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by Figs 16y ago
I'm an undergrad CS major in my fourth year, and I have no idea what you are writing about, although it sounds like it might be interesting or useful if I understood it. The first stumbling block came right away, since I don't know what the
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by Figs 16y ago
What do you mean that Game Maker is not programming? It may not be as respectable as something like Java or Python or C, but it's most certainly a programming environment. You can learn about file I/O, event driven systems, data structures
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by Figs 16y ago
What are the power usage / heat production implications of that much RAM in a system?
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by Figs 16y ago
I block analytics with AdBlockPlus because it often adds multi-second delays to page loading.
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by Figs 16y ago
Yes... he must declare a War on 'War on X'!
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by Figs 16y ago
I'm pretty sure hugh3 was being sarcastic.
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by Figs 16y ago
Building software on top of someone else's web api is a really, really bad idea. If you don't control the system it runs on, then you are completely at the mercy of someone else's business. If they go broke, your software goes down. If they
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by Figs 16y ago
I think the reason that a lot of people have trouble trying to understand monads is that they don't really understand type classes. If you understand type classes, then the definition of a monad is pretty obvious, although you might have to
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by Figs 16y ago
Calling a script-kiddie who pushes the start button on a DDoS program a "hacker" is like calling someone who turns on a toaster a "chef".
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by Figs 16y ago
The labels for things have nothing to do with the state of nature, but rather with the way people work. The fact that we call Earth and Jupiter the same thing but consider the sun and Pluto to be different kinds of things is simply a choice
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by Figs 16y ago
Why do people insist on putting enormous, annoying floating crap bars over their websites?
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by Figs 16y ago
Python's a ridiculously easy language to learn. Here are a few examples of bits of syntax. # comments start with a "#" symbol [1,2,3,4] # that's a list {"x":1, "y":2, "z":3} # that's a dictionary blah = 6 # you can ass
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by Figs 16y ago
This doesn't have anything to do with free speech -- they're not arresting people for posting discussion on Twitter, etc. -- but rather with reminding people to think about the consequences of their actions. If you publicly associate your i
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by Figs 16y ago
I had to learn to use it for a linguistics class that I took out of curiosity, but I haven't memorized it. With a reference, I can usually work it out.
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by Figs 16y ago
Why even bother having someone to switch DVDs if you can get the players so cheaply? Just assign a disk to a player and treat it as a unit, and don't touch it unless it breaks. You could even wire up the unit to be controlled by software an
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by Figs 16y ago
At this point, I'm tired of learning programming languages, and would rather learn how to be more effective with the dozen or so that I've already learned.
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by Figs 16y ago
It's really just sort of a weird optimization trick. You shouldn't use it in a regular program unless you have a very, very good reason. The fact that it works at all (ie, that you can inject the start of a loop into the middle of a switch
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by Figs 16y ago
I made you a crappy flowchart that demonstrates Duff's Device (with 4 cases rather than 8 since I'm lazy): http://i.imgur.com/L73ai.png The basic idea is that the switch jumps into the body of the loop somewhere, after that it can do bloc
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by Figs 16y ago
Given current events, I'm surprised this wasn't about the TSA.
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by Figs 16y ago
I think you can set it to allow "Only Me" to tag yourself in photos. At least, I recall doing that a while back. (Knowing FB, it wouldn't surprise me if it's been changed or broken since then...)
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by Figs 16y ago
Planes were capable of being flown autonomously in the 1980s. In particular, the Soviet's space shuttle, Buran, performed unmanned orbital maneuvers and landing during its 1988 test flight. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_%28spacecraft%
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by Figs 16y ago
Nice work. I find it somewhat amusing that the flight from Hawaii is coded "808" -- I wonder if that was intentional?
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by Figs 16y ago
It's probably just airplane contrails stretching from the horizon. If it were a missile, then it'd be a bit surprising that the FAA isn't aware of any unusually fast moving objects in the area based on their radar replays: http://www.cnn.c
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by Figs 16y ago
It may be cliché now, but was it cliché in 1995 (when it appears it was written)?
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by Figs 16y ago
Tango?
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by Figs 16y ago
I use a whiteboard in my room. I write down the things I have to get done over the next week or so, and erase them when I finish them. I can't forget about it, or misplace it, or forget my login since it's right in front of my bed. I don't
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by Figs 16y ago
If they really exist, then why haven't I already heard of them? ;)
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by Figs 16y ago
So, what you're suggesting is basically a PayPal insurance policy? :)
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by Figs 16y ago
Einstein is basically consider to be the stereotypical genius in pop-culture; it's not so much the details of his work that's important to the weirdness here, but that he is widely known for having been brilliant. (Consider common phrases l
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by Figs 16y ago
Please don't post links through bit.ly and other URL indirection sites. It hurts the web by making it much more difficult to follow the link in the case that an intermediary goes out of business. Hacker News and your post will probably be a

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