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New comment by notgood in "NW.js based operating system"

notgood — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 00:55:18 +0000

If things keep going the way they are someday JavaScript is gonna be optimized enough to get pretty close to C; specially functional scripts/parts (those with no side effects).

New comment by notgood in "Bloom Filters for the Perplexed"

notgood — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 00:59:59 +0000

You can always use it things that are not critical for the game to work; and a good coder would make it in a separate class/container so most possible bugs are isolated as well.

In the chess example the most importan thing its not for the machine to win (or lose); is so the user feels its not the same game they already played; or -dare I say- think that the enemy is "learning"

New comment by notgood in "Bloom Filters for the Perplexed"

notgood — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 19:38:11 +0000

This link[0] has an example; so basically almost anything in a game where it has to lookup massive amounts of data (e.g. logs), the example in the article is to quickly check if the user has already seen an item (in a game with thousands of items [e.g because those were pseudo-randomly generated, think RPGs]). But it's easy to think further applications: quickly check if the player already played this chess game before (all pieces where in the same position) to make sure the enemy does something smarter this time (because that time the enemy lost), and such.

[0] https://blog.demofox.org/2015/02/08/estimating-set-membershi...

New comment by notgood in "Guitar browser game with a real guitar"

notgood — Sun, 24 Sep 2017 20:00:35 +0000

Indeed, http://grammarist.com/usage/heroin-heroine/

New comment by notgood in "Guitar browser game with a real guitar"

notgood — Sun, 24 Sep 2017 19:49:05 +0000

And it's a play-word on "Guitar Pro", the famous software for musicians.

New comment by notgood in "The Equifax disaster points to a much bigger problem"

notgood — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 22:53:53 +0000

Yeah, trust companies like Equifax instead.

New comment by notgood in "The Equifax disaster points to a much bigger problem"

notgood — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 04:16:46 +0000

Of course, they take a hair from your head; and it was exactly the fake hair they had prepared, and then they take a drop of blood from your finger; and its the fake finger you prepared; then they check your iris and its the eye transplantation from the victim just like you prepared.

New comment by notgood in "The Equifax disaster points to a much bigger problem"

notgood — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 21:28:31 +0000

Yeah; of course this is what I mean; somehow I got down-voted to oblivion, f-uck you too hacker news community.

New comment by notgood in "The Equifax disaster points to a much bigger problem"

notgood — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 21:27:43 +0000

Synthesize it? You can change your DNA in the future? Like they are looking at the blood going out from your body and they can fake that too? Future is amazing.

New comment by notgood in "The Equifax disaster points to a much bigger problem"

notgood — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 05:03:47 +0000

DNA should be the only fully trusted proof of identity. To apply for a credit of any important amount (or any other important procedure) you should be required to be pinched to extract a drop of blood and determine if you are who you say you are according to the DNA database.

New comment by notgood in "Apple blocking ads that follow users around web is 'sabotage', says industry"

notgood — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 18:26:02 +0000

Your points 2 and 3 are actually integrated part of human nature and ending ads is not gonna help a bit; looking for a common enemy in order to start a mob by yourself (and therefore polarizing people) has always been a thing; it's just that now Internet allows absolutely anyone to do it, which includes anti-vaxxers flat earthists and millions of other intellectually decadent views.

New comment by notgood in "Apple blocking ads that follow users around web is 'sabotage', says industry"

notgood — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 17:59:09 +0000

Exactly; they are the gatekeepers of their iOS ecosystem but got no backslash like Microsoft did with Windows (circa 2001); so now they know they have a free pass and are trying to be the gatekeepers of the Web [for their users] as well.

New comment by notgood in "Survival of the Prettiest"

notgood — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 17:53:32 +0000

New comment by notgood in "Interview with GoCardless CEO Hiroki Takeuchi after paralyzing accident"

notgood — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 06:29:51 +0000

maybe with the a bit of help from mirrors (reflecting the sun) the street level would look better.

New comment by notgood in "China Makes Chat Group Administrators Criminally Liable for Unlawful Messages"

notgood — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 23:27:09 +0000

Not really, it says: "Conocimiento efectivo por la demandada del contenido de los comentarios alojados por terceras personas en su web. Remisión de fax en el que se advierte de la existencia de estas comunicaciones lesivas al honor del demandante: Al rehusar este fax la demandada incumple su deber de diligencia."

Which translates: "Effective knowledge by the plaintiff of the stored messages by third-parties on his website. Fax receiving in which [the admin] was informed of the lascivious messages to the plaintiff. By refusing the FAX the defendant breaches his duty of diligence"

So this case was about sexual comments against a specific person for which the owner of the site refused to delete such comments; so little to nothing to do with censoring messages against the state.

New comment by notgood in "China Makes Chat Group Administrators Criminally Liable for Unlawful Messages"

notgood — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 23:12:26 +0000

There is fair amount of really smart people inside China (in tech scene and otherwise) that probably want out [of the country] but don't know a clear path for doing so, I think efforts should be made to that clear path; to work on companies outside China [where they don't fear for their life if someone made a anti-government comment on their site]. Due to censorship by the national dictatorship such online effort must be done using randomly generated domains (known by word of mouth), hard to censor texts (eg. text inside images that use weird fonts; as intro inside pirated comics/movies/videogames, private messages inside Alibaba and other platform that the Government won't shot down)

New comment by notgood in "Sysadmin war story: the network ate my font"

notgood — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 23:44:24 +0000

The engineering time dealing with that printer is probably more expensive than just buying a simpler/better one.

New comment by notgood in "Google Sued by 3 Female Ex-Employees Who Say It Pays Women Less Than Men"

notgood — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 04:10:29 +0000

Ok, give me a job that pays 80K and I will send you the 20K without complaining.

New comment by notgood in "Google Sued by 3 Female Ex-Employees Who Say It Pays Women Less Than Men"

notgood — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 04:06:17 +0000

is not about invalidation, its about priorities; have you seen any articles in the front page about those millions of Americans? Me neither; but dozens about how someone somewhere is winning 10% more than other someone and that the gender was clearly the reason.

New comment by notgood in "Windows for Linux Nerds"

notgood — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 01:36:13 +0000

I have seen similar differences in other programs as well (tail, head)