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To whomever that has read upto here: you hereby implicitly agree my EULA, in which you swear to enjoy each of your scientific pursuits with intensity and to your fullest degree; and sometimes even to a dangerous degree, if the mood carries you thus. Additionally, you agree to never allow an employer, family member, or any other authority to break your intrinsic spirit; for they have no means of dominating your spirit except that which you subconsciously allow them. You shall be true to yourself and to your own principles, regardless of society (though in privacy). You shall hereby refuse to believe any scientific statement as "true", however benign, except those in which you alone have proven to yourself to be true, by your own hand and evidence. (Though it doesn't hurt to check out what other people have to say on the subject, from time to time; in fact, it turns out to often be a more valuable course of action, for the careful analysis of a close friend can often reveal subtle flaws in your process and in your logic, while occasionally forcing you to re-evaluate your core reasoning for choosing that process in the first place, which always leads to the path of learning and thus improvement and satisfaction.) You agree to eventually die with no regrets. Let no one impose themselves upon your judgement without merit. You shall endeavor to enjoy life to the fullest extent of the law (where applicable), and to realize that money is merely a means, not an end unto itself. In your spare time, you shall research that which is impossible, but intriguing, in order to always have something to strive for, thereby improving your skill and your spirit. You shall follow your curiosity wherever it leads (but keep both eyes open for signs of danger).
Most importantly: thou shalt enjoy every week, else thou shalt fix your life's situation regardless of how immutable it may seem.
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I hate to pick at your example, 'cause I agree with you in spirit. Your harpsichord/piano example was just... Well, exactly my point. The piano was a major improvement over the harpsi; I hope the same will be said of Overtone. That's all.
An executable is often less than 1MB, and certainly always less than 100MB. In contrast, a 14GB video game still loads pretty quickly, and the data that goes across the bus per frame is often a couple orders of magnitude larger than the program executable itself.
I know I'm missing something obvious...
Honestly I was just trying to find some good things to say about Overtone, since creativity is always a great thing and should be encouraged.
Maybe a combination of the two ideas: Overtone functions being invoked by pressing keys on a synth, with pressure/speed of the keypress being passed as function args. (But then I suppose Overtone would be "just another synth generator"... I don't know.)
My point was, there's a reason why musicians often use "a box with a bigass row of large physical keys" to do this sort of thing.
That said, a synth costs thousands of dollars; so I love the idea of Overtone making live music more accessible to "dabblers" like me.
( Unfortunately, a MacBook also costs thousands of dollars, and I've given up hoping people still care about Windows. =) )
Is that happening here, you think?
I tend to play Devil's advocate; and right now, people are demonizing Guy. But if he's genuinely full of fluff, then it'd be justified.
How have I never heard or /classic 'til now? Thanks!
What's different about the ranking algo?
I had $10 back then, too, even though I was about 9. I remember thinking "the stock market seems interesting"... It's just cool to think that my $10 could've turned into $1600 with nothing but luck and patience.
I probably meant "one of the few banks left", rather than "the only ones left".
Don't feel bad that no one else believes it, heh. Throughout history, the world has been literally insane -- this is just another example of an insane view that's spread into popular culture. ("The system is too big to fail" / "Postponing the disaster is better, because the pain will be distributed over a longer period, rather than shocking us all at once" / whatever other crazy, impossible thing.)
> How did they manage to flip the second craft from it's reentry position [...]?
The video is a concept video, not a real-life recording.. it's CG. But you're asking about real-world physics. And everyone else is talking about it too, as if the video actually happened, even though it's just a CG animation.
I'm just really confused; sorry. Heh. I know I'm missing something obvious here -- figured I'd ask what it was, even though I look silly. :)
Thought I'd share too, don't have a point. :) graphics programming / dot product is neat.
Actually, there are some pretty fun graphics algorithms. I could ramble on about some, but don't want to intrude / doubt anyone cares but me, heh.
Clarifying, sorry.. could you elaborate a bit on what you meant by "games"?
PNC has a great website, the people are great (at least at my local PNC), they're very professional, and they're pretty smug about being the only bank left that has "free checking".
They even refunded me the $17 they charged for a box of checks. (I had gone in and asked for a truly-free checking account, and felt tricked into the $17; so I went back and they genuinely felt sorry for the mixup, and made sure I was satisfied in every possible way.)
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EDIT: incase you're wondering how PNC bank's website looks, here ya go: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/315/random_pics/pnc.png (also shows you the formats you can export your data in.)
EDIT: thanks guys, but I have enough upvotes. My comment didn't add much to HN. Wasn't actually trying to prove him wrong -- I thought I'd missed something and was asking for clarification.
But -- here's the thing -- your moral/ethical compass shouldn't be influenced on account of the world. Think back through history, and at every point, people have been essentially crazy. So the only thing we can do is to have the confidence to know "what's good", and then strive to make our personal lives reflect that. (Without becoming judgmental of others. </irony>)
If you're asking what I'm going to do about it, well... I'm just like everyone else. I train myself for years in every aspect of game development, am building an entire multiplayer game from start to finish without relying on anything except my creativity and capabilities, and will be done around age 39. :) Then I'll use the proceeds to form a company and hire a few likeminded people.
(I'm a gamedev, not a player.)
On the other hand, if you believe most people are fundamentally "good" (or at least "mostly not evil"), as I do, then no citation is necessary.
Almost everyone of the thousands of people I've interacted with in the tech/programming field are good people.
Of course, there are plenty of horror stories in relation to the business side of things. It's certainly possible most of them are mostly evil; I have no clue.
No one is "honor-bound" to report vulnerabilities; in fact, it seems unethical to expect any random person to try to fix any random problem they stumble upon, don't you think?
My philosophy: it's backwards to look down on those who don't report vulnerabilities; it's better to be pleasantly surprised when someone does.
But he's certainly not "hurting" anyone at all. He didn't disclose any details of the attacks.