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by starwed 14y ago
edit: Ah, I had totally faulty memory on this issue. The new navigation guidelines have back behaving as previously, but call for an "Up" button that navigates the app's hierarchy. http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/navigatio
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by starwed 14y ago
I wouldn't say it's blogspam, but linking the original source is still preferred. (Although here it seems to have gone down!) (Blogspam originally implied a blog post that copy-pastes the entire original article, possibly adding one or t
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by starwed 14y ago
Give me a source for that which would allow for corroboration. Because pretty much everything I can find on it has the whiff of urban legend, which folk like you repeat because it feed into their worldview.
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by starwed 14y ago
This is a substantial enough topic that Gould wrote a whole book about it, The Mismeasure of Man . But directly relevent: * even if the concept of some sort of underlying general intelligence were valid, we have yet to come up with an un
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by starwed 14y ago
> Race, religion, political affiliation, disability are obviously all irrelevant in an IQ test... so in a way, isn't it more equitable? Except that cultural background is not, unfortunately. And it's highly correlated with the first a
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by starwed 14y ago
I believe the difference is in the overall angular momentum. (You can think that the quarks are somehow arranged differently inside the particle.) You can look at the particle data group's entries[1,2] for \Xi_b^0, which has J=1/2 and for
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by starwed 14y ago
>We wanted to use Javascript so that the game could run in your browser. But there are already at least two javascfipt interpreters for games written in Inform 7 already! http://code.google.com/p/parchment/ http://eblong.com/zarf/glu
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by starwed 14y ago
>If it's fraud, then sure: Kickstarter would be on the hook for abetting it. I'm not even sure that's the case, is it? They provide a platform, and take a cut, but I'd be a little surprised if that's enough to make them legally liable.
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by starwed 14y ago
What do you mean by "browser bloat"?
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by starwed 14y ago
Does this author not understand how prototyping games works? You'd never spend the time drawing the assets and then code up the platformer... first you just grab a bunch of temporary placeholder art, so that you can work on the actual gam
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by starwed 14y ago
I have no idea if the article is accurate , but yes, it does mention a possible solution: >"Among other things, they intend to see if injecting power directly into the islands will lead to higher density. If so, that could help future
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by starwed 14y ago
It's really only the 2010 Airs onward that are "ultrabooks", and intel had prototypes circulating at tradeshows that were approximately that form factor in the summer, before Apple announced/released that line.[1] So, it wasn't really Apple
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by starwed 14y ago
> compare the level of robustness and transparency of Fedora/Debian/Ubuntu/OpenSUSE packaging to that of the "I cooked a ROM, download it here!" culture in the android world. I don't really understand what your point is here -- a ROM i
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by starwed 14y ago
You realize you're making exactly the same point that the blog post was trying to make...
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by starwed 15y ago
OpenID lets you create an identity that spans multiple sites. There's absolutely nothing preventing you from creating multiple OpenIDs, so I don't see what your problem is with it.
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by starwed 15y ago
I think slot machines have to (by law) pay out a certain average percentage over time. That would probably be pretty hard to manage in conjunction with this scheme.
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by starwed 15y ago
If you read that bug, it was WONTFIX'd because they chose a different way of scheduling vacuums.
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by starwed 15y ago
I think OP's point was not that Notch was a stellar programmer, but that he is a good game designer. (And that the popularity of Minecraft was a result of his skill and not of luck.)
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by starwed 15y ago
I downloaded it this morning in a coffee shop and the first picture I took was of a cappuccino cup. I could see that being a common reaction! It's that or a computer screen.
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by starwed 15y ago
The two other similar photo apps I tried before instagram was available take ~8Mb each. Maybe it takes a lot of data to specify the filters? They might also rely heavily on a non-java codebase, in which case they can't just use the built i
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by starwed 15y ago
Heh, a few days ago I signed up to be updated on when this was available, but apparently reading hacker news is more effective... It didn't show up in the Play store when I searched on my phone, but installing directly from the play web sit
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by starwed 15y ago
This is not just about syntax. Unless using bind somehow grants the mentioned property that >"Fat arrow functions do not have prototype properties, which makes them cheaper to make. They are immutable."
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by starwed 15y ago
Taze is (presumably) talking about the inherent inefficiency of all those functions having prototypes. (You know, the thing that was mentioned in the linked article?)
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by starwed 15y ago
>The server should be validating the players moves, gear etc. Well, only if it matters. Here it just doesn't.
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by starwed 15y ago
Nah, you must be thinking of this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_hat_potential#A_pedagog...
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by starwed 15y ago
I had a good friend who studied school psychology, and she let me see some of the IQ tests in use. I think you'd be surprised just how biased some of them are, and how reliant on cultural knowledge.
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by starwed 15y ago
Not quite. http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#linuxsyswithoutgnu
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by starwed 15y ago
The nightly builds of Firefox Mobile have supported flash for some time now.
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by starwed 15y ago
I'd assume Firefox Mobile supports them, since AFAIK they use exactly the same JS engine as regular Firefox.
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by starwed 15y ago
Wikipedia has explicitly adopted the opposite policy, and they didn't do so arbitrarily. In specific cases it might seem stupid, but I think in general it makes sense. It goes hand in hand with the "no original research" policy. (Like ever

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