backlava

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by backlava 12y ago
Part of the strategy is to emphasize the comparison to on demand movie rentals which get you 2 hours for $4.99.
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by backlava 12y ago
If you kill the ender dragon you get a credits screen. Does that not count as winning?
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by backlava 12y ago
As analogies between analogies go, this is like comparing the comparison of Charlie Chaplin's mustache to Hitler's mustache to the comparison of Charlie Chaplin and Hitler.
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by backlava 12y ago
Yes I would also accept a terrible codebase that made me a billion dollars. Thank you for the insightful comment.
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by backlava 12y ago
So is the minecraft codebase terrible? I would guess it is based on the classes of bizarre bugs that seem to exist. I could almost believe Bethesda had a hand in its development.
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by backlava 12y ago
The shallower the problem you're solving, the more important UX issues will be, relatively. When you're writing complex software, putting the text in boxes instead of quotes matters approximately not at all.
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by backlava 12y ago
Maybe the word 'substantially'
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by backlava 12y ago
A nice syntax that makes things easier to read is a nice to have. It doesn't make writing or reading programs substantially easier, though. IMO.
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by backlava 12y ago
Seems like everyone who spends 20 minutes designing a programming language comes up with this idea or similar. Yawn. Syntax isn't what makes programming hard.
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by backlava 12y ago
But we would still have the concept of determinism in the macro world even if physics turns out not to be deterministic in the small.
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by backlava 12y ago
Great wisdom lies in stupidity.
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by backlava 12y ago
But what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
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by backlava 12y ago
I occasionally feel like my waitress is pitying me when I eat alone. Poor guy eating alone. Or maybe she's just angling for a better tip...
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by backlava 13y ago
Not exactly the Streisand effect since it's also the only reason many people have ever heard of Pompeo, which was probably the point.
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by backlava 13y ago
Except the poor are the charitable cause.
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by backlava 13y ago
where D = 2r
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by backlava 13y ago
You're confused. The question is whether torture works. Many people in this thread and elsewhere have claimed that it never does because they wish it were true. I have not seen anyone even claim that torture can be resisted, let alone
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by backlava 13y ago
Well, consensus seems to be that you're wrong, but I think you're obviously right. However, you left off one of the most important conditions: the interrogator has to be able to tell that you've told him the truth. The scen
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by backlava 13y ago
Oh please. The only things that have changed are access to such ideas and the volume of our records. He's already corrected his position. No harm in being wrong on the internet. Politeness is more important than rightness as a rule
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by backlava 13y ago
Can you elaborate on this binary search? How do you get a proposed path to feed to your decision problem?
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by backlava 13y ago
The proof constructs a monotone bounded sequence. It thus converges. Dividing into three intervals is to rule out the case where both (closed) intervals contain the point.
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by backlava 13y ago
Getting the font right is the easy part. Figuring out the formerly occluded pixels in the background image is the hard part.
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by backlava 13y ago
Why limit yourself to printing out real laws?