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Quite some game UI's are done in Flash (check out ScaleForm by Autodesk: http://gameware.autodesk.com/scaleform) so using JavaScript seems plausible as well.
works for me. it requires a valid id.
I have 75Mbps down with a fiber optic provider in my area and Youtube is constantly buffering at any HD resolution.

I'm pretty sure it's Youtube and not our ISPs.
Yes, but where gamepads are already supported, it's more the rule than the exception that you're going to run into menus and things that can't be negotiated via the gamepad.

(e.g. Windows UAC prompts, menus, pop-ups or text boxes that inexplicably demand kb/m input, etc. )

So it's not as if one flips the power on and sits on their couch with just a gamepad and has a console-style experience.
Yes. Netflix only uses up to 5 Mbps so the benefit of gigabit is mostly wasted.
psychology would say that things are funny of they have a hint of truth to them.

blonde jokes (I'm blonde) are funny because you know a dumb blonde person or it would be without context
That's pretty damning for Virgin Media, given they are cable so aren't limited by weak ADSL connections, and their "basic" packages are now supposedly 30Mbit/s.
1. Notebook RAM is often impossible to upgrade.

2. While a couple of hundred megabytes is usually a small portion of the total RAM, it could be a critical share of the free RAM, and this is what matters.
No offense, but can we at least spend more on cases instead of recommending people ugly boxes? Yeah I understand it might be banished to the entertainment center for life, but all the thought into selecting components, assembling it, and wiring it just right, get tossed out the moment I see what amounts to black painted cardboard box equivalent.

I know, for many its what inside that counts, but for some its presentation that shows to others that all details matter.
Wasn't obvious to me on a first skim through either, but on second viewing all simple variable names are single letters - exactly as one would get through minifying. See for example here and below:
https://gist.github.com/anonymous/5133829#file-simcityui-js-...
I've been using Firefox a lot more often once I found out that poor font rendering was the fault of Chrome and not because of cleartype settings.
Thanks for the feedback. The simplicity vs. thoroughness tradeoff was tricky.

To respond to that specific comment, a quarterback scramble was counted as a pass play for the purpose of that analysis. That's not clear from our post, and does nicely highlight your point.
Google Fiber is still being rolled out. Also, the "free" tier will intentionally deliver average broadband speeds with a one time fee of $300 or $25/mo for 12 months. So, Netflix would have to selectively choose only those Google Fiber customers that choose the higher tiers.
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I've heard this described as a top-down versus bottom-up approach. The problem with the top-down approach (i.e. I will capture 1% of the market) is that is doesn't tell us much about how you'll capture this 1%. By going from the bottom-up we can clearly see how you are going to iterate and build your userbase.
Seems oddly low. I know the US is notorious for low speeds, but 3.35 Mbps for Google fiber? Does their measurement actually measure what I intuitively think measures?

I've used two different ISPs in recent years and both sustained 10+ Mbps over long periods of time with their mid range tiers, and had basic tiers offering 3 - 5 Mbps which I believe performed as rated.

While I know that most of the country is likely on slow Internet, I have a really hard time seeing how the numbers end up lower than ~5 Mbps avg overall unless the whole situation is way worse than I ever suspected and that large portions of the sample were either mobile users or rural.
I thought Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land" had a good attempt at an explanation:

The Martian "Mike" being told what being a human is like:

> ‘And while you are waiting, don’t doubt that you are man. You are. Man born of woman and born to trouble…and some day you will grok its fullness and laugh – because man is the animal that laughs at himself.’

Mike figuring out humor and the human condition:

> “I had thought–I had been told–that a ‘funny’ thing is a thing of goodness. It isn’t. Not ever is it funny to the person it happens to. Like that sheriff without his pants. The goodness is in the laughing. I grok it is a bravery…and a sharing…against pain and sorrow and defeat.”

“But–Mike, it is not a goodness to laugh at people.”

“No. But I was not laughing at the little monkey. I was laughing at us. People. And suddenly I knew I was people and could not stop laughing.” He paused. “This is hard to explain, because you have never lived as a Martian, for all that I’ve told you about it. On Mars there is never anything to laugh at. All the things that are funny to us humans either cannot happen on Mars or are not permitted to happen–sweetheart, what you call ‘freedom’ doesn’t exist on Mars; everything is planned by the Old Ones–or the things that do happen on Mars which we laugh at here on Earth aren’t funny because there is no wrongness about them. Death, for example.”

“Death isn’t funny.”

“Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us–us humans–death is so sad that we must laugh at it. All those religions–they contradict each other on every other point but each one is filled with ways to help people be brave enough to laugh even though they know they are dying.”
I've done it before, it's a great way to kill a project.
Genius work from Netflix. They have the data, why not display it? Removes blame from them for poor video performance. We all don't think we get what we pay for on broadband, now there is industry support for that. These rankings will shame companies into providing better access. Minimally, they will prioritize Netflix traffic.

Good for the community, giving users some tools to vote with their dollars. Good for Netflix either way.
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The fact that the function parameter are (a, b, c) indicates that it was minified code.
Akamai's State of the Internet report shows internet speeds worldwide: http://www.akamai.com/stateoftheinternet/

Average connection speed

* USA - 7,195 kbps
* South Korea - 14,626 kbps
* Japan - 10,513 kbps

Average peak connection speed

* USA - 29,626 kbps
* South Korea - 48,750 kbps
* Japan - 42,172 kbps

(I believe this is is per IP address and excludes Mobile traffic)
We are planning on making it optional in the future - you should be warned though, that non-expedited results could result in a wait-time of a few weeks. We don't make any money off the filing fees - we just chose to start off with expedited because it seemed popular.
> they have nothing to do with

They may not be the ones creating this, but they do have something to do with it, in that they have officially partnered with Xi3 and call this system a "third-party prototype" of the Steam Box. Arguably the momentum/hype wouldn't be "wasted" (subjective term) if Valve hadn't chosen to "waste" (/"use") it on this product.
Is that all of the server-side logic of the game?
then you get a refund (including fee).

They use some fancy PKI footwork to facilitate returns/refunds without retaining customer/order information.
1. It's curious that Canada isn't included. Netflix does streaming in Canada.

2. The UI on graph view Could be better if there was a "disable all"/"enable all" feature. Parts of the graph were crowded enough that I had to click on all of the ISPs (in the US data) to disable them, and do comparisons with a smaller subset of ISPs.
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I highly doubt there's any significant calculation. If there was, EA would have to rent hundreds of thousands of EC2 instances to cover the running of the game.
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Hi,

I work a 9-5, but I would like to eventually break off on my own, and help small/medium businesses implement devops/config management/automation etc. How did you build your pipeline of work? How personal/professional was your "website".
Some older games had the menus fully rendered in openGL. I'm not sure which is better, but I would think our society has more domain experience making menus with flash than with openGL.
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No, I feel the same way. I've been using Win8 since release day, and I've had essentially no problems adjusting. My daily workflow is identical, and I haven't found myself fighting with the Start screen. I don't use the Metro apps constantly, but I use them often enough to keep 2-3 of them (weather, calendar, mail) pinned on the main part of my Start screen alongside the other apps I use frequently, but not often enough to justify a taskbar pin.

In particular, I find it odd that people claim that Win8 is "dumbed down" or "power-user unfriendly". I've found the opposite to be true. The new Explorer UI has things like built-in "Powershell Here", and there's keyboard shortcuts for everything. The Win+X menu is something I constantly reach for whenever I'm on a Win7 box.

Overall, I'm really pretty happy with it. It's not a massive improvement like some previous Windows releases were, but the comparisons to Vista or WinME are nonsense. It's a solid OS, and it really disappoints me that so many are eager to dismiss it for such silly reasons.
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A lot of games use Flash for in-game UIs. See Scaleform.
I agree it sounds a bit excessive (though I go up to 50 tabs myself often enough), but how is you telling him off about how his way of tab-usage is inefficient in itself in any way relevant to a discussion about browsers memory usage??

I hope you didn't really try to say "there's nothing wrong with browsers' memory usage, as long as you don't stress them too much" ? :) :)
> Originally you explained the problem as if you always had 100+ tabs open, but now it sounds like an occasional occurrence. I was mainly speaking to if you always had 100+ open -- as if that was your normal workflow.

... because if you do it only occasionally it uses less memory? :-/

> [and yes, smell is supposed to invoke that reaction! a code "smell", or process "smell", etc. is something that stinks, and it should disgust you, and you should work to clean up the 'smell' ASAP! :)]

Yes, Mother.
I don't think so. Any password that's listed anywhere (like as an example in a blog post or comic) should be considered worthless. How do you know hackers haven't incorporated that into their dictionary?
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youtube appears to be doing QOS throttling on some of their named fe's you need to pick one that isn't in your usual path if you're having issues.

edit: It appears that the 173.194.55.0/24 and the 206.111.0.0/16 range belongs to Google. Someone revealed that YouTube video requests were utilizing intentional bandwidth throttling that is actually built into their (YouTube) system. Once these ranges are blocked, YouTube's player logic will fall back to Google's datacenters and stream at beautiful speeds.
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I think it makes perfect sense to use any of your identifying properties to identify yourself, including gender. I think that disassociating with your gender in a society that obviously doesn't can probably be downright detrimental.

Do you apply this logic to other social groups as well? Any noun? Perhaps being a "software engineer" doesn't make sense if you are already a person.

Women are underrepresented in computer science for a fact, and I have personally experienced little to support either that it is the result of systemic exclusion, a bias against women or otherwise. I don't need several decades of experience in the industry, though, to say that, hey, I will never know the cause by simply evaluating my personal experience. Humble up and don't form a view on a subject if all you have to go by is any kind of anecdotal experience.

As for opposing feminism, do you have any ideas of the implications that movement has on women's rights worldwide? I have no idea what your position on things like birth control, women's suffrage and genital mutilation, or whether you think this is an ongoing battle or not, but I hope you'll agree that at least some good has come out of it.
Good point, we'll have to see. I have the same problem as the GP (though up to 50 tabs usually) and indeed "bookmark all"+"close all" doesn't really help because if you never review those bookmarks, you tend not to take the step either.

As someone else itt already said, a better solution would be some improved bookmarking system that I can use to just file away a tab, knowing that it'll be there when I need it, as well as offering the option of, I dunno popping up for review in a couple of days or a specific time maybe.

One thing I do not understand is why modern browsers, apart from bookmark-folders do not offer tags as well. They were a hugely successful way of ordering things back in the day and they have all but disappeared for some reason. And they would be tremendously useful in bookmarks (to me). And del.icio.us is dead, plus I don't want a web service to keep my bookmarks, it's too slow.
I think you mean "homini" (dative), not "hominis" (genitive).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_homini_lupus
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(((x -> _|_) -> _|_) -> x) would be the type of double negative reduction. I'm not entirely sure what the type should be. Perhaps, (((x -> _|_) -> (y, y -> _|_)) -> x) is more accurate. In any case, each of the three types are equivalent.

I wanted:

(forall x. ((~x) -> x) -> x) -> (forall y. y \/ (~y))

Rather than:

(forall x. (((~x) -> x) -> x) -> x \/ (~x))
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Good point. Thx :)
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We love the constructive criticism, however we would like to ask that you stick to facts when claiming something:

"Speaking of anonymity, there are also no corporate registration records for "Bitspend LLC" in Florida "

If you did a simple business title search on the FL sunbiz site, you would find Bitspend LLC listed, right at the top :)

As far as your other concerns, we are able to admit that where the site is at this exact moment is not where it should be. We promise to have it up to your standards by end of week!!
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I think it's worth noting that older versions ran completely fine executing the totality of the required code...
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>I'm wondering if it's a common practice to write UI code in games in javascript

It's becoming more common. Libraries like Awesomium[1] make it trivial to render browser content to an in-game texture and the V8 engine, while not 'easy' to integrate, is quite empowering in that you can have the UI code call directly into your compiled code.

>does SimCity have some type of v8 or other js engine packaged with it?

Very probably. Most games have some scripting layer in their engines to simplify implementing non-performance-critical game logic. Lua and JS are two of the most popular languages for achieving that these days.

[1] http://awesomium.com/
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Hey.. On the towel sequence, the boot is moving the wrong way relative to the wind in the sail(towel).
Why was HN down?
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I think most of those products are anti-bacterial by virtue of things like extremely high alcohol content. I could be wrong, but I don't expect bacteria to develop a resistance to 93% ethyl alcohol any more than I expect bleach- or hydrochloric- resistant bacteria.
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The antibiotics will probably diffuse in the gel to a degree, so a step-function concentration might be difficult to establish.
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Netflix (I know some of you are here),

Would you consider including sonic.net. I realize they are local/regional to the greater Bay area, but as one of the first ISP's to offer (trial) gigabit speed, and at a reasonable price, I think they deserve a nod.

In fact, as I wrote the above, I expanded on this thought. I'd like to see the Chattanooga high speed service mentioned, and perhaps some others. This could be a good message that higher performance Internet -- other than just Google; not that I'm knocking Google on this -- is possible and is offered by some more progressive providers.

And that it's this real competition that will drag the rest of us forward into a better network (and so, Netflix) experience.

Thanks for your consideration
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Not to detract from your point, just nitpicking for a moment. The word you're for at the end is voilà, of French origin.
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the only reason i am able to use windows 8 is:

Classic Shell http://www.classicshell.net/ and

7+ Taskbar Tweaker http://rammichael.com/7-taskbar-tweaker

also TeraCopy and FilesearchEX
netflix content caps out at ~6mbps for HD, and for streams or equipment that doesn't support HD (not uncommon) that number is ~1.5mbps
http://telemetry.simcity.com/simcity/

That's the REST url
I kinda do want to be mean. This hurts my head, I already miss the side-by-side, where I could see the contiguous code.
Netflix actually wants low ranked service provider to agree to host edge caches for netflix's multi-service CDN, which saves them power and transit and lets them charge others to get on there.
IIRC most of these anti-bacterial soaps contain this stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triclosan

It doesn't seem to lead to resistance either, but that doesn't make using those products any more sensible.
There's that, and then there's the fact that working for them was a such a soul crushing experience that a bunch of their most talented artists left and founded Image. The artists were unappreciated, poorly paid, overworked, and restricted from working on anything that didn't fall well within the norms of the classic superhero archetype, even if it was a personal project.

When a company that deals in art gets to the point where they care more about protecting and propping up existing franchises than they do about producing original works, that company's usefulness has been exhausted.
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Looks like C pointer syntax!
Or switch to sustainably raised meat (that's the focus on my farm). No medication of any kind, animals live on managed pasture that requires no inputs other than sun, air, and water.

Switching away from meat will certainly help to address the development of resistant microbes, but if you can make a switch instead to meat that was raised with regenerative pasture management practices, you can additionally have a large positive impact on many other environmental factors. Look for terms like "high-density grazing," "holistic grazing," "holistic management," or "management-intensive grazing (MIG)."

This TED talk [1] covers some of the information, for more you can google around for the above terms (sorry I don't have a good link handy). Correctly managing grazing livestock can actually reverse desertification and trap tons of carbon per year per acre in the soil. Of course, doing it wrong can have the opposite effect, so if you go this route it's important to know whether your farmer is running his operation with land restoration in mind.

Conventional vegetable production also comes with a slew of its own problems (breeding of herbicide-resistant weeds [2] being something closely related to the topic at hand). Eating in a way that doesn't cause harm is a tricky thing these days.

[1] - http://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_green_the_world...

[2] - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121002092839.ht...

*edited for formatting
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People have been saying that they could play for hours after the servers were offline. I think it's pretty safe to say there isn't much running on the server.
I don't know about other ISPs, but Comcast offers several different rates for their cable Internet. But the Netflix chart only shows one line. So what is this really reporting? If Comcast is faster than competitor Foo, is that just because a higher percentage of Comcast's subscribers are on a better plan?
Try a semantic desktop app. If I'm not mistaken, Tracker[1] can index EXIF tags (as well as other metadata formats) and it exposes a SPARQL[2] endpoint that you can query.

[1]: http://projects.gnome.org/tracker/

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARQL
Or the female ego.
As an interesting side-note, I imagine many of the people there may have actually owned guns and even had them on them. And yet they didn't use them. If they indeed had them, then they also knew the importance of proper gun safety, even when drunk and angry :)

And yes, probably.. as long as you weren't hundreds of thousands of dollars upside down on your mortgage with 5 kids (requiring a large house) [and so on, insert rough situation here]
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I strongly suspect preventing me from visiting PyCon is one of the reasons my CTO scheduled so many product launches for the next two weeks...
> or we could all deal with the fact that meat isn't a human right

Neither is food, if you really want to go that route. The point of civilization is that we try to provide for ourselves things that are not just our rights, but our desires.

(Show me where nature will automatically provide food for humans.)
Chet Keno is also the name of one of the mayors of a neighboring town during the tutorial.
And for me, Firefox is faster. By a lot, in fact, because Chrome loves to hit the disk for every little thing, especially on startup.
Good to know. I'm seriously considering some ways to cut down on the overhead, so this is great.
I get the impression that Cython is used quite a bit in the scientific computing side of Python, but not so much for web development. pandas & pyzmq are two projects I know that make serious use of Cython.
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