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by lincolnq 16y ago
Bonuses to deny claims? Doesn't that swing the incentives the opposite way? I bet there are plenty of reasons somebody could come up with to deny any given patent. But some of them are genuinely valuable inventions and deserve protection. S
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by lincolnq 16y ago
I bought issue #1, and I was moderately impressed -- it did feel like a magazine, but not quite at the professional level. Almost, though. I was quite happy with it and I am buying this one too.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
No, I haven't attempted to seek outside help at all (I'm not explicitly seeking help here, either, more sharing an experience). It is probably a good idea though!
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by lincolnq 16y ago
I've been working on a Tetris Attack clone in Clojure using Penumbra (a Clojure opengl wrapper in functional style). I've had quite a rough time with code organization, primarily because the physics of the game has a lot of frame-to-frame d
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Solving this problem (permutations) in Haskell helped me understand the list monad, which in turn helped me think about nested-loop algorithms in general and how they should be structured in code. So thanks. It was a fun exercise and I lear
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Do you think it would be possible to replicate the relevant aspects of the math from Anathem? How much money would it take? I bet there would be a decent number of people in the world who would want to commit for a year or two. And I'd like
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by lincolnq 16y ago
I'm doing an exercise where I go through each of these and attempt to discover whether I have this flaw. Of course, I'm probably susceptible to the ego / dunning-kruger effect, where I will think I'm less prone to certain flaws than I reall
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by lincolnq 16y ago
But intelligent people are not used to failing. Adding the word 'intelligent' to the title makes me want to read the article more and apply it to myself. Without that word, I would be thinking "yeah, I know all this, that's why OTHER people
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by lincolnq 16y ago
I'm not sure, but NoScript also blocks Flash for me, so the outcome is the same.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Not often. But I can usually enable scripting for only the domain where the video is served (youtube.com) and then enable the one instance of Flash which looks like the content.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Every browser exploit in the last few years that I've heard about requires Javascript enabled, except for history sniffing trickery.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
I use NoScript, which disables scripting (JavaScript and Flash plugins) by default in Firefox, but allows me to easily enable it for scripts which come from the domain of the site, or for all scripts on the page. My general policy is: if I'
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by lincolnq 16y ago
I sort of agree. And I apologize on behalf of the community for your being downvoted, as the exact same comment on another article would have a good chance of being upvoted. You have to attune your humor to that of the community. I laughed,
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by lincolnq 16y ago
nah, youtube doesn't update the view count very often at all.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
It's an important impossibility result like the Halting Problem. You can be led down the wrong path for hours designing protocols which attempt to solve an unsolvable problem but do so in a seemingly-almost-correct way -- until the complexi
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Well, that's something you may want to work on fixing, but probably not for this project. (Secured credit card is pretty much where you have to start for that) As for the website, how much capital are you talking about and why do you need i
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Aha! So you have to do what PR people do anyway, which is send a pre-canned interesting story which just happens to highlight your company.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
I didn't hear about this case. Summary?
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by lincolnq 16y ago
No. "In place" has virtually no meaning in Haskell. I find this very interesting -- a popular idiom in one language can't even be represented in another.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Boston/Cambridge, MA: Demiurge Studios, where I work, is a medium (30-40 person) game development studio and we're looking for software engineers. We often hire people who don't have much game dev experience, but we love the hacker mindset,
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Good stuff. I would agree with learning the implementation of a UNIX, but not for the reason you gave (ubiquity). Instead, learn it because of the philosophies about software design it created, and which developers (often) live by today: do
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Ugh. I agree with your reasoning, but that seems like it will inevitably lead to companies implementing the kind of DRM nobody wants where the software has to phone home every time it starts up, just so they can enforce their license terms.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Then the train stops? This is intended to reduce the time to stop at small stations. There is ample time as people are loading onto the slip coach to discover that the train needs to stop, although I think in practice this would never happe
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by lincolnq 16y ago
That's how I parsed it. Not sure why you are being downvoted, except perhaps people being annoyed because the inability to replace the iPhone battery is an old complaint that they've all heard before. But I think it's a legitimate point.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
I have done that twice now. It works amazingly well, especially if you have a good grill to finish them on.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
What does eating lunch mean in this context?
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Sort of agree, although my intuition tells me not that there's an excessively-coarse-locking problem, but that there's most likely a contention problem. The essence of a contention problem, for those who don't know, is that some shared stru
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Hint on the calculator words one? I think I solved them all but it won't let me past.
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by lincolnq 16y ago
This is very interesting , but (as a developer) doesn't seem appealing . Apparently you live in San Francisco for a year, working on projects for another American city. You visit the city for a month to meet people and figure out what it
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by lincolnq 16y ago
Wow, I didn't know that roundabouts are more efficient than other intersection types. That's really cool. (Now I want to build a traffic simulator that can simulate that effect...)

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