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by psykotic 14y ago
Does this remind you of someone else? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/7874307/Prince-th...
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by psykotic 14y ago
> This seems a bit delicate and involves some communication during the hand-off from the old to the new, but it does work. MUDs routinely did this back in the day. Here's a README excerpt from Erwin Andreasen's widely used patch: "Basic
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by psykotic 14y ago
Kalman filters are a simple idea when viewed from the right angle, at least for someone with a good grasp of linear algebra. You have a linear dynamical system with normal-distributed dynamical noise. You then take linear measurements of th
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by psykotic 14y ago
> This says a lot about our culture. That's a big leap. In Danish we just say "venture kapital". There are thousands upon thousands of direct loanwords like this. I wouldn't read anything deeper into it.
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Dude, I copy and pasted straight from Wikipedia. How exactly is that a thorough defense? I don't drink caffeinated beverages, so I haven't even got a dog in this hunt.
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by psykotic 14y ago
Coca Cola contains relatively little caffeine by fluid volume compared to, say, coffee. But more importantly, it's well documented that regular users of caffeine build up tolerance to its diuretic effects. From the Wikipedia page on caffein
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by psykotic 15y ago
Fabian just posted the companion blog post: http://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/if-in-doubt-go-to-th...
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by psykotic 15y ago
Or the 4k remake of Chaos Theory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFAIaclLrKE . Elevated is a classic and a complete aesthetic package, but it's still a one-effect intro. Chaos Theory 4k is more varied but unfortunately it has a shitty synt
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by psykotic 15y ago
While at RAD he's also worked on the D3D stack for Larrabee under contract with Intel and on optimizing the low-level graphics layer for Iggy (RAD's Flash-based UI middleware) across several platforms.
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No. My naive thinking was that since we're not claiming any complex deductions (we don't have any relevant assets in the US), I could easily do everything by myself. I'll probably regret that.
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> Not really. You can use an ITIN. IRS gives them and they are for tax tracking only. I just went though trying to get an ITIN for my spouse so we could file a joint tax return. After waiting for 5 weeks, they rejected the application b
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Abrash on Valve: How I Got Here, What It's Like, and What I'm Doing(blogs.valvesoftware.com)
288 points by psykotic 15y ago|86 comments
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> Yes, but for 1 DTU there are plenty of other Universities aiming only at big numbers of students. Plenty? There aren't more than a handful of Danish universities in total. The only one that isn't at a high international level is Roski
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> how we really think about our players instead of taking on what is essentially an uninformed and cliched conventional wisdom opinion about the company. Judging a company by what they do publicly rather than what they might say or thin
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> Crossfire has a huge potential audience of not just ubernerds. You apparently misread the name. That can't be a good sign. :)
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by psykotic 15y ago
Smoked by Windows Phone? Is anyone else reminded of the funeral procession Microsoft held for iPhone a few years ago? http://www.intomobile.com/2010/09/10/microsoft-windows-phone...
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by psykotic 15y ago
Exactly. We fucked up. We are sorry. We have taken down the video. It won't happen again. Done. That's all you need to say. Anything more and you're just making it worse.
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> that someone ought to take it apart and do an annotated version of it as a lesson to the community. I'm sure this isn't what you had in mind, but I couldn't help myself. I'm not claiming this is what they were actually thinking, but i
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by psykotic 15y ago
> A Scanner Darkly ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405296/ ) It's worth watching for many reasons, but it'd be worth watching for this scene alone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2HP25bKztE
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by psykotic 15y ago
> "I will respond to this by aggressive behavior not that much unlike what the other dude did" He showed a naked picture of himself to her in a situation where the default balance of power was firmly in his favor. An interviewer blott
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by psykotic 15y ago
My point was more that the baseline latency on a modern computer and operating system, without really doing anything on the application side, is already very significant--it took simplifying assumptions and a good deal of hacking to get to
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> Latency's a big one, especially if you're doing head-tracking or augmented reality. From a coworker's Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/#!/rygorous/statuses/168173568889327616 Numbers: E2E latency of key press->VGA signal or key
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Gabe Newell talks wearable computers and why consoles should open up(penny-arcade.com)
63 points by psykotic 15y ago|20 comments
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> May not be the only benefit, during the Medieval Warm Period humanity benefited greatly from increased crop yields and milder winters. "Humanity" meaning Northern Europeans? The MWP led to prolonged droughts and floods throughout othe
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by psykotic 15y ago
> I like looking at attractive women. I like programming. Would it be possible to have an event where I could program and look at attractive women at the same time? I like custard. I like meat. Would it be possible to have a dish where
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by psykotic 15y ago
I recently finished Peter Hessler's book Country Driving (all of his three China books are excellent, by the way). Workers wanting more OT (and more guaranteed hours in general) is a common refrain in the third of the book which deals with
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by psykotic 15y ago
> He is to cram his 6-foot-2 frame into a personnel sphere just 43 inches wide, forcing him to keep his knees bent and his body largely immobile. The dive plan calls for him to remain in that position for up to nine hours. My heartfelt
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by psykotic 15y ago
This already happened for video games under similar circumstances with Internet cafes. These days the typical video game EULA prohibits use in Internet cafes without a special license, but as far as I know that has not been tested in court.
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The Korean won symbol ₩ also occupies 0x5C. I never got totally used to seeing directory paths separated by ₩.
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by psykotic 15y ago
While we're handing out recommendations, check out of the BBC documentary Human Planet. The name might suggest otherwise, but it breaks out of the increasingly stale Attenborough mold. It's as much anthropology as nature documentary, even m

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