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by dougk16 11y ago
Indeed there are many possible applications. One is an interactive e-book reader that solves the spatial awareness problem of reading technical material in a digital format. Demo: http://eagrereader.appspot.com/
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by dougk16 11y ago
We all have one of these projects, wanting to finish that One Last Thing before showing anybody. But I just looked and my last commit was 9 months ago. I'd love to be able to work on it more but you know, kids, life, money. Mostly have
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Show HN: 3-D engine powering my personal website(dougkoellmer.com)
7 points by dougk16 11y ago|5 comments
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by dougk16 11y ago
Sure, but the question is how much capital they had to put towards getting that #2 spot. I'm an SEO newb so have no idea, but my guess is a fair amount.
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by dougk16 11y ago
Not familiar with Twitter, but if you can easily get all or most handles through their API or scraping then wouldn't it be easy to brute-force reverse the hash? Edit: Maybe add a private salt? Edit again: Oh, missed that "The Twit
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by dougk16 12y ago
Interesting, thanks for the link. Intuitively it still seems like much of the energy from the projectile would be absorbed deep in the Earth as it traveled through. For sure it would cause some damage, but it still seems like a nuclear bomb
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by dougk16 12y ago
Question: The article mentions that a 1kg projectile travelling at 99% of the speed of light would have such and such more explosive energy than the most powerful nuclear bob ever detonated. I don't doubt the math, but would the destru
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by dougk16 12y ago
Earlier mainstream MMA events like the first few UFC tournaments actually allowed groin strikes. I know for at least several bouts the athletes would have a gentleman's agreement not to employ them despite the legality. Beyond that, th
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by dougk16 12y ago
MMA, now and back then, is a business. Techniques like eye-gouging, small joint manipulation, etc. would put athletes out of subsequent fights for long periods of time or even permanently...not a good business model for anyone. With other t
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by dougk16 12y ago
Agreed, with all languages I'm aware of this is purely a design concern, outside the scope of language specification. However I'm currently working on a library that relies heavily on this so-called static polymorphism, so you can
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by dougk16 12y ago
Another kind of polymorphism that's way underappreciated is what Qt calls "static polymorphism" ( http://doc.qt.digia.com/qq/qq13-apis.html#staticpolymorphism ). This is just a fancy word for naming stuff
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by dougk16 12y ago
Just to show how different people are, my experience was the opposite. My parents never censored anything (within reason), but reading let my imagination fill in the blanks to a more disturbing level than movies could offer. Even stories fr
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by dougk16 12y ago
I had sort of the opposite experience. I moved furniture for a number of years...manual labor at its finest. I put on 10 pounds of muscle, melted any extra fat from my body, slept like a baby every night, and had no back problems compared t
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by dougk16 12y ago
Actually they are distinguishable - many of my interactions with banks and insurance companies make the government look like a well-oiled machine.
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by dougk16 12y ago
I forgo the coffee machine at work and brew my own as well, but just brew a fresh cup on demand, hobo style. Keep grinder, beans and vacuum sealer in an unused kitchen drawer. I never had much luck with thermoses. They seem to "cook&qu
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by dougk16 12y ago
After watching the same ridiculous news reporting touting "historic", "storm of the century", "unprecedented", etc., year after year, the more cynical side of me suggests that there's a small supplemental
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by dougk16 12y ago
Or even take it a step further and just make it an "a posteriori" public service. Instead of auto insurance, tally up the costs of all auto-related damages at the end of each year and everyone pays their demographically-/driv
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by dougk16 12y ago
I worked on a clone of Angry Birds a few years ago and you're right with one of your figures: about a dozen people were required to pull it off in about 9 months. Definitely not doable by a single coder and artist/designer though.
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by dougk16 12y ago
Agree with all of what you said and thanks for responding. The hobbling I have in mind is targeted such that it wouldn't practically impact users that probably wouldn't pay anyway (class projects, hobby projects, etc.). I'm p
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Ask HN: How to hobble open-source library for free license tier
2 points by dougk16 12y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Any more open source retreats?
1 points by dougk16 12y ago|0 comments
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by dougk16 13y ago
I'm not a child expert, but I doubt children can really start to rationalize "dad's not around but at least he's providing" until well into their teens. And at that point the damage from having an absent father is p
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by dougk16 13y ago
If you have a minute, could you go into a little more detail about finding developer e-mail lists? Not sure what you mean here. Thanks!
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by dougk16 13y ago
"...any examples of "cleanly designed" systems that have "won" in the long run" The Linux kernel comes to mind.
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by dougk16 13y ago
"Warning! May result in feelings of inadequacy" Ha ha...yea, usually I get inspired by other people's projects, but visiting worrydream.com just makes me want to quit everything.
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by dougk16 13y ago
In that case it's often (yea I know, not always) better to put that block in a separate function, like readConfigurationFile() instead of "// This block reads the configuration file.". I almost always treat the act
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by dougk16 13y ago
What's interesting to note, for all those disparaging this approach, is that this is how all those other JS frameworks came into being in the first place...developer isn't satisfied with what's out there, rolls their own stuf
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by dougk16 13y ago
Could you elaborate? Not sure what you mean with the time savings.
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by dougk16 13y ago
Thanks for the feedback...you're right on with the classical resume format seeming a little outdated...then again, I wouldn't even consider this format in pretty much any other field. The buttons...I'm planning to maybe pop-u
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by dougk16 13y ago
To preemptively answer your burning question: yes, I'm available for work. I also made a PDF version ( http://www.dougkoellmer.com/resume.pdf ) using wkhtmltopdf for attaching to e-mails. I know it's probably a litt

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