JackdawX

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by JackdawX 9y ago
Most renewables are not reliable power sources, the wind blows when it blows. That is why a diverse power strategy is needed, including nuclear. When you say the amount subsidised, what is your source, and what do you mean by 'more&#x2
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by JackdawX 10y ago
Here is the course I was taught by at university: http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~roger/cpp/ Lots of value came from the lectures with roger. Sadly he has retired, it would have been nice to have them up on youtube.
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by JackdawX 10y ago
What you've just calculated there is the cost of giving everyone, including middle class and rich people, a $20k tax break. Obviously this wouldn't work, as the amount of tax in and out of the system needs to be the same. The easi
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by JackdawX 10y ago
> Really, the permissive licenses allow the code to show up in places that copyleft licenses would not allow it. There are a ton of open source projects used in Microsoft Windows or iOS thanks to their permissive licensing -- and neither
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by JackdawX 10y ago
Ahh, guess my info is out of date, thanks.
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by JackdawX 10y ago
> Yes, we do "have to meet FDA compliance." I can't define "have to meet" and I work here. Of course, I'm just an engineer. You are not an engineer. This is a protected term in the US and other countries. If
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by JackdawX 10y ago
Here is a gif of the action from the reddit thread: https://gyazo.com/945aa97382bd4a2f4e49a662b5ff6399 This is more populated than any live server event since the dark portal opened (the first time).
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by JackdawX 11y ago
> Imagine what it is like to be black in a country where just a few generations back you carried at all times in mixed-race race situations the possibility of being assaulted without recourse or lynched, or in present times accused and c
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by JackdawX 11y ago
Well, that is already tax fraud correct? Someone already has to check for that. The savings come from all the additional checks you would no longer need to do to see if people are really disabled, what their marital situation is, where they
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by JackdawX 11y ago
> The anti abuse/fraud work alone… There is no concept of benefit fraud in a BI system. Everyone by default qualifies for the same level of BI. Your government paycheck starts at the max value and can only go down from there, which
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by JackdawX 11y ago
There is no arguing that basic income, welfare, disability benefit etc. are socialist. That is not deriding them, it is an accurate description. It's strange that this is a bad term in the US, not so here in the EU.
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by JackdawX 11y ago
Sometimes, posts like this appear on hacker news that are completely impenetrable. I read the page for RunC and the only thing I could find out about it from that page is that it is a "Container", and these are its specs. A "
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by JackdawX 12y ago
> I do all my grades and such in Google Docs You upload all your students grade information to an external private company? Which university do you work for where this is allowed?
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by JackdawX 13y ago
Sorry, but this post is 100% baseless supposition. If you haven't studied the causes of PTSD or the results of sexual assault you're not really in a position to comment on it. I see this kind of post all the time on tech websites,
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by JackdawX 13y ago
Good call. In what situation is it going to be acceptable to put your hands down someones pants in public? It's difficult to imagine any situation in which this isn't crossing a line. I don't see how that behaviour can be con
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by JackdawX 13y ago
If you're living and working in London that's the kind of salary you'd be looking at, simply because the rental prices around here are so high. Outside London I can see it being that much lower. £26,500 is about average wage
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by JackdawX 13y ago
I did not know this until someone explained it to me. It was before this post, but long after my teens were over. Peoples general attitude to sex and relationships can only come from their life experiences, right? My parents were in a lovel
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by JackdawX 13y ago
A better example for duck typing would be something like: var my_func(var int_or_string, var int_or_obj) { ... return int_or_string_result; } Simplifies certain operations, complicates debugging. Great for small scripts though.
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by JackdawX 13y ago
This is a post responding to the following article that was posted on HN yesterday-ish: http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-mobile-web-apps-are-slow... The point of that article was to specifically call out lazy surfac
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by JackdawX 13y ago
Look up 'Monday Night Combat'. Devs like to experiment by mixing and matching genres, so in my experience things like this often exist somewhere. It was a pretty average game, but the idea is sound.
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by JackdawX 13y ago
Sorry, I think I worded that confusingly. By 'what does the app do?' I meant more along the lines of 'how much would a front-end client tax the technical limitations of a smart phone?', so that is the hypothetical question I was answering.
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by JackdawX 13y ago
> When he says "... we’re seeing that more and more people are spending more time in the app, and the app is running out of memory ..." what he means here is that memory allocation to the browser on iPad (for example) is too little to h
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by JackdawX 14y ago
As you say in your post, people are buying the game irrespectively. Why bother making changes? Here are the current sales figures in the UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2013/mar/11/t... Debuted at #2 in the charts. Deve
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by JackdawX 14y ago
> Still, you are comparing this to flash, which has only one complete implementation at all which is only available on a subset of platforms and not open source. This number of platforms is decreasing, not increasing (ie, Android droppe
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by JackdawX 14y ago
> And why bother? If you have the choice, why not go with HTML5 which already has some good and very fast free implementations available? Well, I think this demo kind of proves why not: it doesn't work the same way on everyones browser.
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by JackdawX 14y ago
I think that's an optimistic prediction for a game of professional quality, done by a single person. I reckon most of the work is edge cases, art & sound, tweaking, bug fixing, not working on the generic engine. You could save time by d
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by JackdawX 14y ago
There are 3 common fallacies in this post that people continually bring up about modern languages. Thought i'd come on here and write some corrections: "There is innate overhead when using an interpreted language, no matter how advanced the
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by JackdawX 14y ago
Your post adds nothing useful to the discussion. There is no point arguing about indenting style in a 7 line program, it's needless pedantry! This is almost exactly the same thing as grammar nazi-ism, and seems to have a similarly negative
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by JackdawX 14y ago
Obviously this depends on your phone. Using an html5 app on a 4s vs. a 3gs is a totally different experience, that probably explains the discrepancies between your experiences.
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by JackdawX 14y ago
It's strange how often comments like these crop up on various topics, because they're difficult to understand. The core of your argument is "I don't have this problem, so therefore no-one does". I mean, you are aware at at some base level t

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