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...which has reference #14 has Sen listed as the author of another article (can't find direct link), here's #14 though: Sen, C. K. & Ghatak, S. miRNA control of tissue repair and regeneration. Am. J. Pathol. 185, 2629–2640 (2015).

I had played various Infocom games as a kid, simply amazing. Then recently "discovered" that there is this exciting corner of the Multiverse know as Interactive Fiction, which has been flourishing quite well for a long time. Just finished "Beautiful Dreamer" by Woodson, enjoyed that very much.

Oddly enough, that was the first thing that popped into my head, when seeing the title.

> It's offloading the cost of hiring on to prospective candidates.

Why is that a bad thing? The prospective candidates aren't entitled to anything, the burden should be on them to prove they have any capabilities for the job.

> What is the employer putting up? Generally nothing.

Totally incorrect, have you ever had to hire somebody? The initial phone screens alone to weed out the 99% of complete incompetents takes many hours/days. Even getting to the list of phone screens, involves many hours of sifting through resumes, where each resume is cleverly designed to hide the fact that the prospective candidate is incompetent.

I'm quite impressed with the Hololens, but keep in mind that it's a totally a first gen developer product, so was better than my expectations. Yes the field of view is a tad narrow, and yes, the gestures still don't pick up at much at they should. But the holograms look stellar, the position tracking is quite stellar, objects that are placed, stay placed very well while you move about, the effect works very well. The floating planets that my kids stuck on the living room ceiling, continue to stay floating there until somebody later comes by and moves or resizes them. I think this device will have a bright future.

You've just defined the Internet.

Fortune.com does "know better", it's all about Ad revenue.

Right, the Wikipedia page for SHA1 does show research on a variety of possible attacks, starting from 2005.

71 device years, on an p2.16xlarge instance, I think the NSA could certainly come up with something way moar better in a shorter timeframe, assuming they haven't already done so.

I've been doing concurrent programming for 17 years, it's been pretty much the same game, at least with Java/C/C#/C++ which is my experience. The abstractions are helpful, but clearly no panacea. The most common problems I see today are with Tasks w/lambdas and Parallel.ForEach, where synchronization is either completely missing or misused, or unnecessary (i.e. a better design would have been to remove all shared state to begin with). The next main problem I run into, folks tend to sprinkle in concurrent code in an ad-hoc fashion, even using the understandable abstractions. That works fine, until it doesn't, with the "not working" state being rather difficult to detect.

+1 for just admitting that you owned Betamax (vastly superior of course to those VHS ninnies).

My all time favorite is one of the original songs, but still a "style parody", Everything You Know is Wrong. But all songs, whether direct parodies or originals, are pure brilliance.

One can argue these topics until the cows come home, and possibly later. One can strongly argue for/against imperative programming, functional programming, OOP, design patterns, Design Patterns with Cool Names, Design Patterns as Implemented in Your Favorite Language, etc... At the end of the day, the only thing that matters is whether your team thinks your source code is structured or not. If you're on a team of one, well then you have your future self to contend with.

Why is that actually considered dysfunction? And why just valley?

Bad link, goes right to some Android virus or scareware page.

Sounds more like acid, IMO.

Despite the deluge of advice from the Innovation-thumpers of the many virtues of personal washing, I have yet to invent a flying car while standing in the shower thinking. (great song though).

Funny that, I've used that exact expression before, with Matrox framegrabbers ;-)

OK thanks again for the info, now very much worth a serious look.

Thanks for the mention of this, I'm quite interested, looking at their FAQ right now, curious to see how they handle latency. Do you notice any lag? Also, what FPS do you achieve?

Where do you that salary number from, American tech salary of 200k/yr?

At my company, we are fortunate to have quiet spaces that have dual monitors, keyboard, and mouse, for your laptop. I agree, it's a necessity.

That's a nice memory profiler, have good success with it. I've also used DebugDiag, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=499... and plain ol' perfmon and its performance counters, to help track down GC-related issues.

Ah, what pray tell, does one do with all that fancy purple rock?

In Microsoft-Land, I find that every time we force ourselves to upgrade to the latest compiler (really entire IDE, Visual Studio) then everyone also needs to upgrade their machines. Both the IDE and the C++ compiler run dog slow on "older hardware". We're talking new-ish microarchitecture, faster RAM, and SSDs, to keep things sane. This is just one anecdotal use case of course.

Though I'm curious as to what you mean by "unbearably slow", and what your toolchain is.

Perhaps I'm a simple creature, but running up stairs is one of the greatest pleasures in life ;-)

That is a rather lovely story, enjoyed it very much. Will most definitely be reading the entirety of CompellingSF.

What?! No power factor formula?

20% seems a bit high, now perhaps if it was "20% of the world's vacuums and Cat Antagonists" I might find that believable.

On a similar note, Zork I had a textual description of a sunset (being a text adventure) that, for whatever reason, I found massively peaceful.