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by phantarch 11y ago
Reminds me quite a bit of the last true hermit story posted here a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8205993
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by phantarch 11y ago
I think the difference here is that in the movement towards 'smart' IDE's, they attempt to go beyond the purely semantic meaning of the code and deduce what the interpreted meaning of it is. I'm all for what is in this a
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by phantarch 11y ago
Personally, I would be wary of any IDE that attempted to interpret what my code is doing for me. Each person probably has a different mental image or interpretation of how their code works, and enforcing a singular interpretation of code vi
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by phantarch 11y ago
Very true! Non ecommerce sites suffer just as badly as their users when an executive decision is made to increase the amount of advertising on their pages. I wonder if the increase in adverts is based on someone thinking that it will pay fo
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by phantarch 11y ago
Valid point, I hadn't considered that the amount of data they're trying to send you may end up costing you more money than you were willing to allot to their site. However, I don't think that makes the entirety of the analogy
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by phantarch 11y ago
I think the difficulty comes in when the two parties (us vs the site owners) come into the situation with different views about what the website IS. You're viewing it, quite correctly, as a technical request that's made and some d
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by phantarch 11y ago
This article makes me wonder if what the author is calling for is even possible. The web, to me, seems subject to exactly the same phenomenons of growth as all other human enterprises. It starts off with auspicious beginnings where everyone
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The Middle Child of Exoplanet Characterization(astrobites.org)
10 points by phantarch 11y ago|0 comments
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by phantarch 11y ago
I like how Pliny starts out with valid emotional perceptions of dolphins, transitions to a few believable factoids about them, and by the end of the article is basically just spreading myths and rumors. Goes to show that nothing under the s
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by phantarch 11y ago
This kind of technology is amazingly promising for being able to play games anywhere on any hardware. However, the thing that worries me the most is not latency or graphical fidelity, but the way this will affect the actual design of AAA ga
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A Short Introduction to Angular Differential Imaging(mpia.de)
3 points by phantarch 11y ago|0 comments
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by phantarch 11y ago
I went ahead and read his post about the actual process of getting the surgery and I think that's scared me off of it forever. It's not an invasive procedure, but just the thought of being strapped down and having my eyes mechanic
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by phantarch 11y ago
What kind of resolution is possible with direct imaging at 1400 ly away? I would imagine that it's probably milliseconds of arc within the field of vision of any telescope, so how close could we actually look at the planet?
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by phantarch 11y ago
Even if it only took them 100 years to get to a star system 5 ly away, I would be amazed and impressed by a society that would be okay with investing in and working on at minimum a 105 year mission. Perhaps they live much much longer than w
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by phantarch 11y ago
As a counter point, it's always possible that a civilization that developed past where we are now would have been masterful at space travel, but not advanced enough to completely figure out a 1400 light year long journey. We're st
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by phantarch 11y ago
At 2 billion years older than Earth, I can't begin to imagine what kinds of things could possibly be living on this planet. Given, of course, that it's got the right ingredients for life to arise. What if it's suffered huge e
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Ask HN: Why do you read reviews?
1 points by phantarch 11y ago|0 comments
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by phantarch 11y ago
Cortex [1] is a case study of the workflow of CGP Grey, who makes really great YouTube videos that the HN community would probably enjoy. It's slated for 10 episodes, and currently episode 5 has just been released. I also really like H
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by phantarch 11y ago
Sherlock (or Doyle) says it best. "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." Petzold does a really good job of debunking the
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by phantarch 11y ago
Funnily enough, I notice confirmation bias quite a bit in a D&D game I am currently DM of. I'm playing with a group of friends who are big into video games, and as a result they consistently seek resolutions to conflicts in D&D