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Valve do still develop games, they just focus on maintaining their current games now. Dota 2, CSGO, Team Fortress 2 still gets frequent updates and big enhancements.

There's also SteamVR

This article is a bit lacking in the visual imagery department (that picture in the article is super old) - here's a youtube link from Norsepower (the article says they're the manufacturer):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUCShEXkpL8

Since maybe others will be looking for it too: the link above is for the live show - for the recording of the match (which is over) there's a link on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2EQCE9LRXE

What the article says is true that traditional roles are disappearing but they're hiring technology people like crazy.

Closing branches, automating branches, that's the direction it's going. eBanking, less face-to-face transactions. Data scientists, etc, to datamine all that valuable purchase history.

So employment-wise it's bad for the population at large, but good for us techies still.

Here's an example of Goldman (not a traditional bank, but still relevant):

http://www.businessinsider.com/pie-chart-google-hiring

The VR tech, you mean the Vive?

There's talk of spinning off the Vive portion of HTC.

Besides, the Vive is based on Valve's tech, HTC is mainly handling manufacturing only.

The strategy that was used, seems to be surprise the AI and mess up it's decision tree:

The general strategy is to win by claiming first tower. At 0:00, you aggro the enemy creep wave so that they start following you. Then you walk around in a circle around the jungle, and the enemy wave will start to form a congo line that will follow you around. You then path around the jungle so that on the next wave spawn, you can aggro the wave again and continue to walk around in circles. The AI will burn glyph when your creep wave hits the tower, and for some reason it can't really decide between chasing you or defending the tower. So after about 5 minutes of doing this, your creep waves will eventually destroy the tower and you win the 1v1.

From https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/6t8qvs/openai_bots_w...

Signed up more than a month ago (24 June), did the survey, but still no reply. Don't think they're giving out any more beta keys... :(

A few life lessons after a decade in IT:

1. It's 10% about what you do. And 90% about how you present it. Presentation includes getting people to people know your value, your impact to the business, and most importantly, talking yourself up, and talking yourself up to the right people :). The higher you go, the more important this is. Which goes to point 2:

2. The higher you go, the more it is about who you know, and how well you know them. Who's ear have you got? How influential are they, and who are they influencing? What do people think of you?

3. Then it's your teammates, and your peers. You want to get promoted, but what do they think? Are they going to support you? The company thinks of this too.

You mentioned people who have caused delays, being considered for promotion instead of yourself. How well do they hit the above 3 points?

The higher you go, the more that it becomes a people job instead of a technical job. One thing to ask yourself as well is, do you want to go up? Or do you want to stay technical? If you want to go up, better get in the game!

It's normal to get frustrated on the journey up the ladder. As others have mentioned, the hours are only the entry price, there's many other factors at play here. Btw, as you'll know when you become a manager, his job is to make sure you deliver - and you have, for one year already, 70 hours a week. His job is not to get you what you want, his job is to make sure you work (and the harder that he can make you work, the better). Personally I don't agree with this approach, and it's not one I use, but then again, I've personally had many managers like this.

Ultimately, you will be promoted. I'm sure of it. You're already talking to the right people (this audience :)). It'll just take time. How much time, depends on how well you master factors 1-3 above.

I'm trying on Upwork but I find that it's hard to get the first few jobs. Did you build up a strong portfolio to get the first few jobs?

The workaround I use is appending "/.compact" to the url, it shows the old mobile format. It still works fine for all pages/comments.

But yes, I find this highly annoying also.

Not sure what you mean about interventions in the HKD. The HKD is pegged against the USD and it's been that way since the poms were still in power and HK was a colony.

Specifically, since 1983, it has been pegged to the current rate.

That's because Panasonic bought them.

Yes, it's listed on the nature article...

From the article:

> And please never do what twitter did (start open, then close as soon as you gain traction).

Charging for access is hardly "closing itself". Is the author faulting them for moving to a more sustainable model?

Well we can still enable it if we need it

"In conjunction with the change, we will need a command line switch and enterprise policy to revert to the older behavior for testing and legacy applications."

Thanks for highlighting it, just downloaded... it's even free!

https://www.atlassian.com/software/sourcetree/overview

<quote> There is a list of over one million "missing" Tibetans. </quote>

I'm going to call BS on this one.

The population of Tibet is only 2.91 million.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet_Autonomous_Region#Demogra...

Are you saying they "disappeared" 1/3 of the population?

Don't spread the FUD that others are creating.

This is a picture of a separate celebration event from the 26th (Friday). It's part of the celebration events leading up to 1st Oct.

Looks like they closed it :-/

window.Uber.pingData.client.firstName, lastName, email all work, but rating is now "undefined".

Some more history on wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_(company)

Me, I prefer Lustre over GPFS; Lustre is open source as well, and used by 70% of Top100

Here's a related presso from KIT:

https://www.scc.kit.edu/scc/docs/Lustre/pfs_scc-sem_20111005...

So they're asking for the best algorithm (and the source implementation also) to guess football and other results, which is worth millions, and all you get in return is a crummy laptop? Not much incentive to participate

Plug included:

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Estimated delivery: Mar 2015

Their marketing is funded by their dominant profit margin; before, people think market share equates to higher earnings, but apple shows that even with a small market share you can have a dominant profit margin and earnings, which is what really matter.

Fun but laggy; looks like this is hosted on AWS in the US? IP = 54.193.69.60

Amazon Technologies Inc. AMAZON-2011L (NET-54-192-0-0-1) 54.192.0.0 - 54.207.255.255 Amazon.com, Inc. AMAZO-ZSFO4 (NET-54-193-0-0-1) 54.193.0.0 - 54.193.255.255

Wow, very interesting, thanks for that!

For others interested, here's some links:

NPR Article

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/02/15/131934618/the-isla...

Milton Friedman paper on the island.

http://hoohila.stanford.edu/workingpapers/getWorkingPaper.ph...

This is just republishing of a ssd report which was already on hacker news a few days ago, old news.

The first one is the Mandarin pronunciation in Taiwan (Gōng Zhǔ Bìng), the 2nd one is the Cantonese pronunciation in HK (Gung Jyuh Behng)

Taiwan and Hong Kong both share the same written text (Traditional Chinese Characters) so the symbols are the same.

Same, all it's good for is being a paperweight now.

Their firmware is ridiculously buggy. I was using one in my primary laptop, and got hit by the bug where, if you sleep the drive too many times, the whole drive fails. Total unrecoverable data loss.

Their forums are full of stories like that.

Next drive, went Intel, haven't looked back since.

That article doesn't have much details on what the new UI is based on... does anyone know?