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Microsoft has never made a profit with Xbox. In fact, they've only lost billions of dollars on it, and the chance to recover them isactually smaller than it was for Xbox 360, not just because I think Sony has a stronger showing this time around (and at a lower price to boot), but because I don't think the new consoles have a life bigger than 5 years in them.
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It's definitely alive, but my second-hand observation through seeing a friend attempt to use it for years, and even submitting numerous patches, is that it's in perpetual churn and still is only really usable for its lead maintainer.

Said friend went back to the homegrown engine and is much happier.
Remember that each technical measure you add to a design represents another (a) cost (b) size/weight, and (c) possible failure mode.

> When the running average surpasses a value that indicates the speaker is reaching its limit, cut the volume. I take it that this doesn't work?

No, it might work, but it's really a question of cost, complexity and represents an added failure mode -- something else that can go wrong.
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He's left handed (https://twitter.com/dongatory/status/431336238985920513).
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Slate - https://github.com/jigish/slate

Both will do what you want. Also, you can add a 5th modifier key to avoid conflicts: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/a-modern-space-cadet/
That wouldn't be the result. The result is that the final card is swapped only once, and can never be swapped with itself, meaning it is always somewhere else in the deck. If the final card is the ace of spades, then the ace of spades can never be the last card in the shuffled deck.

In most casino card games, shuffles happen before this knowledge becomes particularly useful, which is why I don't think it's necessarily the major cause for concern here. Being able to easily guess the seed is, however, a pretty massive issue.
"Doesn't require likyhood of confusion."

But does require that the misuse be in a different class, IIRC.

And not so much trademark as trade dress. Knew the lawyer who argued the case for Taco Cabana in front of SCOTUS.
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We just built this site a month ago

http://www.tivify.com/

It's not a full-time project as you can see. BUT we want to kick it around to see if anyone sees any usefulness coming out of it OR if it can be turned into a different idea.

In a nutshell, we collected all celebrities and TV show casts Twitter feeds and put them in one place, organized by the show they were a part of. Based on your favorite show, you can see which cast is tweeting recently.
Lintian works using a set of heuristic rules which sometimes generates false positives. That is certainly the case here. Nothing to get alarmed about.
What if someone random on the street stabbed you. You wake up in a hospital and the police is asking you questions about what the attacker looked like. Should you stay silent? If it was me, I'd want to get back at that person who stabbed me, and the police would help me do that.
UK or US, among other countries, if you are being held on 'homeland security' (read: Suspected terrorist) charges.

IE: You are required by law to answer questions/turn over passwords when suspected of such things. David Miranda being a recent and well known example.
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In the Netherlands you have the right to talk to a lawyer before you talk to the police. But not during the time you talk to the police. Nice huh?
It looks to me like C# supports everything from http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/extra/generics/wildca... using generic type constraints: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb384067.aspx

What am I missing?
If you're going to type 200+ words, could you at least list some specifics?
I think there's a case for MS to make hardware either to show what top notch PC kit looks like or a cheap minimum to stop OEMs pumping out worse than that.

MS don't need to make the consumer device everyone has they just have to force OEMs to not make piles of crap. In a way I think intel kind of own how well MS can perform with hardware. If they didn't push utlrabooks I don't know if we would have gotten anything in the pc space as well built as some apple kit.
They would need to build proper public transport first.

Most of the US is far, far behind other countries there, but many other first world countries are still completely impractical to travel by public transport too. e.g the UK, where while trains go most places, they are notoriously slow, unreliable and expensive and do not run in the very early morning. Even countries people might expect to have good transportation (e.g. Germany) see the same problem to a lesser extent, rendering its day to day use impractical.

The real answer is to have guided taxi-style individual vehicles that people can book, take to whereever, which then leave to pick someone else up, giving the privacy, speed and convenience benefits without the parking and traffic problems, but the technology isn't there yet to implement them in a real city.
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A) my claim is accurate. I was told it was used for account recovery. It is clearly been used to correlate with a google profile. This was opt-out and I didn't actually catch it in nov 2013 when the tech media had a cry about it.
Their support article you gave mentioned is a lie, they are clearly using recovery numbers to populate their bullshit caller ID system.

B) the option is NOT there if you do not have a google plus account. Do you need me to screenshot it?
If you see the word "hangout" near the mobile number you have google plus account. I had one option, remove recovery number. There was no opt-out "help others find me" tick. Didn't exist. I have no "hangout" settings. Somehow my google account must be in some kind of limbo where I'm not actually using other google services.

Your only option was to purge the number from account recovery, which I have done. My name and "YouTube" picture still appear on android handsets without an explicit contact. It's probably cached like that iPhone to android iMessage case recently.
that was exactly my experience as a first-year CS student. i had no prior programming experience and CS 101 started with implementing several programs in C. for help i was told "use valgrind" and that was about it. the CS tutors were constantly busy and the class was so big that i couldn't get one on one help, so i had to just spend hours on my own trying to decipher how to dynamically allocate memory without fucking myself. we ended up having a final involving implementing a trivial program in C in front of a TA. my program wouldn't work, yet after trying and trying i couldn't figure out what was wrong with it, so i resigned myself to failing the class and said "i'm done" with a program that didn't run. i had a single syntax error but the implementation was otherwise correct..the professor took pity on me and passed me. had i failed that class i would've said "fuck this" and left CS forever.
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The change makes sense, considering no one actually adds programs from there anymore. To be honest, I don't remember a time one actually did. Still, I do miss it, even today it kinda trips me up not being able to look at the top left hand corner of the control panel.
I wonder how many other bugs the protocol has. I bet it's not the only one. Maybe i should scan the issues list on github and sell every time a issue is opened...
"Let's wait until my lawyer gets here" will count against me?

You got a cite for that?
For fun I just created a Sublime Text 2 plugin that lets you bring up the git blame->show for selected line(s) of code with a simple shortcut (cmd+shift+m on Mac, alt+shift+m on Linux/Windows): https://github.com/cbumgard/GitCommitMsg
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Actually for something cryptographic or sensitive in nature you would want to read from /dev/random. The "u" in urandom stands for unlimited, basically if the entropy pool runs dry, reads from /dev/urandom will still return data but that data doesn't necessarily have a significant amount of entropy in it. Reads from /dev/random however will block and wait for more entropy if the entropy pool runs dry.
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The $2.5 billion per year figure is of course beyond silly. That'd be $20+ billion, off of 80 million consoles, or $250+ per console (an impossible figure right off the bat; their per unit losses from day one were lower than that).

$3 billion in losses over eight or nine years is irrelevant, literally, to Microsoft's fiscal picture. They have $84 billion in cash, and are compiling another $25 billion every year. Their ability to stay in the game financially, has helped result in the death of Nintendo when it comes to hardware, eliminating a big competitor. Microsoft can fund these losses forever so long as there is a good strategic reason for it (Sony on the other hand cannot).
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I don't like solving puzzles. Something that was put together by somebody else, for the sole purpose of you trying to figure out what it was. How stupid. It's for people who believe in god.
UI is very clean, really liked it.
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The run of X360 was almost twice of the Xbox. Correct for that. Also PS2 shipped 150 million units by which metric the whole 7th gen was disappointment because PS3 and X360 managed to ship slightly more combined.

But yes - 360 was a failure. We got stratification of the published, ballooning budgets, total homogenization of the games. Every abusive trick ever from publishers on the consoles, red ring of death, needlessly complicated online survives (the whole MS points crap), XBOX live gold subscriptions and the console barely broke even at best from every report I have ever read. The decision for the HDD to be optional was "brilliant". The first few revisions of the hardware were poorly made. Instead of the ugly but perfectly cool able and boring xbox we got something elegant, pretty, noisy and overheating.
>* If I haven't misunderstood you, Clojure does*

Yes, that's an example of what I was talking about, and I know you can also do it with Apple's Grand Central Dispatch API.

But is Clojure's stuff implicit or do you explicitly ask for the parallel thing to happen?

What I'm asking is essentially: sure, a reduce/map/filter/etc can potentially run in parallel. But does that ever happen automatically when using common API's for map/reduce/etc, or do you have to explicitly tell it to do so?

And if it happens automatically, how does the scheduller knows it's a good idea to run stuff in parallel? For some tasks the overhead might even make the time needed worse.
Negative. They are probably blocked in countries where Comedy Central does not have distribution. For example, they work in Sweden, where there is comedy central.
I don't play games at all but saying that gamers moved to mobile games is beyond silly.
Actually something almost like that exists: http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/
The best way is to make public transport more like cars.

Individual cars, perhaps on a track system, that people can book at any time of day to whereever they like, without having to share with a large number of unknown people and without random stops and detours that slow it down, getting a guaranteed seat and place to put anything they are carrying, which then leaves to pick someone else up when they arrive, and they just book another 5 minutes before they leave when they want to go home.
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Great idea! I would struggle moving from coding to design. I wonder if it as difficult a step going from designer to coder?
IMHO the problem here is the capabilities of the optimizing compiler, not the language itself. I would argue that it should be the compiler's job to figure these optimizations, otherwise you might as well use inline ASM on compiler intrinsics since it won't be portable anyway.

There are certain features of the C standard that forces the compiler to generate non-optimal code by default in certain cases (like aliasing rules, as any FORTRAN proponent will remind you). I don't think it's the case in TFA.

So basically, blame the optimizer, not the language.

P.S.: I used this cached version since the site appears to be down: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:accu.or...
Site seems down. Summary?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_Clicker
I've started trying out UberX in SF and it's been a revelation. The "public transportation needs to be better" argument goes away in a future when large swaths of urban professionals switch over to on-demand transportation, which will eventually be automated.
> to a dominant, #1 position with the XBox 360

Only in the US. Globally it certainly wasn't dominant and was probably behind the PS3.
That Putin poster is awesome.
Yes, getting a basic slashcode site up and running is top priority, according to the talk in IRC channel. They want to have it running today.

Mediawiki site is just a temporary thing.
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Regardless how much XNA was praised, it was a indie only thing.

The majority of professional studios still use C++ based engines.

Unity is the Microsoft's endorsed replacement for XNA, as announced in the Visual Studio 2013 release keynote.
This looks like a solid product but any reason I should give up my unity3d? It does look much easier to pick up than unity but I wonder what are the benefits of this.

Also, if someone knows where I can find some free assets I can use. I thought of ripping game sprites from old ROM games but stopped at the thought of hypothetical lawyers rising from the dead.
Heres the first hit on google, I'm sure many more instances, citings could be procured.

According to former White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales (later the former attorney general), “[t]he stream of intelligence would quickly dry up if the enemy combatants were allowed contact with outsiders during the course of an ongoing debriefing.” Warren Richey, “Beyond Padilla Terror Case, Huge Legal Issues,” Christian Science Monitor, August 15, 2007, http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0815/p01s08-usju.html. Yoo also explains that introducing a lawyer immediately after capture of an enemy combatant would disrupt interrogation as any competent defense counsel would tell his/her client to remain silent. Yoo, War by Other Means, 151.
Ah yes, the death of dynamics in music! One horrendous offender that I own is Paul McCartney's Memory Almost Full. I think he remastered it and rereleased it but there isn't a chance that I'm spending my money on it again! I think the mastering engineer discovered the joys of gain and hard knee in compressors.
I think you're right. But that doesn't translate (IMO) lead to MS crushing competition. They have a lot of assets. Important software. Decades of user experience. Several war chests. An institutional ability to grind out a success. etc. etc.

But, "computers" has become a big industry. It seems strange to say something so obvious, but the number of "computers" in use, the importance of those computers and the amount of money businesses and individuals spend on them is still growing and growing. I don't think MS can keep ahold of "market share" when the market gets to that size. Market share has always been MS' biggest weapon. The difference between 95% and 80% is 3X as much competition, even if it is nothing in total sales.

Imagine an incumbent (say Amazon, Samsung, Google or whatever) company launching a new product that runs something inspired by Chrome OS & iOS on $250 hardware that can replace windows laptops for 10%-20% home users. That sounds a lot more plausible today than it did 10 years ago.

6-7 years ago Vista came out. It had issues and didn't run well on the low end hardware retailers were selling. They probably lost a percent or two of market share to Apple/OSX. Apple never really went after the low margin low-middle end. 6-7 years from now that could be 10%-20% to an unexpected incumbent.

The markets important to MS are still growing and expanding so I don't think they are in trouble. They could lose market share and still grow absolute sales.

tablets and convertibles starting to supplant traditional laptops as daily driver devices is an opening for new players.
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I created a Sublime Text 2 plugin that lets you see the commit message history (messages & file stats) for selected line(s) of code with a simple shortcut: cmd+shift+m on Mac, alt+shift+m on Linux/Windows.<p>Inspired by this earlier post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7202146).
Well, not necessarily idiots. I'm sure they understand the longer term value of those brands and products to Microsoft. Investors are not necessarily in it for the long-term, though. They might buy a substantial stake, pressure the CEO into cutting valuable (but currently loss-making) divisions, and be looking to sell that stake after a couple of really strong-looking quarters.

None of that is good for Microsoft, but the investors are potentially behaving quite rationally. (if a bit destructively...)
Anecdotal but I've seen a few friends, some techie that want /use the windows phone. Seems to appeal to the "I just want a damn phone" crowd.
I honestly don't know, especially with Valve's Steambox on the way. It was a losing fight from the beginning, and this generation is already doomed right from the start.
A relatively easy way for a C programmer to bridge the gap is to use something like DynASM[0].

Alternatively, for SPMD-like problems, Intel's open source ISPC[1] compiler is a pretty easy way to benefit from the SIMD hardware in your processor.

[0] http://luajit.org/dynasm.html

[1] http://ispc.github.io/
It seems people in the chatroom and on reddit don't buy this. Blaming their inability to withdraw money for customers on the Bitcoin protocol? And somehow all other exchanges are doing fine? Super suspicious.
More interesting discussion on Alex Schleber's G+ post:

https://plus.google.com/+AlexSchleber/posts/boFYJq7yKDd

Specifically:

Re point 1: But they are (self-)selected smart by Google's hiring processes to skew in a particular engineering direction that CAN make them "dumb" (=less smart) in more social, humanistic, and philosophical terms...

Gunther Sonnenfeld makes the point that I've been making for a year or so now: that Google's real competition is Amazon:

This isn't really about digital rights fiefdoms and the ability to sell ads, but the distribution of products, services and data that keep customers realistically 'engaged'. Amazon has the entire ecosystem in play ... In short, Amazon doesn't need ads or impressions, and in fact, it will completely reinvent the standards for performance, reach and engagement by doing so.

Amazon itself is disruptable if someone can figure out how to get brick-and-mortar stores' inventories and order systems integrated. The last-mile / delivery problem is still Amazon's weak point, and if I can deal with merchandise issues in person at a local storefront (with competent service), but handle ordering and information online, I'd do it (and in fact, often do).

I see security, privacy, tracking, and trust being Google's biggest weak points, along with hubris. The fact that I've all but abandoned it for Search (but Google Scholar and the Google Books Ngram viewer are awesome), and am starting to switch to OpenStreetMap, suggests that Google's foundations can be carved out from under it.

Remember, IBM, Xerox, and AT&T were unassailable behemoths in the 1970s / 1980s (well, prior to 1984 in the case of AT&T). Or Microsoft for the 1990s.
This reeks of the same kind of argument that was used to push for microkernels. Arbitrarily cutting up processes into smaller parts is not the same as decoupled design.
Given that a core developer (Gregory Maxwell) has backed up the explanation that it's an implementation issue, you'd have to be fairly stupid to believe otherwise based on the mindless musings or other reddit users.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1x93tf/some_irc_cha...

This information is very public, to the point where people have collected detailed information about the bad transactions going out and noting that they also agree with that story.

http://skanner.net/MtGox/mtgox_tx.php

Why has nobody else has issues like this? Well they have, talk to Coinbase, they've had their own share of problems with delayed transactions.
You could argue that it is a fault of the C language that it does not expose the carry flag of the CPU. This makes the most optimal implementation of e.g. addition impossible without resorting to (inline) assembler.

Of course not every CPU has a carry flag...
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> Being able to easily guess the seed is, however, a pretty massive issue.

Particularly since they initialise the deck each time (it'd be a massive issue anyway, but this just makes it worse).

Starting with 2^32 states, and knowing their algorithm, you have ~4 billion possible shuffles. However, each card you see drastically reduces the search space. My reasoning is that each card you know reduces the possible number by about how many cards it could have been (so no knowledge is 2^32, one card is 2^32 / 52 ...)

Knowing just one card brings you to one of 83 million possible decks. One more card and you're down to just 1.6 million.

Once the flop is down, you know 5 cards and that means there are only about 15 possible decks.

I think this reasoning is right, but it does seem rather dramatic. I'll have to write a simulation, I've been looking for a good blog post to work through & to work on my visualisations.
So would you be more confident in repositories that closed 0 issues? I can point you to plenty of those.
Yeah, yeah, pointers are evil, memory management is hard, cache locality is a horrible mess, lame, sequential spaghetti code does not automatically scaled by a "stupid" compiler, so we all should use Java and NodeJS VMs which eliminate the necessity to think, and even to have such capacity. With VMs questions of optimal performance just never arise.)
I had the same experience. Various NetNanny-risqué applications placed on the main computer fell to deliberate corruption of their various libraries; I hooked up a tiny Bluetooth dongle to my terrible P2 laptop and the home computer and set up a PAN for access on my phone and computer... eventually the parental units gave up. I now make a lot of money building stuff instead of breaking things :)
TBH, I have yet to see one which lacks CF.
I find it so strange though: who are their target audience, exactly?
I'm totally with you. I stopped using G+ under my given name after a couple of weeks in 2011. I've since found it's barely to be trusted even pseudonymously, and the same phone number issue you mentioned is one that I looked at and bailed on when presented it for: password recovery, two factor auth, and later as a sweetner for a personalized URL.

I'm clearing my posts from G+ and largely using it as a glorified Twitter. May nuke it altogether. My trust in the company is now zilch for precisely the reasons you state.