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The description says that this GUI is based on the rendering algorithm of Clay. What, exactly, is Clay, in this context?

Redox.

Probably worth doing regardless of brouhaha or not. Different design choices, etc!

Lifting weights, kettlebells. Very important to do face pulls, in my opinion, given how much time we spent at a desk and over a computer.

1. Yes, the approach is right. You don't need to start a company, particularly if the project could be open source. Even talking about the project in local meetups (assuming there are meetups by the time you are ready to talk about the project) can also help. 2. Do you need to quit working? At least, do you need to quit working immediately to start on the project? Wait until you have something concrete. Work in your "garage" until it's absolutely essential that you quit your current job.

The JetBrains IDEs are implemented using Java. Is there Java available for iOS?

It does seem obvious that short of having your own copy of something purchased (in this case, a movie), this will happen. Purchasing the right to see a movie, listen to a song, on a service, will never be the same as holding a physical copy. I wonder if it's even legal for Apple to maintain a copy of the movie in iTunes for customers who've already purchased it once they have lost the right to host it. Clearly, most of us don't appreciate the difference between what it meant to purchase something, and what it means today in the digital, subscription world.

So, if you really want to own a movie or a song, buy a physical incarnation of it, or make a digital copy of it.

All too often premature optimization is brought up as the antidote to carefully think about what you're implementing prior to actually opening up the IDE and start coding tests madly.

Thinking is hard, and takes time, and we want to get the feature out now, immediately, and worry about performance later. If at all.

And, sad to say (for an engineer), it's not clear that from a "business" perspective it's wrong. Hard to argue when accumulating features seems to matter more than crappy software. We have a lot more software these days, to run all of these bright new pieces of hardware, and perhaps because I'm an old-timer, the general quality seems to have degraded significantly. But the novelty of the stuff certainly has exploded, and I'm continually delighted by the twists and features that folks are coming up with, while being saddened by crashes, slowdowns, need for restarting, etc.

At least one form of Roman concrete was better than anything we moderns had been able to come up with until we rediscovered the formula a few years ago.

Link: http://borepatch.blogspot.com/2013/06/long-lost-roman-concre...

What do you do today about parents who sell their food stamps for liquor or other drugs?

This is, of course, the huge problem with this plan. Not that this isn't the right thing to do; but because the media and public will seize on the few morons who do stupid things and therefore malign a program that would actually help most.

Just imagine the headlines: Addicts Caught Buying Crack With Your Money.

It doesn't matter which party pushes it. If the Democrats pass it, the Republicans will scream about this; if the Republicans do, then the Democrats will scream how this justifies government as a warden.

That's why they want a union. Raise the minimum wage and reduce or eliminate the risk of the job being eliminated.

I second this. I'm beginning to hear more an more of this problem, and while this is anecdotal, it does seem to be increasing.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/10/the-ille...

But those are not hip tech entrepreneurs...

Basically, if you accept that your first 10 games will suck, and you don't try to make your first game fantastic, then your first 10 games will suck. Worse, you might get good at developing sucky games. For most developers, not just game developers, it's likely that their first some number of projects will suck.

I always thought that the mantra about your first 10 games will suck was a way to take the pressure off you and get you to develop a game. The problem is that we psych ourselves out; we don't develop anything because we're too fearful about making a bad game, and we procrastinate, and we hem and haw and never develop anything.

I am curious: are documents in Google Sheet scanned by Google's software bots to determine stuff about me? I can't seem to find a Privacy Policy document specific to documents in Google docs. How about if I pay for the service (can I pay for the service)?

Because you'll come out of the experience a MUCH better programmer; MUCH, MUCH better. In fact, until you've written a low level device driver and understood the complexities involved, you cannot really understand how much better a programmer you can be.

1) You get better because you learn to manage complexities that are simply not found in MOST application level programs; exceptions are stuff like high-performance database servers and their ilk. You should come out with a really good understanding of how to write multithreaded code, for example;

2) You learn to manage a really big project with lots of related, but complex interconnections;

3) There really is a huge benefit from learning just how a system works at the low-level in becoming a master programmer. Things like cache-issues, virtual memory management, are topics that you may not use everyday, but knowledge of how and what goes on gives you a whole new level of insight.

Anyone who wants to become a master programmer should implement a toy operating system (we can't all be Linus) and a toy compiler. Even better, implement a compiler and then implement the operating system using that compiler.

And the final reason: because it's amazing FUN. That is, if you really like programming. It's so complex, so much hard work and hard thinking, that when your first application program, just Hello World, actually runs to completion, you get high.

I use Apple's Numbers to track weight, blood pressure, intensity of workout (number of meters rowed, time, number of push-ups and pull-ups).

I have tried apps from time to time but nothing gives me the flexibility of a simple spreadsheet. For example, I can add notes to explain odd circumstances (ie. indulged in drinking, slept late, etc.)

Since you're comparing gun crimes to all crimes, doesn't that mean that non-gun crime rates are also falling lower than crime in general (includes with or without firearms)?

Public perception is being driven by a media with an anti-gun agenda.

I have 2 27" monitors (an iMac and an Apple display) next to each other, and it's fantastic for programming. One display has Xcode using up almost all of the screen; the other display has Safari showing documentation and other reference documents. What would make it ideal is a usable keyboard with a usable trackpad built into it, like the laptops do; moving my hand to use the separate trackpad is just as irritating as using a mouse.

I use a standing desk, and find that I am far enough away from the monitors that head movement is not an issue; moving the pointer can be but you can increase the tracking speed setting to make that a non-issue.

What I am considering switching to is using the display attached to my laptop. Xcode would be on the laptop screen and the display would be used for showing reference material.

How does he get to use those logos before he paid for them? Sounds like multiple copyright violations per contest to me. I understanding that the artist may not be in a position to legally contest anything, but it's clearly unethical.

This is what's in 99Designs faq:

"On 99designs, designers agree to upload only original artwork, so each designer owns the rights to their design submissions.

This is true until the contest holder chooses one of the designs as the contest’s winner. Then, and only then, can the designer agree to transfer his or her rights to that particular design to the contest holder."

While I agree that this effect probably shouldn't be used for a general webpage, it could be quite effective and appropriate for a game.

In any case, a neat concept. Works great on Safari.

Remember when you used to ask people for directions and comedians told jokes about how as soon as they heard the directions, they forgot them?

In a few years we'll think about hailing cabs by whistling or flagging them down in the same way. Plus, the taxi drivers won't be able to bypass particular minorities with quite as much immunity from being caught anymore. "You accepted the hail, we have the record for that, but then decided not to pick the passenger up. Why?"

I sympathize. What is really necessary are not tutorials on how to use Git--it isn't that hard, after all, for most of us--but more of a description of actual workflow. Not HOW you issue Git commands; but how to use Git.

It would be interesting to read articles about how a single programmer uses Git, how a small programming team, how a distributed team uses Git. Similar articles about how a team producing art, or text (not programmers) use Git.

There's plenty of Git command tutorials already; let's hear about how you actually use Git.

The implicit assumption here is that judging your credit score using your social graph will give the wrong answer: as in either claim you are a deadbeat when you're not, or claim you are trustworthy when you're not.

But, judging from other stories here and elsewhere, your social graph does seem to yield mostly accurate information about you. So, most likely, you are likely to be tagged as a deadbeat or not correctly.

More meaningful, I suppose, is for those of us that are very careful about social media. I have a Facebook account, but use it very little. However, it has come in very useful in that long lost friends have been able to get in touch with me through it. I must admit, I have never really initiated that myself (ie. go search for someone). So, am I likely to be judged incorrectly solely on the basis of being a social media avoider; that is, are the banks going to say hey ignore social media stuff for this guy, or are they going to say, loners avoid social media and loners are likely to be bad credit risks?

I am definitely a member of the group that almost instinctively react negatively to the use of social media for data mining like this. I am also aware that I'm old enough that I might just be an old fuddy-duddy. I wonder how many articles were written about the loss of privacy when telephones started becoming popular and when the white pages were introduced.

We can already do everything from inside emacs; oh wait! Chrome's the browser. So that's completely different.

Without any source whatsoever other than what I can dream up (which is better than some unnamed chief executive), I think this is bullshit. Bill Gates is now looking at building a reputation worthy of Mother Teresa PLUS Andrew Carnegie; why does he need to be CEO of Microsoft again.

Maybe if the stock price was going to completely tank, which would affect his foundation, he would consider coming back. But the stock shouldn't do that; the company is still remarkably profitable.

Jobs did apparently use focus groups; he would show off prototypes to selected friends and watch their reactions. Their reactions would, as you say, inform his ideas about the design.

How soon before state governments start claiming that these lockers are a physical presence of Amazon's retail operations?

When I work, I like to have several editor windows open, and the documentation (usually browser) open. On the first screen is where I have the editor window where I'm actually typing stuff in; on the second screen I have all the reference stuff that I can just glance at.

Isn't this illegal?

While I understand this reaction, I must say that the range of games being shown is pretty impressive. I think it depends on what are the actual limitations (the limitations that a poet accepts can lead to greater creativity, for example).