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The machine's view of time, if nanoseconds were seconds(plus.google.com)
355 points by rictic 15y ago|64 comments
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by rictic 15y ago
True, but in this case it's Bram Cohen saying it, which lends a lot of weight to the words. Still, I'd love to read about how it's supposed to work.
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by rictic 15y ago
To speculate a bit, it seems like many people in the tech industry feel like women have been historically alienated in the industry, feel that this is unjust, and as a result are willing to err on the side of being oversensitive in this iss
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by rictic 15y ago
Honest question: are you serious? What point are you trying to make? Please don't troll here. Take the time to make an argument.
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by rictic 15y ago
There's a difference between a job with low wages and long hours, and a job that poisons or cripples. I think that, to the extent that this exists, it's fair to call out the companies responsible. It also seems particularly egregious when t
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by rictic 15y ago
Apt analogy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem
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by rictic 15y ago
It is also possible that on any legally-sized starcraft map the number of nodes in the graph would be so small that the solution would be trivial. But at the same time it's fascinating that they were able to embed this sub-problem within a
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by rictic 15y ago
"In some cases – tracking down organized crime, say – government officials have an obligation to keep their investigations secret at the moment that they are performing them." -- Julian Assange, in the linked article Seems like a straightfo
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by rictic 15y ago
Against what? Keep in mind these ISOs are already modified to get around the built-in copy protection in the stock version.
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by rictic 15y ago
It's been a while since I've written nodejs in anger so I may be out of date, but as a rule libraries in Node don't block, they present async interfaces and do what they have to in order to keep from blocking. Python has no such conventions
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by rictic 15y ago
I think your premise is flawed. As I understand the bee sting theory, it is not that self-improvement and community-improvement are halted by the effect, just that they are slowed. Reversing your premise, if you were to take a population of
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by rictic 15y ago
I don't think that they've earned the benefit of the doubt here, but I think it goes too far to say that there's no reason why benign diagnostic software might pay attention to key presses. For example, a particular button combination could
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by rictic 15y ago
<i>it really seems strange/weak/victim-ish to blame something external for what really does feel like a personal shortcoming</i> I totally agree about taking personal responsibility. However, when it's also a reproducible di
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by rictic 15y ago
There are plenty of people debating free software and championing various positions. It is fashionable to insult Stallman, that's unacceptable, and it's worth standing up against it.
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by rictic 15y ago
Javascript is beautiful and far simpler than most languages it resembles on the surface, but it is far from perfect. Fortunately there are many serious efforts at improving the language almost all of which compile down to today's javascript
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by rictic 15y ago
Well without that then the quote would be vapid. It's clear that there is a tension there, but Franklin's position is that liberty is worth the risk.
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by rictic 15y ago
https://github.com/rictic/twerp-h Tiny stackless lisp with continuations, written in Haskell. ~150 lines of interpreter, ~40 lines of parser.
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by rictic 15y ago
Suppose I am craving a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Suppose that a spreading knife is an essential and irreplaceable requirement to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Would you say that my first and primary motive, and fundamenta
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by rictic 15y ago
Isn't that voting based on perceived quality of product (which I don't believe is in dispute) rather than an ethical objection of some kind?
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by rictic 15y ago
I don't think you're giving the parent poster a very charitable reading. Evil can be quite efficient for the entity being evil and inefficient for the world at large. It's the epitome of selfishness, ergo: evil. Cheaper food is a benefit. T
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by rictic 15y ago
I don't know about GWT, but in my experience closure compiler does not produce different output for different browsers (though it does strip dead code).
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by rictic 15y ago
Another useful term if you're interested in the truly scary data gatherers is "data broker", though good luck finding anything concrete about this shady industry.
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by rictic 15y ago
I also found it odd how every cultural reference pointed (usually unhelpfully) to the corresponding wikipedia article. Didn't hurt the content of the post, it was just kinda.. odd.
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by rictic 15y ago
There are some examples that can convincingly target Chrome only, e.g. Chrome extensions
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by rictic 15y ago
Is this offensive patent warfare since HTC is merely countersuing? (serious question, I'd like to know the answer)
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by rictic 15y ago
Technically speaking it doesn't "mess up" the revision history, it preserves it. Rebasing instead of merging creates a linear revision history, which is simpler and more similar to centralized version control, but at the cost of losing info
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by rictic 15y ago
Counterpoint: The Orange Box. It's quite possible that it's made them more money in the long run since it introduced many people to Portal and TF2 than may have played otherwise. However it's hard to imagine that there was a strong profit-m
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by rictic 15y ago
His attitude is fantastic, and he's easily in the top three most inspiring figures in gaming right now. But I bet the millions of dollars from working at microsoft helped a bit too in giving him a long perspective.
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by rictic 15y ago
I read it differently. I think Valve wants to hold off on the free-to-play announcement so that it has the biggest impact. Making TF2 (their game that they call their testing ground for new ideas) free to play with an item store seemed to m
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by rictic 15y ago
Blizzard has said that PvP in Diablo 3 is explicitly a lark. It will be given no priority for balance. The game is the PvE experience.

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