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I agree.

However, most guitarists get paid to provide pleasant background music at weddings. Making money writing and playing Purple Haze is a (boom-and-bust, drug-induced) outlier. Master artists aren't employees of Paint-o-Corp who get paid salary in exchange for the rights to their creative output (even if it's side-projects).

If we want a sustainable population of healthy, balanced engineers, we need to adjust our expectations for the typical coder.
"Not Found". Looks like it's been taken down by HackerNews!
Thanks for the link. Just tried it out, nice, and I love the use of semver. So you can do this to import a specific version of say yaml

import "gopkg.in/v1/yaml"

or for an arbitrary url on github

https://gopkg.in/username/v1.0.0/pkg

Weird that versions are before the pkg name though, that doesn't seem right...

Here's hoping this sort of versioning scheme makes it into the go toolchain eventually. The only downside of this solution is it redirects only to github and guesses urls, I quite like that the go toolchain is indifferent as to where the sources are hosted. This would be very easy to add to the toolchain though; all they'd need to do is recognise imports like this (personally I prefer versions at the end of current urls, not in the middle):

import "bitbucket.org/user/pkg/v1.1.2"

in go get and download that tag to that path, no other changes in the toolchain would be required, and those who ignore versions could continue to do so, while people who wanted them use the version specific imports. I think the objection of the go team was that this doesn't solve any of the complex dependency issues that plague package managers, but it'd be nice just to be able to specify which version is expected for future users and have predictable builds when sharing code outside one org.
Founders are, more often than not and perhaps even as-written, passionate people. People who have drive, focus, and a vision. For some people, their drive comes from their families. For others, it doesn't. All I am seeing in this thread is parents speaking up about how their children are their drive. That's really cool, but to also turn around and state that people without families walk an inevitable path to burnout is ridiculous to me. This thread is little more than an echo chamber.
Guilty as charged. :) I'm super-interested in seeing a sample app, particularly the rails_adapter.
I think you both are describing different parts of the same elephant.
OK, sorry. My sarcasm detector failed me.
Yeah, but here's the other side of the coin: I've worked with parents (and shared a boss) who always dumped shitwork off onto the people w/o kids. Last second travel to customers, late nights, bugs that trigger support SLA requirements, emergency fixes, etc. And then, amazingly enough, proceed to whine that they don't get the same raises or promotions.

I agree our work environment is hostile to people's personal lives, but when parents use their kids as an excuse to get out of doing their share, instead of advocating for better work life balance for everyone, the reaction of the childless should be completely unsurprising.
I'm guessing he's referring to wildcards (http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~atl017/papers/pldi11.pdf) and the fact that the type system allows this (which isn't really a complexity, but rather a deficiency):

Object[] foo = new String[1];
foo[0] = new Integer(4); // exception thrown here instead of a compile error.
These 'rumours' are more like an open secret inside the industry.

Personally I have seen billing APIs at AT&T (US) and T-Mobile (US) which are semi-equivalent. For one of those, calls go straight to an Amdocs domain on an AS hosted outside of the carrier. Of course, few people will see these now since Google Play canned external billing APIs (removing most of the interest here) and most new projects choose to access carrier billing via international aggregators (since integrating with one carrier can take months of pain, if you even have enough of a case to bother, and if they even talk to you). For NFC stuff, most US carriers are combining forces to produce a new API which will effectively similarly distance any integrators. The reason I got a look was we were developing the flagship app for Samsung Galaxy series device launch in the US, and the carriers were all on board with it.

An older, long term IT veteran friend of mine who recently retired in Australia and chaired the mobile phone number portability multi-carrier technical implementation roundtable told me he was essentially fired (contract not renewed) for opening up an inquiry in to the wasteful billing practices at one particular Australian carrier. It turned out they were using Amdocs. He described making a decision, being forced to sit through a presentation, making the same decision, being forced to sit through another presentation, until the end of this contract period.

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. If I were a national privacy authority or the European Data Protection Supervisor, I'd walk in to all my carriers, seize all third party billing systems, dump out disk images, and analyze them top to bottom in a nationally transparent, multi-party audit citing national security / privacy.
Mine as well. Reading his papers was always a pleasure as he has a knack for making the complicated accessible and interesting.
> Yes, it would be simplificantly simpler to edit html
> if it wasn't stuck in between two strings
> ...
> m("body class='application", ...

You would put attributes in an object.

m("body", {class: "application"}, [ ... ])

Sure, it's no Lisp, but to me it's just Javascript's commas that suck the thunder out of it.
I first came across his name while researching hash trees, and this was related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamport_signature
You are not wrong. The majority of comments in this thread, and the original article, are all written as if by people who do not actually know what the current state of the art even is. They just know their favorite video game is disappointing.

If someone wants to make you wrong, all they have to say is that they don't care for the aesthetics of Endorphin/Euphoria. Never mind that the tech didn't even exist 10 years ago. I was working on Euphoria-like technology in 2001, 5 years before Euphoria was announced. Ultimately, I just wasn't smart enough to solve all the problems, but I could see that it was possible and I knew it was coming. And arrive it did, only 5 years later. Likewise, I think I have a pretty good view of what the next steps are, and the next 5 years should be very exciting, especially in the voxel and procedural spaces.
Agree 100%. I teach a Programming for Non Programmers class using Sinatra. Typically I'll have all 24 people setup with a "Hello World" app in about 30 minutes.

Even with 2 TAs, I can't even imagine the alternative of trying to get an entire class of programming newbies running ruby locally across Mac and Windows without any problems or leaving anyone behind. It's easy as a developer to underestimate the difficulty of getting things set up. Even in nitrous the most common problem I have to debug during class is people not being in the right directory because they have to use 'cd workspace' before they can 'ruby helloworld.rb'. There's just a giant set of knowledge that we developers rely on to even do the simplest of tasks, and nitrous lets me skip over all that boring stuff and get right to the interesting concepts they can see on their screen like paths, params, request handlers, views and links.

My only complaint is the onboarding UX uses some confusing wording/concepts for beginners like "boxes" and "hostnames" and energy credits. I just handhold everyone through that part so it must be really difficult for someone trying to load it up themselves. When I found some bugs I had the chance to talk with the guys behind nitrous and they were really helpful with trying to figure out what went wrong and how they can simplify the flow, so hopefully we'll see some improvements there with the new round of funding.
I'd really like to be able to see the options and create pull lists etc before signing up.
Right now I have no way of judging how good/bad the service is without signing up - and I don't feel comfortable giving up my email id without having a sense of that value first.

Also, allowing me to interact with the service prior to signing up would lead to me investing some time/effort which would go to waste if I didn't save it all by signing up.

Hope that helps.
dude! :D
it is a word in french ;)

It would translate to overperforming. Compared to what? No one knows. It is oddly very used as a buzzword in marketing.

If so (I could be wrong), maybe it is not marketing but "pardon my french" juste like "idiot savant", "touché" and other french words that appears in the mouth of some that wants to look smart: it make us laugh very hard as a mix of posture and failure.
that is unbelieveable - a big thingy right there on TV!
I love how the X1 feels/looks, but 14 inch is too large. I find 13 inch actually on the big side. 10-12 inch for a laptop is what I consider perfect. But yes, good one; the X1 is a great machine. So we have one contender :)
I disagree. The desire to placate designers has already caused HTML to become increasing complex and now our web browsers are even downloading fonts from the Internet. If designers really want to control presentation, they should look into another format, like PDF.
It's a well-intentioned idea, but another thing I see wrong with it is that there are, what, 200 million square miles the plane could be in? Of which we'd only expect one to contain the plane (..hopefully..). You're just going to get too much noise/too many trolls to observe a 5.0e-9 event precisely (sure, you could weight the 'yes' pictures to show up more often, but wouldn't that just give more power to the trolls, and thereby obscure further the chance of seeing the actual plane picture?)
We have a 360 degree virtual tour that allows people to view a car online before buying it. On mobile there is a limited amount of screen space and there was a lot of wasted space for browse chrome that would to our users seemingly randomly hide and popup. There were ways to work around this on earlier versions by scrolling the page with js.
Attempts at making watches do more:

Calculator Watch - 80s/90s -Enjoyed sucess in still produced

Game Watch - 80s/90s - pretty much non existent now

Radio watch - http://www.in-ovation-products.com/images/gadget_sports_radi...

TV Watch - Too young dont know what happened to these

Remote Control Watch - dont know if it ever caught on but it was fun to use it to screw with substitute teacher when playing videos
I think we're perhaps having two different discussions. This article discusses whether or not being a parent prevents someone from also being a successful founder. It isn't a discussion of the larger and distinctly separate issue regarding how founders treat their own workforces.

The two polarized extremes I was referring to are the view cited by the article and the opposite it is attempting to dispute: "Being a parent makes you a more motivated founder" and "being a parent is a detriment to being a founder", respectively.
PowerVR Wizard brings ray tracing to real-time graphics
PowerVR GR6500: Ray tracing is the future and the future is now
Roald Dahl is a great example of a prolific author who would write perhaps 4 hours a day and would spend the rest of his time drinking, relaxing, and tending to his farm. As far as I know, a casual pace like that is pretty common among writers - though maybe not to that extreme.

Slogging through 15 years of practice every day is a technical endeavor. If you need to learn how to do something or to master a technical skill, then yes, volume of work will get you there. Code is a tool that is used to create, and I think the quote you selected just serves to underline the difference between learning how to be an effective engineer vs learning how to become an effective technician.

Edit: constant practice is definitely important, but relentlessly working is not.
Nope. I haven't been able to wear a watch ever since I got the latest Macbook Pro. Even I wear one to work by mistake, the first thing I do is remove it. Maybe the keyboard is a bit deeper in the newer models?
SMS is preferred as the technology is fairly decoupled from internet services, for example it's more than likely that a number of people have exactly the same password for service XYZ, as they do for their eMail service. So it's not really providing that much more security than single factor, just another hoop for the hacker to jump through.

Even if your not stupid enough to use the same password for both services, you might still be susceptible to key loggers, malware etc... meaning again that SMS would be a better option.

It's fairly easy to forge an SMS originating number to make a text message look like it's from someone else, however 2-factor generally is sending (terminating) a text message to a known number, this is much more secure.

It's almost impossible to intercept a terminating SMS, this is down to how SMS are routed over mobile networks and the SIM card registration process. Basically you would need the private encryption keys of the mobile operator to clone the SIM card and create a fake registration for that number, or 'root/admin' access to the current network that subscriber is on.
The first time I remember seeing it was on Chrome. Who was the first to use it? I personally don't think it has much value, in and of itself, as a graphic.
It might surprise you to hear that there are single people who have children. Furthermore, there are plenty of people who are not single and no not have or want children.

Due to advances in human rights and standard of living, having or not having children is now decoupled from being or not being single. A reversal of this would be a major regression in society.
It's a mistake to think of one "main" language. There's a limit to what can be fed back into the Java language. Other languages like Clojure and Scala have more than enough going for them and stand on their own merits. I'm seeing increasing numbers of teams relegate Java code to legacy status in favor of newer JVM languages.
It's pretty bizarre that people keep saying AngularJS is "large and monolithic" when it, in fact, is modular.
It's back up now. Nothing to do with HN, I think the host messed up.
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Reality has nothing to do with making a successful video game. Of the top 10 video games of 2013 were Animal Crossing, Monster Hunter, Pokemon X/Y, Assassin's Creed, Bioshock Infinite, and Grand Theft Auto.

Only Fifa 2014 can claim to be somewhat realistic, maybe Call of Duty: Ghosts. But we all know what _real_ war is like... not fun. http://www.theonion.com/video/ultrarealistic-modern-warfare-...

I mean, doggies taking down Helicopters is cool and everything and makes for an exciting storyline... but no one is going to convince me that the action inside of Call of Duty: Ghosts is "realistic".

http://kotaku.com/oh-my-god-its-a-dog-taking-down-a-helicopt...

With regeneration (Bullet shots to the chest recovers in seconds), Medpacks that magically heal you and so forth... the modern FPS is hardly realistic... but a fantasy designed to make gameplay fun.

After all, "campers" make games go stale, even if it is the most effective and realistic tactic of games. Modern games discourage camping and encourage close-up action.

----------------------

Those who fight for "realism" don't understand the typical gamer. Why have a realistic fight when you can instead, turn into a dragon? http://dota2.gamepedia.com/Dragon_Knight
Are you really going to make the case that people with children are more likely to dump work on people without children? Really?

Do you have any sort of actual evidence to support this? (Actual evidence, not anecdotal stories about how somebody with a kid made you do more work on a project once)
Imagination announces Ray Tracing GPU
My take: I got two kids, one's not yet 1.5 years old, the other one is a month old.

It's hard. I have tremendous respect for my wife, because - she's the one spending the most time with the kids. That said: I do work from home and this DOES influence my ability to work.

I wouldn't want to miss them. They are great. I agree with the OP that they help you in some ways (keeping a schedule, logistics, making sure that you're not slacking off during the day and getting into a frenzy mode at night).

But they have a (cough) cost. I'm looking left and right for a job that would make me happier. I usually don't even dare to send an application (because hey, could I actually take it? I mean.. probation time etc. even if they'd take me in) and if I do I usually know that I won't risk it either.

The big risk is not productivity. That can be avoided and a decent structure (support in your family, a good understanding with your SO) solves most of the standard "But aren't kids dragging you down?" issues.

But flexibility is truly lost, unless you have lots of savings or your SO earns enough money (BZZZZT). At this point in time I'm absolutely certain that I'll never start a company of my own (okay, okay, let's be honest: The kids are not to blame for most of the issues: I don't even have a decent idea. I'm saying: I wouldn't, even with the perfect pitch) and I'm even reasonably sure that I'll stick with my current company for a loooong time.

For safety, family. I just cannot experiment anymore.
Have a look at SWT. It's the best way to do Java UIs IMO. I don't know why it isn't more popular. It uses the native UI kits internally, so it feels and is 100% native.
Dude, you lost me when you consider "Switching the left and right sides" a critical mistake. It's an interview. Candidates can be very stressful and make mistakes easily. Also you are interviewing a human not a machine.
Why do you seem to have the idea that "no kids" implies "single"?
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I wonder if and how C# scripts (a big part of the Unity framework) are supported for the WebGL target.
I love my pebble - it has changed the way I use the information available on my phone for the better. Below are some reasons I find it useful/fun and which onboard/Android app I use.

(Builtin/Glance) Receiving text messages on your wrist (and having custom preset replies) is great. Especially when you are on the move, commuting, in company or a meeting. It does take some time to know how to look at your phone without seeming like you are being rude and checking the time - but my acquaintances know what I am doing, and like my phone, I know when not to react to incoming notifications.

(Glance/Tasker) The Glance app with Tasker allow you to make a button on your phone interact with literally anything your phone can. Send an API call to a remote server, silence the phone, send an sms with your current lag/long in a google map link all withing two button presses. It's insane.

(PebbleDialer) lets you see who is calling and mute, hang up, or pick up. Also great when you are commuting with a headset.

(PebbleBike) is like having a bikecomputer on your hand, but whenever. And it stores your trip. If you are interested in the 'social' aspect then Strava and RunKeeper are meant to work too.

(Builtin) The built in music app is fantastic if you don't have a headset, or need to know the music - but really, it is bloody amazing when you are at home and playing music through your phone (or have your phone linked to XMBC!) and need to pause or wish to skip tracks.

(Glance) I never lose my phone around the house. Two buttons and the volume goes to full and it plays a soundfile.

(Tasker) My phone is unlocked while connected to Pebble with bluetooth, and locks otherwise (except on home wifi)

(Glance) The weather update is actually great. "What's the weather outside?" can be answered with a glance at your wrist.

(Glance/Tasker/SoundHound) Knowing what song is playing without fiddling with your phone at the pub is good. Most impressive is that SoundHound can recognise songs while the phone is in my pocket.

For me, it has also meant that I am not checking my phone constantly for new emails. In fact, now I only have particular filtered labels from gmail sent to my watch, and the rest do not even notify.

Most of the good 3rd party apps are free, but accept donations which I've been more than happy to contribute to.

I can live without it, but a year on I am still enjoying it immensely.
John Carmack is a fan: "I am very happy with the advent of the PVR Wizard ray tracing tech. RTRT HW from people with a clue!"
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/446021820290842624
Heh, actually this makes me think that Augmented Reality gaming is the way to go - like, proper real live-action quake overlaid onto RL environments. Then you only need to model the monsters, the environment's already done.

But I don't think we have the VR glasses for that one yet - I mean, Oculus is opaque.
It most notably does not work in the case of longjmp() which nethack uses a lot.
You can use most of Java 7 but not the new dynamic stuff. I'm told that lamdas will require this feature so we won't be getting that for a while.

This is total speculation, but they're also moving away from the DalvikVM to the new ART runtime. I'm hoping that they're keeping Java 8 in mind as that gets implemented.
You can disable CSS or use a user stylesheet to your liking.

That's the amazing thing about HTML + CSS + JS, not available to PDF or any other format/medium in common use.
Is crunchbase down?
It seems crunchbase site is down! Getting 403 forbidden. Anyone else can verify?
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DOM is separate from Ecmascript, but is actually one of the 3 components of Javascript (along with Ecmascript and the BOM). This is at least according to Professional Javascript for Web Developers (you can see it on 'page 3' in the Amazon preview).
I would think a full-screen emulation of a bank app or something. Phishing email sends you to a link that "opens" your bank app and asks you to sign in.
Even if you hadn't pointed out that you didn't have children, the rest of your comment made it plain.

Society doesn't force you to spend an "unrealistic amount of time on children", if anything, it's the opposite, forcing you to spend too much time away from them.

There's nothing wrong with making sure your children are independent and can do things on their own, and by the age of 10 I'd expect them to be capable of quite a bit of independence. However, even at that age, they're still aggregating enormous of new information about the world, daily. You should around to help guide them, teach them, or just be a sounding board for them to bounce ideas off of.

You seem to be confusing normal child rearing with the "helicopter parent" meme.

You should especially re-read your own sentence:
"Looking after them, hauling them around, catering to their needs. If you don't do that you are suspicious and may even become a criminal"

catering to their needs. Well I certainly hope if you have children you'd be willing to meet their needs!
idk, I make a clear distinction between laptops and macbooks myself; the last laptops I remember using are quite different from macbooks (OS, (perceived) speed/performance, form factor).
I have the 5 1/4" floppy of Populous on my shelf (which is why I knew the year). Sadly I can't play it any more because of the 1980's DRM. Even if I could get a 5 1/4" drive working in my modern PC, the game asks you populations of various world cities for which the answers are on an un-photocopiable (black on dark red) sheet that came in the game box which I have sadly lost.

hmm I just looked on GOG and it's $5.99
http://www.gog.com/game/populous

Annoying though, when you have it already :)

I got the three pack for $15, gog bless.
Even better, you get free games too including Beneath a Steel Sky - I never finished that either - I am a happy gamer.
SoftBank has returned 2,800 times its investment into Alibaba
Well, looks like the MBTA has been hacked