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But is it really what you want? What you want is to relive that experience; a full-on PS4-style graphics remake will change the whole experience. It'll be a game with the same characters, environments, story and basic gameplay, but the feel of it will be completely different.

I run a FFVII-based fansite (thelifestream.net, [/plug]), and the general consensus of the community there is that while a full FFVII remake would be nice, it would generally be criticized by the original fanbase, no matter how awesome they make it, simply because it's not the same game anymore.

For an example of the only full-on remake Square ever did of one of their older titles, you could look at FFIII on the DS, remaking a 2d, sprite-based game into a 3D one. Of course, FFIII doesn't have nearly the fanbase of VII so there were less tears on the internet over it.
I don't see that web platform's developers chose to reinvent anything. I would put the blame to Microsoft and other closed system makers of 80's and 90's which prevented development of cross platform applications for open content production and consuming. Thus everything OS's can do (and did even in 60's and 70's), needs to be re-implemented in the browsers, in aggreement. This too has taken a long time for precisely same reasons: companies waging war over platforms to lock users in, embracing and extending fledgling standards.

Web development tools are the best we can use these days if we want to reach the broadest audience, benefit from each others experience and further enchance the platform. Other tools make us choose one walled garden where development is rosy and ideas old, all the while hoping it stays alive long enough. I hope web can do what Engelbart's system did in 1968, but this time as open source, documented, findable and usable by every user with every device connected to the same truly global network.
Very insightful, thank you.

Are there no alternative to texture atlases? It seems weird to restrict yourself to merging in only one direction just because the representation of your texture won't allow it.

As for the bleeding, I suppose it's because the scaling kernel overlaps between the tiles in the atlas? Won't reducing the level of mipmapping degrade overall performances?

It seems weird to me that there's no better hardware support for texture atlases if it's so popular.
And ultimately the biggest thing to do is that when you find a bug, don't just fix that one bug and call it a day.

If you find a bug in your crypto code through your testing and validation, that means your development process screwed up and allowed that bug to slip through. What you need to do is figure out how that bug got through your development process, change your development process so it wouldn't slip through next time, and then have a thorough audit of your already-written code to make sure no other bugs have slipped through the same way.

Developing must-not-fail critical software is the exact opposite of the traditional launch-fast-and-iterate model that most people use to produce web applications and such. This is a big reason that when web app developers try their hand at developing critical software like cryptography, they get it horribly wrong.
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So now we have heard about the French PRISM. Will you also kick out the French? You are a bigot.
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Not even close to being the same thing.
Errr, the point of "write code on a board" is not to determine engineering suitability, but to weed out the majority of people who style themselves as programmers but who can't actually program. See e.g. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/02/why-cant-programmer...

I'm deadly serious about this; the last time I played this "game", back in 1997-8, we were using one of the 2 best D.C. area head hunters, were already receiving well screened resumes which we further screened, and even then a solid 1/2 of the "programmers" we interviewed couldn't program.

They showed no signs of "do this in public" performance anxiety, e.g. we would have been flexible on all but one of the tests by e.g. not hovering over the interviewee and/or providing an EMACS or Visual C++ editing buffer (the exception was "find bugs in this block of code on the board", which I think is a different sort of thing, especially since public code checking is something people do). And our write some code tests were simple, reverse a doubly linked list (C or C++), and compute the factorial of a number, which we supplied the definition of for those who'd forgotten.

Side note: I was their first programmer employee, back when they couldn't afford head hunters, just a classified ad (they'd already tapped out their networks), and the #1 reason I was hired was I was the only one who passed the white board programming test. Which I viewed as so trivial that when that fact was mentioned I didn't really remember the details of it.
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What sort of reaction would you feel is appropriate when someone builds a bridge incorrectly, and it collapses? "Oh hey, that's too bad, good try though!"? When someone does something horrible wrong and demonstrates that they are incompetent, that needs to be said. Everyone needs to know "this person is incompetent, do not use their work".
I'd like to see what's inside that 512MB file, though.
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Actually, the PSX version of FFVII is /sampled and sequenced/ (like a surprising chunk of PSX music) from a Roland SC-88 MIDI module and part of the reason why a lot of video game music enthusiasts found the PC port of it interesting was because of the Yamaha XG support, an extension of General MIDI that was competing against Roland's GS extensions.

It had nothing to do with a 'lack of redbook', especially given the PC port shipped on disc and no one was releasing stuff on floppies anymore. It simply was common for Japanese computer games to support MIDI modules, even into the late 90s. They kept at it longer than Sierra!
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"The story is based on a screenshot[0] taken from a forum and tweeted out by Mat Murray on Twitter."

Yeah, it feels nice that a media company like Forbes is basing their stories on something like a screenshot from 4chan.

[0] http://i.imgur.com/dx7sVXj.jpg
I used Boxee a while back when it was on the original AppleTV's, then before that way before the whole Boxee Box thing begun.

It was very buggy, SMB shares always very slow no matter which computer the boxee client ran on.

Now adays I run everything through Plex and couldn't be happier, it runs on Samsung TVs as well which is a bonus, as well as a lot of other devices (and computers).
Simple: because people are willing to pay for it. People pay fortunes for vintage toys because their parents got rid of them two+ decades ago and they want to relive their youth and have expendable income. Similarly, people want to relive their youth from 15-20 years ago with video games, and are willing to re-buy a version of the game that runs on modern-day systems.

Re-releases of old / 'vintage' video games are quite popular on Steam, allowing the owners of the rights of said games to sell them again with relatively small investments. This also happens on modern consoles (PSN on the PS3, etc), which no longer have backwards compatibility, so that the game manufacturers port the game to modern systems (at minimal investment) and sell them again. Optionally rendering the game at a higher resolution and calling it a HD re-release.
Pretty sure you meant Eidos, not Enix.
I never used Opera link as it was optional and off by default as it should be. :)
Sorry for the all-caps:

STOP USING THE WORD "SHEEPLE"!

It makes you look like the most mediocre revolutionary that has ever walked the earth.

There are MUCH better terms (no, i'm not going to give them to you, you need to do some research) for the people you have issues with, and your interests would be better served in engaging them in debate rather than quoting XKCD (http://xkcd.com/1013/).
I was actually thinking about writing something to generate these computery sounds as I work. :)
I think someone could probably make a relatively lightweight chat client which used OTR and ran as a mobile app or browser extension (although I'm not totally sure of the security model for extensions, they do seem to be a lot better than website-delivered js). I mean, we have pretty good examples of other people doing this (on mobile) with chatsecure, etc.
This particular case is not English vs. Metric, but rather lack of cohesion in the metric system.

English: Use commas for separating thousands, use periods for decimals.

Metric: Use spaces for separating thousands, use periods OR commas for decimals.

In this instance, the English approach is obviously the superior one, as spaces are more confusing to use as a delimiter than commas, and there should only be one way to write decimals for consistency.
No, you got it wrong. Google isn't going to intentionally trojan your phone for a myriad of reasons.
Umm, NO. That car is a car.
It is the value given to it and value which is extracted from it.
I see where you're coming from. Maybe you are not typical of business as a whole since you are (I assume) a tech person and thus very capable of solving your own problems (if they can be solved with tech at all) :)
I've had "lifestyle business" used as an insult to what I'm building, Predictobot.com. It was from a guy who takes lots of VC money, builds big startups with a direct sales force, and then eventually sells them to Oracle. (At least he sold his last one to them.) It didn't bother me in the least, as that's not what I aspire to.
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Also avoiding the UK and France? Probably not. Why not? Because this isn't really about surveillance, it is about an excuse to boycott the US.
PGP is widely used enough that the GPGMail team keeps up with Apple Mail.app development; Apple breaks Mail.app compatibility with every release. PGP is also a standard tool in my field; we use it every day.

I suspect that most of the people who say PGP is too hard to use simply don't encrypt messages that often (or, when they first learned PGP, weren't routinely encrypting messages). They're complaining in essence that PGP isn't automatic and frictionless.
I was about to buy Chrono Trigger for my Android the other day but luckily I read through reviews before. It too requires an online authentication at least at every start. I passed.
Are you saying that something can only be art if it has no value?
On a side note, I think most business problems go unnoticed.

Interesting. Got any examples? :)
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Since we seem to be doing Google Trends here is a relevant one:

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%22chrome%20sucks%22...

How did that work out again?
Male and female applicants are judged by exactly the same standards. From our blog post when we first offerred grants:

"We're not going to lower the bar for female applicants. It frustrates us a little that we feel the need to say that, and we think it underlines the sexism (intentional and not) that so pervades the programming world.

But we want to say that now, so people don't have to waste time asking or debating the point. Women will be judged on the exact same scale as men. We think to do otherwise would be insulting and counterproductive. We care a lot about getting more women into Hacker School, but we won't do it at the expense of the quality of the batch."

From: https://www.hackerschool.com/blog/1-summer-2012-applications...
I'm curious about this too. Maybe there's a similar ramp outside the living room that rolls the car in?
Thanks! Do you have something in particular in mind?
This is obviously a joke, but the people at RAND used to run into this when doing war simulations for the US Military.
They stop fighting because some counter overflows, and there's no guard for it causing the application to crash. I'm sure there's smart people - or even Carmack himself - that can find the relevant code (actually, is the bot code open source or just the Quake 3 engine)?
How about reducing pain/headaches? Is that also a valid concern? :)

Mind telling me a bit about how you do those 4 things you mentioned right now?
There is some other system that uses periods for thousands and commas for decimals - the exact reverse of what you've listed as the english convention. I always thought it was a european convention. It makes more sense than what you've listed as the metric convention.
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>Notes were still synced with Opera link so there never was any privacy

I prefer giving my data to a Norwegian company rather than an American one, especially in the light of the recent events.

Moreover, Opera has a clean track record of the matter of privacy, while they were times when they could have abused their power: a substantial part of mobile traffic[1] was going through their servers due to Opera Turbo technology, and AFAIK they did not try to exploit it.

1: They still owned more than 20% of the market in 2011. I do not know which part of the users were using Turbo regularly, but I believe they were a lot in the pre-smartphone times.
Maybe not as much of a concern. It's likely the car needs to warm up for a few minutes when starting, so you don't want to do that idling inside. Easy enough to just drive in and immediately shut it off though.
It seems like it boils down to use oj[0] as a parser I think...

[0] https://github.com/ohler55/oj
This is a software engineering discussion. The "content" is links to diffs, plus sentences describing the diffs. If you can code, you can read the diffs and the sentences and reconcile them. If you can't, I concede, you probably can't do much more than talk about the "tone".
Uber and Lyft aren't killing public transportation
I've been using the KDE spin for ages and couldn't be happier with it! It's reasonably fast, highly customizable and gets out of my way.
I've hired Tomasz twice in the past to work on a Python/Django project, so I can vouch for him that he was proficient, reliable, and easy to work with.
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Doug - The energy and light of your vision and inspiration still burns bright, still ignites, still guides...

http://Collaborapologist.com/
http://CommunityOfImpact.info

Thanks, Doug

A friend - Sam
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My suggestion was to encrypt the data client-side and store the accounts encrypted, so Google couldn't themselves decrypt the accounts. The purpose is to think of ways to structure the technologies so the hosting providers don't have to be trusted entities.
Or even that something can only be art if it has no other function? Don't be silly (Directed at grandparent)
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I found this one really helpful, especially 'Amazon Beanstalk PHP Hosting & Database Versioning for SaaS' article as I'm working in this field at the moment. Thanks for the link and good work!
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The head of National Intelligence testified in front of congress, too. When asked if they were collecting "any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans", he said, "No.". When the question was repeated, he said, "Not wittingly."

So he outright lied to congress. The information that you claim is a fact is from a source that I no longer believe.
Cool link on PHPGeo, just what I'm looking for with this new hotel site I'm working on.
You know, between McDonalds, BK, et al and the street meat vendors around, I don't understand why all fast food vendors in the US and Canada haven't opted for Korean-style lettuce wraps. Firm, crunchy, fresh lettuce makes for such a better health-conscious sandwich vessel.

The healthiness of these wraps is hindered dramatically by the far-from-filling* carbs and empty cals of the tortillas / flatbreads, and I'd bet at scale the lettuce isn't much more expensive than the wraps.

*Corrected from complex
Yes, how dare he have an opinion about something he owns and build something around it!
Just a quick one here - Hacker News was great in helping us 'shape' what we do, but we are looking for more ideas about what people may wish to see. We're getting a lot of requests for adding jobs in here, but was wondering what people think
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I've actually found the less technically savvy less surprised and less outraged.
Probably the best KDF you'll get right now is scrypt[1]. NaCl did not see common adoption because until a relatively recent distribution called Sodium[2], it was not portable. And I mean really, not portable. Like, just to give an example, suppose you want to use NaCl in Node.js, which is pretty good about accepting C/C++ modules. You have two options today: one doesn't work on a 64-bit system[3] and one isn't C, it's JS which was transpiled with Emscripten[4]. I mean, don't get me wrong: the fact that we can now do this in pure JS via Emscripten is amazing, but yeah, NaCl was not universally buildable and therefore was not reliably deployable, and nobody really wanted to fix it until Sodium came along.

[1] https://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html

[2] https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium

[3] https://github.com/thejh/node-nacl

[4] https://github.com/tonyg/js-nacl
One of the few things preventing the complete power grab is the "free" Internet. It is now easy to undestand why there is such a push from government to "censor" and control the Internet... As of now they are trying to slip indirect means to do it... Imposing stiff fines and punishments for breaking complicated and vaguely worded regulations and statues they are trying to pass (soap, crisps, etc). It's an effort to silence dissent and once the people can't easily and effectively communicate, then organized protests become very difficult... Which is part of the goals and plans.

Edit: vague statutes and regulations allow for prosecutor discretion and overreach. We need to wipe the books... We have way too many "laws".
I'm not technically competent. At least as far as crypto goes. But I can understand things like "shortens the time needed for a brute force attack" quite fine. And many non technical people can do the same. By littering this article with petty personal bullshit, he commits the same sin as cryptocat: failing to inform users.
If this is true, then it is disappointing.
Outings in large parts of the world - even in the first world can be life threatening.

This contradicts directly with don't use it if your life depends on it.
Yeah this screwed me. I bought it right when it came out and planned to play it on a long flight.

Mind numbingly stupid DRM for a mobile device.
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! Cheers to the tip.
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I have good info that NORAD has been tracking Santa for years with GPS tracking by remotely enabling cell phones he's carrying as presents.

In seriousness though, you're absolutely right and I feel the same way. I think the important thing here is that it's the first time the general public (and much of the tech community) has been presented this information in a straight-forward way. Also, people who had long ago deduced everything being revealed now (like me) will hopefully see the full extent of everything that's been happening. I have additional things I figure have been going on but which I loathe to discuss for fear of sounding paranoid. However, I used to feel that way when talking about the gov't reading email and tracking your FB activities, so it's nice to finally be able to discuss that with people and not seem like a lunatic or have the issue immediately dismissed.

edit:

But let me make a tinfoil hat prediction now, and I can point back to this post one day to maybe win a bet:

The private data collected on everyone is being shared with government workers (and private contractors) on all levels in some form. I think that many, many depts and orgs across federal, state, and local levels are privy to our personal/private data at least in aggregate/anonymized form whether they realize it or not. For instance, I think at least a small portion of police and fire responses are triggered by our private data, perhaps in a way that those responders don't even realize. It's a crazy idea and perhaps I'll head over to the TwoPlusTwo forums to begin taking bets :)
I was drawn to Boxee over XBMC because of the legitimate media sources it worked well with (YouTube, BBC iPlayer, etc). Granted I could do the same with XBMC (in fact I do do the same with XBMC), but Boxee just worked nicer out of the box.

Plus most of the local storage stuff I had was CD and vinyl rips.

Boxee organised it's content by metatags, so I'd imagine it would be slightly annoying for pirates (which, more often than not, are labelled wrong) than other similar solutions which place a higher precedence on organisation via directory hierarchy (Boxee could do this too - but it was much more awkward to get to than in XBMC et al)
I posted a showdown of various open source servers that can be run on heroku a few days ago, including puma, which some people interested in this may be interested in:

https://github.com/jrochkind/fake_work_app/blob/master/READM...

For some reason it didn't get much HN traction. But either it inspired these recent HN posts involving puma, or it's just a coincidence -- either way I'm glad to see puma getting more attention.

I think multi-threaded request dispatch (from either puma or passenger enterprise) are often the best way to maximize throughput in a web server with I/O-bound work, as the Java community has been doing for a while. Any implementation details are just minor tweaks compared to just doing multi-threaded concurrent request dispatch in the first place -- so it's no surprise to see Passenger Enterprise and puma performing similarly.

i agree with the Phusion essay, that Passenger currently has more robust admin/management/supervision features than puma. I hope puma continues to evolve, inspired by passenger

Although these features are not trivial to implement well -- I am very impresed by passenger's feature set, and very robust and reliable performance.

But if you want a free/open-source solution, or a solution that it makes sense to run on heroku -- puma is a (and the only) solid concurrent-request-dispatch solution already.
Break the routine is the only way to get out of such condition.
I am Italian too and I know what you mean with "I'm stuck here..." well, you are not.
CS give you a lot of liberties, you don't need to be in a specific place to work nor you need an office, you just need your laptop.
My summer plan was to pack my stuff and move in either German or Spain, find a local support thanks to the online community, find a little room for myself, and live there for 3/4 months working as freelancer and learning a new languagge.
A pretty average rate for a freelancer is around 25€/hr you can actually make a pretty good life out of that, and when your lesson re-start you can just come back...
How that sound ?
I know that your family may be a problem, but that is a problem that YOU have to fix, nobody can do it for you.
For anything you should be able to see my email.
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I propose a third: they didn't see threats of public assassination of Occupy participants as credible. Considering the assassinations didn't happen it wouldn't be the worst course of action.
So what? He's not providing an encryption tool for LGBTQ activists, like Cryptocat claims to do. The bar he needs to meet is lower. Unlike the Cryptocat team, he is not actually obligated to inform Cryptocat's user base; regardless, he's done them a huge service by donating his time to finding vulnerabilities.