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by ricree 14y ago
This article was fairly low on details and high on futurism hype. Has anyone found a better one that isn't behind a paywall?
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by ricree 14y ago
The denial pictured here is a bit chilling. Anyone here familiar enough with 38 Studios to comment on it?
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by ricree 14y ago
Are those two comparable, though? Independent music on Itunes, for example, has a fixed royalty. From what I gather, a 0.99 song has the same 0.70 royalty you're talking about for apps. The CD example you're talking about is more like boxe
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by ricree 14y ago
Is there any word on what the game's development costs were? I was under the impression that it sold reasonably well, if not spectacularly so.
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by ricree 14y ago
Strictly speaking, wouldn't it be GoogleGuilty = GoogleViolatedCopyright && !GoogleHasFairUse && ApiCopyrightable In the sense that false short-circuits anything to the right, and ApiCopyrightable is only a factor if Google
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by ricree 14y ago
This post contains a table with all the questions that got answered: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/t1ygb/iama_nobel_prize...
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by ricree 14y ago
>They have a digital streaming infrastructure in place to make the transition they just don't yet have the business case. I think that's the biggest part that goes missing in these discussions. Yeah, it's annoying that the moment that
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by ricree 15y ago
I agree that it isn't a good first introduction. However, I think it's a pretty good choice for someone that's done a few basic tutorials and wants to move on to something large.
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by ricree 15y ago
>The treatment of Steveoma is effective if Steve gets better. If not, it isn't. The sample size is 1 by definition. Well, it's effective if Steve gets better than he would have if he hadn't taken it. That's a rather important distincti
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by ricree 15y ago
Considering the absolutely massive amount of prior art that exists for that, I'd say yes.
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by ricree 15y ago
Depends on how it's structured, doesn't it? It's entirely possible that programs and data will share the same memory with no sandboxing between programs. In that case, then without some sort of MMU a virus could just inject code into an o
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by ricree 15y ago
A lot of fun, but the sheer number of penis drawings and descriptions really limits who I can introduce this game to.
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by ricree 15y ago
I seem to remember some promising experiments that grew replacement hearts on an existing extracellular matrix. While they were still a long way from being true replacements, they showed enough functionality to look like a promising direct
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by ricree 15y ago
Sure, but I'd imagine the bulk of that is spent on things that don't really matter in the context of kids making a game for themselves. How much of that cost comes from sound, fairly slick graphics and animation, and the iterative polish ne
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by ricree 15y ago
>Blacking out a webpage is idiotic. "But it spreads awareness". So? What is the viewer of your webpage supposed to do with this new found awareness? Most of the websites I saw participating in the blackout urged people to contact local
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by ricree 15y ago
It's especially ironic considering the nature of the blackout protest. On one side, for the most part, we have a bunch of creators using their own creations to spread the message. On the other, there's a bunch of distribution companies payi
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by ricree 15y ago
Did you read the rest of his post? He didn't predict general intelligence within the next 20 years. Rather, he predicted that the special purpose weapons AI would be sufficient to handle the sort of latencies that would happen in some hy
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by ricree 15y ago
>I don't know from where the expression "fighting fire with fire" came from, it probably applies to war or something, but in such a case the fire is only a side-effect of the enemy dropping freaking bombs on you. And any firefighter wil
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by ricree 15y ago
Out of curiosity, is there a particular downside to deriving them if the type permits it?
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by ricree 15y ago
Worse, I think it actually overwrites the fib he just defined with a function that simply pattern matches on 30 and returns 832040. In GHCI, trying that example with fib 29 results in a non exhaustive pattern error.
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by ricree 15y ago
>Sure. When I say growth, I mean "make more money this year than you did the year before". If I understand tomkarlo's point correctly, he's saying that you don't have to make more money year to year in order to have a viable business.
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by ricree 15y ago
Even in the case of Wisconsin, it looks like state residents can get a membership on a reasonably cheap yearly fee. Though I didn't see it mentioned, I'd assume this would include building access during normal hours. (Though perhaps that's
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by ricree 15y ago
There was also a heavy emphasis on a particular subset of history that made up "classical" studies. Besides the river questions, the history and geography questions were about ancient Greece and Rome. There was nothing, for example, on medi
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by ricree 15y ago
The search results themselves are unchanged, but the instant suggestions are. From a couple quick tests, this seems to be the case for me as well, though it would be easier to be sure if I had results from a year or so ago to compare again
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by ricree 15y ago
>looking at the history of the human race, it seems unlikely we'll ever "fix ourself". I disagree. We're barely a couple thousand years away from mass crucifixion as a legitimate punishment by civilizations that were considered advance
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by ricree 15y ago
As long as we're talking about reviving programming contests, I'd love to see a return of the underhanded c contest ( http://underhanded.xcott.com/ ). The winners tended to do a really nice job of abusing subtle "errors" to accomplish thei
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by ricree 15y ago
He isn't denying that people are loyal to companies. He's just arguing that it's misplaced.
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by ricree 15y ago
My main feedback is that I don't know which step to take next. I see 6 links in the yellow bar ... be a little more deliberate/forceful in directing me on what to do next. I agree with this one. There's already a "Now Click Here" button
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by ricree 15y ago
I was thinking about pointing out that tutorial. Until I went through it, I'd mostly just played with Haskell for Project Euler and other small problems. That tutorial really helped get the feel for larger projects in the language. But at
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by ricree 15y ago
They don't mention ie 7+ either. It's possible they just ignored it, but given the other browsers mentioned it seems likely that this was written when 6 was the most recent Internet Explorer. So we could easily be talking 2006 or before.

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