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by aggronn 14y ago
This makes me wonder: which is more valuable? writing blog posts or reading actual news?
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by aggronn 14y ago
I agree--I was thinking of solutions to this, and the most immediate thing that comes to mind is that you have to be extremely proactive in capturing small groups of people who are already organized around each other. If you have a start-up
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by aggronn 14y ago
Does this work on the iphone? I expect this would be a great alternative to socket.io for mobile that doesn't support websockets or flash.
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by aggronn 14y ago
Without reading the context, I expect that 'computational modeling' refers to a largely mathematical model that is potentially agnostic about underlying causes. You can run simulations that accurately reflect the real world using one set of
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by aggronn 14y ago
Should I feel bad knowing that if I were project manager, I'd feel like someone wasted valuable time making the dashboard look so pretty? Am I an idiot just for assuming that was done in house? Edit: I'm not trying to make a case either way
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by aggronn 14y ago
You might enjoy a talk by the designer of much Civilization AI: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJcuQQ1eWWI Its a very good talk, but applied video game AI as a field is kind of a let down.
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by aggronn 14y ago
To be fair, that's exactly what he's asking for.
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by aggronn 14y ago
better than ESRI?
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by aggronn 14y ago
In the off chance that it doesn't save their life, theres a great concern that it would significantly decrease her quality of life preceding a diagnosis. not just psychologically--theres insurance to worry about here too.
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by aggronn 14y ago
Ah, I hadn't been in that situation or thought about that. Makes perfect sense though.
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by aggronn 14y ago
I agree--I'm not sure how he was lead to believe this is best practice. If you mean to process the results of the query with a loop, its silly to enumerate over the query to create a List then enumerate over it again to modify those objects
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by aggronn 14y ago
How was that sexist again?
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by aggronn 14y ago
Or rather we should subsidize things that need to be affordable. Luxury cars are explicitly not meant to be affordable, so his point stands. What both of you have missed is the actual reason for subsidy, which is the fuel efficiency.
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by aggronn 14y ago
Not wrong, but Facebook is hardly the only big fish in Ireland. Most large US corporations locate their European HQs there.
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by aggronn 14y ago
The new MS branding is really starting to grow on me.
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by aggronn 14y ago
Its assumed that thats what it means. I think a lot of people would be asking for a refund if we were wrong though.
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by aggronn 14y ago
> if two years from now your service has 10,000 paid subscribers AND you know that that is the peak, will you be content running the company? This is entirely dependent on opportunity cost--ie, whats their take-home pay, and whats the
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by aggronn 14y ago
App.net is a subscription. What you describe makes a lot more sense in that context; A subscription automatically implies updates and support. Many consumers associate all purchases with support, but it really shouldn't be implied that spen
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by aggronn 14y ago
Imagine the change in classroom atmosphere if teachers had the same social credibility as professors did (or more aptly, if high school teachers had the same respect and admiration from students as kindergarten teachers)
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by aggronn 14y ago
The 'problem' being that he didn't just do that.
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by aggronn 14y ago
Microsoft just can't win, can they?
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by aggronn 14y ago
The first hackathon I attended was won by some very uninspiring use of the last.fm API and some other simple tools. It was basically a dashboard to listen to music and get information about the artists with some geolocation stuff. It was in
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by aggronn 14y ago
they have a very competitive programming team. The school its self isn't special, but their CS program is probably the best in florida.
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by aggronn 14y ago
The Metro look is supposed to be ported to the desktop experience (see: office 13, github for windows). Their intention is for normal desktop applications to adopt his theme. The classic desktop environment is windows 8 style. Apps that are
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by aggronn 14y ago
>They make the target audience feel stupid. This is Apple’s first real effort going after a less tech-savvy group of computer buyers, and this ad makes it clear that they really don’t know how to talk to them at all. The people in this
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by aggronn 14y ago
Raising awareness isn't necessarily bad, even though its off topic.
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by aggronn 14y ago
>Getting the information second-hand seems fairly significant. I meant to suggest that that made it even less significant. The information is already widely disseminated across multiple platforms because its public information. Sure,
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by aggronn 14y ago
I wasn't referencing the article.
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by aggronn 14y ago
But does that mean its okay for them to sue anyone who does? If they make the information public, how could they think they have a right to keep their data private from applications they think could be a competitive threat? Should Walmart
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by aggronn 14y ago
Kansas City is partly in both states. Why KC? Google had a competition and they won.

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