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by wmil 14y ago
Current rasterization methods also parallelize well. The problem is that ray tracing is just less efficient for most scenes.
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by wmil 14y ago
> Will the public fall in love with HFR enough for an industry shift in the way films are shot, despite the fact that many of the people in the film industry feel that the look of HFR cheapens the story? I'm guessing they will. 24fps a
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by wmil 14y ago
- The fact that most tutorials cover topics like "rolling your own object system" before topics like "writing a string to a file". Lisp example also always cheat at things like Quines... the program will return itself instead of writing its
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by wmil 14y ago
Articles like this don't promote healthy discussion. Achievement gaps between races in different areas are a huge social taboo. It's just not something that can be discussed calmly and openly in a semi-professional forum like this. So you
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by wmil 14y ago
It's a hybrid app. Native with some features implemented with web views. http://geeks.everything.me/2012/12/09/451/
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by wmil 14y ago
Unions in the US always have specific views that employees often don't share. Everything is about retirement, preservation of existing employees, and supporting other unions. The problem is that most tech workers want incompetent workers f
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by wmil 14y ago
The card isn't just a collectable. You use it every time you go to Starbucks. So it also sends a signal. I don't exactly know what message people are trying to send. Many of them may be trying to impress cute baristas by being a big spen
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by wmil 14y ago
It's not clear. Many Mac ports are done with Transgaming's tools. Which are commercial and include code from old BSD versions of Wine. Microsoft isn't actually obligated to sue, so they may have just decided that it wasn't worth while. Th
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by wmil 14y ago
And next thing you know, you're at war with the Geth.
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by wmil 14y ago
The only requirement for a diversity visa is a high school equivalent. Considering how poor the job market is for HS only graduates, limiting visas to people with marketable skills makes a lot of sense.
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by wmil 14y ago
> Gem hell. Is this really a problem? Every package/dependency manager seems to blow up on occasion. Gems haven't given me the problems that I've had with Pip/CPAN/Autoconf.
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by wmil 14y ago
That's not really true. IQ doesn't predict well on the high end, but it's useful for predicting the outcomes of middle intellect people. And it works better for groups than for individuals. For instance, IQ scores are bad at predicting we
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by wmil 14y ago
I'd be interested in finding out why investors dislike productivity software so much. In my experience it can be hard to sell -- you're often stuck explaining to someone why they suck at their job.
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by wmil 14y ago
I think the big problem is juries. A group of random individuals isn't going to wade through the technical details well. However there's a right to a jury trial. So I propose the following. Juries for patent trials should be paid dramatic
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by wmil 14y ago
Isn't the point of the name supposed to be that anyone can be THE Anonymous?
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by wmil 14y ago
And the "Snake Oil" being sold in the US wasn't quackery. It was typically a combination of alcohol, morphine, and/or cocaine. People weren't stupid -- it definitely made them 'feel better'.
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by wmil 14y ago
Actually, I suspect you could rotate the graph 45 degrees clockwise and have the vertical axis as "code for profit (high) vs code for fun (low)". The horizontal axis would just be popularity.
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by wmil 14y ago
There's a book on the subject, "Why Mexicans Don't Drink Molson" http://www.amazon.ca/Why-Mexicans-Dont-Drink-Molson/dp/15536... Essentially the Canadian business elite always wanted to set up protected markets where they could collect ea
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by wmil 14y ago
Which is surprising. I mean 2 CEOs should give you twice as much foresight, right?
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by wmil 14y ago
It's success is largely due to it having the correct execution model. The request based execution environment makes iterative development quick and easy. However there are plenty of bad ideas in the language itself.
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by wmil 14y ago
Actually some schools are facing class action lawsuits for inflating reported JD salaries and placement rates. But Biglaw/MBA Consulting pay so much because the firms are oligopolies with gentlemen's agreements not to compete on price. That
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by wmil 14y ago
The other big problem is lawsuit exposure. Given the current state of the patent system it's certain that nVidia drivers infringe on someone's patents. Closed source drivers make it more difficult for patent owners to check, and launching
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by wmil 14y ago
I don't see how. Flame managed to create signed malware with an MD5 prefix attack... but MD5 had known problems for over 10 years. And Flame is widely thought to have been produced by a government intelligence service -- it still takes mas
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by wmil 14y ago
If the boot loader is required to show a splash screen the user will still get clear evidence that something strange is going on.
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by wmil 14y ago
It's possible that early units weren't very reliable. If drivers started using jammers before the reliability improved than the company may just expect a high rate of failure. The other option is that insurance companies and regulators wan
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by wmil 14y ago
Most countries operate on a "loser pays" system. Whichever party loses has to pay the legal fees of the winning side. This does a lot to discourage nuisance lawsuits. In the US defendants generally can't recoup costs unless the claim is de
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by wmil 14y ago
Actually I'd argue that it's a UK government problem -- the person who responsible should have been thrown in jail long before he managed to figure out how to social engineer multiple unrelated systems. Society needs a certain level of trus
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by wmil 14y ago
Gay marriages aren't recognized -- that's different than being illegal. This kind of hacking is a serious felony in all OECD Annex-1 countries. That's a very different thing.
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by wmil 14y ago
What I don't like about C: it's 2012, strings should be easy. Instead they are a source of bugs and security vulnerabilities.
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by wmil 14y ago
I've seen formal government documents signed by ministers that were printed in Comic Sans. Sure, there's a place for Comic Sans, but it's used in so many places that it shouldn't be.

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