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>I'm old enough to have played the Arcade Cabinet version of this game as a kid. Not exactly what I'm talking about, but perhaps an inspiration.

I knew it wasn't exactly what you were talking about, but the general concept is similar. I like to think of it as an improved iteration.

>I'll keep that in mind.

If you're not sure what it looks like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bzWnaH-0sg

Though for the sake of modern players eyes, pretend that the flickering never happened. (;

(More footage showing a full round: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvGzAvNLcew)

EDIT: Considering what you've said in other comments. Maybe the best way to implement this would be a skin that players can buy as an upgrade?
i hate unity with a burning passion, but gnome 3 is my favorite environment in linux right now :)
They'll think their computer is getting hacked, yeah. Don't want to be on the other end of that support call.
I work in an open office floor plan, and I enjoy it. So that sometimes happens.
200 electric car charging stations to be built in Bay Area
I have both a CS degree and a non-cs degree, voted for both.
Grubwithus (YC W'11) - Venice, CA - Front end engineer

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Requirements for this position:

- strong Javascript + CSS skills

- experience with Illustrator

- one or more past projects that demonstrate good UI / UX skills

Nice to haves:

- Ruby on Rails experience

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If you are interested in joining the offline revolution and working at Grubwithus, let us know a little bit about yourself and send us a few links to your Github profile, resume, portfolio, or past projects. Feel free to include any information that you think would help us in making our decision.

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gnome 3 works that way now too, it is one of my favorite changes :) (even though it gets the most hate)
This reminds me of Netrek. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netrek
I wish gender wasn't an issue. Women have been a big part of the work force for a long time and in the past few years it has become a necessity with the declining economy as most families need dual incomes. The tech industry, being the only market that is growing in our economy, is offering good conditions and some of the highest salaries. It means that more and more men and women will study programming and computer engineering. It means that gender roles can be left in the past where they belong.
Hour long chat on econtalk with Acemoglu:
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/03/acemoglu_on_why.htm...
Yes, sorry, I meant the writing system.
Why does it make lazy loading impossible?
Thanks for posting this. I am at work on an Asteroids-movement style MMO mashup with Elite. There will be "weapons lock" but there will be aiming and positioning as well, so dodging will be key.

Players will be able to design their own ships, which will have performance determined by their shape, and placement of components within. (So, the more wedge-shaped your ship is, the more armor value it has for shots from the front, but the slower it can turn because its structure is less robust. Also, the longer your laser-tube is, the better range it has, etc.) This will happen in a procedurally generated universe containing in excess of 2^128 worlds.

I'm doing this as a study in emergence in games. I want to implement an MMO where mindless "keyboard macro" grinding is totally absent. Wherever possible, we will replace a boring grinding mechanic with something akin to optimizing or micromanaging in an RTS or 4X. What's more, the optimizing/managing mechanics will actually be emergent themselves, building on the ability to write scripts for almost everything in game. (These will run on the server, so the user can license their scripts to other players for in-game money.)
Along those lines, the best predictor indicator for state success could be success during the period you're concerned with.
Another reason why I think being an engineer in a startup is a lot more stable for your career is because you get to do a lot more work. Less HR bs, less time sending emails, fewer career progress reports and mid-year discussions. You end up spending a lot more time on doing real work, you learn a lot more (because there's no local guru that will do it for you, you got to figure everything our yourself).

You end up with more experience and with a much larger network, at least if you participate to your local startup scene. At BigCorp, you probably know at most your immediate division. Your world-view is fairly limited, and most of those people are likely not in the position to offer you an opportunity to work with them in the future.

Being forced to build a personal brand is true stability, at least compared to cruising along and hoping you don't get laid off.
Looks like we finally found something we can agree on ;)

Making a great product that people want is the key, it's always been the key and always will be the key.

Don't forget though, YC has gotten alot more press in recent years (e.g. this http://news.cnet.com/8301-33617_3-57406737-276/y-combinator-...), and one might argue a little more competitive because of it.

That might increase the quality of what's coming out of YC, but it also means, as hard as the may try, they are always going to miss out on some potentially good teams/ideas/products.
I like that idea, and I think I'm going to try it. I'm slightly perturbed that my school doesn't have an advanced compilers course, but I could definitely use this strategy as a way of learning more.
4/1: Philly introduces E-Lanes for texting pedestrians
Fashion is clearly very subjective but it is also a visual language. If the way you dress within a context is communicating that you don't care about yourself, you aren't dressed properly.
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The typical answer is: "it depends on the team". Is there a particular part of Amazon that you are interested in?
I just pushed a new version that should sort out the dependency problems (0.1.1)
That was named after Perl.

Having said that, it'd be interesting to know how many people think "gem", "girl's name" or "derivative of Perl" when they first hear it.
FundingGates (http://fundinggates.com/jobs/) - NYC - Various Positions. Remote possible (local preferred).

Looking for senior ruby on rails and javascript developers for our young, privately-funded startup (no plans to take any more $$). You'd be engineer #1 aside from the CTO (me). We're building technology to help disrupt the small/medium business recevables space. Our software will help mom-and-pops collect money that is owed to them; without us, their options are pretty bleak (try and recover themselves or go to the guy around the corner who will do the proverbial "baseball-bat on kneecaps" ploy).

Requirements are:
Amazing at Ruby on Rails
OR
Amazing at JavaScript

Our company is optimized for developer happiness and run by folks that know how to treat developers. See one of my submissions: http://mattrogish.com/blog/2012/03/17/open-plan-offices-must...

Contact rogish at fundinggates.com with your github, stackoverflow, etc.

Thanks!!

--
Matt
> So, if you use Twitter, you're someone's lab rat.

Among others, Noah Smith's (and his grad students'):

http://www.ark.cs.cmu.edu/
Amazon Cloud Drive is also hiring -- http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?ie=UTF8&docId=100...
To be thorough, you might include Sound Synthesis if you're going to include Graphics. Or you might swap one for the other depending on your interests. While Graphics will have you learn applied linear algebra, Sound Synthesis will have you learn digital signal processing, which includes Sampling Theory, Filter Theory, Fourier Analysis and Synthesis Methods.
Wait - do you actively block IE or do you just ignore it in testing?

If you just ignore it in testing, fine.

But if you actively block it then you are evil and no one should copy you.
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I think you have your order wrong. If you are talking about web frameworks, then Rails pretty much kicked off the bloom of web frameworks in the PHP ecosystem. There were web frameworks available in the PHP ecosystem before Rails, but they all sucked and none of them had gained any serious traction.

Also, I'm not sure you could ever call VB or Ruby mainstream. Of course, this depends on your definition, but hosting issues and a lack of things like a Ruby equivalent of Wordpress (in terms of popularity and usage) has kept PHP at the top for web development in general.
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Stepout (formerly Ignighter, Techstars '08) - New York City, Mumbai
Full and Part Time PHP & jQuery Developers

We are India's fastest growing online social dating website. Here is a profile from the nytimes. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/business/20ignite.html?pag...

Browse our open positions at http://stepout.com/jobs
> If you're a VP or a middling MD and you get a reputation for being scummy, it hurts you.

So Goldman managing director, Scott L. Lebovitz sat on the BoD of a company which hosted of the biggest forum for sex trafficking of under-age girls. Village Voice Media had 70% of prostitution ads.

Is this what hurt him that he had to step down after many years?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/opinion/sunday/kristof-fin...

BTW, we can play this game all day. If you think that there is an iota less scumminess on Wall Street, then you haven't worked there or looked too carefully.
Geez. I'm not on a soapbox here. Don't accuse me.

If you're going to say I'm wrong, at least point out how I'm wrong. There isn't a big difference between what I said and:

>>corrupt governments siphon wealth into privileged hands at the expense of the public good.<<

The effect is the same. Too much money in too few hands. Countries don't only need the rule of law to protect us from violence. We also need it to protect us from semi-legal forms of theft.

Monarchs gathered wealth and provided protection, and they've been going out of business for quite a while now. Mexico has the richest person in the world along with a lot of corruption and lots of very poor people. How can a place be viable enough to support multibillionaires, and still have people living in shacks?

I'm trying to understand the truth.
Acceptance by the art community is a key factor, possibly the most important. Other factors include artistic intention, aesthetic qualities, and being considered based on what is already considered art.
I'm "In Progress", I was doing contract work while I was still in high school and took two years off after high school to work at a variety of companies, then left a 6-figure job at 19 to go back to school and finish my degree so I wouldn't have a hard time finding jobs in the future (and because I knew that if I didn't do it then, which allowed me to graduate college the same year as my high school classmates, I would never do it).

I guess what I'm saying is I hope this poll ends up saying that while not a requirement, it's nice to have a degree (mine's going to be in Math/Economics) else I've definitely wasted some time and money :)
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I've worked for 15 years in a couple of large companies and this simply has not been my experience. I've worked on interesting stuff, met a huge variety of people, even got to live overseas for a few years. While a large company environment isn't a startup environment, that doesn't mean it has to be stifling or boring.

Every company is different. Broad generalizations that working for a small/large company will necessarily mean X, Y and Z are likely inaccurate. The key is the ability to be honest to yourself about what you want/need, what you have, and to have the guts to pull the trigger and make changes if necessary.
Where do you see a problem? The repeat of "about" in this specific URL? Thanks.
Senator Lieberman proposes to eliminate Section 230 immunity from blogs
Thank you for the Google link. There I learned that Lewontin's fallacy is a fallacy because "Richard Lewontin is a Marxist Jew who has dedicated his career to attacking genetics as an explanation for human variation." That explains so much.

It is really cute how you think you can tell an Englishman from a German. Do you know, by the way, the genetic make up of the Englishman? Do you know where the word "England" came from? Here is a clue -- it came from the Anglo-Saxons a group of GERMAN tribes that conquered England after the Romans left and later became the people you now call English. So your ability to tell apart the English and Germans based on their look is most likely a figment of your imagination.

Anyways lets not get carried away and stick to the topic at hand. Here is another example from the article -- the economic difference between the southern US and the rest of the US. Could you explain that one. Please tell me how the southerners developed a statistically different genetic make up than northerners in the 400 year period since colonization. I would love to hear about the split between the grits and pizza genes.
Crimson Hexagon - Boston, MA

Looking for frontend web developers, web engineers, dev/sys ops, and backend hackers with an interest in machine learning and big data.

We use machine learning to measure public opinion about major brands, politics, etc. using the social web (including the full Twitter firehose) as our datasource. We make our findings available to our customers through a beautiful web product. We've collected, indexed, and are constantly mining an archive of over 100 billion web and social media documents, adding another 1+ billion each week.

Small team (6 engineers, 2 research scientists), mostly Java shop, plenty of free food and beer, impressive customer list, $5mm+ in funding, and growing fast.

Drop me a line at stefan@crimsonhexagon.com
Very cool. Just what I've been looking for
I have a non CS related degree and am about two years in to a CS degree. I have not taken any classes in about 6 months and do not know whether I will resume doing so. So...I put non CS related degree.
Please let me know if you put up a git repo. I can't promise that I'll be able to make any significant contributions at this point in time (working on big project for the next few weeks), but I'd love to try to help when I do get some free time.

By the way, have you seen brubeck: http://brubeck.io/ It would be interesting to build this framework on top of Mongrel 2. Not saying we should necessarily try. But it could be fast, fast, fast.
With or without a degree, if you spend any time doing freelance work, make sure to incorporate and pay yourself a salary. You might try this as soon as you turn 18, or as an undergraduate.

In my experience, HR departments can use these records for salary justification down the road. With policies like: 'experience may be substituted for education on a 2:1 basis' in effect, you may find yourself paid on par with people having advanced degrees, based only on your self-employment history. Your mileage may vary.
Singapore is also another developed low tax country.
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Dropped out out of frustration with ridiculous emphasis on calculus and extremely poor algorithms teachers. I don't regret dropping out, I regret wasting a couple of years fighting that.

But almost 15 years later I now find algorithms teaching in top universities completely out of touch with reality. Hardware changed drastically in the last decade and it seems they just gave up. It's turning into a cult of big-O theory with even tournaments with problem sets specifically picked to validate the books. Don't you dare point them to real algorithms, you'll get booed in a sec. This becomes worse in places like Google or fields like AI.

It's very sad, I'd love to see somebody taking the torch and teach concepts based on reality (measuring). Like they did back in the 60s. Mainstream sucks nowadays.
I taught physics in an inner city school for five years and it almost broke me. Now I write boring workflow software for a large company and it is like a dream every day. No screaming, no fights, no impossible contradicting directives from the state, and no watching the system destroy once cheerful, innocent children. I have money and health care for my family. Plus free coffee.

I can do this for the rest of my life a happy man.
I built BuyMyFile (http://bmf.cm). BMF is a file marketplace that rewards buyers with discounts for referring sales. Please let me know if you find this service useful so I can keep working on it. Thanks patio11 for feedback on this.
In progress. Currently a junior.
I'm not using floating point as keys in my hash table; Russ is.

If you want a hash table with meaningful semantics, you need certain guarantees from your hash and comparison functions. If you're trying to store values that break those comparisons, you either need to change the functions or not store those values.

You're advocating not storing those values; fine. But some people will, not even directly; for example, a 'memoize()' function that creates a cache behind the scenes, using a hash table with keys formed from function arguments, whose types may be floats. Here, you do want NaN = NaN; you want hash table rules to be followed; and you don't want a random hash function.

Just saying "sorry, I can't memoize this function" on pedantry grounds isn't good enough.
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My first degree was in Economics, and I graduated in an economically depressed area of the US. I quickly figured out I wanted to try my hand at development, so I went back to school the next year for a CS degree.

I really doubt I would have been granted the interviews or handful of offers I received if I didn't go back. Even with the degree my 'unusual schooling choices' were commented on by virtually everyone.

Timing/location matters quite a bit. Having been in the industry for a few years now, some of the best coders I've worked with have degrees from other tangentially-related fields.
> * hearing aids are commonly moulded to fit the individual, and thus have exceptionally good noise rejection.

> * They are designed to be worn for long periods of time without discomfort.

There are already headphones you can get that are moulded to the individual ear. Touring musicians use them on stage for monitors.

The problem with this is that extended hearing aid or in-ear headphone usage is not really the best thing for your ears. Your ears are supposed to ventilate. It's especially problematic if you have an ear infection.
Computer Engineering, so I clicked "Yes".
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I got a fairly advanced hearing aid recently and originally thought they might be useful for listening to music too, like a good pair of headphones. This turns out not to be the case. Hearing aids don't have any bass. When listening to music, the best thing I've found is to use a regular speaker system along with hearing aids that allow some sound to go through them (the earpiece should have a reasonably large vent hole, rather than acting more like an earplug). Also, the DSP algorithms are tuned for speech so I got mine programmed with a "music mode", which turns most of that off for listening to music.

There are other limitations - the hearing aids don't support bluetooth directly (the antennas are too weak). Instead you have to use a streamer where the antenna is built into the lanyard that goes around your neck, and the quality is suitable for voice only. Since I don't make phone calls much, bluetooth support turned out not to be worth the trouble.

Don't get me wrong - the tech is pretty interesting, and I'd love to be able to program the DSP. But you need to know about the limitations when extrapolating.
One of the reasons I dropped out was also that the people there were out of touch how things worked "in the real world". It was just the same curriculum as it had always been (minus the things that were cut to appeal to more students who otherwise couldn't cut the mustard).

I was legitimately afraid that I would waste my time on things that would largely be irrelevant outside academia in the sense that I had to factor in a couple of years to learn how you realistically work and create something of value.

Algorithms are such a goddamn exciting subject, and it's a shame when someone manages to make it boring or unintelligible. I'd love to have studied CS at a good American university, but with visa rules and the slim chances of admission to a good college, I guess I have to find my own way - even though getting a work visa is probably going to be semi-impossible.

So it goes.
I think the specifics of the FBI GPS case result is wrong. I'm also uninterested in laws re stalking. I don't think your rebuttal has anything to do with my argument.

I'm talking about the philosophical matter of generalizing from specific cases of monitoring to mass surveillance, arguing that a justification for the former is not a justification for the latter, because the two are different in substance, not just quantity.

Case results follow from interpretation of laws; laws follow from philosophical principles. I'm arguing the philosophical principles. I don't accept counterarguments in the form of citations of specific laws, or interpretation of those laws, as valid.
PageLever (YC S11) - San Francisco - Hiring non-technical person who wants to learn business side of a tech startup

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3778290
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Yup, I'm aware of Emscripten, which was part of the reason behind my question. I hadn't considered the issue of lack of code / data separation when dealing with pure binary code.

I'm actually working on a JVM interpreter in Coffeescript now, so this topic is particularly interesting to me. Thanks again for taking the time to explain things.
Am I the only one that reads the domain name as "Map STD"?
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This is what 75 women learning Ruby looks like
Thank you for the Google link. There I learned that Lewontin's fallacy is a fallacy because "Richard Lewontin is a Marxist Jew who has dedicated his career to attacking genetics as an explanation for human variation." That explains so much.

You're really good with teh googles! I guess you read the A.W.F. Edwards paper too:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.10315/abstra...

You also seem interested in European population substructure:

http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal...
It's worse. The joke "MongoDB is web-scale" reminds me of this growing cargo-cult full of cocky CS graduates.

Edit: thanks for the anonymous downvotes validating my point; dissent must be suppressed.
I just built http://failrecovery.com

I was so sick and tired of tweeting companies fails, to let them know what was going on, and just have them ignore me. So, I figured by using social pressure, maybe I can get their attention. I mean, who really wants to be at the top of my "I have bad social customer service" list.
These hard to prove theories, such as Jared Diamond's and in the reviewed book, exist in large part to counter the highly convincing and data driven eugenic theories. The eugenic and IQ based theories are politically unacceptable. "A Farewell to Alms" and "IQ and the Wealth of Nations" lay out very convincing and heavily researched cases that explain different national economies very well. The explanations are just not PC.
I've got an EE degree. didn't do much with cs besides the mandatory C++ class. So i picked no-cs degree.
I'm pretty convinced that those phrases are there to keep people that aren't qualified from applying.

I've always ignored them and it's never been a problem.