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The best thing you can do in this situation, is hold your ground and slow the fuck down. Not because you're a recalcitrant bastard, but because you are the one responsible for quality. Once you learn this, and really internalise it, a lot of things fall into place. Projects are a tug of war over the time / cost / quality triangle. Make sure you're pulling your corner.

The new literacy is the same as the old literacy. Supposedly new paradigms of thought are not new, but centuries old. Those who forget history, I suppose...

You'll note that there's approximately zero 'goofing off' time in his schedule, he's either working productively, or not present at work. This is a good way to be productive and maintain sanity.

The first rule of critical systems is to reduce complexity, and their current systems probably found the sweet spot between useability and simplicity decades ago.

The guy using the IBM accounting machines though... Dear god man! It sounds like the museum would've handed him a new system on a platter, in exchange for his old system. Take the upgrade!

The thought I came away with was that it was probably actually a pretty easy interview for him, not because they threw him softballs, but because there's a genuine lack of political sophistication and knowledge from the interviewers, and by extension their audiences.

I think Obama realised it too by the end, and did a reasonable job of not coming off too patronising - except for the movie bit. He could have emphasised that all of their viewers have a voice, but it only counts if they use it.

Jesus fucking christ.

I have also used dropbox in remote locations, to keep a team synced up. It works ok, but works best if you keep a separate working directory (so saves don't automatically generate a sync to cloud).

http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Mind-Beginners-Shunryu-Suzuki/dp/1...

Not specifically related to meditation, but The Tao of Pooh is still the best book I know of that deals with the concepts behind this stuff. I re-read these books whenever I lose my way, which happens more often than I'd like to admit ;)

In my experience, people who defend 4chan's actions like to victim-blame.

> The authors inability to empathise with "... and personally feel that crowdsourcing is basically cheating (and I’m not the only one that feels this way)." is something that makes me leery as well. That's an understandable viewpoint, how is this going to work with actually classified documents?

Actually this line (from the attacker) garnered the most attention from me. So the attacker felt that crowd-sourcing the solution was cheating - but maliciously attacking and sabotaging an opponent in a competition was just fine? This sense of entitlement is very typical of anti-social b-tard behaviour, and it shouldn't be encouraged.

Personally I find the tension between clever algorithms and crowd-sourcing very interesting. Applications like Foldit for protein folding produce some amazing results. Sabotaging valid solutions does nobody any favours, except in an extremely selfish and short-term way.

Off to google...

Uhh, no it doesn't. Not in today's world of backlash against Facebook, iCloud leaks, and NSA spying. Privacy is now paramount, and must be built into the bedrock of any system to be trusted by the public.

The masses are not quick to move, but I'm pretty sure they understand the need for privacy and security, now that some of their favourite celebs have been so thoroughly violated on the web.

That's actually quite an offensive, bald-faced comment that they fully intend to ransom your personal info unless you pay.

That doesn't seem unfair, given the layoffs.

Never apologise for having a life.

The second paragraph in this story states that recorded cases of infection are now over 4000. With a 90% mortality rate, the known death toll will double in the next few weeks.

I don't think this is likely to become pandemic, but it must be a very scary situation in Africa.

What an interesting and unexpected thing to find on HN :D

This was always the feeling I got from games like Daggerfall / Arena Scrolls, which procedurally generate dungeons. Sure, it's technically a different dungeon each time, but in reality it's just the same set of blocks in a different order. Even the mob spawning was based on the block type, so there were few surprises by the end.

Genuine procedurally generated architecture sounds like an awesome challenge - good luck!

One of the most obvious indicators of this is people who retreat behind the bulshit bingo, which is why it is so rightfully disparaged. Seriously, 'synthesized'?? That word doesn't mean what he thinks it does, unless he literally made up their strategic direction on the spot, in that email.

CEOs and other leaders need to consider their audience. Anyone who casts a company-wide memo to a technical audience in such terms comes off as hopelessly out-of-touch, and deserving of scorn.