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I came here to say exactly this. Glad I scrolled down before creating a dupe. Seriously, this is the most helpful thing I keep coming back to. You don't have to read everything linked to here all at once; just progressively keep looking at the resources linked to here as slowly as you need to in order to understand what is going on.
I don't understand your comment on multiple levels. First, I didn't say there wasn't grinding, my points were:
1) The mechanics of the game wasn't the problem, it was the implementation of them.
2) Grinding has never doomed a game. It may be annoying, but many popular games -- including ALL RPGs -- feature grinding at their core.

Second, with respect to E.T., if you're spending your time eating Reese's Pieces, you're doing it wrong. The candy has nothing to do with completing the game. Furthermore, the game can be completed without going out of your way to collect these at all.

Third, eating RPs isn't not grinding. Grinding is when the game effectively pauses because the player can't advance past some point because the player is underpowered for the new enemies, and overpowered when compared to the old enemies. It's a balance issue, that gets passed off as "fun". See Pokemon. See Final Fantasy. See every RPG ever made.

Repetitive game mechanics doesn't doom games. Every party based RPG since Bard's Tale has features the same Fight-Fight-Fight-Parry-Parry-Parry verb. 90% of all attack turns in these games comes down to that same attack plan. Hell, these games even configure their controls so that this is accomplished by just hitting the default button six times in a row. And yet, these games are beloved by millions.
> One interesting thing is that even if they did tell people they were Atheist, but continued observing Judaism with action, nothing much would happen.

In an ideal world, yes. In the real world, humans are pretty much tribal as hell, and people want others to hold the same worldview as they do, and it hurts when someone rejects something that you consider part of the core of your being.

Jews are human too.
I particularly liked that line:

> you're telling them to change it because it's not American enough.
Sure, but if your going to use the Nest example as an Apple company when the only link is ex apple people + Apple Money then other companies with those sorts of links qualify.

Jobs clearly got his money from Apple as well as polishing his stills. So, really if Nest qualifies then clearly Pixar does as well.

PS: IMO, it would be reasonable not to include Nest as an Apple startup, but if one qualifies then clearly the other does as well.
I spent the last few months struggling with modern OpenGL myself - using GL ES2 which doesnt even provide access to the deprecated OpenGL 1 stuff. I wrote about it here to help others trying to pick it up from scratch: http://seshbot.com/blog/2015/05/05/an-introduction-to-opengl...
He didn't win at all. The hospital won.
Reading this post inspired me to give consulting a shot.
>Do you guys think it's acceptable if I use Arch Linux on a VM (VirtualBox) and I fullscreen the VM?

Yes. This should work provided you have a system with memory > 8GB, but you might face some issues when using a folder shared from windows. If something involves symlinks, then tread carefully. And file access to a shared folder is pretty slow too.

I am not going into how bad of an idea is going back to php since you have already considered it. But I will just say that php is every bit as bad as it was. I recommend /r/lolphp for an updated list of php gotchas...
Do you suggest any good, succinct resources on best practices in landing page design?
"Indictment" is a funny word choice. That's exactly what is missing in law enforcement misconduct.
I'm not sure the author actually understands what libertarianism is. What is un-libertarian about open and free software? The whole ethos of libertarianism is around mutual, non-forced, consent. Free and open software absolutely represents this. Socialism and communism are sharing by force, which open and free software is the opposite of.

In fact I don't think there actually are any sociopolitical ideologies which say making things and giving them away for free is something that is wrong or shouldn't happen, so I'm really not sure who or what the author is trying to call out here.
To get a better idea of how the ideas of open source (and free software) reconcile with those of libertarianism, consider that basically all such licensing regimes involve consent and contract on the part of the authors and their community of users and contributors. Classic libertarian values are voluntary, organic collaboration over centralized, coercive, command and control. Even the GPL is predicated on this.

Indeed, a symbiotic relationship that has developed between the world of open source and the proprietary projects of the tech giants startups and startups, all driven by the enlightened self-interest of all the actors involved, big and small.

As for the more dogmatic GNU-style Free Software movement, it makes a couple of (erroneous, in my view) assumptions about a inherent coerciveness of "non-free" software, and builds their entire philosophical vision out from that idea. However, the continued eclipse of the GPL by more "liberal" BSD/MIT-style licenses seems to demonstrate that those assumptions are increasingly failing to validate.

It's interesting to note that Eric Raymond, author of the Cathedral and the Bazaar, and one of the key collaborators that developed the term "Open Source" and the ensuing definitions, is a pretty staunch libertarian. He's written extensively about both topics at http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/.
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It's an inaccurate statement. More accurately the courts award custody to the parent that did not change in religiosity.

In this case it's the more religious parent, but it can be the reverse in other cases.
It exists as one for many platforms

http://rss-glx.sourceforge.net/screenshots.shtml

I ported some of the RSS-GLX screensavers to Android, but never tried this one.
It's more likely that he really did think she had a problem and was trying to help. Not that he was trying to abuse the medical system to get his way.
Drop the ! in professionals!, and maybe change 'our community' to 'a community'.
Heh he heh.

In Russia, in sociological surveys there's this recurring result that 20-30% of those who say they are Orthodox Christian also say they don't believe in God. Another 20-30% don't believe in Heaven or Hell.

Go figure what's in those people's heads.
What concerns are you talking about in regards to Docker?
Wellzly? Isn't that a woman's college?
> German-funded museum

Quite possible the museum is actually in Ethiopia
There is a huge difference between knowing enough on a subject to do a "bullshit test", and what you recommended in your top post, which was for businessmen to go learn to program and make their own MVP. While an admirable goal, that seems ludicrous for most.

Obviously, if you are going to be an entrepreneur, you need to know your business, and that includes the high-points from all divisions, but that is a far cry from your first recommendation.
I find myself jealous of these people. For the price of a little hypocrisy, you get to be part of a very supportive community. You get structure for your life, a large number of social gatherings, and a big pool of potential friends and romantic partners. I almost considered going to church just for that reason (back when I was in college and friends with a lot of devout Christians), but I couldn't stomach the hypocrisy of going to church as an atheist.

Perhaps somebody could start an "atheist church", but the concept is unpalatable to me. I don't want atheism to define my life in the same way belief defines the life of religious adherents. I don't want to attend atheist classes or listen to an atheist preacher or be around evangelical atheists. I just want a large community of people who stick together, follow a common moral code, support each other, and have regular social events.
How so? It's not like OPs been working with the team in question anyway. So there's going to be a learning curve, the least of which is probably standard library/syntax changes?
Succinct? No. But check out Unbounce, Conversion XL and their collaboration, PageFights.
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I doubt that's really something most people are going to consider
If it's a small shop then depending on the atmosphere being the only linux-vm guy might cause undue friction? If you are really talented then sticking out of the crowd with odd stuff might be considered as a positive characteristic but since you are not yet a PHP god I would approach the job from the point of view of learning their tools first - it's just me, though so I would not presume to give you any tactical advice.

A few things come to mind of Windows if you choose to give it a try.
1. Vim for windows works pretty well
2. It's pretty fast to switch to a different application context on windows using win-key. On windows 7 still win + 1-9 switches to the cirresponding application on task bar - and the order of applications can be reordered by dragging a mouse.

Windows nowadays is pretty solid tech but it's aimed at a general demographic so finding all the power user levers take a while. Of these:

-powershell ISE is a really nice command line (well, better than cmd) and it comes out of the box

- some people swear by automation through autohotkey scripting

- win-r is a fast way to start apps and scripts

- hitting win key and typing the name of an application is a fast way to start applucations by just the exe name

Good luck on the new job!
Whether or not Klabnik is a real communist, this raises what I consider to be a pretty interesting thought experiment for testing our intuitions:

Suppose that a speaker were accepted to a tech conference who either jokingly or seriously described himself as a communist (I assure you that there are many such people here in the valley). And suppose that the organizer of the conference then disinvited that speaker saying:

"We have striven to create an open and inclusive conference representing many diverse viewpoints. Mr X's views were recently brought to my attention by a number of people. In light of the fact that some of our attendees were raised in the Former Soviet Union, Former Yugoslavia, and Mainland China, many of them having fled from considerable persecution, some of whom had close family members murdered by the regimes; I do not think Mr. X presenting here would be conducive to these individuals having a pleasant and safe experience at the conference."

How all would we react to such an event? Would you all be taking the same sides that you are now? If not, why not?
There are non-religious communities as well. Take music fans for example. They do all that social gatherings stuff. Board games players also.

And at least their object of praise provably exists.
I also have my familiarity from those same sources and I do agree that it imitates his neocameralism ideas. The mistake in my argument is that I considered the single-user system where the user controls root, so you're very right. Since urbit is a distributed system, its design will have political implications. Ironically though it would give you more control than current systems, so that's kind of an argument in his favor. As far as I could tell, I didn't see any aspects of racialism or slavery in urbit.
Someone did start an atheist church along these lines:

http://sundayassembly.com/

This is at least the second time that people have done so:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethical_movement

I don't have any experience with either movement, so I don't know whether they would be very similar to or very different from what you would like.
Realizing raising a child is not a competition or an engineering project or about me sooner and more fully. Nobody really knows what they're doing...we're all amateurs. We all make choices, some are better than others. But if we do it right the reward is that our children go away and we miss them terribly because they are such wonderful people.

I wish I was more kind and patient and understanding more often. I wish I lived a bit less vicariously. These are the things that will make me a better parent. All the little points on which I can obsess over comparison with other families are a waste of energy; it's not about the relative but the absolute.

Congratulations and good luck.
I think we're talking about slightly different topics here. What I'm hearing from you is along the lines of "I shouldn't feel obligated to spend my time listening to racists about their racist ideology." I was trying to aim more at "we shouldn't interfere with a racist having on-topic technology discussions with third parties." Both the differences are important. Choosing who you will and won't engage with is a different beast than who is and isn't allowed to talk about things. Whether certain topics are appropriate for a given context is a different thing than whether choosing wrong on one topic means you are no longer an appropriate person to talk about another.

In short, I'm encouraging you to ignore the crank, but not censor him from talking about context-relevant topics.
Might want a more professional name? These kinds of cutesy names might make people not take it seriously.
Using RxJS for data flow instead of Flux with React
PHP is quite possibly one of the best languages to use for a project these days.

The community is massive and full of people who are deeply passionate about best practices. There are more quality frameworks than you can hope to keep up with (if your ranking of quality is the meager toy that rails is, you'll be happy here). The frameworks are really good at abstracting away the awful API choices the language makes.

That said, if you're writing in "PHP" instead of a given set of frameworks... you're working at a company that hired someone who wrote a lot of code with no experience of what makes a good system... but you'll soon find the JS looks exactly like that too, because that's not a PHP problem.

For your OS: You can get windows analogues to all those things (in the case of vim, you can also just... use vim on windows). They offered me a mac or a windows machine where I work and I opted for mac because it's just BSD4... but like... the WM is a pile, and I wish I was using Windows98 over mac. But none of that has stopped me from making huge contributions to the team.
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It sounds like if you smash together Project Goverenor and Flocker you get Joyent's Manatee[1]. It uses ZooKeeper to automatically manage a PostgreSQL cluster. It also uses a separate ZFS dataset to hold the database, so backup and restore can be accomplished just using "zfs send" and "zfs recv". It's open source[2] Javascript if you want to check it out.

[1]: https://docs.joyent.com/sdc7/troubleshooting-sdc7/manatee
[2]: https://github.com/joyent/manatee
I find the hand-waving around the Maryland and Utah graphs to be great examples of the their motivated reasoning, and total blindness to the effect of conscious campaigning. (Appropriately, 'campaign' is another word missing from their 38 pages.)

Romney easily won Maryland's 2012 primary – 49% overall, presumably with the 'big precinct' advantage they find suspicious. (But, the researchers don't show us that graph or include any Maryland data in their tables.) But because the Maryland-2008 graph is 'flat' for the "same candidate… same state… same type of election", we are to believe all non-fraud density-driven vote-share effects are refuted.

But 2008 was a wildly different election! Other candidates were contending on the same axes of fundraising, organization, and compromise/moderation that Romney dominated in 2012. Another candidate (McCain) won the overall nomination, but looking at the Maryland graph, it appears both Romney and McCain barely even contested Maryland: both finished at about 6%, less than 1/5th the winner.

Do they show us McCain's or Obama's or Kerry's or Gore's or Dole's or Perot's or Clinton's slopes in any state or election? No. They just pick one small, relatively urban, and electorally irrelevant (for Republicans) state, Maryland, in one year, 2008, and imply its flatness means something.

The same problem applies to their choice of Utah-2012 as another flatness example: Romney won with 93%! No one else spent a cent there! How does that reflect anything about the effects of density and campaign expenditures in actively-contested races?

This kind of cherry-picking of outliers makes their case, especially with regard to the density-issue, look extra-flimsy.
You might enjoy Scott Alexander's post on this topic:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/24/there-are-rules-here/
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Can't disagree with any of the point.
This is amazingly cool...
I flag stories that produce mean stupid or unproductive discussions or that I believe will based on experience. On the other hand, a comment has to be vile enough to justify calling for moderator attention before I flag it.
I am pretty new to rails, 3 years, and I haven't had any trouble finding work. Remote work is definitely not the easiest thing to find but it hasn't been that hard to find. Although I have a front end speciality which is much more in demand than traditional backend heavy developers right now.
Your dev environment should ALWAYS run the exact same versions of the stack as production. With PHP, there are too many little gotchas between even minor versions.
Interesting that you mention "Accidents in North American Mountaineering". This is the climbing equivalent of the Startup Post-Mortems story that was posted the other day. They publish them every year and they're a great read. Like startup failures, they tend to cluster around a few common mistakes--typically failure to anticipate weather conditions and overconfidence in one's abilities. Definitely worth checking out if you enjoy climbing and mountaineering.
Thanks, interesting perspective. The advantage of sprints is that you're demoing progress on a regular basis. I can see the possibility of people focusing more on the demo than the ultimate purpose of the code, in which case as you say you'd accumulate technical debt in the form of hacks. But if you don't demo regularly, you run the risk of hidden problems where everyone assumes something works when in fact it doesn't. Either way, competent management is needed to avoid the pitfall.
No doubt that Linux - the kernel - is one of the best open source project ever happened. Linux - the OS, the user space - is another story. The user space things of Linux based OS are bloated and just pain to work with. Everybody is fighting about different set of tools in this space and nothing is coherent and that's why there never was Linux desktop year and never will be.
Yeah, its pretty good for CV beginners. I would recommend getting the middle package though, as the virtual machine is pretty sluggish and not ideal, may as well install all the necessary dependencies yourself.
The author falls into the false dichotomy between libertarianism as the far right and socialism/communism as the far left. (There's a link above the title that leads to another article by the same author that equates the GPL with communism.)

There are indeed a lot of right-wing libertarians in today's tech scene, but I also see a lot of left-wing libertarians here. If you have warm fuzzy feelings about Universal Basic Income, for example, you might be a left-libertarian. Left-libertarians support a strong social safety net to establish a safe minimum, as well as a relative lack of regulations on what you can do once that minimum is reached.
This is great! I last looked at OpenGL on the desktop a decade ago and it was tedious. GLFW looks awesome. But looking at the example code for it, I saw this:

if (!glfwInit())
return -1;

Why do this? Is there some kind of amazing thing in the C/C++ world that doing this unlocks? It just seems like an inconsistent, dangerous accident waiting to happen.
It's doubtful that a person in a position of that power and responsibility is that stupid.
Do you use Resharper at all?
This is all more or less correct… just a few things to add (I'm on Team IHMC Robotics) :)

1. It's highly unlikely that this version of Atlas can get up from a fall under its own power, at least not expediently; it weighs much more than the old one and it actually has a slightly weaker hydraulic system. The old pump motor was a constant speed/constant displacement 3000 PSI system. The current one is a variable speed/constant displacement system that tops off at around ~2600 PSI, and the robot is around 35-40 lbs heavier than the old one. Even if the arms are strong enough, none of the COTS grippers that integrate with the robot could handle getting up; the fingers would explode. I've seen lots of videos of the old tethered Atlas getting up. I find it amusing to think that the current one could pick itself up.

2. We (IHMC) don't do ZMP based stability. All of our walking/balancing is based on something called Instantaneous Capture Point, that the head of our lab pioneered during his PhD and which several other researchers have gone on to refine over the last 10 years or so. Lots of people use it for fall recovery (MIT does in their recent Atlas video that's similar to ours) but we also use it for walking as well. We call it ICP, but vision people get cranky when we say that because ICP is also short-hand for Iterative Closest Point.

3. amjaeger is correct, our robot was very badly damaged by our falls on Friday. Enough that we were very worried about how it would impact our performance. Our falls on Friday were both more or less the result of operator error (with some hardware problems mixed in, but mostly operator error), and our stability issues on Saturday were the result of the falls on Friday.

4. The comment about manipulation being pure teleop is a little reductionist. It is teleop in the sense that it's not autonomy, but almost nobody was doing direct joint servoing which is what I usually think of when somebody says pure teleop. For example, we actually operated continuously during comms blackouts. When we cut out the wall on Saturday, almost the whole thing happened during a blackout. But when your 400lb robot doesn't have a safety line, it behooves you to be extra careful. We cut out the wall just as slowly during perfect comms back in the lab because there's lots of ways to screw that task up.
Religion is as much about conforming to cultural and social norms as anything spiritual. Church is more important than family and country in some places, and not easy to just walk away from.
Soofa “smart” benches will be installed across the country
I think this falls under socially discriminating while being legally tolerant. [1]

I wonder why it's ok to discriminate as such. Should one just accept this behavior as part of a social contract? If someone were to say "I'll put a gun to your head" but does not do so, is it not ok to let them be?

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/09/opinion/david-brooks-i-am-...
All marketing is deceptive. By its very nature, it presents the version of the "truth" that is most favorable to the seller of a product. No savvy consumer should rely on the claims of any packaged good.
A few examples (perhaps HelloWord and Fibonacci) in other languages would be nice. From an informal statistic I propose German and French. (and I'd like to add Spanish, because I speak Spanish.)
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