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by jcl 17y ago
Presumably it's: start several blogs, and make money via advertisements, referrals, and e-books. The two sites linked in the article prominently advertise self-made books: http://www.reactivehypoglycemia.info/ http://www.statisticshowto.
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by jcl 17y ago
That way people could express their true preferences without fearing that their vote will not count if it goes to a fringe candidate Isn't that exactly what instant-runoff voting solves?
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Puppy Linux (on which Thnake is based) recommends thumb drive, although it sounds like mounted hard drives or network storage are also feasible: http://puppylinux.org/main/index.php?file=Overview%20and%20G...
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(spoiler alert)
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Reminds me of Feynman's "The Value of Science" speech: "For instance, the scientific article says, perhaps, something like this: "The radioactive phosphorus content of the cerebrum of the rat decreases to one-half in a period of two weeks."
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by jcl 17y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if that is exactly what this book is doing. The full book title is: "Stack (data structure): Abstract Data Type, Data Structure, Friedrich L. Bauer, Charles Leonard Hamblin High-level Programming Language, Lisp". Go
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by jcl 17y ago
To clarify: these quotes are coming from several authors in omnigoat's link below and not from the actual article.
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Interesting to see this rolled out at GDC instead of SIGGRAPH. Perhaps Khronos is trying to take on Direct3D more directly?
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by jcl 17y ago
I expect "POSIX-compatible" is just a way to avoid saying "GNU/Linux- and FreeBSD-compatible" everywhere.
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FWIW: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=406545
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For completeness, the INTERCAL standard naming convention: ( wax ) wane [ U turn ] U turn back { embrace } bracelet
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LBRACE and RBRACE take the same amount of time to type and are standard nomenclature in lexers/parsers.
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The images in the post are full resolution, resized in CSS. In Firefox, I can right-click on the image and select "View Image", then left-click to see the full resolution image at its original scale.
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He's assuming that the 20-year monopoly discourages innovation. Perhaps a better phrasing is: "In granting a 20-year monopoly, patents can have good and bad effects; they can encourage invention by appealing to inventors who desire a limit
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I guess, technically, Android support is Linux support. Apart from the fact that any Android device is running Linux, there are ways of running Android apps under Linux, including the official SDK emulator and other environments: http:/
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Most of the games are wasd-based by default , but many can be configured to use a controller, if desired -- especially the games that are also released on the PS3/360. Whether a game is particularly suited to a controller is another matt
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Apparently, the situation is not quite as bad as it first seems; the article links to instructions for setting up the Android debug environment on a host computer, which can be used to install apps. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthre
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Why not? Many games can be played with controllers instead of mouse and keyboard. If you're using your computer as a media center hooked up to your TV, then being able to select the game via remote could be quite convenient.
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by jcl 17y ago
No, your brain sees pixels and guesses at volume. And it is spectacularly bad at comparing the angles of a pie chart drawn in 3D perspective. For example: http://www.olivierlorrain.com/2010/02/21/data-visualization-...
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I figure he must really, really like video games.
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Can you cite an example where an app has gotten the boot for being too similar to an Apple app that is sold in the store (i.e. one that does not come installed by default on the phone)?
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Also, there are programming contests that accept other languages, but because these contests tend to focus on finding an algorithm of a given efficiency, it becomes hard to tune the time limits for multiple languages. So they tune to the m
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The "disclosure" argument would hold more water if people actually read software patents, or went out of their way to license patents from other companies. But it seems to me that the vast majority of software patent cases are ones where t
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I guess that's a valid defense at the moment I'm curious: Does Apple sell any apps of its own in the App Store? And, if so, do they reject other apps for being similar? (Being able to deny OpenOffice access to the Windows platform because
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I think you mean "security theater". "Security through obscurity" would mean that there is some flaw in the security that the defenders are aware of but that they are hoping the attackers don't realize or guess at -- but in this case the fl
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They also made a fun puzzle/teaser when they rolled out the first Portal game: http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=199757
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The most interesting thing about the article is that people randomly assigned to positions of power lied better than their underlings. It's not simply a matter of better liars rising to better positions -- being in power changes you phys
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Regardless of how patent-heavy mobile devices may be, this represents a major change in Apple's policy. In some discussion thread in the distant past, someone pointed out that Apple has never used its patents offensively. And a quick check
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That's a significant bias, but perhaps a more significant one is that most people buying the game have probably already tried out the free one and enjoyed it enough to want to pay money for it.
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I assume he's laughing at the "despite its quality" part. And I'd probably agree; while the user experience in Linux has improved dramatically, Windows's user experience is still generally better, at least in terms of "hours of use before

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