jrogers65

It's a happy day. I was considering installing Windows so I could dual boot on my Arch machine but this has made me reconsider. I remember how years ago, on KDE2, wine barely ran anything and the best games available on *nix were things like NetHack. What a long way it's come! Now we have a prominent gaming platform and ports of some excellent premium games. Things like this are edging GNU/Linux towards mainstream success on the desktop.

I think that one thing which would help here is a more complete gaming API ala DirectX. We can already achieve this with OpenGL/SDL/OpenAL/whatever good networking libraries there are but a project which aggregates these into one would be beneficial, in my opinion.

Yes, you're quite right about Kasting - it was late at night and my focus was lacking. Unfortunately, I cannot correct my comment above.

Would you mind posting (potentially redacted) copies of those emails, just so that we can get an idea of what was involved in GoogleOS? It would be nice if some of the people you worked with piped up to tell us more about this too. I suppose that they will see what is happening and do so some time soon anyway as this is getting quite a bit of exposure.

For everyone else, here's confirmation of the patent - Jeff's name is indeed on it: http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Se...

> Inventors: Nelson; Jeffrey (Mountain View, CA)

This seems legitimate to me and, frankly, the responses from Peter Kasting and other Google employees look to be immature and childish. Perhaps most Google employees are not as professional and high caliber as they appear on the surface.

If it bundles in advertising then is it really free? Consider how much money is spent on ads - they clearly have an effect, and given the obscene amounts of money spent, probably not a small one.

So what is the impact of advertising? We buy more things because someone has convinced us that we need them, become more likely to get into debt and save less as a result. I cannot consider this to be free in good conscience. I'm not the only one who sees it this way either -

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/feb/14/ban-advertising-...

It's OK to feel your emotions and make decisions based on them. Life isn't a business where everything comes down to a cost-benefit analysis. There are real people living in these conditions and I bet they're wondering why nobody is helping them. If you were in their shoes, how would you feel about our inaction?

What if Nazi Germany stopped short of trying to invade western Europe and Russia yet still had it's concentration camps? Would you have argued that it's not worth the cost of war to put an end to them?

What about hard drugs? You argue against prohibition - that alcohol should be legal, yet it is a hard drug.

Please don't publicise this - Gawker already did enough damage. If some of the more interesting things become popular enough then governments will begin to attack them. In fact, there has already been at least one conviction regarding what you mentioned. Authorities have a terrible fear of things they do not control and are quite willing to become very violent to expand their influence. The less they know, the better.

Another interpretation of those facts is that mechanical interconnections between various deterministic processes can result in emergent behaviours which are profoundly beautiful. What if the glass is half full?

www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/mandelbulb.html

All of those images are generated with very simple deterministic rules but they are still sublime.

> uppose for a moment that you are a guy who just graduated from college, make $20,000 a year in your dream internship, and are on the long trek to success in your field. You're in a new city, and don't know many people. You're constantly bombarded with pictures of men who "made it", have $200k cars, wear $10k suits, drink $500 bottles of liquor, and buy their mistresses $80k pieces of jewelry.

I know what you're trying to get at with this but there are two types of people in the world - those who start to feel depressed because they haven't "made it" and those who take it as an inspiration for what they could become. Which direction one goes in is a choice. The losers will give up, the winners will fail over and over again until they succeed. I would not want to be in a world where success is hidden from me because I might cry over not having it myself.

For the record, I agree that bikini shots are not appropriate at a software conference whether women are present or not. I do not see it as sexist but I do think that it is entirely irrelevant and misplaced and would question what the person who put them in there was thinking and whether they might be drunk.

This article could be better - it presents a problem but does not resolve it in any meaningful way. It asks the equivalent of "which is better, left or right?" and concludes with "my opinion is that left is better."

This is not a pragmatic approach to the problem - where is the research? Where is the substantiation of why left is better than right? There is a rationalisation provided, sure, but people rationalise shooting heroin too, so that doesn't go too far. It would be interesting to see a study on this.

I hope I'm wrong about you and your endevours. I wish you the best of luck with getting your product out there.

> For some context I am turning 35 in less than a month and have yet to release my life's work which extends over 11 years of effort after my college degree. A significant amount of my efforts cover similar ground as your aspirations. I still live month to month (~$200 in my bank account right now and significant debt I incurred in following this path I'm still trying to manage).

I think that says it all. The guy had a vision of something he was trying to achieve and fiveteen thousand hours later he is essentially no closer to his goal. Stallman is very idealistic but he managed to change the world. This is an unbalanced approach to life which will only yield pain. Attachment is suffering.

Point still stands that the material used in the software development field has no nudity in it what-so-ever. So it's a crop from a nude, big deal. Is it also wrong if a non-nude image of a porn actress is used? What about a non-nude of a regular woman? She's been naked at some point, after all.

Why is the fact that it's from a nude shot considered demeaning? Because it's from a porno magazine? So what? I could kind of understand if it was a segment of an image from a hardcore scene but the full photo is actually quite tasteful.

If I ever get the opportunity, I'll use a crop from a nude male photo to prove my point. I would bet a year's salary that there would be no backlash.

There are far bigger issues in the world to be indignant about than this. We have people dying of thirst and hunger when we technically have enough resources to feed every person on the planet yet there are individuals full of anger regarding trivialities like this where everything is consensual, nobody was hurt and nothing bad happened.

I believe that the correct term for this is "theatre of the absurd".

She's beautiful. What's so wrong about appreciating someone's body? You don't see this kind of reaction to nude male models - that is where the real sexism is, IMO.

Apologies for causing any distress, it's not my intent. My contention is that these are separate issues and that educators should concern themselves with providing the best level of training possible as opposed to being concerned with the kids' home lives.

I grew up in somewhat unfavourable circumstances myself and did not do well at school. Then I taught myself a profession using the "problem first thinking" approach. It has yielded great results. I wouldn't have wanted the teachers to account for my disadvantages by giving me a crippled education. I do, however, wish that there was some organisation which would have addressed the problems I was having.

Like I said, I agree that the issue must be tackled - just not by teachers. Why should someone who is trying to teach calculus waste their time on adressing emotional needs? A psychologist doesn't concern himself with teaching IT skills, after all. I would agree that it's the teacher's job to raise a red flag if they notice something odd, but let someone trained in the field deal with resolving it. Most people barely master one field, let alone two.

I would argue that in circumstances where they are not unfairly burdened, children are indeed naturally curious.

The problems they inherit from poverty or poor family life are not resolvable through education in the first place. That is a separate issue which requires just as much attention, but it's not a teacher's job to do so.

Giving those children a route where they can skip learning how to think and instead memorise everything is putting a bandage on the wound, not healing the illness.

Moreover, when we talk of different learning styles, it does not mean that one human is robotic in their thinking while another is not. Learning styles are about how to communicate information - i.e. through visual, auditory or kinesthetic means. There is not one person who would not benefit from learning how to think for themself, just as all people benefit from learning how to use their emotion and intuition to inspire creativity.

Humans have one very prominent attribute - they rationalise what they have. Kids who were physically hit will rationalise that this is the correct way to rear a child when they become adults. Similarly, kids who were taught not to think will rationalise that it's not a necessary thing after they grow up.

There are opinions, there is rarely an absolute truth, but one can be more wrong or less wrong about something. You are more wrong about education than you think.

http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_teach_t...

Ah, that explains it. I didn't use agencies when I was a junior and aim for lead dev/senior positions these days.

Seriously? They're a blessing - I'm rarely unemployed for more than a week thanks to them.

Being a web developer in London who has dealt with many agencies, I call bullshit on this. Not one recruiter who I have dealt with has been a problem for me, quite the opposite, in fact. There is something wrong with your friend's perception of reality; that is to say, she is delusional and paranoid.

That backed up my argument - the half-life is nowhere near 15 hours unless pregnancy or other drugs are involved.

Came here to say exactly this.

Here's a sample of the output: https://codeq.io/github/yakxxx/memek/master/crawler/tests/te...

> Trailing whitespace (1, 29, 34)

    Missing optional whitespace around operator (6, 48)

    Blank line contains whitespace (11, 15, 19, 23—25, 33, 44—45, 53—55)

    Continuation line under-indented for visual indent (17, 21)

    No spaces around keyword / parameter equals (17, 21, 48)

    Line too long (100 > 79 characters) (21)

    Too many blank lines (3) (26)

    Continuation line over-indented for hanging indent (29, 34)

    Missing whitespace after ':' (30—31, 35—36)

    Line too long (81 > 79 characters) (30, 35)

    Continuation line indentation is not a multiple of four (30, 35)

    Line too long (80 > 79 characters) (31, 36)

    Closing bracket does not match indentation of opening bracket's line (38)

    Too many blank lines (2) (46)

    Line too long (91 > 79 characters) (47)

    Blank line at end of file (55)

Not to mention that it's quite simple to have your CI server perform these kinds of checks already.

Save for being an infant or on certain anti-depressants, how, exactly, did you come to the figure of a 15 hour half-life? Do you have a source for this?

Caffeine goes swimmingly with magnesium, L-Theanine and Noopept.

Well that's nice. When it comes to technical fields you assume that there are not many women because the men are arrogant assholes. When it comes to a soft field you assume that there are not many men because, well, you don't know. You are a sexist.

How did I end up at Reddit again...

There is one reason that I can think of for why they would be classified as unhealthy - they distract you from what is happening right now and, as a result, you might miss something important. Multitasking is widely recognised as being a counter-productive activity. Do one thing at a time, with your full attention, and you will excel. Do many things at once and you will do all of them badly. Or one could say that multitasking is the process of failing at many things simultaneously.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_multitasking

Did not know this. Apparently Bayer lost the trademark after WW1.

You'll have an aneurysm when you read about how heroin used to be sold in pharmacies. The drug war is a very recent phenomenon with a lot of dirty politics driving it.

Given that they can already determine the country of origin by the IP quite effectively, I don't see why they don't just hide the adverts for UK viewers. This is a good example of well-intentioned insanity.