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by allenp 17y ago
Hey thanks for posting this - it is great to get a reminder of these kind of upcoming events/challenges/contests :)
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by allenp 17y ago
"Prepare to lose the rest of your day to awesomeness." Indeed. I think I will start with "Secrets of New Color Movies"
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by allenp 17y ago
What about the new Courier / digital journal and what about the surface and project Natal? http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/microsofts-courier-digita... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Natal I know it is hard to compare to things
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by allenp 17y ago
Finally, we can get past the hype and let the device speak for itself.
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by allenp 17y ago
Although you're being funny - I have to say that when I see things like this programming language that are so outside the box for me, it really does feel like there is some drug induced transcendence going on. I love this stuff, it makes me
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by allenp 17y ago
"In US airports where scanners are installed passengers have the option of a undergoing a body search. " These passengers were in the UK though and didn't have that option/right.
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by allenp 17y ago
This might be true if everyone was able to publish top quality albums or illustrations and art- but what if everyone just made their own greeting cards instead of buying them? The world would probably be just fine if not better.
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by allenp 17y ago
Yeah this is like house flipping.
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by allenp 17y ago
Can you expand on the postgres public key encryption - is this a function that encrypts/decrypts based on some files on the server (or in a database column)?
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by allenp 17y ago
I know what you mean. I did that a lot (hard coding problems, hoping to get money, just an excuse to code). What I ended up realizing was that for me coding is like mountain climbing, and that I really enjoy each new peak. There is some res
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by allenp 17y ago
"The big problem for Apple is that for most common tasks such as surfing, reading eBooks or playing audio and video the Archos tablet will will perform as well as the iPad for less than half the price." Will it perform as well? Maybe on pap
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by allenp 17y ago
I think the benefit of the passive chip is that you can use it for ID. I can definitely see a scenario where a chip with a medical ID is used by emergency teams to do things like give blood and medicine by referencing a database for your bi
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by allenp 17y ago
Although you could see it as reproducing this human (breeding, eugenics) you could also look at it as discovery and training. Sort of like being able to spot a really great runner at age 5 and getting them to the Olympics by age 18, etc. I
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by allenp 17y ago
I know this feedback isn't very critical - but I really like it a lot. I like the design. It is really nice to have the sliders for the goals rather than putting in numbers. There is a more malleable feel to it than just crunching numbers i
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by allenp 17y ago
I thought that too, but I think the difference is that a developer could look at a program and say, "hey, I could build that" but with a book they might not see it the same way.
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by allenp 17y ago
"On November 2, 1967, at age 4, he solved an advanced stochastic differential equation." ... and then gets a PhD in physics at age 16. Although the IQ score might be outdated/irrelevant - there is something special about this man and if we
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by allenp 17y ago
So I guess the question is - should disabled people be able to use these devices on the sidewalks (with appropriate license/plate)? And should non-disabled folks be able to use them in bike lanes? Etc? Honest question, I have never ridden a
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by allenp 17y ago
You might check out http://www.gog.com/ - "good ol' games" They sell a fairly large back catalog of older games as downloads.
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by allenp 17y ago
While the "math" of strategy games are typically exposed (and with it the ability to optimize) - the fun of strategy games is to balance competing demands by making decisions with long-term consequences. The difficulty with creating strateg
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by allenp 17y ago
For anyone that is getting a 404, more info is here: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=354036 And screenshots: http://www.civfanatics.com/gallery/browseimages.php?c=36 Looks shiny :)
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by allenp 17y ago
It took me a minute to figure it out, but the title is not saying that YC is rejecting entrepreneurship blogs, but that a person rejected from YC is blogging about entrepreneurship.
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by allenp 17y ago
They have a very long history of this behavior - probably as long as their existence (anonymous's existence not 4chan's).
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by allenp 17y ago
I think this has also been recorded as happening to astronauts when they look down on the earth. It really depends on the definition of spirituality though and unfortunately in the US a lot of people carry a lot of baggage when it comes to
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by allenp 17y ago
"On a Pentium 133, it requires about 20 seconds to play every game and generate every HTML page!"
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by allenp 17y ago
Let me re-write my response: Why shouldn't they pay for getting the advertising and millions of views of being on TechCrunch? Why should this be free? Wouldn't the ethical dilemma be the payment for good results not the payment to be includ
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by allenp 17y ago
On the flip side - why should anyone pay three million dollars for a 30 second commercial during the Super Bowl. Having the ability to post on TechCrunch is the same as having wealth and he wanted to trade some of that wealth for a laptop.
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by allenp 17y ago
It isn't an exactly what you're asking but in terms of giving away software and still making money on it with games - there are some people making money with free flash games. If I remember right the desktop tower defense guys made a little
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by allenp 17y ago
Portland, OR would let you go the gate without a boarding pass...
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by allenp 17y ago
Intellectually I like that you can make a game on the platform it is targeted for. Realistically - I can't see myself trying to program it on the xbox itself, but rather going with the windows version.
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by allenp 17y ago
I think this is more of an example of multi-use tools that are good enough beat single use tools in a lot of situations. Now, the fact that the touch can be programmed/additional functionality added for cheap is a nice feature - but there i

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