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The series that that clip is from ("When We Left Earth") is soul stirring throughout. It's one of the most inspirational things I've ever seen. And it's on Netflix! They should really show it in schools, it's incredible.

Link: http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/When_We_Left_Earth_The_NAS...
The variance in JIT optimizations will be much wider than the variance in compiling C code to NACL compliant x86 code. In one case, you have varying implementations of a runtime compiler, in the other, you have a single compiler known to the game-dev ahead of time, what varies in the sandbox hit.

Yes, pepper is an abstraction, but you get concurrency primitives which is lower level than asm.js.

The reality is, neither asm.js nor NaCl are going to succeed in getting the gamedev community onto the web platform. The two most popular platforms, iOS and Android, have native SDKs, and so do the consoles and desktops, so any developer who wants to maximize revenue is going to want to target those. The additional headache of a browser port onto a heavily fragmented platform with unpredictable performance, and an audience that has shown little appetite for paying for web apps pretty much guarantee that this whole asm.js vs NaCL debate is moot.

Developers just don't care about runtime portability as far as games are concerned. They will do the work to do a source port for optimal performance if the market is there.

Does Electronic Arts or Valve care about getting Battlefield 4 or Portal 2 running in the browser in a portable way? I highly doubt it.
I have this problem "knowing whether an idea is worth spending time or even possible". I you are not sure if an idea is worth spending time on ask some friends what they think about it. Just some questions I ask myself: Is the idea something that people need? Would it be a good learning experience? Would I use it? Is it fun or entertaining? People spend a lot of money on entertainment and some take advantage of these extremely well. Better than I, for sure. Everything is possible the technology exists. If it doesn't, how can it exist?

I just ask myself a lot of questions, but the down side is I hardly finish the projects I start. With all the information available and ideas floating it is hard to stay on the rail.
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It also depends on how your Gatekeeper settings are set; mine are set to "Mac App store and indentified developers". The OS alerted me that the kexts were unsigned, it said it would load them anyway.
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Or:

ruby -e 'puts ARGF.sort' file.txt

Also, this reads stdin if the argument is omitted.
I've encountered a number of studies using randomly put together groups which are rewarded based on performance of some task - organically select a leader based on display of confidence, rather than competence.

I reason that it is not uncommon to assume competence from an extroverted person. I can't really argue with that, it's a fact, use whatever card you got dealt to get ahead.

I am just bemoaning the fact that slowly but surely the field becomes skewed towards that, losing a good amount of original core values in the process.

Hasn't something similar already happened to academia for example?
Agreed. Quite a few high-strength steel alloys contain Vanadium as well.
im no engineer but from a marketers stand point you may want to team up with someone that evangelizes your product and is willing to push it themselves... also if you are willing to pay a finders fee or commission on the sell there are a ton of marketers that have an existing list to sell to, whether it be webmasters, business owners or tech people in general. depending what it is you may be able to find some cheap platforms to run ads on, again, a marketer would point you in the right direction if you are willing to share the profits, even if it is a single digit percent. good luck!
You can do marketing and sales yourself.

In fact, since you can't afford to pay anyone to do it for you, you have to do marketing yourself.

Writing a decent product website isn't that hard.

For motivation, start by reading http://successfulsoftware.net/2013/10/16/marketing-hacking-t...

Then learn the basics of marketing (it's not rocket science) and apply the things you learn in practice.
I think he means SIFT. I'm not aware of SHIFT either, and a look at his PAMI paper shows use of color features as well as various SIFT features.
I remember a book I had when I was young that had all these inventions. Many of them were actually plausible, but they were all a little farfetched, and most were the sort of "inventions" or little life hacks a child might think up.

One of them was a very fine mesh in a resealable pouch for you to put food in, so you could taste it and feel it, but you wouldn't swallow it. It was pretty absurd, but I figured you should know that somebody's working on it.
No, I'm really not. All I'm saying is it's a similarly audacious, capital-intensive strategy that can only happen in very favorable capital markets.

It's worth looking at how PayPal tried to steer towards profitability in later days, though. They basically became more evil. When paying merchants, they try to trick you into preferring ACH transfers direct from your checking account over using your credit/debit card. The former has weaker consumer protections, no rewards and risks overdraft fees, but lets PayPal keep almost all of their 2.9% + $0.30 fee, since ACH costs just pennies.

Not saying Square is going to become evil. Just saying they'll have to figure out how to break even with it eventually, because right now there's a built-in operational loss that scales with usage.
I just hope they dont fall down as a option when Google come up with a buy offer..

For users, developers and the society in general, competition and options are a good thing..

I cant say i didnt feel sad when Waze was bought.. with more time and effort no product would bare to stand against it
As you say those are implementation details.

We also can't have any meaningful discussion using your definition. What does "polluting the execution environment" mean? Are we restricting the discussion to platforms/languages where "stdin" has a meaning?

By it's nature, a scripting language's job is to "pollute it's environment", i.e. to perform some modification of the state of the system it is scripting. A scripting language is most certainly not a "filter", something that takes some input via a pipe and produces some output.
Agreed. Personally; if I'm giving an interview and the candidate were to walk out for something like that I would be thinking, "Glad they walked out; I really would rather not work with that asshole."
OK, so let's break this down. How does a person get to the Olympics?

First they have to get a spot on an Olympic team. Since you asked about track and field, let's consider that.

First you have to go through the "trials" for your country. When you run a sanctioned race (i.e., a real competitive race with timekeeping, not a 5K beer run or whatever) if you run it fast enough you might post a qualifying time.

http://www.usatf.org/events/2012/OlympicTrials-TF/entry/qual...

The A time is the "A"utomatic, "you're allowed to come to the trials" time. The B is the "B"ackup - we'll invite you to the trials if you are consistently hitting B times and there aren't enough A people.

If you post an A time (or enough B times), you'll be able to attend the US Olympics track and field trials. You go there and run like a mad man or woman against the best athletes in the country. If you are fast enough, congrats - you're going to the Olympics!

But how fast is "fast enough"?

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A 5K is a pretty common race, right? How fast can you do it? I'm lucky if I can do it in 30 minutes, but I'm a big blubbery programmer.

The B time for a 5K is 13:50.

Let's look at some times for 5Ks. Here's a big one with lots of finishers:

http://www.albanyrunningexchange.org/results/search.php?ID=3...

The fastest runners aren't even close.

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OK, not a 5K. Let's consider another data point. The NYC & Boston Marathons attract major talent.

http://www.runnersworld.com/races/tougher-standards-for-2016...

There aren't even B standards for men. You have to run a marathon in 2:18 to go to the trials.

http://raceday.baa.org/top-finishers.html
http://www.ingnycmarathon.org/Results.htm

The top 15 are already almost falling outside the qualifying. Do you think any of your friends can finish in the top 15 of the Boston Marathon? I know a guy who has been running all his life, who trained his ass off and ran the Boston Marathon in 2:50 a few years ago - he finished in the top one percent for the race, but that is nowhere near Olympic trial times.

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What about a nice sprint? The 800M A time is 1:46.50, and the B time is 1:48.30. Not too long, or so it seems...

http://www.tfrrs.org/results/31188_1946804.html

The best college athletes in the country aren't even automatically qualifying. But hey, ~a man and a dream~, right?

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This entire idea is beyond ludicrous. No one's going to "hack their way to the Olympics", especially a 36 year old that is nowhere near their peak physical condition & has limited experience in the sport.
Does spending two weeks together constitute one "seeing"?
How many weekly Skype sessions constitute one "seeing"?

Cheer-up folks! It's not like we are all soldiers during First World War.
Just trying to be helpful, the word is 'ado' and not 'adieu' in the phrase 'without further ado.'
If $1.3M can cover 50, they should fund reproducing 500, or even 5000.

I suspect that many pure science studies are relatively easier to reproduce since it's more about basic properties. If you're getting into medicine, it's more expensive because you may need to reproduce trials. Psychology even more so because the tests are so soft. But of course psych and medical studies are the ones most in need of replication.
That's what I was thinking, counselor.
Don't forget the quotes...

sort < "$1" > "$2"
That's actually a good point I have not though of before. I considered your Github account to be the place where you'd show off your l33t sk1llz, as opposed to show off code similar to the code you'd write during interviews.
Scala's complexity is a serious problem. I once overheard a conversation between two people (one of them family) who implemented a 'binding' for a distributed key-value store in Scala. One complained that he couldn't even understand the other person's code. The difference: one library treated Scala as a Java with classes, while the other was written in a very functional style using Scalaz.

That complexity (or different flavors if you will) has also been a reason for me to stop writing Scala. I don't want to leave behind maintenance hells for whoever has to modify my code in five years. Java may be verbose, but its simplicity (if you avoid the big frameworks) and standardisation (JAX-RS, etc.) does help to keep things understandable and predictable.

That said, I do use Akka a lot and like the Typesafe Console. Other than that, I am keeping a distance for now, and put my bets on Java 8 or Kotlin.
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Of course not, and neither is Pierre, I'm guessing, which is why I assume they're bankrolling others to do the writing. Paul's 'twitter fight me' attitude is a turn off, but at least he very rarely writes anything.
From olympic.org:

>"What is Olympism?

"Olympism is a philosophy of life, exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will and mind. Blending sport with culture and education, Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.

"The goal of the Olympic Movement is to contribute to building a peaceful and better world by educating youth through sport practiced without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play."

Sounds like what he is doing follows the spirit of Olympism.
Thanks for weighing in, Ben.

I built it for the ideal user, I have a second one that is a luke-warm lead in the pipeline but currently getting screwed by a vendor who shall remain nameless. The problem is, these sub-par vendors have been around and have strong marketing, I have no marketing, and we both know marketing is what gets people's attention first.

I actually have one system integrator for the product this connects to interested, and I'd love to get more of them on board with it and selling it to their customers as well.
I don't want to nitpick but 100 kilometers a day for a 70 year old, sounds pretty impossible...thats about 7 hours of non stop riding every day at a modest speed, even a fit college student won't be able to bike for 7 hours straight.

Edit: I do agree that a fit student can do a 7 hour bike tour, but i still staand by my opinion that for 70 year old it seems to be impossible.
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Actually, there are a number of places with large Lanthanoid deposits, but since China was supplying them so cheap, the mines were not economical. Now that China is tightening supplies, they have reopened the California mine in Mountain Pass that used to be a major supplier.
> You can't "choose" to not have partitions any more than you can "choose" to never have hard drives fail.

That also struck me a little shady. Surely wait for them to explain that one.

BTW there is a fill-in-the blanks form for this created by Fred Hebert, it might apply here I am afraid:

http://ferd.ca/beating-the-cap-theorem-checklist.html
Love this! Was in a coding interview once where they just gave you a problem and you were given laptop and time to code out a solution using whatever you would normally use ie stack overflow. First interview I've had where I felt like it was a fair test of my programming capabilities.

Of course this requires that you design the question in a way that is not completely google-able, but real world programming is not just about solving a trick question but being able to be resourceful enough to find a real working solution.
Wow, did not know that domestic US flights cost that much. I hope you earn well above 100k!
I like that it still has the source in it as if they told the website to not accept 0 :)

You need to input a number larger than 0.

Source: World Health Organisation Life Expectancy Data (2011).
I have worked at my current job for 3 months. I've seen alcohol served 2-3 times during town hall style meetings. And yes, some people get drunk. I do not work at a tech company but rather at a cosmetics company, at least half of the employees are women.

I would not be surprised if there were a few lushes at the office who keep a bottle in their desks. Our culture is pretty laid back. But I imagine it would tighten up pretty quickly should an incident occur.

I wouldn't rule out serving alcohol at the office, but make sure everybody's really cool with each other first. If you had an instinctive reaction like "oh of course everyone's cool!", then they're not and you're about to find out what it's like to be Michael Scott.
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You could also do it twice. Once with both inputs as your dad's age and the average number of times you see your dad and the other for your mom, to get separate estimates for each.
Agreed on both counts. I got tired of hitting "suspend for an hour" every single goddamn hour, so I had to tell it I live somewhere in the middle of nowhere. that aligns more with my ideal sleep habits.
This article suggests that's a bad idea:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/how-the-bible-and-yo...
Is this a joke? I thought that's actually how it's supposed to work.
I was accepted into Fullstack Academy, a NYC bootcamp that is one of the schools this article is about. I'm currently a programming intern at Thinkful, an ed-tech startup in NY.

> The bootcamp model gives you an "intensive" course good enough so that you're able to build a shitty web app, and then they hopefully place you in a job needing a code monkey.

Everyone writes shitty code when they first start. Building shitty web apps is better than building no web apps, which is what most beginners do. Bootcamps force you to build stuff early, and building is the best way to learn. Your 5th web app won't be so shitty.

> Personally I'm against charging to teach others how to code. If people come to the profession with drive and passion, I believe it should be free. I wasn't charged when I first asked how to code.

This is an idealistic fantasy. Sure, learning to code for free is better than learning to code for $12k. But human labor is scarce and people don't work for free.

> I also think good programming is a journey, not something that can be consumed and digested in a compacted 12-week course.

Agree. I see bootcamps as the third step on a journey to becoming an entry-level developer. The 1st phase is with online resources like CodeAcademy and CodeSchool, the 2nd with mentor-led part-time courses like Thinkful, and the 3rd with bootcamps or apprenticeships. The 4th phase is all the learning you should be doing on the job ;-)
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holy shit this is the most depressing I ever experienced. You've effectively ruined thousands of ycombinator visitors but reminded them of the raw truth.

my mind is blown. I was so afraid to click it. but I did it anyways I am going through major guilt trip right now it's going to ruin the rest of my day, or is it?

This site is hella effective. I decided I need to focus on shifting away from business pursuits, and devote my time to family. IT's fucking amazing isn't it. god damn. I want to cry.

I swear to god if people starts buying my software I'm gonna buy them something really nice.
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HuffPo is capable of only biased media coverage. The Guardian is hardly a guardian of anything. The reality is that any sort of journalism, unless highly competitive and forcibly constrained to be accurate, is going to degenerate into agenda and propaganda. And only with Edward Snowden-type whistleblowing will politics be kept at arm's length as regards news reporting. Does anybody remember the shame of the New York Times after 9/11 and how the paper was a microphone for Washington? The old Grey Lady was for a time a very willing and anything goes prostitute. Washington said jump, and the NYTimes somersaulted.
Will the ironic twist be that his real goal was to get in a documentary movie, and that pretending to want to be in the Olympics was just a "hack"?
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This trickery may work on Reddit (I know you're from Reddit because you use carets to denote quotations), but allow me to repeat myself:

Why hasn't anyone done a study on specifically what f.lux attempts to do? Sure, light at night causes people problems sleeping, but does f.lux actually make a difference? Can we quantify that difference in a way that controls for the fanboy (formerly known as placebo) effect?
> It's the only standard for file transfer we have

No, its not.

> Why does it have to die?

Because its problematic in a whole lot of ways, and FTPS doesn't help much for most of them. [1] identifies a lot of them (in the context of implementing a MacFUSE filesystem, but the issues apply to most applications.)

> (NOTE: WebDav has even more issues but that's the only other standard.)

You keep using that word "only"; I do not think it means what you think it means.

WebDAV certainly has issues, though its probably less bad, on balance, than FTP/FTPS, but the more commonly used alternative for FTP/FTPS isn't WebDAV but SFTP (the SSH File Transfer Protocol, not the Simple File Transfer Protocol.)

[1] http://blog.expandrive.com/2009/02/02/ftp-considered-harmful...
Nitpick: China doesn't have a monopoly on rare earth metals, they just have the least restrictive policies on mining them, and they won't export the raw materials which forces companies to bring their processing operations into china.

The US has plenty of rare earths, they just always come up with thorium, which regulators regard as a nuclear waste that must be disposed of at exorbitant cost to the mine operators.
It is actually called CINT.

http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/cint
Technically it's not in the set of rare earth metals, though it is rare (at least in naturally occurring and isolated form).
My god, we are old, Thomas. This is what most graybeards must feel like.
I don't think Scala and clojure are in competition. I perceive Scala as a practical enhancement for Java built for performance and maintainability/tooling. I see Clojure as more of an architects language, great for high level exploration of ideas.

I'm learning both and really like both. I do wish that clojurescript was as easily developed as clojure is. I think scala-js seems to be the stronger of the ->js projects. Scala-js now also supports the closure compiler which makes for nice small distributions; this is compelling in the age of html5.
Not a rare earth element.
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At my day job many of our users work in IT environments where the two allowed browsers are Chrome and IE, and a lot of them are still on windows XP, so this is a really good thing.

Chrome support wouldn't be so important if there was a more modern IE available on XP.
I'm surprised when someone tells me that are keeping money in a checking or low-interest savings account rather than paying off credit card debt. For whatever reasons they believe this is a common-sensible thing to do.

Because the amount of money you "have" (for spending, emergencies, whatever) is what's in the checking account rather than that plus the remaining credit line on your card, and there's an element of fear/panic about running out (and I guess getting hit with overdraft fees). That fear/panic means that logic suddenly doesn't apply.
"respect for universal fundamental ethical principles."

That's something I can get behind!
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also, i just found this... it may help, again, good luck http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/blog-promotion/99-ways-to-pro...
Asking this question in a real interview, if the candidate missed the summation approach and used an array to keep counts, I'd simply say "That sounds good. What if we were really worried about memory use? Could we do it with less memory?"

This is what it's supposed to feel like when Interview Cake offers the "gotcha" that we can solve the problem with O(1) additional memory after you say you have an answer, before showing you the final solution. In real life I wouldn't fault the candidate for needing the nudge.

Another flow I've considered is to make the question multi-part, with the second part (the "follow-up" question) adding the O(1) time constraint. I'm worried that with this flow, in the case where you do jump right to the summation approach, the app will feel naive because it will pose a whole new question that you've already answered.

So far I think the best approach is to keep the current flow but use a less harsh word than "gotcha." What do you think? Do you still think the question is just fundamentally too much of an "aha"?

(I agree that if the candidate jumped right to the summation answer on this one it's a weak signal. I wouldn't ask this question in an interview--it's not my favorite either, and it's unfortunate that it's a common one. My favorites aren't on the site yet because they're hard to explain without pictures. Adding those pictures is the next project!)
> That’s an implicit value judgment that Western medicine that focuses on pharmacodynamics and pharmakinetics is superior than the holistic take of Chinese medicine.

It's implicit because it's the conventionally accepted view around here. I'm yet to see any evidence that would convince me otherwise, in fact–though I'd be very happy to hear some if you have it!