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I loved Mass Effect I & II as well, but lets name their problem: they are padded with boring gameplay. Most of the fights are utterly forgettable (corridor, enemies, your gun, their gun, repeat, end dialogue), the Mako was the worst vehicle ever driven in a game and firing probes on planets - no word about that. When the gameplay actually worked and was interweaved with the storytelling (for example the possibility to skip parts of the boss fight by Mass Effect I by convincing Saren of his evil), it was truly great. I think its time that Bioware managed to cut back on meaningless fights and only allowed interesting battle situations (for example, the ascend to the final fight in Mass Effect I - it was quick, great layout and it had a story to tell: our heroes climbing the final mountain). I wouldn't want to skip them, but often it felt like "and now kill 20 enemies, because its a shooter we play, here!". Especially in Mass Effect 2, where sidestories all followed the same scheme.

Oh, about the female/male stuff: I think Mass Effect and Dragon Age are the only franchises that take relationships and gender seriously. I never played the romances in Mass Effect II because I didn't want to break my promise from the first game and the game took note of it - now, thats decision making.
While I generally find myself agreeing with the sentiments of this article, let's not forget: the plural of anecdote is not evidence.

Apply this axiom to OP's observations. So he goes to some rural regions of the world, sees some kids being kids and concludes that because he doesn't see that same behavior in a modern region of China it must therefore be because of modernity or technology or whatever that these people aren't happy. But wait, how does he know they aren't happy? Who is he to say that because he "didn't see a smile" among them they must therefore be hopelessly depressed? Equally how do we know that because he saw some kids playing in the street these communities are "happy"? I could use some of my own anecdotes, experiences I've had in the barangay of the Philippines that would contradict his observations despite having the same hallmarks, but again, these are anecdotes and even if you have a large set of them they still aren't a supplement for evidence.

The crux of this article is weak. Based almost entirely on the touchy-feely reality of observational anecdotes. Again, I don't disagree with some of the broader points. But this article is not a good example of a case supporting them.
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It's also kind of hard to have a constructive discussion on the topic if nobody takes notice. Without the invectives, it probably wouldn't have been noteworthy enough to spread like wildfire across the hacker sphere.
Indonesian here :)

i believe the sharp decline in blackberry usage is because people start using opera browser in their blackberry.

probably people will start swithing to android, as local phone brands start to embrace it. but it could take a while, if ever.
Why wait? It seems to me writing something like this ought to be able induce yourself into a depressive downward spiral.
Mind to edit your orignal comment to reflect this?
Thank you.
I wonder if there is a way to block presentation of the list of plugins to the server.

AFAIK it's not very useful information and certainly removes one of the bigger unique factors.
Why is it news when Linus mention something so obviously frustrating as the security scheme is on OpenSUSE?

Would it make a difference if s/Linus/JoeBlog/ mentioned it if the issue is so frustrating?
The build logs are all together:

http://clang.debian.net/logs/2012-01-12/

(I guess the ones with a 'b' appended are for clang)
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How does this compare to AMPQ solutions? This definitely looks like a great use of Node though.
I think it's more like Hook.io than Socket.io. One use could be server monitoring or deployment. You can also check out the Hook.io hook libraries to see how that has been used: https://github.com/hookio/hook.io/wiki/Hook.io-Libraries

This seems like a simpler API to me.
This is why so many men find "getting laid" very important in their lives.

I hate to be That Guy, but speaking as someone who's actually had sex I can attest that there are actually other reasons.[1]

Enough so that in the middle east women who reject a man's marriage proposal might find themselves doused with acid or gasoline and set on fire.

Equating harassment on the internet with middle eastern acid attacks is baffling and offensive.

Finally, and I know this'll be unpopular, but there's some great stuff on Reddit. The comments are never as good as HN, but some of the AMAs are phenomenal. It's a bit tiring seeing it get bashed without respite over here.

[1] Like (and I can't believe I'm typing this) it's fun and makes you feel closer to the person you're doing it with.
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I guess this sort of thing was bound to happen at some point. As the article says, all the major cloud platforms have had outages at some point.

As someone who is actively considering building products using this platform I'm keen to see how well they manage this issue. How do they communicate during the outage, how open about what went wrong are they afterwards, do they learn from it, and so on. I particularly like the efforts Amazon have gone to in the past to show they are learning from these issues (see http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/) I'm hopeful that Microsoft will show the same level of openness.
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Naa, it's a cycle. Like day and night, dry and wet, healthy and sick, cold and warm, hungry and full. Without one you can't appreciate the other.
As far as I know what you describe isn't what is called "clinically depressed". There are people who are so depressed that they literally can't get out of bed.

I'm not an expert though.
"he forgets to mention that problems like the traveling salesman are for academics. The real world responds to the 'actual computing time of the traveling salesman + the traveling time' problem, i.e., if your exact solution is 10% better than the approximate solution but your computation time is 20 times longer so that the salesman can't even start actually traveling"

Simply make the distance between cities = "actual computing time of the traveling salesman + the traveling time", and you've got the standard "academic" TSP problem all over again.
"We have a writer with a high degree of influence on a game development staff..."

Does she? From what I understand, she is a character and dialogue writer who handles relatively small portions of the games (from her BioWare Wiki bio: she wrote dialogue and characters for some of the zones in the dwarven city in Dragon Age). [For what it's worth, those sections happen to have been very well written.]

People are acting as though she's some pernicious influence at BioWare, holding everyone on the development staff in thrall to her agenda. It seems exceedingly unclear to me whether a) she even has an agenda, or b) she commands any significant influence over the design/gameplay elements of development.

She's a staff writer. She's not even a lead writer (or, if she is now, she certainly wasn't back in 2006). People have been attributing things to her that couldn't possibly have fallen under her scope (to wit: claims about her malign influence over Mass Effect, a series she hasn't worked on).

PR failure? Perhaps, but then, this never should have blown up the way it did. And it almost certainly wouldn't have, had the writer in question not had a pair of ovaries instead of testicles.
Looking for a young Mark Cuban.
Songkick is growing fast. We're the second most trafficked concert site in the world (after Ticketmaster). Our iOS app had 100k downloads in the first 10 days. We're backed by the best investors in The Valley & Europe. It won't happen overnight, but one day we'll be the biggest concert service in the world.

Our HQ is in London but we've recently opened an office in SF. That team is currently one person - Mike Harkey. Mike was previously General Manager of Imageshack & ran music at eBay. We're working on partnerships to help music fans discover concerts wherever they are discovering music. So fans go to more shows. With that goal in mind we've closed some great partnerships including Foursquare, Spotify, Vevo and YouTube.

It's gotten to the point where one person can't keep pace with the volume of opportunities coming at us, so we're looking for a young Mark/Marcia Cuban to be the second member of our US business development team.

If you clicked on this you probably know enough about what Mark Cuban looked like at the start of his career to get the shorthand. We're not focused on your level of experience - we're looking for someone with an incredible amount of raw ability who can leap into anything from a huge pitch meeting to running our first developer event. The ideal candidate will be super smart, passionate about product, with real hustle. She'll get excited about the idea of defining the future of technology and live music. She's spent a couple of years in a sales or BD role and wants to move faster.

Songkick can be a platform for you to become one of the best BD people out there. Mike and I are both very involved in distribution partnerships and will invest in helping you learn as fast as possible. We're going to do amazing things this year, and we want you with us.

To apply, email mike@songkick.com
Neither do you. It's not testosterone. It's a bunch of fans expressing their dismay, much like Phantom Menace was savaged.

And then a tiny few being completely disgusting. And that's who you're focusing on and then saying that's what all of reddit is like. Totally ignoring subreddits like 2XChromosome.

It's disturbing that you're painting with such a broad brush and then calling it insightful.
The really neat thing here is the very accessible source code...

Vectors: https://github.com/soulwire/Coffee-Physics/blob/master/sourc...

Collision Detection: https://github.com/soulwire/Coffee-Physics/blob/master/sourc...
Perhaps it would be fairer to say:
Ignorance is bliss when there is no foreseeable way around the problem.
Any chance you can expand this as a "real" service, i.e. one with a guaranteed service level for a monthly fee?

I would love to use this in an iPhone app I am building, but I am obviously wary as it may disappear/go offline at any point.

I would gladly pay a monthly subscription to use it.
Great stuff, thank you
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The ideal scenario would be if upstream projects provided embedded test code with standardized hooks so that tests could be built, executed and results collected in an automated way.

Even if we started with a small test set for some projects, it would be a huge win in the long run just to have this scaffolding in place.

Any ideas on how to make a distro-agnostic testing hook?
Tell HN: Don't waste your money on a Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi forum is currently down on the day they start selling it- uh, I mean allowing you to again express interest in it, via a vendor this time, because they had to switch to a static site, and forgot to make the forum available: http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum

If you've spent much time on the forum, you've seen that it isn't all it is cracked up to be. You are spending £21.60 on caseless slow computer using ARM that has not been tested adequately in beta and that has to be hooked up via HDMI to be much good. So basically, it is a crappy, overly slow, wrong architecture, barebones media streaming computer. If you want to spend that much money, spend a little more and get a full system that is faster and more useful.
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So is this a feb 29 bug? Problem occurred, it seems, at the advent of 2/29 GMT. Worst date handling ever?
The metaphors are not fully isomorphic analogies, but they can still be helpful. Framing programming ability as being a form of modern literacy, for instance, conveys more urgency to the public.

When they start actually programming, these metaphors will leave their mind and they'll focus on the concretes, or at least find better metaphors.

I think the only worry comes from basing long term policy decisions on crude metaphors.
It's a non-sequitur.
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Thanks for the reply, I'll check out Hook as well.

I'm fairly new to working with Node, so any kind of context for use-cases around some of these libraries is always a help
I agree with everything you have said about the potential of the Raspberry Pi. My surprise was at the tone of the reaction on this thread. That these people have spent this long on such a worthy project and have produced something that is probably truly exceptional. We should be grateful and excited. I don't think it has been let down at all. We will all get one, just maybe not immediately.
"We have identified the root cause of this incident. It has been traced back to a cert issue triggered on 2/29/2012 GMT"
As a non-tech observer, Azure actually struck me as an honest attempt by Microsoft to add a compelling offer to the mix.
However, their status page-cum-website seem to be hosted on Azure itself, which is ridiculous in a situation like this. (Almost like Twitter having a status page on tumblr.)
Worst of all, even www.twitter.com/windowsazure offers no comment at all so far. Isn't this wiping out any credibility they might have built up with developers? Is anyone affected?

Edit: if this truly is because of 2/29, I guess anyone signing up from now on will get perfect service.
Are you using this port http://code.fivefilters.org/p/php-readability/ ?
Certainly great pics!, There is only missing some AT-ATs and storm troopers in some of them...
http://www.windowsazure.com isn't even loading here.

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Request timeout for icmp_seq 1

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And if you want to open mailto links in Gmail with Firefox (and Opera I guess): http://updates.html5rocks.com/2012/02/Getting-Gmail-to-handl...
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If I was forced to choose I'd take a story only game for these

Off topic, but have you played either of The Witcher games, especially the second one? They really focused on story and it worked really well. The Witcher 2 is, IMHO, one of the better story-heavy games released in recent years and the graphics and action happen to be fantastic too.
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I feel bad when ever I hear about outages at companies like this.

I'm in charge of technology for a hedge fund with 15 people and I get freaked out each time we roll out a new piece of software.
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This kind of stuff makes IE look like a bad joke. Oh and Jeremy, you're my hero :)
Ask those aspirational chinese if they want to go back to the straw huts.
Sure people are happier with less information.
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This little test shows that the best direction for sorting multi-column list items is vertical.

90% of respondents clicked on the vertical second item in this 2 column list, 10% clicked on the horizontal second item.

This result is in line with the telephone book argument and common sense approach of human eye movement (top to bottom).

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I got a big laugh out of this. Maybe next time I see some comment that just doesn't make sense, im going to use this quote. Thanks.
I'm using it in http://readapp.net & my upcoming HN News App, so it isn't schedule to disappear any time soon. Send me an email, so we can discuss this further, if you'd like to.
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It would make one hell of a video game system. It would be great for developing countries. It would be great to learn embedded software or operating system design. It would be great to learn compiler or interpreter design. It could drive netbook prices down. Anyone could make his own tablet thanks to it being caseless. Anyone could build massively parallel clusters by connecting a bunch of them through ethernet. By hooking up a micro projector, a usb camera and a microphone one could easily have a SixthSense capable device. In short: I want one.
... has to be hooked up via HDMI to be much good.

As if that's a downside in a computer that costs less than 30 euros?

Price comparison: if I spend 30 € at an Apple retailer, I get a DisplayPort->HDMI adapter. It doesn't include an ARM-based computer at all.
See also http://developers.whatwg.org/, which does the same job but a: is better designed and b: is published by the WHATWG, so also includes bleeding-edge features not yet incorporated into the W3C specification.
The Preview release can be downloaded directly from Microsoft here:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/preview
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Trying to plan a fun but cheap Florida vacation? The Marco Review is filled with insider tips for a Marco Island vacation that fits the bill.
It's all about the perceived level of intelligence related to the field. It'd be no different than Rand Paul making a fuss about budgets versus Joe Blog.
Article is not clear whether Azure instances are down, or just the service management tools? But either way, ouch!
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You're misunderstanding what she's saying (or what she said 6 years ago, rather). She isn't saying, "I don't like BG, ME or DA". She isn't saying, "I don't play games". She is saying, "I'm dissatisfied with the medium: I think it can be more than it is". That dissatisfaction is a necessary precondition for advancing the state of the art. I would be aghast at a game designer who could not talk for hours about what's wrong with the medium of games.
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I agree, in the UK all I'm hearing is this will help kids program.

I'm sorry but any computer and Codecademy will do that.

It's a poor piece of hardware that is using its price point as the trump card. However, I don't think expensive hardware is the problem.
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Apparently electronic payment systems from ATMs to merchant terminals to HMO claim machines all went straight to march 1st. Hilarity ensued.
I'm a fan of GitHub and use that and git as my primary development tools these days. I generally prefer them to SVN, although SVN has a much a richer ecosystem of tools and handles some use cases better. What I don't get is how people constantly post things like this. It's not like open source didn't exist until GitHub graced us with its presence. You might not like it because it's not your toolchain, but that's true of everything. I can't stand GitHub Issues, bugzilla, or Lighthouse and choose not to use them where I can; that doesn't make them anti-Open Source.

At the end of the day, the ASF has done more for open source than most organizations and has produced a large amount of open source code, regardless of its evolving toolchain. FWIW, I did come into the ASF through SVN & JIRA. I did prefer darcs, bzr, and AccuRev to SVN (this was back in 2004). But, I wanted to contribute, so I did.
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It's not an end-user device yet. A lot of people are jumping on this as a cheap media center PC and they'll be disappointed. But there are plenty of us that want to stick a battery pack on it and put it in a robot or something more fun.
You mean "MacBook Air" (not macnook air)
Keyboard shortcuts are great--take that with a grain of salt since I like vim too. Unfortunately, the emphasis of Word has always been to make it so a new user can manage to do those things by browsing around the menus and toolbars. It's not a good habit to learn as far as productivity goes, but I'm sure it scores well in usability labs where subjects have no training and an hour to do some simple tasks.

Word's problem is that it has evolved so many features that there is NO reasonable interface to access them. I have been using Word for two decades and still I find myself resorting to features like the Format Painter because I cannot find the settings to fix a run of text.
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It's a bit unfortunate description of time, I think. They could at least say "2/29/2012 01:45 GMT". Otherwise it looks like there's a different date in each timezone (yeah, there are two different ones, but not different in each, the bug started closer to beginning of 2/29/2012 GMT+2).
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I think they will be a little horrified, but everybody I talk to in my peer group, and myself want one for embedded development.
The article starts out reasonably, but by the end it's making the same sort of baseless and hostile stereotypes that it was justifiably attacking. If you do like combat in games you're an "arsehole", and if you don't like the trend of skill-free "social" time sinks, you're a misogynist.
Or, in the words of Linton Barwick:

- Get a hold of those minutes. I have to correct the record.

- We can do that?

- Yes, we can. Those minutes are an aide-mémoire for us. They should not be a reductive record of what happened to have been said, but they should be more a full record of what was intended to have been said.

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"If you want to spend that much money"?

£21.60 is not a great deal of money - but even if it was, it still won't buy you much ;)
I agree that this thing is underpowered - a Beagleboard would be a better investment, since its at least beefy enough to support having its own development environment onboard. I run mine as a normal Linux workstation, no cross-compiling required, gcc+cscope+vim+gdb is onboard of course, and its been a productive environment for years ..
That first they get on the high horse of respecting everyone, and then they slam a particular minority. They even came up with a condescending word for it: misogynerds.
Perhaps. Would be hard to work that into the poem tho.
This really great!
I disagree and will happily be buying one for the low price. As a hobbyist I don't have any problem with the 'limitations' that you point out. The low price point makes it interesting and the combination of networking, video and GPIO makes it look like flexible device. Equally the case is not a problem (in fact, it's an advantage since I'll be burying my Raspberry Pis inside other things).

I'm not sure what's wrong with HDMI: my MacBook Pro connects to my monitor with HDMI as that's what the monitor supports. ARM architecture seems fine on every phone out there (and elsewhere) and as I'll likely be programming small programs in C for the device I don't think the architecture is going to get in my way.

As for speed considerations I've done a lot of things with Arduino and they are _slow_ compared to Raspberry Pi.
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