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by scj 9y ago
Open sourcing code allows a new vector for finding vulnerabilities. Just because the software reaches its EOL doesn't mean it is removed from every computer. I believe that open sourcing Flash should be done for the sake of software p
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by scj 9y ago
To your point, police tend to recommend people stay off the roads when things get bad. Sadly, it isn't an option for everybody.
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by scj 9y ago
The same thing happens here with bike lanes that share the road. But once enough snow accumulation has happened, a lost lane will be unavailable until spring. The dedicated bike path that cuts through my community is closed during the wint
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by scj 9y ago
One of the chief problems of transportation during winter is "How do we minimize accidents while half a meter of snow has fallen within a 12 hour period?" The problem is two fold: roads become slippery, and as they are plowed, th
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by scj 9y ago
Having Flash on iOS, even through the browser, would have allowed people to develop apps for iOS without going through Apple. It would also allow trivial Android porting. Flash was not in Apple's strategic interests. It was a risk no
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by scj 9y ago
Looks good. I have a list of human recommendations that are contrasted to the analysis. Right now, human recommendations are winning by a landslide, and I suspect your entry will only help that.
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by scj 9y ago
If you like Splendor, I can't help but recommend Finca. It has a similar method of acquiring victory points, but the wheel mechanism for gaining $CURRENCY adds just a little more depth. Side note: I'm processing BoardGameGeek.com
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by scj 9y ago
The core question I have is... How much advantage is there skewing Facebook in favour of a candidate? Could it translate to a 3% improvement in the polls? Even if it could help, it'd probably be wiser for him to back a candidate that
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by scj 9y ago
Thank you for the link, I intend on studying it carefully this weekend. I may want to implement something similar using board game data from boardgamegeek.com (I've already been working on a recommendation system). BGG has a 1-10 poi
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by scj 9y ago
You'd probably need to prove they provided the infection.
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by scj 9y ago
As I understand the GPL, they would need to provide source code to people they distribute binaries to... So in practice, they are probably complying with the GPL.
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by scj 9y ago
I would be interested in the experiences of STEM majors/graduates in nations where tuition is free.
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by scj 9y ago
Just to give you an idea, I've spent about 30-45 minutes reading over various materials (the Github links). I think my level of knowledge would be equivalent of understanding how dup, drop, and rot work in FORTH (or car and cdr in Lis
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by scj 9y ago
I'd hope one milestone is "Someone with no knowledge of physics, nor a desire gain any, is capable of programming with this hardware/software." Is that feasible? Is it desirable?
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by scj 9y ago
"Silicon Valley venture firms are hustling to Toronto, Waterloo, Montreal and Vancouver to invest in Canadian startups." What is the Montreal tech scene like for an Anglophone?
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by scj 9y ago
"... it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate
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by scj 9y ago
The 2008 recession knocked salaries down in Canada.
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by scj 9y ago
I'm going to flip the discussion a bit, and ask, what is a good use of operator overloading? What is a bad one? Is it possible to generalize the rules around good vs. bad cases (in order to make a programming standard others can foll
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by scj 9y ago
> The concept of AS3/swfs running on an iOS store could mean the end of control of the apple app store and the break down of the obj-c community. Why would Apple want that?
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by scj 9y ago
I suspect this article is referring to legacy systems written with Microsoft software, that communicate with a server through binary applications that only work on Windows. It is getting harder to remember, but only 10 years ago, having Mic
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by scj 9y ago
I can imagine it'd be like fishing or hunting. Relaxing if you're doing it as a hobby, potentially frustrating if unsuccessful and your livelihood depends on it.
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by scj 10y ago
What if the policy was that once a year, a set amount of people will be prosecuted? Kind of like setting quotas for speeding tickets... Where firms are ranked in terms of the volume/egregiousness of the actions committed. Oh, and set
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by scj 10y ago
There should be two incentives. One is the monoculture risk mentioned earlier. The second is that a viable alternative might be developed that is more appealing than the current product.
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by scj 10y ago
Given the topic was Javascript class-based programming in-the-large, I was surprised this paper didn't mention the use of closures as a means to implement encapsulation. Especially during the part about supporting static properties sh
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by scj 10y ago
I suspect that at some point a self-upgrading AI will have to choose between limiting its potential or losing a piece of its identity. Would altering oneself beyond recognition be a form of suicide?
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by scj 10y ago
It'll be interesting to see this reflected in the Drake equation (average number of planets per star that can potentially support life). It'd be amazing if the number was above 1 (or terrible if you believe in the Great Filter hyp
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by scj 10y ago
It probably wouldn't have survived a charter challenge... But he accepted a $500 fine that saved years of legal battles, and the CBSA doesn't get a precedent set against them. From what I've read, I'd suggest that the l
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by scj 10y ago
> It's unnatural, confusing to read ... I feel as if that can rephrased "Don't do it because it is not done." A left-hand side constant is a convention that can have practical benefits in limited cases. Which at lea
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by scj 10y ago
From what I understand of ESR's claims, much of the removed functionality is support for older platforms. Unlike NTP Classic, he asserts POSIX and C99. Apparently, this has drastically reduced complexity/size. Of course, I haven
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by scj 10y ago
> Unless HN can figure out how to give fair treatment to minority opinions, it's best to exclude these discussions entirely. Given that cultural and political values and assertions are diverse within relatively small communities, ne

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