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by mjn 13y ago
I'm using it for modeling videogame prototypes in logic, and then deriving properties of them, aimed at providing richer design support: http://www.kmjn.org/publications/Playtesting_AIIDE09-abstrac... The longer-t
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by mjn 13y ago
Some Google-Books perusal suggests that airlines in the U.S., if they sell tickets to the public (rather than operating as private carriers) have an even stronger obligation than public accommodations, as common carriers who are required to
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by mjn 13y ago
As you note, the concept of free speech in Europe is somewhat different than in the U.S., but this includes your first sentence not applying in Europe to the same extent. In at least some European countries, the conception of free speech is
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by mjn 13y ago
If you look at the Valley as an example, it's a bit of both. The grungy garages are the most romanticized element, but there was quite a bit of large-scale institutional support. Stanford Industrial Park and the cluster around NASA&#x2
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by mjn 13y ago
A broad reading of the language could include even classic target-seeking missiles. A heat-seeking missile is a rudimentary heuristic "AI agent" that makes "decisions" on direction of travel based on looking for hotspots
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by mjn 13y ago
Answer Set Programming, specifically via the Potassco tools: http://potassco.sourceforge.net/ Combines the solver goodness of modern SAT and CSP solvers with the modeling-language richness of classic Prolog.
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by mjn 13y ago
Tore Blystad (game director on Hitman: Absolution ) was also from the demoscene, part of the Norwegian demo group Spaceballs in the early 1990s, where he worked on this famous demo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_o
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by mjn 13y ago
You can get them from libraries, but it really depends on location. If you're a resident of NYC, there is a great public library system with huge holdings. If you're somewhere rural, not as great. University libraries cover a fair
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by mjn 13y ago
The countries with corporatist labor systems (non-militant, union/employer consensus decision making) typically have low unemployment and strong economies. Examples: Germany and the Nordics.
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by mjn 13y ago
There's a very strong individualist current in Scandinavia, but interpreted differently. Many people actually view Americans and southern Europeans as more collectivist, in the clannish sense, because of their reliance on family, ext
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Chain Jam(joon.be)
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by mjn 13y ago
To add some low-budget examples, I did a tally [1] of where the 2013 Independent Games Festival finalists came from, and Sweden had four: Göteborg: Hotline Miami, by Dennaton http://www.hotlinemiami.com/ Malmö: rymdkapsel,
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by mjn 13y ago
Yeah, the San Francisco office is now officially the headquarters (moved from Copenhagen in 2009), but as you can see from the bios of the people listed as being in SF on that page, it's almost exclusively the sales and finance office,
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by mjn 13y ago
It's harder to do immigration formalities without a degree, no disagreement there. Although I believe that's somewhat true in the U.S., too: while many Valley companies will hire someone without a degree, my impression is that the
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by mjn 13y ago
> the USA seems to have much more opportunity for the 'I have experience, but no degree' type than the rest of the world does Are you referring to formal immigration requirements, or the job market? I definitely agree on formal
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by mjn 13y ago
Have you seen Kerr's full appellate brief on Aurenheimer's behalf? Imo it's more compelling than the post you link, at the expense of being considerably longer: http://www.volokh.com/wp-content/uploads&#x
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by mjn 13y ago
I'm not; I'm a useless academic. :) Many of the students in my program start small game companies, though (I teach in a game masters program), so I follow that scene a bit. A few examples that have come out of the program here: h
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by mjn 13y ago
For small tech companies in Denmark (I don't know much about other sectors/countries), it's common to hire people on a contract or fixed-term basis initially, something like 3-12 months. Then each side can decide if they&#x27
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by mjn 13y ago
The area where Denmark is most clearly easier, in my opinion, is starting a one-person company ("lifestyle business", freelancing, consulting, etc.). Since most benefits (healthcare, childcare, etc.) are independent of employment,
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by mjn 13y ago
a whole lot of opportunity for personal advancement that is hard to find in other countries, even thriving, developed countries that also have representative government, a free press, and broad protection of individual liberties. Out of c
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by mjn 13y ago
That ties in a bit with Seymour Papert's idea of teaching programming as a medium of expression. One part is having a meaningful domain, though an equally important second part is encouraging exploration and tinkering, rather than plow
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by mjn 13y ago
If people are interested in digging into this kind of thing, there are some very interesting papers on the subject: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=sketch-based+proto... One of the bigger chunks of funding has
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by mjn 13y ago
I agree as far as the ritual of making it in homes goes, but in a restaurant using a machine doesn't bug me much. Even when the coffee is made in a briki/cezve, at a larger store it'll be in a big assembly-line process in the
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by mjn 13y ago
The preparation method is vaguely similar (heat the grounds in the water), but it differs in the fineness of the grind, which makes a substantial difference. Cowboy coffee uses a coarse grind, roughly like the grounds you'd use to make
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by mjn 13y ago
Fwiw there are also machines that do it now, though purists disdain them. They are rare in homes (unlike espresso machines in Italy), but many commercial establishments in Turkey, the Balkans, and the Middle East will use the machine by def
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by mjn 13y ago
I've used them on tens-of-GB datasets (not TB), and they're quite fast except for those implemented in Perl, which is kind of a hidden gotcha. For example, calcfield is barely usable, because it loops a perl expression over ever
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When work is a game, who wins?(newyorker.com)
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by mjn 13y ago
I like Google's crush-tools, which works on delimited data (e.g. tab-delimited), a somewhat simpler and faster format than CSV. Lots of the built-in Unix tools also work on delimited data (cut, join, sort, etc.), but crush-tools fills
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by mjn 13y ago
The colon's a legal character in Unix filenames, so it's possible someone could send you a file named somehostname:foo.tar and convince you to run tar on it. Of course, if you quote the filename or escape the \:, as bash autocompl
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by mjn 13y ago
In California at least the prison-guard union does have a significant role, which is a kind of profit motive. They successfully campaigned for the three-strikes law, for example, and have been a strong influence on politicians for decades.

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