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> I know that if I just said what I wanted I would seem antisocial, so instead I have to carefully mediate my responses.

This very thing will make you appear much more antisocial than any offhanded response you would come up with.
That's what I figured. Good stuff anyway.
I can't wait to start using the Chronon plugin.
Every breakpoint hit is like a puzzle to be solved, the clues being the current state, and knowledge of the current context.
Traveling back in time to observe the conditions leading to the manifestation of a bug will be interesting.
> But bulk data collection is not TAO.

Except, of course, when TAO allows you access to data in bulk. That was my whole point, and if you guys keep conflating legal jurisdiction, technical capabilities, and scope of effect with each other then you'll have only yourself to blame when you get outwitted and your data ends up in a database with ALLCAPS naming conventions. :P
To qualify, close to native speed means about two thirds of native speed in a best case scenario. Fine for games that don't stress the hardware to its limits, but not for top tier.
As a kid I was able to cover enough of my needs during the day to be home alone.

Of course people who don't have children yet are prone to confusion and I'm not the only person alienated by this.
We (Bitnami) have been using Zesty for a couple of weeks and are really happy so far. The food has always arrived on time, they've been great at helping us curate the list of restaurants they rotate through for us and the food is healthy and plentiful.
This doesn’t seem to be available in any of the worldwide stores except the US store. Is a worldwide release coming?
I don't know if this was inspired by your post, but Brennan Dunn( of Planscope.io) just published a blog post about that same topic: http://planscope.io/blog/quit-your-job/ - might be worth a read for you.
I would say that what node.js runs is ecmascript with it's own API that differs from the DOM. It's called javascript for convenience, but then what separates javascript from ecmascript?
Best at what? You've link to a notoriously unscientific index which counts search engine results. How does that make one language universally better than all others "period". I've coded in Java for most of my career, but the blind blinkered faith in the language within the Java community never ceases to amaze me. It's one tool available among many, look a little further than that single hammer which you worship in your toolbox.
The word itself isn't right-wing or conservative in any way, it simply describes a particular family structure.

Followers of nuclear family as the center of society are called familialists, typically. Yes, they tend to be conservatives.
Could you please elaborate on #5? What you mean there is the fact that AtomicInteger implementation is actually using this primitives on your target platform, correct?
Big fan of Zesty for personal meals. Can't wait to use their catering service when we move into our new offices.
Buggy BIOS is nothing new.
Maybe the military of several countries are not sharing their data in a timely manner because it's embarrassing for them to reveal that they were sleeping on the job, there is no actual intercept plan, and that the millions/billions spent on air defense is a complete waste of money.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2583553/Thai-militar...

"Has there been a military cover-up over missing jet? Thai air force says its radar spotted MH370 heading to Strait of Malacca minutes after it vanished (but didn't say anything)... MH370 spotted at 1.28am, eight minutes after it stopped communicating. Turned towards Butterworth, a Malaysian city along the Strait of Malacca... Thai air force did not report contact because 'it did not look like a threat'"

If I am not mistaken, the 9/11 commission report revealed that civilian and military radar systems and processes were not linked, thereby resulting in confusion as to what was happening. Although lessons should have been learnt, I suspect this problem still exists in many countries, and this is what we are witnessing right now.
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Marc's paying for too much attention to Icahn. He should have simply issued a short statement refuting Icahn's allegations and laying out the facts, and then ignored him, like one would a crazy homeless guy ranting on the street.

Instead, it's in danger of turning into a mud-slinging contest.
from the geektime.com OP:

Geektime wrote about previously, the lack of the entrepreneurial spirit is really what got them there and the reason that Russia goes from one dictator to the next instead of embracing individual opportunity.

any Ukrainians find this more than a little patronizing not to mention untrue?

the fact is that a couple of years ago, Russia signed a long-term lease for the Crimean naval base; Russian troops were lawfully deployed there (many with their families) prior to the current conflict. In a region comprised largely of Russians (lawfully deployed there) it's no surprise that those people will side with Russia--just like US troops deployed to Afghanistan don't become anti-US the moment they are deployed to foreign soil.

more objectionable is criticizing Ukrainians for "lack of entrepreneurial spirit" and for "not embracing individual opportunity." Seriously? This is a nation in which people have taken to the streets twice just within the past 10 years--and in doing so put their lives on the line. That's far better proof of "individual responsibility" than signing up to YC or whatnot.
i am just about to change my career, i have 3 kids under 4. it is a huge risk, but the potential reward is also huge. why am i doing it? well the pay off would be a much better life for my family than is currently possible. i am giving up promotion and stability for a sideways move and retraining. the fact i have kids is what is driving me to experiment rather than seek safety.
It's best to remember that ray tracing isn't the be all and end all of graphics since it's far harder for artists to control the results than the other hacked up ways. One consequence of this is their example comparison, where I think it's entirely subjective to say the ray traced output is better. Neither is particularly great.

The big win is around indirect lighting, but the development of that in standard rasterisers in the last decade has exceeded even my wildly optimistic expectations.

New options = good, but there's no such thing as a graphics silver bullet.
Yep. Forced breaks can be annoying, but to reach the "water" you sometimes have to wait for the tide.
My bet is that you probably have a huge mortgage to pay and little savings. That is what is killing you.

I have a kid, however we also have no mortgage, no cars(live in a centre of a city) and can save quite a bit per month.

I think stable is dangerous, being dependent on employment from someone is terrible. Basically I live with assumption that I might need to look for a new gig next week. So keep my network maintained, my skill continuously sharpened etc. Do not fear losing job embrace it!
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I don't know if I buy the pitch in the article 100%, but it makes some good points.

I did find one quote in the article particularly interesting: "Immediately one of the more prominent HN members pointed out that I'm somehow at a disatvantage since there's a version of me out there without being burdened by having to support a family and thus has a bigger chance of success."

I would say that all else being equal, you are more likely to be successful in launching a startup if you don't have kids. That said, everything is rarely equal. I don't know too many people in my age group who devote themselves 100% to work. Even if they're a miserable person with no hobbies, they at the very least spend a lot of time trying to find relationships. If they don't, it has a really negative effect on their emotional state. They spend a lot more time with friends to get all the necessary social interaction. In other words, unless you're extremely introverted, having a family isn't purely a cost on your time--it satisfies certain emotional and social needs that would otherwise take time to meet.
Hallelujah.

Now, give us a way to stop the swipe-to-go-back gesture. Or get rid of it all together, like they did on Android.
>it cost more than many people's cars,

sorry, what? I thought macboook cost $2-3k? Is that how much a car costs in your country?
Yeah, I don't mean a literal mod of minecraft. I just mean that it's a great illustration of what'd be entailed.

If you start from scratch, you still need something like voxels, ie keeping track of many points in 3d space representing different kinds of materials, which is what minecraft has now.

But then, graphical or behavioral perspective, Minecraft gives you an idea of what problems you'll run up against.

Graphically ... holy cow. I don't know of anyone that's doing that, ie taking voxel data and making it look amazing. I did see a demo that looked a bit less blocky than minecraft, it wasn't cube-based, but rather used the 3d hexagonal mesh I think. It looked less blocky of course, but it worked with only grass and stone material.

Behaviorally .. also, holy cow. I'm not sure if there's anyone doing that in a 3d game engine. Ie, voxel or volume world data representing materials, in a way similar to minecraft, but if you undercut a bank of dirt, it collapses ... to do that, you need to be constantly simulating the entire world with CA rules meant to emulate various physical properties of earth, water etc (not just the currently loaded world chunks, and not just a few kinds of very limited material types, like Minecraft's water and lava) probably at least several ticks per second.

I suppose there might be ways to cheat or to legitimately exclude 'all-quiet' areas from needing to be updated, in some cases -- like the dirt example, I can see approaches that would propagate simulation outwards from an area centered on user-generated changes at the maximum speed that the evolution rules transmit information, and that might be able to leave large portions of the world relatively static ... although that wouldn't work so well for things like fluid simulation ... but the point is that, holy cow, we're a long way off!
I don't think society wants everyone to have children. That would be a terrible idea. If it's not something you want to do then you absolutely shouldn't do it. You should reserve the right to change your mind, though. ;)

And yes, if you don't have kids of your own, the time spent on them seems kind of insane. After you have them, it still seems like a lot of time, but most people would tell you it's worth it.
Or just customize the UI and remove the search bar if it bothers you so much. Right-click the toolbar in <29, click the menu button and choose "Customize" on the bottom left in >=29.
+1 for building a StackOverflow/github presence. I don't have many points (about 2,500) on SO - back from when I spent a solid hour or two on the site every day. This eventually allowed me to create a profile on SO careers. I get about one lead a month now.
It doesn't sound even remotely sarcastic.
It's more than that. AtomicInteger's implementation uses JVM intrinsics which are calls to methods in the sun.misc.Unsafe class, that, when JITted, are replaced by a platform specific machine instruction (where available), such as CAS or a memory fence.
Java+Guava is decent. Without the work that Google has done Java is incomplete and missing too much.
Streaming Subscriptions Are Now a Billion-Dollar Business, but Music Sales Stall
Damn, there's a bug. In the minimal-ui mode, if you press the url bar, then 'share' -> 'add to home screen', and then 'cancel', the page is frozen and you can't tap it to return the control to the web page. You need to press back once or do something else to get rid of the thing.
Awesome job! It's exciting to see the proliferation of alternatives that docker makes possible.
Come to think of it I do that too. Ikea Ivar shelves!
At least you responsibly considered this. Having a family is a big deal in Utah, and we have too many people who just go for it in their early 20s, no college, no career path. It doesn't end well. I'm not anti-family, but I resent the attitude here that it's something you have to do, or even some sort of god-given right. Families should be well-planned. Quality over quantity of life.

Just my thoughts. Idk.
The above link is a summary to the paper. Here is the actual publication: http://cnlab.kaist.ac.kr/~ikjun/data/Course_work/CS642-Distr...
Only if you have a really crummy upscaler on playback; with a good upscaler, DCT starts losing at moderate bitrates and starts to get terrible at low bitrates.
This talk has some good (and official) information: http://parleys.com/play/52549d02e4b0a43ac12124be
Wouldn't your theoretical spouse have an income too?
> What would be something nobody but a coder would wear?

T-shirt with a programming joke is the easy answer.

> Bonus question. If "clothing is signalling", what does a typical coder's outfit say about their ability to come up with non copy-paste solutions?

What are you trying to say here? An outfit tells you what someone's into, not how good they are at it.

> Double bonus question. What do you think of black coders, who are even less common than female coders? Do you presume they are at a tech event to play basketball? Would you advise them to come in white face so they could provide the right "signalling"?

If someone's dressed in basketball gear then I'm going to assume they're into basketball yeah. But most black programmers I've met dressed like programmers. And while there aren't that many black programmers, it's the ratio that matters. At a typical tech event, most of the black people you meet are programmers. Most of the women you meet aren't. Most people wearing a suit or dress aren't.

If you want people to think you're a business person, dress like a business person. If you want people to think you're a coder, dress like a coder. If you enjoy dressing as a punk but you're actually politically authoritarian, fine, more power to you, but don't complain when people make reasonable inferences from what you've chosen to wear.
I haven't, no. We excluded the vast majority of AltJS languages as the size of community and availability of third-party libraries was a significant factor in the evaluation.
And I would disagree. Kids bring the world of the next generation to you instead of getting completely stuck in your "native" generation.

In this world I would say, the more exposure to different worlds and points of views the better.
“Picture a smart person,” said Graham. “You don’t imagine somebody who is really good at talking to people, you picture someone really awkward."

I don't at all, in fact I find that kind of thinking highly insulting. Being a smart person in my experience is often highly correlated with being able to effectively communicate and discuss with others.
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I'm the founder of a moderately sucessful infosec startup, and my child was born at the same time. It was hard for everybody. Lets face it, startups take much more time than a regular job, and we don't have any of the state-given benefits.

One important rule that I have is minimize the time away from home. I have to travel a lot and I've found that for kids, time perception is different than for adults. A week seems short time for a 35 year old, but it's an eternity for a toddler.
For that reason I try to stay away from home only the necessary time and not a single hour more. Thats a limitation that I try to balance offering experience and profesionality.

And also, I always try to come back with a lot of gifts :)
What rthomas was alluding to was fairly extensive research into the success outcomes of children of zero (orphans), one (single parent), two (dual parenting), and more than two (village parenting). Those studies suggest that two or more adults sharing parental responsibility for a child increase the child's success outcome significantly.
I don't think multicore will be touted as a reason to choose OCaml over Haskell, but it will remove one of the reasons to avoid OCaml. Subtle but important difference :)
What evidence is there that the nuclear family is some sort of evolutionary trait? If anything it's a cultural/religious thing. I believe what would be our "natural" tendency would be for one male to mate with multiple females and impregnate them as often as possible. There is no evidence that "Traditional family values" are the key to a successful economy. The term "nuclear family" is also something that came right around the time of the second world war, an anyone who has taken American History can tell you that the reason our economy thrived in that time was because of the war effort. We also had an extraordinary amount of optimism because at the time we were almost un-arguably the most powerful country in the world.
It's never been tested in court, but the US AG has repeatedly claimed that violating the TOS is "unauthorized access" which they prosecute as a felony.
> I'm 36 and make above the average income for a person in Los Angeles

Location, location, location. My dad moved his family to a place he could afford so he could take care of them.

I could make the same salary in San Francisco that I make in Austin, TX, but the same salary goes a /lot/ farther in Texas than it does in California.
C# scripts aren't used in the final output.

Unity is an engine where the scripting portion is Mono based, upon export it is converted into C/C++/Obj-C/Java for Desktop/mobile/web platform of choice. It will be similar for javascript, the exported asm.js supported javascript will emit from the export to WebGL.

Unity runs in the native platform it is in but Mono is their 'scripting engine' and part of their core engine much like UScript/UnrealScript is UDK's scripting engine. Unity uses Mono a little deeper than that but the resulting export is optimized for the platform it exports to. Since it is built on .NET it is alot like LLVM/JVM languages in that the IL/CLR/DLR are used to export all common languages used in scripting to a common output and this is also the reason you can use C#/Javascript/Boo (Mono versions) as they export to the same thing in the end native to the platform they are on.

I am sure there will be pluggable areas of the outputted javascript but for the most part you'll develop it as usual in Unity and won't mess with the output as much except to plugin third party toolkits etc.
It really depends on what ones priorities are. If someone is really in the middle of starting up or even immensely enjoying the current work that she ends up spending most of the time in office, why the hell would you want kids?

Raising decent kids requires proper planning and you need time to observe them and change those plans accordingly if required. Only when you have decided to chill down on work and consider yourself ready for another interesting venture should you go ahead and have kids. Think about your priorities, period.
Would the actions of the founder's partner have been excusable/understandable either way? I don't think so, and if not then it isn't relevant (IMO).
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In this bizarre Leave It To Beaver right-wing fantasy world where the "traditional family" is so critical, that would be an unforgivable violation of the rules.
Open source drivers is the future.. but it's nowhere now :(
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Most car accidents are male, too. It doesn't mean they're bad drivers, it means that men drive longer distances, longer time than women.

It's a matter of probability. The more you drive, the more you are likely to have an accident at some point.

Match total men mileage and get the ratio accident/man.mile .. Then do the same for women.

More accident for less driving. Numbers say another thing.

If someone's a truck driver and spends basically his whole day driving and has driven hundred of thousands of miles and he's been in 5 accidents.. And I've been in 1 accident.. What do the numbers say ?

I love it when people want to bend numbers to make them say what they want, yet completely take them out of context.

Oh:

84% of homeless people are male ?

Okay, find each one of them. Ask if he was married before. If yes, ask him where is his wife..

I'm willing to bet she's not inside that card-board box:)
The NSA doesn't have to record phone calls of US citizens. They just get one of the other Five Eyes countries to do it for them, in a quid pro quo arrangement that circumvents the inconvenient rule of law in several places at once.

You're carrying water for some seriously un-American people. The only reason you're not upset about it is that it doesn't seem to be affecting you, personally, at the moment.
It's not an achievable goal in San Francisco, but not everyone lives in San Francisco.
Generally even if the theoretical spouse doesn't have an income, if they can provide primary child-care support it is significant in increasing the affordability of having a child.
Hopefully, though probably with her own debts and burdens.
Consistency my friend. Murakami's routine which involves him running for the first half to the day, then write and then chill with sexy-time Jazz music at time at night and turning in,

http://dailyroutines.typepad.com/daily_routines/2007/07/haru...

I could give you more examples of writers, Joyce Carol Oates , Michael Crichton but same thing basically. Also note that Murakami didn't start writing until 29 and loafed around at the public library chill in' and reading' and at Japanese jazz cafes. As far as I'm concerned, I'm a prodigy and workaholic at 27 for starting so early.

Also in regards to music, others can comment as I'm not an expert. But I've wasted 2 years of my life doodling around scales, ear training and music theory focusing on speed, dexterity and memorization, attempting to learn how to improvise like the greats. That I never taken the time to listen to the groove of the great pieces, sounds wonky but I decided that if I never can become a good musician, at least I could slow down and learn to enjoy the music as opposed to the idea. And I enjoy listening and playing much more now and don't give two-shits about how my solo's sound and just keep playing. And in the small moments of self-delusion inspired by bluesy turns, my own playing gives my deluded mind a self-congratulatory chill to the spine.

And in regards to programming, let's be real. CRUD or iOS apps are not going to change the world. We are like the capitalist work-bees, shoveling digital snow around like escorts shoveling sensual snow. If we are really secure enough to want to dive into our craft, then learn Linux kernel, compilers, advanced algorithms and contribute to the bottom of the stack for a change instead of fluffing snow at the top.
> As soon as you do anything they deem suspicious they might find you downloaded strange foot fetish porn

At least long term, it's more like: As soon as you are a political opponent...

(Thinking back, General Petraeus' fatal love affair emails that surfaced suddenly may have been such an instance.)
> This and other sources concur: the Amdocs billing stuff's like cancer. Once they're in your network, you can't get rid of them

So I guess the possible Mossad connection is the only reason why SAP isn't buying Amdocs, then?