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by drostie 15y ago
Maybe. It's worth pointing out that the PhD Movie was actually released many months ago, has already screened in many college campuses, and is now receiving a buzz of revived interest from us today. So this isn't t = 0 but t = 1, in the app
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by drostie 15y ago
Well, no. Given your number of customers as a function of price D(p), you aren't necessarily trying to maximize p D(p). It's not completely obvious, but in principle you can get ∫ D(p) dp out of those people, if everyone paid what they were
843.
by drostie 15y ago
Ah. So it's a sort of Big Software Syndrome type thing -- "we could do it in a more intuitive way for new people, but it would break all of these existing programmers who learned it the less intuitive way, so let's leave it the original way
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by drostie 15y ago
This is also an important point because it strikes me that as I play this game I am learning that as an antipattern. Perhaps I should just stick with not-vim.
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by drostie 15y ago
After seeing many responses which contain many paragraphs, I tried to condense this one down as short as possible: Readers may find it interesting to reflect that this question, "is it okay to want to make money?", is not really much of a q
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by drostie 15y ago
On a side note, several times when playing through the game I noticed that my motions weren't working, and traced it back to this: that for me, the home row is jkl; and not hjkl. I don't know very much about vim -- is there a reason that yo
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by drostie 15y ago
Like I said above, one of the WTFs is "Meanwhile, you have a 'deduction' -- an amount of money that you're allowed to deduct from your return as if you'd never gotten it in the first place." So that's deductions. You don't get the money ba
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by drostie 15y ago
Oh, that's easy. Just don't make more than a couple thousand dollars, then your standard deduction in the US system will be greater than your income. ^_^ (Of course, the IRS doesn't actually let their forms go negative.)
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by drostie 15y ago
The left side is correct for a very particular reason: things on the left can be lined up into nice little columns, where it's easier for your eye to visually ignore them if it doesn't care. I think you might be right, though, about the wei
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by drostie 15y ago
Well, that can to some extent be expected -- trying to describe a progressive taxation algorithm can be much more messy than just saying, "here, look it up." There are much more important WTFs. For example, there are two different tax rates
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by drostie 15y ago
He also delivers the talk in some videos accessible from http://www.cattell.net/book.htm . Edit: except the second link he provides doesn't seem to refer properly anymore and the first link has a very long load time, if it loads at all --
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by drostie 15y ago
I initially shrugged and said "gee, another programming language," but as I've been looking, I just see more and more to squee about. They aren't the decisions I'd have made but they're good decisions. The inlined state stuff especially loo
853.
by drostie 15y ago
Well, I'm stating a basic constraint of physics: you have to carry around this much energy and it will require this much mass. You're making a certain assumption about the kind of engine and its exhaust velocity, and finding that there'
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by drostie 15y ago
Well that'd be a nice thing about relativity: from the point of view of the beamer, of course they're receding at a constant distance and their surface area decays like 1/t^2. ^_^
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by drostie 15y ago
Man, and I thought it was bad when I set in motion a 3 hour computation and lose it due to a bug in the code that writes the results to disk. At least it doesn't set me back $15k to redo the computation...
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by drostie 15y ago
Well, no; there's two problems now. The first one is that your browser will handle click events on invisible and near-invisible layers. The second one is that your browser will allow click events to flow through opaque and near-opaque layer
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by drostie 15y ago
Yeah, sorry if that was misleading. I wrote something to this effect and then pulled it out: "You're sort of right -- since rapidities are linear in relativity one also has v/c = tanh(a t / c), γ = cosh(a t / c), and that's in principle an
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by drostie 15y ago
It looks like a bunch of us have had the same idea for Node.js. I wrote for example this: https://github.com/drostie/ducky/blob/master/promises.js I've abandoned it at this point for a very particular reason: operators don't work well in
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by drostie 15y ago
For those who haven't used GIMP, the big fix of single window mode is probably one of the most important steps they're taking. I have occasionally used the fact that I can stack the windows atop each other for hiding purposes, but much more
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by drostie 15y ago
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by drostie 15y ago
Constant 1g acceleration makes nearby galaxies accessible, nevermind nearby solar systems. "Break physics" is relative -- things which can be allowed by the laws of physics can be so humanly implausible as to be useless to discuss. I mean
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by drostie 15y ago
I had this idea in high school! I thought it wouldn't work in the desert though, or surely it would already have been tried. Basically, we were reading about just how difficult it is to get water out of saltwater in coastal communities, and
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by drostie 15y ago
Well if it's not about what we are using now but what will teach a kid to know roughly how big some numbers are, we could always ban calculators in favor of slide rules. What I mean, I guess, is that calculators are by their nature suppos
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by drostie 15y ago
The best reference I can show for the general programming model was a blog post which is not in G, but was called "Why Concatenative Programming Matters": http://evincarofautumn.blogspot.com/2012/02/why-concatenativ... which shows you how
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by drostie 15y ago
Just to answer your question with regards to (2): Suppose I open up LibreOffice Calc, and my first row gets the values "c", "x", "y" in that order, as labels for three columns. The second row gets the values 2, -2, 0. The third row gets the
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by drostie 15y ago
There's an aspect of that, too. I'm especially influenced by the circuit diagrams in G, the language which you program in when using LabVIEW. Basically most of the system, except for loops, looks like one big circuit. (Since loops are ugly
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by drostie 15y ago
(1) You're right, I should have explained that more. I wanted to contrast this with something like "spreadsheets today have a datum-flow model" but a nice phrasing didn't come to me and I posted without remembering to insert the missing sen
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by drostie 15y ago
Spreadsheets would be nicer if they had a coherent dataflow model. Some spreadsheet programs do this automatically, but it could be a great place for a visual programming language too. One ugly pattern that I'm often doing is to set a colum
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by drostie 15y ago
There is perhaps a lesson here. Hopkins said it this way[1]: Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals out that being indoors each one dwells ...and he then calls for humanity to rise above this standard case. It is
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by drostie 15y ago
I like this idea but I think the design needs to be pretty drastically rethought. Node.js is not really the right medium for this sort of test, although it might function as a first barrier for screening the interested; "you must be able to

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