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2,887 karma · joined February 13, 2011

German student freelancing and pursuing his masters degree. Do you need a Software- or Web-Developer, a Sysadmin or Designer, hire me.
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X4··on Squirt.io – Readability Meets Spritz Speed Reading
Can you please add 1000-2000wpm? 950 is too slow. Honestly, please.
X4··on Crytek jumps on Steam Machine hype train, announces Linux support
Yeah =) That makes me so happy, finally it's coming. Op delivered! (=Gabe)
X4··on Ukraine places forces on combat alert and threatens war
Seriously, why the hell does Ukraine want to join the EU? They don't meet the criteria to be even allowed to join the EU afaik and why would the EU allow a country in inflation to join? Except to suck up all of their Oil reservoirs for free, that means giving them a huge credit (which of course won't help them). Just like the German credit didn't help Greece.

Albeit I believe I might be terribly wrong on some of this, I think that I better have a picture, than none. My own answers are like this:

The USA avoids a direct conflict with the Russians, by subverting the country to join the EU, which then will allow US troops to be placed near Russia. I would think that this could give the USA a win at first-strike chance in a possible WW3 scenario. They don't even need to ship an atom bomb over from the USA, but can use the ones already placed in the Ukraine. Germany and Ukraine seem to be critical to the US's WW3 strategic scenerio superiority. It could also just be the massive amounts of Oil in the Ukraine, which the US or the EU (which currently means Germany) could tap on. I wish I could know the truth about all this. Yes it's surely just about power and money again, but such an oversimplification removes a lot colors and nuances from the grand picture.

X4··on Spritz – read 500 words per minute without any training
I can already read about 1200wpm normally, without that technique, but how fast can I go with this technique? Honest question. I've read that speed readers read 1500wpm, but I didn't learn this. Just got bored reading slow and tried some stuff. There is a big bad side to this. At school I had to read a part 3-4 times at least, because otherwise they didn't believe that I already read it. That's because everyone else was still reading.
X4··on Bitcoin Ponzi scheme
Theft is theft, even when you label yourself "we steal". Making this do actual and not fake transactions is criminal.
X4··on Algorithm Development is Broken
Contradiction at it's finest: http://i.imgur.com/BwE2jmj.png Good idea, but remove the god damn login wall.
X4··on 1/9998 = 0.0001 0002 0004 0008 0016 0032 0064 0128 0256..
That's because 1=1

If I'm not mistaken. We should utilize the self-similarity much more often.

X4··on AMD reveals its first ARM processor: 8-core Opteron A1100
I already start to feel like a grandpa talking about 8080, x86 processors. The next generation may not even remember what x86 is. The movie mimzy predicted intel to stay there until the far future, when they are able to fabric self-assembling smart chips.
X4··on Mastering Vim in Vim
[ ] { } and / are harder to reach on de_DE than on en_US. I once learned the en_US layout, but after that I had problems with de_DE and when I visited Paris, I also had trouble with fr_FR, altouhgh I knew azerty and qwertz quite well.

I have never ever heard about Colemak. I use Gentoo with the KDE destop, btw.

X4··on Stallman on GCC, LLVM, and copyleft
If this is true, Stallmann has kept right with all what he said!

>> "by having the GCC developers abandon GCC, switch to working on a fork of LLVM/Clang __relicensed__ to GPLv3"

>> Yeah, not allowed by copyright law. They aren't the authors, so they could only GPL code they wrote.

If even the best developers of the world (allow me to exaggerate a little, it's from my perspective anyways) aren't allowed to work on OSS, then this is really a CUT of Freedom. I would love to see GCC people switch to LLVM GPL.

I see it this ways: GPL is an insurance that guarantees that whatever is made with this code, will benefit this code in a way that everyone can take care of that benefit.

Even though I'm new to this, I don't understand the hate towards Mr. Stallman, he seems to be a fine man and his own strong opinions on a movement he has started. There is nothing wrong with it, he's not beating someone up, just because he's not of the same opinion, he's keeping the premise of his movement alive. That's a good trait, not a bad one, esp. because he keep talking openly about it. He's not wirting private confidential emails to discuss such things, but makes it public, so that everyone can see. it. Imagine someone publicises only one of your emails attached to your own name, it could be thrown out of context and people could start a shitstorm, just because wrong word was used, or because of your look . Takes guts to say your opinion, non-anonymously, when you already have reputation in stack.

X4··on Mastering Vim in Vim
Most of the commands are suited for a en_US keyboard only, do you know a .vimrc that is optimized for a de_DE keyboard?
X4··on Account hijacking on MtGox
that's sad bro, you deserved a really fair gift for that discovery. I mean others (could've) used it. We need more people who report security issues and go public, if nobody listens.
X4··on Dogecoin now accounts for more transactions than any other cryptocurrency
I'm in :) that would YRock!
X4··on AMD launches Kaveri processors aimed at starting a computing revolution
Indeed. I've found a 1024 Core manycore manufacturer, but idk. it's price per unit. However, ASICSs that support scrypt are not available yet and even if, you can't use an ASIC for anything else than Bitcoin mining, which is pretty bad, because in 1 year the best ASIC will be outdated and an investment of several thousand dollars is wasted. Would be better if those ASICs worked like a Co-Processor or something..
X4··on AMD launches Kaveri processors aimed at starting a computing revolution
>> we really need AMD to keep Intel from falling asleep at the wheel

100% Fullack! I too remember the Co-Processors. Do you remember those giant ISA slots, which had math's co-processors that helped some scientists boost their code? =) awe.. and the beloved Turbo Button on your Tower, hehe. Makes me wonder if our Mimzy [1] from the future will have an Intel inside too. Back then, it was a 100% sure bet that Intel would live forever and grow to the largest company on earth. Today things are different, a little company coming up with self-assembling nano-materials and an optical, neuronal, graphene or silicene chip design could beat Intel quite fast. What would hold them back is only the time required for the OS landscape to become more adaptive to the hosting hardware. I see that future in my living time.

I'm also thinking about Bitcoin mining with this rig, or do you know something better? (Those damn ASICS...)

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[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSHhmwGzN8w

X4··on AMD launches Kaveri processors aimed at starting a computing revolution
Want to buy, now! Can someone give me a hand at choosing a motherboard or something that allows using about 4 to 8 of these APU's?
X4··on The famo.us controversy
Assuming you're right, then that fear is about money, if your claim stands right. But, if the fear is money, why don't they just let every developer test it early for a fee? Σ that up and you end up with a great way to fuel your startup, without causing premature investor-friction.

Here's a number: $ 5 × (100.000 × ¼) = $ 125.000 in Free Capital

What that means for their customers (Early Adaptors) is this: $ 5 + EULA + (Freemium of sorts in the future, for loyalty) = WIN

TBH: I thought the same, I mean the decision to lock-out so many potential developers willingly is very bad, or just ignorant. Personally I value their startup high as a replacement of <Enter-Mobile-Framework-Here>, but time is not everything, sometimes you can loose a lot of customers, because of the bad first impression you have made in the beginning.

X4··on Ostinato – Packet/Traffic Generator and Analyzer
That software is just WOW!

@taliesinb here you go: http://alternativeto.net/software/wireshark/?platform=mac

X4··on New brand site for Sony uses rendered JPG frames for 3D parallax scrolling
I have a 3y old 1.3GHz cpu with integrated graphics only on Gentoo, but it's so smooth, I can't believe it's not a video! How do they make it so smooth?

When I click the last page button on the right side, it runs smoothly through all animations, same when happens when I scroll around. Can't wait to see someone make a blog post on: "This is how Sony exploited HTML5 to run Smooth Parallax Effects on their Page".

I ran it in Firefox with about ~100 tabs open having over a dozen addons, an IDE opened and npm install running in the background.

X4··on Link to delete your Google+ account
The "we can't let you delete your account, otherwise our entire system breaks down" thing is something I simply can't understand as an argument, especially on YCombinator's HackerNews.

I already asked for deletion of all my comments/submission and the account, but never got a response. I'd not be ok with having my account "disabled" like on Facebook. This is not a police database or a highly critical system where deleting records is illegal, dangerous or anything. People just submit links and talk about it, that's all and we all try to be friendly to each other here as good as possible (not always though).

I believe that letting people go and opt-out, or delete their account is not a luxury or an option, but a human right and part of a good customer service too.

X4··on Ghash.io very close to 51% of bitcoin pool
Thanks for the great and detailed answer patio11! Hope you have a great weekend =)
X4··on Ghash.io very close to 51% of bitcoin pool
So even gambling sites use Bitcoin! That double-spend attack sounds so weird, I wonder why it's even possible. Why does Bitcoin trust the owner of larger amount of BTC (51%) more than those with less? I thought that trusting every client equally (less) would be a greater advantage, than trusting the largest group of clients. That part is hard to understand.

What would happen, if due to a war many of the datacenters on earth were destroyed and we would only have 1/4 of the computing capacity left. Would sending BTC become impossible, or is mining not possible then?

X4··on Ghash.io very close to 51% of bitcoin pool
Oh that's completely new to me. I thought that mining means that I need to let the PC run for hours to get some BTC someone send to me. Is the mining you're mentioning unrelated to another one sending your BTC?

Can anyone "lucky" enough receive 25 BTC from nowhere, is that what you mean by `25 BTC reward`?

How can people share a "computer cluster"/minin pool (that is what you mean right?). Do you mean that one person or company owns such a huge cluster and let's all members share 'virtually' a single 'Bitcoin wallet'?

I'm not really that familiar with it, sorry for the nooby questions.

X4··on Ghash.io very close to 51% of bitcoin pool
Can someone please explain what Ghash.io and BTCGuild are? I have checked both homepages and subpages, but still don't understand what it is. Ghash.io wants me to download a binary, the other one talks about a "mining pool". Can't figure what that even means..

Disclaimer: Bitcoin noob here

X4··on Google+ invite lands man in jail
Does that only apply to the USA and UK? That is almost like "thought crime", when you look dangerous, or have similarity with someone portrayed in the media as the "bad guy". Can a person "feeling" intimidated by your look or presence sue you too? That would be ridiculous and put everyone into constant pressure to "look normal" I think.
X4··on The $200 Billion Rip-Off: Our broadband future was stolen (2007)
You're talking about old things like Bell's theorem to support your straw man fallacy, but neglect your own saying. States are transmitted instantly and you still misunderstand either willingly or not the possibility of information transmission by this method.

Your words >> "Then the other photon will indeed assume the symmetrical state."

Your causality argument is void, because in no way has this to do with a paradox. That's high-school physics you use to draw the straw man here. You have no references that back your claims and have you even looked at the scientific journals I have sent you? Try to formally disprove those. And I'm all ears again, but here you only defend your position no matter what.

X4··on Consciousness as a State of Matter
thank you !!
X4··on Consciousness as a State of Matter
>> Give me a break. […]what makes you more qualified than the author[…]

I had the exact same thought. It's understandable that people want to disagree, because it's not in their logical realm, or they find it's out of their scope of normal and accepted, but that doesn't mean that it's wrong at all.

When someone comes over that negative, to an author who has put so much effort into the paper. One would find it fair to have an equally professional, detailed and long answer. Imagine a time where everybody has the power to publicly "try to refute" your paper with a tweet, absolute horror.

X4··on Consciousness as a State of Matter
Feel the same. I doubt that it's 3-4 seconds, because I loose the sense of time too, but dunno about you. Hmm, isn't seconds sleep very similar to that too? I would even say that it's much more extreme. I can hang in-between reality and dream for minutes in the worst case, until I either wake-up unpleasantly or doze off.
X4··on The $200 Billion Rip-Off: Our broadband future was stolen (2007)
Your argument in all honor, but it doesn't make sense, because I said that "it will be there soon enough for commercial purposes". Again, I didn't say that it's commercially available today for you to sell to your customers.

StackOverflow is not a good source, especially that thread, it is full of bad answers. I've read all of them. The first poster said: "Those quantum states may encode classical information." The poster of the question has obviously no clue about physics and nobody in there mentioned teleportation of quantum entangled states, which you should know, is instant.

Here's a more detailed explanation, if you prefer that:

If you have a particle (such as a photons, electrons, or molecule) and have it physically interact with another particle, and then separate them, the result is that they can then both be described as being in the same quantum mechanical state. Basically, they are now the same, in factors such as position, momentum, spin, polarization, etc.

However, because we are dealing with quantum mechanics, the state of those particles remains undefined until measured (because it would then be forced to assume a specific state).

Now, how does this relate to instant data teleportation, you say? That’s the interesting part. You see, quantum entanglement is a form of quantum superposition (which I talked about in the aforementioned post about some quantum mechanics). This means that each particle that you have can be in any state. (Remember: observing a particle will force it to become a specific state). However, when you observe one of the particles, it will become a certain state, while the other particle becomes the opposite state. The change is completely instantaneous, and the particles can be anywhere — you could have your second particle on the other side of the planet and it would assume an equal and opposite state of it’s entangled counterpart. Instant data transfer.

Say you had a binary bit you wanted to transfer. First, you must entangle the bits. Then, put one of them on the other side of the globe. Observe one of them, forcing it to assume a certain state, and the other will instantly change. Like magic. Source: [1]

Ask me about latency here… However, you drifted the discussion to QT. My initial post was originally trying to say that data can be transfered wirelessly faster than with a cable, or at least as fast. Latency cannot in such a system cannot be generalized, because it is dependant on the technology in the receiving side. If the receiving side uses optical fiber, you would need an architecture as described in [2].

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[1] http://programmingantics.wordpress.com/2012/08/15/quantum-en...

[2] http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=5...

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