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Thoughts on countries like Japan with a super-aged population but with low fatality ratio?

They just announced there will be live streamed game(s) after Mana's series.

Does Stripe (presumably where they work) still allow full-time remote work? I looked at their job board and it seems like none of the job posts are for remote positions.

I've never used Go, but would you write your customer facing REST service using Go? Or would it only be used for back-end microservices? What's a recommended library for writing a customer facing REST API?

My data structure wish list:

- heapq to support max heap better. (you can invert the value or use heapq._heapify_max, neither is ideal.)

- Tree map.

This resonates a lot with me. Whenever I participate in a social gathering there are already long-established "cliques" and they just talk among themselves. I feel this especially at wedding receptions -- I find myself awkwardly walking around while everyone is chatting, and I'm just wasting time until I feel ready to make my irish exit.

Any hints of which states you invest houses in that are cash flow positive? California seems to require ridiculous capital to even get started.

So the biggest barriers to doing it on your own aren't source material (there is lots of that) it's a good source of correction.

Does anyone have any recommendations for where I can find a "good source of correction" (private tutor) online or locally for discrete math/algorithms/college-level mathematics? I looked at WyzAnt which gave me no results for my area -- most of the tutors seem to be for SAT/high school prep.

I fail to see the benefits of using this over keyboard shortcuts, mouse, and a wacom tablet (many keyboards and tablets also have programmable buttons.) My setup is currently keboard + mouse on a keyboard tray and wacom tablet on the table and I have never felt a need to turn a dial for lack of precision. I guess it's an alternative though?

Just curious, but any chance of Khan Academy adding Discrete Mathematics? Correct me if I am wrong but I don't think coursera/udemy have a course either. The only free online course I am aware of for Discrete Mathematics is MIT OCW 6.042J.

What about parents and siblings? They should arguably be above SO. If you need somebody to talk to, don't forget your family!

Compojure is looking really attractive ("modern" dynamic language with JVM performance backing it up). How is the ecosystem around Clojure web development?

Can you provide a link? I am not a lawyer, but I have seen http://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions-slip.htm which provides a link to the LexisNexis website for opinions from 1850 - Present.

The LexisNexis website also states "There is no charge to search, retrieve or save documents from the California Official Reports Web site, and there is no copyright on opinion text. The site, however, is for personal, not commercial, use."

From this, I assumed commercial use would require purchasing or licensing something from LexisNexis.

This needs to also happen for case law (free as in beer). How absurd is this:

"Pursuant to common law tradition, the courts of California have developed a large body of case law through the decisions of the Supreme Court of California and the California Courts of Appeal. The state supreme court's decisions are published in official reporters known as California Reports. The decisions of the Courts of Appeal are published in the California Appellate Reports.

The content of both reporters is compiled and edited by the California Reporter of Decisions. The Reporter maintains a contract with a private publisher (as allowed by Government Code Section 68903) who in turn is responsible for actually publishing and selling the official reporters. The current official publisher is LexisNexis." [0]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_California [0]

http://www.lexisnexis.com/clients/CACourts/ [1]

my problem with these tracking apps is that it's too easy to "cheat" the system if you have more than one monitor. I typically have a video or stream open on one monitor while I have focus on a window in another monitor so the app doesn't log my distractions.

I haven't used Backbone.js, but from what I've read there are extensions like Backbone.Marionette for better view and memory management.

https://github.com/marionettejs/backbone.marionette

I emailed my dad (biosci professor) for his opinion on this company, but from what I know of his work history and past collaborations, points 2 and 3 are likely road blocks to using this webapp. Trust is definitely a huge deal as I know he flies in specialized technicians he trusts over more "local" and likely "cheaper" technicians. Not saying the local technicians aren't trustworthy or aren't as skilled, but no matter the costs, trust founded on years of collaboration is irreplaceable.

That said, I'm guessing this kind of service may be more appealing to fresh PhDs.

I'm confused -- isn't Node.js's ruby equivalent EventMachine? Why are they comparing Node.js, an asynchronous I/O library, with a MVC web framework? I don't think this is a fair comparison unless they tell us the MVC framework their Node.js is using, and the server stack their Rails app was using.

This. There's always a backlash with unexpected post-beta price increases as well (see google app engine.) Be straight-up with the pricing and hold your words.

I might get some backlash for this, but while you can apply for some bioinformatics jobs with a MS, PhD is the norm not the exception for biology-related fields. Without a PhD, you won't get very far career-wise.

I think a big reason why most people go with a career and degree in software engineering as opposed to bioinformatics is because of a bigger job market, a higher salary potential, and a lower commitment to achieve the goal (computer science degree as a 4 or 6 year degree, vs a mandatory 8+ year degree in bioinformatics.) Unless these things change, bioinformatics will remain unappealing to top google engineers who are paid to scale cat pictures at salaries like 250k+.

To add one more thing, perl is huge in the bioinformatics community, which would never win a popularity contest among software developers.

I wonder how his Rite project is going (Ruby Lite, an "embeddable Ruby") Wasn't the project sponsored by the Japanese government? Really looking forward to its release :)

As a JRuby fan, I have my fingers crossed that they will switch to JRuby and help it become "more mature." :)

I'd like to hear more about the updated future pricing structure besides the FAQ. New features are irrelevant if they become unaffordable =\

Just to point how competitive starcraft 2 is right now:

Global Starcraft League is pretty much monthly. first place wins $80,000, second place wins $25,000, and so on

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=141...

The North American StarCraft League, funded for a minimum of 3 seasons with a $400,000 total prize pool

http://www.gosugamers.net/starcraft2/news/14686-400-000-priz...

IGN Pro League, $50,000 prize pool for each season

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=218...

Then there are MANY other tournaments, such as MLG, Blizzcon, Dreamhack, and TSL.

http://pro.majorleaguegaming.com/competitions/17#event_36_pr...

starcraft2, if anything, is a huge GLOBAL success so far as an esport.

i'm sure there is a more accurate prediction out there (explained in papers) by researchers who have spent way more time and effort into this subject. for us common folks, there's even a wikipedia answer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population#Number_of_huma...

this reminded me of pixar's "university" that teaches technical skills for all their employees (particularly see page 2): http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/business/yourmoney/29pixar...

"Pixar University is at the center of Mr. Nelson's agenda. The operation has more than 110 courses: a complete filmmaking curriculum, classes on painting, drawing, sculpting and creative writing. "We offer the equivalent of an undergraduate education in fine arts and the art of filmmaking," he said. Every employee — whether an animator, technician, production assistant, accountant, marketer or security guard — is encouraged to devote up to four hours a week, every week, to his or her education."

sounds like an exciting place to work and grow

Blizzard Entertainment's April Fools

starcraft:

http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/games/console/

warcraft:

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/game/dungeon-helper/

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/game/dungeon/tomb-of-immortal-da...

diablo:

http://us.blizzard.com/diablo3/media/horadrapp/

As a gamer, I trust cat5 cables way more than wireless connections (I have both at home)...anything to mitigate the possibility of disconnection and higher latency.

I also don't have any numbers to prove this, but I'm fairly certain my download/upload speeds are faster on cat5 than wireless as well. It's really noticeable when I remote desktop another computer on the network -- on cat5 I notice very little latency, while on wireless I get constant fps lag.

There's also C++ implementations like boost::asio which would work and scale just fine too. There was a HN post discussing Alex Payne's blog on how node.js is "scaling in the small."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1552908

http://al3x.net/2010/07/27/node.html