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by extension 14y ago
I can understand the rationale for coercing strings to numbers for an operation that is not valid on strings, but coercing strings to numbers just because it's possible is clearly a terrible idea. It's like they looked at JavaScript and d
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by extension 14y ago
Is there any plausible way an organism could survive an explosion with the power of a million nukes and a million years floating in space?
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by extension 15y ago
We can extract a little bit of parallelism that way, but nothing even close to the scale of what a GPU does.
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by extension 15y ago
How would you distribute the work of a virtual machine? It has to execute instructions in sequence, just like a non-virtual machine. Any parallelism needs to be extracted at a much higher level of algorithmic abstraction, i.e. by a programm
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by extension 15y ago
I find it strangely unsettling that if I die, my Minecraft clan will never know what happened to me. I'll just vanish one day. They will spend some time trying to contact me but probably won't make a connection with anybody who can tell the
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by extension 15y ago
Well, since the code is left-to-right, and the editor is presumably as wide as the longest line, the content will tend to be skewed to the left. By putting the editor pane on the right, you reduce the average distance between the code and t
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by extension 15y ago
If there's a 3cm air gap, why don't they just go in from the top/bottom/sides? And did they really drill holes in Vasari's fresco, or just use a neutron thingy, like the NY Times articles says? If there are holes, can't they just shove a
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by extension 15y ago
I'll say it again: Apple was not the first to invent the tablet, they were the last , and that is precisely why they succeeded.
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by extension 15y ago
This is what operator overloading is for. If equals() should always be used to compare objects then == should call it.
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by extension 15y ago
If the CG doesn't make you squirm then the subject matter will, so it may not have been the best choice for demonstrating the absence of revulsion.
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by extension 15y ago
The search results strongly suggest that they have a reputation as the site of a disaster.
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by extension 15y ago
If you want a client coupled to a specific service then you don't want REST, you want a classic client-server architecture, which is more or less the antithesis of REST. But everyone insists on calling it REST when it goes over HTTP, then t
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by extension 15y ago
This is a massive problem on YouTube right now. Essentially, there are a few large troll operations that abuse Google's "Content ID" system to steal ad revenues from random accounts, while Google shows no interest in fixing the system or sh
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by extension 15y ago
The feeling of movement simply isn't reported by nerves Bzzt... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioception
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by extension 15y ago
To what extent is a third party allowed to assist a claimant in small claims court? If someone were to start a business that made it as easy as possible for people to take AT&T to court...
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by extension 15y ago
With the exception of spiders and other AI-like things, no, we are not expecting clients to spontaneously consume RESTful services in meaningful ways. REST clients are generic. They don't know anthing about specific services, thus allowing
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by extension 15y ago
What's the difference?
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by extension 15y ago
The problem with this is it conflates expertise with wanting to play little karma games. They may (sadly) be equivalent on StackOverflow, but in some fields I imagine the experts have better things to do. The wiki would start to reflect exp
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by extension 15y ago
It makes sense to me. Going with the majority opinion is the only way to have stable content. Trying to resolve controversy on Wikipedia is what would actually destroy it. Democracy can cause horrible injustice, but we've learned from histo
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by extension 15y ago
Facebook only knows the contacts that match i.e. are already on Facebook. And that's exactly what the user wanted to find out. It's true that they could store the hashes and build a graph of mystery contacts, but that's still not as bad as
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by extension 15y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmS3LgfdT7E That is one hot and noisy job.
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by extension 15y ago
Do we even know how to render reality? If we can do it at 1/2000th of real time then somebody should have made a prerendered animation that looks real by now, but I've never seen one. And if we don't know how to do it, how do we know what G
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by extension 15y ago
The conundrum is that you can't define a canonical inheritance relationship between square and rectangle or mammal and cat because the relationship depends entirely on how you are using these concepts in your program. Making them immutable
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by extension 15y ago
I just mean that first you need to figure out how your engine is going to work -- what actual code you are going to write -- then go about organizing that code into an object model. A physics engine will have classes for the things it cares
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by extension 15y ago
Use traits and you get this for free, without implementing all the plumbing yourself. Inheritance has its place in game dev though. It's just that your hiearchy needs to be designed in the space of what you are actually building: not vehicl
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by extension 15y ago
It could be great propaganda if the Pirate Bay just did everything themselves. Add the button for any torrents where they know for sure how to send money to the copyright holder, and just send them a cheque in the mail. And of course, make
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by extension 15y ago
So it does. Though it also has garbage collection, which likely prevents the kind of memory leaks that crash most iOS apps in the first place. And does it let the browser use swap? Because iOS doesn't, so web pages can crash it about as eas
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by extension 15y ago
I wouldn't hold my breath. For the most part, if a developer can't be bothered to clean up their memory manually then they probably can't be bothered to use ARC properly. It's not trivial: http://longweekendmobile.com/2011/09/07/objc-autom
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by extension 15y ago
It really irks me when crashes are made out to be the result of user actions, or some inescapable act of god. Excepting the very rare hardware fault, crashes are caused by a programmer error . PERIOD. That is all that really matters from t
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by extension 15y ago
It's not easy to crack a safe, but doing so does not entitle you to the contents.

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