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by jholman 12y ago
I humbly submit that using PUT is wrong. Argument follows, citing wording at http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html First of all, we're not "enclosing" an "entity" to be &q
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by jholman 12y ago
This deserves more than just an upvote, so: To faith! (wow, that was a sentence with low prior probability)
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by jholman 12y ago
First thought: wow, you have a hostile attitude, contrary to the site guidelines. Second thought: if you're happy using Apple products because the WiFi works better and you don't care about freedom, then where's your stake in
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by jholman 12y ago
> Facebook is the most used software in the world. This is very obviously not true. For example, more people use PHP than use Facebook (supposing that there is at least one user of PHP who does not use Facebook, such as e.g. myself).
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by jholman 12y ago
That also applies to "Not behaving in a way that damages the reputation of his/her company or of YC." I agree with what you say downthread about "the demands of honesty", and so insofar as mchurch believes what you
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by jholman 12y ago
In fact, their FAQ says that the UE4 code will be incompatible with free licenses, in particular GPL and CC. https://www.unrealengine.com/faq , Ctrl-F for "copyleft".
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by jholman 13y ago
I agree with several already-existing comments that programming challenges do not help you become a better programmer (assuming that you're hireable in the first place). I will note, however, that they DO HELP with interviewing. The s
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by jholman 13y ago
It would not be even a tiny bit strange. Games almost always ship full of code that belongs to other people. Think about middleware (e.g. Bink codecs). The obvious thing to do is that you're only eligible for the contest if you grant
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by jholman 13y ago
Contest terms include: 4) Add a “© 1977-2014 Richard Garriott” at the beginning. 5) May include an addition of “Ported by DEVELOPER NAME”. 6) Must agree that all rights to this port remain property of Richard Garriott
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by jholman 13y ago
I have enjoyed Louis de Bernières, in particular his Latin American trilogy, which Bernières acknowledges as highly influenced by GGM. I don't know that it's philosophically consoling, though. I guess I might call it Márquez-lit
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by jholman 13y ago
I am absolutely bored of Steve Jobs stories in general, and I'm quite surprised at myself that I bothered to read this one. This one in particular, though, was a human enough perspective that it would have been interesting to read if e
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by jholman 13y ago
Probably not a Great And Proper Tragedy of Social Justice, no. But... It's still pretty important, right? Like, if she's right about all her preliminary biological results, and if you were Palmer Lucky, wouldn't this kind o
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by jholman 13y ago
I initially agreed. It really depends on how this purported shape-from-shading-due-to-eye-flickering thing works. I don't at all understand danah's claims about how eye flickering gives you extra data, and my first-principles im
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by jholman 13y ago
My understanding of both of those terms agrees with yours. I think in the case of "motion parallax" it's nearly the same, though.... whether you're "moving your head" or "moving the object", in both
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by jholman 13y ago
Well, there's a few reasons I think that. First, because that's how most people, measuring these things, define success. For example, the Penn&Teller clip the parent post linked explicitly treats cessation of attendance as fa
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by jholman 13y ago
My apologies for my harshness, but wow, those links were horrible. The non-video links are really the most vapid kind of argument-free partisan blogspam, filled with guilt-by-association logic, and overstating their conclusions. However, b
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by jholman 13y ago
I've taken my time, over the past week, savouring these, and I must now come back to say thank you very much!
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by jholman 13y ago
Interesting paper. When I look at the outputs, I think "this looks like a very simple homework assignment". If they had provided sample input, as well as sample output, I'd be able to test my belief. I imagine I can produce
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by jholman 13y ago
Sure, and this is what HTTPS certificates from a CA are for. If your users are willing to click through the "warning: self-signed certificate" popups, then they're vulnerable, of course. But if they don't make that mis
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by jholman 13y ago
bluekitten, who appears to be hellbanned for no reason at all, gave this link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/18...
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by jholman 13y ago
Whups, yes, of course you are right. Thank you! Note that I made this dumb error in three places (two obvious, one more subtle, I'll leave it to the interested reader to see where). But my overall critique of his analysis of radix sor
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by jholman 13y ago
Okay, I got through his later sections. I do approve of the bit on sorting floats, and sorting negative floats. Basically, his approach here is "don't be afraid of IEEE floats, just read the damn format and use your brain and do
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by jholman 13y ago
Lots of nit-picky problems with this article, though maybe it's still good reading overall. Though I think you might be better off just linking to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sorting_algorithms I haven&
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by jholman 13y ago
Canadian senators are political cronies with expense accounts. It is unclear what, if anything, they contribute to democracy. Note that they have essentially no power. Just assume that Canada has one house in the legislative assembly, an
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by jholman 13y ago
> He lays out an interesting model for democracy, but it depends critically on permanent war. That's not true in the fiction, and I can't understand how you would claim that it would "really work that way" or any ot
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by jholman 13y ago
Thank you so much for that link. Obviously I recalled incorrectly, I thought I'd read Haldeman make that claim. And as you say, it's interesting to read his views on ST.
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by jholman 13y ago
Starship Troopers has the heroes wearing Nazi uniforms, and it has a scene from in-fiction television, "teaching" children that killing terrestrial insects is what they should do to assist with the war on the bugs. I don't re
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by jholman 13y ago
It's not just a different story; the book has some political points to make which, I think, the movie is trying to directly rebut. Feels a bit tasteless to use the book license for this purpose, to me, but then again I'm a Heinle
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by jholman 13y ago
Oh, the employment law is a lot employee-friendlier in Canada than in the US. In particular, BC employment law (relevant to this post) is a lot friendlier than California employment law. And when you go to take them to court, the governme
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by jholman 13y ago
So San Francisco is not the only city with a remarkably crooked Lombard Street?

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