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by lupatus 15y ago
Indie publishing and art classes. Edit: Oops. Wrong "comics".
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by lupatus 15y ago
So, these answers made sense to me at first, but then I thought some more and now they no longer do. The problem with the usefulness of the Alice-Bob system is that there are two variable pieces of information: c and the classical bits. Is
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by lupatus 15y ago
A different take on the matter: http://boldanddetermined.com/2012/03/29/why-you-should-dress...
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by lupatus 15y ago
A properly designed muzzle brake will reduce the kick by 50%, potentially making the recoil small enough that your quadcopter could handle it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzzle_brake
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by lupatus 15y ago
If it didn't say "Windows 8" next to it, I wouldn't have known that it was the Windows logo. Frankly, it is kind of a let-down. The Vista & Windows 7 "pearl" logo is cool - it is flashy and is artistically impressive with it's lighting
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by lupatus 15y ago
So, what does Gemfury do with package repositories? I was unable to tell from the initial screen. My current projects target Delphi. (Go ahead and make jokes, but my industry has a surprising number of thermodynamics libraries written in
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by lupatus 15y ago
So, my current projects involve none of your weapons of choice. This renders me confused about what to do next and unsure of the value of this service. I suggest that you include a "More information" link on your initial pop-up div so that
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My 1-yo. son and I are at MIT today, what should we do/see?
3 points by lupatus 15y ago|3 comments
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by lupatus 15y ago
So, sci-fi/horror/dinosaur themed jokes are no longer appropriate for HN?
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by lupatus 15y ago
I was thinking zombies. But, velociraptors are probably scarier. ... Maybe zombie velociraptors for the scariest? ... Also, what happens if a zombie bites a vampire?
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by lupatus 15y ago
I made the following comment on a previous thread about suicide and think it also applies to this discussion: Both depression/suicide and dietary habits run in families and reoccur over multiple generations. Low serum cholesterol has been s
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by lupatus 15y ago
Ever try a nicotine patch?
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by lupatus 15y ago
Okay. If Evernote had found a way to make money by paying customers, I would think they would indeed be very deserving of the title, "Company of the year."
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by lupatus 15y ago
"Evernote primarily makes money by paying customers" How exactly is this business model profitable for them?
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by lupatus 15y ago
Reading biographies on Benjamin Franklin[1], amongst others, makes me seriously doubt the importance of formal schooling on the amount of success a person has in life. I think other factors like innate curiosity and developed capacity for w
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by lupatus 15y ago
Have you ever observed a ruminant's behavior even if it has acres and acres of free range? It will spend the day milling around in the same area with its friends and then lay down in its own excrement for a nap. How is this qualitatively d
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by lupatus 15y ago
Lots of people seem to gain fame by following this maxim: If you say anything that can be construed as dickish, lots of people will talk about you. Exhibit A: Simon Cowell Exhibit B: Donald Trump Exhibit C: RMS
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by lupatus 15y ago
Alaska
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by lupatus 15y ago
I'm similar too, except that my father drilled a work ethic in me. I also grew up in a very rural area. So, my father would give me projects that HAD to get done. Some examples: "If you don't split this firewood, we won't be able to heat
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by lupatus 15y ago
Agreed about the body builders and Jamie Lewis. His site is very NSFW, but each blog post amuses and amazes me.
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by lupatus 15y ago
Bodybuilders love low-carb ketogenic-style diets to lean-out and they are def not low on muscle. Jamie Lewis at chaosandpain.blogspot.com is currently breaking powerlifting records on a diet of little more than protein shakes and dry-rubbe
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by lupatus 15y ago
I commented above that low cholesterol is a risk for suicide as well. [1] A diet of Red Bull and Doritos contains very little of the healthy fats that your body needs. [1] http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolutionary-psychiatry/...
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by lupatus 15y ago
Both depression/suicide and dietary habits run in families and reoccur over multiple generations. Low serum cholesterol has been shown to be a suicide risk factor. [1] Get you cholesterol tested and try adding more good fats to your diet li
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Is the Personal MBA's Crash Course an actual product or marketing teaser?
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by lupatus 15y ago
Good point. I wonder if you could specify pre-/post-requirements for plot devices to make the scenarios you described easier to handle.
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by lupatus 15y ago
I agree that human reviewers will be needed, especially in the beginning, to both fix-up the output stories and to iteratively improve the engine. But, I think that the engine could definitely pump out and use characters that are interestin
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by lupatus 15y ago
Sure. I've been thinking of taking a stab at Romance novels first because they tend to be very formulaic and are a surprisingly profitable fiction niche.
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by lupatus 15y ago
I think that there are far fewer plot devices, character stereotypes, and background scenes for fiction than you expect. There are enough though to have, at least, 100s of millions of possible combinations. And those combinations are wher
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by lupatus 15y ago
Fiction, at least, has been well-studied and broken into defined components. All stories follow a predictable arc: exposition, conflict, climax, conclusion, and denouement [1]. Use well-tested plot devices to move through the story arc [2
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by lupatus 15y ago
This seems really cool. I've been thinking about making a LISP interpreter myself and will definitely be reading your source code. Thanks for sharing!

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