jbackus

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   by jbackus 14y ago

   ex·trem·i·ty (k-strm-t) n. pl. ex·trem·i·ties 1. The outermost or farthest point or portion.
2. 92.▲
   by jbackus 14y ago

   Yup, and I never said I was advocating extremities either. I'm simply pointing out that short cuts can be appropriate some times.
3. 93.▲
   by jbackus 14y ago

   I would disagree with that point then. Staying up most of the night and therefore sleep depriving yourself will make you less cognitively able the next morning compared to if you slept 8 hours, but the amount you are able to write in the t
4. 94.▲
   by jbackus 14y ago

   Health isn't everyone's first priority. It certainly shouldn't be viewed as a first priority in every context.
5. 95.▲
   by jbackus 14y ago

   A lot of bitcoin's value comes from being decentralized by design and therefore out of the government's reach.
6. 96.▲
   by jbackus 14y ago

   Who cares if he spends his money on that?
7. 97.▲
   by jbackus 14y ago

   This is so awesome. A handful of other Stanford students and I entered a Node+AR Drone hackathon in SF[1] a while back and we had a blast. We had so much fun, in fact, that we integrated AR Drone hacking into the Robotics Club. This start
8. 98.▲
   by jbackus 14y ago

   Abstract the backend and implement additions for reading HackerNews and Lobste.rs!
9. 99.▲
   by jbackus 14y ago

   What an outrageous name for a command line graphing tool. I'm honestly curious, why?
10. 100.▲
    by jbackus 14y ago

    Any chance I could grab an invite too? My email: http://scr.im/backus So quick :) thank you
11. 101.▲
    by jbackus 14y ago

    Heh, this comment reminds me of exactly what Dale Carnegie recommends NOT to do when reaching out to another party.[1] If you're actually interested in making this happen I'd recommend you reach out to him privately and at least provide a
12. 102.▲
    by jbackus 14y ago

    Then Apple bans Gawker from WWDC of course: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2364707,00.asp
13. 103.▲
    by jbackus 14y ago

    > Why is it more important for PCs to be important? Woops, meant to say why is it more important for PCs to be open.
14. 104.▲
    by jbackus 14y ago

    I'm not an iPhone developer, but from my perspective this looks like a big problem for all apps that release products and/or updates only compatible with newer iPhones. These products/updates almost always warn the user in the descriptions
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    by jbackus 14y ago

    I'm not rejecting your statement here, I'm simply interested in hearing your rationale: > PCs need to be open, cell phones less so Why is it more important for PCs to be important? I'd argue that, because PCs and smartphones were open a
16. 106.▲
    by jbackus 14y ago

    Well, it is. PE is mobile gameplay, the App in the linked announcement takes structures created within Minecraft and renders them in augmented reality.
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    by jbackus 14y ago

    > It’s been developed for iOS devices by 13th Lab – a bunch of clever augmented reality folks – with the help of Mojang. [1] > Created by 13th lab and Mojang [2] Looks like 13th lab is an augmented reality group Mojang contracted an
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    by jbackus 14y ago

    I'm fairly certain the Minecraft community (especially the most involved subset that would buy an augmented reality Minecraft iPhone app) holds a lot of value to the game and Notch for not being profit driven (in their minds)[1][2][3]. Exp
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    by jbackus 14y ago

    Kind of funny that Microsoft, Sony, and Mojang all attempted to solve their market saturation based profit deceleration (Xbox 360, PS3, and Minecraft respectively) issues with computer vision supplements (Kinect, PlayStation Move, augmented