ectoplasm

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by ectoplasm 11y ago
> You're offended? So what. Not my problem, step away from the computer. Fortunately, you don't own GitHub.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Perhaps, but what makes it a nice place is the limits on how awful people can be.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Somewhat appropriately, your comment is against the rules of Hacker News. > Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity. edit: To reply without a reply link, you have
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
What privately-owned properties do you know of where the owner allows guests or customers to speak as freely as if they were on the sidewalk, without fear of recrimination from the owner in the form of censorship or ejection? I can think o
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
> Can we police ourselves fairly and achieve a society that is not offensive? Absolutely not. Hacker News is a pretty nice place.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
It's pedantic, yes, but on the other hand, I think it's important to distinguish between legal and illegal activity, regardless of one's opinions about the moral goodness of the activity itself.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
You didn't, OP implied it by using the term free speech.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Yes, you can eject someone from a store for being rude. Your ISP is not allowed to censor content (as far as I know) because it is a common carrier. Google is not a common carrier, they can do what they want. If Google can do it, GitHub c
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Unlike your ISP, GitHub is not a common carrier.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
OP used the term "free speech" which is a legal term that in the US refers to 1st amendment protections around expression. Well, free speech laws don't apply to me on your property. It is legal for you to tell me to shut up
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
> It is the selective censorship of certain reasonable uses of free speech that is concerning here. Free speech laws don't apply to corporate or private censorship. > Who decides what is and is not appropriate? The owners of the
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
> Users do not care about cross-platform compatibility, at all. I've heard that some users have both a phone and a laptop.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
I don't understand. I thought the timing attack was because the logic short circuits when it finds a non-match. How does the compiler short circuit the bitwise-or? At first I was thinking you could write the bits out to a separate wo
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Why can't you just set a bit for each non-match and then bitwise-or them all together, returning false if non-zero? I don't think a compiler can optimize that away.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Consider that if it was that useful, maybe they wouldn't have to try so hard to protect and advance it as a policy? It's common enough for bluster and bravado to mask weakness.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Maybe a small percentage of the time it generates useful information. You'd have to chase a lot of false leads but maybe they figured it was worth it.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Is that you Skynet?
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Yeah, you'd need a fully functional global judicial system that included a police force to make UN regulations stick.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
> Find It's mostly mental and possibly the m-word is what follows this. Yes this, pretty sure it kills any comment immediately.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Alright, I'll rephrase. There are a zillion differences, but with a couple of minor exceptions, there is very little C++-incompatible C that cannot be straightforwardly expressed as C++-compatible C. I mean, gcc -Wall even turns on -
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
nickpsecurity's reply is dead because he used the m-word.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
With a couple of minor exceptions, C++ is a superset of C.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
No disagreement on that one! If your application must be multi-threaded, it does make sense to write it in a language with proper multi-threading support.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
In general 54-bit signed ints are enough for games. Floats are more common for math.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
> Craigslist is like a shop open to shoppers. Craigslist is a lot more like a free classifieds paper. The ads are received, typed up, and printed out by some office somewhere, and the resulting compilation is distributed in unattended a
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Hey, don't worry about down votes, it's only internet points. I don't think strength is bad, but: you only have so many training hours and you might want to spend some of them on balance or flexibility instead. Further, it&#
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
That was one of my questions. If that's the issue, then why consider moving to OpenGL and SDL 2?
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
> Rippetoe is all about being strong, because being strong is better than being weak. Then again, too much strength competes with balance and flexibility.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Why don't you just stabilize everything and prepare to release a final polished version? Then, you can decide if you want to keep working, or if you want to stop and put the game in maintenance mode. Do you even have enough developer
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
I don't believe the population will stop growing, ever. I also don't believe that we will forever be able to break through resource walls with our technology. Maybe it takes 10000 years and a population of 500 billion, I just th

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