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  1. Re:Incredible! on Computer Chess Created In 487 Bytes, Breaks 32-Year-Old Record · · Score: 3, Informative

    here is the link to aichess4k site http://ulf.ofahrt.de/aichess4k...

    "aichess4k implements all chess rules and tops it off
    with an ai that casual players find difficult to beat."

    and a graphical board from the screenshots

  2. Re:Incredible! on Computer Chess Created In 487 Bytes, Breaks 32-Year-Old Record · · Score: 4, Informative

    there was a 4KB Java games contest some years http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki...

    one of the winning entries was a chess game. May be interesting to check.

  3. Re:What a clown on Walter Munk's Astonishing Wave-Tracking Experiment · · Score: 4, Funny

    Waves isn't a physical thing that propagate over the seas.

    A wave denier!

    I don't believe those exist.

  4. Re:Bomb Philosophy on The Higgs Boson Should Have Crushed the Universe · · Score: 1

    Dark star was a bomb!

    seriously, mod parent up +10

  5. Re:advice to those who name dinosaurs on Biggest Dinosaur Yet Discovered · · Score: 1

    really? I didn't know that. Care to elaborate and give some examples of Argentine false scientific discoveries? because I'm from Argentina and know nothing about it.
    thanks

  6. Re:The build process is still shyte (?) on C++ and the STL 12 Years Later: What Do You Think Now? · · Score: 1

    I tried the previous versions but the c/c++ Support was still incubating and could not support library interdependence. I think that was fixed in the later releases but haven't had time to check.
    building with external libraries is a pain in c++ compared to java.

  7. Re:Farming on Ask Slashdot: Are You Apocalypse-Useful? · · Score: 1

    in the context of an apocalyptic event... you take any farming that you can. you get fancy then you probably discover you don't have the resources or knowledge to make it work.
    just watch how well farming in the walking dead goes.

  8. Re:Mechanical Computers on Ask Slashdot: Are You Apocalypse-Useful? · · Score: 1

    unless a nuclear winter hides the sun for hundreds of years.

  9. welcome to quantum physics. you are not supposed to understand them.

  10. The original Basic Book on Born To RUN: Dartmouth Throwing BASIC a 50th B-Day Party · · Score: 1

    I still think that Basic Programming [http://www.amazon.com/BASIC-Programming-John-G-Kemeny/dp/0471468304] by Kemeny & Kurtz (Basic creators) is a very fine way to teach a language. Practically every sample was useful in itself. Very didactic and well written.

  11. Re:Only works if the teacher isn't the one in thre on It's Time To Bring Pseudoscience Into the Science Classroom · · Score: 1

    When I was in high school, one of our teachers told us voodoo magic was real, and that contrary to popular belief, it would work on you even if you didn't believe in it. Try to make teachers talk about astrology and you'll end up with them going around the classroom with shit like, "That's because you're a Virgo".

    In school my geography teacher was a believer of the hollow earth and recommended us to read some book about it.
    Beat that!

  12. Re:April Fools! on Subversion Project Migrates To Git · · Score: 1

    yes, most people comparing subversion with hit should check instead mercurial.
    Mercurial is much easier to understand than git and has a nice portable GUI.
    I'm not saying got is bad, just it appear to work at a lower level than other SCMs.

  13. Re:You evidently don't have any idea what you're s on Java 8 Officially Released · · Score: 1

    you are joking, right? I can't tell for sure.
    Or are you really complaining from a problem in year 2001?

  14. Re:Don't they have to fly that thing around? on What If the Next Presidential Limo Was a Tesla? · · Score: 1

    I know, right!
    They should remove the armour plating from all the tanks too. People aren't that important.

    Count how many tanks there are and how many people in the world.
    Which one is the scarcest resource?

  15. Re:GCC etc. on Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without? · · Score: 2

    4dos in does era was great. Had better completion than current shells, for Linux or windows.

  16. Re:He's s shill probably on Internet Shutdown Adds To Venezuela's Woes · · Score: 1

    Welcome to Communism. Totalitarian leader. Oppressive regime. Total economic collapse. Continuous propaganda internal and external.

    My country only had have capitalists non democratic governments with those characteristics until now but YMMV.

  17. Re:He's s shill probably on Internet Shutdown Adds To Venezuela's Woes · · Score: 1

    join the club!

    at this point in the US's history, I can't tell the diff between capitalism and corruption.

    Oh, but there is a difference. As much difference as you are willing to pay for.

  18. I'm shocked on Why Standard Deviation Should Be Retired From Scientific Use · · Score: 1

    You mean that there are scientists publishing papers out there that don't understand basic concepts of statistics? Like, the rest of the world?
    I'm truly 99.9999% e+/-0.5 shocked!

  19. Re:Why doubt something better would exist? on Oracle Promises Patches Next Week For 36 Exploits In Latest Java · · Score: 1

    Truly. There was real need for a portable, high level and safer (really) language. YMMV but I remember doing C with embedded SQL that was a pain, non-portable between platforms, compilers nor databases, debugger-less, etc. Lots of pain. The same program in Java would be a breeze. No pointers, no hand memory allocation, portable binaries, even the database drivers are portable.
    There are lots of applications that are better suited for Java than C or even C++.

  20. Re:Why doubt something better would exist? on Oracle Promises Patches Next Week For 36 Exploits In Latest Java · · Score: 1

    If you download the installer from the developers site it doesn't. Or use the tar.gz version for just uncompress in a directory with no installer at all.

  21. Re:pretty quick on the C++14 support on LLVM and Clang 3.4 Are Out · · Score: 1

    Is was that in the past, but is that true today?
    According to the latest benchmarks in Phoronix http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=llvm34_gcc49_compilers&num=5:

    Clang 3.4 offered faster performance of compiled C/C++ code in several areas but GCC 4.9 also brings some performance improvements of its own over the current stable release. Clang still certainly outperforms GCC when it comes to compile times, but aside from that the compiler performance competition is rather mixed depending upon the particular code-base, workload, and processor.

    For being a much younger project than GCC, LLVM/Clang is certainly running nicely and now building with almost all C/C++ code-bases tossed its way, and with the 3.4 release it's one step closer to having performance parity (or superiority) to the GNU Compiler Collection on modern x86 CPUs.

  22. Re:CentOS on Fedora 20 Released · · Score: 1

    That's cool for Red Hat but how applies to CentOS?

  23. Re:Well, there's a simple explanation, really. on Bizarre Six-Tailed Asteroid Dumbfounds Scientists · · Score: 1

    I actually live in Buenos Aires and right now there's nothing to wor%&/.....................

    CONNECTION ENDED

  24. Re:No video in the link on Collapse of Quantum Wavefunction Captured In Slow Motion · · Score: 1

    It's funny in some universe and not funny in another.

  25. Re:No video in the link on Collapse of Quantum Wavefunction Captured In Slow Motion · · Score: 2

    Let me check... oh no...