newt0311

23 ms·

181.
by newt0311 18y ago
Check out the street performer protocol: http://www.schneier.com/paper-street-performer.html I also heard of some companies trying to apply this to specific cases.
182.
by newt0311 18y ago
Hard to tell if you are arguing against my point through sarcasm or supporting my point by covering a contingency. Weird.
183.
by newt0311 18y ago
my .emacs.el and .emacs.d are under VC. Its very nice.
184.
by newt0311 18y ago
What makes you think that a person planning on living for 1000 years would go retire for 90% of their life? What makes you think that a person who lives from paycheck to paycheck would be able to afford anti-aging treatments which are likel
185.
by newt0311 18y ago
Better medical technology = an accident that is fatal now may not be fatal a hundred years into the future. All these studies are complete bullshit because none of them can predict the social factor and over a period as long as 2500 years,
186.
by newt0311 18y ago
Doubt it. Population control laws are too unpopular and anybody over ~300 is probably very rich thanks if nothing else, due to the magic of compound interest. Since rich = powerful, it is unlikely that any population control measure would h
187.
by newt0311 18y ago
One question: If they are using 80386 memory segments, how do they cope with systems like AMD64 and the linux kernel both of which have flat memory systems? Besides, normal desktop OSes already isolate programs in their own memory segments.
188.
by newt0311 18y ago
Very nice. Its like <search term> site:news.ycombinator.com but orders of magnitudes more polished and better designed.
189.
by newt0311 18y ago
Just more proof that humanity is not destined for a malthusian end and that doomsday predictions based on lack of resources are misguided. People who claim that human needs grow exponentially and thus must eventually go unsatisfied fail to
190.
by newt0311 18y ago
Agreed. On my gentoo systems, I just compile emcs without X support. Makes life easy. Also, one critical skill when using emacs is learning to modify the .emacs.el file as time goes on. Over the years, the little things I accumulated in thi
191.
by newt0311 18y ago
Woah... Be wary of that attitude for there lies the path to C++ hell. Like people say, the path to hell is paved with good intentions.
192.
by newt0311 18y ago
That is the problem. One of the central tenants of relativity is that what reference frames we choose is irrelevant as long as we account for all the relativistic effects. In you analysis, whatever that may be, you have two twins which sepa
193.
by newt0311 18y ago
There is a problem with your analysis. Switch viewpoints to the reference frame of the traveling twin. In that case, that twin stays in a constant position and the other twin travels with a trajectory of x(t) = -0.9 c sin(kt) / k. The negat
194.
Detroit bailout bill may lead to more debt-investor insecurity(online.wsj.com)
1 points by newt0311 18y ago|0 comments
195.
by newt0311 18y ago
That's valid python.
196.
by newt0311 18y ago
The not too confusing part is especially important. It is very difficult to cut features down and very easy to build them up. Simplicity is king.
197.
by newt0311 18y ago
So... anybody hear Cisco's side of this story yet? Apparently, they weren't quite denying access to the source code outright but placed it on their website (where 1 hn commenter managed to find it, presumably, not after that much time). Wha
198.
by newt0311 18y ago
Lets see... Value of my life (at least to myself): infinity, Probability of revival: >0 Expected value = (probability of revival) * (value of my life) = infinity. So... low odds are not a good excuse to not go for cryonics. Next, who pa
199.
by newt0311 18y ago
Perhaps but in the marginal case (Ie. for a company which is just on the edge of using a FOSS product), this could screw everybody over.
200.
by newt0311 18y ago
Well... Both rely on their customers being complete fools...
201.
by newt0311 18y ago
To a limit. Admittedly, having different argument types is pretty useful but still, 5 independent parts with their own semantics some of which may not be usable in certain contexts* ? how are auxiliary arguments useful in the general case
202.
by newt0311 18y ago
The twin paradox cannot be handled by SR. The difference in aging comes about due to time dialation caused by the differential acceleration that the twins experience (the twin in the spaceship is accelerated and the other is not). SR can b
203.
by newt0311 18y ago
Yes it does. It has at least 4 different ways to loop, 4 different types of arguments to functions, 5 or 6 different lets (functions, macros, let* , normal let, ...), 3 or 4 different kinds of variables (with no unifying underlying theme),
204.
by newt0311 18y ago
Thats exactly what they will do and business in general. Every lawsuit filed against a company violating GPL is another reason for companies not to use FOSS in the first place.
205.
Obama's environment team.(online.wsj.com)
1 points by newt0311 18y ago|0 comments
206.
by newt0311 18y ago
And more gibrish from the peanut gallery. Cisco by far is one of the friendliest companies to the open source movement. How friendly do you think they will be now?
207.
by newt0311 18y ago
It seems that anything that comes out of "standards bodies" ends up looking like C++. Standards in general need to become simpler.
208.
by newt0311 18y ago
Fake jobs kept afloat through government spending and therefore funds from taxpayers is even worse in the long run than jobs lost now because at least those people now out of work can find other gainful employment where they are actually ne
209.
by newt0311 18y ago
Thank god. Heres to hoping that Obama never gets around to bailing these industries out either so that they finally declare bankruptcy and let the market work out its own (significantly more efficient) solution.
210.
by newt0311 18y ago
So... Special relativity is called "special" because it specifically assumes no acceleration and therefore, no force. That formula you have is an approximation for "small" forces. General relativity is what actually explains space with ac

More ›