This is addictive but aggravating. I chose Space for the clue Planet and nope bomb card!
I was impressed when we pulled off a victory by GPT correctly connecting Wimbledon to Grass+London the round after it failed to choose London from MI6. Some of its clues are hilariously bad though. I lost a game…
I have played Avalon a few times but never with the Percival mechanic. However I don't think that being "shameless" can be the dominant strategy. If you make it so you must be either Percival or Merlin the opponents can…
Amusingly this can be interpreted as that the vote for which voting system to use uses first-past-the-post so first-past-the-post wins.
>I agree, and I like the size of my smaller house. That said, there are some ways that I think the space could be better utilized... for example, we have 4 bedrooms and 1.5 baths, all of which are smaller than you'd see…
I just bought an old house(1920s) and so have been doing a lot of thinking about how much better the layout of surviving old houses are. 1. Natural lighting. I generally do not need artificial lights in the daytime in…
I thought of a potential loophole. What about a non-deterministic extractor? Let's say you can make your program smaller by having only a 1% chance of extracting perfectly. Just submit the program (for an expected) 100…
I would pay $2 to $10 per month to remove all adds from youtube. I would not bother with this.
If we had powerful enough telescope that we could see a civilization growing up 1000 light years away we could record it and provide it as a gift for when we finally meet. Or maybe there is someone out there doing that…
Reading the title I immediately thought these set of articles on procedural city generation. It's about the visual appearance of a city but very interesting nonetheless. http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=2940
From a developer's standpoint it does matter. Every OS version, hardware version is another platform you have to support and test against. Even on identical hardware with an incremental version difference it is not…
Mandatory related non-xkcd comic: www.smbc-comics.com/?id=1883
Technically he should have used a binary search. $1, $2, $4,...$64, $128. $128 is too much then do a binary search between $64 and $128.
Google seems to be the expert in heart-warming commercials. Remember their first super bowl ad? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ4unnMgiSQ
How robust is the mobile detection? If using the user agent to determine a mobile browser results in many false negatives then not directing from the mobile site version is a good idea. Edit: To be more clear. If you…
The issue with linux containers is (or at least it used to be) that it is possible for a malicious user to 'break out' of the container. Has this problem been solved?
This is good news if you want to be able to purchase movies on the cheap. When a Blockbuster closing a few years ago where I lived they sold off all their movies. I think it got down to $2 per Blu-ray movie by the end…
TypeScript was obviously on your mind. The readme states 'Functions in TypeScript can have zero or more arguments in general, just like in Javascript.' You might want to change that to 'PureScript'
I remember you could define an array to be indexed by an enumerated type which was nice. I haven't seen that done elsewhere.
One thing that leaps out at me from the few successful YC applications I've read is some of the informal language used. For instance, I would never write 'Most banks suck at technology' If it was still legal when I was…
That was more or less my point. Krugman provides no evidence that the Google Reader follows that model. It is an opinion article entitled 'The Economics of Evil Google.' After the first paragraph there is no reference…
I am not an economist but I don't see why being a monopoly or not has anything to do with it. Would a not-monopoly be able to make a profit if it had high fixed costs and no ability to price discriminate? That's without…
This. People confuse education with accreditation. Online courses (should) provide education very cheaply. I hope the US accreditation system gets fixed so that it is cheap too or not so important for employment.
After reading the article several times it seems to me that it has nothing to do with Google. The idea that a company that can't price discriminate and isn't able to make a profit to provide a useful good is…
If you want to see Moore's Law in action today you really need to look at GPUs rather than CPUs. Increased performance in recent years has mostly come from increased parallelization which has limiting returns on the…
This is addictive but aggravating. I chose Space for the clue Planet and nope bomb card!
I was impressed when we pulled off a victory by GPT correctly connecting Wimbledon to Grass+London the round after it failed to choose London from MI6. Some of its clues are hilariously bad though. I lost a game…
I have played Avalon a few times but never with the Percival mechanic. However I don't think that being "shameless" can be the dominant strategy. If you make it so you must be either Percival or Merlin the opponents can…
Amusingly this can be interpreted as that the vote for which voting system to use uses first-past-the-post so first-past-the-post wins.
>I agree, and I like the size of my smaller house. That said, there are some ways that I think the space could be better utilized... for example, we have 4 bedrooms and 1.5 baths, all of which are smaller than you'd see…
I just bought an old house(1920s) and so have been doing a lot of thinking about how much better the layout of surviving old houses are. 1. Natural lighting. I generally do not need artificial lights in the daytime in…
I thought of a potential loophole. What about a non-deterministic extractor? Let's say you can make your program smaller by having only a 1% chance of extracting perfectly. Just submit the program (for an expected) 100…
I would pay $2 to $10 per month to remove all adds from youtube. I would not bother with this.
If we had powerful enough telescope that we could see a civilization growing up 1000 light years away we could record it and provide it as a gift for when we finally meet. Or maybe there is someone out there doing that…
Reading the title I immediately thought these set of articles on procedural city generation. It's about the visual appearance of a city but very interesting nonetheless. http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=2940
From a developer's standpoint it does matter. Every OS version, hardware version is another platform you have to support and test against. Even on identical hardware with an incremental version difference it is not…
Mandatory related non-xkcd comic: www.smbc-comics.com/?id=1883
Technically he should have used a binary search. $1, $2, $4,...$64, $128. $128 is too much then do a binary search between $64 and $128.
Google seems to be the expert in heart-warming commercials. Remember their first super bowl ad? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ4unnMgiSQ
How robust is the mobile detection? If using the user agent to determine a mobile browser results in many false negatives then not directing from the mobile site version is a good idea. Edit: To be more clear. If you…
The issue with linux containers is (or at least it used to be) that it is possible for a malicious user to 'break out' of the container. Has this problem been solved?
This is good news if you want to be able to purchase movies on the cheap. When a Blockbuster closing a few years ago where I lived they sold off all their movies. I think it got down to $2 per Blu-ray movie by the end…
TypeScript was obviously on your mind. The readme states 'Functions in TypeScript can have zero or more arguments in general, just like in Javascript.' You might want to change that to 'PureScript'
I remember you could define an array to be indexed by an enumerated type which was nice. I haven't seen that done elsewhere.
One thing that leaps out at me from the few successful YC applications I've read is some of the informal language used. For instance, I would never write 'Most banks suck at technology' If it was still legal when I was…
That was more or less my point. Krugman provides no evidence that the Google Reader follows that model. It is an opinion article entitled 'The Economics of Evil Google.' After the first paragraph there is no reference…
I am not an economist but I don't see why being a monopoly or not has anything to do with it. Would a not-monopoly be able to make a profit if it had high fixed costs and no ability to price discriminate? That's without…
This. People confuse education with accreditation. Online courses (should) provide education very cheaply. I hope the US accreditation system gets fixed so that it is cheap too or not so important for employment.
After reading the article several times it seems to me that it has nothing to do with Google. The idea that a company that can't price discriminate and isn't able to make a profit to provide a useful good is…
If you want to see Moore's Law in action today you really need to look at GPUs rather than CPUs. Increased performance in recent years has mostly come from increased parallelization which has limiting returns on the…