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Unity and Unreal vs Godot Unity and Unreal = Huge engine that can make life like multi-million dollar games. Can be overwhelming for small teams Godot = Awesome engine where almost anyone can make a game quickly. Release a game in a week or
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I love the fact that something so grass root and community based naming of the phenomenon gets the name Steve, but as a programmer it is like naming your language Go or R. Good luck researching Steve (Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhanc
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Arduino - http://jakegoulding.com/blog/2016/01/02/rust-on-an-arduino-u...
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Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ with PoE and Bluetooth
(engadget.com)
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I have been teaching a few kids programming but were using Racket (I personally think this is the best first language for someone to really dive into) Any chance of Racket support?
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People really should learn Racket through this book: "How to Design Programs, Second Edition" http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/ Dense and very complete into learning a Lisp. The one HUG
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Thank I never get to geek out on Jazz anymore. I moved to a different city and never got to crack into the scene that is here. To me Monk = craziest and most intellectually stimulating harmonies of all time. No one has ever played his music
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> "Thelonious Monk who just played everything in the hardest keys to prove how great he was on piano..." Can't find where I read that. I believe it was a Miles Davis biography I read years ago. I know many Jazz greats thou
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> most of what you see in this article is nonsense How as a creative person are you okay with saying blank statements like that? Sure if you just want to only talk about John Coltrane's drawing out of his time and only focus on tod
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To bad IGN bought them. I won't use them anymore since it is now a broken system. A reviewer owns the store.
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Since someone is doubting what I said here is SBNations take on Ti Bats. >"The pitcher’s mound for amateur slow-pitch softball varies according to the field and age of players, but is generally between 40 and 50 feet from home. This
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Ti bikes are all over a thousand on bikesdirect. I am thinking that ti bikes will cost just a hundred more than steel when ti becomes common.
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> Even then some of the new composite materials out hit Ti The issue is one PEOPLE DIE because of these bats and balls. (I'm old but I was one of maybe three people that could hit a home run now all 10 players can) 1) The other bats
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That is due to tooling but it is an issue because it is rarely used. Carbon is fragile and breaks but it is cheaper to repair once again because Titanium is exotic right now. https://www.livestrong.com/article/271286-ti
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Cheap titanium bikes are high on my list but I think the killer application is titanium hinges. Springs will last a lifetime. Looks like this is starting to happen alreadt: https://www.alibaba.com/showroom/titanium-hing
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Do you like the FTL music? To me that is great but Risk of Rain is my favorite game music ever. It was brilliant while playing and it was awesome just to listen to.
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Roguelikes aren't to be played only a handful of times. They are suppose to be hard and that is their replay ability. If you could beat FTL in 3 or 4 turns it would have ruined the game.
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> Amazing soundtrack ? I think it's entirely forgettable Well to me the very point of a good sound track is immersion and is something to not standout. That is why Ben Prunty's FTL Sound Track was so good. The fact that the mus
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> headline is implying (some kind of hugely complex, hard-to-create UI) Making anything simple is HUGELY complex. It took them years to get what they wanted and it shows. I think complex UI is actually lazy work. Space 4X games have noto
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I use to buy my electronic from specialty shops. Cameras from B&H and audio from Sweetwater. I switched because my purchases were less frequent and as much. My day to day work is education and I do side work and small videos for work. I
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I just bought two Brother "Die Cutters" last week for my Technology Lab for Head Start myself.
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I laughed out loud. I think all of us who were teens back than thought up this idea as something dark and sinister that only we thought up at the time. Myself I would use this trick to prank friends. I never got in trouble in High School so
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Art = Tax Haven. Long time ago in my teens I worked in art outside of NYC and my friend's whole business was a Art Moving Company. Art isn't about art but to a very small number of people. I can't tell you how many times peop
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When I heard these arguments and no rush or no attacking 20 minutes it would get under my skins. To me the T in RTS was Time and many people wanted to remove Time out of the game. This is precisely why RTS as a genre pretty much died.
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I use to be a high level Age of Kings player (Even got an invite to the first World Cyber Olympics in NYC). The pathing was ALWAYS horrible but the PATCHING by the developer was even worse. There were times when the community just banned ce
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OpenSUSE is the best distro for most people but like KDE it has been Nuked by the community over a decade ago. It has a super stable desktop in Leap, a rolling release and a professional server, but people still hold on to Ubuntu, Arch and
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Configurability is the Number 1 reason to run Linux on the Desktop. KDE's number one selling point is Integration. There is no better integrated desktop in the world and that message is lost to 99% of people. I find that I use two des
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It is if you use a different terminal. Konsole, KDE's terminal, it is in settings/advance setting there is a Line Spacing option.
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Actually, it cost money in my city to throw away any electronic item. So either you pay for it to get thrown away on "Electronic Trash Day" or you hide it in the trash.
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This is scary and shows the growth of electric cars might not scale. The world's richest company, Apple, is buying up supplies of a dwindling resource that anything that uses a battery needs. This is the boost for others to research ot
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