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by joshuak 13y ago
In watching how this news has been better (i.e. more acuratly and faster, and also rapidly self correcting) reported on HN then any other news source I'd have to say that HN itself is the relevant on topic idea that good hackers would
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by joshuak 13y ago
Looks pretty cool. Too bad about the licensing though: http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt/download
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by joshuak 13y ago
It seems to me that this graph represents newness not popularity (to the degree it represents anything at all). That is when tech is new or has a new release more questions are asked about it. Once those questions are answered, fewer and fe
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by joshuak 13y ago
I love iceland. You guys rock. Even if it's only for the effort.
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by joshuak 13y ago
Thanks! Yes this is the most important first fix. Never underestimate the volume of iPad only users. ;)
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by joshuak 13y ago
However, as an american I can agree with the sentiment of a foreign citizen that we are the only ones who can effect change in our own government, centrally not him... unless he encourages us to be less complacent by restricting what we can
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by joshuak 13y ago
Well I ment that a little facetiously. However, I agree those things should be taken into account--in addition to including documents with the terms you ask for in them. Pages with my terms (in order) should be the absolute highest ranked,
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by joshuak 13y ago
Just out of curiosity why is search text actually occurring in the page body an 'advanced' feature?
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by joshuak 13y ago
I remember when google came out I didn't quite understand what was different, and hated the fact that I couldn't use operators such as +-(). The feeling lucky button further reinforced the feeling that google was a dumbed down int
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by joshuak 13y ago
Post a bitcoin address, and I'll send you a tip.
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by joshuak 13y ago
It continues to amaze me how much hate bitcoin generates. Lot's of assertions in that article based on opinion. That's common with most technologies, but the vehemence is not. We've all seen some real apple haters, or Microso
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by joshuak 13y ago
I suggest you do a quick survey of the replies to this thread. Most people HATE it. Apple designed a browser that addresses the size issue, no reason to do it again poorly. I also suspect that developers, such as myself, are looking at a si
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by joshuak 13y ago
As Bruce Schneier points out in his book Beyond Fear humans are very bad at assessing risk accurately. Ask yourself how scared are you of terrorist attacks vs. heart disease. Notice how the government is putting much more money into the ter
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by joshuak 13y ago
Precisely. There is nothing wrong with reusing your content, so then why would you need a new interface for it? When you do truly need a new interface to something it's because the nature of the something is different. True mobile apps
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by joshuak 13y ago
Please. Don't. Make. Mobile. Versions. Of. Your. Website!!11!1!!! Ask yourself, are you going to put in the same amount of design and content work into the mobile site as the main site? Really? Aren't you just changing the links
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by joshuak 13y ago
Actually light sources have always been the only thing 'traced'. We used to use them to trick ray tracing in the early days of RenderMan (put an image in the lightsource so you can 'reflect' it). It's surface to surface and other GI effects
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by joshuak 13y ago
Interesting questions. I don't have the answers, but I can say that I can't imagine that Pixar would ever 'go all the way' to an 'unbiased' GI renderer. Our entire function in the filmmaking business is to tell a story visually, and for tha
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by joshuak 13y ago
Pixar's focus has always been on renderer efficiency for cinematic storytelling not really for accuracy or 'simulation'. So while I'd say they are still way ahead in efficacy they are at par or behind with respect to light simulation.
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by joshuak 13y ago
Actually there's some incorrect information here, Pixar started using ray tracing in films as far back as A Bug's Life. I can't find a picture on line but you can see it in the scene with the glass bottle. That was done by integration with
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by joshuak 13y ago
The OP and a lot of posters here don't seem to understand the problem or the purpose of the solution. The whole point of this is to avoid an unrecoverable error, a bricked account. You are only trying to catch email addresses that are enter
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by joshuak 13y ago
I think the point was that we've already seen all of those things. These ideas are the future of a writer making TV in the late 60s. Where are the new ideas of our future? I'd agree the space race inspired amazing science fiction that mostl
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by joshuak 13y ago
Agreed, but I was discussing their answers on the business description. If one must account for all uses of their products for money laundering, then we might as well simply all say that we are money transmitters in all businesses. Which wo
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I didn't before. I do now.
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by joshuak 13y ago
The fact that the value of copper changes is not relevant to it's intrinsic value. An item either has an intrinsic value or not, the price of that value doesn't really enter into it. Think of a dollar bill, it has a monetary value $1, but
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by joshuak 13y ago
Copper just sitting around has the intrinsic value of being copper, ledger entries do not. This is the meaning of intrinsic value. In other words if copper stops being used as money it still holds value as copper. You can melt down the coin
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by joshuak 13y ago
This is why statistics get people in trouble (and are only really useful for quantum physics and propaganda). He is measuring his certainty, you're measuring odds of interference, on top of which both are conjecture. Regardless I am quite s
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by joshuak 13y ago
Indeed the bitcoin system does. However, individual bitcoins (i.e. ledger entries) do not.
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by joshuak 13y ago
>If I were to shut down every bitcoin exchange (either through extreme legal, violent or economic means), I'd easily kill bitcoin overnight, mostly through destroying trust and inciting fear in adopters than from actually stopping excha
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MtGox took the position, and legal argument that they where not trading a monetary instrument of any kind, and at least early on that was a plausible argument (although probably not a winning one) because they characterized bitcons as a pro
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by joshuak 13y ago
This highlights what is in my opinion one of the biggest failings of modern operating system/GUI design (this and modal dialog boxes, but don't get me started). We are used to interacting with things in a physical world. When they fail it's

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