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I'll say it, THANK YOU!

I've used UE at previous jobs, and while I'm not gonna say it is the best ever engine, allowing this piece of software in the hands of indies for 19 bucks a month is a bargain. I will probably not use it as I left the games industry, but compared to other commercial offerings out there, the 19 bucks a month plus the 5% is a bargain if any team is doing high end graphics games. You can bitch about Linux or try to do all the math you want to say Epic are being money grabbers, but seriously, unless you had access to full source code before and see what the engine can offer you, please take a moment to step back and appreciate what they are doing here.

ps: not affiliated with Epic at all. Just from many years in the games industry, Unreal has been the best engine I worked with and this is a FANTASTIC offer
I've been saying there will be a huge middle man market for assets for years. A whole studio specializing in different models for boxes - every era, every state of decay, every material. A studio dedicated to the most realistic rain effects possible - at the lowest price and graphics overhead. You don't have to worry about the "Wilhelm Scream" of boxes or rain effects though because there will be a lot of choice, a lot of options, and probably a tracking system for which assets are being used by which projects. Oh, Crysis 4 bought up all the high-def palm fronds? Sounds like there's a market for a tropics-based object studio!

I got carried away. But yeah, an asset marketplace will be essential in the future if only to keep art team sizes manageable.
Sure, but you'd need to process each file, or write a script to do it, when wget --mirror fetches the whole site at once.
I hadn't seen that before. Having just read through the wikipedia article, I'd say that my post is less about the theoretical categories themselves and more about people's inability to distinguish how their own knowledge is divided between those categories in their own minds, versus how it's divided in others. But yes, that's extremely relevant and awesome, thanks for that!
There exist people who basically cannot cook without a microwave.
You don't need to be accurate shooting a fish in a barrel, you just need to be patient.
Isn't that basically why football players have such a strong union? To negotiate contracts which give them a fighting chance to retire at 35 when they stop being useful?
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Get to know him and you'll immediately realize why.
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A (likely terrible) idea that just occurred to me-

How cool would it be to use a VR headset to help you navigate a vehicle? Yes, I mean to say wearing this while driving essentially.

Given a fast/good enough sensor/input system, you could scan your environment, know the dimensions of your vehicle (I'm mainly thinking boats and huge trucks here) and be able to "see through" massive blind spots on your vehicle to enable for tighter maneuvering.

Imagine a boat. Sometimes with a large enough boat it can be hard to see all around it. And frankly, its almost impossible to see under it. But given depth finding/scanning and sensors, you could make it so you could see the virtual hull of the boat and anything under the water, making navigating through areas with dangerous stumps or other things under the water much easier.

Anyway, this is kinda silly... but neat to think about. Also, ordered one :)
Apparently, the hearing focused mostly on issues of the appropriateness of the venue and not much on the computer crime aspects. That means the appeals panel may not actually rule on the merits, but may dismiss the case on what amounts to "a technicality". That would leave the gray area of the form of the original ruling against Weev about what does or does not constitute a CFAA violation.
Fake. http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/2014/03/19/google-earth-find...
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You dont need to specify the exact files in this case.
This code will load the exact same thing https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/g/jquery@1.10.2,bootstrap@3.0.3,ang...

You need to specify the files if you are loading files other than the one specified in the "mainfile" parameter. Or loading multiple files together.
Here's one security concern - What procedure do you follow when accepting files for inclusion in jsdelivr?

I mean, what's to stop this scenario:
1. attacker uploads a poisoned version (say, with an XSS vulnerability) of a popular library to an official-sounding github repo
2. attacker raises a github issue with you asking you to put it on jsdelivr
3. you assume the attacker is a legitimate contributor or user of the library and add it to jsdelivr
4. other sites start using the poisoned version of the library
5. attacker can now carry out XSS attacks on the sites using the library

I have another security concern about www.jsdelivr.com (which I hope is totally separate from the CDN?) but I'll email that to you.
I'm 62 and just got a great offer from a biotech startup two miles from my home.

I took a different approach from what many of the comments here recommend. Instead of weeding down my resume to recent and "relevant" experience, I emphasized the wide variety of projects I've worked on, and I listed everything in my LinkedIn profile, all the way back to my first programming job in 1969. I got rid of my traditional resume entirely and let the LinkedIn profile be my resume.

Also, I made up a new title/tagline for myself: "Low Level Full Stack Developer". At the moment, I'm the only person in the world with that particular description. :-)

I wanted to distinguish myself from the other common definition of "full stack developer", which often seems to imply somebody who is an expert on website scalability. That's not really my thing: I'm better at going down the stack into hardware and device drivers and such.

So I included some interesting side projects that were outside the usual web developer arena, such as PdfChip where I took a PDF datasheet for an ARM chip, connected it to a development board, and made the pinout diagram in the PDF interactive so you could see the state of the pins in the PDF, and click on pins to toggle them.

Then I started writing back to all the recruiters who had been pinging me, including the ones that were way off like the place that was looking for a "Drupal themer". Always be nice to recruiters; you never know when you'll need one. :-) And indeed, some of them also had more relevant opportunities.

And these conversations helped me in my thinking about what I was really looking for: something very different from the traditional web work I've been doing for several years - something more hardware oriented (and I don't mean just computing hardware).

I noticed that there were a couple of local biotech companies looking for full stack developers. Wrote to one and never heard a peep back from them, not even after a couple of followups. Wrote to the other and heard back from the CEO right away. Got together with the team a couple of days later for a fairly informal interview.

They didn't insult me with a coding test - they had already looked at some of my code, and the questions I've answered on Stack Overflow. It probably also helped that I had submitted a small but good quality pull request to one of their open source projects the day before. :-)

Had lunch with the CEO a few days later to work out some of the details, and they made the offer a few days after that.

I can't really disagree with the advice that you should focus your resume/LinkedIn/whatever on recent and relevant experience, and I used the introductory section of my LinkedIn profile to highlight those things.

But if admitting that my first programming job was in 1969 gives people a clue that I'm old, so what? They will figure that out when they meet me! I would rather work with people who see my 45 years of experience in a wide variety of projects and think it means they can learn something from me - just as I can learn some cool new things from them.
What kind of furniture have you built thus far?
I am really, really not a lawyer, but he says he is seeking a job offer for a TN visa, which is non-immigrant status, so I don't think this is a case of seeking immigrant status.
Those numbers are for traditional VC only, whereas Cuban is talking about "capital". VC is a subset of capital sources.

For example, that table says that only $453m was invested in businesses in LA in 2010. But ~$250m went into the Harry Potter film that was released the following year. Perhaps some definition of "capital" would not include this money, but then isn't the metric broken?
> This is exactly what people say about the dollar, it's too big for anything to compete. Things that are better win.

Actually, things that are both good enough and first win over things that are better (considered in isolation) all the time; network effects and transition costs, among other contributing factors, are real, even though they are the kind of things that are often assumed away in simplistic analyses.
Every generation thinks their ideas are new. When in reality it's all the same thing, just recycled. Sure computers are smaller, faster, and cheaper - but fundamentally, the systems today are the same as the systems in 1985.

We have 4th generation languages today that are really just front-ends to c; created to make it easier for the masses to write code. Which is a good thing, cause I'm 50, and I remember the days working in the cold, dark basement walled off from the rest of the company.

I find it funny listening to the "youngsters" talking about the great new thing of today; be it agile, the cloud, or whatever. But I remember I was saying the same type of bs when I was 25.
+10 to this.

Once the channels for management can provide a painless experience to customers (studios, artists, etc.) this will do to assets what iTunes did to music.
Killing off popular products is one way to keep them cool for a comeback.
Flash is used to copy the Ƀ character to the clipboard when you click on the Ƀ symbol in the header. This is only possible with Flash, and I don't see any other uses of Flash on their page. Click-to-copy is actually a handy little feature. I just used it to type Ƀ in this comment.
Chase of heart
my first movie plz watch and comment
Thanks, was wondering if it was on github!
Even simpler - you add grounding to the transformers. Basically a large surge protector.

The CME induces large currents in long wires, so you ground those and dissipate the energy. It's not even very expensive.
How easy is it to get into this?
Not too late. You have a good foundation to build upon. Just need to pick one of several possible directions:

* system admin -- your linux background is impressive, but need to pick up windows admin skills (most small shops require both), firewalls, proxy servers, caching, CDN

* front-end coder -- learn Javascript and related technologies (jquery, Node, requireJS, browserify, handlebars, etc)

* Wordpress specialist -- learn PHP, themes, responsive design, theme frameworks, etc

* other specialties: Drupal, Django, Rails

In addition to freshening up skills, do some networking through meetups. Also flesh out your online presence. Have an active Github profile. Also Stack Overflow. Check out TopCoder.

Lastly, lose the "OldCoder" label. You can only get away with that if you are Kernighan, Ritchie, Guy Steele, or Dave Cutler.
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never gonna happen, too late :|
You failed when you gave up.
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The Many Faces of Octocat
Show HN: Your own Debian email server in 5 steps with Symbiosis
It's best practice to not use the term "best practice" these days ;) (sorry, couldn't resist)
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A real Programmer is a machine that does all the work for you. I do understand that you want to be that. I don't either.
This is really cool, what would be even cooler though is to have them in commit messages. Sadly though, GitHub does not allow images (or very limited markdown) in commit messages. :/
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Yes but you can't get a Linux editor (yet).
Sony announced the VR headset named Project Morpheus
> It's pretty well accepted that the first person to give a number loses

Accepted but not necessarily true. In this market where the candidate often has very good salary data, s/he can also win by anchoring very high.
Surely the correct solution to that is to control the information your browser will send to the CDN, not to try and stop web designers from using CDNs for everyone. The way requesting assets leaks the page you're visiting is through the referer header, so if you want to prevent that, use an add-on that lets you control that header, like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/referrer-cont... .
He makes an assertion that isn't true. That it's just as possible to raise money somewhere else other than Silicon Valley. Is it possible? Yes. Is it as easy/fast/convenient? Not even close. I've tried doing a startup in Michigan. Conversations with investors lasted months and they still wouldn't commit. In the valley, you can get a yes after meeting 2. Can you raise money outside of SV? Yes (in some places easier than others) but if you have to spend a bunch of your time on investor meetings instead of on your customers, it just makes it that much harder to grow your business. Silicon Valley also provides other intangibles that other locations don't (eg lots of early adopters that will give you feedback on your product, easy access to talent, etc...). My opinion is that it's still the best place to do a startup. (Granted I've only tried in Michigan before)

Ohh and the exit scenario that he mentions, this is pretty accurate from my observations and SV/VCs here are really good at this. A lot of personal relationships that help facilitate this.
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Nope. Between music, noise from the street and the constant overlapping conversations, magnified by the fact that we're probably over the allowed occupancy for our space, I sometimes have a hard time hearing people sitting across from me. In this company's effort to save money, they've ended up hurting productivity.
This could be huge for indies who want to use something other than Unity.

$19 per month is a very low barrier to entry. And 5% isn't much compared to every other AAA engine.

And access to source code for this price? Damn.

I'm still going to stick to my open source tools (for now), but this just put Unreal Engine on my radar...
We totally agree, and use pip and virtual envs for everything.

However we chose python, and easy_install because it's pre-installed all macbooks going back to snow leopard. (specifically python 2.6.1 which comes with distutils needed for our setup.py file) This means for many web designers, brace-tags doesn't require that you update your python install, or really know python at all. It's the simplest command line install experience we could come up with.
but what if you're one of those devs who likes to work naked ?
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A common misconception. Ha, try finding that one...
My understanding is that this "see through the vehicle" capability is built into at least some helmet-HUD/Helicopter combinations that the military has.

If it suffices for an attack helicopter, I'd say that the idea probably has serious potential for automobiles as well. I wouldn't expect to see it come to standard consumer cars yet, but for commercial drivers (particularly truck drivers who have massive blindspots) this could be invaluable. Imagine being able to see through the back of your box truck while backing up!
Every day? You think the products you use every day aren't maximized for profit?
credit card is failing for me as well..
Many musicians consider themselves 'composers' because they know harmony. Harmony is 'composition for dummies'. To compose real stuff you have to study counterpoint for lifetime.

And there are even worse algorithmic composing systems like Lyle Murphy's Equal Interval System, Schillinger, etc... I love algorithms but that's not art.
>the general concept of a "level playing field" is orthogonal to externality mitigation.

no. If one operator is paying for externality mitigation, it is only natural to level playing field by making other operators in the same business space to pay for the same externality mitigation.
While this is often true, I can't accept it as being as universal as claimed. Many projects, with visible success, pretty clearly require someone that knows what they're doing, or else they will noticeably fail. And they happen in environments that don't care how good your model is, and throw all kinds of kinks in your plan. Buildings, aircraft, software.

Nor does it ever connect the "recognition of what you don't know" ability back to the nurse's situation: how does that account for why she got such praise? What observable shortcomings did the other students have, and she lack, that are connected to the unknown-unknown problem?
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His thesis that Silicon Valley is good at exits, but unremarkable at capital raises seems to be an alternate reality to me.

Hard data on raises is everywhere - see for example the PWC moneytree report. The Valley has consistently done as much as the rest of the country combined (approx.) for decades now.

Exits on the other hand are fuzzier and tend to come from everywhere. IPOs for example are really more made in New York than the Valley if you think about it. Acquisitions are more Valley-centric only because tech companies tend to acquire other tech companies, and the Valley has more of them.
I do not hold students in contempt. My article is an honest attempt to help students, because, as I note in the first few paragraphs that you object to, their current course of action is one that is not helping themselves.

When I was a CS student at Waterloo, no one taught us how to debug small programs. Maybe things have changed since then, but at the time this was just a skill you were expected to pick up for yourself. I remember many times coming into the lab early in the morning and finding my fellow students asleep on their keyboards, having stayed up all night trying to find a bug in a 20 line program.

If you don't like my article then that's too bad; my suggestion to you is rather than complaining about it, why not write your own that you like better? I'd be happy to publish a link to it.
"After the dot-com shut down, 2003, I made $1M in the stock market. Lost most of it afterwards"

TLDR: the person in question's advice is best ignored because he is in need of serious psychological help.

No I am not being sarcastic.

What's wrong with this guy? A complete lack of common sense and grasp of reality. After having lost $1M and failing to find a job, rather than go broke and become transient, he could have applied to something like Trader Joe's or Costco and worked his way back up to financial stability. There's plenty of opportunity for skilled labor, especially skilled labor willing to learn hot skills as they emerge.

But don't take my word for it, read the story of his ongoing legal travails with his family. The root cause here is psychological, not financial.
Sad :( This was my favorite mailing list for the past decade or so, although it's been in decline for years.
I just finished a book about a man who has been living without money for over 10 years titled "The Man Who Quit Money". It's a different perspective on not needing money. Instead of having plenty of money this book is about a man who doesn't need any money at all because he chooses not to need money, he lives outside of the money system. The title of this post seems to include men like Suelo, the subject of the book, but the content of the post seems to exclude people like this as it focuses on having more than enough money instead of not needing money.

The book does a great job describing the evolution of this man's philosophy on living outside of the money system and what it has done for him. If at all interested I highly recommend it. Instead of trying to accumulate so much money you can't imagine needing more a healthy alternative might be to focus on reducing your need for money.
Well, yes. I also believe it shouldn't be.
The purpose of the silent tracks is to generate publicity. This is not a genuine attempt to conduct a scam. It also makes it convenient if spotify docks them for the bogus plays. Finally this way they can see if their actual tracks are gaining popularity, which is the whole goal.
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World's fastest table tennis robot vs top human player
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1. Open your favorite sampling profiler (vtune, zoom, instruments, whatever)
2. Set it up to sample every N cache misses. Good choices of N absent extra information are usually prime (why? to avoid artifacts where cache misses are divided evenly among M locations, with M|N) numbers between ~1000 and ~1000000.
3. Exercise your program under typical workload. If the resulting data is too coarse-grained, decrease N. If your program is running too slowly because of sampling overhead, increase N.
4. You now have a detailed accounting of what call stacks and instructions triggered cache misses. Starting with the worst offenders, re-arrange your algorithms to maximize the amount of data reuse.

This isn't trivial, but I’d say it’s a very long way from primitive.
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I'd rather not list my location or identifying details here but would be quite happy to share those details in conversation if contacted.

Also, location is subject to change since the accelerator's in a different location from my city. The business involves some travel, I haven't been in same place in the past year.
Of course. It's just a fun way of generating raw material and ideas, not for creating finished pieces.
Impossible to answer this honestly until you've reached that point. More than likely you will discover a passion for something that currently does not exist in your life. Life is never ending learning, including who you are today and how you are different than yesterday.
I've been thinking along these lines lately. I've never much cared for or been interested in attention. I'm totally comfortable with the fact I'm going to be forgotten. I've been very lucky and I don't have to worry much about money. I'm about to finish school. What do I do next? I basically have two answers: (1) Entertain myself. Learn things because I curious. Work on things because I think they're exciting or interesting, without worrying if they're useful or valuable. (2) Try to make socially valuable contributions. How do I best put my skills to work for others? Free software is one good model here. I've been trying to learn about the non-profit model.

I'm very interested to hear other people's thoughts.
I doubt it. You've already "bought in" and agreed to their terms. They have you by the contractual balls at that point. The fact that your game is exceedingly popular and raking in cash makes the contract you've already agreed to worth more, not less.

You'd have to find something that they would think was a better deal. Like "I pay you lump sum $X in exchange for no more royalty payments. At which point, it becomes a gamble for both sides.

You have a much better chance of negotiating something like that before your game even begins development. Expect to spend a metric ton of cash on that license deal, however.