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No process pool management for running Go behind something like Apache or nginx.

Aside from goroutine scheduling issues, what would be the main reasons to run multiple Go processes, instead of just running a single multi-threaded process?
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I guess the whole internet and with it the whole economy relies on this small and bigger contribs. We all should be aware that the internet would be a completely different place if it wasn't for all this free tools, made by a lot of smart people.
Calculating this as "Karma" is a well known approach as we are used to think of everything as a kind of exchange of "goods" as taught by traditional economic sciences. However, most approaches seem to take a Zero-Sum exchange into account (I give you X lines of code, you give me y Karma). I think in terms of OS and all the things that come with it, this is wrong.
I like to think of all this as a Non-Zero-Sum game, maybe the biggest experiment in Non-zero-Sum-Games ever concluded.
The sum and result of all that tools and libs created is much greater than the amount of Karma that can be handed out.
I rarely contribute, but from time to time, I file a bug or fork/pull req. a repo, just because it became a normal behavior. I guess I do this just because I can. Keep your Karma and just take my Pull-Request.
To be fair, the box art says SimCity with no "V". The promotional materials on the EA site says SimCity with no "V". If it actually is named SimCity V then it's easy to understand the confusion.

Although I wouldn't call it a reboot necessarily since every version is more or less a reboot, so to speak.
Seriously, how is this legal? They're obviously very open about it requiring online, and the extent to which the servers are involved, and the fact you need Origin.

However, this isn't some cheap game, some small company, some inexperienced producers who didn't know what to expect. That their servers aren't up to the job is inexcusable, and clearly their fault.

Even if Origin has Ts & Cs that boil down to you don't actually have the right to play games you buy, even if you buy them on a disc - which I'm sure they do, how is this possibly legal? The game is unplayable, it's their fault and they could have made it work if they'd chosen to.
I don't know whats funnier, the review or the fact it was voted the most helpful
The dev team did an IAMA on Reddit a few months ago, where this was all foreshadowed:

http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/14v8er/drama...
More surprising again is that they actually have three completely active (as far as I can tell) environments that are just sitting there unused.
I think the real reason Amazon stopped selling it was the Amazon Buyers looked at the game and said: "What? No subways? Small City Size? We can't sell this!"
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Oh, there's a reason. Like Diablo III, the point is that it's effectively impossible to crack. With enough processing offloaded to the server, would-be pirates need to write something that's almost a whole new game.

This is the future that big videogame companies are rushing to embrace, one where customers do not and cannot own games, merely rent them for an uncertain period. Indies and smaller studios with Kickstarter funding are going to continue eating a bigger part of their lunch.
This is an excellent development -- it takes almost all the remaining FUD out of VP8.
It's been fun while I've actually been able to connect to EA's servers. (which is rare). I'm not going to beat the anti-drm drum, but I will say this. If EA is going to go this route they had better have the resources available to make it happen. I for one actually don't mind it, if it was able to work.
Used Games Industry Dying? - No
+1, I thought about moving to PaaS and I started by trying appfog. I tried installing WordPress on a fresh instance around 6 times before giving up. Here is what I found out

1. There is no easy way to contact support. Seriously, this is a PaaS. What if I had down time or something urgent?

2. In a support forum, many people complained about my same issue (a year ago). The support stuff suggested that they try a few hours later (not sure if he was kidding)
The hardware looks great. The thing that bugs me about the pixel and chrome OS in general, is that I don't know a lot of people who can manage their day by day work using only web apps (no office, photoshop, autocad, eclipse, whatever). Web based replacements are good, but just not as good as desktop creation apps, and I'm still not even sure they need to be. The point is most people need win/Mac/Linux software and for the ones who don't (like my mom) - just get an iPad. Then again, I might be completely wrong here.
Loyalty is only meaningful in the sense that your company-specific knowledge makes you more valuable to the company.

I couldn't disagree more. Loyalty is its own benefit that's worth compensating people for. I value people who come into a group and do more than just contribute a bunch of code. I value people who contribute to the culture and the framework of the ongoing enterprise.

Furthermore, I want newcomers to see how I treat the current employees with respect and reward for being contributing parts of the team not just this past week, but for years.

I'm not at all saying that just occupying a seat in the office should get you rewards. It shouldn't. But occupying the seat AND being productive while you're there is a benefit to me as a company founder.

Give me a competent employee whom I can rely upon year after year vs some hotshot code slinger who is here today and gone tomorrow.

I call it the "Mike Krzyzewski" team building strategy.
EA needs to pivot this game, fast.

Even in the best case scenario, where the servers all get fixed this evening and the game works flawlessly for everyone for a month straight, the damage to the game's name has been done. The meme is hatched: SimCity 2013 has a highly brittle dependency on poorly-planned cloud infrastructure.

There's a private region mode in the game (that you nonetheless can't use offline in the current architecture). EA needs to have Maxis crunch for the next couple of weeks to make this work offline. Yes, I've read the nebulous quotes about "part of the sim happening in the cloud." Whatever that is, they'll have to move it to the client.

Once offline play is possible, if EA wants any chance to make back its investment on this game, they're going to have to first promote the new offline mode, and then spend the next couple of months doing some post-launch rescoping of the multiplayer aspect. They can still make it work; it could still be fantastic – but they have to move fast.
100% agree with this. I got kicked out of a game because of "network issues" last night and when I logged back in, the city I'd spent a good 40 minutes starting up was nowhere to be found. It did, however, remember that I'd claimed that city.
As a game author I am very ashamed of what the industry has been doing in the last few years.

It started with FPS mania...
Then crazy DRM that destroyed your PC (Starforce I am looking to you).

Then... more crazy DRM! (SecuROM, that for example refused to launch Spore on dual-GPU laptops).

Then online only DRM...

Then DLC mania (Horse Armor, I am looking to you... unfortunately as the harbinger of something much worse past you).

Then Diablo III (and now SC5) managed to be the first games I don't want to play even borrowed, pirated or given to me. If someone give me a DIII CD, I won't even re-sell it and inflict something evil on someone, I will just throw it on the trash, because online-only DRM for Single Player game, transforming the game into a sort of cloud-based service, is one of the most evil things that companies could invent, specially because they can just yank the game from you when they wish (also you cannot have fun cheating alone or modding, cannot play when you are deployed in some war without internet on the HQ or live in the third world, cannot play if you deride EA/Activision/Ubisoft on the forums and they decide to ban you...)
Remote Application Management for Enterprise Ops
Depends what you call robust. If you mean "strongly typed", PHP and Javascript come to mind immediately.
16 year old Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki was killed because he happened to be in the company of Ibrahim al-Banna, who was the actual target of the drone strike. Even the best cameras cannot currently tell the age and citizenship of every person in the vicinity of the target. The US views him as an innocent casualty. I find it strange that nobody bothers to condemn his father for bringing him out of the US to live in a community run by Al Qaeda, which seems pretty irresponsible to me.
The title is 'SimCity', all as one word.
Quick and dirty static IP on Heroku
The eagles rescued Frodo and Sam from Mordor after Sauron and the ring were destroyed. Thus, we may infer that up until then, the eagles could not have entered Mordor, and/or they could not have carried the ring-bearer there. Precisely why does not matter. When the ring is destroyed, the world changes, and so its constraints also change.
The road is being paved. What is to stop local law enforcement units from having weaponized drones within 5 years?

Honestly, what I beleive will happen is FLIR enabled drones assisting in all LEO efforts.

Take a look at my friends video he took this weekend.

This is a tri-copter with FPV goggles he uses to fly it. He built one that can hold several pounds and has a gymbal for holding a full size camera.

http://vimeo.com/61156472

Here is the setup:

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1718160&...

Weaponizing is the easy part - paving the multi-year path until its "authorized" is the tricky part which they are currently attempting.
What is that browser in the intro page? Are they just trying to be neutral or...? I find it really distracting.
The example given is an example of using comments very effectively as a countermeasure against the confusion caused by imperfect code. Look what it actually uses that oh-so-well-documented ssl variable for:

if self.ssl:
relay_host = smtplib.SMTP_SSL(hostname, self.port)
else:
relay_host = smtplib.SMTP(hostname, self.port)

Half the constructor parameters and the entire configure_relay function could be ditched completely if this class stuck to a single responsibility and instead allowed the configured smtplib object on which it depends to be injected.

Here's some more comments from that class:

def send(self, To, From, Subject, Body):
"""
Does what it says, sends an email. If you need something more
complex then look at lamson.mail.MailResponse.
"""

Look at that comment: "Does what it says, sends an email". It's a terrible comment. The method should be called send_email, and that sentence should be deleted.

This codebase is a poor example of how to use comments, overall.

def process_message(self, Peer, From, To, Data):
"""
Called by smtpd.SMTPServer when there's a message received.
"""

The above comment simply reiterates what happens in some unknown distant piece of code. This is a classic example of bad commenting: somebody could very easily change the behaviour of the referenced code without updating this comment.

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1326509
Does anyone know if Linode has investors? I've never been able to find mention of any, and the fact that they've been in this for the long haul (since 2003) and are now expanding after seeing massive growth in the last two years[1] makes me think they're bootstrapped. If that's true it would be seriously awesome. They were started by a single founder too!

[1] http://blog.linode.com/2012/08/28/linode-makes-2012-inc-500-...
>But legislators have typically preferred expanding the scope and severity of criminal liability to lessening it, because they don't wish to be labeled as 'soft on crime.'

OK, so one foot in front of the other. Change the debate. Present irrational and disproportionate "tough on crime" rhetoric with strong public opposition and make sure the demagogues fighting progress have to face the scorn and ridicule they deserve.

>There are certainly attempts (mostly at the state level) to downgrade victimless or harmless crimes, and to divert petty or juvenile criminals into non-penal programs or extrajudicial fora.

Which is well and good, though I think most of the problem lies at the federal level, so it would be nice to see more progress there.

>However, this is slow going; there are conflicting theories on the role of criminal law (consequentialist, deontological and so on) and no clear answer on the purpose of sanctions (deterrent, penal, and rehabilitative) that don't yield to simple analysis.

I think the key to this is to realize that the existing system doesn't adequately serve any of those goals. Consequentialists should be dissatisfied by the number of victimless crimes being prosecuted. Deontologically there are a great many "criminals" going unpunished because they violated the letter but not the spirit of the law, while those who violate the spirit but not the letter (or otherwise raise the ire of a prosecutor) are often prosecuted on the basis of "he seems like a bad guy, let's find something we can nail him with." Anyone interested in deterrence or rehabilitation can't be satisfied with the recidivism rate, and anyone interested in punishment (as distinguished from revenge) should be extremely concerned about the lack of proportionality.

Moreover, solutions that work in practice tend to satisfy everybody. Nobody who isn't being intentionally disingenuous is going to be dissatisfied by a reduction in the crime rate or the recidivism rate.

>Changing this will take a generation, or two.

Possibly. It depends how bad we want it and what we're willing to do about it.
Eagles are seen only as messengers of good. In general that would be a question only from the perspective of dualism, but I don't think this is the case with the Tolkien's view on his world. The world appears predominantly evil, but in essence Tolkien maintains the view of the ultimate good (i.e. hidden), as an intention of Eru. So tipping the balance into the good side usually doesn't disrupt it as much. However extreme shifts still can have serious consequences. Valars getting involved in banishing Morgoth destroyed Beleriand altogether. The fall of Sauron diminished the Elven presence and so on.
Exploits can be used to privilege escalation on all platforms, that's not Android specific thing.

Adding to that, Android vendors are not that bad in fixing exploits. I had two devices (Sony phone and Asus tablet) that were always fixed before the exploit got widely known. I could not root them (yes, I wanted to do it without unlocking) if I updated as soon as the updates were available.

With SEAndroid getting into stock Android, even that is going to be a thing of past.
THANK YOU - after looking at the heap perspective, and valgrind perspective, I've exhausted options looking at a memory leak in our production environment. This is another avenue. AWESOME.
I feel bad for the game devs who got to see their hard work turn into something they don't intend.

I suppose this is a great advertising technique for small firms, startups, indie shops, etc. "Don't want this[http://amazon-pulls-sim-city] to happen? Work for our small team. We won't destroy your work."

I know it's standard to say "you get a part in the decisionmaking process!" That's part of it. But a lot of people are willing to let go of the big decisions if they get to be a part of something great. But they have to trust that it will come out well in the end.
The irony is that it is not only impossible to crack, it is now impossible to play as well. Unplayable games are impossible to crack, but this does not make them any less absurd. DRM has come to its logical and absurd conclusion, it seems.
Important to note that companies can turn off verified by visa but then they pay a higher transaction/processing fee. So many merchants dislike it significantly but then pay higher rates. Fun place to be. I wonder how Stripe will handle 3DS with their UK launch given I've heard it has as much as 80% penetration into online sales?
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I meant no 'gameplay' reason - I know that they have a financial reason to do this, or that they think they do, at least. If they lose enough sales and get enough hate, that removes even the financial reason that they thought they had for doing this. So perhaps, hopefully, maybe, they'll choose to stop doing it.
Its sad they didn't use the playfish devops team that flawlessly launched simcity social.
Precisely the opposite. If MPEG-LA thought they had VP8 dead to rights, they would never have agreed to this deal -- they would have litigated to the bitter end.

This is actually a huge badge of honor for VP8, and a repudiation of the meme that somehow it's just an H.264 knock-off. It's always stunned me that the same community that hates on patent trolls is in love with H264 (aka MPEG4++). MPEG-LA are IMSHO the very definition of trolls -- patenting (and charging royalties for) techniques that were obvious and known art in the video compression community for ages.
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The road you're talking about is technology. The road Rand Paul is talking about is endless power grabs from the legislative branch by the executive branch.

The road you're talking about is real; the road Paul is talking about is fanciful. The Senate voted to give Bush and his successors this authority 98-0.

Incidentally: as long as we're careful about ensuring that technology doesn't allow LEOs to gin up probable cause or introduce evidence that should be excluded, I'm not sure why I should on general principles oppose adoption of technology by LEOs.
I don't agree with this definition of intent. For me intent is about why a piece of code is written the way that it is, which is also what the article itself equates it to.

Also, I don't think you can write many useful comments when returning to a piece of already written code. The only way to understand the why of a piece of code is to trace all its implications, and it is not efficient to make that sort of investment after the fact. The easiest way to produce high quality comments is to write them during the act of programming.
Good point. I usually don't supply the file name of the second argument. Then it would be equivalent.
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Should I be creeped out by this? (hope not...)
heheh. Olga is my girlfriend, she needs just about zero white-knighting.
May be this is intentional on Google's part.

I tried a few samples and the result was not always what the G+ Post suggests.

For example, I tried Nimitz, Independence, expecting the rest of the cells to be filled with a few more US Navy Aircraft Carriers and the result was nowhere close.

Advertising/Marketing a "feature" that does not work as intended is a far worse scenario for Google than the current state.
I'm pretty sure it's explicitly written somewhere that nobody in Middle-earth had the willpower to destroy the ring. So, basically, Frodo couldn't have done it whether he walked or flew into Mordor.

My understanding has always been that Gandalf alone understood this and necessarily was hushed about it or otherwise it would have totally destroyed morale. He let others believe it was possible to willfully destroy the ring when in fact it was not.

Gandalf was said to be the wisest of all of the Maiar. So if he had a feeling that Gollum would have a role to play, it was probably worthwhile allowing Gollum to play that role. I have no doubt that Gandalf knew that Frodo would falter at the end.
Amazon is still selling the physical version. Why would they pull the digital download and not the physical copy? Is it because there are different people responsible for it?
Bujold's method of plotting is to start with characters that her readers care for, and then ask: What's the worst thing that can happen to them?

And then do that.
Indeed!
Why not support software patent while they're at it...
oh, and on maths, arts and recipes too!
That's kind of what I'm thinking - the response to the petition was so fast and detailed that it seems they'd already been planning a fix of this legislation.

Either way, it's a win.
Oddly the Atlantic is doing pretty well. If Nate Thayer wasn't resting on the laurels of his 1987 Pol Pot interview he probably would've caught onto the joys of ePub tie ins, etc.
I'm pretty sure I was setting the context, and that context was the web.
The name Big Bang was also coined to ridicule the idea.
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How does this rule out hidden variables?

I am aware of Bells inequality, but how do they show that for this specific experiment there were no hidden variables in play?
I have never heard of Line. Why are stickers brilliant? Are they brilliant because they will entice younger user adoption?

I have ZERO interest in applying a sticker to ANYTHING - so I clearly can't choose the cup in front of you...
There are skeptics who maintain that the various "no-signaling theorems" in physics are simply "begging the question" and rely on hypotheses that are too strong, e.g. http://people.uleth.ca/~kent.peacock/FQXi_v2.pdf
It would depend on your local consumer laws. Under UK law, for example, Simcity would not currently be considered 'fit for purpose' and they're clearly obliged to give you a refund:

http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/nireland/consumer_ni/consumer_...

...assuming you're buying it from a UK(/EU?) subsidiary.

Local laws will vary. IANAL.
Or Will Wright
The thinking goes - without DRM, some large number, X % of the games are just copied instead of purchased.

With DRM, close to 0% of the the games are copied, but some large number Y % of the games are no longer purchased because people either are (A) Philisophically opposed to DRM, (B) Want to be able to play the game offline, or now, (C) Can't play the game because the DRM breaks it.

The balancing act, here, is how many of those X% can be converted into purchases, and how many of those Y% valid purchases are lost.

EA may have tipped the balance here through poor execution and resulted in fewer games being sold, but, I don't work in the game industry - so I don't know how high X normally gets. (50%? 75%? 90%? 95%? I'm sure it's a pretty disheartening number)
Could anyone opposing any LEO/Fed/gov agent be considered to be "in combat"?

No. Even being a 'terrorist' does not count; under the terms of the AUMF you would have to be specifically affiliated with Al Qaeda in some fashion to be considered a military target.
I think this is an excellent initiative by GitHub. It's well-acknowledged that there is a lack of women in tech, for what I'm sure is a wide variety of reasons, and celebrating the successes of women in that field is a noble endeavor.

Personally I believe that these women are capable of being a role model to both men and women, as they presumably have achieved their successes through their own merits and not by virtue of their gender, so I'm sure the wisdom they have to share at these meetups would benefit everyone. To that end I would be disappointed to hear if, while the meetups may encourage or advertise to a female audience, they chose to exclude men.
Where's Steve Jobs when you need him?

> Steve Jobs summoned the MobileMe team to the Town Hall
> auditorium on Apple’s Cupertino campus for an obscenity-
> laden dressing down. ‘You’ve tarnished Apple’s reputation,’
> he told them. ‘You should hate each other for having let
> each other down.’ Then he named a new executive on the spot
> to run the team.”

http://macdailynews.com/2011/05/08/steve-jobs-to-those-respo...
> One half of the pair was then observed, and the time for the other half to assume the same state is measured.

How??

How is it possible to observe whether or not an entangled particle has had its state resolved by the other particle being observed?