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Generics were only added to .NET 2.0 because MSR got it implemented. Redmond would never have done it alone, and called it academic, theoretic feature. They may have ended up with a lameass implementation of generics, ala Java.

Here's a history by Don Syme, who was one of the main people on this project:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dsyme/archive/2011/03/15/net-c-gener...

Quotes:

"But I do want to say one thing straight: Generics for .NET and C# in their current form almost didn't happen: it was a very close call, and the feature almost didn't make the cut for Whidbey (Visual Studio 2005)"

"being told by product team members that "generics is for academics only""

"It was only through the total dedication of Microsoft Research, Cambridge during 1998-2004, to doing a complete, high quality implementation in both the CLR [...] and the C# compiler, that the project proceeded."

Microsoft's C# track record shows MC Corp's commitment to higher-level programming pretty well, IMO. LINQ got added just to hit the "LINQ" target (and Erik Meijer mighta been a big force there). But even then: the C# 3.0 were only implemented to hit LINQ, not added as general language features. One big example: declaration type inference is half-assed and only exists to facilitate anonymous types. They've had years since to clean up the design and haven't shown any indication of doing so.

(I still think C#'s the best out of the "mainstream" languages, but they could be doing a whole ton better.)
This is funny, I was fooling around with something really similar last week. The difference is rather than operating on a STFT spectrum, instead transform the whole signal, re-order the coefficients by folding from low to high in the desired dimension, and invert the transform in that dimension, effectively changing from time to "spatial" domain or vice versa.

I won't post any image to audio examples since they are generally really annoying, but here is a handful of audio samples converted to images (mainly game samples due to size and features):

http://0x09.net/img/sfx1.png

http://0x09.net/img/sfx2.png

http://0x09.net/img/bgm1.png

http://0x09.net/img/bgm2.png

http://0x09.net/img/bgm3.png (warning 22mb)

It's actually invertible aside from quantization and rounding errors, so there is for example this mp3-compressed Lenna:

http://0x09.net/img/lenna.mp3.png (the colorful fuzz is mainly from quantization/rounding rather than the compression itself)

Or downsampled: http://0x09.net/img/lenna11khz.png

Or upsampled: http://0x09.net/img/lenna96khz.png

I can't imagine this is actually useful for anything but it is pretty neat.
We are mainly distributing the source code so people can learn from it, but I would be happy if they used the code or even the artwork to make a substantially different game. I just don't want someone to just slap a different name on it and out-market us or something.

How could I word the license to give people more leeway while still preserving that intention?
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Yes, and a license that codifies that intent isn't "open source". Open Source Software (as defined by the Open Source Initiative, the ones who came up with the term), was actually a re-branding of the term "Free Software". Open source software, as with free software, protects your freedoms as the owner of that software to modify, distribute, and study the code, with no conditions on any of those freedoms. What the author is doing is certainly commendable, and it would benefit us all if they took the next step and made their software fully open source.
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>The only argument that I see is that there is no real explanation for the fact that most abductees describe the same experiences down to extreme details

Not true. Before the current narrative of sexual examination and hybridization became commonplace, it was just as common for 'aliens' to 'abduct people' and tell them stories of the Aryan supermen from Atlantis. You have to account for the similarity in detail being due to the existence of the phenomenon being well known. You also have to account for your own assertion that since it's true that 99.99% percent of reports are either hoaxes or misinterpretation this also calls into question the bulk of those stories attached to alien abduction.

>I don't see what could influence abductees to imagine sexual experiments, until a real explanation for this is found I don't think we can dismiss the probability.

Your need for a "real" explanation assumes there must be a physical reality behind the phenomenon. That doesn't have to be the case.

>Maybe there are no other proofs because they are really good at leaving no traces and probably don't want to provide them yet to avoid panicking the masses, in a world that 88,5% of the population is religious http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations I don't think this will be received too well and they probably understand this.

And maybe there's no other proof because it's fiction. That's the problem for someone arguing your point of view -- your fact is indistinguishable from fiction from an impartial point of view.
I Twitter-whinged about this a few weeks ago, except I used an Ars Technica story as the example.[1]

I think it's a case of "everyone else is doing it, so we should, too!" Or maybe I'm completely underestimating the "oooh, shiny!" effect on a website's average visit duration.

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1. https://twitter.com/areuugee/status/380384096762867712/photo...
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I don't like how it's POSTing to an non-SSL endpoint.

Is it safe to send API keys out in plaintext?
Why can't the CLR come up with their own "X32" target? IIRC, they made the default for projects in VS to be 32-bit explicitly because of better codegen and lower overhead. If an app is OK with 4GB of RAM, why not let the process run in 64-bit mode, but use 32-bit pointers?

Also, why should the Win64 ABI constrain everything? Certainly it'd only be needed around the edges, but for .NET code calling other .NET code, you're free to do interesting things. (Like pass a GUID or tuple in a single register if it'd help.)
I understand your points. I'm trying to protect the identity of who sends the message.
Thanks matt :)

Competition is a good thing, I really hope you can improve on Google's results.

I do happily use a lot of other Microsoft products, so I know you'll give a good fight :)
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The linked to site is pretty clearly a political propaganda operation. From their choice of "stories" and very careful chosen wording, ala Fox "News". Should be beneath the HN community.
Sure, I've worked on many freelance projects over the last few years, e.g. scraping business listings, social networks, comparison sites and real-time pricing data.

Recently I've used Python and Selenium to scrape sports results data behind a scraping protection service; parsing html using XPath/regex and merging of html and json data to CSV.

Let me know by email if I can help you with anything or just want to chat/network.
I mean that the example shows a web page with email headers in it.
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Thanks for giving the source code to the community!

For those that want to test the game but don't want to set it up in xcode, i compiled the code and uploaded to app.io: https://app.io/qj4Ofv
Right: like I said -- and like the GGP (jerf) just denied them saying -- the claim is that it will hasten the traffic flow. Individual vs group benefits is beside the point.
I gave up reading Slashdot* but I have started reading it again occasionally. The new design looks like any other blog; I might give up again if they go with this look.

Problems with Slashdot that caused me to leave:
* Stories getting later
* Less relevant stories
* Stories posted with opinionated comments in the summary
* Commenting got slower and waiting unusably long for a preview
* Horrible moderation; e.g. add lots of irrelevant links to Wikipedia = +5; too many (un)"funny" comments; way too many meme comments
* Anti patent stance with no understanding of what patents actually are

I don't see Reddit as an alternative. Reddit is where you go to waste time. I'm not interested in captioned photos, TIL or AMA.
I can't stand reading posts like this anymore on HN. The title is literally the entire article.

Who knew the harder you work the more successful you are? I wish there were some sort of hypothesis. Grouping startups together, identifying what's unique/different, talking about founders, etc.
It is really odd to think of the skill development it takes to be in the top 20 of poker, or your niche league. Does this have anything to do with 10k hours of development time or being built as a 6'9" athlete (or the intellectual, or drive equivalent).
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This question presents a very false dichotomy: "Is the startup world a meritocracy, or are there leagues in startups?"

If we are making a sports analogy, then having different leagues does NOT imply that it is not a meritocracy. The very best (judged from merit) end up in the top leagues. Sports is the ULTIMATE meritocracy, in fact, because there is a simple and fair way to judge who is better.

Leagues just form so that that similarly talented people face each other in fair competition.
Just out of curiosity -- can you preserve that intention?

Nothing really stops me from making my own clone of your game, changing only the assets to be my own, other than it's prohibitively time-consuming (i.e. expensive) for me to do so.

If you release the code -- with any license on it at all -- and someone takes it, uses it, creates a similar game, and then changes the code in a sufficiently significant way to be able to claim that it's not "yours" anymore ... what recourse would you have?
They're drawn by the extension. That said, it's almost impossible to tell.
The point of the article is the notion that you might not be able to graduate to another league by effort.
My startup's in a similar space: http://getbulb.com (beta is invite only for the next couple of weeks, but if you're curious and want a go, fire an email asking to info@getbulb.com, free to use currently)

I adore Density Design's work, and some of it was inspiration for what I'm doing now, so seeing this kind of thing is both validating & scary!
Looks like Talking Points Memo.
This has got to be the most interesting article I've read in a very long time. I don't know how much of the article is true, but the writing style draws you in and keeps you enthralled throughout the entire article.
Didn't work[1]: when the CEO of your company demands that IT let him use his iPhone, then no amount of IT-friendly features is going to keep your enterprise a Blackberry only shop.

[1] To some extent Blackberry did this. While they did launch consumer models, their enterprise sales force remained strong, and new enterprise-friendly features kept shipping.
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Perhaps the BCS is a great analogy: there is a seemingly fair competition but luck, tradition and money sure help you get into the championship game.
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The irony is strong.
The funny thing is that I say the same things to a religious friend, how can you belive in all those stories without proof?
I don't think we can compare the two but they are very similar from this point of view, lack of evidence.

It's true that there is no real public evidence, no flesh and bone alien or goverment confirmation but I think the main difference from religion is that there are all kind of information bits that seem to support it, the sexual experiments on abductees and very similar details they provide in their stories still don't have any other explanation to disprove it, just read Jacobs reports or see his video presentations, remember that he has a Ph.D and years of research on this so you can't compare him to a conspiracy nut on the internet.

Also there is the impact on society of such discovery, the world would literally panic, most people will interpret this in all kind of apocaliptic ways.

So the most credible argument on the lack of evidence is that human society is not ready to accept the fact that they are not alone, people rejected throughout history the ideea that they are not the center of the universe so this will be very hard to accept.
It doesn't make much sense to make the President's whereabouts specifically well known since they are already quite well known.

If you really wanted to engage the folks involved in domestic data collection with a visceral sense of "a stranger is watching me" creepiness, you could — and I don't think this is a good idea — launch a site like "Who Is Everyone Who Has Interacted With NSA Director Keith Alexander?".

Imagine if someone used press reports to find names of people who have been seen publicly with Alexander. Then suppose that they built a dossier for each person containing detailed information about their name, date & time & nature of their documented interactions with Alexander, current address, most commonly used usernames on common public Web sites, links to any online "profiles" where available, educational background, property records, voting history, criminal record, all online postings, current and historical location information as inferred from Tweets or other sources, and any connections to any other "people of interest". Imagine seeing all this dossier-style information availably publicly with a quick Web search — it would be very creepy.

(This is not really that different from what the folks at cryptome.org do.)

I do not think that this would be a very good idea to do because I don't think the possible contributions to discourse (slim if any) would be more valuable than the possible harm to the folks in question.
Thanks, is also about picking something up again we tried 8 years ago ( http://techcrunch.com/2006/09/14/systemone-wikis-with-semant... ), just starting simple this time.
By no means is Chattanooga anywhere close to Seattle when it comes to the tech scene (or a variety of scenes for that matter) but it's got a lot of promise and the startup scene is growing. Check out http://noogastartups.com to see the directory we recently threw together.
So this article introduced me to the concept of luck? Ok..
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I had the same response. It's 'nice', but it looks washed-out and generic. There's no part of the design that looks like a signature difference. The colour scheme seems to have moved from 'bold and clear' to 'gentle pastel'.

Personally, I like 'authentically digital' as a web design ethic, but I can't wait for 'flat' to be superceded by the next fad.
Then move. To a different city or a different country. It is a very difficult thing to do but you shouldn't be miserable for a third of your day!

Get yourself some good skills and apply to jobs you really think you want instead of whatever the local industry has to offer.
Maybe a better analogy is the promotion and relegation system popular in European football[1]. The teams are all divided up into separate tiered leagues, but through success a team from a lower division can move up to the higher tiered leagues. Likewise a top tier team needs to keep a certain baseline of success to prevent themselves from being sent down to a lower league.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promotion_and_relegation
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Not necessarily luck. Innate skill is another option.
Id like to point out that this is similar to the idea of compression. Lossless compression is ideal, but you should not confuse lossy compression for lossless compression. To illustrate, going from v3 to v4 is very lossy. You lose the reason why shorter messages are better.
You're only looking at the dev key. I have a separate "secret" branch with the production keys for everything. It hits a different firebase too.
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It's not that school isn't connected to the real wold. It's that you don't need it besides a very few areas.

And if that is the case why put yourself to debt to go to school when you don't have to? Why pay a lot of money up front to acquire a knowledge you can get for free. You will have to learn the rest of your life anyway without having to go to school.

You have the worlds knowledge at your fingertips. You have any expert in any field you can ask about anything you want today for more or less free.

I would even claim advicing against school in most cases is a moral just cause.
Ah yes, the most unsporting system in sports!
Slashdot has never been a beautiful website. I remember the previous redesign - it made the site look a bit different, but it was essentially the same. (And the html is not very pretty either)

However, Slashdot has also always been about the discussion, so a lack of prettiness is easily forgiven. I feel that this redesign fails on this count, since the new design while being still average, it makes the discussion page less usable. Instead of the wide discussion page that made it easier to navigate large threaded discussions, you now have a narrower page that makes the comments feel like an added afterthought.
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> a glorious illustration of straight privilege

Gender has nothing to do with orientation. Please don't propagate such normative misunderstandings.

If I may restate for clarity: in most cases of software implementation, a user's gender is not important data (obvious exceptions include medical and related fields).

Generally, gender should not be requested. Where requested, it should not be required. Where required, one should have no compunction against answering randomly.

That's prerogative, not privilege.
The interesting thing about this is that the original iPhone was barely something that could be called a success. It sold 6.1 Million phones over 5 quarters. The recent launch was 9 Million in 3 days. They sold 50% more phones in a weekend than they did in 450 days. Reports of Apple's death are exaggerated I think.
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Not sure why you don't just look up the answers to your questions?

For example, rebate checks have already been sent out to millions of people:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/obamacare-health-insurance-re...
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