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I have to say - after trying to simply play a 2-player game of Portal 2 with a friend over the Internet and having so much go wrong, I don't have a lot of faith that they'll be able to maintain an operating system.

We see constant problems just trying to download the same map. Sometimes the game just shoves us over to a screen with no options and the game has to be force-quit to exit it. Other times it crashes during loading. It won't download to both of our computers at the same time, so it downloads to one first, then, only after the first one has finished, to the other. On those rare occasions that we actually get into the game, there are lots of glitches. I mean, when it works it's really fun, but the number of problems that occur along the way is just phenomenal. It's like using software from the 80s again. It's terrible.
How are you measuring performance?

The 10x concept contains not only the work but the decisions. Not just how to build something, but what to build.

For example, people other than Linus Torvalds can code at the level needed to write and maintain git--as evidenced by the fact that other people do that now; he has handed the project off.

But the creation of git included the conception of git--the many decisions about what he would build, and why it should be that way. Those decisions, coupled with solid coding, have resulted in a massive productivity multiplier for many thousands of people.
What's the point of being a 10X engineer somewhere, if you don't own the IP? It sounds like a way to make someone else rich off your hard work.
They are almost definitely going to use some sort of streaming similar to OnLive. If OnLive can beam playable game streams across the internet and all its attendant issues, then they definitely can manage to stream it across your in-home wireless/wired network.
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How is the 3 year reserved instance practical given Amazon tends to cut prices significantly in a 3 year span? I've seen 1 year terms make sense but never 3 year.
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I don't read nonfiction the same way most people do. I do multi-pass. I first read the table of contents, then skim the intro pages for each chapter, then skim the whole book, and then finally actually "read" the book. It is weird to people who are used to only the last part, but it lets you see the whole picture beforehand and most importantly it lets you know where to pay attention the most.

Ferriss does that stuff because he wanted to sell books as much as possible. He even chose the name of the book by a/b testing. That stuff is line noise, and I am sure he knows that it is, but it sells millions more copies because of it.

So I would say try the reading approach I mentioned. There is a lot of filler, but there is a lot of good content. I would say the most useful thing is the dreamline idea, it a good approach to goal definition, a lot better than any sort of bucket list and such. I do it somewhat differently than he outlines in the book, but I still do it every month, and it has helped me accomplish a lot more.
I think the danger of the myth arrives from the idea that one can label some engineers as consistently 10X better than their peers, regardless of the actual tasks, personal lives, health, etc.
I make about $200-$300 per evening during Halloween. I go around to websites that list trick or treat times, I am short, dress like a ghost and collect candy for free than re-resell to convenience stores.
http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/ind...
Very interesting, column and row store in memory.
Yay, the 80s UNIX wars all over again:

http://www.bell-labs.com/history/unix/wars.html
I find it very worrisome that the government views online anonymous postings on a private website as advertisement to be enforced by public agencies.

But, I guess it's no different than the government regulating anonymous online speech about stocks.
Probably just placeholder. Usually they'll link to the videos of the talks the speakers gave that day.
There are moments when, in the first video, the video update stops happening, and there is obvious audio clipping involved. In the second video, the audio cuts out completely for me about mid-way through. I think both compositions break the limits of MIDI software that is being asked to render them.
One way to measure productivity is how fast you can create what the marketing people want. I can't think of any way better than that, and it's really ambiguous.
I believe that was one of the points of the article. "10x Engineer" is being thrown around as another euphemism for "Rockstar" or "Ninja" without any true meaning.
I worked at another Canadian company called Corel back in 2002 that went through a similar takeover. Company with a large cash position relative to the take over price, taken private by a Fund with the intention of being taken public again in a few years after costs were under control.

If that experience was any indication of whats to come then life at BBRY is about to become atlot less fun.

When a fund comes in they have a window for which they want to see a return( ie go public again or sell). In such cases any expense that can't be directly traced to adding to the bottom line will be mercilessly cut.

Good by Friday afternoon beers, employee sports teams, Christmas parties, bonuses, T-Shirts, etc.

The MO for takeovers like this is similar to a house flipper, they aren't looking to do the right thing for the long term, they'd rather do what can be done to make things look good for the next 2-3 years.

They understand( or believe) that employees will stick around in the short term( and put up with this stuff) if they believe an IPO is only a few years away.

As someone who sits on the other side of the table now at a fund, I've seen it happen from both sides now.
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With the streaming support, I'm assuming you'll get immediate access to everything that's playable on your PC. It's not a perfect solution, but certainly helps with the adoption issue.
There was also the case of the prisoners smuggling cell phones into prison via pigeons.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/29980598/ns/world_news-weird_news/...
Then the mythology is worthless. The focus should then be on eliminating bad engineers, not to go chasing after unicorns. Or even more importantly, figure out why some "10X" become "0X", or vice versa.
John Carmack was 10x.
Any word on why it's taking manufacturers so long to get Haswell-based devices out?
Steam already has most of the xbox live functionality. Friends list, messaging, voice chat, online store. I think the only major missing piece is probably 'parties' though maybe that's in there (I've never had much of a need for it personally).
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The negative charge on spider silk has also recently been discovered to enhance the ability of webs to capture insects:

http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/07/04/spider-webs-more-e...
Could the anti-network effect be addressed by targeting niche markets? A renewed focus on Enterprise, for example, or a marketing strategy that paints them as a "premium" consumer choice.
Consultants often make more than IP owners. Owning the IP and leveraging it is only one viable business model.
I hadn't thought about Fabric in forever - Thanks for the reminder, I'll check it out again! It looks like it might be the perfect level of abstraction/automation with a minimum of magic.
What if the same mindset that leads to an engineer being a "10x" engineer also lead them to be generally less capable of handling all the non-programming tasks on their own?
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While the article correctly highlights the lack of rigorous scientific studies on 10x engineers, it also generalizes a bit too much from anecdote to make the argument that they are mythical creatures. A more reasonable argument is that the hypothetical existence of 10x engineers explains little about the productivity of most organizations.

Personally, in the couple decades I have been in this business working in countless companies in Silicon Valley, I have met a few individuals that I think could be accurately characterized as 10x engineers. An important point is that they are not productive at just one type of development but genuine computer science and software engineering polymaths. They are incredibly rare but they do exist for all practical purposes. People that are 10x engineers never seem to think of themselves that way, it is how the other engineers think of them. It advertises itself; if you have to tell people you are a 10x engineer, "ninja", "rockstar", etc then you probably are not.

I will add that none of the 10x engineers I worked with were burning the candle at both ends. They did not work particularly hard compared to everyone else, they were just extraordinarily effective and consistent at making excellent choices in an engineering context and always worked very well with most engineering teams they needed to work with. I've never seen any of these guys burn out, they've been doing it for decades.

I would also suggest that it takes quite a few years of diversified experience before you can be a legit 10x engineer. Consistently making excellent choices requires both breadth and depth of knowledge and experience that you simply can't develop in less than a decade.
Small stakes, but completely passive. About ~$500/mo from Adsense on what are essentially niche long-tail SEO targeted yellow-page-like regional sites for very specific verticals. Not a lot of money, but I haven't touched them since 2007 (when they were averaging closer to $800/mo). Initial investment was mostly time doing research, implementing, and SEO stuff. Also experimenting: abandoning failed sites or improving ones with potential. Now the successful ones are completely passive sources of income and the only expenses are hosting and domain renewal.

Right now I'm working on a more substantial side-project that will provide an actual service that hopefully people will actually want to use and subscribe to for their businesses. It will require more maintenance and time and monetary investment, but in the long run should be much more satisfying and potentially bring in more income.
Having worked on the particular issue of streaming real-time video over wireless, I can say that the main issue is not link latency.

The main lag comes from encoding/decoding. If you do it naively you encode frame-per-frame (encoding slices is more difficult), and the encoder does not only outputs iframes: you get partial frames that depend on both previous and future frames. Also the decoder does not always output frames in order. So you have to expect something around ~10 frames of latency, maybe less if you optimize everything well enough. That still means easily more than 100ms of lag.

The network is really not the main issue here.
What was wrong with his statement about theorems?
I suspect Blackberry is a dying platform, but it's IP and licenses have value.

This seems like your textbook acquire, split and sell.
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You say your dev's local development environment is different to prod. Are you guys letting each dev set up their own environment by hand, or have you provided a Puppet or Chef repo that they can clone and have an exact replica up and running within minutes with Vagrant?
Almost the same :-)

Cast doubt on a Dear Leader's idea and all of the sudden you're shipped to a gulag or to the firing squad. Just like that....enemy of the people, support the US imperialists...trying to sabotage socialism, etc.

Ask an Eastern European or Russian that lived through the communist times.
Neat, I've seen your site on /r/malefashionadvice.

Since your site is focused on men, you should try and filter out women's products in your shop section.

Example for a search on "sperry" topsiders: http://dressed.so/shop?q=sperry

I'm guessing that mixing in women's products will hurt your conversion rate for affiliate products. If your affiliate network can't filter like that, you may want to check out http://prosperent.com/ or http://www.cj.com
Even if the 10x engineer were to exist, assuming a normal distribution, they would be extremely rare and highly sought after. To optimise your business around hiring such a precious unicorn would seem like a very foolhardy strategy. For one, simple probability suggests that you probably won't find one. And if you were to find one, could you be certain that it were a real unicorn rather than a horse with a plastic cone stuck to its forehead? And even then, what happens to the business you've built around it when your prized unicorn is stolen or passes away?

There are probably no 10x engineers, but I'm quite sure there are 10x teams. Better to focus on growing one of those than chasing a fairy tale.
My reply was mainly aimed at the example posted here, really how often will a Dog Walker's set of Dogs change? Keep in mind that transactions can have retries too, so it's not enough for 2 requests to collide, it needs to be entity groups with > 1 write per second for that to be an issue.

But beyond that, there are other app engine tools like task queues, which can make dealing with contention pretty easy.
"I'm from Waterloo and I can tell you that the general impression from the town and the people working there is very positive"

If your definition of positive is the same condition that afflicts the posters & commenters on Crackberry.com, I think a more appropriate word would be "delusional." They've been positive & upbeat all along during BBRY's spiraling death march.

With all due respect, I've yet to read ONE story out of Canada about Blackberry that was not plagued by misplaced sentimentalism, or economic nationalism. Just a couple days ago, I was mesmerized to watch a very somber Peter Mansbridge interrogate his panel of journalists aboutwhat RIM's demise meant for Canadian identity....crazy stuff.
at building video game engines. Do you think he'd be 10X at building CRUD application after CRUD application?
Speech is free right up to where it interferes with others' freedoms and liberties, which is why we have slander/libel laws, etc.

The medium doesn't exempt people from those laws.
Is there a usable handwriting recognizer which can deal with heavy math notation?
How do you decide what sort of thing to make in order to sell well in a marketplace like this?
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Those that were protesting social justice articles being posted, where are you for this article?

(not personally complaining about either one, just want to check the perspective)
Actually. Apple was really late to the market with the iPad. Microsoft had been doing tablets for 8 years before Apple came along (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Tablet_PC).

Apple was the first to bring down the price, make it holdable (in your hand), give it a battery that you don't need to worry about. Give it apps that were only designed for touch.

Android is iterating as much as Apple is. They will probably keep iterating until some big hardware breakthrough, maybe when someone releases a ARM86 (compatible ARM and x86 processor)? One major breakthrough of the original iphone was smooth finger tracking made available by the new capitative touch screen.
The beauty of Android is how easy you can create a new developer account and test out some ideas.
I'm not sure how the reviewers themselves violated laws against fraud. If anything, the businesses that paid for the reviews violated said laws.
Input latency is going to be <1ms. The payload is tiny and will fit in a single packet, and if your LAN's latency is more than 1ms your LAN is bad and you should feel bad.

Audio & Video, on the other hand, is more interesting. Let's assume everything is running at 60fps. Your encoder is therefore not adding any more than 16ms (if it was more, it wouldn't be keeping up and therefore not doing 60fps - it could definitely be less, though). Blu-ray is 48mbit/s, but for 24fps (youtube 's 1080p is ~8mbit for comparison). Let's take that same 48mbit/s, but adjust for 60fps instead. 1 frame would therefore be 0.8 mbit, or 100KB. If your network can do 48mbit/s, your video latency would therefore be 16ms. If your network is faster, though, the latency drops proportionally. Even a cell phone can do 100mbit/s on wifi, which would be 8ms of latency. A gigabit network would transfer that 0.8mbit needed in about a millisecond.

So your total latency of input, encoding, and transmission of the frame would be 32ms at most, and if you have a fast network & computer it could actually be down in the 5ms or less range.
Ultimately, what other choice does Valve have? Every single other company is coming out with its own "App Store" - few are exclusive at this point, but the tide might turn that way (already I believe Microsoft and Apple have taken steps that have made it more difficult for Steam).

That said, OpenGL is an increasingly relevant player due to WebGL, mobile devices, Apple's growing market share, etc. It is also possible to simultaneously target OpenGL and DirectX with things like ANGLE. If your game is written in OpenGL, it is relatively easy to port to different operating systems, assuming you don't rely heavily on platform-specific libraries (and if you already support Mac, it is typically even easier to port to other *nix-based platforms). If the XBox One is OGL capable (via its Windows layer), porting could get even easier.

To top it off, I'm pretty sure it will get support from at least of the few big engines: ID Tech, Unreal, Unity, and CryEngine all seem to be potential candidates. 90+ percent of games use one of these engines.
> Good by Friday afternoon beers, employee sports teams, Christmas parties, bonuses, T-Shirts, etc.

Considering they lost $1,000,000 in the last 90 days I would assume it hasn't been a very fun place to work at in a while. Maybe you could ask one of the 4,500 people they just laid off?
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I suspect it's because "Delivered a new UI experience for Gmail" sounds great at review time. People get rewarded for delivering features and a new UI for an existing product is relatively easy vs. trying to create a solution for a whole new problem.

Unfortunately I don't see an easy answer to this.
YES. What the 10X myth hurt most is probably hiring practices.
Does anybody have a read on how many browser-based password managers are going to be affected? (if any)
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In other words, Schneier's not disputing the facts, but suggesting we ascribe different value to them.

I've seen arguments like the president's called "true lies." A technical truth that obscures the larger more relevant issue.

In this case, the real issue that people care about is that the government knows stuff about them that they expect to be private information. Whether they got that information via eavesdropping, metadata analysis or some other technique is largely irrelevant to the issue that makes people uncomfortable with the current state of affairs.
You really need a 600 dpi screen to do math notes.

I used to do math notes on my ipad goodnotes since it has a zoom window.
Nitpick: Kerch isn't a center of anything, it's just a "bridge" from Crimea to Russian Caucasus. Having a real bridge there would boost tourism and exports.
It's kind of funny. Some libertarians who want economic freedom might actually be against it. And I am for it, even though I am in favor of a welfare state with safety nets. I guess it's all about what we are faced with on a day to day basis.
In case it came out wrong ... I'm not complaining about novelty. I'm merely wondering if I missed something given that so many news outlets are talking about it :)
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This was my thought also. Offer $100 in games with the console, or release hl3 only on the console.

I'm really glad you guys pointed out this was a console launch because I tried to point it out on reddit and got shut down...

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1mywq0/steamos_annou...
Interesting that it wasn't announced anywhere, but during a Reddit AMA, the VP in charge of the Surface said an LTE model was coming early next year.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1mz20e/hi_im_panos_pan...
Hiring has always been a two way street, but in technology the scales are usually tipped against the hiring company. It's simply a numbers game -- there are far more mediocre and poor developers than good ones, and in the current environment, the good ones can basically get hired to work wherever they want.

The co-working trial is an attempt to make the scale more favorable for the company. I can understand the desire for this, but in the current environment, it's almost guaranteed to backfire, as the best developers simply won't put up with it. No amount of wishful thinking on the part of the company is going to change this.
"In-home Streaming"

This one is going to be the killer I think - it means two things to me.

1. Not everything has to be ported to Linux straight out of the gate.

2. Its going straight on my living room machine! I've been waiting for the ability to use my beafy gaming PC (which is at a desk, with a keyboard and mouse) to drive games on the TV for a long time.
Listening to ambient rain increases productivity
Worse than an outage, I got this dreaded email from Google a few hours ago. I hope there isn't some sort of attack going on:

Someone recently tried to use an application to sign in to your Google Account - xxx@gmail.com.

We prevented the sign-in attempt in case this was a hijacker trying to access your account.
I live in Beijing, the first thing the thief will do here is take the sim out and wipe the phone. They will also hawk the phone as soon as possible to maximize turnover, so it's usually possible to buy your stolons phone back within the hour.
Not really, that's accounts receivable. They also have $3.4 billion in liabilities.
Because people are being approached and told misleading crap by fly-by-night companies. At least they were, when the blue sky laws were enacted in the 30s.

The real regulation, imho, should be around truth in advertising and representation. There's not enough of that.
Wild guess: google routes non-latency-critical US traffic like SMTP outside the US so the NSA's beam splitters can more easily claim intercepted domestic data as "international".
Also related is the myth that "an engineer" is a fungible resource. They are not. It's not one problem space. You can't swap engineers around like that, you have to match skill sets and experience to the problems you're having, or build new skills.
Being 10X for a short duration is much easier than maintaining 10X over years. And also, are these people successful in terms of personal fitness and health? Is their home clean? Do they have good relationships with their family and friends? Do they spend time socializing, or do they spend all their time working? If being 10X is true, why haven't they figured out how to get rich yet?
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We prevented the sign-in attempt in case this was a hijacker trying to access your account.
You could do this already for years with Apple TV and Airplay mirror. The real problem is that of controls, mouse and keyboard don't match well with couch
Yes, $750 is about one engineer-day. Someone is now going to be spending at least a full day per month managing your new hardware, running security patches, etc. Even if your sysadmin guy is cheaper than an "engineer" it's not going to be cheap.
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https://github.com/nudgepad

No affiliation; that was just the first thing I looked for before even reading the blog post or crowd-funding page.