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by wlievens 16y ago
I think the argument can be made that the invention of the £Tightrope Support Scaffolding (whatever) made Learning How To Walk A Tightrope significantly easier. Programmer in, Application out. But you are right of course about the down
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by wlievens 16y ago
Nonsense. One can build a mulit-user database system in a few days. That would have taken months just 20 years ago.
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by wlievens 16y ago
That's not how I interpret it. The light-speed constraint isn't just about preventing matter to move faster than light, it's about information traveling faster than light. Picturing it like FTL communication being just an engineering prob
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by wlievens 16y ago
People typically say "the galaxy is big, so it's unlikely", which is not necessarily true. You need no more than a few tens of thousands of years to colonize a significant part of the galaxy, and it's not unthinkable many societies have had
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by wlievens 16y ago
> What then is bound to happen is that we develop some sort of theoretically inter-stellar range communication technology. 'Bound to happen' is quite a bold statement for something that, according to current scientific understanding, is
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by wlievens 16y ago
I actually had that memory problem - with canvas - in Chrome rather than in Firefox: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=20067 It was fixed at some point though.
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by wlievens 16y ago
It's not a German thing. It's the same across Europe, certainly in countries that don't have a popularly elected head of state (the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, ...). Maybe it's just a Presidential thing? An election with one winner is pro
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by wlievens 16y ago
It would be very creepy to have Carmack standing behind you all the time.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Unfortunately, canvas is ridiculously slow in FF3 in general. It's depressing... I built an isometric game in javascript+canvas, paid people to draw neat pixel graphics, but eventually dropped the project because of the performance. In Chro
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by wlievens 16y ago
I disagree with the view that introducing more "system" in the code is a waste of time. I do agree with another poster in this thread, that it would be a lot better if these kinds of constructs weren't baked into the language, but were inst
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by wlievens 16y ago
I'm sorry, but I fail to see what's wrong about that interface. It's perfectly in keeping with the rest of the Java language. Usin duck typing would be a horrible idea, since Java uses interfaces for type information on similar syntactic su
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by wlievens 16y ago
Except that if you interpret that literally, pretty much any program is a compiler. I can translate a text file in the "ASCII language" to the "UTF-8 language" with Notepad++, for instance.
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by wlievens 16y ago
If your definition of Compiler is broad enough, there's no difference.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Not if you apply design-by-contract, that's the whole point.
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by wlievens 16y ago
That's just too general a comment, in my opinion. Saying "java is too slow for a startup" is like saying "Windows is too primitive for a startup". What if you're making Windows-specific desktop software? Or are we only allowed to talk about
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by wlievens 16y ago
I know that dissing Java is cool these days, but some arguments would've been neat.
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by wlievens 16y ago
I don't get why some people think null pointer exceptions are such a huge problem. Just apply design-by-contract in the right places and you're fine.
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by wlievens 16y ago
Funny how that sentence makes much more sense if you replace "God" with "Chuck Norris".
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by wlievens 16y ago
Can somebody explain to me why articles on complexity are careless with the term "Traveling Salesman Problem" (TSP)? To me, TSP means "find the shortest route visiting these cities once". That is not a problem that's in NP, since there's no
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by wlievens 16y ago
Suggestion: you could put up a subtle fading slideshow of your styles (as soon as you have more than 4, I guess).
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by wlievens 16y ago
Full JPEG layout is "designing for the future"? Wow
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by wlievens 16y ago
So basically whether you feel good is a function of who you are and what you do, and we can summarize that in a few meaningless letters? Amazing!
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by wlievens 16y ago
I was merely responding to your sentence: > The way I like to think about NP is: are there certain types of problems which we, as smart as we might be, cannot easily solve, not because we aren't smart enough but because of the nature of
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by wlievens 16y ago
It's not a new startup looking for traction. It's an existing community adding a new offering to their user base. The usual "registration wall" critique doesn't apply. I also didn't register even though I wanted to Dive In ...
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by wlievens 16y ago
If a proof has been reviewed there might still be errors in it...
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by wlievens 16y ago
I felt exactly the same way. I personally think (which is worth next to nothing of course) that if it's ever proven that P=NP (unlikely), the results will be mostly impractical.
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by wlievens 16y ago
> The way I like to think about NP is: are there certain types of problems which we, as smart as we might be, cannot easily solve, not because we aren't smart enough but because of the nature of the problem itself? That's not entirely a
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by wlievens 16y ago
When I eat bad for a while, I feel unenergetic, I get sporadic bowel cramps and headaches. When I eat consistenly healthy for a period, I really feel it. Maybe he means that?
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by wlievens 16y ago
You'll want to be able to embed these easily in other pages, with very simple tags and url's, much like youtube. Does it do that?
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by wlievens 16y ago
What about pages that are not maintained but still carry value?

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