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For anyone interested - since its not immediately clear from the website (though the graphics are stunning) – TaiChi is a cross platform combined physically based animation and physically based rendering toolkit/ library. It wraps a lo
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Direct link to github repository: https://github.com/Microsoft/BosqueLanguage
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For those interested but needing a little help deciphering Thomas Lackner has a handy repo: https://github.com/tlack/b-decoded
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I think JB originally added Z for zoom level for map tile zoom level, but (having done exactly this for some internal demos) you can totally abuse it for what you want and it works well. Tile38 is a really excellent geospatial database and
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Also the open source .Net relatives PascalABC.Net and and the Oberon family inspired Component Pascal if you are looking for Pascal related languages on .Net/Mono/Core.
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I think Go was more influenced by Pascal's descendent's notably Oberon-2 (Pascal ->Modula 2/3 ->Oberon) thanks to Robert Griesemer, but definitely an indirect but significant influence.
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Yup its C# and then calling through to respective APIS for Directx 11/12/Vulcan etc and via xamarin for mobile. Coming from a C/C++ engine developer background I was very pleasantly suprised how performant Xenko is. It easil
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by ptrott2017 8y ago
Agree with this - having used Godot and Xenko both are good but with a significant gap between then and Unity/Unreal both can be used to build games/apps and make a living with. Godot is more polished and excels for 2D and 3D is
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BBC: Technology in deep time: How it evolves alongside us(bbc.com)
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if you are after a graph database for personal use - Segrada (Segrada.org) is a nice open source UI on top of OrientDB. Otherwise see Marviel and DredMorbius's suggestions both are worth checking out.
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Not from command line - but this will hopefully get you up and running in the IDE and have an idea what Pharo can do. or To deploy on another machine you simply copy the image file - so they can run from pharo. The image can be run headless
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More commonly for postproduction fixes (think stunts and inserting talent likeness, relighting/reframing a shot, inserting reflections when CG-ing the background of a window etc.…) so you can fix sequences without having to recall tale
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In general think about: 1. Subject/Supervisor 2. Location and acceptance in your target industry 3. Time for completion. 4. Cost and funding. 1. Supervisor relationships can make a massive difference in a PhD. You will work ridiculousl
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I have used Tile38 for a couple of internal demo experiments this year and hoping to push the projects into production next year (budget allowing). If you are looking for a realtime-GIS with geofencing support out of the box - it is an idea
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Interesting, I saw it the other way at least there is no single supplier...The best way I found to think of it was (though your mileage may vary with the analogy): DMD - gave latest features - its the shiny concept super car reference that
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Smalltalk started in 1969 or so with first release inside Xerox Parc was in 1972 (Smalltalk-72). See early history of smalltalk : http://wiki.c2.com/?EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk See Carl Hewitt's retrospective on Actors w
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There have been various actor related developments in Smalltalk and others on YC will have far more knowledge :-) But Distributed Smalltalk (John Bennet et al) - late 1980's dabbled with actor like constructs. JOhn's thesis is sti
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unless they were designed for the load, long time water retention etc- it can be an expensive rennovation/refit and brings additional maintenance costs but it is still a good idea. There are increasingly Tax breaks for necessary inves
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for enterprise ETL - there is also kettle which has been around for a long time- which has a desktop and web authoring client. https://github.com/pentaho/pentaho-kettle
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Github: https://github.com/janestreet/hardcaml And Andy Ray and co's stuff: Blogs: http://www.ujamjar.com/ Getting started overview and tutorials: http://www.ujamjar.com/hardcaml&#
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In addition to Agietgey's excellent answer. Look for Non-profits working in this area who do work for the larger NGOs - they tend to be smaller and more accessible and also have specialists who will understand where you are coming from
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In addition to GlenTheMachine's excellent answer: If you see opportunities on FedBizOps where you only have a partial solution, look to see which Govt contractors/suppliers are already working/bidding in that area. Often you
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I remember discussing this as a possibility with Phil and Anthony in CERN Cafetera in 2007/2008 when they had first licensed some imaging tech from CERN. It is absolutely thrilling to see how far the team have come since then and to se
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Walter - appears Xilinx are the current copyright holder and ABEL was last supported in the XILINX 10.1 ISE toolset released circa 2008 (Current release is 14.7). Introductory guide can still be found here: https://bit.ly/2N
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See here for templates that might help pull somethings together: https://www.smartsheet.com/free-onboarding-checklists-and-te... Assuming you have HR/IT set up and onboarding guides done and the general intro to compan
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Might possibly be Andrei Alexandrescu's The Case for D -also in Dr.Dobbs. See here: http://www.drdobbs.com/parallel/the-case-for-d/217801225?pgn...
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interesting to see this released. Have used DeckGL previously for data viz (DeckGl is well done and easy to use if looking for a javascript/node dataviz toolset), so rather nice to see the spatial demos, packaged up and built out simp
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Cousin Jacks Pasties or Marshals Pasties in Grass Valley, California - both recommended. Like Hildalgo, Cornish miners worked the mines in the Auburn/Grass Valley/Nevada City area of California and brought the pasties with them t
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As DavidW points out Out of the box Tcl (like most scripting languages) was never designed for numeric processing. If you want to do numerics and number crunching in Tcl use one of the extensions such as Vectcl or the Mathemtcl. Tcl's
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@karmbahh - good to know. I've used Kettle for about 9 months in production and so far its been pretty solid - but we are not going that far off the beaten path for most things. Its a big app, but at least there is documentation and so

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