xigency

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by xigency 11y ago
Wow, purged is right. I don't generally follow tech. politics but reading about this episode is horrendous.
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by xigency 11y ago
> Nuclear power > I didn’t mention nuclear because I don’t know much about it. > See Stewart Brand’s book Whole Earth Discipline for an optimistic > take from a recent convert. (Ironically published five months &
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by xigency 11y ago
Some shorter proofs are available in the book "Proofs without Words." But then again, that book begins with a description that visual arguments aren't truly proofs.
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by xigency 11y ago
> Nuclear is not really low carbon when you take into account the amount of concrete you need to build a modern reactor. That sounds really preposterous.
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by xigency 11y ago
Honestly, reading even a little bit of this article leads to the conclusion that the only solution is to switch to nuclear energy as our primary source of energy. I'm sorry, but wind kites or wind blimps aren't going to substantia
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by xigency 11y ago
That's a great point. I think a mistake a number of interviewers make, and maybe they aren't used to the idea of interviewing for a position, is that they aren't interactive enough in their questions. In this case, it sounds
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by xigency 11y ago
Probably neither the Chicago manual of style nor my Sunday school grammar book would condone such writing.
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by xigency 11y ago
Well, 30,000 gallons of water per day is an acre-foot of water every 11 days, where as 178 gallons per person is an acre-foot every 5 years, per person. To add more perspective, over 100 days that 30,000 gallons of water per day could bear
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by xigency 11y ago
I also think you might be overestimating the number of positions in Silicon Valley for groundbreaking programmers or developers. The "rock star" stereotype is pretty weak.
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by xigency 11y ago
Given that ASUS manufactures this device, what Google has provided here is the software. The main thing they've contributed here is the name of the piece, being 'Chromebit' for 'Chrome OS.' Perhaps the original comm
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by xigency 11y ago
Well, I'm a programmer and a game programmer so I wouldn't say it's my homework and I have other things to do with my time. But I guess I'm not that interested. Some of my examples were chosen as games that can't be
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by xigency 11y ago
This isn't slashdot. Why should posts be funny or useful to receive karma? This is a discussion forum. Furthermore, Google is in the phone business so why shouldn't they provide this when it is essentially the same cost on the mar
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by xigency 11y ago
While this is surely interesting, it sort of ignores the point of what a computer is. Look at the Raspberry Pi for example. It affords a computer for $20-$30 or less than half this price, for something that simply computes without the perip
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by xigency 11y ago
Being able to complete a level requires knowing that the level can be completed.
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by xigency 11y ago
Without having time to read the paper, this seems like a proof by obscurity. It's very conceivable that this problem is solvable in polynomial time with very high bounds. The problem is also so vaguely worded that it is practically mea
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by xigency 11y ago
Misleading article title and misleading paper title.
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by xigency 11y ago
Thanks.
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by xigency 11y ago
Right sorry. Arrow keys to steer and Q/W to roll. Spacebar applies thrust.
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by xigency 11y ago
Cool, thanks.
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by xigency 11y ago
That is really cool! Thanks for sharing that with me. :)
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by xigency 11y ago
What is that even supposed to mean? The abstract doesn't clarify what "NP-hardness" means in terms of video games. This looks really click-baity. In terms of writing a Nintendo game, the solution is a fixed constant: the game
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by xigency 11y ago
Carl Sagan was a very interesting man. I'm sure he would have loved this simple space game I made - http://brainplex.net/space It uses random points for stars, but tracking "the nearest few thousand stars" fr
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by xigency 11y ago
Those interested in the source code and development can start with my GitHub for 'minimal-compiler'. This is a research project in programming language development.
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The Mongoose Programming Language(brainplex.net)
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by xigency 11y ago
Totally fair points. I'm more of a programming language researcher, hence the interest in classification. But yes, for production code it is totally the programmer's preference. I come from a background in game development. There
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by xigency 11y ago
Yes, that is exactly the case and you've understood the issue perfectly. I wouldn't go so far as to say first-class functions must have a garbage collector to work, but I would say that they are so dependent that this would really
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by xigency 11y ago
Excellent. Thanks for replying.
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by xigency 11y ago
I'm trying to explain this in as much brevity as I can, but this will be a long post. > What do you mean by "at runtime"? The only language that I'm familiar with that really lets you define them at runtime is Lisp. L
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by xigency 11y ago
A language that supports creating functions (and function closures) at runtime. Lambdas are essentially syntactic sugar. This requires a whole different runtime paradigm. If there were examples of code that compiles doing this, which there
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by xigency 11y ago
Super alone. I don't generally use STL so I mean without language extensions. It's easy enough to implement these things with traditional function pointers.

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