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by axefrog 12y ago
Uncanny Valley doesn't apply. It would apply if they put a skin-and-fur-like shell over the body and tried to give it a life-like head, with eyes, nose, mouth and tongue, and it looked almost perfect, but not quite good enough to pass
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by axefrog 12y ago
One thing I'd have liked to ask if I hadn't missed the window of opportunity would be regarding his desire to go to Mars himself. I have often wondered about the psychological effects of being effectively stranded on a barren, lif
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by axefrog 12y ago
I'd be careful and try to recognise that the concentration of Apple-focussed development environments that you observe in the SF Bay area is not a reasonable reflection of the developer community at large. Windows still holds the great
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Let It Go: A Frozen Inspired One-shot RPG(medium.com)
1 points by axefrog 12y ago|0 comments
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by axefrog 12y ago
All of the examples are basically differently-styled variations of "clicking on X adds/removes class Y on element Z". Is this all it can do? Would have liked to see some slightly more varied use cases.
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by axefrog 12y ago
When you decentralise something, you tend to take away moderation and curation, which keep the general quality of offerings above a certain bar. I'd be curious what the author of this project suggests in this regard, or what measures h
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by axefrog 12y ago
Rubbish. Write a thin abstraction layer between your app and the Chain API and should you wish to switch in the future, change the implementation of the abstraction layer to point at your bitcoind server or something else.
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by axefrog 12y ago
The difference here is that with Bitcoin, it is impossible for any centralized service to monopolize the space or take away a user's power to manage their own money. Unlike banks and so forth, if you want to make a transaction or take
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by axefrog 12y ago
I'd be quite curious how the AdSense revenue has dropped off since 2006, as the platform has evolved a lot since then, not to mention people have had a long time to get used text-based contextual advertising.
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by axefrog 12y ago
I find it extremely frustrating how many services (Microsoft included!!) won't allow me to use spaces in my passwords. Why on earth do they care which characters I choose for my passwords? So much for "correct horse battery staple
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by axefrog 13y ago
Agreed, I'm just trying to say that the apparent "exception" quoted by the parent, while seeming to contradict Betteridge's Law, actually doesn't really contradict the law when you attempt to interpret the spirit of
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by axefrog 13y ago
If you pick apart the intent of the law, rather than getting caught up in literal semantics, you'll see that the law is suggesting that when a headline asks a question intending to cast doubt or contradiction on some accepted fact, par
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by axefrog 13y ago
Agreed, TypeScript is great, but the compiler is excruciatingly slow. I have to segment my app into multiple sub-build areas and only build a subset at a time, which is annoying because I frequently end up making small changes outside of th
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by axefrog 13y ago
I actually find brainstorming a great way to refine existing ideas I've come up with but for which I don't have a clear picture of the details. Granted, it's something I'll do by myself and come back to it over time unti
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by axefrog 13y ago
I think you'll find a large proportion of people who have ordered the dev kit have done so just for a taste of what's to come. And I'm sure OculusVR don't mind at all because the sales generate additional revenue and PR
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by axefrog 13y ago
I have a feeling that Sony will do quite the opposite. They're already using an LCD display, which Oculus has moved away from because the pixel refresh rate is too slow. If Sony are already showing a lack of understanding in one area,
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by axefrog 13y ago
"beautiful" and "responsive" have become two of the biggest "buzzword bingo" words of the web these last few years. So many people telling you that their stuff is beautiful that the word starts to lose value.
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by axefrog 13y ago
So by your reasoning, Federal Express is also a branch of government? From Wikipedia: "The Reserve Banks are not federal instrumentalities for purposes of the FTCA [the Federal Tort Claims Act], but are independent, privately owned and
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by axefrog 13y ago
It would be so great if there were a remotely-operated "punch" button aimed at reporters writing blatantly incorrect information about topics they can't be bothered to research or understand properly. I, for one, would be dis
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by axefrog 13y ago
The article has almost no information at all. The title contains about as much information as the rest of the article.
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Ask HN: Getting back at a scammer with scammer's phone number and bank details?
1 points by axefrog 13y ago|0 comments
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by axefrog 13y ago
What limitations should one be aware of that would make ElasticSearch not a viable candidate where something like MongoDB would be a better fit?
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by axefrog 13y ago
Now that Glenn Greenwald has pretty much only himself to answer to, it'll be interesting to see what he publishes that he might not have, had he stayed at The Guardian. I'm a little concerned that his domain name firstlook.org is
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by axefrog 13y ago
How is he a money transmitter? His business is buying a product (Starbucks gift cards) and paying for them with Bitcoin. By your definition, a used car dealership that buys cars from the public and pays for them with cash is also a money tr
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by axefrog 13y ago
You will note of course that their legs are significantly different to ours. They're much shorter, they're less optimally-shaped for full upright standing (when do you ever see monkeys, apes, gorillas, etc standing tall like a hum
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by axefrog 13y ago
How relevant is this for an aspiring graphics programmer just getting started in the midst of modern APIs, hardware and techniques?
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by axefrog 13y ago
The old start menu may not be perfect but the new start screen is definitely a step backwards. Over the life of a Windows installation, many, many programs tend to be installed, and almost every single one of them dumps a bunch of icons ont
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by axefrog 13y ago
My thoughts exactly. After seeing the names it generated, along with the the addresses and so forth, I immediately started looking for the link to buy or download the code, database or whatever was on offer. To my disappointment, there was
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by axefrog 13y ago
I think you're missing the obvious: "passive" and "income". Passive income is income you earn passively, and in the context of the opening topic, it generally refers to something you've created yourself (whethe
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by axefrog 13y ago
Windows XP is Jewish?

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