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961.
by lambda 11y ago
So, where is the evidence that it is a handy first approximation? That is, that it makes any kind of testable predictions? Even if they don't always hold, there should be some correlations with some kind of quantifiable metric. So what
962.
by lambda 11y ago
When Go was first announced in 2009, I thought "this is a nice idea, but I really wish it had generics and non-nullable references". Then Rust was announced a few months later, and I thought "wow, this is what Go should have
963.
by lambda 11y ago
It is actually linked to from the front page of http://www.rust-lang.org/; it's the "more examples" link under the example. But I guess that's just far enough down to be easy to miss; it's just belo
964.
by lambda 12y ago
In part because the "cottage industry" for photographers rights is based on getting people to pay, while most free software authors aren't actually interested in being paid for it, they are just interested in keeping it free.
965.
by lambda 12y ago
Because the failure conditions are worse. Let's see, here are the possibilities: 1. Someone means well, you interpret it as them meaning well and respond accordingly. Everything is fine and dandy, everyone's happy. 2. Someone mean
966.
by lambda 12y ago
Or choose free software. If it's free software, even if the original developer goes away, you can hire someone to keep working on it, or someone else can decide to make a business supporting it, or the like.
967.
by lambda 12y ago
I'm using Firefox on a Retina MacBook Pro, and I get low-DPI rendering; Chrome also does low-DPI rendering, but with better anti-aliasing. The text rendering looks even worse on Safari; it doesn't even appear to do proper hinting,
968.
by lambda 12y ago
It's not searchable. I can't copy and paste text off of it. It's not accessible; screen readers can't read anything off of it. It renders at half the DPI of my screen. At some point, I wound up on a blank screen with no
969.
by lambda 12y ago
If you are not producing any academic output, are not producing any commercial output, and are not even producing any patents, all you are producing is high-level handwavy talks, how do you distinguish that from a charlatan? Ideas in a vacu
970.
by lambda 12y ago
How does the data account for variation in development procedures (e.g. some projects use master as their bleeding edge branch)? That shouldn't matter. You should always be able to successfully check out, build, and pass
971.
by lambda 12y ago
"Researcher" is appropriate for someone who actually produces academic output. It may not be immediately practical, but it consists of new ideas that have been formalized and tested sufficiently to pass peer review of other resear
972.
by lambda 12y ago
Dude, it's not like there is major prize money involved. This is just a "just for fun, do something cool by forking something that already exists and we'll show off the best." Relax, have fun, make a cool game.
973.
by lambda 12y ago
A long time without access to hardware documentation, and even now that that is sometimes more forthcoming, simply a lot fewer resources than the proprietary drivers have. The proprietary drivers have many years worth of several full-time d
974.
by lambda 12y ago
These are the vanishingly few people who have actually seen the source to a game, the driver it's running on, and the Windows kernel it's running on, and the full specs for the hardware. Nobody else has that kind of
975.
by lambda 12y ago
They are obligated to display the odds on each machine, so people have at least a fair chance of evaluating their changes (even if they odds are always in the house's favor). In this case, the odds they posted didn't take into acc
976.
by lambda 12y ago
Yes, I read that. I would love to improve our hiring process, and include more realistic work samples as part of it. However, I don't feel that a full-fledged work-sample test is realistic, especially if every employer started requirin
977.
by lambda 12y ago
On your "About Us" page, you say "We're especially interested in talking to you if you will be hiring 10+ engineers in the next year, as we may be able to help you out with that. Get in touch with any of us." Does a
978.
by lambda 12y ago
Yes, that is the meaning of plain old "game theory", and I also think that's the meaning that the person you were replying to meant; I just wanted to point out that there is something with "game theory" in its name
979.
by lambda 12y ago
Exactly this. A "pass" on that question consists of mentioning HTTP, DNS, and (perhaps with some prompting about what protocols underlie HTTP) TCP. A strong pass involves being able to tell me that DNS is usually UDP based, and be
980.
by lambda 12y ago
Ajax doesn't go wrong. Except when it does. Did you miss the bug report I linked, in which it went wrong in one way when Firefox sent something as two separate packets, which caused IIS's HTTP implementation to break, and
981.
by lambda 12y ago
I would also like to point out, for the benefit of anyone else here (just replying to you to clarify your point), that the Logical Rules referred to are commonly referred to as the Tromp-Taylor Rules, after John Tromp (the submitter and par
982.
by lambda 12y ago
Nope, it was a typo; I edited my phrasing a couple of times, and the last edit left two copies of the word. Fixed, thanks.
983.
by lambda 12y ago
I apologize. I had skimmed the paper, but not read it in depth, and it was clear that you had considered symmetries (such as Figure 4 in the paper); I assumed, then, that your algorithm would prune symmetries and simply account for them by
984.
by lambda 12y ago
Actually, it's interesting in the sense of combinatorial game theory ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial_game_theory ) not the branch of decision theory for interactive rational agents known as game theory
985.
by lambda 12y ago
When I say "TCP questions", I mean that I ask the standard "what happens when you type google.com into your browser and press return," and expect to get them to mention TCP at some point. If they don't, I specifical
986.
by lambda 12y ago
Of course they are taking symmetries into account. They are including symmetries in their definition of what the different states are, and thus accounting for them in the count, but they absolutely are pruning symmetries in their implementa
987.
by lambda 12y ago
No, nowhere remotely close. This is just a matter of trying to precisely characterize the state space; there are upper and lower bounds that have been established, but it's an interesting computational problem to precisely characterize
988.
by lambda 12y ago
Exactly. I've had several candidates that I have passed who on the TCP question have said "I don't know, networking is not my strong point." That's great! Knowing when you don't know something and should just m
989.
by lambda 12y ago
Mainly because a lot of the things you just listed are incredibly stupid requirements. Do you know the job I'm hiring for? Perhaps I'm hiring for something a little more complicated than a front-end developer over a CRU
990.
by lambda 12y ago
No, we gave him plenty of interesting work. And as we discovered, the above described interview was actually a fairly low bar; when faced with problems slightly more challenging, he would fall apart and give up in frustration. And he was ve

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