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by nocipher 13y ago
That sounds like Stokes' Theorem!
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by nocipher 13y ago
Grad school for math can be a bit scary. If you've been out of math for that long, you'll need to do some review. All of the people I know in my graduate program are experts at at a large swathe of undergraduate topics: calculus,
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by nocipher 13y ago
Someone has to use Googlebot though. Google is therefore liable for what it does. Just because a machine or a piece of software is the main actor does not mean there is no culpability. Google is trying to index as much of the web as possibl
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by nocipher 13y ago
It is still trespassing. It doesn't have to be difficult to do something for it to be illegal. I think the bigger issue is that trespassing is usually handled with a warning and, if it does go to court, is usually a misdemeanor or a lo
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by nocipher 13y ago
Seeing stuff like this always makes me giddy. Why aren't Americans more involved in the demoscene? I always wanted to find a way into it, but never found people willing to give it a shot.
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Are Cable Companies Hoping Usage-Based Internet Access Will Help Thwart Netflix?(slate.com)
1 points by nocipher 14y ago|1 comments
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by nocipher 14y ago
I agree with this answer, but I suspect that this is also why Lisp isn't often a first choice. Meta-programming doesn't figure into language choice discussions as often as it probably should. I distinctly recall wishing for macros in Java a
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by nocipher 14y ago
Often, the initial distributor of a torrent has purchased it as well. At least one person downloading or uploading a media file has usually paid for it. Your first point seems to not condemn pirating wholesale. The latter is more interestin
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by nocipher 14y ago
I think the argument is valid. Even some libraries have movies and video games. I fail to see how downloading media has a fundamental different effect than merely borrowing it. Even arguing that borrowing is temporary seems a poor argument
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UN Internet regulation treaty talks begin in Dubai(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by nocipher 14y ago|1 comments
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I fucking hate sexism in science(alexanderbrown.info)
2 points by nocipher 14y ago|0 comments
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by nocipher 14y ago
Of course they aren't looking for originality. It can't be expected. When you give students a really difficult test, you don't expect everyone to make an "A". You expect some to fail ("D") and many to be just average ("C"). Some select few,
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by nocipher 14y ago
An "idea guy" who also handles marketing and sales shouldn't be considered just an "idea guy".
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by nocipher 14y ago
The word-choice is really a minute issue. The more appalling one is that the "entrepreneur" potentially wins half the prize while his "resources" split the other half. This seems grossly unfair given that the entrepreneur doesn't seem to br
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by nocipher 14y ago
All the serious D2 gamers knew all of the best items and finding them was a big part of the game for them (or perhaps it WAS the game?) Diablo was always about the exploration and the loot hunt. That was the game. Diablo 3 is a deviation.
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by nocipher 14y ago
This reminds me of the EVE Online player revolt. Those details your customers care about are the most important parts of your product.
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by nocipher 14y ago
I concur. Hard life lessons should not be taught in the context of learning a new skill. Those can wait until after a degree of proficiency has been attained lest we undermine their efforts completely.
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by nocipher 14y ago
For me, algebra is easy, but writing out steps is very difficult, and sometimes I prefer to use a process other than the one taught in class. Should the goal of math education be to solve problems or to learn processes? That is a false di
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by nocipher 14y ago
Combinatorics deals with discrete structures, the kind encountered in programming, while probability concerns itself with determining the likelihood of a given event. The former is clearly more relevant to general programming. Probability d
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by nocipher 14y ago
The best resources for learning math are textbooks. Learning math from pages on the internet is difficult. Mathematicians don't have quite the strong online presence that programmers do so the online literature suffers. Textbooks are fantas
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by nocipher 14y ago
I spend a lot of my time writing Python, especially for Django powered sites, and writing client side javascript. Periodically, I'll get stuck maintaining large projects written entirely in PHP and miss the nice features from other language
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by nocipher 15y ago
When I first started doing web programming at my first real programming job, everyone there used Dreamweaver as the IDE of choice. I used it for a few months before I could no longer deal with its idiosyncrasies. Now, I absolutely hate the
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by nocipher 15y ago
I think the impact of a text editor depends on your daily workflow. I do a lot of system administration and use emacs nearly daily to edit configuration files and write shell scripts. Since almost everything I do involves terminal sessions,
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by nocipher 15y ago
This is leading to vigilantism, by the government and by corporations. This is one the most pointed comments I've heard about copyright litigation and wanton take-down notices.
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by nocipher 15y ago
It's interesting how subtle yet important that difference is.
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by nocipher 15y ago
I'm very curious about this as well. I was always impressed by the demos I found but never managed to find anything that showed me how to break into the community. About the only thing I gathered was it was not so common in the US.
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by nocipher 15y ago
It seems sort of silly from a user experience point of view. If you start playing online and then for some reason you can't, you have to start over at the beginning of the game. There's no continuity between your gameplay sessions in that c
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by nocipher 15y ago
Honestly, it was going to happen anyway. D3 is a heavily anticipated title.
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by nocipher 15y ago
The Diablo franchise was never meant to be game with a lot of modding. It was always about a great hack and slash with friends. Since modding was never allowed in online play over Battle.net, the majority of the community never bothered the
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by nocipher 15y ago
Diablo has always had a strong online component. While the series has never been an MMO in a strict sense, online play has always been more engaging (except for rampant spamming... which Blizzard seriously needs to address). Sites like d2js

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