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by mquander 16y ago
Somewhere in between; I ended up paying about $1600 after a $400 discount. I felt it was a pretty good price -- thing has basically the best laptop specs you can buy without having a 10-pound 18-inch behemoth. I agree that it's bizarrely
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by mquander 16y ago
Your comment doesn't appear to have anything to do with the article. Apparently you skipped the part where the author actually makes his point (understandable, since it's one paragraph in a sea of crap.) Current U.S. public diplomacy cent
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by mquander 16y ago
"People" are not a homogeneous blob. I'll work 20 and live cheaply, thanks. If other people work 50 and wind up comparatively wealthy, that's fine.
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by mquander 16y ago
I was nervous about buying an HP laptop, but bought a HP Envy 15 recently because it was the only thing with the specs I wanted (1920x, good graphics card, SSD+HDD combo, fairly thin and light.) It's turned out well so far; it's good-looki
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by mquander 16y ago
Yeah, absolutely. They seem quite serious about preventing Battle.net emulation legally, and I'm sure that's a big reason why they eliminated LAN -- but if there's enough motivation, I doubt they can really succeed; nobody ever does. My o
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by mquander 16y ago
I think a lot of folks are quick to marginalize the hardcore community, which indeed accounts for a fairly small portion of sales. However, why do you think SC2 has the amount of hype that it does? Why do you think that, ten years after re
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by mquander 16y ago
The article is pretty accurate. What I don't understand is this: In SC:BW, players responded to an inadequate Battle.net by moving competitive Internet play to private and emulated servers. It wouldn't have taken much effort to keep them
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by mquander 16y ago
The reason I made point 1 is because our default decision should always err on the side of freedom. Why would you bother restricting anything unless you can identify some benefit to restricting it? It's more work, and maximizing freedom o
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by mquander 16y ago
I'd wager it's even less work not to block anything. Answer me this: 1) Can you point to scientific evidence, or even a carefully-reasoned argument, that blocking U.S.-hosted free software from "rogue" states like North Korea, Syria, or
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by mquander 16y ago
This is similar in spirit to this much more detailed series of text files, which is a great introduction for a beginner: http://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/ He spends a bunch of time on parsing, since it isn't Lisp.
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by mquander 16y ago
OK. 50 or 60 percent of U.S. high school graduates in 2009 went directly to college. What percentage of those do you think are studying academic subjects because they feel the subjects are "enriching their life"? 20%? 10%? 5%? 2%? The
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by mquander 16y ago
That's really cool. Thanks.
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by mquander 16y ago
But good SEO is mostly easy, common-sense techniques that don't change very often. Bad SEO (gaming the system) is the hard part, and I have to imagine it's mostly the part people are willing to pay a lot of money for.
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by mquander 16y ago
This article is made entirely of speculation, stitched together by leaps of the imagination. An "environment of bullying?" "Wars between groups?"
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by mquander 16y ago
Recently, since SC2 beta hit, I've been mulling about the idea of a "programmable RTS" -- an RTS that allows you to preprogram unit AI in some fashion, and then plays in such a way that your programming really factors into the game. For ex
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by mquander 16y ago
I would point out that no serious or semi-serious players, in Korea or anywhere else, actually use Battle.net for Internet play. They generally use iCCup, a hacked-together custom implementation of Battle.net with its own ladder, anti-hack
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by mquander 16y ago
I don't think people would be big fans of XKCD or Dilbert posts here either.
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by mquander 16y ago
I appreciate what you're saying, and if you interpret Rands' post as some rational, utilitarian statement of preference in which he claims to actually care about learning the particular distinguishing virtues of shaving cream, and desks, an
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by mquander 16y ago
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%2F%5C%2F%5C%2F%5CY%2F%5C+mia+album http://lmgtfy.com/?q=maya+mia+album Not exactly rocket surgery. This post sucks.
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by mquander 16y ago
I totally agree. I'm absolutely with Rands here: You can have an opinion. It sounds like work, but it’s really not. An opinion is not the definitive view or judgement regarding a thing; it’s you staring at that desk and saying, “You know,
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by mquander 16y ago
Note that this is the whole point -- if Facebook were free software, it would be that easy, because other software could interoperate with it effectively. Free software naturally ameliorates this kind of lock-in effect. Not using free sof
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by mquander 16y ago
No computer, but 36... Qd8 37. Kxh5 Rc6 and then: 38. f6 Rxf6 39. Rxf6 Qxf6 looks totally hopeless for White, can't defend both h6 and g6 38. g5 Rh6+ 39. gxh6 Rh4+ 40. Kg6 Qf6++ Don't see any other plausible options to prevent 38... Rh6++.
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by mquander 16y ago
Counterpoint: I (indeed, an expert) am interested in this article and I may not have seen the game until my New in Chess arrives, because I've been too lazy to keep up closely with the championship. I appreciate seeing it here immediatel
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by mquander 16y ago
If you're at all interested in chess (as I expect some reasonable minority of HN readers are) it's rather big news, wouldn't you say? Even if you couldn't tell the difference et al. the article still has a good summary of the event and the
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by mquander 16y ago
Depends on perception. What about someFunction.Memoize(); That's perfectly natural, right? (I mean, you could claim that "is memoized or not" should be a "flag" on a function, but that's starting to sound a little silly to my ear
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by mquander 16y ago
I'm just being a smug weenie is all. Obviously there's not a real difference here. However, it's a better question as to whether this style or the "pipeline" style illustrated below and in the C# code is more pleasant.
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by mquander 16y ago
I think it only looks gross because they're methods on an object, and you're used to that meaning "imperative mutable thing." Compare this: employees.AsParallel().AsOrdered() to the more-traditional-C-style MaintainOrder(Par
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by mquander 16y ago
This is an absurd discussion. If you don't know C#, "x =>" is line noise. (More fairly, since (= (x y) z) is trivial to understand if you've ever seen any kind of Lisp, I should say instead -- if you don't know any C-like languages, "
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by mquander 16y ago
2003, Guy Steele: "And you're right: [the designers of Java] were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp. Aren't you happy?" 2008, C#: Three quart
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by mquander 16y ago
I agree, and so does Microsoft, actually; I had the chance to ask a fellow on the C# team (I don't work for MS but I was there recently) why some things in the BCL weren't made dynamic -- for example, when you call a constructor via reflect

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