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by wcarss 15y ago
Awesome! Thanks to you and icebraining for the responses. The Non-Commercial distinction makes sense. To be clear though, would a CC BY or CC BY SA license be fine, then? It's not listed on the OSI Approved Licenses list (which is the issue
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by wcarss 15y ago
I get that these terms do have specific meanings, but it bothers me that those meanings are so restrictive as to be unintuitive to someone not steeped in the dogma of the community. These people made the source openly available and, by the
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by wcarss 15y ago
Ruby's blocks and built in regular-expressions are two examples of things you're missing. if result =~ /regex/ that kind of thing is awesome for readability, but it can also be pretty darn slow. There's also some interesting things about th
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by wcarss 15y ago
Actually, it may be a feasible driver of mass while not being a feasible weapon. If it takes something the size of 5-6 refrigerators to generate the particles, but they (+fuel) could generate the equivalent of >6ish refrigerators worth
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by wcarss 15y ago
That's storage, which is one possible component of practical anti-matter propulsion. You could generate a lot of it efficiently, store what you made, and send it as lightweight, high yield fuel. The other alternative is to somehow make it a
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by wcarss 15y ago
In fact, many transit systems do combine delivery and passenger vehicles -- greyhound has a package delivery service. To your other point: I think that assuming we'll go off the wall and design wacky new vehicles is too optimistic, akin to
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by wcarss 15y ago
Good point about efficiency gains becoming a more direct incentive; I look forward to it. However, I doubt that optimization would trend solely toward high capacity vehicles - think of taxis airport taxis as two classes of hireable fare, di
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by wcarss 15y ago
Maybe not. If you made it a flat fee, then it's kind of like runs-batted-in. The car has to get more people delivered to make money, so once it gets you to where you need to go as efficiently and quickly as possible, you get out and it spee
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by wcarss 15y ago
I believe the idea is that with time, it won't make fiscal sense. The first wave of these will be bought in small part by early adopting owners but more likely by small-time transit / freight companies looking to save a buck. Once it's a pr
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by wcarss 15y ago
Edit: I began writing this before a different post appeared with the same point. Alas! I'm sorry to be a jerk, but I found your code pretty tough to decipher. Here's my thought process: NUMBER_OF_PLAYERS could be, say, 6. the caller c
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by wcarss 15y ago
As a Teaching Assistant for a first year computer science course, I have actually been using the example of writing an essay and keeping within a page limit by randomly cutting vowels out of words and thinking up ways to abbreviate words wh
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by wcarss 15y ago
Hopefully someone actually does this.
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by wcarss 15y ago
I feel like he was saying (at the end) that people shouldn't work on things they find hard. Was he saying that? Because that seems silly.
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by wcarss 15y ago
Thought experiment. Imagine there's a service (HackerNews, 4chan, whatever) that you use. It gives you the opportunity to opt-in to real identity, at which point, you will only post with your real identity, and only see posts with your real
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by wcarss 15y ago
Ah, you mean the algorithm re: factors. Okay, thanks.
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by wcarss 15y ago
Uh, I didn't mention the algorithm at all. As someone else mentioned, the hard part of this problem is finding an optimal solution; there's some minor stuff with keeping information together and building a modular program, but what I said i
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by wcarss 15y ago
This is to both you and your parent reply -- have I completely misread statement 3? '3. If the number of letters in the product's name shares any common factors (besides 1) with the number of letters in the customer's name then the SS is mu
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by wcarss 15y ago
Hi, I don't feel great about "calling you out", but I want to ask if you hold a degree, or have pursued extensive study (perhaps to the point of publishing a peer-reviewed article) in any of the fields of neuroscience, anthropology, psychol
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by wcarss 15y ago
This is an interesting thought, but it doesn't seem like the best way to go about this. If it were phrased more like, "what's the best way to get Google's attention", then it would have some noticeable utility to someone other than yourself
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by wcarss 16y ago
I got Ruby Best Practices and the Pragmatic Bookshelf's 'Programming Ruby 1.9' from the library last summer, and had an incredibly productive time. I would sit in front of my laptop reading RBP, and any time I was confused by a class or any
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by wcarss 16y ago
The PPP is not without flaws for these uses; compare the average standard of life in China or India to the average standard of life in the Netherlands or Canada, and compare their PPP rankings. If you're looking to compare quality of life,
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by wcarss 16y ago
Have you considered trying to hack some sort of 'double buffered' style approach to transitions? You could conceivably open a hidden player that's loading in the background while the visible one is playing, and flip between them, dumping th
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by wcarss 16y ago
That's good to hear - we'll submit an application this round. Thanks for the quick response :)
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Ask HN: Apply late or wait?
23 points by wcarss 16y ago|6 comments
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by wcarss 16y ago
haha, back fast. Thank goodness our repos aren't gone!
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How I (easily) motivated myself(wcarss.ca)
2 points by wcarss 16y ago|0 comments
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AskHN: Why hasn't open education worked yet?
11 points by wcarss 16y ago|10 comments
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by wcarss 16y ago
*1.2 million
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by wcarss 16y ago
I actually have been planning to send an application in with this exact idea. I came to the site today to check in case the next application round is open, and to conceivably fill an application out with this information in it. I'm not sure
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Understand social networking: six degrees of Lois Weisberg (1999)(gladwell.com)
6 points by wcarss 16y ago|0 comments

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