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vincetogo

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About vincetogo

Anti-social socialist.

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    Comment #9140897

    I suspect that the augmentation of human intelligence through tech is something we're more likely to get to before full-on AI. Assuming it's unaffordable for most of us, I'm much m…

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    Comment #8266179

    A more accurate title might be something along the lines of "Optimizing Bottlenecks Improves Performance".

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    Comment #7996605

    It's not okay to be lazy. But it's wise to prioritize architecture over performance until you have numbers to show you where you should put necessary optimizations. In my experienc…

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    Comment #7906788

    Shouldn't that be radioactivity? Light is a form of radiation, and I'm pretty sure that webcams can already measure that.

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    Comment #7852862

    You're right, the syntax is the main thing I've heard complaints about. I find that really bizarre though. I've been working in C++ longer than Objective-C, and more than Objective…

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    Comment #7852178

    I really don't get where the hate for Objective-C is coming from. Objective-C is definitely showing its age and I'm glad to see a new language that improves on it, but I really don…

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    Comment #7837876

    I really don't see this being the case. Any competently designed graphics engine has an abstraction layer between the app's graphics routines end the platform's graphics API. While…

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    Comment #7837863

    Did Apple deprecate OpenGL on iOS? If not you should still be able to work with it if it does what you need.

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    Comment #7835706

    It's not too hard to write a graphic engine that abstracts out the graphics API, but it would have to be done in a language other than Swift...

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    Comment #7687223

    Steve Jobs was a white, male billionaire. Of course he wouldn't be in jail.

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    Comment #7417015

    This guy is putting on his white overcoat and trying to look like a scientist, but he doesn't actually cite any real research in favour of his claim, and instead uses anecdotal evi…

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    Comment #7389828

    It shows up in more complex queries: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=+Planck+mass%2Ftau+mass

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    Comment #7370460

    My favourite Alpha goof is it interpreting the Planck mass as Max Planck's weight.

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    Comment #6834404

    "Too many notes, Mozart!"

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