Fargren

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On the cruelty of really teaching computing science - E.W. Djikstra[1988](cs.utexas.edu)
4 points by Fargren 16y ago|0 comments
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by Fargren 16y ago
You missed "The Right Hand of Darkness". And I admit I haven't watched too much Star Trek. But I think the point still stands that this works are clearly of different genres, and still it would seem wrong to say any of them isn't science fi
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by Fargren 16y ago
So you would say "The Caves of Steel", "The men in the high Castle", "Flowers For Algernon", "The Right Hand of Darkness" and "Star Trek" are part of the same genre? I can't really agree with that, I can't not call any of those Science Fict
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by Fargren 16y ago
The thing with Science Fiction is that it's hardly a genre. As Asimov shows in "The Caves of Steel", it's mor ofa set of conventions about setting and style that can be applied to basically any genre. So you have immensely varied works of
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by Fargren 16y ago
I think the name misses the point Dick was making in the novel (and throughout a lot of his work). It's about what exactly makes us "human", and how maybe it's possible to create something find all the qualities that we believe define human
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by Fargren 16y ago
At that point, putting someone in jail is torture. Heck, at that point, overcharging is torture: I wouldn't want it done to me.
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Steam Hardware & Software Survey(store.steampowered.com)
5 points by Fargren 16y ago|0 comments
728.
by Fargren 16y ago
Sure, but when it's only being used to pick from between to picture sets, maybe it's not as impossible as it would seem.
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by Fargren 16y ago
If it's pseudorandom, that means there's some form of pattern in the numbers it generates. It's impossible (or at least unreasonably hard) to know whether the person doing the test may subconciously guess or estimate the pattern. That inval
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by Fargren 16y ago
Anotehr article about the same study: http://hplusmagazine.com/editors-blog/precognition-real-corn... From the article : "The sequencing of the pictures on these trials was randomly determined by a randomizing algorithm … and their left/r
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by Fargren 16y ago
Javascript random is only pseudoalleatory. I think you need a true random number generator to truly test this.
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by Fargren 16y ago
Older discusssion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1878160
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by Fargren 16y ago
Has had. TSR doesn't exist anymore.
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by Fargren 16y ago
Actually, the OP's argumetn is then point Gibson has been making for some years now: there future is here already.
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by Fargren 16y ago
Does this qualify as a rickroll?
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by Fargren 16y ago
120 bucks, actually.
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Project Euler(projecteuler.net)
9 points by Fargren 16y ago|0 comments
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by Fargren 16y ago
And people keep using that word. There is no proof videogames are addicting, and no serious study on the subject has been able to show that such a thing as "videogame addiction" exists.
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by Fargren 16y ago
He is showing the flaws in the argument of the OP, which at the very least help concider that myabe the argument is flawed and thus the conclusion is wrong. That leads to valuable discussion, so it's getting upvoted. Asking why "the fuck" h
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by Fargren 16y ago
It's not about storage space, is about loading time. When I read it through the connection I have at work, it took about 2 minutes to load.
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by Fargren 16y ago
This is related to the TV refresh rates. The system was designed for TVs that refreshed 30 times per second, the standard in japan. However the standard in either USA or Europe (I don't remember which) was 24 refreshes per second. This led
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by Fargren 16y ago
Theft is the substraction of an object. Priacy may be wrong, it sure is illegal, but it is not theft. Saying piracy is theft is akin to saying braking and entering is murder.
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by Fargren 16y ago
How would one go about implementing this in poor suburban areas, like around third-world-countries' metropoli? I live in Buenos Aires, where there a lot of poor "villas" scattered all over the city and at the outskirts, and this seems like
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by Fargren 16y ago
The "hint" is the solution. That would be annoying for someone who hadn't figured it out.
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by Fargren 16y ago
From the article: "Just as a quicksort algorithm that sorts in O(n log n) comparisons is fundamentally better (except in very small sets) than a bubble sort that typically takes O(n^2) comparisons." Small nitpick: while average time of the
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by Fargren 16y ago
Well, that kind of blows. Aren't they just patenting charging for dummy terminals?
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by Fargren 16y ago
No announced plans for it.
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Philip Roth, The Conversion of the Jews(nbu.bg)
1 points by Fargren 16y ago|0 comments
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by Fargren 16y ago
Damn it, now I wish I hadn't learnt japanese.
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by Fargren 16y ago
I recommend you read "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" by J. L. Borges. I think it describes the motivation for this perfectly.

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