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I wake up constantly and sleep very poorly, it's hard for me to sleep more than a couple of hours at a stretch, although I never have trouble falling back asleep. I just wake up a lot throughout the night.
I wake up tired every day. It is the trade-off, I think.
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And if there is one market Canonical wants to crack, it's that.
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bushel
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Internet sites do not technically count as "human interaction". Also, as long as I'm seen to be hunched over a keyboard, everyone thinks I'm getting things done.
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I don't know in which sense they are made up, but at least the part regarding lucid dreaming is somehow fair for me as i have personally tried it, what i liked in his book is how he explained it as quite a non-magic-mystic-bullshit as various religions and myths across the world try to explain these things.
When I was younger with less worries, I event went and tried to sleep in a lucid dream and I woke up in another one that was totally different and more "real" like.
Event this subject is somewhere in one of those books of his, i don't remember in which as there 9 years since I last read them.
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Sweet. You have no idea how cool it is to have anyone have enough interest in this to actually change any settings! I've showed this to friends and family and though they are supportive, mostly they are not too interested.
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If you manage to remember it, yes, you will keep it as a vivid memory with a lot of details as any real life memory.
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Makes sense because 64 is a power of 2.
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iongion
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I noticed even the contrary, after having some intense lucid dreams i wake up very well rested, really really fresh.
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Oh, sweet. I never tried it in Opera. I wonder what the speed is like.
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jobigoud
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Erm, [Boo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boo_%28programming_language%29) is a programming language.
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Mutating multiple characters at the same time greatly reduces the number of required iterations.
* One char, -1, 0 or +1 ascii-value: 3100 generations
* Two chars, -1, 0 or +1 assii-value: 1924 generations
* Three chars, -1, 0 or +1 ascii-values: 1734 generations
* Four chars, -1, 0 or +1 ascii-values: 1706 generations
* One char, between -4 and +4 ascii-values: 1459 generations
* two chars: between -4 and +4 ascii-values: 2122 generations
* Three chars, between -4 and +4 ascii-values: 4490 generations
I see some patterns here. I think you're right. I should whip up a an evolutionary algorithm to find optimum variable values for my evolution alrgorithm. :-P
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Raymond Chen is one of the most respected Microsoft employees and if he has taken the time to write this up, then it's a topic in need of clarification. The fact that there is a sentence that implies the correct behavior isn't enough in this case.
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>fucking up an established working iteration is painful, so it needs a cost associated.
So many employers and clients don't realize this, and they need to.
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I've done scrum for a number of years. I've done it at small developer shops and with big centers. Here is what I've learned.
1.) Your initial estimation process will seem pointless and full of crap. After maybe a few months of doing it, you will start to get good at your estimations. You need to hang in there until your velocity stabilizes and you get a sense for what the numbers actually mean.
2.) Finding the right sprint length is important. Too short, and you spend FAR too long in planning. Too long, and your team cannot change direction quickly. I would say that two weeks is a good compromise. Switch to one week as you're getting close to release time (if you have a definite release point) or just stick on the two week schedule.
3.) Use a SMALL set of numbers. 1-2-3-5-8 works well. If your numbers go all the way up to 100, you're not doing a story, you're doing a small project. BREAK THAT SHIT DOWN.
4.) Scrum is designed to create confidence in the product owner. Once the development team gets good at estimation, the product owner will be able to see exactly how much work he can get done in two weeks. This helps him know how much he can probably get done in a few months. Prediction isn't perfect, but its a not-bad way to determine how well things are going forward.
5.) Make sure you identify dependencies between stories. If you have a bunch of stories which depends on a single task, GET THAT DONE FIRST.
6.) You don't have to pair program, but limiting the number of stories "in progress" helps keep management aware of overall progress. You want to get "in progress" to "done" as fast as possible, and move to the next thing.
7.) Remember the Retro, and remember that you can change the process. Everything in Agile exists for a reason, so don't dismiss it until you try it, but be conscious of small things you can improve on.
8.) Use a distributed version control system. Git is fine. Too many people are doing too many things at once for you to possibly go centralized. Just trust me on this one.
9.) If you have a manager who always wants to change priorities two days after you commit to a sprint, a development team which does not write tests and which has no confidence in the build, and a product which does not DO SOMETHING upon which you create improvements, then I guarantee that you're going to fail. You cannot slap SCRUM on a broken process. You MUST pay off the technical debt, get some regression tests written every time you find a bug, and commit to the idea that you can only change directions once in a while.
10.) Do the planning poker. You get MUCH better estimations when everyone commits to the guess of a story without anchoring. Your developers WILL agree to the first number spoken just to get out of the meeting. People who say too much before everyone's dropped their number down should be shot with nerf guns.
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s73v3r
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>but the reality is the process doesn't work as well as they think because at the end of the day they typically want people to pull something out of their ass for nothing.
This is true. No methodology or process can cope with a manager setting unrealistic expectations.
>So before you even get out of the gate, AGILE fails because a developer cannot accurately tell anyone how long a particular feature might take them to make, especially if it's something obscure that they don't really use, or more importantly, maybe have never used.
Most developers could give somewhat decent estimates, that usually have a lot of time built in for learning that stuff. Otherwise, someone who does have experience should be doing it.
>Notice, 2/3 out of the roles on that list have nothing to do with programming or software development. It's a process created to give worthless, meaningless people a couple of jobs in saying "THIS IS WHAT THE BUSINESS NEEDS!"
So the Client has nothing to do with software development? Interesting. How about the Project Manager? Software development is far, far, far more than just typing out code.
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iongion
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It seems that you achieved a very well detachment from dream surprises that allow you to take control of the dream easily.
I might ask you about afternoon-naps, if you remember dreaming lucid dreams, but while still aware of what is happening near you.
I had dreams during nap, while still aware, but never lucid dreams.
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grauenwolf
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And how many of those projects were estimated by the people actually doing the work?
How many had cost overruns because of changing requirements as opposed to bad estimates?
How many had good estimates which were later revised when the customer complained?
Accurately estimating projects is possible, but just like estimating tasks it requires a lot of experience with building the same type of project over and over again.
> Maybe time estimation is a skill that isn't taught correctly?
I agree, but using "story points" instead of hours and days isn't the solution.
You need to do it like they do in the auto repair industry. Create a big book of common tasks and track how long each takes. Then when someone wants another widget report open up the book and see how long it is supposed to take.
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To be honest this paper only confirms my experience. They started with an artificial problem designed to work well with GAs, yet the randomized hill climbing outperformed the GA by a factor of 10! Then they tried to devise new artificial problems where the GA would win. This wasn't even a trivial task, and in the end the GA outperformed the randomized hill climber only by a factor of 2.
If you have to think so hard that you can publish a paper on it to make up an artificial problem where your algorithm works I don't have much hope for it.
> the the number of crossover points for each pair of parents was selected from a Poisson distribution with mean 2.816
Seriously? They optimized the heck out of the parameters of the GA, which they didn't do for the hill climber. I bet that if you did the same for the hill climber that it would outperform the GA even on this problem that was specifically designed for letting a GA beat a hill climber.
Furthermore they measure the number of fitness function evaluations and not the performance of the complete algorithm. The overhead of a GA is going to be significantly higher than that of a hill climber.
The abstract is incredibly misleading.
> We analyze a simple hill-climbing algorithm (RMHC) that was previously shown to outperform a genetic algorithm (GA) on a simple Royal Road function. We then analyze an idealized genetic algorithm (IGA) that is signi cantly faster than RMHC and that gives a lower bound for GA speed. We identify the features of the IGA that give rise to this speedup, and discuss how these features can be incorporated into a real GA.
First, they compare the IGA to RHMC and say it is significantly faster. This is bullshit because IGA is not even a real algorithm. IGA assumes special knowledge about the solution and is in effect cheating. It cannot be used to solve a practical problem. It's like comparing to a hill climber that magically chooses the right bits to mutate. Is it going to outperform other algorithms? Well duh.
Also, they say "[we] discuss how these features can be incorporated into a real GA". This makes it sound like they are devising a new algorithm that outperforms RMHC, when in fact they are not changing the algorithm but they are changing the fitness landscape (i.e. the problem to be solved).
I'm sorry to be so harsh but this paper is written to promote somebody's pet algorithm and fails completely. Designing the problem to suit your algorithm => fail. Fail at designing such a problem => double fail.
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>So you're making the claim that the Netherlands doesn't have as many low quality schools as the US
Not really. My claim is just that I personally haven't seen the kind of distinction between Java schools and C++ schools that was mentioned.
>The US has people from a variety of backgrounds, some are better at school than others, and so our educational system accommodates this.
Don't forget that Amsterdam in particular has people from many, many backgrounds. Less than 50% is 'native' (what native really means is also not always clear, since Amsterdam historically has always had many immigrants).
What I did notice though is that in The Netherlands and Germany people don't actually mention the university where they have obtained their degree a lot. People just say they have e.g. an MSc Computer Science and that's it. In the US it seems to be much more common to add the specific university. This may be indicative of a greater difference in quality.
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Nice job - too bad Darwin isn't available for consultation. Lowering the gravity makes some of the worms look like lunar acrobats. I have to play with and think about the "genetics" a bit more.
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Thanks, this is very valuable! I'll be reading up on Evolutionary Algorithms in the next few days. Your comment provides some valuable insight. I'm just one those people who wants to do everything from scratch without having read anything about it, just to see what problems I run into. Believe me, writing an interpreted programming language *completely* from scratch (tokenizer, parser, virtual machine, etc) took me quite some time :-D
One question:
> By keeping the "fittest" string or chromosome in the gene pool is called: Elitism.
Does that mean only the top-two? Is there a term for selection like I'm doing it? (Strong bias towards fitter strings, but still allow less fit strings?)
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If you don't know anything about that module, why are you the one working on it? While it's good to spread expertise around, if something needs to get finished, wouldn't everyone be better off having someone who does know about the module work on it? Obvious exceptions for the case where the people who knew the module are no longer with the company.
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Not to mention that you find yourself talking like an attorney, adding caveats and digressions to everything you say because you're trying to be so precise. But you'll still get a lot of this:
You: "Subsystem X performs 200% faster under the precise conditions Y and Z, as long as you keep parameter A within values B to C."
Boss hears: "X is 500% faster, alert the marketing department"
Marketing says: "New product is over 9000 times faster!"
Customer, after paying: "Your product isn't 9000 times faster."
Marketing and your boss get together and decide you broke everything.
And scene.
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Wow, that is so incredibly wrong.
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Aside from day dreams, which don't count since I'm not asleep, I've never had awareness of the outside world while dreaming. At best I've had day dreams carry over into full dreams when I was sleepier than I realized, but in all cases the outside world always goes away when I go to sleep.
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s73v3r
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And them ignoring the information early on is a very clear signal to brush up your CV.
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ok but why the constant reposts ?
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/search?q=lsdbase
those are just the recent ones
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Ali3nation
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Have you heard about [this](http://www.sleepstreamonline.com/)?
It's a very similar process
You should also check out [this](http://thirdproductions.com/lucidity.html)
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* when will you be finished with x?
* i'm not sure, we have to work out y and z, which may or may not be easy. have you heard of the [cone of uncertainty](https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Cone_of_Uncertainty)?
* yeah, yeah - cones. so how long?
* between two weeks and five years
* (one week later) - you said x would be finished by now
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>If it was not it's YOUR job to say NO.
And then it's his boss' job to say "Do it or you're fired."
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I can vouch for [Modern Information Retrieval](http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hearst/irbook/) by Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, which seems to be a mandatory reading in my Masters course as a follow up on the (excellent) book you're already reading. I would advice to finish Introduction to Information Retrieval first (mostly because the maths in it is self-contained and easy to pick up) though, because Modern IR overlaps on some of the topics and extends others (like Multimedia IR, Interactive IR or Enterprise Search).
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Conversely, highly competent people really do not need the latest fad methodology. These methodologies are created to try to get higher quality out of less competent people and they never work.
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You're assuming they actually listen. Most don't, and many will also believe that making the coders stay long hours and weekends will fix things.
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nwmcsween
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Z is formal specifications not general specifications, understand things before commenting
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What evidence do you have for that?
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I do agree with you. Or I think I should provide two different tutorials, one that is shallow and where its main purpose is to show that really, Vim is not that hard. The more extensive tutorial should be as you described; one could practice the limited set of commands without straight-jacket but still progress in linear fashion.
I think there is need for both; it depends how much the user has already bought the Vim hype (and is the user really interested in learning, or just verifying that she is not interested; that's valuable, too).
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Thanks, dude! If only I finished this 130 years earlier, I could have sent him a letter all about it. Yeah, when you lower the gravity, the torque in their joints is so powerful it flips them all over the place and they go crazy.
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Whelan and Boeing have been overridden in 1992 and again in 1994 by more interesting cases; since then, there have been several more that use more advanced tests to determine whether infringement occured. It's a bit deeper than just "little tweaks" to the "general structure" and copying "from memory".
Again. I can recreate any software method using any structure. I don't have to look at a piece of software's inner workings to copy the software's methods. You're missing the point that those methods, in many cases, are patentable technologies independent of any copyright protection.
Just thank patents the next time you get an MRI or CT scan, that the inventors of the software technologies involved in making 3D images of the inside of your body got paid for it, even though Philips and GE immediately "copied" their methods to bring their products to market first.
Finally, patents do not grant a monopoly on any work. Please try reading blogs with some degree of critical thought instead of just repeating their buzzwords.
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I think Paul Simon said it best: a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. Do doo dooooh la di dee la di dah.
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The title should be "Python and Flask on Heroku".
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You might want to use '-' for commands, like so:
boo -mv ...
boo -rm ...
Right now you put commands and keys in a single namespace. This means you can't have a key named 'mv' or 'rm', which isn't a big problem. And also that you once you have first users you can't safely add new commands, because their names might collide with a keys somebody uses, which can be a pretty huge problem imo.
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But now we come back to my original point. Yes, accurately estimating projects *is* possible, but given all these other factors you mention, how *useful* is it to the project at the end of the day? Especially when there are so many factors that arise during development that can skew the estimate, and especially when time estimates can be used as a tool by management to browbeat developers when the inevitable happens.
> You need to do it like they do in the auto repair industry
But that's the problem. You can't treat software development that way. People have tried to "industrialize" software using "[taylorisms](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_and_motion_study)" for the past 20 years and have failed miserably. This is fundamentally because software development is an intellectual process not a physical process. Software development is more like designing the car than fixing it.
> using "story points" instead of hours and days isn't the solution
It isn't *the* solution. But does it work? We do know that industrial methods *do not*.
EDIT: I should mention, you don't use "story points" in isolation. You also have velocity, sprints and Feature Box/Time Box. The "story point" is a factor combined with "velocity" to derive estimated time. So the "time estimate" dynamically changes with the actual velocity.
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Great article, but...
> Essentially: start encouraging your Organizers to confront as early on as possible that the work that needs to get done may not fit in the time available.
Isn't that what Agile/Scrum's supposed to do? I couldn't help but come with the take-way that the article was basically saying Agile/Scrum implemented poorly will end horribly. Not a huge surprise. As I understand the Agile process, the whole idea of using sprint iterations and frequent milestone/deliverables is specifically to deal with the inevitability of feature and scope creep. It seems like that if your development process doesn't acknowledge (or tries to hide) the fact that increasing scope will affect the delivery schedule, you're going to be royally fucked no matter what methodology you use.
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Bash is one of the many faces of Unix; you put things in, shit comes out. It doesn't *really* do much legwork (unless you're doing it wrong), but it's how you most often recognize le *nix.
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Thanks for the reply. First, I don't mean to take anything away from what you've made. I don't think I could do it!
I've read a lot of discussion on the subject of text editors and the general feeling I get is that if a person doesn't NEED to use an editor like vim, they will *in general* never learn how to use it to its potential. If you do need it, or genuinely think it will help you, then the tutorials built into vim are probably everything you need.
Less capable programmers are less likely to find the advanced features of vim understandable and useful, but more capable ones will find a less cushy tutorial satisfactory. That's all I'm saying, and it's not like it's black and white or anything.
I hope it helps people. Everyone should give vim a real try.
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You enter a keyword in insert mode and press tab. In most cases it is the first word of what you want, e.g. class<tab> will expand to a class declaration, for to a for loop etc.
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Beautiful. And the view is amazing.
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Competent manager? No such thing. :-P
I have actually worked with competent managers. In fact, I've been in a company where 9 out of 10 managers where competent. Unfortunately, it takes only that last single one incompetent one to fuck everything up.
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thats sad to hear but you shouldnt get to emotionaly attached imo, its still just a dream
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Then you get told, "That is not Agile!" A requirement in Agileland is something like, "As a user I want the system to launch the Space Shuttle." If pushed someone might add a couple more lines ("Space Shuttle will start on Earth and end up in space"), but you might as well write the requirements yourself at that point. Oh yeah, please be done in one sprint.
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We do fully support Django, we simply highlighted Flask as the simplest example to get an application running. You can see a full guide to getting started with Django at:
http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/django
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This guy is clearly marketing the device he is using.
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But vim has autocomplete, file compilation and live templates. Most of the time people criticize Vim as being an "ancient" editor is because they haven't even begun to scratch the surface of how powerful it is. Further: don't confuse vi and vim, they're two separate beasts.
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Jengu
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I don't think anything has really been integrated here. You can line for line replace what he wrote with almost equal length commands.
echo http://www.imgur.com/whatever > ~/store/funny-picture # to save
cat ~/store/funny-picture | xclip # to copy to clipboard
And if you want the interface he presented you can write a 10 line shell function that will handle it. He wrote 113 lines of Python ;p
OK, I have to spare him a little slack, his works on Windows from cmd.exe. If you don't want craptasticness though, you're going to install cygwin, in which case you can use the shell script. Only part you might want to keep is the part abstracting the clipboard -- make it do the mac/windows stuff on those platforms and then fallback to xclip.
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But how do we know which sexual pleasures are the forbidden ones?
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How do you feel about your work being wasted now that REM have split up?
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I just built an algorithm in Javascript inspired by this experiment.
With a target string that's 38 characters long, the process takes between 1300 and 1800 generations. However I'm only allowing spaces and lowercase letters, so I could see how it could take *much* longer.
With each generation I shift a single character left or right in the alphabet and use the score of the string to determine whether it's an improvement. I didn't need to do any squaring of the score -- I'll have to play with that to see why it's a good idea.
Fun experiment. I've never done evolutionary programming of any sort before. Seeing it work is magical.
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The psychology of the two things is very different. A Sudoku solver means you've beaten all Sudoku ever and never need to do one again. A puzzle generator is just adding to the problem.
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> Fuzzy Testing: to root out bugs by testing our assumptions
Isn't that basically what QuickCheck does, by generating utterly random test cases to make sure properties hold? Or am I missing something?
EDIT: nvm, i think swiz0r below had it correct, and matthieum was just listing both cases to be thorough (and not saying QC isn't fuzz testing.) Ignore this comment, carry on.
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Unfortunately people seem to be becoming more mediocre over time.
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Oh wow. I'll have to check that out. By default, if the browser is chrome I set it to full rendering and with any other browser I set it to wire, because it was slower on firefox and IE 9. Thanks for the info.
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oneiria
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How are you sensing sleep stages (REM in particular)?
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I had many levels of recursive dreaming, each was a "realistic" dream in that nothing was out of the ordinary, work, life, etc.
I would wake up, think "wow, that was odd" and then go about my business of dressing, breakfast, work, go to sleep etc and thenI would wake up, think "wow, that was odd" and then go about my business of dressing, breakfast, work, go to sleep etc and then I would wake up, think "wow, that was odd" and then go about my business of dressing, breakfast, work, go to sleep etc and then I would wake up, think "wow, that was odd" and then go about my business of dressing, breakfast, work, go to sleep etc and then I would wake up, think "wow, that was odd" and then go about my business of dressing, breakfast, work, go to sleep etc... (actually that copy paste is a bit off, the jarring thing was "waking up" mid activity at work, or breakfast, dinner, etc, the point is that the dream was comprehensively boring normal day stuff)
After the first few iterations I started to get concerned about it, but couldn't do any lucid tricks, or attempt anything out of the ordinary because the dreams were so realistic, what /this/ was the real life one and not a dream.
The whole experience really made me question reality, and a feeling of displacement persisted for months. This happened almost 8 years ago, and I still question reality all the time. If you dream "accurately" enough, there is _no_ way to tell the difference...until you wake up. But after waking up after waking up after waking up (repeat) it really twists your perspective on things. I could go on for a long time about the strangeness of it all.
It is really hard to explain to people what intense or very lucid dreams are like, I happen to have very active dreams, just my physiology. Sleep walking, sleep talking, sleep paralysis, the old hag, recursive dreams, night terrors, completely lucid dreaming.
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Looking Glass went belly a long time ago, so the risk is pretty small :)
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I was thinking in terms of like collaboration between programmers. What if you could have a central key store that hosts a bunch of programming 1 liners, or some useful programming snippets. That would be interesting. I'll list two ways to implement this, and they're not mutually exclusive:
* Simplest way: Allow for customization of the location of the .boom file to any specified URI. This solves 2 problems, 1) I can move the .boom to my Dropbox folder, and have the .boom sync'd between my multiple machines, 2) I can host the .boom file on a web server and tell my programming team that they can grab cool programming snippets from that location. It would be read-only once it's up on the server, and it would be up to me to synch my local .boom to the HTTP server's .boom.
* Write a boo server that accepts connections from a whitelisted set of users. The scheme used to handle editing/preventing unexpected overwrites may be a challenge. Of course you could just do straight overwrites (last write wins) which would be acceptable if you had a key version history, or if the stuff you're storing isn't *that* important. You could also do a locking thing where editing a key puts you into an interactive prompt in which you examine the latest value of the key, ensure that's the value you expected, and then enter the new value -- while that is going on, nobody can enter into the "edit mode" for that key. Another possibility is if you do key versioning, before you write to a key you can check if the local version of the key is behind that of the server, which would prevent unwanted overwrites more transparently, although this implies that boo would keep a locally cached set of keys from the server and introduces issues in keeping in sync with the server, as you'd always want the latest values from the server. These are just possibilities off the top of my head, there's probably a smarter way to do it.
Edit: clarity
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I don't think that totem stuff would work. My only clues to lucid dreaming have only ever been "characters" in dreams saying or doing things I've known to be contradictory to "reality", or physics of other objects or nature being off. I'm pretty sure if I had a "totem" in a dream, it'd behave exactly as it did in "reality".
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[Original Thread](http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/fq2sf/api_for_facebook_social_graphjust_came_up_with_a/)
I guess it is a good thing I never spent much time on it...
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May I suggest [KLF - Chillout](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S_lktstwrs)?
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C++ is ass. Enjoy your segfaults.
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True, but if I'm going to import .nanorc I might as well import .vimrc. And when I'm using someone elses server and they don't have a .nanorc I get messed up. But if they don't have a .vimrc it just isn't as pretty but it works as expected. For me vi is the path of least resistance once you learn how to use it. Nano is easier to use the first day but a year later you might mess up because you rely on your own environment.
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Ooh. That would fix my only real complaint against REBOL: Performance. (Rather, its comical lack thereof.)
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> A requirement in Agileland is something like, "As a user I want the system to launch the Space Shuttle."
That hasn't been my experience. Normally they've tacked together an example screenshot demonstrating the color, font, size, position, and graphic for the "Launch Space Shuttle!!" button.
> Then you get told, "That is not Agile!"
To which I reply:
"That's exactly right; my method isn't agile. If you want somebody to do it the agile way, you're free to find somebody else to do it that way.
You're the one who needs me to build your software (and I'm happy to do so because I like to build software). I cannot work off of half-baked requirements documents.
Why should I spend my time and my team's time working on your project if you won't spend your own time on it?"
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I gave Opa a look.... Until I found out it's AGPL.
I understand, but no. No way. Not for my projects.
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Yeah, no response from server. kept timing out, "the reddit effect" :) works now though
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ThunderMuff
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Why not store all your server IPs in /etc/hosts?
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forcedtoregister
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Enjoy attempting to write fast code in a language that isn't C/C++/FORTRAN.
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el_chief
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isn't it bad to get awoken during REM sleep? are you slowly losing your mind?
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Now you are not a team player. Enjoy unemployment after the next round of layoffs. These layoffs are in no way connected to our development practices.
They do not have the time to spend on the project because they are busy putting out fires from the last set of bad decisions.
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greyfade
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No, I'd say it's more like the Miller High Life of programming languages. The PBR would be more like Perl.
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ivquatch
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.Net devs, how about some upboats for F#!
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FuckingLoveCamelCase
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He's also writing a JIT-compiler for the more dynamic dialects, so performance should be much better all-over.
REBOL always looked really cool, but I never bothered learning it because of the closedness of the platform. What would be a good place to get started?
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alekseykorzun
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If they got removed due to a hot fix, next sprint should account for that and allow more time to be dedicated to items that were pushed out.
And if you have a repetitive cycle when you have hot fixes going out and messing up sprints, it's time to either have a dedicated person to handle hot fixes or increase duration of your sprints.
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Unmitigated_Smut
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as _little_
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That looks helpful, but I often wonder why not just use an IDE if you want IDE features.
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>Whelan and Boeing have been overridden in 1992 and again in 1994 by more interesting case
Why not actually list them? It seems odd that the basic mechanism of copyright had been usurped without anyone being told.
>I can recreate any software method using any structure. I don't have to look at a piece of software's inner workings to copy the software's methods.
Again, you are talking from a monopolistic viewpoint, trying to upgrade your terminology from "software" to a "software method" (e.g. like a patent method). No, you can't have a monopoly on software any more than you can have a monopoly on a book plot.
>You're missing the point that those methods, in many cases, are patentable technologies independent of any copyright protection.
What I'm *not* missing is that the US is the outlier in this regard. Most countries do *not* allow patents on computer software because they *do not want* to allow a monopoly over the basic mechanisms of writing software. It would hamstring software development in the same way that, say, a patent on all sentences that don't end in a preposition would ruin book writing.
Patenting does not encourage innovation, it simply increases the workload in having to find necessary workarounds to avoid patented methods. Licensing is not an option. If all possible workarounds are patented, it shuts down that entire area of endeavor.
>Finally, patents do not grant a monopoly on any work
Tell that to John Carmack who, completely independently, came up with a fast way of calculating shadow volumes in 2000, and learned in 2002 that someone else had solved the same problem he had, but had started the patent application in 1998. Thus they wrest ownership of his own toil away from him, with no benefit to him despite making the same exertions.
Tell that to the rent seeking Forgent Networks, who hid a patent that could apply to JPEG decoding, knowing that if anyone discovered the format was patented, nobody would use it, but they happily demanded millions after the format had become popular. JPEG-ARI is known to be patented and thus nobody used it despite the fact it would save them up to 10% space, losslessly! JPEG2000 has the same problem - nobody wants to use it because it *may* be patent encumbered and JPEG can't say for sure. No point trying to popularise a format if all it does is enrich someone else. This is why PNG was invented to replace the patent encumbered GIF. Patents are a huge blow to interoperability. Copyright has an exemption for interoperability (e.g. to be able to load and save the MS Word document format in your own word processor, you can look at Microsoft's code if their format spec isn't fully forthcoming), but patents destroy that. If an aspect of a format is patent encumbered, you simply cannot implement any interoperable reader/writer and call it your own.
Tell it to Oracle v Google, where Oracle attempts to assert it has complete ownership of Google's independent reinvention of the Java VM, yet the [patents its asserts](http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110823105337649) had 91.67% of their independent and 79.22% of their dependant claims *rejected* after reexamination.
Imagine what it would be like if any [real software innovations](http://www.dwheeler.com/innovation/innovation.html) had actually been patented. No compilers. No databases. No internet. Computers would be little more than expensive paperweights. Only thanks to the groundwork done *without* software patents are monopolists able to bring such daring innovations as XORing a cursor.
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We would, but we can't find the command for that
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I just got a great motion on the ring creature by increasing the number of segments slightly and lowering the gravity to 100. It resembled underwater micro organisms.
I love how natural looking the movements become after a dozen or so generations.
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Whisper
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API author here. No excuse for lack of clarity in function names or classes. Your users have other shit to do than read your crap documentation, like solve the actual problem they're coding for.
A tool that you have to understand use of is fine. A tool that you must understand the internals of is a bad tool.
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I love dreams where I can fly. I noticed that in order to so, I first must realize I’m in a dream. Then I focus on a desire to fly. Once off the ground, I must maintain that focus throughout entire time I’m flying or I fall. The sensation is very strange, a mix of strong wish with power of will.
I think my first realization of being in the dream came in one of my childhood sleep paralyses. I’ve noticed that I am aware of surroundings (seeing people walking, sounds) and being unable to control anything but my breath. Thru that came attempts to wake myself up or make a noise by increasing breath depth and intervals. That gave control. Having recurring dreams helped as well, I think.
At some point I had a nightmare (something to do with witnessing nuclear explosion, war, and later being chased by some form of mummified zombies through the basements of ruined buildings) where I realized it’s a dream and the only option to escape was to fly.
Now all it takes to fly is to get a lucid dream and I’m off the ground. However, as I age I get fewer and fewer of those to my dismay.
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NancyGracesTesticles
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I've been a lucid dreamer for as long as I remember. True about the nightmare thing. Although I think my brain compensated by giving me night terrors. So I know I'm awake, I'm sitting in bed, the dream is going on around me and I would be looking at my dad telling me to stop screaming.
They are supposed to reduce in frequency and intensity as you age. Although I'm pushing forty and I still have two or three a year. My wife is a big fan. Big fan.
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Hm, strange. I've got monitoring set up which should have caught that. Hasn't reported any problems though. Thanks for the info! I'll have a look at the logs later on.
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NruJaC
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*fuck*
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s/quip/quibble/
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Fuck that explains some of the weird tweets with #rem in them.
I thought they were just listening to them.
I live under a reddit rock. ಠ_ಠ
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zedadex
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> It is important to write code that is easy to use right, hard to use wrong. This minimizes the amount of time people have to spend reading documentation and trying to decipher how you intended them to use your code.
This. I felt like I was having an aneurysm out of the sheer stupidity as the guy gleefully described how *silly* it was to even *think* of using WM_DESTROY, compared to the *obvious* necessity of using DESTROYWINDOW, as he was explaining the roundabout logic of how these functions work.
The "MakeWorkerGoAway" function made me facepalm.
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dbilenkin
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Interesting. I never messed with the gravity on the ring creatures. They were my father's idea. He was curious if they would evolve to roll, and sure enough they did.
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