explicitly doing so?
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Every time I've tried logging in with an existing account to sign anything I've always gotten a 404 after.
I wonder how much of the $15.00 it costs to rent this article for 24 hours the authors of this paper will receive.
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Sure they can, but if the students that receive MITx accreditation match the standards of certified MIT students then ideally there shouldn't be much difference, it will just take the job market a while to recognize this.
I have a subscription to the Atlantic because of reading the articles and their blogs online. I don't think it would be incorrect to attribute their turnaround in going digital first. I've been reading their properties for years and there was definitely a change (perhaps in just attitude).
The idea of several different goals is how the US football system works. Most games in the season 'count' by improving your seeding in the playoffs but it's also binary so you get in or don't. Adapting a similar system for video games could work vary well.

I would suggest banding things so 20 teams compete for a spot in the playoffs which consists of 16 teams. (aka 16 people get a win at the cost of 4.) And in the actual playoffs you only lose one game, so rank people based on what round they get to. Something like winner!, (A++) lost final game, (A+) final 4, (A) final 8, (B) got into playoffs, (Try again)did not get into playoffs.

The secret is letting people move on as soon as they can't win any more while making them feel like getting as far as they did is still worth something. Lost the first 6 games? Hey start over it's ok, I hope you learned how the game worked etc.
Dear Internet, Its called The New World Order. They're not uneducated, its a conspiracy.

Oh, look! our Congress is sooooo dumb, they decided to do away with the Bill of Rights on the 222nd anniversary of its signing, and declare that disagrees with them is a terrorist and that "terrorists" can be held indefinitely without recourse.

From childhood we are told that we are smart and politicians are stupid. But maybe, just maybe, the average netizen is so prideful he believes that he cannot be manipulated by a powerful combine of men, pretending to act stupidly, but in truth acting maliciously.
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I think the GP refers mostly to the title.

No, the 'internet' doesn't need to learn about Congress, since the internet is a world-wide thing. I won't learn about politics in the USA anytime soon (no disrespect here, it's just of no interest to me and that's how I like it), but the article addresses me too.
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Let's try freedom for once.