Mandelbug

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by Mandelbug 12y ago
Sometimes I really wish I had the ability to downvote. But never more have I wanted it until this totally asinine comment. People like you are the whole reason the US' media is complete shit.
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by Mandelbug 12y ago
Sounds like an easy default is to keep the profile private until the user chooses to "create" the profile.
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by Mandelbug 12y ago
Honestly I have never really found a situation where I wanted to exactly (or even slightly) mean reduce by 10%. It is too specific of a definition to be truly useful. I find it much more convenient, and useful, to have a word that means the
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by Mandelbug 12y ago
Interestingly, asking Google to define "decimate" returns a modern definition, "kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage or part of", and a historical one, "kill one in every ten of (a group of soldiers or others
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by Mandelbug 12y ago
I tried in both FF and Chrome, no issues with performance noticed. Do you have a lot of plugins with FF? I actually had an opposite problem, the game was incredibly generous with its imprecise collision. I could rotate twice and catch tw
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by Mandelbug 12y ago
IANAL, and yes, you can not copyright game mechanics or ideas. This is why so many clones of every game exists. Because no one owns the rights to "a tower defense".
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by Mandelbug 12y ago
What? Of course the apparent affect matters. If the underlying physical principles can be understood, there is a possibility of increasing its efficiency for larger throughput. And if the underlying process isn't understood, there is n
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by Mandelbug 12y ago
In those studies that show removing a lane can improve traffic flow or adding a lane can worsen traffic, that is only true of particular lanes/roads in different areas. In fact, it is more than likely that removing any one lane from a
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by Mandelbug 12y ago
The latter isn't used because it sounds cooler, it is literally rooted in the "kill" command on UNIX systems of old. The kill command is still used today, but can be used to send signals to running applications aside from &q
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by Mandelbug 12y ago
Unfortunately, while showing what we would consider "intuitively bad data" may seem like a bad idea, only actually empirically testing it can we measure and quantify the exact impact that bad data (either shown purposefully or acc
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by Mandelbug 12y ago
Have you actually used and looked into AWS? There are dozens of services that do a lot more than just what people generally think of as "the cloud".
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by Mandelbug 12y ago
I think it is much more likely that businesses are readjusting for the new reality of customer expectations regarding media: cheap, on demand, and cheap. Customers don't care about how much royalties an artistic creator might get, and
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by Mandelbug 12y ago
The analogy is ok, but mostly fails because as a developer, we are not paid commission for each line of code written. Whereas taxi drivers have a very strong profit motive to act efficiently and quickly. I think your examples of why they w
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by Mandelbug 12y ago
Regardless of its "technical" or "economic" definition, to the layman and all its users, Bitcoin is treated, traded, and consumed as money. The exact origins of Bitcoin do not change its utility, which is as a unit of ex
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by Mandelbug 12y ago
Actually, from your basic set of requirements, you just feature creeped your design to death. Let me take a shot at it: Learn enough HTML to make a GET request. Know enough PHP to receive the GET request, and then update a textfile of entr
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by Mandelbug 12y ago
I would like to point out that all of your examples are of expanding industries, not industries that underwent large societal, cultural, and legal transformations into entirely different industries. Society, culture, and laws are made fo
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by Mandelbug 12y ago
The general literature on deflation is that deflation is much much worse in the long run. In particular, borrowing becomes significantly more difficult and those who have loans are trapped with them, as their wages are pushed downwards by