pieceofpeace

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by pieceofpeace 17y ago
No, The 2nd para of TFA: We're talking about compression here, the dynamic compression that's used a lot in popular music. There's actually another kind of compression going on today one that allows us to carry hundreds of songs in
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by pieceofpeace 17y ago
IMO, the slope of the lines in National Geographic chart show the Spending/LE relation better.
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by pieceofpeace 17y ago
I am aware that cocos2d is a layer over pyglet but it is a very good way of doing sprite animations. I like both pyglet and cocos2d and prefer them over pygame which in my opinion is not 'pythonic' enough.
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by pieceofpeace 17y ago
For OpenGL on Python there is http://www.pyglet.org/ and http://cocos2d.org/
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A History Modems(techradar.com)
3 points by pieceofpeace 17y ago|0 comments
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A Simple Intro to Learning Theory(onionesquereality.wordpress.com)
3 points by pieceofpeace 17y ago|0 comments
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Automated to Death?(spectrum.ieee.org)
43 points by pieceofpeace 17y ago|21 comments
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by pieceofpeace 17y ago
This ability is what differentiates smart thinkers. Many of us just can't think meticulously when making important decisions under pressure.
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Logic cognition, are you quick and/or accurate?(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
2 points by pieceofpeace 17y ago|1 comments
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by pieceofpeace 17y ago
Because MS is also into advertising that is not likely. But if it did that Google would block Windows users' access to their services and show a message that MS is responsible for this mess _and_ sue MS for anti-competitive practices.
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Rebuilding the IBM 1401(spectrum.ieee.org)
21 points by pieceofpeace 17y ago|5 comments
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by pieceofpeace 17y ago
If the stock is borrowed it is a covered short. The problem is with naked shorts where you sell without even locating. Or when you put 'three dots' (as the Goldman Sachs compliance officer remarked in a conference) in the text field to repo
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Why the Evidence of Water on the Moon is Bad News(spectrum.ieee.org)
57 points by pieceofpeace 17y ago|61 comments
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by pieceofpeace 17y ago
As I saw, it was not meant to be offensive. Special olympics are for special people. They are not the best among all competitors. Most interpreted languages are not comparable to compiled languages.
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by pieceofpeace 17y ago
>It's the same reason that VCs are willing to invest millions of dollars in nascent companies which will, in all likelihood, fail in the near future. ... > The reason is scalability. Very high risk / Very high returns Like Gambling
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by pieceofpeace 17y ago
That money goes after tax has been paid, house bought etc. It has many immediate benefit for the host country. The host is not subsidizing the alien's home country.
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by pieceofpeace 17y ago
That's a typo. Sorry. 'fanbois' == Fan Boys. Thank you.
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by pieceofpeace 17y ago
Like jerf said what dictionaries say does not matter. In practice I see that feminists are like various fonbois seen here, they go on and on about their pet topic, they are very easily provoked. It is as if they are finding an excuse to st
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by pieceofpeace 17y ago
Agree with you. But, I believe creative people get bored easily except when they are not creating something and so they would get bored of too much gambling, drinking, dressing up, spending money, finding/buying sex. All these vices are
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by pieceofpeace 17y ago
Legally, it's like Amazon brokered sale of stolen goods and the owners demanded those goods be returned. People thought they had purchased limited rights to the book. Amazon _is_ responsible in some way.
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by pieceofpeace 17y ago
Just unbelievable. Same color is perceived (very) differently by the brain depending on its surrounding colors.
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by pieceofpeace 17y ago
More and more languages are acquiring functional-programming features, so, may be we will see a hybrid of Python & Haskell. languages like Haskell, which have no side effects Haskell does have side-effects. Most programs have sid
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by pieceofpeace 17y ago
> and kelvin = Celsius - 273 kelvin = Celsius + ~273.15