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by chton 12y ago
Why can't you perform compatibility checks on hardware in free build mode? That would take so much headache out of the composing, and be an awesome middle ground between the prebuilt ones and the completely free builder.
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by chton 12y ago
I've notified them, that is quite embarrassing.
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by chton 12y ago
I'm thankful that we're (very) slowly moving away from that idea. That's what they pay Product Owners for.
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by chton 12y ago
Absolutely, but if anyone understands technology, it's Bill Gates. I'm guessing the blame for this case resides with the middle management that forced the programmers to follow the wishes of the boss.
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by chton 12y ago
Spend your time coding. If you have free time, improve your craft. Find something to write that you find interesting. You'll get better at your core skills, and quite likely you'll find one or other open source project that you
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by chton 12y ago
That's an awful reason to do that. It shouldn't matter who files a bug report, it should be handled the same way as all others. In this case, they broke convention to please Gates, probably against the wishes of the people actua
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by chton 12y ago
I've been looking into this, and while it's an impressive piece of engineering, I'm disappointed at the lack of flexibility there is. You can determine your budget with Througput Units, but you lose out on a a very large gro
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Google signs deal to put sensors directly on your eye(theverge.com)
2 points by chton 12y ago|0 comments
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by chton 12y ago
That's a great page. I learned a lot, thanks!
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by chton 12y ago
I'm aware of how prngs work, and of how often they are misused. What I was mostly wondering was how big an effect that would give in the final product. Do typical maze generation algorithms use it extensively, or sparingly so the dif
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by chton 12y ago
That's not a valid comparison for generated mazes, is it? Unless the algorithm was really just choosing randomly, some edges are far more likely to occur than others.
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by chton 12y ago
Thanks for the explanation. what would the impact be if they had a different seed, would the maze be really drastically different? Or could it look more like the 2 mazes in the original post, with only a few walls different and mostly iden
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by chton 12y ago
I would hope that Microsoft is smarter and has learned from those mistakes. It does seem to be their intention to do it with full natural language processing. We'll have to wait and see.
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by chton 12y ago
well, he'd get at least 2: solid stern and liquid stern.
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by chton 12y ago
That's a very good point, but maybe it was #1 because it was the default case, the simplest to generate?
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by chton 12y ago
Mind elaborating why? I'm not versed in maze generation, but I am a software dev, and reinventing an existing algorithm does happen. It might be very unlikely in this case, but I'd just like to know why.
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by chton 12y ago
Hypothetical question: is it possible that they did not copy it? The author here indicates that the original maze was generated by software, maybe Kraft stumbled upon the same algorithm, or a close variation of it (considering the minor di
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by chton 12y ago
oh absolutely, if they can get it general enough to do that. If they manage to include this in powershell (since it's MS), they could have the worlds greatest command line. "Get all current running processes, select the ones that
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Shape-shifting robots possible with new phase-changing material(factor-tech.com)
3 points by chton 12y ago|2 comments
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by chton 12y ago
If this was called "The world in 2075", it would have been more favourably received, I bet. Most of the things they describe are almost impossible to achieve in 10 years either because of economy or bureaucracy. Wishful thinking
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by chton 12y ago
I expect this will lead to a whole new category of bugs: "I wasn't precise enough in saying what I wanted, so now the code doesn't do what it should." Interesting technology, but I doubt it will ever replace or even be u
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by chton 12y ago
Exactly. Even if they had a hundred rolls, it would still have been good practice to be frugal with it. They run into similar things on the ISS: everything is limited except for vacuum. Being efficient and careful with resources is extrem
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by chton 12y ago
Those are interesting resources, but do remember that a context-free grammar is exactly that: context-free. It might be a fun starting point, but it's much more limited than a grammar you would usually find a real programming language
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by chton 12y ago
Possibly, but I assume the astronauts would have been the judge of that if it did happen. Remember they were also very constrained on how much duct tape they had, so using a spare may have been more efficient than using more tape.
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The hack that saved the astronauts of the Apollo XIII(sploid.gizmodo.com)
72 points by chton 12y ago|38 comments
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by chton 12y ago
Getting in on the ground floor tends to be my advice for a lot things. It's hard to make something click if you can't see it work in the flesh. For the typical functions that print output or take input or the likes, I'm alway
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by chton 12y ago
honestly, I would recommend you write your own parser for it. A grammar is meaningless by itself, and you'll learn a lot more about why yours might work or not work if you do the work yourself. I can't say I know of any good PEG
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by chton 12y ago
For some quick hands-on learning, it might be interesting to read up on Resursive Descent Parsers ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_descent_parser ). They're easy to understand and easy to code in a language
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by chton 12y ago
bringing on co-founders later is not always an option, especially if you're a non-technical founder. You need at least some product before you can get somewhere. Also, fighting over anything isn't an adult thing to do. The adult
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by chton 12y ago
In general, I've found typing slowly to be more a distraction than a moment to focus. The difficulties are always in the logic you're trying to express, and the typing is merely a way to communicate that to the computer. If you

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