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EA did a fairly poor job with SimCity, I agree. A very, very poor job. EA was named the worst company to work for in the US, but that was years and years ago. They've really done a better job at keeping their developers happy (I worked there two years ago as a dev). I mean sure, Alpha and Beta can still be brutal, but what game studio isn't like this? Overall, I enjoyed working at EA and would work there again if they didn't offer me such a shitty salary. A shitty, shitty salary. Pretty much the only thing I can complain about. Oh, and no free food.
Tricky! Now I bet someone will write a SASS mixin library to obscure these "hacks". I'm banking on seeing that on HN next week.
> And, by the way, you'd still hit the brakes if a kid jumped out onto the road chasing a ball. It's just multitasking.

It isn't multi-tasking, that's just our autonomic nervous system learning to drive a car and goes further than hitting brakes - driving a car becomes all automatic, with gestures that include switching gears, stopping at red lights and so on. It's the same system that's responsible for breathing - you don't need to remember to breath, right? And it's what we call reflex.

Humans are actually bad at multi-tasking. It's cooperative multitasking at best, requiring expensive context switches, which is really the reason for why many of us can't do software development while talking on the phone or while having other distractions around us. For some reason women seem to be better at multitasking, not sure how that works.

Also, as a funny personal experience ... I'm fully on auto-pilot when I drive, which is why I've found myself several times driving to work on the weekend and my work place wasn't my destination :-)
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That message could be better. The app already opened the folder. So I didn't understand what to do. Should I have to open the folder in Finder? Or should I have to copy? The message could've just explained why the folder was opened and said, "Don't worry, just click ok" or something similar.
Agreed.

But don't we all gain something from any huge corporate in the world? The discussion is more about the repercussions of giving a lot of power to one corporate entity.
Fuck you EA. Mid 90's Maxis was my childhood.
Yes, that would be excellent - do you mean just public IP ranges?

One possible snag: I heard from a co-worker that if you are running on EC2 and you make an HTTP request to another site that coincidentally is also hosted on EC2 that traffic can sometimes be routed over a private IP range.
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Bioware peak was 1998-2006 with NWN, BG 1&2, DA:O, KOTOR and JE. After that it was mediocrity all the way.

ME combat mechanics brought the whole franchise down, SW:TOR was pointless (and not bioware). And Dragon Age II and Inquisition were plain boring.
I thought this too, but after looking at data it doesn't really seem any more dangerous than driving a car. I think the reason it sounds dangerous is that when it happens everyone hears about it and talks about it a lot more than car accidents.

Mrmoneymustache did an analysis and if you define 'safety' as 'expected life span', cycling is actually safer than driving a car.
i wish that happened.

also in a previous job interview, a guy showed up with a quick map traversal algo written in no less than ms word. right out i recognized the 6 line function, with a bug. while he asked "do you know which data structure this code expects" to which i replied "a graph, and you have a infinite loop on the visited check..." there he cut me as if he didn't want to hear what i was saying and proceed with questions he had planned/rehearsed.... until 5 questions later he actually asked "why would that fail" to which i had to point the bug mentioned before.

i just ruled that out as he being nervous as i was. but later i found out he was just a control freak and he actually said i lacked any technical knowledge in the hiring review. :) got the offer as everyone else obviously saw the opposite.

anyway. all that to illustrate that you should ask away. after all, you're going to spend 8h+a day with those people. the least it will do is to know then better.
My second-hand understanding of the arrangement is that from 1997 until roughly the mid 2000s, Maxis's autonomy was mostly protected by Will Wright's personal clout (plus possibly some terms around the acquisition, if there were any). He was high-profile, a charismatic media figure, and very against moving to EA's main campus in Redwood City—partly to retain Maxis's autonomy, and partly just because he lived in the East Bay and didn't want to commute to the Peninsula.

It helped that the first post-acquisition new title from Maxis was The Sims, a massive financial success, which allowed EA to feel comfortable taking a hands-off approach and allowing the studio to do weird things, so long as the weird things brought in piles of revenue.

From the mid-2000s, though, EA started merging bits of Maxis in, closing the Walnut Creek office and moving those staff to Redwood City, but still leaving a smaller Maxis remaining in Emeryville, which continued to be headed by Wright, with considerable autonomy. He used that autonomy to lead the Spore (2008) development, an ambitious concept that was not a financial success (though it arguably kicked off the current resurgence of procedural content generation in games). And then he left the company in 2009. At that point I think many people in the industry considered it inevitable that the remaining Maxis would be moved to the main EA campus sooner or later.
I was talking to a friend who works at EA and said most of them were just being moved to EA Redwood Shores. The Maxis studio was a satellite studio out of Emeryville and teams were being migrated to Redwood Shores. "Nothing has changed, Sims 4 and such are still being made" -EA Employee

The internet has made this seem blown way out of proportion.
"because American structural design forces everyone to drive two-ton bullets to go anywhere, which inevitably results in lethal wrecks. Compare Denmark's road fatality rate of 3.0 per 100,000 inhabitants versus the US ratio of 11.6 per 100,000."

Check the per-vehicle-km rate. Denmark isn't safer because they drive less.
I haven't seen much evidence that exercise Can significantly change your metabolic rate.

I haven't bothered to check if there's scientific literature that proves ingesting calories is easier than burning them, but I think you'd struggle to find a scientist or sane person who doesn't feel that generally it's orders of magnitude easier.
See:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V48M5j-6zdE

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbYgza4NNk8

To name some of the top roadblocks:

- Cellular garbage collection

- Inner-workings of Mitochondria and cell death/apoptosis at the wrong time.

- DNA repair genes

- Telomerase production/use

Analyzing genomic pathways associated to these is key. Understanding why the expression of genes varies or decreases/increases at the wrong time is also key.

Being able to use Cogntive computing/biomicry/AI/Machine Learning etc to analyze the hidden connections and relationships between phytochemicals, genes, proteins, pathways and environment is the next frontier.

We're working on it and could certainly use additional crowdsourcing approaches.
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All that from E?
Sounds like the people buying games from EA are the ones being irrational in that description.
That's good point actually, I could see that happening.

What is your concern about the url used? That they point at something a user is trying to coerce you to hit? If so, that could be a public IP too..
Maxis split up when they closed the Walnut Creek office in 2004, with SimCity and Spore (and Will Wright) going to Emeryville, everyone else going to Redwood Shores. Will Wright left in 2009. There is no "real Maxis", and if there was, some Maxis expat older than me would tell you it died back in the 90s or whatnot.

Maxis had a few big hits and a lot of colossal failures. Including some that never made it to the public. I guess the balance sheet just finally shifted too far in the wrong direction. This isn't necessarily EA's fault; studios that fail go out of business one way or another.
When I registered, the URL in the email had the port number in the URL (i.e. openloopz.com:443/confirm....).

Pretty sure that's a bug.

Other than that...Good luck!
Why we should design things to be difficult to use
Wow I completely overlooked this fact.　Thanks!
My concern is not that that it could become bloatware. My concern is that it suffers from basic usability issues but you're prioritizing things that I won't ever use.
Haste makes waste.

You can only make a comparison of speed if you compare developers on the basis of equal robustness, efficiency, reusability, etc.

Once you get on top of the learning curve with any given set of tools, libraries, etc - you would expect to become progressively quicker. But as you have experienced, the learning part can take a lot of time. Assuming that your eventual solution is better (on whatever criteria are important to the given project) than the quicker alternatives then the learning was worth it.
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Looking at that CPAN module, it wouldn't be hard at all to add a blacklist to Templar via a config file that is checked. The EC2 => EC2 issue is probably the biggest stumbling block to getting what you want. I'll have to investigate that, it seems like that would only happen if internal to EC2 they do ICMP redirects...
It drives me nuts how much work we put into making CSS something that it is not. Why are we trying to do scripting with CSS? I can really appreciate the approach taken by React to move style definitions into Javascript, and more specifically into the file of the module whose styles they define.

I'm really just repeating what was said by a Facebook developer (I've forgotten his name at this moment) - but I think it is worth being said: CSS is more a separation of technology, than a separation of concerns. It makes much more sense to have all your code (styles, scripts, markup) in one file for a specific module. Any repeated styles/scripts/markup can be imported as a module.

In hindsight, it makes me wonder what the hell I've been thinking all this time.
I am cautious about C:SL. I mean, it's a day one buy but my hopes are not super high. Their last title, Cities in Motion 2 - was something of a hot mess, with a design that really didn't gel and was in most respects worse and less fun than CiM 1.

Plus, they build their games in Unity, which is....not the best for these sorts of games.
We've proven we can increase the lifespan of nematodes by what is equivalent to 300 years in human lifespan. If we can at least make it 150, then we have a chance at 300 and if we make 300 we have a chance at 500 and so on.

We can then truly solve for space travel and populating other planets and we'll have lifespans that enable us to travel for extended periods of time - a Universal requirement for the human species.
Just to clarify, the "layout versus presentation" thing isn't just for its own sake. It's to avoid having to implement design changes in two places (the CSS and the template/backend). By using template logic and classes (CSS hooks) this would be inevitable.

As for the ugliness of the CSS, well... that's what the CSS that works for the purpose looks like. Function over form. I'd recommend _adding a comment_ if you want developers to grok the code.

I must say I find it odd that you think transparency for fellow developers is _more_ important than the actual purpose of the code. Your convenience in maintaining the product cannot be more important than the product itself, surely?
Interesting how no one has mentioned stock buybacks yet. These job cuts are a cost cutting exercise, giving the company more funds to buy back stock with, making the stock price go up, meaning the executives get heftier bonuses.

The "fire people to buy back stock in order to make the stock price go up" strategy is extremely popular in this economic environment.
This is pretty interesting (the high level conclusion, I do not claim to understand more).
I've recently done a bit of pretty light research on the sense of smell (in the context of AR/VR) and it seems like smell can "transport you across time/space" faster than other senses. Might be an interesting follow up. If one can speed up recent events for quick recall/learning naturally maybe smell can somehow be used to speed up the going back in time aspect (some smell trigger to make the event feel recent+the 10-20x speedup combined)?
Make a baby. You'll go to all the parent Meetups just WISHING for a fellow programmer to talk to. Everyone I meet is a blah blah biotech blah snore.
I'm nuts? That's what governments are based on. It's no surprise that a group operating outside existing legal structures will find itself in need of lethal force. If you were running a little village and someone came to take all your food, essentially condemning your whole family, force may be the only response.

So it's quite understandable that a criminal organization might need to use force when someone threatens their safety. This happened for instance with the Silk Road, when someone blackmailed them. (Now, the SR shouldn't have allowed themselves into that position in the first place, but that aside). It's a "necessary" understandable case - if not taken care of, dozens or hundreds of people could be condemned.

Contrast with these cartels, which hijack passenger buses, then torture and rape for fun. There's no necessity there.

Do you not see the distinction?
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Wrong. Google, Apple, FB. They're all solvent as fuck. The VC blame is cute but if that bubble burst, those giants would inhale the wreckage in a heartbeat. This isn't a bubble. If VC momentum slowed or if wage growth slowed, that'd just mean that smaller places can finally hire people. A plateau is all you can expect to see, and that's just wishful thinking.
I'd guess not. Which makes it quite a bit of a different category than unlicensed drug use.
So what? Segregation didn't suck, as long as you were white. We want the government to do what's best for everyone.
I feel exactly like you, and I'm glad I'm not alone.

For some reason though we're the exception here. Most people seem to have enjoyed ME2 more than ME1 because nobody seems to care about having an actual coherent storyline as opposed to a bunch of one-off missions, fancy graphics and a character with a recognizable face from TV.
I'm only loosely familiar with the "general game playing" literature but I think learning the structure of the game is the interesting research problem here. An immediate experiment that I'd like to try would be:

(a) Identify games considered similar (+maybe define what it means to be similar)...let's take Pong and Breakout as suggested
(b) Trial and error run of one of the games to learn the action-reward structure
(c) Compare a fresh relearning of the second game to a start where the similarities/differences are pre-input to the AI "somehow" (some sort of diff between the game rules etc.)

I'm thinking of a gamer thinking "oh this is just like X,Y,Z except..." when picking up a new game.
SimAnt is playable on that Computer History Museum archive. Just sayin'
On a sidenote : It's interesting to see Elon Musk advancing into space travel, whereas Peter Thiel advancing into trying to defeat mortality. Those seem very closely related industries that clearly do benefit from each other.

Re: The Nematode lifespan; What happened to the C60 buckyballs diet? Apparently rats that underwent a specific diet of C-60 fluids had nearly double the lifespan ( 22-26months vs 42 months ) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142961212...
As noted elsewhere, if you are young, the risk of dying at home (esp from falling) is much lower than risk of dying in a car.

And almost everyone has a home every day, whereas people who drive/ride cars more are at mich higher risk of car dying than less-frequet riders
Do you have any specific ideas of a massive road-block that would benefit from a Mechanical Turk approach? E.g. issues that would require an AI, but if split into a lot of tiny problems, that could be solved as a whole?
These laments are a bit overblown.

I worked for Maxis during the big closure in 2004, when the company was in Walnut Creek. A small group moved to Emeryville, many people (including the Sims teams) moved to Redwood Shores, and some some people didn't make the transition. Think of it like layoffs, following on the colossal failure that was The Sims Online (although, ironically, what's left of that team had already moved to EARS).

This is pretty much the same thing. Spore was a disappointment, SimCity was never a massive moneymaker, and whatever games they've been working on since got cancelled. The Emeryville shop has had a decade to produce a hit and it hasn't worked out. Some folks have already been laid off. Some folks will get moved to EARS. Some folks will be looking for a new job. The cycle continues.

It's unlikely that any of the individuals responsible for the specific versions of whatever old game you fondly remember playing are still around. At the end of the day, what you're lamenting is the loss of an office building and a logo.
Couldn't an AWACS plane to find + some drones to execute be worked from sufficient distance as to remove cartel influence?
CSS is a different technology for a different complementary purpose to, say, markup or business logic. That's why we have the separation of concerns principle. If business logic is doing CSS's work, design changes MESS with the business logic, which is undesirable for obvious reasons.

By saying "CSS is more a separation of technology, than a separation of concerns" you are saying "CSS is more a separation of concerns, than a separation of concerns" or possibly "CSS is more a separation of technology, than a separation of technology".

As for the modularity concept, that doesn't have to flout or adhere to "separation of concerns". That's just a different thing.
Someone that worked set amazon at the time Glacier came out a while back commented that it is some type of extremely low power hard drive that backs this system. Which makes sense due to the 1-4 hour delay in retrieval time. The racks are idle and only come online one every 4 hours or so and batch retrieve/store their data then power down. This small power usage is probably what makes them profit on this very slim margin.
And proceeded to get the biggest sweetheart deal in the world from the feds. It's a miracle they didn't offer him a sex act to go with his plea. Unless you believe some random asshole who shares TS/code word info with a mistress and repeatedly lies to the fbi normally gets the feds to give him a misdemeanor and suggest probation.

One law for you and me, one law for them.

https://www.popehat.com/2015/03/03/a-few-comments-on-the-dav...
Wow, I'm going to use this to explain monoids in the future. Great explanation!
Except for that kind of "extremist" has rarely been spotted in real life, only in photoshopped screenshots created by angry young white men.

It's mostly a straw man argument used as an excuse to consider threatening women with rape a matter of free speech.
The issue with backups / teleporting / transfer of mind is always the question if it's just a copy of you living on, or still the same consciousness. E.g. if you die on the spot, and a copy takes over for you with your memories.

However yes, that would be a much faster approach to space colonisation - it would remove the need for spaceships.
I wonder if Clinton was such a "rock star" that she had a non-standard employment agreement? My gut tells me she didn't take the job using "standard docs" but who knows.
It's a lottery ticket. If statistically most startups fail, then statistically most options are worthless.
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Wow, this looks great. I think I've actually seen this earlier sometime, but dismissed it since it was only available on Windows. Now that I actually have a decent Windows laptop, I'll definitely try it out.
Maybe the amount of such css trickery hints us that css is becoming outdated and is actually not exactly what we would like it to be. I might argue in this case that the result that is obtained is very much in the visuals and styling scope and has less to do with functionality (scripts). Though, the method how it is obtained, I agree, goes against good readability and is a bit hacky in concept.
You don't go more than ~70 to execute that maneuver. By the time you've accelerated to +15mph more than your obstacle, you aren't near it anymore.
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Since I discovered yc, I've really enjoyed all of the articles, advice, and debates that came from them. The more I learn about their history and culture, the more impressed I get. Jessica Livingston's post has increased my appreciation for yc even more as I realize how much they've done for founders and vcs. Excellent article!
So his team devised a five-button keyboard where you pressed chords simultaneously to write words, delete, copy and paste. In the end, the mouse triumphed, as computer manufacturers believed that only hardcore programmers had the patience to learn the key combinations.

Several chorded keyboards came to market in the UK, receiving plenty of press (eg coverage on an influential weekly TV technology magazine program, in the days when there were only a handful of broadcast channels). They all failed dismally despite attracting a small core of devoted fans.

You can get highly customizable mice with multiple programmable buttons etc. Only gamers buy them. I do edit video and audio for work and while I like my key combos as much as the next person and sometimes set up hardware mappings on external devices for big jobs, I don't think any of them need to be universal.
Luxury cars and some other cars have these collision avoidance features.
There is a guy who has dedicated his career to this :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilayanur_S._Ramachandran
She's faking it, her lame boyfriend just pays the bills.
Great explanation, but I feel you totally missed out on the hilarity angle.

There are three varieties of ARM cores: A, R and M. See what they did, there? :)
I am surprised this is such a big issue considering something very similar happened while Bush was in the White House with outside email under gwb43.com and georgewbush.com and Bush didn't really use email: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_White_House_email_controve...
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Another key one would be, less likely to do it well... The more I learn about exercise & fitness, the more I discover it is a learned skill.

For a simple example, despite the fact that my push-ups looked ok, I was in fact doing them terribly wrong all my life which meant they did absolutely nothing to strengthen my pectorals. You might think something as simple as a push-up would be hard to do wrong...
Exactly. Space travel depends on lifespan. We have to solve for lifespan first. It's the largest human goal and most impactful.

Yes, we are almost there and I don't think people realize how close we are. Make the world a better place? How about making the Universe/Multiverse a better place!
The official Cortex-R page lists three main items:

- Fast, bounded and deterministic interrupt response
- Tightly Coupled Memories (TCM) local to the processor for fast-responding
code/data
- Low-Latency Interrupt Mode (LLIM) to accelerate interrupt entry

I haven't cross-compared the relevant features to the Cortex-M cores, but the M cores are certainly more common and definitely perform well too.
Business says "we exist to make a profit".

People don't tend to be profit maximisers in their actual work.

I don't know many workers who think "which one of these choices is most profitable for the company"
It would be interesting to see a more well defined attack from you.