m0th87

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541.
In Nintendo's "Duck Hunt," how does the TV know when you've hit a duck?(straightdope.com)
1 points by m0th87 16y ago|0 comments
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by m0th87 16y ago
$2.5 / user * 1.1m users / developer = $2,750,000/developer http://blog.ebuddy.com/index.php/ebuddy-blog/beating-faceboo...
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by m0th87 16y ago
edw, your practicality and wisdom always blows me away. You should write a book for engineers. I'm not sure what would go in it, but it would nevertheless be interesting.
544.
1's and 0's(thedailywtf.com)
79 points by m0th87 16y ago|38 comments
545.
by m0th87 16y ago
Radioactive output of Chernobyl = 140e6 curies [1] Output in picocuries = 140e6 * 1e12 = 1.4e20 Picocuries per kg of bananas = 3520 Radioactive output of Chernobyl in kg of bananas = 1.4e20 / 3520 ~= 4e16 (for reference, the weight of the E
546.
by m0th87 16y ago
An economy doesn't have to be currently developed to be susceptible. The same phenomenon could prevent development too, e.g. Nigeria
547.
by m0th87 16y ago
This might actually not be good for Afghanistan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease
548.
by m0th87 16y ago
I don't mean to discredit Apple's contributions, but your comments seem to suggest to me that WebKit remains open source for benevolent reasons. They built the project on KHTML so they wouldn't have to start from scratch. And because KHTML
549.
by m0th87 16y ago
Great points. But newspapers have value over op-eds and blogs because they are peer-reviewed and bullshit filtered, yet the model is still dying. Granted academia is somewhat different because so much more weight is put into credibility. Bu
550.
by m0th87 16y ago
The article is lacking in details but I think his point is true. Maybe the solution isn't to evolve journals, but to replace them entirely. In the age of the WWW, why is academic information still distributed behind walled gardens?
551.
by m0th87 16y ago
The "real" (i.e. top-level) Tim and Diane wouldn't have seen an inert sphere materialize, and they would thus realize they were different from the simulations. Consequently they're not the "same" people as the simulated ones. They could com
552.
by m0th87 16y ago
The car example works perfectly fine if you're modeling cars. But my point is very few applications work along these simulative lines at all.
553.
by m0th87 16y ago
Because most programs aren't simulators, and there often isn't a natural way to map the concepts involved in an application to that of the real world. When you move beyond the garbage examples they give in computer science 101 ("RaceCar ext
554.
by m0th87 16y ago
140 kilometers per hour*, huge difference
555.
by m0th87 16y ago
Seems like an over-simplification to me. An idea without execution is worthless. But execution without an idea is pretty worthless too. Even if I mastered execution, I couldn't sell a product that costs you $100 and punched you in the face
556.
by m0th87 16y ago
I asked about this on a separate PyPy thread, and got a useful answer from magcius: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1375785 But yes, I'd be interested!
557.
by m0th87 16y ago
Lawyers run startups all the time. They're called law firms.
558.
Google Gravity(mrdoob.com)
4 points by m0th87 16y ago|0 comments
559.
by m0th87 16y ago
Has anyone used PyPy to create an entirely new language? Because it's fast and defined in a higher level language, it seems like a prime candidate for language design experimentation.
560.
by m0th87 16y ago
This would be so much more awesome in visual form. As a five-page table, it's impossible to extract any conclusions from.
561.
by m0th87 16y ago
Whoa, you make a pretty stellar UI :)
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by m0th87 16y ago
For most people though, I would think a service like this could easily prove to be good enough. What would you suggest that would be a significant performance or productivity improvement over cloud computing?
563.
by m0th87 16y ago
This is easily the most interesting announcement so far. Machine learning has so many applications, but its use is constrained by the high barriers to entry. Recommendation engines, for example, are huge sales drivers, but few among even th
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by m0th87 16y ago
This article is based on Okrent's "Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition". There's a fascinating interview with the author on NPR: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1266133... Specifically, the commentary on the p
565.
by m0th87 16y ago
If a comedian worried about offending people, s/he wouldn't be funny. If Apple worried about alienating large swaths of the marketplace, it wouldn't have a rabid following. If there weren't a "positive" effect of alienation, people wouldn't
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by m0th87 16y ago
My hypothesis is that in order to build a cult following, you sort of have to alienate others. Maybe it's crude, but it's part of the equation. The alternative is to take the "corporate" route and build a boring, conservative 404 that could
567.
by m0th87 16y ago
My family asks me for technical help all the time. As annoying as it gets, I've probably saved much more money from their free legal and medical advice than they from my technical expertise. My aunt's medical advice literally saved my life.
568.
by m0th87 16y ago
I usually like Dave Winer's posts. They are sometimes outlandish, but there is usually some beef behind his point. This is a joke. Turning Newsweek into a bunch of blogs would be brand suicide. Corporations rise and fall because that's the
569.
by m0th87 16y ago
Also, except for popularity, Python didn't go anywhere as a language. What sort of strange definition of progress is the author using for languages?
570.
by m0th87 16y ago
It's from 2006, so I'd hardly consider it a good sign ;)

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