jpatokal

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by jpatokal 14y ago
Because you'd need hard AR to do dynamic cookie-increasing, and neither Google Glass nor anything else on the horizon can do that. Michael Abrash explains it better than I can: http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/why-you-wont-see-hard-.
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by jpatokal 14y ago
I think his argument is more that Microsoft can try to go in that direction (by which I presume you mean the dream of seamless mobile-tablet-desktop integration) all they want, but their current policies are pissing off all their partners
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by jpatokal 14y ago
Seriously, if you have an entire continent at your disposal, running an economy is easy. Which is why Australia has such a remarkably stable economy, right? Oh, wait... http://www.abc.net.au/news/linkableblob/3873450/thumbnail/je... Se
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by jpatokal 14y ago
This bit I don't quite get: Why don't you give the game away or make it open source or let player volunteers run it? Glitch looks simple, but it is not. [...] It takes a full-time team of competent engineers & technical operations pe
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by jpatokal 14y ago
Warm seats seem like a pointless luxury if your bathroom is properly insulated and heated, but the vast majority of older Japanese housing is neither.
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by jpatokal 14y ago
Japanese oral hygiene is fine. It's cosmetic dentistry, braces etc that they don't really get.
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by jpatokal 14y ago
10,000 concurrent users within a day of release is massive success in today's application market. Engineering a system to handle an order of magnitude more traffic than you expect is sensible; engineering it to handle three orders of ma
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by jpatokal 14y ago
Jeebus, what a way to turn a molehill into a mountain. @22cans: In fact @pmolyneux BEGGED the team to go home but they wouldn't have any of it :) https://twitter.com/22Cans/status/268387590368030721 22 Cans is a tiny startup and they wer
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by jpatokal 14y ago
Srsly? The Curiosity app is free. The donate button isn't even in the app itself, but on the developer's web page.
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by jpatokal 14y ago
The way you phrase that is a bit misleading. It's not that Japanese speech has any less info than most languages, it's just that you can set topics (add state to a stack, to put it in geek terms) that carry over into subsequent phrases. T
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by jpatokal 14y ago
Yup, and from experience, you're going to end up rewriting big chunks of your stack multiple times. (In a previous life, I worked on a team that grew a Java-based SMS gateway from an initial design limit of 10 msg/s on a single box to 10,0
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by jpatokal 14y ago
TIL lawn darts are banned in the United States. You poor safety-paranoid, helicopter-parenting sods...
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by jpatokal 14y ago
...but unfortunately actually didn't. Still a great quote though! http://conversation.cipr.co.uk/posts/andy.green/the-myth-of-...
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by jpatokal 14y ago
No, those arguments are trotted out by the companies that hold the precious taxi medallions (~$1m a pop) and lease them to cabbies at extortionate rates. The cabbies themselves are, for most part, happier working for Uber than their curren
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by jpatokal 14y ago
Relevant: http://www.computerworld.com.sg/resource/applications/why-yo... TL;DR: A study in Singapore showed that it's hard to get taxis when it rains, because rain increases the risk of accidents, which cabbies are liable for. Since ther
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by jpatokal 14y ago
Sorry, but if you need a paragraph of text to explain to your users how to navigate, you're doing it wrong. The "individual tiny pages, turned one by one so each has no context" metaphor, while a necessary evil for printed books, is pointl
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by jpatokal 14y ago
Not quite -- fresh cheeses can be made in a matter of hours, and quite dependably. Obviously they don't last as long as the harder kinds, but they're still more stable than milk. Here's one process: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Paneer-(Ind
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by jpatokal 14y ago
Official press release: http://www.spacex.com/press.php?page=20121028 Raw video of splashdown: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_bF6ZciBxQ&feature=youtu...
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SpaceX ends space station supply mission with a splashdown(latimes.com)
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by jpatokal 14y ago
The original poster is a mathematician, not a programmer.
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by jpatokal 14y ago
You may have missed this: http://mashable.com/2012/06/28/google-docs-offline-io/
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by jpatokal 14y ago
5. Would you happen to be referring to this report about positive sales in China? http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2012/05/paging-...