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It does. Source: me, living in one of these countries.

If you're talking about the past-past (say up until the mid-nineties) IMHO you're wrong. Pre-mass-internet there wasn't really anywhere to share code. People were swapping floppies, or dialing bulletin boards. The competetiveness was absolutely real.

Also, pride.. If you wanted to figure out how an effect was done, either you reverse engineered the binary, or you figured it out on your own, based on your own experience and the occasional hint.

You have to remember that the demoscene largely grew out of the cracking scene (well, that + Compunet) in the mid-eighties, where _being first_ to release a cracked version of a game was of great importance. Likewise, being first to create a new effect for a demo.

I remember reading Howard Rheingold's book "Virtual Reality" when it came out almost 30 years ago, and seeing the Alvy Ray Smith (co-founder of Pixar) quote where he claimed that "Reality is 80 million polygons per second"

80 million is nothing nowadays, and we still have 20 years to go. How could he be so far off?

I don't think there's anything in the definition of smart contracts that necessarily has it defined to be what they are in Ethereum.

They are very different, that's for sure.

Assets are first class objects though, so 95% of what Ethereum smart contracts do is built into the platform already.

It's not run by "a set of trusted third parties".

It's run by SETS of trusted third parties, where each individual node specifies what set of nodes it trusts to not collude against it.

You don't need any ones permission to run a node, but it is up to other nodes if they want to trust you

It always confuses the hell out of me when I see this. Back when I grew up, a polyfiller was a polygon filler, i.e. a polygon rasterizer for computer graphics.

This gives me severe flashbacks to clueless clients/PMs. We had projects we had to run through Black Duck -- "No open source code."

The reference implementation of the Mersenne Twister was once GPL, although it wasn't anymore at that time. Still, there are only so many ways you can implement a Mersenne Twister. So my implementation got flagged.

Not all countries have feminine gender, just check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatherland

I wish I could downvote this a million times.

This.

Words used in patent claims are always defined by how they are used in the context of the patent description.

You can't read the claims and think you understand what they cover, without reading the description. A thesaurus doesn't matter, wikipedia doesn't matter, the opinion of an math professor doesn't matter. Patent description.

s/Recognition/Detection/

Doesn't Guido himself preface some of the things in PEP8 as being his pet peeves?

Open the SVG file. The characters are all there, you just have to sort them into the right order. Not much of an improvement. Or maybe not... * Are trivial to crack by a computer. * Are trivial to solve for a human.

"Stops at 99%" sums it up for me, on 10.10.3

Fair enough :)

You're working on remote collaboration, but not really eating your own dog food. Offices in SF and SJ. What's remote with that?

Never roll your own crypto?

Also, D-H was published 39 years ago, before the author was even born.

Am I the only one who doesn't see what's so innovative about Spritz? About ten years ago or so, when people didn't create startups for every little side-project they had, there were speed reading java applets that did just about the exact same thing as Spritz.

"Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within" is from 2001, and looks a lot more like the right half of the image than the left.

I really haven't done auctions in years, but with the way ebay works, with the current price one bid increment above the previous bidders maximum price, what's there to gain from sniping? You wait until the last minute or so, and then _hope_ that the leading bidder has set a lower maximum price than yours? Or hope that they don't understand how ebay works, more likely.

Personally, I would put in a bid whenever I found something I was looking for, and then wait for the email telling me I'd won, if ever. No emotional investment, no getting caught up. I'd just figure out what's the most I'd pay for something, and then go.

Nokia Refocus is quite different.

Refocus is a set of photos with different focal lengths, and a look up table.

For each "pixel" (The look up table isn't full resolution) the look up table tells which of the photos has the most variance (i.e., is the most focused) at that point, and the viewer simply switches the photo that's shown.

SEEKING WORK - Remote preferred. Southeast Asia/EU.

If you have a higher end non-Apple mobile phone, chances are pretty high that I've been involved in some of the software embedded in it. I developed/co-invented the core tech of a mobile imaging middleware shipped in 1B+ devices.

My professional experience (10+ years) is mostly high performance C/C++ on (more or less) constrained devices, but I'm no stranger to more webby things; I actually just placed four in a dev contest in a major metropolitan city here in SEA, developing a web forum (python+redis+jquery) in six hours.

What I'm good at - Innovating, analyzing and managing tech, prototyping, proof-of-concepts, architecture

Let's talk.

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