Zibulon

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by Zibulon 12y ago
Just for the records, Grothendieck maybe "disappeared", but he also died a couple of months ago, it was all over the press...
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by Zibulon 12y ago
Why is an account needed for the demo??? That turned me off enough to give up. I am tired of having to create an account for everything and anything - and it makes managing passwords harder, or promotes using weaker passwords. I don't
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by Zibulon 12y ago
IMHO, he doesn't have the technique to handle 80 lbs.
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by Zibulon 12y ago
I wouldn't worry about his bow weight. The trajectory of his arrow on one of outdoor shots show he is not even shooting 30 lbs. You can hold that as long as you want.
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by Zibulon 12y ago
Actually not so hard - below 30 meters, you can have that kind of accuracy with not too much effort IMHO - in recurve archery, we shoot only 3 arrows, on separate targets, starting at 50 meters, to avoid breaking arrows (the next one hittin
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by Zibulon 12y ago
IMHO, he is shooting a bow that's too light for hunting or fighting. I'd say he shoots below 30 pounds, which works for what he does, but nothing else.
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by Zibulon 12y ago
Hunting at 70 yards? All the bowhunters at my club practice below 50 yards.
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by Zibulon 12y ago
Concur. Besides, he is probably shooting less than 30 lbs which is enough for his stunts, when you want to be shooting 70-80 lbs for hunting. Given his technique, I'd like to see him pull that. As for "war", I've seen me
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by Zibulon 12y ago
Yes the arrow is slow, because the bows are not heavy, probably in the 25-30 lbs range.
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by Zibulon 12y ago
From the trajectory of one of his outdoor shots, IMHO, he shoots 25-30 lbs.
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by Zibulon 12y ago
He seems to be shooting a very light bow, from the trajectory of his arrow in one of the outdoor shots, and his technique probably wouldn't work very long for a heavier bow or more arrows, because he doesn't seem to be using his b
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by Zibulon 12y ago
Maybe that's too short sighted. Constantly rewriting code has a big cost. A huge cost actually. I see it at my work everyday: there is a pervasive (fashionable?) attitude that no code lives more than 3 years, and we have incessant &quo
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by Zibulon 12y ago
Sounds to me that the real issue is either mission creep, or a bad programmer/designer who doesn't see that the "generic" piece of code now needs to be split into components? In my practice, an issue that comes back ofte
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by Zibulon 12y ago
I don't understand: I thought that flexbility and abstraction went together, rather than against each other.
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by Zibulon 12y ago
Or failure to generalize might hide a failure to abstract out properly.
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by Zibulon 12y ago
Weird. To make software more generic, I usually reduce the number of assumptions and edge case handling that goes in the APIs. If you start adding options to handle more cases, that's just not "generic". But in any case, we s
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by Zibulon 12y ago
The author is missing maybe the following point: when there will be multiple objects that need to move, and some of the move methods will require state, then it will be nice to encapsulate the state within objects, rather than having messy