Wow nevermind on trying to learn JPS, I did not think it would be this cumbersome.
http://code.google.com/p/ddh/source/...rc/#src%2Fjump

And there seems to be very little documentation on the subject as a whole as well.

The original paper on JPS is pretty straightforward: http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~dharab...ien-aaai11.pdf .

Here's a bit of a vague description of it that is pretty good: http://harablog.wordpress.com/2011/0...-point-search/

I requested that an article be added to Wikipedia about it. First time I've ever done that.. I won't what the odds that it happens are.

Good luck

I'm quite the YC sceptic. The whole y-combinator "scene" seems a bit overhyped to me. Seems fairly bubbly, seems like stuff is concidered great just because it is in YC which is never a good sign imo. I'd kind of like to hear your thoughts on it after you've been to the meet, PM if you don't want it public etc.

I take it since you're in England (iirc) you got your own funding though.

We applied but didn't hear back from YC last year which was disappointing. I think you have a point but YC has 2 great things going for it:

- They only take a small amount of equity for the money (I've heard 2-8%)
- You get a lot of free publicity

We were thinking of just reapplying for the publicity but it's probably not a great idea actually.

The meetups in London are great though, a lot of very interesting people there (anywhere from 200 - 700 attend). Every now and then you get an amazing speaker like Joel Spoelsky (StackOverflow) or Rand Fishkin (SEO Moz)

One thing a lot of the talks I've gone to make a mistake on though is they don't explain what it does, around half the ones I've been to by the end of the talk I'm thinking "that sounded interesting but I still don't get what this company does"

Yeah good publicity is probably worth the 2-8% cut alone. There's also pretty good networking from what I hear.

Good to know that you work in gaming though, I may have some stuff to discuss in the near future.

Just browsed your site, the music preview stuff doesn't seem to work (Firefox 11) but it's pretty well done. Kind of exactly the mental picture I had of a "game construction kit site"

Google drive looks pretty sick. Can't see any major reason not to move away from Dropbox (no Linux client though) unless they drop their prices significantly.

Is it free? If so, whats the catch...

Does anyone here use Qt?

5 gigs free and then payed tiers after that. The 100 gig plan is way cheaper than drop box. Highly integrated with Gmail and docs.

I quickly scanned their TOS but didn't see anything about encryption. Is it possible/allowed? Not ganna let Google search my stuff lol. The auto tagging of images etc is pretty scarry imo

I'm thinking just encfs the stuff and we're good to go? Surely SSL for the transmission is standard.

I'm not sure what the policy is on encryption. My guess is, it won't be a problem. That said, I treat all services like this (including email, Dropbox etc) the same way: if you don't want something to ever become public, don't ever put it in a third parties hands.



They're already searching all your emails and docs...might as well throw in pictures. In GOOG we trust!

I used Qt for a recent project and found it to be fine, but basically identical to .NET.

Except for the native C++ part

To clarify, if you are creating native C++ apps, there is no .Net. So if you want to do it in native C++ Qt is far superior to the option of using mfc. DIdn't mean to sound like a smart ass.

Yeah, I dunno why I presented "basically identical to .NET" as a negative. .NET is awesome, and things that are like .NET with more/different features are good.

I know a little C++ and I'm starting to learn Java now. I just found out that apparently you cant use an int where a bool is required. What the hell is the deal with this??? Why would they do that?

so, like, sometimes i go to websites and their videos are in quicktime, which doesn't resize and is slow and just generally feels janky -- is there any reason to serve up a quicktime video other than pure lols?

because it's more likely to lead to clear code. i'm sure there are other reasons, but i like that one.

what is the situation where you feel constrained by this?

I just mean that I use it all the time in C++ and it looks like it is going to be more code because you cant do it in Java. It makes me want to cry And no multiple inheritance? And no vectors? Such a sad day for me I will probably get used to it eventually but for now woe is me.

edit: I didn't know quicktime was still being used these days.

fwiw i think bool int strict separation is a good thing. generally it's kind of a hackerish/non-OO technique to confuse the two.

no multiple inheritance, true, but you can implement multiple interfaces.

i forget the specific features of C++ vectors, but i'm sure you can find whatever you need in the java Collections classes.

here's one good reason:

Don't be silly...everybody knows the nukes are controlled with Ada

I'm a big fan of the Python approach of treating everything as a boolean.

Python doesn't quite do this. I like what they do:

But, this is particularly well-suited for python since statements aren't expressions.

Noah, Python does treat virtually everything as a boolean afaik. & is a bitwise operator not a logical comparison. 1 and 2 == True, [1,2] and [3,2] == True

since 1 == 01b and 2 == 10b then 1 & 2 == 01b & 10 b == 00b == False while 2 & 2 == 10b & 10b == 10b == 2 == True

edit: Usually a non empty data structure evaluates to True while an empty data structure evaluates to false e.g if []: print "won't print" while if [[]]: print "will print"

noah,

are you deliberately using bitwise and in that example? i'm not sure what those lines are supposed to illustrate.

ryan,

please illustrate a problem you have where multiple inheritance is the solution.

and java definitely has vectors. i think they're in java.lang.data.structures.mutable.extensible.listl ike.vector2.