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14 years ago
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on: How games cheat to help players
If your players are mutually anonymous, have the worst player play against multiple other teams each week, soaking up the losses. Each player gets their own Potemkin village where half their opponents are actually copies of the worst player. Now you have 1 loser instead of 31.
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14 years ago
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on: 'sudo make me a sandwich' has become a reality
In the traditional Unix network environment, printing and billing is a famously hard problem.
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14 years ago
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on: Can't solve a quintic? Galois Theory in 1500 words
I recently started reading now algebra book with a goal of understanding the Galois theoretical proof of his understanding unsolvability of the Quintic. This is generally considered the capstone of a complete 2-semester undergraduate study of algebra for a math major who is not pursuing graduate level pure math.
The interesting part IMO is the analysis of those normal subgroup chains and understanding the isomorphism to splitting fields.
Definitions and theorems without proofs or examples or illustrations is like the box without the gift inside. That post built up a pile of terminology but then ended before showing any content. It shows where to look out find the solutions at least.
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14 years ago
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on: Bug Prediction at Google
Build an HTML generator of function PreHtml -> HTML that is quirk compatible with all browsers. Yes, you will has many bugs to fix over time.
Now have all your templates code emit output of type
PreHtml and your final page generation phase is the function above.
Pay attention here: any template that attempts to emit HTML will fail to Typecheck.
Not a panacea, but static enforcement of Don't Repeat Your Bugs, even before those particular bugs are discovered.
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14 years ago
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on: Bug Prediction at Google
That doesn't matter so much, because this project is about highlighting delicate code regardless of reason, not assigning blame.
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14 years ago
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on: Teachers Don’t Like Creative Students
Homeschooling is not solitary confinement.
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14 years ago
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on: AdBlock Plus will soon allow "non-intrusive" ads by default
If ads were proxies through he content site, the site would still send your ID to Google to personalize the ad, but you would be unable to block it.
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14 years ago
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on: AdBlock Plus will soon allow "non-intrusive" ads by default
Think of it as "block of ads"
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14 years ago
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on: Medical Patents Must Die
Conflict of interest how? Isn't their more of a conflict of interest when a drug developer is paying the fees of the drug tester?
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14 years ago
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on: Medical Patents Must Die
How is the action of manufactured drug more natural a process than a cotton gin ginning cotton?
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14 years ago
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on: Two Congressional Staffers Who Helped Write SOPA Become Entertainment Lobbyists
A balance of power between multiple branches and levels of government, and aka oversight, can mitigate that.
Not perfect, but neither is nonregulation.
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14 years ago
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on: Two Congressional Staffers Who Helped Write SOPA Become Entertainment Lobbyists
The problem is that a law like you suggest is unenforceable. I It would be more effective to reduce the power of the central federal government.
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14 years ago
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on: Discovery of the Higgs Boson rumoured to be at 3.5 sigma.
That's not how statistics works. Your statement is the converse of happened, not the contraposive.
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14 years ago
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on: Forbes is wrong about “Developernomics”
If we agree the original article was meritless, downvote both that article and this, instead of upvoting them both.
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14 years ago
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on: Forbes is wrong about “Developernomics”
Are you claiming that the people who built Windows were not productive?
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14 years ago
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on: Forbes is wrong about “Developernomics”
As a programming achievement, I think you mean ViaWeb, and the Arc or HN.
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14 years ago
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on: The condescending UI
Yeah it does. It is a relief that the search actually finally works in win7 so no one has to care about the uselessly horrible menus and dialogs fixing the control panel.
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14 years ago
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on: Facebook Is Making Us Miserable
Because you are content in your surroundings and more energy efficient.
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14 years ago
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on: Facebook Is Making Us Miserable
Those others are lying to impress you. That's the point.
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14 years ago
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on: Facebook Is Making Us Miserable
Printing is an improvement over email?
