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Why did you link through Wikiwand? It's some annoying overlay on Wikipedia that makes the window really small?
Here's the direct Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taipei_101
Whats the difference? ;)
Giving up the girl to kill the dragon, don't think i'll ever have that level of dedication to a game. But perhaps it was more the community thing than the game thing. I keep having the impression that what keeps many playing WoW is that it is pretty much a oversized chat room for them. That is where the people they know "hang" so that is where people need to get hold of them, and so it becomes self-reinforcing.
Yeah but this is not app.net. I think paying for something that already serves you useful purpose is different then signing up for a new service.
I use this setup at work and I love it, the only thing I miss from my at-home linux setup is that I can't yank and paste directly to system clipboard with Windows. It's pretty sweet being able to yank in one buffer, flip over to another tmux window or pane and be able to paste seamlessly.
I was called hakujin once, by a very angry man--"iranai, hakujin ga kirai" was the exact greeting. Granted, I was a Mormon missionary knocking on his door to talk spirituality, but out of the thousands of doors I knocked, that one still stands out as pretty spicy. In comparison, gaijin never seemed that bad.
Could this possibly be the app that allows us to do away with tech recruiters? Probably too good to be true.
Are 'typical' developers really in the $150-$160k range? I'm apparently shockingly underpaid.
For interpersonal transfers, I had good luck with Dwolla for a while before switching back to Paypal for faster transfers. If they go through with this, though, I guess I'm back to Dwolla if they haven't yet gone evil. Was pretty happy with them other than for the speed.
There's a pretty solid chance PayPal will have predicted these switches, and keep the old numbers on file.

Because the new policy allows for calling no matter how they get your number, it probably won't help.
Zookeeper is a hog, no one will disagree. But etcd is a very awesome yet very new technology. Even the protocol it implements (which is awesome), raft, is very new as a distributed consensus protocol. I'm not in any remote means throwing cold water on k8s, it is fantastic stuff. I only know that there are very very large production mesos clusters today, and the same can not be said (yet) for k8s. Read those two links I posted in the parent though if you have the time. It will make a ton more sense.

That being said, you k8s is sexy stuff, it just ties you to docker, and I believe soon to be rocket. When I first started evaluating both (around docker 1.2.x), docker was not super viable and was pretty buggy. With 1.6.x and newer, most of my original concerns cease to matter. They are both excellent technologies, use whatever works for your environment.
Well yes, the fees are priced in. But in practice it is far from unheard for apartments to be rented for less than cost of mortgage if you were to buy today plus all fees. This can be influenced by the owner having bought a fair bit cheaper, or the owner counting on capital gains for the main income from the property, or the owner simply being unable to find a tenant that would pay more.

Ultimately the market decides the rent and landlords' cost is only one of the factors in the market price.

In Toronto and Vancouver condo markets it has been cheaper month-by-month to rent than to buy for a fair while. Which one will end up better 30 years down the line depends on a lot of future factors and is far from clear at the moment.

Incidentally, in 2011 I was offered lowered rent on my Toronto studio when I gave notice I would move out, in an attempt to get me to stay. I wanted to move out of the city so it was rational for me to refuse :D

(Sorry to see your posts downvoted, I upvoted you)
I see this as the biggest problem with Twitter also.

Twitter is my favorite app, but it's because I have spent five plus years curating my feed.

There is a fundamental problem with the way they onboard new users and this is why so many people don't stick around.

The onboarding process asks you to select interests and then recommends people to follow based on those interests.

However, they often recommend celebrities and 'popular' accounts.

These people are often terrible at Twitter, so new users see a bunch of boring, self-promotional content in their feed and don't come back.
Isn't it common in Restaurants to leave the money in a tray?

Something much more weird I think is the money envelopes. I once took classes by a Japanese lady who, the day before we would pay for the next month, gave us these envelopes the size of a bill and asked us to bring the money in them, said that Japanese never hand money directly, always in envelopes. The next day she took the envelopes and didn't even open them to count the money.
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When CS people use category theory, they're often looking for a framework which allows them to build analogies between the lambda calculus (via a cartesian closed category) and various categories for things like mathematical logic, posets or probability. And category theory is a very natural framework for thinking about these connections.

So it would be useful to have category textbooks for CS folks which spent less time on topology, and more time on familiar categories.

(Also, I've never quite figured out the motivation for adjoint functors. I can understand the definitions, but I don't understand why adjoints are useful. The motivating examples almost always involve unfamiliar categories.)
I'm objecting only to the assertion that Manning acted out of "tremendous conscience". The evidence clearly shows that this is false. I didn't say anything about the content he leaked (other than it doesn't pertain to the "crime" you're claiming he was "attempting to report"), whether he deserved his sentence, whether this is a valid legal defense, or anything else you're talking about here. Manning dumped docs not out of "tremendous conscience", but immature rage. That's a settled fact of record, and that's all my comment was meant to point out.
I found this excerpt that might be helpful to our discussion:

The law of demand states that, if all other factors
remain equal, the higher the price of a good, the less
people will demand that good. In other words, the higher
the price, the lower the quantity demanded.

http://www.investopedia.com/university/economics/economics3....

So let's consider a scenario. The drug is available on the market for $100. Will I buy it? Yes. For $1000? Yes. For $10000? Yes. For $100000? Yes. For $1000000? Yes. etc.. For $10000000000? Yes, but I can't afford it. Notice I never said no. The pharmaceutical company, the hospital, and the insurance company said no. I don't see where the "law of demand" enters into the equation.

I can't see how it is possible to shim "supply and demand" into a market where the only decision you make when purchasing is "If I don't purchase it, I will die".

On the other hand, simply through adding a competitor into the mix suddenly both parties need to figure out how to keep costs low so the consumer will pick them over their competitor. The fact that there's competition in the market place is orthogonal to the "law of demand".

In other words, no matter how many competitors exist in the marketplace there will always be the same number of people saying "yes" to the purchase. Exactly the same number of potential customers no matter how many competitors exist in the market. All of whom will purchase it if they can afford it.
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Well inventory changes and such has to be stored somewhere to provide persistence. So rolling back that should be easy enough given proper backups.
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A startup in general cannot afford to get the best people in the field, unless it's some super sexy bleeding edge tech (which is very rare). So, you are lucky for your first 10 engineers to have one great one, and hopefully no awful ones. And you cobble a codebase together, and the overriding goal is that it isn't totally broken all the time.

Growth first, maintainability last. That's the incentive in a startup.

Unfortunately, in larger companies most managers don't reward improving the codebase unless you are on the platform side, just new shiny new features. Nobody will love you for saying this quarter I removed 2000 lines of shitty code.
Looking for a feel for Shen?

A Strange Loop talk by @deech (40minutes): Shen: A Sufficiently Advanced Lisp. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMcRBdSdO_U

An essay: http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html

It's insightful and readable and it links to several articles new Shen users would be interested in[0]. It was written before Shen, so it talks about Shen's predecessor, Qi. This article and the Bipolar Lisp Programmer by Mark Tarver (creator of Shen) made me feel not so weird for not "getting" UNIX, and helped me get excited about lisp.

I'm looking to use Shen or another highly cross-platform functional language for my next project. Application logic in Shen with type-checking. web code using some framework.

[0] Wow I'm re-skimming it now: it has Stanislav, James Gosling, buncha Smalltalk, Rob Pike's "Systems Research is Dead" and a lot more. This is actually a good overview of ways to be disillusioned with programming. IMO disillusionment by knowing our historical failures is an antidote to the hype-machine.
It actually is performance sensitive: just see the folks on this thread complaining about how show SourceTree has become.

Another example: if I do something in terminal, I don't wanna have to wait 5s for the Git client UI to refresh.

All these little half a second here, a few hundred ms here, add up, especially when you're trying to deal with thousands of commits.
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This was surprising. With all that poking fun of audiophiles, I expected there would not be much of a difference.

I got 5 out of 6 correct, and the one I missed was pretty near miss (I picked at random between 320 kbps and uncompressed sample). And these were quite clear choices, many times I just needed few seconds: 128 kbps sounded worse every single time, 320 kbps vs uncompressed was a bit harder, but still pretty noticeable if I paid attention.

It wouldn't probably make a big practical difference for a typical "background noise" listening, but it may have impact if you just want to sit back, relax and focus on music (lower bitrates for me sounded "muddled", losing details in high frequencies).

BTW I'm no audiophile, no special audio gear, just cheap (but decent) 9 EUR in-ear headphones plugged into a notebook.
Also, I will say that I LOVE the idea of building products and charging them a monthly fee. Do you do any other one-time fees? What kind of fees are you imagining for the project you discussed Wednesday (today)? Again, curious as a cat.
I think we're saying the exact same thing ;)
From what I understand when I read the blog, they're trying to demonstrate that you can use encryption/decryption on the GPU to create some form of DRM unique to your application. Their previous blog cites they are into researching some form of copy-protection systems.

As a once-upon-a-time iOS game dev, I can see it being used to handle In-App purchases where your game will only progress after you have purchased something and you get a key to decrypt the next level stuff. I can see it being used in that way. That's why I posted it here. It seemed interesting.
Go ahead Paypal! Just try and get past my voice/dtmf Captcha system on my Asterisk PBX with your robocaller. I whitelist friends and family so they don't have to go through the Captcha if they call. So far, I've received no friends and family robocalls, but receiving one eventually would not be surprising.
I don't think the results are particularly surprising. There is a reason Twitter is free, after all.
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Yeah, I get this - obviously it's game-dependent (and there are exceptional examples that have aged well, as pointed out by others), but I generally find this game-breakingly noticeable when I've tried to play older 3D games. I was at a games exhibition recently which had a huge collection of playable historic games, and the one that really stood out was Tomb Raider, which was almost almost impossible to play, the graphics are just horrific. But more recently, I tried to play Fallout on the PS3, and gave up, mainly because of the graphics. I felt the same about Skyrim. Compared to something like LA Noire on the PS3, the gulf in graphics was huge. The more I think about it, it's not as much the graphics per se that age things terribly, it's how populated the world is, and how reactive it is to player actions. GTA2, for example, is still quite a lot of fun, and I found it much more playable than GTA3
I moved out of my last Toronto place a few months after that so I'm not 100% but I would say no given the rate of increases in the years before that I lived there. I can say that for a few hundred more a month you could almost certainly have a bedroom and a den pretty much across the street. Pinnacle has some of the better amenities in the area too.
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The author seems self-aware and has a great sense of self-deprecating humour. The article sums up every literature graduate I've ever met.
Interesting; I haven't seen that before. Thanks.
I did this yesterday; I picked 320 / WAV / WAV / 320 / 320 / 128. I cannot distinguish 320 from WAV, so I was mostly just trying to spot the 128 and pick one of the other two. I found it a bit fatiguing to listen to so much new music.

Also, it's hard to know if I'm listening to a WAV of some 808 drum loop or an actual recording of a snare/cymbal encoded. The classical piano seemed easiest to spot the 128.

I listened through IEMs plugged into a Macbook Air in a quiet room and I wouldn't say it was easy.
But it would support the idea that handling money is improper.
Thanks for the examples, I agree Hotline Miami and Gunpoint have strong visual styles, never knew about them before today. Gunpoint in particular looks like a great game too, would happily play that. Hotline Miami visually looks like a trippy neon Alien Breed to me, I like trippy visuals, Rez is a good example of that IMO.

I agree FPSes traditionally have been hard to make stylish, but that's not to say it can't be done. Whilst it's not a shooter, Mirror's Edge is a decent example. Eldritch isn't to my taste but I agree it's an attempt to craft something memorable. I also think the makers of Timesplitters were onto something, perhaps it could do with some cleaner lines (easily achievable now), but it could have become something iconic. There was also a FPS game (I forget the name) where bullets only moved fast when you moved, you can probably still find it somewhere, I thought that was stylish too.
Most games guide you neatly through a bunch of hoops; you create your own experience, but not your own story or anything like it, in most cases. This isn't necessarily a bad thing; the experience of playing a game like Journey is very rewarding, even emotionally engaging. But you discover the story rather than create it nonetheless, it's just not as linear as heavily scripted games.

Games are an interesting storytelling medium, but stories are much more than variations on the order in which plot points are hit. The biggest issue is motivation - why characters (maybe including you) act as they do. In most free-range videogames the characters are very transactional; they want something and enlist the player to get/do something. In turn, players collect items or set game flags that allow them to defeat antagonists in contests of skill or force. But it's not really practical to interact with characters by appealing to love, greed, loyalty, arrogance etc. in order to motivate them to behave differently, so videogame stories can't do dramatic comedy or tragedy at present, although you can of course have slapstick or situational comedy, and you can have sadness or gloom. But the general lack of permadeath and the reflexive nature of AI are still a limitation.
I've found Google Photos to be fairly bad at this, actually. Here's a few results from searching my photos for "dog":

https://goo.gl/photos/pDwHPzcG3w541ubV6
I used Twitter quite a bit for work purposes (before I left CNET/CBS last year to found a recommendation startup) and might have paid for it then.

But the value for me was in interacting with a large number of people, and I suspect even charging a few dollars a year would lead to the vast majority of accounts disappearing, reducing the remaining users' incentive to pay, leading to more accounts disappearing, etc.
I'm old enough to be losing auditory acuity, and I really despise golden-ears equipment reviews, especially of speaker cable, but I find the qualitative tests for compression technologies unsatisfying.

Taking a gang of schlubs out of a shopping mall and playing audio, video, or still images to them and asking for an opinion could be OK in some contexts, like "Can you tolerate us putting this low-bit-rate codec in your mobile phone?" If the answer is "Huh, can't tell" then go ahead.

But is a JPG of an Ansel Adams print still a work of art if 90% of those same schulbs can't tell the difference?
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Note that it needs a few adjustments for Canadian market, the biggest ones being mortgage rates are usually not locked in longer than five years in Canada and mortgage interest is not tax-deductible
I get your point, and it's a very dramatic and low statistic. But still, just taking the US, if all 320 Million people live for an extra 3.3 years, that's 1 billion total years of life given to people. A lot of books could be written, science done, or life shared with loved ones in that time. Not to mention all the misery and pain removed.
key takeaway: Although the evidence is sparse, I feel that you shouldn't start with microservices unless you have reasonable experience of building a microservices system in the team.
No, but if you're a non-Mac user, you'd probably be a huge fan of the wide choices in hardware that are portable across dozens of OS implementations.
Heh... I'll take this opportunity to post about my beloved MUME (Multi-Users in Middle Earth) [0], a MUD that's been running for 25 years, and still the best place in the universe for intense PvP.

[0] http://www.mume.org
It's not immersive the moment your character does or says something you don't want to do.

It's the antithesis of immersive. Seconds ago I could strut where I wanted, chop who I wanted and tea bag who I wanted.

And then suddenly I am forced to watch a cut scene with some super slow speaking voice over artist, because no-one gets to the fucking point in computer games.

Sometimes it works. More often, it does not.

That is the point he is trying to make.

I do like getting into the role of the good guy, there are greaat cut scenes, but it's ultimately a cheap gimmick with the game author stealing agency from the player. Every now and then something happens and you're all like, you what?
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My results were similar. I got 4 out of 6 and the 2 I missed I picked the 320 kbps. It was more difficult to tell the difference between uncompressed and 320 kbps when the composition was busier, as with the Coldplay track. The piano track at the end was clear as day, the uncompressed version was warmer, fuller, had clearer reverb. Same with the Vega track.
Does anyone provide those anymore? A few credit card vendors used to do so, but seem to have stopped.

(I know you can obtain pre-paid cards in large increments, but that doesn't really help here.)
> Toronto is mostly made up of 100-year-old brick houses

That's true for inner Toronto but not for the suburbs as manishsharan suggested. Newer developer-built-subdivision wood-frame rules out there.
Surprised that no one has mentioned Google Wallet (https://www.google.com/wallet/send-money/). You may have issues sending money outside of the US, and a Google account is required. No fees and I've never had a problem with it.
Legacy CentOS too
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Most of those places are no longer really the boondocks(4 of the 5 are a 30 minute drive to the core) and are priced accordingly. You're going to have to go out to north of Whitby or north of Stouffville these days if you want a cheaper place.
This comment is identical to "I feel like it" except it's essentially just "I don't like micro-services." Your earlier comment did not provide any "hard-nosed technical justification" for why you don't like them, it was just "they're brittle" which the GP is arguing that if they are they're not implemented correctly.

What is the hard-nosed technical justification for either microservices being brittle by default or for them not being a realistic way to build a system?
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This is great news. I've been using goamz for some coreOS presence/sidekick containers, but found it quite lacking in quality, with a lot of missing functionality.

The ability to build a container that clocks in at under 10MB (vs ~700MB for a ruby aws-sdk stack) based on a minimal busybox container and a standalone go binary makes it an ideal use case for presence or short-running cron-type containers.

Also, the quality of the existing AWS sdk clients (especially with the most recent major versions) has been excellent (at least in my experience with the ruby and PHP libraries).
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The same way everyone else does:

1) Ads via the in-line feeds [removing ads is a ToS violation, same way the real world ad networks now is basically a js/link configuration...can sell CPC this way]

2) Charge for API calls.

3) Charge for "premium membership" that unlocks the api at like $10/user/year
Crazy enough I went there for the first time last weekend and noted the tray as peculiar. The counter is somewhat high so placing money on it is somewhat awkward. It is much easier to place money on the tray and the tray on the counter for both customer and cashier, and I think that is why it is in common usage there.
I think it's less true now than it used to be. I fit your profile, Chuck; I dropped out of college in my sophomore year (2001) when the startup I was working for got bought out by Sun Microsystems and Sun made it clear that they would only hire full-time employees. I figured "one of 6 people working on the back end of Sun.com" would look better on a resume than a college degree in 3+ more years, so I took the risk.

Of course, back then, Sun would have never hired me had I not tagged along with an acquisition, and when it turned out I hated working for a large bureaucracy, I couldn't find another company that would even call me back despite years of programming experience plus the "worked on the back end of Sun.com" that I thought would be so beneficial. This was in the middle of the dot-com bust.

Back then, Google refused to even look at people without college degrees. Now, the article says: "Many tech companies welcome young talent, and don’t require employees to have a college degree. Facebook Inc., Google Inc. and others offer internships to teenagers; Facebook last year hired an 18-year-old intern for a full-time position."

Times have changed. For me, starting my own business was realistically the only choice I had in the early 2000's as a techie--other than moving back in with my parents, which I didn't want to do! Now, it seems like the same companies that used to view dropping out as negative are far more likely to give dropouts interviews and even hire them. As a dropout, I'm glad to see this change.