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That's not called 'active shutdown', that's called murder. Unless you're very ill then it is called euthanasia. Why invent new words when we have perfectly serviceable ones?
Dan Gilbert wasn't the first person to notice he could buy Detroit skyscrapers for the price of one years rent in NYC. He's been criticized, even in Detroit, for buying them yet no one else was willing to take the risk. Like most things only in hindsight does it look like he got a screaming deal. Most of the knowledgeable real estate people are still unwilling to buy them and you're worried about Gilbert getting a profit? Note the Chinese are not only buying them but recently outbidding Gilbert.

A city comes back in spurts and not all at once. After fifty years of trending down at an accelerating rate I've been arguing for several years no one in the press was seeing the story of the city's revival. Yet there are critics snarking that the entire city isn't back yet. It didn't decline equally and it won't return that way. All those high paying jobs that are moving downtown are also creating jobs in security, health care and restaurants.

If you look carefully you can begin to see it happening elsewhere. Tear down those 70,000 blighted properties (which is beginning to happen) and you won't be able to deny in a few years that its happening all over.

Detroit is Michigan's Northern Star and until it returns to prominence neither will Michigan.
No, if you were so inclined, the time was several years ago at the bottom of the real estate crash. And in that situation, ideally, you just knock over the buildings and hold on to the land betting on a recovery one day.

(knock over the buildings because the neighborhoods you'd be buying hyper cheaply into - for $1,000 a lot - if you don't knock them over, you're going to have extreme problems with upkeep, vandalism, squatters, homeless people taking up residence, drugs, etc)
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There are a lot of differences between Detroit and a real emerging market. For one, higher minimum wages. For another, additional environmental and labor regulations (and while some of this may benefit society and some of it may not, much of it probably results in increased compliance costs.) For a third, a 41% corporate income tax rate (35% US + 6% Michigan, according to casual internet search).

If you're going to pay the very high price of doing business in the US, it might be a better plan to locate yourself somewhere a little less wrecked where it actually buys you something.
Yes, I like the sound of old recordings, and the Grandfather was a pretty good pianist. Plenty of commercial 78s to try here...

http://www.charm.rhul.ac.uk/sound/sound_search.html
Could anyone explain how do these wires work and how can they hold audio of this quality?
A much better read about gamers and what's probably the big problem: http://www.puppygames.net/blog/?p=1574

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The posts you've listed pull in a lot of "oh no 4chan is evil" and honestly a lot of fear and victim rhetoric unrelated to the games industry proper--bad stuff, to be sure, but hardly limited to games.

It's strange to see people being so shocked (shocked!) that many people are perfectly willing to be shitbags to one another, especially when the stakes are so low. It reminds one of interclique bullying of girls in school.

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One of the biggest annoyances I've got is this notion in the articles of "The games, they are more inclusive, more loving, more hugbox!". That's horseshit.

Games in the 80s and 90s were more honest in some ways, more open in their characters and stories. MUDs and chatrooms and whatnot allowed people to play as whomever and whatever they wanted. Ultima Online, even old Zork...so much flexibility and promise. Once upon a time you could actually do serious academic anthropology on online communities--beyond, you know, optimizing marketing. People wrote essays about online rape, about offline death, about all sorts of things and how the real and virtual intertwined. It was a hell of a lot more optimistic than what we've got now.

That's the problem: gamers are a hyperconsumerist group, and have become very sensitive (in some cases) to pandering and marketing...and when new games or titles spring up using inclusiveness or niche-audience or whatever as a growth hack, they are apt to call the games out. And this is a shame, because some games genuinely are trying to explore these places.

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Another note on cultural identity.

Society has spent the last decade and a half alternately pushing socially-irresponsible games onto young men and then making them out to be manchildren if they have this hobby.

We haven't made more jobs, we haven't made less debt, we haven't stopped marketing designed to pander to young men, we haven't sought to constructively reintegrate effectively a lost generation of males into some magical new equality-focused paradise (which doesn't exist, but that's beside the point)...and yet, when we attack their last bastion of acceptance and belonging, we're shocked (shocked!) that they become angry and fight back as best they can against some barely-understood antagonist.

I can not and will not defend individual acts of rudeness and abuse, but we need to do some serious thinking about the conditions that led up to this point--and the truth I believe lies more with consumerism, marketing, and societal pressure than some simple notion of "gamers are finally getting the purifying light of ~social justice~ and crying like manbabies".
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> It also doesn't rely on jquery animate, which has a lot of extra cruft to run on older browsers and support legacy code. Writing the rendering in pure javascript helps a ton.

Quick question for anyone passing by: Do the latest versions of jQuery still have this issue? I know 2.x dropped legacy support, so it would be interesting to see how much efficiency with things like animations has increased.
It's the same here really since most people live on the coast so yeah most of the population would be a few meters above seal level.

We've lost so much land and people argue about reclaiming some of the land, some places have lost hundreds of meters in on the last decade. We don't have any rock here it's all sandstone.

We're as big as Long Island but I think we may be in trouble if we don't start rebuilding the coast and cutting carbon emissions of course.
It's fun to have fun with flags, but the flag of the UK (they'll keep the initials) will be the Union Flag. It's an iconic design and the last thing they'll want to do is emphasise that some big change has occurred.

Also, the red saltire component of the UF represents Ireland, which became a proper country last century, resulting in no alteration to the UF ;)
Thanks for the insights! I've just got a couple of questions:

1. What's the ratio of junior to senior level developers?

2. When you were in private offices did the company set aside work time each day to socialise with your coworkers (e.g. Board games for an hour each day)?

3. How many of the developers use headphones during the day?
Actually that would be called homicide. And why use other words? Because words are loaded with connotation that may not apply to the circumstance.
On that note, this (http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Lazarus) is worth watching if you can get hold of it. It appears to be on 4od for uk viewers.
I visited Detroit for the first time this past weekend, I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it- beautiful, clean downtown area (much cleaner than SF), a very lively art scene (many artists ARE moving there for the cheap rent), many new bars and restaurants, a growing community of people that care and want to see the city improve.
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>> Who's to say that the choice to survive in the distant future is desirable?

>Each individual for themselves, obviously.

Agreed. Merely pointing out the choice does not have a clear answer.

>This obviously contradicts the original assumption that you might actually get revived. Because if you can, so can others.

Only those with spare wealth and foresight, which comprises a vanishingly small part of the current population. Most people's loved ones are unlikely to be part of that small population.

>But the bottom line is that if the future turns out to be awful, you can always choose to die again.

Any society that has mastered the technology necessary to revive you can certainly master the technology necessary to physically or chemically restrain you.

>Honestly the bigger question is why the future people would bother to wake you up at all.

That is the question. And I fear, upon waking, one may not like the answer...
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I used MUMPS at my last job, I'd say antiquated is the perfect word for it.
You can make your choice! The problem for a lot of people: you need to write a real-time adapter if you want it to be efficient and performant. We have implemented Redis adapter, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vnb8tjnE3k
The problem of web app being in general less responsive than desktop app is just one of the many instances of unifying abstraction lowering things down.

We witnessed that with virtual machine, the industry invented multiple OS, and turn out we need to be able to run different apps on different OS at the same time and we invent (process) virtual machine to bridge the gap like Java Virtual Machine, or even VMWare or Hyper-V.

And then we have different databases, and then we have different data access abstraction layer out of it making it hard to use the best bit for each database vendors.

And then we invent phones, and have different types of phones, and then again we re-invent phonegap to unify the different phones, and paid the price for that.

Who knows what's next - the history is simply going to repeat itself, we create variations, and then we create performance losing unifying abstractions...

And such trend seems to be in this industry only, you never see someone build different building and then find a way to generalize building and make worse master building out of them.

Just knowing such a trend is rather useless, there is nothing we can do to stop that either. As long as there are multiple big vendors around that just won't stop.
The "flag" example could be easily replaced with named parameters. Seems a bit unnecisary to add a new type for that purpose, unless I'm missing something.
This might be pedantic, but the union jack was designed to combine the flags of Ireland, England and Scotland (back in 1606 originally it seems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Jack). So when Ireland left the union, it didn't drop off the flag (I don't know the logic exactly, but there was a period of disagreement about the relative independence of Ireland, so that might have influenced).
Thanks. Very helpful comment.
While trying to find more information on this new model/theory, I found another one:

http://news.psu.edu/story/317841/2014/06/09/research/55-year...

Which purports that the difference was created due to tidal locking and a temperature gradient in the early formative years of the Earth and Moon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_recording

You magnetise a wire to record; you read the magnetised wire to playback.

You run the wire fast to get adequate bandwidth - the linked WP article says 2200 m for one hour of recording. (2 feet per second).
You would only do it while it remained novel, though. When two or three people are cryopreserved, novelty is enough, but what about when thousands or millions are?
A number of countries that incorporate the union flag would also need to consider changing: Australia [1], New Zealand, Niue, Tuvalu, Fiji, The Cook Islands, Bermuda. Also assorted states and provinces: British Columbia, Hawaii, Manitoba, Ontario, Queensland.

[0] http://www.news.com.au/national/could-the-scottish-vote-for-...
The reality is that 95% of the world can use the same generic car/road mapping tool, and Google Maps has that sewn up. A smart company would aim for the 5% of the world that Google Maps doesn't do a great job at.
Only part of Ireland left the Union. Northern Ireland remains a part of the UK.
I know. There was a (now deleted) comment between yours and mine that said "wow, you were an early Apple employee, what was it like?" I figured that poster didn't realize how old Apple is.
Just because some countries have it more wrong doesn't mean criticisms of US policy are invalid, it's really a silly argument.
You're describing laissez-faire capitalism, which is a subset of unqualified capitalism. Any system where all or most of the means of production are privately owned and operated for profit is a form capitalism, regardless of what the government does to manipulate the market.
If we're going to quibble about terminology, I'd point out that "assisted suicide" would come a lot closer than "murder" to describe that situation.

Of course, in the POV of someone who believes in cryopreservation as a way to save lives, preventing it is almost tantamount to murder--probably falling somewhere above negligent homicide, since you'd actively be preventing someone from saving their own life.

I say that as someone who thinks the cryo-folks are deeply delusional about their technology.
I'm just not sure how Detroit ever comes back as any type of manufacturing / industrial center in the NAFTA era.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93United_States_Au...

There is no longer any real benefit to dealing with the additional expense of the weather issues with current trade agreements. Add to that the continuing expansion of contract manufacturing in Mexico. It just doesn't make sense for companies compared to Texas, Alabama, Mississippi etc.

It's a great story, but I just don't see how it is possible beyond a small boutique city center for special cases.
Thanks a lot, I will check these out.
It's basically the fore-runner of the tape recorder. The fields used are much higher strength (as is the wire speed), the steel wire used was processed to make it easy to magnetize.

There is nothing 'special' about it, it's just the same principle as magnetizing a needle with an electromagnet only you move the needle as you go and you alternate the current in the electromagnet with the sound you wish to record.

Then later when you move the wire past the head it will induce an electric current which you can amplify.
A city is a community with interconnecting personal and business relationships. The whole is worth more than the sum of it's parts. The inhabitants of Detroit are a declining auto industry and people with nowhere else to go.

Vibrant cities attract people in spite of their limitations. Detroit is defined by them. The best thing for Detroit would be to de-incorporate and start afresh.
I've searched for it, but can't find the links anymore unfortunately. However, every couple of months a new show hn makes it to the front page with finding like-minded people, making new friends etc.

If you search on Angel list for "meet like-minded people" and you will find some. Here some from the top of my head Spontacts, Sporty, Spots-app, Woofound, Highlight, Sonar.me, Vingle. This article is also very insightful http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/07/ambient-location-didnt-work...
seen the date on the article?
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I've also worked in both, and have been far (far) happier in an open office layout, to the point where I'll never work in a closed-door office layout again. It's so isolating and depressing to me. Sure, I could get into a flow -- that's all I could do. I'd go to work and work for 8 hours a day, not talking to anyone. A pretty miserable existence.

Also why I could never work remotely/from home, I guess.
I hope more research like this catches on in the mainstream to help dismantle the idea of a fixed "IQ" altogether. While it's convenient to score people on intelligence, and nice to believe there's a simple scalar ranking, there's a growing body of research showing that it's just not the case.

Even without the research, quantifying what counts as "general aptitude" and what doesn't is hard to do, and measuring whatever we decide to quantify is even harder. Here's to hoping that a more nuanced view of intelligences take off :)
Memoization is pretty easy to implement yourself without any special language support. It's cool to make it part of the standard library but it's not like some magic sauce. Especially given that D always uses hash tables. In the Fibonacci example given, a simple array would have much, much better performance.
Words have meaning. When we hit the edge of technology those meanings tends to be obscure or wrong and so we need a new word.

Murder is so final, while this is more akind to shutting down a computer that you hope to be able to start up again. Hence active shutdown being a more appropriate idea.
I love these function-over-form websites.
CCIE here. I did all my certs by self study. If you want to go CCNA > CCNP > CCIE, I advise building a small lab. If you just want to learn without getting a related job you can go the virtualization route (GNS3) or simulation (packet tracer). It also depends on which track you choose CCNA R&S, CCNA Voice or CCNA Security. I had a few classes for other certifications but to be honest you can do them by yourself and using the internet.
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That may be true, but it's also a pretty contentious statement as for all intents and purposes Ireland wanted to separate from Britain.
Hey Hal, when you Google all of this and stumble across this old page I hope you find this note and get in touch for a drink.

I'd love to hear your story!
"There is a growing market for privacy (confidentiality), in my amateur opinion; at least it seems that many consumers choose privacy when given the option and they dislike surveillance."

I think this is mostly a myth when it comes to consumer software. People say they like privacy/confidentiality/security but they are not willing to make any compromises to get it even if those compromises are very small in comparison to the privacy/security wins.
mp3 is far better than the source material here even at relatively low bit rates. So even though in principle you are right and flac would have been better it would also have been overkill.
Maybe reviving will be easy, but IMO the real hangup is power costs. Keeping someone in cryo has regular upkeep costs. That complicates matters a lot.
Until someone is revived we can consider it final.
A physical button is what I want.
I agree that exclusive contracts should be abandoned where they can be, but for a much different reason: I have little or no confidence at all in the private sector to meet the requirements properly. A lot of the work done by private contractors ought to be done and maintained directly the government. The current system is not one of efficiency; it's one of corporate welfare.
We had one of these machines when I was young - we picked it up at an auction of a deceased doctor's effects. Pretty neat.
I wonder if the BBC would be interested in copies of the material?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/contacts/bbc_collection...
Good point - I usually just wipe all history regularly now (which is a pita) ... but, this doesn't save my other (less savvy) users at the office.
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I do often agree with Richard Stallman, but...

These are problems with particular web apps, not web apps in general. I host lots of web apps on my own servers, and they are just as free as any software, but I can access them anywhere from any device. In cases where web apps are non-free, I would have to say it's better than having them installed locally. Web browsers do quite a bit to keep apps in jails where they can't access and affect the rest of the system in the same way a local program can.
Well another thing with Chinese characters is that they are usually made up of parts, and these parts generally carry a theme. For example, if I have never seen a specific Chinese character, I can usually decipher its definition easier than English words because of the parts the Chinese character consists of. This is similar to roots in English, but these parts are less specific, and are recycled and reused in many more characters.

I agree that Chinese is not the easiest or best language when all practical aspects are considered, and this is one of the reason simplified Chinese was invented, but the social hurdle to completely adopt a different language or change it even more dramatically would be far bigger than the nuisances that the language may have.
Need advice: Entrepreneur to full-time job
So, in short, I'm burned out. I did consulting (Web/Biz Dev) for local businesses for almost 8 years.

I am guilty of sticking to a small group of clients that paid very well and completely stopped growing my business. I don't even have a website or business cards anymore. 2 months ago, I stopped doing work for them completely, the work was soul crushing.

My decision now, for many reasons, is to join a company even as low as a junior front end developer or growth hacker. Reasons for starting back at junior if need be:

1. My web projects have sucked over the last 3 years, I started focusing on business development and did really well for them with that also, but they hired cheap developers and the work became completely unacceptable for a portfolio. Their expectations were too high and budget too low. I had spoilt them over the years.

2. I want to work on a team again. My first time I worked for a startup, we knocked it out the park. That role was in sales. Being on a team building products and being around people again is really intriguing to me.

3. I just turned 30 and having never finished a degree (actually finishing one online for personal reasons). I feel completely lost. I have little confidence in job hunting and feel completely off my game. I'm not used to having my career in another person's hands.

Here is where I need help, but any advice or guidance would be appreciated:

- How can I get a junior front end position or growth hacking position? Should I do some mock projects for a portfolio? How many, what kind? I fell out of touch with some of the modern workflows, but have been spending all my time catching up to getting back to my A game with JS and such.

- Any suggestions on the type of roles that may be a good fit for me apart from what I mentioned?

- How do I get in front of companies and show them that I am an excellent hire?

Thanks for reading this far and I look forward to anything you guys have to offer.
I would personally expect "everyone you know and love" to be the reason any of us schmucks have a hope of being revived.

Even if there is no economic or scientific reason to revive a frozen, preserved person, there could still be sentimental reasons. If my grandfather were frozen and reviveable, and not dead and buried, I would want to revive him. If it were remotely within my financial means, I would save for decades, mortgage or sell everything I own, take on any debt I could trick people into lending me, if it technologically possible to bring a parent back to life.

It is not difficult to imagine a chain of un-freezing in some distant future. Children unfreeze parents; parents unfreeze grandparents; grandparents unfreeze great-grandparents. As long as there is some tenuous connection between the preserved and the living, at some price point a living old friend or third cousin will want to revive the preserved. Add in the odd charity for the few friendless frozen and it is not hard to imagine any frozen person eventually being revived, technology permitting.