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I played Smash TV on someone's free MAME system recently. I finished it in about 20minutes without starting over, just pumping credits. (In STV, you lose 0 progress when you continue with a new credit after falling. In fact, you get a brief invincibility bonus.)

It was surrreal. For one, a lot of the drama and challenged vanished. For two, it made me wonder how I sent god knows how many quarters as a kid.

Now I am playing Crystal Castles, where falling causes a partial start over (there are some warp/checkpoints later) and it is addicting me again, still fun.
Google's plan to take over the world
Umm .. from the top of that very page ..

> Historically, "No Act of Parliament can be unconstitutional, for the law of the land knows not the word or the idea."[3]
Since the Glorious Revolution in 1688, the bedrock of the British constitution has traditionally been the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty, according to which the statutes passed by Parliament are the UK's supreme and final source of law.[4] It follows that Parliament can change the constitution simply by passing new Acts of Parliament.

So, basically no, it doesn't have a constitution analogous to the US Constitution.
In Argentina few people have some idea about basic finance so it would take a lot of time to change their minds. Specifically speaking about bitcoins, the fluctuation makes it crazy to use it as a currency, is currentl much more risky than the dollar.
This is definitely the best model. But it doesn't matter.

Up-front, I have no way to know which exploitative model is going to be used. Just seeing IAPs are involved is enough to turn me off. It's not worth the effort to investigate.
There is also a live coding environment for ObjST that I wasn't able to show during the FOSDEM talk. In this case, "live" means re-evaluation with every keystroke.

I'll upload a video of that later.
And in JS, it's an object.

Figuring out how to store arbitrary key-value pairs should be one of the first steps in learning a new language, given that every language has a different name for it.

Associative Array is probably my least favorite name for it, since it implies arrays aren't associative. It was a clojure book that first made me realize an array is a map that only allows ints for keys.
> The only word for it is a f∗∗∗ up of major proportions. Everyone was f-ing and blinding when they realised what had happened.

It's certainly more fuck up than farce, but what does what does "f-ing" and "blinding" mean? (Australian here)

But the key issue - in everything - is not whether you make mistakes, but whether you fix them. This one was fixed.
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Don't people see that this is just a rant? The post is nothing but someone letting off some steam.
This is inconsistent with the claimed "specific force performance of 0.1N/kW". The ratio a photon's momentum to energy is fixed at 1/c, which is 3.3E-6 N/kW.
12.9-inch iPad Pro still a ways down the road
Even better for developers: Todo.txt
http://todotxt.com/

Free, open, plain text, with lots of optional tools for the command line and also mobile.

And for more power, emacs org mode is amazing.
If you make that an option, then children might not spend $500 on their sword upgrades.
Most open source/free software(free as in liberty) is free as in beer. It gets payed for by donations and/or big sponsors. It has no hidden costs. Not everything is available as open source/free software, but it is enough have a usable computer and even some games.
Working on two RTS games at the same time would be a very odd decision, and Blizzard's been working on Starcraft 2 since 2007 and the third part is still at least a year out. Even if WoW never existed and Starcraft 2 was started earlier, Warcraft 4 would probably not be out yet.
Interesting post, but that much scaffolding around the tests is a bit of a red flag to me.

I personally try to move as much logic as possible into easily testable, independent methods. This leaves things like Rake tasks as very small, "obviously correct" shells around the actual logic.

I highly recommend checking out the talk Boundaries by Gary Bernhardt[0], which explains this idea far better than I can.

[0]: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries
I must have missed part I and II, namely "The game industry has been destroyed", and "It was in-app purchases that destroyed the game industry." Any links to those?
This is great. I can attack the few chapters I skipped over in Joe's most recent book[1] that required R17.

[1]: http://pragprog.com/book/jaerlang2/programming-erlang
Reports of JS warts are greatly exaggerated. The two big remaining ones (post ES6) are type conversion by operators and silent failure when accessing object properties. Both are fixable with a nice type system with HM inference and structural types. I wish someone did JUST that, instead of trying to bring all the problems and warts of Java to JS while trying to fix it.

Roy looks very promising[1], and I'm hoping it will mature to the point where it can be considered a viable option for production projects

Typescript would've been ideal, but its kind of fake-open-source (no actual development can be seen on the repository, some of the code looks generated, no discussion about the internals or providing an API) and its moving towards having LESS type inference in the name of improving compiler speed, less type safety in the name of... "its too hard to do" I guess. And they still are not releasing anything which might help other vendors improve their tooling (e.g. Intellij IDEA, the second-best contender sucks at TypeScript). And the module system is a total disaster, especially if you're trying to do anything more complicated and CommonJS.

[1]: http://roy.brianmckenna.org/
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I think there's definitely a rule against dismissing Y combinators on news.ycombinator.com.
I've always been of the opinion that I would eventually have children. I've also always believed, since age 25 or so, that raising children to be bilingual would be beneficial, pretty much regardless of the languages involved.

Learning earlier is easier, and will be helpful for the future.

Happily I married a Finnish woman, and we've agreed we'll use both languages all the time. (Helpfully I'm also learning Finnish at the moment).

The (local) people I've seen do things seem to either repeat words in both languages, or speak solely in English one day, and "foreign" the next day.

I'm not sure which is best, but I'm looking forward to finding out :)
I though the same when I first saw Jiro (and was amazed by the passion), but I couldn't shake the feeling that I had just watched an 80 min advertisement for his family. Most of the reputation, and thus success, of a restaurant, in a place as competitive as Japan, is based on the heredity and life-long devotion of the chef. Some top restaurants boast third-generation sushi chefs (a chef whose father, and grandfather, devoted their lives to the art of making sushi).

You can view the movie as both a statement about the passion for perfection, and as a way to advertise Jiro's family, so that the restaurant, when Jiro retires, may retain its prestige and success. And, I think it is an amazing feat, by the film maker, that they were able to produce a film that made a statement about passion, featuring a specific person, without it feeling like an advertisement or deification.
A 30 minute interview with an astronaut about what it's like to ride into space
Project Etoile is awesome! It is also further along in the Obj-C/ST integration than ObjST.

What distinguishes ObjST is that it is taking the language further in terms of expressive power and adaptability, with Polymorphic Identifiers, (higher order) messaging mediated via first class references and dataflow connectors.
Ooooh, OK this was genius. Sold.

I hope this helps though.
And you easily identify communication skills without such a flawed question for the reason I have detailed.

If I were asked this type of question, it would be a huge red flag to me, and potentially a deal breaker due to signaling that the interviewer has not put enough thought into his/her questions. I would be able to answer the question just fine, and it would not reflect poorly on me, but to me, it reflects poorly on the interview process since you are highly unlikely to have a wholesome picture of the candidate when more useful approaches to get more knowledge are pretty clear, and is fraught with the same flaws you see in many typical processes today that are not meant to find optimal candidates.
I don't necessarily think that there is a solution. In almost all cases, the game itself is the problem. Most people won't pay full price, because most mobile games lack depth. When you develop for mobile, you can either make a game with simple mechanics, or you can make a game with terrible controls. Those are the options. While it is possible to make a great game with simple mechanics, it takes an extraordinary level of talent that most game development shops simply don't possess.

On the PC/console side, you of course have ports of popular mobile games. In addition, however, you have AAA games like Diablo 3 that are reasonably complex, yet seem to have been intentionally ruined by IAP and the real money sale of items that affect performance.
A lot of new experiments like this are basically the montessori approach. our kids' montessori school has giant tree logs and boulders.
Interesting. I think that long-term coherent policies are best supported by strongly multi-party systems: when the power is shared by several parties, you don't get the political swing after each election that can happen with two-party systems.

To take it to the extreme, consider Switzerland, where the largest party has only 26.6% of the votes. 11 parties are represented in the parliament, and the executive power is shared equally among 7 ministers representing 4 different parties. The system offers an unusual continuity in the executive branch:

The Swiss executive is one of the most stable governments worldwide. Since 1848, it has never been renewed entirely at the same time, providing a long-term continuity. From 1959 to 2003 the Federal Council was composed of a coalition of all major parties in the same ratio: 2 each from the Free Democratic Party, Social Democratic Party and Christian Democratic People's Party and 1 from the Swiss People's Party. Changes in the council occur typically only if one of the members resigns (merely four incumbent members were voted out of the office in over 150 years); this member is almost always replaced by someone from the same party (and often also from the same linguistic group).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Switzerland#Executi...
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>powerful new privacy laws are overdue

Problem with any new privacy laws is that they will only restrict us, not the government. Since the government is the only one with the legal authority to torture and imprison and rob us, I don't much see the point.
Just so you know this is exactly how many games were distributed in the 90's, under the shareware model. Like DOOM and Quake. The first entire level was free, and was a substantial amount of content. Then you paid for the rest.
Erm I think we are diving a bit deep into semantics. I guess it depends on why people talk about app count, is that due to press or their own way of understanding?

As a geek who uses the pretence he needs to evaluate all the platforms, I've iOS, Andriod, WP8, W8 devices. I have apps that I love which are only-on/muchbetter-on one platform. It is very hard to compare and contrast them. As much as I find my Lumia 1020 the most useful, and pleasurable to use device, I also have to have an Android or iOS tablet because of a must have app (SkyDemon if you are curious).

These shortcuts, comparing just the app count, provide a way of letting people summarise the complex underlying problem.
As is the case with FB, Twitter, and the other social networks, young people will not see a problem with this, at least while they're young. As they grow older and live their lives, and have medical problems, have brushes with the law, have problems at work, etc etc, and more information is collected, they will realize one day that the sum total of the profile now collected about them, in the cloud, is suddenly having a genuine real impact on their lives... and it will be too late. Years too late.
How about: No online profile?
Bending to the will of the people, I have appended a conclusion, clarifying the fate of the Lotus Domino server. http://chadfowler.com/blog/2014/01/26/the-magic-of-strace/
I host SMTP for about 20 domains, and I think if your starting point is zero then you've just been lucky.

Even for non-popular domains I get relay attempts, and spam deliveries, every few seconds. Round. The. Clock.

It could just be that your server hadn't been detected, either via port-scans, or via DNS lookups, and now it has been.
Which is why using the vacuum fluctuations makes sense – these are particle/antiparticle pairs created randomly in the vacuum. Since these do have finite masses, you can accelerate them to larger momenta than would be possible with photons (which can also carry arbitrarily large momenta ℏω, but creating these high-frequency photons is difficult).
I think, in order to work that well, this kind of "riot" school yard activity would require a teacher with certain character traits such as authority, playfulness and calm at the same time. That guy in the video seems to suit very well. But it certainly looks like a good concept.
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We're an eyewear company looking for engineers to help architect and build our software which powers eyeglass orders for fashion brands.

Our team is looking for someone to take the lead iterating on user experience features. What kinds of things should we A/B test? Should we implement an email capture? How can we update the checkout flow? Where are customers having difficulty when buying prescription eyewear on our websites? You would help decide what kinds of features to build, and then be responsible for implementing, testing, and iterating on new features. You should be proficient in HTML/CSS/JS (framework-du-jour) and interested in using these skills to help our customers have a great experience.

This also applies to internal dashboards: we ship everything from our office, and have a lot of infrastructure to keep track of customers, order status, laboratory status, and shipments. How can we build more usable tools?

Our backend is Python (Flask) and MongoDB, including bits of Celery, nginx, and uwsgi. We do a lot of integration with the UPS (in fact, we maintain an open-source UPS library [1]). If you are interested in helping develop our eyewear API, please reach out too!

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Hi Stefan!

StepTalk was and is definitely a great addition, and I think the more we have of these the more likely it is that we will finally get to program in something better than we have now.

Maybe it's an idea whose time has finally come :-)
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Jeff Vogel probably isn't rich, but he seems to make a good and honest living running Spiderweb, charging $10 for the tablet versions of his games with no F2P nonsense. You can make a living doing something less evil than Zynga.
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Regarding the high number of five-star ratings, there's a common pattern in this style of mobile game to optimize for ratings. After the tutorial introduces the mechanics, and after a bit of time spent in the main game, it prompts the user to go to the app store and give a rating. Shortly after this prompt is when the game starts hitting the player hard for IAPs. I haven't played this new Dungeon Keeper, but EA's Plants vs Zombies 2 followed this model to a T at release, popping the rating prompt near the end of the first world, but before letting the player know that they would need to replay the entire world repeatedly in order to pass the paywall for free.
Chrome on iPhone is just a different front end for Safari.
If Tuffy doesn't look good on OS X or Windows, then we should look into switching to something that is readable and nice to look at. Thanks for saying so!

I filed https://openhatch.org/bugs/issue926 so we don't forget to find out more about it.
Are SQL Databases Dead?
ORM usage with SQL databases is growing. Meanwhile NoSQL dbs are more and more popular. Does it spell the death of the old-school relational database?
Thank you for your response, that's good reasoning and I definitely see it works well for your use case. It just seems as if multiple companies are coming up with solutions to work around deficiencies in PHP which is causing fragmentation in the language. That's not going to stop me from using this extension in a new project I'm starting though. Are there any areas of this extension you'd like to see improved since I find the best way for me to understand an extension internally is to work on it.
If you're aware that it will be unlikely to take the world by storm, then complete it regardless.

You'll probably learn interesting things, and have something you can use either for real, or as you say for a portfolio-project.

FWIW I wrote http://github.com/skx/templer for similar reasons, in my case annoyance at how poorly other static site-generators handle symlinks.

I use it these days on several sites such as http://lumail.org/ & http://tweaked.io/ both of which other people have contributed to, which makes me think the barrier to entry wasn't too high.
You'll really have to be more specific than that. Firefox's implementation should be standards compliant, from what you said it's impossible to determine if Firefox has a bug, or the app is badly written and relies on non-standards-compliant behavior that only happens to work in WebKit.

If it's the latter, then no, Firefox will not do that.
"f-ing" and "blinding" means cursing and swearing. The "f" being obvious and "blinding" is a substitute for "bloody".
I don't have any of my work related to this topic online yet, but I will post something, someday, maybe.

I agree that game-ification and tangential devices will not directly improve understanding of a topic, if at all.

I grew up playing many edutainment games which were nothing but boring classroom textbooks, with animated characters and sound effects. Strangely though, the fond memories of some of those characters has, I like to think, gave me positive associations with the actual subject matter, and has led to study of it later in life. More importantly, as you say, it could have diluted my interest or caused a negative association just as well.
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For this kind of situations I often carry my RTL2832U-based television receiver dongle with me

But of course.
I think that "destroyed" is not the right word.

Yes, free to play games with in app purchases dominate the mobile market. For now. The mobile gaming is just 6 years old. We're in the 'Space Invaders' era. The quality of the top-grossing games is, how I shall put it, not great.

I think eventually the quality will grow to a level where paying up front for a mobile game will not be the stupidest thing on the face of the Earth.
Science Fiction to Science Fabrication