Cushman

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by Cushman 12y ago
They shipped something similar enough to what they said they'd ship that the project was a nominal success, but far enough from what people wanted that nobody's very happy about it. (AKA, a Kickstarter.)
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by Cushman 12y ago
This wasn't a game, it was an engine. A novel motion control scheme, more satisfying to wield than any one currently extant, and a realistic and historically accurate simulation which supports different sword fighting styles. I kno
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by Cushman 12y ago
My recollection is the plan was to use the kickstarted funds to put together a tech demo, then raise funding to turn that into a game. That second part never happened for a few reasons; mainly, it is not as easy for a semi-famous author to
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by Cushman 12y ago
Yeah, me too... Unfortunately neither of us gave him nearly enough to make a difference.
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by Cushman 12y ago
Clang just couldn't raise nearly the budget it needed... Neal Stephenson had a whole blog post about how it turns out that just because you're Neal Stephenson doesn't mean people will give you money to make a sword fighting v
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by Cushman 12y ago
"The linkage to change the pitch of this rotating blade is way too complex! Can we simplify it somehow?" "How about we just add a simple device that associates the pitch of the blade with the torque, and let a computer figure
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by Cushman 12y ago
In the most literal reading, the phrase "shall permit" refers to the required "procedures", which are themselves "approved by the Attorney General"... So that might be "Anything, subject to the discretion
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by Cushman 12y ago
The issue is that BitTorrent as a protocol converts hashes into files, but it's got no mechanism to associate a hash with some other identity. That means you don't need trust to operate it, but conversely there's no way make
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by Cushman 12y ago
That's not updating the content of a torrent, that's updating a torrent file given a URL and a signature. It's not even BitTorrent, more like embedded RSS. Doesn't really help us out here.
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by Cushman 12y ago
Yeah, it's a clever idea but torrents are basically just content hashes, so they can't be updated by nature. In fact TPB was already not serving torrent files in large part; every torrent with more than a handful of peers is store
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by Cushman 12y ago
It's (supposedly) pronunciation changes that cause irregular words, right? You start with a regular rule, pronunciation of all words change so that the rule no longer works, all the uncommon words quickly regularize on a new rule, and
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by Cushman 12y ago
In fact, if I understand the rules of baseball, it's only players whose balls fail to fly out who, themselves, fly out!
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by Cushman 12y ago
> As Steven Pinker points out in this very interesting article, the category of irregular verbs in English will surely shrink over time, as old, little used verbs become regularized over time, but new verbs formed in English are never fo
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by Cushman 12y ago
Context is a fly ball in baseball, a noun. No relation to the common holiday activity.
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by Cushman 12y ago
Aren't those things logically inconsistent? If I feel secure about my data, it means I have a strong expectation that it won't be stolen. But again, we're talking about different stuff. Obviously the people reading this, who
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by Cushman 12y ago
Maybe we're talking past each other here-- there's a significant qualitative difference between the risks of uploading data to a globally-routable server somewhere, and storing that same data on a firewalled, password-protected sy
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by Cushman 12y ago
If we're talking about the general public here, I think we're going to want to come up with more nuanced guidance than "Don't store private data on any internet-connected computer, ever."
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by Cushman 12y ago
Got it. So, if I understand what you're saying now, it should be fine if a mother wants to give birth and keep working while the father takes care of the child full-time? In which case, I am sorry I overreacted. But WTH do gender roles
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by Cushman 12y ago
Okay, that's helpful. And do you think, or not, that means people should be classified as either workers or parents at birth?
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by Cushman 12y ago
Sorry, I'm struggling to come up with another reading of "This is exactly why gender roles are so important." I'd love for you to clarify.
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by Cushman 12y ago
Holy cow. So if I understand you right, you're saying not only that a parent who keeps a steady job is effectively absent, but that for that reason it's important to assign people to one category or the other at birth ?
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by Cushman 12y ago
But the point is that people disagree that the emotionally-loaded word should not be used. That's the whole controversy.
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by Cushman 12y ago
Are we noticing the irony of using the term "uncontroversial" to answer controversy?
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by Cushman 12y ago
Are you familiar with Jane Elliott's "Blue eyes/brown eyes" experiment? It's a good kind of ultra-lite introduction to racism/discrimination if you've literally never come across the concept before. (Comes
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by Cushman 12y ago
Watching the source lecture[0], it's not about how the code is written so much as how the function is specified. It's easier to describe quicksort as a few set equations without invoking the concept of recursion, but since we don&
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by Cushman 12y ago
If I understand the argument, the use of a set rather than a stack encodes the observation that the order of execution of adjacent partition operations isn't important. That ordering is information you don't have to store, meaning
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by Cushman 12y ago
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_excep... . speech is unprotected if (1) ... and (2) ... and (3) "the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientif
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by Cushman 12y ago
I didn't (and can't) downvote you, but if I had to guess it's because your comment didn't add much content, but has a very negative tone. HN likes to see commenters being constructive, not just correcting. (And keep in m
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by Cushman 12y ago
> Why would you think that firing an employee over a political contribution they made or did not make would be in any way acceptable? Why would you think making a political contribution is in any way acceptable? Because we live in a free
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by Cushman 12y ago
Am I the only one who's uncomfortable with the idea that political speech is kosher, but responding to political speech in a way which is "bullying" is not? I feel like we should do more to separate the abusive harassment (wh

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