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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
Yes, this was my first thought. Graphs are more generic than trees, but sometimes the complexity cost doesn't justify the opportunity cost. The main byproducts would be a) easier to crash your system with an infinite directory loop and b)
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
I think this API is over-engineered here is what I would do: 1 global integer called board (9*2 bits, enough to represent every square on the board as 0=vacant, 1=X, 2=O), and a list of agent callbacks. The program loops through the agents
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
You're playing with fire. Monopolies that form naturally also perish naturally (and quickly). Consider Rockefeller & Standard Oil. They got 90% of the market and bought the trains so as to force their competition to pay 200% more in s
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
Thats a cool idea. I'd never heard of location-relevancy before, but it sounds way more useful to me than locations other big startup area: 'tell me where my friends are'.
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
A lot of the skills you've picked will be marketable. Take a look at your resume, and ask yourself how well it communicates what you learned about: databases, web servers, system maintenance, typography, design, AB testing, payment systems,
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
Can I give you a link? http://server.theadvocates.org/ruwart/questions_maint.php?Ca... Mary Ruwart (2008 Libertarian Party presidental nomination) answers a very similar question about roads. The short answer is: Most of the infrastructu
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
Yes. Definitely. Ratpoison has another keybind for switching which monitor is the recipient of window change commands.
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
These requirements are too stringent. Something better give, or what he wants is a Java that is both more featured, simpler, and better documented. 1. Must run on a very specific instruction set (JVM). 2. Must have (require?) lots of docume
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
I doubt the failed startups of 2000 - 2006.. etc fully represented in CrunchBases database. This alone could account for the curve.
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
I use ratpoison for X11 ( http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/ ) (1 Full screen program at a time. CTRL+T, # to switch, CTRL+T, w to get a list of running programs.
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
I don't think Romer was advocating foreigners set up these zones. I think it's just that Romer is a foreigner in most the places he tries to implement his ideas. The idea is good laws and low taxes make very wealthy cities. See also the f
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
I've been wrestling with the idea of using contentEditable in my project for a while now. On one hand it's a great way to let users edit text, very friendly. On the other hand, you'll need a javascript toolbar, and you're limited to thi
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
As with everything, if you want something you either buy it or build it. If the cost to use existing infrastructure is too high, demand for alternatives will grow. If this demand can supplied, great, if it can't, then nothing can be do
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
Comcast is everybodys whipping boy since the bittorrent blocking fiasco. They acted against their customer base and have been paying for it since. Why regulate beyond what Comcast's customers thought appropriate?
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
All businesses ultimately serve their shareholders. That is not grounds for regulation. After net neutrality does pass, how will the legislation (and associated regulatory body) actually decrease prices? Will starting an ISP be easier on
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
If the incumbents close the opportunity by offering better service -- than the original parents problem no longer exists. Businesses compete with potential competitors and potential technologies too. The higher the price, the more incent
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
Technological barriers mean high profits for existing players. This in turn brings more and more entrepreneurs looking to bypass the barrier (either through new technology, capital intensive partnerships, or other avenues) and reach the gol
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
Who needs to own cables? You could rent cable in some areas, rent satallite for others, build short range wireless towers in others, use laser transmission here, build above ground infrastructure there, channel packets through power cable
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
Perhaps so, but the ISPs must serve the consumers; they have no other path to profit. The alternative is the freedom of government to restrict access as they see fit. And governments money comes from taxes (or inflation), they have no inc
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
'Net neutrality' is a plan for government to regulate ISPs. Ostensibly, the government will only regulate in the consumers interest --- but the egyptian gov showed the other side of regulation (censorship). He says he is against net neutral
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
That isn't what I read. To me it sounded like person X put person Y in TED -- but then rich sponser Z saw person Y in a photo, told the organizers this was unacceptable, and now person Y is perma-banned.
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
This is one of those things that while illegal, most of the participants (maybe even most people) would say is not immoral. Its not hard to see why. Playing games (or listening to music, or watching movies) is legal. Their crime was using a
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
The challenge was: --- We get a list of up to 50 activities and an associated calorie value for each (either positive or negative), we need to find a subset of activities where the sum of all the calorie values is zero. --- Did anyone else
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
According to this Cato report. Since the 1970s the US doubled spending per child. Scores did not improve but they doubled the number of school bureaucrats (e.g. not teachers) per student. http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12792
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
What anti-competitive actions do you refer too? Murder, kidnapping and blackmail are illegal. Price fixing high just leads to higher demand for alternatives. Price fixing low serves the consumer. And Microsoft owns their OS, which is a
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
Actually, I also thought the $1 per hour thing sounded low until you wrote it's $60/hour --- a fantastic rate. Funny how numbers play on your senses...
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
Children will attend regardless of truancy laws. See Mary Ruwart easy answers ( http://server.theadvocates.org/ruwart/questions_maint.php?Ca... ). "... In the early 1800s, a survey in Boston found that 90% of the school-age children were e
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
You make a lot of sense. Whether they should be contacted or not is irrelevant. They will be. Besides, while we pretend they're invisible, they'll be defending themselves from the worst in our society. They have human rights, but theirs
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
I don't understand what happened. Why was the government able to set internet rates at all? Is there a monopoly here or not? Why weren't we (I'm Canadian) paying per usage before -- was it a law or did a flat rate grow from convienience
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by warrenwilkinson 16y ago
Its a very nice site. Nicely designed and you know exactly what you're getting and what it's about when you look at it. I wish my site was so intuitive =(.

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