epsylon

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by epsylon 13y ago
I for one think that the for comprehension syntax is more readable, especially when you start iterating over multiple sets.
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by epsylon 13y ago
> I agree about the pile of EE stuff, but it's not unlike having to learn a pile of math to work on, say, graphics If you're thinking about CGI, honestly I'd say that the maths really isn't that hard. Most of it is ba
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by epsylon 13y ago
> But you see new games such as Demon's Souls/Dark Souls use similar negative-reinforcement techniques to create truly engaging experiences that some people find fun and addicting. In fact, Dark Souls teaches you patience . Yo
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by epsylon 13y ago
> Shooters have autoaim Only on consoles, though. > For example, Ryse: Son of Rome, that was revelaed for XBox One an E3, looks really great visually, but the gameplay seems more or less like Simon Says. You as the player are included
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by epsylon 13y ago
Nitpick: DotA has existed for a while now, nearly 10 years. I remember playing the imbalanced 5.5x versions somewhere around 2004. The modern versions of DotA were the 6x, started in 2005, and they are basically the basis for all modern Dot
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by epsylon 13y ago
This should be titled "Why I am no longer part of the skeptic community". I find many of his claims absolutely ludicrous, with broad generalizations, personal attacks, and failure to recognize what he criticizes in his own argumen
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by epsylon 13y ago
I don't remember any specific issues about extending the Vélib outside Paris, but perhaps I didn't pay attention too much. Can you develop ? I don't thing centralizing things more than they are today would significantly impro
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by epsylon 13y ago
If you are surprised about the access requests when authenticating on GitHub. It seems like they couldn't ask for less than "all your public repos". (as amirmc mentioned, check out the FAQ : http://www.realworldoca
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by epsylon 13y ago
There has been actually a few actions by some local associations to squat vacant buildings in Paris. One of the most famous of these squat was Rue de la Banque , nearby the prestigious Place de la Bourse , which owes its name to the Palai
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by epsylon 13y ago
I live just nearby Paris (in Issy-les-moulineaux) and I do vote for a mayor, just not the mayor of Paris. I also vote for a few local representatives (département, canton and région). Representation isn't a problem, since many projects
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by epsylon 13y ago
Salaries in Oslo are much higher than in Paris.
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Real World OCaml(realworldocaml.org)
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by epsylon 13y ago
There is no single "Linux", nor there is a single "Thinkpad". I have Ubuntu 12.04 on my Lenovo W500 and it works flawlessly. Everything worked out of the box — including graphics, wifi and ethernet, touchpad, ACPI keys a
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by epsylon 13y ago
> And DDG's TTY mode is pretty awesome: https://duckduckgo.com/tty/ How does one find this kind of hidden features? I haven't seen it advertised anywhere except on HN.
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by epsylon 13y ago
It's a moot argument since we do not live in the past. The context has changed, technology has advanced, and we don't have to replicate strictly identically the structures of the past.
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by epsylon 13y ago
> I see this is scary. At the same time this is something we collectively want. That's what early adopters want, but for the rest of us...
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by epsylon 13y ago
For the lazy, here's the song mentioned: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QspuCt1FM9M This was created using paulstretch [1], a program to transform normal audio using extreme stretches. I've tried it on a few songs
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by epsylon 13y ago
http://di.fm is great for electronic music, they've got plenty of channels. Try also searching youtube, and if you find anything you like, use the "youtube mix", it's automatically generated but usually conta
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by epsylon 13y ago
His Hugo-winning, perhaps most famous novel, "Stand On Zanzibar" also deals a bit as well with surveillance, terrorism and authoritarism (among others). A great read that manages to stay hugely relevant today. I'd definitely
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by epsylon 13y ago
But non-US citizens can liberally have their basic human rights denied. 12 years after 9/11. That's the land of the free for you. (Looking at how Bradley Manning was treated even shows that US citizens aren't treated much bet
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by epsylon 13y ago
I'll also add that democracy does not imply elections. Actually, in Athenian democracy, decision makers were elected through sortition [1] (drawing of lots). They considered elections to be the very mark of an oligarchic system, wh
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by epsylon 13y ago
> The U.S. didn't charge him with that. Nope, they got Sweden to do it for them.
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by epsylon 13y ago
And, above all, end-to-end cryptography doesn't protect you against traffic analysis, which is what the NSA is doing with this metadata (which allows them to choose targets subject to a full blown surveillance).
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by epsylon 13y ago
It's also useful to try and downsize, or even completely sacrifice the time spent on twitter, reddit, HN, ... As far as I'm concerned, these tend to represent a big chunk of my free time.
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by epsylon 13y ago
And which book is that? edit: I'm guessing "The Garbage Collection handbook", by Richard Jones et al. Looks like an interesting read.
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by epsylon 13y ago
It's very easy to spot the difference for anyone, even the uninitiated. Just launch your favorite first person shooter, and rotate the view very quickly. Of course the game needs to be running at framerates above 60 FPS, and with v-sync off
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by epsylon 13y ago
KeePass with KeeFox can automatically fill in login forms with Firefox. I imagine that they have plugins for other browsers as well. I use it on Windows and Linux and synchronize the DB using dropbox as well.
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by epsylon 13y ago
Try Dan Boneh's crypto course on coursera [1]. It covers quite a lot of ground, both practical and theoretical, and includes programming exercises similar to the matasano puzzles. Without a doubt it's one of the best courses of the dozen MO
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by epsylon 13y ago
It's funny they don't mention the reason why the people in picture #11 wear these weird masks. In China, tanned skin is the distinctive sign of low-status people (farmers who work outside). Paleness is seen on the other hand as a sign of be
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by epsylon 13y ago
Well, Emacs isn't a text editor then.

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