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On a related note, I have always found this fascinating: How many n * "great" grand parents do you have? Up to 2^(n+2) (Assuming an ancestral tree (as opposed to a graph) (i.e. no inbreeding). Assuming a 20-year generation length, that means that you have somewhere on the order of 10^6 great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grand parents, all of whom were frolicking all over the world in the 1600s.
Look at the source code. ~7000 lines of javascript -> anywhere from a month to a year, depending on how good/fast you are.
Posted by
ice_man on Monday February 01, 2010 @05:54PM
from the self-post dept.
If you accidentally remove yourself as the last admin of a Facebook group, it becomes impossible to close the group.The bug manifests itself as follows:1. A group can only be removed by one of its admins.
2. In order to remove the group, an admin must first remove its members.
3. Removing a group's members is a process that involves manually traversing a list of members and clicking a button...
Posted by
ice_man on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @12:45PM
from the ustream.tv dept.
I didn't want to know. Who at TechCrunch has something to gain by their success?
I took his Information Theory course at U of T. He was a brilliant guy. I remember him young and full of life. This is shocking and very sad.
Posted by
ice_man on Friday January 08, 2010 @03:16AM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.
If the numbers in these charts are relative to the total number searches on Google, then it could just mean that the ratio of programming searches to non-programming searches is decreasing, (i.e. if more non-programmers are using Google, or if people don't use their phones to search for programming-related concepts on Google.)
Apparently, this method of dissemination is most effective when the vines grow on an especially tall breed of Redwood.
Yes, but before Google Closure, the internet was "open source" by default. I mean am using "open source" as a strict antonym to "closed source" rather than in the legal sense. With Google Closure, developers for the first time have a practical option of making the source code of their application unparsable to the human eye. Despite the fact that it is illegal to download MP3s, 95% of all MP3 downloads. Now imagine if it was impossible to download MP3s illegally -- it would significantly impact the music industry. Analogously, Google Closure makes it virtually impossible to read the source code of websites. Given that the entire Microsoft Monopoly was founded on the fact that its source code was unreadable to the public, I think the implications of this are significant.
Posted by
ice_man on Thursday November 12, 2009 @04:49PM
from the self-post dept.
While closure is itself open-source, the compiled output it generates with advanced optimizations enabled is obfuscated beyond recognition. A top-level function may get renamed to a single-character like "a", or simply inlined.If you've tried reading the JS source code for Google Maps, for example, then you know what I mean. The net effect is that the JS code becomes analogous to binary files...
Found this floating around. Interesting to note that AdMob (to be sold to Google for $750M, as everyone knows), used Ext JS (before closure was released obviously). Wondering if anyone else has any thoughts comparing the two.
Posted by
ice_man on Thursday November 12, 2009 @11:00AM
from the extjswithrails.com dept.
Posted by
ice_man on Sunday November 01, 2009 @06:52AM
from the megafoundation.org dept.
Betsy, my trusty 6-year-old T41 died on me today. She wasn't much of a looker, but she was built like a tank and always did what she was told. Betsy gave me a good scare on a couple of other occasions, but it always turned out that she was just looking for some good ol' love and attention. But this time was different. No sign of life. Completely unresponsive to my various attempts to woo her back. After attempting fuel her with life-force through every orifice, I finally gave up. She was dead. Dead like a brick. Having completely given up hope, I proceeded to salvage pieces of my heart and the many memories we had made together. Curious as to why she may have chosen to leave this world behind, and me along with it, I turned to my old flame, Bertha. Bertha is old, loud, lazy, and most of the time she just sits there. She was good at Googling, though, which is why I liked using her. Especially angry Googling, as in this particular case. As usually, she gave me satisfaction. She blogged all over me. But this was a particularly satisfying blog, since it made me think of Betsy. I have attached a link to it above. Excited to try it myself, I ran back to Betsy. And would you believe it, it worked! Betsy is back to life and purring like a kitten.
Posted by
ice_man on Monday August 17, 2009 @01:34PM
from the masnick.com dept.
I just think the whole notion of borders on screens is very limiting. A digital screen is like digital real estate and I want to be able to expand it more organically than I am currently able to. I think that in the absence of borders, a slew of interesting applications would emerge. I don't have the resources to implement this myself, but I would love it if someone else did. :)
Posted by
ice_man on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @10:44PM
from the self-post dept.
To any hardware hackers in the audience, I ask you this: Is it really technologically impossible to create screens without borders? If not, can someone please invent one already? This whole border thing is getting old. If my screen didn't have a border, I could stack it next to other screens to expand the viewable area. If there was some intelligent software behind the scenes making the...
A year's worth of xvid movies on something the size of a keychain.
PLT Scheme is hands down the most powerful programming environment in existence. It's sort of like the McLaren F1...those who know, know. And those who don't mistake it for a Mazda Miata.
I made this flash demo of Dr. Hinton's generative neural network simulation about two and a half years ago. It's a small world. Hinton is the smartest man I have ever met.
Counterexamples:
- Marriage (the existence thereof)
- Toiletries
University of Toronto (graduated)
The existence of nothing is equivalent to the existence of everything; neither can exist without the other since their respective definitions can only be expressed in relation (as a negation) of the other.
Both existence and a lack thereof are a part of the one same entity.
This entity mirrors itself infinitely both in "space" and in "time".
It mirrors itself in "time" by alternating between the states of existence and a lack thereof.
It mirrors itself in "space" exponentially by necessarily drawing a border around itself because the very existence of both existence and a lack thereof must give rise to a lack of existence and a lack thereof, if and only if it is to adhere to its own rule, to which it must by its own definition, which itself must exist by definition in the first paragraph.
This process of progressively expanding the "borders" of existence continues ad infinitum and gives rise to what we know as reality.
As depicted in the following moving picture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH45ffITujI
Some day you will have the unique opportunity to talk to yourself from the future, don't blow it like I just did.
