MediaCrossing, Inc. is hiring a full time Senior Data Engineer/Data Architect.
The position is in Stamford, CT, or full-time remote. Several members of the engineering team are working remotely in Boston, MA, others are based in Europe.
MediaCrossing is a leading independent digital media trading company based in the world’s alternative trading capital, Fairfield County, Connecticut. The company is an important innovator in a new global tradable asset class, Digital Media Advertising. We combine a world-class engineering team with deeply experienced, productive delivery and business development teams.
Are you referring to skiing? Tribes is an interesting example of a "hack" that completely re-invents the game (in most people's opinions, for the better).
For those not familiar, a bit of gaming history:
Tribes is a FPS where the players have jetpacks and can fly around in the air. The jetpacks have limited energy, so players ended up having to spend a lot of time on the ground too. One particularly innovative aspects of Tribes was it's expansive maps. It was like a Battlefield game, but 5 years earlier. By only running and jetting, it could take minutes to get across a map, which is important considering the primary objective of the game was to move the opposing team's flag from side of the map to your team's side.
The hack was: players discovered that jumping at the instant the player lands on downhill surface caused them to accelerate in the downhill direction. Mashing repeatedly on the jump key going down a large hill would cause the player to accelerate all the way down the hill, as if there was no friction with the ground (hence "skiing"). Someone wrote a script that automated this act so all a player had to do was hold down the jump button instead of pressing it repeatedly.
This bug completely re-invented the game into something no one imagined it would be. Many players embraced it, I am sure some did not. It added a layer of complexity and made the game addictively fast paced (with skill you could now get across a map in seconds). The competitive community embraced the new style of play and the developers had no choice but to not patch the bug. This bug arguably became the defining gameplay aspect of Tribes.
The lesson? As mentioned here many times, the users are what make your product special. Sometimes they will invent uses for it you never imagined :)
No, skiing was awesome, and we were, frankly, some of the pioneers (it only worked on some keyboards, I had to buy a new one). I'm talking about the aiming scripts and when guys started walking through walls. Most of the base servers were later patched, but for a while they were hard to find.
I fell into this trap too. I got a stress fracture on my shin from a tendon pulling on that area much more than the bone was used to. It took months to heal.
The feet are a complex tangle of muscle, bones, tendons, and nerves. They doesn't respond to increases in stress as well a muscle would. Bones and tendons can need months or even years to build up the strength to handle the stress of serious running barefoot. People who try this should ease into it slowly. Like over weeks or preferably, months.
Conveniently, I started wearing the Vibrams just for walking around in (because they're really comfortable), and did that for 6-ish months before I started running. This has resulted in a distinct lack of any health problems.
I can see how it would be really easy for someone who was actively running when they got the shoes to just go do their normal routine the first day they wore them and utterly destroy something.
If you are already a runner I could see this being the case, e.g. you put on a pair of "barefoot" shoes and then do your normal 10 miles run or whatever.
I tried to take up running last year. I bought a pair of Vivo Barefoot shoes, and thought they were great. Since I was just starting out I couldn't go more than a few hundred yards without taking breaks to walk. I eventually worked my way up to about 5 miles with a few moderate hills in the route, and never had any trouble with pain or injury.
I never grew to enjoy running however, it was always a chore and while I was doing it my mind was always racing with thoughts of other things I could be getting done if I wasn't running. I didn't feel any better, I didn't have more energy during the day, and I didn't sleep any better, so eventually I stopped.
I wear minimal shoes exclusively for walking also and it took two years for running to be really comfortable.
I am also not a serious runner at all. I think if you go into this with good fitness and expect to see your old performance soon it is very dangerous
It looks like the GoPro and the remnants of the balloon helped it. The extra mass of the GroPro body allowed it to fall flat with the camera and ballon allowing it to spin on it's way down, like a maple seed. Also it looks like it landed on the aluminum side facing down with GroPro body hitting the ground first.
Coincidentally, preparing for my compilers class this semester, I was just wondering if it would be easier to write in Python instead of SML, which the class uses. I was just looking into PLY while googling around. Really cool that Beazley would do this, although for purely selfish reasons I wish he would release the material sooner :p
The page mentions "This is an experimental course that will probably have some bugs and kinks. It may or may not be related to the plenary talk I'm giving at PyCon'2012 (wink ;-)". So there are hopefully going to be slides at some point.
As a programmer, would I choose to be a member of a community based on open and free information, one where contributions are open to all of humanity, or a community built to feed the bottom line of a large corporation?
Especially considering large profits are possible with with both, why would I choose the latter?
Many non-OSS software programs have a huge community to help developers/users/admins. MSSQL is a good example. You pay for development, support and documentation in addition to lining Redmonds pockets.
In the enterprise the cost of software is a small portion of expenses compared to the cost of developers. For a startup or smaller business, things can be different. But there are large chucks of the software development universe where there aren't OSS solutions, nobody wants to donate their time to do the grunge work.
I couldn't finish reading this either. It was too disturbing.
Before anyone jumps to vilify the China or the Chinese for this, remember that these kinds of evils have historically been perpetuated by all people in the past or presently. This story is a chilling reminder: people are still belligerent, tribal animals, no matter how advanced our culture or technology.
