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Access to Unreal Engine 3's underlying source code cost hundreds of thousands of dollars previously (the CryEngine will run you over a million). You could also license v3, with no access to native code, for $99 and they took a % of sales after $50,000 if I recall. So this is a massive upfront savings in the use case where you need access to the engine code itself.
I read it as no specific single color(s). Rather any yellowish color and any dark greyish color. Otherwise they'd have to list the specific pantone(tme) or whatever for the colors they are claiming.
The problem is there are no non-volatile investments anymore. Real estate? LOL. If you want non-volatility there are plenty of govt bonds paying well under the inflation rate, but I wouldn't describe that as an investment.
Same as my work environment. I have to have headphones on most of the time.
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I don't think it is difficult as you make it sound. The most difficult part is finding the term "binary search", but even that is not very difficult. All you have to do is generalize your problem and state it to Google. Binary search will almost invariably come up in the results. It even works for algorithms that are far more obscure.
If you're looking for product that takes a more serious stab at actually being able to evaluate the candidate during a coding interview, check out https://coderpad.io.

We let you execute pretty much any code as you write it in real-time, letting you observe how a candidate approaches a problem much more holistically.
They didn't patent a multimeter with a gray front and yellow back. I don't think that is even patentable. You should really study the relevant facts of an issue well before forming such strong feelings about it.
I used to think to you, until I moved across the world to a place where people make $1/hour (where I'm still residing now.) Tons of extremely high-quality products for cheap, that I've never seen in the US. Turns out that assuming Walmart is the end-all to low price goods was completely wrong.

Prices are set to maximize profit. Everywhere. Even at Walmart. Especially at Walmart.
It's certainly a problem, but it's not your problem. Until your 360 RROD, of course.

Still, the PS4/XB1, like previous consoles, were designed with heat dissipation in mind. If you build your own PC once you go off the beaten path you're going to have to be careful.
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Agreed, it' say really cool idea, so I thought I would try it out with something relatively simple - Adele's Skyfall.

The results seem hit and miss - consecutive lines with the same chord structure appear to me transcribed differently

http://chordify.net/chords/adele-skyfall-lyric-video-adeleve...
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I toast, therefore I am.
Faster is a big deal for me. Most of my flights are US -> Asia or US -> Africa. Going to Africa is a 25hr + flight due to the need to segue through Europe. Going back is worse since the segue is usually through the Middle East.

Going to Asia is a painful crossing over the Pacific with a brief stopover in Hawaii to make it at least 18hrs.
This. One can dislike the syntax but SBT's advantage compared to most other tools is IT WORKS.
I agree. Some projects have SLAs. It could be beneficial to mention that those were met or expectations were exceeded.
My age, work experience and expertise are similar to the OP's. I just interviewed with Google, FB and Amazon, and found myself nodding my head at several points in the article.

Something I learned after the whole process was that people apparently take a month or two to prepare intensively and specifically for interviews with these 3 companies. Luckily I came out of the ordeal with an offer, but I wish I had known that tidbit before.
I thought riot relied on jQuery and was basically decreed to be more marketing than substance. This seems to have a lot of substance.
I think bananas' point is that the Fluke brand means something important (even if a $15 multimeter can do the job, a Fluke is better), so it is worthwhile to protect that brand for people who do care about this stuff.
In the article, they say the average cost of their 4TB drives is $160, so the savings from removing the five drives would only be $900, not $1400.
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I like to think about whether a problem is inherently antagonistic when deciding whether data/models/etc. can automate it well ("eat it" in the words of the article).

Not antagonistic -- predicting whether someone will get lung cancer...they're probably not going to falsify the data from their physical, etc.

Antagonistic -- detecting network intrusions or predicting phishing attacks. These folks fight back, i.e. disguise, adapt, hide

In the latter case, a human component to a decision task (detection, labeling, etc.) will always remain.

So then when it comes to investment decisions, let's say data plus supervised ML becomes the name of the game. Start-ups will learn the model features of a business that gets investment dollars. They'll design themselves specifically to those features and in a sense dupe models for a while until the models are adapted. In this way, the human component can't be left out.

Of course, it doesn't take a model to get duped. A lot of companies might hire a bunch of phds and data scientists right before being acquired, because each hire bumps up the value of the company, etc. These moves are taken to increase a valuation rather than actual value and that's antagonistic in much the same way hiding spam is.
Since you mentioned coping mechanisms, a genuine but slightly OT question:

I wonder what the grieving process like for the surviving friends and family of a deceased, cryopreserved person? Do they try to ignore the negative aspects of the death because of the possibility that the deceased will be brought back to life in the future? Or feel as sad as they would if cryonics had not been used, because revival is unlikely and/or even if it did occur would almost certainly happen in the far future? Or is there no difference.

I wonder because grief, while unpleasant, is important when dealing with the death of others. Failure to grieve can cause long-term psychological problems.
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TL;DR:
- Streaming music service pricing models net out significantly higher that consumers have been traditionally willing to pay for music
- Music label dynamics will make it difficult for streaming services to lower prices
HN folks have taken an interest in ESR recently, so here's his recent take on this topic wrt Weev:

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5492
At smaller point sizes it looks like a bit of dirt has landed on a B... or a font rendering glitch.
"Most software isn't hard to invent; all software is hard to maintain." -- Now that's a "money quote".
Actually, they only care about 5% of the big successes, just like any good investors. Or at least that's what they should be caring about.
Except a coder and an electrician are not the same.
There's a number of reasons, but our groups implementation is the most compelling one for me:

A threadable list can be divided easily into subgroups with their own subset of the list membership. Any member can create a group, and you can move threads between groups, even after they start.

In practice, this means you don't have to anticipate which groups to create in advance. You can just let discussion happen, and when critical mass around some topic is reached, move it off into a group without the overhead or interruption that comes from making a whole new mailing list.

This leads to more organic discussion, and also makes it possible for group members to help one another determine relevance. It's sorta like crowdsourcing your mail filters from the rest of your team. We've noticed that people are less likely to filter a Threadable list into another folder, so they participate more.

It's also more friendly to newbies, since there's less worry that a thread will end up in the wrong place. If it does, you can just move it.
Sorry my bad. Fixed. Thanks for catching that.
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Sounds like somebody wasn't in the cool kids group.
Does it really matter, though? Even if they were more carefully selected, the ashes would still contain lots of atoms from other sources and lack lots of atoms.
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Not all national currencies have a symbol, so to speak. A lot of times you just abbreviate the currency a certain standard way, so 5 btc, as written a lot, is just fine and widely accepted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_symbol

Examples:

Indonesian rupiah - Rp

Guatemalan quetzal - Q

Lithuanian centas - ct
Fun. You remember that?
I may be wrong, but I believe that interviewing in the US while you're on a tourist visa/ESTA (presumably your case?) constitutes "seeking immigrant status" and is unlawful. You may want to avoid posting about it in public forums where your identity can be easily traced.
Just a thought to the author of the OP (OldCoder): perhaps tone down the very public ordeal that is happening with your family

I mean no disrespect or to suggest that victims should hide their past or not confront their offenders.

But some of the top results that come up when I search your name is your various websites. On these, on the top of all the pages I have seen, is a large disclaimer box discussing your lawsuits/situation. Your intense feelings about your family shows through quite clearly. Anyone doing even the slightly due diligence on a prospective employee would find this.

As a human being I feel for you. As a potential employer, I would take one look at that and say "I'm not going to bring that level of drama into my company."
IMHO... Word of Mouth solidifies you as a good engineer. Of the top 4 or 5 technical people I know, none has an MS in CS. (One didn't finish college) The degree matters less and less over time.

There are other good reasons to get a Masters. To improve the formalness of your knowledge. To learn about things outside your domain of expertise. To force yourself to learn things you wouldn't want to on your own. To meet other smart people. (UW is good for that) To learn theory and find out what's going on in CS research.

But none of these certify you as a great engineer nearly as much as another great engineer saying, "I'll vouch for them"
I can't help but laugh with glee a little when watching the video at http://www.oculusvr.com/dk2/ , specifically at the part where John Carmack comes on.

I'm still so excited that he joined Oculus VR. When I see him in a video like this, it's like a giant "100% Guaranteed" stamp that this whole thing is going to eventually be everything we could possibly hope for.
This is not the kind of thing you want to advertise via website. There is an actual Bitcoin community and the idea is to convince influential people in that community to follow your approach. If you put it on a website and advertise it outside of the community, then you just confuse people who don't know Bitcoin very well on one side, and make a lot of reparation work for the actual Bitcoin community on the other hand. I don't know but this just seems to be an inefficient approach.
Might want to start by proofreading your personal blog: "Every blogger wonders what growth hacks, SEO tips, and tricks they missed when they put their blog."
It's not $19 it's $19/month that's a large friction fee.

They would be making money even when the game is in development.

Say your game takes 1 year to make well you have just spent over $200 and still haven't made any money.

That's an unnecessary burden on indie developers.
Obligatory link to Feynman's explanation:

http://youtu.be/N1pIYI5JQLE
Thanks for pointing this out, I thought they could only serve 20 customers with this scheme.
Thanks! Didn't quite notice that.
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I'm not sure if this covers the entire second question, but it's a fascinating read about HTTPS: http://www.moserware.com/2009/06/first-few-milliseconds-of-h...
So this is something I wrote last week relating how I've come to believe that it's really not appropriate to rely on vendor code on public CDN's for anything more complex than a JSFiddle.

http://daemon.co.za/2014/03/from-trenches-js-cdn-point-of-fa...

Basically, if you need to include something like jquery, you have to have code that makes use of it. Since by definition, you can't serve that code from a public cdn, you are going to need to serve those static assets somehow.

I now believe that you should serve the vendor code from the same 'place' as you serve your application's static assets, because by relying on external resources, you are adding more moving parts that all have to be in perfect working order for your app to actually be able to run.

This doesn't really have anything to do with how reliable the CDN itself is, but rather with how reliable the client's connection is.

I did read the jsdelivr post, and it actually looks like a really well thought out system. I just don't think I will use something like this for anything where I have the choice not to.

IMO, the possible benefits of using a public CDN, don't outweigh the fragility that gets added. It just feels like it is trying to optimize best case performance while worst case is far more important.

I'm not against CDN's as a concept though, I just think you should serve all the code that is needed for normal operation from the same one.
I have really enjoyed CreativeMarket - I got in on an AppSumo bundle and stuck around for all the free goodies and high quality themes. I'm not really sure where CM fits in Autodesk's massive portfolio, perhaps they have plans for a similar product in the 3D market.
Or just regular accounting. Profit is taxed, so every company will always try at the end of financial year to sink profit into something that'll deliver future revenue to defer tax and fuel growth. Unless you have shareholders who expect/demand a dividend like MSFT has, this is usually the best approach. Several very large businesses even thumb their noses at their shareholders demands and reinvest profit for revenue growth, like AMZN, and get very little credit from shareholders for how tax efficient their decision is.
I would love to get over a fear of heights and be able to enjoy some new places on this earth.
I really think you're overstating your case.

https://www.google.com/search?q=multimeter&safe=on&client=fi...

Most of the ones that look like a Fluke are indeed a Fluke.
meh, to late,people are using the old logo.
FWIW, the only "CDN" I've ever heard of to regularly pull stunts like that is CloudFlare; and really, that's their angle: it adds latency (which has been demonstrated in various commentary on the service) with the goal of modifying content to reduce the number of requests or improve client-side rendering times. It is more of a "content optimization" service than a "content delivery" service. If you want a CDN the tradeoffs (number of edge nodes, latency, cache sizes) are much better with other providers.

Sometimes, the stuff they inject also has horrible bugs ;P. One time, for an entire day, they were managing to lock up Safari entirely. Cydia is mostly a web browser, and one of the companies I work with apparently used CloudFlare, so Cydia suddenly stopped working that day in a way that was pretty catastrophic. I did a writeup on the process of discovering the bug (which I had to report to CloudFlare to get fixed: I don't even think they really had the expertise in-house to figure out what happened).

http://www.saurik.com/id/14
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No. Parts sourcing is not even close to getting your pals that you know at the factory to slip in a custom assembly run, just paying the absolutely minimal costs and nearly 100% of the money going to the very bottom $1/hour end-workers.

There's an assumption that price=quality. That's ok, until we get into the extreme cases. We're talking about the extreme limits of how cheaply this could be done. The prices of the raw materials are not high, they're not made of solid gold or rare-earth materials. Assembly costs almost nothing.
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This is where the generic "non-specific currency" symbol -- ¤ -- can also come into play. Though I just about never see it get used, which is probably an indicator of something.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_sign_%28typography%29
I came here to say the same. There are things you know but can't quite put the finger on what it is. It often happens to me that I read some news here, see how opinions are evenly divided but to me it's crystal clear what's going to happen. Then it happens. Still I cannot explain why.

Most of the time I think it's a matter of spotting which the heavier factor is.
Haha you beat me to this. I cracked up when I saw it.

While the app looks very good as a product, I find what it is pretty useless.
Ah I'd never seen the link appear later before.

A lot of older multimeters look like this: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/show-your-multimeter!/540/ or something similar at least once handheld meters with multiple modes started to become an actual item. That whole thread is a decent cross section of multimeters, though it's skewed towards nice older meters as opposed to lower grade meters.
The key thing to understand about game development is that everyone wants to be a game developer, in the same way everyone wants to be a rock star, or a famous actor.

It's a prestige profession, which means most self-professed practitioners of it don't actually practice at all.

Put plainly, that "failed project" developer is in all likelihood not a developer at all. That "failed project" developer likely has never written a line of code in his/her life. That "failed project" developer is much more likely to be some schmuck with starry-eyed naivete about game dev and thinks the UDK is some magical unicorn that will carry them to fame and fortune.

That won't stop said "developer" from flooding the forums with inane questions that anyone who has written code before would have figured out already. They are noise in the system, and as far as game dev goes they outnumber the people who actually know what they're doing.

There are tire kickers (people who are technically proficient but don't really want to license your software), and then there are tire kickers (people with little/no technical ability who have played many games and imagine themselves capable of making them, and downloaded your SDK on the assumption that they can point and click their way to success). The latter group generates a stupid amount of customer support load.
I'd like to see something like a CDN, but for completely dynamic content. Something like a system that could host instances of a game server, with a framework that ensures clients make connections with very low latency.
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How much would that cost?? It isn't like you can hire your nephew to do it for $7/hr.

It's seriously difficult to get paint to stick to plastic. When the paint starts peeling, that sounds like a heck of a liability issue.
Because that trademark is overly broad, and thanks to that fact was being used to bully creators of small, non-confusing products. The fact that people are opposed to overly broad trademarks employed for anticompetitive purposes is hardly shocking. That doesn't mean people view trademarks as a general "problem."
The original Fluke 87 was introduced in the mid 90s if I remember correctly, and I think the yellow cases predate that model.
piano improv, used to be a huge enthusiast of that, it's a great feeling getting to play just about anything that comes to mind. Considering recording and sharing them on a regular basis too.
Then I never realized how this whole "wanting to be a real programmer" thing have dragged me away from it, or from any of my hobbies really. Never gained much other than putting more stress on myself and developed a more negative attitude towards everything.
Now I've decided I should get back to doing things that I enjoy :)
So you don't use toasters?
According to [1] its mainly pulverised bone, salts, and minerals. This appears to provide some nutrition for plants - in the UK peoiple are being urged not to scatter ashes in upland/moorland areas because the minerals are changing the local soil composition and plant ecology [2].

[1] http://www.cremationsolutions.com/All-About-Cremation-Ashes-...

[2] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1508784/Cremation-ash...
This is exactly what people say about the dollar, it's too big for anything to compete. Things that are better win.
Always love the practical hardware designs from these guys. I'm also interested in some software stories: Linux kernel/distro used, issues encountered/solved etc.
Be careful about trusting compliments people give you when they're physically standing in front of you. When people are looking you in the eye, they tend to tell you what they think you want to hear. Online communication creates a distance that makes people more likely to speak their mind.
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If your answer to "what salary are you expecting?" is: "I'm fine with a market-rate salary", I'll just ask you what you think market-rate is for your position.

Now, usually, you can just say something like: "market-rate will vary with the type of position, role and responsibilities".

The goal of the recruiter is just to get a confirmation that your expectations are in within the range permitted for the position.

If you suggest that others at Apple or Google are making $X and $Y for the same role, that helps the recruiter identify how you're evaluating a market-rate. It's up to you to not price yourself below what the market may pay for your services.

That's the fallacy of never making the first offer. This expectation that you could be undercutting yourself and your negotiation partner would have offered more. In reality, this almost never happens, especially if the expecatation that the terms are negotiable. The company will just offer the least favorable terms first expectating a counter if they're unsuitable.
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My next blog post will definitely address the importance of grammar.
The same thing that is used for integrity checks could be used as a DHT hash, potentially allowing people to download the file from their peers where connection has the lowest latency, or from their favorite CDN they find the most reliable.

The same hash could be used similarly to etags with additional interesting properties. You could, for example, use it to safely retrieve an item that was cached for another website. (E.g. latest JQuery.) Not only it would improve performance, it would make user tracking somewhat more challenging for CDNs, improving privacy.

The potential here is huge, so it's disappointing that these ideas are smudged over multiple unrelated specs, and sometimes missed entirely.
Given that, as an employee, you are the seller in the relationship, that would be like Walmart not posting prices on any items and making you suggest what it is worth at the checkout. It is not usually how business is done.

About the only exception that I can think of is in sales of commodities, where the buyer typically does make the offer. I'm not sure you want to treat yourself and career as a commodity, do you?

Wouldn't it be better to state your price alongside your sales material? If you're not in the ballpark, then you can even save yourself wasting time talking with the potential client further.
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I don't know what you mean by classifiers. This is a good video to watch on the topic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s9IjkMAmns