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I'm not sure that two of the world's richest companies investing is great sign of confidence. If their investment comes to nought, it wouldn't make a dent in their balance sheet.

I find it easier to live with if you consider it to mean "daemonless". So not about hardware, but what software you don't have in your project.

There seem to be a lot of stories with a negative view of China on HN.

The global log sounds like a lynchpin but I didn't see a good explanation in the article. It sounds like all synchronization is done at the level of this log? If so, isn't that a bit of a bottleneck?

I know GDS uses Cloud Foundry a lot (as do the US and Korean governments). How much of gov.uk is deployed on CF?

Source?

Folks who practice pairing and mobbing would probably disagree about constant collaboration.

Why are "open offices are bad" stories so popular on HN?

I've only ever worked in open plan offices, and can't say I've ever had a problem concentrating. I'm not sure what alternatives are popular, but if an employer forced me to work in a cubicle I'd immediately quit without hesitation. Having visited cubicle offices, they strike me as inhumane detention centres.

That hierarchy of importance is quite apt.

If the game concept doesn't sell itself as an elevator pitch, then it doesn't matter how good the implementation is.

I once met an indie dev who was surprised that their Space Invaders mobile clone didn't sell on Windows Mobile, "despite its amazing particle effects."

I have some sympathy, having made an indie game that gave a return of about £0.07/hour. Sold a few thousand copies, learnt a lot, made a lot of friends and had a lot of fun, but it certainly wasn't a great financial decision. And that was 10 years ago when it was a lot easier!

Games industry is like the music industry - if you do it for anything other than the love, you're likely to be disappointed. Your chances of 'making it' are astronomically small.

It's hard, because novel mechanics are easily stolen. That said, the sooner you get user testing done, the sooner you validate your idea.

Thanks!

The key, the whole key, and nothing but the key.

The Secret Life Of Waves. It made me think differently about life, the universe and the nature of complex systems.

I also found The Brain with David Eagleman a series that gave me revelations about all sorts of things.

I recommend reading Judea Pearl's _The Book Of Why_, which details why historically science has been restricted to correlational observations, and how causal calculus can shed light on causality.

"sew their chaos"?

I'm curious - I would've expected this to be "sow" as in "sowing seeds". Is this an American spelling?

> f you highly your blackness, you risk disrupting your success at getting people to see you as a coder first.

Really interested to hear more of your thoughts/experiences on this point.

Yep, we pair at least 80% of the time.

We ask people to pair-program with an interviewer on a realistic task. No tricks, no brainteasers. We just get to see how people do the job we want them to do.

Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb has implications that I find impact very disparate areas. It's hard work in places though.

The Quark and the Jaguar by Murray Gell-Mann is a wonderfully readable and accessible intro to complexity, which again is a topic that seems to crop up all over the place.

Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine cites a shedload of research to dispel gender-related myths. It should be taught in schools, in my opinion.

You can buy effective faraday pouches for car keys in many places. I have one, and can attest they work. They are no thicker than any other fabric.

I've not tried it for my phone though.

The top photo, immediately visible on my mobile browser without scrolling, is of their wheels on a wheelchair.

Thought-provoking. It seems a convenient decoy of massive tech companies to encourage as much personal freedom as possible, whilst being complicit in limiting the economic freedom of those outside of our Hacker News, coders' salary bubble.

If it's not a poem, it's not an ode.

Ex-fat person here. 14 stone at 14 years of age.

I stopped eating so much and took up regular exercise.

I am no longer fat.

Maybe it's my age, and a youth of grunge, metal, hardcore and punk, but whatever happened to doing what you love and not giving a shit what naysayers think?

I can't see any reason to favour this over Concourse.

Series of blog posts on how to use a YubiKey for SSH, 2FA, and 1Password:

http://www.engineerbetter.com/blog/yubikey-all-the-things/

I'm sure folks in Syria would disagree.

Blimey, humans are really odd.