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by tokipin 13y ago
there is always the center of the contact area, which is a single point. it would certainly take getting used to though, and the data would probably have to be run through some kind of annealing
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by tokipin 13y ago
I don't know if Nintendo has ever actually acted on its legal threats against hobby-ish projects. The threats might just be to show general "due diligence" for more serious legal scenarios that could arise elsewhere.
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by tokipin 13y ago
that sounds weird/pointless. i wonder if they tried using the touchscreen as an absolute-position locator for the cursor. that would have been legit, assuming the screen had that kind of fidelity in the first place... which it probab
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by tokipin 13y ago
I think it depends on the person. I never took notes in college, and doing so would have been distracting and difficult, nevermind that I would have been too lazy to ever look at my notes regardless. In my case, it's probably not possi
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by tokipin 13y ago
I thought "non-Objective C" languages weren't allowed in the App store, or something like that.
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by tokipin 13y ago
You should aim to learn languages that are different. The point of learning very different languages is that you can start generalizing in ways that make mastery of future languages easier. For example, Python has something called "lis
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by tokipin 13y ago
haha. I actually love XSLT. It's closer to a language like Haskell than it is to any common language, which is probably part of the difficulty people might have in learning it. It also uses structural pattern matching, which doesn&#x27
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by tokipin 13y ago
I'm not so sure about this. I think you'd be surprised by how rapidly some people can grok things, including things you might believe are only visible through extensive experience. What it takes is the ability to follow structural
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by tokipin 13y ago
I think finding it unsettling is actually a good reaction. I think people get too encultured into simplistic views of the world. It's good to recognize how fundamentally deep and strange the universe is with respect to our everyday e
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by tokipin 13y ago
Well there's all sorts of issues. But what it essentially comes down to is that evolution works in tiny steps, not in great leaps. When "trying to achieve" goal X, adding a tiny bit of complexity is simply much more likely th
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by tokipin 13y ago
be sure to check out Bjork's music video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa1A0pPc-ik
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by tokipin 13y ago
I agree. This reminds me of an anime (Kaiji [1]) that conveys this idea in excruciating form, and in particular highlights the converse of your positive thinking: that negative thinking results in often-debilitating myopia. [1] http:/
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by tokipin 13y ago
indeed. here's a good video that describes a similar idea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO1Q7F23DxM
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by tokipin 13y ago
no kidding. i'm afraid of seeing how long ago it was that i created this HN account...
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by tokipin 13y ago
it seems to me that iterative methodologies (like basic "agile") are an implicit acknowledgement that development methodologies don't work. periodic re-adjustments based on local circumstances are necessary because the terrai
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by tokipin 13y ago
there was also a short NPR story about it: http://www.npr.org/2011/11/18/142518949/
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by tokipin 13y ago
I'm not very into the whole atheism/religion scene, but I think there are many people who basically don't care one way or the other about "the great questions", but when asked might have said that they're relig
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by tokipin 13y ago
it's clearly meant to be silly
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by tokipin 13y ago
i think it's much worse than that. sociopaths etc are just extremes. people in general perceive the world in vastly different ways. it's because we all waddle around in the same reality and seem to speak a common language that t
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by tokipin 13y ago
not necessarily a response to your comment, but i think you underestimate just how much the static/dynamic preference rests on fundamental psychology. for example, generally speaking i only use basic data structures (lists or hash tabl
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by tokipin 13y ago
which doesn't mean much. it could be that people who would be interested in learning type theory in the first place would prefer static typing regardless, with a similar argument for the case of dynamic typing
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by tokipin 13y ago
i found the Clojure koans useful. ( http://clojurekoans.com/ ) they're aimed at beginners so they would be a good companion/followup to this
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by tokipin 13y ago
that first version is hilarious. i'd consider it hideous at any proficiency level in any language :D
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by tokipin 13y ago
python is a deliberately-straightforward language. i don't see how anyone couldn't become highly proficient in it after writing one or two scripts
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by tokipin 13y ago
roughly around algebra. programming has an "advantage" over math in that you can just program something and see what happens and therefore gain an intuition and craft your way around things. mathematics is much more deprived in th
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by tokipin 13y ago
'this' is quirky when you make your own functions. also Starcraft II runs more smoothly on my computer, no joke
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by tokipin 13y ago
something easier to fix in the short term is your logo, which was saved as a lossy JPG. the artifacts are subtly visible and it looks ugly. or it might be an antialiasing issue. part of it might also be the border/thinness but thats an
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by tokipin 13y ago
i think you're jumping the gun. he means that science is vetted by consensus. and this particular website has a casual tone and the videos look like layman explanations for people who aren't afraid of getting a teeny bit technical
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by tokipin 13y ago
i'm pretty sure there have been studies on this. i think one study found that raising the minimum wage either didn't make a difference in unemployment, or that it lowered unemployment slightly (i believe this study was based on a
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by tokipin 13y ago
i understand the surface argument. but it read as if they thought a servant was some kind of necessity, when it's clearly a luxury. this is probably a misunderstanding on my part, but that's the vibe i got

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