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by otabdeveloper1 11y ago
In most countries you can't patent ideas, you can only patent objects and manufacturing processes. The U.S. definition of 'patent' is an outlier.
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Cheap oil is taken as a signal of deflation, and deflation is very bad because it happens when the economy is too broken to make investing worthwhile.
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> many "enterprisey megacorps" seem to apply a restricted subset of C++ rather successfully Your definition of 'successfully' is vastly different from the Megacorp definition of 'successfully'. I interview C
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> I wonder if Google is at odds with some it? It's at odds with almost all of it. Google's standards are C-with-classes based on compiler bugs circa 1999. Despite their (misleading) marketing, Google is still just another enter
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Where I live, a child who enters first grade without knowing how to read is an abnormality. In fact, the school system assumes that any child who enters first grade already has the basics of literacy and numeracy -- a child who doesn't
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That's _exactly_ how "machine learning" works, and nobody complains. In fact, businesses can't get enough of it. (Statistics isn't something strange to business-logic types anyways, they understand probabilities and
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> Also take a look at the Church-Turing thesis The Church-Turing thesis is an (unprovable) statement of faith, not a mathematical theorem. Effectively, it states that "all algorithms can be computed on a Turing machine, and vice-ver
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This hasn't been true since C++11. C++11 is as terse as ML.
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A Linux machine with an "Intel Integrated Graphics Controller". I doubt an equivalent Windows machine would fare better.
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It locks up my browser and takes 20 seconds to render one frame. (I guess that would be 0.05 FPS.) So: no, not really impressive. Feels like a regression, actually. (At least the mobile devices of 2015 managed to do 3D acceleration properly
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> Sorry! We are currently not supporting your browser "Works best with Internet Explorer"? I thought sane web developers were well past that.
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e-books != Amazon. The vast, vast majority of e-books in the world do not come with DRM nor are related in any way to Amazon. (They also infringe on copyright, but that's another issue.)
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There's a fantastic site with benchmarks for almost all compressors ever: https://quixdb.github.io/squash-benchmark/ Strangely enough, no one compressor is better in all situations. :)
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> What's wrong with ad blocking? It gives Google a monopoly in selling users' private data. Nobody can ad-block Google. (And Google Analytics.) > Maybe it would have created a market for micropayments which maybe it's f
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> I am curious how this will impact the web. It will make Google (the only ad company that actually outright steals personal data instead of acting nice and building Bayesian models) into a monopoly. You can't adblock the Google. (O
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For all the people cheering on ad blockers: do you not realize that the _only_ result of wide-spread ad blocking is to drive smaller ad networks out of business and make Google into a monopoly? This is not a win for privacy or security on
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> As a trivial example of a data structure with circular references, how about a doubly linked list? Not really, no. There's no reason why the backlink should increment the reference count. Realistically, circular references are onl
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Having circular references is a logic bug. I don't believe there's any algorithm in existence that requires circular references.
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> But if the world ever goes HiDPI, I guess bit-mapped fonts will die out. No, it's the other way around. Anti-aliasing is a hack to make low-res displays slightly more palatable. Once the resolution gets good enough, there's n
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> It would be interesting to figure out if there's something in our food that is flipping the switch to lead down that path. There is, it's called carbohydrates.
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> Every continuous function in the function space can be represented as a linear combination of basis functions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basis_function This is basic and obvious math. Does slapping the word &#x
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Someone's been confusing syntax and internal representation again. Simple: parse <foo bar="zot">quux</foo> as (JSON-like) { "foo": { "bar" : "zot",
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> Original NES developers probably had some sort of toolchains, but whatever they were, they have been lost to history. "Lost to history"? Really? The developers are still alive, you could have, you know, sent them an email and
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> Also, GitHub becomes sort of a borg. If some Russian kid decides to mess with it like Homakov did a while back, we are all screwed. Congrats on you not having a clue what git is.
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> 1 year? 5 years? Never. Like IPv6, HTTP/2 is a broken standard that doesn't solve any problems. The problem with the Web isn't a lack of out-of-order requests, the problem with the Web are those horrible ever-present Jav