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by goldfeld 13y ago
I kinda wish Jimmy Wales would run one of his intrusive fundraising banners on behalf of WikiLeaks on this last week of open donations. That'd be hard for the US to crack down on Wikipedia in retaliation without digging itself into an
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by goldfeld 13y ago
What if each tile had a different attrition score (not necessarily making movement slower but e.g. consuming more resources in a game)? Would that conceptually be the be same as edge weights and thus more fit for A*?
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by goldfeld 13y ago
However I'd think they can still do far more with direct dollars/euro they receive, especially since they should have hands tied for options of converting Bitcoin to dollars. As more of the services and goods that represent their
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by goldfeld 13y ago
One other minor nit: I think the usage video on github is way fast, I can't read what's being done and takes a few replays to understand what's going on, plus all that fast movement is actually distracting (a bit headache ind
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You can donate to WikiLeaks until July 1(wikileaks.org)
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by goldfeld 13y ago
That's my thought . But I guess there's a way for him in working together with Assange from now on, thus keeping a high profile.
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by goldfeld 13y ago
The immediate use for some might be setting up a tutorial to teach Lua in the browser[1]. However I wonder how these guys were doing it[2]. [1]: http://kripken.github.io/lua.vm.js/repl.html [2]: http://repl.
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by goldfeld 13y ago
I think we should be incentivizing open source software and infrastructure that promotes peer-based architectures and descentralization of the control over data, for a start. How is open source going to displace Google as the search leader?
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Whoa, they'd rather do a thousand as many baloons as whatever amount they're doing now, than that last part of your post. That's, you know, core business.
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Been eyeing Coq for a while, and this is fascinating and motivating for me to take it up (well, after Rust, Clojure and Racket, that is.) Can anyone point me toward projects or tutorials where Coq's proofs are used to build great pract
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by goldfeld 13y ago
'But he told Post reporter Lana Lam: "I'm neither traitor nor hero. I'm an American."' Boy was that wannabe superman.
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Opposing a strong US tech industry seems like a better bet for non-americans righ row. If the tech world were distributed across nations in a more balanced way the public would have more leverage today.
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by goldfeld 13y ago
"Why aren't more companies like Amazon? EOM"
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by goldfeld 13y ago
I don't see FirefoxOS as the mobile OS for "Firefox users." It transcends the choice of browser in my opinion, it becomes something grander (as in Web standards native apps, and standing for freedom in the mobile market, much as Mozilla has
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by goldfeld 13y ago
I'm reaching a point where I can consider myself at home with VimScript (moreso the bigger investment has been on the built-in vim functions and not on the language proper), and I'm becoming increasingly active within the Vim community. I c
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Being a lover of hex grids for strategy games and just about to set out to learn canvas along with Parenscript in order to create games, which will probably eventually have me rolling out my own naive implementation of half the world of gam
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Lovely to see Racket being used. Given the pure meta-ness of Racket hopefully ydiff will not only evolve into a full-fledged version control system but a completely configurable one at that, akin to the power of Emacs and it's Lisp. Having
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Wonderful, one more language for me to consider in addition to Roy and Parenscript. I guess there's also Whalesong for Racket, but I don't know how clean the cross compilation to JS is. I've always been drawn to Clojure but the JVM kept me
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by goldfeld 13y ago
All my programming life has been in higher-level languages, yet with Rust I'm being inexplicably drawn to down and dirty systems programming. It's cool to finally be able to use :make and all the C-oriented things like [i and ]i, ctags and
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by goldfeld 13y ago
I have been thinking for a while that what I get the most out of Facebook are events. But it's a poorly featured platform. Now take events (and local and mobile) and create a platform for checking what's hot right now. But don't focus on cl
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by goldfeld 13y ago
I think the house party analogy is very apt, almost too much. I love house parties precisely for the 'crashing into a new environment' feeling, where you get to meet friends of friends of friends in a relaxed and non-creepy way. Indeed brin
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Welcome to the web, where you get an easy hosting service like Heroku without paying a dime and then complain about how you need to put some effort to hack the system so you can continue to pay nothing.
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Yes, there's Designer News[1], an elitist version of HN caught up in as much controversy[2] as in low traffic volumes. [1]: http://news.layervault.com [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5331766
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Right after the tightly thought out keybindings, I think the greatest value offering in vim is the documentation. It's extremely comprehensive, and being fairly conversant in Vimscript I know I could develop plugins without internet at all,
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by goldfeld 13y ago
The notion that programming languages would accumulate more syntax as the discipline of software engineering matures and more conventions become universal, while appealing to me personally, is, in my opinion, naive. These times are not like
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Same here. And it's even more intriguing for me that it seems to match a lot of my own current game design aesthetics (namely the idea of simple, very low pixel graphics but with high-end light and particle effects). What's more, when bro
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by goldfeld 13y ago
From my understanding CoffeeScript's '?' operator does exactly this, as in foo = bar ? baz
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Thanks for this. It's a humbling comment that puts reality into perspective: there are several ethical and moral challenges we coders are gonna be put through in this century, far, far removed from the Silicon Valley bubble and it's love of
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by goldfeld 13y ago
No one likes waking up in the morning. Not true at all. I may be completely backwards, but I LOVE waking up in the morning. The original article also seemed pretty sure that NOBODY likes to wake at 3am. Are you kidding me? Nothing makes m
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by goldfeld 13y ago
It may be relevant in the context of their recent and controversial acquisition by Facebook, which many took to mean that Parse's future was at odds, or at least would be taken in questionable directions (e.g. making data available to Faceb

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