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I've been a gamer since I was a kid in the 80's. Being a "gamer" is not my identity, it's something I do. I'm also a home chef, a programmer and a husband. No one of these things identifies me entirely.

There's a lot of teenage males who play video games and consider "gamer" the entirety of their identity. This is because they haven't developed an actual personality yet. These are usually the people who are constantly slinging racial/homophobic epithets and flipping out whenever they encounter a girl online.

Their behavior does not affect how I view myself, or the hobbies I engage in. It has no bearing on whether I am a gamer or not. To say that it should or does is pretty stupid. It's like saying because Paula Deen is a racist I shouldn't identify myself as a home cook.

There are douchey people out there who engage in all hobbies. The correct response is not to pretend you don't enjoy your hobby or to damage your enjoyment of it. The correct response is to let these people know what douches they are and call them out to their face.

People like the author of this article are the problem as much as the immature, stupid kids are. Because when they encounter those kids acting awful online, they stay quiet and do nothing. You should stand up and call them out. When I run into racism in DotA 2 I tell the kids "Does being racist help cover up the fact that your parents are first cousins?" or when they engage in homophobic slurs I point out "The most homophobic people are usually the ones giving blow jobs in the airport bathroom." This usually shuts them up.

Pretending you don't play games, or stopping a hobby you enjoy is doing nothing but damaging yourself.
I did not downvote, but I can explain some of the reasons:

> Much of what makes Europe very livable these days results from returned would-be Americans promoting the democratization of Europe.

First time I ever heard this argument, so without solid arguments, I will continue believing that democratization in Europe is the expected result of the Age of Enligthement[1].

> Much of the rest of what makes Europe very livable these days results from the United States rescuing Europe from central European tyranny twice during the world wars

Well, this is a cute one, but work in Europe was mostly done by the Soviet Union and Britain in WW2, US just dealing the last blow to an already moribund opponent. (That is, for Europe, the US actions in others operative theaters at the time was huge, but we are talking about Europe here). US was quite late in WWI too, but I have no idea who would have won without them. They sure helped, but your comment make it look like a single country saving the day.

> and following the second rescue with the Marshall Plan and the Bretton-Woods agreement.

Marshall plan sure helped Europe economically, but saying it was pure goodwill instead of a political move isn't fair, it being devised by a military give some hints on the 'real' objectives[2]. I won't complain about that, since american supremacy was way more tolerable than USSR (Or so I was told, but winners write history, right?). I don't know enough about Bretton-Woods agreement effect to comment on it, so I will abstain.

Last point:

> Many, many, many people want to immigrate to the United States.

Yup, Hollywood did a nice job selling the american dream. Though that is changing, US/USSR is going from 'good guys/bad guys' to 'bad guys west/bad guys east' pretty quickly these days.

* [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment

* [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan#Criticism
With a repository the size of Emacs, it matters. Look at some of the other comments on this article here on HN, where people note that trivial bzr commands on the Emacs repo take way too long to run.
That term failure is ambiguous to some: suppose "failure" means one try didn't work, "defeat" means gave up, never trying again and causes a loss of confidence.

Also neat: Failure Games

http://lifehacker.com/failure-games-gets-you-accustomed-to-r...
Or that time travel is discovered so far into the future that change in our time would have un-calculable consequences even for that advanced society.

Or that they have discovered immortality and view us as a subspecies like we would neanderthals.
I see. In fact I was mainly thinking to tablets and a "mostly-read" experience.
Agree re ubuntu not being the last word on things. OP wants a cross-platform dev environment though. If a platform that is primarily for free unix is obviously broken on a major linux distro, it's a bad omen for its multiplatform prospects.
Aside from taking off your shoes, there's no practical difference between European airport security and American. Both can have long lines depending on the airport, cheeky and or angry staff.
You've made friendly comments about my comments here on HN before, so I'll make a friendly comment here about yours. I have noticed that you consistently view Snowden as a hero, but I respectfully disagree. It would take more electrons than the margins of one HN comment could contain (and more time than I have with my work responsibilities today) to explain how I think Edward Snowden could have revealed the same key facts more responsibly, but even though I largely agree that it's good for the public to know more about what NSA was doing and how NSA was characterizing what it was doing to Congress, I don't think Snowden engaged in responsible disclosure ("whistle-blowing"). I think Snowden over the last year has been just as sincerely but ultimately mistakenly misguided as Kim Philby[1] was in the 1960s. Snowden appears to think that he has made the world and his native country a better place on a net basis, and he may even be right about what will happen to his native country as a result of his disclosures, but I think he is mistaken about what the overall course of his actions has done for the world as a whole. That's all I have time to say about this at the moment, but I want to put that out there as an American who has lived under real tyranny[2] before and has observed how tyranny is overcome by people power.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24803131

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5985720
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Minor nitpick, but calling them "transgenders" is kind of like referring to straight people as "straights" - it just doesn't really make sense. I think the appropriate term would be "trans people."
It's considered seriously naff to title yourself Dr. on the strength of an honorary doctorate, though — at the very least, you should add "honoris causa". (Even with an earned doctorate you're supposed to avoid referring to yourself as Dr. Smith, in the same way that you shouldn't introduce yourself as Mr. or Mrs. Smith.) Not that I'd really grudge the title to RMS though, who's done more technical hard work and innovation than many people who are running around with earned PhDs.
Exactly. The git data model is intuitive and easy to grasp after a short amount of time. The porcelain is poorly designed, but part of that is due to the flexibility of primitives underneath, and the desire to support arbitrary workflows.

Contrast with svn which attempts a very clean porcelain interface with a completely muddled data model underneath. The conflation of repositories, directories and branches in svn makes it impossible for it ever achieve 20% of git's functionality simply because things are so poorly defined.

After using git for 6 months I understood it better than I did about svn in the previous 5 years. I would prefer a better porcelain, but given that software development is my full time job and that I can use git for all software development regardless of the language, I'm happy to commit a bit of muscle memory to git's idiosyncrasies.
> We didn’t even call video game players “gamers” until the fairly recent past. I certainly don’t remember hearing the word “gamer” in the mid-’90s

Gamer originated in the 90s, in particular round-about 1996 with Quake, but well before that too with other games. A gamer was someone who packed up their big computer and lugged around a monitor in their car to a LAN party. There were plenty of girls around too, however they were mostly girlfriends and sisters.

The strange rape-approving culture and other terms such as 'gg', came about because of two factors (I think, anyway). First, most people involved were generally high school or university students, and if you've been to a boys high school party then you shouldn't be surprised. Secondly, you generally sat around in a large hallway and the games let you use text chat. It was amusing at the time to talk congenially with your friend next to you and then send him a text message about raping because most of the people didn't even know what rape was. You generally saw complete shock if a younger player who was sending messages about rape was actually told what it was. It was probably the novelty of real time text communication. 1337 speak was also very popular around the time for the same reason - it helped to cement who was 'in the know' in the community.

Gaming itself was very much a meritocracy. People at the top of the kill board were the popular ones and people listened to them, and these people would generally travel around to other lan parties and pick up the 'rape culture' from them, and then it would spread at more lan parties when these knowledgeable players talked about it. Standard social dynamics, I guess.
Bingo - there's no mention of sample size, which makes it hard for me to take the results seriously. I do however think this is good for sparking creative thought on what tests to run.
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"not so fast" is generally a nice way of telling someone to stop and consider what they are doing because they are about to do something unwise. I do believe you are correct to take the headline as negative.
Well, I think that you can probably write a compiler from "yes, if" to "no, because" and vice versa.

Example:

Yes, if the '"yes, if" attitude' is defined as 'never disagreeing with anyone ever, since no one ever attempts to abuse positive-thinking engineers.'

But the real question is like the programming language question - what's the most expressive and useful in a given situation? Sometimes an idiom is not a good fit.

I always responds 'yes, if' -- to people I know won't abuse it.

That's most of the people I work with. But some entrepreneurs, Project Managers, clients and so forth are simply not to be trusted with a "yes, if."

The goal is to avoid those kinds of shady operators, crappy projects, and hostile clients. But sometimes you end up working with them, at least as bit players in a business relationship that is a good fit. Especially as a freelancer, I don't know anyone who can avoid it 100% of the time.

For instance: even when working with a great organization, some project could have a weak link in a project management role. It will happen to you. And all you can do is try to do good work while extricating yourself as soon as possible.

What should I tell one of those not-very-trustworthy people if they ask something ridiculous?

Does compiling it to Yes-If prove more expressive?

Examples:

Yes, if the laws of space-time, human nature, physics and the combined sum of human experience weren't arrayed in battle order against you and your terrible idea.

Yes, if I could trust that you, a non-software PM who shifted into this job from Accounts with no training heavier than that provided by Clippy, have correctly assessed the stakeholder requirements and risk around this new feature that you think is required by 'EOD Thursday.'

Sometimes, there is an answer, and it is No. Because.

Sometimes you should signal risk and danger in your response, because risk and danger are present in their requests, and you must be sure that they are weighing those dangers. 'No, because' (or 'I'd advise against it, but here's what it would take', which is closer to what I actually say in those situations) definitely has its place.

NOTE: this is not non-technical PM hate. I may currently have two PMs, on projects for two separate fortune-50 companies. Both PMs may be non-technical, but one might know how to be a PM, and specifically on a software project, and the other might not.
I can't wrap my head around this. I'm not even sure he went insane because of the unhumanity of such an act or because he was out of the system.
Is there a benefit to using stars instead of labels? I find the interface for applying/removing labels far quicker than clicking through the star options one at a time, and also that the labels are more accessible over mobile.
> if someone makes a tame joke about transgenders, who the f * * k cares? We make jokes about straight people all the time. My friends who are gay make jokes about gay people.

It's not quite the same thing. Some people are more vulnerable than others. Transgendered people in particular have often taken a long time coming to grips with who they are. Many are traumatized by a lifetime living in a body that wasn't "theirs".

I sincerely hope you can see the difference between mocking a vulnerable minority and mocking the dominant majority.
I assume @danielweber was asking whether it was possible in principle - as in, can information exist before it is created.

My remark about dlls was an attempt at humour, not a comment on practicalities.
I haven't had a console since the original Playstation, so I don't know the answer to this question: How so? Is it just the low barrier to entry, or is there something about the actual experience of playing a console game which outdoes anything a PC can accomplish? (I really tend to doubt it's the latter, given the much greater flexibility of the PC as a platform -- I can use an Xbox 360 or PS3 controller to play a game on my computer, but as far as I know, I can't use a keyboard and mouse to play a game on either of those consoles.)
I interpreted it as the latter, and I actually really like it. Since this whole thing started, there's been a lot of debate about whether he's a patriot or a traitor. Without even reading the article, I think that headline is the clearest, boldest statement the NYT could make about where they fall on that question.
10-20db cut in the lower freqs?

(Depends on what the source of the track is.)
(I am not a cosmologist or particle physicist, but my thesis did require me to delve into both, and was defended in front of someone who was a particle physicist)

It doesn't require confusions about the second law.

It does require some very specific conditions which may not obtain in the actual universe. It requires, for example, that the universe can eventually reach thermodynamic equilibrium, that the universe in this state can persist over incredibly long time periods, that at least some types of particles are stable enough to exist over such a time range, etc.

And then starts considering whether situations that we normally associate with states where free energy and the ability to do work exist could arise occasionally as a result of random collisions of particles, possible quantum effects, etc.

The key is that the second law is statistical in nature. It describes a tendency, wherein macroscopic entropy-decreasing events in a closed system are merely incredibly improbable. Or, more simply: entropy-decreasing events can occur, they are just so improbable/rare compared to entropy-increasing events that we should expect not to observe them.

In that context, the Boltzmann brain and other strange things are at least not outright impossible.
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I thought it was a rant against golang until I saw the domain.
x is "near" y and y is near x. y is not near z, so z is not near y, and therefore z is not near x nor is x near z.
For poker, I see if they understand how squeezing works.
The popularity of a specific fork of Emacs is a moot point, it's the popularity of Emacs as an editor (or should I say, as a platform?) that is at issue. Stallman was active, how that he's not active he needs to either defer to people who are active or watch as fewer and fewer people take advantage of his work.
My biggest issue with this article is that he isn't talking about speaking up for the acceptance of transgendered individuals. He is just stepping away from the word "gamer" and declaring himself on a moral highground

>Until then, not thinking of myself as a gamer is going to be a matter of conscious effort and avoidance of temptation, because it’s just so easy to do otherwise.

This guy clearly thinks he is really brave, while not really doing much
You are not making useful comment because you don't understanding the use case. Python 2 is very useful in handling binary data. This complain is not about unicode. This is about binary files manipulation.

I'm thrill about the unicode support. If they only add unicode string and leave the binary string alone and just require an additional literal prefix b, it will be an easy transition. Instead the design is changed for no good reason and the code are broken too.
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also i wasn't gonna say anything but can't help from chuckling about it -- i am an audio DSP engineer so by nature I've probably done more work/research concerning SNR than 99% of people on the planet ever will lol.

i didnt want to come of as indignant tho, its just a funny coincidence. you never quite know who you are condescending to on here
When !E(y,z), then also !E(z,y) (because symmetry).
Also, E(y,x).

Thus !E(x,z), because E(y,x) and E(x,z) would imply E(y,z), which is false.
While it makes sense, "I'm a ludophile" is way too easy to mishear.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6956893
Comedians also have another saying: "Punch up."

Don't take the easy targets. Trans men and women are still being murdered with obscene regularity.
I missed that! Thank you.
Source please? I've never seen a legal opinion that declining to answer something constitutes a "leak."

Ron Wyden also gave him multiple outs and heads ups before his testimony if he wanted to get out of it.
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Look at a fuller quote:

"Policy makers apparently failed to ask the important question: How could this happen in a free-market economy? That would have steered them to the giant purchasing organizations that control the procurement of up to $300 billion in drugs, devices and supplies annually for some 5,000 health care facilities. These cartels have undermined the laws of supply and demand."

I'm pretty sure the question is meant to be a question you ask to lead you to where the free market is indeed being broken, not a claim that we have a free market.

This is solid logic; if the free market can do anything, it's match supply and demand via price signals. (If you're having a political reaction to that statement, I mean this in a simple microeconomics sense; it is indeed what free markets do.) In the absence of raw material problems, pervasive shortages are effectively proof that somewhere in the system, someone's fixing prices to below production costs. Sounds like they might be combining that with some good ol' fashioned corruption.

(This is why I'm a "libertarian" and not an "anarchist"; the free market needs defenders, because as beautiful as the theory is, in the real world, stuff like this happens, and it needs to be stopped by somebody with the power to stop it.)
I accidentally up voted this comment and feel like now I need to respond to it.

Kids online yelling "Haha die you faggot nigger." are not making a joke. It's not funny. It's not something to just laugh at and move on. It's awful, childish, stupid behavior.
I'm thinking the original plan was some non-sacrificial anode system, and that was replaced by sacrificial anodes (requiring maintance, which was never done).

This would be consistent with the manufacturer's claim that the Navy did not properly maintain the ships. However, a sacrificial anode system is a type of corrosion protection, so it wouldn't be correct to say that no corrosion protection was installed on the ships. Of course, it's quite possible that the journalists writing this story don't understand the technical details themselves and so are not correctly describing the situation.
He wasn't legally required to lie to them.
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> Gamer originated in the 90s, in particular round-about 1996 with Quake

Gamer predates its use for video gamers. I was a gamer in the late '80s because I liked RPGs and wargames.
Perhaps the author would also like to stop calling themselves a person. I mean, there's no reason to half-ass this sort of thing. Many evil deeds have been committed by people, each calling themselves a person.

Failing that, perhaps the author would like to stop pigeon-holing the entirety of gaming for every single misstep committed by someone that happens to play games or that takes place in a gaming context.
Ok, now I'm confused, because I was under the impression that this is the first thing I ever learned in statistics - that a p value is how likely it is that a value created by chance would have been as extreme as the one the experiment gave. Is this wrong?
My pet problem after FizzBuzz has been this for some time now:

You are given a text in a file. Count all the words in the
text and print out the words with their number of occurences
in descending order.

This can be depressing at times.
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>Parkin feels that the idea of the “gaming community,” and its endemic misogyny, transphobia and rape culture, all need to die, and by extension, anyone who has adopted an identity as a “gamer” needs to give it up.

Everyone I know who plays games isn't a misogynist, transphobic or makes jokes about rape.

>We don’t call movie fans “moviers” or literature enthusiasts “bookers.”

No we call them "Movie buffs" or "Book worms". Besides, this point really highlights an issue; shaking the word "gamer" won't change the behavior of some people in the community.
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See "Getting Answers" - which is a counter to this rather aggressive document.

Submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7000152
Alas there is not AFAIK. For all the research I've done on this, the only conclusion I've been able to draw is that the MAS is anti-automation (if not in intent, at least in its current design). :(
> It's funny the author mentions "transphobia", given the existence of many postmodern feminists who are openly against transsexuals.

Also known as the "fuck you, I got mine" variant of feminism.
Could you go into more detail about why you would do A)

var func = function func() { /* blah */ };

Instead of B)

function func() { /* blah */ };
> Gamer originated in the 90s, in particular round-about 1996 with Quake

This just isn't true at all. Kids who played Dungeons & Dragons and other games were "gamers" in the 80s, and probably before.

The term only entered the mainstream in the 90s when DOOM and Quake made PC gaming a mainstream activity.
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It's one of those questions that provoke the most thought, allow granular benchmarking of the interviewee's knowledge, and have a valid answer, in my opinion.

That is to say, this question has worked for us as a dev house, maybe not so much if you're hiring contractors, I can't say for sure.
Columbus was a particularly unsavoury individual whose instinct was to sell the Taino natives he encountered as slaves, but it is difficult to imagine a scenario where the inevitable large scale contact between the Old and the New Worlds would not have resulted in calamitous declines in the native population of the Americas who had no resistance to smallpox and other Old World pathogens, no matter the nature of the intial contact. Even without Columbus, it would have been a matter of time before the Europeans found out about the Americas.
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