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By Blizzard you mean Rockstar? edit: An issue was opened[0] but there has been no response. I find it hard to believe a C&D comes with a gag order but IANAL. I find it frustrating …

A lot of this content originates from 4chan and other image boards.

Mathematica not being Open or free is the only complaint I buy. As for it missing features, I'd wager adding them to Mathematica would be less work than building a CAS from scratch…

We were writing web based GIS in 1996, using ESRI's MapObjects IMS. Tiling, projections, yes these were solved problems by then using available commercial software. We were storing…

Reminds me of Career Move , in Martin Amis' 2000 collection Heavy Water and Other Stories . In it screenwriters struggle for their art while poets are optioning treatments of their…

I don't know whether or not judging programming ability is hard. But judging ability in computer science, which is what we're talking about, is not at all "very hard".

I'm sorry to hear your anecdote. I would have to come see your particular situation to see exactly what you mean by 1, 2, 5, because those don't seem unsolvable, but in general: > …

> There's also the "demarcation" issue. This is probably just as significant as vendor independence or technical issues. But I remember it a little differently. In the old days you…

That's what views are for.

I never mentioned performance or scaling as reasons for using a database's features- though they might be worth considering. The fact I never said those words and it fired you up s…

This is good work and if I ever did web development, it would be like this. Why people in the web world don't use stored procedures and constraints is a mystery to me. That this ap…

Consider the sequence 1, 3, 5, 7 what comes next? 9 right? Or is the sequence generated by 2n − 1 + (n − 1)(n − 2)(n − 3)(n − 4) for n ∈ N. Then we've got 33. "among all hypotheses…

I'm definitely not saying the internet is centralised! Perish the thought. I never mentioned it- the discussion was to do with the web specifically. Forget the web as a whole and c…

Yep, the web is a distributed system. Yep, the web offers many services, and many providers offer the same class of service. However, each and every one of those services are centr…

We're talking about the web as an application layer protocol. By your definition everything that happens on the internet is decentralised. That's not untrue if you look at it from …

That's another way to look at it, but you're using decentralised to indicate there are many large nodes- I would say that's simply distributed. I'm using centralised to indicate th…

It's distributed, but on the continuum of centralised - decentralised it is definitely centralised. How did my comment get from my computer to yours?

I had a rant about this on Twitter yesterday[0]. Google makes money precisely because the web is centralised. If we moved to P2P systems they could still provide an index, but I'd …

I'm aware of the difference between residency and citizenship, that's not the issue. I deny what they are offering is typically something requiring residency. Anecdotally- I don't …

Calling this e-Residency is a mistake. It's confusing enough that a commenter here was unsure if they were eligible because their country does not allow dual citizenship. It's a go…

In my experience, both with self-study and at university, the best way to gain and retain knowledge is by working problems. To do this you need: demonstrations of the concepts, pro…

> https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM/blob/master/linuxdoom-1.... One thing that's clear when reading game source code is that they hard code a lot more than I would writing system…

It's on Audible as well, narrated by Wil Wheaton. I've been doing a lot of driving recently and it was a fantastic listen.

> Shane Legg is known for being a co-founder of DeepMind, in a business role (as I understand) You are quite mistaken. He leads the applied AI team there, and has significant histo…

I've made about as much of an effort as I'm willing elsewhere in the thread, sorry.