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I'm really more surprised that he's willing to go public with the fact he considers "some deaths" an acceptable byproduct of what his company is doing, because if they do happen, it can and probably will be used to paint him callous and possibly to call him responsible.

Basically, he's coming across as somewhat unapologetically nerdy - he's giving a pragmatic answer, prefering to be blunt rather than sugar-coating it. But it's a sort of short-term pragmaticism, because it can hurt what he's trying to do in the long run. I sort of like it, but at the same time it's so unusual for a man in his position that I can't help but feel surprised, and possibly put-off. It's more of a comment on how PR-optimized CEO behavior has conditioned my expectations and how Musk challenges them, I guess.
I can concur with OP. My MacBook Pro suffered severe paging issues under Lion, but seems to be (mostly) gone in Mountain Lion. Running Eclipse, Photoshop, Chrome, and Parallels at the same time is possible once again without major slow down on my machine. As always, YMMV.
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Thanks for the suggestions. I agree with you on all of those points. I think for the next version, it would be great to have icons and more of a description.

As of right now, if you hover over the link, it'll explain what the website is focused on and what it generally covers.
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I've dabbled in larger than usual parallelism and this has been my experience as well. On *nix systems processes are cheap, while on M$ threads are cheap, but regardless of those, having a shared-nothing lock free approach has me feeling limitless.
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If your software shop is working on such same-y tasks that they can be precisely estimated, your software shop is leaving immense amounts of money on the table in the form of something repetitive that ought to be refactored and automated away.

Beyond question, there are shops that operate this way. However, trying to translate the lesson on how to schedule out of this context into the context of a higher-end shop that can and will so automate is not possible.
May I ask why I'm being downvoted here? What rule of HN did I violate?
I agree with you completely. He is a truly remarkable man. As an aside, that is the correct use of the phrase, in case you were wondering.
You give examples of blobs, not DRM. Unless you are referring to the direct rendering manager, I have not encountered any DRM in years of using Linux on the desktop.
This is great.
I wonder if applying a crowdsource solution, with humans selecting the billboard, would also have delivered a cost-effective solution with the benefits in less time.
Can't wait to hear the the rationalizations from all the people who backed up Apple on this one.
It appears FOSRestBundle seems to be the main point of the article, and adding support for the LINK and UNLINK HTTP verbs is also interesting.

There's also the allusion to custom content-types and versioning schemes and a small bit about using the SF2 web client and crawler for (unit) testing.
I'm thinking of it as a guidebook or as a course, for all the courses out there (if that makes any sense).

So, wow, there are a ton of free resources out there - here's how to aggregate them, and utilize each of them most effectively with all the other free resources out there.
It was on the front page, I saw it when it was at 40 points or so.
Since the GM, I also noticed this on my production machine. Previously I had custom settings for the dynamic pager, but it seems that is not longer necessary.

Subtle changes and I'm happy with them. Probably the next year, we'll see some subtle improvements on the backend.
It's relevant that they can sell their shares after they leave, but if they continue working at FB they have to wait a few more weeks to months for the lock-up period to expire. Maybe they're scared about the stock and want to prevent further losses.
I'm very sceptical. I listened recently to economic experts talking in the 90s, they were all saying we were in the ascending phase of some macro cycle, and that we had thirty years of growth ahead. None did forecast the crisis we had since. They also did not say a word about the economic equilibrium bending east.

Please take these cycle theory with a grain of salt. It is too easy to find patterns and to invent explanations for them, but there is no more reason to have recurring patterns in history than to have patterns when playing with a dice.
Yes but Carmack also said that he now prefers D3D[1] and that difference between OpenGl and D3d does not really matter: "It’s interesting how little of the technology cares what API you’re using and what generation of the technology you’re on. You’ve got a small handful of files that care about what API they’re on, and millions of lines of code that are agnostic to the platform that they’re on." [2]

[1]http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2313661

[2] http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/e3_2008_the_john_c...
Nah, it's fine this way. Right now SpaceX has found a way to massively lower costs and streamline operations, which is a huge win. They've figured out how to make a profit in aerospace beyond just padding big government procurement contracts. Which is great for them, their business is going to grow by leaps and bounds as more and more people use them for launches. And it's great for us too because it means those launches will be cheaper than they would have been otherwise.

But it's also great for the market. Nothing attracts imitation like runaway success, and profits. There are already companies gearing up to compete head to head with SpaceX (Blue Origin, XCOR, Virgin Galactic, etc.) And there are the traditional companies (Boeing, LockMart, etc.) who may be able to renovate their operations enough to build rockets efficiently. And as the market grows (which is inevitable given the lowering costs) there will be new competitors in orbital launch that are not even on the horizon today.
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Humans see patterns where there are none.

http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_shermer_on_believing_strang...
You can't just 'avoid' them; they're your co-workers, your managers, your family members. Likewise, voting a comment off of the screen doesn't mean it's "getting better", it means enough likeminded people were able to get their point across.

Reddit illustrates the problem well; while the push for equality is out there and people are hearing it, it doesn't stop misogynist/otherwise hurtful responses to shoot up to the top, with little to no regret if it means laughs and upvotes. Until that's not the overwhelming response, it isn't getting better.

Men don't understand the problem. They haven't had to deal with it and because they see themselves and their friends as upstanding citizens, they don't think these things happen as often as they do.
Yes, I am sure.
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Evolution. Our ancestors were the optimists who underestimated the difficulty of capturing that horse, crossing that ocean, turning that land into a farm. Those who could accurately estimate the difficulty wisely avoided it, didn't go hunting, didn't reproduce.

If it was really just a matter of uncertainty, we would overestimate the difficulty as often as we underestimate. But we don't. Humans consistently underestimate. I really think it's evolution.
My initial skepticism makes me want to think this was maliciously orchestrated. Where one firm stands to lose, someone else would undoubtedly gain.
There's always a global warming denier...

The climate stayed in the warm state described in the article for some 20,000,000 years.

Which is to say a few thousand times longer than all of recorded human history.

Anything over 100 years is "permanent" as far as humans are concerned. The climate could easily change for a period of time that is 5 or more orders of magnitude larger than "permanent".

TL;DR: You're engaging in dumbass wordplay.
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Exactly. Why would he write tests if it's just play.
very nice aggregate you've created there.
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John C Dvorak has a theory, I am not sure if it is just his about cycles and a predicted pattern of events going back to the 1600's that indicates a dip in things starting in 2017.

Personally I am an optimist and think that as a whole we will continue to persevere and generally get it right more often, with more free information, we learn faster and eventually we evolve our outlook and efforts for the better.

Not because we want to, it's something about our species and tenacity to survive happy.
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It isn't because OpenGL is better. It's simply inertia. Don't take my word for it - take Carmack's.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/john-Carmack-DirectX-OpenGL...

I do all my graphics work in OpenGL, but I'm aware of its shortcomings.
Psychohistory? Where is Hari Seldon when you need him?
I think food already has its systems in place (think eat24.com). The only leftover gap is the retail items. That said, many retail items aren't that expensive, but utilizing GPS and logistics tech is the key here. You don't have to make one-off stops if you coordinate. Hell, can you imagine how much UPS or FedEx would like something like this? Their overhead would go down to almost nothing, and they could replace fleets of big air freight with many electric powered local trucks.
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The police have never been more militarized, even simple protesting against something is more and more likely to at a minimum get you arrested if not shot or "less lethal" weapon used against you like pepper spray in the face despite you being unarmed and non-violent (while the police will receive a paid vacation for doing so).

In 1st world countries I think protests are doomed. Wait till they start rolling out the sonic canons and drones at the RNC and DNC conventions this year and see if you agree. Oh and as a bonus, the millions spent on "security" at the conventions is taxpayer funded - congress votes on it for themselves every time.
I saw Buzz Aldrin talk. He said that we have to make three successful manned missions to Mars and back before we can think of colonizing it. Three indicates we have solved the fundamental issues of safety, sanity [1], and propulsion. I believe Elon Musk and SpaceX will do it.

[1] Russia has begun training astronauts for the 500-day project by experimenting with placing them in isolation
This is slightly off topic, but make sure you are on the latest version of Parallels before doing the upgrade. For some reason, Parallels 6, which is less than 2 years old, does not support Mountain Lion. Personally, I do not care about the new features in Parallels 7, but was a bit annoyed when forced to upgrade.
Perhaps you won't want third party hardware or software interfacing with your brain.

Another issue could be that repeating simplistic patterns over and over with your brain could generate a kind of "brain RSI" and you'd prefer the old school way to do things.

I find it infinitely entertaining to think about all the practical things you'll care about when a dream technology actually becomes available.
When explaining this, I usually turn it around and say "How long will it take you to get 10,000 paid recurring customers? OK, how about 2?" Then the concept of task estimation and scope starts to make sense to most people.
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Unfortunately that's par for the course for developerWorks.
How much did Lion affect it?
What Elon Musl do with SpaceX is cool but he would be more interesting for all the people if he stayed in Tesla and has the same vision!
I know this isn't a real answer, but I say: fuck estimating.

I'd much rather have my team focus on good on-the-fly prioritization, recovery from rabbit holes, spiking efficiently, smart dependency engineering and building fully featured stories.

Building software - especially anything new, or with an odd mix of integrations (i.e. everything) - is full of a lot of unknowns. When you accept that, and stop trying to control or predict it, you can spend more of your time and methodology horsepower on things that deliver more reliable value.
Active users are probably the key to identifying fake and inactive users. There are likely to be patterns of use on Facebook from active users which apply themselves irrespective of whether a given user is a power user, casual user, etc. Adding friends, sending messages, checking other people's walls, having other people check their wall.

Anyone who doesn't conform to this pattern to within about 10% either side (not enough use / too much use) is probably a fake or spam account.
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I would agree that it may be better if they showed result for lowest FPS (instead of average) and on weaker system(were difference would matter far more). They probably tested on powerful developer workstation because it was the machine that they already program on.
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I think its a fundamental flaw of the public company ecosystem. Management is driven to have a very short-term, myopic view of shareholder value (i.e. stock price quarter to quarter). This was made much worse by the rise in profile of analysts in the late 90's tech boom with increased focus on short term earnings guidance. Perhaps eventually Zuckerberg will be replaced by a more market-savvy CEO. Also being public will force a giant set of obligations and priorities that has nothing to do with their offerings (shareholder proxies, disclosure, class action derivative suits, SOX compliance, investor relations) and will suck huge resources.

Being public will make FB a poorer company and service.

As a side note, I love how reporters of newly public companies quote risk factors from a 10-k and present them as some significant revelation of a skeleton in the closet. Risk factors are required disclosure and attorneys stuff them with horrible sounding proclamations that often are really just stating the obvious when you really read them. They are cheap insurance for the public company - not sure anyone declines to buy a stock based on risk factors but the company can say "I told you" in the event of certain shareholder suits.
AMD64 would bring more cache pressure on the CPU, but also a lot more memory for caching the world, plus more registers, a better instruction set… For a game, I expect memory would make a large difference.
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Similarly, the people who buy games again and again are more likely to be playing first-person shooters or heavily-involved RPG games that don't lend themselves well to motion based control. Moving your whole body is simply too inefficient in comparison to using a controller. As a result, the motion controls are limited to "party games" that rely on simple gameplay rather than a deep experience.
What a wonderful thing to read. Upvoting threads doesn't have the weight of leaving a separate note, so congratulations!
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>unsigned apps, though, will bring up a warning dialog box and make you acknowledge that it’s not Apple’s problem if the app sends your address book to a Russian bot network and fills your Documents folder with “My Little Pony” porn.

I wouldn't call that a warning box. It just says you can't run it, with no alternatives suggested. (There are alternatives, but you have to know them already.)

https://www.steinberg.net/fileadmin/redaktion/Supportteam/32...
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We do the same doing some terabyte-scale data processing. We try and load all of the shared state in to a read-only structure ahead of time, then fork off the workers. This way, copy-on-write memory architectures get the advantage of only persisting the data once, yet we get multiple processes working from a very very large shared set of data, all without having to do any sort of IPC or locking. The only locks we used are around streams used for a very basic sort of IPC used to communicate to shared stream controllers like logfiles - these do perform very poorly compared to 'proper' parallelism but they make up for a very tiny fraction of the total workload.

We've found that this will beat a 'better' parallelism even if we need to do a lot of extra or redundant work due to the lack of IPC or reduction due to the no-overhead approach, although this will of course be highly dependent on the problem at hand.
It's a boon of new money and fresh funded interests to the community. Better for everyone but I would not have gone public. (limited actual knowledge of real world pressures.. but still. They were not in control and give up more.

It is not your thing if it's everyone's thing and when everyone is bored of their thing. Well...
> It's far far more expensive for an American to visit other western countries than it is for the average European.

Well, yes. Then there's the enjoyment factor. Personally, I've been to Europe multiple times. Hell, I was born there. And frankly, I enjoy going to the Caribbean, Bermuda, and Mexico much more.

> I know visiting different states isn't the same as visiting countries but I think people living outside of the U.S. don't understand just how different various U.S. regions are from each other.

Also spot on. If you live in NYC, going to NOLA is plenty exotic. Vice versa as well. Air fare is almost nothing compared to going to other continents.

The only people who might truly be able to relate would be from China and India. Both countries are large and diverse enough that traveling inside of their borders becomes a rewarding experience.
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On the other hand,

> DirectInput

Officially deprecated for Windows Message Loop and XInput

> DirectPlay

Deprecated for GFWL, not even present anymore in the DirectX SDK (I believe), some modules (voice and NAT helpers) were completely removed in Vista.

> DirectSound

Deprecated for XAudio2 (Vista and 7 implement DirectSound in software, although ALchemy will dynamically intercept DirectSound3D calls and translate them to OpenAL on the fly on Audigy and X-Fi)
Interesting theory, but there is no implicit parity between # of winners and # of losers. Whereas 1 firm lost $440M there were thousands (maybe tens of thousands) of firms and individuals that made hundreds or thousands of dollars.
I think there's always a risk of an outflow of people once their stock options hit.

That being said, the article actually makes the point that for two of these departures they may be leaving not because of hitting it in the SV lottery but because they're not going to see a payout because their options were priced in at an overly high valuation.

Facebook may get hit from both ends, those who have been there 3-4 years ago may be cashing out, those that joined in the last 1-2 years may be leaving because they won't see any return on their options.
i don't know what to tell you but i'm doing it right now using an ssh proxy with ssh -D in ML with the latest flash (also on a SL machine next to me) to a VPS i have in UK (i'm from Canada).
I'd figure it was much higher than that. Over the years I've had at least 5 accounts and the woman from the movie 'Catfish' had over 20 accounts.
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There's also the fact that the ability to discern two colours depends on the two shades involved, and the shades that nature presents are probably different to the ones chosen by Faber-Castell. Also, when I was a kid I could tell the purple pencil from the blue if I held them together, but had trouble if I had just one on its own. (Still true today but I don't come across colour pencils so often...)
It's not really about "like" or "not like" but fundamental economics and mathematics: things that grow behave differently then things that don't, and are worth more. Suppose FB found a way to consistently make 1B a year, give it to the investors, and only grow as much as inflation. Then the valuation would settle on something like 10-15 billion (plus however much cash it has on hand at that time). And a solid part of the market will love it as a long-term investment and tout its value. On the other hand, to value it at 50 billion you have to assume that its earnings will at least quintuple over time, so good luck to them.
This is actually something we considered (we originally built this tool to import data from one of the major vendors). Their data was consistent enough that we were able to achieve a high enough hit rate, that it made sense to do it this way (OpenCV is an amazing framework for this type of task). However, from most of our vendors, the board themselves are not outlined/blocked out. In those cases, the CV algorithms fall apart fairly quickly, since quality of the input photos is quite variable (most are rather low resolution and you'd be surprised at the number of images we get with trees or other objects blocking a large portion of the board). The crowd sourced version is definitely on our fun tasks pile, since we've got a lot of inventory identify the bounds automatically.
More and more I feel like I should wean myself off NERDTree and back onto netrw like a grown-up. It would reduce the number of plugins I use to zero, and that would be an accomplishment.
You're right, I was thinking of Mono/Moonlight but had forgotten that this was a DRM-free implementation.

Although Linus doesn't feel too negatively against DRM on Linux.

http://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/2003042401126OSKNLL
But how well is that going to work in dim light? You're going to hit a limit to how fast you can scan given the time it takes to gather enough photons. When you start to have to be too clever is when you've started to hit limits.
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Sorry, I edited my post to reflect the fact that I misrepresented the scenario. Though it started as a discussion about colour-blindness, it developed into a more general "what if my blue is your red" discussion. In that scenario, the red and greens on the tree would be matched exactly to the reds and greens on the pencils- there's no way to know if I'm seeing something different.
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Isn't it really odd that a company called "Knight" makes all these nonsensical trades just a couple weeks after the movie where a similar thing bankrupted a company?
Unless someone comes in and scoops up Knight for cheap--the stock is trading down 65% or so over night.
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So true. So very, very true.
I think he meant that if you want to avoid paying U.S. taxes, you have to give up citizenship, which is true to my understanding.
Congrats! That's great news. Btw, I feel you bring a lot of value to HN (and me) through your comments, so I hope that doesn't change.