wlievens

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by wlievens 15y ago
Perhaps if you show that you need (a) the thickness of paper and (b) the powers of too, you've shown the thinking ability to pass the question. The result value doesn't matter.
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by wlievens 15y ago
Happy Programmer's Day guys and gals!
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by wlievens 15y ago
Very, very nice visualization.
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by wlievens 15y ago
Some people like them, you know.
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by wlievens 15y ago
He did have the help of one particular Magical Negro [ http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicalNegro ]
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by wlievens 15y ago
> Despite the fact that the light is originating at 2 cm from the eye, it can appear to originate at 2 km from the eye, in that 2 km is that distance that the eye will have to accommodate to to put that light in focus. But there's a wal
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by wlievens 15y ago
I like how they use glyph icons. Haven't seen that often before.
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by wlievens 15y ago
For algorithms or application logic, even rather simple cases, unit tests are an absolute must. For user interfaces, it's a lot more effort for a lot less return. YMMV
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by wlievens 15y ago
The ethical motivation is a lot smaller though, I presume.
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by wlievens 15y ago
Strange indeed. If her answer had been that it's unnatural , she may have a point (not one I'd uphold thouhg), but unethical makes no sense.
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by wlievens 15y ago
Did my first programming at age 10 or 11, but I can't say I wrote any decent code until I was 20 or something.
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by wlievens 15y ago
SEEKING WORK Location: Belgium Remote: Sure Skills: Java, C++, js/jQuery, html[5]/css, PHP (no framework experience) Bonus: experience with open source GIS (maps!) Looking for projects that can be done outside office hours
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by wlievens 15y ago
I'm not disagreeing that a conceptual framework is superior. But I picture it like this, in my very naive way. 1) launch satellites 2) after some time, engineers notice the clocks keep running behind/ahead (I always forget) 3) engineers deb
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by wlievens 15y ago
Plus it feeds the religious nuts, and Dan Brown.
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by wlievens 15y ago
I think 'knowing something is there' implies observation. Just not in visible light, or some other pedestrian interpretation of the word :)
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by wlievens 15y ago
While I agree with your sentiment, your second paragraph is quite telling of probably everyone in this thread: a bunch of geeks secretly hoping [yet consciously knowing it's probably nonsensical], that LHC research will lead to faster-tha
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by wlievens 15y ago
How is the GSP receiver a consequence of GR (honest question)? I know internal clocks of the satellites have to compensate for time dilation, but to be honest I don't see why that couldn't have been 'fixed' with an empirical solution devoid
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by wlievens 15y ago
> although people were able to make predictions about technologies arising from much of the abstract research of the past long before it became practical Just about everybody in this thread is arguing the opposite of that.
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by wlievens 15y ago
> I ask that we consider whether any given piece of blue sky research is likely to appreciate or be a money sink Good idea in theory perhaps, but how do you suggest to make that assessment?
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by wlievens 15y ago
"must" meant "should" in his sentence, not "are definitely".
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by wlievens 15y ago
Really? So that huge continent on the other side of the Atlantic would have remained undiscovered for five hundred more years?
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by wlievens 15y ago
That sounds horrible for N > 2. I remember reading lots of comics during Heroes of Might and Magic 2 multiplayer games with my brother. No, you'd need to make a * gasp * real-time roguelike.
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by wlievens 15y ago
A multiplayer roguelike in the browser. Javascript on the frontend, python on the backend.
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by wlievens 15y ago
That's what the parent poster meant with "it's necessary to make the algebra of powers work out".
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by wlievens 15y ago
I don't think that's a histogram. It's a chart plotting the throughput at time intervals.
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by wlievens 15y ago
Really? Can you do everything C can do on every platform it's used on, after you've hidden away pointers? Or do you simply want to change the syntax?
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by wlievens 15y ago
Charge time is less of a problem if you can (switch batteries at charing stations or charge at home, IF you have a reasonable range.
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by wlievens 15y ago
In my experience, there's a process where adding accuracy (and thus usually complexity) to a domain model, implies removing existing inheritance assumptions. For instance, in the trivial case an Employee is a Person, but when you go further
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by wlievens 15y ago
If a CS student falls asleep when you talk about GUI systems, they're not in the right class. I didn't need fluffy birds and colorful metaphors to get into this passion of mine. The audience doesn't deserve to be patronized like that.
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by wlievens 15y ago
That has nothing to do with what haberman is saying. Most people know games, and a simple game model can be expressed in inheritance terms in such a way that's illustrative and less contrived than conventional tutorial metaphors. And I ag

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