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by codexon 13y ago
> legitimacy of the Taiwanese claim to sovereignty over their own island Taiwan has been dominated by Han Chinese ever since the 1600s. It is less of "Taiwanese" trying to govern their own island than the ROC fleeing communism
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by codexon 13y ago
But the PRC has been in control of China for 60 years and has more than a tiny island. While the PRC used to be a rebellion, that was a long time ago.
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by codexon 13y ago
Somewhat related. https://www.google.com/search?q=ip
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by codexon 13y ago
While universal healthcare is a noble goal, I have a feeling that insurance reform will not stop costs from going out of control. Rising healthcare costs is because of the artificially limited supply by the AMA limiting the number of MDs th
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by codexon 13y ago
Nimrod's GC is perfect for real-time software like games. It uses a deferred reference counting algorithm which can have pause times as small as 1ms. How does Nimrod deal with the multi-thread reference counting performance problem?
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by codexon 13y ago
How about a parameter to bind a specific IP?
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by codexon 13y ago
Here is a forum that sells DDoS attacks. Attacks are much cheaper than protection. http://www.hackforums.net/forumdisplay.php?fid=232
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by codexon 13y ago
I don't see this as an HN clone. If anything is a clone, HN is a clone of Slashdot->Digg->Reddit. Not that I think any of these sites have an exclusive claim to a threaded discussion board.
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by codexon 13y ago
I just installed 4.3 and tried running a directx9 program on XP with 3d acceleration and it caused the VM screen to flicker and not display any content. I hope Vbox will catch up with VMware player on 3d acceleration soon.
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by codexon 13y ago
If you are targeting people who don't want to configure anything why are you using markdown? I would have expected you to use something like TinyMCE. Markdown is like coding for non-programmers.
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by codexon 13y ago
The right question is if Gates would have started Microsoft if he didn't have a trust fund safety net if MS failed.
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by codexon 13y ago
You prefer 50/50 but you have no evidence to even suggest that this is the "best" distribution for CS let alone any other major. Why can't you accept the possibility that females do not like CS as much as males do not li
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by codexon 13y ago
I already repeated multiple times what claim I find ordinary: that Mudd is somehow able to retain so many female CS majors simply by accepting more. It is up to you to prove that they are able to do this otherwise. > You made an argument
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by codexon 13y ago
I don't know why you assume that 50/50 is the desired ratio when acceptance is supposed to be self-selected and merit based. This CS professor from MIT explains why fewer females choose engineering studies like CS. http:/&#x
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by codexon 13y ago
> The percentage of females normal drops year by year in the CS programs I am familiar with. This does not seem to be happening at Mudd to the degree it does elsewhere. I have not see you put forward how initial acceptance has changed th
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by codexon 13y ago
I never brought up the argument that males are smarter than females. Why wouldn't you consider the possibility that most females don't want to sit in front of a screen all day with minimal social interaction often working 70 hour
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by codexon 13y ago
I don't follow this argument. You are suggesting that the rate of females leaving the major/school is exactly proportional to the grade they get. I don't believe anyone would quit a school/major because they scored a lit
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by codexon 13y ago
But how do you know that a 50/50 balance is even natural in engineering fields like CS? Why isn't there a 50/50 balance and other similar initiatives for males for female dominated subjects like nursing and education?
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by codexon 13y ago
It makes a difference to the male applicants that would've been accepted if there wasn't a bias.
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by codexon 13y ago
It doesn't need a citation, it is supported by Occam's razor while you are suggesting a complex explanation. How does Harvey Mudd magically close their gender gap as though they suddenly decided to stop discriminating against fema
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by codexon 13y ago
Citation needed. It is much more plausible that these engineering colleges have laxer requirements for females in order to get a 50/50 gender balance rather than public school discrimination.
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by codexon 13y ago
If there is a modifier with a variable number like ?,+,* you could just repeat it X times. For example if it is ? repeat 1 time, + repeat 2, * repeat 3 etc... If it is |, choose the first or choose randomly.
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by codexon 13y ago
It was a need that people had, but there was no chance of making a profit without the good will of Reddit users trying to help them get ad views and bury submissions from other image dumps. The founder also made a thread claiming it was a &
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by codexon 13y ago
But the question is: Would those other image dumps would have stopped putting in hotlink protection if they knew people would change back to non-direct links? Or is it because the founder of imgur told people he made imgur just to help Redd
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by codexon 13y ago
The reason why Imgur got so big was because all the other image upload providers started monetizing themselves by blocking direct links and limiting traffic. No one else wanted to be stuck with huge bandwidth bills on hard to monetize reddi
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by codexon 13y ago
How does this compare with pydev? http://pydev.org/
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by codexon 13y ago
Minecraft isn't exactly a very demanding game. Also 10 years ago Java was nowhere near as fast as it is now. If you are saying that Javascript might be an option 10 years from now, I am not disagreeing with you.
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by codexon 13y ago
It also stutters on my i5-750. Not exactly the newest CPU, but it runs every modern native game just fine.
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by codexon 13y ago
Why is that relevant? It is still a valid example of non-trivial game code.
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by codexon 13y ago
I think Javascript is too slow for 3d gaming. If you look at this HTML5/WebGL minecraft engine, it stutters even without any other players or bots in the environment. http://voxeljs.com/#gallery Meanwhile Minecraft run

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