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by benkant 10y ago
By Blizzard you mean Rockstar? edit: An issue was opened[0] but there has been no response. I find it hard to believe a C&D comes with a gag order but IANAL. I find it frustrating there's no transparency on this, and I hope I'
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by benkant 10y ago
A lot of this content originates from 4chan and other image boards.
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by benkant 11y ago
Mathematica not being Open or free is the only complaint I buy. As for it missing features, I'd wager adding them to Mathematica would be less work than building a CAS from scratch with them- in which case I'm sure you'll be
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by benkant 11y ago
We were writing web based GIS in 1996, using ESRI's MapObjects IMS. Tiling, projections, yes these were solved problems by then using available commercial software. We were storing data in Oracle or DB/2 with ESRI's SDE sitti
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by benkant 11y ago
Reminds me of Career Move , in Martin Amis' 2000 collection Heavy Water and Other Stories . In it screenwriters struggle for their art while poets are optioning treatments of their poems for "mid six figures".
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by benkant 11y ago
I don't know whether or not judging programming ability is hard. But judging ability in computer science, which is what we're talking about, is not at all "very hard".
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by benkant 11y ago
I'm sorry to hear your anecdote. I would have to come see your particular situation to see exactly what you mean by 1, 2, 5, because those don't seem unsolvable, but in general: > 3) Orthoganality You've introduced that by
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by benkant 11y ago
> There's also the "demarcation" issue. This is probably just as significant as vendor independence or technical issues. But I remember it a little differently. In the old days you'd have programmers who did the code
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by benkant 11y ago
That's what views are for.
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by benkant 11y ago
I never mentioned performance or scaling as reasons for using a database's features- though they might be worth considering. The fact I never said those words and it fired you up says more about your experience than mine I imagine.
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by benkant 11y ago
This is good work and if I ever did web development, it would be like this. Why people in the web world don't use stored procedures and constraints is a mystery to me. That this approach is seen as novel is in itself fascinating. It&#x
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by benkant 11y ago
Consider the sequence 1, 3, 5, 7 what comes next? 9 right? Or is the sequence generated by 2n − 1 + (n − 1)(n − 2)(n − 3)(n − 4) for n ∈ N. Then we've got 33. "among all hypotheses consistent with the observations, the simplest is
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by benkant 11y ago
I'm definitely not saying the internet is centralised! Perish the thought. I never mentioned it- the discussion was to do with the web specifically. Forget the web as a whole and consider a single service such as HN. That graph has |cl
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by benkant 11y ago
Yep, the web is a distributed system. Yep, the web offers many services, and many providers offer the same class of service. However, each and every one of those services are centralised in a technical sense on account of HTTP. Why might an
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by benkant 11y ago
We're talking about the web as an application layer protocol. By your definition everything that happens on the internet is decentralised. That's not untrue if you look at it from the point of view of TCP/IP, but that's
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by benkant 11y ago
That's another way to look at it, but you're using decentralised to indicate there are many large nodes- I would say that's simply distributed. I'm using centralised to indicate that communications are via those large no
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by benkant 11y ago
It's distributed, but on the continuum of centralised - decentralised it is definitely centralised. How did my comment get from my computer to yours?
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by benkant 11y ago
I had a rant about this on Twitter yesterday[0]. Google makes money precisely because the web is centralised. If we moved to P2P systems they could still provide an index, but I'd wager far less data would ultimately pass through them.
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by benkant 11y ago
I'm aware of the difference between residency and citizenship, that's not the issue. I deny what they are offering is typically something requiring residency. Anecdotally- I don't have residency (or citizenship to be clear) i
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by benkant 11y ago
Calling this e-Residency is a mistake. It's confusing enough that a commenter here was unsure if they were eligible because their country does not allow dual citizenship. It's a government identity you can apply for and use online
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by benkant 11y ago
In my experience, both with self-study and at university, the best way to gain and retain knowledge is by working problems. To do this you need: demonstrations of the concepts, problems, hints and solutions. Hints and solutions can be time
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by benkant 12y ago
> https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM/blob/master/linuxdoom-1.... One thing that's clear when reading game source code is that they hard code a lot more than I would writing system or application
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by benkant 12y ago
It's on Audible as well, narrated by Wil Wheaton. I've been doing a lot of driving recently and it was a fantastic listen.
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by benkant 12y ago
> Shane Legg is known for being a co-founder of DeepMind, in a business role (as I understand) You are quite mistaken. He leads the applied AI team there, and has significant history in research. http://www.vetta.org/publ
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by benkant 12y ago
I've made about as much of an effort as I'm willing elsewhere in the thread, sorry.
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by benkant 12y ago
>the core idea behind Curtis' work is perhaps simply that ideas can be extremely dangerous or powerful That's as good a description as I'm likely to come up with. Aside from the delivery, which is at once engaging and comp
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by benkant 12y ago
Yes. I disagree with most of his points of view. Some of his statements are outright incorrect and a majority are at least questionable or wanting for references. In _The Trap_ he constantly uses the phrase "based on numbers" in a
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by benkant 12y ago
Ignoring the singularity talk because I think it's become meaningless, but Jürgen Schmidhuber would disagree with the conclusion that machines can't be creative, or at least that it's beyond algorithms. He has a formal theory
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by benkant 14y ago
Stop saying "awesome".
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by benkant 14y ago
Google does something like this, apparently: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124269038041932531.html#mod=...

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