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by dgritsko 9y ago
Yeah, I've done some hobbyist stuff with it and it was a joy to work with. Felt like I spent most of my time actually making my games rather than learning arcane trivia about a framework, which made for a very pleasant experience.
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by dgritsko 9y ago
I've also anecdotally heard good things regarding "Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons" -- does anyone have direct experience with both that book and "Let's Read: A Linguistic Approach" (and if so, a r
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by dgritsko 9y ago
From the article: > When illuminated by a laser of the right blue-violet color, the atom absorbs and re-emits light particles sufficiently quickly for an ordinary camera to capture it in a long exposure photograph.
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by dgritsko 9y ago
This is an insanely cool picture. Some quick napkin math (please let me know if I'm way off base here): in the second pic, the electrodes are ~74 pixels apart and the strontium atom is ~2 pixels wide. The electrodes are ~0.078 inches a
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by dgritsko 9y ago
Yeah, had a similar issue with parentheses while using it today (but escaping them with '\' worked just fine).
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by dgritsko 9y ago
I really appreciate the minimalism of this approach. Going to give this a try, thanks for sharing!
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by dgritsko 9y ago
Community, Identity, Stability.
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by dgritsko 9y ago
Just wanted to say that I'm sorry for your loss.
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by dgritsko 9y ago
It sounds like it was lost: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B_tWbjFIGI&feature=youtu.be... Although there hasn't been an official statement by SpaceX yet, and whoever said "we lost the center core" could
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by dgritsko 9y ago
It's unbelievable how precise the landings were: https://imgur.com/570TgAI
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by dgritsko 9y ago
Simply linking to the download page isn't particularly useful, IMO. Release notes are here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/58.0/releasenotes/
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by dgritsko 9y ago
Yeah, FAAAN doesn't have quite the same ring to it :)
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by dgritsko 9y ago
FANG = Facebook, Apple, Netflix, Google? (Just based on https://www.acronymfinder.com/FANG.html - I hadn't heard that one before)
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by dgritsko 9y ago
Counterpoint: Why not slap some hyperdrives on an asteroid? Or otherwise accelerate a lot of (cheap and already widely available) mass. Regardless, I really enjoyed this scene because it falls well within the jurisdiction of the Rule of Coo
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by dgritsko 9y ago
Alternatively it might make them less tolerant and therefore less susceptible. I'm wondering the same about my kids, as we cut the cord several years ago.
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by dgritsko 9y ago
A couple of questions: - Do all 50 states require lobbyists to be registered? - How is this information (on registered lobbyists) made public? - How would one go about compiling a comprehensive list of all of Amazon's
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by dgritsko 9y ago
Obviously a joke, but probably not terribly inaccurate from what we can expect in the future.
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by dgritsko 9y ago
> "However effective a gadget is, it will fail if it makes its user feel like a chump." Google Glass suffered from this problem too, IMO.
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by dgritsko 9y ago
This is the "cold start" problem, which they mention in the post ("What do we do about clients who recently signed up and have no past history on the service?") along with how they attempt to mitigate it. It's not s
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by dgritsko 9y ago
Probably tangential to the article, but this quote depressed me more than it probably should: > “During Thanksgiving break, when I go home to see my family, I can play Legend of Zelda while I’m up there instead of being like, ‘Man, I can
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by dgritsko 9y ago
Real Time Test Discovery is a very welcome feature. The Python improvements sound interesting too, does anyone that uses Visual Studio for Python development care to comment what the experience is like? How does VS compare to other popular
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by dgritsko 9y ago
Is this basically Snapchat?
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by dgritsko 9y ago
Having missed the original "space race" by several decades, I have to say I'm incredibly excited that I have a decent chance at seeing the first people on Mars during my lifetime. What a time to be alive.
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by dgritsko 9y ago
True, but there's a lot of things being talked about in this blog post (e.g. superhuman AI, genetic enhancement, and brain-machine interfaces). These are all different things, and I was genuinely curious as to what the OP found to be &
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by dgritsko 9y ago
What, specifically, are you referring to? "[S]cientific advancement eventually happens if the laws of physics do not prevent it" sounds pretty accurate - sure, we might get stuck in a local maxima for a bit, but there's no re
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by dgritsko 9y ago
True, but asking a bunch of your friends to write convincing reviews isn't particularly difficult.
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by dgritsko 9y ago
It's an engineering blog post, which usually serve double duty as being both informative and also useful for recruiting ("Look at the cool stuff we are building! Come be a part of it!"). Case in point, the post ends with &quo
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by dgritsko 9y ago
That's a great tweet. Another one of my favorites illustrating the same point: https://twitter.com/thepracticaldev/status/68767208615275315...
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by dgritsko 9y ago
Great article, but previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15861136
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by dgritsko 9y ago
At the end of the section you referenced, regarding endorsements: > So I contact friends and acquaintances, and put them to work. I think that's all there is to it.

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