photon137

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by photon137 14y ago
I totally agree with this. I am a quant working at a bank writing trading strategies in C++. I have a colleague in "Infrastructure" (they call it) who sits two desks away from me and he writes C++ code that loads my code and runs it on a ma
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by photon137 14y ago
Yes, they're discouraging Win32 use overall (even in the x86/x64 space). But that does not mean you can't build native apps (ie non .NET) for WOA - you can use C/C++ out of the box. You are just bound to use MetroUI and WinRT as your primar
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by photon137 14y ago
Well, MS provides Visual Studio for this - which isn't a bad toolchain, in my opinion.
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by photon137 14y ago
It doesn't - it provides a perfectly equivalent platform. In all cases, it will be the codecs registered with the OS that would be used - so the quality of the media cannot be better/worse. Where this differs is from a developer perspective
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by photon137 14y ago
That's because usually there is a browser-based layer which runs that HTML/JavaScript. Here it is Metro UI (via HTML5) powered using JavaScript (running natively on Windows) - equivalent to a C++ native app with a Metro UI.
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by photon137 14y ago
"native hardware video decompression without having too much impact on the battery" - that's actually where ARM and Intel innovated, not Apple - MS is probably mature enough to deal with processors at least as well as, if not better than, A
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by photon137 14y ago
All-in-all, it's a big, big play on Windows 8/RT. A kernel that can perform optimally on ARM/Intel on mobile devices and also support PC devices is a huge achievement - the entire thread-library would have to be one super-cool piece of soft
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by photon137 14y ago
I get inundated with conversations, discussions and emails so much during work-time that lunch time is often a good time of solitude for me to organize my plan of action for the rest of the day. I usually take a short walk around London's a
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by photon137 14y ago
Have people forgottten satellites? You don't have to go along the Earth's crust, you know! A low orbit satellite with height above surface <= r * (0.5 * theta * cosec (theta /2) - 1) where r = radius of earth and theta = angle subtended
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Trends: The cloud computing market(akshaymishra.com)
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by photon137 14y ago
Create a new Discuss HN section even - if mods don't want the front page to be inundated with meta-discussions. Those who have grievances would be able to voice them and discuss those publicly - even the mod replies ought to be public. If t
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The Federal Reserve's history via Google Ngrams(macroblog.typepad.com)
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The BBC's weather forecast UI(bbc.co.uk)
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by photon137 14y ago
Parallel Stacks and Watch look to be much-needed debugging features.
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What's New for Visual C++ in Visual Studio 2012 RC(msdn.microsoft.com)
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by photon137 14y ago
See my comment on this very thread explaining the Fed's action to counter inflation/deflation: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4087941
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by photon137 14y ago
No, we aren't taking differeent lessons from stat. mech. - your understanding of thermodyanmics is flawed (there are no two views here - this is physics). S = k ln W is an entropy model for an ideal gas with uncorrelated particle motions an
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by photon137 14y ago
I totally missed your last statement: "By contrast, in physics, thermodynamics is firmly based on the microscale discipline of statistical mechanics." Thermodynamics is absolutely the most aggregate branch of physics. delta(E_int) = delta
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by photon137 14y ago
I agree with you that economics has nowhere near as much predictive power as physics (trained in physics, stuck in the financial-sector as a boring quant - I can testify to both). Nor it has infallible foundations (rational behaviour? game-
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by photon137 14y ago
But you did earn that increase in value. A home you couldn't afford in 2006 because it cost $300,000 is now affordable at $175,000. The purchasing power of your dollars did go up (actually it didn't "go up" - it is reaching it's fair value
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by photon137 14y ago
lo-res being the key :) I can see how the voxel representation would be computed and made resident in GPU memory. What's amazing to me, that such a highly branched computation algorithm is now possible in real-time on a GPU! (we had branchi
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by photon137 14y ago
No - Fed loans are not backed by taxpayer money - they are backed by the faith in Fed to replace those dollars with assets of equivalent value. And no, it's not a stealth tax on anyone who holds dollars. The popular view is that ok, the s
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by photon137 14y ago
Voxels would be too heavy. I have worked with volume rendering before and it's way too expensive to do it at this scale (although their scene with the light passing through the volumetric smoke column kind-of defied this). Some real-time ve
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by photon137 14y ago
First of all, the plot you mention is the projection after the Treasury stimulus - this has absolutely nothing to do with the Fed at all. I have never mentioned the government stimulus at all. I am only describing the factual and operatio
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by photon137 14y ago
Some branch of the GPL'ed idTech 4, I suppose? Back in the day, OGRE, Crystal Space and Irrlicht used to be the dominant FOSS ones. Crystal Space is a bit outdated now. Irrlicht is stuck at DX 9.0 and OpenGL 3.x OGRE seems the most likely c
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by photon137 14y ago
Although, when I go through the code, it feels more like a copy of the (legendary) Red Book. Missing vector/pixel (or fragment in GL-speak) shaders as well.
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by photon137 14y ago
lovely, thanks!
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by photon137 14y ago
Oh sorry, I missed the point :) Artistic lighting - now that's a different thing!
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by photon137 14y ago
Raytracing for one. Also, none of the graphics engines really capture the wave-nature of light - intereference/diffraction etc. Radiosity captures a bit of this but from an intensity/energy point of view.
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by photon137 14y ago
I thought Kismet was pseudo-script (albeit with a GUI). Edit: http://www.unrealengine.com/features/kismet/

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