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I don't have any evidence of this other than my word, sorry. As kentonv points out, I was in a position to know: in the early days of Code Jam, we to do some convincing of Googlers who had seen the "programming contestants don't perform well" headline.

Also, as others have pointed out, Peter Norvig mentions some of this in his talk.
It makes sense today and isn't cryptic at all. Perhaps to outsiders it is but we're not outsiders. We know it stands for something and "stream editor" should make sense. Looking it up is a matter of "man sed" or, in my case long ago, I'd turn to the guy sitting next to me and ask him.

Yes, awk is an exception, and there are others, but they aren't the rule.
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I miss one aspect in the article?

If space investment/exploration had continued in the 70s (with or without an Orion project) then by now, we would have lots of infrastructure outside the atmosphere.

I.e., a large subset of species around our level of industrial advancement ought to be close to "planetary breakout".

The point is, a Great Filter for intelligent species at our technology level would need to sterilize a whole solar system, not only on a planet. Otherwise it would miss, say, somewhere between one and ten percents of the civilizations.

So I'd guess we're past the filter.

Of course, possible filters that clean out a solar system do exist. Another species could soon wipe us out (any single galaxy just needs one early xenophobic and crazy species). Or e.g. unknown physics in a particle accelerator experiment will have very unexpected effects for the whole solar system, very soon...
yes i did. the 'generic' install is using pathogen or vundle.
From what I gathered, Struts was very influential. Many people have it as its main reference. (Rails for example)

I don't know much about Spring. I know is very popular in the Java community, but I don't think it brought much to the MVC ecosystem.

It seems like it was built as a more developer friendly framework, but at its core it still is good old J2EE. Same patterns, MVC style etc. right?
The bottleneck is probably just the 480 Mbps of the bus itself. Each camera requires (30 fps) * 640 * 480 * (1 byte/pixel in bayer mode) * (8 bits/byte), about 72 Mbps. With various overheads, you shouldn't expect to get more than 2 working on a 480 Mbps bus.

There almost no buffering on the camera. Standard cheap USB cameras have only 1 or 2 scan lines of memory onboard, so they need to deliver a scan line every 70 uS or it gets lost.
Don't read reddit. Or at least read very little.

I have very few news sites in the folder I "open all in tabs" every morning: Google News, /. (I'm nostalgic, it's not terribly useful), HN (via hckrnews.com with Link Visitor to mark as read), and reddit.com/r/science (plus Environment Canada, Michael Geist, and XKCD).

I check those most mornings, then check /. and hckrnews a few times a day.

Sometimes I want more, but I've learned to resist that want. Between HN and Google News, I encounter most of the things I need to know. And, of course, I see news stories in my FB feed, shared by friends, mostly dross, but some few nuggets.

And I never go beyond the first page of any of those (except /., I tend to work back to the last story seen, but that takes very little time).

Imperfect heuristic for validating the I encounter most of the things I need to know statement: Never, not once, has my life been affected in any meaningful way by a story with which I was unfamiliar, I have rarely been surprised professionally by unfamiliar news (I am a security consultant) and never with any impact (interesting, I will look that up and get back to you).

We are all here likely to be voracious readers, curious beyond measure. We. Do. Not. Need. To. Know. Everything. Your brain is likely already full.

As someone else mentioned, willpower helps too, and if you don't have willpower, get a hobby you like, and then start examining how much of your hobby time you spend reading news that has little/no impact on your life.

Note: I have never used RSS, have a twitter account but hardly ever go there, rarely listen to radio news and never watch TV news. I do not seek to optimize the amount of information I consume, I seek for and seem to have found "pretty darned good enough".
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We are provably not beyond the great filter. At least one great filter lies tangibly in front of us: ecological sustainability.

Barring several fairly large changes to our energy and resource systems, our civilization is mathematically and physically guaranteed to collapse within the next 200 years at most.

That's not a hypothetical filter. It's a real one that we can see, and we are not past it.
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Take a look at one of the new developments still happening in the Amiga scene:

http://www.apollo-core.com/index.htm

Sure, it won't replace your regular PC, but if you want something fun to spend time on, there's plenty of fun hardware projects updating the classic Amiga's in ways that still refuses to yield to the mainstream..
I would like to say that this is....absolutely awesome!

It would be great if you color coded the different categories of jobs (e.g freelance = blue, part-time=red, etc.)!

Another great feature would be the company's glassdoor rating (if any)

Keep up the great work
That is to address a different problem, and would not have worked in this case.
Your argument is kind of contradictory. It assumes that we are not worthy of visiting but an argument like that suggests that they’ve already found us and interstellar travel is feasible. They’ve also solved all the logistic problems you’re referring to. Whether they like to make contact or not is somewhat irrelevant to this context.

For the sake of argument let’s linger on that assumption for a while. How for example did they found us when our civilization achieved radio signals transmission in the last couple of centuries? That means that they’re close by, unless FTL travel is feasible in which case we can safely assume the whole galaxy should be teeming with life. But if they’re close by shouldn’t we be able to spot them? And if they’re far away that means they should already have colonized half the galaxy before they decide to launch an expedition to a planet thousands of light years away.

The worrying factor relating to the “Fermi Paradox” is that it suggests that maybe life is extremely rare. We could very well be the only living souls in this part of the Universe and that’s kind of heart breaking considering the sheer size of the whole thing.

By the way, your assumption is called the "Zoo Hypothesis" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_hypothesis

Oh, and while we're in this scenario I'd urge everyone to read the following SF short.
http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html
My father is a university administrator, and he told me this theory years ago, that the costs were due to excess bureaucracy.
No, and here's a really detailed explanation as to why this couldn't possibly happen:

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/could-the-lhc-make-an-...

TL:DR:

1.) If these miniature black holes exist, the Earth has been getting hit by them for billions of years, and it’s still here.
2.) If you do create a miniature black hole, they will decay, via Hawking Radiation, on ridiculously small timescales.
3.) You can compute the rate at which a black hole eats matter, and it’s not even close to being as small as the lifetime of our planet.
Also, I would make the map larger
I think it's fair to say that programming contest winners are exceptionally good at cranking solutions out fast; but they could be just as good at working reflectively in a team as everyone else, or even better.

The author of this article appears to think that he or she has provided evidence for the sentence you quoted, but a number of comments in this thread have pointed out that isn't what the evidence says; so the quoted sentence is simply speculation.
Another argument against the great filter, and one I'm surprised it's not considered more often, is the relativity of the space and time. We assume, long story short, that the colonization explosion is rare because we can't see it, but what if all that we can observe in terms of space and time is a incredibly "microscopic" slice compared to all that there is/has been/will be out there? The way I see it it looks like we've concluded water must be commonplace on earth, but then we act puzzled when we can't find a lake down the street and assume water must be rarer than we thought.
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Firefox (desktop and Android) because a free and open internet is important to society and Mozilla have been consistently great at pushing this forward.

Vimperator is also very cool.
The 'soonness' of our interplanetary colonization is really not safe to assume. The obstacles to self-sustaining life on other worlds are not insignificant -- in fact, they are the explanation for why there is no life there to begin with.
I'd love to hear a followup and if this worked out for them or ended up being more trouble than it was worth. I remember at the time when it came out being a bit skeptical about the process.

edit: Although skimming the comments, maybe they need to turn that machine learning on blogger comments. What a wasteland of spam and crap...
Being a champion at something requires excruciating narrow focus on something for unusually long time. If you are getting GPA of 4.0 or play Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No 3 or deadlift 400 pounds or in top 1000 chess players - you probably have to work on it for hours a day for years while ignoring everything else (of course unless you are one of those 1 in million polymath).

People getting in to final rounds of programming contests are usually not the best programmers in the world in terms of breadth, maturity and exposure to other aspects of programming. They typically have put enormous effort on super optimizing their mental structure to do nothing but learn to master every little trick necessary to win the contest. This typically means memorizing implementation of pretty much all popular solutions in these contests, mastering odd tricks while ignoring general insights, less attention on elegance and maintainability, less incentivized to work in group, more tuned to getting any solution as quickly as possible instead of striving to get best possible solution, ignoring any areas that are not popular in such contests etc. This kind of brain training obviously has its negative. However on average, winners from contests will usually out perform your average programmer any day, they just won't outperform our super stars who would probably disqualify well before semi-finals because they were busy in learning other things that are not useful at competitions.

My observations from dealing with one such person (I know, a great statistical sample size) very closely was that they are extremely fast learners and usually gravitate toward working on small very well defined problem that they already know how to solve but they suck at getting big picture, learning something large and complex and understanding the intricate interdependencies involved in complex systems.
Demo is here: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=981

Not sure about the state of emulators.
It's not free. It's supported by surveillance. But people don't care.

If people started caring about that kind of thing, new niches could open up for alternatives that were more secure and under user control.
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Do you have an engineering or CS degree? That would help your chances a lot.

Most developers get into the states with either a TN Visa or H1-B Visa.
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> The most prosperous, safest, healthiest, most free society in the history of humanity.

Maybe 40-50 years ago (if you were white). Maybe. Absolutely not today.
Among other comments here, there is the question of why? Why does a civilization need to expand? Why should it? We can already see in our world where the birthrates start to decline in societies that have a certain level of technology and quality of live. When we reach a point where our whims are catered for and energy is cheap. Reproduction doesn't seem very cost effective.
"as bubble bursts (or deflates) all these money losing (and free) B2C solutions provided by large companies might become neglected to the level that people will be willing to pay a little - just to get something working."

We can hope.

Right now these pseudo-free services are supported by surveillance. I wonder sometimes if that's a bit of a bubble, and if the value of user data and data mining of that sort of hugely overestimated. If that turns out to be the case, you'll see exactly that: these bait-and-spy services will be relegated to neglectware status and niches will open for quality alternatives.
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Funny that you mentioned "Brutalist architecture" as it led to the development of Christopher Alexander's famous books A Pattern Language and The Timeless Way of Building. He is the "second" Dijkstra, and his work is a must read for both architecture and computer science students, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Alexander#Influence (influenced a lot in both fields).

I think you got it, what I meant with "nobody". Sure there are fanboys and followers for almost every niche, what should matter are the mass of normal tourists. Some cities (and their city planers) understand that, some don't.

> they are [...] primarily functional

Sure, functionality is usually a requirement. But bog-standard sterile concrete box architecture is just laziness/tasteless or constraint by the budget. (that's another debate).

Coming back to the former debate-topic, there has been a certain influence in Modern Architecture.
This seems worth a followup post to mentioned that the idea didn't pan out.
Europe is mostly irrelevant but obsessed with the US. Wake me when they start closing US military bases.
Thanking you, kindly!
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This is a great point – which I would paraphrase as, let's not worry about cosmic filters when we have a very tangible filter in front of us – but it doesn't follow that we're "provably not beyond the great filter".

The Great Filter is just the thing that explains most of why intelligent life is (or seems) so rare in the universe. It could be true, for example, that some cosmic event kills life before it becomes technological 99% of the time (= Great Filter), and also that, say, 60% of technological civilizations destroy themselves via destroying their environment.
Folks interested in Amiga demos should absolutely check out the Mind Candy volume 2 DVD: http://www.mindcandydvd.com/2/frames?p=download It's long sold out but now available as a free download from the creator at the link above. The DVD is a great set of classic Amiga demos that were captured and put on DVD at very high quality. Also lots of good extras like commentaries from the creators, short documentaries, etc.

There's also another volume on PC demos and a blu-ray with more modern demos: http://www.mindcandydvd.com/
At least for me, it's because all of our eggs are in one basket at the moment.

Loosing this rock or our star essentially equals the extinction of our species.
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good idea..what all features currently you are converting to ES6? Better list them in github...
Painfully true. Human civilizations go back about 3000 years. Industrial civilization only goes back about 200. Being able to make a significant dent in the planet's natural resources goes back less than 100 years.

Few nonrenewable resources have a remaining supply measured in hundreds of years.
> We are provably not beyond the great filter. At least one great filter lies tangibly in front of us: ecological sustainability.

> Barring several fairly large changes to our energy and resource systems, our civilization is mathematically and physically guaranteed to collapse within the next 200 years at most.

Would you mind elaborating on this or posting some links with more evidence for this? As stated, your claim seems reminiscent to previous claims that humanity would soon not be able to grow enough food for the projected population. So far, unexpected scientific advances have managed to increase food yields substantially, and we can now effectively produce more than enough food to feed people (though we clearly have issues ensuring that food gets to everyone who needs it). So I wonder what is different now, that makes this looming catastrophe "provable" and "mathematically and physically guaranteed".

I agree that humanity is facing significant challenges (e.g., climate change), but I think the claim of "guaranteed collapse" is not as well established.
If that's provably a great filter, you must have proof that there is only a tiny percent chance that we will have fairly large changes to our energy and resource systems. Is that what you are claiming?
i didn't know it was about design per se. but i got plenty of it. Airport design mostly.
You are certainly correct - but did I imply otherwise in my comment..?
We're only talking about what we can observe. Just a few dozen billions of stars. That is sufficient for the Fermi paradox.
To me, Linux lacked a lot of the aesthetic aspects of the Amiga. It had no games scene, the culture was older, more academic or "heavy industry" and didn't have multimedia in its blood like the Amiga scene did.

One thing that made the Amiga special, that can't really be replicated is that it occupied a sweet spot in the history of computer hardware. You could make like a C64 programmer, kick out the os and write pure ASM to the hardware (which was strange, complex and fascinating, unlike PC hardware), or you could go in the other direction and write object oriented (using BOOPSI) GUI apps in a true multitasking environment. And to top it off, it was a system that one programmer could completely understand, more or less. There was a real feeling of power and elegance when you programmed an Amiga.

I probably spend too long thinking about this :) It was the "Amiga feeling" that got me into computers when I was younger, and I keep trying to replicate it :)
Given that we have only one known example of intelligent life, we are the only thing we can base any predictions upon. Given that we have a provable filter in front of us, I think it's reasonable to assume that similar situations might occur elsewhere in the universe:

(1) An intelligence reaches a critical intellectual mass and begins to utilize the free resources that are present in its environment.

(2) In doing so it grows and develops exponentially.

(3) By the time it develops far enough intellectually to realize the problem -- exponential growth built on finite non-replenishable supply -- it's already too late.

We seem to have realized this problem around 1950-1970, and we have done very little about it so far. That's because huge complex systems are hard to change, and all the incentives point the wrong way.
All this makes me realise that even if React Native isn't the best way to do what it's doing, the sheer amount of support it has will make up for it. Within a month I swear it'll have more custom plugins than every other "compile to native" framework out there...
Thanks for pointing this out, I didn't read it.

So basically we need both Cachet for displaying the status and another tool to check it (it wouldn't be very good if the tool was on the app itself otherwise it might not be effective when it's truly needed).

I was hoping to have both in one place (the monitoring and the status), is there a "cachet-ready" system?
That's pretty easy to do. Just use a log-structured filesystem[0]. The abstraction we use now is antiquated. It's very much reminiscent of the impedance mismatch in graphics APIs (such as OpenGL) which is now being solved (with Vulkan).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log-structured_file_system
How would I go about finding one of these rent controlled apartments??
wanted to cover missed out portions from earlier blog. Let me know if I should cover anything more.
Sure, but that's just a case for "ecological sustainability is a reasonable candidate for the GF based on what we know about ourselves." Which is a weaker statement than "we are provably beyond the GF". Provable implies strong evidence and certainty.
> Not to mention you are quite puzzlingly wrong on many accounts.

I'd love to see an example where this is the case.
IANAL but I think this is just a copyright question - there are legit ways to use copyrighted works but you might be asking for trouble because they're still actively developing those games and that IP for today's platforms. It is probably not worth gambling your software on this.

http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html
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I recently tried researching how to mix/record not so cheap cameras on a PC/Laptop/RasPi analogue. Remarkably tricky, because of the data rates involved. So far I have not seen a single affordable, open source compatible solution for "just" taking hdmi signals in. At least not for 1080p.

I have modest hopes that such controllers might show up in the next years, maybe using USB 3 technology. There is also a Raspberry Pi module "in the works", which may be capable of at least streaming compressed 1080p from HDMI, but I'm not holding my breath.
It makes sense that we'd expect to observe civilizations that are good at growing and have in fact already grown, right? Same reason we observe animals with a strong sense of self-preservation. These hypothetical expanding civilizations might be awful or unnecessary by our standards but that doesn't change how memetic/biological/whatever selection processes generally work. This is why the Fermi Paradox is interesting in the first place!
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I am 29.5 yrs old and was born in poor family. First it was education , paying college fees. I had to work since 16 part-time for paying fees. Then landed a job. Worst professional environment one could imagine.
Changed job last year. After marathon search ,apply, reject,re-apply landed a opportunity after 3 months.
In personal life also I am yet to find girlfriend. Never had one.
When I look at my colleagues, friends I feel like many of them have it quite easy. College, job, personal life but its me who has to try ( or repeat process 1000 times) for simple things.
Why this is so? Its just makes me frustrated.
There is absolutely no guarantee of collapse. Per capita, people live cleaner year by year whether they make "ecologically sound" signalling choices or not. Within the last 50 years, this has been very profound.

It's too early to say, but my money's on population crashing first. 100 years ago, you could see nearly anyplace a large population at something approaching the Malthusian limit; that's much reduced now.

The sore spots are worse but there are fewer of them. And something like a Haiti is extremely path dependent - it takes several improbable events conspiring to make one; so they can be unmade.

Jared Diamond's "Collapse" pretty much convinced me he was not just wrong but flat and 100% wrong. Through his writing , I learned to not only disapprove of apocolyptic narrative but how to counter it.

I would not be surprised of there were big, resource-oriented wars on the horizon but I doubt that'll lead to collapse, and I attribute those more to things like monetary policy and the odious politics of debt than human nature in the raw. It's difficult to explain just how violently wrong-headed people were in the 20th Century to create the big disasters.