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It's unfair to say it's dominant. The problem is that EA management forces BioWare to aim for the (admittedly, quite large) segment of the gaming population that loves playing a big burly man who shoots other big burly men, because those games make an absolute truckload of money.

It may be true that Modern Warfare and Gears of War are absurdly profitable franchises - that's why BioWare is slowly turning Mass Effect into those games - but that doesn't mean that other types of games aren't popular, or that the average gamer only wants to play those games. You need only look at the most popular games on Steam to see evidence otherwise.

An important thing to consider, though, is whether Hepler's agenda - admirable though it may be - is actually right for Mass Effect or any of BioWare's games. If BioWare's customers want games that are heavy on gameplay and not story, trying to build a pure story game is probably unwise, unless your goal is to drive away all your existing customers and try to find new ones. You can do that, but it's usually not a good business strategy, and my wager is that EA shareholders wouldn't approve of it.

If you look at the trajectory of BioWare's games, over time, they've shed their gameplay sophistication, branching paths, and depth in favor of accessibility, action, and high production values. The emphasis on shooting men with guns (or, in the case of Dragon Age, stabbing men with swords) came along with that because those themes are wildly successful in modern sci-fi/fantasy films and test well with focus groups. When BioWare's remaining fans (not to mention former fans who were driven away by the new focus) hear a BioWare staffer calling for the games to have less gameplay, they're going to see that as someone driving their games further away from the classics that many people remember BioWare for - like Baldur's Gate. And it's no surprise to see a negative response for that.

As far as the content of the actual community response, I don't think it even bears mentioning that the sexism is unacceptable. Unfortunately, the community as a whole will likely never move past this, because games are popular with youth and the emotionally immature instead of just with adults.
What on earth are you doing using time zones in a server application? Time zone is purely presentation, you should be storing and calculating everything in UTC and only converting to time zone for presentation to a user based on that user's time zone (either via a user defined setting for your application or based on the current time zone setting of a user's system). You should never, ever, ever use the server's time zone to determine presentation to a user (or for anything really).
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A computer is a machine for following instructions. At first it only knows a limited set of logical and arithmetical instructions. You can use these instructions to teach it new things to do, and new commands to follow (and if you buy a computer, somebody probably already has). However, if you phrase these instructions wrong, it will do what you say rather than what you mean.

So you could say that programming a computer is like training a new soldier or worker, and using a computer is like being in command.
If you don't have to actually play a game like Dragon Age(by being able to skip combat), it just becomes an interactive movie.

I think having really low difficulty levels is lot better than taking the gameplay out of the game, of course you can do that too but you can't really call it a game then.

I really love Dragon Age Origins for it's synergy between interesting gameplay and story telling.
Hey thanks for using my post as an example! ;)
Because the paid-for consumer OS culture don't have their own punching-bag memes? Apple's 'smug field'? Windows 'malware'? Each of these has large contigents that mock others, and frequently with quite some disdain. It's far from unique to FOSS.
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more actual data, anyone? http://hackfwd.tumblr.com/post/17652295684/europe-embraces-e...
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linus is notoriously opposed to security, calling the security community various names over the years. the capabilities exposed by the kernel have direct impact on userland. if security isn't a priority for linus and is left to third parties, then you wind up with all sorts of stuff that is the ecosystem we have today. some is great, some is awful.

without attention and respect from the guy in charge of the kernel, which gates security for the system, this is what you get.
I remember working on the application that was used for administering the SAT-3/WASC cable. At the time I was excited because I knew it meant South Africa would be getting faster internet pretty soon after that. 5 years later I was still stuck on a 56k modem. ADSL launched about two years before that, but it was just way too expensive. At the moment I'm paying about $185p/m for a shaped (20kbps between 7am and 7pm during the week) uncapped 8mbps ADSL line.
From my perspective the US is "international"
Granted what the players are doing to harass her in her personal life is ridiculous and ought to be stopped, but lets consider what she said.

We have a writer with a high degree of influence on a game development staff, claiming that she does not enjoy playing games.

This to me is a PR failure. Some industries can get away with being indifferent to their work (e.g. no one cares if you love making widgets so long as they're good widgets), but entertainment products such as books, movies, and games are naturally expected to be "labors of love".

Can you imagine a studio director coming out to say that he doesn't watch movies? If she or anyone else on her team doesn't like their product, they ought to keep it to themselves for PR value alone.
For that matter, she's probably the driving force in making Biowares male characters seem "real".
> Normalize.css is modular

That is a strong claim given that the "modularisation" is realised adding banner comments in the CSS. I think it would had been better to have separate @import'ed files. Those worried about performance could use minificators while other, like me, could just use the parts they are interested in, in my case

@import 'normalize.css/html5-fixes.css'
@import 'normalize.css/html5-defaults.css'
So all your money goes through some random guy in USA? Sounds a bit dodgy and unprofessional…
I too would like to get a reference for this. It sounds interesting, but it's the first I hear of it.
From a theoretical point of view what matters is engaged students and inspiring teachers. I would absolutely love to have a talented and passionate teacher, working with a energetic students who love exploring what is possible.

Another thing that is important is that it is simple to get quick feedback without time wasting compilation and re-running.

You can do amazing things with JavaScript, and some of them you won't do in Python.

I agree that modules are important.

They are so important I don't think that entirely built in module systems are good enough.

You need to be able to bind to private modules, and load and unload modules like OSGI. You need to be able to configure and have multiple instances of modules, like with Spring.

It is remarkably natural and simple to create really powerful module constructs in JavaScript.

It is really easy to implement a good OO design in JavaScript.

I find Python really nice too. Haskell is interesting.

I am sure Java is worse than C# in many ways, and better in very few, but even Java has some things I miss.
It might seem niche to you but these two companies keep a whole industry going in the UK!
A more in-depth article was previously posted on HN:
http://www.themarysue.com/inclusion-what-jennifer-heplers-st...

HN discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3618301
I retract my security testing statement. The are currently testing if 5.3 is stable on their servers and have no ETA for the upgrade :-(. This was in mid October.
Worst case is that your legal product runs afoul of some USA law and all your money gets confiscated, cf. http://cphpost.dk/news/international/us-snubs-out-legal-ciga...
There's a clickable text on the top of those pages that points at the clang FAQ fragment suggesting possible fixes.
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I tested a lot of these services and libraries a while ago as part of developing a product that required extracting article text and metadata from a URL.

The best service, and it won by some margin, was Diffbot (www.diffbot.com). I ran comparisons between approx 20 different services and libraries and it won by some margin. It uses machine learning rather than regular expressions or per-site filters, and the engine has been extensively trained (I threw a lot of edge cases at it, which improved it). There seem to be a lot of similar services that do well with common cases but completely fall apart when applied broadly.

So to the author of this service - what features or examples do you have that distinguish your implementation from others? What is the technique being used here?
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I'll admit that I haven't been following this very closely, what makes this product this craze worthy compared to something like the Arduino?
No wonder all great philosophers were depressive people.
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That's a bit silly - can't they send a big box full to the US and use a US distributor (I'm in the UK FWIW).
It's exchange of money for time spent according to the boss' wishes.

Employment contracts tend to be "$x units of money for $y hours per week, doing $job".

Your "work for time" proposal ignores money, so that can't be right ;-)
"money for work" is "that website for $3000".

So to clarify, I'll propose "money for time spent on work".
And in that case, punching out after working the agreed hours per week is okay. Idling in the office is not okay (exceptions apply if you just aren't given enough work units, which is the superior's duty).
being able to finally use PIL and lxml on appengine is huge, and 2.7 also goes some way to resolving the billing issues. 2.7 going gold is starting to sway me back towards using appengine again.
From the "About Us" blurb:
The Border House is a blog for gamers. It's a blog for those who are feminist, queer, disabled, people of color, transgender, poor, gay, lesbian, and others who belong to marginalized groups, as well as allies.

From the article:
But more importantly, she’s talking about making games more inclusive and suggesting that people play games for different reasons and in different ways. This is at the heart of why the misogynerds are so angry: the industry is changing, it’s been changing for a long time, and it’s no longer the sole domain of misogynist nerds like them.
The fact that it's a personal computer, probably.
I think this goes to the point of the article. You bring up "clinical depression" and immediately say that the ethics of an "effective" therapy shouldn't or can't be brought into question. At what point are mere mortals no longer allowed to question the ethics of a form of therapy...right when depression is diagnosed by a clinician? Or does your experience with depressives you know make it okay to electroshock anybody if those are the shrink's orders? If that's your view then you certainly fall well within the authoritarian camp, and it's ironic how little you took away from the article.
That gives me, in the UK, "Register here to express an interest in Raspberry Pi". Which I did.

Farnell then tell you:

"By providing your contact details you are agreeing for your details to be used for marketing purposes by companies within the Premier Farnell Group."

Which I find rather off-putting.
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This is really, really well written... first time in years I've felt compelled to print something so I could keep a hard copy.
I just downloaded this book for free because I was suspicious of the contents and thought it'd be another airy book filled with old quotes and obvious but encouraging sentences.

Now that I've read the first 3 pages I want to pay for it. Is there a way of doing this from the site itself, or do I need to "re-buy" the book?
You can see the video, they tried it and it works well http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht7k9wwF03w
Why downvote this guy? He's right.

I'd wager that a non-insignificant % of the people scrambling to order want to get their hands on one to flip it on eBay. Watch what happens when they start shipping.
" For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow. " - Ecclesiastes 1:18
When did you download it, if at the time when I said it was updated try to download it again. What OS and browser version are you using?

Can you go to the extensions page, click the background.html file, inspect elements, console, and type in hnClassifier.getClassObj() and post the output.

Look at the local storage, by typing JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem('classObjs')) and tell me if it looks similiar to the output above.

If you had the older version, please go to the extensions tab and click reset data.
You're assuming facts not in evidence.
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If you want to explore how to express processes something as dumb as Pascal is an odd option in 2012.

I learned Pascal in the late 80's and I would never teach my children it, or send them to a school that used it.

It was dumb then, we should have used something like Smalltalk, and it is simple weird to mention it now.
I'm expecting some Farnell group employees will get a nice "bonus"? Perhaps I'm too cynical?

Edit: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Raspberry-Pi-Model-B-Ethernet-700M... ; $999 on buy it now ...

Edit 2: There's also this, http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Raspberry-Pi-Model-B-Ethernet-700M..., which is interesting - must be against ebay policy to sell things you don't own?
They're a charity, they're not obliged to do anything for any one.

They anticipated the launch issues so they brought on two distributors who have networks and infrastructure in place to distribute these sorts of products to customers all over the world.

The problem is (and judging by their website design) these distributors probably don't get that much traffic on a day to day basis. Their products seem very niche.
The distributors were warned and this is what happens.

Don't blame the Raspberry Pi foundation for this.
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Terrible terrible article. Google only want people to join Google+ to get their name, location, gender and age? The same information you have to enter to sign up to gmail? https://accounts.google.com/SignUp?service=mail

How can this rubbish make the front page of HN?
I've registered my interest with RS components but I doubt I'll be quick enough to get one when they go on sale
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Is a google plus posting proffesional context. He didn't like how suse implemented it and then flames bigotted secrutiy people in general.

don't see any personal attack.
Thanks to Google's multiple sign-on feature, I have a + identity with no relevant bio data, which is different from my search identity (with no history) which is different from my three gmail accounts.
This works, but it still looks dirty, mostly due to javascript's lack of concise lambda-syntax.

If you want to use a functional language, it would seem more fitting to create an actual functional language with actual list comprehension, something javascript is ridiculously weak at, and so on.

Ofcourse that would then have to be compiled into something which runs in the browser. Another argument for web-bytecode I guess.

Edit: To not just throw hot air around, I tried doing something similar (with typing on top!) during a weekend long long ago. I wasn't happy about the result, but I left the code online.

For those curious about my take on the same problem: http://code.kjonigsen.net/js/spicejs/test.html

You'll have to view the source to see how it works, and open the web-developer console to see the output.
Do you have the actual quote and context at hand? Because this seems to be a statement with a high degree of nuance. I'm pretty sure that at some point, Steve Jobs said statements that made it sound like he hated the way computers were designed. Doesn't mean he should've been fired from Apple.
You want an example : here is one : http://owlient.eu/

They got venture capital by Innovacom (not a government agency) and then just got bought by Ubisoft (not a government company).

As for big startups known in France (and not necessarily internationally), well, Meetic is one of them for instance. Or vente-privee.com. I guess you could even put OVH in there.
People unclog their own toilets, and fit their own pipes.

They solder their own wires, and jump start their own cars.

They represent themselves in small claims court fine, and read their own legal papers before deciding whether or not to sign.

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You don't have to go all the way and become a professional, sometimes it enough to dabble and do simple things well within anyone's reach.

I think there's a lot of simplicity to the law and the logic behind it isn't too hard to follow. However, fear holds people back from even trying to learn about case law and the court systems, and so too many fights are lost out of fear (e.g. "I can't afford a lawyer, but he can, so I give up").
If you don't have to actually play a game like Dragon Age(by being able to skip combat), it just becomes an interactive movie.

And why would that be a bad thing? No one would be forcing you to skip combat. Personally I'd love a feature like that. I obviously wouldn't use it on every level, but being able to skip that dull, tedious level I just can't get past, so that I can get on with the rest of the game (and story) would be great.
Or it could tarnish their reputation and kill the whole product. Lets hope the engineering of the actual product is a little better than the sales process. But I still think its kind of important not to give your potential customers a 404 as your first interaction or you run the very real risk of having zero conversions from all that homepage traffic.
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iIRC, Bioware games have dialogue trees. Choosing your path seems to qualify as gameplay, just as clicking "Attack" in a turn based RPG counts as gameplay
you can hook the RasPi with an Arduino and use the gazilions libraries and shields....

I recommend an flip display like those in airports for your sign ups. A traffic light for server monitoring. A translucent display with a question mark that is illuminated by an RGB led when the help message is sent...
Maybe they need to be politically correct because in some state they carry guns. Don't want to offend someone who's carrying one ;)
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This reaction is really surprising to me. The Raspberry Pi charity was set up in order to produce a product that could be used as an education tool. They have managed a spectacular feat, that has been 6 years in the making. This is a very exciting development but not just from a technical point of view. The Raspberry Pi represents the idea that computers are interesting to us intrinsically, that there is real value in providing a platform that allows for the development and satisfaction of a crucial intellectual curiosity. The true value of the Raspberry Pi will not be found in our mailboxes in the next few months. It will be in the possibility that the next generation will have something to hack on that prioritises learning and discovery over walled gardens.

Sorry for the preachy tone (it's not intended), I am sure that most people feel the same way (or something similar), but it feels like we have lost some perspective while getting up at 6am to order some electronics over the internet. This is a great day. (I have a son and the Raspberry Pi feels like the most exciting project I have seen to date)
I read the article and was on my way back to post the same thing. Couldn't agree more. Gender, Birthday, Location come with every Google account, and as we are all acutely aware, this information is shared under Google's new privacy policy.

To say that the G+ team doesn't care if people use G+ is ridiculous.
I really resent the fact that, in my older age, I care way too much about politics. Causes me nothing but stress.
This looks promising. Trying to figure out how to benchmark this to test the "insanely fast" claim though. Any ideas? Maybe even add a tiny infographic on there?
In case you didn't know everything you post here is also public.
C'mon... 75k is barely enough to survive? There's people who make well under your low-bar figure of 30k, and still have to live in the same cities that lawyers frequent.

Let's have some perspective, please.
I set out to build my own interpretation and that's what I did. It does have an automatic extraction pattern, but also uses per side rules, if available.
I'd say the main distinguishing factor is the price point: free.
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Google's main purpose is search. How can it rank pages without access to facebook?
Every share or like is a stab to the heart of google.
They ignored a lot of experienced advice given to them freely to get to this point. Its a shame really as this could have been a magically moment where they shifted a million devices in a week. Instead we are looking at 404 pages and there are no devices available if you do get through. A lot of potential customers have just been gone and will never return.
Many people are socially awkward because they have bottled up rage or antisocial urges and need therapy. Sounds like this guy might have been in that category.
Very cool, good work :D
I love that idea. I wonder if I could get an "Airport Sign" anywhere. I thought about hooking up the RasPi to an Arduino, but then did it not just defeat the purpose of using a RasPi and not going straight to Arduino. I like the traffic light idea too. I could probaby pop into a CNC/CAD machine sculpting place to create a pretty decent chasis for a custom light box.

While on the topic however, do you know how I might find one of those "flip displays"?
I would not do anything. Just wait and see whether this guy gets accepted for an interview...if yes tell them you have been asked to join and did yet not confirm your participation and if not you are free to do whatever you want. Since you have been listed as a developer you can easily apply again with another idea.
Part of the rationale is that this is how you can access updates: I notify my readers when I add a new essay to the book through leanpub: I don't see your address or any other info, but leanpub forwards my message to the book's readers as an email.
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