fractalsea

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by fractalsea 13y ago
> There's probably some much cooler stuff I'm forgetting, but hey it makes perfect sense he'd be part of an island buying crew. He mentions these and more on this page: http://tynan.com/about
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by fractalsea 13y ago
And to me this sounds as racist as any casual sexism I hear in the workplace. Why did you need to re-iterate -- in a negative manner -- that they were Australians, and that this somehow explains their behaviour? OK -- I wrote that before re
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by fractalsea 13y ago
do mean ferrys, or much longer distances? (days/weeks). if you mean ferrys, then in Europe -- and I assume other places -- it is really quite common to travel by boat to other countries. for example from England it is common to go by b
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by fractalsea 13y ago
I can relate with the author's experience of moving to a new city, knowing no one. A year ago I moved from England to Sydney. Like the author, I also went heavily out of my way to take part in social activities that would help me meet
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by fractalsea 13y ago
It would be interesting to do the same kind of thing with airline luggage, or at least international freight.
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by fractalsea 13y ago
I remember noticing that it was common practice to steal electricity when I was in India about four years ago. I also work with an Indian who backed this up. I decided to check up on the statistics when I read this comment. It seems like 32
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by fractalsea 13y ago
What I don't like about the UK system is that even though in theory marks can range from 0 to 100 percent, it seems that for practically all students, the marks are garunteed to fall in the 55 to 75 percent range. I don't mean ave
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by fractalsea 13y ago
What I find interesting is that these proofs aren't one liners. To me, I intuitively presume that mathematical proofs should be one liners because they are explaining fundamental truths of nature; this universe and beyond. Having sai
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by fractalsea 13y ago
/r/webdev
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by fractalsea 13y ago
I also work in Australia (having come from UK after finishing my uni degree last year), and am already being paid $75k AUD (nearly £50k). For this reason I was shocked to see how low the salaries were for London, and working for an Australi
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by fractalsea 13y ago
Is it just me who finds it sad that the majority of open source game development energy goes into cloning existing proprietary games. Yes, I understand that designing a game from scratch is a lot more work, but I would much rather lower num
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by fractalsea 13y ago
With regards to matrix multiplication[1]: I think the hidden subtext here is that many people believe there exists a O(n^2) algorithm for matrix multiplication, but it has not been discovered yet. [1] Wouldn't be surprised if this is the ca
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by fractalsea 13y ago
It would be nice to see more. I'm sure there are. Having said that I suppose most problems we face in this field boil down to mathematical problems at the fundamental level. At least that's the conclusion I came to when I tried to think of
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by fractalsea 13y ago
This is a brilliant idea. I love the fact that you can explore really obscure parts of the worlds in a couple of seconds and it almost feels like you're there. It's a great way of getting a feel for a place before visiting too. I also love
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by fractalsea 13y ago
So pleased I saw this. I overslept this morning and felt shit about it. Luckily the startup I work for doesn't care when I come in, but I know it will just mean it will be even later before I feel tired tonight. I've had identical problems
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by fractalsea 13y ago
Yes, I take that for granted along with many other things. It doesn't mean that I have a less enjoyable/more for-filling lifestyle without them.
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by fractalsea 13y ago
To me those images of New Delhi look 10x more exciting to live than http://abcdunlimited.com/ideas/images/suburbia.jpg for example.
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by fractalsea 13y ago
I loved the full screen-ness of it!
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by fractalsea 14y ago
I always code on dark backgrounds. It's the white that kills my eyes after a number of hours...
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by fractalsea 14y ago
The problem is not only with communication between end-users/management, it's also a problem with communication between teams -- for the same reason. Because of the huge amount of complexity described, it becomes impossible for one develope
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by fractalsea 14y ago
Out of curiosity: have you also seen a decline in users? I'm interested to know whether Google has seen a decline due to a general loss of interest in feed readers, or whether they are losing users to competitors, such as yours.
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by fractalsea 14y ago
This is my most used Google service after the search and mail (it's probably on par with Youtube). Shame to see it go! I can't see how it was hurting them so much with users declining. Surely the more time staring at the Google website head
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by fractalsea 14y ago
Hmm, that's interesting. At work I looked at this on my Ubuntu machine with the Chromium browser. It didn't look particularly special because all the diacritic marks were drawn on top of each other in the same location above the letter. I c
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by fractalsea 14y ago
With sites like github this is true for any tech job. Think how much code you could write and put on github if you didn't go to college and worked solely on you own projects for three years. This is true for any field where you are required
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by fractalsea 14y ago
Great. I love maps, and I love history. I feel like I don't have enough time to read enough history. Looking at maps gives a good summary of the rise and demise of various empires and states.
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by fractalsea 14y ago
Needs a loading image/animation between videos. Pretty addictive though.
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by fractalsea 14y ago
Now we just need motorbike search. Looks like it has potential. Should be able to generalise it to other products. Looks nicer than their current search.