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Exactly what elements of Chrono Trigger do you think modern games are missing? (Not critical, just curious)
I think your onus of proof is backwards. We shouldn't need to prove that this interface is accessible over the air. They need to prove to us that it's not. It's not easy to prove it's accessible over the air. But it's easy for them to prove that it's not. They hold all the cards, after all.
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Exactly why Bomberman is still one of my all time favourites. It's not the graphics, its the gameplay
how do you go about filing prior art with the USPO? Do they have a submission form?
Attacking the iOS 7 early_random() PRNG by kernelpool
For those who are saying that this isn't a backdoor, you can actually force execute this command on GSM phones for a few thousand dollars [1] [2].

[1] http://rangenetworks.com/products/openbts-development-kit

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXqQioV_bpo
If rendering is taking a while be sure to check if people still release optimized Blender builds for OS X. I used Blender 5 years ago and I remember the optimized builds where worth it.
If you're this concerned about your password security, you should be using Google's two-factor authentication.

http://www.google.com/landing/2step/
"Valve and Sony" are apples and oranges. Valve hasn't been a publisher (in the usual sense) or a platform creator until very recently. They've been a retailer and a developer. As a retailer, Valve has an incentive to grow the industry as a whole, and as a developer, they have an incentive to get people onto platforms that are easy for them to develop and sell products for.

They've chosen to tackle these interests by deliberately doing things "wrong" right from the beginning. SteamOS/Steambox is all about having an open, accessible platform, and the release of development tools is all about getting people to develop for this platform so that users will adopt it.
I'm stuck trying to finish a project as a vendor. The original team in charge of selling the project has put a guy as Project Manager that takes pride everytime he says: "As you know, I'm not a technical guy" just before explaining something completely wrong from the technical standpoint, or agreeing into something that can't be delivered as explained. I can't agree more on the quote that says "Please don’t put non-technical managers in charge of software developers." I just hope finishing this without a lose, and getting a better position for the following projects.
plot twist: quahaug is an uploaded consciousness
You read the docs. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/dn467918

This is a publicly disclosed, publicly available program. Implying that it's somehow a government conspiracy is lying.
The demotivation poster (we'll ask for estimates, but then treat them as deadlines) really strikes a chord because that is one of my major 'gripes' with the agile planning process. Particularly when a manager is heavily involved in that process. It may be no coincidence that the best projects I have been on are the ones where the manager deliberately stepped out of the room or was not a part of those phases of the planning process.

Agile is part of a more disturbing trend I've noticed [0] of companies striving very hard to turn software into a literal sausage-making factory [1] and to make software engineers just another cog in the machine or a replaceable part to fatten the bottom line with a lower salary. This is provably the aim of some of the top companies given news on no-hire agreements. [10].

[0] with Java being the favored "currency" of programming languages being the other disturbing trend-- it's much easier to replace a Java programmer than any other for a reason

[1] you know what they say about how sausages are made

[10] http://gizmodo.com/apple-guilty-of-price-fixing-730018979
That's so good for a day. I made a similar game a while ago that took a few weeks! http://platformpixels.com/

I would be interested to know what you used for collision detection (If anything).
At that level of technology, destroying primitive societies like ours would be trivial. It wouldn't necessarily take an impossibly large relativistic weapon. Maybe just a lot of nukes, carefully designed super-virus that wipes out our species, or sending a single self-replicating nanobot (or superior life form) to our planet.

We don't know what other destructive technologies are possible.

>the expected utility from contact should be hugely skewed negatively -- assuming -inf utility for termination and +finite for whatever gains.

If you are assuming death is -inf, almost any action has infinite negative utility. Also see pascal's mugging (http://lesswrong.com/lw/kd/pascals_mugging_tiny_probabilitie...).
The modems in question here don't have direct access to system ram or flash, which is why Samsung is using an RPC mechanism to the application processor to store data on behalf of the modem (which quite possibly has no local flash at all -- designs do vary). Typically these are supposed to restrict the modem's storage to its little sandbox -- sounds like this one fails to do so (and runs as root which should not be necessary to provide the service).
Ah, got it. It also seems the more useful the drug, the higher the pressure for low cost generic licensing (though, then again, the larger the circulation).

I wonder if an X-Prize like model might work better here, with, e.g., individuals with genetic risk for a specific cancer "crowd funding" various grades of prizes, with the actual awarding of prizes, setting and advertising the prizes, being done by an organization/consortium that knows what they're doing.
These days only complaints I here about Rust are pointer semantics and C++-like syntax. Both will not be fixed (design decision). I guess that means Rust achieved some sort of optimality now. :)

More likely, probably people hate those two points so much that they forget to mention other problems. Which is a pity. Please tell us about other problems.
Hi, send me an email on hans@zoona.co.za. I'm a Canadian working in Africa, so would be great to chat
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As somebody who has been involved in the Agile movement since before the term existed (I was using Extreme Programming in 2000 or 2001), I agree 100% with this.

I definitely think the consultants get a good chunk of the blame. But as I explain in detail elsewhere [1], I think that happened because executives, the consultants' customers, were mainly interested in buying BS. Not consciously, but when they were offered a choice between hard Agile and easy Agile, they bought easy Agile.

It's sad, because in the 2001-2005 timeframe, there were a lot of great people doing a lot of great stuff. There are still some doing great stuff today. But yeah, among most of the people I talk to that are "doing Agile" (as if there were such a thing), Agile is just putting new labels on the same old power dynamics.

And it's those power dynamics that are the problem, and no matter what methods you supposedly adopt, unless you change those, the system will return to making powerful executives and managers feel safe and in control. At the expense of productivity, quality, value delivery, and a whole lot else.

[1] http://agilefocus.com/2011/02/21/agiles-second-chasm-and-how...
Music is a big one. Most of the early to mid-90s Square RPGs had amazing soundtracks, and Chrono Trigger was no exception.

Today's game music is technically of a higher quality and complexity. But it's nowhere near as interesting, and I dare say, not 1/10th as good. Yesterday's game composers had to possess a certain ingenuity, working, as they did, under tight constraints.

Creativity can flourish under a constricting framework, often in ways it fails to do in the absence of limits. This is why $200 million Michael Bay movies often suck, while a movie made for a fraction of the price can kick ass. Bay doesn't have to be creative. Nothing presses him toward ingenuity. That's not to say that today's game composers aren't good, or that I necessarily compare them to Michael Bay. Rather, it's to say that the composers in the '90s had to be good. They had to go out of their way to be good. They had to achieve so much with so little.
Checking my profile beforehand might have helped :)

Feel free to get in touch - hans@zoona.co.za
It's not that I am concerned about my security, as I use text message verification to recover my password.
My issue with this it that people who don't give their phone number to google can be effected by this.

EDIT: Just set up 2 factor auth. Looks cool, until my phone dies and I don't have the backup codes with me.
Typically these services are intended to allow the modem to access factor calibration data, possibly page firmware in, or to store nonvolatile information it needs longer term. They should be restricted to just storing data on behalf of the modem and not providing broader filesystem access (that's at the very least (assuming incompetence rather than malice) a bug).
Go is pretty much competing with java and not C, C++, FORTRAN, and Ada. Nimrod is up there with the best of them. Go is also somewhat designed around reducing build times, nimrod is not. However C and C++ (esp C++) pretty much manage to be designed around increasing build times, so Nimrod is much faster to compile than they are.
I have input lag on Firefox, Linux. Well, maybe lag isn't the word, but it's definitely not responsive (meaning I did notice that being annoying before seeing comments about that).
It's my understanding the South China Sea is, compared to open ocean, really more of a shallow lake that happens to be teaming with Chinese subs. American ones, too, for that matter.

If the plane did hit this body of water, would these subs have noticed it? If so, are they keeping silent as a matter of tradecraft, to avoid showing their capabilities to the other side?
If I remember the first few articles (I started at the beginning when I found the site, several years ago) Mr. Money Moustache and his wife were able to save radically while working fairly decent jobs. The result being they we able to "retire" very early (20's?) and are offering tips and sharing methodology.

So without the background, yes the numbers can seem very low. But with the background, you may find all of the research that went into the home they have (paid for), the retirement accounts they comfortably live on while they continue to grow, and the side jobs he takes for fun (and profit), like buying and rehabbing rental properties alone and with others. Not to mention the healthy lifestyles (why drive when you can bike? Even in Colorado winters?).

Similar to any perceived extreme point of view/lifestyle, it has its fans and detractors. There are many who are very thankful for the guidance...

But I think it comes down to some basics that the American media (if not others) do not seem to promote very often: Earn well, save a large percentage, keep expenses low, invest well, continue to learn. Question perceived "necessities."

YMMV
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I'd like to expand your comments a bit further.

Not only are these ideas low hanging fruit but they are low risk, innovation test beds. Imagine trying to do this kind of work on a medical device that could kill someone...you can't be nearly as wild and crazy. The internet is always going to be productized with ideas that are cheap to stand up, low risk and scalable....that's the beauty of it.
> If your civ can build impossibly large relativistic weapons, can't it survive an impact of one?

Atomic bombs would suggest a negative response.
Having knowledge outside of your head is what makes humans different than every other animal. I don't think there is anything wrong with looking something up. If I baked chocolate chip cookies 1000 times, but still checked the recipe each time, would all of the skills developed the 1000 times be out the window? Are you trying to memorize the recipe or the skills needed to complete the job?

Best of luck to you!
Yeah. 100% agreed.

In some ways I don't blame people. Industrial approaches to organizing people provided a major leap forward for humankind. And they work well with primate power dynamics; modern corporate structures are basically feudalism in suits. It's natural that people would just want to take the top-down, command-and-control structures and replicate them in the new thing they're doing.

But they just don't work well. They don't even work well for industry anymore; there's a reason that Toyota, which has a very different management philosophy, wiped the floor with the US auto companies, which stayed stuck in the early 20th century.

To be fair, Agile started out to be 100% the opposite of that sausage-factory approach. I know a lot of the early players, and they sincerely had a very different vision. It makes me sad to see their work used as just another stick to beat developers. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
As a person who thinks the opposite, this comes as a shock to me. Care to explain?
Three years, after my Droid 3 deteriorated so far that it was basically unusable and neither Verizon nor Motorola would do anything about it.
Han doesn't have to use the Force. Luke is present, though not lucid, and he uses the Force.
The only official response from Microsoft that I can find is in reply to a question from Bloomberg [1] on this question. Frank Shaw, lead communications for Microsoft, responded by email to the question that, according to Bloomberg, information regarding 0day or other exploits are provided to a number of government agencies as an "early start", prior to public announcement.

The original email text is unavailable as far as I can see. It of course makes perfect sense that, at least under certain circumstances, and this was the sense of limit inferable from the email, that government agencies should be given the opportunity to assess whether the item being notified about has some security implication.

The claim is made by Bloomberg, by reference to "two unnamed government officials", that Microsoft is aware that such information might be applied for reasons not primarily connected to domestic defensive security. But this is only an unsubstantiated assertion.

The number of potential exploits that are known only to Microsoft at the time of notification to those agencies would be, at a lazy guess, somewhat proportional to their exploit assessment man hours, compared to the overall exploit discovery effort. I would think that would be the much smaller proportion.

1. http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-14/u-s-agencies-sai...
Thanks Cornelius! - Got two invites, anyone want some?
Same with me and Final Fantasy VII - 17 years after it came out, I'm still listening to the soundtrack[1] regularly while I work, and while I'm doing so I can vividly see all the scenes from the game playing out before my eyes.

Makes me wonder how many teenagers nowadays have played the original Chrono Trigger and/or Final Fantasy VII, and how they would compare them to today's games (and their music).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMtlLpYcCAQ
This looks neat! We're using Docker containers for computational math at MathHarbor. Amazing stuff. One question - is it possible to bring in our own container images onto Shippable?
But wait, my whole job is going to meetings!
I think the problem isn't with who you put in charge. I think the problem is the notion of "in charge".

One of the best things for me about teams that were working well is that everybody was in charge. Everybody felt responsible for the outcome. Everybody cared. Everybody knew they could make things happen, and that differences of view were resolved through collaboration and experimentation, not power.

You can see that explicitly in the structure of Extreme Programming, a major Agile process. There were developers and there was a product manager (called "customer"), and neither controlled the other. Indeed, people created an XP bill of rights that described the balance of powers:

http://agile.dzone.com/articles/worth-repeating-xp-bills

You can see that working in the large at places like Spotify, where teams are cross-functional. People do have managers, but they aren't on the same team, and technical people report to technical managers, not generic businesspeople. Those managers aren't "in charge" in the typical sense. They mentor and support the people working directly on teams. They only really manage when things go wrong.

And I think that's what the Agile community was going for early on. It's a shame that fell by the wayside.
I'd be lucky to even recuperate the $25 registration fee for Google Play. I put all my time into making games and zero time marketing them--if I flipped that around, maybe I could actually make a few dollars. :)

Putting out an ad-sponsored version might help, but I've been too busy with other projects to bother.
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That's exactly what we're working on :) You'll see this light up in the next couple of weeks.
I guess .io extentions got a little boring...
I'd love to make a game for the original PSX. Not really doing it for money but fulfilling my childhood fantasy of making my own game on the playstation and playing it. A kid in my class had the Net Yaroze I was mad jealous.
Agreed. The signal density in many news articles is lower than what you would expect in a journal article or even a novel. This could be a very useful tool there.
It's a good question. But personally, I think that people would have stopped believing in waterfall approaches anyhow. Anybody sticking with 18-month release cycles today would seem like an idiot whether or not anybody had heard of Agile. And really, what a lot of supposed Agile teams are doing is really mini-waterfall: all the ceremony, shorter cycles, but just as much horseshit and self-delusion.
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The server's overwhelmed. Try the Coral Cache:
http://wesleyac.x64.me.nyud.net/blog/?p=25
I agree on the music part - most of the recent video games music is utterly boring, but there's still some interesting soundtrack in a few recent games. There's too many game developers doing games as a day job and who have no passion for it (whereas in the 70s, 80s, most people were highly educated pioneers experimenting with the new tools of the day).

But kid you not, lots of 90s video games music was utter crap as well. You probably remember the good ones only, but there was also a lot of garbage back then.
Seattle's University Bridge still operates on Compaq 8080 and 5.25" Floppy disks
Super. Time to switch from Travis :D
I remember listening to the .psf files for the HE plugin on winamp.

http://www.neillcorlett.com/he/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Sound_Format
That sounds pretty cool! It's mainly as a normalization step before hard crunching?
Note that they have a listserv website setup, but the top level domain doesn't seen to host anything yet.

http://lists.voglproj.com/listinfo.cgi/dev-voglproj.com
When I was in middle/highschool -- late 90's-03 -- using a mix of home-made tools, scripts I tweaked, some trojans I hex edited to make work for me...I had almost all of my schools home computers logging into an IRC room where I could use them to DoS attack and easily knock off (especially before few had broadband) anyone -- all my infected IRC clients could also upload, often around firewall/virus protection varying degrees of other trojans that let me print on their computers, watch them on webcams, open their cd-roms... I was young, told most people and really didn't abuse it: and finally learned 'hackers make things, crackers break things' -- but the point is: yes this isn't a surprise, and in many cases the sophistication is not even too deep, but ya like many said: we need this to keep being published so the open community as a whole can understand, and circumvent if need be.
Just to a better run place.
The guarantee you get when using an event loop (or some other cooperative concurrency model) is that inside a contiguous block of code you don't have to worry about any other code accessing "your" data: until you yield control, the only code that will execute is your own.

Obviously if you call a function you need to be aware of what it might do to any state you grant it access to, but even then it can only mutate state either before it returns (as in most popular programming models even without concurrency) or, if it registers a callback, at some point after you yield control.

It takes a little bit of getting used to, but this effectively makes mutual exclusion blocks the default unit of execution - and in doing so eliminates a lot of the care needed to write correct code in a preemptive model. Take a look at a well written Node.js or Twisted app - neither Javascript nor Python has concurrent datastructures in their standard library, but it just isn't an issue in most cases.

All of that being said, I think that the failure of this model is that the reason programmers tend to yield control is not because they no longer need it, but rather because you they must do so in order to avoid blocking the event loop on I/O or a timer. In other words, they need to model arithmetic, for example, fundamentally differently than they model loading a configuration file. Things get even wonkier when you start specifying interfaces without knowledge of the implementation: at some point almost any operation could require IO, even if the default implementation doesn't, so you end up registering callbacks on every line. In addition to wreaking havoc on your mental model you have to begin worrying about stack sizes, etc.

In this sense, I think well written Go has a certain elegance. The programmer knows to treat shared state as a special and dangerous case. Instead, you tend to program around a produce/consume model using channels with near zero shared state. You don't need to worry about whether a call yields to the scheduler or not, or even how many threads your goroutines map to - you just write little blocks of code that operate on easily comprehensible state.
Somewhat related: Check out OpenPandora, an open-source hackable portable PC/gaming console full of emulators for classic systems!

http://openpandora.org/
Thanks for letting me know.
Just installed A cache plugin for WP, so hopfuly it'll be working again soon.

Strange though, I only see the load at 0.75.
I know that Quelle, one of their competitors, got products manufactured in east Germany.
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Can someone explain what is the significance of this and the applications? What does it mean by opengl capture and playback debugger?
They have lots of crazy labour laws in poor places. What makes you think they haven't?
Nice laptop, but unusable website. It takes 3+ seconds to at least see something, and the scrolling effect makes everything seem so slow. There is an obvious memory leak somewhere, the graphs in devtools are INSANE for such a simple site, take a look http://imgur.com/j13Xk6h
I still confuse spotify and shopify regularly when reading headlines quickly even though I know both companies and what they do very well.
This sounds amazing and better than running our own slow Jenkins box.
Years of experience doesn't matter as long as the candidate has built something and is a fast learner. We have hired freshers in the past. So, feel free to ping me sudheendra@exotel.in
I think the pointer semantics being unfamiliar is a reasonable complaint. But I think it's what you get from the pointers that makes it appealing: safe, deterministic, GC-free, thread-safe and race-free memory management. I think if the pointers bother you you're really objecting to the "safe, GC-free" space of languages as a whole, not the Rust language itself--as I still haven't seen any approach to memory safety without GC that doesn't use smart pointers and references.
> But as I explain in detail elsewhere [1]

> [1] http://mikehadlow.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/coconut-headphones-...

Did you mean to link something else?