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by bhickey 14y ago
Yes, 100% of studies (n = 1) agree.
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by bhickey 14y ago
Have you tried merging geometry? http://learningthreejs.com/blog/2011/10/05/performance-mergi...
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by bhickey 14y ago
Sure, but they need a good story if they want to recover a $33m loss.
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by bhickey 14y ago
This is where the Dum Dums Myster Flavor comes from! http://mentalfloss.com/article/30823/what-mystery-flavor-dum...
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by bhickey 14y ago
Hrm. I thought they dropped the option in mid-2011.
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by bhickey 14y ago
Apple offers both matte and glossy finishes on their notebooks This has not been the case for years.
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by bhickey 14y ago
I was able to find my old flat, which was about two miles from BT Tower.
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by bhickey 14y ago
No, this is like your Macbook being able to make copies of itself, so that after you buy one, you've got a new copy every year for the rest of your life. The degree to which a business model is ill-conceived imparts no duty to other actor
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by bhickey 14y ago
The latter. Saw someone posting about the London scene and just sent him an e-mail.
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by bhickey 14y ago
because they reach out to say hello to the people they admire Amen to this. I'd go a step further and just suggest saying hello. No admiration necessary. My friends occasionally tell me that I'll talk to anyone, and it pays off. O
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by bhickey 14y ago
And for another example: I wrote a terrain generator for the Abyss in Dungeon Crawl. Since the player is trapped in a hellish Lovecraftian place, the requirements for coherence are much more lax than Minecraft for example. The algorithm def
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by bhickey 14y ago
Not a side-scroller, but here's a screenshot from a terrain generator that I wrote: http://i.imgur.com/HgMWbXe.png the white dot in the center is a control point that the user can drag around. That point defines a mountain. Height decays
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by bhickey 14y ago
Value noise and Perlin noise are bother coherent noise functions based on integer lattices. Perlin noise is a type of gradient noise. Value noise defines a pseudrandom value for each lattice point. Intermediate points are determined by inte
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by bhickey 14y ago
I flew the entire itinerary on United. I wouldn't have booked it with a single East Coast airport for fear of running afoul of a fare rule. In the future, I'll spread a nest itinerary over two carriers just to be sure.
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by bhickey 14y ago
For the holidays I flew a nested fare. It was the cheapest way I could find to fly the itinerary I wanted. The first ticket was: 11/20 SFO - MHT 12/30 BOS - SFO And the second: 11/25 PVD - SFO 12/20 SFO - PVD
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by bhickey 14y ago
If you restrict the metric case even further and only allow planar graphs, you get even some neat approximations. For example, there exists an O(c^(1/e^2)n) epsilon approximation scheme: http://cs.brown.edu/~pnk/publications/tsp2005.pdf T
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by bhickey 14y ago
Nice of them not to mention Blek le Rat ( http://bleklerat.free.fr/ )
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by bhickey 14y ago
Coulton stated that he licensed Baby Got Back and wrote an original melody. I suspect that they are very much not in the clear.
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by bhickey 14y ago
The Lausanne metro is fantastic. The M2 cuts straight through the hills and the M1 runs parallel to Lake Geneva and can get you to, say, EPFL in no time. On top of this there are the commuter trains which can get you to Geneva in about thir
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by bhickey 14y ago
I hope these policies influence other employers to follow in kind (perhaps even outside of tech.) I'm skeptical that we'll ever see, for example, statutory parental leave in the US.
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by bhickey 14y ago
economic considerations Erm -- look over there. pile of money Yes. I did research as a student and as a research programmer / computational biologist. I was just an author on a paper for work done three years ago. There wi
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by bhickey 14y ago
The CS faculty at Dawson (less one) should be embarrassed. This happened to me twice in college, minus the expulsion part. In the less interesting case the University sent around a form to be used in nominating student speakers for commence
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by bhickey 14y ago
Being a grad student and wanting to be a professor is like being 6'2" and wanting to play in the NBA.
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by bhickey 14y ago
I believe you're replying to the wrong comment.
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by bhickey 14y ago
Perhaps we can chalk it up to the economic ignorance of CS grad students. There's no such explanation for econ students. :)
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by bhickey 14y ago
Type II diabetes is almost entirely the result of obesity. Put on 10 pounds and your fasting blood glucose will skyrocket. Sure, there are genetic factors that predispose a person to insulin resistance, but the dominant factor is adipose ti
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by bhickey 14y ago
Disagreed. It isn't a matter of patience, it's all about incentives. Almost all people who are smart enough to make a difference aren't foolhardy enough to make terrible economic decisions that will drastically reduce their quality of life.
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by bhickey 14y ago
Because research pays terribly and not everyone has the luxury of martyrdom. Want to be a grad student? 80-90% pay cut. (Unless you go to Switzerland and then it's closer to 70%). Want to be a university research programmer? 70% pay cut. Re
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by bhickey 14y ago
why do you think it should be illegal for the US Attorney's office to file a civil suit against the owners of a property that appears to be instrumental in the narcotics and vice trade of a whole township? How does the
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by bhickey 14y ago
Why would you prefer Chibi Scheme to Guile for embedding as a scripting language?

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