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This is wrong. Ray tracing simply is a way to determine visibility between two points, just like the Z-buffer. Ray tracing won't produce a color on its own. Path tracing on the other hand is a method which uses ray tracing to solve the light transport integral. It creates paths between the camera and the light using ray tracing and then it calculates the contribution of that path to the image. Most toy ray tracers only handle specular reflection and transmission, and direct illumination. This is called Whitted ray tracing and is probably what you're referring to.
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Besides some of the other advice offered. You're probably looking in the wrong place.

Anecdotal story: I found myself working at a warranty company and a friend of mine worked at a specialized software company. We got together one day for drinks and lamented the fact that we had problems finding the right people. His problem was that everyone who applied was fresh out of college and had no true hands on experience, where he wanted senior programmers. My problem was that everyone who applied had a Masters or Doctorate degree and was applying for mid level/entry position.

If you're finding yourself unemployable in a particular area, you're probably right. More than likely though, you could find an excellent job at a company that isn't directly a traditional tech company. Every company in the world now needs to have an IT strategy of some sort. With an IT department of some sort. And I can guarantee that there are enough out there who are just looking for experience that they would hire you on the spot. The problem though is reaching out and finding them.
The owners of coal and nuclear plants are the ones that paid for the pumped storage, they had the idea of making their plant operations more efficient, not of storing renewable energy.

This is one of the early large ones, built by the local utilities:

https://www.consumersenergy.com/content.aspx?id=6985
Bypass the paywall with Google's referrer:

https://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web...
A "shortage of talent" is actually economic shorthand. The full phrase is "shortage of talent at the rate I'm willing to pay." You can always find a fantastic developer, if you're willing to pay more than the other guys.

That said, the hiring process is completely broken. I know barely literate programmers making bank, while exceptional programmers are just scraping by.
Yes, that's another use. But when it is favorable economically speaking then fossil fuels and nuclear will be used as well. The pumps don't care what color the electrons are. It's mostly a matter of bookkeeping and less one of technology. And as long as demand for electricity during peak times does not coincide with the point in the day when the peak amount of electricity is generated this is a nice way to make some money for the operators.
It's funny how people saying ads should be replaced with a subscription model in different threads are going completely bananas about paywalled articles.

Couple of web newspapers in my country switched recently to 10 articles a month for free and then asking for a subscription. It's awful, it makes me read less and I would prefer to see some ads I'm used to ignoring anyway. Usually I don't know if I like the content before I'm half-way through it. I also don't want to have 20 subscriptions pending every month just to have access to a reasonable portion of the internet.

The web has already killed most of review and proofreading process in press. Lets not kill content quality by taking even more money out of it.
The cleanliness of natural gas is significantly overstated. Fracking is a dirty business.
I am not sure about coal, but you can't easily shutdown a nuclear reactor, so there are times during the day when you are overproducing. So pumping some water is a way to not totally lose the energy produced during that time.
And it's incredibly weird considering Facebook's questionable https://www.internet.org/ campaign.
Programming Concepts: Compiled and Interpreted Languages
Cache-optimizing a priority queue
raw fresh meat works for us too, no supplements needed.
Where in the world does the author live??? I live in the Upper Midwest USA, and there is no shortage of local jobs at banks, health care, tech companies, and the one-off positions at obscure businesses. Now, hanging my programmer shingle out on the internet and Jesus - there are remote jobs pouring in from everywhere who pay even more.

I've got a Mechanical Engineering and Masters degree, 14 years dev experience on multiple stacks, so that does help my resume look nice, but shit man. Businesses are dying looking for qualified people.
What a great article.

Zelda will never again be what this guy is looking for; there is simply too much pressure now for AAA games to be cinematic, cater to all audiences and easily expose all of their (extremely expensive) content to the player on demand - people want to get what they paid for.

The kind of experience he's looking for is now a niche corner of gaming: roguelikes offer random world generation, truly punishing death, and the need to really explore and figure things out (because it's a little different every time).

The biggest problem that a game has to deal with nowadays is how to treat failure. How do you offer risk/reward, and punish the player in a way that they keep coming back?

As a game player, I've discovered that the best thing you can do nowadays is try every game you can get your hands on, especially the enormous world of indie games out there. I've had to work through the natural instinct to stick to the prettiest, biggest-budget games and start trawling the indiest of the indie on Steam. You can find a better experience with a small game that made design decisions that resonate with you rather than a AAA, zillion-dollar-budget blockbuster that needs to cater to everyone, so seek out games that are opinionated. I can't tell you how many times I've been so pleasantly surprised by a $10-$15 deal and sunk hours and hours into it... maybe it's about as many times as I've gotten bored with another AAA chore simulator.
I wouldn't this is why I chose a non connected financial app on my Android phone. It took me a week of try and miss to find a good one but there's no way I'm going to trust a third party with my banking info. Heck I don't even trust my bank (but admittedly I don't have a choice in the matter).

This is also why I don't seriously use Evernote. Yeah I'd love to have all my documents and bills there, but at one point you have to stop and think about the implications of a private company (in fact 2, since they're probably using AWS) knowing everything about you.
No, pumped storage is not "white-washing" : energy storage is the key piece to making unpredictable energy sources viable, by storing during low demand and having a buffer instantly available to respond to peaks. It displaces having extremely expensive gas turbines on standby or lighting up fuel burners during peak loads, so it has a direct impact on reducing fossil fuel consumption.
Not always true, I work for a fairly "serious" company without a degree.

What many other posters here has said is true, you need relevant experience in place of the degree. This is either projects you've worked on or jobs that are appropriate.
Egoraptor talks about many of the same things in his video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOC3vixnj_0

Part of the problem, I think, is that the Japanese market has a lot of gamers who like to have their hand held, and relatively few who want an open-world adventure. The same may even be true of the Western markets, but open-world games such as Fallout do NOT sell well in Japan, and attempts by Japanese developers to put those elements into Japanese games provoke criticism from the fan base that the game is "too Western". So you get this thing of a game where what to do next is always real obvious. Go where the thing tells you, fight these enemies by waiting for an opening and then attacking, bomb the obviously bombable wall, etc. Press a food pellet, get a reward. An open-world game confronts them with the unpleasant possibility of the unexpected. Now you have to survive, and what you have to do to survive isn't obvious. So you're going to die, and die, and die an awful lot in the game, and there's nothing like the artificial feeling of "making progress" brought about by the scripted game's obvious action-reward mechanism. But each death, each failure brings with it new knowledge about how the game works and so when you finally do "make progress" it's because you gained understanding through effort and that's much more rewarding.
I find it a bit frustrating to have to request a free trial before seeing anything at all about your product. Any videos out there? Or images?
Yes, but the 50% ratio is for those that aren't doing R&D or the like. They are literally asking for stuff that has been done 912834902384902380492349023 times before from an IT perspective like a standard OS db cluster backing a web app which is behind a CDN+Load Balancer combination.
If it's a good product, it will spread by word of mouth. Advertising can help sales, but it's by no means the only way to do sales.
> Except the Tragedy of the Common requires a depletable resource of some kind, and unfettered access to it for people who have a vested interest in protecting their own supply but not the supply of others.

The depletable resource is user patience, i.e. how much shit they're willing to take before they start blanket-blocking ads. If every publisher stuck to simple, unobtrusive and relevant ads then readers wouldn't block them. But some publishers/ad creators/ad networks decide that they want more money so they make their ads more attention-grabbing, and then the others do the same, and then users get tired and start blocking, and everyone is worse off.
There are tons of companies that use Rails in London. If you have a work visa then it is very easy to find a job.

If you need someone who is willing/able to sponsor a visa then it is much more difficult. The company in question needs to show that it is unable to find anyone in the whole of the EU who can fill the role. This is a pretty high standard, but not completely impossible.

I'm just on my way to bed and I'm a bit too sleepy to write this well. I just want to set your expectations that you will have a very hard time of it unless you are really exceptional. Before you apply for positions, make sure that you have a good idea of how to sell yourself. You need to have skills that are very rare to acquire, so make sure that you know how to point those out.

Having said that, the group I work with (I'm a remote contractor) is looking for people who have one or more of:

- top notch technical skills
- proven track record of leadership as a senior dev
- very solid agile techniques (TDD, pair programming, generative design through refactoring, etc)
- very flexible with technology (we use a lot of tools, not just Rails).

Feel free to contact them: http://sharktank.co.uk/

Good luck with whatever you end up trying!
All this bullshit, and we still can't have separate Chinese and Japanese characters that were Han-unificated.
You could have a problem with one eye, like serious shortsightedness, or clouded, or muscular problems that point your eyes in different directions. If these problems get solved later in life, you might still have 2D vision.
I think there should be a "soft rule" against submitting content behind a paywall. "Soft" in the sense that there are known exceptions to the rule; unique story or voice, life changing story, etc.

I don't think "hacking team rehash + greedy wall street" is going to make the list of exceptions.
Right. Jokes aside, I'm currently using a pretty new MBP. Still not understanding the problem here. How is the circle a good idea? There must be some technical reason for why they went with it. I can't imagine anyone testing it out for more than 5 minutes before thinking "Yep, this clearly sucks".
Shutting down a nuclear reactor can be done very fast (emergency shutdown, underload shutdown) but increasing the load takes much longer.

This is one of the reasons that the blackout of 2003 lasted as long as it did, due the rapid decrease in load a couple of nuclear plants did a rapid shut-down.

Most base-load generating plants are difficult to adjust to a rapidly varying load.
Being sufficently vague is a common way of hiding the fact that you don't actually have required knowledge.
What happens to the employees with a joint ownership like this? In other words, who runs the technical side of the house and determines the future course of the product.
Yes, it's a bad idea. Bugs me frequently. But...it's so dangblasted useful; throw some social/emotional motivations in there and a bunch of problems get solved well enough to tolerate the risk. Given Intuit bought Mint, and I've trusted my taxes to Intuit for decades, I'll grudgingly take that risk to solve other problems.

A core issue is the need for a next-level financial data aggregator, somebody to pull together one's info across multiple banks, cards, investments, etc. Much as Bank X wants to provide all those services to me, and much as I may even want them to, other companies get involved and there's a need for a one-screen view of all of it, preferably updated near-live, and working on whatever interface/device I choose to use (notebook, phone, tablet; app, web browser).

Trust is the main thing. I was mad at myself for signing up for Mint (in a fit of frustration attempting to solve some problem) when it was new & independent; I'm still irritated but less so now that Intuit is taking responsibility.
"Shortage of talent" is code for "we abandoned our in-house training program and want other companies to foot the bill"
This is incredibly naive, and it's obviously untrue for many product categories.
Which gets confusing because it makes one wonder if all the squirrels are actually squirrels are a bunch of different animals in squirrel costumes. If they are all squirrels, what does it mean that there are very few badgers, a bunch of animals looking like badgers, and a bunch of squirrels. But if most squirrels are actually other animals in a squirrel costume, it gives a second level of reflection in the squirrel society as well.

The ending of the fable seems a bit open ended, like a plot twist thrown in at the end but never resolved.
CEO who mandated $70K minimum wage now struggling to make ends meet
Surprise! Wall Street is all in on manipulation and abuse.
Energy storage is quickly becoming a critical part of the distribution infrastructure, whose cost should be borne by the unpredictable intermittent producers.
So let them uproar! If wikipedia shuts down because they don't have money because people won't donate, it's OK, it's called reality. It would be a pity, but that's life.

I do realize the costs and I do realize they have to make money to put food in their mouth. But it's no different than any other business, it's either you have a sustainable model, or you don't. You can't have it all. The web is not a utopia.
And that is with cheap natural gas prices - more coal is used when gas prices go up. Many plants are able to burn either ones, and will switch fuel sources based on the markets.
I think Zelda Classic should be mentioned [1]. It's a port of the first Zelda to the PC with a powerful map editor. Considering that this has been out for more than 15 years - I imagine Nintendo knows or has heard about it and seems to be ok with it.

Nintendo seems to be ok with fan made ports as long as they aren't selling it - as seems to be the case with Mari0 [2].

There was some work being done on porting Super Metroid to the PC but I think that has been lost in time. Many years ago I contacted the author and instead of giving me the source he gave me compiled binaries :(. I can post a link if people are interested.

[1] http://www.zeldaclassic.com/

[2] http://stabyourself.net/mari0/
The incorrect hyphenation of "ground-up" in the second sentence is hilarious and kind of disgusting.
Well if they doubled the price of iPods in order to manufacture them inside the United States, no one would buy an iPod and the product would fail.

That's not to say American manufacturing would cause the price to double, just pointing out that where you manufacture something is an important part of the product planning process.
And what's the average price for kwh in Denmark?
Don't try to use credit cards with the "grew up in the great depression" generation. Pull a graph of percentage of the population participating by individual age, and the graph of newspapers looks like pro sports or nightly network news, the majority crossover age is around fifty years old. Something like 80% of people over 70 subscribe to a newspaper and watch major league baseball, and for people under 30 the percentage is about 20%. Probably varies a little by country, but culture is more uniform than most people think.

The problem isn't that a crossover age exists; look at medical ads, young people eventually get old. The real problem is the crossover age has been going up about one year per year for some decades now.
Of course it is. The arbitrage is what makes it happen because that's what makes it profitable. If the energy so generated were labeled with the point of origin then it would count as fossil fuel and then it would yield less on the energy market. The load variations are not such that the generating capacity could not be reduced in time, but there is less money in that.

This is not renewable energy though it masquerades as such. Note that before green energy became a thing this was already happening so it is simply a re-labeling rather than that these lakes suddenly got re-purposed for renewable energy storage.

If the source of the electricity is not originally renewable energy then it is deceptive to sell it as such. People pay a pretty premium for renewable energy.
The federal antitrust commission intervened after banks filed a lawsuit to stop Sofort from using their websites. The passages of their TOS that forbid using such services are most likely void as they obstruct a free market of payment providers (as seen by the federal antitrust commission).

Personally, I avoid that service but it has the blessing of government agencies from operating that way.

Some banks (e.g. DKB) now started to cooperate with Sofort instead and the German banks will start a similar service themselves this year.
There are lots of good sibling comments to this one, but I want to get one more point in before we all move on.

Spending an hour yielding to something larger than yourself is probably good for the soul and definitely good for the ego. You can walk into almost any church, and there you will find a quiet space where you can meditate/pray. You can find a sort of comfort in its 2000 year history, and in the myths/rituals of our past and the people who believe in them. If you are made to feel uncomfortable, then try another one or stop going altogether, there are literally zero negative consequences to it.

The point of this is that you don't have to swear an oath to little baby jesus to get a benefit from a modernized church. You can make of it what you want, they won't mind in the least.
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>There's no such thing as people. There are demographics, and they all have different interests.

Ouch! Your comment literally hurt me. I upvoted you anyway, as I think the rest of your comment is excellent.

But I want to address that first line. I know where you're coming from and it is the reality we find ourselves in nowadays. But.

In my opinion, we are at the cusp of having the technology to break that mindset. Demographics are an antiquated way of dealing with the "there are too many people to deal with!" problem, so we put them into buckets. But here's the rub: privacy.

To break the idea of demographics we would have to be even more intrusive on how we track and profile individual users. Or maybe not...

Going back to the original article, maybe it is centralisation that sucks. If I want one place to give me want it thinks I need, or even what I really need, then yes, privacy suffers. But how about if I just have the tools to find what I like, and not have them all under the same umbrella? The way it was a long time ago, where I could be involved in various different communities, and there was no link between them except for my own list of links.

/rant
How to spot whodunnit: academics crack Agatha Christie's code
This is math/CS. You don't need a particle accelerator to generate results, just a pencil, paper, and a computer. Do research, get published. That's the currency that matters in academia, and that is what will make a professor ask you to be in their program.

If your FOSS work has publishable results, publish it.
> I see nothing wrong with connecting the logic of a rapist ("consent is not important") to OP's comment

Then please don't call yourself a feminist. You are incredibly disgusting, and you clearly have ZERO empathy for women.

It makes me physically SICK that you think it is appropriate to compare "people engaging in voluntary transactions" with GETTING RAPED.
The bank should provide oauth, with 'see your transactions' as a permission you can revoke later.

Unfortunately, banks are technically backward and don't realise they're dumb vaults yet, much in the same way phone carriers are dumb pipes.