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by jamieb 14y ago
Doesn't help that whenever I read/hear "Metro" I flashback to the police in my living room collecting a statement about being assaulted on the train or an early morning ride through paris after spending the night filling out police statemen
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by jamieb 14y ago
That's not a conversation I want to have when talking to investors.
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by jamieb 14y ago
Best to discover the joys of concurrency while writing a game than a bank. =) Welcome! Our playground is a lot of fun!
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by jamieb 14y ago
With regard to section 3.5 "Know the definition of all terms", I found that in a given field these terms change over time. I wasn't really aware of it, and then I went back to a paper after reading about Domain Maps in Eric Evan's Domain Dr
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by jamieb 14y ago
My 2c. I have a 3D TV and I buy 3D blu-rays. Its the only reason I buy blu-rays now. Otherwise I buy online on Amazon or iTunes. We don't go to the movies ever. I do, however, enjoy the kind of silly, action movies, such as Transformers, th
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by jamieb 14y ago
"hopefully" Oh. Not rules then? Well, what rules. How about giving it a rule "children must not die". Apparently we're big on that one. Except, wait, we mean "US children must not die", so we can still bomb foreign suburbs where children ar
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by jamieb 14y ago
My mario 64 cart has 120 stars (yes by me) and is autographed by Miyamoto. I waited in line all night to get my Wii. When its drive crapped out I bought a shiny new black one. I was honestly expecting to be able to play all the virtual cons
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by jamieb 14y ago
On the contrary, it is our current system of allowing laws that are totally ambiguous that results in the poor situation we are in now. For example, the 2nd amendment is black and white. I have the right to bear arms and that right shall no
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by jamieb 14y ago
The world used to be flat, but fortunately They migrated to a bigger server just before we had developed the mathematics to prove it, so now we all think the earth has always been round. Now that They can see us talking about it, expect The
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by jamieb 14y ago
"Pledge $199 or more: 64-CORE: You get everything in the SUPPORTER reward and a 64-core Epiphany-IV based Parallella board"
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by jamieb 14y ago
Nobody else think its lame that we OTA updates for betas, but not final? Grrr.
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by jamieb 14y ago
Well I guess I explained the history too briefly. Our neighbors don't drive down the hill too fast. Unfortunately, the new gated community that was built recently has a primary exit at the top of our street. The fastest way for these SUV dr
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by jamieb 14y ago
On the other hand, I live at the bottom of a hill, 100ft from a traffic light. A new development opened up at the top of the hill, and now SUVs barrel down the hill at >50mph, see the green light, and accelerate . The speed limit is 25
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by jamieb 14y ago
Warhead!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warhead_(video_game)
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by jamieb 14y ago
Evacuate? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances.
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by jamieb 14y ago
Its a movie! Its all about the story! Galactica and Star Wars have "fighter planes" purely so that the narrative can have "Heros" and "Loose Cannons". Could Kara Thrace have had her mysterious journey if she was in a 100-crew missile cruise
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by jamieb 14y ago
Well the science was deliberately concocted to allow for the recreation of naval sail sea battles (ships that can only shoot "broadsides" because of the physics of the propulsion system, for example), but it was so well done that I didn't c
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by jamieb 14y ago
"The second problem, and the one that in my opinion I’ve let down my readers the most by not catching, is that the table is completely false." There is a big difference between "unsupported by hard data" and "completely false", especially w
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by jamieb 14y ago
Yay LUKS/dm-crypt kernel level disc encryption. We had need for short-term (several hours) EC2 compute nodes with sensitive data from customers. They'd boot up and encrypt all the drives using a random key without persisting it anywhere. Ev
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by jamieb 14y ago
>Not only should we write off the luddites, we should consider every step towards lower complexity good and steps towards complexity and slower understanding to be bad and actively harmful. Fine. Here is a program written in my new JS p
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by jamieb 15y ago
Would you mind me asking how long it took you to develop that demo?
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by jamieb 15y ago
Its all Arial for that very reason. And I thought PDFs would work. When I first started this process I'd send a link to linkedin but got push-back. So then I tried PDF. Push-back on that too. "Have you got it in Word?"
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by jamieb 15y ago
On the other hand, here's an article [1] I wrote today, about MS Word 2010. I managed to send out some resumes that look fine, but break when printed. It's no longer a WYSIWYG editor apparently. I suppose its a testament to the faith I had
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by jamieb 15y ago
Does Bret Victor write all those things himself? They are staggeringly awesome. I am now suffering from a major inferiority complex! This totally lit a fire under my ass.
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by jamieb 15y ago
And then, 30 years later, came Siri and IBM's Watson... Winograd talks about three different metaphors for HCI: conversation, manipulation and locomotion. In the 70's he gave up on conversation for manipulation, and was right do to so, but
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by jamieb 15y ago
I was in a similar situation a few years ago, but I opted for Monotouch [1]. I still had to learn UIKit, Foundation etc, but I didn't have to learn a "new" language. I did have to hack together a Visual Studio package to trick it into loadi
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by jamieb 15y ago
On one project we started in a large, but private room. Each programmer staked out their own space. Might as well have been separate offices. About 8 weeks into the project, we rearranged the desks into a circle, facing out. Relevant commun
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by jamieb 15y ago
Here's my experience, best to worst: 1. Small team of programmers, sharing a closed office. 2. Small team of programmers sharing an open office. 3. Team of programmers each with their own office. 4. Team of programmers in one big room. 5. T
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by jamieb 15y ago
>He said he hoped new legislation on cybersecurity, expected to reach the Senate floor this month, would call for more disclosures and bring more aid to companies under attack. Uh huh. Interesting that a large argument against SOPA was
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by jamieb 15y ago
Is Fortress dead?

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