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by gspetr 10y ago
http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/09/john-carmack-on-developi... John Carmack, CTO of Oculus and programmer extraordinaire, to bring our TV user interface to the Gear VR headset. Well, honestly, John did most of th
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by gspetr 10y ago
In 2017 you may be right. In 2020? There will certainly be a business case once you get hit with an RCE in 2.7 because there will be no new security patches.
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by gspetr 10y ago
You sound like you've had some interesting experiences in the trenches, do you have a blog or something where you share your thoughts about the craft?
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https://choosealicense.com/
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by gspetr 10y ago
This unfortunately reminded me of Ian Murdock's (Debian founder) final tweets before he died under mysterious circumstances: http://archive.is/vBS6N I just hope the author does not take his life, his thoughts are barel
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by gspetr 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_B%C3%A1thory The stories of her serial murders and brutality are verified by the testimony of more than 300 witnesses and survivors as well as physical evidence and the presence
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by gspetr 10y ago
If this was an isolated case I'd give them the benefit of the doubt, but then there's also stuff like this, where they literally say it's illegal for you to possess the leaked emails but it's OK for the media: https:&#x
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by gspetr 10y ago
> Now maybe Obama knows something we don't, maybe he knows there really is damning information about Trump out there that just needs to find its way to the right hands. Makes no sense. If he did, a couple of months ago would have be
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by gspetr 10y ago
> Bin Laden is dead A kindergartener, compared to who runs the show in Middle East now. > we didn't start any new wars Only to see the age old religious ones reignite - Sunni IS, supported by disenfranchised Iraqi Sunnis vs Shia
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by gspetr 10y ago
They cheat in player's favor. http://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php?title=Chance_to_Hit_(EU20...
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by gspetr 10y ago
CNN is so corrupt it looks like a parody network. Their most egregious breach of ethics to date: On October 31, 2016, the New York Times reported: "CNN has severed ties with the Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, after hacked emails
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by gspetr 10y ago
How is Facebook, known to be biased[1] is going to "help alternative media"? This looks like a power play to regain smeared credibility under the guise of "people's platform". [1] https://www.washingtonpo
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by gspetr 10y ago
The elections are rigged. The Glorious Leader would probably still win his own election but his party would most certainly not. And after 2011 elections they've changed the Constitution to prolong their term and the President's te
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by gspetr 10y ago
> No Google, AppStore and Google Play means back to the 90s. You severely overestimate how dependent your average Russian is on these. Forget Google, etc. According to the most authoritative public opinion pollster, 58% of Russians would
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by gspetr 10y ago
Submarine detection methods have been steadily improving for a long time now, their usefulness is declining but they will still be viable for quite some time. A good discussion from 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/
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by gspetr 10y ago
Isn't this a contradiction in your own point? > throwing hardware at problems when you can't fix em in software DF's problems can be fixed in software, it's just that the creator chose not to. He likes spending his ti
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by gspetr 10y ago
I'll refer you to the original source where I picked up this trick: http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000393/ch01.htm... "Transforming and Reducing Data at the Same Time" I highly recomme
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by gspetr 10y ago
I saw another amusing one: "P = NP" over a t-shirt depicting that X-Files picture - "I want to believe".
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by gspetr 10y ago
Dwarf Fortress was discussed on HN a few times and even the author admitted that the code quality is bad and it's unoptimized. I don't think it's a compelling argument for CPU being the bottleneck when your example is an unop
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by gspetr 10y ago
Have you read this piece? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12773282 I've read multiple stories last year from devs trying to establish themselves on Upwork (Some I heard firsthand) and getting 0 leads even if they
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by gspetr 10y ago
IIRC Upwork prohibited simultaneous logging of hours on different projects (i.e. you could have different machines setup and log hours on project A and project B, running 2 clients with your 1 account, i.e. doing simultaneous work on both)
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by gspetr 10y ago
> Surgeons may not be replaced soon (even that I can debate) Which part would you like to debate? Is it the "soon" part or do you believe the Surgeon role will be gone entirely? Even with significant AI advances I'd argue
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by gspetr 10y ago
Does jwz have some kind of beef with HN these days? It seems I've been out of the loop on that?
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> you'll need to make a chatbot that is indistinguisable from a human over video chat This may sound cynical, but if you could arrange a tableau, looking like someone is paralyzed in a hospital environment, speaking like Stephen Haw
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by gspetr 10y ago
Because they refused to acknowledge the referendum and threatened violence?
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by gspetr 10y ago
From the article: result = [x for sublist in nested_list for x in sublist if x % 3 == 0] This explanation still confuses people initially. I suggest this one: result = [a for b in c for a in b if a % 3 == 0] Here it's
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by gspetr 10y ago
FYI: if you use list comprehension within a function or method that immediately consumes the resulting list, you can usually omit it altogether: subrange = {x for x in range(1, 101)} print '\n'.join(
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Math often provides a much easier and elegant solution to things: http://www.evanmiller.org/mathematical-hacker.html
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by gspetr 10y ago
I have not used networkx on anything serious, but this article lead me to believe that it is to be avoided, since the library missed obvious Python optimizations: https://mathieularose.com/choosing-the-right-data-structures.
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Your understanding of WW2 is lacking. It wasn't 2 bad guys who wanted to split Europe. Britain and France were totally on board with Hitler at first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement "The agreem

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