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But it is a way in to understanding the way things work. It helps to have simpler situations that exhibit aspects of the whole thing.

I remember being told about the library that has all finite books that can possibly be written. Every finite string of characters appears as a book. Obviously there are infinitely many, but we won't worry too much about that.

Now we find that someone, overnight, stole all the books except for those that start with the letter "q". We're annoyed at first, but then someone suggests we just erase the initial "q" from all the remaining books.

So we do that, and lo and behold! We have the full collection again! We even now have an extra book, one that's completely blank!

It's not a paradox, but it is the way infinite things can work, and it shows how 1/26 of a collection can be the same as the whole collection. This is related to how the B-T "paradox" works, but it's very much over-simplified.

Even so, it's a useful place to get people starting to think about things in the right way.
That doesn't quite read correctly. "Build your database with an online spreadsheet" or "Create your database as easily as a spreadsheet" or "Build with the power of a database and the ease of a spreadsheet"

Ps. Love the idea for the project, I have been looking out for something like this for a while.
I try and cover the easy 80% where it's helpful, and then specific things in the difficult 20% on an as-needed basis, or when bugs are discovered. It's an asymptotic curve: you want to spend the effort for the low-hanging fruit, but not get caught up chasing after that time-eating final bit of coverage.
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I agree that QuickCheck is really nice. It helped me spot some errors in e.g. tree diff'ing code that I wrote. QuickCheck especially works well for fundamental data structures and algorithms, where invariants are clear and simple.

However, in other cases, the usage is less obvious. For instance, suppose that you are writing, say a URL parser. What do you want QuickCheck to generate and check? If you generate too broadly, the invariant check becomes a parser itself, if you generate too specifically you might introduce bias again.
Learn some basic physics.

The numbers you yourself reported show that copper is much more thermally conductive than solder, and not the other way around.

Thermal conductivity describes how quickly the heat conducts through the wire. Since the wire is uniformly heated, this is a minor detail (assuming that the wire's thermal conductivity is considerably higher than the electrical insulation around the wire). Instead, you need to look for the heat transfer coefficient of insulated wire.

The melting point of Sn63Pb37 is 183C, not 140C. 183 is not "around 140."

If the wire were hot enough to melt the solder in a copper+solder combination then it would be well more than hot enough to melt the plastic insulation around just the copper wire itself, which is typically rated for only 90C.
It's well worth reading some of the inspiring stories on "Finding Ada" - http://directory.findingada.com/stories/

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I don't understand why everyone feels the need to portrait piracy as something good.

I do it because I can.
Yes, and he wasn’t really into collecting all those cartridges. As far as I understand he bought all SNES games to scan the labels on the covers and check his emulator’s accuracy.
I think a big part of it is that there is a very strong hatred of intellectualism in the US, to the point that people who learned to use computers are called nerds and other vile things as well as abused and beaten for it. I think previously the potential of computers as a career wasn't strong enough to overcome this with many young kids, boys or girls, but more so girls.
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I'm thinking this would work better in a stack exchange thread, then we all don't have to read crappy ideas like the pyramid scheme lotto and people could easily upvote and comment on each idea (one idea per post style).
The linked article you gave has some good and valid information, but it also include new problems. One is the use of the PTO's statistics to show that (as it say in large red letters), "Most reexamined patents come out with valid claims".

The problem is, that those numbers are average out from 1981 to 2012. During that time, there been several patent reforms, changes in patent scope, software patents, supreme court cases, and a radical change in the market of patents. The 11% all claims canceled is a number, but the number doesn't mean much. Ad to that, the nature of this patent (software) and I have seen any number from 11% to 95% to the statistical chance of an software patent having all claims being invalid.
There's nothing wrong with that. The previous poster is confused about the basic principles involved.
I've sold everything up to my PS2. I've found better to just have a gamepad adapter to USB and use an emulator in the rare occasions I want to play Super Mario Bros.

I have an arcade cabinet in my living room so I usually just stick to joypad tho :)
Technically it is called integration testing but I agree with you on the idea.

Unless there's a reason to mock something up (like simulating a fail condition from a DB or network call, or simulating other code that isn't finished yet) I prefer to just test everything as close as possible to what is actually running. The level of granularity, like the OP said, changes depending on the complexity and the critical nature of each part of the code.

Some people argue that if I make an error in function A and that causes a unit test fail for function B - that can mislead a developer into thinking function B has an error. I argue that a) it rarely misleads anybody for very long and b) if I had function B tested in total isolation with mocks then that error in function A might have slipped through unnoticed. It's tricky to mock up some combination that you weren't expecting to happen.

Obviously in ideal circumstances you would be doing both unit and integration testing. But, you have to draw a line somewhere otherwise you just write tests all day and get no production code running.
He seems to be suggesting some kind of open market for these things, that is instead of trying to claim all the profit via using industry standard commodity components and then intentionally breaking compatibility in some key manner, they're going to grow the market by allowing 3rd parties to compete with 'clones' (to use an old Mac phrase) of different shapes and sizes, and presumably make their money on selling the games.

Or to put it another way, it's an Android strategy, not iOS. Could be a very big deal.
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The problem with cartridges is that they hugely increase the cost of the primary case - non-extended games - for the advantage of the few cases where it's actually used to its full extent. I think accessories, like the N64 Expansion Pack, make much more sense for that purpose.

That said, I prefer cartridges too; CDs and DVDs are just too finicky.
this phenomenon is called the 'uncanny valley'. it's quite fascinating.
>The original version of Rubberhose (the deniable encryption filesystem) was written for FreeBSD by one Julian Assange. I don't think it's still maintained, though.

Wiki says it's not maintained and never made it out of alpha. Is there much difference between it and a hidden truecrypt partition?
No that's not what I suggested. Read it again a couple of times, carefully.

I think it was a logical and concise argument.

Perhaps a better statement is: "any semi technical skill takes way more than 10 weeks to become productive and not a risk".

Are you happy now?
Because some people do actually believe it's something good?
> Does the library have some type of licensing agreement with the media it purchases?

IANAL but I think it's called the first-sale doctrine. Once you buy a book, you can do whatever you want with it as long as you don't try to copy and sell it.

Of course, publishers don't like it any more than the MAFIAA likes Torrent users. As more libraries now stock digital items, publishers have taken the opportunity to put restrictions on libraries' right to lend [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/business/for-libraries-an...
Here are qualities of good unit tests:

1) They run fast.

2) They help us localize problems.

In the industry, people often go back and forth about whether particular tests are unit tests. Is a test really a unit test if it uses another production class? I go back to the two qualities: Does the test run fast? Can it help us localize errors quickly? Naturally, there is a continuum. Some tests are larger, and they use several classes together. In fact, they may seem to be little integration tests. By themselves, they might seem to run fast, but what happens when you run them all together? When you have a test that exercises a class along with several of its collaborators, it tends to grow. If you haven't taken the time to make a class separately instantiable in a test harness, how easy will it be when you add more code? It never gets easier.

- From "Working Effectively With Legacy Code" by Michael Feathers. (A really good book that actually does a better job of teaching design than many a book because like all good teaching it starts with the examples and abstracts from there, not the other way around.)
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Exactly. Before a company invests in moving all their processes into a system like this, there needs to be some kind of legal statement that says 'should we ever get acquired / close down, we'll release the code to paying customers'.
They are not cheap, $35~ per game. They are all in boxes and some games are easy to be found and dirt cheap, some of them are probably almost impossible to find with box or at all. I remember trying to score an European Chrono Trigger with box and I was looking at $100+.

It's a good collection and everything's done, you get it all in one shipping and everything's clean and verified.
Then you have to choose if you're going to sell through a GDS (expensive and heavy, but mandatory if you want to codeshare, which can be a good way to bootstrap), or directly to customers over the internet (cheaper but more limited)
Mail Pilot is pretty exciting in the email space: http://www.mailpilot.co/
With regards to emulation and a return to the classics, I got an Open Pandora (http://openpandora.org/) recently and have been having a blast returning to all my old cartridges, type-ins, tape archives, and so on.

My first computer was an Oric-1, the ZX Spectrum, and I have (had) masses of tapes of things I'd done with those machines .. to think those old tapenames are sitting there in a little emu dir, in my pocket right now, for the train-ride .. pure joy of computer.
To me "Turns Women Into Developers" is an offensive phrase, as your other variations highlight - it implies that "Women" and "developers" are categories that don't overlap. However, it seems to be techcrunch's poor choice of words, not Hackbright academy's.
That seems like the only time you'd want horizontal scrolling; given that most other computer mice don't scroll left-right and that many laptop touch pads can't either.
This is true, but APIs are often versionned.

Concerning efficiency this is true CSS / XPath processors, at least, both offer very nice performances.

But download 70KB of HTML each time you only need a single data, where the API request cost only a few (avg < 2KB), can be such a pain if you need to do this frequently. This can be handled by a scalable configuration but I find it a bit the overkill.
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Firebug is a lot better.
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In Sweden (The context of which the author talks about this), there are no such licensing agreement but rather praxis. Libraries are for the common good, and as such, they get treated as such. There's one exception, as there is a law requiring a copy to be sent to the main library in Sweden if a book gets published.

As for artists and authors, normally they don't go after anyone, be that libraries or the pirate bay. Copyright and publishing organizations however, do go after the pirate bay. They also go after libraries, but through the lobbying route. Audio books has come and gone, drm'ed, limits and so on. Many libraries has totally given up on audio-books, as its a loot of trouble for rather small gain.
Toward the end of their popularity (but before the C-128), I remember buying new (or packaged as) C-64's at Target for just above $100.
The choice of IDE's and what they bring to the table is different for each ecosystem. For example, I'm probably going to be much more inclined to use Visual Studio for .NET development than Vim.

In some cases a text editor might have an extension available that is so powerful for a particular use that it has become a de facto standard.

In some cases, you may not have much choice (Squeak development.)

In some cases you may have invested so much time in learning a certain tool (you can grow with Vim for your entire coding lifetime) that you may not want to give it up even if there are some things in a different tool which may make your life easier.

Personally, I'm a Vim user because I'm absolutely convinced there is no faster editor for text. I also feel that outside of text editing, features bundled with my text editor or IDE aren't often going to be the most powerful options available. For example, I prefer command line Git over any other method of using Git.

So, I think what I'm really trying to say here is, learn Vim. ;)
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You can see similar inconsistencies around Moscow. For some districts (район) in Moscow region, the name of the district on a map always sticks to the location of the main town in the district as you zoom in. Google map places the name of the district in the middle of the area it covers, so when you zoom in, it drifts away from the main town (which not always in the center of the district area). Again, seems like Apple map confuses administrative division units with towns.
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From TFA:

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Still, its useful keeping "patent troll" separate to describe a particular type of company. The own patents (mostly acquired from dead companies), don't make anything and live off squeezing other companies. Most trollish in that they live off extorting "license fees" with the threat of legal action, rather than actually winning lawsuits. They are structured in ways that makes them unafraid of lawsuits and use that to intimidate companies that are.
No it isn't: "[..] This functionality was proposed previously in N2954, but dropped from C++11 due to time constraints"

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2012/n338...
Having skimmed through the summaries, the general trend is they're trying to solve a non-existent problem, or a problem that isn't painful enough that people would be willing to pay to solve. I mean, who wants to pay for their Facebook statuses to be backed up? They're about as valuable as old voicemails and the threat of loss isn't palpable.

There's a lesson to be learned in all of this: don't think about ways to make money, but think about painful problems that you can solve for someone, and figure out whether a viable business can be created with that idea.
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> I am sorry you are so distracted by the particulars of my situation, which are really rather incidental to this discussion

Well, you did talk a lot about your personal situation in your original comment, so you shouldn't act surprised that the discussion took that turn
Sorry, I was mistaken. -_-"
Padmapper was a good solution that integrated everything but then Craigslist sued them, not sure on that part anymore.

Craigslist is still ultimately king but if you want to be comprehensive, you might need to check a few different places. Local newspaper websites are good too.
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I used to be c++ "guru" some years ago, but right now code like this scares me as hell. The language is getting less-used and it's a good thing http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/C__.html

How many years would you give it to stay ubiquitous? I bet on 15 years
I learnt leroc in 10 weeks (1 hour a week) well enough to dance at a free style.

I learnt bass guitar well enough to play 4 Guns N Roses covers at an open mic night and go through to the regional stage, in 8 weeks.

I learnt to pogostick in less than 4 weeks - bouncing 1 mile for sports relief without stopping.

I learnt to cook well enough in 1 week that I could could cook at least 21 different meals with a decent success rate.

I learnt Java/Android in 8 weeks and released my first app (721 downloads so far!).

I learnt to ride a bike in a weekend.

I learnt to drive in 1 week.

I learnt how to work behind a bar in one evening.

In fact I'd go as far as to say that (to the nearest whole percent) 10 weeks is long enough to learn any skill to a competent level.
I think the limited graphics helped in the same way a book makes your imagination do all the work.

Recent games with super-graphics have to work harder - either they hit your sweet-spot or disappoint (true that limited graphics was sometimes too limited...)
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The thing to ask yourself in these situations:

Which is more likely - coincidence, or that all of science is wrong? Because make no mistake, nothing less is required for exorcism or homeopathy or astrology to work.

Hint: It's the first one.

Or, to quote Minchin: 'You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? Medicine.'
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I swear I've heard libraries rent out books for e-readers. I might be way off in my memory though as I don't keep up with those types of things (or libraries).

Isn't getting scraped by Google voluntary with the robots.txt?

Also a question for anyone who knows the answer: does Google/Bing/etc use the same amount of resources as someone using whatever to scrape a website (bandwidth, whatever else websites might be concerned with)? Genuinely curious as I don't have much experience scraping and even less dealing with crawlers.

Edit:
This link appears to confirm ebooks can be rented and loaned personally in some cases.
http://ebooksinlibraries.blogspot.com/2011/03/loaning-and-bo...
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That's a good point. I remember having exactly that problem when writing tests for my toy language's parser. Generating random valid programs was actually tricky for several different reasons. In fact, I ultimately gave up on QuickCheck completely for that project, but mostly out of laziness.

Amusingly, I also wrote some tree diff code in Haskell recently. However, I did it rather poorly so I'm going to have to rewrite it soon (probably some time during winter break). I definitely agree that algorithms like this are particularly well-suited for QuickCheck.
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I have kept every single 'special' computer along the way, since my first coding days, and I have to say that there is definitely a kind of zen state that occurs when you return to the old systems after decades, and re-code things. It has actually improved me as a modern developer, to return, see what it was I did in my youth, fix it, and move on. :)

So .. in this sense, I will represent to you dear reader the value of such activities by enthusiasts/archivists/mad-scientists who still collect and keep these old systems in order.

Does anyone remember the Oric-1/Atmos line?

Well .. It Lives!!!!

The revival of software development as a social, fun activity, on these machines is producing a virile scene, indeed .. from the demo tree, of course, mostly, but some recent releases have been very special.

The Oric-1 sort of missed a lot of big effort in the 80's, if it'd had just a small percentile more attention, the titles would have been amazing. Nevertheless, the machine has some merits in the 8-bit fashion, and new-school developers are pushing its limits with extraordinary results never thought possible in the mindset of the 80's market.

Space 1999
http://space1999.defence-force.org/

Pulsoids:
http://www.oric.org/index.php?page=software&fille=detail...

Impossible Mission:
http://www.oric.org/index.php?page=software&fille=detail...

SkoolDaze:
http://www.oric.org/index.php?page=software&fille=detail...

1337 (Elite clone for Oric-1)
http://1337.defence-force.org/

StormLord:
http://www.oric.org/index.php?page=software&fille=detail...

(Edit, fixed links and added Elite&Stormlord, fabulous games..)

None of the above games were made in the 80's, when the Oric-1 was born. These are all new, revived products, from talented individuals pushing their Oric-1 machines to the limits ..

By way of 'virtues of collectors', here are the Top 150 Games in the Oric scene:

http://www.oric.org/index.php?page=software&fille=top150...

For Oric-1/Atmos/Telestrat users who still turn the machines on today, a lot of it happens with the Oric Defence Force. But there are more groups, and http://oric.org/ provides a unique experience for Oric users, what few of us are out there. Many of us need to learn French. ;)

Emulation of the Oric/Atmos works quite well (http://oric.free.fr/emulator.html), but I am fortunate to be able to turn my old hardware on, and the effort to get the machine on the 'net, and thus connected to this amazing archive and new activity, is a surety.

In short, the collectors value is in the future of the machine. If it still turns on, and works, then use it. And make it available to others to use, even if you don't use it.