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At least back in the old days of Nintendo Power, they called games like that "adventure" games, or sometimes action/adventure and RPG was another (then sorely neglected) category where you would always get to read about these games, only to find that they would never leave Japan.
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Yeah, I noticed. I fixed it yesterday.
As an aside, I could never understand why A Link to the Past was consistently ranked higher than Secret of Mana in gaming magazines, top 100 lists, etc. Secret of Mana seemed vastly superior in almost every way.
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Doing some profiling and system/kernel level analysis would be much saner, imo. What's the sense in measuring how some non-native filesystem behaves? In the end you'll be benchmarking how good is fuse-ntfs vs. in-kernel-ext4 and figuring it's slower...
I say, profile some code and see how much time is spent in filesystem calls.
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Great Britain was once the world's greatest superpower and yet managed to transition without becoming fascist. I think that history actually shows a diversity of scenarios.
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Unfortunately it's not as easy as just pumping money into lobbying. It can take decades for special interests to build influence in Washington, and the entertainment industry has had a long head start over Google et al. Still, it seems likely that SOPA will end up being spoken about in the same breath as the MPAA's efforts to get VCRs banned in the early 80s.
I totally agree. I absolutely loved that game.
Interestingly enough Joel Spolsky mentioned something related to the directory listing problem more than 10 years ago. See:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000319.html

In Joel's opinion it is an algorithm problem. He thinks that there is an O(n^2) algorithm in there somewhere causing trouble. And since one does not notice the O(n^2) unless there are hundreds of files in a directory it has not been fixed.

I believe that is probably the problem with Windows in general. Perhaps there are a lot of bad algorithms hidden in the enormous and incredibly complex Windows code base and they are not getting fixed because Microsoft has not devoted resources to fixing them.

Linux on the other hand benefits from the "many eyes" phenomenon of open source and when anyone smart enough notices slowness in Linux they can simply look in the code and find and remove any obviously slow algorithms. I am not sure all open source software benefits from this but if any open source software does, it must certainly be Linux as it is one of the most widely used and discussed pieces of OS software.

Now this is total guesswork on my part but it seems the most logical conclusion. And by the way, I am dual booting Windows and Linux and keep noticing all kinds weird slowness in Windows. Windows keeps writing to disk all the time even though my 6 GB of RAM should be sufficient, while in Linux I barely hear the sound of the hard drive.
So sad.

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"All it takes is for someone who knows someone who knows someone to help them"

Not so sure. I've tried explaining bittorent to several non nerd friends and they all say "oh I'll just watch it streaming".
I dislike people seeing my command line arguments, though.
I started a company with my dad ( a serial entrepreneur) and a couple other older people. The issue is that even though my dad has bootstrapped us a little till the end of the year, we are approaching the time that we need funding and since all the other co-founders need to support their family it is extremely difficult to manage the company because they don't have the flexibility and luxury.

So they can't take that many risks..
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If this continues it may become a club 27 analogue. Though 27 is perhaps a much less random number than 69 in that regard since all three of those dictators had different causes of demise.
Very interesting, but it really makes me wonder.

If Twitter is making money, why dilute the shares with investment like this?

I'm sure one response is 'so they can grow the company', but that seems like a bit of a hard sell at this point.

How big does a company like Twitter really need to grow in order to be successful enough that they don't need to take $300 million investment deals? I mean, they are already the #1 provider of 140 character communication.

What is next?
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Probably a big reason for him seeing slowdowns in incremental builds with MSVC is because of link-time code generation. What seems to be link time is actually code generation time, and it's delayed because intra-procedural optimizations can be run. This kills off a lot of the benefit of incremental building - you're basically only saving parsing and type analysis - and redoing a lot of code generation work for every modification.

NTFS also fragments very badly when free space is fragmented. If you don't liberally use SetFilePointer / SetEndOfFile, it's very common to see large files created incrementally to have thousands, or tens of thousands, of fragments. Lookup (rather than listing) on massive directories can be fairly good though - btrees are used behind the scenes - presuming that the backing storage is not fragmented, again not a trivial assumption without continuously running a semi-decent defragmenter, like Diskeeper.
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The problem as I understand it is that Windows's file metadata cache is broken. I remember reading many years ago a posting by Linus about this but I can't find it at the moment.

According to this document (http://i-web.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp/edu/training/ss/lecture/new-doc...) it would appear that directory entries have one extra level of indirection and share space with the page cache and hence can be pathologically evicted if you read in a large number of files; compiling/reading lots of files for example.

On Linux however the directory entry cache is a separate entity and is less likely to be evicted under readahead memory pressure. Also it should be noted is that Linus has spent a largish amount of effort to make sure that the directory entry cache is fast. Linux's inode cache has similar resistance to page cache memory pressure. Obviously if you have real memory pressure from user pages then things will slow down considerably.

I suspect that if Windows implemented a similar system with file meta data cache that was separate from the rest of the page cache it would similarly speed up.

Edit: I should note, this probably wouldn't affect linking as much as it would affect git performance; git is heavily reliant on a speedy and reliable directory entry cache.
Anybody know if this was a direct investment, or through a secondary market?
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What I've heard people say is that if you can get money, get it. (on your terms of course)

There's not much that Twitter has done in improving their product (been 5 years)..which is something I don't really understand too much.
I'd be surprised if a lot of the $300M doesn't go towards existing shareholders cashing out.
I am not certain but it is possible that this was a secondary market purchase. The fact that it was announced by the Prince and not announced as a funding round by Twitter suggests a secondary market purchase.

In other words, the Saudi Prince may have bought the stake from an existing Twitter investor.
Torrents are not what I would consider a nerdy way of sharing files - and have some pretty straightforward DNS vulnerabilities. The first target of SOPA will be every worthwhile Torrent Search engine. Those sites will be taken down overnight.

Moving to static IP addresses puts the owner of that RIR block in jeopardy.

Napster was sued out of existence, went bankrupt, and shut down.

If SOPA passes, it will be a multi-billion dollar wealth transfer from the Internet Industry, and our personal freedoms, to the Entertainment industry. It will be effective in at at least two (Negatively impacting our freedoms, and the Internet Industry) - remains to be seen if it will benefit the Entertainment Industry.
They won't get higher prices for their stock that what people like this are willing to pay. They need a killer business model or a lot more scale to have revenues large enough to justify their valuation.

Taking this kind of money keeps them in business long enough to build real revenues (or fail).
The original Athlon was all about clock speed and the race past 1Ghz. The P4 quickly surpassed it, though, and left the Athlon competing on the basis of cost (P4s required RDRAM, which was much more expensive.) In the fall of 2001, the P4 hit 2Ghz and added DDR SDRAM support before the Athlon XP showed up at 1.5Ghz, and the Athlon XP was never really able to clearly beat Intel's fastest. It wasn't until the Athlon 64 that AMD was able to win across the board with significantly lower clock speeds.
How much of Twitter does that get him?
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The point of maximum leverage for SOPA seems to be lobbyists, and those who instruct them, not the congressmen who they buy. Right now they seem to be well hidden, and the decks are stacked in their favor, with protests and letter writing campaigns to Congress seemingly ignored.

Maybe the time has come for those who are pushing for this act to be fully exposed, and subject directly to public outrage. A handful of Big Content execs should be a lot easier to influence, than 485 members of Congress.
This might be a good explanation for this behavior:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2858603/why-is-keyword-ha...

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The language is limited by IE dragging their feet on unbreaking their implementation or advancing standards, Webkit and V8 staying at a very conservative middle ground (Google pushing Dart and compilation as substitutes), and Mozilla being the only engine developer showing willingness to evolve the language, because they are the only ones using it to implement the rest of their browser. Node.js is held back by a language implementation they don't control and feels underpowered in the language department, indirectly being a victim of resistance to change in the browser landscape.

Python and other non-browser languages are far more powerful and expressive, and — since you refer to Python 3 — willing to further improve.
The Current Generation of the Grand Theft Auto series do in fact meet the qualifications. The game skin throws you off, but the structure is very similar. The only major difference is that there are subchapters in plot instead of just chapters.
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Three games that would get pretty close to that are cavestory (but not many optional subquests), secret of mana (not sure though for the rule #8 it's been a while) and little big adventure (but it's been a long time I've played it so I'm not 100% sure anymore). Incidentally, those are some of my favorite games...

But indeed there are very few games that meet all those requirements which is a bit of a pity...
Honest question: why don't you like Google? Is there a search engine you prefer?
That probably only applies to single player games. You can compare single player games to movies: you can't "lose" in a movie. Multi-player games are more like sports, in which case losing has a different meaning.
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haha.. maybe it's because i was a kid then and the internet was the place were I hung out after school, but i have such nostalgia for the "cyber" age.
My 6 year old son just played through it on our Wii and I was reminded how awesome Secret of Mana is. I started a new game myself and was sucked in instantly.

Excellent game.
The author has an issue with speed, not stability.
Let's look at the reason for the "stuck in your ways" dynamic. There is a saying in the software engineering world, which is "Those who do not learn from UNIX are destined to reinvent it badly." Very often times new approaches come to the fore as fads which then fade away just as quickly. Often times these new approaches have tradeoffs people make because they don't understand the value of the old approaches. Nothing shows this better than something like Ruby on Rails, a technology personally I will never touch more than I have to.

Older engineers who have been around the block tend to assume new technologies are fads until proven otherwise. Many have been burned a few times. Many have learned the hard way that the best engineers are methodologically conservative. And so they get labelled as stuck in their ways not because they are not creative, but rather because they are cautious about new fads. The way to sell to these engineers is to demonstrate understanding of the values of the old methods as well as the benefits of the new approaches.

All you can do is take an engineer, listen to their ideas and observe their work, and if they are good it will show. If they are past their sell by date, that will show too. And if they are more air than insight, well that comes out pretty quickly too.

I will entirely second this however.
Remember how Obama promised to remove lobbyists and not take their money?

It almost as bad as Guantanamo still being open (except some innocent people there without trial for half a decade).

When lawmakers make their own laws, they are certainly going to guarantee they can always take money and get big benefits (and skip the TSA lines at airports, etc. etc.)
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I don't think there's an O(n^2) algorithm in there. I just created a directory with 100,000 entries. Listing it (from Cygwin, no less, using 'time ls | wc') takes 185 milliseconds. The directory is on a plain-jane 7.2k 1TB drive, though of course it's hot in cache from having been created. 'dir > nul', mind you, is quite a bit slower, at over a second.
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Very clever. Kudos on shipping a new rev of Word Lens, too.
> that we should allow all of them to be done as efficiently as possible

Efficiency is the enemy for things like this, because it only shows a minimum amount of involvement with the issue. You show you care at all by participating in petitions, but you prove you care more by participating in more time-intensive activities.

This is something that you'll see people close to politicians say quite a lot, that the method of communication counts, and a multiplier is used to count your input based on that method. It's why you're supposed to write to your $political_representative on paper rather that firing off an email, and it's why you're supposed to hand write the letter (legibly, please!) rather than typing it. A person who takes an hour or two drafting a compelling response to legislation, writing a final copy by hand, taking it to the post office, affixing a stamp, and mailing it out has shown more concern for the issue than does a guy who goes on HN, sees this link, and fills out a form to effectively just say "yeah, me too, what he said!"
The metroid connection fits most of his criteria; certainly, at least the minimum he suggests at the end. I would be interested in hearing why he thinks the series only meets the 3 check marks it gets... For lack of better phrasing, it just seems entirely incorrect.

The rules that he cites as the minimum rules basically describes the "metroidvania" subgenre. Essentially, games in this genre have an open world, in which you explore to find powerups in order to reach more places to explore. While the genre doesn't demand level puzzles, that's how the games are typically designed.
I was trying to be subtle, but still say that I find it amazing that Twitter hasn't figured out a business model yet. Anyone I've talked with any bit of knowledge has always said that they are raking in the cash selling data analysis and things like promoted tweets.

That said, as other people have commented, maybe Twitter didn't have a choice in this matter. If so, that would have been an interesting phone call to listen in on.

Assume you have $300 million worth of Twitter stock that you can sell. Imagine getting a phone call along the lines of: "The Saudi prince is calling, and he'd like to buy all your stock for $300 million." I'd be sh*tting bricks and trying to figure out if there are any new Gunboat 90's [1] available to purchase. ;-)

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Especially since Apple bought at least one patent from BT that it is using to sue HTC.
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The "name" tagging is great news. Thanks!
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Hi,

I'd like to know why big companies job boards are so broken. Every time I try to apply for a job I have to:

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Yeah, this would be a killer app if interfaced with some online recipe repository (there are several), but then it would require some additional UI to weed out recipes based on individual requirements ("too hard", "too slow", "not vegetarian" etc).

Now I'm tempted to go write my own webapp to do that, lol :D
There's a Zelda-like game for iPhone that came out earlier this year, Sacred Odyssey: Rise of Ayden, made by Gameloft.
My point is that this isn't an unreasonable thing to expect people to know, as evidenced by it being taught to undergrads. That you know it without a high school diploma strengthens my assertion that it is a reasonable thing to expect people to know.

This isn't about "formal CS curriculum", this is about a passing familiarity of modern computer architecture.
If you want to work for a bank, probably. And you probably will be able to find a job at a startup, but (a) you won't have hundreds of choices, and (b) the pay might be horrible.

You probably shouldn't move here unless you had something lined up before hand.
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"I don't understand", eh :P, well, allow me to expand then, my English level isn't good enough to get my point across in a couple sentences.

- The guy barges in uninvited as if all hell broke loose and goes directly to the tech manager instead of passing through our customer service. Bad manners.

- When I patiently and openly ask him about the nature of the issue, I expect a bug, a missing feature, an accident, something that I can fix. The only fix this guy has in mind is me firing my "incompetent" dev.

- Labelling someone in my team as incompetent, without any names, means labelling me an incompetent, regardless of whether I was in charge back then. Helping him would be equivalent to taking the blame and would put me in a position of inferiority. Over something we basically did for free as a favor. One full year ago.

Best case scenario: for a full year he was in front of his product and raging over the dev's incompetence without telling anyone => incompetent product owner

Worst case scenario: something came up in the recent past which makes our product dangerously unfit under these new conditions. The best move at this point is to ask for improvements & fixes, workarounds or alternatives, or request through the chain of command to have us all replaced if it was really that bad. He simply ignored all that and thought he would solve the situation by barking baseless insults at my face => incompetent manager.

What the guy did was the professional equivalent of Trolling. I did what I usually do, I squelched him, sent a mail to abuse@theguy.com, told my system to filter him out, and moved on.
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I find it hard to believe that somebody with no knowledge of "low level compiler and OS stuff" that did know the basics of caching (generalized) and had strong problem solving skills (which all developers regardless of specialization should have) would have a hard time puzzling something approximating a correct diagnosis.

I think that you are not giving your average "web developer" enough credit.