jxcole

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by jxcole 15y ago
Can anyone give more information about the thread lock in class initialization that he's talking about? Is he talking about static class initializers? If so, I agree with him that these definitely seem like a terrible idea, along with destr
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by jxcole 15y ago
This article basically centers it's argument around the fact that people in small town america don't need an education to survive. With increased automation and robots, that is quickly changing. I bet in 30 years we'll see a complete shift
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by jxcole 15y ago
This isn't the same as holographic 3D like the article claims. It is true that it will look different from different angles, but that isn't all that impressive. You could say that a television is sort of like a painting that moves. If you w
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In-browser tour of go(go-tour.appspot.com)
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by jxcole 15y ago
I know this may be hard to understand, but pretty is an end unto itself. You don't need any better use.
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by jxcole 15y ago
Since no one has successfully made a robot worthy of an Asimov story, I would say that no one knows what is easy vs hard when it comes to robotics. We can make guesses but in the end until someone has a working copy, we won't know which par
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by jxcole 15y ago
Obviously not. The whole point of the article is that poor, intelligent children do not have any way to enroll in schools that would allow them to excel. Presumably if you lied on the income level on a scholarship application, you would hav
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by jxcole 15y ago
I don't have a twitter account and I'm not going to sign up just to try something out. I don't want to be mean, but the point of a "try it in your web browser" is that the barrier to entry is low. Twitter makes it high again.
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by jxcole 15y ago
I disagree with you and I think the grandparent is right. Even though the handle based architecture of the wind32 system is not object oriented, it was meant to have some object oriented features. If you think about this system as one in wh
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by jxcole 15y ago
Merge sort: s = (lo, hi) -> if lo==hi return if lo+1==hi if VA.gt(lo,hi) VA.swap(lo,hi) return mid=Math.floor(lo+(hi-lo)/2) s(lo,mid) s(mid+1,hi) mid++
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by jxcole 15y ago
At the risk of making this point to death: > If you took a random person you passed on a busy London street at lunch time, how much better do you think they would be able to do their job if they knew how to program? A while back I was i
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by jxcole 15y ago
HaXe is a great platform. I vastly prefer it to javascript because I am a big fan of static typing. The only thing that irks me about their language is that they have both interfaces and class extension but for some reason decided not to ha
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by jxcole 15y ago
To the responses: the whole point of hacker news is to have a culture where upvoting is the only form of vote. If you want something to sink to the bottom the only thing you are supposed to do is not vote for it. Flagging is reserved for sp
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by jxcole 15y ago
There is absolutely no justification for flagging this. I am disheartened that hacker news has become a place where people flag stuff they dislike rather than posting a rebuttal. I feel this is a systemic error, it is currently too easy for
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by jxcole 15y ago
There is certainly some nice stuff here (it is especially nice that your office is close to trees), but I honestly think the first words that should be printed on the page are what you are looking for. Web designer? Web developer? I don't w
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by jxcole 15y ago
I have a comment about this. C, as is used in general relativity, is involved in a lot more than just the speed that light travels. It is also relevant to a lot of other equations, like time dilation in a gravitational field. Now, if this e
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by jxcole 15y ago
That is such a well known result in physics that the likelihood of it occurring here is almost zero. I remember first reading about it and the scientists basically said "we broke the speed of light" without looking for further explanations.
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by jxcole 15y ago
Recommendation: Neither the word 'career' nor the word 'job' appear anywhere on your front page. The best I can see is a contact us page. I had to do a google search to find your jobs page: https://www.wepay.com/about/jobs
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by jxcole 15y ago
Related: overcriminalization. Looks like this story relates to the same statute: http://www.economist.com/node/16636027
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by jxcole 15y ago
Does this apply to federal agents? In other words, if an officer says something false in a statement that is later read by another officer can they be charged?
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by jxcole 15y ago
One thing you can say which the officers are legally obliged to contend with (I think) is that you refuse to make any statements without consulting your state appointed attorney. The government is required by law to provide you an attorney
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by jxcole 15y ago
Tell them: "If you really feel that way, you can always write your local congressman to repeal 18 USC Section 1001. Until that law is removed, I really do not have a choice."
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by jxcole 15y ago
Also, make sure you put it on your front page. A lot of times I see a link to someone saying "look at my cool project" on HN, and it takes me a long time to figure out what the project is actually supposed to do. Also, make sure you explain
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by jxcole 15y ago
> I don't want my child to view their teacher as an authority figure who cannot be questioned and cannot make a mistake. I have a boss at work who I respect. However, if he throws a mysql query on the board with an error you bet I'll po
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by jxcole 15y ago
Wrong, but with the right attitude. A while ago, SEOMoz reported a similar problem with ripoff report: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-anatomy-of-a-ripoff-report-la... Apparently, suing them for libel laws is impossible because of CDA, but
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by jxcole 15y ago
When I bought my computer I didn't think graphics were important. Now I wish I had spent some money on a good graphics card. I might have to buy one so I can develop stuff like this. For those who are interested, if you have a laptop with a
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by jxcole 15y ago
I remember reading about this a while back. Sadly, said plane was not considered for a world record because the RC community felt that even though it only used auto pilot for the in-air part, only RC planes that were remote controlled for t
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by jxcole 15y ago
This guy is an inspiration: http://madebyevan.com/about/ I've been struggling to complete a web page app like this for a while, and he has finished several even though he's still in school.
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by jxcole 15y ago
Agree with the first part. However, I think that as long as you were fairly firm that you were only interested in building technology that saved lives (no RC toys with guns on them), I would not feel guilty in the slightest. After all, this
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by jxcole 15y ago
Dear Notch, I don't think that people have issue with your factual analysis of the Euclideon system. We more have an issue with your use of the word scam. Every time I watch american television, I am inundated with ads for various medical p

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