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by bencoder 10y ago
Most video glasses have quite a small field of view... Are yours the same? So it's kind of like seeing a screen floating somewhere in front of you, whereas with the vr headsets you basically can't see the edge so it's a lot m
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by bencoder 10y ago
Probably they do use that if they need left padding but also have a dependency on another package that thinks 'lodash is too big when all I need is left padding' so we get to this situation
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by bencoder 10y ago
My uninformed understanding/guess: Flight is low margin and fuel is the primary cost. So you can make an estimate of the CO2 impact; if the average seat price on a normal airliner for that journey is $1000 and the average seat price on
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by bencoder 10y ago
Could something like this be done/tested with human drivers with optional speed signs some way back from the intersection "speed required to hit the green light"?
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by bencoder 10y ago
That would make you sick. The point is it feels fixed in 3d space, like a monitor. Fixing it to your head movements is not going to work, you'll just have a low resolution monitor stuck to your head
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by bencoder 11y ago
Head positional movement is a lot slower than rotational so this is not so bad/noticeable. Especially if the underlying game is rendered at 60hz rather than 30.
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by bencoder 11y ago
I use this because the main facebook app had bloated to taking over 300mb of my android phone. Unfortunately I can't get it through google play (not available in the UK) so I have to manually download and keep the apk updated. I wish t
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Ask HN: What should I be aware of when open sourcing code from my company?
8 points by bencoder 11y ago|4 comments
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by bencoder 11y ago
I was really expecting Lee Sedol to win here. I'm very excited, and congratulations to the DeepMind team, but I'm a bit sad about the result, as a go player and as a human.
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by bencoder 11y ago
> the volume of nicotine in the default over the shelf vaping kit... I did the calculation myself and was shocked at how much nicotine was in the liquids, but after looking into it, I believe the nicotine absorption rate from vaping is m
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by bencoder 11y ago
Despite the name, I didn't see the article as taking a pop specifically at Java. It seemed more about bad OOP in general. As you say, you'll see the same patterns in every OO language.
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by bencoder 11y ago
There's still a lot of getters everywhere though, which seemed to me to be the bulk of the analogy. this.wallet = colleague.getWallet(); Code blocks are done with 4 space indentation at the start
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A bad citizen in Javaland (2006)(darrenhobbs.com)
219 points by bencoder 11y ago|63 comments
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A bad citizen in Javaland (2006)(darrenhobbs.com)
7 points by bencoder 11y ago|0 comments
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by bencoder 11y ago
It's shown on TV in Korea, I believe
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by bencoder 11y ago
What would be the connection? Perhaps: Has contributed to the same software project
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by bencoder 11y ago
> It's frustrating that we Hacker News citizens seem to have adopted a list of taboo topics that we aren't allowed to discuss - such as anything related to discrimination against a non-minority. And yet the topic comes up repea
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by bencoder 11y ago
I think the OP's point is that when the VC money is gone, they might have to go towards adverts in some way if they struggle to monetise otherwise, so it's too early to say that they are not ad-supported
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by bencoder 11y ago
I read that, I saw the difference. Sorry I wasn't clear in my original post. I meant: what causes the difference? Why is there such a big difference?
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by bencoder 11y ago
The most interesting part of this for me is that there is a difference at all. The difference is not explained in the article. I've never lived in the US; what is the difference between EU and US cars in this respect? Edit for clarity:
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by bencoder 11y ago
Great game. There's a weird bug in the shop screen when you click left or right more than two times the 2nd+ time it seems to scroll multiple times (it actually only moves you one across, but the animation looks like it scrolls multipl
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by bencoder 11y ago
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9726182 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9980264
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by bencoder 11y ago
I definitely remember (as a child in the UK) that our touch-tone phone had a pulse option that could be switched on the underside. If you flicked the switch then instead of a tone you would hear click-click-click-click when you pressed a nu
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by bencoder 11y ago
I have the same issue, and with synaesthesia in general. In fact, my first (false) reaction is to disbelieve it when somebody tells me they have some form of it. I am aware it's real and many people have synaesthesia but, I would guess
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by bencoder 11y ago
You are, presumably, already a developer, so you already understand nesting. Perhaps a better example that a beginner could find quite reasonable after learning about start and end tags: <u>Underlined. <b>Bold and underline
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by bencoder 11y ago
Permutation City, by Greg Egan. It's one of my favourites.
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by bencoder 11y ago
An idea to make this(and the editable content suggestion in another comment) possible could be to add something to the protocol to define "previous versions" sha hashes. If you want to edit a page then create a new page which incl
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by bencoder 11y ago
Absolutely, I was just suggesting that "you should always use the === operator" advice which I see a lot of people say(examples multiple times in this thread), does not guarantee you won't run into problems with incorrect typ
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by bencoder 11y ago
> you should probably use === by default. unfortunately this can also backfire if your class/module is used in a different context where it gets strings instead of integers and you were just using === without really thinking about i
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by bencoder 11y ago
Try playing columns 4,2,3,4,6,2,3 - seems to play always the same up to here but then sometimes plays different, but it's trivial to win after this state - the AI seems to "give up"

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