Splines

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by Splines 15y ago
Talk about data telling a story. http://weatherspark.com/#!graphs;ws=31029;t=312594;mspp=9000...
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by Splines 15y ago
It's too bad we don't know what's going on inside the sausage factory. It'd make for a very interesting post-mortem.
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by Splines 16y ago
Nintendo is about multi-player gaming in the same physical space. They've paid a token effort to online gaming and digital distribution, but every platform they've released since the NES has focused on playing with others in the same room
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by Splines 16y ago
? I'm curious, because I'm not following you. At least in simple home-networking terminology, wouldn't that be nearly equivalent to putting your device outside your firewall? You put a device that doesn't play well with your NAT into a D
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Ric Elias: 3 things I learned while my plane crashed(ted.com)
2 points by Splines 16y ago|0 comments
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by Splines 16y ago
I remember playing multiplayer Doom over a modem back in the days. I had to shrink the view port down to the size of a postage stamp to maintain reasonable performance; I felt like a T-Rex playing like that (if you didn't move, I probably
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by Splines 16y ago
I know it's safer, but personally I find it harder to read. Especially if the constant is a #define or enum and is similar in format to the variable in question.
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by Splines 16y ago
Someone needs to do a Geico parody with this line. Host: Could switching to Geico save you 15% or more on car insurance? Host: Can a question mark make an unsubstantiated rumour into journalism? Scene showing boy on the street hawking news
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by Splines 16y ago
I found Project Euler and Topcoder to be easy ways to get into C (although nothing beats learning on the job).
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by Splines 16y ago
Definitely. This was the deal breaker for people. Why buy a more expensive device that can do less? To keep it competitive it should have been priced low, and digital versions should have been competitively priced. Plus, sim-shipping the
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by Splines 16y ago
Plus a physical copy has resale value, so when you're done with a game you can sell it or trade it to a friend. Aside from 802.11b (and maybe the battery), the hardware is really nice. The system has a really nice solid feel to it, the scr
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by Splines 16y ago
A suggestion to you and anyone else who doesn't like Monopoly - given the chance, try the video game versions of it. The game progresses much faster, the standard rules are enforced, and you'll start seeing the strategy of the game peeking
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by Splines 16y ago
Planet Money had a segment about the rocks-as-currency island:. Segment: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/02/15/131934618/the-isla... Entire podcast (also discusses the currency test, IIRC): http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/02/15/1
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by Splines 16y ago
I'm guessing because a good dictionary would include common misspellings and stuff like this (e.g., "asdfasdf", "qwerty", etc.)?
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by Splines 16y ago
Warning: Minimum stay: 2 nights. And no indoor fireplace? Pfft. I'll pass.
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by Splines 16y ago
Definitely. Imagine if sugar was the opposite: You gain weight immediately (* poomp *!), and a year later you get a pleasant sensation on your tongue.
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by Splines 16y ago
True enough, but people should know how much bleach and water is needed to hurt themselves; death and/or pain provides immediate feedback. The problem with sugar is that the benefits are so immediate and the drawbacks so distant that it re
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by Splines 16y ago
I just tried Shadowgrounds on a laptop with an Intel 4500MHD (and a 1.4GHz Core 2 Solo) and it works and looks surprisingly well (I set the graphics to "low" and res was ~1280x720). Shadowgrouns: Survivor hard locked my laptop (running Win7
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by Splines 16y ago
I've only played Trine of the games in this bundle, and it's a decently well-polished game. It's basically a puzzle-platformer. I've only spent about an hour on it, so I can't really comment on the difficulty. I doubt it's as intellectual
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by Splines 16y ago
A GRB plays an important part in the novel Diaspora by Greg Egan. I'd recommend it if you're interested in learning what would actually happen were we to be closer. (Without being a trained astrophysicist, the events in the novel seemed p
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by Splines 16y ago
There's a cringe-worthy limit to how far you can carry this.
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by Splines 16y ago
Our awesome admin has a spreadsheet with all our sizes in them, so our t-shirts always fit :) (barring production variations in size, I suppose).
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by Splines 16y ago
Neat idea, but I can imagine several ways this could go wrong (in the "this is why we can't have nice things" sort of way). For example, this sort of thing already exists in shadier portions of the internet. It's also the reason why MSFT r
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by Splines 16y ago
I'm not following you. I imagine that the Bing team would gladly increase their market share in exchange for the costs involved.
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by Splines 16y ago
He's a freelancer that just became a new parent :p
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by Splines 16y ago
Evolutionary pressure. Tourists now know about the fake USB drive problem, and test-drive hardware in the store. This sort of fakery is much harder to detect, and unless there are easy tools to detect wrongly-sized USB drives, these are
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by Splines 16y ago
Hah. I failed a course at the U of M. For the record, it was completely my fault; I was an idiot and easily distracted by shiny things.
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by Splines 16y ago
True enough. For the record, that was just a tongue-in-cheek phrase that I used. You're right; the bandwidth, machine time, and manpower probably make up the bulk of their costs.
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by Splines 16y ago
I sort of have this feeling too, but Twitter is a business after all, and hosting god-knows-how-many twits can't be cheap. Sure, they could do something else instead of selling data, but until end users pony up for the service, then they'
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by Splines 16y ago
Man, that sucks. Hopefully it's a lesson to everyone that you don't leave the keys to the kingdom to one guy, especially if they've just been fired.

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