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But remember also that northern hemisphere navigators like the Portuguese also had to align their maps in a different direction as they crossed the equator and lost their main reference star on their way around Africa.

They soon discovered how to navigate by then aligning with a group of stars called "Cruzeiro do Sul", the Crux constellation[1], which means that it could be reasonable to actually start aligning the maps southwards (and the portuguese were the ones mapping the whole coast of Africa at the time).

But I guess that by that time (around the 1470s), they were already too used to aligning northwards...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crux

Edit: I meant northern hemisphere navigators, instead of northern european.
I think flip a coin covers what I do :-) Sometimes I really wanna dig in, sometimes I just. need. to. finish.
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well, obviously...
Also I think Android spread like wildfire because it was owned by Google who allowed all manufacturers to use it for free, or may be at a lower price (I don't know). The key point is Android being available to various hardware makers contributed big to its success. If it had been owned by Samsung it would not have been different from Symbian or other manufacturer specific operating systems.
Try egrep (or grep -e)

The author probably has grep aliased to egrep
That's interesting and kinda funny since you still get the familiar clicking sound when your turn signal is on I can only assume that this sound is made artificially. It immediately reminded me of the fact that computer keyboards are naturally silent but they engineer in "clicky" sounds. This was very important in the old days when people were transitioning away from type writers and were accustomed to the audio feedback. Now we still have this, but keyboards are a lot quieter these days.
Give us a little time. It's been only one week, the government and the politicians are still clueless about how to implement the text, while Europe is unleashing a mild shitstorm on the country.

I bet that soon enough we will vote again about measures to fix this vote.
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This went from "insightful" to "rant" pretty quickly. I was with you until "mistook PHP for a worthwhile general-purpose web development language". That's exactly what PHP is, a worthwile general-purpose web development language.

I understand your grievances with PHP's semantic issues, and I can appreciate that PHP's lack of support for newer, common language paradigms inhibits growth in professional development.

But you replied to a guy who starts his comment with "As a hobbyist". Most of what PHP is used for is for small web development projects that in no way need optional strong typing and full functional support.

At the beginning of your comment you say that if PHP is your only programming language than this deficit leaves you at a disadvantage. Well no shit! There's no silver bullet language that can do everything for everyone 100% of the time. In one breath you lambaste using PHP as your only language; in another you identify that PHP's lack of support for x, y, and z cause the developer to stagnate in learning new things. It seems you condemn using PHP for everything, and then are upset that it can't do everything!

To this I would say use the right tool for the job.
Whatever happened to the IPv4 address crisis?
> magnetic north on a compass is a natural way to orient something.

More so than magnetic south?
You could pull the same trick with Battleye, too (it scans all processes' memory for a short list of signatures, too, and several months ago those were leaked).
Eu forced what? If I remember well Swiss and EU had an agreement about that: it means that the government of Swiss signed voluntarily a contract
Someone needs to tell McArthur that his "Universal Corrective Map of the World" is missing an entire continent.
> The idea is that parallelism begins from how you structure your data

Sure, but again, you're talking high-level. At a low-enough level, every operation is destructive, because that's how our machines work. If you're using immutable data-structures, then you're allocating memory, so you are bumping (destructively) some heap pointer. Even if that pointer is thread-local, sooner or later some garbage collection will take place, which requires some form of synchronization.

The idea is that somewhere in your software stack, be it the OS or the JVM or whatever, there will be shared mutable state, and that's where lock-free data structures are handy. Some high-level languages abstract that away from you so you don't have to deal with this stuff.

Also, parallelism is only part of the story. Parallelism, or data parallelism, divides the data so that it can be processed cooperatively in parallel, but that's not always what you have. Lock-free data structures are useful when doing concurrency rather than parallelism, i.e. lots of different computations (rather than one), competing for (rather than cooperatively sharing) limited resources.
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They get a lot of their money from hiding corrupt people's money from everyone else. Not exactly the most honest way of achieving a balanced budget.
Amazing how such absolutely bare-bones basic games succeed. Way back on the Atari 2600 the all-time most successful game was Kaboom! which was a clown firing a cannon at a target. You got to raise/lower the cannon. That's it!
I tie flies, for fly fishing when I'm working from home and it has the same effect. It's a different way of using my brain that helps me refocus. It's also really nice to physically produce something. Plus then I have a better selection for fishing. Doesn't work so well when in an office setting though.

This article does make me want to draw again, I used be an amateur comics book artist/cartoonist but I haven't drawn seriously in years.
For resize arrows it's pretty much a must.
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I am not sure if something like Jasmine or Chai exists in the JVM world but this seems pretty similar. You can do much the same thing with BDD-style describe() and it() specs.
Also the Japanese had very advanced mobile networks from very early on, so I assume there were some pretty smart devices (for their time) much before smartphones got popular in the USA.
I'm a bit annoyed at how the discussion here has turned out. Did you actually read the post you're criticizing instead of just jumping at the first critical points he makes about git because it happens to be your favorite tool? No argument you list here is in any way contradicting to what the post says.

To summarize again, the post says: Git is more powerful because it's distributed - but that comes at a price in terms of a more complex UI. If you know that you'll never need DVCS, you might be better off using SVN.

Everything you are listing here is examples of how git's UI is more complex, except you don't seem to recognize it anymore because git has become so engrained in what you do. Every so often it's worth it to take a step back, to look at our workflows and to figure out why we do what we do for every step. This SO reply was IMO a good attempt at explaining exactly this in terms of the Git vs. SVN discussion.
"Conditional watches" on the directive sounds good, I will try it. Also gettext support will be great, the use of existing i18n tools is a must have.
Well, at least on Android you can just install the apk.
This doesn't read like biased propaganda at all.
Ask HN: What applications do you use to create game assets?
Hi,<p>I was wondering what applications do you use to create your game assets, visual or audio, such as sprites, backgrounds, sound effects, music, etc.
I'm particularly interested in the graphics side of the question however I would also appreciate any answer on the audio creation/manipulation.
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So, this is a related rant that's been brewing . . .

Historical revisionism is a wonderful thing, apparently. Reviewing where Android was when it launched, a good few years after these events, and you can only conclude Samsung were 100% right. Android had a slow VM (far slower than the others already in the market) very high system requirements, and represented a whole new incompatible ecosystem.

Much of the world had moved on to J2ME's MIDP 2.0, with Japan and the US the notable exceptions with i-mode and Qualcomm's C based Brew platform respectively. As later happened with Android the fragmentation problems of J2ME were greatly exaggerated by a whole mini industry of companies reliant on the illusion. J2ME certainly had problems, but if you were delivering more than 100 different builds (I'm aware of groups pushing 1000) then you were completely and absolutely insane. It might sound like creating 100 different builds would be a big problem, but the differences were really fairly trivial, and not much worse than Android today which primarily benefits from most of the OS having been written by one group, except for the driver layers, whereas previously a lot more was on the OEM.

I'm a fairly loud proponent of the merits of Android, but what is even more widely ignored is that J2ME was in many ways superior to it, most obviously in the way it handled application permissions. For those that have dug into the platform it's amazingly clear that without the iPhone coming along and spurring Google on to greater things Android would have been a complete non-event at launch, especially with the dire performance of the early devices. The concern for Android developers today is that now Google have done just enough to edge out the iPhone in the market (though not in terms of developer experience, thanks to the giant incoherent mess of an API) they're leaving the platform to stagnate. Perversely the best thing for Android devs right now would be if Apple or MS produce an absolutely killer version of their respective OS's forcing Google to invest where it's needed to stay in contention.

So I certainly wouldn't rate Samsung as a software outfit, they're notably terrible, but Google have caught many of the old MS diseases, especially when it comes to doing only enough to destroy competitors and then leaving it hanging. If you compare the iOS and Android APIs you can't escape the conclusion that the iOS team have pride in their work, and the Android team are constantly having to make excuses for what a rush they were in. Both groups drove the other to greater heights, but the impact both eventually had in the market is only thanks to the other having driven them to get there.
A very interesting fact! I never even thought about it. Now I cannot stop thinking about all such small things. Great post.
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Thanks! The original regex still didn't work, but I used:

history | egrep -o "git [a-Z]*" | sort | uniq -c

and found:

30 git
42 git add
9 git branch
86 git checkout
150 git commit
8 git diff
2 git log
11 git merge
2 git mergetool
1 git pop
32 git pull
49 git push
1 git remote
2 git rm
1 git satus
6 git stash
2 git statsu
2 git statu
233 git status

Apparently "git status" is the one command I have trouble typing. I use "git log" quite often, but I have an alias called gitlog that uses the --pretty=oneline flag.
As an American, I've had both experiences.

One job I had, I was hired by the owner of a multi-million dollar a year company at his kitchen table with his wife and their kids were making a racket upstairs playing. He was always approachable and a friendly guy. One of the best jobs I ever had.

Years later he sold the company to some venture capitalist outfit out of Boston (I think it was Boston) that had hopes of expanding the business he created. Everybody at the top of that thing acted as if they were more special than anyone else in the room (including some high level people) not realizing they were just that somewhat interesting white speck on top of chicken shit.

Once it became clear there was no interest in continuing the successful path of the previous owner, I left. Something like 75% of my department (including some high level people) thought the same and left as well. I put in my notice to my boss a day after he had put in his notice. That was a fun final two weeks.
> Linux had a much more friendly and welcoming community attitude. OpenBSD/NetBSD developers had a bit of an anal-retentive BOFH streak to them

That may have played a role in this, but not a major one. What probably contributed most to the success of Linux was the commercial redistribution and accompanying marketing efforts by companies like SuSE (they even sent free CD sets to unimportant Open Source developers, including me) and Red Hat.
If Portugal is in northern Europe, who is then in southern Europe??
The problem with most of this websites is always that you might get a spike of traffic but the actual conversion to regular users is extremely low, it's better to find your specific public instead of such a generic one. Not saying that they are bad, just they might not be the best for getting good traffic.
I would argue: not for anyone under 30. These kids eat up social media like it's going out of style.
Palm's Treo series were pretty good smartphones back then. Though some braindead CEOs split the company into one hardware and one software company, while neither had the sufficient resources to put a new generation of smartphone OS through.
Sure, but spatial orientation and temporal orientation are too important to leave to arbitrary tool particulars. It's really bad for the mind.

I get your point ( with correction by @JoeAltmaier ) but with GPS and the like being the `new` tool, and with them needing new thought rather than continuation of the old "because we always did it that way"... I'd definitely go East in the future... along with changing calendars away from solar orientation ( Gregorian primarily ).

But as with most things involving the masses, this all falls into the category of why most use Metric versus Imperial, and why that is such a radical change to expect. Still, great to see a post questioning "up" ...
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Englishmen do that too (Post-soviet oligarchs) but it doesn't help them that much.
One that I have recently been using more and more is time, but don't forget there is a difference between bash's "time" command and /usr/bin/time . I use both.

The majority in the list seem pretty common, but I guess with more and more gui dependents some people just never spent days wading through man pages or info coreutils, so still useful.
Thanks laichzeit0, I understand.
I can submit random wikipedia articles, too

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upchuck
Top secret legal interpretations that nullify other laws still on the books are the new black.
I'm ashamed my tax payer money is funding this bullshit.

Israel has one of the best funded militaries in the world, with cutting edge weapons and technology (unsupervised(!) nuclear, chemical and biological arsenals included), but seems to think we're still in a David vs. Goliath scenario.

This is one of many examples of bizarre cognitive dissonances that come with living in this strange piece of land.

[Just to show one more example, here's [1] an official video clip created by the IDF and broadcast on national TV that literally says: "You think this is strong? The IDF is strong"]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG8xxIzMecg
It's not trying to be anything else. It's trying to make the case purely from Israel's perspective about the threats it faces.
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Just a small almost off-topic correction: Majorca was not Spanish-ruled in 1375, hence the name of the map "Catalan Atlas" attributed to cartographer Abraham Cresques as well as the mentioned nickname of "el jueu de les bruixoles" (in Catalan language).
I've discovered this, for anyone else who might need similar help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematical_symbols
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chli, you are correct. i wasn't that aware of those numbers. although i'm guessing a big bunch of those immigrants are western europeans, not "croatians". a french in geneva, or a german in zurich are immigrants, but the swiss are not "afraid" of/referring to that immigration. am i correct on that assumption?
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(Non-mathematician here.) Seems the fuss is about getting the faces of the Goldberg polyhedra to be planar.

There's an article at sciencenews.org [1] which has a bit better explanation I think.

It seems "Goldberg polyhedra" as commonly understood encompasses a bunch of shapes which wouldn't normally qualify as polyhedra because some of their faces don't have all of their vertices in the same plane (i.e. the "hexagons" in the picture at the article would not really be flat)

This is what the paper is calling "dihedral angle discrepancy" - a dihedral angle being the angle between two planes.

From the abstract[1], the claim of the paper is to have found a subset of Goldberg "polyhedra" where the planarity of faces is guaranteed.

The resulting shapes also have all edges the same length, but the faces are not necessarily equiangular.

As far as I can tell, they're claiming that only one each of tetrahedral and octahedral Goldberg (or Goldberg-like?) polyhedra exhibits equal edges and planar faces, but that there are infinite icosahedral variations with these properties.

The supplementary info for this paper[2] has more details about their methodology, which seems to included use of molecular modelling software and iterative methods, as well as a few pictures.

[1] https://www.sciencenews.org/article/goldberg-variations-new-...

[2] http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/02/04/1310939111

[3] http://www.pnas.org/content/suppl/2014/02/05/1310939111.DCSu...
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"Also, magnetic north on a compass is a natural way to orient something."

Not any more natural than magnetic South, so far as I can see.
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In this summer we hold a workshop in our university.
We find out creating an attractive flyer, handing it out and putting it up on boards in proper locations are money and time consuming.
Although we decided to just promote it on our social networks, we could not get expected number of attendees.
But at least we find out what an impressive and efficient advertisement needs.

So we start Booltin to solve this problem.

Booltin is an online service to create flyer easily, promote it quickly and get feedback efficiently.
Booltin launch page is here:

http://boolt.in

We really appreciate your feedback and suggestion.
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I'm Swiss and I agree with the entire comment above. The result was shameful, but hopefully it will be diluted into nothingness over the years it will take before it is implemented...
There is this odd trend amongst testing framework developers to make their frameworks more verbose, as if this somehow delivers value. Spek seems to be in this tradition. Almost every other area of programming aims towards getting as much work done with as a little verbiage as possible. Why do testing framework people feel that programs should read like written prose? This idea has failed a great many times over the years.

The ScalaCheck [0] library is actually innovating in the domain of testing. It's derived from QuickCheck, a Haskell library, and I believe an Erlang derivative is making $$s as a commercial product.

[0]: https://github.com/rickynils/scalacheck
Inkscape, mainly!

For sound, I first check http://www.freesound.org/, then if I'm unlucky I end up using Audacity
This is a great point, especially the fact that sales are binary and development isn't.
I would love to see an overlay of the land that Israel has taken from Palestinians, and how many people are displaced each time (directly or indirectly) in the timeline they're presenting. Might balance it out a bit.. or give some perspective.

EDIT: I can't reply to the below commenter. I am in Canada. There is relatively little negative media relating to Israel, though I don't watch a lot of news. I imagine in part this has to do with there being a large enough, influential, and entrenched Israeli population in North America - involved in business.
Yes, as it's always on the defensive.

http://morallowground.com/wp-content/uploads/israel-ethnic-c...
Impressively long way around to avoid relying on Nginx or Apache. How does it perform in comparison?
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and here is the http://boolt.in
Oh yeah, I remember that. ImgEdit or something? It was great, I spent so much time making the hand/finger cursor into a middle finger rather than an index.
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>The knowledge obtained in most of them is not easily transferable to other technology stacks.

This is like complaining that French courses leave you unable to converse in German. Most rational people wouldn't expect otherwise.
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FYI: "spek" is Dutch for "bacon" — http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spek.
I have noticed a change in approach, even if unconscious. Instead of predicting doom, they have started to celebrate small victories (like Google IPv6 traffic passing 3%). I think that's natural when the size of this undertaking is so great.

Unfortunately IPv6 adoption is not a matter of just providing access lanes to this wonderful new technology. IP permeates too much of the infrastructure, tooling, etc. How could it not? Some companies might find the cost/ROI of working around IPv4 limited address space to be less than migrating to IPv6.
AppStorm announced they were closing before this post. http://mac.appstorm.net/general/appstorm-news/appstorm-closi...
There's a much simplified version of Monopoly intended for kids that involves locations within a park that you place booths on. The buying and selling mechanic is there but rules concerning property is greatly reduced.

That's what I introduced to my daughter concerning Monopoly and she loved it. Helped her with the concept of basic math as well.
Switzerland has NOT closed its borders.

The Swiss people have voted against unregulated mass immigration from the European Union in a democratic referendum. That was basically the system until 2007 and is the default system for immigration outside the European Union. The US for example has not even unregulated mass immigration for Canadians …
It's interesting. When will it get ready?
It shows IE8 download for me? Is that 'cause I'm on XP? Or does it show that for everyone and is that the thing.
Not to take anything away from Brian, but I'd say the online crime world's hatred of Dancho Danchev is probably right up there, if not more. He has blogged[1] almost consistently about different malware campaigns, and for awhile was actually thought to be kidnapped[2].

[1] http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/21/great-news-missing-cybersec...
There's (click arrows to navigate) always (click arrows to navigate) wiki.answers.com (click arrows to navigate)

I believe that site exists solely to punish me for doing google searches like "wiki something" to find a relevant related topic, and also to make me swear at google for removing the "block results from this site" feature from search, which, however temporarily, was awesome.