If only we could replace eye witness testimony: it's notoriously faulty.
There's a distinctly 21st century flavor to being able to store all the banal life mistakes indefinitely, to dig them up later if we ever need dirt on a particular person. Before it was varying levels of unprovable (ie,…
The military and government in general makes extensive use of contractors for specialized tasks, but manages to audit and limit their behaviors to the degree that they're performing work on behalf of the government,…
Haskell has a very neat interface for this, in that you build a special type which remembers the dimensions of a matrix as you build them, and then return either the result or a failure. It's very simple to build a…
Except the water is almost entirely less than 5 miles deep, which is a sliver when we're talking about something with a radius 1000 times that.
"We're almost certainly not trampling over your rights, citizen. Now why don't you mosey along and stop asking about it?"
What part of inviting a criminal you've gathered significant recorded evidence against (eg, their own telephone confession) to a place you can arrest him do you think violates due process?
I think there's a second element to why a gallon of milk isn't $20: Walmart relies on not upsetting too many people, who collectively wield enough local political power to harm Walmart locally. It would only take a…
There are markets with no real viable alternative to Walmart, because Walmart used their scale to crush competition, and no has made it uneconomical to start a rival business, since they'll temporarily lower prices…
The point of my quotation is merely to show that as part of work activities, research on VR was being done at id (ZeniMax) prior to contact with Oculus, and that Carmack's work on the subject would thus fall under the…
ZeniMax was working on VR technologies before Carmack began interacting with Oculus, and has a reasonable claim to the fruits of his work on that (being that it was an assigned R&D project). Do you really think I should…
See my other reply for page cites and details, but it seems that ZeniMax was actively pursuing VR technology and that Carmac was part of that project prior to his work on Oculus. If I work for money developing a certain…
According to the lawsuit filing (page 8 of the PDF linked above), Carmac was researching VR at id under ZeniMax. So yes, I think projects you undertake at work for money belong to your employer, and that this is a…
I would. I don't understand why you're so surprised that a company sued after they were turned down for a settlement from a company they gave a bunch of key technology to under an agreement. I don't find that behavior…
This is just disgusting, on several levels. A 700% rise in incarceration alone should be a sign something has gone seriously wrong with our domestic policing.
I've heard tale that because of the lack of formal structure at Valve, you need political connections to actually get anything done. Perhaps even more so than places with a formal structure.
Your comments on this post are a great demonstration of the attitude that is driving me off Google properties, as quickly as I can find viable replacements.
Could you elaborate on why you think it's a dead technology?
This is my real objection to DRM: it fundamentally either is just a show (turning over the unencrypted message to the browser, anyway) or requires that I be locked away from the computation happening (has direct access…
I find the Haskell type system much easier than the Python type system. I'd argue that Haskell actually has a pedagogy problem, because many of its proponents are academics or mathematicians, who are comfortable with…
I mean, would you be okay with support that cost money? That seems to be the model that Red Hat went with, for instance.
I mean, I hope things go well for them and their partnership brings nothing but good things. From what I've seen, they've put a lot of work in to their device and made significant gains. But Facebook doesn't and won't…
(This is of course wandering down the same meta path, but...) I've always wondered if it would be possible to tag comments with tags like "tangent" or "meta" (or whatever else seems good), and then apply sorts based on…
The title was better before the edit, since "Stranger in a Strange Land" is a work of fiction, has been borrowed in many contexts, and the additional title material clarified that it was borrowing that title to talk…
The high dev salaries there make the Bay Area even more of a dead end than it would otherwise be for the people who are stuck in service jobs for life, such as making food when the devs eat out.
If only we could replace eye witness testimony: it's notoriously faulty.
There's a distinctly 21st century flavor to being able to store all the banal life mistakes indefinitely, to dig them up later if we ever need dirt on a particular person. Before it was varying levels of unprovable (ie,…
The military and government in general makes extensive use of contractors for specialized tasks, but manages to audit and limit their behaviors to the degree that they're performing work on behalf of the government,…
Haskell has a very neat interface for this, in that you build a special type which remembers the dimensions of a matrix as you build them, and then return either the result or a failure. It's very simple to build a…
Except the water is almost entirely less than 5 miles deep, which is a sliver when we're talking about something with a radius 1000 times that.
"We're almost certainly not trampling over your rights, citizen. Now why don't you mosey along and stop asking about it?"
What part of inviting a criminal you've gathered significant recorded evidence against (eg, their own telephone confession) to a place you can arrest him do you think violates due process?
I think there's a second element to why a gallon of milk isn't $20: Walmart relies on not upsetting too many people, who collectively wield enough local political power to harm Walmart locally. It would only take a…
There are markets with no real viable alternative to Walmart, because Walmart used their scale to crush competition, and no has made it uneconomical to start a rival business, since they'll temporarily lower prices…
The point of my quotation is merely to show that as part of work activities, research on VR was being done at id (ZeniMax) prior to contact with Oculus, and that Carmack's work on the subject would thus fall under the…
ZeniMax was working on VR technologies before Carmack began interacting with Oculus, and has a reasonable claim to the fruits of his work on that (being that it was an assigned R&D project). Do you really think I should…
See my other reply for page cites and details, but it seems that ZeniMax was actively pursuing VR technology and that Carmac was part of that project prior to his work on Oculus. If I work for money developing a certain…
According to the lawsuit filing (page 8 of the PDF linked above), Carmac was researching VR at id under ZeniMax. So yes, I think projects you undertake at work for money belong to your employer, and that this is a…
I would. I don't understand why you're so surprised that a company sued after they were turned down for a settlement from a company they gave a bunch of key technology to under an agreement. I don't find that behavior…
This is just disgusting, on several levels. A 700% rise in incarceration alone should be a sign something has gone seriously wrong with our domestic policing.
I've heard tale that because of the lack of formal structure at Valve, you need political connections to actually get anything done. Perhaps even more so than places with a formal structure.
Your comments on this post are a great demonstration of the attitude that is driving me off Google properties, as quickly as I can find viable replacements.
Could you elaborate on why you think it's a dead technology?
This is my real objection to DRM: it fundamentally either is just a show (turning over the unencrypted message to the browser, anyway) or requires that I be locked away from the computation happening (has direct access…
I find the Haskell type system much easier than the Python type system. I'd argue that Haskell actually has a pedagogy problem, because many of its proponents are academics or mathematicians, who are comfortable with…
I mean, would you be okay with support that cost money? That seems to be the model that Red Hat went with, for instance.
I mean, I hope things go well for them and their partnership brings nothing but good things. From what I've seen, they've put a lot of work in to their device and made significant gains. But Facebook doesn't and won't…
(This is of course wandering down the same meta path, but...) I've always wondered if it would be possible to tag comments with tags like "tangent" or "meta" (or whatever else seems good), and then apply sorts based on…
The title was better before the edit, since "Stranger in a Strange Land" is a work of fiction, has been borrowed in many contexts, and the additional title material clarified that it was borrowing that title to talk…
The high dev salaries there make the Bay Area even more of a dead end than it would otherwise be for the people who are stuck in service jobs for life, such as making food when the devs eat out.