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Just out of curiosity...anyone here actually play the OP's game? I bought it awhile ago because it is one of the few "Overwhelmingly Positive" games on Steam for the Mac (which no doubt helps the OP's sales there)...it's one of the dumbest games I've ever enjoyed...And I mean "dumb" in a good way...it's absurd to think that, after a long day of real work, I can get entertainment out of frantically flipping burgers in your shoddy shack of a cafe for virtual customers from 6AM to 10PM...but it's a testament to the game's solid design and polish. Props to the OP for good work, and also, making something that shouldn't be fun, fun.
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This sounds like a pretty advanced 3d engine. From the sound of it, it is a terrain generator. Was it Unity 3d, this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFlbWZxhKUw ?
Things that you're ignoring:

- At least in America, there is a disdain among the working class for intellectual pursuits, and that manifests itself in their children leading to the more athletic (and therefore more likely to be on a sports team) students pushing the less athletic (and therefore more likely to be into intellectual pursuits) students around. It's hardly surprising that the students on the receiving end of this will reject sports as it seems to celebrate the very people that push them around.

- All of those "small towns" out there where excelling at sports is grounds for even the adults of the community to engage in academic fraud and cover-ups of criminal behaviour so that the sports team (and said students' future sports prospects) aren't affected.

I don't think that this is a good reason to just paint all of sports with the same brush. There are plenty of students that end up on sports teams that aren't necessarily one of the "cool kids" or bullies. To paint them with the same brush by association isn't a good thing, but it's understandable why this happens (and why it propagates into adult-hood).
In my opinion, most people want to be part of their "team". Where the definition of team is highly dependent on the context. When you're a teenager, you're team is typically your high school. But you can abstract this "team" concept upwards. If two states (in the US) were competing, then you'd support your state. If it was your country competing against another country, you'd support your country. Hypothetically, if aliens attacked earth, it would be quite interesting to watch the earthly team spirit arise and would likely change the perspective of many people and countries. In this hypothetical scenario would Chomsky still not support his "team"? Being part of team high school is bad? But being part of team earth is good?
RethinkDB 1.16 doesn't have auto-failover yet, but ReQL admin still helps because you can integrate it with external cluster management tools that you could use to initiate the failover.

We are actively developing the foundations for integrated auto-failover at the moment, so auto-failover is going to come soon.
An impressive robot is just so much more novel and interesting than a feat of human strength. Not to say sports aren't impressive, or that professional athletes aren't incredibly dedicated and talented, but someone hitting a baseball isn't very interesting.
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I find this a fascinating topic to think about because I've had so much experience with it.

Sports have been a significant part of my life ever since I was in 1st grade. I played several varsity sports throughout high school and had opportunities for scholarships in two different sports. One of those sports was golf and I find that it elicits the opposite response in a way that I hate (but also understand).

When I've been at interviews for Google, Facebook, Amazon, wherever, I inevitably talk about sports with the other undergrads that are interviewing with me. In an effort to avoid the perception that I'm some sort of country club WASP, I rarely mention that I played extremely high level golf throughout high school. I fear that it won't fit into the "culture" of various places that I've applied to and likely won't mesh with those I'm talking to. So instead, I let my "hipster"-ish clothing, love of post-hardcore metal, and interest in all books not found on the NYT Bestseller list, craft whatever perception people may have of me.

But despite this, I can talk about the NBA and NFL with the best of them and I'm getting to the point where I don't care what people think because I've found it's too hard to worry about it. If I want to go throw some iron over my head 4 times a week and people consider me a meathead, so be it. But it's a whole lot easier to have them think that than to try to hide it for ridiculous reasons.
For every person who proudly says that they don't know anything about the NFL there are 1000 people who proudly say that they don't know anything about math.
I disagree. I think that Counterparty adds value to the Bitcoin platform. I envision BTC almost being like gold, not something that will ultimately be used everyday. I think a token built inside of Counterparty will be that everyday used token.

Its kind of like the internet, the original value of the internet was to transfer files from point A to point B.
Then came: email, the browser, instant messaging, online shopping, social media, streaming, ext.....

This adds additional value to the Bitcoin blockchain thus making it more desirable to have.

But i do agree that the miners should work on useless algorithms, that is the best way to keep it just and fair, but building applications inside of that is just fantastic
Let me just quote Bob Ryan for a moment (a great, old school sportswriter -- another reason to enjoy sports is that there are some great writers in that field) "Literature, music, art, film, theatre and sport are ALL part of a fulfilling leisure time life. Each pushes a specific emotional button"
I like this concept in particular, because it has no mechanical parts in contact with the water: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcStpg3i5V8

Edit: It seems however that tidal power is a more interesting research area [1]. I still find it's a neat idea, it also makes awesome noises: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK65S0sPtsg (loud)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavegen
The length of the commute is not a problem. While charging from a regular 230V outlet(standard here in EU) you only add 8 miles of range per every hour of charging. If I had it I would not be able to recharge during the night what I drove out during the day. Unless I installed a more powerful charger....which I can't fit where I live. That's my problem with that car.
>You should be able to identify them by a pattern of harmful actions.

Not if they are specifically hiding those actions from people that would recognize them as harmful.

>If you haven't observed their harmful actions or those supposed actions' effects, you're acting irrationally and going on witchhunts.

I don't know why you're making a narrative about witch hunts. The original statement was that it's bad when people keep biases but don't discuss them anywhere they might be corrected. Denouncing hiding is pretty much the opposite of going on a witch hunt.
http://www.technologystudent.com/energy1/tidal7.htm
I think what he's referring to is people who are proud of their ignorance, which it doesn't sound like you are doing. You've certainly encountered people who believe saying things like "Oh, I don't even know who Kim Kardashian is" or "I haven't read a book since college" is bragging.
Sorry, let's correct that then. <2% have successes at the scale of angry birds and minecraft, 8% do decently, and 90% never make cost. But we all are above average right? We all will be ultra successful.
Content discovery on mobile is broken and requires a lot more advertising effort or store features.

PC is more organic as there are a ton of stores and steam itself promotes game discovery as friend's games are visible.

I'm one of those DotA playing guys who loves small indie games (try to start working on one.)

I'd also love Brothers if it's still available :D

You can add me on steam if you feel like: http://steamcommunity.com/id/amxn
Eat road?
> I think you're equating all sports with American Football.

The article is titled as about "professional sports", the social effect it discusses is about socially-popular professional sports in general, and in discussing them the specific example used throughout is American football.

It should not be surprised that the discussion of the articles thesis centers, then, around the same things as the article itself. "Sport" in some vague, general sense is not really the subject.

> I totally agree about the military displays, the nationalism and religious overtones that get mixed in with Football in the US. But that's one sport. There are many others, and aside from probably Nascar, none of them come close to Football in those terms.

Major League Baseball's pretty similar to Football in those regards.
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Does anybody have any thoughts on the differences between Sandstorm, Camlistore, and Tent?

It seems there are a number of problems here. We need:

1. Better data stores
2. Better server environments
3. Better ways to share data with others

I wonder if Camlistore's approach might not be the cleanest, since it doesn't try to bundle (1) and (2) together.

EDIT: Not to get too sappy, but any of these would be _fantastic_ compared to our current Web 2.0 disaster, and I'm glad Sandstorm is picking up steam.
Take a look at this blog post on improving scroll performance.
https://nolanlawson.s3.amazonaws.com/www/ionic_list_perf/ind...
The biggest trick is to use CSS and pseudo elements instead of actual DOM elements and bindonce wherever possible. Performant scrolling on older Android will always be tricky, even on native.
I assume you mean Indiecade East (http://indiecade.com/east)?
Indiecade is a fantastic event, but I think of it as much more an event for indie devs to shoot the shit and have fun than a great place to find an audience.

You'll probably get to show your game to some appreciative fans, and you'll probably have a great time, but I wouldn't necessarily assume it'll be that great for your game. Might be slightly different if your game is being formally featured, but even then...
You say that as though modern politics isn't a bunch of people mindlessly rooting for their favorite team.
Auto-failover is hard because of some fairly deep-rooted aspects of how RethinkDB is implemented. When one of your servers dies, the RethinkDB cluster won't allow any reconfigurations until it reconnects. If the server is permanently dead, you can tell the RethinkDB cluster to go on without it; but you shouldn't do that unless the server is actually permanently dead, because the server won't be allowed to rejoin the cluster later. This makes it hard to write an automatic failover tool because you'd need to be able to tell the difference between a server that's permanently dead and a server that's just dropped its connection for a bit.

The solution is to re-architect RethinkDB so that it can reconfigure a table even if there's a disconnected server. This is a pretty big project, but we're working on it, and it will probably ship around April or May. We'll also include server-side auto failover at that time, because it's easy once this problem is solved.
But this has two issues if i am reading this right:

1. Since only Gridcoin has the information of the users, than what is to prevent them from creating fake accounts that they themselves hold and paying themselves more Gridcoins?

2. Unless if every single donor has an encrypted Comodo (or something similar) email with Gridcoin, then emails can be stolen. And if gridcoin becomes valuable enough and emails are not encrypted, then its a sure thing that they will be stolen.
I've found myself in a much different position WRT sports: I can't talk about it and not be a completely out-of-touch nerd. And it actually is a problem. People do like talking about sports, but you'd be surprised at how few really care about sports. When I like something I get into it: Bayesian systems, predictive analytics, disregarding common assumptions. Most people just don't want to talk about sports in that way.
I wouldn't say it's about being "closest" to real-world, but rather that it's close enough to be useful, but distant enough that the change of perspective helps us see things differently. It reminds me of the way sci-fi can be a device for talking about today's problems in a context that's sufficiently distant from our actual world that it can help people to see things they wouldn't have seen about the immediate real-world issue.
>That's nice. What other corporate products must I consume in order to be a validated member of your social caste?

I guess you ask that rhetorically, but I think it is an interesting question. I'd say you have to listen through the music top charts. You also have to watch most popular movies every year. There are more TV-series than there is time to watch, so I'd guess I'll say you only have to watch one or two of your choice. Read synopses of the rest.

Furthermore you should have at least some passing familiarity with the most popular games, but there is no need to go all out. 10 hours each in final fantasy, mario, random flash games(10h total), mobile games(10h total), counterstrike, starcraft, league of legends, dota, wow,
But it requires the attacker to know a lot of information in the first place: 4 time/date pairs.

In other words, if you already know a lot of information about a person, you can get even more information from the "anonymous" data set. Why is that surprising?
I was disinterested in all sports up until about 4 years ago when my boss randomly game me tickets to a hockey game. I found out I really like hockey and have been a big fan since.

I think interest in sports is pretty healthy. But like all things, in moderation. But it's not so much about sports specifically, but rather having diverse interests is healthy.
Yeah, I've never understood the raving about the i8. I get that it's one of the first major performance efforts of a major car manufacturer, but it really isn't that great when you compare it to a Tesla.

Compare it to the P85D; you get 23 miles of electric vs 253, you get 0-60 in 4.4s vs 3.1, you're still dependent on gas, plus it costs a heck of a lot more to buy +~$30,000. Although the total range is 330mi for the BMW, it's still not exactly mind blowingly better than the Tesla.

If I was buying electric, I'd personally want to go all in.

The only thing going for it is that it actually looks like a cool sports car where the Tesla does not.

EDIT: Note that the one thing this article does not do, is compare it to a Tesla. I think the BMW marketing people must be avoiding that comparison ;)
"DUCK EFFICIENCY on COMPLIANT AXIS" is a great title for a graph. It would make for a pretty amusing piece of art.

http://i.imgur.com/NR34IOt.jpg
If your corporate operations are vital to national security, congratulations! You've made it big! Also, you should take security seriously.

This should be an agreement between you and the rest of society (read: laws or standards). Government agencies responsible for the security of the nation should probably be looking into these types of things, and if they come across your RS232->Ethernet-dongle-that-explodes-Tampa they should a) notify you, b) offer assistance if required (for a price) and c) fine and/or arrest you if you are a serial offender.

Serial offender? I can't believe I just typed that...
How many users are you expecting?

If you go over a couple 1,000 active changefeeds in 1.16, I recommend setting the `maxBatchSeconds` optional argument to `run` to something like 10 (the default is 0.5).

That change should significantly reduce the CPU overhead on the server if you have lots of idle changefeeds. Note that this does not affect how quickly changes get delivered - you will still get changes instantly.

The exact performance will of course depend on what queries you're going to run exactly, the rate of writes etc.
What are the plans for future official driver support? Is there a community Swift driver in development, or will that be an official driver at some point?

Looks awesome really want to use this on my next couple of projects.
>onus on so-called "geek culture" to fix their problems for them

What? That comment doesn't say anything even resembling that.
You're in violation of their trademark at least. There is nothing, anywhere on that page that suggests that you are not Heroku or acting in concert with Heroku, and you're using their logo and branding heavily.
I was there! Small world. I would definitely use sandstorm if I wasn't an IT guy.
Yeah, the unary operators can cause gotchas.

Also, here's a gotcha I've run into where `a(b)` is considered different from `a (b)`

x a(b), c # => x(a(b), c);

x a (b), c # => x(a(b, c));
>But I watch the Superbowl and that's it. I just can't be bothered with anything else.

That's totally fine! If the extent of your emotional commitment to football is "I watch the superbowl and that's it", that's still a passing interest in the sport and the sort of thing the article is encouraging.

The attitude that the article is lamenting is the people who go out of their way to avoid being interested in football, the people who take pride in their lack of interest. The sorts of people who, next Monday, are going to be saying, "Oh, the superbowl was yesterday? I figured I'd just catch the commercials on youtube; that's the only interesting part anyways. I don't even know who was playing." That sort of disinterest is cultivated.
> One surprising purchase correlation was customers bought TV stands after buying DVD players. So, this nugget was trumpeted at countless meetings about the value of big data analytics. Multiple marketing campaigns were designed around this discovery.
> Of course, that made no sense, so I checked a little deeper.

And there was me thinking it made sense, because I'd done the same thing. A TV can stand on many surfaces, but once you've got a DVD player (some thin, wide rectangle) it makes a lot more sense to get a TV cabinet to put the DVD player in.

Perhaps not so much sense now, but 8-9 years ago I went through this logic.
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I suspect that being able to reliably win the lottery would be pretty good for your quality of life.
I missed Christians post about moving to Microsoft, so this was a nice read, especially seeing how worried he seems about it.

I did a talk back in November which included a section on "Imposter Syndrome". The video can be found here; https://james-brooks.uk/staffs-web-meetup-video/
You must have forgotten that Niels Bohr was an olympic athlete as well as a nobel prize winner in physics.
> I feel like sports culture deprives lots of regular public high school students of an education, and I don't think it's elitist at all to dislike professional sports for their contribution to this mess.

While I respect your position I feel that you really don't understand the perspective of sports from the athletes side.

You're completely glossing over the positives that sports bring to the lives of people involved in them, especially those who take it serious. I've been writing code since I was 13-14 years old, but I've been testing myself physically and mentally since I was 8, thanks to a life long 'career' of playing baseball. Nothing in my life has taught me more about who I am and what I'm capable of, both mentally and physically, than my time spent in team sports. And that's saying nothing of the social growth and life long friendships and connections made.

I'm just a middle class white kid who had far better options in life than to pursue professional sports...but for those less fortunate, the education they get from their sports teams/coaches/careers my very well be the best 'real life' education they'll ever get.

Calling sports destructive to society seems so completely asinine to me that it's comedic. Then again, my perspective is quite different than yours.
When people say they don't care about sports, it sounds to me as ludicrous as if they said they don't care to watch movies or read fiction. On some level, those are all reasonable choices. But they all involve summarily rejecting an important medium for the telling of interesting and valuable human stories. In the field of music, theater, films, literature, and sports, I don't think sports is really that different from the others in terms of its capacity for telling valuable stories about human experience.
>I love sports, but every time I watch or support them I feel like I'm destroying civil society and undermining democracy and helping to destroy the last vestiges of effective public education.

Hyperbole. In a lot of ways, sports can bring a city or group together in ways that other events can't.

I feel like this is where I have to make the usual acknowledgement that yes of course the NFL is run by a bunch of morons and yes of course head injuries when you're a young kid are a bad thing.
Of course larger metros will be...well...larger. I don't think the physical area is meaningful. How about integrated infrastructure, commerce, social groups, etc?
I love sports, but every time I watch or support them I feel like I'm destroying civil society and undermining democracy and helping to destroy the last vestiges of effective public education.

I'm not a big sports fan, but pro sports does serve a purpose.

Sports in general is ritualized hunting / warfare. A civilized and less brutal version of war, but the roots are clear. The skills used are the same as our ancestors used to survive: running, throwing, tackling, hitting things with sticks. That's war.

Watching sports is a celebration of those ancient survival skills, though they don't have much place in modern society. These urges exist within many of us, and need an outlet. Sports is highly preferable to the small-scale skirmishes that frequently occurred in centuries past.

Many people feel the strong call of tribalism too. Us versus them. Rooting for the home team, and feeling their ups and downs as your own is also wired into us at a deep level.

It would be a lot more effective for society if we were pitting city governments against each other, seeing who can deliver the best services at the lowest taxpayer cost. But I'm not holding my breath for someone to set that league. :-)
Yeah, that's exactly what I did, with coworkers. Sorry I didn't mention it. Nobody does them at the new job, I think it might be banned :(
It sounds like a brilliant idea, how come these things aren't all over the North sea?
I know a lot of people who take their lack of interest in sports as a point of pride. I've been in bars where everybody immediately starts cheering after some amazing play, and my table gets up and ironically yells "FOOTBALL!" I still think it's amusing, but there's definitely an element of elitism to it.
Camlistore and Tent are both complimentary to Sandstorm. Sandstorm gives you a way to run apps easily, Camlistore is a structured storage system which other apps could connect to, and Tent is a federation protocol that apps could use to talk to each other. I'd like to see this all converge at some point. :)
> There is more to "sports" than watching them on TV. How about participating in them?

The context here -- starting with the article, and followed in the thread prior to your response -- was participation in the culture of fandom of popular professional sports.

Obvious, individual direct participation in sports is a completely different thing (and often a thing that competes with participation in fandom culture.)