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It's just a matter of generation : I haven't played any of the games you listed, while I know every 3D AAA games mentionned before.
And no trade agreement has ever become law without months of Congressional hearings and debate. The proposed version of TPA would guarantee at least two, and at least four is what's likely. So what's the point again?
Because perhaps--just fucking perhaps--you don't want malware injected into any of your projects when they're downloaded?
Right, that's why I'm asking, DID the advertisers have anything to do with this?
Why the title case on Eric Schmidt's quote? Serious question. Can't watch the linked youtube video right now.
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people will remember whatever they connected with the most at the right time in their life.
Their use of a preloader seems like an unpleasant throwback to the days of full-screen pages written in Flash...
Prior to Microsoft's centralisation, Skype was completely unusable on mobile devices. I know, I tried it.
That website is really well made indeed, but it does break the back button.
There's a Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junior_Reserve_Officers%27_Tra...) program that's reasonably popular in many parts of the US, and weapons training is a popular part of it. When I did it in the late '70s it was small bore/.22LR in the winter when getting out wasn't so practical, and there was an opportunity to go to a "summer camp" where you would practice with real service rifles, practice grenades (they wouldn't let the young ones try out real ones), putting on a gas mask in a tear gas chamber, basically a junior boot camp sort of thing. My parents were no fun at all and wouldn't let me attend the latter :-( which due to eyesight was the closest I ever could get to the real thing ).

And of course a rifle team, in which I had a lot of fun, small bore rifles, 50 feet, the "10" was a dot the size of the hole a needle makes in a piece of paper. Quite challenging and two years of early morning practice really improved my marksmanship, even got a nifty and 100% authentic Expert marksmanship badge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marksmanship_Badges_(United_St...). We on the team helped with the safety monitoring and instruction in the winter rifle marksmanship and that was very worthwhile as well, teaching a novice well enough to get a Marksman badge was a great experience and generally useful for life.

In fact, teaching others was one of the things JROTC explicitly taught, as they pointed out the Army has to constantly teach a lot of people all sorts of things. Definitely one of the most useful things I learned in high school.
"I'm sorry, I can't understand you. Just send me an email thanks. Gotta go. Click"
A good description will impact a small percentage that is already familiar with the genre or that franchise. What will mainstream audience do. Believe the your words or your pictures? Games convey information trough the latter. Game magazines are obsolete and no-one reads long articles anymore. You have one minute to impress your audience. Less if it isn't in a form of a youtube video.
Maybe in some circles, yes. Many of us have had a career in industries where open-source contributions were basically out of question.
I think Hejlsberg, Carmack, etc. are pretty respected and qualified despite not having 10k followers on GH.
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The classy thing to do would be to leak the trade deal, and tell WikiLeaks to donate the money to a GiveWell-recommended charity.
At some point it comes down to what gamers want, and that's always going to be "different things to different people." Papathanasis illustrates it himself when he shares the reasons his wife prefers Sims Social over Sims 3.

Also a great game with less than cutting edge graphics will probably always win over an average game with amazing graphics- think Minecraft as the most obvious example. I see games like The Long Dark or Don't Starve or even something like Fez, all coming from smaller studios and all about 180 degrees away from an AAA game being more embraced by gamers in the long run than whatever the latest Call of Duty is. Of course if we break it down that far then we start getting into arguments between "serious gamers" and "casuals" and "console vs PC" and on and on and on...

Again, circling us back around to "different people like different things and that's OK".
List of iOS Top 1000 Libraries
I guess yes there is some nostalgia involved, btw i removed it, its just that i feel disrespectful whenever a list like that doesn't include doom
Business on a beach? I want to relax on a beach, not squint at a screen and work :)
> Web browsers seem to manage to parse URLs quite well.

Somehow, I think web browsers' URL parsers might be a little bit more hardened...
Quantopian, scam or not?
Show HN: CS:GO HideNSeek
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Legendary games with 3d graphics? Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time.
I totally agree with you (and the article) on experience concerning the right level of abstraction. I don't think there's a quick shortcut to learning that, though.

I think an interview that focuses on coding challenges isn't really looking for a senior. Point them to a junior that's more appropriate to their needs.

In most interviews I do, we do talk about abstractions and maintainability and stuff like that. Although I have recently done one that involved a coding kata, which was kind of interesting because during the kata we also moved through a couple of (small scale) levels of abstraction while discussing them, and particularly the appropriate time to abstract some stuff.
I'm surprised there's been no mention of Crysis. This was a game whose entire popularity was largely based around "unnaturally pretty, will burn a hole in your computer"; to the extent that it became a rather mainstream GPU benchmarking metric.

I'm honestly surprised there's as much of a debate over this, the breakdown always seemed rather clear to me: That while there are "great games" that "serious gamers"(tm) love (I'm personally a massive SS2 fan, play it to this day) we are in the vast minority and the Next Gen race has been almost entirely about throwing increasingly flashy presentation-oriented features at core game mechanics that are known to be successful.
Embracing, extending, and ...?
We should delegate "mmo historians" and give them a salary just to record significant or even ordinary social interactions or events! We already have some services such as 3d print of your avatar which is similar to an artist making a portrait.

How did we end up having historians in real life? How can we give similar incentive or motivation for mmos or other games?

Now that I thought of it, there's excellent coverage of what happens in e sports, e.g. "this team did this to beat that team", which also links back to the documentation of ancient wars.
> Somebody other than the user to put it there.

No, the user can install software on the chip.

> Because if user puts it there, he can read it too.

Not all communications links are two-way.
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Ask them their native language, and start talking in it, of course.
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All good points; the last one being a great example of the kind of gamesmanship I hadn't considered. Perhaps these help to explain why there aren't many big-name supporters attached to these efforts. I wonder what the chances of holding a constitutional convention are.

Huh, I just went to Wikipedia to read up on that and discovered that in 2013, a super PAC was registered to push for "an Article V Convention for the limited purpose of proposing an amendment to provide every law enacted by Congress shall embrace only one subject which shall be clearly expressed in the bill's title"[0]. I also did not know that 41 states already have single subject provisions in their constitutions.

So, GP, scratch all that Downsize DC stuff and instead get the word out about the Single Subject Amendment PAC[1]! With a majority of states already using them for state law it seems like we ought to be able to convince people that it's a good idea to subject Congress to the same rule.

Out of curiosity, did anyone here already know about this PAC? I've been making noises about DownsizeDC's proposals since 2013 and this never hit my radar until now. I'm switching tactics to drum up support for this immediately; I only wish I'd known sooner.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_to_propose_amendment...

[1]http://singlesubjectamendment.com/
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Political parties do hire people who just talk a good game [1] so that isn't a great example.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Shapps
Hm when I click on Continue it takes me to - http://fallout.bethsoft.com/null

Maybe still a couple of bugs!
I hope the game itself is good. I enjoyed 3 and New Vegas, and I'll probably pick this up on or near launch.

The thing that's bothered me with Bethesda Softwork's games is that they are stubbornly single thread CPU bound, and don't scale beyond 2 cores that well. Perhaps the newer consoles will force them to multithread better.
I dropped out of college at age 19 and I now do consulting pulling in over 5k/month, and work a 9-5 as a java developer (100k+). I knew college was a waste of time when my information technologies class professor assigned us as homework to look at the best buy ads every sunday morning to keep up to date with technology prices.... I am 22 years old now...
You can do those things, but you're not going to.
Microsoft and other big names in tech are actively hiring autistic coders
It's pretty easy to delete with the developer tools, though.
> From that communication, I read that Tim Cook is against some business models, not machine learning or data collection.

Which sounds exactly like posturing to me. Contrast this with what he says about back doors - if it's there a key under the mat for cops, the bad guys will get it. The same applies to data collection - the motives behind the collection don't matter. If data is collected, sooner or later some of it will fall into the hands of a 3rd party the user didn't expect - possibly bad guys (through legal discovery, a hack, bankruptcy sale, or some NSA ALL-CAPS program).

The right thing for privacy is to not collect the data, but Apple is unwilling to take that business decision (imagine how bad Siri would be if voice data wasn't sent to a backend).
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If you have a site where this would be a significant worry for you, then yes, you absolutely shouldn't be using a CDN (or, at least, should only be using it in limited ways; images are probably safe); the CDN provider or anyone who can control it can do you a lot of damage.
My mother has a doctorate in social work, they have an idea in her field of "Critical Reflexivity". The idea being that theory and frameworks are vitally important to learn, but at the end of the day every case and every practitioner is different. To be a great social worker, it is not enough to learn theory and apply it, that is just the starting point. What you need to do is apply theory, but reflect at every step of the way on how it is working. This lets you build your own theory of practice, tailored to the way you work with people, and to the sort of people you work with day to day.

That resonated with me quite a bit, I feel like what she described to me is something all great developers I know do instinctually. I think at the end of the day, that constant honest reflection is the single most important thing to do for us. Our profession loves to pull ideas from math and other hard sciences, but at least from my part of it (product/business development), I think we can learn just as much from social sciences, if not more.

So what does that mean to a developer? When you see a problem somewhere, don't just stop at identifying it, try to classify it. What other problems are like it? Why did it happen in the first place? Read a lot of books about how to build software, but when you implement things from those books, try to reflect on the idea behind the solution, not just the solution. When it is done, reflect on how it worked out, and how the code looks at the end, what you like and what you don't like. If you go back to it, try to remember your initial feelings, and see how it panned out.
What alternative would you recommend / do you use now?
Sending a message brings Skype into an endless crash loop
I took the class, when you were still in high school.

thanks.
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Because many of us have to deal with required software that only runs on Windows, and there is no current alternative. It's 2015 and the Microsoft ecosystem is still very strong.
What's wrong with that?

In the past, Wikileaks has not been the moral arbiter. If a whistleblower decides that exposing information is in the public interest, that is on them, Wikileaks provides a medium.

Here, whether or not information should remain secret, there is an incentive to expose it. Wikileaks has decided what deserves to be public -- it's irrelevant if I, personally, agree with that judgment when I say: this makes me question Wikileaks as a trusted medium.
All of them need to be made in secret. If industry A learns that it is going to lose a domestic subsidy for the sake of letting industry B gain a foothold in some other country then A is going to lean on the legislators it owns to try to have pressure applied to the negotiators to change the calculus involved, then industry B will jump in, etc. Better for everyone to see the final deal and decide of the collection of tradeoffs is worthwhile than to have to deal with pressure politics from every particular interest group that has a dog in the fight while at the same time trying to deal with trade negotiators from a number of other countries.
One wonders if it's going to be idTech5, or if it's going to be the final gasps of the Gamebryo engine.
> everyone knows about it

I had never heard of it before this post.
Lots of research here, but the most interesting part is their distributed graph approach. Scaling up CF is a challenging problem, and the current open source implementations have problems at really large scales.

I hope they open source their Giraph implementation, or at least part of it.
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What Bitcoin Transactions Get Crowded Out If Blocks Fill?
I'd be hesitant to use a home address as it goes on public record. If you rent then it can be against the terms of the tenancy contract to register a business at the address. Also you might move and someone else could get your post and potentially do bad things. Are these reasonable concerns?
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The Supreme Court just made the Web even more hostile for women
I disagree. Graphics add nothing to the immersion, unless perhaps on the most shallow level possible, where the entire premise of the game depends purely on the graphics.

In that case I wouldn't call it a game, but more of a tech demo or an interactive experience.
BTW, this problem has been successfully solved in cryptonote coins, like bytecoin (bcn). One of the discussed features, namely adaptive block size, has been already implemented in bcn, so it's never going to face such problem.
New York techies are fed up enough to build their own Internet provider
One problem is that people looking for jobs are usually inexperienced with it, so there is constantly an unusually large supply of "fresh meat".

There should be more regulation on the jobs market. It's a data-mining goldmine and fake job postings aren't illegal as far as I'm aware of.
For the curious, it's a fiction story about folks that eat pills granting super powers, and the ensuing comedy.
> Look these games at best can be __good__..

As usual, tastes are subjective. Many people consider Moby Dick to be a classic - but when compared to more modern allegorical works, it's rather dry and boring. This doesn't mean Moby Dick is not a classic, but it also doesn't mean that Moby Dick is the be-all-end-all example of an allegorical tale.

Those games are classics, but being a classic does not prevent a game from being surpassed, nor does it prevent newer games from becoming classics as well.

> neverwinter nights

Was in 3d. The Starcraft and Diablo games had 3d models which were rendered down to 2d sprites (and considered by many to be dramatically inferior to hand-drawn 2d sprites).

Many of these series continue to exist today, in 3 dimensions.

And despite having arguably the worst 3d graphics in the lot, Final Fantasy VII is still a favorite for many folks.
First: remember that TheFacebook launched at a school with a total undergraduate enrollment of 6,700, of which its first user cohort was a subset. Of course, that school happened to be Harvard University....

Ello's got at least that many daily actives, and about 200k monthlies. That's much larger than Facebook's founding class, though also a different mix.

It's also worth realizing that many influential online communities were very small relative to their impact. The WELL and Usenet had core userbases in the tens of thousands of users, best I can make out.

I'd chalk Ello's exposure up to a few factors. One was the whole "David vs. Goliath" meme that struck when Ello was first revealed. World+dog are trying to figure out how to take on Facebook, and that's how the story was pitched. Ello's leadership makes quite clear that's not their take on things. Another was that, at least for a time, Ello had attracted quite the credible crowd. Clay Shirky, Charlie Stross, Bruce Sterling Paul Mason (UK/BBC journalist), Quinn Norton, Meredith Patterson, Tim Bray, danah boyd, Jonathan Zittrain, and others all created accounts, some posted for a while, a few still do.

It was too early. I've posted a few long lists of features Ello desperately needed to be viable, and lack of those, along with various bugs, were really hampering it.

While it's still got some technical shortcomings, the team's been addressing them quickly, doing a good job of it, and surprising me with some quite ingenious (and not always technical) solutions to problems or ways of offering capabilities. And they've directly addressed most of my major issues. That responsiveness has been notably missing at Google.

The site also has quite the creative set present, which tends to be a good early adopter set -- think artist colony.

But technical features and a cool vibe aren't enough. Though they're a good start. I'm encouraged by the feature set, community, leadership, direction, and foundations. Rather more so than by a few other systems -- G+ was already faltering badly in its first months out of the gate, Ello's avoided those faux pax entirely.

I'm also getting some sense of the HN effect: a front-page placement seems to be good for about 3.5k hits in 3 hours or so, based on this item.
Well then, the only conclusion is that by design you don't have this well-functioning democracy. The people at the top certainly don't think they should listen.

RECENTLY, when Vice-President Cheney was asked by ABC News correspondent Martha Raddatz about polls showing that an overwhelming majority of US citizens oppose the war in Iraq, he replied, "So?"

"So — you don't care what the American people think?" Raddatz asked.

"No," Cheney replied, and explained, "I think you cannot be blown off course by the fluctuations in public opinion polls."

Later, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino, explaining Cheney's comments, was asked whether the public should have "input."

Her reply: "You had your input. The American people have input every four years, and that's the way our system is set up."

That's correct. Every four years the American people can choose between candidates whose views they reject, and then they should shut up.

http://www.chomsky.info/articles/20080403.htm
> Not a month goes by without my iPad requesting my iCloud password so it can back up my entire tablet, even though I've repeatedly declined to provide it.

Settings -> iCloud -> Backup -> switch slider to off.
All this "break the law" stuff like the rule of law is still a player in any of this. Clapper says it is and everyone pisses themselves laughing. Holder says it is and yeah, same deal. The people vs $25,000 so the police can keep it with no charges laid. Patraeus wasn't economically uninvolved with the sales of his hagiography where he did all that leaking but they had an inconsequential show-trial where he got off with nothing for him - let that be a lesson. And how do we know he did that? His email was illegally hacked, without a warrant by the FBI - who's building is still named after J. Edgar Hoover who was as criminal as anyone has ever been (Aside from being a cross dresser who liked to bash homosexuals for fun and his attempts to get Martin Luther King to commit suicide through blackmail and harassment. Yeah really, you can't make this stuff up).

Or we can explicitly hold up an Australian hacker with an idea, the ability to hack that idea together and have total commitment to that idea for which he required nobody's blessing, approval nor government funding to a much higher standard than public servants, hired to serve the public, who have very clearly been engaged in criminal conspiracy. Ok it's fair to do so but we need to say that out loud every time if we're doing that. Once the standard is set it has to be the same for all or the rule of law is rather a moot point.

Should there be a law at all that compels people to keep this kind of thing secret? Is such a law constitutional? You have free speech but this is equivalent to yelling fire in a crowded theatre? Really? Because people might be worried about what is happening in the democratic process and want to be informed so they can act accordingly? That's a big call.

The New York Times and the Washington Post publish one hell of a lot of "official leaks" from people who are essentially paid to do that leaking to spin the story. It's their job. Or so "someone familiar with the matter" told them.

Should journalists and their employers get all the proceeds when the source takes rather more risk. To be honest I don't care whether Snowden is an altruist (although he clearly is) I'd pay the goddamn devil to get that information out so we all know it and can slowly, piece by piece, reform that post-terrorist-attack blindspot that has become an utter disgrace. Would you rather not know?
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What specific thoughts / suggestions do you have?