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by dougk16 13y ago
Lots of debate here on what is more powerful, the data or the metadata. I think in the case of voice content, a case can be made that the metadata is more powerful, simply because it's already parsed into a quantitative, objective form
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by dougk16 13y ago
The small-scale proof-of-concept mentioned seems a little flawed to me...the surface area => volume ratio of a small rock can't be compared to a boulder. The ice collar formed inside a tupperware container is also very idealized com
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by dougk16 13y ago
Java is very verbose, but also very strict and explicit. Besides all the obvious benefits to that, it means you can utilize auto-complete/intellisense/refactoring tools that let you pound out code at a rate on par with dynamic lan
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Coincidentally, I've noticed the same thing happening in Szczecin, Poland as per the shopping mall phenomenon. I lived there from 2005-2008, and there were a few shopping malls, nothing crazy. Every 1-2 years I've gone back, there has been
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by dougk16 13y ago
I've done two projects-as-interviews for two different jobs, one paid, one not, both a week deadline if I recall, and around 20 hours. These were both in the midst of applying to a bunch of jobs, getting the interview based on portfolio/res
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FlashDevelop is (and has been for 3 years at least) a very solid and easy-to-pick-up way to develop Flash/AIR applications without having to touch anything proprietary AFAIK, except the runtime of course. The SDK might technically be propri
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by dougk16 13y ago
Most "stringly-typed" systems seem inherently quirky to me. In something like Javascript, everything else is so loose, it's like why not use strings, but I've always wondered why things like HTTP headers couldn't be handled using enums. I t
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Wow, suitably impressed. I wonder if they got inspiration from marijuana growers...always see busts in the news involving shipping containers.
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By that definition, Loom's post was engaging to you...sorry, I had to take the bait. :)
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Extremely cool atmosphere created in this demo. In the deeper waters, I was really held in suspense, waiting for the music to turn ominous and a sea monster to eat me, but alas it didn't happen. Minor feedback, it seemed like the instructio
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Yea, as always, depends on what you're doing. I agree 100% with your points for when I'm writing mission-critical code from the start. But when I'm busting out UI at 2:00AM, it's all fast and loose. A lot of code I write is somewhere in the
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I can definitely understand the sentiment if you haven't tried it. I knew optional typing existed in AS3 (which I use for prototyping certain ideas) for a long time before finally taking the plunge and using it here and there. It lets you b
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Sometimes you can determine it before the interview, just by googling them. Developers with a real passion for what they do will frequently have a significant personal web presence devoted to it, through open source projects, blogs, or what
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by dougk16 13y ago
Does anyone know if this includes Google Earth functionality being available in any way without a plugin? IOW, just naked browser using WebGL?
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Interesting point from more of a logical perspective...I upvoted you for sparking discussion, although I think there's a flaw there. Namely, I think your argument would only hold water (logically) if the anti-piracy group intentionally viol
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Much longer effective battery life is also a huge deal for me personally.
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"You spent an entire weekend building a library..." Haha, more like an entire five years and counting! Thank you for the advice though. It sounds reasonable and I will use it all once I'm ready to release my creation upon the world.
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There's no real lock-in as long as you cushion your application code from their APIs and infrastructure reasonably well. I was worried about lock-in myself with a side-project I took on a year ago. I decided to go with with GAE despite expe
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The Dandelion King (2010)(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by dougk16 14y ago
Read "This Is Your Brain On Music" by Daniel Levitin. Some interesting points/arguments that I remember from reading it several years ago: - In many languages, the word "sing" is the same as the word "dance". - It's relatively recently in o
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by dougk16 14y ago
More evidence perhaps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Office
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There would still have to be different hardcoded signatures and implementations for cross-product, transformations and "angleTo"-type methods that you would have to worry about, depending on how complicated your vector class gets. I don't k
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by dougk16 14y ago
This brings up a metaphysical point of whether humans really play a natural part in the evolutionary process anymore. For example, when mankind wipes out another species, in some sense you can say this is "natural", since evolution made us
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And if you want to be really hardcore, you can make your own primitive bow too. Nothing like nailing a bulls-eye with a bow you crafted yourself from scratch. Here's a link to one of the first ones I made: http://dougk16.deviantart.com/art
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by dougk16 14y ago
Thank you, I will look into that. Sorry, forgot to upvote you...fixed!
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I meant that if I were designing a general-purpose retain-mode GUI library or 3d engine from the ground up and wanted to incorporate his principles as much as possible, how could I do that? Maybe a retain-mode approach is just inherently (t
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by dougk16 14y ago
Just watched it...really great stuff. But can anyone chime in on how you can apply some of the principles in his talk to something like a retain-mode display library, for GUI or 3d for example? Libraries like these pop up in all popular OO
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True, it wouldn't apply well in all situations, but if you tweak the percentages correctly, only giving the people X% of control over their taxes (maybe relative to some metric like income or education), then maybe the government could have
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I don't see it as necessarily replacing representative democracy, but complimenting it, giving people more of a say in how things are done on top of traditional voting. If I could explicitly choose how even 5% of my taxes were spent, that w
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by dougk16 14y ago
One system that I've been pondering lately (maybe it has an official name), is that you directly choose where a portion of your tax dollars go. So on your tax return, 50% (just pulling a random number here) automatically goes to the governm

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