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by nzmsv 17y ago
Yes, but when it's a parent talking to a little kid, the formal address can mean one of two things: a) they are being funny, in the "look at you being all grown up" sort of way; b) the kid's in trouble. Funny how some things are internation
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by nzmsv 17y ago
The only thing I am not sure about in this book is the whole "a person's name is the sweetest sound" thing. It is hard to use this piece of advice correctly, and more often than not comes across as " I just read Carnegie's book the other ni
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by nzmsv 17y ago
To be fair, Windows lists binary compatibility as a feature. Linux ignores it entirely. And hardcoding paths is a really dumb move (which sadly does not make it any less popular). But yes, Windows backwards compatibility is not perfect.
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by nzmsv 17y ago
If all OSS developers shared this attitude, there would not be free software today.
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Actually, I'm not missing any software on Linux. I do keep a Windows VM, but it's only for some crappy software that came with my universal remote, and for testing my own programs on Windows. Further, a large fraction of open code gets writ
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by nzmsv 17y ago
I'd say the application domains of agile processes and formal verification are a bit different. Verification will make sure you are "solving the problem right". And most startups are trying to figure out if they are "solving the right probl
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by nzmsv 17y ago
You can install software to check on the temperature of your CPU and video card to ease your paranoia :) Most of these programs can even start beeping loudly if you are getting close to overheating the hardware. That said, high-power modern
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Fixing X is the reason I keep lynx (actually links2) installed.
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by nzmsv 17y ago
For a project in first year uni, I implemented nearest neighbour, bilinear, bicubic, and sinc. I remember sinc looking marginally better than bicubic, but not significantly so for most images (which is probably why Photoshop didn't implemen
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by nzmsv 17y ago
And that it's an international site.
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by nzmsv 17y ago
The success of iTunes can be seen as proof that an easy way to download legal music can make money. And people do donate to open-source projects.
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by nzmsv 17y ago
I'm personally fine with most ads, even the irrelevant ones. What I don't like are the animated banners, and especially Flash monstrosities that pop up over the page you are trying to read and start making terrible sounds. They are the mino
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Human languages (un)fortunately cannot be parsed unambiguously. I think most readers know a difference between a piece of writing written for entertainment and one they can use to make substantiated scientific claims. Also, I would not dism
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by nzmsv 17y ago
It's kind of eerie to read this. What you've described is exactly how the nerds felt in your high school. When they got to college, they found a social group that would accept them without them having to pretend to like the things they don'
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Same in Firefox
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Many countries, Canada included, have bilateral agreements on only taxing income once. So, if these people you know make money off foreign property, they pay taxes on it in the country where it is located. They do not have to pay taxes agai
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by nzmsv 17y ago
There might also be the option of going to graduate school and working on graphics. A language for geometry/scene graphs sounds like a plausible research project.
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by nzmsv 17y ago
This is an excellent excuse! "I'm not wasting time, I'm saving the economy" :)
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by nzmsv 17y ago
If the older programmers are discriminated against, why is it that almost any job posting I see has minimum 10 years experience as a requirement?
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by nzmsv 17y ago
(I'm assuming this is a reply to my raytracing comment) This is most likely true. Additionally, raytracing just might produce samples that are too regular for this to work well. I haven't really thought about it :)
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Here's a blog post by Terrence Tao on the subject: http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/compressed-sensing-... One application he mentions is sensor networks that can withstand a loss of a large number of nodes. As soon as I saw the a
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by nzmsv 17y ago
...so let's pay 1000x the cost for our water and sugar, because this particular water is infused with magic .
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Can someone explain what exactly is XRD and what it is useful for? I'm not being sarcastic, just trying to figure this out.
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Ah, I need to learn to read :)
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Contemporary GPL is a terrible name. Things are only contemporary for a limited time (by definition). What do you do after the Internet is obsoleted? Rename the new version The New Contemporary GPL?
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by nzmsv 17y ago
I think double-checking results would bring the most benefit, especially if done by a native speaker of the target language. They don't have to understand the source language, just point out that a sentence makes no sense or uses awkward gr
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by nzmsv 17y ago
We can now do a lot of laborious tasks with scripting :)
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by nzmsv 17y ago
It's easy to see what's disruptive once it's, um, disrupted. But we all still mistake a clunky version 0.1 for the limit of what a technology can achieve. Most recent example: Twitter and everyone saying it will never make any money.
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Another thing: good tools matter (just like with software). Don't try to solder electronics with a RadioShack iron. It can be done, sure, but it's frustrating. Get a temperature-controller solder station and a fine tip for the iron. This wi
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by nzmsv 17y ago
I found the same to be true. BioShock 2 was the first PC game I have bought in quite a while. I did not even know about Windows Live games until last week, and was really surprised my ageing video card held up well :) The experience will pr

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