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by AlunAlun 8y ago
Maybe I missed something in your question, but in every modeling package, even online ones, you have always been able to numerically specify the size, position and orientation of every object in your scene, with a precision of several decim
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by AlunAlun 8y ago
WebGL, which is now supported by all modern browsers, with WebGL2 (more flexible, fewer restrictions) around the corner. Most of the professional level tools as exhibited by the OP will be using a custom engine built on top of it. For small
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by AlunAlun 8y ago
See also: Clara.io [0], Onshape [1], Lagoa (bought a few years ago by Autodesk) [2] I must confess I struggle to see the long-term market for these services - I was working on a startup in the field for a while, and eventually decided it wa
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by AlunAlun 8y ago
Hi, Thanks for commenting, and for your work on Footpath. I hadn't seen it before, I'll be downloading it now. You have stumbled across one of 'problems that many startups rarely address'. I've been involved with se
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by AlunAlun 8y ago
You can repeat it all the times you want, but it it is still a shortsighted view. “A database and a contract”... but who owns the database? And who enforces the contract? And who owns the actual data? Blockchain provides satisfactory answer
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by AlunAlun 8y ago
Or as Louis Pasteur put it: “chance favours the prepared mind”.
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by AlunAlun 8y ago
Lots of harsh comments here, some seem a little short-sighted. I wonder how many are actually from Tenure Track Lecturers? Every field is very different. Some fields value industry experience highly, some care only for publications. Some va
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by AlunAlun 8y ago
To take a simple example, HTML was originally a pure markup language, so if you wanted to make text bold you <b>would do it like this</b>; simple, declaritive But then it was decided that there was no semantic purpose to th
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by AlunAlun 8y ago
That’s because it’s possible to argue that Occitan, Catalan, Aranese etc are all ‘dialects’ of the same language. I speak Catalan, and I can understand most written Occitan, for example. “A language is a dialect with an army and navy” (said
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by AlunAlun 8y ago
> When only 20-30% of the population can speak correctly a language, how long can it survive? When it has the same legal rights as the dominant language, government funds to help run media and entertainment, and a strong culture determin
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by AlunAlun 8y ago
Nice post, I would add a couple of points re. Welsh. The first is that it was not really dead 50 years ago. It got as low as 15% of the population in the 50s/60s, and was undoubtedly headed for obscurity and ‘death’, until the revival,
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by AlunAlun 8y ago
I am university lecturer, and the rules have been tightened dramatically in the last few years, precisely to prevent 7 or 8 year-long PhDs, which were indeed getting increasingly common, and benefited nobody. Now, students must submit their
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by AlunAlun 8y ago
This used to be the situation in Europe but it got out of hand, as a result all new PhDs in Europe must be advertised as three year programs, and completed in four at a maximum.
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by AlunAlun 8y ago
Your second paragraph sums everything up perfectly. I am a tenure-track lecturer, and love my job for all the reasons you mention, despite the relatively poor pay. I essentially have the freedom to work on whatever the hell I want; and that