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by johnbm 13y ago
"it goes into an infinite loop, 2^53 is the highest possible number in javascript, and 2^53+1 gives 2^53, so i can never become larger than that." This is wrong. 2^53 is the highest integer value you can represent exactly with a 6
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by johnbm 13y ago
What they call "image based lighting" (rendering depth/normals into a separate image) is actually called deferred lighting / rendering. Image based lighting is when you use environment maps (like a cube map) for lighting
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by johnbm 13y ago
If you're worried laymen might come away thinking mathematics is completely alien to human interest, start with regular textbooks first.
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by johnbm 13y ago
A study in the early 90s found women featured 35 times as much as victims in Canadian news headlines than men. Not a typo. Yes, this is just one data point, but it's a pretty unambiguous one. And of course, such studies tend to only ha
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by johnbm 13y ago
...because your screen is too fucking bright and you're too dumb to turn off your flash.
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by johnbm 13y ago
Because computer science is a lonely pursuit, with long hours, requiring an obsessive focus on abstract problems. I saw women consistently self-select into biomedical applications and chemical engineering, away from the hard theoretical wor
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by johnbm 13y ago
I just don't buy this argument. As others said, it is 2014, not 1990. Women now outnumber men in colleges 3 to 2, and this is somehow not an issue of discrimination or inequality, on the contrary, it is now apparently more important th
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by johnbm 13y ago
Get over yourself. When someone throws a tantrum on twitter with the regularity of clockwork, mockery is a completely valid response, and often the quickest way to get the point across. Logos, pathos, ethos. The former has no effect without
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by johnbm 13y ago
"Your misogyny is visible from space." So is her hair.
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by johnbm 13y ago
No indeed, that would mean not being a self righteous prick. You know what the effect of people like Kane was in the skeptic community? Female conference attendance dropped from 40% to 10% in a single year. Enjoy your self defeating efforts
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by johnbm 13y ago
This is what I believe you call derailing. Like the other person, I'm also still waiting for substantive points to be made rather than shaming and cherry picking.
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by johnbm 13y ago
"Ally" is just another in the long line of useless SJW concepts. How about just not being homophobic or sexist? But no, that's not deemed sufficient. Privilege is basically the SJW take on Original Sin, and declaring yourself
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by johnbm 13y ago
That applies to every single blog post about "white men" she's every written. Her first. Besides, don't want to draw the ire of the twitter harpies... again.
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by johnbm 13y ago
Perhaps... but even when sent a video with clear instructions, he balked at actually watching it, never mind following it. Even though he was a journalist who admittedly likes to publish things others find inconvenient. I think it says more
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by johnbm 13y ago
I'm gay and I feel exactly the same way about this whole farce. The idea that no straight person can truly sympathize is bullshit... and when it comes from those who complain about a lack of empathy in others, I just scratch my head. T
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by johnbm 13y ago
And when guys in tech mention to Shanley that they too have pet trolls who send them nasty things, she ignores them.
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by johnbm 13y ago
Yes, it's so great for women in open source that the only 2 women in the Gittip top 12 are there because they whine and bitch a lot, rather than produce something useful. Keep white knighting. Both are known for pulling facts out of th
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by johnbm 13y ago
An important one is that XML does not map cleanly to any programming language's typical data structures, even those that explicitly support it. It always turns into an elaborate object hierarchy with awkward query syntax. The combinati
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by johnbm 13y ago
The real problem is that capitalism does not care about efficiency, it only cares about billing someone else for any inefficiencies you create. See: Enterprise IT.
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by johnbm 13y ago
Look up the statistics for how men vs women participate in direct violence and violence by proxy, and you'll see why you're wrong.
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by johnbm 13y ago
"Its not that Windows can't handle drawing Macintosh looking buttons or something." It's an unfortunate misconception about Mac OS X's UI that it's just a pretty skin. It really isn't, and this is why peop
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by johnbm 13y ago
She makes no significant case that the guy got what he wanted because he was white, because he was a man or because he was rich. At most, he used his employer's name to bend the truth. That makes him a liar, nothing more. The fact is,
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by johnbm 13y ago
As in, not in IE 11?
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by johnbm 13y ago
How is it a strict subset when they already added Math.imul and now Math.fround?
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by johnbm 13y ago
The difference is that nobody cares if a man felt the same way, nor would he feel a need to blog about it years later.
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by johnbm 13y ago
That must be why asm.js v0.1 already introduced non-standard language extensions (imul) and has a roadmap full of more. Which browsers does the asm.js of today run on? And which browsers will the asm.js of the future run on?
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by johnbm 13y ago
Congratulations, you've been convinced to loathe yourself because of other people's insecurities.
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by johnbm 13y ago
Yes, those 'barriers' are gone because female firefighters, soldiers, etc. are subject to lesser physical requirements than the men are. Hope you're not too fat for her to carry you out of the burning building.
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by johnbm 13y ago
Because PNaCl comes with its own implementations of input, graphics, audio, etc and cannot talk to any of the regular Web APIs. So basically, PNaCL is either ActiveX or it's Flash. https://developers.google.com/native-c
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by johnbm 13y ago
So when even one day old babies are shown to pay different attention to mechanical things vs faces between boys and girls, that's just evo psych non-sense too? Or the fact that the countries with the most gender equality in society sho

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