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by palish 15y ago
That's true, but very rare.
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by palish 15y ago
It's not his duty to report such things. No one is "honor-bound" to report vulnerabilities; in fact, it seems unethical to expect any random person to try to fix any random problem they stumble upon, don't you think? My philosophy: it's ba
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by palish 15y ago
This is probably due to incompetence, not malice. Bugfix a'hoy? They probably meant "It is our intention not to collect information..." rather than "Microsoft does not collect information..." If you make a mistake which contradicts somet
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by palish 15y ago
In OpenGL 3+ you can use something called a 'geometry shader'. Execution flow looks like: 1. application renders a list of points 2. those points are transformed by the Vertex Shader 3. the output of [2] is fed into the Geometry Shader. (an
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by palish 15y ago
Thank you for the info! Much appreciated.
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by palish 15y ago
Thank you very much! "content spam the holy hell out of the Internet" How? (In what way would you go about doing that?)
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by palish 15y ago
Wow. You have a lot of determination! Kudos.
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by palish 15y ago
Yes. At my last job, they had 200+ servers, all Windows. When I tried to bring up Linux as an option, they sort of winced and said "Linux... ehhh... it's hard to get Linux doing what you want."
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by palish 15y ago
That's correct. Ever seen Mythbusters? Think Jamie.
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by palish 15y ago
Oh, sod off. Some people simply can't. I know, because I'm one. We're still excited -- we just don't show it. Literally, we can't. You may as well be asking us to detach our arm.
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by palish 15y ago
Oh, yep. That's correct, thanks.
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by palish 15y ago
Those are very good points. So what do you think should be done about the present situation, if anything? I have no idea.
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by palish 15y ago
Yep, that's correct. I wish "thing.Length - 1" were as clear as "0", but it's not. Besides, if you really cared about efficiency, you wouldn't be using growable containers... =)
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by palish 15y ago
You're missing the point. 1) Money exists to serve humans. It doesn't exist for money's sake. The end goal is to help people . The airline helped people get from A to B. Dropbox helps people send files. 2) The people holding the bonds are
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by palish 15y ago
No, I pretty much just recoiled in horror immediately. Even if I had to avoid .Clear(), there are immediately-obvious, better ways. while ( !thing.Empty() ) thing.Remove( 0 ); In fact, the code isn't just bad; it's risky. What if
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by palish 15y ago
So... How is humanity better off by investment banking? What I mean is, that airplane example consists entirely of gamblers. Are you saying "humanity is better because people can continue to fly with the airline"? Then why not use a diff
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by palish 15y ago
C'mon. You've been on Hacker News three years. We're not like the rest of the internet. Let's try this again. Pretend you're trying to convince Feynman that investment banking is a Good Thing. What specific points would you raise? (No o
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by palish 15y ago
The relevance is: "investment banking" may have done more harm than good. (As in, consider their whole existence. What might the world have been like without investment banking?)
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by palish 15y ago
Have you heard Knuth speak? He's full of "um's" and "ah's". (Neil is fantastic; I only brought it up because I'm someone who uses a lot of "um's" and "ah's", which tends to give people the impression that I'm dim. So it gave me hope to fi
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by palish 15y ago
Thought about it.
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by palish 15y ago
(Different topic, out of curiosity.) Why bother protesting anything at all? I mean, we're both smart people. Surely we agree that http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aT9p36fgHU#t=3m35s indicates the police can do whatever they want, and nob
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by palish 15y ago
Just curious, how did you get a videotape? I wish I had an "Oh boy, here comes a police officer" button, which records the entire event. But obviously there is no such device. I'm terrified at the idea of pulling out a cameraphone during a
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by palish 15y ago
Then you'll love http://www.viemu.com/ .... There are so many good things to say about ViEmu that it's hard to know where to begin. I've been a happy ViEmu customer for about three years now. Best $99 I've ever spent, hands-down. Maybe
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by palish 15y ago
Wait, wait... "texture cache corruption", and "null pointers in the scene tree"? Edit: It's both scary and awesome that you rigged a game engine to manage a music library a-la iTunes. Are you profitable?
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by palish 15y ago
Pssh, whatever man. My happiness can be modeled as: enum Boolean { TRUE, FALSE, SOCKS_NOT_FOUND };
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by palish 15y ago
Well, for what it's worth, I think you're 100% correct. What shocked me was... 1) it's almost impossible to talk with someone about themselves, about mistakes they've made or about things they could do better (unless they brought it up). 2)
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by palish 15y ago
That game is hilarious!
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by palish 15y ago
Doom 3 is going to be open-source before the end of the year. I can't wait!
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by palish 15y ago
vectormath.zzz.yyy.xxx
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by palish 15y ago
I think this is the start of a beautiful collaboration, you two.

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