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by cellis 17y ago
Nah, Barron Hilton gave away like $500 million, else they might still be incredibly wealthy.
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by cellis 17y ago
War is often a necessary evil. Yes there are the cliched arguments that all wars are about resources,etc, but I believe that war arises sometimes because there is a genuine need to defend [oneself,family,civilization] from harm from evil pe
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Arms Race in Quantitative Trading?(spokutta.wordpress.com)
34 points by cellis 17y ago|27 comments
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by cellis 17y ago
On a related note: in my experience, I've always found people of the reddit community to be very smart, but also very negative, and very insensitive, vs. people on news.yc being smart, pragmatic, and at some times...irrational. This is base
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by cellis 17y ago
Reads like a whos who of... fill in the blank.
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by cellis 17y ago
I did the same.
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by cellis 17y ago
The problem with this is you're assuming the target will actually access his encrypted data while in the hotel room. If you really want to cut it in half, just kidnap him and hit him with this $5 wrench until he tells us the password. We're
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by cellis 17y ago
Just keep it in a lock case. This solves the problem of Evil Maids, but not of Evil Maids-financed-by-the-NSA-with-lockpickers. I have to imagine that if those types of people were after your encrypted info,you'd know and you'd probably kee
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Social Gaming, Beyond the Clones(insidesocialgames.com)
1 points by cellis 17y ago|0 comments
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by cellis 17y ago
It doesn't matter how big a game dev gets: Facebook makes it possible; appdevs are wondering when the "tax" will start. Well, a de facto tax has already has started, and forcing devs to use less viral channels is when it started. The "tax"
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by cellis 17y ago
Its actually crazy, because his game isn't on a platform and hes making $1.5m. He could probably make much more than that if he found out a way to leverage his current userbase on Facebook, Iphone et al.
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by cellis 17y ago
Safe bet, as IIRC he had missiles installed.
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by cellis 17y ago
No expert, but is it possible that this technology could be coupled with cameras using an object recognition algorithm? Once it had narrowed the space, it could then scan.
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by cellis 17y ago
I believe that has already been tried with Splashup http://splashup.com/ .
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by cellis 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=179639
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by cellis 17y ago
Lmgtfy is kind of snarky, which is why I suspect you're getting downmodded. Anyways, what exactly are you inferring from this? That those who commit drug felonies are not violent offenders? Even if that were true, your "citations" still don
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by cellis 17y ago
Mostly pot smokers and non-violent offenders. Citation needed. My father works in a medium-security prison, and it is exactly as "people imagine".
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by cellis 17y ago
Thomas, You say iPhone devs top out at 200/hr. What do pen testers, (not necessarily at the Matasano level) top out at?
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by cellis 17y ago
Grand Rapids, Michigan
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by cellis 17y ago
It is very similar to ajax. The problem I have is when a game gets into the 2KLOC territory and above; when you have multiple files loading at different times in the game engine in order to offer the player a better experience. This leads t
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by cellis 17y ago
Pretty smooth demo :). I see what you mean now, but i was going on the assumption that in a turn based game he wouldn't need to do much transformation, hence, my suggestion to just use pngs and allow the browser to redraw them.
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by cellis 17y ago
Well, frankly, I don't buy those studies. Speaking from life experience of course, having been extremely broke and making money improved my happiness considerably. YMMV.
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by cellis 17y ago
"Happiness is elusive, and in no way linked to money". Yeah. Ok. Tell that to a starving person.
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by cellis 17y ago
How do you describe the SVGs (i.e., the sprites) that get sent to the browser?
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by cellis 17y ago
Edit: also because you are using an XML format with SVG, you'll need to be conscious of parse-time (vs. binary format which is handled natively). This is non-trivial (trust me, i've tried it). Most game developers don't think like web devel
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by cellis 17y ago
I'm going to go with no. Vector graphics are only feasible as long as the shape bytes it would take to represent an image with nodes is less than using pixels. Because many of the items in his games have gradients, and depth, I think vector
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by cellis 17y ago
Well if we're going to bring out the big guns, the plugins, this would be a different situation entirely. Besides, if a user can download a jre, why not just download the whole game in C?
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by cellis 17y ago
Off topic, I am an indie game dev who's checked out Unity,played with it, and -- after the initial euphoria wore off -- don't see much difference between it (with ~3% market share) and Shockwave (with ~30% market share). What are your thoug
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by cellis 17y ago
That isn't possible. You can't think long term in an industry that changes every month. You must strike while the iron is hot!
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by cellis 17y ago
Thanks Joe. Btw I use webmin and virtualmin almost everyday on my joyent box. It's great software.

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