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by Arjuna 13y ago
"Startups are about growth." Indeed... in his essay, "Startup = Growth", PG wrote: "A startup is a company designed to grow fast. Being newly founded does not in itself make a company a startup. Nor is it necessa
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Regarding Broad Beach... here is a PDF [1] with some good detail on beach access. There are 2 access points that are open to the public from Broad Beach Road. The PDF also has photos of all of the properties, and detail on what part of the
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by Arjuna 13y ago
In addition to the point of this piece, please read the following for comprehensive guidelines with regard to water safety: http://www.redcross.org/prepare/disaster/water-safety For those heading to the beach, ple
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If you are interested in this story and comments, then you will most likely be interested in the following comment and associated dialogue as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5830994
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This is awesome. Personally, I occasionally daydream of "escaping it all" and coding by the ocean. This piece reminded me of someone else who "escaped it all": Paul Lutus [1]. In the spring of 1976, he built a 12 x 16 foot (3.65 x 4.87 mete
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I always thought that this was interesting... I am sure that many of you are familiar with Dr. Feynman's 7-part lecture series entitled The Character of Physical Law , which were part of the "Messenger Lectures" [1], given at Cornell Unive
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"A few hours before the Yahoo acquisition was announced in June 1998 I took a snapshot of Viaweb's site [1]. I thought it might be interesting to look at one day." [2] [1] http://ycombinator.com/viaweb [2] http://www.paulgraham.com/v
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This is neat. Shlomib, you might be interested in SHRDLU [1][2] if you are not aware of it. It was developed by Terry Winograd [3] for his dissertation [4] at MIT. It is a natural language understanding [5] parser that allows you to inter
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In case you were not aware, the iOS source code for Wolfenstein 3D Classic Platinum is licensed under GPL. It is available here: http://download.zenimax.com/idsoftware/src/wolf3d_ios_v21_sr... I thought this story was cool: "[...] They w
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It would be remiss to not mention Shawn Bracewell in the discussion. According to Alex Hopmann, Shawn was responsible for adding asynchronous support: "Step one was to bring the code up to production quality so we got Shawn Bracewell, one
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I wanted to focus in on the exercise aspect of this piece: In my experience, exercise is vital to my mental well-being, just as the author of this piece found it to be for him, until he hit a slump. We all hit slumps. I hit a major slump wh
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Interesting paper. The following code is probably my favorite, "What will this program output?" example. This is taken from the Quake III Arena code in "q_math.c" [1]. Note line 561 [2]. Non-obfuscated code, and one is left wondering... jus
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by Arjuna 14y ago
If you are interested in reading further about BSP (Binary Space Partitioning) [1], check out the following chapters from Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book : Chapter 59: The Idea of BSP Trees http://downloads.gamedev.net/pd
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by Arjuna 14y ago
On the topic, this is quite an interesting TED talk given by Drew Curtis. "You need to know that the average patent troll defense costs $2M and takes 18 months... when you win." Drew Curtis: How I Beat a Patent Troll https://www.youtube.
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I realize that we all have strong opinions about the topic of software patents, but in an effort to radiate more light and less heat, I think it is important to understand the official Twitter position on this topic as well. Introducing the
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"we'd love to grab a coffee" I couldn't help but chuckle at this as Harj even included the concept of "grabbing coffee", which is discussed in "Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule" [1]: "Business people in Silicon Valley (and the whole w
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Anytime I read about the topic of assembly language, I can't help but think of Michael Abrash. For example, check out Chapter 22 [1] from his Graphics Programming Black Book entitled Zenning and the Flexible Mind for a pleasant stroll d
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by Arjuna 14y ago
Thank you for this insightful commentary. I wanted to add that there is a general vibe in this overall thread (not your comment - the vibe that you have responded to) that Microsoft essentially muscled their way into the console industry an
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"Dying does not give you immunity from criticism." Sigh... what about compassion? Are you yourself immune from it? Is there not even the smallest space in your heart for even a modicum of compassion at this time for parents who have lost
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For those that follow game development, John Carmack had this to say at QuakeCon 2012: "But, one of my pushes on the greater use of static analysis and verification technologies, is I pretty strongly suspect that the Clang LLVM sort of eco
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by Arjuna 14y ago
You might find my previous comment about this topic interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4088162 Here is the code section that you might find interesting in tr_backend_draw.cpp . The comments start at line 1439: https://git
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What's in a Twinkie? http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/05/05/what-s-in-a...
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"So the us is going to start pulling it's oil out of the ground a lot faster. And then it's going to run out of oil." This does not appear to be an entirely accurate conclusion, according to the article. For example, the article explains
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Although this happened during Apollo 12, I love stories [1] like John Aaron's [2] "SCE to AUX". It is a story of how one critical piece of knowledge in a clutch moment can turn failure into success. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWQI
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"People in the US spend much more time working than those in almost any other developed country." To your point, you will find this paper interesting: Europeans Work To Live And Americans Live To Work http://people.hmdc.harvard.edu/~ak
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Related, interesting questions: is language unique to thought? Is thought possible without words?
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I am curious: could a story like this happen in the United States? According to my reading of the legal case (I am not a lawyer, but it would be interesting if any of you are could comment - grellas, perhaps) regarding Amazon's remote delet
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"When I was a kid.. I was outside playing. Seriously." I think the author of this piece is really trying to help his struggling child succeed. To that point, right out of the gate, we learn that his child was, "[...] significantly behind
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"Why should they? They don't have any reason to allow mature games [...]" Can you elaborate on what you mean here? Microsoft publishes games that are designated with the M (Mature) rating. For example, see the Gears of War franchise, pu
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Here are some fun points-related search queries: Comments with the highest number of points: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=+&... Stories with the highest number of points: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#reques

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