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Yes, clients will delay payments for their attorneys. I accidentally did that to mine after we sold our chump consultancy. For like, 5 months! Guess how upset my attorney was?

For that matter: guess what my chump consultancy does? You can click my profile and find my company pretty easily. How safe does it sound to stiff us on payments? And yet it happens all the time, to everyone, because that's how business works. It's why big consultancies have people in charge of invoicing, rev rec, and receivables.
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I think you're being a tad melodramatic. I think this guy should be held accountable because he did wrong. The 2 years of probation he got feels reasonable.
> Cool software that makes money (game development) doesn't pay very much.

Your thinking must be stuck in the last century. By the time I entered the game industry 13 years ago, salaries were already on par with the software industry at large. My first full-time position was in 2003 and paid $85,000/year. Based on the numbers I've seen, game programmers currently earn significantly more than web developers with an equivalent amount of experience, despite the wage-inflationary effect of the VC money faucet.

The coolness factor used to play a greater role. I would say it still affects the supply side for QA, design and very entry-level positions in programming. For programmers with any level of competency and experience, its role is negligible.
I'm not sure I understand how they did this. Did the residents' money go to building the local network for the village? Who provides the backbone? I just wonder how applicable this might be to small towns in the U.S.
What part of inviting a criminal you've gathered significant recorded evidence against (eg, their own telephone confession) to a place you can arrest him do you think violates due process?
I agree that the methodology is somewhat suspect to say the least, but I also think that the impulse that leads folk to try and practice magic is more or less the same as the impulse that leads them to try and study science and which route you take is more often than not an accident of culture.

There are many examples other than Newton of scientists who were heavily involved in trying to do magic. Go look up the founder of the JPL and noted Thelemite occultist Jack Parsons, for instance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons_%28rocket_engineer...
There are lots of alternatives, but none of them involve signing up for a web service and not installing any software.

And no, I don't think Lavabit was likely to have been safer than Gmail. Lavabit doesn't have one of the industry's best security teams and largest software security budgets trying to make sure there aren't horrible vulnerabilities in it.
It's not marginally better, it's significantly better in some areas. There were massive improvements on some benchmarks like speech recognition and image classification.

It's not another machine learning algorithm, it's a feature learning algorithm. You can feed raw pixels into an SVM, but you aren't taking advantage of the structure of the data at all.
Personal anecdotal evidence: I disagree. It's simple.

I met a former USMC drill instructor who at 45 was 4% bf and could bench several times his weight. He told me he exercised 5 minutes a week (one for another discussion) and ate at McDonald's every day.

I grew up in France eating "organic" and plenty of veggies and so on and I was intrigued by the idea that "what" didn't matter, only "how much". I thought I'd give it a shot, and ate McDonald's for one or more meals a day, keeping the total around 1300 kcal/day, and each meal below 400 kcal. I still remember the look a friend gave me as I ate 1/3 of an avocado bacon thickburger from CJ and chucked the other 2/3 into the bin.

I lost 7kg in 8 weeks starting at 35% bf. I also increased the weights on big machines (leg press, bench, weighted pull up) by around 20% during that time. Felt perfectly healthy throughout, and mostly not hungry. I also exercised around 10 minutes once a week, walked around 100m a day to and from work and otherwise spent the time sitting. I might do it again this time with a health checkup before and after to get some hard data.

Looking back at the papers, books and other "evidence" I read, I found it very hard to find any that controlled for calorific consumption. I want to see a study that goes, for example, paleo vs McDonald's, at equal kcal/day, hydration and meal timing. I want to see the variance not explained away by simple calories in/out.
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You need to cut off oxygen long enough for the rock to cool below the temperature at which the gas will ignite.
I used chef for years without getting past the really confused stage.
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Could you verify that you are who you really say you are? And sorry for not knowing what you're associated with, a Google search for your name isn't very helpful in find out who you are. What relation do you have with the TrueCrypt devs?

EDIT: I also didn't realize that you had replied to my original comment, sorry about that.
I think you're being downvoted because your comment was basically offtopic and inflammatory, not because you dared to break some kind of taboo. I'm not at all religious, and your comment annoyed me also for its obviousness and vague smugness.

Anyway, there's some schools of thought which consider religion to be a necessary evil for pre-scientific organisation, so I'm sure enlightened future scholars will be studying religion's phases from its medieval heyday through to its current last hurrahs with interest.
Well, lying about your true intent. It's not like he knew he was going to be arrested.
After that teaser intro, was hoping the article would've shed a statistical beam on the 2006 cheating allegations against Kramnik.
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Yes, I think aiming for the 99.9th percentile is a good target -- for reasonable-sized cities, that gives you a large enough segment to ensure that students have age peers, while being selective enough that the kids in the 99.99th percentile are likely to have at least some intellectual challenge.
I don't know much about the broadband market, but i feel the future will be wireless highspeed internet. In many regions LTE/4G already reach very decent speeds with low latency, the main problem is insane traffic costs and probably not enough infrastructure to support many clients. But the technology is already there isn't it ? Or will companies always want wired highspeed internet ?
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> I don't have a black and white view, I just don't buy "I was bored and clever" as a justification for breaking the law.

What is "the law", for who and by whom they are created for?

We need to first realize that there are no such a thing as "The law", and the limits of right and wrong are pretty shady if you think we live in a world that is multicultural and multi-subjective with several different realities and values, all of them valid in their own context..

For me "The law" here, which we supposed that are controlled by the state in our own interests, are actually serving corporate interests.. the same ones the US(at least the people) now are fighting against in cases like the net neutrality..

Whatever "The Law" is, it must serve their own people, and care if the execution of the law are being effective not only for the society in general, but also for the people being convicted by it..

In that context, we need to ask, why "the american society" represented by "the law" thought that kid was a risk to them, in a way he should be in prison for it..

The other aspect is , the culture and the companies created in american soil have to right to use the american law to put a german kid in jail

What values are you defending, when you put a kid the way they did in prison? what this gonna do with the kid? destroy his life? sure!! for what? this kid did marketing to HL2 for free!! Valve made millions of it!!

I think it didnt work for the society in general and less so for the kid.. really America scares me(as a outsider), sometimes the same way a country where i would be in doubt about my human rights being respected.. because of things like this...

I think this is not something to be proud of, but ashamed
> I think the choice of language for these tools matters
> a lot

I read the post, and still don't know _why_ you think it matters, when comparing two data-interchange languages.
For example, I'm working on http://www.Learneroo.com to teach programming and more online, and would be interested in a solution to run user code online (with Docker), among other things.
> However, I am under the impression that the schedule seems to have slipped a couple times for when later courses will be offered,

I don't think it has; I don't have the original dates written down, but I remember them as originally all late 2014 through 2015, which is still where they all fall, so I don't think there's been much change.

> and the fee structure may have changed,

I don't think the fee structure has as much changed as been defined.
Yes! One of my little frustrations with Rails is that most configuration is done in Ruby, but then every now and again you're supposed to configure something with YAML, and then even weirder, some YAML files are actually implicitly interpreted as erb. It's weird and I'm not sure what the point is.
Are you sure about that? After 1 1/2 years in web development I am making significantly more than all of my game developer friends (even 2x some).
Before I get bombarded here, I think it's best to clarify that the word blogspam is a term thrown around a lot around here.

When the press talks about an academic paper, they tend not to add much value in terms of actually explaining what's going on. I think people drawing their own conclusions from the original works is the better way to go. Obviously not everyone will agree with me here, but so be it.
Merging is one possibility, but the other is just collaborating or trading certain tasks.
You're right. That would be "interesting". Perhaps even "May you live in interesting times".[1]

It's definitely a wildcard.

The last time it was "threatened" is over 100 years ago. According to Wiki, Congress then passed [2] the 17th amendment:

for fear that such a convention—if permitted
to assemble—might stray to include issues above
and beyond just the direct election of U.S. Senators

It's sad that each and every state has to maintain at least the pretense of a balanced budget, and yet the Federal government is utterly incapable of doing so. I wonder how different things might be if the 17th amendment never was ratified, if each state's Senators were still directly appointed by each state legislature? Would the states be able to more effectively check the growth of Federal power?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_tim...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Five_of_the_United_Stat...
That's awesome. I came upon the exact same calculation in college and started eating Pop-Tarts a lot from the vending machine. Even to this day, I comparison shop taking $/calorie into account (recently decided to buy one brand of dried noodles over another because of this).
Please stop RESTfully abusing HTTP
What happens once we have discovered all possible solutions?
How do hosts on an ipv4only network know how to get to hosts on the new addresses?
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I'm going on personal knowledge and IGDA salary surveys. What part of the industry are your friends in? I should maybe have mentioned that the growing F2P, casual, mobile segment bears little resemblance, economically and otherwise, to what I would consider the traditional AAA game industry (which may eventually go the way of the dodo).
In cases where Internet is service extremely expensive and difficult to provide broadband, satellite service can be a great solution. You use the hard wire connection to make the request (upstream) and download from the satellite.

Since it's expensive to transmit a signal and the amount people upload can be minimal for most requests, the hard line works great. Then, it's relatively cheap to receive the response with the satellite, which is usually a large payload that would benefit tremendously from the broadband connection.
But doesn't that just back up the thesis that the educational system is not helping them reach full potential?
As harsh as this sounds, I agree. My brother is my personal example. He had 4-5 chances at rehabilitation. First it was small stuff like pawning my mom's jewelry then it was breaking and entering to the neighbors or my dad's truck or whatever as I've not heard all of the charges. The system gave him several breaks and it would last 6 months (or less) before he was at it again each time worse than the last. I am only grateful that he is in for the next 20 years so he cannot be even worse. Also as a juvenile the book was not thrown at him and was always released back to custody of my father who was very welcoming and tried his best but some people are beyond hope.

The only good thing that came from him was my nieces and even they didn't really turn out that great due to probably a twisted childhood and weird relation with dad.
So I built a zfs raid nas box with 6x3Tb drives. I have it resilver every 2 weeks. So far, NOTHING has failed checksums for almost 2 years. So while the maths behind a 3-4 tb drive returning incorrect data I'm sure is technically correct, I've not seen issues.

If you want "proof" i can dump out zpool status/info/log/etc to show i'm not lying. Note the pool is ~50% in use so its not a great example. Also its raidz2 (raid6) so not a direct comparison. I also bought each drive from different lots to hopefully ensure if a drive failed i'd have 2ish days to get a replacement.
I hope they will use laser technology, which can probably go up to 1 Gbps if they're using cutting edge technology. Although that can probably work only for residences, so if they want it for self-driving cars they'll also need radio-based Internet.
Why write a blog post about it? http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0001/#submitting-a-pep
Not sure why someone downvoted you.

You raised a very interesting meta-question. Not that it's of any practical significance 200 years later, but the Articles of Confederation are very much an important part of US history.
What are your thoughts on this alternate hypothesis? Rather than the whole gamedev industry being on par, perhaps only RAD's salaries have been.

I know your personal network is extremely large. If you have a lot of knowledge about the topic of gamedev salaries, I'd love to hear more. Since talking about salaries with colleagues is typically verboten, I'm curious how you collected your salary datapoints and what your sample size is.

There's a lot of anecdotal evidence of studios underpaying interns and programmers who are straight out of college, and regularly working people 60 or 80 hours a week. The anecdotal evidence fits my own personal experience, but perhaps my experience isn't representative of the whole industry; maybe I was just unlucky with my first couple studios.
>In other words, can this someday compete with (or even eliminate the need for) current broadband infrastructure?

Most likely not. The amount of spectrum required to replace current broadband users would be significant. The amount of coordination overhead for even managing just 50,000,000 satellite client transmissions would probably make the system unusable. I think the target here is less of a last mile replacement and more of a town-wide Internet uplink replacement for places in the middle of nowhere. i.e. the town would get one satellite uplink and then run last-mile connections to their own users.
This is one of those asymptotically unsolvable problems (like captcha) -- he just created a new game. It's called beat the cheating detector. If you have access to the detector, it becomes trivial even: no matter how advanced the detector, using a chess engine to generate a set of moves and picking the best ones which go undetected works.

It's one thing that bother me about many online games (like counter strike). Unless they make a completely locked up computer, fighting cheats (server-side) is a losing battle. The bright side is that when they become really indistinguishable from good players, we can rest easy that the play isn't being degraded at all (expect for the cheaters themselves) :)
I hate XML. It's unnecessarily complicated, it breaks easily and it's verbose.

YAML is kind of sucky as a data transfer format (chopped up YAML is still valid which leads to all kinds of screwed up behavior), but its mirror equivalent JSON is good for that. Equally, JSON sucks for declarative configuration but YAML really shines.

Django's settings file is also one of the thornier bits of django. I'm not sure if should necessarily have become declarative, but making it a monolithic python file causes a lot of headaches with integrating modules, state changes, etc. The fact that you can often move a bit of config from one end of the file to the other and change the behavior completely is a bit screwed up. I think it would work better if it were a bit more ansible-y.
Doing some more reading, this sounds like it "degrades" the array each time and could be risky. Other replies to my comment seem to suggest it can't be done.
You mean the difference between justice system and revenge system.
The problem with wireless is scaling. When we run out of room so send data wirelessly, we have essentially no way to increase the bandwidth, so we instead need to reduce demand with the high prices you see. Wired networks and almost unbounded scaling potential.
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I'm not using my own salary history as a benchmark. The IGDA salary surveys and my exposure to a range of developers seem to bear out my remarks. As for how I know salaries outside of public surveys, I am on a private forum where people talk about both their own salaries anonymously and what their companies typically offer when hiring.

I appended a paragraph to the original post explaining the effect of coolness on first-job salaries. I do think it plays a role there. Companies like EA are notorious for using fresh graduates as a revolving source of underpaid labor. As for long hours, my impression (here I have no survey data) is that it's become much rarer.

I think what happened economically is that by the early to mid 2000s, the main technical challenges of game development had almost nothing to do with anything specific to games. Compare that to the impression of game development you might have gotten from reading Abrash's articles on Quake. Because of that, good game programmers were able to easily get jobs outside of games, and good non-game programmers were able to quickly get up to speed on gamedev specifics. Hence wages equalized. That also explains why wages for designer and artists are still relatively lower.
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Is there a way to check statistics of failed read/writes?
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This was a brilliant article, I learned a ton, thanks.
I'm curious on what the performance implications are. If I have some JavaScript on a webpage that I want to "obfuscate", would using this accomplish the task?
Works very well for me. I have some pretty complex configurations and they're all done declaratively with a bit of template logic. I think it's pretty rare to need a custom module (not that it's hard to write one).

Ansible is 100% intended for configuration management. Configuration is by its very nature declarative, so in any case if you were doing a lot of custom procedural code for configuration you're probably doing something a bit wrong.