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by greyfade 13y ago
I really can't stand any of the fonts I've found and tried. Every single one of them has an offensive appearance. The only font I can find that is both consistently readable at small sizes and doesn't drive me stark raving ma
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by greyfade 13y ago
The SCOTUS is the Constitutional Court. The problem is, they only hear cases where the Appellant can demonstrate standing. It's really hard to demonstrate standing when the matter at hand is so deeply classified that no proof of stan
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by greyfade 13y ago
Isn't this exactly what happened to Preston Tucker?
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by greyfade 13y ago
I just consider what code would be correct. Does it do the right thing? Is it concise and clear? Is it stable, given all expected inputs? I worry about optimization and all of the other details later.
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by greyfade 13y ago
For many years, the API incompatibility between OSS and ALSA made getting sound working at all was often a nightmarish task. There were a number of sound servers that tried to alleviate the problem, but they all used incompatible APIs and
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by greyfade 13y ago
Competition is good when it means better language support.
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by greyfade 14y ago
Indeed. By the Church-Turing Thesis, any program written for any Turing Machine (including any Turing-complete language) can be translated into the lambda calculus through a rote transformation.
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by greyfade 14y ago
In principle, no. They are laws of nature and therefore not subject to patentability.
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by greyfade 14y ago
Not personally, no. Other than Diehr and Flook , SCOTUS hasn't really dealt with software patents much at all. One of the dissenting justices in Bilski lamented the fact that they didn't deal with the wider issue of system and process
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by greyfade 14y ago
Actually, I should clarify a little: The more recent In re Bilski establishes that a rote process (like finding the length of the hypotenuse in your example) is not patentable. It requires a machine or a tangible transformation. That is,
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by greyfade 14y ago
If it were being used to create a measuring implement, perhaps. But yes, you've got the gist of it.
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by greyfade 14y ago
We never left 1971.
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by greyfade 14y ago
Mathematics are reasoned to be "a law of nature," and "abstract ideas," and so they are explicitly excluded as unpatentable subject matter under 35 USC 101. Algorithms are established to be mathematics under Case Law, particularly Chakraba
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by greyfade 14y ago
It was used in one of the early winners of the IOCCC: http://www.ioccc.org/1984/anonymous.c It's rumored to have been written by either Kernighan or Ritchie.
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by greyfade 14y ago
> As the article says, the technology for a return trip just doesn't exist; the technology for a series of one-way trips does. Implying that we won't come up with that technology by the time we get people there.
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by greyfade 14y ago
Honest transparency? They've announced the move quite clearly, and have even given a timeline for its shutdown. You can still access your data and export it through Google Takeout[1]. I don't see what's untrustworthy, dishonest, or non-tran
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by greyfade 14y ago
It was tried, IIRC, early in Firefox's development. It ended up being scrapped for some reason, and it didn't really work all that well. Opera has a feed reader, too, but I never really found it to be as usable as Thunderbird or Akregator (
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by greyfade 14y ago
I wouldn't say "intelligent design" was invented out of nowhere. It's an old (3000+ years old) concept. The name of it is new, but it's the same old tired dogma.
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by greyfade 14y ago
> a) Required a $99 purchase of an Ouya console to enter - EVEN THOUGH - Ouya is supposedly an Android based platform and any functioning Android game should be able to run on the Ouya. The Ouya runs an additional API that provides a ga
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by greyfade 14y ago
I wouldn't expect it to. I don't see how anyone can expect it to compete with the major consoles. It won't (not to say it can't, just that it simply won't) run any huge AAA game titles, so it's completely irrelevant on that level. I think
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by greyfade 14y ago
I'm not affiliated with them, but I know Naughty Dog, the developers behind the Uncharted series, Jak and Daxter, Crash Bandicoot, and the upcoming The Last of Us, have long used Lisp dialects in all their games. The game engine driving Unc
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by greyfade 14y ago
That will depend on who chooses to implement which. If hardware manufacturers choose H.265, VP9 and Daala will be marginalized purely because of performance concerns. If, on the other hand, VP9 or Daala can be implemented in hardware cheapl
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by greyfade 14y ago
This, I think, is what Daft Punk was born for.
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by greyfade 14y ago
The Happy Hacking Keyboard has a similar layout, with Esc in the upper-left where it belongs, Ctrl in the middle-left where it belongs, and tilde in top-right where it belongs. :)
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by greyfade 14y ago
When I google something, I want information that won't leave me running in circles while I figure out why it's not doing what the docs say it's supposed to do. I've had that happen with w3schools more often than any other resource. It's a w
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by greyfade 14y ago
I wouldn't say "improves on it." It certainly does bring a lot of really nice functional features to the table (oh, I love async and lambdas, and futures are such a nice tool to have), and it fixes a lot of problems that have plagued the la
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by greyfade 14y ago
It does have `std::async`, which is in the general direction of being close.
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by greyfade 14y ago
This is the indirect goal of the Nand2Tetris curriculum: http://www.nand2tetris.org/
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by greyfade 14y ago
If it's one of the best, that doesn't say much about what's out there. Giving students the wrong information (as w3schools frequently does) is worse than giving them no information at all. To say it's "one of the best" implies that the bar
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by greyfade 14y ago
... And obsolete. Bloodshed Dev-C++ hasn't seen one whit of activity in nearly 8 years (4 years at the time of the article's writing). I can't comprehend why people keep recommending it to anyone.

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