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by bramcohen 15y ago
For some context, Git follows the same architecture as Codeville, so Linus didn't invent the idea (although he ripped it off from Monotone, not Codeville) and the argument was essentially about whether a simple three-way merge can be used i
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by bramcohen 16y ago
San Francisco, CA - BitTorrent is hiring for a bunch of positions http://www.bittorrent.com/company/jobs
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by bramcohen 16y ago
The GPL doesn't offer any special protection against third party patents, and there's no way it could, given the way patents work.
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by bramcohen 16y ago
While the author of this paper does not appear to be a crank, nowhere in the entire paper does it discuss why the fundamental barriers of naturalization, algebrization, and relativization don't apply to the work, making it seem unlikely tha
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by bramcohen 16y ago
When I find myself doing stupid distraction stuff, I generally go take a nap.
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by bramcohen 16y ago
Why aren't you starting a new venture yourself?
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by bramcohen 16y ago
Was the recent stock market plummet your fault? Did you sabotage the investment banking industry on your way out? Do you do back channel reference checks on founders?
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by bramcohen 16y ago
If $200k is too small to be a worthwhile raise, what do you think of people getting money from Ycombinator?
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by bramcohen 17y ago
BitTorrent Inc. is hiring. You can send your resume to jobs@bittorrent.com
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by bramcohen 17y ago
I understand your perspective, but chinese poker is a popular gambling game, and so is blackjack for that matter, so not everybody has the same taste in games as you do :-) The obvious way of bolting gambling onto this game is to simply hav
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by bramcohen 17y ago
Ambition I had to look up, Ludic I already knew. The short explanation is that both of them have way too much potential for collusion, malicious or not, to really work as serious tournament games.
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by bramcohen 17y ago
I've designed other games, but not many other good games. Mostly I invent mechanical puzzles. Ambition and Ludic are oddball concepts which inherently can't ever get mainstream appeal. I try to make things with much more widespread appeal.
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by bramcohen 17y ago
There's a lot more to this game than chinese poker, try it and you'll see. I don't disagree that it has a lot less to it than lowball, it might even be possible to write a program to compute ideal play for it, but doing so is distinctly non
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by bramcohen 17y ago
My game is more comparable to chinese poker than regular poker, as far as kind of strategy goes. The case of having to pick between several plausible hands is actually the common one. Someone who always picks the 'best' set of cards is very
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by bramcohen 17y ago
I'd like to clarify a few points around my post. The reason I posted the log verbatim, me being pissed off and all, is that I wanted to make very clear that I was accurately representing official freenode policy, and that requesting help th