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by Uncompetative 13y ago
$845,000,000 salary... Doesn't this strike anyone else as rather a lot?
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by Uncompetative 13y ago
Someone is going to be famous as being the first person to die as a result of being distracted by the intrusive UI of their Google Glass. It will make the news. They will be thought of as a pathetic fashion victim. Winner of a Darwin Award.
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by Uncompetative 13y ago
I don't get the point. I am not Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs was. I am me. Also, all the criticism in this thread that he wasn't a great engineer and Dennis Ritchie and John McCarthy should have been given more coverage in the press the month he
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by Uncompetative 14y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5420283 See? I already thought this was suspicious. and to think I've spent twenty years doing just the R&D for my MMORTSFPSRPG
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by Uncompetative 14y ago
Your brain is fatigued from doing your PhD. It craves variety. Try doing one of your side projects for a month to refresh yourself. It needs to be something different from your PhD, something fun that you can make immediate progress with an
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by Uncompetative 14y ago
THE GAME (that's what she is calling it) already has a release date of July 2013 despite there being no evidence of her having written a game before... Without appearing cynical, can I ask why there is a $10000 pledge band?
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by Uncompetative 14y ago
I also welcome anyone's anonymous cowardly downvotes ;-)
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by Uncompetative 14y ago
I think that you make a very important point about discontinuity. It made me think about how I could reduce the inertia of refamiliarization when I resume editing some program after some interruption. I find that I can concentrate for about
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by Uncompetative 14y ago
LISP is S-expressions. Mathematica is M-expressions, kinda... Macros are considered harmful as they can lead to unmaintainable code.
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by Uncompetative 14y ago
More vegetarian recipe ideas, please... those sound great!
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by Uncompetative 14y ago
Please don't use this as an excuse to let the world's population hit eleven digits. Stop fucking, for fuck's sake!
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by Uncompetative 14y ago
123 ÷ 4/5 + 6 | 7 x 8 = 123 ÷ 0.8 + 6 | 56 = 153.75 + 6 | 56 = 159.75 | 56 = 2.85267 857142 857142 857142 857142 857142 857142 857142 857142 857142... i.e. here | acts as a low precedence division o
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by Uncompetative 14y ago
What then happens when you have to split a long line of math? What then happens when you need to multiply 2 by 2? The answer to the first question is that the following line is begun with a multiplication sign. The answer to the second ques
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by Uncompetative 14y ago
X = Y x Z B = T ^ F v T P = Q n R u S C = U cross V D = U dot V Area = Width by Height i.e. just capitalising names means that you can define macros that operate as infix operators: L . R -> L d
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by Uncompetative 14y ago
This is without question the best lecture I have ever seen.
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by Uncompetative 14y ago
It is only healthy to value potential more than actual results if you agree with the Chinese proverb... 'The journey is the reward' I agree with the sentiment expressed by this and feel that it is silly to defer gratification to the complet
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by Uncompetative 14y ago
Please. Unless you have adopted a goat, don't call it a kid. I hate the terms 'kid' and 'kids'. What is wrong with 'child' and 'children'?
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by Uncompetative 14y ago
You have a partner and access to a beach. I have neither and haven't had a job since 1988. Yet the only thing I have found boring about my life of late has been reading this. I am not going to tell you to stop bleating, to accept the unelim
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by Uncompetative 14y ago
Interesting point. I would pick B because a game's virtual camera doesn't necessarily stick around in the head of your player avatar the whole game, but can shift behind, beside, overhead it as well as flying around the scene cinematically.
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by Uncompetative 14y ago
Brownian Motion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_motion
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by Uncompetative 14y ago
Incorrect. According to Expert C Programming : Deep C Secrets by Peter Van Der Linden page 61: 'Table 2-2 The Truth About Two Famous Space Software Failures WHEN MISSION ERROR RESULT
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by Uncompetative 14y ago
I sold my paintbox for £12 in 1988. It ran on a BBC Archimedes 310 in the shop window of the computer store where I bought it doing abstract expressionist artwork to show off its various calligraphic and airbrush tools in full colour. To pu
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by Uncompetative 14y ago
I find it disgusting that people are forced to commute at great expense to our planet's dwinding natural resources, their finances, time and stress so that they can physically congregate for an 'inspiring water-cooler moment' that may catal
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by Uncompetative 14y ago
"The second ingredient, caramel coloring, gives the drink its distinctive dark brown color. There are four types of caramel coloring — Coca Cola uses type E150d, which is made by heating sugars with sulfite and ammonia to create bitter brow
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by Uncompetative 14y ago
Careful... don't choke on that bile
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by Uncompetative 14y ago
I'm very impressed by this.
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by Uncompetative 14y ago
I think it would be better if Chrome OS were more like Lotus Notes, where a group of individuals can remotely collaborate on a document in the cloud or work offline and replicate their changes overnight for later editorial adjustment.
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by Uncompetative 14y ago
Pressing Control+S is not the immediate-update mechanism Bret Victor uses as a foundation to his sophisticated ideas about Learnable Programming: http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/ I don't understand how someone can link to his '
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by Uncompetative 14y ago
Mathematical notation is ambiguous and therefore unsuited to parsing as a computer syntax. s(x + y) can represent scalar multiplication, or function application. Mathematica only uses s(x + y) for scalar multiplication and s[x + y] for func
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by Uncompetative 14y ago
The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy already parodies Maths: http://hhgproject.org/entries/bistromathics.html Clearly, Douglas Adams spent a lot of time in Bistros, as the second review on this site echoes his sentiments about the odd be

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