jkaunisv1

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by jkaunisv1 10y ago
It's not any more complicated to develop for than an equivalent 3d-space game, but almost none of the tropes and techniques that work for a flat experience like playing Counter Strike translate. People are figuring out basics like how
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by jkaunisv1 10y ago
Ah, thanks. I'm surprised I haven't heard of body modders getting that done so they can see UV, that sounds like a neat superpower akin to people who get magnets embedded in their fingers. Going to research risks now..
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by jkaunisv1 10y ago
It's not really about being incapable of learning new UIs though - I'm perfectly capable, I just don't want to. Why learn a UI that takes 3X as many steps to chop up a site design when there's one that takes X? Sadly mos
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by jkaunisv1 10y ago
Well, good point. I totally forgot about those. That said, is this page representative of what you're talking about or am I missing a better UI? http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2017-February/thre
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by jkaunisv1 10y ago
What do you mean by early replacements?
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by jkaunisv1 10y ago
The interaction is completely different. I can check on Elon's twitter whenever I want without having to subscribe. People can have conversations around his tweets without spamming strangers' inboxen. I can send you a link to one
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by jkaunisv1 10y ago
I can't speak to Matlab/Octave but as for Photoshop, FOSS folks always say use GIMP. But the interface is just so terrible compared to PS and I think they underestimate how important that is. Maybe it's configurable but for e
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by jkaunisv1 10y ago
I'm very hopeful that YC's city-building efforts (if they come to fruition) will include something like this. And it's something I plan to do when I get land in the next decade (not the food/healthcare part but at least
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by jkaunisv1 10y ago
Maybe I'm ignorant but my understanding was it's not really a social construct for us, it's often rooted in the understanding of genetics that makes inbreeding a bad idea.
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by jkaunisv1 10y ago
The xenophobic view also comes from how you're treated if you are a visible minority there, comments from elected officials, the hoops you have to jump through to become a permanent resident...
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by jkaunisv1 10y ago
Start developing now and by the time your app/game is fleshed out you'll be well positioned for when the cost comes down.
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by jkaunisv1 10y ago
That was my thought as well. Especially if in some way this could run as a "personal" search engine. So I could fine tune it to avoid crawling and indexing certain sites - I really don't need to see anything from CNN, HuffPo,
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by jkaunisv1 10y ago
Maybe not on par but close - I was expecting limitations like that, didn't realize it'd be in the petabytes! I wasn't saying or expecting that it could be done on the cheap. Just trying to think of ways to get away from the f
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by jkaunisv1 10y ago
Are there non-profit search engines? Any domain experts who can speak to how hard/expensive it would be to run your own (a quick google shows me stuff like http://www.gigablast.com/ )?
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by jkaunisv1 10y ago
Killing the escape key seems weird to me too, but do regular vi users actually rely on the real escape key? It's way too far from home row and sees too much usage for me to not remap something closer like Capslock.
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by jkaunisv1 10y ago
Martial arts helps me. It builds discipline and gives me more energy that cascades into the rest of my life, and it's fun just on its own. The structure, community and obligation of it makes it more powerful than say, going bouldering
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by jkaunisv1 10y ago
Ehn, we're pretty segregated too. You notice a big difference in racial distributions going to different malls and bus stations, especially outside of the downtown core (at least in the nation's capital where I live). Not to menti
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by jkaunisv1 10y ago
Great points! Thanks :) I didn't look and didn't realize it was that far from St Johns (I'm in Ottawa and my east coast knowledge is laughably poor).
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by jkaunisv1 10y ago
I'm surprised somebody hasn't started a software company in a place like this. Maybe not the very out of the way island featured in the article but similar ones. Rent must be dirt cheap. I wonder how big a company (or collective o
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by jkaunisv1 10y ago
I recently read in an old Bill Gates interview that Microsoft (at least in the early days) hired as much as possible straight out of college because they didn't want people tainted by bad or even just different development practices. T
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by jkaunisv1 10y ago
So there exists good pixel art, but there does not exist any artist who can create good pixel art? FFTA was immaculately conceived I guess?
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by jkaunisv1 10y ago
I wasn't trying to imply it's impossible, and I agree it's a worthy goal, but I am curious as to some real ideas that would replace our current setup. Doesn't a typical smartphone use dozens of rare metals? People aren&#
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by jkaunisv1 10y ago
How would we have ubiquitous computing without metals? Or really any tools, modern or not?
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by jkaunisv1 10y ago
My issue with places like Yelp is that people could post a negative review for the silliest of reasons and it can be hard to tell if the restaurant actually messed up or the person had different tastes than me, crazy expectations, or caused
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by jkaunisv1 10y ago
I admit I never fleshed out the idea, but I thought of it as at least a higher bar against a random person on the internet being able to post a review. I could post a review to any restaurant on Yelp right now, but I'd have a much hard
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by jkaunisv1 10y ago
The idea I had for a restaurant review site when I lived in SF was to allow only positive reviews, and it's basically a binary "did you enjoy yourself?" > "yes"/"yes, very much". And require a phot
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by jkaunisv1 10y ago
I found it amusing and edifying to replace "Chinese" with "American" in all your statements and see if it still applies.
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by jkaunisv1 10y ago
Oh, and subsidize coffee houses in the Austrian style. Don't expect private businesses to create the kind of places that create a sense of community in cities and facilitate chance interactions between different groups of people.
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by jkaunisv1 10y ago
I've heard of his books being required reading in some architecture courses, and I've heard many architects don't care as you said. Whether or not his ideas were revolutionary, just going on the way new developments in my cit
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by jkaunisv1 10y ago
Make internet a basic utility, paid through taxes, that requires no activation. I've never had to explicitly pay for water or have it turned on/off when I switch apartments, it would be amazing for internet to be the same. See Pat

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