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by T-hawk 13y ago
False. There was backwards compatibility long before the PS2. Just not in market-leading Nintendo's systems. Way back even before the 8-bit NES, the Atari 7800 was backwards compatible with Atari 2600 games. So was the ColecoVision, alth
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by T-hawk 13y ago
It's the state of the bottom of our industry. Those 52 programmers aren't a representative set of the general population. Those 52 programmers are the ones that can't catch on for any jobs so they keep applying over and over. It's a sa
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Your comment didn't add anything to the discussion. You liked but couldn't finish reading the article... well, how is that useful information, why would anybody care about what you read? The comment is fluff and noise, not worthy of occup
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by T-hawk 13y ago
To appreciate the Monaco track, drive it yourself in a video game such as Gran Turismo. There's tons of technical stuff going on around every corner, to find good lines for accelerating out of the turn. Elevation changes in particular cre
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by T-hawk 13y ago
I immediately thought of origami as the traditional Japanese art. So Excel formulas and calculations would define the folds, and the results could be rendered using that Excel 3D engine that crops up here occasionally. Since this isn't tha
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Maybe, maybe not. A computer could pick up subtle shifts in body positions or vocal tone and pace that a human can't. Like the work to visualize a heartbeat and other bodily functions, by magnifying deltas that are too small for the human
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by T-hawk 13y ago
But it works the other way around too. If the system is gameable, the system will only be successful until the gamers change. That's Google's problem in the eternal arms race of search. Google identifies a property that good content has (
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Strong evidence that Justin Bailey isn't a real password comes from the game state it yields, which is impossible by normal means. Samus has 255 missiles current but 205 max, and there are some other inconsistencies like missiles acquired
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by T-hawk 13y ago
This strategy fails because multiple winners would split the jackpot. If one billionaire sees a positive return in buying up the entire probability space to get the jackpot, he must assume that another billionaire would also come to the sa
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Yeah. I sometimes reach to adjust my glasses too -- six years after LASIK correction. Muscle memory is _really_ hard to break without conscious effort.
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Sounds to me like a version of the Politician's Fallacy. We must measure something, this is something we can measure, therefore we must measure it.
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by T-hawk 13y ago
English has roughly 100,000 words, so that password scheme has 10^15 combinations. Suppose the latter scheme incorporates the 96 printable Ascii characters. log96(10^15) is 7.5, so yes the latter scheme gets ahead on entropy at 8 characte
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by T-hawk 13y ago
No Opera fans in this thread yet so I'll contribute a report. Opera wasn't logged in to HN when I started the browser this morning, but simply logging in again worked, no cookie clear needed.
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by T-hawk 13y ago
One popular use is newly designed custom Rubik's Cube type puzzles. In all sorts of polyhedral shapes that go way beyond cubes. There's a thriving forum at twistypuzzles.com with all sorts of new inventions that can be realized quickly wi
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Kickstarter reviews applications to determine a realistic floor for the funding goal, to prevent or at least greatly reduce that gaming. They wouldn't let you launch a campaign to start a new SpaceX with $10,000, for example. Otherwise ev
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by T-hawk 14y ago
I'll give a dissenting opinion. I've loved the Comedy Central reboot. The material is quick and snappy in a way that the earlier seasons weren't, packing in rapid-fire jokes. And it still consistently throws in bits of real science and m
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Atari 2600, too. AtariAge.com runs a store that produces and sells cartridges of homebrew development efforts. http://atariage.com/store/index.php?l=product_list&c=21 If you think the Apple II is a challenge, try programming for the
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by T-hawk 14y ago
> There's no reason to send a page to your users over HTTPS if they can't trust the certificate. There can be. HTTPS still gives you encryption over the wire. It still protects against a passive eavesdropper, like a casual packet snif
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Not just Amiga, .mod music crossed over into the PC community as well quite robustly, once Sound Blaster cards with digital output entered the market around 1991. I never had an Amiga but I've still got a couple hundred .mods from the BBS
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by T-hawk 14y ago
This is fascinating indeed, can we break down some actual rules from that example? "Writing table" is idiomatic, you need to understand that the table's purpose is for a writer, not that "writing" is a verb meaning the table is authoring so
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by T-hawk 14y ago
That's just normal in Super Mario Brothers 1, kills by shell start at 500 points and escalate for more targets. All the later games start at 100 instead, SMB3 and SMW and the New SMB series.
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Is the compiler calculating that at compile time based on the lexical tokens, or at runtime with native CPU floating point instructions? That absolutely matters.
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Bus tokens and coupons are also virtual currencies. As a merchant, you're free to accept payment in bus tokens, if you like. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrip Every currency or instrument of value can only be spent in certain venues.
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Network effects are the inhibitor. Email can't change unless everybody changes at the same time. Nobody will use a new email technology that won't communicate with their existing email partners. The closest thing to an email revolution ha
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by T-hawk 14y ago
That's always been true. Scrip has existed forever. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrip Any private party can issue a form of currency. Its value is limited by trust in that private party to keep the supply stable and uncounterfeitabl
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by T-hawk 14y ago
5) You are now $10,000 poorer. You are now $5,000 poorer. You received $5k from selling the BTC in step 2, which must be netted out against the $10k cover cost.
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by T-hawk 14y ago
And Mark Rosewater of Magic the Gathering design. "Restrictions breed creativity" has become a catchphrase associated with him. If an author is told to write a science fiction story, that gives no hint or help on what to do with the reques
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by T-hawk 14y ago
It doesn't matter, mathematically. Psychologically, it absolutely does. Bitcoin running to $150 is way more splashy and headline-grabby than $15. And at Bitcoin's beginning, it looked more respectable in gaining followers when 1 BTC was
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by T-hawk 14y ago
> FizzBuzz is useful only to weed out perhaps the lower 5% of the developers population Problem is, that 5% represents way more than 5% of the pool of job applicants, since it's those folks that continuously get rejected from jobs and
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by T-hawk 14y ago
Mostly worked for me in Opera 12.14 on WinXP. The first click showed white space instead of stars, but then the second click (after the moon) showed the scrolling starfield the whole way.

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