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> I'm planning to add more levels that only show the numbers briefly

I think it would be better (and simpler) to just decrease the potential score according to the time the player takes to look at the numbers (time of first click minus time the level was first displayed).

Also, I played several games and ended with a different score each time; if time doesn't matter, what does the score come from?
Yes that's exactly correct. On the client-side P4 basically only really cares about the current version (or whatever branched/changelisted revision you are working with) which for projects with a lot of files (especially binary files) will be an incredibly smaller set of data than the full history. git is fully distributed with all of the pros and cons that come with that.
Has it always been this way? I remember downloading it a while ago and only a few days ago I got the first popup stating that I can only edit entries on my phone when paying for the pro version.
Isn't that exactly the quandry RadioShack is in, though? They need to pivot, fast and hard. Rip out those stupid mobile islands and the hard-sell mobile device employees and host maker-spaces.
Ah OK thanks!
I play a stupid game (think farmville with tanks) that requires a lot of easily scripted clicking patterns.

It was pretty easy to record with automator and then have cron run that at a given interval. But that didn't work with click and drag.

Luckily there is a pretty simple way to do this with Python.

Here is a sample with clicks and dragging.
http://pastebin.com/fG1d081k
What do you mean by "I would normally keep this,..."
I wrote up a script a couple of months ago using JS for Automation that will automatically rotate a Keynote file from portrait to landscape (for use in prototyping on Keynote for iOS that only supports landscape). It was my first experience writing any automation script, so there was a lot of trail and error and google searches. I personally would much rather work in JS than Applescript. Here is the script in case you want to take a look at some more JS for Automation:

https://gist.github.com/ericallam/a5cd76651c327b116a6e
Retail space has to be partly fungible? They sell off some percentage of their stores so they can build out a few larger spaces in malls or strip malls. Make the new spaces big, Apple-grey-and-white, well-lit areas with 3D-printers and soldering guns.....
The score depends on how fast you can get from 1 to x. A stopwatch is started when you tap 1 and stopped when you tap the last number.

If you improve in each level and remain a constant rate, you get more points in higher levels. Suppose you take 1 second to finish each level, your points in all levels will be: 320, 500, 720, 980, 1280, 1620.

See https://github.com/awendt/memory-chimp/blob/master/game.js#L...
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This, again and again. There's probably a lot of disjoint hobbies that they could cater to, too. Radio-controlled, for instance, constantly needs lots of little parts (repairs after flight crashes) as well as space and gear to make the repairs. HAM radio guys go gear-crazy, and often have to tune their sine waves and what-not. C.f. the various posts on HN about drones and UAVs, etc.
Not according to http://www.businessinsider.com/iphone-6-battery-life-review-...
Remote teams is one of those things that can be a secret weapon.

I think remote work doesn't work for a lot of companies. A big part of what a company is is a culture and that culture is usually built around a physical place, for better or for worse. But, there is evidence aplenty that culture, great work and collaboration can be happen online. It's a new world and a company needs to find its own way, but if successful a remote working culture that works can be a secret weapon.
I work with PCB design tools a lot -- Cadence, Altium, Eagle, you name it.

While there's definitely room for better software, the most frustrating thing about the PCB CAD ecosystem right now is (a) lack of interoperability between file formats (for schematic, layout, and gerbers), and (b) lack of publicly accessible components. It is a huge pain to build tons of component symbols and footprints for each design. There are large EE companies that employ people just for this task!

The idea of paying for more extensions seems incredibly frustrating. I'd rather know what the cost will be upfront.

I am hopeful that eventually someone will clearly win this market by creating/updating good, free software, in combination with open/convertible file formats, a huge component database, and monetize via paid access to special components/automatic component creation, or an integrated manufacturing solution.
Look at capabilities, not looks. Dragon V2, if it lives up to its promise along with F9R, means dramatically reduced costs for launching people into space through almost complete reusability of the launch vehicle and capsule. Turnaround times on the order of days, launch costs in the single-digit millions, it would be huge. It's basically all of the empty promises of the Space Shuttle, but (it appears for the moment, at least) with the hardware to back it up.

CST-100 makes similar promises if it can be matched with a reusable launcher (perhaps F9R). I'm not sure if they're looking at similarly short turnaround times (probably not). But they're much less far along and it's hard to judge if they can deliver.

Dream Chaser also makes similar promises, again if it can be matched with a reusable launcher. What's the advantage of it over the others? As far as I can see, the only real advantage is less gee loading during reentry. In exchange, you add a lot of complication and weight (wings and wheels). It doesn't seem worth it at all.

Spaceplanes look cool, but what's the point? The goal should be robustness and cheapness, with reusability a necessity for enabling the latter. Vertical powered landing with a capsule looks like an excellent way to achieve this.
Will it be a web-based app or will it be a desktop application? If so, does anyone know if it will run on OS X? A lot of the software tools in electronics and circuit design seem to be Windows centric.
This is one of those examples where both patents and venture capital come out shining.

Incredible work, the stamina on display is extremely impressive and I hope they and their backers will reap the rewards from all the hard work very many times over.

To put in laymans terms what this thing is: it's a tape-playback machine for DNA.

Now they need to fix the bugs (hard, but probably not nearly as hard as getting to this stage in the first place).
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If SpaceX can deliver on their long-term plans, they'll benefit more people in more ways than Minecraft ever could. Cheap access to space could be a computer-like revolution. Minecraft is ultimately just a toy, albeit a highly creative and potentially educational one.
Human space flight has essentially no scientific value. The only thing we learn from it is how to keep people healthy in space, which is a wonderfully circular rationale.
Streak (YC S11) is hiring engineers who love JavaScript
We're looking for engineers that love Javascript - ugly warts and all. We want people that care about Single-Page App architecture, writing clean reusable code, and spend more hours than is reasonable looking at Dev Tool's CPU profiler.

At Streak we have an incredibly sophisticated SPA that is built on top of another incredibly sophisticated SPA (Gmail), all while never compromising performance. This is extremely challenging technically, and you'll be sure your skills will be pushed to the limits and beyond.

Requirements:

- have worked on a javascript application with more than 10KLOC (app code, not external library code)

- you love working hard, not just for financial rewards, but for the opportunity to grow personally

- you live (or want to move) to SF and are authorized to work here

Obviously:

- Great compensation and real ownership (both equity and over the product)

- We’ll make your life easier. Our benefits package is amazing

- We’re well funded by great silicon valley investors and are profitable

We’d love to hear from you at javascript@streak.com, please send us some information about yourself and samples of anything you’ve built.
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I prefer Paradox Development Studio's games to Civilization as a 'History Simulator', 'Mega Games' involving all of the 'contiguous' periods of history can be done with he following:

Crusader Kings II - 769CE* - 1453

Europa Universallis IV - 1444* * - 1821

Victoria II - 1832 - 1936 * * *

Hearts Of Iron III - 1936 - 1948 * * *

* As of Charlemagne DLC(unreleased)

* * Converted games from CKII are backtracked to this date.

* * * This is where a continuous game stops, but unofficial save game converters can allow a player to bridge their games over.
OK, this probably doesn't apply to violent crime, but petty crime like pickpocketing, etc. There is basically no point in reporting it. The police will do nothing. I live in Barcelona, and there is a lot of this stuff goes on (I had my wallet stolen once, lots of tourists get robbed). I went to the police when my friends camera was stolen. Did anything happen after? No. Yet I have been stopped 5 times for my cycling behavior (going through red lights on a quite road usually).
wow, didn't know about that `dit` subdomain. Good context!
Ok; I wanted to try again and click super-fast, but the game stopped between levels 8 and 9 with the error "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'width' of undefined" in board.js, line 48

I'm on Chrome 39.0.2150.5 dev-m on Windows Vista on a 1280x800 laptop.
I don't think your experience is at odds with what I'm saying. There are practical, real-life issues that will always trump the mechanics of product development.
How does this compare to Fritzing?

http://fritzing.org/home/
This is brilliant. I played Keen Dreams for hours and even completed it. This will make very interesting reading.
Apropos Tindie, as well. https://www.tindie.com/
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Most of the symbian devices are being replaced by android phones not windows phones.

The high end market is android and ios.
the middle of the market is android and small amounts of other
the low end of the market is android for the most part now as well.
As a few English have posted in various newspaper article comments, Westminster doesn't seem to have anyone's interests at heart except the bankers and the super rich.
That's only because we want to put people into low earth orbit with some sort of purpose besides just testing basic feasibility and Beating The Russians.

If some magic scenario arose where the US had to put a person into low-earth orbit and bring him back alive or, say, the Earth would be destroyed, it could probably be done within a month. SpaceX can pretty much do it right now. Throwing together a quick "spam in a can" capsule could be done by other companies pretty quickly, and tossed atop an existing launcher.

What takes so long is building something that can actually deliver people and cargo to an existing destination, do so safely (without breaking the destination or the people), transport people who aren't military test pilots, and not cost a noticeable percentage of GDP while doing it all.
Though I think it's an interesting idea discussing the role of history education in gaming, this piece makes little headway in assessing whether any of the games mentioned have done it well. I'd like to see a more thoughtful piece which takes a stance on the industry as a whole and whether we should be concerned about whether history is being misrepresented or people are actually learning from these games.

My guess is that, for most mainstream titles, they are doing a poor job educating about history. For example, while I loved Bioshock, including the story, it very much misrepresents Rand's Objectivism. In the same way, I'm sure many developers are calling on only so much as what they remember from high school in order to develop characters and settings which seem familiar to players. As gaming becomes a more dominant medium, we should probably begin calling out games which instill a twisted view of history in the minds of the public.
Can't seem to do better than 1770; but isn't what you're measuring mouse ability rather than memory... ;-)
Please, let RadioShack hire Bret Victor as their Johnny Ive-style visionary: http://vimeo.com/97903574
I'm all for it if it keeps pubs safer. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-25163045
I agree, seems unlikely
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I wasn't disagreeing with you. Quite the opposite. Doing a good job of gathering requirements can be the difference between success and failure. I think my experience shows that there's a lot of education necessary before the software industry as a whole realises how much time and money a project can save with requirements. That will happen though, in time. Usable was about 5 years too early.
Android has an embedded energy monitor. On my Nexus 7, the screen consistently uses >60% of the whole, even though the tablet spends most of its time in idle (with the screen turned off) and I keep wifi turned on the whole day, including during commute when it connects to dozens of APs.

EDIT: Oh, and I also listen to podcasts and music over bluetooth for hours/day. It hardly seems to make a dent.
Do you believe people in other countries do care if they are hacked by NSA, FBI or whatever? In the end they are hacked by the US and most citizens of the US seem to believe that this is ok.
I odn't disagree but I think this is a bad argument.

> definitely less than, say, a baseball hitting you

Is it not quite common to see "No Ball games" signs in public places? I've seen a fair few in the UK. Obviously that's not a law but it's there to stop people going to the park to drive golf balls across the football pitch.
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I used Helm for a simple 2D simulator/prototype for edge detection and orientation. Link to code below (it was my first Haskell program). While it was not a game in any sense, I found it quite fun and easy to use.
https://github.com/rgleichman/sense/blob/master/AngleGripper...
If I was them, I'd gradually introduce the minimum set of breaking changes to ELisp that converge it on Common Lisp. Even if those changes were unhelpful or removed features. Then eventually, when it maps 1:1 onto a subset of CL, just swap the implementation for a supported CL.
It has not been entirely well received: http://lists.apple.com/archives/applescript-users/2014/Sep/m...
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Have your say on a segregated East-West Cycle highway through central London
Also North-South: https://consultations.tfl.gov.uk/cycling/northsouth
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Hard to tell, since CircuitMaker is apparently not available yet.

I like Fritzing. I'm just a hobbyist, but having tried other PCB layout tools (Eagle, etc), Fritzing is the only one I've actually been able to be productive with.
Obnoxious is putting it kindly when I can't even seem to be able to scroll down to read the entire article.

EDIT: Apparently it's happening to me when I zoom at all on the page in Chrome, I'm surprised no one else has complained.
Bank IT worker suspect in £25M cyber-theft
This is esp. funny when the man writing the original article is an investor in Snapchat, which just raised $xxx millions at a $yy billions valuation.
I'm not sure why any venture backed startup, in an area that has local talent, would want to deliberately go the remote workforce route. It hampers your ability to scale, hurts your future acquisition chances, creates and will lead to communication redudancy, and culture distractions. It rarely works out positively.

In short, while I am sure that there are some instances where it works well (eg Basecamp / 37signals), I'd expect that they are the exception to the norm.

Note: I did build a remote startup with incredibly talented people and after a lot of soul searching and time required them all to come join us locally (or helped them find a new job elsewhere). Hardest decision we made at the company and certainly the right one.

NOTE 2: the best remote recruiting tool we had was to handpick whole invited to work with us. We hung out on mailing lists and read potential employees blog posts to see what kind of amazing open source projects they were sharing with the world, before trying to individually recruit them.
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http://ionicframework.com/

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Does emacs want the kind of developers who cannot be bothered to learn Elisp? Apart from the syntax, Javascript and Lisp are not really so different.
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Actually you can still use the 3g / browser in that mode (except it is in black and white).
What does them being white have to do with anything? Also, I think you may have misgendered one of the people in the banner.
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Stop giving me productivity tips
Right. Javascript used to be slow, but instead of bemoaning how slow it was and thinking maybe they should change languages, people made Javascript fast. If it can be done with Javascript, why not Elisp?
Does RMS really hate Common Lisp, he put a fair amount of effort into adding support for it to the MIT/LMI Lisp Machine sources ?
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Without this kind of unsafe drugging of animals, meat would probably be more expensive. But expensive meat is only a problem if people eat a lot of it, like Americans do today.

The solution to this problem, really is to eat less meat. There are many health benefits to eating less meat, in addition to the antibiotics problem. Two books that explain this well are The Enzyme Factor by Hiromi Shinya and The China Study by T. Colin Campbell.

This matches my own experience as well. I used to have a nasty acne problem. Cutting down on meat (and dairy) has made my skin much nicer. Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking by Fuchsia Dunlop is a great cookbook for (mostly) plant foods, by the way. It seems that the Chinese have been aware of the health benefits of a diet centered around plants, rather than meat and dairy, for a very long time.
I guess I mean that if another company had accidentally given away their product because of a mistake I'd feel bad about keeping it. In this specific case; in that I feel cheated by AgileBits historical actions, I don't feel bad at all.
Your comment here strongly suggests the padlock was the primary reason for this change.

The content of the blog post strongly suggests that increased privacy was the primary reason and that the padlock change was secondary.

I'm surprised you weren't aware of GMail rolling this feature out. It was big news at the time. Not least because a lot of advertising companies were worried it would affect their bottom line.
Because Javascript has huge players like Google, Microsoft and Mozilla behind it that throw insane ressources at it to compete for performance, whereas EMacs is fast enough for most of its users and has no big companies interested in its performance.
If you saw the per-SKU numbers I can guarantee you that you would weep. They're virtually guaranteed to have a power law distribution. The median game has sales of zero, the median game of those games with sales above zero makes the creator less than a single dinner worth of contributions per month, and so forth.

I'm an investor in a company which does a marketplace for commercial OSS. It is not accurate that OSS makes no money. Many individual OSS projects make no money, because they're optimized for making no money by people who think, consciously or otherwise, that making money from software is evil. OSS projects which are more commercial in nature ROFLstomp over web games with a donation model.
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Are you suggesting there is an increasing trend in pick pocketing and that's why the police no longer act on it and/or vice versa?
Ooh. Some of those are new to me.

Thanks :-)

I use IFTTT to post "funny pictures" I save in dropbox to a facebook group.

I've also linked blog posts to facebook/twitter etc. It's not perfect, but now I know there's other half decent systems out there, I can have a play :D
I concur. PySide makes developement/prototyping really efficient : the code is easy to read, no build system to maintain, no heavy tools to run, portability makes life so much better, you can freeze applications => deployment is super easy (well provided you don't have to copy the file on every PC's of the customer :); can't beat the web for that). And plus, Qt is very old and thus mature. It may not be as fun as the web development (which I admit is funnier, at least for the GUI part) but it provides a solid, predictible framework... Now I admit, I didn't play with JQuery which looks very solid too...
How do people pay for HTML5 games in the browser?
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>" Good" is subjective

I'm not sure how true that is. There are principles of design, across fields, within fields, and in specific use cases, and you can judge based on the principles how good a design is. "Good" may be hard to define in general and in each context, but it's not as subjective as people think it is.
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Getting promos in large companies seems to include some amount of politics. I think I'm pretty competent at tech but not at politics. Not sure what OP (or myself) can do in these situations. My suspicion is that the politically astute do well everywhere - small and large companies.
Violent crime is decreasing across the western world which suggests that factors that are only relevant to one country/culture are unlikely to be the main driving force of this phenomenon.
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Because an ATM has to be proof against many things, not just skimmers!

For instance, there are jerks who would simply wreck them. In fact, the skimmers could simply wreck them until the non-asshole proof version was brought back and then happily continue to ply their trade.

It's like designing a vault, only it has to open up to total strangers who happen to have digital keys, and to complicate manners stuff has to go in as well as out and there is a whole bunch of user interface components strapped onto it.

Designing an ATM that satisfies all criteria is very much non-trivial and any 'why don't they 'x'' should be followed by a short period of thinking about what other boundary conditions need to be satisfied.