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Steve McConnell of Code Complete and Rapid Development fame also wrote a book about estimating software development -- Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art. It's a great read and as usual McConnell is an absolute master at distilling vast reams of research into concise, interesting reading.
An ER should be able to react fast, clogging it up with ailments that could be resolved at a leisurely pace earlier, doesn't strike me as a good idea.

Fortunately this is a solved problem - the solution is called "triage". No matter how many coughing people are ahead of you in the queue, spurting blood gets immediate treatment.
You are definitely losing a lot of exposure by requiring a signup. I am curious, but won't create an account just to see what you are doing.
That's how they discovered I was colorblind :

When I was in kindergarten, the teacher gave us the assignment of drawing a brown bear.
Mine was green.
I din't compare anything.

Also, it looks a lot like you never travelled through Germany from north to south. Every piece of Germany has different traditions, dialects and food. I am from a place where I cannot understand people from the next village. Also, all those parts are pretty vocal: I think Germany is the only country that has developed regional Wikipedias (at least Bavaria, Palatinate and Northern Germany).
I'm a contrarian, a-social person. if everybody were running left, I'd run right. I completely despise hero-worship. It ruins people's critical-thinking skills. But if I were to have a living hero, it'd be Elon Musk. The man rocks. Seriously. The guy has nailed every interview I've ever seen of him.

Having said that, I'm concerned that we focus a little too much on Space-X. As much as what Elon is doing is awesome, I'd feel better for the species if we had 3 or 4 competitors very close on his heels. I know that he has competitors, but as far as I know none of them seem to have the long term vision and dedication to reusable, scaleable architectures that he has.

I don't want to trade having all of our eggs in a basket labeled "NASA" with having all of our eggs in a basket labeled "Space-X"
One of the original paper authors here. Some things got lost in the translation into a news piece. Here's our take on Instagram:

Instagram is only able to perform the most trivial filters expressible as point-wise operations (mostly curves and vignetting). These are easy to parallelize. If we want to go beyond that (e.g. clarity in Lightroom, which uses a more complex algorithm called Local Laplacian filters), we need to be able to write fast, complex, image processing pipelines on embedded devices more easily. Currently these sorts of things are possible on embedded (see Adobe's various offerings for iOS), but they take expert engineers a long time to write.
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In two places that I've worked, the pendulum swung quite far in the other direction -- 20% time was instituted because the people whose roles involved creating a product vision (business development, management, etc.) were unable to introduce successful changes. Not only would the company leadership rally behind any promising output from 20% time, they were practically counting on it, putting additional responsibility on the developers without any additional reward -- and naturally, the stagnant creative/leadership roles would subsume a successful project.

To any managers/leaders out there thinking of instituting 20% time: please, please don't do it if it's a last-ditch effort to innovate. Your employees may put up with it if they value job security, but they can tell that the resulting power dynamics within the organization are unfavorable to them.
What are the other problems? Making a prosthetic arm is a superset of getting inputs from nerves, since you need to do that to make the actual arm. Besides, Microsoft already did that, as this very post indicates.
Local boy done good. Congrats from all the hackers left in Chicago.
- cool to read such a list as it always shows a refresh state of new idea's :) I like this one www.tipmytrip.com but not yet entries in Japan
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I remember when RIM was bragging about their subscriber growth while everyone could see the writing on the wall. This seems kind of similar.

Reddit has the inertia effect right now. The potential upside shrinks while the potential downside explodes.
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I believe that if you group all your friends into a list 'myfriends' and select that as your newsfeed, it will be sorted by 'Most Recent'.
It seems to me that the article doesn't contain anything to support the claim from the title or its own conclusion. It just recycles some elementary topics from the freshman year of some computer course.
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And 56% of those fake accounts are owned by Chik-fil-A
Some stuff from what he describes and I know about is either wrong, too subjective, lacks context or very outdated; so I'd rather take it with a grain of salt.
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How are you linking to these stat pages? If you want Google to index something, you have to show them that it's important by linking to it on your site. Moreover, you don't seem to have a lot of Domain Authority, so internal links may not be able to get all of those pages indexed.

Good external links are the best way to get something indexed. Good internal links are probably the second best way.
Well for starters you would have to read the signals from the brain, otherwise you are limited to the nerves in your hands. Maybe I wasn't clear enough about what I mean. I was thinking along the lines of thought control, not that you would control a virtual hand, if you will, on the computer. And if you wanted that you would, like I said, have to capture brain activity and develop software that would be able to make sense of your thoughts and translate those thoughts into actions on the computer ... this, to me, is a whole different game.
Quite a fast brain you should have :)
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I agree. I would request you to please sign up and give it a shot, but I understand if you don't want to. Putting the content out of sign up will take me some time :-)

Thanks for commenting!
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Whomever took the google deals to stay at google must be so happy with their choice given the poor performance of FB.
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The most popular article on my blog is called "How To Estimate Like an Adult":

http://www.writemoretests.com/2012/02/how-to-estimate-like-a...

Estimation is a skill, like any other part of learning to be a good software engineer. People shouldn't be making excuses for their poor estimation skills after ten years of experience...
Seconding Skritter, they're amazing. I'd also like to add that they support Japanese kanji as well, and that their iOS apps are brilliant. The Chinese iOS app is out, and the Japanese one is in beta. I own a Wacom tablet that works great with the website, but more and more I find myself using the mobile app because it feels even more natural than writing with a pen, and I can do it anywhere.
Sorry, I don't agree with your theory. You think men rape women because they have no idea what it feels like to be raped? That's the most ridiculous theory I have ever heard, can't put it in a nicer way.
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Sure, but that is still too much work.
Exactly, the very reason why it is near to impossible to estimate time in computer programming is because programming has always, at least a little, to do with a research of a solution to a logic problem. And finding a problem solution means finding something unknown from the point of view of the programmer. Ultimately, the programmer don't even know if she will succeed in a finite time.

So we can't say either: "programmers are bad to estimate time" because nobody is expected to do the impossible.
It would be the same to ask: "can you estimate the time mankind will need to find the cancer vaccine? You can't? You're bad..."
Ah, that might never happen, sadly.
Care to elaborate why you think so :) ?
In knockoutjs, bindings (and the ability to create custom bindings) are akin to widgets in they define exactly how view model state maps to and from the dom. I've created a number of custom bindings to bind things like a number range to a jQueryUI slider widget.
Probably yes. Our focus so far has been to demonstrate that it is physiologically possible to control multiple degrees of freedom with a single muscle site, so we haven't done extensive testing to address that. It's also worth noting that hitting a target and having very precise control of movement, as you would with a mouse, are not the same. I doubt the precision would ever reach that of a mouse, but it could conceivably get close.
Owen, I have been developing w/ RC2 (and before) on 0.3 lately for a decent sized project I am working on and I must say you've done a fantastic job.

Although I haven't worked w/ Meteor a lot, I find many of the concepts that are often talked about are also in SocketStream (live updates while editing, fast pub-sub messaging, etc). Even if someone wanted to create a custom request responder to have the direct-to-mongo type of app that Meteor does on the frontend, they could.

Again, great work.
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It depends on whether you define diversity as being 'ethnically' diverse or culturally diverse. Obviously, Germany is ethnically less diverse than, say, California, just as much as any American city is ethnically less diverse than London. If we're talking about 'cultural' diversity the regional differences between southern, northern, eastern and western Germany can be extreme, yet maybe difficult to notice for someone who has not lived there for at least a bit.

In my personal experience (I grew up and spend most of my time in different parts of Germany and Europe, but have worked and lived in Boulder, CO) there is a very distinct and unifying American identity that you do not find like that in Germany. A lot of Germans in the south will define themselves first and foremost by their regional identity, the same is true for people from Hamburg - and the differences are striking, as most Germans from who are from one region but have lived in another will confirm.

That said, comparing whole nations in this manner is entertaining, yet rarely a really fruitful enterprise. People in Wisconsin probably share more similarities with people in Meckelenburg-Vorpommern than they do with New Yorkers, the latter being more similar to people in Berlin etc etc.
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Sweet, I am currently preparing a topic for my bachelor thesis and it will be something about cartography and colorblindness. Probably something with OpenStreetMap.

I was wondering where I could find people to test example maps etc on, guess I found a good starting point. :)

If someone has major color vision related gripes with any big maps or map services, I would love to hear about it. Not worth pouring out your heart though, keep it short so you do not waste your time in case I already noticed or thought about it.
If the code is "rendering" 300 FPS but only displaying 60, it could be doing anywhere from 1x to 5x as much work as if it were rendering at 60, depending on arbitrary driver internals. So it would be much more convincing if Valve had an example of "on this hardware, at these settings, it can sustain smooth 60fps under opengl and not under directx".
"Uncertainty is a common source of anxiety, resulting in dissatisfaction," is an assumption. When I sign up for a new service, I'm not thinking about outages. Conventional wisdom says that reliable services that are always online would be perceived as being more trustworthy than those which go down. It is a paradox because an occasional outage correctly handled results in greater customer loyalty than if no outage occurs, ever. Yes, there will be tipping point where the inconvenience of too many outages, even if handled well, will outweigh any loyalty gained from recovery.
Split how many ways? (and maybe there is equity split beyond the top 3?) I personally would be quite happy with $5-10mm, but to net that, I presume he'd have to sell the company in the $40mm+ range. Nice that they did it this year before cap gains go up, though.
It completely is indicative of actual performance. You could turn on vsync in either of these applications and it would lock down to 60 FPS. The point is here, that with the same game implementation you have some more performance headroom on Linux. You could potential improve the engine in some way and use up that headroom, which would bring the performance into line but with some sort of graphical quality improvement on Linux (OpenGL).
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I would add that the only really good estimates happen when a small task is estimated by a programmer who has already performed that task, at the same level of complexity, a few times before. (And the programmer doing the estimating is the one who'll be doing the implementing, natch.)

Even at the scale of small tasks, programmers estimating things they've never done before are often wildly wrong.
I work regularly with Hadoop users and I there is rarely talks of "shortcomings" of Hadoop. More often than not, rather than Hadoop not giving enough to the user, the user is not giving enough to Hadoop. Once users start understanding the power of the platform, they start to do some really incredible things.

Hive and Pig are just applications that interface with Hadoop, although they could be classified as "SQL" or "PigLatin" to Java Map/Reduce, they are also more than that. For example, Hive has a shared metastore so you can treat Hadoop kind of like a shared RDBMS that allows you to map schemas after the data has already been transformed.

Most the people I talk to, especially on here, are still pretty wet behind the ears when it comes to Hadoop. It's a very daunting technology, but I can assure you there is nothing but progress and innovation in the community.
Haven't read up on it but maybe http://dankaminsky.com/2010/12/15/dankam/ does that.
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The funny thing is that I NEVER asked anyone from my fish account and he now has friends from all over the world, while his name is "My fish Ploup" in French.

About your fake account and its birthday wishes, An experiment could be to put a erroneous birthday date. I guess that day you can get a lot of wishes, even from close friends. We are just lazy I guess.
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knockout and backbone serve different goals:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/6340870/231589

For me, the dependency tracking and automatic ui refresh provided by knockout hits the sweet spot, functionality that isn't in the scope of what backbone provides.
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Well, it's much, much more complicated to decode the brain's internals than just read its outputs to hands and other peripherals. I'm not sure it won't happen, but it's that much more complicated that it wouldn't surprise me.
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I wish they'd add Wine as a 3rd 'OS' for comparison. Currently they're comparing Ubuntu 12.04 native vs Windows 7, would be really interesting to add the benchmarks for the Windows version running on the latest Wine on Ubuntu 12.04.
Any time a company requires facebook to get a coupon or freebie or whatever, I always make a new junk account and then trash the email and cookies and never use it again.

Not going to be a victim of their tracking nonsense.
This is a nice comprehensive list, but I think sites that focus on aggregation need to step it up beyond a simple text-listing. There needs to be some other metric/gauge beyond just the title of the course. It could even be as simple as icon(s) for whether the resource is a text-based site, available as an e-book, or taught mostly through videos. Or: a complexity level (beginner/intermediate/expert)...Or hell, just a 15 word summary of why you included the link.

It's tough to design good taxonomies of course, but resources like this would greatly benefit from anything that would keep someone from having to click-through each link to discover the usefulness of each resource.

Not trying to sound ungrateful, but a lot of these link-sites come up on HN (there are several based on just programming books, for instance)...It'd be great to see such things evolve into something more.
That may be true of the fiber, but it's not true of the network equipment driving the fiber. Like all computers, these occasionally need hardware or software upgrades too.
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Well I truly really hope you are wrong :)
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I use a large Platform computational compute cluster often. We use individual processes (not threads) to crunch big data and in general that approach works well.

Each process has its own memory space and its own little bit of the work load to complete. One process can crash or throw and exception and the others keep on going. Having no shared streams or shared data containers to worry with (mutexes, locks, etc) is just wonderful.

We call it poor man's parallelism and some guys who have done a lot of threading make light of it. It's so simple (compared to threads) that it seems like a naive approach. But it performs so well that it's hard to argue with the results.
A great article. This is what Hacker News should be about; identifying a problem, researching solutions, and publishing the results for use. Thank you for a fantastic post.
It wasn't much - I vertically stacked a Flex VideoDisplay control, a custom scrubber control and then a Flex Button control to publish. Instead of a fixed size thumb the custom scrubber's thumb width was proportional to 7 seconds of the total video width. I did it in AIR/Flex so I could just drop a video on the app to test with it.

I never tested it on a mobile device but on my desktop I needed a lot of keyframes in the video to make it work. I'm not sure what it would look like with native video on a iOS/Android device.
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Well, that would be a reason. Not a very good one. The whole point of asking, I think, is to see whether there's actually a good one, or whether people just go for the reasons you describe.
I am bad at not lying about it. To myself and anyone who asks. Mostly forgetting that in reality I can't ignore life's other functions and loops.

It's going to take longer than I said. But it'll be better than I described.
We are using Notificon (https://github.com/makeable/Notificon) to display notifications in the favicon of Discover (http://discover.usabilla.com/), but I really this pie chart as well. Now I have to think of useful ways to implement it.
It'll be interesting to see how this stacks up on a more "bleeding-edge" game as well.
Yeah, remember that thing with college students and tanks in Times Square?

Oh wait...
I tried to read the article twice, but still fail to see what is the 'right way' the author tries to explain. Anybody care to enlighten me on that?
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Benchmarking is done with uncapped framerates to measure the relative performance of two systems. If you're a gamer, yes, you most likely won't see anything above 60 FPS, but the difference still matters if your hardware is 5x slower (54 FPS vs. 60 FPS)
Because isolation from dozens of graphics architectures (many from the same vendor) and hiding chipset bugs (not just in the graphics hardware, btw) that would scare the jebus out of you is worth it. Not having to track down wierd synchronization issues is like money in the bank to most developers.

Make every game reinvent their own chip-level drivers? Wow. You want to run 10X faster, or slip your schedule by years?
> "There must be some ability to experiment to advance the state of the art. In the early days of aviation there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate. We don't want that — the public would not be accepting — but by the same token we can't have a situation where no deaths are ever allowed, because that would put innovation in a coffin too."

Whoa. Talk about a cold equation. I can't make up my mind whether I'm impressed or creeped out that he's willing to go public with statements like that. He's definitely laying bare his thought process, right down to factoring in public reaction.
As a counterpoint to the "OpenGL needs to start from scratch" discussion, take a look at JWZs blog about porting XScreenSaver to iOS: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/06/i-have-ported-xscreensaver-t...
There are competitors, but none of them have delivered yet. Then again, SpaceX didn't really deliver until this year when it docked with ISS.

Blue Origin is doing things, but I'm not sure it's not just a vanity project for Bezos. XCOR is working on some subsystems that are probably transplantable across different vendors. Bigelow seems to be working on payloads. Scaled Composites is trying something quite different from SpaceX and it remains to be seen which way is better (if there's even such a single answer to that).

There are even smaller places like Armadillo, but it may be not meant to compete. I'm reading a lot in here, but I think Carmack sees it as an incubator for new space talent.