wlievens

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   by wlievens 13y ago

   Intellectual property is about much more than patents. Are you seriously saying that if I copy your work directly (eg source code) and rebrand it, I'm not doing anything wrong? Just innovating?
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   by wlievens 13y ago

   Just curious: how would an economy work in you hypothetical world where intellectual property does not exist? Honest question.
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   by wlievens 13y ago

   Heh. It depends on how you interpret relativity I think.
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   by wlievens 13y ago

   ... so, typical post-apocalyptic fare, really, as in Mad Max, The Road, etc. That would be exactly what this game aims to simulate I would think.
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   by wlievens 13y ago

   The video does an excellent job of making it look like crap :-(
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   by wlievens 13y ago

   People wgo like this should check out ditaa. It's similar but then again very different.
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   by wlievens 13y ago

   Solving certain problems faster than a classical computer.
8. 338.▲
   by wlievens 13y ago

   But if it's not a QC, it won't solve them any faster. Our classical computers are pretty efficient these days.
9. 339.▲
   by wlievens 13y ago

   Any specific pointers? I'm very fluent in Java and I'm very productive in it, but can't seem to find small freelance projects, and small is all I have time for now.
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    True indeed. Some ideas are really valuable, and I think it's mainly those that are well-informed, committed to a specific market (typically a niche) and ripe for execution. Maybe it's because many of the ideas in the "ideas
11. 341.▲
    by wlievens 13y ago

    IE-reland? Silly politicians, managing to crack me up and scare the shit out of me at the same time!
12. 342.▲
    by wlievens 13y ago

    There is another well-known game/tool that has had this effect for decennia: LEGO
13. 343.▲
    by wlievens 13y ago

    Or that it's not his priority - that's the stated reason.
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    Well, a closure can't be more than a couple hundred bytes, I guess. If he wants to continue with that technique, I'd hack it like this: use reflection to crawl the closure, isolate the variables bound to the closure context, seria
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    A closure is a function augmented with implicit references to the context in which it was created. In case of an upvote link it would hold references to the post you could upvote. That reference exists not in the URL but in the closure at t
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    I guess it's also because of the technical elegance of using closurees for page actions. It's hard to admit that a technique that feels elegant and expressive fundamentally doesn't scale.
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    Nice app... but I think images are source assets (like code) and sprites are binary deliverables (like object files, dll's or class files) and therefore generating them (like compiling) needs to be part of your automated build flow.
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    You hit it I think, but the bigger issue (heh) remains: you're basically creating a contract which is not all that different from a tiny freelancing gig, but you've a more distant relation between the parties, so it may be harder
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    How will you solge the issue of ill-defined requirements?
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    I had my formative education based on SICP and I can confidently say it made me a better (Java and other) programmer. I work with Java every day and I am very productive with it, but teaching it as a first language is foolish imho.
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    I'll add a European perspective here: we're a growing tech company in Antwerp, Belgium. We design and sell CMOS image sensors for all sorts of medium- and high-end markets. We're looking for an additional software engineer ri
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    I've used PostGIS in the past and what I can say is that I was pretty impressed with its performance. If you want to render the geometry, you could use geoserver... but make sure you have the RAM available.
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    Actually it is what I remember from most girls in high school (late nineties): they want to work "with people instead of machines". It's a stigma that existed then in girls' minds and presumably still does, at least wher
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    Cost does not equal value. One could rather say the cost of mining bitcoins is analogous to... the cost of mining gold, not the industrial value it represents.
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    I'm not sure about that minimum, but I do know noise (dark current signal non-uniformity for those in the know) increases considerably with temperature. So yes it matters.
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    Instinctively I reel the same way, but if you think it through, it's equivalent to complaining about all the ink and paper and cotton and metal being "wasted" on bills and coins.
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    Thanks for the link. I was on my toilet computer and I still haven't got the copy-and-paste business down on that thing. I really appreciate how he writes his articles. More people should do this, with the interactive illustrations.
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    True. I find unit tests the most useful and economical when I'm testing algorithms, rather than data bookkeeping or user interfaces.
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    You should check Amit Patel's blog articles, they are chuck full of interactive visualisations that are really well executed.
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    by wlievens 13y ago

    Boy that Kirchhoff guy's been a productive fellow.