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by AimHere 13y ago
If I recall the introduction correctly, the lectures were kindof a failed pedagogical experiment because of this - it worked well for the best students, but the mediocre/worse students did a fair amount worse than in previous years. I
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by AimHere 13y ago
It's also the case in the UK. What makes you think I was thinking of US libel law? I'm not American
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by AimHere 13y ago
Defaming a third party by telephone would more likely be slander than libel, but it's certainly not clear that what went on here would be defamation at all. A defamatory statement must be a false factual allegation. As long as what the
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by AimHere 13y ago
No need to bother. SO is pretty notorious for shutting down threads at the merest hint that the discussion isn't in line with their remit, which is that of collaboratively solving specific programming problems. I'm guessing most o
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by AimHere 13y ago
If it's a 'blatant' smear, what would be it's agenda? The main thing anyone could take from this is that the NSA's systems are broken or that they're incompetent and can't be trusted to know who's ste
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by AimHere 13y ago
A hypothetical second Snowden wouldn't really know what files the first Snowden is leaking though.
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by AimHere 13y ago
>We know that the UK government has just gotten hold of these documents, but we don't know whether there's anyone sympathetic to the cause mixed in there. It's likely the leaker is unsympathetic to the cause. Leaking opera
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by AimHere 13y ago
>they generally do significant good just as a sitting deterrent. ... to other soldiers. And the same logic dictates that everyone involved in the whole dismal advertising industry does significant necessary good works by offering their c
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by AimHere 13y ago
Eben Moglen is also not there - sure he's now a Stallman collaborator and involved with the FSF, but he is 'just' a lawyer and/or law professor - yet in one of his earliest contacts with RMS, he apparently already claime
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by AimHere 13y ago
Dota2 hasn't even been released yet. People are still playing a test version. It's still possible (though unlikely) for a simultaneous Windows/Mac/Linux release!
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by AimHere 14y ago
Oops yes. I see that now. I told you I was rusty!
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by AimHere 14y ago
I think it's not (a) There's a line in that proof saying r=min{a,b}; normally I take that to mean r is the minimum of a and b (which makes the proof wrong, since not all metric spaces have obvious orderings on their elements. Spaces like th
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by AimHere 14y ago
Linux- and Mac-native ports, a forthcoming gamey 'career mode', and the ability to send up multiple spacecraft to dock with each other and do all sorts of concurrent space-stuff (Orbiter might have this by now, it's while since I looked at
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by AimHere 14y ago
The author claims that doom3 is beautiful because it has minimal comments. Doom3 is heavily commented as evidenced by both Fabian Sangard's review (linked to in the article) and by examining the code itself(also linked). I know it's the int
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by AimHere 14y ago
>both buttons exit the game immediately. See the one on the left? The one that's always there? And that button is clearly labelled 'Buy Now!'. I don't know which school of user interface design you went to, but when I see a link labelle
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by AimHere 14y ago
Sure, the button exits the game immediately. It doesn't appear immediately, though. Since you don't believe me, you can see what I mean at the tail end of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8YKYKgqzSs (And despite this now interminable for
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by AimHere 14y ago
Very strange, because what I see has obviously been done deliberately. From the main menu, after playing the game and dying and clicking the 'x' in the top left to quit, the game goes to the nag screen. It's the same screen that appears whe
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by AimHere 14y ago
I downloaded the Linux version of the demo a few days ago from your site. Maybe it's a Linuxism or version-specific.
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by AimHere 14y ago
On the demo, the button doesn't appear for 5 seconds.
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by AimHere 14y ago
I'm running Linux exclusively these days. I think Eugene Jarvis' Robotron 2084 is one of the best video games ever made. I read the very positive RockPaperShotgun writeup. I noticed that it was cheap on the Steam sale, and I'm perfectly h
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by AimHere 14y ago
The arguing here is which functional language is the solution, not arguing that a functional one is!
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by AimHere 14y ago
Barack Obama was in the Illinois State Senate when the relevant law - the DMCA - was passed.
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by AimHere 14y ago
In the interests of truthiness, it might be a local issue for you - CS:Source works fine for me on Linux, but perhaps you should get your startup started up before investigating further...
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by AimHere 14y ago
Perhaps the domain holder is from the Magrathean School of Business Administration, so his strategy is to go into hibernation until his customers can afford the product...
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by AimHere 14y ago
He was using 'canonical' in the canonical sense!
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by AimHere 14y ago
Partly to help people find it in their bookshops, but mostly because I'm an anal-retentive pedant, the novel is actually called 'Roadside Picnic' by the Strugatsky brothers.
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by AimHere 14y ago
>Pick any OS and if you've never used it before you'll run into quite a bit of cognitive dissonance when trying it out for the first time. That's the author's point. He's parodying the myriad 'I tried Linux, and it sucks' blogs that hav
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by AimHere 14y ago
Not really either. Conj acts on collections (which can be lists, vectors, sets or hash maps), and adds the second and subsequent arguments to the collection in a type-dependent way. For a list, your hunch is correct, in that it's a bit like
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by AimHere 14y ago
Hilarious. But if I ever need a jury of my peers to audit my coding style to see how good it is, now I know what to do - a pretend-attempted-defacement is bound to be more effective than finding some place on the net to ask 'Is this proper
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by AimHere 14y ago
Maybe I'm leaning too much on the 'benefit of the doubt' side, but I parsed the prior post to mean that all those things existed, but they weren't considered problems by, say, white people, or people in power, prior to the 1960s. The alte

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