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Oh god no. I appreciate the ideas. My problem is that you categorized experiences into good ones(as in - the ones you had) and into bad ones(as in - the ones others are having). And driving fast on public roads is not the only point you made and I am not trying to defend illegal activities - and also one could argue that ethically hunting animals stands lower than speeding - but I am not trying to make such point so I will not defend it if you decide to discuss it. You also mentioned people spending their childhood playing games - what if I show you someone who thanks to THEIR experience with games went on to become a programmer, designer, artist - and is now a perfectly happy person? Is their life any less because they have not experienced hunting deer in the wilderness?

I only mentioned bigotry, because this is what happens when someone says "I have experience X, therefore everyone should have experience X because I have had it and it is the best, instead of activities Y or Z which are clearly inferior to my experience X". I am not calling you a bigot - one comment on the internet is far too little to judge that.
It's also a single basket for all your eggs.
Irrespective of your opinion on the complicated topic of abortion wouldn't you agree that contraceptives exemplify a more civilized approach to birth control? Maybe a bad analogy, yes but shouldn't we primarily look for solutions which prevent suffering in the first place?
I am not a climate expert, but I think you're grossly downplaying the complexity of the climate change problem. There are so many factors in play. Its not just a matter of CO2 emissions. There is methane from animal livestock, contrails from aircraft, cloud cover, methane hyderates in the ocean, sunspot activity; Even the average reflectance of the earth's surface(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albedo). Every year the scientist's models and theories seems to be changing. All we seem to know for sure is that global average temperatures are indeed rising.

I have the sneaky (unscientific) suspicion that whatever drastic measures we would inevitably have to take to curb CO2 emissions is going to open its own can of worms. The footprint of human activity is simply that large.
I'm not sure if it works from the international space station, but with a link from the dark side of the moon maybe the question can be extended to include all aspects of life
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Well spoken!

In regards to the Speccy: there is still a nice community around it, developing even new hardware for it: e.g. you can easily attach SD cards or newer hard disks to it, and boot speccy games in a second, there is networking etc.... go to worldofspectrum!
That's one of the core principles of how propaganda works. And Russians are currently utilizing it perfectly.
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In the 80s? LePen sr was all for lower taxes, the end of subventions, much less government intervention, drastic cuts in public spending well into the 2000s. It's only with the arrival of his daughter at the head of the party and her attempts at making it look more respectable that things changed.
...with boughs of holly?
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I agree with you, and I also replaced burnt bulbs as a kid, but nowadays I'm seeing more and more Christmas lights using molded plastic instead of sockets (also, usually with LEDs instead of bulbs), so replacing them is much harder than it used to be.
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You don't have to.

I am thinking about it, as a lot of job ads want to see some examples of your work, and my stuff is all in house. If the code is going to a good cause, why not.
Quote:

There are no facts, only interpretations.

--Friedrich Nietzsche
That's a good point. I'm looking for highest value by the metric of something like 'weighted sum of subjective value of all problems'.

Not really about a start-up idea. I've been talking to a person who claims to have such an algorithm, but is looking for an actual instance of a real-world problem.

So far, no one I've asked has been able to describe such a problem.
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I think a charitable interpretation of the grandparent poster is that he wants young people to channel their desire for adventure into not only playing video games rather than for them to not play video games at all.
"Why is not every book, t-shirt or smartphone is just great?"

Different people have different ideas of what "great" means. Not everyone thinks the Harry Potter series are great books, while many do. We see that in movies where a movie does poorly at the box office while the critics.

The definition of greatness changes over time, so "It's a Wonderful Life", now considered one of the most critically acclaimed films ever made, had only mediocre revenue when it came out.

Greatness is sometimes situational, so "Dan Brown ... is the undisputed king of airplane books — the not-too-heavy, not-too-long potboilers perfect for a long layover." If you don't fly, then perhaps there's no time when Brown's works might appeal.

Travel has its own category of "good enough." Visiting Germany once I bought a book from the limited English selection not because it was great, but because it was something to read on the long train ride.

A lot of people watch sports, but surely it can't be that all sports games are great, so greatness can't be the only reason for keeping someone's interest.

Since it's hard to predict greatness, people will test out ideas to see if there's a response. Sometimes this can lead to feedback and improvements. Sometimes this testing is through writing clubs. Sometimes (as with smartphone apps) this is with the market itself.
> How is her cashing on her celebrity any different than a person funding an advertisement?

1. Popularity is naturally limited - you can only be so popular.

2. Laws made by Congress have negligible influence on Ophra's popularity. Not so with money. Corporations fund laws that make them more money which they can fund laws with.

In general it's the old fallacy of equating people's natural variance in ability - limited, not susceptible to positive feedback loop with the money/power inequality - practically unlimited, strongly reinforced by a positive feedback loop.
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Wouldnt they see the same amount of churn a typical user would see?

I do not use them but they say "That’s why Backblaze backs up your data automatically and constantly looks for new and changed files to backup. Install Backblaze and never worry about losing a file again."

Unless you are running a database it seems like the most common use case for files is write once, update every once in a while. Document creation (code for us or office docs non-coders) would be a bunch of writes up front then follow the same pattern of update every once in a while

I suppose their reads are much less than a typical user, but I didnt think reads contributed much to eventual drive failure
These are excellent points. Whoever downvoted you probably stopped reading after point 1. Decentralization could help a lot. Switzerland, for example, has a very fine-grained system of political control, with only minimal power concentration in the capital. This increases political accountability as well as the costs of lobbyism. The reason why France needs such strong anti-lobbyism laws in the first place is because it has overly powerful politicians, which in turn attracts this kind of money. Dispersing power attacks the problem at its root cause.
Perhaps "debriefing" would work?
It's not always easy to see the broken filament, or at least didn't used to be (I've not really examined many in detail recently).

As a kid in the 80s, I used to work in my dad's hardware shop and people regularly used to bring in lights that didn't work. We had a little test area set up where we would put each bulb in turn to find out which one(s) wouldn't light.
Greenpeace NZ unambiguously supports and advocates hunting possums, and selling their fur.
There seems to have been a surprising amount of attention paid to passive wifi tracking recently. We did a hack weekend project on this last year (http://matthewmacleod.co.uk/blog/passive-wifi-tracking.html – though I never got to write it up properly) and I've had a number of people looking for more details.

This article's a pretty good approach. We used Kismet instead though – you can control it using a nice TCP interface, and have it spit out the hardware MAC addresses of any packets it sees.

Pretty interesting, but I'd never roll this out in a public place. Just seems a little creepy…
Heh.

I've been working on just one game for four years.

If you're into Conway's Game of Life, Warp Life for iOS will have its second beta test soon: http://www.warplife.com/life/

I've got a very basic prototype for Android; I'll set into Android in earnest after Warp Life is in the App Store.

I'll be releasing the source code under the Affero GPLv3.
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> That's not going to happen as a charity or by weekend hackers. Linus isn't going to get frustrated at the size of video files and take a week off to come up with a better codec.

That's kind of what he did with Git.
As the original poster noted, sometimes it's far better to have a single basket for your eggs, that you keep well backed up, than it is to have multiple baskets, none of which are backed up.
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There was this

https://www.flickr.com/photos/73923873@N05/sets/721576287942...

http://www.edaboard.com/thread236934.html

http://hackaday.com/2012/10/08/stm32-driving-a-pcie-video-ca...

Standalone code running on _not plugged into anything_ Radeon HD2400

authors blog: http://www.pixel.io/blog/
he never released any source, actually he had something posted to github, but made repo private
I'm surprised the author criticised their artistic ability so much. I found the art style quite endearing and seeing the different graphic styles to emulate different systems was impressive.
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> The problem you've identified is the fact that there is a government, or that powerful people exist.

The problem is the unnecessary concentration of power in the hands of very few politicians. The key to solving this problem lies less in reducing government powers, but in distributing it better. By the principle of subsidiarity, regulation should always happen at the lowest possible level. At first sight, it sounds inefficient to have slightly different laws that govern the same things in every state. But there is a lot of value in diversity, as it allows for direct comparisons and thereby the system as a whole to evolve much more naturally. Also, it allows for fine-tuning of regulation to local situations.
Coming from OCaml, I'm jealous of what I see of the F# standard library. Looks like there is a lot of nice built-in stuff. The different case conventions make a bit jarring, though.
If you memorize poems at all you have to remember the exact words; IMO they're easier than memorizing numbers. (In fact, the way I can remember the first 50-or-so digits of pi is that someone wrote a poem where the word-lengths correspond to the digits).
> learning about a new language (without becoming proficient with it)

Mostly true, but there are languages which are completely useless without becoming proficient with them. In my experience Forth and J are such languages: you can "learn about" them, but you won't really understand them without using them for some time. So I suspect APL, K, Q and Eli here are similar; the question is what will I gain from becoming proficient with one of them or alternatively is it worth becoming proficient in one of them if I'm already proficient with another.
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I'm sure googlers read this forum and may reach out to you.
> Technically, copying furniture is not ok, it's infringing on the copyright of the design.

The idea that a design would be something you'd own, license, or keep track of, is a very new one.

> freely copying people's works because it isn't available in your region is probably harming the creator of the work since their potential market is taken away from them.

Sure, but by how much? Does it actually lead to works not being made, to creators going back to their day job? Is the cost actually bigger than the benefit of copying the work?

Also, as a policy this aligns the incentives correctly: it means creators and publishers are encouraged to find a way to distribute their work everywhere as soon as possible. Which is what copyright is supposed to do.
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If you’re going to do it properly you’d actually attach candles to your tree, although this is slightly riskier (I’ve been woken and run out of the house by my mum in the past while my dad attempted to put out a flaming branch).
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I can't quite grasp this - 40% to what?

Availability of photons?

What is 20% vs 40%? Same size cell putting out twice the power for the same sunlight? Okay, but what makes the 20% ?
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Needing a warrant for long term video surveillance of one's home--I can get on board with that. Despite the defendant's bad reputation, the larger implications here have the EFF defending the common man as per usual.
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> That's not going to happen as a charity or by weekend hackers.

To be honest that's exactly what happened with Vorbis (1 FOSS guy) and Opus (2 FOSS guys, 1 Skype guy).

The MPEG process is full off politics and massive overheads.
We had an APL implementation and it was replaced 5 or so years ago.

It wasn't because of scared management. It was because they were paying for language knowledge not business knowledge. What replaced it, mostly C++ and Python, had better tooling and a wider pool of subject expertise to draw from.
Huge props for diving in to a mostly-extinct platform!

I've always wondered what the process was for game programmers on the early PCs and consoles.

Are there any books or documentaries that go into depth about the development process of, for instance, Super Mario Bros? I've only seen stuff targeting "mainstream" audiences that glosses over anything technical.
A fair point. I'm sure they have done some evil stuff. But then I read this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-30491435
I agree with both of you, although I'm not surprised you were downvoted. A few additional points:

1) Money has diminishing returns in elections. Once you have flooded the system with campaign ads, get-out-the-vote volunteers, analytics teams, etc, additional money eventually stops buying additional votes.

2) The wealthiest donors in our country donate the maximum to all candidates in an election. This is not buying an election, it's buying favors from whomever gets elected. There is a difference, and from what I understand of the type of campaign finance reform Mr. Lessig is advocating for, it fails to do anything to address this issue.

3) Democracy comes in all flavors, but IMHO the best is not the most democratic (gives the most people a voice), it's the one that distributes power most evenly across a population. I firmly agree it's the concentration of power, not the influence of money, that corrupts any system.
Amateur ShoDo practitioner here: not sure that "Japanese brush painting" is actually a good idea for programming.
Maybe you mean something like the Korean writing system: Hangul (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul)?

For what I know, Hangul "glyphs" provide consistent encoding (see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Featural_alphabet).

In Japanese Kanji the "elements" (Radicals, or Bushu, see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_%28Chinese_characters%2...) do _often_ work as semantic indicators (see for example Radical 85: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_85 which usually implies some connection with water or other liquids) but the connection may be obscure, or even look random - as an example (among hundreds) see 淋 where the radical for water, followed by two "tree" radicals means: "lonely, deserted, abandoned".
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I lived right beside it for a while, we had a lot of visiting birds (Tui mostly) singing in our garden.
Love it! it's a chrome pain-killer ;)
I hate to say it, but this is why I don't see us going to Mars within our lifetime. At least not through NASA.
Given that the destructive mammals are already present, and number in the billions, wouldn't it be more efficient to introduce an extra layer of mammalian predators? That would get rid of the ones already present, or at least to keep their numbers down to manageable levels. It seems that these invasive species have become particularly destructive precisely because they are not subject to any native predators.
I participated in One Game a Month (1GAM) in 2013. It was an amazing experience, even though I managed to make "only" 5 games. It's astonishing to read that the author had the very same problems I had.

Even when I had a clear vision of what I wanted to make, it was pretty hard to avoid feature creeping. When you hit the 90% completion mark, the TODO list starts to grow so scarily fast that the only way out is to develop/improve focus and the ability to ship things. That's when you level up as a developer :)

1GAM is a great opportunity to learn how to ship things, managing time and scope.
We have some pretty significant matrix processor apps made with APL at the company.

I'd really like to bring this functionality to our web apps, but it seems HTTP interface and external APIs are not available in these implementations. How can you use ELi, or any APL, with a web app?

ELI site is down at the moment, but I read couple of their docs through google cache. There is support of compiling into C, but what about support for C interface? Or HTTP out of the box?
Well said, thanks
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I was unaware of LEAP, I assume you mean: https://leap.se/en/services/email ? Interesting approach, to use a local proxy to be able to transparently wrap legacy SMTP/IMAP with some added security and convenience beyond "just" GPG/PGP.
More relevantly, it is a good test image. It's a woman with a bare shoulder! Nobody would have a problem with it if it were an attractive man in that image instead (sexuality irrelevant).
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Like the New York Times drowns out my neighborhood gazette? That's not a good reason to let Congress regulate the former.
or you can generate electricity with a combustion engine a move two electric motors... like the railroads
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NES development is alive and well in the Romhacking community, and although I don't know of any detailed commercial project documentation of the sort you asked about, there are tons of guides out there for NES development in general.

It's pretty intense. You don't even have proper sprites. they had to work with 8x8 pixel tiles and piece them together to create images. There were also pretty severe pallet limitations.

All in all it's very interesting.
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For CPU, there is no another processor that can run all the abstraction software so it has to be done in hardware or in software in a way that is transparent to user (microcode, Transmeta-style JIT...).
Just for background, there's an ideological divide in contemporary Aotearoa. On the one side are the proponents of "traditional" (pre-late 1960s) white Pakeha culture. They tend to be pro-farming and hunting (good vigorous manful activities), pro-traditional gender ideas and against most/all reconciliation/restitution measures towards the Maori population. This group includes a lot of Aotearoa's wealthiest white families and so has economic strength. Their party (National) is currently in power and supports generally liberal economics.

The other side is critical of these white tropes, and tends to support measure pushing back against whitification of Aotearoa (habitat/native population restoration, promotion of Maori culture, treaty settlements.) This groups is more popular with Aotearoa's middle and lower classes, and their opinions are functionally mainstream. Anybody openly endorsing the attitudes of the former camp are subject to a lot of criticism (although you would be surprised how many white homes are, within private walls, against this consensus.)

Because it's an ideological divide you tend to find this sort of defensive, irritable black and white argumentation when the pro-white side feels under attack. They don't get to express their opinions publicly very much, so they bottle up a lot of frustration.
So, what you're saying is only use Google services if you're an US citizen and only use FastMail if you carry an Australian passport -- because otherwise all bets are off?
Yeah, my idea is pretty vague. I didn't mean actually using any particular Japanese/Chinese/Korean writing system for programming, but rather something more abstract where elements of the calligraphic aesthetic would be adopted to serve algorithmic notation.

Something like "this large brushy swoop here is the part where all those matrices on the left are reduced, and then on the right we have these leafy things that map them into coordinates"...
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They'll have to eradicate it in Pakistan and Afghanistan first, and around there people don't really trust foreigners

The same people in those same places don't trust children who go to high school, and are willing to kill the children in large numbers.[1] The simple fact of the matter is that the sole remaining countries in the world with large numbers of cases of endemic polio were mostly countries with backwardness-promoting Islamist movements even long before anyone knew that Bin Laden was hiding out in the same city of Pakistan where the Pakistan Military Academy is located.

[1] "Over 120 Pakistanis, mostly children, killed in Taliban high school attack" (Reuters)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/16/us-pakistan-school...
Oh, if only things were so black and white what an uncomplicated world we'd be living in. Unfortunately the reality you describe is not the reality we live in.
Things like insecure SSL options (we knew that, but wanted to support older devices for a little longer - we've bitten the bullet and switched to SHA256 certs now, and turned off RC4)

They recommended a bcrypt hashing factor which isn't realistic for fast responses, it would have pegged a core for over a second.

A few things that were just testbed specific, and a couple of rate limits we had missed.

Some "internal details leaked in errors" - in two minds about that. Sometimes it helps debug. We mostly log the verbose error internally now and give the user a unique key that makes log grepping easy. Harder to self-help if you hit an error we didn't make a nice error code for yet though and you have tech clue.
OP here!

I found Z80 assembler quite interesting (I had previous experience with Intel 16 and 32 bit), and Z88DK supports inline asm so it wasn't too bad if you can restrict the assembler code to small routines and still do the main bits in C.
Also related: The doodles by a 13th century 6 or 7 year-old:
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Is his job as a federal congressman to only think of his own state at a cost to the rest of the country?

If that's the case, then maybe it's time that the US got a national parliament (with proportional representation) unencumbered by the district system.
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