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by shasta 16y ago
They put out new versions of their games that fix existing pirating methods and then measure how that affects downloads and sales. How do they know what portion of the pirates are downloading the demo and then applying the crack rather tha
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by shasta 16y ago
Most teeth are for chewing or incising food, and thus I'd expect most teeth styles to be designed for diet. Canines aren't used for eating - they're used for killing. So I'd be surprised to learn that they evolved for diet only. I'm too
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by shasta 16y ago
No, I'm saying that big canines are useful for killing things, not eating meat. People don't kill the way a tiger does, and probably never have. I don't see how it follows that people weren't designed to eat meat.
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by shasta 16y ago
You know, gcc uses multiple passes, too, internally . If gcc were to use latex's model, you'd have to run it multiple times to get a working executable. Mind you, it would produce an executable every time, but those first ones would just
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by shasta 16y ago
> Our canine teeth are quite pathetic compared to true carnivores: 4, not very big You know that people can use tools, right?
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by shasta 16y ago
Ya, that's the "N+epsilon" or "open set" theory
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by shasta 16y ago
Well, I wish you good health, and based on what you've written I almost certainly don't mind chipping in. But, the point remains that you're already sick, so what you need now isn't insurance. I have extra sympathy for a kid that can't ge
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by shasta 16y ago
> "Unfortunately, I'm not a member of the armed forces, don't qualify for Medicare, and not impoverished enough for Medicaid." I think you mean, "unfortunately, I don't have insurance." Getting sick without insurance is a bummer, but if
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by shasta 16y ago
In ordinary language (though perhaps not in law), "truly innovative" is not the opposite "obvious". I believe the language involved in US patent law is "the differences between the subject matter sought to be patented and the prior art are
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by shasta 16y ago
There's a rule in the preprocessor to prevent infinite recursion: only replace each symbol once. The first time it encounters 'true', it's replaced with 'false'. The first time it encounters 'false, it's replace with 'true'. It's alread
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by shasta 16y ago
I agree, this is a worrying possibility. Luckily, with a good reflection library, you can have other obfuscated parts of the code that check for such malicious tampering and abort.
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by shasta 16y ago
#define true false #define false true Did you know that if you do both of those, they cancel each other out? True story.
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by shasta 16y ago
Programmers may routinely be judged by peers, but the entire team is then judged by results. A team that can't ship gets the axe or goes under. The closest counter-examples to this I can think of, doing government contracts, have also bee
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by shasta 16y ago
Again, I'm not saying that 100% of teacher evaluation should be based on tests. If you want to evaluate teachers based on the moral character they are building in students, fine - that's not what I'm advocating standardized tests for. The
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by shasta 16y ago
Well, by your own admission, 30-50% of knowledge should be held in common. In early grades, the number is probably more like 90%. By high school, sure, there's plenty of room for diversified knowledge of literature and history, but there'
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by shasta 16y ago
Lines of code produced is a terrible metric of software progress and especially software quality. By comparison, a well constructed test is an excellent metric of learning. Also, have you ever written software for the government? I think
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by shasta 16y ago
If you mean that a teacher's salary shouldn't be a simple function of test scores, then sure. If you mean standardized testing shouldn't be used to evaluate children, or that evaluations of students - even relative ones - shouldn't be used
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by shasta 16y ago
He envisions a bunch of languages in the future, all of which are similar enough to use the exact same data model? Surely, if we really need different languages, they will be different enough to have different data models, and an encoding
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by shasta 16y ago
I was going to complain that parts of the article were disjointed and contradictory (Use -->, don't use -->, JK use it) until I noticed the name of the blog is "Two Guys Arguing." Solution from the comments: (apply merge-with + (ma
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by shasta 16y ago
It has been argued ( http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0905/0905.4641v1.pdf ) that this theorem is flawed (the premises don't match reality). After briefly studying the matter, I agree, and suspect the flaw is that Conway and Kochen assum
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by shasta 16y ago
This is pretty much the system that I use, but (B) is often at the computer, e.g. open to a text file that contains design notes.
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by shasta 16y ago
Why whitespace? Just pick the simplest to interpret Turing complete language with a two symbol alphabet. Also: you're disqualified :)
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by shasta 16y ago
My point is that if two mathematicians play this game, there is still lots of room to be clever. Even though both will know the idea of looking at numbers nameable in a some formal logic, the more clever of the two will beat the one with fa
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by shasta 16y ago
"refuting the reductionist approach" is pretty strong language for describing an argument that's been debunked
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by shasta 16y ago
I don't know what qualifies as a "qualitatively different levels of abstraction", but for all practical purposes, you're never done. Given a formal system for building numbers, you have a sequence B(n) of largest numbers created with n sym
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by shasta 16y ago
Interesting, it seems many C implementations do support this. It's not standard C, though.
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by shasta 16y ago
No, that only lets you jump out - not e.g. jump between several suspended computations.
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by shasta 16y ago
I just meant that the role of the stack is hardcoded. In most assemblys you can write to the stack pointer and presto, you're working with a new stack. This is a capability of assembly that C doesn't expose.
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by shasta 16y ago
I'll hazard the guess that hazzen is interpreting 'lambdas' to involve closures.
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by shasta 16y ago
import_c<stdio.h> You can import C headers without your language being a superset of C.

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