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> If that wasn't intentional it's a very fitting typo.

It wasn't[0], and though I agree I fixed it.

> In either case it describes perfectly why Python 3's distinction between text and data (or Unicode and byte strings) is much better than the Python 2 state of affairs

Yes, although it really annoys people who work at the boundary or in domains where the distinction is unclear or ill-defined (urls, HTTP headers, environment variables, …). Which is probably why e.g. Armin Ronacher has so many issues with it[1]: the vast majority of his stuff (at least for the libraries he releases) operate across these boundaries.

[0] I actually spent a second wondering, and then I got it wrong anyway.

[1] http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/1/5/unicode-in-2-and-3/
You might want to watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFIa-Mc2KSk
I've been struggling with this as well at times.
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If that is true, then just think of how much willpower we have to exert in modern society, from the novelty and escape that the browser provides to the candy bars in the supermarket.

I read about a study some years ago that posited that, indeed, willpower is something that you deplete and have to recharge.
I'm curious as to what toolchain he thinks he needs? I write Go all day. I don't have a "toolchain" unless you count version control and go build/go get.
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Using paint is more like watching p0rn on a magazine instead of watching it on the internet :)
Ray certainly seems very certain of the exact timing of future events - I have enough trouble knowing if I should take an umbrella to work or not.
I'm not allowed to install any other screenshot tool on my pc due to limited permissions.. Looks like a good option!
I hope people on HN understand that this is a talented person providing an honest opinion about their work. Which is rare, and should be commended, rather than being treated as evidence of a conspiracy.

I'm not going to get all conspiratorial on you, but to pretend like someone blogging on the Internet is being completely candid about their work? C'mon.
Sounds like Ray is anxiously awaiting this movie. It seems to fit more with his vision.

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt2209764/

I like the movie Her a lot. I hated the trailer and could only motivate myself to see the movie after seeing lots of positive tweets.
For all personal/hobby projects, I can see myself switching within few weeks. For the "serious" bunch, I may be waiting until the middle of 2016, then I'll start migrating.
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(Ejecta dev here)

Ejecta uses OpenGL ES 2 for Canvas, not Core Graphics.

The default demo that comes with Ejecta[1] runs with 60fps on the iPhone4S. Just try it in Mobile Safari. Even Desktop Browsers struggle with this. Of course it's a contrived benchmark, but it still makes a point, I think :)

There are also a lot of other reason to use Ejecta. If you _want_ to distribute your App in the AppStore, the alternative is to use a WebView framework such as PhoneGap, which can't use JIT either. That said, the raw JavaScript performance is rarely the bottleneck for games - most of the time, drawing is.

[1] http://phoboslab.org/crap/bezier/
Have you tried the "Simple App Switcher"? It's the good old alt+tab from yester years. You can enable it through Compiz Settings Manager.
Until 14.04.1 I suppose
I will tell you that I use all reasonably (and legally) available information in evaluating a prospective senior hire. That includes looking through my network for anyone who may have overlapped and getting their take on the candidate.

I will sometimes make an exception to that policy (hurting myself and my company) to not ask a current employer in cases where I probably wouldn't weigh that input very highly anyway.

I sure wouldn't expect that if you're applying to a company for an important position that they will entirely confine themselves to your list of references. Why on Earth would they? I'm going to check my network, your public Google/github/twitter/FB presence, etc.

To me, it's not about doing a reference check with my friend the CEO of the other company to whitewash unethical colluding behavior nor to threaten a candidate, but rather because doing reference checks with people who know the candidate well is good business.

I should perhaps provide the following color to the above: I will also aggressively recruit from a friend's company, and I've been on the other side, with startups/spin-outs aggressively recruiting top talent from within my organization. I never took it personally, and am happy to see the success that allows them to hire great employees, and happy to see employees go on to a job they prefer. My job is to make my own company a great place to work and retain top employees that way, not try to cultivate some quid-pro-quo social obligation to prevent the prison warden next door from hiring my prisoners.
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What I would do to talk to researcher on this topic. My visual system has been playing games with my mind for a few years. It's like the internal 'reconstruction' device is fubar and can't stand still.
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I've got a friend who does what he calls growth hacking which in his case is mostly running Google Adwords. He does pretty well with it.
My guess is it's like being a chief advertising manager with less pay.

Your plan sounds fine; Name Recognition matters in our industry, so try to focus on building successes for recognizable clients.
I use Ejecta for almost all my prototyping, super easy to make changes during a meeting to do live iteration testing.
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I'd like to see a memory usage comparison with Servo, since mobile devices have far less memory than desktops.

On the other hand, I believe that HTML layout can be done, using only a single thread, much faster and with far less memory than current mainstream browsers do, by greatly simplifying the code (i.e. remove excessive use of abstraction, using different data structures, etc.) Not exactly the same, but along the same lines as, this related item that appeared here a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7457674
FYI, I'm currently running 14.04 on an UX32VD. I was previously running 13.10, and that worked great too.
(I can't help with the Singularity predictions, but for the weather, try Dark Sky - http://darkskyapp.com/. It's pretty amazing. Hyper-local, to-the-minute weather forecasts.)
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Well not just Google / Facebook but Linkedin and Twitter are also in the team.
If you still have any invites left, I'd love to get one.

(Can't see any emails in your profile.)
That's probably about right, maybe a little high for hating enough to do something different. I quit using MS Office when the "Ribbon" was introduced, but most people I know just sort of sighed and kept with it.
what if they did ?
would that somehow prohibit them to download and execute new code ?

monovm runs AOT precompiled assemblies
What's your point? Someone who is very poor will likely get a netbook as they can email, go on FB, process text documents, do some basic gaming etc.
I found this interesting, so here are some links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rambot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:History_of_Wikipedia_...
I just wish I could turn off the news feed. Facebook is a great social tool, but I'm sick of all the literal status updates. I tried Facebook Purify but their CSS ,trick didn't work.

http://www.aesconnect.com/how-to-turn-off-your-facebook-news...
I don't particularly love the branding of growth hacker but let's take it as given that it usefully describes a set of skills.

Practical experience outweighs "credentials" by literally infinity. Portfolio pieces are extremely helpful. People who are incapable of doing any useful work abound in this and related fields, and employers suck at hiring, so case studies and testimonials are virtually the only sorting mechanisms with any value.

A bright engineer can learn to be dangerous with marketing in between 2 weeks and 6 months depending on the engineer and circumstances. (Some of the overlap of those two fields is commonly called growth hacking, but that isn't coextensive with the field. I am, personally, skeptical of the value-add of growth hackers who cannot, in fact, ship software when required to. My skepticism is not shared by at least some influential people who write about growth hacking frequently.)

If you can reproducibly print money on command with your skills, be they marketing/engineering or growth hacking, you should probably never work for free (working for "just shares" is working for free) and will probably find your specialty in absolutely stratospheric demand at the moment. Chargeout rates in the 5 figures per week are totally reasonable in the current environment.
I see how being one of the first, who succeeds leading the others is to hard to do for most people.

What i do not get is, why she does not use her flexibility as a weapon against the unfair system. She obviously planned to change it, why not attack from another angle? Why not consider switching to another university or even take the chance and visit another country. There must be a competent professor in organic chemistry with more divers graduates somewhere in the world, where she could have an unfair advantage.

Get a Phd there, gain superpowers, come back and defeat the evil villains.
I feel like that is not the point though. The analogy he made was fairly reasonable: people have fairly demanding (sometimes irrational) restrictions on who they decide to keep in their lives as friends. This is about that. Not about slavery. Not about mismanagement of a company.
"Indeed, Kristian Hammond, cofounder and CTO of Narrative Science, thinks some 90% of the news could be written by computers by 2030."

I think there's more to a reporters job than writing, in fact i'd say the writing part is maybe the smallest aspect when it comes to the most interesting stories.

Investigation, interviews, and general "experiencing the world" is required, and computers aren't ready to do that yet. I'd be surprised if they are by 2030 too.

Of course, it could be a sign of how far down the quality of news has fallen. That 90% of it is now formulaic. I guess I had hopes that these new sites that are popping up would becomes a trend in quality. Artisanal news as the hipsters might say.
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So, the advice given here is certainly practical and useful, but it's also wrong. Not wrong as in incorrect, but wrong as it's effectively steeling an opportunity from an individual (and you!) in order to appease a relationship with someone who views their employees as property.

The "thing" there is not the employee, but the opportunity.
Is it just me who doesn't see the sexism? This is the typical experience of every student regardless of gender, it is messed up but working harder doesn't defeat the system it validates it you should never let yourself be manipulated into working more than you wish or can without endangering your health or passion for the field.

Even if you choose to leave you don't have to give up on your passions.

I for one would never give up chemistry if i really loved it, sure it would be a lot harder without getting a PHD but who the hell cares I'm doing it for myself and will do whatever it takes to get what i want without endangering my health or love for the field.

If it takes me building my own lab and my own company to support my financial needs then so be it.
How about writing your own?

If you want an existing one, in a simpler browser, try Dillo or NetSurf.
AFAIK Every AAA game pays a flat rate per game (in the 100k-500k range), not the rev share. The rev share agreement would only be for indie / non-pros.

Based on industry knowledge, the AAA flat rate game licencing costs don't seem to be going down.

One reason might be that once you have a few Unreal engine / Cryengine games under your belt, the cost to switch engines is HUGE. You're basically locked in unless you want to re-hire / re-train the majority of your programmers.
This is great, much better than what my city offers: http://www.mbta.com/ I really don't know how a company literally focused on their customers being "mobile" can't have a decent mobile website.
Does that include witness tampering? One of the witnesses in the case was unable to appear in court because she was also mysteriously added to the no fly list.
It may be colluding, but the comment said it wasn't "about" colluding, which may also be true.
Then Catho, past companies where I worked and people I know are all liars?

The highest I was paid was 5k BRL as contractor (no 13, bonuses, overtime, etc...) and back then I was one of the highest paid persons of the company (that had about 50 programmers). I remember talking to other people and lots of people except DBAs and exotic language specialists working on IBM had also similar pays.
Out of all the things I learned working in marketing, this was one of the most shocking.

Many times, cool news about a particular company or a new products was written, verbatim, by the company itself.
I've switched couple weeks ago. I should say it's pretty stable.
Epic is still offering other licensing structures as needed/requested for their larger clients. I'm sure if you had a game explode and start selling millions of copies they would work with you to come up with a different licensing scheme so you weren't paying them millions (plural) of dollars, but possibly some smaller set amount and a smaller royalty.
what if... there's a middle ground?

If facebook was set on using media queries, im sure they would have kept the same general design but just optimised layout and spacing for different screen sizes.
Oh, I agree completely. Your last paragraph is exactly why this letter from the people who made Threes sound so particularly whiney. They have forgotten that they don't get to tell people how to enjoy themselves. Any parent who has watched their kids play with the cardboard box more than the toys that came in it will tell you that.

I don't think we can know why 2048 became so popular and Threes fell in its own shadow. Maybe it's a sign that open source and free as in freedom have finally registered with the general consumer on an emotional level, though I doubt it. If we knew for sure then we could make such better toys that the kids ignore the box.
We are now clearly in a world where many technology journalists are entirely unaware of the history of computing before the year 2,000 or so.
Do you realize how silly you sound?
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AND ANOTHER THING!!! Screw you Kurzweil. We're not going to "upload" our consciousnesses to the cloud/singularity. We're going to "copy" them. Once the Brain Project(1) is complete and MRIs get enough resolution and computing becomes cheap enough, we'll make neuron-per-neuron simulations of our brains. Those will be exact copies of us, but they won't be us. Our copies will live forever in the singularity, but us poor biological saps will continue to die just like we did before. I plan on hating my copy out of incredible envy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Brain_Project
Exactly. What makes up the identity of a person is not the physical substrate but the pattern of information stored.

But this is a tough bullet to bite, even for computer professionals.
It should be clear that taking money from your employees by denying them open choices in employment is unethical at any level. Having a multi-company cartel to do that is no less unethical and illegal than agreeing not to pay more than $X for processors or memory or LCD panels.
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poor poor Notch. Just a millionaire.....
He didn't say "90% of the job of reporters could be done by computers", he said computers will do the writing.
Ask HN: Is there an app that shares data only by geolocation
As in, I have to be in a radius of something in order to unlock a certain type of data. Does something like this exist?
Wonderful - must better than the old site and has what I want on the front page both on the desktop and my phone.
That's not really how the story goes, though. Intel spent a lot of effort on getting Itanium to succeed, and they really dragged their feet into x86-64. It was the market that decided that the price/performance of Itanium wasn't worth it.
If Servo works, most* of the Web will be parallel.

* This is probably too optimistic.
They've also started using open-source technologies like Node.js and javascript (must be typescript).

Microsoft is finally adopting open source with open arms.

source: http://inessential.com/2014/02/04/azure_takes_over
Great work both of you - genuinely improving things for us Tfl users is appreciated!
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This is an interesting concept. Are there any relevant studies/articles of this in practice, beyond the Anecdotal?
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I find that this is ridiculous and missed:

Unreal / Cryengine = 5% (Negative responses of high cost) But they actually provide the tools and are makers

Apple/Google = 30% for providing an app that lets you support their OS (What's an OS without Apps)
Is this actually possible? You couldn't change the original transaction without the private key, nor can you spend the results of it until it is in an accepted block chain block, no? Am I wrong?
a bit hard to complain about it being slow (#3) considering the enormous complexity involved, no?

It is if the original premise was to make Photoshop filters fast. A GPU can make my Photoshop filters fast now an FPGA implementation can make them fast 8 to 24 hours from now.
It seems to be more than just "Europeans". I got it a few days ago, a friend of mine several days before that. Both Germans in Germany, both browsing FB in English.
> ...and getting back to the health thing, it's kind of striking how many obese Indians are Brahmins, who may keep veg but like to slather everything in ghee (clarified butter).

Vegetarianism != Healthy. A diet high in protein/fat doesn't necessarily have a causal link with weight increase. The problem is eating beyond what your BMR/TDEE is. A large portion of Indian food is calorifically rich, e.g. bowls of rice and flat breads.
I'm running 12.04 with I7 Ivy Bridge HD4000 too and have no performance issues. Maybe it's op's hard drive? I'm running the system on an SSD and it's a night and day difference to the rotating equivalents.
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A 10" Shark prybar. They're under $20, and it's one of the most-used items in my toolbox.
Only real solution I know of is getting your data (it's JSON iirc) and using some parser to search through it.
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This article is terribly wrong except that it explains how otherwise intelligent people, advised by top-tier lawyers and employment compliance experts can go so wrong about a significant matter of law, ethics, and billions of dollars of the wage-earning economy in Silicon Valley.
I had a similar problem and the only way I could get myself going was by getting a schedule and sticking to it. I only allow myself a certain amount of time a day to do the things I consider unproductive and thats it. Of course it's good to have balance and allow yourself time to just waste it can be become a problem and in my case it did.

Try starting small. At least an hour today of no wasting time on unproductive activities. Then increase gradually.

Might also be a good idea to add obstacles to these activities such as hiding the icon for your browser in five different folders before you can open it, deleting the facebook app on your smartphone, or even packing away you video game consoles. While a completely different theme, a book called the happiness advantage has a chapter on adding obstacles to nudge yourself in the right direction.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Happiness-Advantage-Principles-Per...
Choosing 'fast walking' and 'routes with fewest changes' sort of worked, but it still shows a walking route which doesn't use the pedestrian-only bridge:

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/plan-a-journey/results?IsAsync=true&Jp...
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Any theorem / formula on its own cannot solve such complex problem.
Passion? I'm the same way. When I was a kid, coding 18 hours a day for weeks at a time wasn't a problem during summer vacations. Now, I have trouble with it. Full time job just DRAINS me, I don't want to do shit.

However, I discovered a passion. Illustration and UI/UX design for mobile. Every day after work I've been working an extra 8 hours because I found it so FUN.

So much so I have people working for me full time now and I'm quitting my job soon to follow my passion.

Maybe you haven't found your "calling" or something to get extraordinarily obsessed about?
This is the most insightful comment that I have ever read in HackerNews.
When you reduce your carbohydrate (direct source for Glucose) to something less than what can be supported by your body, it is going to rely on other sources of nutrients. I don't think my point disagreed with that. You are still going to lose weight.

The only way to verify this is to do large scale controlled experiments. So until that time, we are going back and forth on anecdotes.

Note: In the interests of disclosure, I would like to point that I have tried all three diets and successfully (kept that weight off for more than 3 years) lost weight.
As a UX designer, there are all kinds of reasons the design could have been unsuccessful, on small screens or just in general.

Media queries don't fix everything.
I am quite a user of imagemagick, or imagick in php. This is far more useful than Photoshop or Gimp when it comes to cropping images and applying basic filters such as a sharpen on thumbnail images. I also use Gd2.

You would be surprised at what can be done in code. You would also be surprised at how much of the stuff that can be done in code is done the time consuming way by people with expensive Photoshop rigs.

So, to a certain extend a lot of what you desire can already be done with code. However there is not one single 'graphic artist' degree where such possibilities could be entertained, plus programmers are not allowed to touch images under any circumstances whatsoever. There is a rift valley between programmers and graphic artists, a deep cultural one.
Fun factoid: His domain name is "kurzweilai", presumably standing for "Kurzweil AI", but it can also be read as "Kurz Weilai," where "weilai" means future in Chinese. For a moment there I thought he had hidden a Chinese pun in his domain name, but that might just be me overanalyzing.
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I think during the 70s LSD was being used to rehab alcoholics, it's a shame such practices and psychedelics in general are all illegal now.. but ignoring the law, from what I've read and personal experience, LSD works well too.