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by Schwolop 8y ago
I see three classes of operators in the space. A) Mum and Dad small business owners who are making enough to survive and enjoy the work, but aren't making enough to expand. B) Get rich quick operators who think it's a booming mark
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by Schwolop 8y ago
Yes, that's a good example. Basically in all our games there's some form of unseen protagonist/antagonist (e.g. a ghost, outside help via radio/TV/emails, an AI system, etc) and it helps the players over time. We tr
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by Schwolop 8y ago
I've been in this business for a bit over four years now, operating as a B2B provider with one key partner (a chain of bowling alleys). Our main point of difference to the typical business in this space is that we don't operate ou
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by Schwolop 8y ago
The two instances that are equal rank of the most fulfilling work I've ever done have three key things in common - a small cross-functional team, emotional investment in the outcome, writing software that makes hardware do something in
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by Schwolop 9y ago
This manages to cost less than a Nexdock, which has essentially the same components _except_ a CPU. (You attach it to a PC stick, RPi, mobile phone, etc.) That's pretty impressive!
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by Schwolop 9y ago
Much as I dislike Scott Adams' views on many things, he has some smart advice in a lot of areas too. His take on success is to find a few areas where you can be in the top 25% and combine them. It's too hard to be in the top 1% of
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by Schwolop 9y ago
But isn't luck is being in the right place at the right time? If so, a sensible approach is to find the right place and just hang around... (Unless the right time was last week, in which case you're out of luck.)
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by Schwolop 9y ago
http://professormarkvanvugt.com/images/files/heighlteadeship... is a good summary of this well-accepted effect. There are strong correlations between height and income, military rank, likelihood to be a manager, e
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by Schwolop 9y ago
In ISO13485 medical grade software (certain levels of it anyway), the same concept applies. Anything not written in house is "SOUP"; Software of Unknown Provenance. You're required to pass that through a review process before
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Facebook's 'Protect' on iOS is effectively spyware(9to5mac.com)
6 points by Schwolop 9y ago|0 comments
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Crypto Alpaca(cryptoalpaca.pet)
2 points by Schwolop 9y ago|1 comments
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by Schwolop 9y ago
My objective function is that I continue to have new experiences. I hope any intelligence we create recognises that this is not the same as continuously different experiences, and so putting me in a simulation for an eternity of pre-determi
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by Schwolop 9y ago
In my enterprise, PowerBI, Flow, and Powerapps are the microsoft products helping to move data out of excel, or at least helping to make it visual and shareable. If any of those products grows a more user friendly model for _thinking_ about
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by Schwolop 9y ago
FWIW, the core Wave team are back together again, working on language translation. See lexy.io
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by Schwolop 9y ago
It's scary how much of this could be done 10-15 years ago with exactly the same tools. They really haven't changed much. The difference now is that everyone has a mobile computing device in their hands, with the power to run this
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Buying your own reality(getusedtodisappointment.com)
2 points by Schwolop 9y ago|0 comments
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by Schwolop 9y ago
My favourite of Shannon's theorems: Shannon’s Juggling Theorem (F+D)H=(V+D)N F is the time a ball spends in the air (Flight) D is the time a ball spends in a hand (Dwell), or equivalently, the time a hand spends with a ball in it V is
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by Schwolop 9y ago
My atheist grandfather taught me the sign of the cross for this reason - "Spectacles, testicles, wallet, and keys."
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by Schwolop 9y ago
No, because certain combinations, e.g. 1111 are prohibited in four digit codes but wouldn't be at the start of six digit codes.
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by Schwolop 9y ago
I concede I've not studied those languages yet - I do hear good things about them though, so I'll take a look next suitable chance I get!
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by Schwolop 9y ago
Every asynchronous programming API ever created. My program spawns and runs in the main thread. It calls the main function. If it want it to run forever, I'll stick a while(1) loop in that function. Now I want to have a particular thin
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by Schwolop 9y ago
Not all, some models moved by morphological transforms, e.g. flapping wing textures by sinusoidal excitation. I presume it's that it's fairly quick to build a model, but extremely laborious to animate it. For a game that features
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by Schwolop 9y ago
Can't you just lie about it? How are they going to check? And if they do ask for evidence can't you simply walk away from the opportunity? That said, a better way to defuse the question without lying is to say something like &quot
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by Schwolop 9y ago
I should finish this. I got two or three chapters in on a move interstate, and it got lost in the unpacking process.
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by Schwolop 9y ago
How to Become CEO: The Rules for Rising to the Top of Any Organization by Jeffrey J Fox I found this book in a library's junk pile, evidently unread. It has one of those bad 80s covers that suggest it'll be terrible, but to my g
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by Schwolop 9y ago
Well for one thing, as best we understand there _are_ no other animals on Mars. If we operated with business-as-usual human obliviousness there we'd be doing a lot less harm to other species.
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by Schwolop 9y ago
Nah, you need them close to some work camps or else the limestone deliveries take months. And then the work camps need to be within 48 squares of a populated residence so the work-overseer can find workers. Source: I played a lot of Pharaoh
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by Schwolop 9y ago
That's almost as useful as "Look! Over there! A distraction!"
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by Schwolop 9y ago
I have a nexdock; an HDMI screen, bluetooth keyboard + trackpad, webcam, USB hub, and battery - with no CPU. It's intended to work with continuum/handover compatible phones, compute sticks, or raspberry pi like devices. Something
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by Schwolop 9y ago
I've built an operating system for running highly automated Escape Rooms (an interactive play space for people to solve puzzles and enjoy the experience.) Our buyers are expecting to run each room for 5+ years. Our oldest continuously

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