mrsharpoblunto

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by mrsharpoblunto 10y ago
Awesome work! I noticed that you'd also done some work getting animated gifs displaying on the c64, seems like that would be a cool extra feature to have inline images display in the channel output, though I guess you'd have to do
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by mrsharpoblunto 10y ago
I imagine the dealbreaker for most young couples expecting kids is the cost of renting a 3+ bedroom in SF more than any fear of raising kids in the city.
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Procedurally generating gas planets and cloud systems using the GPU(junkship.net)
3 points by mrsharpoblunto 10y ago|0 comments
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by mrsharpoblunto 10y ago
OP is not trying to fix things in a distributed manner. They're saying that the status quo is fine - the solutions are already here and that people aren't taking advantage of them. This is is not a constructive position because, t
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by mrsharpoblunto 11y ago
Seems like his benchmark is not really measuring a realistic use case. Typically a client-side rendered application will have a big blob of external script (i.e. the application code) that it will have to pull down before rendering can begi
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by mrsharpoblunto 11y ago
It also depends if they have registered the trademark on the principal or supplemental registers. Trademarks which are descriptive in nature (such as this one) often can't get on the primary register (though they may after extensive us
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Show HN: Automated Garden Watering with a Raspberry Pi, Node, React and HomeKit(sharpoblunto.com)
2 points by mrsharpoblunto 11y ago|0 comments
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by mrsharpoblunto 11y ago
Not true, the numbers clearly show that its consultancy companies that take up the vast majority of the H1B quota. http://foreign-employment.findthedata.com/ Microsoft is the first big 'tech' company on the list a
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by mrsharpoblunto 11y ago
Personally I'd love it if TV networks would bring up ESPN style player stats summary sheets on politicians involved in a story listing a few key 'stats' such as what their top 3 sources of funding are, former employers, brief
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by mrsharpoblunto 11y ago
One key difference being that the death penalty removes the ability for later appeals and compensation if they are found to be innocent. According to one study the wrongful conviction rate of prisoners on death row could be around 4.1% [1]
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by mrsharpoblunto 11y ago
I disagree - aside from blog sites or marketing/portfolio type sites basically every web application on the modern internet requires per-user dynamic content to function - e-commerce, banking, productivity apps, social networks, messag
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by mrsharpoblunto 12y ago
This kind of programmer archeology is super interesting and pretty important for keeping knowledge of early gaming culture around. Its fascinating to imagine the software development practises and company culture that bought about a codebas
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by mrsharpoblunto 12y ago
I use some of my spare time to hack around on proc gen stuff - mainly targeted toward generating starfields & planets using GPU's. Here's something I worked on recently regarding generating realistic nebulas and starfields ht
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by mrsharpoblunto 12y ago
I've used a cubemap approach to render procedurally generated asteroid geometry and it works pretty well. I start by generating the heightmap using 3D simplex noise, Then when rendering I use a domain shader to offset the vertices of a
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by mrsharpoblunto 12y ago
As someone going through the US immigration process at the moment, the real issue as far as immigration reform goes should not be raising the H-1B cap, but rather fixing the insane greencard backlog. At the moment its pretty common for peop
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Show HN: BobbyTables a .NET ORM library for the Dropbox datastore API(mrsharpoblunto.github.io)
1 points by mrsharpoblunto 13y ago|0 comments
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by mrsharpoblunto 13y ago
If one factors in the 2-3% YC acceptance rate, and makes the assumption (that I admittedly haven't checked out) that no startups rejected by YC are now billion dollar companies, that closes the difference down to around 100x
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by mrsharpoblunto 13y ago
Pretty sure the Shanghai Transrapid does 430kph in regular use, or at least it was the last time I rode on it. Definitely worth taking for the trip from the airport into Pudong if you're ever flying into Shanghai.
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Using markov chains to generate random open source project names(mrsharpoblunto.github.io)
2 points by mrsharpoblunto 13y ago|0 comments