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>> There is a desktop environment. Gnome.

I'm in! I'll give it a try in a VM for a while. That's how I ended up moving home machines from Windows to Ubuntu years ago.

Thanks Debian, Gnome and Valve!

EDIT: DISREGARD. "Keep in mind that we are not affiliated with Valve!"

I guess I skipped past that at the top.
Osmos looks awesome! I totally get what you mean Pxtl, I reckon that there might be some very cool things you could do using reaction-diffusion systems in a game scenario.

Here's something I made/discovered that's a little like Tron:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTcH08UgcAE

One that's a little bit life-like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6sO8ZkgU9s

And this which is kinda strange, but very interesting (vibrating moving solitons/gliders with oscillating worms that emit glider-streams):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKHddTQA7wM

Example pattern files for the latter two of these are distributed in the Ready-0.6 release.
I know the general conception on here is this crap, but I disagree. I think a version of this is exactly where we are heading. It's useful, simple, minimalistic and I could definitely see all of my college colleagues keeping there most recent project on a data-sticky in their notebooks on the page with all the project notes. This concept is most definitely where we are headed. Development needs to be correct and something manufacturers build with congruity (like the USB standard), but a measure of this is most certainly going to happen.
It's a fun ribbing when it's in private, sure. It's another thing when it's posted publicly and #1 on hacker news.
"Fat doesn't make you fat." Mr. Adams has seen the light.
A fantastic example of projecting our fears and anxieties...

(we all wait in fear of how powerful, potent or dense each new material technology can be)

(we all fear that our world is not easy or colorful enough)

(we all fear that we missed out on something profound and sweeping)

(we all fear that we're being lied to)

(we all fear that others will lie to the ones we love ( and that we'll have to fix their windows 8 at christmas ) )
> what, precisely, would be the rating

Peer review aka open source.
I can only assume that this is satire, but:

> You cannot slaughter your farm animals! You run a vegetarian farm! Instead you have to pet them to make them happy, an act rewarded with better milk etc

This doesn't make any sense. You think that if Harvest Moon were more true-to-life that slaughtering the animals would make them happy, and produce better milk?

Also, this:

> Children who grow up playing these games will likely see bestiality as normal!

does not jive with this:

> it is subtle PETA propaganda too!

As animals can't consent to sex, I'm pretty sure that Peta wouldn't agree with bestiality.
It is also implemented in Brazil and several other countries for years. One article about the Brazil trains said the grandmothers used to bring needles to ward off the gropey guys back in the day.
The US actually ran a massive social experiment like this in the 80's and 90's, where repeat criminal offenders eventually got life imprisonment if they committed enough crimes. Now we have the world's largest prison population.

(I'm being a little wry.)
Does anyone in the payments industry know if it is possible to get the interchange rate prior to processing a transaction? I assume only the issuing bank has the information, and there is no way to get it from the number alone. Do issuing banks include the interchange category with the response when transactions happen, or is that figured out during the batch processing?

My point is, I think this judge can rule whatever he wants, but as far as I know, there is no way to technically implement these fees.
I paid $49 for Unreal III, it still sits in my drawer unused and unopened. Why? Because Epic promised to have a Linux port soon after release like they did with UT 2004. That had been the 3rd game I bought from them. I've bought none from them since.

I have not had a single negative experience with Valve. I started with them on Windows years ago and when they came out with Steam for Linux last year I installed it and got all my games (that ran on Linux and more since that have been ported) in the same UI, better experience, faster, I have zero complaints with Valve and Steam.
The 1TB one is due to the way Clonezilla images work, it expects a drive with at least 1TB capacity to mirror the image back.
I highly recommend one of the plugins on this list, "Google/Yandex search link fix". It rewrites Google's tracking URLs in search results on the fly.

This to me is offers both convenience and privacy benefits - (a) I can right-click and copy actual URLs from a Google search instead of gibberish, and (b) Google does not get to know which links I'm clicking on from its search results.
The original comment was a public tweet: http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18xpcvut8ka32png/ku-xlarge.p...

I can't imagine many rape victims would describe this as a "fun ribbing"
That... is pretty sick. Well done.
It seems impossible to quantify, but it's interesting to think about.

Lots of our tech heroes are assholes in one way or another. Many aren't, of course, but I think at least some of those who are owe some of their success to it.

Steve Jobs seems like an obvious example. Everything I know about him paints him as a total jerk, but a brilliant and inspiring total jerk. My guess is that the same personality traits that led him to change the world a few times also led him to deny paternity of his daughter. It's not too hard for me to imagine an alternate life for Jobs where he never manages to succeed in business (maybe he gets smacked down a little too hard for his phone phreaking activities) and ends up a run-of-the-mill asshole none of us ever heard of.
That seems like an awful lot of work to play a game. Off an SSD games usually start in about that time anyway.
I think the unprofessional nature of that message alone warrants it to be sent straight to the trash. Everyone's all about t-shirts and kegs at the office, but I'm really appreciative of professionalism these days. You can fund something and it still won't develop some fucking class is the lesson at the end of the day.
The frame of debate provided by Anglo Saxon media/politics does not allow one to think that such ideals exist or are worth striving for. We are wage slaves.
But, seriously, what else is different? If I'm looking at it as if it's a Fancy or Svpply clone, I'm not going to go as far as signing up to add anything.

One way I see these kinds of sites is as wishlists and thus, it makes sense to have just one site I use--unless there's something compellingly different.
Debit cards are exempt and cannot be surcharged.
Amen to that!
The other thing is that books don't have to teach you anything. it might just be to disconnect, open up your mind, see something in a different way. I would not necessarily call that "teaching". It can help with creativity tremendously! But then again, not every one can't handle creativity!
Man, there are soooo many ways! How good are you on the pole?
I'm not sure how one could actually take advantage of this. Suppose I want to make people with rewards cards pay more at my shopping card. How do I know they are using a rewards card, and if so how much that adds to my processing bill?
You've also described Clojure...
This year I've had a lot of people send me their email templates to try to troubleshoot them. Not that it's my area of expertise, but I guess it kind of is now. Let me tell you, this is one of the better recruiting emails I've seen. Highlights:

- Technical leadership reaching out. Not a recruiter. HUGE. Do this.

- Personal! Actual knowledge of who you are as a developer. Not just a quick scan of github and then a project name drop. (Literally had this happen to me yesterday. Ick. And soooo obvious.)

- Early appeal to "what's in it for me?" and "who will I work with?" BEFORE the "who are we?" bit.

- Dogfooding in the email. Nice touch.

Downers:

- The popped-collar, Natty Ice tone. Kind of a filters out the non-bros. But I guess it tells you about the company culture...?

- I don't know if this job is remote or local, but if it's local, show me pictures of where I'll work.

I understand why Kyle wasn't receptive (and love the creative response), but this is probably enough to move a lot of people on to that next step of the face to face meeting. Personally, I'd probably do the Hangout just to see. Now if it was Worldstar, that would be a whole other matter.
lol "Dawn, who do we use for Chinese?" (heard approx 1997 in u.s.)
Offer 1: We want your time, will you trade for our money?

Offer 2: We want your money, will you trade for our time?

If you believe time is money, they're the same thing.
It's hard enough to make a profit on popular phones, as evidenced by the woes of HTC, Blackberry and others... making a phone for a niche group, especially if you can't charge materially more (and I mean $1,000 or more, unlocked) just doesn't make any sense. Particularly when you consider that carrier and OEM marketing (large national campaigns, in-store placement, etc) doesn't scale down to small volume products.

Making niche products doesn't work well for consumer electronics in general, unless you can sell that product at a much higher margin. Having a keyboard on a phone just doesn't seem to result in being able to sell it for twice as much.

Another issue with keyboards is they don't internationalize well. So rather than having 1 hardware design worldwide, you now either need a TON of SKUs - one for each country (and you can't move inventory from one market to another) or you need to further limit your target market to just a few regions.
Are people okay with this?

Despite having high internet speeds, I feel quite uncomfortable with how big the game downloads are these days. It's probably because I play games casually and try not to spend too much time, and after playing them on OnLive, it's really hard to go back to the non-streaming model. It's like... I just wanna try a game for 15 mins, then close it and move on. I'm not gonna download 8+ GB just for that.
Can we have a chrome edition as well? :)
I tried writing a Go app for App Engine weeks ago and was completely lost in the old toolset. Very glad to see this aligns the SDK with my post-1.0 expectations! (I often find Go a bit easier to understand given blog posts.) I still wish it had some kind of tie-in to GOROOT and GOPATH but you can't win everything. :)
If that 23 Year old is one of the first engineers and built much of the system then yes, you are going to be junior to them no way around that they most likely earned their spot working crazy hours when the company could barely be called one. There are two sides to every coin, if you want to avoid that then look to join really early companies and be the one that earns the spot by building the system.
Most decent human beings realize jokes are jokes.

A year old, but relevant: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-july-16-2012/louis-c-k...

If you think you have a better grip on funny and appropriateness, then you're welcome to your opinion. But is anyone welcome to try to ruin someone's reputation just because you happen to disagree on something as ephemeral as a one-off joke? Do we really want to be THAT sensitive that even kidding about something is entirely verboten or you'll ruin your reputation forever?

You've seriously never said something in the moment that you thought was funny at the time that you wish you could have a take back on?
It seems like there's also an inverse application - if you have a competitor, post a bunch of spammy blog comments for them and watch as how google penalizes them.
It's worth noting that the podspec says it needs iOS 7, so if you have anything still supporting older versions it's a no-go.
104 reported incidents on a single subway line. The number of unreported incidents is likely much higher.
Finally! I've felt for a while now that rewards cards are basically a legalized form of bribery and I've avoided using them at merchants that I like.
Quite the opposite, I'm saying that it is long, but such sentences are normal for people convicted of bank robbery.
> "Miles were never free. They just used to be paid for equally by everyone--including people not using credit cards! In effect, it was a sales tax imposed by Visa and Mastercard on everyone."

You say that as if this new policy of charging extra for the airmilers will result in lower prices for everyone else, including people not using credit card. I don't think so.
I had that problem with Saints Row 2. It didn't run on my OS properly at all.
Exactly. And yet, this is at the top of the page. Looks like the guy got all the attention he wanted, plus a bunch of karma.
The C+= project wasn't designed to challenge interactions between men and women. The C+= project is satire about the ideas of the feminist movement. The C+= project makes up caricatures about the feminist movement.
It looks like a particularly good design semester project, yes.
The real cost of a physical keyboard (at least a built-in one) isn't the cost of the hardware. It's also the cost of having to have a different hardware unit for each country you want to sell in (and often not just the labels, but the physical layout as well.) That's a massive increase in the inventory risk you're taking, because your inventory has suddenly become less flexible.
Serious question. I've traveled rather extensively and this seems to be a much more serious problem outside the US as opposed to within the US. Does anyone have any insight into this? Is this purely anecdotal on my part?
Hello, law enforcement (2011)
Ok so ignoring the fact that this relies on magic...

I think there is something to using physical locations to keep references to files. I can remember the shelf that I stored a notebook and the rough location in the notebook of a sketch for a project from 2005. I can't say the same about my filesystems even with the help of "cloud" services of more recent years.

Our brains are definitely wired to get clues from lots of context, and just sitting at a similarly layed out UI doesn't take advantage of that.

So drop the crazy magic... add rfid tags to the stickys ... replace the optical(??) strip thing with an rfid reader that just maps the stickies to my cloud files, and that might be relatively useful.... pretty sure rfids aren't quite disposable yet though.
I see your point, but that specific response is really guaranteed to incite curiosity and further question. And everyone wants a chance to defend/redeem themselves when faced with an accusation.
As I understand it, something like the first 8 digits of your card number encode information about what kind of card you have. It allows the merchant to tailor how much you pay, to the type of card. It could take a couple of forms:

1. A surcharge for certain kinds of cards.

2. A discount for certain kinds of cards.

In either case, I think this is just a logical step in a progression that makes it so that a merchant can recover a portion of their credit card fees from the consumer. Good or bad? It might create an opportunity for competition among credit card processors to offer their services for the lowest possible fee.
I'm wondering who looks at this company and says "Hey, I'd really like to work there!" They may have interesting technical problems (seems unlikely given their problem domain), but their public persona is awful.
No, that's what Reply-To is for.
Whoah. I clicked on the Great Isaiah Scroll and look at the translators. I used to provide tech support for Peter Flint at Trinity.

Sometimes as a tech I forget that I'm helping people do really cool things in the world.
VirtualBox emulates a generic VESA adapter, with some extensions to pass OpenGL commands to the host (and includes a fork of Wine's Direct3D-on-OpenGL implementation to provide some degree of acceleration for Windows guests).

Using a real NVidia GPU from within a VM is possible, but not with VirtualBox, and not with most gaming systems (due to either having necessary hardware features disabled on overclockable Intel CPUs, or AMD systems lacking a second GPU for the host).
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Swapping the OS on a desktop computer has never been particularly accessible to most people, either. What percentage of desktops ever get a different OS from what they came with? I'd guess less than 3% if you don't include upgrades from one version of Windows to another.
Hmm... I should try that. My laptop has 16 gb, but I don't play that many games?

How big are most game installs anyway?
That's a 404
Before C++11, if you wanted to pass a function with closure-like behavior to an STL algorithm, you had to write a little class with operator() overloaded. It was a huge pain in the ass, lots of boilerplate code. Most programmers didn't bother and wrote plain loops.

Now with C++11 lambdas, std::algorithm is much nicer to use.
Pass a law exempting businesses and individuals from paying payroll taxes on new hires for the length of time the person was unemployed before they hired them.
The best solution and what will probably be adopted by high-end SteamBoxes eventually, is to ship a large cheap hard drive and a SSD large enough to cache 2-3 games.
Seriously, "spoke to she"? I've never heard that. And I dread to think of the blood-boiling it would cause in me if I were to hear it... As gcv says below, "Mary and I" as the object of the verb is annoyingly common, even among well-educated people. No, it's not language evolution; it's wrong!

edit: ah, you're gcv :)
I can't believe I never thought of charging for this. I've been ignoring the requests because if you were spamming us you get what you deserve.
Some reddit users are snapchat users != most (or even a substantial minority!) of snapchat users are reddit users.

Statistics 101.
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World of difference. One was meant in jest that didn't reference anyone in particular, and might have been "insensitive" or something stupid like that. The other was a direct attack on people trying to make their livelihood in a very vicious way. So who is the real victim?
They're probably talking about the "hexbright" (usb-rechargable, arduino-programmable, so you can implement UI experiments like "shake it to make it brighter" - it's also a really bright light.) Will it impact the market for boring "dead-battery storage" D-cell lights? Of course not. But if you've ever wanted to say "even my flashlight is open source..."
The "fresh email" from Mark fails to satisfy the author's own prescription: it does not "make a specific ask".
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You can. If you're resting the outer sides of your palms on the keyboard and resting the heel of your thumb on the palm keys, they won't activate. you have to push down slightly to get them to.
Quite an elaborate trolling, this.
shitty font
It sounds as though you do need to be challenged. These caricatures did not spring from nothing; there are reasons for them being used. Might they be bad reasons? Probably, but not definitely. Go deeper and interact more deeply with those men in IT with whom you claim to work alongside. What you find might surprise you and also give you a chance to bring about changes for the betterment of women, men, and IT workers generally.
At the time, I didn't have a level built yet that showed you how to build a proper ship. That's been fixed now though.
ADD2 - A lot of people want to buy iPads
Yes, installing an ISO created like that will work, but the way X is configured breaks all of the ttys in VirtualBox. I've got a virtual serial port ready to debug the issue but booting in recovery would work too.
Bear in mind that LOC is an ongoing cost not an asset.
The new version of the game introduces "dead zones", and future levels will require more skill than flooding the arena with chaos.
You don't like Times new Roman?!

The UI is a bit better now, still not good though.
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Eventually I'll add a leaderboard and track both fastest and slowest solutions ;)
Wait, people thought tsunamis came on a schedule?
Mattresses may be marketed for a long life span but they rarely last that long. I've had a queen size $3k mattress that lasted 8 years. Bought a $1.5k replacement that lasted 1.25 years before it had noticeable body impressions. Mattressfirm replaced it in warranty. A $2k mattress at 4 years is $1.38 per day. You won't notice a mattress is destroying your back until it's too late.
Conversely, some people may be surprised at how quickly now-familiar type appeared. Within twenty years of the Gutenberg Bible, Nicolas Jenson had completed his miniscules, based on contemporary Italian humanist script, and designed to complement classical Roman inscriptional capitals.

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@overgard: The real victims are the rape victims who have to train themselves to endure constant triggers from things "made in jest."
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overgard:

> if you think you have a better grip on funny and appropriateness

If you find rape jokes funny, then yes: I and most people would believe that I have a better grip on appropriateness than you.

> But is anyone welcome to try to ruin someone's reputation just because you happen to disagree on something as ephemeral as a one-off joke?

It was a tweet. Tweets are public and the internet won't magically forget, especially when others have discussed the matter. First google search result for "rap genius rape joke" is http://valleywag.gawker.com/rap-genius-imma-rape-you-in-your... with a screenshot http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18xpcvut8ka32png/ku-xlarge.p...

And if truly believe that a tweet is ephemeral, then I've got a bridge to sell you :)

And to be clear, RG brought it upon themselves. RG ruined their own reputations by making the tweet. This email reminded us of a previous event, but Kyle was not at all responsible for original tweet.

> Do we really want to be THAT sensitive that even kidding about something is entirely verboten or you'll ruin your reputation forever?

That thought process is what gives the tech community a bad name. There are certain things that a decent human being does not think to joke about, and rape is one of those things. I recommend you look into Todd Akin, who made some comments about "legitimate rape". Or Richard Mourdock, who claimed that a rape victim's pregnance is something "God intended". Guess what? Those guys probably thought the comments weren't offensive either.

> You've seriously never said something in the moment that you thought was funny at the time that you wish you could have a take back on?

I'm not stupid enough to joke about rape. And I'm certainly not stupid enough to make any off-color joke in a public tweet