cubedice

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by cubedice 17y ago
I started coding up a site using this (yesterday, actually) and it's very easy. Whoosh support is cool, although you have to use a forked version that reverts a couple changes. One thing that bothers me is that you have to label the templ
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by cubedice 17y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but why is it that Deep Blue can't be recreated on a reasonably fast modern PC in software? In fact, why is it that this sort of program would be considered difficult at all? EDIT: answered my own question via wikipedia
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by cubedice 17y ago
Not to say that this is a good reason, but the Time headline is extremely catchy. BTW, I did find your review to be actually a review (unlike the Time piece) EDIT: I see the anti-catchy police have changed the HN title ;)
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by cubedice 17y ago
That last sentence is key for me as well. I've been working with django in my spare time (and loving it), then trying to go to work and hack around in asp.net. Not that I have anything against MS products, but it is difficult to make that
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by cubedice 17y ago
Is it only considered a startup if you expect to make a living off of it?
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by cubedice 17y ago
Me too. But why not work on side projects if you're bored? I'm building a web site in my downtime (compiling, honest! :p). Might as well plan for the future if you're not happy with the present
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by cubedice 17y ago
Eh, Hulu might be too ahead of the curve. e.g., they may get strangled by broadcast and cable TV before their (assuming they don't adapt) inevitable death. I heard this on NPR yesterday - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyI
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by cubedice 17y ago
It's missing some chutzpah, but I really like the idea. I have played around with nano loop [ http://www.nanoloop.de/ ] and tweakbench has some awesome freeware vstis [ http://www.tweakbench.com/ ]. Most of these attempts, however, ha
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by cubedice 17y ago
Thanks! And pull request sent (feel free to change the formatting, I just took a stab at it). Tangentially, I signed up for github in that process (I know, I can already see my geek cred dwindling). I've downloaded projects from there many
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by cubedice 17y ago
It's fairly amusing to me that this essay can explain away the vast majority of my existential angst. As much as I hate to admit it, I had an 'aha' moment while reading this. What I really enjoyed about this post was that it talked about u
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by cubedice 17y ago
Apparently I don't have enough karma to flag this, so I'll just complain loudly. shouts Desktop wallpapers? Really?
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by cubedice 17y ago
In the exact same boat here. Using stimulants is the most obvious solution to meeting ever rising demands, but is it the best? I agree with you that working hard is a difficult pill to swallow (har har), especially when the benefits of said
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by cubedice 18y ago
This story reminded me of an article which I read on here some time ago: http://www.longnow.org/views/essays/articles/ArtFeynman.php . It was fun to contrast the two. It was interesting how the founders were disenchanted with the idea of
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by cubedice 18y ago
My mother works as a reference librarian, and was explaining to me that a recent vacancy got around 200 applicants (people with MBAs, even). What's interesting is that libraries have become the only way to connect to the ever important inte
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by cubedice 18y ago
oh, that is a valid point. I was more referring to post-install--e.g., once you install, you will be more likely to play an in-browser game than a standalone game, since you are (most likely) already surfing the web. And if games the cali
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by cubedice 18y ago
in addition, I'm pretty sure the novelty is that while yes, this could be done in a standalone .exe, the barrier of entry for anyone already surfing the web (i.e. everyone) is ridiculously low.
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by cubedice 18y ago
It uses a modified version of the id Tech 3 engine (which is written in C) loaded as a browser plugin. The idea is that matchmaking is handled in the browser so that the game engine is lighter and only has to handle the actual playing of
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by cubedice 18y ago
Your point actually reminds me of a story in "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman," where Feynman tries to revise a school curriculum. He gets put off at the end of the process, when the Board revokes the book choices he had fought for (to b
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by cubedice 18y ago
I just coded a level file in XML for a game being developed in one of my classes. The same group member who was so adamant about coding the levels in XML had neglected to build an XML creation program. So there we were, trying to wade thr
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by cubedice 18y ago
Edison certainly had passion and interest, but he also had a giant ego. He cut down Tesla, knowing full well that AC was a better option. Maybe he wasn't just thinking about the money (he did stand to lose his patent royalties), but certa
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by cubedice 18y ago
Whether or not it gets put in, I liked Carmack's idea of centralizing the mods and letting users vote on the best.
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by cubedice 18y ago
I can't tell from the article, but is the actual game engine being run from the browser? If so I wonder what tech they are using. btw - this looks incredibly addicting
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by cubedice 19y ago
For sure FF is a work around, but what is this bankable state you mention? IM has been around for ages, and I still have friends spread across AIM and MSN and what have you. Sure, blog noise is obnoxious; however, I think FF has some mass
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by cubedice 19y ago
... be with the 'in' kids