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John Carmack: So we don't work directly with DX 11 but from the people that I talk with that are working with that, they (say) it might [have] some improvements, but it is still quite a thick layer of stuff between you and the hardware. NVIDIA has done some direct hardware address implementations where you can bypass most of the OpenGL overhead, and other ways to bypass some of the hidden state of OpenGL. Those things are good and useful, but what I most want to see is direct surfacing of the memory. It’s all memory there at some point, and the worst thing that kills Rage on the PC is texture updates. Where on the consoles we just say “we are going to update this one pixel here,” we just store it there as a pointer. On the PC it has to go through the massive texture update routine, and it takes tens of thousands of times [longer] if you just want to update one little piece. You start to advertise that overhead when you start to update larger blocks of textures, and AMD actually went and implemented a multi-texture update specifically for id Tech 5 so you can bash up and eliminate some of the overhead by saying “I need to update these 50 small things here,” but still it’s very inefficient. So I’m hoping that as we look forward, especially with Intel integrated graphics [where] it is the main memory, there is no reason we shouldn't be looking at that. With AMD and NVIDIA there's still issues of different memory banking arrangements and complicated things that they hide in their drivers, but we are moving towards integrated memory on a lot of things. I hope we wind up being able to say "give me a pointer, give me a pitch, give me a swizzle format," and let me do things managing it with fences myself and we'll be able to do a better job.

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Editorial/John-Carmack-Intervie...
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For what it's worth, I do a lot of hiring of programmers. A candidate's schooling MIGHT make a tiny difference in whether I notice their resume, but most anything that stands out will get you past that filter. Once you get to the interview stage, schooling makes essentially NO difference to me (although the things you LEARNED in school will make a difference).
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Power user is just meaningless. Explain what you're doing and why. Saying "power user" and expecting that to mean something is not going to work. Design needs use-cases to consider.
Although http://www.bibalex.org/isis/frontend/archive/archive_web.asp... says:

"The Internet Archive at the BA includes the web collection of 1996 through 2007. It represents about 1.5 petabytes of data stored on 880 computers."

So it seems to be a partial snapshot not a dynamic mirror.
Does spending most of your time in a Putty terminal using vim count as Windows or Linux?
Suggest to look at GNOME 1.x.
I have an Information Systems degree as well, and also marked yes.

To be fair, it is taught by the engineering department and has most of the same curriculum as the "computer science" degree - which we don't have here in Uruguay.

We do have a Computer Engineer degree which requires taking exactly the same math as any other engineering degree, and quite a bit of physics and chemistry as well. It's demanding and takes more time than an U.S. degree, so an engineering graduate is equaled to an U.S. master's in Computer Science.

I sometimes regret dropping out of the public university and switching degrees, but there were lots of strikes at the time which set me back two years (to me, it's amazing to see people graduate at 23 in the U.S.).
Windows, all the way back to windows 3.11. Main reason was being a PC gamer, so you are pratically stuck with it.
Age? I think one of the good things about the relative anonymity in HN is that things like age aren't usually seen as a factor in rating someone's contribution to a discussion.

[And I say that as someone who definitely belongs to the "grizzled" end of the spectrum].
ok enough! Can we just try and go the whole week without more Svbtle unsubtleness?
What Makes a Top-Tier Online Education? A Lot of Money, and a Dose of Hollywood
Not everywhere (here in Uruguay it's an Engineering Degree as well).

Still, I agree that a CS degree is more relevant.
Given that tHN is full of developers, I'm pretty disapointed that so many ppl are lumping all the IE's together as a single product.

I totally see that IE6 & 7 are not worth the dev effort, IE8 is probably border-line, but IE9 is a good browser and people seem to be vastly exagerating how much work goes into getting IE9 to look and work like other browsers (i.e. not very much).

So not supporting IE9 seems a bit lazy to me, and I have to say, a little "religous" (they seemed to have ruled out IE10 already without doing any research into why). Also find it strange that they actively block it rather than just warn people about it being unsupported.

However, I will cut them slack because the target market are creatives, and it's an admin site rather than a consumer level site, so probably few IE users here. But others here seem to be extending this idea to the public web, which seems like a mistake...
I dropped out before obtaining a degree, but I continued doing my own R&D for the fun of it even when I was not employed in a tech job.

Today after 17 years of a tech job experience, I have a computer laboratory job which usually requires a Ph.D. Over 50% of my coworkers have Ph.D.s, but they don't wear it on their sleeves, and my knowledge and experience is valued just as much as theirs.

My last two employers did not mind the lack of degree -- in one, the recruiter even commented that I could peer up with double-Ph.D's -- her words, not mine. In the other, the HR representative herself doesn't have a degree.

I've had two employers who were interested in me, turn me down because of the degree. They said they could not hire me because the job description said a degree was required, and they cannot NOT discriminate against me on that -- apparently degree requirements are a way to legally get rid of undesireable applicants without it looking like racial or age discrimination. If they dropped the degree requirement they would get more applicants and it would be harder for them to decide who's best, as well as open them up to (in their view) more discrimination lawsuits. So they use the degree as a legal form of discrimination provided no exceptions are made to it.

Of course the effect of degree requirements, including degree requirements for foreign immigrants, has been degree inflation -- a Ph.D. today is worth what a MS was 30 years ago.

I have thought about getting a degree by examination, e.g., CLEP, or trying to get an honorary degree (I have professor friends), but I refuse to go back to undergraduate classrooms with lecture, homework and exam style learning. It doesn't work for me, even if done online. My learning process is different. I can and do read books -- I have over 500 math/CS books in my personal library -- but not in a linear way in a short semester.
"So, instead of taking the WebOb approach of using WSGI as the common protocol between services, why not use HTTP itself? The rest of the world uses HTTP as the most-common denominator after all."

I agree with the assertion that HTTP is the most common denominator.

# done from memory

In [1]: from webob import Request

In [2]: print Request.blank("http://google.com/index.html")
GET /index.html HTTP/1.0
Host: google.com:80

Looks like HTTP to me.

In [1]: from webob import Request

In [2]: from paste.proxy import TransparentProxy

In [3]: print Request.blank("http://google.com").call_application(TransparentProxy())

Yeah the syntax could be less verbose in WebOb, and there was discussion about a nicer client API at one time, but it's fairly trivial to roll your own. Though requests makes short work of common things, I think it actually abstracts some HTTP details more so than WebOb in a way that leaves the user less informed about what's going on in the HTTP, Basic Auth for example. Which makes it it's own protocol, just like WSGI. WSGI in my experience makes light work of implementing HTTP IMO, it's fairly easy to read the part of the HTTP spec you need to handle and then make that work in WSGI, I'm not so sure requests could make that any easier without intervention from the library authors.

I think there's still a place for requests, but I don't see it as becoming the standard way to build HTTP Requests and handle HTTP Responses. I view it more along the lines of a library like mechanize, only nicer. It has it's place.
Pretend your memory is a hash table. You forget stuff because too much crap gets stored under the same few keys. So all the stuff that's mostly the same gets blended together in your memory. If you want to remember, the memory has to be unique. And those techniques are supposed to make things stand out.

That's why things people told me yesterday get blended together, but I'll probably be stuck remembering the "purple monkey dishwasher" thing for the rest of my life, even though I haven't seen that show in a decade or so.
If chimps have 24 chromosomes and humans have 23, that implies 2 chromosomes have fused in humans. This fusion would put telomeric DNA in the middle of a human chromosome, not an ape/chimp chromosome.
Mercy no. What ever happened to letting each comment stand on its own merit?

Hacker News is already afflicted with "celebrities" and their unbearable sycophants. The last we need are additional mechanisms to support the phenomenon. Hell, if anything, we should move more towards meritocracy by hiding authorship for the first 60 minutes of a comment's life...
I guess independently verifying claims and facts is too hard, regardless of their origin.

Anonymity is used to encourage discussion for good reason.
Not to mention that I don't know of any GPU manufacturer that releases any of that super-low-level information.
The article says it's based on Ubuntu, but the LiMux page linked by it says it's based on Debian (Sarge, no less, which is ancient nowadays).
Disclaimer: I'm working for this project.

We're hiring passionate developers/engineers. Take a look at the Hiring Page: http://about.mila.com/en/jobs/
Not a programmer. I read Hacker News just cuz it's interesting.
Being quite new to HN, I don't think less anonymity would improve it, mittigating the "fatt finger" syndrome in mobile would help more :-)

As for the advice, it alredy occured more than once to me to read some comment here and my first impression was "ahh, that's stupid". Butter after following the discussion a little bit more and / or on second thought it turned to "hey, good stand point after all".

I think that's where the voting buttons come in.
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Apple's Chinese iPhone plants employ forced interns, claim campaigners
It doesn't matter how good your intentions are if you place human intuition into the loop you will fool yourself.
Why somethings get downvoted, I don't know.
I started out in 2001. Back then I was working for some company as a graphics designer -- I had been there for about 1 year (fresh out of school) -- building the layouts for their countless websites. Back then the whole internet industry was about to collapse and I could see the proverbial axe dangling over me come the end of my year contract.

A coworker of mine was responsible for the programming. Mostly perl and php. I had never touched a line of code. Not even HTML. I was doing everything a-la WYSIWYG. The mere thought of having to write code made me cringe but it was obvious that I had to adapt if I wanted to keep receiving pay checks. So I set out to teach myself everything I could about programming in the boss' time.

I scoured the internet and read every bit I could find. I started out with BlitzBasic[1] and C# (It was in beta back then). To my complete astonishment, I actually /really/ loved every bit of it. Since then I quit my job and went home to become a halfway decent programmer. I was adamant that this would be my new career path. And I succeeded!

Around 2008/2009, C# was into its 3rd iteration if memory serves. I had left Blitzbasic behind a long time ago. I was still enjoying every minute I could spend typing code. However, C# had some traits that really started to rub me the wrong way. The 'everything is an object' OOP mentality, coupled with the pretentious and obtuse habit of corporations to not give a shit about skills unless you can recite all design patterns by heart, really made me lose faith in the whole programming thing.

Fortunately, that's when Go[2] came into view and it allowed me to fall in love with programming all over again. I've never looked back to C# since that day. In the meantime, I've also picked up C, Scheme, Forth, Factor and a host of other languages I love working with.

I am very much a D.S.L. kind of guy but Go is definitely my primary go-to guy for most stuff.

[1]: http://www.blitzbasic.com

[2]: http://golang.org
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Your last remark is not incompatible with what OP asks for. Maybe HN could test that during a trial week?
Where are the pixels?

TV manufacturers are currently delivering 1080P sets in volume and at low prices. Nobody can really get out of a commodity play, and the future of bigger HDTVs is kind of pointless.

Apple is delivering up 1080P content already, and the iPad 3 delivers better in our hands. (3D is a red herring.)

So what's next? Higher resolution TV screens. IMAX in the home. iPad functionality on the walls.

We are, in my opinion, going to continue to see a steady rise in the resolution of our TV screens (and change in what they do), and the content resolution will need to increase to match. That content will increasingly be delivered over IP.

Apple is rumoured to be entering the TV market, and we know it won't be with a me-too commodity product. So why wouldn't they launch with a higher resolution screen, just as they did with the iPhone and iPad 3? They can control the delivery of media through the Apple TV, and with the iPad already in the lounge gaming on the higher resolution TV is essentially ready to go.

So for me the NextGen gaming devices better launch alongside new TVs (Sony can do this), and with stunningly detailed graphics, or we will rightly yawn at their arrival and stick with our computers, iPads and iPhones.

Heck - if Sony, Nintendo & Microsoft continue with their very slow release cycles for the gaming machines, then the next generation may well be the last - and we'll be driving big screen games using iPads and other tablets.
I'm doing programming for almost 20 years now. What I can tell you? It doesn't mater how long you did this. Let's compare functional vs imperative. Functional will throw to bin all your knowledge about programming. That's it. You are a dinosaur! :)
Who Is Peter Pan?
once you go black (and yellow) you never go back.
This is true. Goverments could start shutting down bitcoin exchanges any day. Luckily we can still survive with cash exchanges and/or decentralized exchanges.

Or maybe people would simply lose their interest in to bitcoins, or start using something else. Maybe Google will invent their own bitcoin, and everyone starts using that. Or maybe something else happens.
The most likely competition to google is cheapening hard disks so that things like wikipedia, siri, and entire newspapers archives sit on your computer locally and so that you can do more complicated sql like queries on it.
According to wikipedia it takes 1 month, not months, and the bird is only incapacitated toward the end of it.

The children of a kiwi bird are not fed by the parent in some of the species, and they leave the nest within a few days to a month, despite the bird living possibly 30 years.

No social relationships with other kiwis is required - only with the mate.

So your example falls totally flat.

Obviously some animals have one or another trait that compares to a human, but none have all of them - none even come close. Humans are not anything like other animals.

Not sure what pattern you want me to see - you need more than one example to make a pattern.
I think this would be a great toy game to do with Canvas and release as an HTML5 app.
I still keep windows around for games. Have you used Wine recently? I'm not a serious gamer, but last time I checked, it ran everything I needed.
You are again confusing free software, open source software, and gratis software. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.h...
I am pretty sure you don't need to install jekyll on your computer, github will compile the files for you when you push.

*Of course you wouldn't be able to test localy so it might not be a good idea.
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After you pass your DSA practical test, you get a license to drive on the road. Even if you have passed your test, you should always be careful, alert driver on the road.
Hackers steal 1.5 million card numbers in huge MasterCard, Visa breach
You assume that things are just one way. Suggest to try out GNOME 3.4.
Thanks, man! That is exactly what I need.
What about optional links to github/linkedin/etc accounts in the profile and badges next to the comments to show what the person reveals in their profile?

I am not sure I think this is a good idea, but I was just thinking about a way to make identity relevant and optional.
This oil is classified as a neurotoxin. Lucid dreams aren't the only thing you'll be having..
QB was one of the earlier languages I played around with, too, actually, and only ten years ago. I think it was an excellent environment for learning to program. It was simple, with many built-in functions for graphics and audio—everything a growing game programmer needs. It also had a pretty good editor, with documentation and examples only a right-click away. The now-defunct QB4All community was also very friendly and helpful.

Furthermore, I’d say that having an underpowered but batteries-included language helps focus you on the goal of making a thing, rather than the process. It also encourages hacking, to circumvent the language’s restrictions. Could you ask for better?
Third, although indirectly. I'm nearly 40. My grandfather was a chemist and used computers from the really early days. My mother studied physics but hates computers, but my stepfather is a mathematician who also used computers since the punch card days, so I at least have a representative in each generation!
In a hypothetical scenario when no one is left as a competitor it would stop the development of Android just as they did for codesearch.
It would not kill anyone to offer one class, just 3 credits out of the 120 in an undergraduate career, about the practice of creating software. FWIW even my CS minor (30 credits) had such a course.

The course was structured around a single group project. We were assigned to a "customer" in the department, and we were responsible for soliciting (and formalizing) requirements, developing a design, implementing it, and testing it. Revision control was not optional, and we were taught how to use it. Our grade was based upon how well we completed the task, how well we presented ourselves to the instructor and "customer", and how we were assessed by our fellow teammates.

No one suffered any loss to their theoretical background, the universe didn't explode, and everyone left the class a better programmer than before. Since a CS degree is still, rightly or wrongly, considered the sole requirement for many programming jobs, I think it was time well spent.
Two conference papers on Bytemark’s virtualisation (2004 & 2012)
Something simple like asking if the user wants to make an email address and/or web page public on their profile would be nice.
Why do governments always get Internet policy wrong?
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I don't think DuckDuckGo is Google's biggest competitor (are they even into the ad game at all?) I think their biggest rival is Facebook, hence why they went so far out of their way to make a Facebook clone. As amusing as it is to watch Google Bing themselves (create a clone of a rival's product and throw cash at it until it succeeds), I wish they would stick to their strengths. I'm about to leave gmail for good, over all this trash that they've been opting me in for. Apparently I'm now a member of Play. Good to know I signed up for that, too.
Hello, I'm 23, I developed RSI in both my hands 6 months ago.

What helped me was:
getting wrist supports,
stretching my hand and arms for 2 mins every 30,
learning all of the keyboard shortcuts and avoiding the mouse as much as possible,
sitting up straight,
raising the monitors to head height,
typing with the keyboard on my lap.

It took 2 months off work, then a month of half days to be able to return to working as much as I used to. I am still avoiding using the computer out of work, which is rubbish.

Initially I stopped playing guitar/bass because I thought that it would make things worse, but the physio told me that if it didn't make things worse, it probably helped, and I think it has/does.

When things start getting better, don't just plough back into working full time, I did that and it got worse again and I had to have another load of half days.
I don't see it in the same way you do.

Google does user profiling and this means not only that they can serve better ads, it also means that they are giving users what they want, with queries being at least location dependent. E.g. when I'm searching for "Ruby", it gives me the homepage of the programming language as the first result and most other results are about this language too. When my wife searches the same thing, it gives her the Wikipedia page on rubbies, some stuff about Ruby's Diner, 1 or 2 YouTube videos, etc...

Of course I've noticed that this user-profiling is pretty dumb currently, but it's getting better. And skipping over privacy issues and the death of the long-tail, this is in fact what most people want and I also think that normal users do not care about the loss of privacy, unless they've been bitten by the side effects.

Then Google's own crawler can hardly be matched. Consider how web interfaces these days are more and more reliable on JavaScript. It's easy to run a headless browser and render a JavaScript-enhanced page from a script, but it's hard to scale that to hundreds of millions of web pages and workaround all the idiotic things that people do with JavaScript. Also couple that with the need to serve fresh news to people that want it, so the crawler has to be smart enough / fast enough for near real-time consumption.

Then Google's other services are complementing their search, stuff like Google Places or Google Maps. Personally I hate when such results are cluttering my view, but when searching for places (e.g. restaurants, kindergartens), people are happy to get such results straight on the first page. And btw, I don't know how they do search by voice recognition on Android, but it's a no-brainer to improve the voice recognition based on global trends or even on the user's profile - the point being that there's a lot they can do with the data and infrastructure they have that's out of reach for small startups.

Personally I liked the old Google better, but it's going to take a lot more than improved privacy to eat their launch.
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A GitHub project for trading bitcoin:

https://github.com/viorels/mtgox-trader

I've no interest in trading bitcoin, but I am interested in learning about making Python bots (in order to hack web games for fun and profit), which is how I found this project.

A quick google search turned up this blog about bitcoin trading for those who are interested:

http://btctrading.wordpress.com/
Would be an easy hack to write a Greasemonkey script that displays user info next to their name. If you care, why don't you go for it?
Look at using iTerm2-beta.
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