MrScruff

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by MrScruff 14y ago
It's certainly not fully native. It has a number of issues that make it a poor experience in my opinion. - Emulated scrolling feels wrong. This is my biggest issue. - Slow launch and mailbox load time. - Numerous short pauses while navigati
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by MrScruff 14y ago
Tested on an iPhone 4 and an iPad 3. The animated transitions are very slow, to the point where it only displays a few frames on the iPhone. I would agree that it gives the app an unpolished feel, that and the sign in nagging. Otherwise the
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by MrScruff 14y ago
I am not at all clear why you would say this. In fact, I think you are committing an argument from authority in the reverse. You refuse to listen to this guys because you assume that they are not authorities. That's just bogus and I am sur
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by MrScruff 14y ago
The funny thing is that you didn't make any genuine arguments in the prior post to refute, just several non-arguments and vague complaints like "manifestly obviously just rationalisation". followed by: There is no benefit in IP except to
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by MrScruff 14y ago
I'm not sure what you mean - are you arguing that all information should be put into the public domain as a matter of course? If so, I wouldn't agree with that, no. I'm curious as to why you think people posting on Hacker News should wish f
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by MrScruff 14y ago
This doesn't really refute my statement at all. I was merely claiming that piracy is often framed as a political statement, when it really isn't at all. It's about people choosing to spend their money on something else, relying on others to
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by MrScruff 14y ago
While I sympathise with your issues with Ubisoft's ridiculously hamfisted DRM, I simply don't believe this is a significant driving force behind piracy. I'm not claiming it doesn't exist though, or endorsing horrible DRM.
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I am obviously very angry, I don't know what you make, but the reality seems to be that you are claiming ownership of an arrangement of bits. It's in my nature when discovering interesting configurations of bits to show them to others, or
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by MrScruff 14y ago
the fact that you make some work doesn't mean that you're entitled to be paid for it. You've constructed a straw man, I haven't once argued for draconian IP law. I simply stated that those that engage in piracy should be honest to themsel
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Indeed, but the public's appetite for alternative and crowd funded entertainment is relatively insignificant, as evidenced by a glance at your average torrent tracker. That's why it's described as alternative. The public want slick, expensi
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The problem with citing Louis CK or Radiohead when discussing this issue is that they are outliers. They are individual artists, working in mediums with little to no overhead who have established reputations. But film, tv, games, software -
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Could you explain?
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That's a nice noble reframing of humanities innate desire to have access to Game of Thrones season 2 without paying for cable. Can I speak as one of the creative people that, you know, actually works to produce the content so many people
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by MrScruff 14y ago
Essentially your argument is that consciousness doesn't exist. That we are equivalent to highly sophisticated computers running a program, is that correct? The problem with this argument is that your conscious perception is actually the on
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by MrScruff 14y ago
As in, the difference between the neurological processes that govern ones mental state, and the subjective experience of having that mental state. For example, if I'm hungry and eat a good meal the changes in my brain chemistry that induce
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by MrScruff 14y ago
Do you regard the subjective experience of being concious as a something that can be adequately described by detailing neurological processes? As in, I know you might argue that a specific combination of atoms will correspond to a specific
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by MrScruff 14y ago
I don't think they are referring to the phenomenon of consciousness, rather than the experience of consciousness itself.
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While this is all true, it wouldn't tell us much about the actual experience of feeling the emotion. That would remain metaphysical.
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I think the problem there is that just because someone has made a name for themselves in one field does not imply that they have some sort of superhuman intellect that means they will offer useful insights on a range of subjects. You might
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Do you have a rebuttal for the flimsy analysis? I realise it's far less time consuming to just insinuate bias and move on, but if it's that flimsy it shouldn't take you long.
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Exactly. This is true for a lot of careers, eg. acting. It's a lot harder to risk everything pursuing your dream if you know there's no safety net when things don't work out.
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I agree that the lacklustre search is a major issue. In addition to that, the information density is terrible in comparison to Google maps. Google maps uses colour, opacity, line thickness and other visual cues to distinguish roads. Road na
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by MrScruff 14y ago
I understand why some might be motivated to solve it as a problem, but it doesn't seem a particular impressive technical achievement to me. It's just like how everyone and his dog was writing soduku solvers a few years back. Except in this
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I don't really understand this - has someone really gone to all this trouble to help people cheat at a free word game?
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I force all sites to display as something like #E0 on #28. I find it far easier on my eyes. I use a Firefox extension that lets me switch back to the original scheme with a shortcut for the few sites that don't function when you override th
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by MrScruff 14y ago
Would you feel the same about lens flares, vignetting, chromatic aberration, distortion used as an effect in music etc...
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My position is that I don't know how the percentage of men who are interested in coding and the percentage of women who are interested in coding compare. I have no way of knowing. In fact, the reasons people pursue a particular career are u
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Actually you most likely started because someone you liked or admired, were friends with, were inspired by, or simply thought was cool, was doing it. Do you have any evidence to back that up? Most people I know who program started because
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Britain has 51% women. Women are underrepresented in the Ruby community, but there is no reason why it should stay like that. Is not anyone's job to increase the percentage of female coders. It is everyone's. To my knowledge, it has never
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Sure, I get all that. But we're talking about 500 years hence. I just don't believe that the costs you're listing should be relevant in that time frame. If you have AI that is 500 years more advanced, you're effectively removing human invol

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