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by echaozh 14y ago
If it's 4 0.00000000001/0.00000000001, things may be different. But since it's just 4 0.1/0.1, why not just use round()? With such small error, round() should produce 4.
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by echaozh 14y ago
I don't even think medicines should be patented. I think government should fund the R&D and then let all companies manufacture and sell it at a low price. Then it is even better than medicare. The government can sell the production meth
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by echaozh 14y ago
1. Big companies should be less well protected, or there may be a monopoly. Intel is innovative, but it has to tolerate AMD using its instruction set. Big companies is much more dangerous than small ones, you don't want them to dominate you
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by echaozh 14y ago
Elm is actually self-hosting by your standard. If the average IQ of the world population is higher, I　think Haskell will become a widely-used language. Haskell is a language much more than its syntax, and takes a lot of effort to learn.
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by echaozh 14y ago
I think putting the burden onto the applicant makes a lot of sense. The applicant is the one with the more information concerning the patent, why shouldn't he explain the obviousness first? The applicant should talk more about the decisions
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by echaozh 14y ago
I think it is very reasonable, if the author also writes the documentation, which is the only way to get to know about the software.
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by echaozh 15y ago
I agree. Users are always right, even for open source software. Requiring the users to change their way is an easy way to lose them. A major player like Facebook willing to use Git is a good thing, as it may help spread the software in comp
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by echaozh 15y ago
Stop talking about "natural" sleep cycles or "natural" diet. Stop talking about how the homo sapiens evolved into sleeping or eating like this. I personally think our unwillingness to move away from our evolved instincts is the reason why w
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by echaozh 15y ago
I don't know if it counts as invention, but surely we've seen such technologies in science fiction movies like the Minority Report. The idea must have existed before.
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Harlan Ellison Sues Claiming Fox's 'In Time' Rips Off Sci-Fi Story(hollywoodreporter.com)
5 points by echaozh 15y ago|2 comments
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by echaozh 15y ago
Actually, what if there is a hell only because so many people believe so and we go to hell because they believe/hope so? Would they stop believing so other people could enjoy a more peaceful afterlife?
222.
by echaozh 16y ago
It's still C++0x though. The x is now officially B.
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by echaozh 16y ago
Perhaps C++ will finally become a scripting language. So you don't get to complain about the compilation cost. Seriously, I think it's too much trick to do meta-programming in the language. If meta-programming should be allowed, it should b
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by echaozh 16y ago
Microblogging sites in China are thriving, much better than SNS sites (IMHO). I often come to wonder why FB is worth so much more than twitter. Could this actually be one of the cases when copycats win over the original?
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by echaozh 16y ago
Have you seen http://beebole.com/pure/ before?
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by echaozh 16y ago
At least he admits what's real. We know the system doesn't work here in China, but they won't admit it. They even force people to think the opposite.
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Ubuntu drops support for ia64 and sparc(lists.ubuntu.com)
2 points by echaozh 16y ago|0 comments
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by echaozh 16y ago
It totally makes sense. You should also be able to choose to use more than one socket (but not so many as there are clients), in case you still want to take advantage of all the cores available.
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by echaozh 16y ago
If I have to iterate over all the objects in a container and erase some of them, I always push the keys/indices into another deque first. And then the deque is iterated through to remove those items from the original set (in the reverse ord
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by echaozh 16y ago
Perhaps not the source code, but definitely the detailed design with a lot of diagrams. And a working prototype.
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by echaozh 16y ago
People can actually switch back to "green threads" if pthread implementation is not satisfiable. However, green thread implementations like Erlang are even less popular (by my guess).
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by echaozh 16y ago
It's like saying the assembly language is much more scalable than a higher level languages. Separating the meaning from the sound is like naming variables with meaningless short combination of letters.
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by echaozh 16y ago
I always have the idea that the westerners are more aggressive because they use knife on the dinner table. If you cut your own food, and sometimes see blood dripping out from it, you tends to think making others bleed is more or less a plea
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by echaozh 16y ago
Writes can be faster if you don't have to write through to a slower media; also it would be faster if you can append to the end rather than seek to a specific location. Seeking takes up the majority of the time spent doing disk IO (not talk
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by echaozh 16y ago
If you can only reach them via radio, while they can reach you by starships, you're doomed all the same, being the first to reach the other side. The problem is, they may have already been reached by us, it's just that we don't know yet.
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by echaozh 17y ago
I think it's quite ridiculous. If I buy a map, can I use it to be a guide, giving people directions and make a living? If I buy a story book, can I use it to read to children and collect money from their parents? Or, if I spend some time to
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by echaozh 17y ago
I am able to support billions of cells inside me. Everyone who lives can be proud of that. Doing what one must do is not something that's worth bragging about. Especially when they didn't quite do that: free speech is more a must have than
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by echaozh 17y ago
And who says they could?
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by echaozh 17y ago
I think the logic is sound. Miracles don't always happen, and anything miraculous deserves at least some suspicion. The price of real estate has tripled, while the GDP hasn't. Clearly, not all the people can afford the price.
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by echaozh 17y ago
Few people would come back and add the sensation back. If they do, they must have thought about it and been more rational.

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