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It makes me happy whenever I read quotes like this of Feynman's.

That said, I'm not sure it made much perceptible difference as the app already performed adequately and the reduction is amortized across all of the interactions the user makes.

A recent one - http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2015/02/16/attempted-recid...

(Interested as I'm thinking about building a homebrew NAS/general purpose server w/ btrfs, there's a lot of outdated info on btrfs but I was getting the impresssion that it's now a pretty stable and useable filesystem)

The content of Quora today is what it is. The Internet Archive has no agenda for misrepresenting the content of any site. They don't want "records to be" anything other than what is reality now, tomorrow and the in the future.

The Archive's stance is perfectly reasonable. You can't arbitrarily go back in time and remove content that existed at the time, otherwise it's not a historical record.

So you can opt-out totally or be included in the archive's records, it's that simple.

I'd rather listen to people with a proven track record for shipping great software and a history of reasoned pragmatism regarding techniques and methodology.

This is a really simple way to keep yourself honest. Even if it's partitioned OSes on the same machine it would help.

I'd be willing to bet the percentage of time spent in getters and setters on the call stack is pretty insignificant.

To stare at someone is generally a threatening gesture, certainly there are many social cues about when it is appropriate to maintain a fixed gaze, and if a stare is held to long or without reciprocal give-and-take then it is usually interpreted as threatening/aggressive.

Now think about public speaking - 100's or 1000's of people all staring at you, the speaker, at the same time. It's no wonder this triggers a fear (or fight/flight) response in most people.

It's also worth considering, in our distant primate past, we are used to communicating with only a handful of other people at a time, outside of the context of tribal warfare.

I'd be interested if anyone has any more recent research / theories on this.

If you backed a Kickstarter that was pitched as solely a preorder for an already complete product, then you have every right to be upset if that Kickstarter doesn't deliver.

The original point though, was about kickstarters which are funding the development of products from scratch and allowing tracking and input from the funders.

If the only value to you is getting the game itself, then wait for it to be finished and buy it through Steam or your store of choice.

Kickstarter is meant for people who find value in not just receiving the product, but in watching, and discussing it through its development and also allowing creative people they respect the opportunity to the do the work they'd like to do.

Most of the negativity in these comments seems to be from people that just "want the game". Well that isn't what you signed up for. If you feel burned by the first one, you would be well advised to stay away from future Kickstarters, from Double Fine, or from any other developer.

I don't think you can classify this as "using it wrong".

It seems obvious that if I or a user like me were to use this service it wouldn't work very well, and would potentially devalue the service for other users (through poor matches).

The developer of the service is artificially limiting their market by only allowing Facebook Connect and they may have problems getting the necessary critical mass for the service to be useful as a result. I don't think it's trolling to make this observation.

With the kiddie porn issues, generally the number of children being talked about is a very small minority of the total, and usually the issue under discussion has only indirect possibility of helping those children.

However advertisement of poor food choices to children is something almost all children are subjected to on a daily basis, therefore when discussing regulation we can see that the majority of children will be beneficiaries.

Also from what I've seen in the past most finger print scanning and cheap, "organic" identity verification tech is not reliable and easily circumvented.

Despite not being perfect, basic password authenication (or even better- pass-phrase) is a security mechanism that's easily understood, easy to implement and can be pretty secure.

(Although still possible to do badly/incorrectly as we keep seeing).

They know some sort of abstraction is called for, but they end up picking abstractions which are actually a net negative for code complexity, rather than a positive. If you have enough of these developers then it devolves into code very much like the OP.

There is also a resistance to large refactorings which "clean house" of these sort of abstraction errors in enterprise teams and a lack of developers with the skill (and balls) to do it. So this cruft tends to accumulate.

In short, for gaming the measure of good AI is "fun", not "intelligence".

I've never been able to find a conclusive answer on GPL applied to Javascript