georgemcfly

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by georgemcfly 13y ago
The modern, non "black hat" use of the word originates with the MIT Tech Model Railroad Club ( http://www.gricer.com/tmrc/dictionary1959.html ) who define "hack" as '1) an article or project with
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Internet Archive donations matched 3x until the end of the year(archive.org)
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by georgemcfly 13y ago
Objective-C isn't a proprietary language, as this author annoyingly suggests several times. Regardless, the new JavaScriptCore framework is pretty impressive. It would be nice if there were some official Apple docs beyond the one WWDC
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by georgemcfly 13y ago
No it couldnt. Air Conditioning is not just about temperature but also humidity, which this doesn't address. I think room fans would still be necessary to keep the air moving as well. Plus, could tricking your body into thinking its co
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by georgemcfly 14y ago
You can also just play on one board, swapping your opponents pieces for pieces of your color when you take them (obviously you need two sets of pieces). This is called crazyhouse.
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by georgemcfly 15y ago
Agreed. In fact, none of it is indicative of terminator development. That's a totally different DoD initiative.
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by georgemcfly 15y ago
It's unfortunate that the icon designer mentions iterating on handles for the cup and how difficult it was because he still got the perpective (and color) wrong.
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by georgemcfly 15y ago
Universities will shrink to coffeshops? That's a very CS/math-centric viewpoint. How are you going to do MITx with with Chemsitry? Physics? Biology? Med School? Anything that requires specialized equipment? How will you do team projects tha
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by georgemcfly 15y ago
Exactly. The labeling of anything with low resolution sprites/graphics as 8-bit drives me up the wall. The atari 2600 was 8-bit. The NES, 8-bit. They have very different aesthetics. "Low resolution" (lo-rez if you're nasty) would be a much
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by georgemcfly 15y ago
Also, how long should we celebrate it for? 1 second?
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by georgemcfly 15y ago
Because no one knows the second they were born? I actually know the minute (0:21 EDT) but I suspect even that is unusual to know.
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by georgemcfly 15y ago
That visualization is not very readable. It's neat looking, but kind of horrible. A regular2d grid with countries across the top and meanings down the side would be wat easier to read, especially you wouldn't have to look up what the letter
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by georgemcfly 15y ago
How is Zynga supposedly worth over 20 times what PopCap is being bought for? I must be massively underestimating how much people spend on in-game items in * Ville\* Wars. Or really overestimating how many copies of PvZ have been sold (I've
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by georgemcfly 15y ago
I think they should just be clumped together. There's no distinction between Android phones and tablets, so there shouldn't be for ios. Also, the development skills for the the two are largely the same.
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by georgemcfly 15y ago
In the mobile graph, I wonder why ios and iphone are separate lines.
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by georgemcfly 16y ago
low-res and 8-bit are not the same thing.