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About 6 months ago, Chris Poole (moot) put it brilliantly: Our identities are multi-faceted, both online and in real life, and it's wrong to expect people to use a single identity for everything.

I was absolutely expecting to see a link to moot's statement, and was slightly disappointed when I didn't find one.

http://mashable.com/2011/10/18/chris-poole-4chan-web-2/

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/4chans_chris_poole_face...
It's not a technological problem, it's a hardware problem (at least from my non-visionary point of view). Twin thumbsticks are required. Anything else and it's a recipe for frustration.

Metroid Hunters on NDS was probably the best I've personally seen, but it's the best of a poor breed.

The Vita is the first mainstream handheld with twin thumbsticks, but IMO Sony has an extremely hard uphill battle with their device. Portable gaming is moving away from handheld consoles. I would love to see it happen, but I personally doubt we'll see a Quake-level success on the Vita.
>To be clear, this is R&D – it doesn’t in any way involve a product at this point, and won’t for a long while, if ever – so please, no rumors about Steam glasses being announced at E3.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/13/2947088/valve-reveals-secr...

Sigh...
Wow! How does it work?
Apple Patents A Tool Allowing Non-Developers To Build Apps
HN is probably wrong crowd for this tool.
Why Every Education Company Needs an API
This is amazing. I love the fact that there are no hierarchies and organizational induced inefficiencies, and I especially love the culture of experimentation. This leaves a LOT of responsibility up to the employees - they must be very creative and very driven for an ecosystem like this to work. I imagine one of the biggest challenges for Valve is finding employees that fit this description. There are loads of smart developers/engineers/designers out there, but not many who can be productive with little or no direction.

The author stresses that he was pushed to work on the most valuable thing he could possibly work on. For many programmers, just working on anything is okay, as long as they're staying busy and committing code. If Valve is filled with employees who are constantly assessing value and thinking about things other than lines of code, it sounds like quite an amazing place to be.
dupe? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3838880
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Can we please never, ever link to a blog post that mentions neuro-linguistic programming in its content ever again? I mean, seriously. That completely lost me right there. The author totally discredited himself.
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This is why you should award prizes for the top K performers, as opposed to the first one to cross a benchmark.
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Still doesn't actually say what your service is supposed to be.

"Interesting" is not directly proportional to "Useful", especially not for anyone in particular. I'm not saying your service won't be either, I'm just saying that without more details, I don't feel compelled to be, at one point in the future, notified that this mysterious service I completely forgot about has finally launched its beta.

Give me something, anything, and I'll consider it. But "Hey, give me your email and I'll tell you when my random, indescribable app is available!" just doesn't cut it for me.
The last example, where the code called within a block is shown to its right, is something that I've often tried to do statically, manually when first trying to learn a large code base. I would want this for that alone. The fact that what's shown is live-ish is a big, diabetic coma-inducing glob of icing on the cake.
+1 to Justin's response.
yep, they thought of everything.
I really hope this generates an opinion on the applicability of copyright to APIs, I doubt it will though as it would seem to threaten many folks rent-seeking. It would seem however that the legal theory that undid IBM and allowed Memorex to make 'plug compatible' storage would inform the court on how it should consider 'plug compatible' software.
Neither of the above is true anymore.

There used to be a lack of competition in the submarine cable sector, this is no longer true. In some cases it would cost more to push it to the user (DSL wholesale etc), and this is solely due to monopoly infrastructure providers.

No ISP has ever explicitly differentiated international and local traffic. Many ISPs unmeter their own content and mirrors, this was a result of international and some domestic traffic costing a fortune back in the day. Some ISPs unmetered peering exchange traffic as well, but I don't think any do anymore.
The trend now is towards true unlimited plans.
They get some basic understanding about the compilation process at some classes through the first two years.

When I attended my CS course, in the 3rd years I got some understanding about programming language structure and learned about compilers at the end. It's cool that you can learn about that earlier.
> I think that if i would've finished my computer vision studies i would feel more adequate to send them a job application now...

Well... I'd like to suggest that you do not pre-reject yourself. Let them decide. At the least, it will allow you to get on their radar. Remember they seem to have a long term view.
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It has nothing to do with suing or even being afraid to receive spam - Gmail takes pretty good care of that. It's actually the other point, I receive enough random emails from places I can't even remember checking out years ago, this isn't going to be another one.
She set up a meeting at 2am? And you were awake and checking your work email at the time? You should have quit a long time before then.
The book Zen of Graphics Programming was one of the seminal books that got me deeply interested in programming. There's a good argument that my life today is as good as it is in no small part to the hard work Mr. Abrash put into that book. So nice to hear what he is up to 16 years later
Nice site. I really appreciate that people are promoting better JavaScript practices these days. There can't be enough articles about that in my opinion -- there's still plenty of terrible JavaScript code out there. Keep up the good work.
What does "We see you haven't installed Word Wars" mean? How is a web app 'installed'?
Disqus lets you post as a "Guest" with any name you want. In fact, it's the default choice in the "Post as..." dialog, at least if you're not logged in.
not OP but being blase about being rich makes you a fucking asshole full stop.
Does anyone else think it would be a good idea to also name the internal methods/functions with an underscore?
Jobs for junior hackers in Jacksonville, FL
I'm moving to Jacksonville, FL soon and I was wondering if there were any companies that are hiring junior hackers. If you know of one I would love to hear about it.
How the PLsy courses are split varies a lot. Where I went (Harvey Mudd), compilers was optional and not taken by most students, but there were two required Programming Languages courses, which involved parsing, ASTs, interpreters, tree transformations, and some other things you might otherwise find in a compilers course, but with less of a low-level flavor (no code-gen) and more of a PLs flavor.
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All modern relational databases use this approach (it's called ARIES), so all offer the same guarantees as Redis.
...you haven't even played the game yet.

Have you tried Braid?
It's a proposed part of the CSS spec because Apple created the viewport meta tag. I'd call that "creating features from scratch". Go on, find an example of the viewport tag prior to the implementation in iOS.
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I'm somewhat skeptical if AI can be built by extrapolating the Cyc project. At best we'll get a sophisticated QA bot. I feel that vision is central to human cognition, and the Cyc project seems to be all about relationships of words to words, without any relations to vision stuff, images and video.
Does anyone else find it curious that Atheists who disavow organized beliefs end up codifying their own belief system into organizations such as the "insert atheist group here"

No, because atheists don't disavow belief systems, just one that requires you accept a belief in a higher being/God character. I consistently see this thought pattern and it makes me wish people went into a deeper inquiry of atheism than by just jumping on the popular rejectionist stance. Atheists are not nihilists.
> And it is dirty expensive here. I currently pay $89.95/month for 300 GB/month via ADSL2 (20/1 Mbit/s) including line rental.

It's not as expensive as you think-at least if we're comparing DSL vs DSL and ignoring FiOS/Cable.

Our download limits are pretty similar to the most of the limits "hidden" by the US ISP's, and our ISP's typically offer better free content and are FAR better in terms of customer service[1] and more lenient if you are the type to regularly hit your limit.

[1]: In part because they have to be due to consumer advocate bodies, and also because this will be the key differentiator (along with content) when the National Broadband Network gets deployed to the majority.
CISPA Authors Launch Twitter Account To Preach False Merits Of The Bill
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oh come on. the article is dripping in journalese. you can hardly make any judgments about his character based on it alone (it even features the Beautiful Mind-esque cliche of "doesn't understand the social conventions of how to act around women"). you can't really tell if it's an off-hand remark about how his life hasn't changed by being rich or whether he actually went into long tirades on the banality of being rich.
I am intrigued that whole-body scanners were not mentioned once in the article. I am choosing to assume that Hawley's opinion of them is something he doesn't feel comfortable publicizing.
> isn't that where the schema belongs? [In the application]

Well, unless you have, you know, multiple applications accessing said data. Then it's kind of important to keep it in sync, which is why RDBMS exist and operate the way they do.

In my experience, on a long enough timeline, the probability of needing multi-application access for your data goes to 1.
I love it. Why does it bring such warm and fuzzy feelings? The result of my lucky feeling search brought up a wikipedia page. It was such a let down.
When is quitting a good idea?
It's not that folks are upset about the use of Javascript - it's that you are required to have it to view content. I personally love well designed Javascript - it makes the user experience better and my life easier. But if someone turns off Javascript, they should have a degraded experience, not NO experience!
>Who wants to spend 30 hours speculating on the psychology of an alienated prude with a bunch of pseudo-philosophical garbage about the meaning of life slapped on as affect?

How can you even make that claim when the game isn't out yet? I seriously have no idea what to make of your comment.
Nice work so far. There seems to be growing interest in online roleplaying, but most of the current offerings are lacking right now.

I personally launched Fabletop.com a couple of months ago, but the approach is a bit different, focusing more on a robust chat system, and less on the battlemat.

Good luck to you guys!
And yet, knowing all this, I still applied alone.

Had the perfect co-founder, too: lifelong friend, smart, capable, diligent, with whom I’ve worked on a number of projects. He just couldn’t get his act together for the application.

Still, if my ice cube’s chance in hell of getting accepted pans out, I’ll probably drag him into it anyway; it’s not really about the money. I applied with some truly insane ideas, so even though I could go it alone, it’d be way nicer to have someone on board!

Fingers crossed, anyway. Anyone in a similar boat?
"Well... I'd like to suggest that you do not pre-reject yourself. Let them decide."

Everyone post that on your wall above your monitor.
Counterpoint: Bethesda.

I cannot count how many times Fallout x has crashed or bugged out on me, but I still have poured more hours into those games than pretty much any other.
It may be similar to a hands free phone kit in the abstract, but computers are much more broadly useful than phones, so I think that something which makes it feasible to use them into other situations in life will have much, much greater effects on the state of things. I'm almost certain that it will be a huge, life changing innovation once someone gets it right.
Is anyone using the SphinxSE search engine integration with MariaDB?

I help support a rather old MySQL-based site that uses Sphinx and there's some scrappy PHP code glueing it all together, and this:

http://kb.askmonty.org/en/about-sphinxse

seems like a great setup, but it would be rough to re-factor this old app.. but we'll probably do it...
In a nutshell: Blow's a rich guy and GP is jealous.

What's really going on, though, is that mainstream engineering and development CS types don't understand auteurs the way Hollywood and Greenwich Village does. Blow is no more pretentious or jerkoffy than Quentin Tarantino, Damien Hirst, or Banksy. He's an incredibly intellectual guy and a great game designer.

Now, the Fez developer, it could be argued, is a bit of a jerkoff. Telling people to "suck his dick" on twitter because he won IGF award in two separate years (4 years apart) for the SAME GAME still in development, or when he says Japanese games "suck". Now there is where you could direct your hate if you were so inclined.
The extent to which Scifi can change the world indirectly by inspiring creative people and changing the course of their life is fascinating.
"in the first few hours" isn't the same for games as for other media. The shelf life of most big names is incredibly short - enough that DRM is often seen as a way to just survive piracy for the release period.
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As a Scramble with Friends addict this is clearly up my ally. I actually find the mouse to be faster because the keyboard is too unpredictable and it's too disruptive to completing a word. There must be something there since I was consistently getting the top score.
If you didn't know about it, you might want to look at asciidoc: http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/ (search for slidy)
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when you say that VS can make a billion, I assume you refer to sales revenues. I always thought MSFT spent more money developing their programming tools than they got in revenue (which makes sense for them because more developers for Windows lead to more licensed users of Windows)
The hypothetical Apple TV also has a very generous footprint, which gives Apple a lot of playing room for thermal management.

Not to mention, the current Mac Minis run dead silent with fairly speedy x86 chips.
"And we had explosives experts retrain the entire work force in terrorist tradecraft and bomb-making."

So, are we training our underpaid and possibly disgruntled TSA workers to detect items of suspect or are we training them to become the suspect? I don't want to generalize, but training everyone in the agency in "terrorist tradecraft and bomb-making" is about the dumbest thing you could do. On so many levels.
The guy was sounding really credible and forthcoming until he made that claim.

Although, if you read his claim with the right squint, maybe it's true: No security agency on earth is as bad as the TSA.

And if they really are good, and unfairly painted, then they've got some serious "evidence of outstanding work" type of reputation building to do. They have their reputation for a reason.
If siri 5.0 or Cyc 1000000.0 passes the Turing test, it will be the same story all over again...the goal posts will be moved one more time. People will say that passing the Turing test is not really a mark of true intelligence, its just an imitation!
I'll second this. I had this happened three months ago, the owner walked into the office, sat down and apologized profusely, and handed me a months severage. No advanced warning, no slowdown of work, jsut boom, you're done. Doesn't pay to be comfortable.
Ask HN: Recommendation on tools for assessing developer skills
We're working on a marketplace for developers and were going to build our own testing platform to allow developers to demonstrate their skillset. Not wanting to reinvent the wheel I'm curious if there are other tools we could integrate with.
Almost all the people I know that work for corporations hate their jobs and would call their job's soul crushing. Granted, I would not be able to find empirical evidence for this claim,it is just based on my experience. There are plenty of good corporations like I stated though. I will agree with you that a crappy job is a crappy job no matter where it is, but I would argue and say that there is a higher possibility of getting a good job at a startup because of the very nature of the work. I will also agree that you should do whatever makes you happy, including if that means you don't get rich or you dont even make money doing it.
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Nice work Thoughtleadr!
Quote the manual" the option is --journal, and is on by default in version 1.9.2+ on 64-bit platforms"
Maybe by "coherent dataflow model" he means some separation between what's an input to any given operation, so you can see what data is going where and how instead of it being scattered all over the place. That's what I'd like, anyway.

What it looks like to me is more like a program than a table, but with really good list/table entry and flow arrangement tools. That may just be because I'm a programmer.

Can you share anything more about what you're working on? These are interesting problems to me, too.
Here's a really crazy idea: Stop invading and bombing innocent countries.
Sure there is -- Mollom. http://mollom.com/
We have a class on compilers at my university, but it's on the 4rd year. Creating a compiler/interpreter when you are just starting programming would be a big challenge.

@dovyski: it's nice to see this coming from a brazilian university -- I'm from UFABC, São Paulo
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Look that is fine. But part of the article states that there is no basis for morality outside of a higher power. If there is no moral authority higher than humans then on what grounds do you begin to build a belief system. It will just degenerate into one man's opinion against another which is the foundation of the master/slave morality. Or do you believe in some apriori rationality that preceded the universe that man has unique capabilities to discover. That might lead you into the domain of a higher power or some form of deism. Your thoughts?
There's no advantage or disadvantage to underscores. It somewhat makes sense on an exposed object to denote to the consumer that they shouldn't call/use the property. otherwise it doesn't matter.
Yes. It's really easy to learn things when you have a support network turn to for questions and advice.
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I use the right tool for the job, not what the "cool kids" are using.
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A look inside the AWS-Eucalyptus agreement.
As an intern at a tech company (not a gaming company, but still) I don't know anyone there who was able to write more than 5 lines of code/hour consistently. Maybe 10 if they absolutely knew all the ins and outs of the codebase. A good chunk of that was because a LOT of the time you spent was finding where the code was, deciding exactly which lines to change, reviewing others' code, etc. Making the wrong color choice could cost someone else ~30 minutes of time to potentially fix 1 line of css.
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God will be just. Esau and JAcob confuse me, though, so don't be a chump.

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"Netflix Watch Instantly is about the here and now, and Netflix is priming to respond to that time frame."

Did this come out of the press release? :)
Why does this article make 178 HTTP requests and load Javascript from 24 different domains over a duration of 16 seconds, before even the basic loading is done?

After that it starts on its three realtime services: Disqus, Chartbeat and Tubemogul (whatever that is) all keep track of how long you stay on the page. Not to mention how the site manages to slow down the entire browser during loading, and has many simple syntax errors. Not cross-browser stuff (like webkit-only css rules), also simply misspelled CSS.

Worst of all, the font is too small. I'm not going to read kilobytes of text like this.

This kind of website makes me want to disable Javascript by default...
Other reporting on this issue:

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/ND14Dj02.html
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I disagree with saying "should" here. It's to do with business priorities. How many resources should go into making "they should have a degraded experience, not no experience" true. Well, how many customers will they gain, and how much more money will they make.

Don't forget that LifeHacker is part of Gawker. There's about a dozen sites in that network, probably all using the same codebase. What proportion of Jezebel readers do you think use NoScript?
Well that's the weirdest thing. I've seen this kind of thing before, so I guessed that <--> would work. But the page asks my browser to store information. If I ignore the question and just allow the query to continue to display at the top of the window, I can navigate fine. If I say "Not now," I'm stuck on whatever page I was on when I answered, and have to reload to be able to move again.
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