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by 6ren 13y ago
The "whole problem" doesn't mean "every problem". It means taking a step back and seeing what the user is really trying to accomplish, and everything that is needed for that problem to be solved - as opposed to my
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by 6ren 13y ago
I love approaches like this: instead of butting your head against the same limits, look at the whole problem, find a re-frame the problem with a new trade-off that actually the whole problem. Arguably, this is what Clayton Christensen is ta
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by 6ren 13y ago
Oh dear, you and nullc are right, and I am wrong. My apologies. This patent was granted, and so they do have a patent for claim 1 (and also for the other claims). I was confusing it with a patent application. It's surprising to me tha
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by 6ren 13y ago
Patent claims usually begin with the broadest claim possible, then narrow it in following claims. If the first is found invalid, the other claims may still succeed. Thus, it makes no sense for the first claim to be certain to stand on its
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by 6ren 13y ago
you can do it, but I've found in some cases that modifying patches (including "e") becomes more complex than stating the desired result directly.
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by 6ren 13y ago
I've found I switch fairly easily between browser-style editing (like here) and vim. Sometimes I forget, and have a few moments of perplexity, and then I'm OK. Maybe it's different for other programming editors (as opposed
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by 6ren 13y ago
I find the problem with git add -p is when you have changes that are overlapping - e.g. you've tried a few variations of implementing something, that have many commonalities - but sadly you didn't commit them as you went along
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by 6ren 13y ago
It's a cute argument, based on the number of universe simulations - if there are heaps of them, the odds are ours is one. But this argument misses something - what about the number of people being simulated? If there are many more th
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by 6ren 13y ago
Haskellers are single because you're not my type
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by 6ren 13y ago
±10% is almost nothing... OTOH, maybe I could do XSLT, if I just took some nausea pills... PS: I actually think XSLT is a brilliant application of some cool ideas - putting them to work in (e.g.) grammar compatibility, it's just, like
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by 6ren 13y ago
I always get messed up with these types of UIs. They look so intuitive, but when I try to click-and-drag, it doesn't work, and I can't figure out why. I finally realise you just click - which is a quicker and less tiring mechanism
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by 6ren 13y ago
Thanks, yes, he's clearer in the technical section, p.28. (I hadn't read the whole thing.) 4.2.3. Pylons and Tunnels The tube will be supported by pillars which constrain the tube in the vertical direction but allow long
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by 6ren 13y ago
I think there is an inconsistency in the proposal, because he clearly mentioned cumulative expansion (page 5 of the pdf https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.spacex.com/sit... ): A telescoping tube
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by 6ren 13y ago
Nice to think, but no, they needed each other. It's not just the skillsets that differ. But the perspective, the model you build up of reality, which details you attend to. A person - even a genius - only has so much bandwidth, and i
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by 6ren 13y ago
1. if Notch had your perfectionistic attitude, he wouldn't have released anything - so, no minecraft. Also, Elon Musk wouldn't have had three rocket disasters - no SpaceX. And Mark Zuckerberg certainly wouldn't have began T
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by 6ren 13y ago
Weirdly, the pricing calculator doesn't appear on the linked page - but it does on the pricing page. (using FF 20, ubuntu) I think some people might like plan limits, to cap their costs (so they don't accidentally run up a huge bi
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by 6ren 13y ago
So, it's not actually JS in silicon (would that add much performance anyway, since JS is so dynamic? at best it would be asm.js-like, I'd guess...), but a supported language for an embedded device. I had a ghastly bizarro moment t
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by 6ren 13y ago
Yes, I read that bit. Your objection seemed to be about the comparison with an older version of gcc, and I was noting why that comparison was legitimate, for them. EDIT Ah, I see how: you're talking about clang's website, where
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by 6ren 13y ago
Hyperloop simulates stratospheric flight. But its electric jet engine doesn't propel, but prevents syringe-like air build-up.
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by 6ren 13y ago
gcc 4.2.1 was the last version to use GPLv2. Later versions switched to GPLv3, which the BSD guys couldn't swallow. From skimming the answer, I think it's pretty clear that the switch wasn't due to technical reasons, but that
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by 6ren 13y ago
The air cushion isolates the entire vehicle... perhaps making the "unsprung" weight 0?
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by 6ren 13y ago
Ah! Note that the pods are far lighter than trains, being more like a lightweight aircraft. This would reduce the effect considerably.
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by 6ren 13y ago
The pod is basically flying. Although its weight of course is still ultimately borne by the pythons, perhaps it's mushed out and dampened in a way that reduces the ground-boom effect? But it sounds like one of the (many) bugs that must
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Hyperloop not patented(treehugger.com)
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by 6ren 13y ago
Radim is right. I actually tried a couple of other forms ("and" and ","), but they seemed worse. Challenge: can you demonstrate a better way? I think the problem is not syntax but semantics: two unusual facts beg connect
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by 6ren 13y ago
FP is the future of software engineering, and always will be.
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by 6ren 13y ago
approaching Poe's Law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
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by 6ren 13y ago
There's a translation of Gödel's paper linked via his wikipedia entries https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.research.ibm.c... [google docs viewer] curious facts: he died of starvation; he was
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by 6ren 13y ago
Nice point! I guess we could posit some trainer-signals amid the mash. A civilisation's technology just has to be advanced enough to work them out...
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by 6ren 13y ago
They are point to point. There's just so many, billions more than the number of stars (imagine cell phones radiating point to point), and even alien technology can't prevent beam-spread over billions of light years (another assump

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