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You (understandably) skipped over the point he was trying to make:

In System Shock 2 there was no need to lock anything behind you. The world you were in was built small enough and diverse enough that it remained in your mind as you traversed it. You weren't just going through anonymous tunnels, but exploring a space ship where you always had at least a rough idea of where you were.

Mass Effect 3 has a gigantic world, and has you enter, again and again, dungeons that simply start out as holes in the ground with little guidance for the player as to how they're structured, built with repetitive (though high-detail) 3d assets and textures, thus making it necessary to lock things behind you, since there cannot be a reasonable expectation for the player to keep their bearings.
There was a discussion about e-ink displays the other day that you may find interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8327281
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There's stuff in TTY that does not belong in core (table rendering, logging), and there is a great lack of features that is available by default in [MooseX-App](http://p3rl.org/MooseX::App): bash completion, typo detection/suggestions, command words (à la `git foo`, `svn foo`).

TTY's choice of eliminating dependencies is short-sighted. By embracing dependencies, a library can be more powerful, have more features, solve more problems.
Well, there a variety of tunes out there with understated music and methodical sampling of the human voice like that for effect, although usually they try to provide something a little more concise and deliberately narrative to go with it -- limitations of the medium. I'm pretty out of touch with the usual channels so I can't actually name any of it done in the past 40 years or so, but here's some classic Simon and Garfunkel overlaying Silent Night with a really depressing 7 o'clock news: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgYFXCUEL4Y

Also, every so often you hear about a crazy fire going on or someone trying to jump off the Golden Gate bridge. (On sf-1033, naturally, not this one. Also, I like what sf-1033 does with the reverb on the police scanner bits.) It was really great back when people were rioting in the streets after the World Series victory, throwing bottles at the police and burning an articulated Muni-bus.
Not sure why this is here, but it's a great article and perhaps the most famous example of a "write around," a profile where the writer has little to no access to the subject.
>RAM is cheap

Great, buy me another 32GB then please
. People shouldn't have to have high end gaming rigs to run a sodding browser.

Mozilla (and google) are deluding themselves in thinking that their particular software is the be all and end all of a computer, and should be introduced to this strange concept called 'multitasking'.

Firefox: 1.5GB

Thunderbird: ~1GB

OS: 1GB (conservative estimate)

Various background programs: 1GB

Suddenly doesn't look so cheap.
I would not think so. You would require facilities to review, capture comments, version control etc. A normal laptop would be more appropriate. Also, the market for readers are huge as compared to that of writers.
I think performance is often overblown on this as well. However, I don't think the overhead from task switching will really enter into it. If you have hundreds of tabs open that are trying to do work, that is work that was having to be done regardless. Meaning they would already be thrashing. Now, that will just be in a different way.

Otherwise, if you are idling most of those processes, they should be the same as before. Just idle.

Memory, on the other hand, I think will go up. Not sure by how much, though. I would think the rendered content would be the largest consumer of memory. And again, if you have hundreds of tabs open with high memory usage per tab, that should already be a problem. Right?
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What are you gonna use it for?
Go seems to have a strong foothold in cloud-related projects (i.e. Docker, Flynn, many parts of CoreOS). So if you're in the same niche it's probably an okay choice even if only for community reasons.
But if you're doing something app-level you're probably taking a big risk.
I would recommend not to concentrate on quality too much. Just hire corrector to do final polishing. Be being perfectionist one can easily build anxiety and procrastination.

I write daily as well. I have personal wiki I use for planning, diary and keeping notes. Right now it has about 1 MB of text and 50 MB images. I use ZIM, they have some nice workflows:
http://zim-wiki.org/manual/Usage/Getting_Things_Done.html

Over time it kind of grows. My main project TODO list has 1500 items. I even have check list for packing luggage :-)
It makes a lot of sense. I like to write documentation (!) but only once I have the publication flow setup. The knowledge that "someone" will be readin my docs makes me a but more explicit and more "explain-carefully"

Luckily this means the next time I come back to it amazingly that person who benefits is me.

But yes - write docs every day, write summaries of your docs every day, write summaries of the summaries every day. Eventually you have a decent body of work to draw on.

(This is basis of 1000 words a day meme as well)
You can get an extension for chrome that does this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/3d-view-for-webpag...

Although the reviews say it doesn't work, I tried it and it works fine.
> I truly believe that getting into the habit of writing consistently was one of the best decisions I’ve made this year. This post explores the reasons why I care about writing and keep doing it every day. I hope it inspires you to write (more) too.

I agree!

I've written every day on my blog since January 2011, nearly 1,600 posts. Technically, I post every day, so during my trips to North Korea I wrote and scheduled two weeks of posts before going, for example. The benefits are huge -- beyond thinking differently and more discipline, finding clients and developing new ideas, which have led to the classes and seminars I lead, etc.

I've also done burpees every day since December 2011, passing 1,000 days without missing any. I started at ten per day and worked up to two sets of twenty-five per day and find myself as fit at 43 as when I competed in Ultimate Frisbee at Nationals over a decade ago.

Writing and burpees are great, but nearly any daily challenging activity you choose to do will bring great benefits. I call such activities SIDCHAs, for self-imposed daily challenging healthy activities -- http://joshuaspodek.com/js_blogseries/self-imposed-daily-cha.... Most of what the author wrote about writing applies to other SIDCHAs in their way.

Meditation, yoga, lifting weights, practicing social skills, writing ten business ideas per day, cooking a fantastic meal per day, taking cold showers (which I also do, though every fourth day now, after doing thirty days straight of them), and so on all qualify in different ways.

Your habits define major parts of you, all the more the daily challenging ones, as does their lack. SIDCHAs train you in discipline and dedication that you end up applying everywhere else.

Words I live by: "If you miss one day you can miss two. If you miss two, it's all over." -- http://joshuaspodek.com/archives.
He hasn't figured out that iCloud backups are also encrypted, so wait for part 3.
Self Simplicity
Firefox: Averages ~5MB/tab (200 tabs, 1GB memory)

Chrome: Anywhere from 50MB/tab up.

A much better performance fix would be to suspend javascript execution on tabs that aren't visible.
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I am from Sweden. We do trust the state and each others. The society comes really high on the sociological metric of "trust".

That said, it is just ... naive... to argue that "Some instances of X have done good, so let's trust (all?) X".

Especially since these X evolve surprisingly over time, sometimes quickly.

(The whole of Europe demilitarised totally after the cold war and are now surprised we have something like a Hitler as a neighbour.)

Edit: Hmm... that comment was about internal US politics? OK... Living in a country with trusting idiots which believe what they are told to believe, I do know that politics for internal consumption can seem weird from the outside! Both the US extreme left/right seems crazy (say, Chomsky and Fox).
Great, now what happens when they do a google and stealth remove that feature?

(cf: The option to have the tab close button on the right, the status bar, the option to disable javascript, the option to have tabs in a sane place instead of on top...)

Somehow, I doubt disabling multiple processes will be within the scope of an addon.
This is why I burned out so hard on "RPGs", and why one of my favorite games to this day is Space Station 13, which is possibly the only true multiplayer roleplaying game (and please point me to more if I am wrong).

The core game mechanic is actually playing out some role, and interacting with others playing out their roles, sometimes conflicting and sometimes cooperative. The game starts, and you are given a job on the space station. The mechanics are complex, pretty punishing (permadeath lasts until server reset, or someone clones you etc), and partially irrelevant; incompetence is realistic, and expected. Dysfunction abounds. Some people might be assigned as secret agents and given tasks automatically like theft or murder. Most of the time, however, is spent playing the drunk police officer, crusty cynical mechanic, horribly unhelpful bureaucrat, or janitor who "forgets" to put up wet floor signs for amusement. The chemists and farmers trade goods, the scientists perform dangerous experiments for dubious ends, etc.

The irony for me is that the only way to restore a true feeling of "playing a role" was removing the stats, and many of the normal objectives, and building a theme where the only optimal play is, essentially, to play sub-optimally and just go for whatever is fun (excluding things that get you thrown out an airlock or tossed in jail for a few hours).

I guess I just got a different idea of what RPG meant from pen-and-paper roleplaying games, and my coding background makes me a bit allergic to games that could be "solved".
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> drugs should be used as a last resort when all else fails

Why?

> I am afraid people will just choose the easy route and take the drugs instead of doing the inner core work to fix these issues.

What is the problem with that if it helps them all the same?
Except the other low intelligence characters, with whom you have some extensive and enlightened conversations.

One of my favorite twists on mechanics ever.
Not that easy, but fun for developers
Thanks for the link to the speaker deck slides. For anyone else interested, here is the link to the video recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zJIqdw19N8

Speaking of companies besides Google using Go: While I am aware that several companies use Go I am not sure if, worse-come-to-worst, one or several of them would invest in it if Google drops it. I would assume their thought process going something like: Should we invest to keep the language going or should we just let our Go apps run for now and rebuild them in something else? Or even worse, several dialects start popping up.

I hope I do not sound too negative, quite on the contrary I really like Go and most probably will go with it for a medium-sized project. It's just that I am still having an inner dialogue between the geek in me and channeling a very conservative pointy-haired boss :)
I absolutely love this. On one hand you've got the peacefulness of mellow ambient music, and on the other, the potential death, doom and destruction from the police channels. It properly conveys the 'techno' feeling that something can go horribly wrong at any moment.
I don't get why this is turned into some big political/philosophical discussion.

If the government wants a backdoor and it wants Apple to open up iPhones based on court orders then the government needs to make a law explictly ordering Apple and similar to provide this service.

There is a parallel in my opinion in the legaslation for telecommunication companies in many western countries requiring them to log their users activity and when a court and in some cases just the police requires it, give them the data. For a national telco this is major cost; just in Denmark it was estimated by the former telemonopoly TDC to be in tune of 20 mio usd per year.

No company bears that sort of expense out of morals/patriotics.

Secondly other countries than the US may be interested in requiring this feature of the phones sold in their jurisdiction.
His argument for why Apple should assist the government in obtaining private information shows how easy it is to write the meaning of the constitution however you please, at least when a society is in the middle of intense technological evolution:

The civil libertarian tradition of American privacy law,
enshrined in the Fourth Amendment, has been to see the
warrant protection as the Gold Standard of privacy
protections. ... the government must go to a neutral
magistrate and make that case before it conducts the
search. ... But when the government does make that
showing, on the other hand, the public interest in
solving crime outweighs the privacy interest. That’s
the basic balance of the Fourth Amendment
My friends whiled away many an hour with his work projected onto the wall of my apartment.

I had the chance for that pleasant walk down memory lane because of your comment, so thanks!
Good article and pretty timely with the release of Destiny, which suffers greatly from the issues mentioned here: masking addictive random-number-generator gameplay and lackluster storytelling with great visuals and promises that this is just the foundation and the game will become much better with DLC. Many things that Bungie had been famous for doing, such as great story telling and smart AI, were completely absent with this game.

And they made $500 million on the first day despite this…
Both were predated by music made on the original Columbia-Princeton synthesizer (academic/experimental)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA_Mark_II_Sound_Synthesizer

And by Raymond Scott, who had been using custom electronic circuitry for ads and commercial music since the 1950s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy77ioKI4lQ

Scott was a genius because he realised that you could not only make sound electronically, you could build hardware that would compose music. Everyone else is still playing catch-up with that idea.

There was also a fully electronic score by Bebe and Louis Barron for a film called Forbidden Planet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_Planet#Soundtrack

Moog basically made the technology self-contained and sort-of affordable. With a Moog you had a complete keyboard synthesizer in a box, and you didn't need a room for it.

My favourite Moog music is the classical albums made by Isao Tomita in the 70s. I don't think anyone else has come close to the inventiveness, poetry, and sheer programming genius in the sound design.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv97o588sLY
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You can switch to Palemoon, Waterfox, Cyberfox, or one of the other forks that still run all the extensions?

Firefox is not for lack of options, I'd say it is the *nix of the browser world.

ps. You can also solve all of the tab issues with TabMixPlus and the UI issues with ClassicThemeRestorer - my Firefox 33 looks virtually identical to Firefox 4
> For a while, there was a really good match between the complexity of the game world and the way it was represented, and I don't think it's a coincidence that this window is where we find many beloved gaming classics.

I thought this point was very insightful, and not one that I'd considered before.
Facebook locks without reason a literary magazine
Since the beginning of this year, Facebook has started to lock the best articles from Literary Confluences (http://confluente.ro) without reason. In spite of officially writing to Facebook headquarters, together with hundreds of e-mails and posting headed to them, no answer was provided.

Literary Confluences comprises the work of hundreds of gifted authors and is read by thousands of readers daily.

You can check the following link to distribute (http://confluente.ro/olguta_trifan_1411335301.html) and you will receive:

The content you're trying to share includes a link that our security systems detected to be unsafe.

There is no reason for this treatment. The website is pure literature and poetry. There is no harm for anybody.

I, the webmaster and founder of this website, am profound disappointed by Facebook's attitude.

This procedure is discouraging the authors to publish and the readers to interact. Even a like cannot be performed and the commentaries are lost because of this!

If someone could help us, it will be great!

Octavian
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Background:

I am a engineer by background with a brief experience in web development [rails]. Based out of Mumbai, India. I have started a company here supplying cleaning goods[Air fresheners] to corporates and SMB's . I got the gig going for over one and half years. The revenue as it stands now is around 2500$ a month approximately.We do an Annual Maintainence contract of providing air fresheners.We are also on the verge of bringing out a new product in car air freshener segment.

Problem:

Now the issue is i am getting kicked out of this company and i do not hold any strategic advantages. I have improved on sales but i improved quite late. Now i have to look after operations and other tidbits.

Advice :

I dont know how to go ahead. I am in the late twenties but i have been doing work which does not contribute to my resume. I dont know what to chose next a job or to start a new company also so in which area. I do not have the money to do it. I have the motivation but i dont have the guidance. i need to make some money to make ends meet. I am not married yet. I will be tremendously grateful to know your views and take the necessary steps to go ahead. Thanks for giving the time to read.
Of course, the problem with things like this, Huff's book, everything by David Freedman, etc., is that people want to lie with statistics. To put it more prosaically, people have biases, prejudices, socially-created expectations, ulterior motives, and usually statistics is a more-or-less subtle technique for whitewashing those into 'scientific knowledge'. This happens all across the social & biological sciences, in medical research, and in industry.
http://billmccloskey.wordpress.com/2013/12/05/multiprocess-f... "The total memory usage for multiprocess Firefox is only 10MB greater than single-process Firefox. We should be able to shrink this difference with some effort"

As for the excess memory usage on chrome, "OneTab" might help https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/onetab/chphlpgkkbo... (It's available on Firefox) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/onetab/
Funny that the certificate is signed using MD5 and wouldn't have worked regardless of being signed by anyone or the CN being correct.
I have been using http://750words.com/ for quite some time now. Writing first thing in the morning is easier to get accustomed to.
hehe... read the add-on comments.
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"Nobody doubts that the C64 was the greatest selling single computer model of all time"

Well maybe once they didn't.

78 million XBox 360s have sold, and it's as much a computer as the C64 (and used as much for computing as the C64 was).

There are probably several specific smartphone models that have exceeded 12.5M.

Now the C64 sold on specific model, but some had disk drives, etc. so...
They did the same thing to research in to Ibogaine.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929313.900-mindalter...
Without knowing more about the data, one possible cause might be sim cards that are not used by actual humans, but for example by smart meters, security equipment, etc., which only have to report to one central location and thus have only one contact.

When using mobile phone data, filtering out such "artifacts" can be a big issue and it might not be possible to do accurately
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The government does not have a right to wiretap, and citizens are not obligated to make their property searchable by the government. The ease with which the government has been able to wiretap and search computers was a side effect of technological immaturity not a design intention. Heck, one can think of wiretapping as one of the first hacks of the phone system.

As the numerous recent data breaches have demonstrated, we need to build systems as securely as possible. Allowing anyone besides the key owner access to the data requires that the system be made fundamentally less secure. We have presumption of innonocence in the USA which means I am assumed to be a Good Guy (tm) until the government proves otherwise by due process of law. Furthermore, a citizen's desire not to disclose information to the government is not ns indication of guilt (5th amendment). The author of this these editorials either forgets or misunderstands these rights -- accepting the argument that everyone should surrender their privacy rights if they nothing hide. Living in a free society requires citizens take some degree of personal risk.
I am not questioning reasons to have 200 open tabs, but wonder how do you manage it? I would imagine tab bar become very long?
> In the game I work on, Path of Exile, we have specifically made respec something that has a cost.

My gaming group gave PoE a very serious try, and all eventually got bored, and I think this "feature" you boast of is part of the problem. To me, the good part of PoE was in evaluating different combinations, trying them out, seeing what combos work well together, etc. The gem system is fundamentally very good (except see the next graf). But locking in passive-tree choices prevents players from fully exploring the system you built (unless they're willing to invest thousands of hours). With an investment like that, any moderately-serious player will be driven to spend more time studying the wiki than playing, because a wrong choice is very expensive (though at least respecs are not impossible).

An even bigger problem, while I'm pointing out this I didn't like in PoE, is how a major factor in creating a potent build is grinding for "currency items", for dozens or hundreds of hours, to do things like reconfigure links on items. I think this sort of system is exactly the sort of thing that validates the sort of cynicism demonstrated in the parent comment. High performance is predicated on meeting a certain minimum skill level, and then investing the (many) hours.

And the latter two issues tie together, btw... because the respecs are expensive, you have to ensure that even Very Bad Choices are still viable, which is part of why there's never any meaningful challenge, except the challenge of staying awake while you grind.

Since you mention "story" and "illusion" and "role playing game", PoE's story, like nearly every other game's story, is basically total garbage. And the claim that a character is "uniquely yours" is laughable. Go look at your character creation process: choose one of 7 uninspired archetypes, listen to the dopey grimdark backstory, and sign up for the railroad characterization. You appear to want to hang your hat on writing that, in the realm of novels, would consign you to a vanity press, which baffles me.
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