magoghm

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by magoghm 11y ago
In the early 90's I posted on some game developers forum that when consoles got more powerful processors it would be possible to write games in C instead of using assembly language. Everybody told me that I was an idiot.
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by magoghm 11y ago
Michael Crichton on the Unproven Dangers of Secondhand Smoke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGoZ-b1OaW4
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by magoghm 11y ago
Report about price going from $13.50 to $750 overnight => Hillary Clinton Tweets plan to combat the high cost of prescription drugs => The Nasdaq Biotechnology Index falls 3.4 percent. http://finance.yahoo.com/news&#x2
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Arab women show the way with computer science aptitude(gulfnews.com)
1 points by magoghm 11y ago|0 comments
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by magoghm 11y ago
Interesting point. I hadn't looked at it that way. Do you know about any hard data that shows this clearly?
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A Radical New Look for Logarithms(solidangl.es)
2 points by magoghm 12y ago|0 comments
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by magoghm 12y ago
I am Mexican and live in Mexico. It is true that family ties are quite strong here, but drinking is also very strong. I don't know where you get the idea of less binge drinking.
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Psychology journal bans P values(nature.com)
6 points by magoghm 12y ago|0 comments
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by magoghm 12y ago
Yes. That's exactly what I meant when I wrote "locked inside his brain".
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by magoghm 12y ago
I don't think there ever will be a computer powerful enough to solve such a large scale planning problem. On top of that, I don't think it is even possible to get the data for it. Each person has his own personal "utility fun
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by magoghm 12y ago
You're not alone. I spent almost 20 years programming with intrusive lists before I ever heard about non-intrusive lists. Of course, they weren't known as "intrusive lists", everybody called them "linked lists"
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Can one explain schemes to biologists(dam.brown.edu)
18 points by magoghm 12y ago|0 comments
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by magoghm 12y ago
It is not "The Pirate Bay", I searched for Robogeisha and I get "No results found".
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by magoghm 12y ago
Some guys talking about a game: Shigeru Miyamoto and Eiji Aonuma talking about the new Zelda game.
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I just finished a small Amiibo test with 3 Yoshis(np.reddit.com)
1 points by magoghm 12y ago|0 comments
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Ten Years of World of Warcraft(raphkoster.com)
128 points by magoghm 12y ago|100 comments
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by magoghm 12y ago
I have the original edition of the book and I think it is one of the best books about software that I've ever read.
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by magoghm 12y ago
Unfortunately, I do not own the rights to the code. If I did I would have released it as open source.
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by magoghm 12y ago
In 2008 I was working as a contractor for somebody who needed many J2ME MIDlets. Some of those MIDLets had to get information from a server, in most cases the MIDlet did an HTTP GET and the server would respond with some simple data (usuall
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by magoghm 12y ago
Me too.
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A new foundation for mathematics(rdmag.com)
80 points by magoghm 12y ago|22 comments
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Will Apple's iPhone 6 be made by ROBOTS?(dailymail.co.uk)
1 points by magoghm 12y ago|0 comments
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by magoghm 12y ago
After reading all 17 questions and answers from the 74th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, I only see one question which might be interpreted as "Under fire from furious share holders", and the shareholder starts by saying:
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by magoghm 12y ago
"On the positive side, but as you’d expect with near-zero rates, US equities are at record levels." I'm no so sure this should be on the positive side. Those equities are artificially inflated by central bank (indirect) manip
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by magoghm 12y ago
Same here.
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Japan PM Abe wants to stage 2020 Robot Olympics(sports.yahoo.com)
1 points by magoghm 12y ago|0 comments
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by magoghm 12y ago
Zelda games have a lot of interesting implementation details. You might also be interested in Twilight Princess Eyes Breakdown: http://www.benjones.us/twilight-princess-eyes-breakdown/
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by magoghm 12y ago
The bill mandates that telecommunication companies retain all customers' communication data for 12 months. Do they really mean ALL the data? Everything I watch on Netflix, Crunchyroll & YouTube? All the games I download from Steam,
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by magoghm 12y ago
Great explanation! Thank you.
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by magoghm 12y ago
"that's why Caltech doesn't even bother teaching macro to its PhD students anymore" this seems interesting. Any source for that?

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