devinj

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by devinj 16y ago
Copyright is reserved unless explicitly given. That is, what you have said may be perfectly true, and Arrington could still be in the wrong. All they have to have done is to not give him explicit permission.
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by devinj 16y ago
Macros are better because of performance ? That's premature optimization if I ever saw it. OS-specific configuration / function definition is not going to be the performance bottleneck on pretty much any app I've seen. Maybe if you're writ
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by devinj 16y ago
You manually count references. It has plenty of the downsides of manual memory management, even if some silly technical distinction puts it into the camp of the vastly superior (in terms of programmer time) solutions offered by higher level
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by devinj 16y ago
My response was directed at a comment that claimed they said, "we are suing Apple because they sued us". In fact, they said "we're suing Apple to help our customers (etc.)!" which is much different. Your argument is less direct, and it does
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by devinj 16y ago
Well it's older than any game released in the past slightly-less-than-2.5-years, sure.
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by devinj 16y ago
"We are taking this action against Apple to protect [...] our customers"
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by devinj 16y ago
Actually, there is also some problem with Asperger's folks and empathy. They don't have a lot of it. This is a fairly well-known characteristic, and there are related things: only talking about things that interest you, that sort of thing.
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by devinj 16y ago
"guns don't kill people, the pauli exclusion principle kills people"
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by devinj 16y ago
It's not known to everybody, apparently. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writings_of_Herbert_Schildt
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by devinj 16y ago
"If all it takes to break a privacy system is for one of your friends to copy and repost your “private” photos or tweets then they’re not private at all." Maybe if you have shitty friends. Obviously limiting photos to being viewed only by f
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by devinj 16y ago
"When you see a photo on your desk, do you think “a file!” or do you think “a photo of my family!”?" The same applies to a .JPG file in my documents folder. I think "a photo". That last line ruined the article for me, because it made me rea
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by devinj 16y ago
Huh, whatever CMS he's using didn't enter in his HTML comment as, well, a comment. Up near the top of the article: ""
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by devinj 16y ago
Some of the Canadian/American computer-scientists I've spoken to say it as "tuh-ple", including Stephen Cook. I count them as mathematicians. Honestly the only person I've known to say toople is, uh, me.
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by devinj 16y ago
What did the researchers propose as a solution? The article doesn't mention any way around this.
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by devinj 16y ago
All those, and they couldn't even say which way "tuple" was supposed to be pronounced? I've been dying to know!
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by devinj 16y ago
Why does this matter? I get others IPs and send my IP all the time (e.g. IRC). If I was worried about my IP, I would use something like tor when doing everything. But worrying about IPs seems... silly An IP is just so uninformative, unless
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by devinj 16y ago
Isn't that how patents work? You have to pay up no matter who implements it, as long as it is patented? (copyright, on the other hand, depends on whether your implementation is a derivative work of or copies etc. their implemenation).
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by devinj 16y ago
Isn't that how patents work? You have to pay up no matter who implements it, as long as it is a patent? (copyright, on the other hand, depends on whether your implementation is a derivative work of or copies etc. their implemenation).
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by devinj 16y ago
I didn't think it was that bad. I mean, yes, there are lots of details, but it is not absolutely necessary to remember all of them. You can in fact skim over the things you don't understand quite, they won't affect the plot too much (a mi
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by devinj 16y ago
"the experience" is hardly the same thing as "the server component". Even so, this breaks down: this effect is (as you have noted) not just limited to MMOs. It actually applies to all games/services that use some kind of centralized network
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by devinj 16y ago
"can't"? There are private server instances for World of Warcraft, actually.
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by devinj 16y ago
It applies to me, and I'm in Canada.
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by devinj 16y ago
I just thought it meant he was insane. I don't understand why he used his hands first on the experiment, with or without water. He could have used anything else-- something not attached to him .
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by devinj 16y ago
I thought it was fairly obviously not meant to be taken seriously.
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by devinj 16y ago
Surely the ability to be nasty and get away with it encourages nastiness by removing the negative reinforcement towards being "nice", thus making society nastier?
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by devinj 16y ago
I definitely heard the term "database", so I think I'd know that much.
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by devinj 16y ago
Right. But the bit where they don't give it to Apple immediately makes it theft. Which is worse, buying stolen property, or stealing property? If they couldn't be accused of the former, they would be accused of the latter. You seem to forge
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by devinj 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_image#Wiggle_stereoscopy from the article: "Wiggling works for the same reason that a translational pan (or tracking shot) in a movie provides good depth information: the visual cortex is able to infer dist
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by devinj 16y ago
Yeah, I want to know why they're there too.
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by devinj 16y ago
I lived in countries other than that of my birth for most of my life. Understandably, I think, this has given me a very different appreciation. I mean, what's a "foreign" country, anyway? Is it one different than the one you're raised in? Y

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