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1051.
by araes 13y ago
Speaking of which, when did UPS start just dropping off packages with USPS rather than trying to deliver them themselves? Came by once at 1:00 (naturally at work) and then off to USPS. I was really surprised when this happened the other w
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by araes 13y ago
Actually, the Chinese, who naturally have serious concerns about feeding a billion+ people, have been looking at this for a while. They actually had some fairly promising results for test farms and plots. However, its still pretty small s
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by araes 13y ago
Facebook was founded in February, 2004, almost exactly 10 years ago. A lot of those college students it started off with are already the soccer moms of today.
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by araes 13y ago
I love Perl. Its flexibility and potential terseness are awesome, but there is something funny about a language that has the operator breadth of: : :: .: .:: .. ... {...} .^ ..^ ^.. ^..^ ^^ , ; And several of those have 2-3 uses. Heck, th
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by araes 13y ago
Many of the "Who" -> "Americans" call / responses I believe. However, it feels like correlation without causation. Yes, statistically, the majority of Americans are self-interested actors who vote as individual
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by araes 13y ago
How often have people burned all of their code in a toasty little digital fire only so they could start over without all the cruft? How often do people move because they desperately need a change of scenery and feel constrained by the phys
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by araes 13y ago
There does seem to be an assumption that making your reader "feel better" while they read is a good thing. However, the tactics in the article may actually be counter to what a lot of websites want - I.E. the Cracked example. Yo
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by araes 13y ago
No, a single, unconnected atom would be just that. The ideas of solid, liquid, gas, plasma, Bose Einstein Condensate, ect... are defined by the interactions of atoms in varying energy states and degrees of freedom.
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by araes 13y ago
Very nice answer and much appreciated. One additional bit which I only saw lightly touched on is the correlation between breadth of knowledge and general intelligence / creativity. Exposure to a wide range of subjects helps build the
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by araes 13y ago
A significant additional problem is that universities are operating more and more like for-profit businesses and less like actual non-profits, even though they are provided vast ranges of legal opportunities and labor sources unavailable in
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by araes 13y ago
The real trick to consistently beating this game is to always horde at least 75 scrap, and buy a Teleporter as soon as possible. Then, buy extra crew members. Preferably, these will be Mantis > Rock > Most Others > Engi & Zol
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by araes 13y ago
This has a lot in common with the "Being Alone" topic that's trending on HN right now. Being alone fills you with anxiety, with isolation, and with uncertainty. By establishing hard lines, and an aggressive stance, you alig
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by araes 13y ago
I won't argue the less vs more, that's an age old debate. However, this part: "Explicitly writing out the intention of a piece of code in plain English often makes the concept much clearer in my brain" I think is critic
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by araes 13y ago
This. The game would at least be reasonably fun with wireframe options, or some way to kill the fog effects. But certain combos, like green with green fog, just become a big haze of green. Also, an option to show you where your hitbox is
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by araes 13y ago
That seems rather shortsighted. Its not immediately important, but if Microsoft can establish and dominate in the Latin American market, then when that market begins to bring all of their citizens into the smartphone era (they're movi
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by araes 13y ago
Or by doing something like Nintendo or Blizzard in the last gaming generations, where you increase the size of the pie itself.
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by araes 13y ago
Jumping off of the HBO love, it seems they are often an example for what works in this new era, and I don't disagree that they've got a good strategy. However, another that seems often discounted, but which has proven extremely r
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by araes 13y ago
There was actually a timely article a little while ago on Wired ( http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/08/qq_netflix-algorithm/ ) that talked about the Netflix recommendation engine and how it has had to ev
1069.
by araes 13y ago
I realize. And I used that extensively. But if you're trying to draw lots of little links, or complex geometry, you often end up highlighting lines w/ undo, fixing a location in your head, and then trying to pick it again when t
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by araes 13y ago
Past the edit time, but one other one. The end of all things. Takes a few million rays to look reasonable. http://zenphoton.com/#AAQAAkACAAEgiwCfAAMBuAAoAaeCAHwAKwGnAE...
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by araes 13y ago
Piecewise, type-1, Wolter optics. From a useability perspective, I'd love the ability to either draw freehand lines, or splines. Also, a button / key to constantly keep the drawn lines visible would be nice. Amazingly cool litt
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by araes 15y ago
Not taken that way. I expect the real number is somewhere between the 20 billion from this article, and the 1.5 billion the Pentagon responded with in their reply. 1.5 billion is probably the line item in the budget that says "tent AC", w
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by araes 15y ago
True, and numerous families across the US depend on the active and guard pay of the armed forces. However, by bringing troops home, there are a number of secondary costs that can be reduced, or eliminated. For example, one of the more fam
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by araes 16y ago
This is largely hyperbole and anecdotal evidence. Where you say you were from a highly educated family with a strong work ethic, and took several years to be stable, I can point to reams of illegally immigrating Mexicans who are uneducated,
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by araes 16y ago
A reasonable FOSS library in C++ for those attempting to quickly play with coherent noise (Perlin, cellular) is http://libnoise.sourceforge.net/ Used it in a couple of projects and been happy with the ease of use. Also has some good doc