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> Have you ever invited girls home, and if so how did they react?

Some standup comediant joked that if women agreed to have sex in cardboard boxes, men wouldn't buy houses.
One issue with deviating from the standard rectangular construction is that furniture is designed to fit in square spaces.

Beds, tables, chairs, etc. are mostly rectangular.
We've got one in the office. The tech is obviously really solid, but the resolution of the dev model is abysmal and no one has really figured out a great control scheme for "on foot" first-person shooters. For first-person driving/flying games, where the direction you move and the direction you are looking are orthogonal, the experience is seamless.
I have gotten pretty detrimental health effects to my body becaise of some companies sw dev culture
I can feel your frustration and you've expressed more vocally than I would have but I definitely share some of the sentiments.

My biggest beef is tying Visual Studio releases to the .NET framework and other components. Why should I need Visual Studio 2013/2012 to use Entity Framework 6 or ASP.NET MVC 5, etc. I can't even figure out what's supported and what's not with older Studio releases (such as 2010) without spending time on Google.

I don't really see any reason why Visual Studio 2010 shouldn't support .NET framework 4.5.1, MVC5, Entity Framework 6.0 etc.. I used to believe there was some validity to tying a .NET framework version to Visual Studio but I've come to realize its just a money grab and a way to keep pushing out new Studio releases. I understand there is some point where you need to move forward.

Anyway, at some point you realize enough is enough. I'm not there yet but I am definitely tempted to start heavily investing in other development stacks.
>Except PROGRAMMERS don't generally deal in anything remotely resembling proper grammar that real Font Designers train for.

This is wrong, and misleading.

Monospaced fonts are usually designed with specific usage in mind. Come one, font designers don't live in a cave. They are usually briefed for how this font is intended to be used.

See, for example, a Consolas case study:

http://www.lucasfonts.com/case-studies/calibri-consolas/

>The first typeface Luc(as) was invited to work on was Consolas, a monospaced font (a face in which all glyphs have equal width).

>Intended for use in programming environments and other circumstances where a monospaced font is required, Consolas has proportions that are closer to normal text, and is therefore more reader-friendly than many other monospaced fonts. OpenType features include hanging figures or lining figures; slashed, dotted and normal zeroes; and alternative shapes for a number of lowercase letters, notably the most problematic character in any monospaced font, the ‘i’. The look of the text can be tuned to personal taste by varying the number of bars and waves in these letters.

>De Groot teamed up with a programmer to test the use of Consolas as a font for coding. “Having a programmer involved,” says Luc(as) with a smile, “I could preview hardcore use on the light-weight notebook chosen to represent his species’ preferred tool.” As the default monospaced font in Windows Vista as well as the Office Suite, Consolas became the de facto successor of the ubiquitous Courier.

(emphasis mine)
I would have to actually try it out before commenting on the readability, but I do find what I see on the one screenshot provided kinda sexy. Tastes differ! Maybe it's not the ultimate monospace font to end all monospace fonts, but personally I've seen fonts I liked much less coming from "actual designers".
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What evidence do you have that business schools are the source of the problem?
It's been my experience that putting a really negative person on a team is like handing that team an anchor. Either the team starts to ignore and isolate them or their attitude wears everyone down and the rest of the team stops trying. I've seen successful negative people whose jobs allowed them to go off and do their own thing, but I've never seen them thrive on a team unless their attitude changed.
in the example you bring up, these new eDiscovery software providers are competing on different dimensions. in fact, i would argue that they're carving out a new market (smaller law firms who don't need the cadillac)/disrupting incumbents through a simpler product that better fits the needs of a different type of law firm customer. in this situation, they are a "10x" better product in terms of a better product-company size fit + pricing that is orders of magnitude better (enabled by the focus on a different customer set with a simpler product).
Fortunately, we've been working on it for decades. The issue is not so much about whether or not to "do nothing" as it is about whether or not to devote how many more (and whose) marginal dollars toward it, and how.
It would be interesting to see plots of per capita oil consumption against population over time to see to the proportions of which the problem is being driven by current lifestyle/modernisation trends and by global population growth.
Agreed, which is why we should all believe in God, since although the possibility that he exists is slim to none, the risk of him actually existing is quite great to non-believers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal's_Wager
I ordered a polo as well - easily my favorite shirt in my wardrobe. It's extremely comfortable, and I'm definitely going to make another purchase.
Java/Tomcat is an unsavory prospect for many folks. The options for building the server side are numerous; Tomcat is a clunky, resource-hungry PITA that many folks, myself included, go out of their way to avoid. If the devs are Java guys then that's their business, but the choice will almost certainly decrease the user base.
>>There is something specific about the way that people in software development can be jerks - passive aggressive behaviour, sometimes a lack of self awareness, a certain type of arrogance or at the very least a lack of empathy.

Yes.

Generally speaking, I refer to this as "lack of social skills."

I don't mean that as derogatory, although I know it will come across that way. Most developers have grown up around computers, and in a lot of situations have chosen fiddling with computers to socializing with people. As a result, they don't gain important social skills until later in life, if at all. For example, the software architect for my company's software suite is an absolutely brilliant guy. But he's just incredibly awkward around people. When it comes to working in projects, or even simple things like answering questions from less technical people, he's terribly arrogant and condescending. I experience such attitudes from non-developers much, much less often.
I'd like a dev environment to be made in oculus rift. Why simply limit ourselves to games (though very cool and fun)? To me it seems like the oculus allows for an entirely separate reality to be created. Imagine putting on the rift and instead of your desktop you can have a wall with 100 monitors in it? Move you editor to the side have a build above you etc...
This is definitely a consideration and a trade off. I don't advocate having a wood stove in this structure. I haven't done any tests for air quality. The polystrene isn't exposed that much on the interior.

But this is a really good question which applys to all structures that use this material.
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Check out the new henley - it is a one-of-a-kind. I may be biased (I'm a co-founder of Pistol Lake :) ) - but I've never had so many compliments on a shirt before.
Loved the first kickstarter package - perfect fit.
Security theater to treat criminal violence theater. It makes a perverse sort of sense.

Terrorism is not really about deaths; there are many greater causes of preventable death, as you note. It's about attacking a nation's perception of safety. You can ignore another random car accident or drug-related murder, but it's much harder to ignore 9/11.

I'd much prefer the vaccine to the "cure": to educate ourselves on this tactic and refuse to play along, treating terrorism the way we would treat a natural disaster. But alas, there's too much money and power to be gained in the security theater racket, and power abhors a vacuum.
I have 10 years of backend experience and now I don't see any "challenge" in this field. Frontend is new thing for me, AngularJS is my new love and gives me a lot of fun and sometimes - challenge (because I'm noobie here). Also it removes work with templates from backend and this side now looks much more clear. I love it.
but you don't have the ability to control the other person's perceptions or references, and so you don't have control over subtexts. The BETTER solution is to just be honest, factually and emotionally. If you need to establish that you respect someone anyways (and you should, if they deserve it), you do that contextually outside of the sub-argument where you're 'being brutal', ideally, before, and after, and if there's an emotional misunderstanding, you work to fix it retrospectively. And part of this is, you probably shouldn't be 100% negative in all of your interactions (unless the project truly deserves no accolades) - if you do give out strong accolades when they are due, that is an equal part of being brutally honest.
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what's the story on kitchen / food ? (oh right and plumbing, bathrooms, etc).

for this to scale up, we are looking to replace having a traditional house right nearby, right?

are you doing all takeout or something like a camping stove outdoors ?
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How about the math of supply and demand? Oil dominates because it's cheap & efficient. When it's not, other existing but relatively uncompetitive energy systems will become viable within a sensibly short time purely as a matter of demand & competition. Remember, oil (as we're speaking of it) was practically nonexistent not all that long ago, yet a vast robust infrastructure has sprung up around it.

Keep lofty-goal government subsidies out of it, as they distort the reality of what's viable, boosting lesser technologies while denying funds to what really will work as a matter of economics & physics.

In the meantime, put some of your own energy & money into getting "off the grid": make an alternative energy source viable by actually making it happen on a personal scale, not just hoping somebody somewhere will make it happen the way you want it to.
You misunderstood what I'm saying. It has nothing to do with economics or disruption. It has _absolutely everything_ to do with geology.

The hydrocarbons that become economic at higher oil prices fundamentally cannot be produced as quickly as conventional reserves. It's a matter of permeability. Not a matter of economics.

Also, I'd wager I'm far more aware than you think of the investments required to explore, develop, and produce a prospect. (I know nothing about refining, though.)
What's really refreshing about this is that it opens up something we think of as completely static (housing) to the possibility of continuous improvement. I really appreciate the effort to refine the structure. Our concept of improving our immediate environment almost never extends to the walls themselves.

Clearly your approach is not for everyone, but it's great that you have taken the time to share your experience since it will likely push likeminded others towards experimenting as well.

As an aside, I have some limited experience with these: http://shelter-systems.com/ and it has been a fun and simple place to start. Since they're without a foundation I think they're considered 'temporary structures' in California so they don't require any permits.

Great work!
This particular post presents a very interesting structure / design. But I don't see this solving any major issue. There seem to be better alternatives to this that solve "housing issues".

Why wouldn't you build a log cabin instead of something like this?
While neat this seems to offer zero advantages in reality vs. traditional housing, unless you're a lone hermit living away from everyone else.

Assuming you have 10-20 people to house, each person having their own dome seems less efficient than building a more traditional house with shared kitchen, bathroom, etc. facilities, since the dome cannot contain those, at least without scaling up significantly at which point its utilization of space becomes really inefficient.

EDIT:

To clarify I'm assuming that:

A) He's living a commune with this, and sharing cooking/bathroom facilities with others. Thus my comment abotu 10-20 people to house.

B) The point is efficiency/ease of housing people. I don't think a bunch of individual (or 2-3 person domes) is any more efficient than one or two traditional houses to hold everyone and all the facilities needed.
Virtual desktops do that quite admirably today, though.
well, I should have qualified that I don't mean that you should be negative all the time. Because you exhibit a lack of judgement if you can't identify good things, just as much as you exhibit a lack of judgement if you can't identify mistakes and vocalize it vociferously.
What'd you get? We had some quirks with the polos, but overall, I'm really proud of how well the first run came out. We're going to continue to make improvements every batch, so let me know if you have any things you'd like to see changed!
You shouldn't be so smug — you're the one missing out on something here.
We attached a small bell to ours. A silent omni present robot was too much.
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"As it stands 9/11 is actually a worse terrorist attack than can ever be achieved with the use of airplanes again, see Flight 93." I think this point is highly debatable, though I hope we don't find out in our respective lifetimes.

Anyway, as to why I didn't address non-air terrorism: I didn't set the scope of the discussion, I'm just participating in it. Sadly I'm well aware of the '93 bombing, the Bali bombings, the African embassy bombings... all sorts of non-aircraft attacks.

I literally said in my post that I was trying to make the "narrowest possible point". I meant it.
Something like Orbiter with NASSP, Virtual AGC, 3d modeled cockpit, and a Rift would be fantastic.
Cheap housing is good, but isn't a bigger problem the lack of property? OK, I can afford to build one of these, but where do I put it?
Hmmm, maybe a better way to say it is that the firm politeness pairing is a middle ground between the saccharine niceness / vicious back-stabbing pairing and the brutal honesty pairing.
Ordering a professor to remove a post about his area of research from a university server is an excellent way to get that post much more widely covered in the press. Great move, NSA/JHU.
Antidote:

I left a big company (not Google) to persue my own startup and fucked it right up leaving myself in debt for 5 years :)
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Oil won't be going up overnight. There will be a time period over which prices rise. As they rise various users of oil will reduce consumption as alternatives suddenly become cheaper. Hell, look at oil consumption in the US! I can't find the stats right now, but oil demand for personal transportation has been flat or dropping despite the increasing number of cars on the road.

If a gallon of gas ends up at $10 ten years from now, how much do you think people will complain about having to wait an hour to recharge their electric car? Not much I'm guessing.
Sometimes I think I have become so used to the extreme hyperbole of linkbait headlines that I forget it's even there. You're right.
When playing the old IL-2, I remember looking around with a joystick hat taking me out of immersion right away (and being a really hard way to get situational awareness, too). As soon as I heard descriptions of Oculus Rift, I knew I'd want to play similar games with it, but I didn't realize IL-2 itself was getting a remake. Very cool.
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Or someone speaking out of experience? I can testify[1] on the nefarious influence of MBA-like groupthink in academia: gigantic counterproductive bureaucratic overhead, obsession with pseudo-measurability of everything, from impact factors over “quality assessment” to “standardization” of examination and “competence matrices”. Top-down bogus coming from people who failed in the corporate world and met their Peter’s principle in the academia they never left.

[1] http://www.veto.be/jg39/veto3914/ku-leuven-voert-machtsgreep...
I'm really interested in ideas like this.

There isn't enough innovation in alternative housing. The cost of buying a house in the UK is astronomical. Even a flat-pack build is still very expensive although a fair bit cheaper than brick and mortar, but you still have to buy land and deal with regulatory policies with regards to construction.
You could call it externalizing the costs of burning gasoline, or you could call it internalizing the profit of burning gasoline. The rest of the world burning gasoline results in cheap credit for the US.

http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/current_issues/ci12-9/ci1...
Dramamine works for me. Of course use of that is not conducive to performing any complex activities.

I'm aware that motion sickness can change as people grow up. But given that I'm in my 40s, the odds of "growing out of it" are rather dim.
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This really is a fantastic newsletter/post. Was excited to see it in my mailbox, and am enjoying it (taking some detours to look at the referenced articles).
the difficulty with 'basic research with seemingly no value' (a good example is the fourier transform, which at the time was seen as a mathematical curiosity) - is that it lacks accountability. How do you make sure that the academe that is selling their project as 'basic research' isn't just pulling a fast one on you and sucking your funds to tickle their intellectual jollies?

This problem is even worse when you take taxpayer funds, because transparency and accountability are fundamental attributes of good governance, and the claim that 'it will be useful someday' potentially pushes the accountability aspect out to t=infinity.
Try ending your queries with '\G' to display results vertically.
Some videos of them in action for anyone curious:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzbZ53cSGPE

http://www.youtube.com/americascup

http://www.youtube.com/user/OracleRacingTeam

http://www.youtube.com/user/EmTeamNZ

http://www.youtube.com/jnavas2
I liked the painting and found that it added to the feeling the post was going for.
The door is in the last photo at the top of the post. It is essentially a round door that functions much the way cooler lid functions. There is a wood frame to support the opening in the structure.
Shane, one of the other co-founders from Pistol Lake, here. We started Pistol Lake to make basic, well-crafted shirts that just fit. Happy to answer any questions!
>I wasn't really running a business--I was trying to prove to some hypothetical future investor that I could run a business. It's the startup equivilant of Neo trying to hit Morpheus in the Matrix.

And this guy is a "venture capitalist"?
I would like to think it'll soon be slowly replaced by something more sophisticated.

Personally, I'd love to have control over who can contact me and by what means - basically, grant access to specific pieces of my contact information to specific third parties where I can revoke access at any time and they get any updates I make instantly.
I meant in absolute terms. There are people who are happy to pay for XMLSpy, too. Ditto for AutoCAD.
You can almost see Gingrich's "Contract with America" happening in 1994-1996 as debt payments ballooned to almost a quarter of the budget.
Of course that's a bad analogy because we can define God any way we want; we could easily define him to be angry at people who do believe.

Whereas a fire escape or even peak oil is at least somewhat quantifiable risk.
The same logic applies to asteroid strikes, climate change and potential ecology collapses as well. Whatever the odds are, they are decidedly non-astronomic, and therefore should be taken seriously.
This is why I'd be interested in looking at the graph for the neighborhoods south of 280, particularly in the eastern section of the city. In many areas, property values drop and elevations rise as you head south.

That doesn't necessarily mean more crime, nor does it necessarily mean an identical mix of crime. That's a big part of why it would be so interesting to take a look.

I really like the work here. Very cool graph and visualization, and if there are things I'd like to see, it's not that they are "missing", it's that the approach is triggering some ideas for how to look at and interpret the data.
Can't wait to get you your hoodies. :)
I've actually started using Deja Vu Sans Mono for a programming font. There are definitely still some annoyances but it does seem to do better than most I've come across.
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Yeah that's in a module. This would be akin to a role in Ansible.

If you are looking at the core language for either, it doesn't hide those things but you can put whatever logic you want in the role/playbook/manifest/etc.

Hope this explains things!

Thanks for more info.
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If you don't care about the tooling, you should be able to use most any version of VS with most any version of MVC by deleting the MVC-specific project type GUID in your .csproj/.vbproj file.

Not sure about EF, but if you don't need the designer (e.g. using code first), I think it should work in previous versions of VS too.
A hate to trivialize a thoughtful article with a typographical point, but boy do I like my paragraph breaks when I can get them.
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Yep, don't disagree with any of that stuff, just the fact that no JIT is a dealbreaker. It's not.
It is a great idea, but I think the Rift will need to get a wildly better resolution. A 1920x1080 real screen isn't going to be able to show you a very good virtual screen in 3d space.
Actually what I'm wondering is how you conform to building and fire codes, etc.
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In a free market, long-term demand will never outstrip long-term supply. Why? Because prices will rise to equalize them. As prices increase, long-term demand drops, and long-term supply increases, until they eventually equilibrate.
A friend told me this the other day as well. It is rather limitless... and sounds amazing to code in. You could even have great visualizations for things such as working with the different branches of code. As in the "zone" as you can get. You can change thhe scenery to whatever as well. Dark room? Done. Wonderful vista? Done.

It's not that farfetched to imagine a future where plenty of programmers sit 'jacked' in, into an Oculus Rift to code.
Not entirely true. Hawaii, for example, uses oil as the basis for most of their electric generation. They regret this now and are trying to move to renewables / natgas, but right now, they use oil.
It is easier for me to be a driver than a passenger, I believe in part because as a driver I pay close attention to and know about all bumps before they happen.

But having been through it before, I have no desire to experiment with the limits of what makes me sick. Doubly so since I tend to not notice that I'm getting sick until I'm going to be sick for quite a bit...