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by m12k 11y ago
One of the takeaways I got from this was that instead of the usual "Follow your dreams no matter what" it should be "Follow your dreams, but be smart about". I think many who take the first advice tend to just hammer the
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The State of Unity on Linux(blogs.unity3d.com)
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by m12k 11y ago
A system much like this was used as a plot device in a Danish crime novel written in 2000. In the book ("Mailstorm") the protagonist witnesses what appears to be a murder on the 'random webcam feed as a screensaver'-netw
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by m12k 12y ago
If they are paying you to work on-site, then it makes sense for them to have some say in when that happens, or you might as well have been working remotely. It's hard to fault them for wanting to let their own team get a chance to unde
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by m12k 12y ago
IMO one of the main reasons why US democracy is so dysfunctional is because they've centralized so much power in a single location, Congress. Because the people making the laws are so far removed from the people that the laws affect, t
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by m12k 12y ago
It's 12.5% Objective-C - who'd have thunk?
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by m12k 12y ago
What makes you think that it would take less sophisticated AI to parse the signals from your brain directly than it takes for it to parse natural language?
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by m12k 12y ago
That little "namaste" gesture that he ended it with - I wonder if he picked up that habit from Jobs?
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by m12k 12y ago
Like Minesweeper crossed with Sudoku (and with perhaps a dash of Reversi/Othello for good measure). Clever.
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by m12k 12y ago
Good question - as far as I can tell, the article doesn't say so explicitly, so I assume it's not generating a surplus, since if it did, that would have been the headline. There is however the possibility that the two interesting
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by m12k 12y ago
The vibe I've been getting from Tom Wheeler is that he would probably personally prefer reclassifying ISPs as common carriers, but there's a ton of powerful forces leaning on him not to, and his half-assed proposal is the best he
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by m12k 12y ago
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/dinosaurclone.asp
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by m12k 13y ago
Personally I prefer "log in" to "sign in" because it makes it stand out more from "sign up", thus hopefully leading to fewer users accidentally selecting one when they wanted the other. And regarding the variat
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by m12k 13y ago
I'm an avid player of Threes, so when 2048 popped up here on HN I gave it a try. I beat the game on my first try, and like the Sirvo guys in a recent blog post, I'd argue that any moderately experienced Threes player would. 2048 i
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by m12k 13y ago
Well, it seems there's a lot of people who believe WebGL, HTML5 and asm.js will once again make the web a serious challenger to the App Store in the casual games category in coming years. But there's still the problem of monetizat
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by m12k 13y ago
There's a surprisingly large number of bitcoin transactions coming from the Australian outback, around the area of the Gibbon Desert and Great Sandy Desert. I'm pretty sure that's a very, very sparsely populated area, so eith
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by m12k 13y ago
> And I don't see Africa at all That would be because Africa isn't a country. Look in the bottom center of the visualization: MAR, NGA, EGY, ZAF and a number of smaller countries between them - that's Africa.
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by m12k 13y ago
I find it helpful to think of a muscle as an analogy for my brain. Thoughts are like contractions - sometimes they are purposeful when they are part of a movement, an extension of my will. But sometimes they are not; in that way the incessa
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by m12k 13y ago
Also, if we ignore for a moment how hacky it is to implement throttling like this - why would someone write if(!((_ok) ? true : (Math.random() > 0.1))) when you could use if(!(_ok || Math.random() > 0.1)) or just
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by m12k 14y ago
I know it's prejudiced, but I have a hard time taking someone seriously when they have a typo in the url of their site...
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by m12k 14y ago
That sounds very cool! Although the rationalization for it sounds rather contrived - to me at least any of these explanation would sound at least as plausible: 1) The sudden vertical movement may cause a predator that is used to tracking it
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by m12k 14y ago
I looked at Restricted Boltzmann Machines for a while when searching for a topic for my master's thesis. One very interesting use is to train an RBM with animations, and then use it generatively to create new animations - Hinton and one of
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by m12k 14y ago
Engineering and UX design are both examples of communication. When I write code I communicate with multiple audiences in mind - the compiler, my current and future colleagues, and future versions of me, that might not remember what this var
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by m12k 14y ago
The Verge spawned a gaming-only sister site: http://www.polygon.com/ I'd also highly recommend http://www.escapistmagazine.com/ and if you have any interest in the development behind the games then http://www.gamasutra.com/ is great
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by m12k 14y ago
Renewing just means you get another year of upgrades. Not renewing doesn't mean you lose the right to use what you already bought.