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by chipsy 14y ago
Lookup table. Edit: I should add, the problem never said I didn't have infinite memory or computational resources.
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by chipsy 14y ago
This vision of the future seems surprisingly lonely. Aren't we becoming a hivemind? Wouldn't it become more likely, rather than less, that manipulative types get caught and have their career and reputation instantly destroyed? Wouldn't stat
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by chipsy 14y ago
I think there's a "human factors" problem in action with second systems. The first system needs to be allowed to age before the second one becomes worthwhile - simply because more understanding will exist of both the problem domain, and how
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by chipsy 14y ago
http://www.amazon.com/Schaums-Outline-Principles-Computer-Sc... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_computer_science I flipped through the Schaum's guide once - it's very good, I would have benefited a lot from it if I were younger.
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by chipsy 14y ago
Compilation does not have that meaning.
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by chipsy 14y ago
I think many might not be aware of the incident, I haven't seen it get a huge amount of coverage. The original report: http://eyetap.blogspot.fi/2012/07/physical-assault-by-mcdona...
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by chipsy 14y ago
> Adding the additional translation layer increases the potential of bugs > the implementation has information that could be used to generate better bytecode These are theoreticals. Let me analogize. Some algorithms have a worst-cas
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by chipsy 14y ago
VMs can have bugs and nuances that aren't captured in their specification - and a compiler has to evolve awareness of this in an iterative fashion. Rendering to source languages constitutes another way to sanity check by going through a com
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by chipsy 14y ago
Most Haxe targets are source-to-source, with the exception of SWF. It bootstraps on existing toolchains a bit better(this can make a big difference for debugging), and it affords more flexibility in the build process in those situations wh
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by chipsy 14y ago
I think the problem of Bay Area transit can be summed up in this convenient guide: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_in_the_San_Franc... There are too many agencies, each one too myopic and embroiled in local politics to make go
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by chipsy 14y ago
Most people, most of the time, are not working on projects so fun and engaging that they enter crunch of their own accord. If you are, go for it. But the rest of the time you have to assume your programming will be dealing with "boring prob
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by chipsy 14y ago
Everyone with emotions also needs some kind of moral code that complements the emotions and gives both adequate explanations and society-beneficial outcomes - and that includes appropriate behavior for settings like a professional conferenc
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by chipsy 14y ago
Were you the college roommate I had who suspended the alarm on a string over the bed so that standing was required to turn it off?
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by chipsy 14y ago
Although it can look dark to have a monopoly in some space, like Twitter has achieved in microblogging, we actually have the same problem with older open protocols like email and IRC; they can be greatly improved with a redesign, but networ
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by chipsy 14y ago
Comes with the danger of a popularity contest... part of Steam's existing brand is its fairly strict curation.
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by chipsy 14y ago
I generally agree, but would present a specific software-architecture cause for most responsiveness issues: the simplest way to perform a UI update is "toss and rebuild" - remove all the elements and replace them with new ones containing ch
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by chipsy 14y ago
Haxe itself is pretty solid and is gaining steam almost every day now. NME is not as easily recommended. It has very high coverage, and it's shipped a few products as demonstrated in the showcase, but the build process still shows immaturit
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by chipsy 14y ago
Agreement. My "college friends" have all but disconnected, even though we are still nominally linked via Facebook(which arrived on campus around our second year). We've all ended up going in mostly unrelated directions. In the meantime, the
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by chipsy 14y ago
One of the most ambitious projects I've seen in this vein is psyced ( http://www.psyced.org/ ) which starts from a redesign of IRC and has gone on to accumulate a kitchen-sink's worth of protocol compatibility(from the front page: Jabber™
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by chipsy 14y ago
In complement - I have a strong tendency to approach learning by "nibbling" at problems and soaking up the low-hanging fruit, not diving into them and front-loading all the effort. This isn't time-efficient, since with a lot of skills, inte
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by chipsy 14y ago
I think it's a rational trend. Our direction has been towards more "omniscient/passive" forms of information, where you can update at your own pace, and others consume that information optionally. Doing this is cost-effective and allows peo
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by chipsy 14y ago
Deductive reasoning may be a powerful tool for discovery, but it can just as easily be hijacked into a means to rationalize emotion and stop useful action. Your argument here, for example, boils down to "why aren't you 100% consistent with
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by chipsy 14y ago
I consider the big-ugly code to be a part of the learning curve - it exposes "concrete" problems of implementation, and once built, you nurse it through a few rounds of changes before a major refactor or redesign to sweep up all the new con
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by chipsy 14y ago
We became poor after deciding to adopt agriculture and systems of debt - previous to that, your wealth was momentary and related to your immediate friends, the seasons, and location, so the concept didn't really exist as we know it. As civi
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by chipsy 14y ago
This is as much a usability problem as it is a "getting it right" one. We could eventually "get it right" by plugging in raw machine code through switches or punchcards if that's really what it took, but what we're arguing over is the _pric
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by chipsy 14y ago
Gullibility is a game-theoretic state that you may wander in and out of as you play more "rounds," so it's actually quite hard to model. Presumably it's possible to compile a statistic that factors in all the game-theoretic elements, so tha
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by chipsy 14y ago
Don't underestimate the herd effect, too. Once you get a group to buy into a scam, they'll form a support group to rationalize it to each other, no matter how ridiculous it gets to an outsider.
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by chipsy 14y ago
My thoughts exactly. Every piece of software on the 8-bits and prior had a drastically different feel, even given the technical constraints. But in the wake of MacOS and Windows 3.1, "native look" suddenly became a highly-touted feature. I
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by chipsy 14y ago
Lenovo G530(low end) from approximately this time in 2009 - so 3 years. Mostly works in desktop replacement role. Battery is effectively gone. Keyboard failed after a tea spill, I use an external instead. Fan has made scary noises once or t
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by chipsy 14y ago
The game industry ends up concentrated in hub cities because when companies fold, a large proportion of the talent wants to get another job quickly. If SkyVu is the only option in Omaha, that's actually a huge risk. As it happens this is pa

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