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by palish 16y ago
"I'm familiar with parser combinators, but not the Attoparsec or other libraries. Furthermore, I have limited Haskel experience, so I'm struggling to read this. In particular, the use of symbols and overall terseness are hard to get throug
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by palish 16y ago
"The university needs to be more forthcoming about the arrangements behind this donation so we can get a clear picture of what’s going on." Dripping with entitlement...
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by palish 16y ago
Thanks for the info. However, what I really want is a simple "here is how to render a webpage with webkit" tutorial. (FYI I would be using .NET WinForms, so I doubt there's much open-source love.)
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by palish 16y ago
This is epic. Thank you! Offtopic: I have always wanted a tutorial for "Here is how to embed WebKit into your C++ application" (to make your own toy web browser). I realize rendering a webpage is only one very tiny component of a browser
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by palish 16y ago
DaVinci wrote without using capitals or punctuation. Drew Houston wrote his Dropbox apology without using capitals. And grammar... Well, grammar sometimes be subjective, y'dig? It took me a long time to set aside my prejudice for people who
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by palish 16y ago
By how fun they are. As people. I'm convinced the only real-world metric that matters is "how much other people want to work with you". Being an easygoing, fun person facilitates that dramatically.
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by palish 16y ago
The only objective and repeatable metric of programmer productivity is if a single programmer is assigned the task of delivering a tool or component, from scratch, by himself. His productivity is the inverse of the time to delivery. And th
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by palish 16y ago
How do you "install" a game? For example, let's say you have 150MB of art assets. You wouldn't want players to have to re-download the assets each time they go to play. So how would you cache: 1) a texture, 2) a vertex+index buffer?
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by palish 16y ago
What I'm saying is that RGB(128,128,128) is not halfway between RGB(0,0,0) and RGB(255,255,255), in the same way that a 4.0 earthquake is not halfway between a 0.0 earthquake and an 8.0 earthquake. The scale is non-linear. As far as I can s
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by palish 16y ago
You are missing my point. From a physical standpoint , it makes no sense to add two RGB colors. It makes sense to add two lengths. (1 inch) + (1 inch) = (2 inches). It does not make sense to add two RGB colors. The result is not a me
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by palish 16y ago
My point was that you can't add two RGB values and expect to get a meaningful physical result --- you can't multiply them either, as far as I know. This has vast implications for computer graphics. Video games, for example. "Light wave fr
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by palish 16y ago
See for yourself. Richard Feynman - The Relation of Mathematics & Physics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SrHzSGn-I8 Richard Feynman - The Distinction of Past and Future: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kab9dkDZJY&feature=rela
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by palish 16y ago
Very informative, thank you! Something I've been mulling over for awhile now is... what does it mean to represent a color with numbers? That is, every pixel on our monitor is RGB 0 through 255. But what about in physics? Well, "color" i
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by palish 16y ago
I've been thinking about faster-than-light communication recently. Consider gravity. Is its effect instantaneous? That is, gravity varies as the inverse of the square distance between two bodies. If, say, the Earth were to suddenly get m
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by palish 16y ago
This is brilliant.
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by palish 16y ago
You're arguing against thinking.
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by palish 16y ago
Thanks for the interesting paper.
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by palish 16y ago
I'm surprised HN's spam filter didn't try to murder this comment.
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by palish 16y ago
This seems like a good thing for comments. The goal for comments is civility, not democracy. Actually, the goal is for the comments to be interesting , but they will be because there are interesting people on HN. If interesting people ar
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by palish 16y ago
I want to work at your company.
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by palish 16y ago
Hi, welcome to HN. I'm curious, did you just find HN or did this particular article motivate you to create an account? (I wish there were a private message system.)
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by palish 16y ago
That's fascinating. I wish I knew what you read to learn what you know.
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by palish 16y ago
Bah. Yes, thanks!
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by palish 16y ago
Oh, you're right. Good point. This is the same country who assassinated a former KGB agent a few years ago with Plutonium. The assassin was identified by British authorities. The Russians didn't realize that when you carry a vial of the stu
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by palish 16y ago
Are there any examples of a kidnapping actually being profitable? It's almost impossible to pull off something like this. The money has to be transferred. Online? Follow the money trail. Cash? The police will embed tracking devices within t
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by palish 16y ago
"But Drew!" Jimmy exclaims, "What if someone uses Dropbox at work and at home? Are these special folders going to be synced across computers? If so, how will the key be easily transferred (email, USB stick)? What happens when the user's har
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by palish 16y ago
Let me be more clear. You are now Drew. You start this morning by visiting Hacker News. "Dear god," you exclaim, "I've been such a fool! We've been Doing It Rong all these years!" Inspired by this new revelation, you spring out of your chai
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by palish 16y ago
They said almost exactly that. "If you want to be completely secure, use a program such as TrueCrypt to create an encrypted drive within your Dropbox."
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by palish 16y ago
You still haven't explained what it is you expect them to do. In reality. Knowing that they have millions of customers, and that they have invested years of work into their current infrastructure. So, playing devil's advocate for the moment
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by palish 16y ago
Speaking as a scientist, "don't think about it, don't care about it, just trust someone" is contrary to my nature. I was born with a burning desire to understand . Everything. I just wish I could locate a group of like-minded people to w

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