This! Any graphical history for git that doesn't let you show all branches at once is trash. (Like the one in Visual Studio) The interactive rebase editor in Git Graph is very nice too. I also love how smoothly you can…
You have no donate link... if you're gonna be on big sites like HN, you might as well have a donation link so that hopefully you break even on App Engine.
Yes, it does. If it is 'hardcoded', then the intelligence lies in whatever 'hardcoded' it, not in the entity following the 'hardcoding'. Genetic algorithms have a certain amount of intelligence, although slow and…
Actually, whether admitting it is dumb or not depends a lot on whether you're dealing with an objective or subjective situation, and the odds * costs of being caught at wrong answers. For an example of a subjective…
That's because the traditional economic definition of "rational" is an incomplete model of real world sanity that only works in incomplete models of the real world. In the real world, you have to deal with the uncertain…
It would be nice if you could tell if there is any local activity before signing up. I'm not giving a random web site my Facebook or email when most likely no one else local is signed up anyway.
I have to disagree there - there are other approaches to market-based funding of the creation of cultural communications that are not advertising based. For a very successful current example, see Kickstarter.
A very quick approximation seems to indicate it still isn't feasible. I saved 2 32x32 JPEGs using Gimp at quality 30. One is a cutout of a face from a photo, the other is random noise generated using the filter in Gimp.…
I wonder if this would be explorable for some much tinier subset of the space of images. Like maybe 32 x 32 greyscale JPEG images with some limit on compressed size that keeps it to interesting images. I'm specifically…
Yup, or even easier, a simple fork bomb. http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/understanding-bash-fork-bomb/#c... has examples in 5 languages, all shorter than this. :(){ :|:& };: in bash is the shortest example. On the…
The reason that is not available is that the universe of options for beginning programming has exploded since the old boot into BASIC days, and there is no longer agreement on the easiest way to begin programming. As…
Isn't the ability to sell bitcoins also important? Unless you think farmers in Colombia and electric companies in California are going to start accepting bitcoins directly?
Hmm, perhaps you should consider a few differences between so called wage "slavery" and chattel slavery as practiced in pre-civil war US: 1) Modern workers are not owned from birth. 2) Debt is not forced upon you…
It is case-sensitive, try the following instead: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Google%2CMicrosof...
I'm amused that you think it is possible to rewrite the whole thing without entering super brain mode. In my experience, generally the only way to reproduce such legacy reports is by reverse engineering how they…
One thing I don't like is nothing on Buxfer's site tells you they are dead - I was considering signing up as a new customer, but suspicious due to the lack of blog activity and the questions if they are dead on…
I think gojomo has a really good idea here. However, there is no reason to bias it against Google's ad network. We need an advanced search option to find non-ad supported sites, that behind the scenes attempts to filter…
This is a common misconception caused by quoting mean life expectancy at birth, when the distribution is highly asymmetrical. High infant death rates cause low life expectancy at birth, but the life expectancy if you…
Oops, nevermind, silly suggestion. It's already been done, you just have to Google "basic interpreter javascript" to find it. http://www.calormen.com/Applesoft/ - Starts right at the interpeter http://www.ngbasic.com/ -…
I have 2 suggestions: 1) How hard would it to write a JavaScript/HTML port of it? I don't see why anyone in the modern day and age should need to download and install a program to play with BASIC. It should be possible…
At what age do you think Alice and Mindstorm are usable? The main thing that catches my attention on Alice is it is targeted at High School or College level, but the article talks about his 11 year old son. Where are…
But I don't see anything here that blocks the "check in" approach, if anything, it makes it easier to implement. Instead of needing to develop your own app for each mobile platform and using their location API, you just…
No, it is two different dichotomies. One is one-ancestor vs. multi-ancestor, with the first being correct. The second is no gene transfer between descendants vs. gene transfer between descendants, with the second being…
You completely left out the "if they do happen to play sports" in the actual article, which heavily colors non-sports players view of the article. I definitely agree that many engineers and programmers play sports...…
One of the rules was that you had to keep talking (or at least reading) for the entire agreed upon period. Taking a break wasn't allowed in the rules.
This! Any graphical history for git that doesn't let you show all branches at once is trash. (Like the one in Visual Studio) The interactive rebase editor in Git Graph is very nice too. I also love how smoothly you can…
You have no donate link... if you're gonna be on big sites like HN, you might as well have a donation link so that hopefully you break even on App Engine.
Yes, it does. If it is 'hardcoded', then the intelligence lies in whatever 'hardcoded' it, not in the entity following the 'hardcoding'. Genetic algorithms have a certain amount of intelligence, although slow and…
Actually, whether admitting it is dumb or not depends a lot on whether you're dealing with an objective or subjective situation, and the odds * costs of being caught at wrong answers. For an example of a subjective…
That's because the traditional economic definition of "rational" is an incomplete model of real world sanity that only works in incomplete models of the real world. In the real world, you have to deal with the uncertain…
It would be nice if you could tell if there is any local activity before signing up. I'm not giving a random web site my Facebook or email when most likely no one else local is signed up anyway.
I have to disagree there - there are other approaches to market-based funding of the creation of cultural communications that are not advertising based. For a very successful current example, see Kickstarter.
A very quick approximation seems to indicate it still isn't feasible. I saved 2 32x32 JPEGs using Gimp at quality 30. One is a cutout of a face from a photo, the other is random noise generated using the filter in Gimp.…
I wonder if this would be explorable for some much tinier subset of the space of images. Like maybe 32 x 32 greyscale JPEG images with some limit on compressed size that keeps it to interesting images. I'm specifically…
Yup, or even easier, a simple fork bomb. http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/understanding-bash-fork-bomb/#c... has examples in 5 languages, all shorter than this. :(){ :|:& };: in bash is the shortest example. On the…
The reason that is not available is that the universe of options for beginning programming has exploded since the old boot into BASIC days, and there is no longer agreement on the easiest way to begin programming. As…
Isn't the ability to sell bitcoins also important? Unless you think farmers in Colombia and electric companies in California are going to start accepting bitcoins directly?
Hmm, perhaps you should consider a few differences between so called wage "slavery" and chattel slavery as practiced in pre-civil war US: 1) Modern workers are not owned from birth. 2) Debt is not forced upon you…
It is case-sensitive, try the following instead: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Google%2CMicrosof...
I'm amused that you think it is possible to rewrite the whole thing without entering super brain mode. In my experience, generally the only way to reproduce such legacy reports is by reverse engineering how they…
One thing I don't like is nothing on Buxfer's site tells you they are dead - I was considering signing up as a new customer, but suspicious due to the lack of blog activity and the questions if they are dead on…
I think gojomo has a really good idea here. However, there is no reason to bias it against Google's ad network. We need an advanced search option to find non-ad supported sites, that behind the scenes attempts to filter…
This is a common misconception caused by quoting mean life expectancy at birth, when the distribution is highly asymmetrical. High infant death rates cause low life expectancy at birth, but the life expectancy if you…
Oops, nevermind, silly suggestion. It's already been done, you just have to Google "basic interpreter javascript" to find it. http://www.calormen.com/Applesoft/ - Starts right at the interpeter http://www.ngbasic.com/ -…
I have 2 suggestions: 1) How hard would it to write a JavaScript/HTML port of it? I don't see why anyone in the modern day and age should need to download and install a program to play with BASIC. It should be possible…
At what age do you think Alice and Mindstorm are usable? The main thing that catches my attention on Alice is it is targeted at High School or College level, but the article talks about his 11 year old son. Where are…
But I don't see anything here that blocks the "check in" approach, if anything, it makes it easier to implement. Instead of needing to develop your own app for each mobile platform and using their location API, you just…
No, it is two different dichotomies. One is one-ancestor vs. multi-ancestor, with the first being correct. The second is no gene transfer between descendants vs. gene transfer between descendants, with the second being…
You completely left out the "if they do happen to play sports" in the actual article, which heavily colors non-sports players view of the article. I definitely agree that many engineers and programmers play sports...…
One of the rules was that you had to keep talking (or at least reading) for the entire agreed upon period. Taking a break wasn't allowed in the rules.