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Just to add to your point: I wonder how many copies of Arma 2 were sold explicitly because of the DayZ mod. How many copies of Half-life were sold because of Counter Strike? Warcraft 3 and Dota? I could go on.

Developers should be ecstatic that modders want to build off their game as a platform. It can only bring them additional money as people buy their game for access to hugely popular mod. I can understand the desire to monetize this, but too much and you freeze out your modders and you get nothing.
Probably developers who want to make money off a "free" sales model. In an age of widely-known popular logos, might not take much space at all to render an "ad".

The exclusion of ads from the Watch could (wild speculation here) point to a future without ads in the Apple ecosystem. Ads are typically obnoxious, tolerated only because the host app is free. Given their very un-Apple-like feel, maybe there's a plan to wean them out of the walled garden.
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It's not a media-generated event. People are upset about having their friends shot and automatic rifles pointed at their faces as they protest.
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Are we browsing the same version of HN? This is not my experience at all. The amount of blind judgement and "well, actually..." thrown about here is incredible.
Although I think people should be rewarded for their work I don't really don't like where this is headed. As others have noted the statement from Valve reads as if paid mods are definitely coming in a not so distant future. Modders getting paid is all well and dandy until you consider the way mods often evolve and build on top of each other.

I spent a lot of my time as a young teenager on the custom ladder in Warcraft 3, where people played home made maps which essentially amounted to mods. This was the birthplace of Dota and the place where many of us were introduced to tower defence. Every time someone uploaded an original or fun new map people would take their map and tweak it in some fashion or another and slowly the maps would evolve. The versions of Wintermaul that people were playing years after the original were definitely improvements upon the original.

If new maps/mods on the custom ladder had cost money this would never had happened. I'm sure Duke Wintermaul wouldn't have been happy with all the remixes of his vastly popular mod if he had been selling it himself. And, although he might have updated his mod to improve balance and the such he most likely would not have come up with several of the features that were included in the late versions made by others.

I see people saying that modding is for hobbyists and I have seen several modders claiming that they will never charge for a mod and that may very well be the case. For now. Once paid mods are released they will slowly seep into the community and the modders of the future will have been raised with paid mods instead of free ones. Once upon a time video game companies would sell their games in retail and then support it for free, now they charge for the support cost through subscription fees, dlc or microtransactions. If customers are OK with paying for it, why should they give away their work for free? The same thing goes for modders.
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Can't imagine how frustrating this must be for Customer.io, but probably also for the former FoundationDB team, especially that FoundationDB is now acquired by Apple and probably can't respond (or would have to get special exceptions).
Little-endian is generally better for compilers, to the extent that it matters. For example, with SIMD, it makes most sense to number the lanes in the same direction as addresses in memory, so that lane 0 is at offset 0 when doing a load or store. And if you want to reinterpret the bits of a SIMD value as a different type, little-endian is the only sane way to do it. And so on.

I've become fond of thinking about little-endian becoming known as a universal "CPU byte order", to complement "network byte order". Each order makes the most sense for its domain.
Give Akka some time :).
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Horwitz, who has taught management for two decades...

What exactly did he teach? It doesn't appear he learned very much about "management".

Imagine a manager firing all 30 of his direct reports. What would you suspect was the problem, the manager or the workers? Same thing here.

Perhaps Professor Horwitz should get a real management job. Then he'd learn how easy he'd had it for the past two decades.
Try and keep an open mind.

I used to be a die-hard Arch user who would never consider even buying a mac. Was given a macbook at an internship and haven't looked back... Well, I have. I love it though. Give it a month to start getting productive though.

As Revell said, Homebrew is a must-have. (Also fish[1], but that applies to Linux too).

[1] http://fishshell.com/
Well how can it be slow but not screwed up?
He primarily taught the Honors Calculus sequence, but would occasionally teach other courses as well. Many math majors went straight into analysis, so a good portion of his students were engineering and pre-med students rather than pure math majors.

His classes were notoriously hard, but he was so well-liked for four reasons:

(1) he was a gifted lecturer who put an immense amount of effort into finding clear explanations of every single concept -- nothing was spared from his relentless pursuit for clarity; he was also genuinely excited about the subject and was able to pass that excitement off to students.

I think students appreciated that, instead of putting his effort into creating some complicated class structure and a huge syllabus and fancy slides, he instead invested himself in finding the best possible explanations. There was definitely a sense that attending his lecture was a lot more valuable than reading the book, though that was always recommended too.

(2) he was very generous with his time and would always accommodate questions or requests for help.

(3) he took a keen interest in each and every student and kept up-to-date on everyone's individual progress; he never wanted anyone to accidentally get left behind. That doesn't mean that he'd give you a good grade out of sympathy, but it would be clear by the end of the class that you wouldn't have anyone to blame but yourself if you didn't do well. Even for the most jaded student, it's hard to be mad at the professor when it's made exceedingly clear that it's your own fault for not doing well.

(4) he was absolutely and utterly not pretentious in any way, and he was, in general, extremely kind; he had a way of making anyone feel welcome, even excited, to be in his classes, even if you weren't a math major or weren't very interested in math.
Ah okay, I notice it now that you point it out. Was hard to notice the small popup while I was focused on looking at the game not the little window above it that popped up :/
The French Paradox is basically a politically correct way for standard american diet believers to talk about how paleo style diets mysteriously seem healthier. How could it possibly be that lower carb, less processed, higher natural fat diets lead to health when the big agribusinesses who purchased the official USDA guidelines to increase their profits insist on the opposite as the path to health despite the evidence of the obesity epidemic? With a strong side dish of puritan guilt, if it tastes good it must be bad for you, and french-style cooking usually tastes pretty good.
Moores Law works to make it eventually more than fast enough.

Moores Law does not help it get more secure.

How about we work on things that mater in this post-Snowden world, like increasing security -- and let Moore do the performance improvements! Seems a more reasonable and efficient approach, no? Adding more attackable surface area to the Kernel is not a good idea at all. It is an NSA wet dream.
Perhaps the example was not the best, but surely you see the difference between splicing DNA from different species, and selecting certain specimen based on desired traits?
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"In the United States, Hispanics die at slower rates than non-Hispanic whites. This is true even before accounting for differences in incomes and health-care access, which put Hispanics at a disadvantage."
Yes

After all, "hispanics" are Native-Americans genetically (though there are differences between regions)

Maybe they are more adapted to something (may be even the corn-heavy modern American diet)

I guess the societal factors play an important part as well.
Little-endian has a major advantage over big-endian...on eight-bit architectures: as you expand the size of the number, you can keep using up new digits at the end of the range, rather than the beginning. This means that you can more easily expand field widths.

Beyond that, it's called after two stupid factions in Gulliver's Travels for a reason...
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> If the population doubles, why do holodecks require 2x as many resources to invent?

If the population doubles, what are those people going to do with all their time? Fast food check out? Speculation and day trading?

> I'm merely disputing your assertion of a linear scaling law between GDP and the funds needed for research, and you haven't provided an argument why such a law would exist.

Society has to do something with its resources. We've been investing in R&D since at least the neolithic revolution, increasingly more so as our populations increase. I don't see a good reason why that should stop, so ....

> That's the core question which you are ducking.

Our technology increases faster as our population increases. We'll get holodecks sooner if we have 2X resources to spend on it, and it would be nice to have them before I'm dead.

It is quite nice to have a civil debate about these things.
> you pay Epic 5% of gross revenue after the first $3,000 per product per calendar quarter

That's 1/15 of the revenue share that would be in place at the Workshop.
Can someone point out where the quote comes from? I'm not a DBus developer but I'd like to know why the subject is what it is, and not something like "Issues with capability bits and meta-data in kdbus" or "Kdbus needs meaningful review".
I think another valid pov from most of the gamers is the dislike for the system that has been growing where once you purchase a game there are usually a series of other purchases associated the game to get all of the content that somebody else has been playing. It's extremely frustrating to many of the players to have to continually purchase little bits of the game, and this trend has been started by "day one DLC (downloadable content)" and persisted with "pay to win" freemium models. In the end it seems most people saw this as a cash grab by valve, pushed by Bethesda to milk even more money out of their players. They see the charitable donations currently being given and want to translate that to earnings that a game can make, and this doesn't sit well with the fans.
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If you have to explain what J.A.R.V.I.S. is on a technology site, you don't know your audience well enough.
If you buy a pay as you go sim in the UK and use that when you're in Germany, you'll benefit from the existing roaming charge caps.
no tethering when abroad
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More of the same about open offices. Pretty sure there's an article every week about how open offices aren't as productive as they seem and that people hate them.

What bugs me about this article is that the author felt the need to talk about Millennials at the end, and how as a more social generation, they're OK with open offices. The author probably never met a Millennial in their life, because I'd go for a cubicle over an open office any day.
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It's probably mainly a matter of personal opinion, but while I agree we should find a way to encourage better and more professional modding, I think that this particular implementation would create a technical/legal/ethical mess out of something which has worked well for the past decades. In short, they half-assed it, and it being one of the first implementations of this kind of system (and thus setting a huge precedent for other games) it should absolutely not be half-assed.

The particular problems I have are:

* Developers are already shipping less and less finished games knowing that they can pile on some more content afterwards in DLCs, for a steep fee. Knowing that they can just provide modding tools and let the users create the content themselves and still get a huge part (45% in the case of Bethesda) will just encourage the release of even more broken games.

* That's not even considering the fact that it encourages modding to go from a relatively open thing (you can open any mod in the mod editor software which you can get for free and add stuff to it yourself, and even redistribute it with the permission of the author) to a closed thing: there would be a big incentive to tack on some DRM to stop other people from "stealing content" from paid mods and create their own.

* Finally, it would turn the Steam workshop marketplace, which is already a mess, into the same thing that different app stores have become: a complete mess filled with garbage copycats trying to con people into giving them a few bucks.

I do not have a solution, but I think there should be more thought put into it. For the moment, patronage style remuneration and crowdfunding are the best solutions we have.
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100% agree with you on that one.

Blast it, I've just undermined my own comment, I meant to say: Well, actually ...

On a serious note, both of them seem pretty similar to me.
I've worked in R&D for <big ag> for 4 years. We've been crossing different plants for ever and the amount of genetic change introduced by doing that dwarfs using BT to inject a single gene into corn/beans. These aren't just crap shoots, either, big-ag spends billions on R&D making sure it does just what it says. The FDA has some onerous requirements, flow charts that take up an 8'x10' wall. And usually foreign governments are even more restrictive.

One GMO trait on the market kills corn borer. You know where we found the gene that kills corn borer? From a bacteria that already flourishes in the human digestive track.

Can you point to a single, documented, peer-reviewed case where a GMO crop has caused any adverse effect in humans?

Dwarf wheat has saved a billion lives. Golden Rice can do the same but only if the anti-GMO crowd gets out of the way.
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I think (3) is possible, though exceedingly rare, and perhaps Feynman would be an example.
Same here, please. I'd appreciate any advice to improve my customer base.
Same thing in the UK - using my O2 pay as you go in Spain is cheaper than a pay as you go in Spain for voice/sms, also using my UK phone in Spain for voice/sms is cheaper than using it in the UK.

Mobile pricing is mental - completely detached from technological restriction or infrastructure cost.

Also, some provider in EU ( as in France ) are making roaming free in most Europe already. However, unlike what the article suggested, you need to live in France to get them ( and remember the terrorists - you don't want to add yourself to some government shit-list just to save a few euro on holidays )
I have Three in Ireland with the same deal and yes, tethering is allowed.
A black man killed in police custody and large peaceful protest doesn't even register as a blip on any radar. It was a footnote in the media and something politicans ignore practically every month in the US.

The riots have very significantly raised this issue to the public. Sure a lot of people are just going to write it off as mindless violence (and a lot of it is) but in reality destruction of random private and community property is literally the only way that the rage can be channeled. It isn't feasible for them to burn down the police station, or else they would have.

These people are literally destroying their own community which is failing to serve them. Seems like pretty powerful message and effective imagery for the media to me.
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> probably one who once warred with you

On the other hand, in the US if I drive 4 hours south, I'm firmly in Confederate states.
Donations normally also happens after someone has used the work, rather than upfront.
I've been here a while, and it has its ups and downs for sure. People are a bit more friendly here, though, in my experience, and the moderator "dang" does try to police it and keep it mostly in line.
You can use one of those "world sim" cards to get cheaper connectivity when you cross the border. Check http://airbalticcard.com/ for example.
Thanks.

I believe HKT would have been useful but am not really sure how much HKT would have helped me overall. They would likely have been most useful (if at all) in the VFS/S5FS/VM stages that I was unable to fully get to.

Honestly, I have not used haskell enough to definitively say whether monads/arrows would have been useful.
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I would call it "dbus performance overhead is userspace library AND context switching"
See: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1939651

Or really, it isn't "context switching"; it's that there's the bus daemon in the middle which multiplies the userspace library overhead by 2, since messages are read and written twice as many times if you have the daemon in the middle.

Speeding up read/parse and marshal/write is completely separable from doing fewer read/parse marshal/write operations. Two different performance issues that aren't related as far as I can tell.
So this was not the normal method of breeding prior to GMOs? I always hear the argument above mentioned whenever GMOs are discussed.

Fallacy aside, it's an emotionally persuasive argument. I'm wondering if it's a central talking point that was developed by a marketing team for forum use.

What is the standard non-GMO breeding method?
Except in this case the 75% was going to the studios (Valve got their flat 30% cut, as with everything, and Bethesda elected to charge a further 45%). The modders were getting 25%.
"I’m also not sure if you can submit an app to the store that is only an Apple Watch app, like say a timer or small utility of some sort."

Yes, you can: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/toolbox-for-apple-watch/id98... or https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flip-coin-coin-flip-decision... for example. Pretty amazing that apps like those two got the green light from the App Store Review Team.
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> what would be the "Rust way"?

I'm not sure there is one TBH.
I love the Nagios vs Icinga bug comparison chart here:

https://wiki.icinga.org/display/Dev/Bug+and+Feature+Comparis...
I sometimes give food to homeless, never cash. However, when I see someone begging, I tried to look at him and say "sorry, I don't have money" or have a polite smile. I tell myself that homeless people have already a hard life, so they don't need to be totally ignored.
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> This is not new in the corporate world.

I think you don't quite understand what is supposed to be new about it.

> Large companies like GE have patent-buying departments that do something similar, except they are are a lot more flexible

Google has a patent buying department and program that offers a more flexible, but less well-defined and streamlined process -- this new program refers to it as an option for patents that don't meet the criteria for this experimental new streamlined process.

The new part (and Google says this directly) is the attempt the experiment with more streamlined process to reduce friction.

> This is not new for Google either. They have been quietly talking to and buying from various kinds of patent holders for many years now.

Having a patent purchase program isn't new, and Google doesn't claim that it is (in fact, their materials on the new program point to the pre-existing one as well); what is new is the particular process.

> I'd be very interested to know what kinds of patents they're hoping to buy. Are they looking for "bad" patents to really "disarm the trolls"? Or are they just hoping to get good ones for cheap and use the "patent troll" narrative for PR?

I don't think there really worried about "for cheap"; I think they want to provide a good experience for sellers so that people interested in arms-length sales of patents (whether the kinds that trolls are most interested or not) that might be useful to Google (whether for troll neutralization or otherwise -- and even good patents in the hands of someone whose interest is to in maximizing short-term return can be harmful to industry players other than the patent-holder, so "bad" patents aren't the only threat to Google out there) have a better chance of being offered to Google, so Google has a chance to act on them. They don't really need them "for cheap", except compared to the cost of potential litigation or workarounds -- to Google or, e.g., its hardware partners -- if some hostile party were to end up holding them.
> That comment is mostly by gamers, not modders

Ah, the ol' "look I want you to get paid for your work, I just don't want to have to be the one paying you. Don't worry, I'm sure tons of people will. Just not me."
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Less than organic? Maybe they are against BigAg monocrops? It's not clear, but the two options you pose are not the only ones

Also, pedantic lesson for ESL learners:
"You're arguing for GMO then."
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This got me thinking if in general (outside computing) it was a good choice having numbers represented the way they are. What if we had 1234 read as "four thousand, three hundred and twenty one"? Or even more different than how we pronounce it today - in order to read the number left-to-right to spell it "one and twenty and three hundred and four thousand"! This way the last digit lingering in your mind would be the one representing the most significant part of the given number (unlike the current practice of hearing first then tuning off for the less interesting smaller parts). Would it have been practical?
So they want to get paid, they just don't want any responsibility towards their product or the people who give them money for it?