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I've never been entirely sold on how awesome Chrome's invisible updates are and this is exactly why. It's great as long as they don't push any bugs through. But once they do (and it will happen), there's no way of using a known good version. So if I'm IT in charge of 10,000 users at MegaCorp, I cannot make any promises about reliability of internal web apps with Chrome, because at any point Google could break something.

(Obviously you can work around this by providing snapshots of Chromium, or Chrome binaries patched to not update or whatever)
> I think you will find infrared was advance enough by 1971

It was not. The link you posted says that only film infrared was available then, and that would not be helpful for searching in a jungle.

And even in 1978 the best they could do was a resolution of 64x64 which isn't enough to identify a human from an animal.
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I am an undergrad and have read most of CLRS and the dragon book.

And I will certainly read TAOCP once I have the money to reasonably justify spending it on the set.

I wouldn't really want to ever read a book on design patterns.
I love Notepad++ but there must be 1000s of awesome features like this that I'm still not aware of. Thanks for the tip.
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Short answer -- your friends have 6 hours/night more study time than you. My bet is that if both of you studied the same amount of time but you got 8 hours and they 2, you would perform better, assuming your study habits are equally good.

What I've learned is that sleep IS important -- it's better to sleep than not to sleep. HOWEVER, staying up late and memorizing material over and over is definitely worth more than sleep is (for recall purposes). If you don't have time to review X due to sleep and X is on the exam, then you definitely lose out, right?

I have been an 8 hour/night sleeper. The attitude there is that I must get 8 hours of sleep, even at the expense of other things, such as making sure I obsessively know every single little fact in the material. 2 hour/night people care about memorizing every last detail of the material, at the expense of sleep.

I found I memorized best by memorizing 10-12 pages of notes so I could recite them from memory, recalling them all lying in bed, then recall them in the morning and touch up throughout the day. You just can't squeeze that in if you get 8 hours/sleep on an overloaded schedule!
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I bet you $50 you'll never finish reading even book 1 of TAOCP.
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I had this same problem but lately I've decided to emulate the model of my Uncle.

He has been a fairly successful businessman since the late 70s, with ventures ranging from publishing to travel service to real estate.

One thing he always did though was draw in members of the family to help. You'd be surprised how happily people will help you once asked, and being able to step away from a task for an hour or two is a huge relief.

Also the quality of advise goes up highly once people become more involved with your business---from the outside looking in, everything seems hunky-dory and you're liable to just have family grin and say "its awesome!" if you ask for their help. Once they've worked on it for a little while too, maybe because they feel they've earned the right to have input they'll tell you what they really feel.

This applies to your users/customers too--get buy-in from Day 1 and they'll be the best QA department you ever had. When you have someone right out a 3 page email detailing their thoughts, then you know you're onto something.
>how do you give an alternative currency real value?

That's not your job. People either will, or they won't.
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Mind elaborating on why?
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The problem is following a "maximizing" strategy, instead of a "satisficing" strategy.

Maximizing means you do things based on what seems like the best possible path. Satisficing is focusing on the minimum requirements to reach your goal.

Never finishing seems to be a combination of maximizing when you don't need to bother, and also failing to identify the true requirements for you. In order for you to start a successful venture, there are a surprisingly large number of fixed requirements:

1) You need a product that people care about

2) That you can charge for

3) With a viable customer acquisition strategy

4) Where 2) × 3) = enough to support you

5) It needs to be something you can actually implement

6) That you can stay excited about for many years

The problem is that maximizers will start maximizing on some handful of these. Often they'll take #5 super seriously and start trying to execute perfectly on their vision, do great design, etc, etc.

But then at some point along the way they start to realize that even if they maximize on that axis, they haven't satisfied one of the core requirements. Indeed, the can't satisfy one of the core requirements. It's a depressing realization, and the only option is to jettison the idea and move on to something else.

Which leads me to my somewhat unexpected conclusion, that the solution to never finishing may well be not starting. Which isn't to say that you should twiddle your thumbs and not build stuff. Building stuff is a critical skill that you need to practice.

But just treat your projects like side projects. Don't start running off and thinking you're going to actually start a company until you have a project that you really think can hit all six requirements.

And don't try to maximize any of them. The important thing is to get all six cooking at an acceptable level.
Indeed no. That's exactly what git reset does: "copy entries from <commit> to the index". I got that from the unusably bad man page. It was the first sentence.
The first list includes books that professionals read 2+years into their careers, the latter is a list of books that higher-level students read while doing an undergrad or masters degree.

I'm guessing people lie about the latter because:

a) they're much drier, and take more discipline to read
b) they indicate a more rigorous training.
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I was lucky enough to have parents who understood how important it would be for me to be comfortable with computers, despite the fact that they were not tech-savy at all. I was playing Mario Teaches Typing by age 5-6. I upgraded to the more (hilariously) violent "The Typing of the Dead" for my Dvorak endeavors, though ;)
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I have recently read Niall Ferguson’s “War of the World", which gives a new history of the 20th century. One that was one long 100-year war spanning from set up for WWI which led to WWII which led to Cold War.

He argues that the same types of thinking and scenarios are unfolding once again in the 21st century, “Three things seem to me necessary to explain the extreme violence of the 20th century. ... These may be summarized as ethnic conflict, economic volatility and empires in decline.”

This is a very serious question of mine and would like to hear any thoughts, speculations, etc on the matter.

A quick review of the book:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/12/books/review/Montefiore.t.html?pagewanted=all
I think that's an unnecessarily harsh review. From looking at the table of contents, it looks to me like Code Complete covers a lot more territory, eg. there doesn't appear to be anything on code reviews in The Practice of Programming.

That said, I'm going to have to find a copy of it now and compare them :)
My point of contention isn't which style of rendering you or I prefer, it's whether or not you're justified in ignoring (if not intentionally sabotaging) the UX of the vast majority of users because of said preference.

I never claimed there was any objective standard -- you did.
This is very often also true of writing.
Hands down my favorite editor for Windows, but when I'm using it, I still wish I was using gedit or TextMate.
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I... don't see you participating in this conversation in the first place? So ok...
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"Look at it this way: When Apple went public in 1980, it had 54.2 million shares outstanding. It has since split three times, so those original 54.2 million shares have now become 434 million shares. But in fact, Apple currently has 929 million shares outstanding. Many of the extra 495 million shares—worth well over $200 billion, at current valuations—were issued over the years to pay for companies or people. And Apple isn’t even particularly acquisitive. All that equity has no value if there isn’t some way to convert it into cash eventually."

Surely AAPL with fewer shares would be worth a lot more per share. Markets pay keen attention to P/E.
Well regardless, firefighters have plenty of experience with running into hot as balls buildings and doing physically exerting things. If he wasn't referring to firefighters, then he should have been.
"But that's the great thing about going this fast, the novel starts to eat you and you find yourself writing any time you can just for the pure joy of it. Even better, on the days where I broke 10k, I was also pulling fantastic words-per-hour numbers, 1600 - 2000 words per hour as opposed to my usual 1500. It was clear these days were special, but I didn't know how."

This thrill of creation, when you've got the design (momentarily?) cracked and all that's left is the small matter of putting to disk what's there in your mind already, describes some of the most exciting experiences I've had writing code.
I would say that you know a programming language when you can contribute to an open source software and add value to the system (as judged by the community).
The (inadequately developed) point was that this idea could be built into an entirely new operating system with e.g. a different notion of a process—as opposed to building new tools on top of Unix—and that this "operating system" could be a lightweight layer like HaLVM or Mirage, so such ideas could be explored without committing to building an entire OS.
Sponsorships are also a large part of their revenue. High end hardware companies are starting to realize that things like barcraft are becoming more common, and are capitalizing on the number of viewers. It's a slow start, but esports will likely follow the same pattern modern day sporting events take. A lot of the current difficulty is that video games are not designed for people who are just watching. This is changing pretty drastically right now. Valve is working heavily in making sure that the engine for Dota 2 isn't just good for playing the game, but also for broadcasting it. They're building a very robust platform for viewing, announcing, sponsoring, and filming in game actions. Once broadcasting is efficient, the larger number of views will bring in heavier sponsors. It'll be interesting to see where those paychecks are in five, ten years.
Now if only there was a way to convert those Access databases into modern web apps based on MySQL and an HTML interface, that could really be a cash cow...
I don't want to get into a thing here, but many times I've been on the road and avoided accidents, sometimes serious ones, by driving intelligently. Almost all of the wrecks or near-really-bad-wrecks I see occur when both parties are not paying enough attention or don't know how to respond to the crisis.
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To me, a lot of this divide is between books I read cover to cover and books I consider references or pick up for very specific sections (like "Algorithms on Strings, Trees and Sequences").

CLRS, TAOCP, and Gang of Four are all books I haven't read in their entirety, but have been indispensable for certain topics. I still recommend them to people all the time, and feel perfectly justified doing so.
I'm little curious on their no time limit evaluation and a license to buy for continuous use model. Is it just a good faith agreement to buy it if you intend to use continuously or it can be enforced later if it's detected it's used regularly?
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True with a tiny caveat. Having worked through a lot of a "lesser" book: The algorithm design manual, what I have found missing in other books or contest driven practice is any practice of proofs of correctness. While, these are certainly probably completely practically useless in a SWE job, they do provide a good foundation for computer science undergrads to develop some mathematical maturity necessary to explore other branches of mathematics, say in grad school or at work in a more quantitatively demanding job.
What is a hacker? ...or, let me know if I'm wasting my time.
Are there IDE's that track lines of code edited/added per hour, etc?
I love N++ for some of its XML handling features (being able to hit a menu item to get an xpath readout is handy), but I still find myself using GVim more often than not.
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Thirty of the top fifty players are South Korean, while only one is from the US.
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That's interesting. I don't necessarily think there's anything wrong with it. Facebook says that they change the font of their site to match the system font of the current user because they want it to "feel like a system application". I guess the analogy is for Ark to "feel like a social network application" by having similar styling. IDK just thinking out loud.
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Even if they're not being paid much of a salary, anyone who lives in a team house doesn't have much in terms of costs (no rent or utilities, and probably most of their food is provided). What this means is that the mid-tier pro's might not be putting much money into the bank, but they also are living comfortably.
Why is this not higher rated? An innovative piece of tech which changes the game and creates a giant leap in human achievement is what we're all about here.
It is a good faith agreement, plus a nag dialog that pops up once in a while if you're running unlicensed.
My problem with that book is the italic, thin, proportional font all the code is in (I have he hard cover). It hurts my eyes and I keep missing punctuation.
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Any internship/co-op I get HAS to be in a city, because I am not willing to get a car. I'm not sure how that mentality of mine would ever change.
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I guess, but they're not exactly cross-language inter-process communication. Maybe you could work something like them into the OS, though.
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Was a brilliant read. But, while it might not technically go against the HN submission guidelines, I don't think this article belongs here.
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Awesome story. I graduated with a JD/MPA in 2010, but already started working in a startup the summer prior to graduation. I've been in startups ever since and have recently started to (slowly) teach myself to code. I haven't had the time or guts to volunteer to actually build something for someone, but I've been thinking that I'd like to get involved in an open source project in a couple of months when I'm more comfortable in the code.

When/how did you know that you would actually be able to build something useful?

Edit: P.S. Good move getting out of law! ;-)
On that second item, writing & proofing: it might help to use a word-processor that includes a grammar-checker. Spell-check alone is not sufficient to catch things like

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Nothing regarding this has surfaced on the deep web. I doubt there is much truth to the rumor.
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Here is Destiny's AMA on Reddit from a year ago talking about how much he earns streaming/teaching (3.5K+1.5K) per month

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/g7q91/iam_destiny_i_qu...

Keep in mind a few things. Destiny is a pretty good player, in fact at one point he was so well known for his control of Infestors (a unit from the Zerg race) that a lot of Koreans knew of him (and his reputation) because of that alone.

He also is a Grandmaster at Starcraft, meaning he is in the top 200 of his region (there are 5 I believe, Americas, Europe, Korean/Taiwan, China, SE Asia). So even if he was the worst Grandmaster he is at least one of the 1000 best Starcraft 2 players in the entire world. However it would probably be very hard for him to ever crack this tournament earnings list mainly because he is at the level that is way better than average players, but not better than the top players. I'm not hating on the guy, but I think for the most part that is true. Even with his training in Korea it's still going to be pretty hard for him to gain a lot of ground on the Koreans mainly because their society accepts that playing Starcraft as a competition/sport.

With that being said, he mentions (from a year ago) that he earns 3.5K streaming with an additional 1.5K from teaching. That is ~60K a year from that alone. That is pretty decent money but still not something I'd quit my day job over. Then you have to keep in mind any traveling costs to compete at tournaments, the hours and hours devoted to keeping up your skill level and the fact that there are fewer SC2 players now than there were a year ago so he may not be earning as much from streaming.
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I studied mathematics in the 80's, a lot of my peers read the library copies routinely, either systematically from cover to cover, for specific reference, or for fun (flip open at random, see what you get) - maths people love maths books and TAOCP is very much a maths book - since then I've rarely met anyone with am actual volume set that seems to have any idea of the contents.

The Dragon book I still own, a paperbound version that's as dog eared as a book can get and still hang together as it was the reference for three of us working on a few compilers of our own back in the day.

The C Book I no longer have despite having bought four to five copies :( That book's never been much of a boomerang.
I thought that CC was good when it came out, but it's gotten pretty long in the tooth. There needs to be a modern version.
> When/how did you know that you would actually be able to build something useful?

When I got the CRUD interface working on the non-profit database. So I didn't know I'd be able to do it until I actually did it ;). The system I built replaced their old system, which was literally pieces of paper in filing cabinets.

> Edit: P.S. Good move getting out of law! ;-)

I wanted to get into tech anyway. My friend (dm8 on HN) introduced me to Hacker News in 2009 and it was a life-changing experience. It was my first peek into the whole scene.
Fun quote from the article: "This is not a choice between ruminating on art or churning out the novels for gross commercialism (though I happen to like commercial novels)"