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by cynest 15y ago
Los Angeles
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by cynest 15y ago
> And if CS was still as popular, he might be still playing it. As of this posting there are ~52000 players currently playing CS according to Steam, with a peak in the past 24 hours at ~65000. For CS:S, the numbers are 38000 and 50000 r
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by cynest 15y ago
And if you're not in the Valley?
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by cynest 15y ago
I suspect it's also centered around a specific US demographic, say 14-30 as a perhaps too large estimate, and doesn't have much to offer those significantly outside it.
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by cynest 15y ago
As soon as we find comparable oil wealth.
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by cynest 15y ago
> Mojang won the rights to use the name Scrolls. Didn't they just not get an injunction on using the name?
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by cynest 15y ago
> I would be fine with automated fines of $100 being handed out to people downloading a file illegally and I think that would be a more effective deterrent than the present lawsuit madness that rules copyright. And then enough people ch
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by cynest 15y ago
Why not Zynga? Their demographic is not piratically inclined and due to the nature of their product piracy is probably not an issue to an extent it is for hollywood. However, their existence is at least for the moment linked to facebook. An
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by cynest 15y ago
Hours or number of volunteers?
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by cynest 15y ago
The problem is the "think of the children" argument will come back to haunt them come next election season.
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by cynest 15y ago
> * Math education is generally broken in the US. That means that students are not ready for the rigourous thinking and numeracy demanded in STEM. They struggle understanding the basics of mathematics and computational thinking because
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by cynest 15y ago
This. My representative (Adam Schiff) is one of the cosponsors. I find hard to believe that anything a lowly college student can say will seriously affect his chances of changing his vote.
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by cynest 15y ago
Not true. You only have to connect to steam once for activation and to patch. Otherwise you can chill in offline mode all you want.
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by cynest 15y ago
> Especially because it forced my high-school math teacher to think more about preparing students for college-level work. I think the intended preparation is actually really important. With AP the flow is Learn ch2 algorithm > learn
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by cynest 15y ago
Current undergrad taking math courses at one of the colleges mentioned. I would say that what you suggested is definitely part of the problem. The other part is that even the good* programs in high school are very different in structure fro
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by cynest 15y ago
Thanks!
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by cynest 15y ago
I'm wanting to learn C++. Is it still worth it to start off with K&R? Obviously I would probably go through K&R later, but it might be better to start off with something more relevant.
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by cynest 15y ago
But would they even be in the startup scene if it weren't for the profits? The chance at being the next x or y and making enough money to retire in luxury before the age of 30 is a nontrivial motivator when considering creating a startup. L
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by cynest 15y ago
That's more a function of notoriety. I saw something on CNN a number of weeks ago about some comment Michael Jackson made six months before he died.
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by cynest 15y ago
As someone who just switched majors to cs after not being exposed to it in high school, the learning part of college is pretty important to me.
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by cynest 15y ago
The second paragraph is a direct quote from wikipedia. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tim_O%27Reilly&#38... The quote in question: >Tim has been active in this space and in 2001, O’Reilly was involved in a dispute with
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by cynest 15y ago
For some people this actually is. It's a problem with a number of externalities especially when it's parents forcing it on their kids.
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by cynest 15y ago
Curious, but why scheme? FWIW I can only code in Python, and that not particularly well.
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by cynest 15y ago
The problem with this is that the benefit to humanity from analyzing the effects of extreme old age on the human body and investigating the questions of extreme old-age heritability that super-centenarians raise is much greater than the ben
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by cynest 15y ago
In retrospect general aviation's use of devices like the iPad should have seemed obvious. It's a demographic that likes and can usually afford technology. Anybody who flies a plane has the ability to use a binder in the cockpit, so there's
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by cynest 15y ago
Yup. It probably didn't help that I lived in a ruralish part of town.
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by cynest 15y ago
Correct in your assumption. The particular area was Clovis, CA.
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by cynest 15y ago
A few points: I know a 6th-grade teacher who complains about kids not having any time for homework because they participate in non-school sports. This is someone who coaches football/wrestling and has had a least one child play in the major
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by cynest 15y ago
> I don't need a license to brew beer and drink it myself or give it away In the US you do
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by cynest 15y ago
That's not necessarily the point. The most important use of a delete account functionality is to protect one's own privacy should you not want to be personally connected to statements you made anonymously.

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