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> I feel much of the negative reaction to posts like these fails to grasp the main idea.

I feel much of my negative reaction to this post and those like it -- and I am familiar with hexagon/ports-and-adapters architecture -- is failure to clearly present a main idea, or even to connect the dictates in the post to the subject in the headline.

> My take is that you can use other architectural patterns than MVC and still benefit from Rails.

Certainly, the article seems to be trying to use Rails MVC structure to force the design of the web-facing adapter in a hexagonal architecture into an MVC design, what it really fails to do is justify this as a good thing to do (either in general for building an application, or starting from the assumption that we should use a hexagonal architecture, or starting from the assumption that we should use Rails.)
No, I think the parent is right. The games suck because of all the constraints placed on them by the asset pipeline.
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This is not targeted at watch enthusiasts. This is for the consumer electronics market.
> "Mining" is really solving a block.

Well.. kind of.

Mining is really thousands if not tens or hundreds of thousands of people competing to try to solve the same block. The one machine to solve it first gets the reward. (or if in a pool, it's given to the pool.) Over and over again- in the case of dogecoin, once every minute or so. The GP's statement about it being a massive waste of resources is unfortunately true - that's a lot of electricity for any popular coin.

> But over time, a secure network becomes valuable for itself, and the reward isn't necessary anymore.

Has this actually happened in any case? Logically if there is no value to be gained from maintaining the secure network (eg, 'mining' new transactions into blocks for confirmation), then many fewer people will do so. The fact that it's a secure network is great - but it doesn't seem enough to entice a critical mass of people to maintain it at a cost to themselves.
The majority of programming is analyzing a problem domain and applying the right design pattern. It is not creative. The longer I am at it, well over a decade now, the more this applies.
And that's basically what we do already. When we throw global illumination and global fluid dynamics into the mix we quickly run up against the limitations of our machines.
> if you are a commercial enterprise or educational institution, to download, install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software for use … by multiple individuals on a single shared Mac Computer that you own or control. For example, … multiple students may serially use the Apple Software on a single Mac Computer located at a resource center or library.

Doesn't that cover the suggested use?
This is very promising. I like the philosophies underpinning this framework, and once it is in a mature state, I could certainly see myself using it in a production environment.
> Why would the US deploy such satellites to view the southern Indian Ocean? I could understand deployment in potential areas of interest, but that particular area is about as boring as it gets.

China has been venturing in the Indian Ocean, and the United States probably wants to keep an eye on their activities.
I note that neither of the guys talking on the video (including one who wears spectacles) is using Google Glass. Also that the most prominently displayed information on the "watch" is the temperature. Now, I can understand time not being front and center, but...
Yeah this is exactly what I was going to say and I was even about to post a Brigade engine video. LOL.

McClure kind of dismisses "ray tracing" offhand (and by implication/context, similar techniques like path tracing) with the premise that every texture would need to be manual developed by an artist.

The answer to that is as you mention 3d scanning and procedural generation.

There are quite a few path-tracing software (and even one or maybe a few hardware) efforts out there, and many 3d scanning companies.

I believe that the main thing that is holding these technologies back now is just people not knowing that they are realistic technologies, which keeps them from being mainstream. But once things enter the mainstream consciousness of engineers, you get an order of magnitude increase in the number of people working on them, starting with some of the existing working ideas and you start getting much more practical and inexpensive solutions.

I believe that within say 7 years Nvidia and ATI will either acquihire or build hardware themselves that makes real-time path-tracing, procedural generation, and real-time physics, convenient and efficient.
You can't rely on industry to teach you what you need to know. They'll put you on endless treadmills learning hackneyed DSLs fueled by hype cycles. Fact is, Rails is almost entirely composed of patterns from PoEAA, along with DHH's excellent taste. At some point, you need to read and apply those patterns yourself to really understand them.

Actually, now that I think about it, you're almost much better off self-teaching once you get to a certain competency level.
The one miner who solves each block validates the transactions and receives the reward. For every other miner, it's wasted electricity.
I am very sorry for down voting you, it was a complete accident, my mouse slipped, and now I can't undo my action.
1. Create Trust
2. Break Trust
3. ???
4. IPO
You can buy however much people are selling. I bought up to $2000 of Dogecoin at one time. I've regularly seen orders for significantly more than that though. The transaction itself is instantaneous, but of course wiring the USD to the exchange took 48 hours.
Yup, it's in the announcement: http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2014/00013...

The problem affects nginx 1.3.15 - 1.5.11, compiled with the
ngx_http_spdy_module module (which is not compiled by default) and
without --with-debug configure option, if the "spdy" option of the
"listen" directive is used in a configuration file.
C# is a nice languae. Java...not so much.

Properties, delegates, proper generics, LINQ and so on.
> they might find you downloaded strange foot fetish porn when you were in college and try to blackmail you.

So, you'll join the fight to make this a non-scandalous point of concern, right?
Does anyone have any details? That page is amazingly non-informative.
Is it true that bitcoin's value is kept artificially high?

Phrased another way: define 'artificially' in this context.
You seem intent on arguing about something I have never contested.

I just made the (implied) observation that anyone deploying nginx shouldn't even bother enabling spdy in 1.4 (stable) because effectively nothing will use it anymore. It was something that people who use "stable" software were able to benefit from starting in May 2013, but it is now no longer and won't be again until nginx reaches 1.6. That is, unless spdy/3 is dropped in favor of spdy/4 by then.

(edit: fixed date)
I think he was the inspiration for Gekko in the film.
Do you think that a smaller version might make the interface unusable? I wonder if they are keeping it that large because they cant get the insides smaller or because it would not be easy to use.
This is anecdotal evidence but I've noticed people using idevices mention the models rather than generic device names.

I wonder why that is.
I plan to write more about this. Part of the problem was that two days earlier, another man in the department was fired over something having to do with an inappropriate relationship to a woman. The entire department was walking on eggshells. I felt it was just extremely bad timing. Another part of the problem is that I had an entry level job and he was very high in the department. So we had very little opportunity to work together, thus it would read as "social relationship" -- again, two days after another man was fired for his behavior towards women.

There were other factors. I plan to go into more details in future articles. In this case, I just wanted to talk about the fact that the glass walls of the stairwell fostered a sense of conversational privacy with zero fear of sexual or romantic intimacy occurring. You need conversational privacy to establish trust and do business. But you need a lot more than conversational privacy to pursue romance or sex. The lack of visual privacy mattered to our comfort levels. This man became someone who trusted me and likely would have done a lot for my career had I stayed with the company. That opportunity to talk freely (in the stairwell) without fear that one of us might misinterpret or misbehave was a key moment in the establishment of that trust.
A major cleanup of the Java libraries is scheduled for Java 9. The JVM actually does not surprise anyone who's been working with it for a while: it is downright the most performant, flexible and awesome runtime environment ever developed. I've been playing around with lots of languages and environments in my pretty long career and, in the past decade, have always come back to Java (or the JVM). It feels like driving a Ferrari where everything else is at best a Toyota - might be easier to handle at first, but it's not your dream car.

This pattern, by the way, has been going on in lots of tech companies. They always end up going back to the JVM.

Aside from terrific performance, the JVM gives you the best concurrency platform out there (though not the easiest to use), cool and extremely useful capabilities like dynamic linking and bytecode instrumentation, and unparalleled monitoring and profiling tools. It's the most professional platform you can choose (unless you're limited to Windows, in which case .Net is also an option). It's so far ahead than anything else out there, that the competition can only beat it in very specific use cases (e.g. Go is much better at startup time as well as standalone packaging, and C has better performance, though mostly in single-threaded programs). But nothing else gives you the whole package of performance, flexibility, maturity and monitoring.
The solution is obviously to have 2 tiers, a subscription model for heavy users and a per book model for light users.
That used to be the most common before moolah, kraken, vault of satoshi, etc. came along.
I was 100% sure that Apple's iWatch would be round. This looks almost exactly like I imagined the iWatch would look, and weirdly it feels like they copied it. (Well, it looks like a normal watch, and that's what I expected from Apple, not from Google/Moto).
I hate mining too but you need a decentralized method to keep people from subverting the decision-making process and give them an incentive to participate. I would love a more environmentally friendly method than proof-of-work but I fear you would have to compromise the decentralization aspect to achieve it.
While WoW looks the way it does partly because of it's 10 year old origins, it's artwork also communicates to the player: "It's just a game". And once you're far enough away from an imitation of reality, the brain stops trying to fit it into it's model of the world and complaining when it can't.
It's not wrong at all. The vote is still what matters, even with the electoral college.
how it is different from Moto Watch[1]? I guess they just changed the dial.

[1] - https://motoactv.com/home/page/features.html
>You have a kid, you look for a nanny to look after him. You put it on news-paper, there's a 45 year old dude who comes offering his services to look after your kid.

>Now tell me that you're so awesome that you'll not think what you are thinking right now.

Before that second line my mental image was close to Mr. Rogers, after that line it's a huge guy in a prison jumpsuit covered in tattoos. I don't think either one is what you were going for. Maybe a pedophile? I don't have a stereotype for those.
More transistors comes from smaller transistors -- not bigger dies. Smaller transistors use lower voltage. And power usage is proportional to V^2.

So for a given amount of computation, power goes down a lot due to Moore's law.
Are there any major changes with the new version?
We use Zesty at Scribd and have been very happy with them. We've tried basically all the corporate catering services, ran a direct head-to-head with detailed employee surveys and all, and Zesty won hands down.

If you have a startup in San Francisco and are looking for catering / food for your employees, you should definitely use Zesty.
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That's why they are called breakthroughs! :)
It could serve as a good spot to start, a document like this if it is going to be collaborated on will require versioning at the least to keep track of changes made.

However, something like this should probably start on something that is much more approachable by your average citizen.

Folks that visit Hacker News and work in tech have a decent understanding of the issues, however the masses are still on the outside looking in with regards to comprehension. The platform to deliver this message really needs to be insanely user friendly.
This is referring to the integration code itself. It was something like:

var DOMEvents = ['click', 'submit', 'change'];
for (var i = 0; i < DOMEvents.length; i++) {
window.addEventListener(DOMEvents[i], function(e){
$.post('/collector', {type: e.type, target_id: e.target.id, target_class: e.target.className});
});
}
Wait what? You're accusing Motorola of copying your imagination of what an unreleased Apple product might look like?
Since when was Lindsay Lohan a bad actress? Sure, her movies weren't everyone's demographic, but that didn't mean she was a bad actress

(Sorry for the off topic. You are right that Omega watches are by no means what I would consider a "good old swiss watch")
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You are missing a big factor in the 5k USD watch. It is expected to last you a lifetime, if not more. It's more like an heirloom. This watch, at the pace technology is moving would be lucky to last a year.
Even if they only store the most of it for a month, I will eat my shorts if they do not use ML or plain old "intelligence" to select much of it for indefinite storage.
every watch design i've seen so far is uninspired and unrisky. they basically slapped a phone on the wrist.

if apple ever releases anything, it will almost certainly not be an ugly square touchscreen with a wristband around it.

and i won't need to proclaim anything, it will be obvious just like it was with the iPhone.

edit: Also your point above doesn't make much sense. Apple has surely been working on their watch for many years. I would be really shocked, and it would be very un-Apple like, if they came out with a new piece of consumer hardware like this that didn't leapfrog over everyone else by just thinking a bit outside the box. Most likely they are not coming out with a "watch", but a smart wristband that has tons of patented UX and hardware that will be a complete new experience for people.
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So it isn't the sexism, racism, or getting investments from your professors who will also encourage their brightest students to drop out to join your company and then help you get acquired when you fail because they sit on the board the of company who will acquire you, but it is this guy's comment that is everything that is wrong with tech?
Anyone know what Google is going to do about Java 8 compatibility on Android? Not being able to adopt lambdas on mobile is a bummer.
Somebody down voted a genuine question, and left no comment at all for why did it? There's no corner of the world short of mean people.
any post on this topic really needs to mention marionette.
just out of curiosity, what app are we talking about?
We only do backend stuff here, which means we have perfect control over versions. So we're already ready for running 8, and will do so soon.
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I didn't know what Fudzinger was, so I looked it up and there are several links saying they had a negative experience with them, for example:

boardgamegeek.com/thread/1119213/fundzinger-do-not-use

They apparently did do their bit (write a Press Release), but not to the campaign creators' satisfaction, and he was very annoyed about their using him as a success story.
Here:

https://getpebble.com/steel

It looks like a calculator watch for the 21st century.

(But I guess given that I don't like watches much it isn't surprising I don't find these devices very interesting)

Edit: Adding maybe a little bit of value to this comment, the function of the device is very apparent in it form.
Am I the only one who thinks it's ugly??
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Part of my point was that going after Exxon and Walmart, would be extremely difficult because of their very strong financial health (not to mention connections and influence).

Gnats don't concern Exxon, they get swatted. At that scale, Icahn is a gnat. Exxon would have to be extremely mismanaged to inspire so many investors to line-up for a serious proxy battle. Simply doesn't happen unless a company is on its back, or knee deep in a huge scandal relating to the leadership.

If you buy a billion dollars worth of Exxon and try to stir up trouble, you'll be completely ignored unless the company is being very poorly managed such that much larger fish than you are willing to join your cause.

With eBay, since Icahn is a relatively small fish (in terms of what he can personally leverage into the battle) trying to force the hand of a $75 billion enterprise, he's going to need much larger fish than himself to join his cause. He simply can't do it himself. That's the other point I was trying to make about their scale. The larger the company you take on, the larger the total resources you're going to have to get lined up on the same agenda.
Lead Front-End Developer for FlightCar (YC W13)
FlightCar is the world's first p2p car sharing company to operate at the airport. We're a YC company that's raised $6m+ in funding.

We give travelers free airport parking by renting out their cars to others. Everything's insured up to $1m. We're funded by General Catalyst, Softbank Capital, Brian Chesky, Ryan Seacrest, and others.

We're looking for a Lead Front End Developer. You'll be developing our desktop and mobile sites as well as internal tools. As the front end lead, you'll have the choice of which technologies to call on for projects. Currently we have a Django-backed site, and want to expand our front end work.

About our dev team: We all enjoy teaching and learning, and do things like build telepresence devices together: http://blog.printf.net/articles/2014/03/18/a-robot-for-timo/

Responsibilities:

- develop new and existing features for our current consumer site, which uses Django templates and Bootstrap.

- create new customer-facing and internal services using the front end framework of your choice -- we're a small team and you'll be able to forge our architecture from the ground up.

- layout user interfaces using FlightCar's current design language.

Qualifications:

- comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment

- have solid understanding of HTML5 and CSS3

- knowledge of mobile web constraints and ways to optimize for them

- knowledge of jQuery and JavaScript, preferably including significant work with a modern client-side framework such as Ember/Angular.

- a desire to complement the backend team by exploring server-side JS applications with node.js (or if you're daring, Meteor).

- have a strong sense of UX best practices

- knowledge of Google Analytics or other analytics software is a huge plus

- love simple design and bright colors

If you're interested, please email me at rujul@flightcar.com. Thanks!
IntelliJ just pinged me with an update, and checking the release notes it says "ships final support for java 8". Sweet!
Reminded me this "What Is Real" trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dnw9dWISvw), I welcome any trick that can help the player's immersion.
There is some monetary value, in transaction fees, that are collected even if there is no block reward. There will be fewer people, but hopefully it will still be above critical mass. It really doesn't take much, even a few hundred people running low-power ASICs will do just fine. We will see something similar with Doge soon. In 2015, the payout will be fixed at 5% of what it was last month. Maybe everyone will stop mining, and maybe they won't.
You definitely don't need to be a Keynesian to believe that a bit of monetary inflation is a positive thing. It's quite likely that Dogecoin will still be very deflationary if the velocity of cash flow, transaction volume increase faster than the Ð5 billion/a being added annually. Not to mention lost private keys which essentially destroy related coins forever.
Its serious third order ip theft!
I wonder if pebble will react to this.
BTW, is there any mention of sensors on it?
I partly agree with this.

I'm a systems engineer, but I have to touch some Java code from time to time. I always have an hard time with the amount of indirection an average Java developer can reach. Luckily a few smart guys were hired recently and they have past experience in contributing to the JVM and their approach to the code is completely different and much, much more simple to understand, and since they came onboard the performance of critical parts of our main application increased dramatically with a few lines of code instead of the previous 400 or so.
My problem with whiteboarding anything other than pseudo code is that I'm pretty dyslexic and I've spent years learning syntax at the keyboard. That learning does not translate to the whiteboard. To give an example of how much the presentation of problems matters to me, the first time I took the GREs I got a 340 on the verbal. The problem was that I had practiced out of a book not on a computer. The second time I to the GREs I scored a 740 on the verbal because I spent the time to learn how to take the test.

Anyway, I don't have the time to learn how to program on the whiteboard. I also don't think it's a valid signal of how well I can program at a computer.
Thanks Michele! As I was reading the Gray Zone post in order to see what the pretext for this post was, I kept thinking that something like google glass would prevent some of the problems. A less techy solution is the glass walls, as you discuss in this post.
Apple is more a fashion company than a tech company. Those who buy and use its products are primarily concerned with advertising the fact that they use Apple products - conspicuous consumption. It's no different from how Gucci or Prada owners make sure to prominently display the brand of their handbag when they are in public. It's a simple form of signaling your identity, that you belong to a particular group.

This is also why Apple's profit margins are sky high. Consumer electronics is an industry with razor thin margins, but with fashion, the sky is the limit (given that you can effectively manipulate the minds of consumers, which Apple is excellent at). An iDevice cannot be commoditized, no matter how hard Apple's competitors try.