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How dare those people who came to our country in the hope of sanctuary from persecution, have the audacity, that when the justice system fails them, to turn to other means, such as raising awareness of their plight....

Honestly its as though they were expecting a fair and just society that was meant to represent a paragon of human rights and justice...

I guess they don't know about pandering tories who try to placate the casual and everyday racist attitudes found among their base. I guess the stories they told themselves of British hope and justice missed out the part where their lives would be pawns in a political fight.
The old man and the sea: 73-year-old to sail solo around world in 'bathtub' boat
My gripe about the inclusion of Canabalt isn't the game itself, it's that it's just too recent to determine if it will really withstand the test of time. Another World was a fun and beautiful game that barely got any press or sales at all, yet the fact that we still remember it all these years later is a testament to its merit.

And now that Canabalt's been selected for the MoMA's permanent collection, it will be forever impossible to determine whether the game was remembered because of its own staying power, or just because the MoMA told us that we ought to remember it.
Setup time got you down? There are plethora of dotfiles projects on github that already have easy scripted installation.

http://dotfiles.github.com/
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I've followed a similar background becoming an Engineer. I did the co-operative education while an undergrad and got valuable mentoring and working experience in the marketplace. Now I'm an organizer for a local R users group which meets at a university. We do a lot of hands on and practical theory which has benefited me and our data science community.
So, nothing new to report.
For me it has nothing to do with being open source or aligned with the "free" philosophy. I don't like IE because it makes my job harder without any real reason.

Why can't it update automatically and save millions of dollars? Developers cost money and companies have to pay tons of unnecessary hours making a web page work on broken IE renderings.

I would not hate IE, and maybe even use it, if it could update itself without needing it's crap Windows Update thingy.
One of the great successes of the university I attended were several weekly hour-long two-on-one sessions (two students, one supervisor) with either a professor or a grad student, talking about that week's lectures.

The regularity and length of them allowed a relationship to be built up over the course of the semester, and you could be damn sure you'd learn a lot more from that dialogue than you ever would from sitting bleary-eyed in the lecture hall at 9am.
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And I'm guessing you loved Python? I'm so bored of PHP - and am finding Python really great to work with.
A bit too realtime for my liking, but awesome idea and execution :)
Your comment brought to mind how immature a stage that games as art are...nearly every game on that list is a critical rave, with possibly the exception of Passage. They may not all be popular, such as DF, but they are good at serving their niche.

If you go to the MoMA today, you'll see at least three or four "paintings" which are basically blank. There's even an entire wall devoted to the absence of any art...more of a made-you-look kind of thing...which was even less than the entire wall I once saw devoted to a yogurt cup...

So when video games that are e equivalent of a "blank wall" show up, then games will have definitely broken into the art scene.

And no, ET doesn't count because it wasn't intended to be a steaming pile of shot...allegedly...
Hi, developer here.

I wrote this in Haxe and compiled it to NME's HTML5 target. It turned out quite nicely.

The HTML5 target is unfortunately lacking some of the nice graphical features that other targets have. I couldn't do proper shadows and glows.

I thought I was going to have audio problems, but I just threw the sounds together last night and it all just worked.

I hope you enjoy the game. I know it's not perfect, but it's pretty fun. Wish me luck in the Game Off!
It's about time we see some disruption in education. The old school methods of schooling will not work in this day and age. For example in the tech sector, more companies are looking for graduates that have experience rather then just a CS degree. There are free resources to learn how to code like Codeacademy, Udacity, Coursera, Mozilla’s P2PU, Google Code University, and MIT Open Courseware. There are also more and more high-quality paid resources, both online and off, like General Assembly, Treehouse or Bloc, not to mention local continuing ed classes. Mr. Khan and Peter Thiel are headed in the right direction.
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I'm curious, what business model do you think people want? Apps that offer ad-supported and paid versions tend to have many, many more ad-supported users, so I'm not convinced that's it.
Separating instruction and credentialing (and a third item - learner support) has been suggested by others before (http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/768/1414 ), and I do think it is a good idea in theory.

But look at where it has already been done before, like Microsoft or IT certifications. They are okay, but don't really have a whole lot of value because it is too easy to 'cram for the exam' - there are even services in many countries that help with this. I wouldn't want to hire someone solely based on their certificates or badges - I'd want to see a portfolio of their work, hear from previous co-workers, and of course speak with the person to see about their skills in communicating and working with others.

And outside of some technical skills or rote knowledge, most skills can't be so easily measured by test questions.

A better argument for a 'new college' would highlight how right now a college degree doesn't really indicate what a person has learned, and the evidence points to not much actual learning happening in college (see Academically Adrift: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/01/18/study_finds_la...). This isn't surprising since most professors aren't trained in how to teach effectively and properly support learning, and neither are most in industry, either.
The Ambiguity of the Term "Startup"
Best for both, and it will release zynga from FB exclusivity agreement. Facebook's platform and business has changed dramatically in the past 24 mos. And zynga can focus on growth on other platforms in addition to maintaining a presence on Facebook.
When I was a teenager the most popular part time jobs among my piers were either working in a supermarket or at a fast food place.

Lots of supermarkets are starting to replace humans with self-checkouts and things like this will probably become standard in fast food.

So how is a teenager supposed to fund his pot habit in 2020?
I asked a similar question recently, maybe the suggestions there can help:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4637415
Lessons from the Groupon Disaster
My core intention with this was to show a basic stack and examples for newcomers. The surplus references to 'just start coding' etc is an attempt to reference the recognisable title :)
You seem to be assuming that the existing business model is one which people don't want. It allows websites to monetize using information that the vast majority of people don't care about, which allows most content on the internet to remain free. I'd say people are, by and large, pretty happy with this business model.
I want advertising. It tells me about things I might like.

You're perhaps one of the very very few people who dislike being told about things, but thankfully you're in the minority.

The whole "do not track us" idea is ridiculous and a 'moot' issue. Cookies aren't really necessary, you can track people server side based on their browser make up, and they won't know they're being tracked. 99.9% of browsers are completely unique and identifiable back to the computer.

If you really don't want to be tracked (<0.01% of users), then use TOR, lynx, adblock, disallow cookies, etc etc etc

Look also at the recent EU cookie laws, and how ridiculous and needlessly cumbersome they have made websites that have addopted it. Endless clicking confirmation boxes / dropdowns to say it's ok for them to store a cookie. We do not need more of this madness.
> I use page-up / page-down with

I use ctrl-r because it is easier to type.

> experience becomes crappy when there is no readline support, e.g. everything on Windows, sqlplus, db2, etc.

If you have rlwrap, you can generally do `rlwrap -r app-that-doesn't-play-well`
A Gift for You: The Productivity Checklist
Who decides what 'true meaning' is? This term is ill-defined.

The 'meaning' of what you work on is often susceptible to change over time.
I love rougelikes. I'll give it a try on my lunch break.

Here's my entry: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4853421

Good luck in the Game Off!
The Electronic Future For Tennis Rackets
I believe this would be the correct copyright term for a game made by a game company.(every body who made it works for the game company so it should all fall under work for hire). Instead of the usual death + 70.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries%27_copyright_...

95 years from publication or 120 years from creation whichever is shorter (anonymous works, pseudonymous works, or works made for hire, published since 1978)
An infographic on security awareness and issues in the cloud
I don't see how I did such a thing. Of course shady and unethical salespeople exist: just walk into a mobile phone shop to meet one.

I'm saying that by and large, great salespeople are not shady and unethical, though.
It sounds like they are a long way from actually operating a restaurant. This is just speculative hype.

"Momentum Machines – the minds behind the burger maker — have expressed plans to create their own “smart restaurant” chain, serving burgers made by their own crime-fighting cooking robots. According to the company’s site, the technology will provide “the means for the next generation of restaurant design and operation.”"
"This website requires ad tracking to be enabled in order to view its content. Do you want to enable ad-tracking for this site?"

The site gets to use ad tracking on end users, it has their explicit permission, and I get to have a list in my browser of all those sites that are tracking me. Everybody wins.
I'm mostly curious regarding how you put sheets on this bed and still use it for its intended purpose.
You still didn't answer my question.

>It's not the 'transfer of data'. Abuse of children might still happen, but this promotes it. You're creating a 'market' for it, where as before it might not have existed.

Downloading (not buying) CP doesn't facilitate its production anymore than downloading a blockbuster movie facilitates its production.

>You won't give up any civil liberties because you feel you shouldn't compromise on it.

You think I should? How and why? You seem to think that curtailing the use of an anonymous communications tool because evil people use it is a reasonable solution, and I think that's preposterous.
I'm a proto-geek who kind of taught himself to be more artistic. Let me share a few tips:

- Learning to draw is not actually so much about drawing, but learning how to see. Light is complicated and humans like to abstract, especially geeks, so when we look around, we rarely actually see what's there. When you look at e.g. a shiny teakettle, you need to see the specific reflections in the metal, rather than just parsing it into "shiny bowl". When you look at faces, you need to learn to spot the shadows and the curves from various angles, e.g. a face in profile vs a face head on. Even simple objects can be deceptive, e.g. put a box on a surface, and it will create a subtle border of shadow around its base due to indirect light bounces. I found drawing from photographs was best for learning this, as it's pre-flattened into 2D. Also, there is a reason that artists study the anatomy of skeletons and musculature to draw nudes.

- To make matters worse, our eyes and brains suffer from various optical illusions. This means that you should not strive something that is right, but something that looks right. For example, horizontally aligning an asymmetrical shape... sometimes it just looks more balanced slightly off-center. Or go into Inkscape and type the text "XOXOXO". Zoom in, and you can tell that 1) the X' diagonals don't meet at a central point and 2) the O sticks out a bit below and above the X. Both are there to 'fix' optical illusions. Also, because of the difference between left brain and right brain, often it helps to flip your image horizontally midway to see all the flaws.

- When it comes to design (rather than just art), the motto is "it is perfect not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away". This can make it hard to see why a design is good. The best way I've found is to try and copy an existing design, but only by studying it once at the start. When you're done, you can compare with the original, and suddenly all the artists' specific choices will stand out. Doing this to CSS Zen Garden designs taught me web design.
It doesn't matter that the right brain/left brain thing is a complete myth. This book really works! Don't focus on the book's title so much, it's really all about looking at the world in a different way, and the "right brain" part is just the catch to make you pick the book up.
I realize how wishy-washy this sounds, but artists really do look at things very differently than scribblers do when they're drawing, and it makes ALL the difference.

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain teaches the fundamental concepts of drawing that applies to anything you'll ever draw, and it really just can't be ignored if you want to be able to draw anything without taking classes.

Basically, there's a reason this book keeps coming up in discussions about learning to draw, and it doesn't have anything to do with neural theories.
Well done. Very addictive! Enough for me to decide that it's time to round the workweek off. I'll fetch an Orval[1] and immerse myself in the game.

(the collision detection seems to be a little off, but it's hardly noticeable.)

[1] http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/orval/835/
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Assange: Entire nations intercepted online, key turned to totalitarian rule
I think Tirpitz,Gough,Gulag are mentioned.Frigates also.
CQ=help(before current SOS signal)
KN=in the King's Name but the Arabic possible.
The flat bottomed U may refer to a 'reed'-read
Also St Nazaire France was a base for carrier pigeons in WWII.
Operation Chariot?
Since the money was a gift to my brother, it wasn't tied to a bank account, which made paypal suspicious.
The game is strictly turn-based, there is nothing realtime in it...
Any way to restart without the tutorial?
Mamet wrote a story about salespeople where all of them have highly dubious ethics ranging from being outright thieves to being conmen, and the most successful of the lot is willing to destroy someone's life to earn himself a cadillac.

From some of the other comments, it sounds like I misinterpreted Mamet's intent - he apparently wasn't looking to generalise to all salespeople - but still, it seems to me the comment is fair based on this particular piece of evidence.
Haha, us too. It got to where me and my friends who played it would call someone a harvester if they kept getting lost IRL due to their stupidity
A non-programmer’s solution to “Fizz Buzz”
"Presumption of innocence" is not a principle that extends outside of US borders so its always difficult to contextualize police action in other countries to Americans who take their constitution for granted.

No, many countries have "innocent until proven guilty" laws/standards.

e.g. Artictle 6.2 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_6_of_the_European_Conve... ) says:

> 2.Everyone charged with a criminal offence shall be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law.

The ECHR is more than just EU, e.g. Russia is bound by it. (USA is not and would be in breech of it because they have capital punishment).

Article 48.1 of the Charter of Fundamental Freedoms of the European Union ( http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Charter_of_Fundamental_Rights_... ):

> Everyone who has been charged shall be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law.
Steam was removing access to his account basically because it felt like he didn't pay for some games in it. Which is reasonableish (the ones he had from before really shouldn't be affected. It'd be better if it just removed the games he bought with paypal).
It's like if someone has their check bounce on you, they don't get to keep whatever they paid for.
This 6x6 cell will keep you safe from terrorists.
I want advertising. It tells me about things I might like.

Assuming that I wanted to be aware of relevant advertising, the signal to noise ratio is absolutely microscopic. Even sites that have massive data dossiers on me (Facebook and Google) routinely abuse my attention.
Thank you.

Isn't that the entire point of "The Hard way" approach - don't just read, but start writing code to figure things out.
Instead some regions have been outright making tracking without opt in illegal, e.g. the EU.
Successful salespeople don't pressure or bullshit the
prospect into a sale. They are persistent, but they are
always focused on achieving a deal where it will benefit
all parties.

I couldn't agree more. I ranked first in sales at my company for a quarter, before they promoted me. While some of my peers used scare tactics, intimidation and downright lying to close the deal, I was always prepared to walk away from deals. I never suggested anything that wasn't in their best interest because I was thinking long-term. Funny how customers see this genuinity and come back after shopping around. Referrals were often the result, while my peers had customers with buyers regret. They hit their quota by the end of the day, but lost in the long-term. On a side note, your title may be a little misleading. It should say "Sales come out of genuinity" as the current title implies that knowing how to sell is something inherent, whereas it's something I taught myself.
I've heard that's what you get at Oxford. Seems great but as a mere mortal who attended a slightly less prestigious institution, I had to make do with tutorial groups where 18-20 people would cram into a room designed for 12.
Funny, I've been replaying Dune 2 over the past week and a half. Despite the controls being somewhat clunky (no selecting multiple units, your units won't defend themselves in a lot of cases, etc.) this game has character and charm, not to mention hours and hours of gameplay. I have been hoping that games like this, King's Bounty, Settlers, XCom, and others from that era would show up for mobile platforms. A lot of them would work really well on a touchscreen device.
First reaction - oh cool, this works on my phone!

"Enter to continue" - "Enter" what? Like, a key?
I own this book, it is not the right book for learning how to illustrate.

Don't get me wrong, "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" is a decent book. If you follow it, in a few short drawing sessions it will lift you from a person who can't draw at all to a person who is a novice at life drawing with some impressive looking portraiture. You will be amazed at your own progress at life drawing. You however will not progress much further than a novice.

For drawing game assets and other types of illustrations, you need to learn to draw from your imagination. This is a very different skill from drawing from life and a skill that "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" will not teach you. I can't make recommendations of books myself, but I can suggest looking at this [1] thread over at cgsociety.

[1] http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=844409
Highly suggested essay regarding food automation in the future: http://marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm
How a the fake ICOA-Google news story spread online
Incoming Jets Animate Atlanta Airport's Epic Data-Driven Sculpture
Of course its dying. It's compeltely impractical and almost comical. There wa no reason to believe it would amount to anything but a publication in some journal.
After the front page of reddit.
I think your criticism isn't completely fair. I'm fairly certain that the narrow design and location of his thought experiment is because he is most familiar with the finance and tech industries (His degrees are in Math, EE, and Business). He's clearly spent a lot of time in school and is familiar with his pain points and would like to fix them (for better or worse)[1].

If I was in the same position I wouldn't bother expunging my ideas about what would make a better art school because I'm clueless about art schools.

[1]My experience has been that Community Colleges already do a lot of what he's suggesting (at least mine did) and I doubt his university style campus could compete on cost with a CC.

edit: forgot that asterisks italicize text.
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It took quite a while to load, but it worked fine on Firefox for me.
I'm pleasant to see fellow devs switching from PHP to Python. I did the same thing about half year ago. :)
I guess some people might manage to bullshit themselves into thinking the product is awesome when it's not... then again, even in those cases, there is presumably some element of the product that is awesome, otherwise they couldn't believe such a thing?

Self-delusion is a powerful force, but smart people need more than that to achieve any kind of lasting result.
It depends on how you define "attention to detail". Both NetHack and DCSS feature online play and fiendish difficulty. NetHack's claim to fame is its complex system of interactions and "the devteam thinks of everything"[1].

On the other hand, DCSS is the pinnacle of roguelike usability. The devs strive to make the game "fair"--which is to say, a death is (99.9% of the time) your fault, and not just bad luck. So no instadeaths, no save-or-die effects, and spoilers should be largely unnecessary (that's the philosophy, at least...). They also hold annual usability studies and incorporate that feedback into the game. As a result, it's a game that's both very approachable and very deep. I highly recommend it if you're a fan of roguelikes.

[1] http://nethack.wikia.com/wiki/The_DevTeam_Thinks_Of_Everythi...
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To me the phrase seems kind of arrogant, like their goals are inherently more important simply because they appear further in the future.

Thing is, they aren't even thinking long-term themselves. In the real long-term, the universe is going to implode and destroy everything, so their so-called meaningful work will have made no more difference than anyone else's :P
Very annoyed. I had this exact idea about 18 months ago, but didn't do anything with it. Just goes to show that success is really about hard work and commitment rather than just a great idea. Kudos to you. I hope it changes the world.
The prompt style I use was invented, IIRC, by one of the Bell Labs Unix guys in the early days of windowing terminals.

: text;

Why? Because you can select entire lines (triple-click in most terminal emulators) and paste them directly into another shell. “:” is equivalent to true(1), and it ignores its arguments, the text.

(In my case, the text is the base of the host name, but anything compatible with shell quoting rules will work.)
Their selections show a lot of thoughtfulness, especially when it comes to negotiating the tricky balance between selecting for historical/cultural significance and selecting for artistic significance.

I never in a million years would have guessed they'd choose Vib Ribbon, but it totally deserves it.