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by phaedrus 17y ago
Quote from the article: " The only thing they had in common was an automatic transmission." I have an answer to this problem: ban automatic transmissions! Now, I say this as someone who drives a stick shift and who believes that is the o
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by phaedrus 17y ago
I can't see why that would be necessary. The vacuum assist is just that - an assist. The brakes still work if you don't have it, you just have to put some extra force on the pedal. It isn't even that much force; I've driven older vehicl
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by phaedrus 17y ago
Absolutely. I used to own a V-8 Ford pickup; if you happened to hit the brakes and the gas at the same time the power of the engine would completely overwhelm the brakes and the truck would (start to or continue to) move. If you accidentl
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by phaedrus 17y ago
I have heard of at least one story where an employee-programmer was compensated for his work and later claimed copyright-ownership over the code he was hired to write, and was successful in getting some kind of court decision or settlemen
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Ask HN: Worth the risk to accept volunteer contributions to for profit business?
5 points by phaedrus 17y ago|3 comments
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by phaedrus 17y ago
I actually have an immediate need for this - need to turn folders of robot project pictures into web pages. Thanks for posting this. (I know there are services like Flickr, but I set up my own server because I would rather copy whole folde
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by phaedrus 17y ago
Doesn't this seem eerily similar to the way Steve Yegge suddenly stopped blogging/removed his public presence? And then _why (whytheluckystiff) also pulled down all his online presences. It makes me wonder if some group of kids is systema
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by phaedrus 17y ago
The Io language has both actors and prototype based OO inheritance. Asynchronous messages are implemented using futures. Furthermore: ""When an actor requires a reply message from another actor, it is known as an insensitive actor, and wi
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by phaedrus 17y ago
Writing a distributed control system in Io for my robot I'll take to the Sparkfun UAV competition.
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by phaedrus 17y ago
He seems to be arguing that the existence of multiple javascript frameworks is caused by it lacking a standard library, but I don't think you can conclude one based on the other; as a counter example the Java language has an extensive stand
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by phaedrus 17y ago
This is EXACTLY like what I wanted to create for the Io language; I wonder how hard it would be to make this work with the Io interpreter instead of Python...
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by phaedrus 17y ago
Wow thanks for the link, that's a really good blog in general.
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by phaedrus 17y ago
I don't think this is a relevant statistic. Sparkfun makes money by selling items, not page views. There might not even be much correlation between page views and sales: If only 1% of their page views are actually people buying things, y
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by phaedrus 17y ago
I'm actually designing a REST system to connect together the subsystems of a robot with a number of independent microcontrollers, so this is very relevant. Keep the REST articles coming, please!
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by phaedrus 17y ago
In the beginning, a lot of the foundation of the C++ language was laid by taking things that were design patterns in C and making them language features in C++. While I do not subscribe to the idea that learning one thing somehow ruins you
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by phaedrus 17y ago
Raymond Chen has a great quote: "Good advice comes with a rationale so you can tell when it becomes bad advice. If you don't understanding why something should be done, then you've fallen into the trap of cargo cult programming, and you'll
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by phaedrus 17y ago
Practical C++ by Mark A. Terribile is very dense, but clear, and can take you all the way from novice to expert if you can get through it. The copy I have is a decade and a half old, but still relevant for the material it covers, which i
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by phaedrus 17y ago
At the risk of being downvoted, I'd like to point out that there's no possible remark or continuation of this line of discussion that will not be downvoted.
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by phaedrus 17y ago
Was anyone else reminded of the ancient Greek philosopher Gorgias? Quote from the article: "The conclusion of your argument is blatantly absurd, but every premise is correct, except one. The trick is to hide that wrong premise under an int
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by phaedrus 17y ago
This article should be required reading for anyone creating a forum account anywhere.
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by phaedrus 17y ago
Thanks for the link, that's really trippy.
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by phaedrus 17y ago
I always wondered about that. I had assumed I must be misunderstanding either what Prototype.js did or why I was named Prototype.js and not "Class.js". Apparently I was not misunderstanding. It's sad to see people take a cool feature and
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by phaedrus 17y ago
Seconded. I actually discovered Io specifically due to the prototypes vs. classes issue. After running into the limits of class based design while working on a moderately large codebase for a commercial program, I began to question what i
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by phaedrus 17y ago
in the whole thing about Obama wanting to clip NASA's wings and push privatization of space travel, no one seems to be asking the obvious question: what if there IS no way to run a profitable business around human space travel / going to t
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by phaedrus 17y ago
Before you get downvoted for sounding glib, allow me to elaborate on what you said: "The search space for evolving bug fixes in a program is likely to be extraordinarily large. Furthermore there will be places of sharp division in the fit
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by phaedrus 17y ago
When I was in college, I went through a string of used cars. So I actually did the math: continuous minor to moderate repairs and parts cost, plus needing to buy another used car approximately every 2 years when inevitably something would
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by phaedrus 17y ago
To answer your first question: Yes. I mean, both. (And no, I'm not offended by your choice of words.) Since you've restated the discussion on more neutral terms, allow me to rephrase my position in your terms: The article is about how p
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by phaedrus 17y ago
I would say that the solution to sqrt(2) is the expansion (to however many finite number of iterations you run it for) of the bits produced by the Turing machine that computes sqrt(2). Sqrt(2) is a computable number, so it exists both in m
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by phaedrus 17y ago
By overpowered, I mean that a model that allows the idea of something having infinite precision leads to apparent paradoxes. For instance you get constructs like Gabriel's Horn that have greater surface area than volume, or the case of cho
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by phaedrus 17y ago
Quote: "Without the reals you can't assume that all limits exist." Oh, I agree completely. I can't assume that all limits exist. Modded you up because I agree with your premises, but I disagree with your conclusion. Both constructivism

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