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This doesn't answer your question, but I suspect you may have a hazy recollection of something called "green threads"[1]. Green threads existed in early versions of Java (Java 1.1 and below) back in the days when operating systems had trouble with spawning large numbers of threads from a single application.

In the Java 1.1 & Linux 2.0 days you could get better Java performance by using green threads. That didn't last long, and around the time Java was being used for server-side applications it had mostly switched over to native threads.

So far as your actual question goes: There is little difference between the Java threading implementation on Linux & Windows.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_threads#Green_threads_in_...
Stick it on the laterbase.
Small nitpick: my understanding (perhaps moreso in more sound-dependent FPS) is that pro gamers are already sound shielded.

The two headsets were 1) voice chat with your team 2) large 'surround sound' headphones that really signaled direction.
FWIW, GTA is developed by Rockstar North, rather than San Diego (which produced RDR), meaning they at least benefit from the additional employment protections offered in Europe (vs the US: things like 5+ weeks of paid holiday, etc).

I can only speak to anecdotal evidence, but I've hired several engineers who previously worked at Rockstar in the UK and haven't heard anything outside of the ordinary.
Of course they are, Taiwan is a small country that is supported by the only superpower left. (another example of such a country: Israel)

Where do you think that the economic development of Taiwan would be if it wasn't backed by the US? And where do you think they will be in 20 years, with China constantly rising in power and influence.

I don't think it's controversial to say that they'll probably be part of China, considering that there is even political support for that in Taiwan.
+1000 points for Opera.
I am far from an apple fanboy and I use products from all three companies Google, Apple, Microsoft extensively, so I hope it doesn't come out as a bias or fanboyish response.

I honestly think that out of the three companies, microsoft has the worst future prospect. The difference between apple and microsoft products, in my humble opinion is that Apple gives you an experience (however over-priced it may be) while microsoft gives you a product. People tend to remember pleasant experiences for a long time. I don't remember if I ever used a microsoft product that completely blown me away. With Apple I have, several times. The only reason I don't use any recent apple product anymore (except for my three year old macbook) because I seriously dislike their walled garden approach.

I agree with you on the point if Apple can continue to innovate in a post-jobs world. Its hard to say yet and I am not yet convinced with their recent products. Another problem with Apple is that they depend too much on few key people.

On the other hand Microsoft will die a slow death because one of their key market, desktop OS, is soon becoming irrelevant; as people are moving to mobile devices like tablets. And MSFT doesn't have a strong foothold in this market yet. I don't know much about MSFT enterprise market though. But I would guess they were able to be so dominant in enterprise market because of their strong position in desktop market. Will this still be true in the future? I don't know.
Best part: "Select MacOS, and delete the MACSearchTakeOver.js file"

DivX as a brand is dying. Desperate times etc...
I've always hated their player and bloatware. In fact I was surprised that they survived without doing something like this earlier.
Defaulting to "no" would be better, but I can't fully agree with you in the "innocent" part because the real problem are users that can't use a computer, and this is just a tiny annoyance compared to other things that can happen if the user "can't read" and clicks next, next, next without thinking.

This was posted to HN recently, and it sums it up nicely: http://coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-comput...
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There is no bytecode any longer when you do AOT, just plain pure native code.
I've battled with this problem too. You can control it, it just takes some willpower.
That quote is taken a little bit out of context. The first part is referencing the opinions of others about InstallMonetizer - people said they think IM was installing crapware. PG said that crapware is a relative term, and if people have the option of declining to install something, then they deemed it to be not crapware. We can't handcuff everyone into making the same decisions we do - regardless of what we think the quality of the software and motives are. Educating users is the goal we should be shooting for, so when they see a screen with check boxes, they don't just hit agree and go on, they realize what clicking "I Agree" could entail. I think that message could be something along the lines of "Don't just agree, think before you click".
This article is clueless. Intellectually lazy and flat out wrong. I only with it was over for Forbes.
Ah apparently not so much http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3237701/do-threads-create...

But I would say you would have definitely to watch for a) thread creation time and b) thread priorities (but for most of the applications these are not a problem)
Then you're still doing brainwashing/indoctrination. Let's not forget, it's "irrespective of the opinion's merit".

Besides, just as you hold your "must be provable" views dear, similarly the religious parent holds his or her religious views dear.
Man, you have swallowed every last drop of the koolaid they're selling you.

Consider this situation: You've spent most of your life training yourself as a game developer, only to find out that every company you'd like to work for will drive you like a slave. 50+ hours per week is not merely an option, but a necessity if you want to remain competitive. And since everyone wants to be a game developer, that means your salary is less than in other types of compsci jobs.

So, that culture stuff you're speaking of? It's bullshit. Ultimately it's a method of getting you to do the bidding of others. It's not about you at all. No one is looking out for you, and while you may feel like you're part of a team, that team has no loyalty to you. If you stop performing at peak level for even a couple months then your prospects will be severely harmed.

Employees get to feel proud they've literally sacrificed part of their life to help someone else succeed. And you're supporting pervasive lawbreaking in the name of "that's just what it takes"!

If game companies are finding it hard to recruit talent, well, that's probably because people are finally wise to their ways. You won't find anyone who was more in love with the idea of being a game developer than I was, but the reality of the industry is abhorrent. The shared culture has utterly decimated any hope of work-life balance in the gamedev industry in the US. My options were to work elsewhere or to move overseas. And by working elsewhere I get more cash, get to work on problems that are more interesting, and I learn more.

European developers seem to have figured out how to develop next-gen games without any of the bullshit methods of control you've described. Maybe US companies should start caring how.
Sparrow on my Mac and Mail on my iDevices. I like simple and light clients.
Reddit's userbase grew very quickly after Digg drastically changed, aka 'collapsed', Reddit for a while also engaged in sockpuppeting posts to generate fake traffic to create the illusion of a userbase before it really took off.

4chan, in comparison, has always been organic from day 1.
So the beauty of brainwashing/deprogramming is how you actually manage to substitute those axioms, even though they may actually lead them to disregard everything you say. That's like inception from the outside!
I approve this message. Damn you, compose.
Thank you, that makes sense. I have a Galaxy Nexus, so I'm fine - but if I was running an older phone (or a non-Nexus one) then I would be interested!
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At the end of the day, if people really wanted this software, the providers could default to making it opt-in and on balance they wouldn't be any the worse off for it.

There is a clear reason "I Agree" is pre-checked. Educating users is a band-aid, treating the symptom and not the cause. The cause is scummy companies like InstallMonetizer, and hopefully people like PG/YC will come to see how it hurts their brand, no matter how they think reality differs from peoples impressions of such companies.
Have you entirely missed the point?
"In the beginning there was the command line" covers most of these points: http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html
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I find it borderline unethical too, I was just trying to state that minimally savvy users shouldn't worry that stuff is installed without them knowing.

"X installs Y" reads to me as something happening without any chance to avoid it.
It is signed "Determined Devoted Wives of Rockstar San Diego employees."

So either it is 100% male OR the female staff are either unmarried or do not have the same complaints.
How to interpret that, though? Seems likely to me that who asks for custody would be influenced by their chances of receiving it. How many of those cases are "contested custody"?

Then that article places the claim "Additional evidence, however, indicates that women may be less able to afford the lawyers and experts needed in contested custody cases (see “Family Law Overview”) and that, in contested cases, different and stricter standards are applied to mothers." without providing any data. So it ends up being a propaganda piece, which makes it not very trustworthy.
Shenzhen and the Pearl Delta region...the Yangtze River delta region, they were all opened up as SEZs under Deng.

You can mostly thank DXP for all the cheap chinese junk that Walmart started selling in the 90s.
I'd take a good brain washing over torture too.
Not quite.

The code is compiled (once) and injected into all pages loaded.
The minified code and original code will look exactly the same at this point unless the minify process does something really clever.
Slightly offtopic, everybody knows of VLC, but do you know of any well-curated list of non-crappy software in general?

I'm thinking of criteria such as:

No malware, no advertisements, no bloat, no phoning home, no unnecessary/forced updates, in case of mobile: no unnecessary permissions.

Recently I needed to rip a CD quite urgently and the software I used has tainted my PC like a terrible sin of the past.
I often find the opposite. We discuss details, and go through options changing our minds a number of times on the way.

Via email (or text based communication), then the result is clear, and I can refer back to it afterwards. Also meetings with non-technical users tend to go around in circles where they discuss trivial details that are pretty irrelevant.
Bullshit. These kinds of installers trick people into installing things they would never install by choice. For example there are windows where ticking one checkbox disables installation of a toolbar, but ticking the next one enables a different one. So people read the text on the first one and then tick everything, which results in spyware being installed on their machine. The entire installation process for these kinds of things is like that because NOBODY who knows what they are actually wants to install spyware toolbars on their computer.

Would you consider tricking a person with poor literacy skills into signing a contract that gives them your house a moral thing to do? Why is tricking somebody into giving you full access to their computer any different? Also, much like legal contracts can still trick the literate, these installers can trick even technically proficient users who weren't expecting to suddenly have to engage in a battle of wits with their computer.
Very interesting post. Wouldn't you say that this what the Arrticle Author proposes is a mixture of "Achievement of Natural Growth" with "Concerted Cultivation". Shortly speaking we let kids question authority and let them play at the same time?

Then my understanding of the article was that the very nature of homo sapiens is that before they are adults they will copy and imitate adults around them with other kids. So, just letting them do it and not interfering with the process is better than restricting it with parents guidelines, i.e. let the kids discover what adults do via play in their own way. Then main benefit being that you will not kill their natural interest in important stuff they have to learn.

My 3 year plays with the letters and numbers all the time using different toys, including one of these "kid laptops" we bought her. Just this morning she woke us up repeating alphabet after the "kid laptop". She has natural interest in it. Why? Because she is not forced to sit still in a chair and repeat the letters after a grumpy "important" adult. She would hate that then. The idea is that learning via play is not only more effective, but the natural way we homo sapiens do it. Taking it away makes us socially handicapped. As the play happens usually in cooperation with other kids. That was at least how I understood the article.
Well i think that stems from a indoctrinated hatred towards the captives. If you think rationally (albeit coldly/mechanically) you'd figure out that torture isn't that effective. In fact torture just makes the captives hate you more. So that makes your job even harder.

But if you could shake their beliefs... Show them the error of their ways. And they actually might help you stop the other terrorists.

But all that needs that you actually see the captives as human beings.
I use gmail (google apps) for now, but am excited by MailPile(.is)
Out of interest: Have you played it? I thought the same looking at the gameplay videos etc but after actually playing it I can conclude that it's nothing like a GTA IV expansion pack.

I played GTA IV for about a week prior to getting this game on the same console/TV. I used to play it on a 12 inch SD screen so I thought it looked great but it's the first time I have played it on a 32" HD display and it looks pretty bad. The depth of field makes blurred regions look like a bad painting. It looks horrible. After playing GTA V for a few hours, the graphics are miles apart even if it's not entirely apparent at first :)
Or just use a slingshot. Even kids used to have it.
The prospect of making money does strange things to people's perception. PG knows damn well that is garbage that provides no value (rather, negative value) to the user and just pollutes society's computers. There is no way he would defend it under normal circumstances. Who would? Good job YC, you're the new Bonzi Buddy, the PC cancer. I can't wait to clean that shit out of my elderly relatives computers when they complain of sluggishness, crashes, and intrusive ads, like the good old days.

"The users choose to install these things."

GMAB, you know better.
What I find interesting is that most terrorists are a product of brainwashing too. And i mean DELIBERATE brainwashing, not the kind of stuff you learn from society as you grow up. So why not fight fire with fire and deprogram them? Heck the violence actually reinforces their brainwashing that the captors are Evil people.
Pensions, Employers National Insurance Contributions, office space in the middle of Edinburgh (not cheap) - it's not _that_ cheap here.
If something you didn't ask for defaults to being installed along-side what you did ask for, regardless of that thing is, it's crapware (imo).

Smashing 'next' in an installer should do the right thing: it should install the things you most likely need in the app you downloaded, in the place that makes the most sense on your system, etc. In almost no cases is the right thing installing some random ass toolbar.
The iOS 7 review
I guess you don't lock your front door because lock picking is straightforward?

While it is not possible to spot all malicious code by inspection, minification certainly makes the job much harder.
> It will take very sophisticated counter measure technology to correctly identify, isolate and attack a sufficiently large part of such a swarm

Or, you know... nets.
Does gold come from outer space?
It's definitely not "cool" to use a fountain pen.
If you're talking about scroll events only firing when you release your finger from the screen I can't see this being changed any time soon.

Apple want to keep scrolling responsive at all costs and definitely wouldn't let those pesky JS developers make Mobile Safari appear slow and laggy.
I think it's just an ontological issue, as well as Linux having more flexibility in what a process can share with its parent (via clone() flags).

The Linux scheduler schedules processes; the Windows scheduler schedules threads. Via clone(), Linux can create a process that shares almost everything with its parent, and thereby looks mostly like a Windows thread.

With regards the JVM, there is little difference in this specific respect. The sync primitives available on each platform are a bit different though, as well as things like signals.
Kran - entity system in JS - a flexible architecture for game development
I'm the author. Kran is in heavy development and feedback is much appreciated
umm.. a few of Americas lackeys came along for the ride as it was politically expedient. Despite this governments fell. Iraq was America's mess and a few unfortunates followed them on down. I'm not sure there was any agreement on rebuilding, it was, and still is a catastrophic mess. Nothing other than embarrassment should be felt over the humanitarian disaster this adventure was.
And in conclusion - future politicians will be banned from using Google+
Not sure it is the first one: http://www.waratek.com/product/cloudvm
See http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-01/darpa-can-s.... 17500 feet is about 5km, but the video does not indicate that this can see "who you are", although it is close enough for tracking persons.

I wonder why they released that video, though. Do they need more funding? Is it semi-faked to scare off would-be villains? Are the real things way better, and is this a diversion?
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Nothing. I was just pointing out the fact that the low life expectancy doesn't necessarily mean that people were less healthy. In fact, they might've been even healthier than we are (more active, a varied diet, etc...).
It's like this. You control half of a country. Your Rival controls the other half. Now you both announce to release your half to form a single country but who should rule? If you let your Rival decide, you can bet it's gonna be "his man" and thus in all future dealings, the country would be his ally. Your rival thinks the same way. Hence the dispute. So even if you WANT to be nice and leave it, how can you be sure that the guy who ends up ruling the place isn't your rival's man? So you have a huge reason in staying around and make sure nothing of the sort happens.

Conclusion: Divided States
> So, that culture stuff you're speaking of? It's bullshit. Ultimately it's a method of getting you to do the bidding of others. It's not about you at all. No one is looking out for you, and while you may feel like you're part of a team, that team has no loyalty to you. If you stop performing at peak level for even a couple months then your prospects will be severely harmed.

> Employees get to feel proud they've literally sacrificed part of their life to help someone else succeed.

Your tone suggests outrage but you're just describing the nature of competition. You are agreeing to trade your time and skills for money. "Getting you to do the bidding of others" is a cynical way to put it, but if a certain type of team building yields good results why would a company not go down that path? Of course you're going to be replaced if the you aren't producing the results you were hired for, this is the nature of competition. There is no fair or unfair. Employees are not sacrificing part of their life for someone else, they're trading their time to someone else. No one is forcing anyone to be a game developer.
Does science need a bitcoin?
What if there was an electronic coin in which it's network were to actually solve real world computational problems relating to science.

Let's say a cure for a disease can only be found using a computer model, they could put a bounty on that cure and when that cure is discovered all the clients running the algorithm would be rewarded with a share of that solution.

Say it takes 1000 blocks to solve a problem worth $1m dollars you get a 1000th of the $1m bounty.

Those sciencecoins would have no value until the solution is found though.
Skyscraper generates Archimedes death ray.
All you need is call/cc
Or http://erlangonxen.org/ which does away with a "traditional" OS entirely, running an erlang runtime directly on top of Xen.
A reusable Settings component for iOS
.Net runs in various places. Under IIS, you're thinking of Application Pools http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3868612/what-is-an-iis-ap...
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I agree, but many programmers start programming to make games. If that's still what you want to do by the time you graduate, that's possibly a dream you've been working on for 10+ years.

If you're offered a bottom-level job at a great studio, these are often presented as a stepping stone to said dream, so many people end up there and stay until they're drained.

Again, I can't testify that this is the case for Rockstar, but I know it's the case with some other major studio's.
When I was in a long-distance relationship a couple of years ago and couldn't SMS internationally without re-mortgaging, we made heavy use of an Android app called Kik which also had this very useful feature. It had four indicators, if I remember correctly. "..." meant it was pending and you were having network/signal issues, "S" meant the Kik server had received it from your network, and the "D" and "R" were delivered and read.

I didn't know Google Hangouts had it. How does it display the read indicator? I find the interface a little... obtuse, to say the least!
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Just to say, I graduated a year ago from a non-US school with a bar in the main building. Everybody was fine.
That's very interesting. I foresee a problem with capacity. If you keep everything around eventually you won't be able to move anymore. I'm so happy that I'm beginning to forget some of the stuff from my childhood, to keep carrying that along forever seems like a huge weight. Forgetting is just like remembering: a blessing and a curse at the same time. It would be really nice if our minds could actively forget something (like a file delete on a file system), right now it seems to be mostly governed by some caching rule where the last stage of the cache is /dev/null.

By committing it all to paper (and presumably, by re-reading it) you fire up all those neurons periodically which will lead to you thwarting the garbage collection process. As a consequence eventually you'll either run out of room or possibly end up with mental issues (inability to acquire new stuff or inability to focus due the large number of associations running out from each thought you have).

There is a cost associated with this map making, still, I'm very much tempted to try it to see what the positive effects are.
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This sort of thing could be done almost as easily without the drone. For example, the 1991 Mortar attack on the British Prime Minister:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_Street_mortar_attack

It's worth noting that his response was "democracies cannot be intimidated by terrorism". Our current politicians are more craven.
Any way to just install the codec on OSX? I don't want this 300mb app with crapware. I just want to watch the movie.