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I came from reading a short piece found in internet, "Simplifying the fretboard with Pat Martino" by Jude Gold and found there a very nice insight from Martino. Learning a guitar chord vocabulary can be overwhelming, but his idea is that you can stack minor thirds to form a dim7 chord. Say you get the pattern to play it in the middle 4 strings. Then you flatten each one of the strings. Thus you generate 4 patterns of a dominant seventh chord! In fact you generate all the four inversions of the dominant seventh. Additionally those patterns match in 4 of the 5 CAGED forms. And that are the drop-2 patterns, and the relation, I think, is valid for all other drops. Having mastered dominant sevenths, one derives maj7, m7, and m7b5, the other diatonic chords, by altering the dom7, and all or most are realistically/fingerly playable. And also a similar trick for triads. All moveable of course. Thanks, Pat Martino!
Cool photos! Yeah, after flying over NYC, Chicago, San Fran, Detroit, etc. at night, NOTHING has come close to LA circuitry. Perhaps Las Vegas and Phoenix, on a smaller scale, but I haven't had a chance to view those cities personally. Southwest suburbs are much denser than elsewhere (which I assume is due to water, among other constraints).

I've done the same w/ my head outside of a Cessna. Nothing like knowing exactly how the atmosphere really "feels" to the wings (in other words, the feel of the pressure of air required to lift the Cessna!)
This is a nice piece by a professional consultant. My bet is that his company ESI consultants gets a fair amount of business from those invested in charter schools.
Great article and from Ralph Steadman https://www.beaconreader.com/michael-lindenberger/ralph-stea...
Why Monetary Awards Don't Work?
Take all those awesome skills you have learned and do those for yourself on the side.

You have learned why every good developer has side projects, gotta keep the dream alive. Two of my engineering heroes did just that, Scott Adams and Mike Judge. They can also be technical related in games, apps, etc on your own. It is much better that way in the end if you like products to launch with any amount of control.

> Scott Adams has always had several side projects because they gave him energy to endure his boring job. One of these projects became the sketches for Dilbert.

http://blog.habrador.com/2014/01/how-scott-adams-growth-hack...

Harness the energy of that boring job into something great, it is the American Dream of Engineers across the land subjugated to the power structures of now.

When you have your own things on the side you are also a little less ego driven at work as you have controllable areas on your own products and it lends to smoother teams somehow. Encourage others at work to have side projects, watch how it makes them relax and work better at work.

Most of all, always do quality work, even if it isn't fun make it fun or gamify it. If you are in a situation that prevents you from doing quality work, then you should move on.
haha, no problem! we are actually working on it. :)
> His reason for why HTTP/2 sucks is that it's not ambitious enough

No, his reason (and everyone's reason) that HTTP/2 sucks is that it doesn't solve the problems it was intended to solve. This isn't even a topic of debate within the working group. The argument at this point is not whether or why HTTP/2 sucks, it's how to deal with that fact. The approach supported by the majority seems to be to just hurry through HTTP/2 so they can start working on HTTP/3, but PHK is arguing that they should treat current HTTP/2 code as a prototype and scrap it.

Given that supporting HTTP/2 will cost the entire industry billions of dollars while still leaving a giant security gap, I tend to agree with PHK.

> whose HTTP cache software doesn't even implement HTTP/1.1 fully.

And you've done what? You think writing BitcoinJ qualifies you to talk about HTTP/1.1? PHK was committing solid code to FreeBSD when you were still in diapers. He invented the term "bikeshedding". If we are going to discard his opinion because Varnish doesn't support HTTP/1.1 fully, we should definitely discard your opinion.

Maybe don't attack people based on their qualifications when they're more qualified than you.
Recruiting is a lot like dating.

Companies are only interested in candidates that won't work for them and people would prefer to work for firms that won't hire them.

For all the talk about "competence" or "love" or even attractiveness or education, the only thing that really matters is social status.

All people ever want is trade up.

There are tricks to make this work; you can fool the other party (difficult and dangerous), you can fool yourself (easy and efficient, but kind of sad), or you can use different scales and engage in some kind of status exchange.

The recruiter needs to be a part of this trade by having some inherent tangible value themselves, to make the whole thing believable; I bet if Larry Page had made the call himself the whole thing might have worked, maybe even without any serious money offered.

But if the person on the other end of the line is a nobody the process is doomed from the start, because it signals there is no status on offer.

On the other hand, sending a copy of a former deal sounds needy and insecure, like a guy a party bragging that he used to date a model once -- something George Costanza would say. Why should anyone care? Are you dating a model right now is what we want to know.
Eerily close to an experience I've had in my career. Nobody is looking out for your career except yoursel and as the company grew, they left you behind, that's that. I'd attribute this to poor management, as you typically want to keep the core members, but sometimes this does indeed happen.

I suggest you leave and take this experience with you and be more aware during your next professional engagement. At this point, being in the company is holding you back.
Also not OP, but I'll second archagon's list.

If you're specifically looking for something that fits this thread's constraint of visually stunning, one-man indie dev Escher-style puzzle game, I feel an obligation to point you at Antichamber [0].

It's got some of Echochrome's starkness to it, but with some very nice writing/dialog(?) bits that play off the game's puzzles well. Most people will find something delightful about it, though be ready for a slower paced, introspective game. It knows you know it's a puzzle game, and will punish you for it :)

(I should note that Antichamber seems to have been in development before Echochrome or Fez, and as such likely deserves the originality that has been showered on it.)

[0] http://www.antichamber-game.com
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I don't think that's what the Old New Thing post is suggesting. Do the Germans buy a lot of 60€ white label wine? According to the article,

The average “bottle” of German wine is sold in a discount store, often with a house brand name, and costs about a Euro per liter. I put “bottle” in quotes because sometimes it comes in a juice-box type container. Decent quality for less is what the German market seeks and the discount chain’s reputation for value seals the deal.

My experience matches the Old New Thing analysis: There are plenty of good inexpensive wines, but a randomly chosen $10 bottle from a typical 200+ vintage seller is unlikely to be one of them. As you get closer to $50 the ratio of good wines to bad wines rises quite appreciably. After that it's hard to identify the added value beyond variety of experience.
You're changing the goal posts. We were talking about companies using "privileges granted to them by the government (such rights to lay cable lines) as an anti-competitive tool." Comcast is a near-monopoly here in Baltimore (though, I'm one of the lucky ones who has FiOS that Verizon managed to sneak in when the city wasn't looking), but it's not because they abused their privileges.

Ars makes it seem like Comcast bamboozled the city into signing an exclusive franchise agreement, but in reality nobody else wants to build here for the same reason Google didn't want to build here. Large parts of the city are a burned-out husk, a quarter of the population is below the poverty line, and it's unacceptable in the eyes of the city for anyone to just build-out to the parts of the city that might be able to afford fiber service.
I can't see it becoming a product as in "makes money" or "attracts investors" without compromising the slow-web spirit. Social sites traditionally thrive on compulsive re-visiting (because ad money), and limiting users to one update per day kills that dead.

That said, it might become a more attractive experiment if it had some way of floating good thoughts to more readers. E.g. you could "like" only one of the thoughts from your feed and have an extra slot in your feed for a thought that another user "liked."
Cool! Do let me know where it goes. I want to do some pen testing with an attack buttplug.
Can they see what you are doing even with dynamic websites or over https? Assuming they can only read network traffic.
When did you work there?

What you heard at EA applies to AAA console devs. If you're gambling everything on a blockbuster game with an enormous budget, it's true, I don't think it would be smart to make a PC exclusive today. That has everything to do with the crazy budget management, retail relationships, unsatisfiable consumer expectations, and unsustainable nature of the western AAAs, though. When a game like Bioshock Infinite can sell over six million copies and the developer still goes out of business, there is something deeply wrong with your business model.

If you are an indie, it's totally different. You can do everything on a very small budget with a very small team, perhaps even by yourself. You can plan to break even in the thousands or tens of thousands of copies sold, not millions. You can target the long tail instead of making or breaking your company on the first week of sales. You can have a direct relationship with your fans. Piracy changes from a death sentence to free marketing.

So for indies, PC is a clear win, because:

It's where most of the people that like indie games are.

The dev tools are free and available this second. You don't need to pay or sign an NDA and go through an approval process for dev kits, you don't need to pay for QA, you don't need to go through another QA process to push updates, you don't need a publisher. Just go and make your game.

There is no single gatekeeper. You always have the option to pick another digital distribution store or sell the game yourself. Even if you plan to rely completely on Steam, this fact makes Valve much more lenient and easier to deal with than Sony or Microsoft.

Most importantly, you can give people your game in a zip file. Free betas are awesome, especially for unproven developers. You get free word of mouth marketing, free playtesting, often great advice in early stages of development before it's "too late" to change things, and the peace of mind that people actually like your game and will buy it when you're finished. Do not underestimate the power of the free beta, it is easily the greatest benefit of the PC platform, and has singlehandedly made countless indie devs, even back before they called them that.
It's quite possible that those who control the means of production already know everything mentioned in the CNN and like things the way they are.

Salaried workers tend to be college-educated. Putting them on the treadmill reduces their ability to innovate and thereby threaten the established order.

Hourly workers tend to have less education, which lowers their status and reduces their ability to threaten the established order. So leisure for them does not pose the same risks to the established order.

Quick, what were the professions of the following people - Jefferson, Lenin, Castro, Ghandhi, Nehru, and Jinnah? Hint: they probably would have a hard time dabbling in revolution today without failing to meet their quota of billable hours.
I agree. Didn't mean to say that this project wasn't interesting or a waste of time or anything like that -- it definitely has its own merits.
Missionaries and Cannibals AI problem in R
I'm still having terrible trouble believing that Bill Gates has written any code himself. I see him as a ruthless businessman, not a coder.
Yea it really does, it also allows me to go all day without eating, which is both good and bad.
I was drinking that much too, but I swear it makes me less creative, if that makes sense. I have so many more ideas about stuff when I don't drink my coffee. But that's getting off topic.
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I was in the same boat, not sure if I can give advice but I just took another corporate job while my company grows and I advise them and help where projects actually sound fun, otherwise I just don't care

In the meantime I work on building my own sellable tech.

Hope that helps, I'm working on a sweet e-commerce platform right now and building just little sellable tools
Worse than a Defeat
I pay $8.19/.com with GoDaddy with the Domain Club - nobody can touch their prices, but GoDaddy doesn't have an API and according to their account executives I spoke to, they won't offer one anytime soon.
One nice thing about this release is the ability to switch to the more compact dev-edition theme.

In about:config search for: browser.devedition.theme.enabled and set it to 'true'

Set devtools.theme to 'dark' for the dark theme (I've left this disabled as I don't like how the icons look with the dark UI).
I'm not sure 'probability' was even in popular use in Twain's times.
Just wanted to x2 this post with some experience.

For 15 years I worked out every day. Founded a company, and switched to ZERO workout, lots of coffee and little sleep.

Almost had a physical / emotional / mental breakdown and came to realization it was from not getting any exercise.

That was on Thanksgiving of this year. Been working out and back in the gym 4x per week and my gosh, my energy level is up 500%, no lie.
Let me know how it goes and what you think of it. I'm really interested to hear more about it.
So far looks like grbl flashed to Arduino.

What is the budget for your machine? I'm also very interested in CNC and interested to see further progress and part 2.
Maybe the NYO doesn't want to get shot at?
Looks wonderful! I've ordered one just now, but I'm incredibly disappointed to find after clicking 'order' that I'm not expected to receive it until the end of March.

* Update * -- if you watch all of the videos, it eventually shows you that it's not shipping right away.
Prisons in my state separate criminals by a risk or violent threat level. A whole facility gets this level, so no one in prison A is a violent criminal. Violent criminals are all in another prison B in another county.
Chrome brings up an alert because each download is custom configured for each user. We are working with Google to try to sort this out, but for now, you can ignore the alert.
A domain host that is pushing .bs & with a cliche web 2.0 logo & .net. That alone worries me. How long have you been with them.
Very cool! But ATMega's can be pretty pricey as well as connectors like USB. Bluetooth LE would be a pretty good alternative especially since it's wireless.

Check out platforms like the mbed (http://developer.mbed.org/) which can work with Nordic's really nice nRF51822 chipset. This is the same one in the Estimote iBeacons and it's a very nice platform.

They even come in module forms that are pre-certified with the FCC to make integration with end-devices more friendly. Modules such as the PTR5518 can be pretty cheap (http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/PTR5518-Coin-size-nR...) and small, and they just could get soldered to your existing circuit. Best of all, the mbed source code you write for the firmware works directly in those modules too.

Good luck with the project!
Leonard Ritter is a very talented guy. Looking forward to NOWHERE.

He's known as paniq in the demoscene and did the music, 2d engine and graphics for the awesome Masagin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbQhgEJuExY
Yes. They are not 'almost universally completely different'. There are elements in Minecraft (which didn't originate those elements) which are not in them, certainly. Minecraft brought a bunch of cool things together, I agree. And it was compelling enough to go places. But the idea that this was a thunderbolt of inspiration that hit notch with the best idea ever that then changed the world is just fantasy.

Post-hoc rationalization is humanity's only superpower.
Will Gadd: 'We were climbing ice that isn’t going to be there next week'
Yes, I am bonded and have professional liability insurance. I have no idea who I use (my best friend is an insurance broker and manages it) I don't know what it covers and my expense is about $119 / month.
Hey there, really love the extension! It's nice to have something like this and it's a good way to record thoughts and feedback.

Speaking of user experience, you should really use inline installation[1] for chrome extensions. It provides a really nice experience so that users don't need to leave your site. It also allows you to detect if the extension is installed so that way you can remove the install button for people who already have it.

[1] https://developer.chrome.com/webstore/inline_installation
> At some level, if you're a few years into vesting, and the company is successful, it may not significantly change your financial outcome to stay -- you have early stage stock in a successful startup.

somewhat related question - doesn't the huge taxes on the options exercise upon leaving make that huge difference between leaving and staying? How does people manage it? Doesn't it forces you to stay until the exit?
I'd be interested in speaking with you. Bring your experience to my early stage, funded startup and let's talk about how you want to advance your career:

www.jobville.co

BTW, where are you located?
As exposition, I think this piece falls into the trap of explaining the specifics of CABAC as if it was a concrete object like an internal combustion engine. Arithmetic coding is not difficult to visualize, as the well-known Dasher applet shows, and there's no problem with giving a very general and abstract explanation rather than working through a specific implementation. The question of the size of the alphabet is orthogonal to the topic of context adaptation, and I think CA could be clearly introduced in a generic setting before picking an alphabet size. Dasher uses the actual alphabet (well, a character set) which makes the predictive aspect of context adaptation obvious to anyone who has played with Markov chains.

Actually the Wikipedia page for CABAC seems a bit confused and fanboyish on some points. Maybe I am missing something, but "It encodes binary symbols, which keeps the complexity low and allows probability modelling for more frequently used bits of any symbol" sounds like garbage to me...
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I think i'd go for 'void undefined'.
And all the tasty fruits that require pollination would become a lot more expensive.
CSV parsing: https://github.com/BurntSushi/rust-csv

Arg parsing: https://github.com/docopt/docopt.rs
I'm interested in Step 2. How do you plan on generating the G-code from a shape (in any of the various formats)?

I'm lazy and mostly a software guy, so I have been looking enviously at these: http://www.ebay.com/itm/3040-CNC-ROUTER-ENGRAVER-4-AXIS-MILL...
Oh hell yes. I worked for a transportation company and used to park the van and spend at least 1-2 hours sitting in the van outside hacking away on public wifi. Got caught all the time.
I wonder if there will (soon) be a service such as the original arXiv but for the masses. By that I mean an eprint repository without any sort of peer review or endorsement, while making complete removal or withdrawal purposely impossible, which seems to be a feature unique to arXiv [1]. It looks like viXra does away with the endorsement requirement, but it does allow complete removal [2].

For archival purposes the policy that forbids withdrawal seems to outweigh any other considerations. (I'm sure arXiv has made some exceptions during all this years, for instance if the content is shown to come from a different source.)

[1] http://arxiv.org/help/withdraw

[2] You can remove old versions if you wish using the removal form, but remember that one purpose of viXra is to record the priority of your discoveries. http://vixra.org/faq
Nice attempt by Dixon to pattern match, but I think he is substantially wrong on his diagnosis (of some peaceful build out). My recollection of the dot-com bubble is that desktop Internet B2B in the developed world drove the vast majority of VC funding. Specifically, the following markets/opptys (including a greater opportunity with the sum of parts) did not even figure out in the discussion during the dot com time frame

1.	smartphone and mobile ecosystem (phones, apps, games etc..)

2.	Digital/Search advertising

3.	Social networking

4.	1.5 Billion customers in China/SE Asia/South Asia

So it is definitely odd to suggest that some sort of correlation between the dot com bubble and the VC funding now. One of the most astute commentaries on the modern VC funding conundrum was published a couple of days back

http://reactionwheel.net/2015/01/80s-vc.html

It is long but well worth reading. The author makes a very good case that VC funding today is like VC funding in the 1980’s in that

1.	Too much focus on competing in established markets (so trying to disrupt existing rental, delivery, hotel systems etc.) instead of trying to create new markets from scratch

2.	Trying to flip startups to established companies instead of trying to build out a non-existent market

3.	Investment driven by fear of risk instead of looking at risk as the ultimate source of super normal returns.

I think the correct diagnosis of the flattening of the VC investments is that VC’s are now taken over by fear of risk and keep investing in risk-less opportunities. As a result they keep getting lesser returns, which keeps shrinking the money that will flow into the VC class. They are like our great-grandparents who lost out in the 1929 crash and kept on talking about the always-eminent bubble and never trusted the stock market again. We now had two crashes 2000 and 2008 so who knows how long the psychological scars will take to heal.

A lot more VC money should be flowing in so that phenomenal businesses and markets can be created. If anything the size of the VC opportunity should dwarf the dot.com period. One of the consultancies published a report in 2012 that the total wealth of the world was about $600 Trillion (with a T) and on track to grow to $900 Trillion end of the decade. There is a mountain of cash sitting, there is are a bunch of issues to resolve but there is no mechanism to match them. Fear is a pretty destructive force.

EDIT: Another good article on the failure of creating new markets (and it is a problem) is by Clay Christensen on the Capitalist Dilemma

https://hbr.org/2014/06/the-capitalists-dilemma
LAMP with the P being PHP or Python.

The great thing about being a LAMP developer is you can either get a job, basically anywhere or freelance doing web development or app development.
If true, this is totally psychopathic behavior.
It's a better method of freezing than traditional ice cream makers. Faster freeze = smaller ice crystals = creamier mouthfeel.

It's also easier in many ways for them. You don't even have to have freezers, since you're spot freezing everything. It saves you from buying a batch freezer for making it, which is $30,000 used. I'm told that if you're buying LN regularly, the distributor will hook you up with the tank at a low monthly fee. So it's probably much cheaper to start a stand that way.

The downside is it's a little less time-efficient. It's REALLY easy to make a 5 gallon batch of ice cream in a Carpigiani.
Would be nice if they had an API like Namecheap, or supporte the new TLDs.