Udo

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by Udo 11y ago
> Building an in-house compiler rarely makes sense. I disagree. First of all, Wasabi solved a real problem which doesn't exist anymore: customers had limited platform support available and Fog Creek needed to increase the surface
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by Udo 11y ago
> No. We can take arbitrarily spaced "snapshots" of a closed system, and determine which was taken earlier by measuring entropy. That is not correct. A closed system may by convention still exchange energy with the outside (j
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by Udo 11y ago
We went off on a tangent there, I suspect we've already bored everyone else in this thread to death ;) I want to close with the observation that whether you're aware of it or not, you're talking about supernatural claims that
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by Udo 11y ago
I really do hate to start a reply with a flat-out "no", but in this case it's warranted, sorry to say. There are two ways of looking at this, and none of them permit this conclusion: Physics as a science does not depend on me
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by Udo 11y ago
Those are not statements about physics though. They just employ some of the lingo.
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by Udo 11y ago
> It still unnerves me a bit when comments I make here end up in a story in the press. If that ever happened to me, attributed or not, I would be pretty damn excited! The fact that it never happens to me or most other users here, but i
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by Udo 11y ago
> No, that's the definition of causality. [...] That's kind of a meta correlation/causation argument. It's more than that. The only way for us to actually tell which way the arrow of time points is by watching cau
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by Udo 11y ago
The problem with this view is causality. Since things happening as a result of other things is pretty much the definition of "time moving forward", there is no reasonable definition of time moving backwards that still includes cau
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by Udo 11y ago
Discussion on the Megaprocessor from 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9755742
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by Udo 11y ago
> XML was never intended as a memory-efficient format I never said it was. I apologize if it wasn't clear from my comment, but it was centered solely on the aspect of human readability. You're not wrong about it being specula
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by Udo 11y ago
The problem I see with binary protocols is the same one that plagues XML: as soon as you build something to be "not human-readable", any potential efficiencies gained will quickly be overshadowed by increasing bloat. When you as a
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by Udo 11y ago
> what they did to sell Sunset had zero to do with improving the game itself There are genres where this could and does work, but not in the niche Sunset is playing in. > although I seriously question if their PR/ad markets we
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by Udo 11y ago
After reading this, and having never heard of the game before, I checked it out and just spent 90 minutes playing it. It has some serious problems, and those are in my opinion the reason why it's not selling very well: The basic idea i
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by Udo 11y ago
I don't see anything on that list that's not sensible. It makes sense to brief visitors about behavior that can get them into actual trouble when going to a foreign country. It's not a judgement either way.
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by Udo 11y ago
I love it, but the server seems overloaded. Because it reacts so slowly it's a bit hard to tell what's going on. What does the "Progress" stat represent, exactly?
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by Udo 11y ago
> Sure it's a mix, but it seems predominantly left to me. I may be wrong, but I don't think it's possible to prove it either way. Personally, I think opinions that match ideologies you're really opposed to probably
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by Udo 11y ago
> mass extinctions happened already five times, and humans had nothing to do with those. But now, when it supposedly happens for a sixth time, it's our fault. Mass extinctions happen for different reasons. What you're saying
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by Udo 11y ago
This fits in nicely with the general narrative. At one point they portray this guy who they say cost the NASA JPL half a million dollars, whereas he said he merely hacked their email server and asked for a job. My suspicion is that hackin
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by Udo 11y ago
> Remind me never to be a computer. It's way to late for that, you already are. And people do in fact do this kind of "reverse recognition", both when they dream, and even when they're awake and let their fantasies
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by Udo 11y ago
There are two Node projects that I've been part of which illustrate some of these problems: The first one is a hobby project of mine, admittedly a small app with no more than 300 users connected through websockets. Node was fantastic f
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by Udo 11y ago
> going to websites, opening the inspector and stepping through their code Good news then, because even when loaded from the binary representation, browsers will apparently be able to show a canonical text format representation. (more
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by Udo 11y ago
They do evaluate buildings though.
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by Udo 11y ago
I didn't go through the whole thing in detail, so please correct me if I got anything wrong, but I think I understand enough of the structure. There are some acute problems that could be solved in code, for example the use of str_repla
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by Udo 11y ago
I'm definitely old - going on 40 this year - and I don't recognize myself in that argument either. I think the reason why these points sound like they're made up is because they are, in fact, made up to justify something that
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by Udo 11y ago
> When VCs profile the successful investments, young, smart and driven all correlate. I would be very surprised if investments with old, smart, and driven people were correlated with failure. Considering the bias against age is so stro
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by Udo 11y ago
There's another way besides inlining and requirejs. In cases where you're doing server-side programming anyway, you can just have the server inject view-specific <link> elements pointing to individual CSS files as needed - a
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by Udo 11y ago
Creative Commons licenses have simple tags communicating the modalities of each license quite clearly, and I believe the same can be done for Terms of Service. However, there are significant hurdles. I think a ToS Commons labeling scheme
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by Udo 11y ago
> (In fact following this logic to the inverse would make something like Brainfuck the optimal language). You can reduce any argument to an absurd extreme. It's fair and fine to disagree with every single opinion I express, but I
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by Udo 11y ago
> I wouldn't put "document.write" in there. innerHTML isn't awesome either, but that's from today's point of view. It's good that we moved on, even though at the time it was important they existed.
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by Udo 11y ago
Good things came out of unilateral action: XmlHttpRequest, innerHTML, document.write, asm.js, WebRTC, JavaScript itself...

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