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+1 for Detroit - it is a great tech hub.
Cubicles are wicked expensive. Their price rose to almost that of building an office. Free market principle - charge what the market will support.

Now, you can re-use and re-configure cubicles, so that's often used as excuse to buy them. But moving them around is also expensive - rewiring, mechanical work, they're fragile to begin with.

So I call cubicles a dead loss to the bottom line. That's been my experience.
I'm not American, but it was my understanding that in the bad old days of the fights for civil rights, some politicians had the following stance: "I'm not racist, but I support the right of shopkeepers to who they want" (read: to white people only). Discrimination wasn't OK back then, discrimination is not OK now. Not that it has anything do do with the issue at hand, I'd be surprised if the majority of people arguing on this very forum against Eich didn't turn out to be straight.
git is a pain in the arse to get started with
A very good recap on how networking in Quake3 works without reliable packet delivery:

http://trac.bookofhook.com/bookofhook/trac.cgi/wiki/Quake3Ne...

Simple, yet robust.
It doesn't matter one bit if it's malice or inattention once your coins are gone.
I'm asking about the principles underlying this strange exclusion.

The principle is the Supreme Court's 1967 decision that marriage is a fundamental right.
In the end, both cultures (Western and East Asian) have their own deficits, their own things worth learning from each other. Both cultures are missing pieces of the same puzzle.

The Asians have focus, the ability to set and meet goals, but those goals are generally poorly considered - born of too harsh a worldview, too competitive, too zero-sum.

The Westerners on the other hand have the spark and energy that can produce great things, but focus among individuals is generally poor, and Western cultures fail to set and adhere to clear guidelines about good and bad behaviour.

Spark and focus. Neither lesson is worth much individually. Both failings produce their own forms of individual and social dysfunction. But if both cultures would combine their strengths, the result would be largely unstoppable.
Yeah, I certainly hope that doesn't happen. I just wanted to make something that makes the world ever so slightly better for a few people. It's too bad if those are the consequences of making something with good intentions, ya know?
This is highly likely to be true, and even if it's not, everyone should operate as if it's true. With the meteoric rise in price appreciation, I can't imagine the IRS at some point not requiring that the largest companies directly report users' income or capital gains to them. So don't be tempted to under-report your bitcoin gains. Similarly, the FBI and other money regulators have clearly shown their strong interest in stopping illegal activities conducted with Bitcoin, so I can't imagine them not receiving information from the largest companies and exchanges.

The allegation of a gag order is a bit odd, however. This should all be fairly obvious, so I'm not sure why anyone would want to keep it secret. Counting on the hubris and naivety of criminals, I guess?
It's a good start, but it may serve best to remind us of the limitations of basic technology. Instead of an X detector, what we have is an X detector detector. From a design perspective this is obviously odd.

On the other hand, in a sense it's a multi-detector, since in theory it should respond to detectors of many sorts. There are some upsides to that.
> a logical and candid MS employee

Richard Feynman's quote comes to mind. "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
This is nice. At my last job, we developed an extremely high performance HyperLogLog server (hlld). Take a look if you're interested:

https://github.com/armon/hlld

It processes over a 1MM ops per second on a basic MacBook Air. In production we saw it handle more. We never had to scale it over one server in order to handle millions of distinct metrics.

As an ad company, my last company had a ridiculous fanout of metrics for every request. Every ad serve API request (of which we got thousands per second) would fan out to over 150 metrics EACH. So for 1000 requests per second we'd have to modify 150,000 metrics. Raw SQL updates of course fall down with this (even if we tone back their durability). Instead, we opted for accumulated for 10 to 60 seconds in bloomd and hlld and statsite, then aggregating and doing a single bulk SQL update. Worked incredibly well.

We used it in combination with bloomd: https://github.com/armon/bloomd Bloomd is another super high performance data structure server, but this time for bloom filters.

You can read the READMEs to learn why they're better for their specific tasks. Both have been running in production for 2+ years. If you're not going to be using the data structures that much then Redis is a good choice. We personally used these servers alongside Redis for k/v.
They've only been "stale and dormant" for those not paying attention. Microsoft suffers from a reputation that's celebrating it's 10th birthday, at least.

Check out ASP.Net sometime, and see some of the innovations they've been making over the last 5 years and you'll see why Guthrie is still superman in a red shirt.
I was with you right up to the Ad Hominem attack.
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My thoughts exactly. Also, you can send some data reliably (e.g., a new character model) and other data unreliably on the the same SCTP association.
This is so useful. I am an extremely deep sleeper - when I do that is - who never hears his multiple alarms. God bless you.
It also depends on a coherent structure in HTML websites.

Domains running websites which are more like javascript frontend modules shouldn't be scraped at all, it screams for a public API.
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Great idea. OP: Why not allow the app to use the camera flash as well? I (am not deaf) would prefer to have it on my desk so it can actually listen rather than under a pillow where I'm more likely to knock it out of reach
There is absolutely no reason for a restaurant to pay 2.9% of their revenue for payment processing. Their total profit margin is probably around that much, so reducing the processing fee to 1% could potentially result in a very significant increase in profits for them. There is no necessity for insurance on a transaction like a restaurant bill.
Progressives have never given up their love of the struggle session:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struggle_session

Righteous anger is as American as apple pie. This is the same psychology you see behind witch hunts when Paul Graham said something non-orthodox about women in tech or encouraged foreign founders to work on accents.

Speaking of witch hunts, America was founded by Puritans and the apple hasn't fallen far from the tree.
As a consumer of the API, I can attest that the developers of HelloBlock have a put a lot of thought into the API. Developers of Bitcoin apps might find the Testnet faucet particularly useful: https://helloblock.io/docs/ref#faucet
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EDIT: Let me preface by saying, the fact that a person could be sued for creating an app that creates a solution where few or none existed is both utterly ridiculous and highly likely. Which is why I think...

...There needs to some kind of legislation/regulation on lawsuits. Perhaps, the plaintiff must pay the legal fees for the defendant upfront, up to a maximum of 5% of the desired damages being sought.

Example: If you want to sue for a $1 million, you have to pay up to $50K in legal fees for the defendant. If you win the case, the defendant's legal fees are tacked onto the damages that he must pay. If you lose the case, you lose all your money.

I think this would discourage many lawsuits from happening. Only those with true merit would be pursued.
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I'm at ACS Bucharest, in my second year. It's pretty bad here as well.

I suggest you finish your degree (nevermind the grades, just get a 5), and spend your free time learning what you're interested in. The good thing is that there are a lot of good internships available, especially in Bucharest (Adobe, Intel, Ubisoft etc.). You can find them on stagiipebune.ro (check out VMware in Bulgaria, too).
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One side note - what the protocol is on the wire and how you're using it are not quite the same thing. With regard to head-of-line, in principle you can look at later TCP packets before a dropped packet comes in. Of course, correcting framing may be expensive or impossible, and (more importantly, for most applications) if the OS is handling TCP for you you'd have to find some way to cajole it into passing those packets to you.
Are you seriously suggesting that people should be tolerant of intolerance? And are you really bemoaning the fact that it is becoming less socially acceptable to be a hateful bigot in public?

Or is this satire? I genuinely can't tell.
This is probably old news, but if you haven't already read Steve Blank's Vistors Guide to Silicon Valley, i'd recommend it before your trip.

http://steveblank.com/2011/02/22/a-visitors-guide-to-silicon...
My girlfriend is partially deaf in one ear, so sometimes she will oversleep if she is lying on her good ear. A while back I built her an Arduino-powered alarm clock that uses a servo to repeatedly poke her with a foam finger (those big hands you wear at football games). It was a shoddy prototype, but the cool part was it synchronized with her iCal calendar.

So, to answer your question, some [partially] deaf people use a makeshift Arduino robot that is duct taped to the wall next to their bed.
What basis do you have for this statement? 'Sounds like' and 'i don't think' are not very convincing.

Any reliance on an app such as this is going to be at the risk of the user. This is a tool for assistance and is not in anyway a replacement for standard emergency protocol.
It IS possible for them to be separate

No it is not.It would be like saying people that are against interracial marriage may not be racist. They are RACIST plain and simple, since race is an issue for them.
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Personally it seems to me that much of this is going to be game protocol dependent. I'd like to read some articles by game developers giving examples of their protocol and where UDP was useful and where multiple tuned TCP connections wouldn't have been enough.

Also, my understanding is we live in a buffer-bloated world where packet loss due to congestion is avoided at all costs with the exception of latency. In such cases non-TCP traffic still suffers horrific latency rather than being sanely dropped.

Thirdly, I'm not sure I buy the "Not all networks pass UDP" line. I'd like to think most players will be behind home routers that will NAT UDP traffic correctly, and you get the added advantage with UDP of being able to do hole-punching. Afaik you can't do hole-punching for TCP streams, which means requiring users to set-up forwarding rules themselves (Assuming their router doesn't support UPnP... sigh).
Vibrating for it to wake you means you need to keep it close to your body. I wonder what health implications it may have -- In general its really bad to have a cell phone touching your body for prolonged periods of time because of the radiation it emits.
Email or IM also has the benefit that it is still there half an hour later. "Did he say a or b?" Just scroll back.
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At this point I would not trust Coinbase, their engineering department shows that they have very little clue when it comes to building a secure infrastructure.

Not only they are not rate limiting and leaking names, their
implementations are simply laughable.

With a proper design, customer should have been allowed to either enable/disable that end-point when somebody is searching for their email, or there should have been an option to have a 'whitelist' a set of users/user that are able to look up that information and make a transaction request.

On top of that, they should have been able to detect a pattern such as this attack and pro-actively block it.

This would pass for a to-do app API but Coinbase? Wow.
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Yeah you have to recapitulate some TCP semantics to use UDP effectively. Packet numbering (so you can catch out-of-order packets). Dice-and-reassemble. Congestion control.

But the good news is, you CAN do those things yourself. And avoid the TCP lockups, slowdowns and endless retransmissions.
I have a deaf friend: she puts her cellphone under her (thin) pillow to feel vibration instead of hearing sounds
I'm quite happily self-employed at the moment, but good grief - if I wasn't, this is exactly the kind of thing I'd love to read if I was seeking a new challenge. Kudos for your clearly serious commitment to openness, and even more for not filling the "what we want" section with fluff. People who are happy to say "we'd love to be better at this, could you help us in some way?" are the most fun and rewarding to work with (and I'm lucky that I usually do).

Good luck!
I had a similar thought. Less about the regulation, more about liability.

If I'm deaf and I pay for an app to tell me when an alarm is sounding, I have a certain expectation that it has been rigorously tested and will work without fail. And I'm a software engineer who understands the limitations and failure modes of such applications on non-real-time, commodity kit.

Please be extra careful about how you market this. I absolutely applaud your ingenuity, but I'd feel differently if I found out my elderly, hard of hearing gran was relying on any app on her smartphone to wake her if she left the stove on and went to bed.

I expect a proportion of your customers may be less technical users (or well-meaning relatives) with little understanding of the limitations and risks.

However, it is indeed an interesting idea. There may already be something on the market, but what about developing it into a physical device running on dedicated hardware? Crowd-fund an "alerter badge" or pin or whatever, and budget heavily for testing & verification. You could be onto a winner.

EDIT: Please don't be put off altogether by the comments. It's simply that non-real-time, non-failsafe smartphones aren't built for life-critical applications like this. The idea isn't a bad one - you're just targeting the wrong platform.
Moai is just... terrible.

I work with Lua-based engines on my startup, and right now the "winner" is Gideros.

Corona is also good (But has several issues that made me use Gideros for the current project, but all currently done projects were made with Corona).

Corona is going for HTML5, I hope Gideros can do something like that soon too.
I would really like to see a citation for that!
It's hard to believe that it's not the case. I mean - why wouldn't the DOJ take an interest?
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Just interesting, how many emails do you get per post?

I have a feeling that getting any reply from you will be like a winning a lottery (thus, I've never applied so far).
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This will no longer be the case once you can use WebRTC data channels. Its just a matter of making sure your server can support the protocol.
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Aside from being a little warmer, the radiation has no effect on you.
Someone should market bitcoin to women. From a cursory review of that list of names, women don't seem to be signing up. Missing half the market...
Great idea for an app! I sleep with earplugs occasionally and I can see myself using your app in that situation. That said, I've been wondering lately if using earplugs often is a healthy thing to do in the long run. I couldn't find any pertinent research about non-professional users.

Edit: phrasing.
Haha, yep. It'll wake you up if you're close enough to a jackhammer or if you're sleeping on a railroad, too. Don't try that at home :p
seriously, these people complaining about april fools are probably the ones telling others to change the station if they don't like the violence from their favorite breaking bad characters, yet can't follow their own advice when it comes to the internet
Usually that's for state messages. The kind of message that defines the meaning of subsequent messages. Like codec parameters, or framing data or something.
Why would you assume any of that? Do you put blind faith in companies as a rule, or has something about coinbase particularly enchanted you?
Well, consider what went into assembling that 24TB of content, and follow it from there.

Each movie cost something like, well, let's just ballpark $10M average (the >$200M blockbusters are relatively rare, balanced by old & cheap filler content made down around $1M each). Lead article notes Netflix has 8900 movies. Round both up sensibly, and we're looking at $100B to create the content.

Netflix has some 44M subscribers. Assuming all that content was made for & paid by Netflix subscribers, that's $2272 per subscriber. 8-O

Talmand SWAGged the storage hardware cost at $1000. Storage prices being what they are, that will be $300 in a year or so.

Would you pay $2500 to own, in a box the size of a pack of cards, the entire Netflix library? With updates (package deal, you get 'em all as they're made to cover production costs) of every movie added thereafter for $0.25 each? Could we persuade the entire 44M Netflix subscribers to sign up?

Not sure what to do with those numbers, but they're fascinating.
> Honestly, if you don't understand that the civil and legal concepts are "political concepts" delegated to the legislature, its not worth debating this any further.

Let's not then.

> And yeah there are plenty of ways to be a bully without breaking the law.

Your point?

> to be a bully on some murky bit of special interest politics is in poor form.

It's poor form to defend one's opinion that being intent on curtailing people's civil rights and equality before the law makes one a bad fit for CEO of an organisation priding itself on openness, inclusiveness and opportunity? But it's OK to give money towards the curtailing of a minority's civil rights, that's not bullying or in poor form?

> is not an excuse for dis-proportionate behaviour.

Ah so criticising people for attempting to curtail other people's civil rights is "disproportionate behaviour" now. I live and learn.
Not necessarily disagreeing with you, but doesn't everyone (or at least the solid majority) keep their cells in their pockets? Close to er..."important" parts of your body?

Sleeping 8 or more hours next to it is just going to compound the issue, but this is already something people don't seem to care that much about...at least in practice.
Ah, thanks for the clarification. Is that just a way to tell where someone's affiliation might be or why they may donate to a particular cause?
I do understand why nobody would want to target Hydrogen directly, but here's a Hydrogen IR inspector tool: http://mrale.ph/irhydra/1/#ir
Will Bitcoin eat itself?
Use the tools suitable for the task. There are a lot of those "simple" sites and I'm pretty sure a lot of people will stick to those "dated" methods of building sites, because search traffic still matters.
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