nknight

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by nknight 15y ago
> But always wearing glasses is certainly not more convenient than just using a device when you need it. I take it you don't wear glasses. Many millions of us do. All day, every day, our entire lives. It's in no way inconvenient.
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by nknight 15y ago
You are speaking of social class, which is highly attenuated in the US. Economic class is what I'm speaking of.
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by nknight 15y ago
You haven't been browsing HN long enough. People go off on rants about the GPL restricting their freedom and just generally being evil all the time, has nothing to do with corporate lawyers.
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by nknight 15y ago
"Working class" is a terrible misnomer for "lower class" or "poor".
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by nknight 15y ago
You can make anything work given enough money. It will cost them substantially more to manufacture the devices in Brazil, but this may be more than offset by lack of import duties and the tax deal.
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by nknight 15y ago
Red herring. Brazil has some massive import duties, and cut a special deal with Foxconn for local manufacturing. The economic analysis is severely thrown off.
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by nknight 15y ago
The unnecessary editorializing is annoying. The point, which I agree with, could have been made without the self-centered snipes at licenses you happen to dislike.
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by nknight 15y ago
> Factory work just doesn't seem like a viable long-term career. The US middle class exists (or existed) in no small part precisely because of factory work. Many people have spent their entire lives in factories making a good living,
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by nknight 15y ago
The ANSI C library is quite small. It originates in an era when 128KB of RAM was reasonably roomy. To this day, there are C libraries designed to fit comfortably within that size. Most of the library code will never even be present anyway.
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by nknight 15y ago
Go back and look at the first post in this very thread. Notch explicitly intends nothing of the kind, and I certainly can't see why it would be done -- it runs counter to the vision thus far articulated.
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by nknight 15y ago
It's 128KB of RAM, that's the same as the original Macintosh in 1984. I would be surprised if it ran at more than about 10MHz. And nevermind the constrained resources for implementing any of this hypothetical infrastructure, unless Notch ad
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by nknight 15y ago
Firewall? Ports? Communication proxy? It has 64K 16-bit words. What exactly are you expecting the default software to do that opens it up to viruses?
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by nknight 15y ago
Lua is a good place to start! And the VM minus parser is useful, though it may make debugging harder. You simply write out the bytecode and upload that. The VM is only part of the problem, though. I consider the bigger problem to be memory
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by nknight 15y ago
Although some of the implications require experience to understand, I'd say it already is in "relatively plain English", you simply haven't been exposed to the vocabulary and concepts necessary. Trying to explain in any detail would basic
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by nknight 15y ago
It's not even such a "similar concept". SL's "resources" are just... money. Real money. And it doesn't really have any inherent "gameplay". It's a pure sandbox -- with dollars for grains of sand. Notch is talking about real resource managem
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by nknight 15y ago
With cleverness, I could see the memory constraints being not so terribly constraining, even without a (real) bank switching mechanism. The reason we use "RAM" as we generally think of it is basically that other forms of storage are obscene
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by nknight 15y ago
No, it wasn't. If you wanted to communicate a legitimate concern (which you don't seem to have, just idle speculation), you would have done so. Instead, you were an asshole, and made it worse by recognizing you were being an asshole, and
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by nknight 15y ago
> Not to be an asshole Typing that should have been a pretty unambiguous clue you needed to stop.
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by nknight 15y ago
I don't think the processor needs to be. If it's designed carefully, the code should be trivially translatable to native x86, at which point you may even be able to run a few thousand on a single reasonably beefy server, depending on how fa
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by nknight 15y ago
There is some precedent for all of this. Trade Wars 2002 developed into a game of automation, some scripts became highly complex and were nearly able to play a game fully autonomously, including cooperation between players running the same
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by nknight 15y ago
"License"? I wasn't aware Amazon was claiming any sort of control over use of the AWS API. Certainly any such assertion would raise serious legal questions like some of those now at issue in Oracle's lawsuit against Google.
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by nknight 15y ago
Typically a team would be "named" for its location, general responsibilities, and/or the codename of the project they're working on, particularly if they're large enough to have an actual COO and a "Director of Development". A project coden
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by nknight 15y ago
Most of SPDY's "speediness" comes from fundamental design properties, not its regrettably atextual implementation. From Google's perspective, this level of optimization is appropriate -- they have scaling problems most of us could only drea
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by nknight 15y ago
You can file a bogus tax return for someone in the US just as easily. I'd be surprised if that weren't the case in most countries. I believe there have been occasional incidents of people doing so to collect other peoples' tax refunds, but
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by nknight 15y ago
Just like forcing them to learn how to read is a sure way to make them hate reading? Forcing them to learn history is a sure way to make them hate history? Would forcing them to learn how to drive be a sure way to make them hate driving?
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by nknight 15y ago
You're reading a lot more into my statements than what is there. I loathe my country and would leave it in a heartbeat were it practical -- but not for the UK.
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by nknight 15y ago
> Those two things, gun culture and death penalties, are massive. I oppose both, but some things are more important than personal safety. > The constitution is not an effective check on federal power; the commerce clause seems to
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by nknight 15y ago
Please go find those ten. I'll wait here. Actually, you have to go find twenty, since I'll just add RIPA. Sorry, thirty: Terrorism Act 2000, even predates the 9/11 hysteria. No, forty: Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 Fifty: Terr
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by nknight 15y ago
So we can end up with laws like this? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17576745 Altering rights in the heat of the moment is precisely what we don't want.
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by nknight 15y ago
Depends on the state, but federal constitutional protection of voting rights for adult men didn't exist until the 14th Amendment in 1868. Until then, voting qualifications were a state matter, and even after that, the "penalty" was simply a

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