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The main issue I take with crossfit is the programming. Bad coaching and a prevalence of speed and reps over form is one set of problems but perhaps greater is the intrinsic lack of good solid progression in the workouts.

A lot of these people are more or less wasting their time grinding out workouts that have no real rhyme or reason to them when they could be putting all that perspiration into good linear progression and actually increasing their strength and performance.

There's also a pervasive smugness in a lot of these boxes. It almost seems to be part of the workout; thinking you're some kind of superhuman and better than everyone else.
>But the tools _do_ change.

Yes but that's not relevant in this thread. Please try to follow the limited context of this discussion. We are not talking about the set of ALL tools of which some might be specific for C and others might be specific to C++.

Instead, we were discussing Nick Desaulniers' specific article and the particular tools he's describing in his article.
> We'll never be on two planets in any meaningful way.

If we're not on two planets in any meaningful way, it only takes one big rock to be on zero planets.
... 1006 days ago.
The interface looks as if it was designed by a programmer. I would be really surprised if a professional designer designed it.
Programming as Performance – Sam Aaron, TEDxNewcastle
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I understand, and I don't mind it at all. We should all get upset at things that need improvement to drive that improvement.
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> Huge asteroid? Just dive into a deep trench.

How do you move a big settlement into a trench? How do you even move enough submersibles, given little warning?
I've never been happier to spend money in my life!

I honestly felt like I was spending money to live, rather than to die slowly by going to work.

I spent roughly $1200 a month on the trip [1], and prior to leaving, simply to go to work every day in Calgary I was spending that much monthly. So it really was a great feeling to be spending no more money, but to be really alive every day.

[1] Full breakdown - http://theroadchoseme.com/the-price-of-adventure
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Too little and too late.

Even if the GUI would be perfect and much better than android or iOS (which I greatly doubt, simply because of the man hours that went into those projects) there are two big things missing. An ecosystem of apps+apis and IMO even more important: sandboxing.

Applications having access to basically everything just doesn't fit anymore today. It would have made much more sense to concentrate on these technologies and get sandboxing on the desktop, as all the competitors are also still struggling with that.
My brother and I have recently created an app called Brainstate - Binaural Beats & Brainwave Entrainment. This app was created as a school project to help students reduce stress and anxiety and help with relaxation and meditation. Anyone who knows about binaural beats knows they're not just for students, they're for anybody to use whenever they want.
Listening to binaural beats are different than listening to music. They are frequencies that are played in each ear that must be listened to with headphones in order to work. Each headphone plays a different frequency and you heard the difference between those two frequencies, created the "beat" sound. These frequencies imitate naturally occurring frequencies that happen in our brain every day and whichever frequency you listen to will give you the desired affect that the frequency is associated with.
Our app is different from any other binaural beats app on the store because it offers a very large range of frequencies and pitches to choose from and it is very educational. Someone who doesn't know how to use binaural beats may become lost with the other apps, but Brainstate teaches the average person all they need to know.
Any downloads, rates, and reviews would really help us get more visibility on the App Store! Thanks a lot guys! :)
I find it highly unlikely that java would adopt the implicit lambdas using underscores from Scala. The rules regarding precedence themselves are quite simple, but they're not always what new users expect, and cause too much confusion to be appropriate in java. Much more likely is the use of the underscore as an anonymous placeholder in pattern matching. Although even full pattern matching seems a bit much for java in the near future. Pattern matching is more useful than implicit lambdas anyway, the latter being nothing more than a terser syntax for regular lambda expressions to approach the concision of Haskell's point free style without leading to code that's too semantically dense. Pattern matching actually makes new kinds of static guarantees possible.
> - Even if it sends out probes, those probes generally fall into the gravity wells of the planets they are sent to over the millions of years.

[citation needed]; a civilization wouldn't just shotgun these things and wave farewell, it would have instrumentation, guidance and engines on board.
Without specific hardware to it, I don't think so.

But you can always use your Wi-Fi router to detect the unique number of devices connected but that still rules out people connected through data plans.

Payrollhero has an attendance management app for office, but not for events as such.

If you don't mind using a separate hardware density[0] came out recently and looks very promising.

[0] - http://www.density.io
Thanks to HN I discovered the homepage of Derek Sivers [1] and the book "So Good They Can't Ignore You" by Cal Newport [2].

He sais that a great job has to offer you great creativity, impact, and control over what you do and how you do it. IMHO this is why so many people are mesmerised by startups. Anyhow, if you miss one or more of these three traits in your current job than you have to find an other one which fits better to you.

Read the book! I hope it will help you as much as it helped me!

[1] https://sivers.org
[2] https://sivers.org/book/SoGood
You evacuate people in a big submarine, if you have to. It might not even be necessary, if the impact site is sufficiently far away or the settlement is deep enough.

But this is all a moot point, any realistic asteroid that threatens this planet can be blown to smithereens and will probably be spotted unless it's coming perpendicular to the ecliptic.
They may also be hoping to ride PayPal's rich valuation.

With investors awarding such extreme valuations to Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, Twitter, PayPal, LinkedIn - Square might just think they can land a $10+ billion public value.
Think of them as signposts to expand your creativity. I often sautee green beans in a mixture of half soy sauce and half apple cider vinegar, for example.
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Try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Planet
Very nice! My cat also found it quite fascinating... :)
To clarify, by "invented here syndrome", I meant for the MS shops / MS consultancies. Rather than building frameworks themselves, they search for off-the-shelf solutions provided by MS or a partner. The managers at those shops think "the MS way is the right way; don't 'invent here'".
User experience should be the driving factor when prototyping. This looks more like a me-too copying of features from competitors.
Isn't Battle for Wesnoth looking for C++ programmers to maintain their codebase?

It's not that I don't have significant programming skills myself, nor that I don't work on side projects, nor even that I don't really like Battle for Wesnoth... I've just sworn off every working on a C++ legacy codebase.

So I'm not really sure what I have to contribute to a legacy C++ codebase.

Ed: I went back and read, and they're looking for people to add Python code to their toolchain. My answer is thus amended: I dislike trying to interface toolchains for building data to legacy codebases, and I do that for my job. I have no interest in doing ugly hacky things on legacy codebases for free, because it's honestly sort of soul crushing work.
A whiffle ball's speed with respect to the bowling ball doesn't change in the bowling ball's rest frame.
I was trying to avoid running off into the endless weeds of details and
acronyms and talking, but oh well... ;)

I'm not very familiar with the more advance microscopy based AOI systems
used on silicon and chip level manufacturing (e.g. wire bonding checks).
I'm also not familiar with advanced AOI used in robotic assembly. On the
bright side, I am familiar with the comparatively "simple" form of AOI
used on PCB assembly lines.

With PCB's most of the AOI identification and spatial orientation issues
are solved through Fiducial Marks [1] and pattern recognition. Some PCB
AOI systems even read/record chip/board lettering with OCR, as well as
handling Bar and QR codes. Most of the rules and routines controlling
the AOI are consistently derived directly from the PCB design files, so
there is little need for custom setup programming on each new PCB run.

That last point is critical; The rules and routines are automatically
and consistently _derived_ from the authoritative data sources. Manually
writing every tiny step in the AOI automation routines for each PCB
design would never be time/cost effective, so it has never been done.

Given sufficient example 2D images, 3D scan models, or CAD files, doing
the object recognition and spatial orientation with OpenCV is reasonably
straight forward, even without fiducials. The extremely tricky part will
be automatically deriving rules and routines for the GetScale AOI-like
capabilities from authoritative data sources. If the human assembly task
is to attach the top cover and secure it with four screws from the other
side, you should _never_ need to manually write the AOI routine for
checking the existence of a screw in each of the four corners when
viewing the bottom of the product.

I'm sure you're really busy, so I think I'll stop here. ;)

If you want to know about the projects I'm working on, email would be a
lot better for me. My address is on my HN profile page. Also, I spotted
a few places where your website could use a little TLC, and it's better
to point them out through email rather than publicly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiducial_marker#PCB
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You're illustrating my point. You're OC'ing the cards (which the vast majority of consumers don't do), but even after taking that step there's only a 20-30% gap (and less at the more important resolution of 4K). That's a significant difference, but it's not huge. But it's winner-takes-all -- there's no reason to buy even a slightly inferior card.
It would be a pretty great endeavour. We'd have to carry enough fuel to accelerate and decelerate at the end, and enough fuel to push that fuel, etc., etc. (Unless Bussard drives work.)

I wonder if anyone's written that story - a relativistic vehicle is headed towards the Earth, launched by a civilization that could get it up to speed but not decelerate, trusting and hoping that our technology is advanced to slow them down on arrival...
Seven years ago I helped move a fairly complicated commercial codebase from automake to cmake. In the process, I wrote thousands of lines of complicated cmake macros to interface with the packaging system, etc.

The end result was a love/hate relationship with cmake.

Clearly, the weakness is its hokey scripting language. The shame is that if they'd just started with something halfway reasonable like lua it would have been easier to build the tool and it would be far more powerful. Instead, they couldn't resist writing their own DSL where everything you need to do is possible but just barely. I've done so many zany hacks over the years to force it to do what I needed.

Granted, I did the major porting work to cmake 2.4. The newer versions are certainly better (no more duplicating the expression in IF()/ELSE()/ENDIF() statements!) but it's still pretty painful to write something non-trivial compared to any modern scripting language.

However, the results of cmake are fantastic. Once you've got your CMakeLists.txt's working you can largely forget about it -- it'll just work, completely cross platform. If you need to target both UNIX compilers and the Visual Studio world it's probably the best solution.
rdegges obviously has a lot on their plate already.
Honestly, I'm not sure our species deserves a future if we lay waste to an entire planet and make it uninhabitable for ourselves (something which we seem to have already set in motion). What's to stop us from doing so to any other planet we colonize? Or, more pertinently, what's the point of preserving the human race if the only outcome is planetary destruction?

I'm not trying to be dreary, but I do think Hawking is completely wrong on this point, not to mention its feasibility in the next 100 years.
theres 500 stars in a radius of 50 light years. hopefully we will find plantes there, a planet 1400 ly away is cool but very distant still if we want to study it in detail
> 'The economic value of software is declining even as the strategic value of software is rising.'

Sometimes as a geek I feel a certain sympathy for 3rd world nations who happen to sit on a scare natural resource and are forced to give it away for a song when asked by merchants in military gear..
Could you go in further detail about the automated social media pages?
The sheer flatness of flat design (worst design trend name ever?) left many in a state of shock and disgruntlement.
"I'm not interested in that kind of work" is a fair answer, but it seems pretty rude to dismiss it as an ugly hacky legacy code base without reviewing it first.
Yeah. It is an uncaring universe.
>Total time from start to finish - 20 minutes. Probably only 10 minutes of my actual time, [...] > It saves what, 5-10 minutes at most,

Well, you are committing the same miscalculation that books and magazine articles about "healthy meals in 30-minutes or less" make. You leave out...

1) meal planning,

2) shopping for fresh vegetables & other ingredients

3) prep work (washing, cutting vegetables, etc),

4) clean up

Healthy meals prepared by someone else saves a huge ton of time -- if one honestly accounts for all the extra time before & after the heating of the food.
I am all for space colonization but i realize it's a fundamentally egocentric thing to wish for. It's not really what nature intended. We have eleminated many other species and at some point in time the same fate will probably await us.
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"Risk is binary, either there is risk or there isn't."

What tripe.
Ideally speaking, government debt is never paid back; only the interest is paid in perpetuity. The idea is that the debt creates more growth than the interest of the debt.

Of course politics means it's really more for making future generations pay.
If it's got a big fan base they should crowdfund something so they can afford to hire new devs.
I don't think so, simply because of the way he phrases it and the timeline. There's no way Hawking would predict such a huge natural disaster in the next 1000 years, let alone in the next 100 years with such certainty. I think it's clear he's talking about man-made disasters which have already been set in play (like global warming, overpopulation, war, etc.).
Was there a need to develop a Java IDE in Java to begin with? I can understand dog fooding by building IDE-primarily-for-lang in lang itself. But were there technical reasons?

Or maybe Java just was the best alternative [at the time].
Yet as with any trend, everyone want it... both client's and customers.
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The best answer.
Everyone has ideas, its the execution thta matters. If you get accepted, how will you turn your idea into a product and business? If you don't know, you're probably not ready.
This is from 2011. Surely we don't miss the old icon still.
And now this becomes even more relevant: http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html
Beautiful read on the Fermi Paradox http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html
Special training, community, certifications and needing a physical location are all part of a very inelegant solution to a straight forward problem. The whole thing (imo) is ridiculous racket.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2oknZg-EI8xZFVkemhWMWlkVDg... along with a playground (or a pull up bar and rings) has been all I've ever needed.
HW Expansion : Not that I'm aware of.

Donations : https://www.kde.org/

Thanks for the support :)
Emotion, Cognition, and Perception in the Understanding of Business Risk
I am also sure we do not really deserve it, but we also can't stop our own urge for self preservation which is fundamental to every species. So we can't really stop it anyway, but we as a species might eliminate ourselves before any meanigful progress on space colonization can be made, for better or worse. The universe certainly wouldn't care.
Then, to be extremely frank, it sounds like the game is a technical failure and should be abandoned. Trying to fix an older game such as this seems like an uphill climb. Better to greenfield it and start from scratch. The original engine sounds like it needs a rewrite anyways.

Getting it running on an existing engine (UE4 can do 2d fairly well, for instance) seems like a better investment of resources. What they're building is a solved problem. It was a valiant effort to do it on their own, especially in a time when that was the only way. They could reap the benefits of all those learnings in the backend and instead focus efforts on tweaking gameplay, inventing new forms of play, and smoothing out rough edges in the UI or visuals.
That's what he was saying...

>Infosec isn't a real profession. Among the things missing is proper "risk analysis". Instead of quantifying risk, we treat it as an absolute. Risk is binary, either there is risk or there isn't. We respond to risk emotionally rather than rationally, claiming all risk needs to be removed. This is why nobody listens to us. Business leaders quantify and prioritize risk, but we don't, so our useless advice is ignored.
I meant "inspired by" or something of that ilk. The point is that culture is derivative and Steamboat Willie wouldn't have existed without Steamboat Bill. Everything is a remix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcvd5JZkUXY
I hope to see intersting discussion around this article and these companies. I live in Calgary and I've always been intrigued by the gigantic oil and gas industry in my backyard. The problem is that when I look at those companies, despite their obvious inefficiencies, they are the antithesis to a typical startup. Oil and gas companies typically:

- Are run by people with no appreciation for technology (this might change in 10-30 years when these people die - I wish I was kidding in my language about death but that's exactly how people around here describe it: just waiting for the "Blue Chippers" to die off.)

- Are enterprises so deals will take forever to close

- Typically only buy software from software companies that look like them (Oracle, Microsoft, Cisco, etc.)

- Toss all cost saving measures out the window as soon as the barrel price shoots back up

I think it's an interesting industry with tons of data and tons of problems that need solving but a very hard one to crack.
one has to wonder: how awful can a design everyone seems to want be?
Containerized apps are coming to Linux soon, there's some effort going on over here : http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg-app

There's also Limba : https://github.com/ximion/limba
$100bn is not a "drop in the bucket"; it's more than the Department of Education, something like 3x what we spend on housing, and actually a pretty sizeable chunk of the discretionary military budget.
Can you have both security and privacy in the Internet age?
Taken way out of context.
*citation needed for both being able to blow up an asteroid adequately, and to have a high probability to spot them. At least from my childhood on discovery channel, both are nearly impossible (With respect to seeing the asteroid, it would be too late to make a difference)
UE4 is overkill for such a game.
The US National Archives Flickr account has the whole photo set (356 photos) available here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/sets/721576...
it might have all these things, but if you don't have ftl then they take a very long time to get to their destination. tens of thousands to millions of years. There are a few planets between 4 and 42 light years from here. At 4 light years using a Nuclear pulse propulsion it would take 100 years. At 40 it would take 10x that, so 1,000 years. That's nuclear which requires a immense amount of fuel which probably does not make sense for satellites. Other mechanisms for prop. are much slower. By the time any of these get to their destination, people who built them will be dead and possibly the civilizations which have launched them will have gone extinct.
Nice stuff, the soundcloud clips sounded OK.

I have been taking tabla lessons from my neighbour, he has played for 30 years - will ask him what he thinks of these!

BTW - Does anyone know of CNN software to train a network for suggesting follow up chord(s) to a progression started by a human composer? Maybe even midi based so that it includes chord voicings?
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Metro/Modern UI apparently.
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I've been using Kotlin on-and-off as a Java replacement and I've really enjoyed it.

A couple of months ago I used Kotlin to setup a Dropwizard project and it was a breeze so I put together an example on GitHub to serve as a starting point for others: https://github.com/doomspork/kotlin-dropwizard
Nobody is forcing you to do this shit. You do it of your own free will because Mr. MBA has got a bunch of Indians working for him for a song.
"the source you've provided appears to be this person literally arguing for privatization in order to create a corporatist autocracy. By that way: that's the solution to San Francisco's problems you find promising"

The joint-stock form of government works extremely well for companies that make software operating systems, so I would like to see it tried for companies making physical operating systems (a city being an operating system for people). I don't go as far as moldbug's proposal (and I'm not sure if Moldbug goes as far as Moldbug's proposal, he always likes to frame the debate by making the most extreme argument in one direction). I don't want the corporation to operate the courts or to run the army. There should be an independent court system and the city government would have to follow rule-of-law. But in general, I think formalizing ownership over the city would lead to more pareto optimal solutions, and I think that would be good for the existing residents.
Doesn't wayland come with a better security model than X?
I'd actually disagree - this is a problem that KDE has in general. KDE has a focus on features and customisation but chronically lacks in the UI/UX department, whereas GNOME has a focus on UI/UX but is obsessed with one-size-fits-all and is actually going backwards with options, and ends up somewhat braindead as a result if you don't like exactly what the GNOME team likes.

Seriously, KDE isn't new. Desktop has really shitty defaults, which is a major problem considering how many people don't know how to change the settings. I'm talking about "not a computer person" people, here.
I'm not sure I agree - maybe I'm lucky to work in an organisation where we have a good understanding that infsec is all about risk. We build this into pretty much everything we do, and the only way to get stuff done is by demonstrating some reduction in risk.

Where we do have a problem, and it's an industry-wide problem, is that there is no real widely applicable methodology for evaluating and quantifying security risk. There are lots of risk assessment methodologies, but all of the ones we've tried still leave you making subjective decisions and best-guesses.