jtolmar

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by jtolmar 10y ago
So what do people use as a server these days? All I want is to annotate some function calls with paths and have something handle http requests and mangle the input and output into json for me. Preferably in a boring safe language. Preferabl
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by jtolmar 10y ago
It's supposed to mean you can share object declarations. But it's javascript so that doesn't mean much. And it's not like the data format in the database and the gui is ever the same by the end of a project anyway, so
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by jtolmar 10y ago
Dreamweaver let you try to do things that wouldn't play nice with HTML and it would use the limited tools available at the time to make bloated sites that still didn't look right in most browsers. Then since Dreamweaver was garbag
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by jtolmar 10y ago
Simple solution - relativity holds up. Our light cone is much smaller than the galaxy. The universe could be teaming with intelligent life but not so full that you'd expect any to overlap the period where we're both using radio wa
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by jtolmar 10y ago
> These days you don't have to understand LR parsing or touch a parser-generator What would a modern parser use instead? Or is it just that for most compiler work the parser has already been written?
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by jtolmar 10y ago
A table of unexpected revocations will be smaller and less write-intensive than a full table of sessions. Should be by a very large margin. And eventual consistency is fine. So that could be the difference between whatever you're using
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by jtolmar 10y ago
If I compress each component (ie: attacker-influenced vs secret) separately, concatenate the results (with message lengths of course), then encrypt the whole message, is that secure? It seems like it should be, but I'm not an encryptio
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by jtolmar 10y ago
We have stories about overly literal devils and genies obeying exact wordings instead of the obvious intents of their agreements. And stories where lawyers win their cases at the last minute because they found an obscure loophole, despite
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by jtolmar 10y ago
Contrary to many of the comments here, I think they did a good job of considering what it takes to make something foreboding without sounding like "here be treasure." The pseudo-mystical messages sound hokey, but they're eff
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by jtolmar 10y ago
But TGIF is on Thursday. (Seriously, Google is kind of odd.)
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by jtolmar 10y ago
That's only really true if you're an AI researcher. You could automate away enterprise bucket-brigade code and web-based CRUD apps and destroy an awful lot of programming jobs with no singularity.
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by jtolmar 10y ago
The majority of Google's code is in one gigantic repository. Sometimes there are some other repositories for very sensitive code, for example if you have a hardware vendor's closed-source driver code and they don't want many
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by jtolmar 10y ago
I use an earlier model of essentially this: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BYG3OWK The flexible head makes a world of difference compared to the flourescent-panel-on-a-stand designs, and it has better UX as an alarm clock
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by jtolmar 10y ago
In Seattle we have 50 words for surprise at the lack of rain.
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by jtolmar 10y ago
Pokemon Showdown's code quality impressed me when I looked at it: https://github.com/Zarel/Pokemon-Showdown It's not literally flawless (hard to find conceptual entry points, short on comments), but when you
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by jtolmar 10y ago
Plenty of natural errors can send you to (0, 0). Any accidental multiplication by 0 will, for example. The strangest coordinates I've ever seen were from around (118, -183), which also didn't appear to be a hand-selected error cas
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by jtolmar 10y ago
That Hilbert Curve solution is really handy to know about. If you were writing a game where the player competes with an AI at traveling salesman (Pacman without the ghosts race), a fast 75% optimal algorithm sounds perfect. I think you can
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by jtolmar 11y ago
The company might not believe you, but many deaf people do listen to music. Deaf doesn't have to mean total silence, it can also mean that sound is so muffled or distorted that you can't understand the spoken word. Music still has
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by jtolmar 11y ago
Not all individual celebrity deaths have to fit the model for the phenomenon to show up, though. The proposed model just has to be one of the largest (or spikiest) components. As long as people who die for other reasons are fairly constant,
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by jtolmar 11y ago
The problem with embark locations is that they mostly just increase the size of the initial difficulty cliff. The game still settles down to more or less the same amount of challenge once you've dug in. Maybe your migrant waves are s
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by jtolmar 11y ago
Top three takeaways for me: event-based logic, sets instead of loops, and using past tense instead of state. Events and linq-like queries are popular enough, that last one is interesting. Especially in an environment where you mostly inter
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by jtolmar 11y ago
Lions are terrible people. Being non-people, this is not surprising.
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by jtolmar 11y ago
> You see where this is going. Yes: the wrong direction. Trying to support every possible thing obviously won't work - we can't replace writing HTML with a clever enough rich text field. But you can still make progress on web
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by jtolmar 11y ago
<input type="editor" supports="images;links;headings" spans="italic;bold;blinky" extras="carousel" oncarousel="function (event) {return document.createElement('div') /* TODO: im
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by jtolmar 11y ago
For the people in the back, the phone is acting like a periscope. It's probably improving their view.
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by jtolmar 11y ago
Way back in highschool when I was a part of the ROM hacking scene, I thought it might be possible to make an emulator that can automatically reverse engineer enough of the ROM to start building a level editor. I didn't think it was pos
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by jtolmar 11y ago
I hope someone eventually finds a way to perform arbitrary code execution based on SRAM. Probably not on SMW, but Pokemon is getting broken enough that it may some day be possible. There's already inventory-based exploits that can get
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by jtolmar 11y ago
I'm pretty sure Nesticle had nothing resembling accurate timing, and it could run most games. You can go well beyond several of the NES's limitations by fiddling with PPU parameters between scanlines, but that takes careful timing
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by jtolmar 11y ago
This is my favorite chemical that he's written about: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2008/02/26/san...
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by jtolmar 11y ago
AlphaGo has no form of state space discovery. That really prevents all the magic that strong AI fans want. Even though the actual rules of Go are a minor part of the program, the human who put them in was doing something that AlphaGo fundam

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