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> I don't think they have an image of high quality software either, they do some amazing things and bring killer features, but I harldy heard anyone being loyal to Adobe itself.

Having worked with designers I'm going to disagree. For most designers Photoshop or Illustrator are the only tools they'll even consider using because they're so much more powerful than the competition. That's changing a little with things like Pixelmator, but even then people have to learn a new workflow after decades of using Photoshop.
I wondered if anyone would mention this. I love those features, and without having a separate meta-key for GUI commands, Apple wouldn't have been able to do it. It's something I really appreciate when running Terminal.app as well; cmd does stuff with the GUI, and ctrl does what you'd expect in the terminal. There are no additional modifiers or quirks to deal with like there tend to be in Windows and Linux.
AA is absolutely being used in the gaming press, particularly to distinguish mid-sized decently-funded (eg, Kickstarter'd) studios from proper indie games.

I doubt you'll find many instances of "AAA" in press releases either. It's an industry term, not intended for the general public.
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Towerfall is also on the PS4.
He compares it only to the PlayStations but in my experience the Kinect with an Xbox makes it a pretty good party console. One day at work, we had everyone including 60+ year old women who never played a video game have fun with some of the Kinect motion games. I can't imagine the learning curve for them to even press a couple of buttons on a controller.

The updates take long on any console though, so I wouldn't blame the Ouya, especially with its weak controller. The biggest problem Ouya has now is that it's competing with Xbox360 and the PS3 on price. You can used ones for around $100 to $150 and they have vast libraries of games.
The FIFA equivalent (which was how I learned the game with my roommate who was very good at it) is that the more skilled person picks a lower-ranked team and the new player gets their pick of any team. The difference in maneuverability between teams is enough to even most odds, at least after one or two games of getting used to the controls.
Please don't be surprised if I pull out my computer at dinner and begin handling some of my email. I have difficulty hearing when there is noise; at dinner, when people are speaking to each other, I usually cannot hear their words. Rather than feel bored, or impose on everyone by asking them to speak slowly at me, I do some work.

Wow, I would find that really weird. I hope everyone at his dinners get to read that notice beforehand.
Shameless plug time! After Google shut down free plan on GAFD I've created http://improvmx.com/ - a quick way to set up a catch-all address on your new domain. It doesn't have send capabilities or distinct inboxes, but it's super easy to get going and by the time you need proper email features you are better off paying someone to handle your email anyway.
It's quite simple; net neutrality represents regulations on business. Republicans are anti-(business)-regulation, believing that a completely free market will deliver the best result to consumers. Of course, in this case that disregards the reality of 80 years of telecom monopolies (and derivative companies thereof,) i.e. mammoth established players with a history of playing dirty to stomp all others out of the marketplace; it is possible that in a blank slate scenario that regulation-less competition would lead to a good result for consumers, but even that is not a foregone outcome. In short, market idealism.
Don't bite the noobs.

@OP: I believe it's just a script kiddy trying to see if your site search is vulnerable to any boundary check/conversion issue.
It's not like the Wii never needed any firmware updates either.
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More context would be useful to know exactly what kind of algorithm you need.

In our game we use a bounding ellipse to limit the A* traversal with the actors current position and the target position as the focal points.

If a pathfind fails, we still move towards the closest square that we found to the goal.

When the two points are far away from each other the ellipse is long and thin which causes the paths to be very direct. As the current position and target position get closer the ellipse turns in to more of a circle meaning that the pathfinder will discover more indirect routes should they be needed to get to the final goal.

So this means that entities will tend to move in direct paths when they are far away (even if they don't actually know if they will be able to complete the path yet) and then discover an actual route around blocking obsticals as they get closer.

Because long and thin ellipses tend to really constrain the number of nodes that will be considered, it works pretty well to speed up the A* searches.
The British Government had DMs, that's what they sold trying to keep their currency at fixed rate. You say they should have kept Deutschmarks to sell them later for what? For depreciated sterling pounds? It doesn't make sense, the only thing that a government has plenty of is its own currency. Governments are "rich" in their own printed stamps, the challenge is to keep those stamps valuable. That's what the British Government was trying to do.
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I find this phenomenon very interesting. I mean, obviously, you won because you did right things. You would have lost if you didn't. By definition, handicap should be set so that you have an even chance of winning.

This may be a cultural thing? In Go, handicap is a normal part of the game and everybody (but see below) is fine with using it. In Chess, people seem to detest handicap and insist on even game.

I live in South Korea, and I visited US Go club when I travelled there, and I was extremely surprised to find that some Go players there insisted on even game. Why would they do that? I mean, if you normally need 4 stones handicap in Go, you have exactly zero chance to win without handicap. What fun is that?
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Instantly thought of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_7kg5ZzDZo
Interesting but flawed in many ways:

>Think of the automobile, which for all of its obvious advantages, has poisoned our air, choked our cities

I'm not sure that the smell of horse shit before the automobile was much better than car's pollution..

> The printing press gave the Western world prose, [cut]. It gave us inductive science, but it reduced religious sensibility to a form of fanciful superstition.

That's a drawback???

> If you should propose to the average American that [cut] that there should be no television commercials, he will think the idea ridiculous.

In France we have no television commercials in the evening on the public channels, the average French didn't find this idea ridiculous (though there was a debate as this obviously has also drawbacks) and I don't think that the average French is much different than the average American (short of being less religious and less "patriotic").

Plus when he write "That is why we must be cautious about technological innovation." he destroy it just after "The consequences of technological change are always vast, often unpredictable and largely irreversible.", how can we be cautious about technological innovation when its consequences are unpredictable??
FINALLY!

What else can we say?
One thing to remember is that the Soros bet was available because the currency was pegged. Everyone (in the west) has learned that to be a bad thing, in part because of this particular bet.

The US has not pegged their currency. They've made other currency policy decisions under the hope that the US currency can handle the debasement (and so far they have proven true).

Remember that when you short a currency, you also are taking a position about all the other currencies in the world. So rather than say you don't like US dollars you need to say, I prefer X to US dollars and think they aren't currently trading at the right ratio (and if you are shorting you have to account for a very expensive transaction cost).

So rather than asking what the play against the US dollar is, ask which currency you prefer. The international markets do this everyday and so far they haven't found a very compelling alternative.
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NYTimes Cost -
All Digital = 8.75 a week ($455 yearly)
NYTimes.com + Tablet = 5.00 a week ($260 yearly)
NYTimes.com + Smartphone = 3.75 a week ($195 yearly)

I can't afford that. $35 a month for news is tooo much.
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Believe me - plenty of us have choice opinions about the Lords.

It is difficult to do much about them when you have a duopoly on elected government, and a big part of both parties' power-broking is doling out lordships to a) their former notable MPs/ministers and b) their mates. The lords suit the commons just fine. Even more so since Blair's reforms, which increased the number who were purely cronies, relative to the decrepit remnants of the landed aristocracy (which only benefited the Tories).
... most people just ignore posts like this. I was trying to helpfully redirect the OP to somewhere they could get a real answer, and you come down on me for this?
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I think we have to differentiate between two things: structure and writing on the one hand, demands and requirements on the other hand.

You probably won’t find many people who wouldn’t agree that the writing could be significantly tidied up (mostly to remove all the explanations and reasons – it’s ok to just have a list of demands and requirements without always explaining why something is this way or that way) and the document could be better structured.

However, the demands, while quirky, don’t seem to unreasonable to me.
Makes a lot more sense, yes. Thanks for this.

I do have to ask how realistic this is. It makes sense for places that do have multi language versions. So "Etats-Unis" for the US, when in French, makes total sense.

But does translating the Mission to "Quartier de la Mission" make sense? It makes me go "errrr?".

To put it another way, taking the ever present UK "High Street" as an example. I'd expect to see this as "High Street" regardess of language and not as "Grande Rue" because no one ever says this of uses it.

So yes, I think passing the locale to the service makes a lot of sense. Supporting those places which have multi language versions makes a lot of sense too. Translating all place names to a specific language makes less sense.

Or am I missing the point? It's always probable.
Well, the British Empire certainly has blood-stained hands, but that's sort of irrelevant to the discussion here (and what country/empire doesn't?)
I tried to make it as casual as possible. We got some nice coffee from the coffee shop down the road, brought it into a meeting room and spent about 45-60 mins going through the commit history on some of our projects.

We kinda lucked out with the idea. Some of the managers were adamant that all teams have a team meeting, with one of the "managers" sitting in, mainly because our technical manager had left and we were kinda self-governing in what we needed as developers. The regular meetings were a waste of time so we turned it into a code review meeting. Since it was a small company it was just developers and one of these managers, and the second the code talk started they couldn't wait to get out of the room.

Initially, I tried to steep the code review, but it worked best when we'd just go through our commit history, pull down some code and run it there and then from our "QA server" (a VM running off of one of the company file servers). I was very keen to make sure that it was a light-hearted meeting, so we'd demo the code, explain our thinking behind our implementation and just generally talk about whether we'd do things differently. Having a PHP guy involved was actually quite fun, because we were keen to treat it as if we'd learn something new by how "the other half" do things. We'd pick up on the differences between the code structure and talk about how we'd apply SOLID principles to that PHP code. One of the big breakthroughs in that meeting was getting this guy to adhere to the Single Responsibility principle in his code. Once the structure started to break down he'd be working extremely hard to better his code.

It'll need adjusting for your environment, for sure. This office was really stuffy, and aside from the odd manager and the MD many of the managers tried their hardest to be assholes. The process worked quite well, but I think the best part about it was that for an hour you could talk about code, have a nice coffee, and not be bitched at by managers that weren't even responsible for your area.
Code here: https://github.com/rescrv/libmacaroons
I don't know whether this is still the case, but last time I looked into MailChimp they appeared extremely conservative/paranoid regarding spam. There seemed to be dire warnings all over the place about how anyone doing anything they didn't like would get banned. I wonder whether they once got stuck on a lot of blacklists after a bad customer abused their system, maybe some time in their early days when they were trying to establish credibility, and this (perhaps understandably) led to a policy of shooting first and not asking a lot of questions even later.
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Re. 1: At the same time we had the Acorn 'Unicorn'. Amiga was a nice machine for its day but there were other good machines besides. The biggest factor that did the Amiga in is imo 'CDTV'.

Re. 2: looks like superior tech lost to greed.

Re. 3: I never felt that my typing speed was the limiting factor in my productivity.
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yeah, makes sense. what you are saying sounds like this "http://nyti.ms/1i1l7f9" or retro reports "http://nyti.ms/1lwoYPh" that they have been trying, i think.
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It would have been depending on how long I let it run but somewhere in the region of 36-40 months. Maybe more TBH.
Where did I say I believed it was up to a Greek Political Party to endanger the whole Eurozone?

I said I believed they would. I didn't say that it was up to which implies moral positioning.

Them leaving was absolutely certain. Tsiparis was quite clear in his intentions and he had the popular mandate. There was very few things the other European countries could have done to prevent Syriza following through on their pledge.

The precedent already existed with Iceland. If you refuse to pay out monies owed, very few nations or trade bodies can compel you to actually cough up. No one was proposing a land invasion of Greece and the fire-sale of assets was practically complete.

You have strayed into several massively complex issues with your response.

[1] Should a sovereign nation be allowed to enter and exit treaties when they wish/populace demands it?

[2] If sovereign nations vote not to honour an agreement can external nations compel them to do so?

[3] Does Greece have a larger responsibility to the unity of the European Union?

[4] Would Tsiparis have followed through on his claims?

I believe the answer to 4 is yes. My description of my trading activity did not talk about points 1-3 so I have no idea why you have brought those issues up. Either way, we will never know and I lost money. <shrug> Personally I still think the Euro is doomed but if I am honest that is because of what I read, not really any great insight of my own. I have no PHd in Economics.
Texinfo manual. Written in a much less terse style than the single-page cheat-sheet that manpages are supposed to be. :-)
if they have Google's OCR tech, it would have been much better than it is. Wonder if Google ever thought about making a cloud OCR api product. it would align with their goals.
I'm sorry, I misread your intent as flaming. Just had a couple of idiots in an IRC channel flaming upon noobs, I overreacted :/
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> but they are still selling information about you to other parties

citation needed
Student interns also want to get paid. Is that going to be a part of this formula? Or is it just looking for free work in students?
Isnt PICO (picocms.org) a good fit for this list ?
Verio was a player. The largest by some measures. Then they exercised an option to force NTT to buy them out when the tech stock market tanked and have barely been heard from since.

* I was in the first wave of NTT/Verio lay-offs.
This is why certain games hide the "handicap" from the users, such as mario kart. It has quite a lot of rubberbanding but since it's hidden and unnoticeable for most players they don't mind.
I'm the author of Phoenix. I'm glad to hear you're giving it a look! I spent a lot of time thinking about the WS layer and fallback support. Ultimately I settled for standard WS with a small multiplexing layer on top. For those that need fallback, they can drop in websocket-js (flash fallback, compatible with native WS api). Have you taken at look at this for your fallback support?
https://github.com/gimite/web-socket-js

Phoenix is still far from 1.0, so any and all feedback is welcome.
I remember that one of BeOS's primary shortcomings compared to current mainstream systems is that it's essentially single-user.

Has this been tackled in Haiku?
I didn't mean to imply that Singapore had a smaller government. But Singapore and Hong Kong definitely have governments where, once the leaders decide to do something, it happens. If it's what you wanted to happen, great. If it inconveniences you, too bad.

How could any putative problems in broadband deployment not be because of some difference in governance? I don't mean this as a "government sucks" rant (although that could definitely be the problem, as 'rayiner mentions FiOS being used as a social justice issue, of all things). But there are lots of rich people in dense areas who would be willing to pay money for the service. NYC's government must be doing something wrong (whether it's over-regulation or under-regulation or mis-regulation).
Do you have any gigapixel panoramas that you'd like to share? I work at a visualization lab with a 328 megapixel display. These images would be breathtaking on it.
So why isn't internet an utility?
That's a previous century.

This century's trade of the century so far might be John Paulson shorting various mortgage securities during the financial crisis.
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1. While the Amiga was ahead of Apple in some ways, there was a reason people bought the Macintosh. It was a better user experience for most people.

2. NeXT would have been considered the "Fantastic technology that was never appreciated" if everyone would have went with BeOS. And do you really think that the Be experience would have been the one that survived to OSX?

3. QWERTY being designed to slow people down is a myth long since debunked. Further, as i understand it, Colemak is the way to go today. Why is everyone sticking with Dvorak? :)
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So the title says it all really. I've been building Airwalk Design for a while now, improving the UX any way I can, and it's been continuously receiving 5 stars from our beta testers. I was wondering what you guys thought? Yay or nay?

I'm hoping this could be big, it's certainly on its way.
The guide pages (e.g. [1]) are continually reloading for me. Maybe it's refreshing once per image load, or something, but I don't have the patience to wait. It did not reload continuously until I allowed JS on the page, which I did because JS is required to load images. Something seems broken.

Firefox 29.0.1 on Linux.

[1] https://www.takeitapart.com/guide/72
No, still single user. Though as a straight desktop system that's never really worried me personally... I do remember someone saying they had begun tackling it, but I could be making that up.
Sounds reasonable on the face of it. Are you proposing to build a service to do this matching?
that depends. to pay students I would need to source funding too. that is doable but does add another level of barrier to get things going. I'll probably start with finding unpaid to get a few batch going, gain momentum, then if all is well, we can start looking for funding.
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And a way to get the DATA.

I'm building a POS app for the invoice. One of the main requirements (self impose) is that the data is local-first and sync with the cloud. THIS point is one of the hardest to implement for me, and I still have not figured how do it well.

But still can't release this app without this. I believe that have a exit strategy for the app data is too important (the data is stored in a sqlite database, with decent naming and very simple structure).
Well, he did say "It doesn't really matter if it gets stuck".
Don't read TL;DR, the report is actually interesting and applicable on a lot of projects / startups
The chess/go difference in accepting handicaps may be due to chess's culture of memorization & opening study. Also since in chess all the pieces begin the game on the board (rather than players alternating placing stones) if you it's hard to reconcile that any deviation from the standard game (e.g. removing pieces as a handicap) "doesn't look like chess."
Yet again, Thatcher showed her intelligence and foresight by opposing the ERM. There's a reason many people in Britain referred to it as the Eternal Recession Mechanism.

It is a shame bordering on a national disgrace that so many people don't know of actions like that, or indeed, her being one of the biggest proponents of lean-burn technology that would yield several times the fuel efficiency of modern cars but has since been all but abandoned[1]. She saw climate change as a future issue before any other politician, but was unable to act given the conditions of the time. Instead, she is best remembered for the collapse of the coal industry, something that was inevitable in any case, but she simply refused to subsidise it to keep it staggering along for another couple of years.

Not only this, but she was responsible for Britain winning one of the few post-WW2 wars fought by the West against anything close to an equally well equipped foreign power.

[1]http://iaindale.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/margaret-thatcher-cli... http://conceptual-reflections.w43w.com/1036/unleaded-paintin...
Greed? *shrugs, this was in the 90's. I don't think that's greed, just a difference on what two parties believed it was worth.
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The distribution costs have nothing to do with maintaining the content itself, and given that pirates apparently manage to distribute content for free, the necessity of those costs becomes highly questionable.

Indeed, these costs are artificially imposed by the streaming model which is used, despite its inefficiency, to control consumption.
Deployments using source control probably aren't wise for most cases -- the index, for the most part, is always growing.
I'm ok with paying for one or two news sites just to keep the ads out, but extra $ for the tablet version is a joke.
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