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by d13 10y ago
I'm confused too. You only need to go back 30 generations until you have 1.07 billion ancestors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_recent_common_ancestor . That means any old bones we dig up that are over about 4,
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by d13 10y ago
The danger with math is that it can prove its own truths based on its own internal rules, so there's a temptation to believe that whatever you can describe mathematically describes something that actually exists in the real world. But
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by d13 10y ago
Sadly, I think JS is at its best with most of ES3, a little of ES5, and drop of ES6. There's still a tiny, good (Ok... adequate) language underneath all the cruft. But unfortunately there's a lot of extra unnecessary complexity in
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by d13 11y ago
This is exactly what I was looking for this morning, and am extremely happy that it was posted on HN.
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by d13 11y ago
Commodore 64's Basic random maze generator: 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9joBLOZVEo
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by d13 11y ago
I went through the same debate with myself earlier this year, and finally decided to go with Elm. But, 100% of my work is client-side web, and has been for 15 years, so having a tool specialized in that field makes sense for me.
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by d13 11y ago
This is not a new idea - slave ships were already doing it in the 18th Century. http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670325/infographic-the-slave-sh...
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by d13 11y ago
The new `class` syntax is just sugar on the ordinary prototypal way in which JS developers have created "classes" for ages (functions which return themselves as objects.) It just makes the code you have to write a little prettier
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by d13 12y ago
Unity 5.0 does now include full 2D support.
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by d13 12y ago
I live on the India/Nepal/Thailand "Digital Hippie" circuit and can confirm the following living costs if you're doing it on your on your own without booking anything else in advance: Thailand (islands like Koh Tao
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by d13 12y ago
"Alternatively, the $ symbol derives from the scroll on the pillar, on the reverse of the "pillar dollar" variety of pieces of eight [Spanish Dollars]." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_dollar#me
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by d13 12y ago
I bought a 105 last year in Thailand and love it. I get about 2 weeks of battery life with moderate use. The 215 actually has too many features for me - I just like the simplicity of talk, text and torch without having to worry about chargi
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by d13 12y ago
Digital photography is not a replacement for film. It's a different technology, and a significant number of photographers prefer film for these reasons: http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/why-we-love-film.htm . The be