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You're a .Net developer who wrote a C# framework back in 2004 and consistently posts about how great Windows is and how poor Linux is.

At a wild guess I'd say that's why you're "more productive with PS in a couple of months".
If I sign-up for something just to get through a paywall or to use the service one-time, I will usually use something like guerrilla mail: https://www.guerrillamail.com
You ought to read this:

http://mediamatters.org/research/2014/03/05/myths-and-facts-...
To expand on Magic being "hackable": The game is this way because every rule of the game can be changed by a card. There are no set in stone rules in the sense that they will always apply the same way no matter the gamestate - there are cards that say "You can't win the game" or "End the turn", "Skip the upkeep phase", etc. The game isn't just about playing by the rules effectively, it's also about changing the rules effectively and dealing with how your opponent is doing the same. I think a related reason the game exploded is the fact that design (deckbuilding) is an integral part. Having a hackable game is great, but if the hackableness is random it's not that exciting. It's when you can design an exploit (deck) and improve on it that it gets really exciting.

To me, the main reason Magic is fun is the variety of skills and approaches it encourages. You can play it as several different resource management games: there are at least 4 important resources to manage (time, mana, cards, life) and you can win by focus on getting one or more of these resources more or by preventing your opponent from having/using any resources, and all of those decisions have major impacts on your play and deckbuilding style. You can also play it as a game of assembling your crazy exploit of the rules fast enough to win (combo decks), or you might even be able to exploit the rules so hard you're essentially playing a different game from your opponent, so you have a completely different win condition to achieve (legacy Dredge).
Wouldn't that kill accessibility, selectable text, being able to call system services (i.e., on OS X hitting cmd+shift+D to get a dictionary definition of a word), any extensions which modify the page hierarchy, automatic translation/localisation, and so on.
Or perhaps, those $150K jobs are few and far between, and in reality there is no labor shortage. If supply gets low, price (wages) will go up. Price is not going up. Therefore supply is not getting low.
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> That's nothing a bit of reputation based group moderation can't solve. Reddit does it...

...very poorly. Currently the first post is a picture of renowned astrophysicist, Professor Neil Degrasse Tyson. The 2nd top comment, with 1604 points, derides him as 'Black Science Man'. ("it's just a joke", yeah, uh huh.)

Unless you actively take steps to hide it, after pictures of cats, Reddit is a wretched hive of racism worse than Stormfront. What Reddit proves, if anything, that (its implementation of) reputation based group moderation does not work.
Basically a big problem that we struggle with is that the level above URIs was never implemented. There was supposed to be one more level for an identifier that would always point to a resource no matter how the underlying structure of it changed. nearly 25 years later and we just now have the infrastructure in place to actually try to accomplish this using DOIs and the like.
Did you know that if you can't find a job for a year the government can count you as part of the "discouraged" labor force and not count you as unemployed any more?

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discouraged_worker#United_Stat...
> Part of the goal is simply to stop hiding what's actually going on in the software from game programmers. Debugging drivers has never been possible for us, which meant a lot of poking and prodding and experimenting to figure out exactly what it is that is making the render pipeline of a game slow.

This is really sad. Imagine if someone were pushing a new file API with the justification that storage-device drivers were full of bugs.

I get a similar feeling whenever I read one of those "CSS trick that works on all browsers!" articles. Yes, it's nice that you can build a thing of beauty on top of broken abstractions, but ....
Do they have a sizable enterprise sales force, or is cloud-hosted github a sufficient demand generator of inbound sales?
The title needs "in the US" at the end to be more descriptive.
But wouldn't that slow down all arrays in the general case....?
The first source is a press release from what appears to be an HR company which attempts to debunk the claim that agreeableness correlates with lower income based on a survey they contracted through a polling agency.

That survey portends to show that "almost half of American workers (45 percent) believe employees with more agreeable personalities (those who seem more tolerant, less controlling, or more willing to consider co-workers’ ideas) are more successful in the workplace". There are a lot of problems with this statement...

(1) Less than half of American workers actually agreed with the stated result.
(2) The study survey was carried out by a local North Carolina polling agency with no data available as far as I can tell.
(3) Believing that 'agreeable' persons are more successful in the workplace does not contradict the finding that 'agreeableness' correlates with low incomes -- as in many cases, what many individuals believe does not necessarily correspond to the truth.

The study they apparently contracted the survey in response to was called, "Do Nice Guys – and Gals – Really Finish Last? The Joint Effects of Sex and Agreeableness on
Income" [1]. Needless to say, you'll want to skip the press release and go straight to that paper.

I am unable to read the second source, thanks to Elsevier's brutal lockdown of scientific research. That being said, I'm hesitant about buying into the thread parent's claim that TFA "contradicts the current state-of-the-art in psychology research" given that I have only been able to find that one study purporting to link "agreeability" with lowered income.

[1] http://www3.nd.edu/~cba/Nice--JPSPInPress.pdf
Doesn't github provide svn access? Bitbucket too, I think.
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But cool finance guys who know how to code and correctly recognize Tom Baker as the best Dr. Who.
I am defining "unconventional" from the point of view of the physician...when compared with the common medications he/she prescribes. An outlier, in other words. Generally in a setting like the Emergency Department, which is where I developed products for 7 years, the docs only describe 20-30 meds 90% of the time. Other specialties, like pain medicine, are similar. For those we build a pre-selected set of favorite meds that they could just click.

The doc would say the pharmacist is not being restrictive enough because the doc has to wade through so many permutations of what is medically the same med, or has to sift through medication forms that he/she has no use for.

From the pharmacist's perspective I want a _complete_ database so I can record with very granular accuracy what the order was. Also, the pharmacy database has things like ingredients in it which it factors into allergy and interaction checking.

I agree with your other points, though. Free text entry is faster - especially if you have voice recognition.

The way to design med lookups, in my opinion, is to have a dropdown for the pharmaceutical substance the physician wants, then the dose, then an optional drop-down for the form (tab, injection, suppository, whatever).

A suitable medication form would need to be found between what's medically indicated, what the pharmacist is okay with, and what the hospital has in stock - ideally in a dispensing machine at the point of care.
Could be the other way around, that people that become leaders lose their empathy? I've read that this is a real effect.

Either way makes sense to me, empathy is a horrible trait in a leader. I know that seems like a horrible thing to say, but I am a very empathetic person and would make a horrible leader. Wanting to please everyone leads to stress and indecision.
Imagine a country entering in a war. People vote using DemocracyOS and decide to start the conflict. Is this good or bad?
I'm quite a newbie with electronics, but the workhorse of this device seems to be a chip named "MCDP2850", and I can't seem to find this chip anywhere. I've also encountered this kind of "failure to find chips pertaining to DisplayPort/HDMI/DVI" before. How do people find these chips - both when designing - and as hobbyist who needs the chip?
Why don't I strap on my job helmet, and squeeze down into a job cannon, and fire off into job land where $150k salaries are just ripe for the picking.

I'm trying to find a kick ass salary, I'm great at what I do, but the only place I can find such high salaries are contracts in Switzerland. $180k - $225k.

What kind of frontend/uiux jobs are out there for $150k~?
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When I say "they" I don't mean the doctors, I mean the hospital administration. They operate on a different set of incentives and motivating factors. The doctors are usually not involved in the process in a very substantive way. It's this fundamental disconnect, which is so common in enterprise software, that's brought us to where we are today.

I know people on HN have fire in their breast to change the world but the rock is harder to move then many think. I tried to do it for almost 5 years and didn't get very far.
If only I could force my clients to use Chrome in lieu of IE8.
So all those recruiters he mentioned are just prank calling or they all have the same single job and tons of applicants? I don't get it.
This is good news. Ubuntu will be like centOS on Service Management.
Regardless of what math you happen to use to count unemployment, I think it's pretty clear we're witnessing a massive (unprecedented?), deliberate transfer of wealth from the many (labor) to the few (shareholders).

EDIT: "Few" refers to the fact that less than half of Americans own stock of any kind (including through retirement accounts) [1]. And more US families own cats (30%) than individual stocks (13.8%) [2].

1: http://www.cnbc.com/id/101980294
2: http://money.cnn.com/2014/09/09/investing/stock-market-inves...
I think in our industry it is a combination of the two. Our colleagues are quite happy to take pats on the back and ego stroking in lieu of compensation.
There is a large difference between the ability to read emotions and "..vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another..".

A great salesman can also be sociopathic. We are all salesmen to some extent, so this isn't to denigrate the profession or the ability to read people and use it for personal gain.

I suppose the difference lies in whether what one is selling tends towards symbiosis or exploitation.
What's MCM+ and CMC? What bearded German?
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Vulkan is purposely not an evolution of OpenGL ES. It's a clean break from that API and shares nothing in common.
We know that we need to learn from experience. That's why DemocracyOS has only been adopted at local city-level where 99% of the issues debated have to do with every-day life in the city.

We need to learn the right checks & balances for an app like this to protect minorities and avoid abuse.

And remember: it's only the legislative power. The executive has veto power ;)
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> Please, stop taking menial salaries.

You live in such a huge bubble if you think that's a reasonable thing to say.

Yes, us techies enjoy very nice perks and big salaries, due to us working in a hot sector of the economy and whatnot. But the vast masses out there are not so lucky.
I'd argue there's also a bigger problem. There have never been conformance tests for OpenGL until recently. They finally wrote some for ES and then finally started backporting them to OpenGL.

Worse, they rarely check the limits, only the basics. They also they didn't check anything related to multiple contexts. The point being the drivers are/were full of bugs on the edge cases.

Testing works. If there were tests that were relatively comprehensive and that rejected drivers that failed the edge cases they'd gone a long way to mitigating these issues because the dev's apps wouldn't have worked.

There's also just poor api design. Maybe poor is a strong word. Example, uniform locations are ints so some apps assume they'll be assigned in order then fail when they get to a machine where they're not. Another example, you're allowed to make up resource ids. OpenGL does not require you to call `glCreateXXX` just call `glBindXXX` with any id you please. But of course if you do that maybe some id you use is already being used for something else. So id=1 works on some driver but not some other.

I'm excited about Vulkan but I'm a little worried it's actually going to make the driver bug issues worse. If using it in a spec compliant way is even harder than OpenGL and your app just happens to work on certain drivers other driver vendors will again be forced to implement workarounds.
This is a sad day, all of my early projects were hosted on Google Code. I'm sad to see it go.
Salaries vary greatly depending on where the employee lives. You're generalizing far too much to the point where your comment is not useful. 80k is a healthy salary in some states that have very low costs of living. In fact, asking for 150k+ (even with years of experience) in some states will just get you laughed at.
It's interesting how once practices become the norm in a group or industry, the practitioners become blind to conflicts of interest that are obvious to outsiders. "This is the way it works." is useful information, but not a convincing justification.
Vegas was fine (somewhat great, even) back in the 60s and 70s, when I was growing up there.

The the military spending stopped, and a bunch of people moved in from the LA basin.
I'd love to hear more stories about apprenticeships and mentoring in the tech industry. We don't talk enough about the people who individually inspired us to learn our craft.
In terms of actual quality, that's probably true. I've worked with people who absolutely won't hire anyone who didn't go to one of the "top 4", and that's the sort of mindset I was addressing. It's not an "ivy only" mindset, it's a "Stanford-Berkeley-MIT-CMU only" (and sometimes not even CMU and Berkeley) mindset.
I can't help but feel a little offended by your reply but I think I can also understand where you're coming from. To give some perspective, hearing the bass is not a trick, it's your way towards understanding how to listen, or rather feel music differently. Bass is the most obvious thing for most deaf people, so it helps you realize "how the whole thing works". You then gradually realize than you do feel the entire spectrum through your skin, bones, etc., you just have to dedicate a certain amount of effort to it. For reference, I'm the only musician in my family, I got interested in playing piano at age five, had a innate sense for basic chords, while having absolutely no hearing.
No, the real reason is that money possesses a "gravity" of its own. It tends to start forming clumps; once that gets started, the clumps tend to grow, absorbing the smaller clumps zooming by. Just like gravity.

Any theory of society and economics that doesn't take this fundamental tendency into account is hopelessly unrealistic.

You must have mechanisms, at the level of the whole society and economy, actively fighting this "clumping" force. Otherwise you end up with a handful of giant black holes and a whole lot of empty space in between.
You need to provide citations if you're going to make grand claims.
The person you are replying to is talking about a "defective by design" problem they want solved. You are explaining how this defect works.
The slideshow on this article doesn't work on Firefox. Not "doesn't work" in some subtle way; clicking a photo produces a white page. How did Wired not catch this problem? Is there no one testing or even casually using Firefox at Wired?

btw, the slideshow is broken by a flexbox fix in Firefox 33 (October 2014): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1142690
Something I've never understood: the collectors value the Reserved cards for their rarity, not their usefulness, right? So you can do whatever you like as long as you don't reprint those exact cards.

So why not just create a Chronicles-alike with new cards, which just so happen to be mechanically equivalent to the Reserved List cards?
This, right here. This is what matters. It's not just that U3 and U6 mean something entirely different but that even the "employed" are people working 20hr jobs, i.e. what anyone else would consider part-time work.
Funny the author calls snake "the game from your Nokia 3210". The first version of snake I played was nibbles, that came with DOS.
Or, all those recruiters are spamming him with jobs that pay below market, because since (as I postulate) there is no actual shortage of labor, there are likely many people out there willing to work for at-or-below-market wages.
A whole bunch of surgeries and being followed by one of the best doctors I've ever had the chance to meet :) it isn't going to last, but I'm sure glad I got the chance to both be deaf and hearing.
Jeez, next iteration is going to be a terabyte on a tiny SD card. The future is crazy.
I think you can... but it's really hard to design an architecture that's both powerful and easy to use. It's important to have different layers of abstraction and allow developers to develop at the level of abstraction needed to obtain the control they need.

Often it's also a question of how things are composed, not just how much they're abstracted away. If you're use case dictates that you need to separately control something that's been composed into one thing then you're usually out of luck
Exact numbers are escaping me, and I'll have to find a source, but, there were around ~500 privateer ships involved in the War of 1812, and ~20-30 US Navy vessels.

Suffice it to say: there were substantially more privately-owned armaments, crews, etc. than government.
Megaupload did not hold itself out as a repository for original work.

Megaupload is not run by Google, with the stated mission of organizing the world's information.

Megaupload is bankrupt. Google is one of the richest technology companies in history.

This is not Megaupload throwing away its hoard of 90's B movies. This is Google, knowingly and literally throwing away coding history. We don't even know what might be thrown away.

What if some currently unknown researcher wrote his first code and uploaded it to Google code and forgot about it, and turned out to be the next Zuckerberg or even Turing?

What if some valuable research that was entrusted to Google from a deceased researcher suddenly disappears?

There are likely many more unintended consequences stemming from such an act, and I don't think we should give Google a pass, especially since Google controls possibly the largest collection of computers on the planet. (besides, source code tends to compress pretty well!)

Seems like the least they could do is stick it in an 'unlimited' Google Drive and lock it as read only.
I play 2048 really quite fast. It's really the best way to play I think. The constant captcha making sure that you're not a bot is really quite dumb once I've already verified myself. A few times at the most. It really breaks the game flow.

p.s. Rate limiting does nothing to limit bots' participation in this payout scheme.
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And it makes you wonder how much higher those salaries could be if we could somehow organize in some collective kinda way, and demand a bigger piece of the pie for our side of the management/worker equation...
Why would they run their own Usenet archive? Google had the Usenet archiving business sewn up, and by the time they started showing signs of being untrustworthy it was too late and much of the 80s and early 90s stuff only exists in their archives. (Oh, and as a side note apparently a lot of the interesting porn from that era has been lost to history too.)
In what way are unemployment numbers "laughably phony"? You know about [all the different reported metrics](http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm), right?

So let's look at that most inclusive number, the U-6 (which, of course, would be a crazy number to actually measure unemployment by, which is why everyone talks about U3): http://portalseven.com/employment/unemployment_rate_u6.jsp?f...
11%, vs the late 90's "boom" of 8.5%. Early 90's, of course, were also in the low teens.

All of this, of course, is ignoring the fact that _wages have been stagnant since the late 70's_ -- even through times of crazy low unemployment (U-6 below 7%).
Agreed. and that's what the DMCA was ostensibly intended for anyway. Someone who claims copyright could always make that claim in the normal fashion.
A question.

AS gets special attention in places like HN, because of his status as an information activist. But activism is not new; neither are excessive charges based on it. We discuss AS as if his case was an unusual one. But (and here is the question), was it, really?

Note: This is not an argument disguised as a question. I really don't know.
They quote EPI and Brookings. EPI is 29% funded by unions, so not exactly neutral. The Brookings report concludes that price was one of the factors causing an erosion of market share, and presumably employee wages are a factor in that.
After entering my desired location, the site only produced available jobs in the United Kingdom.
> Nobody seems to know how to build hadoop from scratch

That's not true. It's fairly well documented in FreeBSD ports.

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/devel/hadoop2/Makefile...
Why not just print your own cards?
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TBH, I'm not so much worried about those in our line of work. We're doing comparatively fine. But there are a lot of folks out there who are hurting.

If I wasn't a nerdy kid who toyed with computers in school, I'd be in a very different place right now. Once that's much less nice.

(But yes, you're right in principle.)
False -- the BLS reports 6 different metrics of Unemployment with every jobs report, more than half of which include "discouraged workers"

Here's a graph of a few of them over time: http://www.macrotrends.net/chart/1377/u6-unemployment-rate
The web these days is very clearly diverging into two separate things: a portable application runtime/platform, and the document publishing system it started as. I don't see any way to accomplish a clean split between the two, but it looks increasingly necessary.
According to google you just made that up? I only see action perimeter in reference to expanding the perimeter of action of the coast guard in Canada. So like... how is an "action perimeter" different than a function? In which case you get the more succinct two words "chainable functions."

After looking at the French version I see that "action perimeter" is from the french perimeter d'action (accents removed) which translates better in english (once again according to the interwebs) as: sphere of operations. http://dictionary.reverso.net/french-english/p%C3%A9rim%C3%A...

Once again, I'd go so far as saying the concept of functions works just as well here, but at least it gets over the near homonym of parameter/perimeter. The chaining of scoped actions is pretty vital to lisp, and I suppose functional programming in general.
I love that a nation and an industry that is bent over backwards against unions (both in policy and in stereotypes) gets surprised when wages don't go up.

What do you think pushes companies to increase wages, rainbow ponies? Benevolent investors? Gee.

Organized labor.
So this is the opposite of Wine for Windows?