Flicks – A unit of time defined in C++ • Hacker News Board

You can if you want to try and plaster your name all over VR as a facet of soft lock-in and to arbitrarily insert yourself into every potential aspect of a fledgling industry.

Next they'll invent the 'Ocu-ternion', which is the same as a normal Quaternion but each scalar value is divided by a constant because...VR? Facebook? Who cares, the point is they own it.

Re: Flicks – A unit of time defined in C++

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Post by robotresearcher » Mon, Jan 22, 2018, 10:36 PM UTC

everdev wrote: post #2

Can you "invent" a definition?

Planck, Coulomb, Dirac, Fermi, Newton, Faraday, Avagadro, etc might think so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_constant#Table_of_phy...

Archimedes, Pythagoras and Euler might agree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_constant

Re: Flicks – A unit of time defined in C++

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Post by unit91 » Mon, Jan 22, 2018, 10:37 PM UTC

everdev wrote: post #2

Can you "invent" a definition?

If you couldn't, vocabulary would be impossible.

Re: Flicks – A unit of time defined in C++

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Post by geuis » Mon, Jan 22, 2018, 10:40 PM UTC

Was skeptical at first, but this makes a lot of sense. If you've ever done any significant amount of media encoding or transcoding, this should at least get a solid head nod.

Re: Flicks – A unit of time defined in C++

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Post by nextstep » Mon, Jan 22, 2018, 10:41 PM UTC

robotresearcher wrote: post #5

everdev wrote: post #2

Can you "invent" a definition?

Planck, Coulomb, Dirac, Fermi, Newton, Faraday, Avagadro, etc might think so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_constant#Table_of_phy... Archimedes, Pythagoras and Euler might agree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_constant

Those people didn't invent those definitions...

Re: Flicks – A unit of time defined in C++

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Post by currymj » Mon, Jan 22, 2018, 10:42 PM UTC

leggomylibro wrote: post #4

everdev wrote: post #2

Can you "invent" a definition?

You can if you want to try and plaster your name all over VR as a facet of soft lock-in and to arbitrarily insert yourself into every potential aspect of a fledgling industry. Next they'll invent the 'Ocu-ternion', which is the same as a normal Quaternion but each scalar value is divided by a constant because...VR? Facebook? Who cares, the point is they own it.

i mean this doesn't strike me as any worse than AU or eV or any other unit rescaled for convenience in some particular domain.

if they try to claim patent or trademark that's obviously a problem, but otherwise is this so terrible?

Re: Flicks – A unit of time defined in C++

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Post by mcgarnagle » Mon, Jan 22, 2018, 10:46 PM UTC

nextstep wrote: post #8

robotresearcher wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Planck, Coulomb, Dirac, Fermi, Newton, Faraday, Avagadro, etc might think so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_constant#Table_of_phy... Archimedes, Pythagoras and Euler might agree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_constant

Those people didn't invent those definitions...

... i don't follow, can you elaborate?