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hmm, when you unpause, the player just falls straight down rather, ignoring the velocity it should have.

also, in the talk the player's path was projected into the future, iirc, not just showing the past
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Y'know what this magazine reminded me of? The glory days of 2600: Hacker Quarterly. Sure, it is still active but... I feel they kinda lost the touch with what we care today.

I got my bundle in Christmas and liked it immensely. Sure, it is aggregated information and you can find it on the internet for free but... sometimes you need to have some articles on print for ease of access and you have to admit finding an old article in HN involves a little bit of pain...

Great job!
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Agreed. There were suggestions early on that you can just make a post limited to one person (instead of a circle or public), but for some reason that feels really awkward even though it's easy to do. I'm not sure why that is. Maybe because it ends up in the same stream as everything else?
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This is a rant that's a bit all over the place.

The author points out a lot of exceptions (eg working at a startup or somewhere where you might get something out of it). If you take out all those exceptions, you basically end up with the crap jobs.

The real problems with a crap job isn't the unpaid overtimes... it's that it's a crap jobs.

The fact is though, you get as much out of pretty much anything in life as you put in. If you want to working 9-5 5 days a week, you can probably find a job that'll let you do that if you try, which is fine, but I probably wouldn't expect anything but stagnating in it.

I too have been a contractor. Never again. It's the ultimate in transactional work [1]. When I did do it though, I always negotiated an hourly rate. Employers love a daily rate because what is a day exactly? An hour is unambiguous.

Health insurance in the US is a problem. This is known. The lack of vacation here is (IMHO) a problem too.

I now have a great job and I have it because I put in effort (both at work and outside). YMMV.

[1]: http://cdixon.org/2009/10/23/twelve-months-notice/
What about the part where programmers work overtime, but not because they are demanded to?

I consistently see programmers, even in my own team, who happily stay 60-70 hours per week because the idea/concept they are working on means something significant to them.

I find this phenomenon to be the exception of what your post has mentioned. Although the post was mostly accurate, I encounter this exception on a daily basis.

While those 60-70 hrs./week aren't at 100% efficiency, the idea that a programmer will stay the extra time to produce high quality work while maintaining their own personal life says a lot about their view of their job and career. To some, it's just that - a job. However, others see it as an art (just as any profession, I suppose) and strive to increase their skills - they understand that invested time equals increased knowledge and a more refined skill set.
Ask:how many cloud servers do i need? Help please.
if i'm expecting a load of around 3000 transactions per second, how many cloud servers running as a postgresql cluster do i need? does anyone here knows a way of getting a ball park figure for this?
IBM Researchers Inch Toward Quantum Computer
We don't have non-deterministic computing yet, but IBM researchers are hopeful. The papers being published are titled "Superconducting qubit in waveguide cavity with coherence time approaching 0.1ms" and "Complete universal quantum gate set approaching fault-tolerant thresholds with superconducting qubits", according to engadget. http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/28/ibm-quantum-computing/
thats because of pokki's distribution method. You can uninstall it any time. Its also easier to update the game once its installed. You can take a look at www.pokki.com also
This article seems a bit heavy on derision and low on content/evidence.
I'll just upvote both of you
Why didn't you use NaCl and put it in the Chrome Webstore?
Dig around on padmapper.com (craigslist mash-up) to see at least what housing would cost. Can't add much else as I'm not in the area, but I do know that food is significantly less expensive than vs. Europe -- esp. in California (I'm in Southern California, myself).

It would be difficult to gauge standard of living / quality of living without having some semblance of an idea of what you define as your standards. I've cut my costs since moving to California. Eating in more often, driving less and watching budgets closely mitigates what would have been a slightly higher cost of living. Quality of life on the other hand is far higher as a result of wonderful weather & more time outside with my family :)

Apples & oranges though, so, it depends what you're in pursuit of.

(Perspective. I pay $1,800 p/mo for a 4br with a big beautiful backyard & lots of hummingbirds, utilities around $200 for internet, power, water, gas & $150 p/mo for our cell phones. $40 a month for car insurance, paid off '02 corolla. Plates/registration for the vehicle were $175 or thereabouts. $2,200 odd a month + the odd 1-2 nights out a month. We pay about $40 a week in groceries to feed three, though often splurge on some good steak. Not including taxes, federal/state.)
Look I get that HN has a pretty homogenous view on politics and a strong libertarian bent, but if its come to a point that this guy is getting called out for injecting politics, then I have to say that for me the rest of the comments also are infused with politics.

Its just that those other comments are infused with politics which match the dominant frame of thought on HN.

The OP may not have had the subtlety as other posters, that doesn't mean that there isn't value to be taken from his point, which can be discussed further:

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China is eating jobs because it can afford to undercut labor prices around the world. That is their competitive advantage, and it makes their country better and stronger for it.

While their work conditions degrade human beings but that IS better than what was there before.

Countries like India lose jobs to China, because their workforce is better and the final products cheaper. American jobs at the bottom of the pyramid are at risk because they competition at that level is fierce.

How would you employ people at the bottom of the pyramid, who don't have the jobs/education/ or ability to get into tech, while giving them decent working conditions and the chance to go up the ladder?
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I've read this "news" like dozens of times, and every time I can't help laughing. What he is speaking of is generally true. If I am not writing in C, then I am writing in ASM for speed, or in LISP for less code. C++ just doesn't fit in my tool chain, because it really doesn't excel in any aspect.
well, because there was a contest hosted by pokki so put it there first. Will be adding to Chrome webstore also soon.
Like the old saying goes:

"I work for money. If you want loyalty, get a dog."
More than call centers, this industry reminds me of the meatpacking industry. Warehouse workers fill a crucial step in a larger fulfillment model that unnecessarily imposes harsh conditions on its workforce. The writer mentions picking 500 items during her last morning on the job, which probably represents anywhere from 200 to 300 orders (assuming the average book or dildo order is small). Over a 5 hour period, that represents 40 to 60 orders per hour, picked at real hourly cost of perhaps $14. In other words, a slower picking rate and higher wages might cost consumers several extra dimes per order. It's reasonable to say that passing this additional cost to consumers would have a trivial impact on shopper's wallets, while fueling a strong wealth creation effect in the community where the warehouse is located as its workers can actually afford to spend their way into a middle class lifestyle.

Likewise, the meatpacking industry is infamous for its brutal working conditions and low wages. It has bred many low income, working poor communities plighted by gangs, crime, and despair. The solution to righting the industry and its communities is obvious- pay employees real, middle class wages. But the industry has been fighting a race to the bottom, as the wholesalers of meat products will obviously pick the meatpacking company that can sell at the lowest cost. Because better wages would only increase the price supermarkets pay for meat by several cents per pound, one meatpacking company CEO has openly called for imposing higher wage levels across the entire industry (easier than done). The introduction of higher wages would boost local economies and in aggregate that contributes to the nation's prosperity.

The industries are examples of capitalism at its most efficient and of capitalism utterly failing society as well.
When I worked for a big company, I had a very simple rule:

If I make a promise to my team that I can reasonably keep, I owe it to them to do so.

I'd generally aim to under-promise and over-deliver, while feeling like I'm making a comprable (or bigger!) contribution in comparison to my peers. After some practice at this, I got reasonably good at estimating work. I'd work 20 to 50 hours per week depending on how accurately I estimate, usually aiming for (an achieving) about 35 hours of work. Only once or twice did I ever feel like I really put in any serious "overtime" and I blame that on estimation inexperience.

I made it a point to explain this philosophy (sans actual target hours) to every manager I've ever had. I always fed them the "Work/Life Balance" party line and reminded them that if I wanted my work to be my life, I'd join a startup (I have since founded one). They all seemed to appreciate my being forthcoming.

Once or twice I got a panicked email. The team was going to miss a deadline unless I stepped up to help out! Each time I replied that I had expressed my concerns about scope and timeline during the planning meetings. I'd remind the panicked person that we could simply cut the feature (always an option for a previously shipped product) and would offer my help and time in doing so. No one ever took me up on it.
My mom actually had to help someone who had their phone stolen in this fashion. In the women's restroom at the county fair, she csme across someone who was in need of some sort of medical assistance. This somewhat incapacitated woman handed her phone to another woman with instructions to call for help. This second woman then simply ran off with the phone, and shortly after my mom happened by.

Not Nigeria or LA, either.
Not yet, but it'll be an easy fix.

https://github.com/oesmith/morris.js/issues/12
He rolled the player back, so it wasn't projected into the future, it was just he adjusted the current position backwards. you fall straight down because your velocity is dependent on whether or not you have the key pressed. Jump and let go of the arrow.
"Global SRTM = a lot of preprocessing, postprocessing, and design choices" -- yes but only once per year or so. Terrain data doesn't get monthly or quarterly quality upgrades like OSM data or satellite aerials do.

For anyone interested, from my own experience a few weeks back when I hacked up my elevation data workflow in 1-2 days. First off, data sources:

1. CGIAR-CSI for SRTM3, v4.1 core elevation tiles (N60 down to S60)

2. vastly improved-over-SRTM .hgt tiles for various mountaineous areas and many north-of-N60 areas from viewfinderpanoramas.org, can replace SRTM tiles with those where applicable but they don't have global coverage so need to merge 1. and 2.

3. anything not covered by 1. and 2. use the HGT tiles by "Radio Mobile" (rmw.recordist.com)

Now encode all roughly 144*360=51840 (minus pure ocean) tiles either to GeoTiffs (insane storage space requirements!) or (my approach) to PNG using any custom mapping of the elevation signed-int16 values to your RGB(A) channels. The compression/decompression is fast yet the storage needs are awesome, some 300kb max for a complex tile vs. many MB for tiff. Reading out PNG pixels can be done in client-side JavaScript these days.
1. You can learn programming without the degree. Many do this as a hobby long before they need to for school.

2. In some parts of the world (or at least the US), companies still like to see a degree regardless of how amazing your coding capabilities are. A Masters certainly have weight in many cases in this type of scenario. While in other parts, its all about what you can do over what paper is in your name.

3. I have not, in all my experience, ever seen anyone refer to certifications as valid experience that matters. Although I'm sure they play a role, they certainly never come up in any conversations I've been in.

Obviously all of the above are base on my personal experience so take that as is. It all depends on what you're trying to do but if you are seeking a career in programming, a MSCS isn't going to hurt.
For one, it is horribly slow. I do not know for a fact that its slowness is caused by C++ as a language or by the quality the programmers who wrote Monotone... but it is slow nevertheless and that is all I know. By contrast, git is extremely fast. Go figure.
New management? They did the same thing to Google pre-IPO. As far as I'm concerned this Yahoo's modus operandi.
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Re: " China, which has kinda made the point that human robots are cheaper than mechanical ones."

Not for long.

"The China Business News on Monday quoted Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou as saying the company planned to use 1 million robots within three years, up from about 10,000 robots in use now and an expected 300,000 next year."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/01/us-foxconn-robots-...
If you are constantly needing to work 70-80 hours a week that generally implies an issue with planning and/or engineering practices.
Many industries are forbidden, by law, from unpaid overtime. The law specifically exempts the software industry from this requirement. Like so many other things about the culture here, this issue seems to come down to the US being afraid of its own shadow. We're the greatest country on Earth... we say so all the time. But to change the law and forbid unpaid overtime for the software industry, something that will make people's lives better here in the greatest country on Earth, is to risk losing all these programmers jobs overseas. A terrifying prospect. So we do nothing out of fear.
And python should be embarrassed how exactly?
I general you shouldn't buy gift cards at all. Cash can be spent in any place.
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No, square wheel is saying if apple were adding NFC to the iPhone 5, they'd have major apps prepared to use it, and be partnering with retail stores. He or she suggests that those are so big that despite Apple's secrecy, stories would come out. But because they haven't, Apple is unlikely to be adding NFC (Just paraphrasing--no opinion of my own here)
At least die decently Yahoo. No need to have patent troll written all over your headstone.
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This is very sad. I worked at Yahoo until a few weeks ago; I have great respect for what Yahoo can build, the company and it's people.
This is such a sad turn of events. It's also very weird given how much Yahoo has been talking up the success of the partnership with Facebook around the open graph.
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Fair point, especially #1.

As for #2, the thing with social policies that they have long-term effects on a much larger scale. For example, one could plausibly argue that a robust "safety net" encourages people to take adventures, making it easier for kids from poor families to innovate even if they know that 90% of startups fail. This allows the society as a whole to benefit from the small number of startups that actually do succeed. Handouts, in that case, would be a sort of investment.

Also, this thread is about a hypothetical future society where there is a surplus of human labor due to automation. If you're going to pay people to carry out meaningless tasks that are not necessary in the first place, what's the difference between that and just giving them a handout?

Or so goes the argument. It's harder to prove that in reality. Also, if you care deeply about fairness between individuals, as in your other comment, I can understand why you might object to certain types of handouts.
I think what I would like is a summarized view of the projects I am committing to. For instance "Cloudname/cloudname (5)" for "5 unseen updates for Cloudname".

And I'd like a different summarized view for the projects I am only following.
Dunno. The idea of have of newspaper advertisers are big ticket companies like BMW. I'm struggling a bit to imagine that they've shifted their newspaper budget to Google ads, or that their overall spending has diminuished _that_ much, but I could be wrong on all of these points.
Sorry but I have to disagree. Thats a great philosophy for employer's to pitch and I suppose one that I might pitch to employees if I were employing them but is also in my experience a fallacy. Especially after working for a number of years and "rising through the ranks" jobs become "just" jobs - a decent way to receive a steady income and hopefully a way to enjoy and challenge yourself to a certain degree.

I'd argue that the jobs that expect work outside of 9-5 / 5 days per week have some of the worst 'returns' of any. I avoid them like the plague in that it usually signals something wrong with the company. My current job is strictly 9-5 and is one of the most rewarding and interesting jobs I've ever had.
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Its quite true .. for lots of time .. we are extracting ideas about the success not the full original idea!
The only way to know for sure is to actually do it. Go for it.
C++ (and other mainstream languages, for that matter) excels in the aspect that you can actually write useful software with it. Yet, to the date, there are exactly zero useful pieces of consumer software (e.g. browsers, office suites, video processing) written in lisp. Thus, I suggest that lisp zealots stfu about C/C++ already, and either fix their favorite language or invent a new one.
I can see why this would seem over-hyped and stupid to someone with experience and contempt for STRATFOR already.

And so far I haven't heard anything worth the "BIG NEWS COMING" hype from wikileaks.

It's still too dismissive of the benefits of the leak. As some commenters point out: maybe the people with no access to anyone, who are the targets of amateurs like STRATFOR would like to know what's going on.

Whatever they are, they are exposed now. Seems irrationally condescending to be so dismissive, it's not in line with the evidence presented. Contempt from a "real reporter" towards Wikileaks? It weakens his argument.
The media is about having "angles" these days. Having extreme opinions in order make things interesting. Content is secondary.
That holy war simply never gets old.
I don't think hardware choice helps android. The varied designs allow competition on price but that's a different effect.

I think rate of change helps, but that's not really choice.

I will concede I like android's customization and less locked down nature. That's kind of choice but more like freedom.
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Github has terrible management for this and even for notifications. I'm a member a large organization with popular projects and the entire UI has become completely useless. I think a Mute button for people, projects and issues would work great. I'd have no problem clearing out things that way.
I'm surprised no one here has yet mentioned https://www.codeshelver.com

>Codeshelver lets you clean up your GitHub watchlist by storing repositories you would like to remember on your shelf. You can tag any repository and search for it later on - until then it won't spam your dashboard timeline.

Codeshelver helps you find that one project that you had seen ages ago, which you did not want to follow (watch), but perhaps use somewhere.
This is not about the price of oil. Sweden and the US may pay the same price. But who's extracting it? Who's making the profit in the sale?
(parody)

Edit: You'd have to ask the folks at Boing Boing.

From the end of the article on BB: "* Note the name of the authors, and that of the journal. It's parody, folks."
Symbian was written in C++.

It was basically C with encapsulation. So using C++ as a better C.

It worked well. It didn't use STL nor boost and the exceptions weren't as you'd know them. Memory management was much more carefully counted than is normal in C/C++ programs, and reservation meant commit.

It was programmed by a pretty clever disciplined bunch. Well, most of us were ;)
I find it interesting how 'everyone' seem to hate C++, yet, so many uses it. If C++ is so bad, why does people continue to code with it? Personally I have just started to look at C++ due to Microsofts integration with it on WinRT/Metro for Windows 8.

I mean, MongoDB, Node.js, Microsoft's Windows Runtime (which provides access to the systems API for both JavaScript, C#/VB.NET and C++), MySQL, Membase, Haiku, Chromium are all notable examples of software written in C++ that seems to be quite well.
I agree that if your own health and that of your family didn't depend on your employer liking you, true at-will employment would be a lot more realistic. Right now many people are afraid of rocking the boat too much or to stand up for themselves because in case they get fired they might go bankrupt in case of an accident (I think realistically it might not be as dramatic, I think COBRA retroactively applies to whatever issues you might have encountered in between real health care plans).

If your manager doesn't care about work-life balance and is perfectly happy with making you work 60+ hour weeks without any sort of compensation, be it in money or time-off, your best bet is to start looking for a different position, possibly at a different company. That way you at least do not lose health insurance.

In any case, yes, being afraid to lose your job because you don't know how to pay for a basic need such as being healthy is absurd in the First World.
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Sure, but that only reinforces my point. If android phones sell because they have a large form factor or a physical keyboard, I can hardly see how that means Android tablets are going to take off. Maybe you're listing those things because you dont think the success of android phone will apply to tablets?

I'm not convinced that android tablets won't, but it's fallacious to say they will because the phones did, without identifying why the cause will apply to both.
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The whole "greatest country on Earth" thing needs to be dropped. We live in a global society and the age of the Internet, people need to move past the patriotic party line they're fed by their govt to somehow make them feel better about themselves.