hacker_9

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811.
by hacker_9 11y ago
Did you just compare C++ to JS/CSS/HTML?? C++ as old as it is, is still leagues ahead of JS. Honestly was this a joke post?
812.
by hacker_9 11y ago
You are comparing to JS, as if this is a good thing?
813.
by hacker_9 11y ago
You speak as if web tech was made by the smartest people, and is cutting edge or something? The web is just politics. It is a total failure of technology - in fact, failure built upon failure - and yet it keeps it's head above the wate
814.
by hacker_9 11y ago
I think you meant people keep writing JS libraries, constantly. Why? Because they are flawed at their core - they use JS.
815.
by hacker_9 11y ago
Web components bring nothing new to the table. They simply copy the ideas from the desktop world, warts and all. I would have hoped after decades of GUI research the web would try something new, but why innovate when you can just copy right
816.
by hacker_9 11y ago
There is no solution here. Who decides what I can and cannot declare with the select? If it's not me, then how will this other body of control make sure to include all possibilities in their API, which satisfy my requirements that even
817.
by hacker_9 11y ago
I can understand getting in someones head, and trying to think as they do. But hearing their voice, and seeing them, and talking to them and they reply like a separate person? I'm not so sure about that..
818.
by hacker_9 11y ago
This seems fairly obvious, we don't use English to communicate to ourselves to move our fingers over the keyboard for example, or breath, or do any movements. Even visualizing stuff in the 'minds eye' doesn't require lan
819.
by hacker_9 11y ago
You're not wrong; every title on that page is crying out for a video! The images in the papers seem to have been taken from animated models too :( Plus it would give a lot more context to the reader and really display how good the algo
820.
by hacker_9 11y ago
we don't know how to make computers understand ambiguities, that is the problem. Yacc always selecting the first option isn't necessarily right nor how we would solve the problem, we choose the option that makes the most 'sen
821.
by hacker_9 11y ago
Any specifics as to what you mean? How it was more elegant that a more mainstream language?
822.
by hacker_9 11y ago
Joesb if anything you are proving my point! As another human you saw large ambiguities in my instructions but could still figure out 1. the problems (you knew no one would clone the square infinitely as it wouldn't 'make sense&#x2
823.
by hacker_9 11y ago
Interesting that the Wolfram Language is very much a LISP dialect, with the syntax swizzled a bit here and there to be a bit more human readable. Also his Riffle example is thinking about the problem the wrong way round. It looks like he tr
824.
by hacker_9 11y ago
Whilst it's nice to think in separate concepts such as 'physics' and 'rendering', in reality all these things are tightly coupled together in code. For example collisions inform physics which informs collisions whic
825.
by hacker_9 11y ago
How was this ever approved!
826.
by hacker_9 11y ago
Well, no, the term 'type inference' is used to describe var. See here for more: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/479883/how-good-is-the-c-...
827.
by hacker_9 11y ago
Did you even read the article? OP says in the second paragraph OCaml includes many features that are not available in the more mainstream programming languages listed above , which included C#. My post was to show that C# does in fact have
828.
by hacker_9 11y ago
When I think of 'pattern matching' I think of some complex idea like brain-level parsing of text to an AST via matching of syntax patterns. But what OCaml pattern-matching really is is just the equivalent of a C# switch statement,
829.
by hacker_9 11y ago
I'm not a user of OCaml, but here is a counter-argument for C#: First-class functions C# has closures, and can pass function pointers with delegates. -- immutability is the default Mutability can be a useful tool in some situation
830.
by hacker_9 11y ago
Personally I just used to use the built in timer with my phone and do 30min sessions. But these days I have far more success with just sitting without a timer. I recommend doing it at night where you can do this unbounded by anything.
831.
by hacker_9 11y ago
I struggled for a long time too in the beginning. Mainly I would get bored. I finally broke though that plateau though by realizing boredom was just another thought passing through my mind that I could observe, instead of be a part of. You
832.
by hacker_9 11y ago
I have tried headspace before although found it's constant notifications to be quite annoying. If it makes you put in the time though then great, but the reason I mentioned 2+ years was because these things take time to become good at,
833.
by hacker_9 11y ago
I've been meditating for over 2 years now and can tell you you definitely do not need to pay for an app to do it. "One of the more challenging problems in learning to meditate is remembering to do it." I do it every night b
834.
by hacker_9 11y ago
1. By having a single platform to target, developers can focus on the actual gameplay and a better game. Supporting all PC configurations is a nightmare. 2. Piracy - consoles are locked down so fairness ensues and devs get paid when someone
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Many good games do not use unity/unreal, as whilst they are packed with features, they are at their core flawed. Many people build their engines tailored to their game, in order to get the best performance. In those cases it is 'e
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by hacker_9 11y ago
I think achieving step 1 of even finding intelligent life is good enough for most people. We can work on the comms later.
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Yea that makes more sense. Pretty cool use of the current state of the tech.
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by hacker_9 11y ago
The service works like this: The homeowner takes several pictures of the space they want to decorate — ideally a photo from each of the room’s corners. Then, these photos are uploaded to Modsy after which the homeowner takes a style quiz a
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by hacker_9 11y ago
It's known and accepted in the UK you can't drink/smoke when pregnant. It's social taboo. I've never seen it in the UK.
840.
by hacker_9 11y ago
I would have thought all living creatures with ears would assign the same meaning to loud/quiet or long/short sounds (i.e. loud sounds are more important as they signify a big predator, or a large object running/falling nearb

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