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by joesmo 13y ago
It's just as fun to assume that: 2 + 2 = 5 I want to believe it. Now all my programs are spitting out wrong answers and must be fixed to be in line with this belief. Are we getting the drift of the danger belief poses here yet?
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by joesmo 13y ago
Thank you. These people are about as libertarian as my cat and we certainly didn't need this article or this court case to know that beyond a shadow of a doubt. What the article sort of draws attention to indirectly is the fact that th
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by joesmo 13y ago
You might not be glad he got fired, but rest assured there are many of us who are. This type of thing happens constantly on every police force in America (and pretty much everywhere) and is oftentimes a lot worse. It's a small win, but
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by joesmo 13y ago
Yes. This is one area where I think having some rules in place can go a long way towards eliminating malware and extremely buggy software (sometimes, but better than nothing).
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by joesmo 13y ago
It's rules such as these (and all the other rules of app stores) that keep many developers from working with such limited platforms. Too bad Google doesn't focus on keeping malware out of its app store as much as it focuses on kee
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by joesmo 13y ago
A framework without documentation, is not a framework at all. The article spends a bit of time on this, but I believe it's worth reiterating. The reason for using a framework is to not have to rewrite common functionality. Without good
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by joesmo 13y ago
The article contradicts itself resulting in nothing more than a silly, uninformed rant. If: "Together they fashioned a general purpose programming language that was also suited to advanced mathematics and statistics and could run at sp
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by joesmo 13y ago
Parallel construction, by definition, requires perjury in court on behalf of those presenting the evidence. Not that such a silly thing ever stopped anyone ...
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by joesmo 13y ago
The payment is for the full content of the game, not partial content, and there is no chance of asking for more later since there is no additional content. That's the way demos and shareware worked in the past.
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by joesmo 13y ago
The strategy of releasing part of a game for free and charging for the full product is tried and true. This frees the game from in app purchases and allows the developer to make money. Sounds like a good, workable solution to me.
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by joesmo 13y ago
Apparently this limitation shows up elsewhere in the game, suggesting it might be a problem of too few bits, indeed: "Peterson actually rushed for over 1,100 yards, but once again, the game stopped counting at 1,023. I'm guessing
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by joesmo 13y ago
JS is far from an ideal language or technology for any task but it is the dominant browser technology currently in use. Like many other technology trends, the superior technology hardly ever becomes the one that's widely adopted. In th
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by joesmo 13y ago
I wouldn't doubt that. Psychiatrists play some horrific games with their patients that border on criminal (and likely should be criminal). These days, a patient that is difficult is simply dealt with in the simplest possible way: drugs
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by joesmo 13y ago
In other words, it's not different nor more secretive (likely less) than any other platform for sharing ideas out there. What would be interesting is an application that does not log and keep track of the user's identity (this obv
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by joesmo 13y ago
Asking for $20 to save a man's life seems to be just another tactic for them to get money. This is not surprising. It is Verizon, after all. After disputing many months worth of Verizon charges for service I didn't have (at about
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by joesmo 13y ago
To not get committed, one would have to lie about hurting oneself (which might not have been possible in this case given the visible injury). Not foolproof, but to not get committed, one should keep these thoughts to oneself. Even a trusted
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by joesmo 13y ago
Sadly, this is how the rest of the world is (not that Yale or any other educational institution should be like this just because the rest of the world is). Mental problems are frowned upon in our society except when they can be used to prof
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by joesmo 13y ago
The biggest problem (and there are many) is the use of informants and arrest based on information they provide. Anyone can make up a story or evidence this way. There is absolutely no way that crack could be identified in a photo. This is,
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by joesmo 13y ago
Good question. The theory of singularity requires "greater-than-human intelligence" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity ). Anything even approaching any kind of intelligence would be mind-b
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by joesmo 13y ago
I'll take talk about singularity more seriously once we have built at least one intelligent machine. Until then, I just marvel at supposedly intelligent people's delusions of said singularity.
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by joesmo 13y ago
Considering humans haven't built a single, intelligent machine yet, talking about far-fetched science fiction ideas like singularity and predicting the future (as if this is ever possible) removes any credibility the author and article
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by joesmo 13y ago
Basically, what Bayer is asking is for India to enforce US patent law and to not enforce Indian patent law (which allows this exception). It doesn't help that Bayer's CEO comes off as extremely racist: '“We did not develop th