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> Is that sarcasm, or you don't know what dbus is used for?

I know what it's used for in the desktop application space; but you might want to ask the authors of Xfce components like Mousepad that make their software rely on it for simple tasks like reusing an existing window when opening a file. Because I'd sure like to be able to run my Xfce desktop with D-Bus off in FreeBSD.

"D-Bus is a message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one another."

With shared memory (IPC) or sockets (RPC), applications can talk to each other.

Yes, D-Bus gives you an API interface for this (though I personally can't stand it); which apparently comes with tremendous overhead, if the linked article is to be believed.

Yes, with raw memory/sockets, you have to do the queue work yourself. But that's CS101 stuff; you shouldn't touch IPC if you can't implement a simple shared queue.

For most use cases, D-Bus is like using a jackhammer to nail in drywall.

"In addition to interprocess communication ... it makes it simple and reliable to code a "single instance" application or daemon"

Again, very easy with shared memory and a semaphore. If your attempt to open the semaphore fails, you create it and become the daemon. When the daemon closes, you delete the semaphore. When a second instance opens and connects to the semaphonre, and then shared memory, then it writes the command-line arguments into the queue, and the daemon handles it. Voila, "single instance" application or daemon.

"and to launch applications and daemons on demand when their services are needed"

And this would be a more complex use case that would be harder to solve. It's also a much less common use case. I don't really feel it's directly related to basic IPC, it's D-Bus trying to solve multiple problems at the same time.

I'd rather follow the Unix way and split that into a separate component, perhaps built on top of the IPC protocol.
This is unnecessarily negative. The gap allows to easily drag the window which is a useful feature too. Opera have an option to enbale/disable this gap. Vivaldi can easily add a similar option.
Tiny roombas that can dust my house and reach into areas on my carpet that big roombas cant. Roombas that can clean my ceiling in hard to reach places. Roombas that can go up to my lights, signal to them to turn off, and replace the individual LEDs in a modularized light assembly.

Tiny roombas to help find the pen you just sat down, turned your head, turned back, and the pen is gone. You know it went somewhere, but you're not quite sure where; it might not even be in the room anymore.

Tiny roombas to clean your bathroom, or unclog pipes, or micro-repair infrastructure like houses and roads. Tiny roombas to help to agriculture work, or terraform Mars.

Giant roombas to terraform Mars, the size of houses.

sigh.
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> I don't see why a "security policy driven message bus" would be more expensive than what he describes (unzipping, business rules encorcement, analyzing, etc).

It was in comparison with an HTTP server. I did not read much about the mail thread but from what I can tell it essentially benchmarks the uninteresting part of DBUS which is the part that runs in userspace. That's old and definitely needs improvements, but not the design of it. In fact, the design of KDBUS or the DBUS dispatching core is from what I can tell quite intelligent and makes sense from a performance point of view.

Without a doubt there are a lot of old bells and whistles attached to DBUS which need rewriting.
Yeah. Spending a year in the US education system was an eye-opener. Sciath (Science/Math) and Soclish (Social Studies & English) were the two topics. "Elite" school, 7th grade. Mindbleached kids, conformity was king, everything, everything resulted in hysterical breathlessness. Couldn't get out of there soon enough.

They really didn't know what to do with an 11 year old who would sit there reading Aristotle in ancient greek under the desk - apart from suspend me, repeatedly, and breathing a big sigh of relief when I told them to stick it and went back to school in the UK - they admitted that they would have expelled me had I not left... which reflects the American approach to problem solving - if you can't figure it out, pretend it doesn't exist.
I assume you are referring to the management book I still own:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Make-So-Leadership-Lessons-Generatio...
> Had they wanted to, it would have been incredibly easy for the FBI to spin any of the many quotes in this article into a "false statement" and an insta-felony, just out of spite.

Here's the part of "don't talk to the police" that scares me. A LEO that would spin you into a felony would probably completely lie about what you say to pin a felony on you too. Moreso if you irritate by being silent.
I once heard somebody jokingly refer to MIPS as SPIM when booted in "other-endian" mode. If SPARC could do that, then it would be CRAPS.
So it takes 5X the number of android users to spend as much on apps as iOS users, and half that comes from the China market. Still not a very compelling argument to develop for Android, unless you come up with the next 憤怒的小鳥.
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Looks like fun. (FWIW, seems to work in Firefox on OSX.)

Unfortunately, using WASD for movement is very uncomfortable for me, because I am left-handed and use the mouse with my left hand.
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It's not just modern western education. Basic education for girls in third-world countries is associated with lower birth rates. Additionally, comparatively minor decreases in poverty in undeveloped countries correlate with declines in birth rates -- possibly because declining poverty usually goes hand in hand with declining infant mortality. The latter being one of the biggest reasons that the average birth rates in developed countries have dropped from 30-40 per thousand to 10-15 per thousand in just the past 150 years.
I think Valve/Steam (and Bethesda) really screwed up on this one. Although the idea of modders being fairly compensated for their work is a great idea the execution was poor at best.

Only 25% going to the content creators? Really?

And a poor returns mechanism, getting a refund gets you banned from the steam store for 7 days to stop abuse. That's a poor returns policy when you're buying things like mods that might be of really poor quality once you start to use them.
Me, but they say looks aren't everything.
Most USA-people do this, and they're aware of it: when they talk about 'universities', or '[some class of] people', or 'VC' or whatever else. I think the reasons they do it are a combination of efficiency and a feeling that the rest of the world isn't always necessary to the discussion.

Those of us outside the US may feel it's naive, but it's unlikely they'll change. The simplest thing for us to do is to assume they always mean USA-[topic].
A universitys main focus should be on research, education is second. Let the colleges educate the masses. Therefore students shouldn't have a say in if a professor should be on the faculty or not, as long as he is churning out good papers.
PowerPCs are still 32 bit though, and fairly popular in the uController space [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC]
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Even though the bytecode is being executed on a VM, the VM itself has been ported to the architecture, which has a native endianness. Byte order in the dex that matches the host OS's will likely result in a performance gain as the VM can cast more efficiently.
Yes, I'm aware of the WASD trouble for some people and I've noted this for future development of both new games and possible updates for this game. Thanks for your input!
Oh I see my other comment got down-voted before it was even visible. Is this because I didn't sacrifice 2 Amiga 1000's to the Gods of HN. I am 2 minutes from being done with this site forever. Both the submission and the comments have devolved into something that no longer suits my intellect. Thanks for letting me have a chance to talk here.
It says the secret is that they lie down, whereas monkeys do not, and - consequently - do not sleep as well.
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The article author, Robert Glass, took these from his book, "Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering" (ISBN 978-0321117427), which is definitely worth picking up, or in the very least worth skimming the table of contents¹ of.

¹ For example, here: http://blog.codinghorror.com/revisiting-the-facts-and-fallac...
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An odd joke. SPIM is a well-known MIPS emulator, used in a great many university compiler classes.

http://spimsimulator.sourceforge.net/
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Ditto. I'd quite happily pay for mods - they add value, there's more a chance of bugs being fixed, Steam would make installation less of a hassle. But 25% going to the authors is awful. The game's original creators - who already benefit from increased sales - additionally get more of the revenue than the actual mod creator.
Or even "one can take any courses they want"
They do. They are bi-endian and default to little on most systems I have seen. The only real big endian system I have left is an old sun Netra.
Valve... pressure... I see what you did there.
Napoleon Hill.

If you look past the mantras you'll see a psychology of selling and the need for connections.

Everything you do is selling; the way you look, what you eat, how you communicate and how you work, you are selling yourself to the world hoping to get more back in return.
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I think the more important thing is they actually responded to their users. Valve is a model company. Live and learn.
Please keep in mind that FIFA14 was one event, we still broadcast many other events and channels simultaneously ( private and public).

About why chose HLS over RTMP, in our experiments HLS showed to be easier to scale than RTMP (maybe because the latter is stateful + the current players don't have an optimized adaptive bitrate algorithm + it's easier to scale http over rtmp)
I agree there is nothing of immediate value here.

The story is part of a larger narrative. Those interested in that narrative will enjoy watching how it plays out.
The cultural aspect is the view of the police, and not the terrible things they are up to. You and your countrymen are simply as naive as Arron Schwartz's girlfriend.
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Exactly. People don't mind if companies screw up like this just as long as they know when to admit they were wrong.
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The whole EA getting off Steam fiasco is something similar, except a new policy in Steam wants 30% of anyone's revenue for DLC even if you setup your own payment system, and distribution system. So Steam would be getting money for doing absolutely nothing.
There has been more than one study showing that people who pirates content are ususally the group that spend most on content.

This is for the simple reason that people that pirates stuff are the one that are interested enough for the content.

So study show that people that use piracy are also the same people that buy the legal content. Why ? For many reasons, it might be easier to pirate than getting it in legal ways, it might not be available legally yet, or it might, obviosuly, cost more than they are willing to spend.

There are people that only pirate stuff and don't pay for anything, sure there are, but most pirates are just interested people that for one reason or the other can't get the same thing legally (money is only one of the reasons).

And that also is one of my biggest problem with the argument against piracy. They treat each pirated copy of something like a missed sale, and that's just stupid.

If my budget for movies is 100$, i'll spend that 100$. After that, if I want more content, my option are pirate the other stuff or simply not consuming it. Not increasing my budget.

I don't have one research to show you, because there has been more than one, so I'll leave you this link:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=pirates+spend+more
This is true, and if you read into it you'll find that it wasn't anything to do with Valve, but actually Bethesda who defined the 25%, they've already profited immensely from the game and I found it quite hard to swallow that they were not stiffing dedicated content creators.
US citizens may be less cultured.
They still think that "the problem" was that they were asking for mods to be compensated(and that the exiting mod community doesn't like commercialism), not that they were keeping 3/4 of it.
I built a simple sketching/writing app. What do you think?
"Why do I need that, I can just look at MSDN?"

MSDN has all of it, everything that should be documented. It is easy to get lost, not knowing what and how much should be taken first. The value of a book in such case is to have its author as your guide (as in a tutorial, if you will, but a little bit more than that).
Grading scales can and do change depending on circumstances of how the class goes. If a majority of the students do poorly on a quiz worth 20% of your grade, the professor may choose to bump that down to 10% and give a second quiz worth 10%. Perhaps because some students complained the quiz was a poor reflection of what was actually learned. Professors require flexibility to deal with things that happen as the class progresses. A Syllabus is just a basic outline. Seriously - if a test was scheduled on a day where there was a fire in the building and class was cancelled what is the professor supposed to do if he/she can't venture outside of the syllabus?

Universities do not create syllabi, individual professors do for individual classes. Some universities don't even require a professor to give one to their students. I don't see how a syllabus is even really relevant here at all because (University wide) student honor/conduct codes and the like are what actually applies here.

Courts generally stay out of grading disputes (for good reason!)

"University faculties must have the widest range of discretion in making judgments as to the academic performance of students and their entitlement to promotion or graduation." - Board of Curators of the University of Missouri v. Horowitz (Supreme Court)

Not only that the probability of this going to court is zero - the university provided a replacement professor to assign grades instead of failing the class.

I also read about this in another paper this morning and it said that the university had assigned security to this class previously due to its behavior.
There are so many wrong assumptions in this OP, most of which the OP didn't state explicitly, that for once I don't even feel like breaking it down into chunks:

> [quote of the whole thing]

No. When you run Dwarf Fortress on a slower computer, or do something in it that taxes your computer resources more, the dwarves don't suddenly sit up and take notice that something went faster in-game than it was supposed to. Everything just takes longer to calculate, at once, _including_ the dwarves' perceptions and any (in-simulation) tools they might use to measure this.

QED.
I'm glad you did, because I didn't... I'll just pretend like I meant to say it...
Yet people (primarily redditors) were swearing up and down that our complaints meant nothing and that we were wasting our time and that Valve only cared about money.

Like seriously, have those people been paying attention? If anybody is going to listen to their userbase, admit their mistake, and do a 180, it's Valve.
what is a "true hispanic"?
ever been diving? feels pretty much as 3D as you would expect
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I think Linus' comment is more on the lines of picking an endian-ness and sticking with it rather than having to check the specific stream and swap bytes conditionally.

He specifically mentions cases where the data is stored in BE and the program reads it, swaps it, operates with it, swaps it back again and writes it.

The BE comment seems to me to be of much less importance than the other message (kind of like a side comment). And as you say, BE is very much alive today.
Pretty ironic considering how anti-Snowden and anti-Guardian the Sun was over the leaks i.e.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/suncolumnists/louisemen...

Surprisingly there was a complete volte-face when it emerged GCHQ were spying on journalists too, perhaps "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" isn't as convincing when you're the one being targeted.
I also experienced that twice during my student years. That the professor not makes a decision with his fellow profs and school organizers looks quite poor. In any conflict you must choose one side, at least I believe so, and then support that. If you fight with the students, that's okay. If you fight with your fellow professors that's also okay. But just making trouble to both groups and then running away... That can't be reasonable or achieve anything.

From the experience with the two professors I knew trying something like that, I think that guy will be surprised that students and the other profs will bond together simply to avoid more trouble and continue with the university life.
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Looks nice but there is no introduction or anything to sell it :)
I agree with everything you said, but it seemed like a lot of the more nuanced feedback on this was drowned out by a subset of gamers having a screaming tantrum at the suggestion of paying anything for a mod, regardless of where the money was going.

I'm hopeful that Valve will eventually try this again on a new game with a fairer compensation structure and a better community infrastructure in place. I'm not so hopeful that that same subset of gamers won't have a tantrum all over again.
This is highly unlikely, there are numerous proofs of natural materials with way higher energetic density.
That seems perfectly reasonable. Let me just crash a few galaxies together and see what happens.
> "Also assume that the universe has finite computational resources. Therefore resources have to be diminished in one location when they are in in demand another location."

With all due respect, it's much more likely the universe is multi-core, highly parallel and enforces proper resource allocation.
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I struggle to see why Bethesda has any say at all. They need Valve/Steam more than Valve/Steam need Bethesda. What, are they going to launch their own paid mod system? Who would waste their time with that? Seems to me like Valve holds all the cards...

edit: And maybe Bethesda would've taken their ball and gone home for any less, but I'm sure Valve could've found another developer. They probably should have ,given Bethesda's bad reputation for making games that need bug-fixing mods, terrible DLC, and the vastness of the FREE modding community.
Ha! They actually caved! Incredible.

I've been following the evolution of the situation very closely, as i'm actually a big believer in paid mods.

Valve's problem, I believe, was trying to take an existing ecosystem/market that wasn't geared towards financial rewards, and tried to force it on it.
Even if 75% would have gone to the mod developers, the community would still resist the change, since that's what the human mind is programmed to do, and tight communities like those operate like a hive-mind, causing the outburst to be exponentially stronger.

Edit:

Forgot to add, all the talk about "open collaboration cannot happen in an ecosystem with financial incentives" - I call BS.

Compare this to the world of software development and open source - which is thriving. Mega corps & the little guy/girl building production quality libraries and systems which generate big ass revenue streams.

What's the difference between a mod's code and an [insert your favorite package manager here] package?
Right, there's graphic assets, but maybe someone's missing a collaborative graphic design market?

Game development is heading the same directions as the start-up world - from an industry where only the big boys can play, to a collaborative effort where the execution matters & creativity thrives.
I don't understand, Steam hosts mods for free, so why would they want such a huge chunk? Then Bethesda just needs a minor incentive for developing the mod tools, which were already funded for the creation of the game (I imagine they use the same tools, if not something more advanced, correct me if I'm wrong?). In fact the mod tools don't get updated all that often after being released as far as I'm aware.
The majority of Mexicans are Mestizos, a European and Native American mix.
This is the obvious answer. Another, I believe, is a sense of community (lower societal stress).
The Web is now little-endian thanks to ArrayBufferViews exposing endianness and everyone testing only the little-endian case. It doesn't make sense to make big-endian hardware that needs to run a Web browser anymore, so chances are that big-endian will never come back.
I guess that's an open question at this point... It's still pretty early (i.e. alpha) so I'm thinking that "selling" it isn't really on the table yet. :)

Which particular aspect of Sketchwrite do you think would be most marketable?
Odd, iSeries and pSeries are BigEndian, even Z is.

On the iSeries it has no bearing on application programmers except when using transformation products to other platforms.
I don't to sound like a pessimist but reading the blog post on Steam I can't help but notice:

"We understand our own game's communities pretty well, but stepping into an established, years old modding community in Skyrim was probably not the right place to start iterating."

Translation: "We'll let it go this time". It wouldn't surprise me if the next Bethesda game had that very same system baked-in right from the start.
Peoples mixed with Spaniards. The "span" part of Hispanic.
Ask HN: Does HN not cover breaking news?
There is a current news event I am interested in.

As a discerning consumer of news, I was interested to see what the HN community has to say about the subject.

But, there are zero live posts about the topic.

I know that HN doesn't cover politics...

But, doesn't a news story cease to belong to any one category once it becomes the number one front-page headline across the USA?

Was I wrong to look forward to reading comments from Baltimore hackers this morning?
Doesn't Valve bring in the users and the channel to them ?
Unfortunately, I think this concern will be lost in the noise. The most noise on this issue seems to have been that gamers do not want to pay for mods and not that modders feel they are being unfairly compensated.

I really don't have an issue with paying for good mods and in fact I was really excited by the initial announcement because I would have totally gotten into game modding if I could earn some significant supplemental income doing it.
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Valve kept 30%, Bethesda kept 45% and modders got the rest. It's not just Valve's fault.
>As a guy who spent four months...

Holy shit! What exactly are you doing in your spare time? ;)
The study controls for income, so in theory the effect of lower socioeconomic status is removed. It is effectively saying fewer Hispanic people at a certain income level will die relative to people of other races at the same income level.

This is a paradox especially if your prior is that longevity and race should be unrelated.
*proselytize

This has annoyed me for a while now
An 'interesting' thing might happen in the future if this forces people to censor themselves. In Iran, for example (according to part of a documentary I saw), journalists and writers have to be creative in order to say what they want w/o actually saying what they want (ie, they let their audience read between the lines). While far from ideal, constraints can breed creativity.