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Yes. This game invented the whole 3D maze with overhead tactical RPG combat thing, which didn't become popular until SSI's Pool of Radiance, 6 years later.

It was a neat idea to put the game engine on the ROM cartridge, then allow game content to be loaded off cassette or disk. It's just a shame TI only ever released two game modules for it before pulling the plug on their games division.

I heard someone created some Tunnels of Doom tools and that they're floating around on the internet somewhere, along with some modules fans have made with it.
The folks behind this project know Django really well - I've recommended this to people a number of times.
I only contrasted the fact Microsoft makes a huge profit with the fact it's completely absent from the companies we identify as the ones leading the way and the most advanced tech it has to offer is something its competitors have been doing for years.
Find an outlet for your ideas
What you would do if you were me - your opinions appreciated
I have to expand to the first comment to convey my point and give you enough information so that it would be feasible for you to come up with better ideas.

I have been around for a decade , not posted that much, now I am seeking your sincere and pragmatic opinions , I am open to any thought as long as it is practical and in the context.

I appreciate your time and effort.
While very tongue-in-cheek, it's disappointing that internet service, something that most of us rely upon as much as power or water, has such little competition. I'm hopeful that the Google Fiber project can inject some competition into the market if they continue to expand beyond Kansas City.
Yeah exactly, although its being met with slightly noisy press coverage which is counterproductive past a certain point. Ideally the time spent on this blog post shouldnt have been needed.

I guess there's still a positive to the weirdly over the top press coverage - and that is that more people are in a position to adopt these patches as they're released.

Full marks either way to the PostgreSQL project.
As far as I understand only women that were older (≥ 38) had a significant effect from being exposed (on top of the increased risk due to being older).
Also list of Linux games on Steam:

1. http://steamlinux.xpaw.ru/

2. http://steamdb.info/linux/ (automated, pulls data from Steam)
I was waitting for something like this.
I totally agree, see this recaptcha which is upside down, how are we supposed to read it

http://postimg.org/image/7xgovvhij/
So you're just assuming everyone must have an Apple product? That's a pretty bold assumption. Not for me then.
It is quite a bit easier than you make it sound. The photo will have been posted with a audience selected - something like "Only Me", "Friends", "Public". If people were tagged in the photo and it is set to "Friends", then those tagged and their friends can see it (the audience selector will put a little "(+)" there to let you know it has expanded it to friends of those tagged).

You can also use a custom audience selector to do things like specify a friends list (or more) to share with, not to share with friends of those tagged, and so forth.

Here is a link to the help page on privacy basics that starts with setting/modifying audience for posts: https://www.facebook.com/help/325807937506242/

If somebody likes that photo, that like will only be visible to those that can already see that photo. It does not give anybody the ability to see the photo that did not already.

In many cases, you can see the audience selected for posts your friends make by looking for the same icons from the audience selector next to the date and other metadata in your news feed, their timeline, or the picture page. If it is public, there'll be a little globe. If friends, then it'll be two people standing next to each other. If friends-of-friends, three people standing there. Obviously, you can't tell if it was shared with only them (since you wouldn't see it). In some cases (the person chose a custom audience), a gear icon will appear.

If after you investigate based on the information above you really think the privacy model expanded who could see the photo because of the like, please report a privacy bug: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/?id=308229232560802

(In case it wasn't obvious, I work at Facebook. But I don't work on privacy specifically.)
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And you really have to wonder, because the last time I had to implement a CAPTCHA (around 5 years ago), it was about 5 minutes of work. Google query, found a library, downloaded the library, copied the example into a form, and I was done.

I can't imagine coming up with your own clever hacked-together bogus CAPTCHA would be simpler than that. So they actually did it the hard way?
Speaking of, has anyone else noticed that captchas (especially recaptcha) have gotten a lot harder over the last year?
If you're a startup, and you're planning to grow bigger in any areas of software/hardware/services that google covers (which, to be fair, these days is a very large range of areas), its definitely something to be thinking about.

Google is becoming an entrenched company, they will eventually (or sooner) go from an innovative market position to a defensive one, and thats when patents start to look really juicy to the bean counters.

Also, if you're a developer working for a large google competitor, you may also have reason to fear at least for your job (which is quite personal).
Having been a project lead and scrum master in the past, I've found there are a few real purposes to scrum imho.

1. It should be a place were the lead helps people coordinate. Not just work, but their schedules. If dev A will be finishing up widget A on Wed. then dev B knows he needs to hustle, etc.

2. It's a place where QA can get a grip on what's happening in development. Most of the time QA has no idea what's going on in dev, and having the QA guys in scrum helps them.

3. It forces lazy devs (who spend all day on youtube) to actually report status the next day in front of all the other devs.

A few more thoughts.

1. It should be around 15 minutes. Too short and it just becomes a round robin. That's great, but a lead should be able to adjust the work and coordinate at scrum. You can't really do that in 3-5 minutes. If it's too long, the devs get cranky because you're killing their dev time.

2. No PMs. Project managers imho should not attend scrums because they speak a different language (it's called powerpoint) and they usually a) don't understand what's being said b) freak out when qa says there's a bug c) like to get on a soapbox about schedules and releases when it's not appropriate.

It's far better to have the lead/leads manage the PM separately be delivering separate status reports to him directly (either through email or a formal report-like deliverable).

3. No more than 10 people. I would say around 6 is best, but you can't have a 15 minute scrum, when the number of people is too large. If you have more people, you need to split them into groups of 6-10 and then have a 'superscrum' for the leads. This type of 'superscrum' is great for have the PM join in, because it can focus mainly on resource management and schedules (which is what PMs love to talk about).

@OP I've actually have asked for people to report status via email (particularly when I have a bunch of remote guys), and it's really terrible. You end up getting a bunch of emails which you have to respond to. That's great if your a developer and you can put you AD LIB email on a cron job for the lead, but for the lead, the coordination of the team via email will eat up most of your morning. It simply better to call in or show up and everyone be in the same room for 15 minutes.
> Only humans perform experiments on other species that we would regard as torture.

Because only humans are capable to, do you seriously think overwhelming cognitive advantage would be used any different if we had different traits? If our heads were shaped like the ones of mice? Or if we had 4 stomachs like the cows? And this selfishness and disregard for other animals well being is what made humans growth so quickly and one of the main reasons you and me exist.
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Regarding spreadsheets: Excel (and similar) is a great toy for doodling, but for serious work one would want the 'real thing'. In the 80s there was Javelin Plus, then Lotus Improv in the 90s. Now there's Quantrix.

With endemic spreadsheet errors (since the 80s), and far better solutions being ignored (also since the 80s), there's certainly something to rant about! ;-)
Stub the captcha generator with one that returns a known value...
I have indeed. Anyone have more details? At one point I recall (re)CAPTCHAs being about helping OCR slightly less-readable words from book scans. But they were actual words. They seem to be gibberish words now.
I would try and get out of that country. Interesting that you didn't say which country it is.
Not a single mention of AJAX.
Not switching - adding to the install. Dports is already available in the 3.3 development images of DragonFly. Pkgsrc will still be available in the 3.4 release.

If dports works out well during this release cycle, we may switch to it for the next release - we'll find out by trying it, but this won't leave anyone having to jump packaging systems immediately. Unless, of course, they want to, cause dports is pretty slick.

I am the author of the linked post - it's not necessarily that clear because it's a conversation with the other developers that have been using these tools, not a release announcement.
A 1000$ prize buried to read EULA took 5 months, 3000 sales to be found
no, a better title would be whatever i say it is
Well f* me, I used to work on this toxic waste dump site...
Stop putting information in the tool to create a reason to have stand-ups?
Map reduce is a relatively old google tech, the world and his dog knows, uses, and deploys it. Companies can face an uphill battle enforcing patents on widely used technology (too many large entrenched users with patents of their own come to the fore to defend cases and provide war chests to others).

The newer patents on tech like glass and machine learning are what are particularly concerning for todays startups, many of who are venturing into these areas, and these are nowhere to be seen in this agreement. The recent patents also have the longest shelf life and the most potential for nipping competitors "in the bud".
Maybe they ran out of non-gibberish readable things to OCR?
This person has obviously never programmed a day in his life.
Caps lock is very useful for typing uppercase CONSTANTS.

This is not relevant for hacker news.
I worked with Nathan (guy behind Effective Django) at Eventbrite for a few years and highly recommend him as being a very informed python and django expert.
I use the F keys all the time using emacs. They are super useful.
If you've not played 514, I'd recommend giving it a go. It's definitely in beta, and there's plenty of glitches and bugs but once you get past those it's a fantastically interesting game.

Sometimes you forget you're playing in the Eve universe until someone calls in a strike from a vessel being controlled either inside the game (interesting, but boring) or by someone playing the actual Eve Online MMO.
Thanks, this looks really great. Will definitely check this out.
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From the user point of view I haven't used it much but it felts decent though not really convincing. From the dev point of view, it doesn't feel great from what I've seen, and people I know building mid-size projects for it are hating it with a passion.

So it's still rough and there's not much good will on the dev side.
The fact that broken English is effective for recall, at least in some circumstances, totally fascinates me.

I'd love to capitalise on the idea somehow, just because its so counter intuitive I think. Although i fully appreciate it's not effective enough to replace spaced repetition or other formal techniques.
I had the chance to play with a Z10 recently and I must say I was quite surprised by how polished the experience seemed.

a. The OS felt as responsive as Windows Phone and all the custom gesture recognition works as advertised(e.g. Peek).

b. The apps I used included Twitter, the Blackberry Hub (e-mail, contact etc.), the Camera app and Evernote. Of these, the Evernote app seemed to be a little rough (mainly UI glitches), but the rest worked well.

I haven't used the Developer Toolchain for QNX/BB10, but have friends who seem to think that it's not too bad. They are waiting for sales figures to decide whether or not they should think about releasing a BB10 app.

Off-topic: As someone who likes tinkering with things, hardware repair-ability is something I pay attention to. The Z10 is the most repairable phone out there according to iFixit (8/10): http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/BlackBerry+Z10+Teardown/13445...
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Batman: You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. I can do those things. Because I'm not a hero, not like Dent. I killed those people. That's what I can be.

Lt. James Gordon: No, no, you can't! You're not!
Batman: I'm whatever Gotham needs me to be.

[cut to Gordon at Dent's funeral]

Lt. James Gordon: A hero. Not the hero we deserved but the hero we needed. Nothing less than a knight. Shining.

[Gordon is shown on top of Gotham Central. An axe is in his hand. He is being watched by an assortment of reporters and police officers. The next lines are heard in voiceover]

Lt. James Gordon: They'll hunt you.

Batman: You'll hunt me. You'll condemn me. Set the dogs on me.
You can run F# on the old "stable" branch of Mono (2.10.x), but I'd highly recommend running Mono 3.0.x instead. The older version uses an older, simpler GC which works OK for C#, but which seems to have trouble with F# (which generates more G0 objects than C#). The new 'sgen' GC in Mono 3.0 is a huge improvement though, so you shouldn't see much (if any) performance difference between F# and C# apps.
You are advocating a meeting once per day. Why not spend 2 minutes at that time to look over the agile board in the tool instead? I look at my team's board several times per day, as well as check-ins, and I spend very little time doing it. I am also aware of status throughout the day instead of once during the meeting.
Technically somewhat true. Their source material is fragments of books being OCR'd that their program had issues on, some of which are literally impossible (I've seen math equations that require non-unicode characters). On top of this, they add extra distortions.

BUT! These are actually easy to solve. reCAPTCHA will give you two words, only one of which it knows the ground truth on (it's using you to solve the other). It will accept any gibberish for the one word it doesn't know. I've made a point of trying to guess which one is the 'real' captcha (usually the more-distorted one), but next time you see Cyrillic or an integral, just mash the keyboard.
Diets and exercises are good for damage prevention, when proven, sure. However, they are not damage repair toolkit or maintenance tool for the human body, nor could we replace our hearts, organs, and other damaged parts on demand, like a car mechanics. No matter how well you eat, it is inevitable that our parts will get worn out or starts malfunctioning in old age as a result of cumulative damage.

(Yes, we do have artificial hearts, organs transplants, and so on but they have drawbacks until we improve them...)
Or ones that make you confirm an e-mail address by entering it twice.

The reason you confirm a password is because you can't see the password, and so you never know if you mistyped it. Confirming an e-mail address, in a normal text field, is just stupid busywork.
And at the same time, most captcha solving services I've tried break recaptcha with no problem! And they aren't even expensive. Now, I dunno if they use fancy ML techniques or sweatshops with little African children receiving electroshocks when they get one wrong, but they do work to the point that nowadays captchas only repel legit users and very badly engineered spam bots, the good bots are already ahead of the game... I even thought of writing a browser extension that would use a captcha solving service to save legit users from the pain of captchas, but I'm too lazy to do it...
I would get out as fast as possible. Your credentials are good, so get another programming job. If you can't find one in a friendlier country that will let you work on a visa, then just start saving everything you can until you have enough to leave.
In what countries?
I'm OK with shoulder surfing. The main reason I use a pattern lock is that if I forget it somewhere or got it stolen the guy who has it won't know the pattern. Putting that aside, I do was hoping to see an analysis that could help me come out with a pattern that a thief couldn't guess with the traces on the screen.
No, it was publicly accessible information from a public-facing website.
This is a joke, right? Everbody should be able to read upside down text. In any way, only the distorted word counts, so it doesn't matter.
Note to those of you who have, plan to,
or might possibly have any sort of agenda about anything in your lives:

Raw, brutish racism/culturalism doesn't help your message. At all.

I read a line like this:

"Spamhaus acted, he wrote, 'without any court verdict, just by blackmail of suppliers and Jew lies.'"

And regardless of whether he's right or not about Spamhaus, his credibility in my eyes has gone straight to absolute zero.
One Google employee who was visibly pregnant was asked if she was aware of risks associated with TCE exposure.

"We're really not allowed to talk about it," she said. "Sorry."

This is a very shameful part of such incidents. Without transparency and communication, we will never resolve these issues.

If transparency and communication had existed from the start, that ventilation would not have been disabled or certainly not have remained so for such a period of time.

In my opinion, the entities that create such messes should be examined fully and, where appropriate (particularly in cases of willful neglect), drained of their resources in order to correct the problem.

And, once such problems exist in the public environment (including employment settings), nobody -- upon threat of criminal prosecution -- should have the ability to constraint communication and dialog about them.
Sure thing, I gave it a try, however you can only contact 6-7 people per day, with so far my success rate of those willing to talk is next to nothing.
When I was initially developing this a month ago, I used the Chromium nightly build on Ubuntu on my laptop. Since then my laptop's video card died. I'm going to probably roll out a linux VM soon to make sure this works with Chromium nightly still.
The best part of this article is the typical "TCE, an industrial solvent used in making computer chips, is known to cause cancer and birth defects" part they use to try to scare people. Roughly everything that does not kill you in sufficient quantities can cause cancer or birth defects. They then cite really really odd studies that don't support anything in particular, or are completely irrelevant for the topic at hand.

Let me give this a try: "Workers at the site were exposed to tap water, a chemical known to cause birth defects[1] and death[2]"

Not that i'm claiming TCE is great for you, but articles like this are almost completely content free in terms of actual science.

[1] http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/newscience/2012/0...

[2] http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&...
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That's an interesting approach, but I guess as soon as it would become mainstream, the bots would adapt without many problems.
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I saw a mirror image d once.
I am from Poland and it's similar there - the difference is negligible.
But I am studying in the UK at the moment and the difference is exorbitant - I would pay almost 3000 pounds per year for insuring my 2.0L Peugeot Partner, and my friend who only passed his test few weeks after turning 26 is paying 400 pounds per year for insuring his 1.6L Golf. Just because he is older, and not because he is a safer driver.
I've noticed that they occasionally have characters that are available in unicode, but are not part of the characters that are available on a 105-key keyboard with or without the shift key.

THe most common one I see is the integral symbol that used to be used as an S. On very rare occasions I see characters like:

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Acadia National Park has a decent night sky. That's because Maine is very sparsely populated -- half of the population lives in the 10% of the land area that's closest to Massachusetts. It gets even better if you go farther. Take I-95 up, and exit about halfway between Bangor and Canada.

The Michigan Panhandle is also not too bad. It helps that two sides are surrounded by water, which leads to little light pollution.
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The post mentions motivation being symbolic differentiation.

Let me instead advocate auto differentiaton. It enables writing mathematical expressions as normal programs, is less error prone for the programmer, is well defined at every valid point in the derivative, and is better at using sharing when computing higher order derivatives. An excellent library for this is, called ad, is available in Haskell.

edit: link to package is http://hackage.haskell.org/package/ad/

edit2: I should also add that MOST auto differentiation libraries also have a problem of not being able to distinguish the differential/ epsilon used in two independent derivative calculations, and this can lead to subtle / large numerical errors.

The AD library uses some haskell type system cleverness to prevent users from making that mistake!

a nice exposition of this problem can be found in this excellent blog post http://conway.rutgers.edu/~ccshan/wiki/blog/posts/Differenti...
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This is awesome. I haven't touched Django even though I develop in Python on a daily basis... been meaning to but hadn't found a reason to. I've bookmarked this for when I finally get the itch.

Btw, there are some weird formatting issues in the tutorial (underscores after links?).
102. What's continuous integration?
103. What are tests?
104. The Project manager denies the existence of big-O.
105. The project manager "Know's what he's doing" and rejects CI.
106. What's wrong with doing it by hand?
The number of Apple fanboys on this website is extremely surprising, considering that Apple's attitude & products go against every true hacker's values and culture.
Before, it was "all that matters is how you are paid", now it's "let's finely slice the details of this, so as to exonerate everyone else, but still try to make Google a whipping boy." The axe needs more grinding.
>has to offer is something its competitors have been doing for years.

I disagree, what their pricing is focusing on is familiarity and 24/7 support. Also, don't be quick to judge that open-source softwares are not making any money. Ubuntu, MySQL, PHP.. etc, all of them sell premium business support.