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5. its not about not liking the employee. its about having a financial need to downsize. Lets say you are a consultancy working with a big client that takes lots of hours and several employees. If this big client decides to close the contract you might not be able to bring enough new projects in time to cover. At some stage you will have to fire people or your whole company goes under.
The real joke is YouSendIt's servers were brought to their knees by running apache benchmark off of one machine.
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It's not really directly comparable to an Arduino - it's a full-blown ARM Linux computer, with HDMI, ethernet, and a couple of orders of magnitude more RAM than an Arduino.

It also has some limited IO available, if you're prepared to solder headers onto the board.

An Arduino is basically a whole bunch of IO, including PWM output and analogue input, that you can wrap up with some glue logic or send straight to a computer.

If you want to interface with a range of sensors/motors in a self-contained unit, a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino actually make a good combination - you can write your logic code in whatever language you like in a Linux environment, and use the Arduino to interface it with the real world.
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I'm glad it's gold so I can use more modern libraries again. But the reduced cost thing is not a guarantee. If you do a lot of rpc calls per request, multithreading actually makes latency and instance count absolutely horrible.

Of course this seems kind of ridiculous to me, if you aren't using the rpc's what the heck is your app actually doing?

So like everything, you need to test your application to see what configuration is right for you. For the app I maintain, python2.7 single threaded is only slightly slower than 2.5 but I expect that to improve over time and it was worth switching now just to not have to write for python2.5 anymore.

Costs are higher, but still less than leasing a data center and employing staff to maintain it.
… and? I don't understand what you're trying to say?
Combat mechanics are not gameplay but a smoke-and-mirrors thing, you think you are in control but seriously the games are nothing but interactive movies IMHO: they follow a fixed script; if you die on a combat sequence you will return to a near save point, go into the same combat again, do the required keyboard/button tapping magic and as a well done you are awarded with more control time where you spend it to go to the next objective, there you will meet another combat instance and rinse repeat until you see the ending cinematic.

few games break this and offer you true sandboxy play, which I believe is a total break from an interactive movie-type play. you only know yourself and you have no objectives set apart from you set for yourself.
Niether Ruby or Python do "pass by reference".

They both do "pass reference by value". Which is a big difference.
Let's look at the thing in context. First of all the claim was made 5 years ago when she was fairly new to the computer games industry (she'd worked on tv shows and written for table top games before). Who know how she feels about games today.

Also she didn't simply say she hated games she actually said "...While I enjoy the interactive aspects of gaming, if a game doesn’t have a good story, it’s very hard for me to get interested in playing it. Similarly, I’m really terrible at so many things which most games use incessantly — I have awful hand-eye coordination, I don’t like tactics, I don’t like fighting, I don’t like keeping track of inventory, and I can’t read a game map to save my life. This makes it very difficult for me to play to the myriad games I really should be keeping up on as our competition."

Finally her comment about wanting to skip combat was made in the context of her having a baby and simply not having the time needed to get through an RPG. She just wanted an option to follow the story of the game without having to dedicate month of her life (time she no longer had) to do so.
The interview is supposed to say this:

> "What is your least favorite thing about working in the industry?

> Playing the games. This is probably a terrible thing to admit, but it has definitely been the single most difficult thing for me. I came into the job out of a love of writing, not a love of playing games. While I enjoy the interactive aspects of gaming, if a game doesn't have a good story, it's very hard for me to get interested in playing it. Similarly, I'm really terrible at so many things which most games use incessantly -- I have awful hand-eye coordination, I don't like tactics, I don't like fighting, I don't like keeping track of inventory, and I can't read a game map to save my life. This makes it very difficult for me to play to the myriad games I really should be keeping up on as our competition."

However the link to the real interview is dead[1]. The only posting available is a copy from the BioWare forum 12 months ago[2].

I'll admit that the long-form really softens up the impact. It give her nuance and personality, and its hard to shamelessly hate someone you understand unless ofcourse, you willfully choose to selectively remember the worst of what they say.

[1] http://killerbetties.com/killer_women_jennifer_hepler/?page=...
[2]http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/141/index/6605174/
Remember, a classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. Spending time with family/relatives/friends is something that everybody wants to have done and nobody wants to do. Hard work is something that everybody wants to have done and nobody wants to do. Don't be afraid to just do what makes you feel good (unless it causes others significant trouble), regardless of what some sacred social convention dictates.

Remember also that the grass is always less brown on the other side. The moment you entertain the thought that some other situation would be better, you suffer. If you think some choice you made in the past was a bad one, it might be because you've only seen the consequences of the one option you chose. The other options might have been just as bad.

It's already hard enough to stay sane here on planet shithole without romanticizing Things As They Aren't.
I actually didn't realize till now that it was something she posted in 2006. It's still not good to have it come up now but to me it makes it less relevant.

However, PR is like politics and if you remember the Obama campaign--opponents can make impact by dredging up old dirt about you from even 30 years ago.
I'm just starting to study EE in Australia at UQ, so I'm definitely going to be looking at this and seeing how it compares to my EE courses here.
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Too late to have someone change the typo in the product's name in the title? It ends with a 'Y', not an 'I'. Aaargh.
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You're joking right? Taking apart an existing diode to build a transistor from it comes nowhere close to making the transistor from scratch. Not to mention the clamps and files, the microscope, the phosphorous bronze for the contacts, ...

This video is great, but it's a century or two of progress away from "from scratch".
Education might be the stated aim of the project but its not the limit of the device. This is a device similar to an Arduino except for the fact its got HDMI, USB, is about 700 times faster and in the order of 256 million times more RAM and its only 25% more expensive. Its a hardware hackers delight and a desktop capable computer. It is also a very real competitor for nettops which sell in the millions at a price point 5-10x higher than this.

It may very well be used by students to code, but that will be a niche it falls into right behind becoming the cheapest desktop capable computer ever built that isn't locked down. This could very well start a revolution in portable desktop computers that are really cheap. I personally think it is an exciting device but let down by the narrow vision of its application.
I do find it impressive that Australia was more or less connected to the rest of the world by telecommunications in 1872 once the overland telegraph line was completed. The US was only connected reliably connected to Europe about six years earlier in 1866. So not a bad effort given the vaster geographic distances to span between Europe and Australia.
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Arduino, while nice and useful (I used it more than once), it's much less than raspberrypi. Arduino's power comes from the community, nice IDE and a lot of examples that are easy to grasp even for someone who is not a CS major. It is wonderful if you want to make you off-shelf PC communicate with simple engines, many types of sensors, things like that, and it's easy to connect to Processing or puredata, it's basically what you get if you want an interactive art piece and don't want to mess with assembler, bootloaders, and whatever.

However, Arduino is 30 USD for ATmega, 20 I/O pins and a USB you can use to program it. Raspberrypi is 35 USD (1) for ARM as powerful as the one in iPhone, with 256 MB RAM, HDMI output, two USB ports you can use to connect peripherals, allegedly powerful graphic processors (though it's probably going to have proprietary bloby drivers) and an Ethernet ports. Oh, and some I/O pins too.

It's basically a general purpose computer, allegedly as powerful as Pentium III (2), as big as Arduino, and taking slightly more but still incredibly small amount of power.

For further comparison, BeagleBoard has slightly better connectivity but worse CPU and graphics, and is bigger, and is 150 USD (about 4x the cost). PandaBoard is faster but similar and is 170 USD (little less than five times the cost). And yesterdays Arstechnica article speaks about similar computer in shape of a small flashdisk with slightly faster CPU than raspberry and ! GB ram costing 200 USD.

This is like free.fr for ARM development boards. It doesn't mean Arduino is finished or something (it's best thing was always the simplicity - anything you can do with Arduino can be done with plain ATmega and some hacking and they're dime a dozen) but it's nice.

(1): though local prices vary. Here Arduino is listed as about 1 USD less than raspberry.

(2): I can't remember where I read that, and it might've been Pentium II, so don't quote me on that, plese
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So it's a minicomputer without the disk, keyboard, mouse, screen, and speakers, which quickly adds up to $250 with cheapest components if you want to use it as a general-purpose computer.

At the same time, it runs linux and the same linux distro runs also in qemu, so you can do most of the develompent without actual hardware. So where's the rush, why does everybody have to get it right now?
So, not to be dense, but could you give an example of an application that would make good use of this library?

It feels very websocketish, but with some more infrastructure around it. Would people use this instead of something like socket.io, or are the 2 solving different problems?

Looks pretty cool, either way.
Amazing list.

I was frustrated that I didn't manage to figure out how to locate the results for a given package, if there were any.

Without that, how should I (as a package upstream owner) know if I need to fix my code, or at least analyze the results with respect to my particular package?
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I don't think it's aging or knowledge as much as advertizing that's the problem. I am reasonably well off and get to drive a nice car, but I only get to drive one and improvements come out a lot faster than I can buy them. I never wanted a Yacht as a kid, but now I think it would be cool to have enough money to support a gigantic hole in the water for throwing money into. The president is just about irrelevant in my personal life but listen to a few attack adds and it's hard not to really care.

Luckily, I find I am a lot happier now that I stopped watching TV and installed an add blocker. And what really surprised me is changing how I look at people, my standard of what's good looking has literally changed now that I don't see the extremes pushed in my face all the time.
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This is complete rubbish. You've managed turn something that has absolutely nothing to do with gender into a gender issue, replete with ad hominem attacks, gross over generalizations, bad faith assumptions, and a vague anecdotal psychoanalysis.

Anybody familiar with the circumstances of Bioware, in particular their perceived decline post-acquisition should be able to see through this. We have a woman who works on the writing staff for a game company in decline, saying that she does not enjoy playing games. Done, finished. Fans of said company would blame the orator regardless of gender, the smoke, mirrors, and shouts of sexism merely serve to enrage people further.
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It's clear from the article that she loves writing and story, not to mention the quality of the people working in the industry and BioWare in particular. I would not describe her overall engagement with the work as "indifferent".
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The other 50% is from Nigerian scammers.
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The vital question: Is mobile traffic going to (proportionally) increase in the UK, or is desktop traffic going to increase in Nigeria?

Are people using mobile in Nigeria because they don't have a laptop? Will they be using their Raspberry Pi in a couple of years? Or is the UK behind in the adoption of using mobile internet? I guess it's a bit of both.
If you have the ability to improve the situation then you don't need to worry, but OTOH there's no need to worry if you don't, either.

"Contentedness" is a state you can choose to be in. You can recognise horrible events but you don't have to be unhappy over it.

I feel like thinking about how "the reality" is pretty good to convince yourself to feel better isn't the way to go. What if things aren't going well? What if there's war everywhere, does that means you must then be unhappy, that you can't be content?

Stake yourself not on fantasy, dreams, goals, people or events, but as it is. You still can have those things but having or not having them doesn't need to affect you.
Two random thoughts:

1. I'm always amazed that anchors can seemingly hit a cable at the bottom of the ocean floor. Given how hard it usually is for us to find anything on the ocean floor with any precision, we seem to be able to drop anchors and cut cables with surprising accuracy.

2. Do the cables have slack in them to account for continental drift? I don't know how much we drift, but I'd imagine over time the cables would need some slack in them to make up for it.
Oh but... do you know what she did! She did this and that and so and so and you don't understand ! Those poor men had a very legitimate reason to send threatening calls and emails to her over a video game interview!

And somehow like the others you're justifying her getting calls and emails and threats and having a whole community gang up on her because of a video game comment she made years ago.

Amazing.

You still don't get it. Not one bit of it. But I don't blame you, nor do I look down on you. Testosterone is one hell of a hormone.
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You're not alone.

[strike]We've recently seen Doublefine raise millions of dollars by offering to create a story-driven game.[/strike]

Edit: I agree with kevingadd below.
The situation in Nigeria is unique. Because of the power situation (mobile phones have longer lasting battery), the very poor infracstructure (wired last mile is non existent), and of course pricing ($40/month is the minimum package on WiMax vs $7 on mobile). Non-mobile browsing stands no chance.

Just a thought: Are tablets considered mobile in this context? Because that is where I see major growth potential)
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"I really resent the fact that, in my older age, I care way too much about politics. Causes me nothing but stress."

How much? I found stressing too much was unhealthy (since I have little or no control over these machinations) but I need to keep an eye on it, get angry once in a while about how the terrible decisions have a real and negative day-to-day effect on how I live. I'll remember it next time I squeak in the ballot box.

As for the article, appears that it does indeed come down to your community and/or family - emotional, economic and physical well-being come down to how your community (the physical community around you rather than any online/remote association) regard you.

Do you live a lonely, densely urban existence where if you don't work you starve? Or do you have a community around you who would, to an extent, entertain your whims to pursue goals other than the perennial career/home/toys/family name franchise path?

There's also the pursuit of crap you can't take with you, but is that necessarily a dichotomy? Maybe there's an unhealthy weight placed on the toys and widgets we geek types surround ourselves with... I like to think I have a healthy relationship with these things but I know if someone took my ZX Spectrum away I'd be pretty miffed.

Could be, could be... we saw people today flying into a rage because they couldn't get their hands on a cheap, underpowered Linux box. Did they feel their happiness actually depended on acquiring this widget?
I got an order in this morning at Farnell Finland, and just received an order confirmation by email.

The delivery date is quoted as "week 16", which is mid-April. Oh well.
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In Word, common tools have keyboard shortcuts too, so there's little point in using the toolbar except for infrequently used things.

Bold Ctrl+B, Italics Ctrl+I, Underline Ctrl+U. Want to save? Ctrl+S. Want to print? Ctrl+P. Indent? Tab. Left, Center, Right-align? Ctrl+L, Ctrl+E, Ctrl+R. Increase/Decrease font size? Ctrl+>, Ctrl+<.

You don't need to use the toolbar at all for common operations.
Take a deep breath, read your comment again, try to think and then ask yourself if it makes sense in ANY context.
Yes, the combination would be interesting. Lot of projects in our new media/intermedia/interactive art lab use Arduino for interfacing with buttons, ultrasound sensor, pressure sensors and similar gizmos, while using normal PC for logic or video playback on projectors or something. Raspberry is capable enough for that (though I'm not sure the artists would be happy hacking it in python instead of Processing ;) ), pc's are big and ugly and having two miniature computers doing the whole thing would be really cool.

It would also make sense for (noncritical) monitoring systems, where Arduino can interface with pretty much anything, and raspberry could either display things on monitors, or make a web page for remote monitoring, no problem. (you add ethernet to Arduino and run web server on it, sure, but I would never do something that horrible to the little ATmega.)
Isn't most of their code in Objective C? Does that use clang too?
Point and click adventure games aren't story-driven, they're puzzle-driven (or to be more general, gameplay-driven). If you watch the discussion between Tim and Ron that's a part of the Kickstarter, they discuss this exact topic.
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I have yet to find a network that uses fingerprinting in that way. The use of ETags in the wild has been seen (KISSMetrics), but nobody has (as yet) had to resort to fingerprinting from the client side since effective blocking of traditional methods isn't pervasive.
But there's a whole lotta other info to fill out. Like cities you've lived in, companies you've worked at. People just love to fill those forms out.

And at signup they identify external accounts (can't really tell what they really called it as I literally deleted my + account 5 minutes ago). My Flickr-account showed up correctly and I could confirm it was mine. That means they could start extracting data from other services (Flickr, Twitter etc) and your activity and social graph there.

This info coupled with Gmail, Contacts, GReader faves, browsing stats (via sites that have Analytics on them and you being logged into your Google Account), searches, Android phone with registered credit card in market, Geo data via starred stuff on Maps, Latitude data & Google Talk messages will give them a quite impressive picture of the entire you. Just some extra fields in a profile might not sound like much, but I think we have to realize that this is just a brick in a _very_ large scale project.
Will they be using their Raspberry Pi in a couple of years?

I don't think most Nigerian mobile users will have access to a HDMI-capable TV within the next couple of years, so the Raspberry isn't the way.

The appealing thing about mobile phones in Africa is that they are physically small: they're reasonably easy to import (legally or otherwise) and can be carried on your person, so they are less susceptible to theft. Large electronics like notebooks and TVs don't have these advantages, and so they are only accessible to the small middle class that can afford them and have a secured house in which to keep them.
Yes, that's the one! After reading that post I practically stopped visiting Techcrunch.
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I'm sure he used randomized blind statistically significant samples in each location to come to the conclusion that there were fewer smiles in the Chinese neighborhood. And he conducted experiments with isolated control groups to come to the conclusion that this was caused by the TV in their living rooms.
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