joakleaf

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by joakleaf 11y ago
Personally, I am on iOS, and while iOS has gone through a number of, occasionally frustrating, framework changes, it has never felt particularly fragmented. My impression is also, that it has changed a lot on Android. Personally, I also thi
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by joakleaf 11y ago
An IPO of Aramco is indeed a peculiar move: http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21685529-biggest-oil-all-saudi-arabia-considering-ipo-aramco-probably I wonder why. Anyone?
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I see this statement often that renewables have reduced our demand for oil, but that doesn't seem to be the case and I don't think it explains the price drop: https://www.eia.gov/forecasts/steo/report&
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by joakleaf 11y ago
I wonder if ratings are higher because viewers don't have to endure annoying commercials? To me, the absence of commercials definitely makes the experience far more enjoyable, and I can better relate to the stories and characters when
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by joakleaf 11y ago
I feel compelled to link to Michael Abrash's amazing and inspiring series of articles written when Quake was developed (don't know if there is a better link): Ramblings in Realtime: http://www.bluesnews.com/abrash&
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by joakleaf 11y ago
Seems like OPEC's current strategy is to dump oil onto the market for a low price. This both makes it unsustainable for the competition to drill for oil, and creates a higher demand. Once many of the competing (e.g. Western) oil compa
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by joakleaf 11y ago
There is a Planet Money podcast about the financials of ISIS. They did talk about how the oil is exported, but I don't remember if it included a specific price point. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015&#x2
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by joakleaf 11y ago
Correct, although it is argued, that given "enough" time Simulated Annealing will have search the entire solution space and thus return the global optimum. Simulated Annealing is a great tool for optimization problems, because it
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by joakleaf 11y ago
Neural networks is advanced curve fitting -- That's why. It isn't really all that magical or mysterious.
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by joakleaf 11y ago
In short, the problem is that you can't do: readable code -> [preprocessor transform] -> transformed code -> [apply transformation tool] -> [reverse preprocessor transform] -> readable code Because both the preprocessor
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by joakleaf 11y ago
Not just an efficient notation. Also very precise. Natural languages are not precise, and they lead to misunderstandings.
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by joakleaf 11y ago
The flatscreen producers would probably prefer you came back every 2 years to buy a new TV with updates to their OS, instead of just every 10 years.
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... and keep in mind that we were 4.5B people in 1980 vs. 7.2B in 2015. Also think about the growth in e.g. China ( http://indepthfacts.com/gdp-per-capita-china.html ).
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by joakleaf 11y ago
I think this goes well with their other line of thought:"It is so difficult to remove a feature once we've added it, so it is best to be careful adding new features and start with a few great features first." That's how
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by joakleaf 12y ago
Would be great with a description of the solution method. Looks like some sort of recursive guillotine-cutting heuristic. I also cannot quite tell from the screenshot whether this solves the 2D rectangular bin packing problem, which is: Min
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by joakleaf 12y ago
I think, Apple's general approach is:"We can break it." Documented or not. Seems like they change stuff all the time. Especially on iOS.
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by joakleaf 12y ago
Yes, me too. As I recall, Rearden metal was about 10x as strong as the competitors'. I guess Rearden was based on real life Andrew Carnegie who helped ignite the use of steel for construction ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by joakleaf 12y ago
Correction: Ken Silverman was the developer of the Build engine. Build was the engine used by Duke Nukem 3D and a bunch of other games from the last half of the 90s. He wasn't the lead developer of Duke Nukem 3D. He licensed his engine
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by joakleaf 12y ago
Easily? Do you have any benchmarks to back that up? My sense is that JITet platforms lose most of the time still, but that the JITted platforms are getting closer, and occasionally win.
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by joakleaf 12y ago
Regarding blurry fonts on you Macbook Retina: It only makes sense to set the resolution to match the number of hardware pixels. You cannot change the resolution of the hardware display, so any resolution other than the native resolution wil
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by joakleaf 12y ago
Right. I remember seeing those too. In any case, not really fair if Google gets full credit for this. If anybody is wondering about the 3D. I build a simple stereo-image OpenGL landscape app, and used the gyroscope of the iPhone 5 to determ
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by joakleaf 12y ago
Oh, forgot to mention that Smartphone VR-cases are not that new too: http://www.durovis.com http://www.vrase.com
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by joakleaf 12y ago
Seems like Google copied this idea: http://www.refugio3d.net I actually built something similar myself in December 2013 for iPhone, using just some cardboard and a couple of magnifiers I bought in a book shop the same day. It wo
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by joakleaf 12y ago
Dosbox plays it fine, but only B&W.
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by joakleaf 12y ago
No worse than the Danes ;-) Urban populations (from Wikipedia): Oslo, Norway: 951,581 Copenhagen, Denmark: 1,246,611 Stockholm, Sweden: 1,372,565
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by joakleaf 12y ago
Did you try to strip the libraries for debug symbols?
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by joakleaf 13y ago
No reason to JIT -- They already support fat binaries.
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by joakleaf 13y ago
It isn't really censorship in a strict big-controlling-bigbrother-government sense. If a government is censoring, they block completely 100%. You will not be able to freely say what you want. Here, you can definitely say and do what yo
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by joakleaf 13y ago
I remember that they allowed Wolfenstein 3D, as does Apple; https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/wolfenstein-3d-classic-plati...
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by joakleaf 13y ago
What is more strange, is that Wolfenstein 3D was allowed on the App Store then… https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/wolfenstein-3d-classic-plati...

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