mr_luc

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by mr_luc 17y ago
I'd just like to see the period of time drastically reduced for "inventions" in domains that move faster. Any software patent should last no longer than a year, period. And as long as I'm writing the law, anything patented by Intellectual V
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by mr_luc 17y ago
( The following three paragraphs should be read aloud in the voice of Foghorn Leghorn). I'm no fancy big-city journalist, just a simple country kill-floor worker in a JBS Swift slaughter house. I've developed a tolerance for organic discord
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by mr_luc 17y ago
I'm interested in why it's not working on for me. I'll edit this to update on problems as they come. For people trying to run the existing webgl samples (using something like utils3d.js) that are out there with the nightly ff build: 1)
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by mr_luc 17y ago
Woot! Got Canvas3D to create a buffer! (I got distracted by NPR's telling of the ADM price-fixing story, sorry). Okay, the relevant/revelatory code can be seen at: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/content/html/c... Here's the
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by mr_luc 17y ago
Do their forums even work for you? I just got back, and I'm needing to look at the google cache of almost every mozilla forum page; I haven't gotten through to their forums a single time yet. Their 'search moz code' thingy still works -- se
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by mr_luc 17y ago
Does the FF nightly work for you? It doesn't for me at the moment, at least not with those samples (link to my post below, in case this discussion gets big: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=831988 ). Any tips appreciated. I'll have a fe
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by mr_luc 17y ago
I just downloaded and installed the latest Minefield nightly. I enabled the single webgl option in about:config. Not a single one of the examples from http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/48330 are loading for me. They all error with: Error:
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by mr_luc 17y ago
From another perspective -- for public speaking, I find that handwritten notes are indispensable because of the fingerprint they leave on my brain. Hand-written notes don't need to be necessarily 'well-designed' in the same way a website do
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by mr_luc 17y ago
Isn't that ... Intellectual Ventures Patent Troll Nathan Myhrvold? He'd BETTER wipe out malaria. It'd do his massively guilty conscience some good.
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by mr_luc 17y ago
I agree that the comments shouldn't offend anyone. I disagree with your reasoning, though. This neighborhood is (apparently) pretty well known in Ye Olde Silicone Valley(e). That being the case, I'll bet any number of nerd bloggers or priva
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by mr_luc 17y ago
That picture looks ... AWFUL. It looks like the bad parts of the meat-packing-plant town in rural Minnesota where I grew up. No, strike that -- it looks much, much worse.
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by mr_luc 17y ago
Your questions are reasonable ones given your experiences, but their nature makes it unlikely for people to expend much energy answering them -- questions like "why isn't anyone moving to fix them?" may be perfectly reasonable to you, and i
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by mr_luc 17y ago
I agree, mildweed. Especially about the end-user tools. It looks good to do this, and it is good. It's all win, and clearly it sets them apart. That being said, in many cases, their answer is "There's an API for that." Why can't it be expor
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by mr_luc 17y ago
I thought this was about the schoolyard game foursquare. I am ashamed to admit this, but I played that all the way through 8th grade. ... Now that I know what Foursquare is, I have to say, foursquare seems preferable.
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by mr_luc 17y ago
It's hardly an achievement, heh. ;) (But returning to comment anyway, because if this is news to you, I envy you the joy in your future). It's just your regular emacs + ruby(merb) workflow. Merb console in one buffer for a repl-a-like (you
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by mr_luc 17y ago
This is your human lint:"its," not "it's." Second paragraph, '20 percent of it's value.' /me goes back to reading. Edit: okay, finished. Great observations. > "[...] These things all raise the expected value (in my mind at least), so if
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by mr_luc 17y ago
I wish this post was the root, because I agree with it more and didn't have time to type it out myself. I liked the graphical feel of the changes made. Clearly, there's good visual design acumen happening. But let's take an example, Mr. D
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by mr_luc 17y ago
I didn't get that at all -- perhaps because I'm a young guy, I saw it as a cautionary tale for me. "Cautionary tale" is not "whiner." It's not "bad crap happened to me" at all; in fact, that was the whole point of his story (don't just
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by mr_luc 17y ago
It's approximately "koap chai". To make it extra enthusiastic, throw a couple of "lai"s on the end. (mr_luc once learned enough Lao to do basic public speaking in that language, for reasons that the mists of five years ago have now rendered
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by mr_luc 17y ago
Or, of course, a "dirty" deed. I am given to understand that one may engage someone to perform such deeds at highly discounted prices.
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by mr_luc 17y ago
I'm no PHP hacker, nor (sadly) am I unfamiliar with ASP.NET. I was stuck at an "agile", highly "successful" .NET shop for 2 years. Client-corporate-intranet-land is completely divorced from the realm of what is possible . That entire world
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by mr_luc 17y ago
For instance, let's measure it in terms of hacker news comments. The fact that this is identifiable from the title as a MS PR piece means that most HN regulars completely lack the desire to respond. The very idea that the question is being
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by mr_luc 17y ago
Another crossfit hacker? Wow. (The first place I saw that article linked was from crossfit.com, around the time it first came out. ) I got good results with crossfit (dropped 40 pounds, now I'm "athletic" -- I'd never have imagined I could
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by mr_luc 17y ago
Someone suggested a Hacker Canon during the spate of "hey, Arduino exists" threads.
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by mr_luc 17y ago
Right, the democratic component (and inability to do digg-style burying that results) is what makes the news on these kinds of sites better than other options. The danger, of course, is: how is HN different from reddit.com/r/programming ? H
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by mr_luc 17y ago
Heh, well, the last bit aside -- obviously, there's certainly nothing wrong with your posting of web.py; the existing guidelines make that clear enough. Which is neither here nor there, as I'm not proposing the rule as a criticism of your
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by mr_luc 17y ago
[ I should preface this all with a giant In My Humble Opinion. I think that this rule has the potential to be a hack that solves a problem, so I'm arguing for it -- it's not a rule that's been adopted, just something that seems promising to
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by mr_luc 17y ago
Did something new ("Hacker News") happen with web.py? ... Ah, no. Hmm. Well, I've proposed this before( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=750998 ), but what do you guys think about the adoption of this rule: "If you're posting to inform u
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by mr_luc 17y ago
I just burst into raucous laughter, mostly from my own shock at realizing that that the idea is potentially practical. I've always thought of government assistance on a large scale as the kind of thing that will seriously damage a country i
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by mr_luc 17y ago
:P Look, I felt dirty enough just reading the C# code for an idiomatic usage of an iterator ... Obviously, in a compiled language that you control, you could take that block and turn its contents into a method of a class for speed. Conceptu

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