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by hartror 14y ago
Unlike what Hollywood would lead us to believe organisms cut off from the rest of the world don't become dangerous. In fact the opposite is more likely, organisms cut off from the rest of the ecosystem are more likely to be specialised and
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by hartror 14y ago
Yup but people need to be aware of the limitations of the platform, something the article was very light on.
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by hartror 14y ago
Exactly, you need to understand the trade offs, which I don't feel the article touched on.
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by hartror 14y ago
Well you don't need a lot of CPU for doing AI and motion. Motion means collision detection and keeping the right data structures up to date. AI means things like path finding. Both sets of problems require lots of loops with lots of maths
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by hartror 14y ago
A grain of salt, cannot fault the article except it skimmed over a couple of areas. Keep these things in mind, especially if 3D graphics is something new for you: Why you shouldn't use WebGL * Performance: This is the big one. In 3D graph
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by hartror 14y ago
Annoying the English is a national pastime.
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by hartror 14y ago
I got a quick look before we broke it. Looks promising but one can't help wonder the legality . . .
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by hartror 14y ago
Pre-computed? You mean rainbow tables right? They have gone the way of the dinosaur with salts. Bcrypt has a big fat salt making it mightily impractical to use rainbow tables as the space required is so large.
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by hartror 14y ago
looks like just an ip to me: http://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=ptr%3a54.243.29.3...
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by hartror 14y ago
I hate to be that guy but what about dictionary comprehensions?
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by hartror 14y ago
I think the same thing different box idea has more merit than the patent idea. Microwaves have been around for decades. Patents last 15? 20? years? Plenty of good ideas for microwave interfaces must no longer be patented. But if you have th
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by hartror 14y ago
The potential is what is feared. Car accidents aren't suddenly going to kill 1-3%[1] of the worlds population and bring international commerce to a stand still. [1] 20-50 mil 1918 flu pandemic http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandem
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by hartror 14y ago
Proof?
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by hartror 14y ago
The most devoted, upstanding employees are the least paid, and the most conniving, disinterested ones are paid the most. Why can't you be a devoted and upstanding and also treat your relationship with your employer as a business one?
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by hartror 14y ago
Yes! I work for a commercial mathematics company that does OR consulting. We deliver our tools to our customers via SaaS and the user base is basically nothing in comparison to what I have scaled for in the past. The biggest problem we have
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by hartror 14y ago
A wonderful exploration of this idea as it relates to plants by Vi Hart. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahXIMUkSXX0
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by hartror 14y ago
Wow computer science meets Greg Bear, I think I need to now go write a short story featuring a supernova powered super computer.
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Facebook Is Down for Some Users(mashable.com)
16 points by hartror 14y ago|7 comments
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by hartror 14y ago
They say violent so one assumes by violent they mean a violent action game. But what you says stands. To add a general comment, no shit Sherlock, I just finished playing 2 hours of Planetside 2 and my adrenalin is sky high. I am going to ne
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by hartror 14y ago
How much is your time worth?
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by hartror 14y ago
Oh my that NYT feature drove me nuts. Not only does it mess with us habitual selectors but it is basically hidden from the users who need it most, those not savy enough to select-right-click-search-on-google a word they don't understand.
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by hartror 14y ago
Anyone else notice a CD drive open during the test and the CD come flying out? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=O...
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by hartror 14y ago
GPUs win on hashes per second per dollar. FPGAs win on hashes per joule. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison
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by hartror 14y ago
Edit: deleted comment I replied to was saying two of the judges were investors in the company. Wow really? If that is the case how can they not have received favorable treatment? Even with the best of intentions those judges must be intim
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by hartror 14y ago
Recently? People have been singing that tune for years!
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by hartror 14y ago
Self taught programmer in a senior position here. Frankly pointing to to being able to implement algorithms as a measure of a programmer's ability is next to useless. Any code monkey can ape a data structure they've seen in a book. Designin
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by hartror 14y ago
The dust & gravel situation was only one reason the sky-crane was used. The other options of traditional lander or air bags have worse issues beyond dust and gravel and in the case of a lander the dust and gravel issues are worse.
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by hartror 14y ago
I grew up reading a lot of Golden Age (1938 to 1946) science fiction authors (Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein et al.) and this article provides a wonderful insight into the publishing world in their formative years. It must have mirrored something
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by hartror 14y ago
They're an established studio with experienced guys and have SMNC[1] under their belts (a great game but not sure what sort of financial success it had). Assumably they've been working on it since they finished SMNC as they have a fair chun
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by hartror 14y ago
Yeah I rewatched the sections with the guy playing it and it seemed the hand positions weren't comfortable. But hard to tell with the shots in the video and without getting one's hands on it.

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