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by icefox 11y ago
Exactly what you said, this solution doesn't make super-hard puzzles, it makes not-fun puzzles. The obvious next step that I would challenge you to do would be to optimizes for puzzle cuts so that they do not follow the main color l
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by icefox 11y ago
I would also go with the Fad/Coolness factor. And if that is why you are posting stuff there you are going to have a really bad time in a few years when it isn't so cool anymore. Been around long enough to see this happen many t
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by icefox 11y ago
> It’s hard to predict information technology trends much longer than five years. We start a center based on our best guess of what new opportunities will present themselves in 7 to 10 years What do people here think are opportunities th
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by icefox 11y ago
It is everywhere even Windows. There is a little bit of weirdness on some older versions of Windows CE and some undefined behavior with edge conditions on some OS's if I recall, but you can find the capability everywhere. I added the
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by icefox 11y ago
Wait, why do you think that "The market is big"? When you did customer validation it failed because the city wasn't big enough. And when you looked at bigger cities you found have better options than this idea. That sound
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by icefox 11y ago
Real-Life Bomberman
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by icefox 11y ago
TextFind: Take a photo of some blob of text and its sole feature would be to give you a real life search. OCR behind the scene + grep with a nice little app GUI. 6 months later sell out to Apple || Google || Samsung for a decent amount an
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Creating Intuitive APIs – Lars Knoll – Closing Keynote Meeting C++ 2015(youtube.com)
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by icefox 11y ago
Bad link, correct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVHDQagLsrg
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by icefox 11y ago
Feature Request: be able to take an existing generated track and change its length.
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by icefox 11y ago
Not yet, so far they have all showed up in Jet boxes.
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by icefox 11y ago
Eh, for things like diapers where I am getting the same thing from them amazon, or elsewhere Jet does it cheaper and so they have been getting my $ the last few months. And the other day I ended up putting together a larger shopping cart o
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by icefox 11y ago
I have read several of the books that talk about what happened during the 80's and 90's in the video game era. 1) I also really wanted to hear more about the technology side. But it is clear after reading the books that almost
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by icefox 11y ago
Fun talk and really great book. Telling the story from Sega NA's perspective changes it from a history book filled with facts to a underdog story where you can watch as Sega rises to overcome the giant only to come crashing back down.
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by icefox 11y ago
Too bad they are only for the GPL3 family of licenses. If I choose GPL license for a project it is always a GPL2 family.
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by icefox 11y ago
At least Verizon FIOS in the Boston area lets you opt-out of all sports channels so you are not charged this fee.
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by icefox 11y ago
In a way reddit is the ultimate model. When the main room gets to big you can go and make a new room (subreddits), but still in the same house where everyone else is. Brilliant model in my opinion and one that I believe will be followed b
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by icefox 11y ago
Ah, thats great learned a new bash trick
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by icefox 11y ago
I was impressed with several teams that: [snip] Used languages like Python instead of Java or C#. There is a missing context here, because this doesn't make much sense as a reason to be impressed.
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by icefox 11y ago
The bash example should have set -e or #!/bin/bash -e so that it will exit on error. That or the rest of the languages also shouldn't bother to check for errors. Also rather than invoking another shell use let and do let ST
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by icefox 11y ago
Is it all running under Hack now or a hybrid?
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by icefox 11y ago
I must say I haven't smiled so much as with Exhibit C: Our site works when the engineers go on holiday In their defense I wouldn't be surprised if many companies had similar graphs especially as there was no Y axis and there is no
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by icefox 11y ago
Of course you have also have many billionaires that contribute to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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by icefox 11y ago
Any plans to open source the code for the pico projector highligher? That sounds like something others would be interested in having too.
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by icefox 11y ago
What problem does it solve?
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by icefox 11y ago
And if you look at the TOP HN commenters you will find a horrible skew of users that comment on everything while many users hardly ever comment. No surprises here.
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by icefox 11y ago
Which is really what the discussion is about, besides ebay who else competes in this space?
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by icefox 11y ago
Hmm, guess it is also time for a new neutral vendor to rise up? Anyone interested in funding an startup that will provide warehousing and an online marketplace for physical goods in a neutral manor to ultimately benefit consumers and share
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by icefox 11y ago
It also depends on your definition of successful. To be successful does software need to (check off what you think would matter): * Make money directly * Make money in-directly * Be used by at least 1 user (not including dev + dev friends a
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by icefox 11y ago
Or generically how about a word to describe a customer that buys your stuff, but never opens it? I have been thinking of kickstarting a board game where there will be 500 boxes, 499 contain blank stuff, 1 contains the stuff with the printin

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