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Really? Are you sure? I'm surprised. What if you had a choice of installing an ugly app that gets the job done then learn of another app that gets the job done just as well but is prettier? Let's say they're both free. You've never been in that situation?

Personally, I recently switched from one app to another that had less features than the first solely because of the UI. UI can actually be a feature in itself. In my case the UI was important enough for me to forego an app with several extra,museful features that I replaced with other apps in a workflow instead of an all-in-one package. I'm wondering if many people say they're all about function over form (especially developers of any kind) because it's looked at as a superficial reason by peers. Kind of like turning down a girl for a date because she's on the chubby side despite her amazing personality. You know you shouldn't be shallow so you gotta make sure you give a good excuse. Something like "I'm not quite ready to date after my last relationship" will do just fine as a face-saving reason.
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Git under cygwin is so painfully slow, and gets exponentially slower as number of tracked files grow. Even SSD can't fully smooth out the difference :(
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> Economic crises inducing a transition from democracy to plutocracy/fascism, and massive military spending, ending in wars on multiple fronts.

There is one major thing missing from your description; it's so glaring and obvious that I'm amazed that you don't notice it. Nazis rose to power through a populist platform which promoted ethnic/racial hatred and reappropriation of resources from those perceived as morally "corrupt" (the Jewish people) or "too powerful" (the British empire). The Nazi leaders did not come to power first and then all of a sudden decided to exterminate the Jews out of the blue; the they went along with what was a populist sentiment at the time (while adding fuel to the fire by the means of propaganda and mass media which was relatively new at the time), and exploited that precisely that popular, hateful sentiment to guarantee their rise to power. I recommend watching a documentary called "The Goebbels Experiment" for a look from the inside on how it happened.

N.B. By going with what you're suggesting, any possible "empire" is fascist, which is blatantly wrong. Plutocracy is bad for various reasons, but plutocracy =/= fascism and genocide. I find it hilarious when people blame plutocracy for causing fascism because it is precisely the supposed "plutocracy" of the time (which was actually a codeword for rich Jews) which drove (indirectly of course) ignorant/resentful Germans in the 1930s to support Hitler and his clique.
On the inverse side of that equation, does that mean an experienced dev coming from the US will be in a buyer's market job-wise?
I don't know this poster, but I am pretty familiar with the problem he's encountering, as I am the person most responsible for the Chrome build for Linux.

I (and others) have put a lot of effort into making the Linux Chrome build fast. Some examples are multiple new implementations of the build system ( http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2011/02/ninja.h... ), experimentation with the gold linker (e.g. measuring and adjusting the still off-by-default thread flags https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-dev/... ) as well as digging into bugs in it, and other underdocumented things like 'thin' ar archives.

But it's also true that people who are more of Windows wizards than I am a Linux apprentice have worked on Chrome's Windows build. If you asked me the original question, I'd say the underlying problem is that on Windows all you have is what Microsoft gives you and you can't typically do better than that. For example, migrating the Chrome build off of Visual Studio would be a large undertaking, large enough that it's rarely considered. (Another way of phrasing this is it's the IDE problem: you get all of the IDE or you get nothing.)

When addressing the poor Windows performance people first bought SSDs, something that never even occurred to me ("your system has enough RAM that the kernel cache of the file system should be in memory anyway!"). But for whatever reason on the Linux side some Googlers saw it fit to rewrite the Linux linker to make it twice as fast (this effort predated Chrome), and all Linux developers now get to benefit from that. Perhaps the difference is that when people write awesome tools for Windows or Mac they try to sell them rather than give them away.

Including new versions of Visual Studio, for that matter. I know that Chrome (and Firefox) use older versions of the Visual Studio suite (for technical reasons I don't quite understand, though I know people on the Chrome side have talked with Microsoft about the problems we've had with newer versions), and perhaps newer versions are better in some of these metrics.

But with all of that said, as best as I can tell Windows really is just really slow for file system operations, which especially kills file-system-heavy operations like recursive directory listings and git, even when you turn off all the AV crap. I don't know why; every time I look deeply into Windows I get more afraid ( http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2011/08/windows... ).
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I have found Windows a bit slower but never to the extent the author suggests. But then I have generally tested on clean systems without antivirus. So I suspect that this is a huge factor, esp. because it intercepts all FS calls and checks them. That's really not what you want when compiling code.
Why should he run the ls command on ntfs rather then a native file system? In all it was a "windows vs linux" test and not a fileystem test. Testing the same filesystem wouldn't make sense here
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Hmm.. I've had an opposite experience on an atom netbook. Tried Windows Vista and Ubuntu on a netbook. The Windows netbook worked great while Ubuntu regularly would crash. Ubuntu on the netbook was unusable. Now probably I did something wrong? But just installed the latest version with default settings. Anyway I returned the netbook.
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Here is a link from the comments:

NTFS Performance Hacks - http://oreilly.com/pub/a/windows/2005/02/08/NTFS_Hacks.html
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> That text/html should be preferred to text/plain even though both would end up with a quality of 1.0. Although there's no actual algorithm defined for dealing with this situation. The entire decision tree is left implicit based on the examples provided.

It does a bit more than show example in passing, it specifies the following:

> Media ranges can be overridden by more specific media ranges or specific media types. If more than one media range applies to a given type, the most specific reference has precedence.

And indicates how precedence works: accept extensions > "full" mime > type/wildcard > wildcard.

The only situation which is not defined out is a type/wildcard with an extension.

This tie-breaker happens after quality-based precedence resolution.

(full agreement on Accept headers of browsers, they're completely bonkers)
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"RPG" is an empirical cluster. It's a mistake to seriously attempt to infer the properties of the cluster from the term used to describe it. It does seem safe to say that the above description is overly narrow, but that doesn't mean most video games referred to as RPGs have much to do with role-playing.
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I found Darksiders to be very similar to Zelda, based on all the points mentioned by the author.

Separately though, I agree Zelda holds a unique charm that's very difficult to evoke or copy (kind of like Pixar movies).
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Presumably to find out whether the difference lies with the filesystem or somewhere else?

If Linux is still much faster, even with the same filesystem, you have eliminated one variable.
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Wow, so if you want to test file system speeds, you do it by listing files - I know this just an example, but perhaps it has something to do with the speed of the terminal?

There are a plethora of disk benchmarking tools - I doubt that they consistently show 40x differences.

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There is indeed marked differences between unix terminals - xterm is blazingly fast. Do the same test the author did with xterm and with another terminal and you'll see significant differences. cmd may just be a slow terminal masking actual windows speed.
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Unless you are a nutter like me, in which case you hand-roll everything in assembly.
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Well that's the question isn't it? Is it just the filesystem, or is the speed of CL.EXE an issue too? What about the VS build system?

It sounds like you simply don't know enough about the issue to judge whether it's constructive.
It's not just the lessons learned from it. It's how you conceptualize of failure and how you work your way through it to success. Sometimes failure doesn't happen because you make a mistake. Sometimes it is a natural phase on the way towards success.

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Were you running compiles on it??
"Also, the ability to donate has been classified as speech, thus the First Amendment precludes it from being outlawed."

Because they bribed them to redefine their bribing as speech, which any independent thinking individual clearly knows is not the case.

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Actually yes. I can't speak to Android but on iOS you can just drag the controls where you want them to be. Or you could just do it all in code. You don't have to learn anything but the language and the APIs if you don't want to.
Theses online courses are the way of the future. In times when governments look to try and get better results for investments made in education they just make a lot more sense. Rather than giving 100 students a solid base in say AI you are giving 20000+ a level of learning almost as good a similar amount of academic time spent.
I am not sure about that. A lot of solutions are to surprisingly obvious problems that nobody ever saw before because we were accustomed to them.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding (or he's since changed his post), but:

dir /s > c:\list.txt

is piping it into a file. Where does the speed of the terminal affect that (in any significant fashion)? I know what you're getting at - tar --verbose can slow things down for me by sometimes a factor of 2 (for huge tarballs), but I don't think it's an issue in this situation.
I hate how they never did anything useful at all with those patents (at least for people outside UK) and yet they dare.

Not that I like Google much.
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Huh? He redirected the output to a file, so terminal speed doesn't really factor in here.
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A smart investor though is going to diversify risks though. Some good solid, low risk but moderate return investments along with a higher risk strategy with a portion of the money.

Otherwise you have higher risks but no guarantee that you will be able to succeed across a trouble economic climate.

A better approach IMO is to diversify risks. One thing YC does that's kinda cool is a very small amount of investment combined with a sort of mentoring approach. I am not sure it is the right thing for my business, but I won't say it isn't occasionally under consideration.
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GitHub's source code language detection is over there:

https://github.com/github/linguist/tree/master/lib/linguist

It doesn't measure line length, which could be a good way to detect minified JavaScript. It uses file extensions and byte size. There is some exclusion of commonly bundled libraries, but it's a rough heuristic on file paths.
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Funny, I don't even have a high school diploma much less a degree of any kind, and I instantly knew it was probably cache weirdness. Do yourself a favor, drop the obsession with formal CS curriculums, they're not a hallmark of competence.
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I don't understand what you're referring to here. If anything I'd think Heroku customers are the most price-sensitive, and usually start with a free plan.
When developing on Windows it pays significant dividends to manage your include files. There are a number of files provided as part of Visual Studio and/or the Windows SDK that bring in a tremendous amount of large other files.

Unlike with Linux it's quite difficult to perform piecemeal inclusion of system header files because of the years of accumulated dependencies that exist. If you want to use the OS APIs for opening files, or creating/using critical sections, or managing pipes, you will either find yourself forward declaring everything under the moon or including Windows.h which alone, even with symbols like VC_EXTRALEAN and WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN, will noticeably impact your build time.

DirectX header files are similarly massive too. Even header files that seem relatively benign (the Dinkumware STL <iterator> file that MS uses, for example) end up bringing in a ton of code. Try this -- create a file that contains only:

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Preprocess it with GCC (g++ -E foo.cpp -o foo.i) and MSVC (cl -P foo.cpp) and compare the results -- the MSVC 2010 version is seven times the size of the GCC 4.6 (Ubuntu 11.10) version!
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Are you kidding? Heroku is incredibly expensive once you move off the free plan (although I'm sure there's some people who will say that they're happy to pay extra so they don't have to learn how servers work)
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What about Deus Ex? Though the original game doesn't have an overworld, it's levels are quite large (and open ended) and it seems to meet all the other criteria. I'd never thought about it before, but this might be why I enjoy the game so much - it's a Zelda-type experience. I will admit that it lacks the specific weapon/enemy combos the Zelda thrives on. And really, there's only one way to play a Zelda game, while there are a number of very different ways to play DX.
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Not sure about the other things, but this

The default cluster size on NTFS volumes is 4K, which is fine if your files are typically small and generally remain the same size. But if your files are generally much larger or tend to grow over time as applications modify them, try increasing the cluster size on your drives to 16K or even 32K to compensate. That will reduce the amount of space you are wasting on your drives and will allow files to open slightly faster.

is wrong. When you increase cluster size you will definitely not "reduce the amount of space you are wasting". 100B file will still occupy the whole 16KB ( so you will waste 15.9KB on it instead of 3.9KB with 4KB clusters.

Also I would be very careful with taking advice like that from an article which is 6 years old (before introduction of Win7 or XP SP3!)
There is already quite a bit of work done regarding using DNSSEC as a PKI for distributing keys(any kind). One relevant paper is http://www.acsac.org/2005/papers/49.pdf.

The nice part about storing public keys in DNS and authenticate them using the trust chain starting from the DNS root servers, is that you have a solid foundation that can be used for all kinds of interesting applications, much more than just encrypting traffic between the webserver and the client. As an example, we had a project where we stored a public key in the txt field of a domain name(signed), and we would sign all HTTP responses with that key. The client could then get the public key via DNSSEC and verify the signature of the HTTP response. The advantage over SSL is that you get authenticity and integrity for each HTTP response. http://tnc2010.terena.org/schedule/posters/pdf/100511170332n...

The proposal from EFF also leverages DNSSEC as a trust source, which I think is better than the current PKI that we are using, but its not without its flaws. The biggest problem is that you are still dependent of a 3rd party(registrar) to give you that trust, and usually these kind of entities are very prone to being influenced by governments. We can see what kind of legislation some governments are trying to promote, so I'm not sure if a centralized solution is the best way we can go :)
I think Citizens United was decided correctly, and while I support stronger protection of IP, I think SOPA is written too broadly.

I see a big distinction between putting out an original movie that mentions a candidate (the issue in Citizens United) and building a website to distribute other people's movies (the issue in SOPA).

Edit to clarify: distribute other people's movies without their permission.
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If there were no police and no government, you're saying the crime rate woud be same?

No, I have no facts to support that the crime rate would increase. Just tons of post-apocalyptic movie experiences and intuition.
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Depending on how far out you want to take the similarity to other adventure games (and minus the romhacks of Zelda), I can see similarities in terms of gameplay (open world/decent sized inventory/items cause gameplay changes) in games like: Metroid, Cave Story, Rygar, Castlevania, Metal Gear, Fester's Quest, Friday the 13th, and Battle of Olympus.

Granted, some of those are weaker examples than others, but in the terms that he talked about, I'd say that the Metroid connection is probably one of the strongest.
3D Dot Game Heroes is a pretty obvious clone of Zelda (and fun, too!).

Also, after thinking about it, Batman: Arkham (Asylum|City) incorporate many elements from Zelda, especially the gadget and backtracking-mechanics.
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