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Are you an adult? These are your peers not billionaire bankers leeching off the backs of the poor. You know, programmers, marketers, entrepreneurs. They made it. And you want to tear them down because they've been successful? Now that they have money they are automagically evil? What planet am I on?
>“We always do 30 frames per second on consoles, otherwise it wouldn’t be possible to fit in vehicles, effects, scale and all players.”

I'm with Carmack on this one. I'd rather have a good game with a solid 60fps than 20+ vehicles and hundreds of effects. That's all filler anyway. A solid 60fps game is a much more immersive experience than the choppy 20-30fps most developers achieve.
The idea that SNS isn't first-in, first-out is scary enough to me - but the fact that it's also "at least one copy will be delivered" (rather than "only one copy") makes it kind of insane.
>That's ridiculous. However, something like this is useful:

> // Bounds-check velocities

No, that is an example of a comment of a region that should have been a separate method/function.
just whipped this up last night for fun. expect more from this domain.
Offer them, heh, Equity.
Some of the scenes are using 3d-transformations, for GPU acceleration. Opera doesn't support 3d transforms yet. :(
Qt's "Write once, deploy everywhere" has been able for many years on the desktop, until mobile revolution came with incompatible interfaces and now we have to start again. Good news they are working on a solution to this challenging problem!
We rolled this out last night! You now get the locations and proper "photo taken at" timestamps if the data exists in Instagram.
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I want to say something about problem (2).

The deeper issue than the mere popularity of college majors is that their popularity already includes a certain level of weeding-out. Graduating classes in engineering and computer-science are not small because people are too foolish to go into engineering but but because, by and large, people lack the talent and capability for engineering.

And even worse! If we somehow made every college student into a competent software engineer, it would only glut the market for software engineers.

The notion that an economy will naturally come to an equilibrium of full employment at livable wages, and that poverty is thus a failure to adhere to the will of the market, has simply proven itself empirically false. It's a falsified hypothesis, and we have to throw it out and deal with the consequences of its falsity in a sane way.

There simply may not be good jobs for everyone, and any anti-poverty policies we want to make need to start from that as their basis.
Don't, because my eyes hurt.
That's a good point. I believe the research (and my experience) suggests overwork can provide benefit in the short run (2-3 weeks) but much after that and you get diminishing and then negative marginal returns - followed by a "time off" recovery period.

Strategically used, overwork can provide benefit but it sounds like Starcraft was a year-long overwork, which is a disaster. Many of the "Founders at Work" stories glorify overwork and make it sound like it was part of the norm of the culture, so it seems like it was much longer than a few weeks.

Which is why I'm confused - either long-running overwork caused these companies to succeed, or it was not bad enough to cause them to fail?
There is Necessitas Qt 4.x port for Android that is pretty solid and was contributed to Qt Project quite recently (http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2012/11/08/necessitas-android-...). I have not found good iOS port when I was looking for one. At least for BlackBerry it already is - you can write Qt apps for BB10/PlayBook OS just now.
Then what the next generation consoles need is low-latency motion interpolation hardware.
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Eyes don't have a "frame rate" the same way that computer displays and cameras do. For example, under steady light, your eyes will never experience the common effect where wheels appear to spin backwards due to aliasing.

There is obviously a limit to how fast our eyes see, and that limit is somewhere within an order of magnitude or so of 100fps. But it's still a mostly continuous process. There's no hard dividing line between one frame and the next.
First, not every employee is a unique and rare snowflake - a one in a million hire. People _are_ mostly replaceable. This is reality, not a wet dream. Using an example to the contrary does not disprove the rule, just highlights an exception.

If you read the post carefully, it describes very clearly what makes employee valuable _besides_ their domain knowledge. It's quite a lot. That's why it's so hard to lose people. As I wrote, we each bring our own capabilities, attitudes and skill sets. But that doesn't mean that it's alright to work under the assumption that _none_ of our contributions to the organization can be documented and shared. In fact, a lot of what we do in our day to day work is pretty mundane stuff. We tackle problems, we learn things, we talk to people and make decisions. So for the most part it's entirely reasonable to ask people to share their knowledge with others through documentation by default. Mind you, documentation can be as easy as discussing things in a mailing-list vs. personal emails (one is searchable after you quit, the other pretty much disappears).

Additionally, the title of the post is clearly not to be taken literally. If you understood it to mean "find your best people, get them to document everything, and then fire them" then you misunderstood. That makes zero sense. It's those team players - the people who volunteer their knowledge - who are the most precious of all employees, and those are the ones you never actually want to let go.

On the other hand, the ones who are sure that their own Peter Norvig level "genius" could never be put into documentation, are the problem.

For what it's worth, this isn't an "empty suit's" dream. This is the way I've seen it done as a developer in a few software companies, and it's something I'm trying to promote ever since. And I stand by the title of the post, even if you find it controversial. Every organization has its local "guru" knowledge hoarder who is essentially a huge pain in the ass to manage because, intentionally or not, he's not playing well with others. He loves being a required participant in every single meeting. And heaven help you if you try to drive a change he disagrees with - no chance of that happening. These people should be prime candidates to get shit canned as early as possible. By adopting an organization-wide "document by default" attitude you gradually see less and less of this problem and reduce the chances of new hoarders sprouting up.
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They've agreed to a pretty sizable percentage of ownership. None of us are receiving a salary at this point.
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I used to reason exactly like this, but then in last few months occurrences of this rare cases of bugs in OS, environment or even hardware started to be little to often. Although I might be biased by spending inordinate amounts of time on these bugs (like one day each). Various X11 related bugs (well, when X server crashes, you can be pretty sure that it is not bug in _your_ code), Windows driver bugs, Windows hotfixes fixing one bug and exacerbating impact of another bug from "minor annoyance" to "does not work", RTC chip with errata longer than datasheet, weird firmware<->kernel interactions, generally failing hardware and so on.
Didn't know about Sailfish. Interesting that they're focusing on multitasking.

It made me wonder whether BeOS might not make a great mobile OS. Designed for limited hardware, excellent multitasking, and an opensource version in alpha status now.
I think Facebook is not after FB Purity. They are after anyone who could come up with a plugin that scrapes the content and stores it to a db. People using the plugin would get access to the db in exchange: companies could look up prospective employees, ex-girlfriends spy on their defriended ex-boyfriends, etc.

Hell, the idea is so tempting that someone is definitely doing this already. And you'd only need a percentile of the users to get the information for every other facebook user.
this is probably a good thing more often then not, though.
Why are people so excited about Android development?
Here, I thought that Apple had sold Quick Time.
Vesting is a reasonable approach, but it comes with its own baggage. One year cliffs are somewhat arbitrary -- afterall, why does a gregorian calendar dictate when ownership is divided? There's room for more granularity than that. What do you do with someone who needs to take a sabbatical for health or family even though they were outstanding contributors early on? What about someone who comes in several months after the original founders, but has great performance? You don't necessarily deserve more just because you were there on day 1. Dynamic splits account for all these scenarios plus more without overcomplicating the initial paperwork.
I think a better question is "Why do you need free work done"?

If it is for a greater good (curing a disease, helping your fellow man, fighting for something you believe in such as politics) and that person cares about those things then it may not be that hard. Look at all the campaign volunteers for the most recent election.

Your question is too vague.
Qt is the best. Without it, I will not use c++ anymore.
pretoriusB: It sounds that you are a victim of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness
Your best bet might be finding a good subreddit.
True. Still, I found independent reading from library books to be much more informative than the liberal arts electives I was forced to take (and pay for) as GEC reqs on the exact same subjects.

Penalized for pursuing education, no. Penalized for making extremely poor life choices? Probably. But it's not really so much a penalty as an easily predicted result that people are steadfastly intent on ignoring, because that way they get four years of fun instead of work.

No one should be homeless and we should take steps to fix the hideously large gaping holes in our social safety net, stop charging $80,000 to attend even a state school, etc. Until it happens though, I think it's good to encourage an attitude of fiscal responsibility which is currently desperately lacking in many of those in my age group. So many have no idea how to budget their money because they live at home with their parents and have never had to pay for any living expenses.

I was really glad to see this article, though--I'm one of those people who don't have any family they can move in with, and I've come desperately close to being unable to afford housing in the past. Stressful times.
Dont use too much contrast, instead try different hues.
Ok, so somebody else can use his extension while he watches. nice. very diferent.
I'm really glad things are better for you. I hope they continue to improve.
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I also use CentOS on servers. It just feels more solid to me, but this is probably more me than it. I also use Fedora on the desktop so I have a consistent package management experience.

Even if I switched to Ubuntu/Debian on the desktop, I'd probably keep CentOS on the servers. While its packages may be old, most things still compile on it.

A long long time ago I took a preference to RedHat/Fedora (well, pre-Fedora) as more software compiled by default on it than on Debian/Ubuntu.

I did once venture over to Ubuntu with the promise of clean upgrades from release to release. In truth, it was no better than Fedora, and I found issues hard to fix.
And when you are damn good at what you do and productive - more productive than the "average" mediocre default - you DO get rewarded.

Yes, yes, yes. We've heard this before. For some X, the top X% of society by skill/productivity/motivation will always be able to find remunerative work.

The question is: what's the value of X? For some fields it has always been very small, like in philosophy.

However, our entire notion of "democratic capitalism" has always depended on the notion that over all fields and the entire population taken as a whole, the value of X would be a fairly large majority. There has always been some notion that the bottom Y%, where Y = 100-X, will inevitably have trouble finding jobs, but nobody outside the radical Left has ever really faced up to the notion that at some point Y might range between 20%-50%.
Seconding this! haha. Have a good holiday, both of you.
It became famous thanks to internet movement that did not have much to do with the movie (or the book) in the first place...
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That's almost exactly what the dynamic split does. You bring in workers who are exchanging their time for equity, and the rate of exchange is determined by the market rate for that person. Afterwards, there's a formula to help determine the overall "theoretical grunt fund valuation." Of course, there are other inputs other than time, such as cash, relationships, equipment, etc.
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> Windows is the only commercially viable platform where you can ship software to users without getting approval from a giant bureaucracy (well, perhaps I should say it used to be).

And there's the stab at Windows 8.
Yup. But it's a goal to strive to. Nobody's proposing people spend their entire day documenting, but if they remember to document decisions/knowledge by default they mitigate the problem.
Besides, who said it's a good thing to have one person with 10 years of very specific, undocumented domain expertise? Sure, in rare cases it's some outlier guru. Sometimes you have PhDs who spent 10 years becoming domain experts and you can hardly expect them to be able to serialize it all into the company wiki. That happens. But I'd bet that in most cases these are just people who positioned themselves into a cozy role, guaranteeing you can never let them go. These are liabilities, not assets.
Gave half a billion dollars? Awesome! To what cause? We have no clue!
People will never learn to spell Qt correctly. Never. Same with pronunciation.
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I've been wondering why people seem to prefer to code with a dark background, but read prose with a light background. Or am I wrong?
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I believe it does the exact opposite. There's room to game any system, but in a dynamic split, if a team member is seen as gaming the system, there are simple ways to remedy that early. At the end of the day, there still needs to be a trust relationship between the members.
People from hacker news, check out qtquick or QML, it's like html but without the legacy and the bad parts, just powerful syntax for developing apps, and thanks to network transparency QML can be downloaded from the web also.

QT5 is a dream come true, and when it becomes omni-deployable (android, ios, raspberry pi) it will be even better.
I think whatever we do, we should avoid the trap of being payed to be unhappy.. we pass the most part of our living time sleeping and almost all the rest working (with little to something else, family, fun, rest..)

We should have fun in what we work, in what we do.. trying to be excited just for the profit of it, wont do..

things like; "I Will work for 3 to 5 years on this thing
and then sell it(because i cant stand working on it) and buy a boat, put some chicks on it with champagne and travel the world with my fortune" wont make anybody stood still in harsh times.

faith is the engine of soul and in the end you are what you believe.
by corrupting and selling what you believe, you will become void, empty, bitter..

It starts from there, money or success is a consequence
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An excellent presentation, the interactivity really gets the message across!
I can confirm this. We built the little bits ourselves without using something like http://jekyllbootstrap.com/. I kind of regret that now as JekyllBootstrap is more mature.

All in all we are very happy with Jekyll (and looking forward to development picking up on it now).
The graphics look very cool and the tutorial is quick and easy. If I can make a few point for improvement (based up on a few moments)

- I think it could get confusing rather quickly if the animation is a little more complex
- There is no 'undo'?
- There is no timeline or layer-palette?

Thinking about these topics because of Edge : http://html.adobe.com/edge/animate/
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via: http://www.functionn.in/2012/12/list-of-all-countries-in-all-languages.html

Very comprehensive list of countries, definitely useful and to one to bookmark.

Some of the data formats available are: Text, JSON, YAML, XML, HTML (Select, Flags), CSV, SQL, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, SQL Server.

I like the fact that you can also export to any other format by using the Exporter.
They are also going to expand support for OpenGL in Qt 5.1, it seems:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI1N...
I like the "p + p" trick to not text-indent initial paragraphs:

http://kaikkonendesign.fi/typography/section/7

Looks like that's an "adjacent sibling selector":

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/selector.html#adjacent-selectors

And it looks like it's well-supported since IE9:

http://www.quirksmode.org/css/contents.html
I think SNS was a typo for SES.
"The current proliferation of online studies is fueled by the GI bill and employer tuition-reimbursement programs for people already employed. Online study is not for everyone, it takes a lot of dedication and commitment to complete a class, much less a degree."

To the factor you mention I'd add the ferocious institutional will of the universities for expansion in any direction.
Let it flow, let it flow, let it flow (into CSS regions)
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Where is there a mutual fund giving more than 5%?
How do you pronounce it? I say "Cue-tee", but I heard some people calling it "Cute" (wtf?).
Marx theory is really deeply flawed, because he regards masses as controlling units of society. But in real world, who controls masses? Some individuals because masses can not decide for themselves without individuals deciding for themselves. The idea of masses act as single unity without influence of only few gifted individuals does not stand.

And it's utopia to think that gifted individuals are always nice people, which reality proved many times.
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So your talk got selected. Great!

Oh Crap! Now hits the panic, you have to actually create a presentation.

Every presenter wants to give the best possible presentation they can that sticks in peoples minds.

Here are some hard earned lessons for getting the best out of your presentation.
Any soccermom-compatible tips as how to convince them?
PC gamers view settings this way (and so I'd agree with you, I'd love it), but I don't see the rest of the console players agreeing. The idea behind a console is that it should be plug-and-play because all of the hardware is uniform.

Though, they do offer customization of keymaps (errr. button-maps...), so perhaps there is a case for this?
We just installed a new machine with the new Luna desktop from elementary os [1]. Looks awesome so far. Might just tilt the balance in favour of Debian on the desktop.

[1] http://elementary.org
Just open source it.
Agreed, that's absolutely important, but life gets in the way. Things change, priorities change, and opportunities change. The dynamic split helps those who contributed early keep a stake even if they need to make a change later. It also gives an easy way to reward those who step in to contribute later. And this is done without absent partners potentially strangling equity from other contributors.
Now gimme PyQt5 and ill have a very merry Christmas indeed :)
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I see you've never heard the term overproduction before.
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Really sad they are dropping support for IE7

unfortunately I will not be upgrading to this version then.
It's pronounced "Cute": http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/that-smartphone-is-...
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There is a recent presentation on the Qt 5 Roadmap available online:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QgG9oYhH-c

Slides for this and other Qt talks are available here:

http://qtconference.kdab.com/node/25
When coding, you usually fine-tune your editor color scheme: light text colors on a not too dark background are relaxing for my eyes.

When reading, instead, you cannot easily change the color scheme of web pages with black background and painfully high contrast.

Example of a website with color scheme alternatives:

http://www.textfiles.com/directory.html

«AAAAH! MY EYES! Click here if you prefer a black and white color scheme.»

http://www.textfiles.com/wdirectory.html

«This is a special "black on white" version of the directories in textfiles.com for people who, for various reasons, have issues or trouble with the green on black color scheme of the site.»
Interesting! Do you think this risks diluting your brand?

If it's less "Tip A Dev you like", and more "Pay some guy", it falls into a much more generic payments category..?
> Hero unit
> ❑ Convert class to .jumbotron.

can someone explain the rationale here?
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Yes; Life of Pi is one of the most beautiful 3D movies I've seen, and a good story (based on an award winning book). I'm having trouble convincing people to go see it though...
First, "throws money away", really? It's going toward something good, helping real people's lives. Second it's fine if you want to measure someone's charitableness by their personal sacrifice, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with measuring it by the impact of their actions. In your scenario I would say the money being thrown away would have much more of an impact.
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ES6 does the same thing with the `yield*` syntax.
The dynamic split comes with a performance/experience multiplier that is based on your market rate. The structure already accounts for the fact that one person's hour is not equal to another's. The system is based more on opportunity costs, if you will. Not to mention, there are many other contributions that are accounted for in the "grunt fund" as well, like cash, equipment, relationships, etc.
The correct URL is: http://elementaryos.org/
Not really, but it is the stated purpose of copyright in the USA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_St...