JackpotDen

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by JackpotDen 14y ago
While I agree that the "X units ago" can be useful, it starts to get silly in the "X weeks" to "X years" area, because it stops the granular explanation of time. It also reminds me of transmetropolitan, where no-one knows the actual date, a
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by JackpotDen 14y ago
I've read masters of doom. Why does the Sweeny/CliffB partnership work, while Carmack and Romero failed?
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by JackpotDen 14y ago
There's an idea that richard garfield likes to bring up, which is that if a player plays random moves, they have a chance (a very small chance) of beating a grandmaster. I wonder what would happen if you interjected very occasional random m
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by JackpotDen 14y ago
I don't even have to think. Yes.
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by JackpotDen 14y ago
>I would not spend $X billion and risk bankruptcy to invent something Then spend that money on resources and sell them for a profit. Buy a mine or a farm or something else that works with that perspective.
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by JackpotDen 14y ago
What kinds of things people throw away.
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by JackpotDen 14y ago
How's this different from wearing a balaclava?
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by JackpotDen 14y ago
People grow that stuff as well.
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by JackpotDen 14y ago
They said that last century. We put a man on the moon. We haven't been back in decades, at least thirty years. The USSR planned on sending a man to mars to live, and die there. It was feasible during the cold war, and we still haven't done
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by JackpotDen 14y ago
> to conduct research experiments. Whether it seems nice or not, one of the experiments being conducted by humans in space is the effects of being in space for a prolonged amount of time on human beings.
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by JackpotDen 14y ago
That turned out so well last time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company
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by JackpotDen 14y ago
Tinker with the way you interact with the instrument and interface. I don't know what this means for a piano, but I tune my guitar to EADGCF (reasoning is an exercise left to the reader), and I used to tune to DG#DG#DG#
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by JackpotDen 14y ago
Because most companies hemorrage money. Valve was built after Gabe and the other co-founder got rich as hell from working on microsoft. They didn't need funding while valve was bleeding cash, so they don't have to do that.
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by JackpotDen 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP2X Handheld linux gaming, on the go!
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by JackpotDen 14y ago
I can play guitar, bass, keyboard and can keep time on the drums.
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by JackpotDen 14y ago
ohhh yes. I can't wait. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_Entertainment#The_Phant...
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by JackpotDen 14y ago
And where is that photo?
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by JackpotDen 14y ago
You missed the crucial step 4 : Get these published in teen girl and cosmo magazines, because the women who read it on the internet are probably already in tech.
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by JackpotDen 14y ago
I thought the same thing. The coffee table $15K plus ~~atrocity~~ research idea has become this.
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by JackpotDen 14y ago
What happens when you ask the tiananmen square questions outside china?
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by JackpotDen 14y ago
It's not an mp3 player. It's an ipod. It's not a PDA. It's an iphone. It's not a tablet laptop. It's an ipad. It's not a high resolution display unit. It's a retina macbook.
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by JackpotDen 14y ago
Steve Jobs will most likely become the Edison of our times. In every way.
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by JackpotDen 14y ago
Alright chums. My home laptop can't have linux on it and be online. How do I buy this, and make it look like I paid for it on linux?
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by JackpotDen 14y ago
University was a terrible choice for me. It boils down to this : Do you prefer a structured learning experience and being in a meatspace community away from where you were living? Do you prefer having a crappy job and tutoring yourself duri
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by JackpotDen 14y ago
On top of that, experts use linux as their OS. The average consumer doesn't know it exists.
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by JackpotDen 14y ago
The issue unconsidered is that programming is nothing new. It's applicable algebra. If we consider his idea in the realms of mathematics, amateurs and experts still only/mostly use a pencil, graph paper and their minds. A keyboard and mouse
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by JackpotDen 14y ago
I thought he gave up and became an annual april fools person.
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by JackpotDen 14y ago
While carrying out those commands might not be programming, writing them down should count as programming. But then again, documenting any algorithmic process could count as programming by those standards, say, baking a cake.