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by nohat 14y ago
I find it difficult to believe that you've never seen an argument that the patents are invalid. You may not agree, but the argument has been made many times. The usual argument is that the patents are obvious. Bouncy scrolling, double tap t
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by nohat 14y ago
Are you saying that the apple patents are unique inventions? I ask for clarity because that is not a common position on hackernews.
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by nohat 14y ago
Exactly - most of the effort was making a game that hid that simple mechanic so that it took some (admittedly interesting) math to figure out where the dependence was.
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by nohat 14y ago
I'm not sure what you mean. My point was that challenging him to move to Fukushima doesn't show his hypocrisy or anything. He has very good reasons not to move to Fukushima that have nothing to do with the threat of radiation.
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by nohat 14y ago
He should leave his tenured position at a major university to demonstrate his conviction? That's not a meaningful point or challenge.
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by nohat 14y ago
I think the basic principle of visual simplicity is going to stick around. I do think there's some faddish elements to the adoption though. I like dropping 3d. Embracing the two dimensional property of the screen seems well founded. I doubt
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by nohat 14y ago
If you can change the email or password by phone, then nothing is solved. Adding the credit card was, as I understand, simply because amazon required a credit card number on the account (possibly last four digits).
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by nohat 14y ago
I seriously doubt that the nsa is worried about hiring mathematicians with psychological control under mental duress. That's more like cia agent training.
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by nohat 14y ago
I recommend encfs.
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by nohat 14y ago
Charging a fee for entry is definitely not conducive for tourism, but how is it a subsidy to Florida? The article I read says it will be used to advertise, and pay for administrative costs.
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by nohat 14y ago
He addressed that in a video here http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/06/06/john-carmack-is-making-a-v...
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by nohat 14y ago
I made blaster rifles that shot destructions, but never realized you could shoot map features. That sounds like the potential for interesting fps: remake the map as you go.
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by nohat 14y ago
This increases the likely-hood that flame is state sponsored. It still seems surprising that in the wild malware would use a novel crypto result. The risk of publicly releasing the technique is fairly high. Perhaps with md5 being phased out
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by nohat 14y ago
Perhaps the worst part is that they either didn't know about the breach (likely), or didn't tell anyone (hopefully not).
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by nohat 14y ago
Yes, I'm wondering if is satirical. It keeps on approaching serious points only to jump into a strangely particular and extreme aspect of them.
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by nohat 14y ago
> “So where does the air vehicle called the Predator [i.e., a flying robot] fit? It is unmanned, and impressive. In 2002, in Yemen, one run by the CIA came up behind an SUV full of al-Qaeda leaders and successfully fired a Hellfire m
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by nohat 14y ago
Workplace policies are what make something nsfw, not any ridiculously extrapolated failings as a human.
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by nohat 14y ago
The large number of people willing to take Brian Hamacheck's word (without response or evidence) on the "who's here" versus "who's near me" dispute seems relevant to me. The number of people offering to donate is even more disturbing.
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by nohat 14y ago
A community is going through exactly what he was warning about? That's not irony.
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by nohat 14y ago
Actually the instructions allowed for being confident you could do it without further training. I agree that far too many people are confident in their ability to die gallantly, however.
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by nohat 14y ago
My impression is that people are overconfident in their ability to plan an invasion and under-confident in their ability to pitch manure. There are other examples, but in general there seems to be much less variation in results than there s
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by nohat 14y ago
I predict with very high confidence that this does not work.
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by nohat 14y ago
I suspect that one cause of this is that super wealthy people are often owners of a business. Their money is tied up in what made them wealthy emotionally as well as politically. For instance Buffet was wealthy in Berkshire-Hathaway shares.
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by nohat 15y ago
Bump actually does need the location, because it's important to filtering all the requests they get. It could certainly be abused, but unlike most other apps that ask your location bump actually needs it.
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by nohat 15y ago
Good rule of thumb: if the title is a question, the answer is no.
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by nohat 15y ago
It occurs to me that one way to save power would be to specifically design your servers to operate at significantly higher temperature, that way cooling is much cheaper and less power intensive.
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by nohat 15y ago
First: Yep, there's not much available about compiling gfortran for osx. The link does show an example of gfortran requiring glibc - which is the point you were disagreeing with. Second: just another example (by descending order of googleab
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by nohat 15y ago
http://old.nabble.com/GLIBC-and-executable-builds-on-Gfortra... 'I have been attempting unsuccessfully to try the latest gfortran snapshot executables...The reason for the problem is that they require the bleeding-edge version of GLIBC to
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by nohat 15y ago
gfortran requires glibc.
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by nohat 15y ago
Sure, the problem was installing gfortran, which (as I recall) requires the real gcc. I suspect (though I never did figure out what exactly was wrong) that some sort of a library conflict with xcode's gcc was responsible. As this package is

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