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by randomacct44 9y ago
Apparently it's real! http://www.newsweek.com/crazy-genius-brand-guru-peter-arnell...
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MHRD: A Hardware Design Game(store.steampowered.com)
5 points by randomacct44 10y ago|0 comments
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Atari 2600 Emulator in Minecraft(youtube.com)
2 points by randomacct44 10y ago|0 comments
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by randomacct44 10y ago
Yeah. Sure, tape-out may be cheaper with one chip line, but we aren't talking about chips where the feature is there in silicon but intentionally disabled (say, for the other more expensive variant). We're talking about a feature
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by randomacct44 10y ago
The utterly stupid thing is that the hype is what killed the game. Of course, then I guess they wouldn't have been able to charge AAA price for it and get away with it :/ I'm a fan of the space sim / massive universe co
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by randomacct44 10y ago
What the? "When I was discharged from the hospital late the next day, the cabdriver asked me, “Where do I take you?” I couldn’t remember the name of my street. I handed him the discharge paperwork with my address on it, arrived home an
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by randomacct44 10y ago
AFAIK Android 6.0 and up lets you 'Format SD as internal storage' and from then on it's well, internal storage. I remember messing around with it on my Nexus Player awhile ago. In that particular case though, it did NOT han
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by randomacct44 10y ago
This is what happens when the concepts of security, DRM and commercial restriction get entangled. This reminds me of the PlayStation 3. It remained an un-hacked console for so long and the theory goes that the people who wanted to tinker w
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by randomacct44 10y ago
Reminds me of what happens when you step onto an escalator that isn't working (the broken escalator phenomenon): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_escalator_phenomenon
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by randomacct44 10y ago
Got any references for this? I'm in Australia and have never heard this, nor have I seen such clauses in any non-competes that I've signed.
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by randomacct44 10y ago
My current pet-peeve: - If your code deals with values where the units of measure are especially important and where they may change for the same type of value in different contexts, PUT THE UNITS USED IN THE VARIABLE NAME! I work primarily
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by randomacct44 10y ago
Yep, it was a long time ago now :) Dark Forces is one I haven't thought of in awhile - such a great story-based FPS. I probably didn't make it as clear as I meant to - I wasn't so much referring to "when story-based firs
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by randomacct44 10y ago
I think it's broader than just "designed for easy control on a console". There were other factors at play. I think what actually set this type of design in motion can be traced back to that point in time when Half-Life came
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by randomacct44 10y ago
I'm looking at Elm for a product that I'm working on at the moment. The language is great and I've wanted an excuse to do actual work in an ML-like language for a long time. The difficulty I'm having at the moment is ju
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by randomacct44 10y ago
Totally not :) Just for reference, I'm not actually planning to build a safety-critical device with an ESP8266. What piqued my curiosity was this project: http://openaps.org It's basically a homebrew controller impleme
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Ask HN: Languages for safety-critical embedded work?
14 points by randomacct44 10y ago|22 comments
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by randomacct44 10y ago
I'm interested in how you did handle the social aspects. What adjustments did you make? How did you handle the invites-to-lunch when you weren't really hungry? That's one of my biggest issues. I'm on a meal plan at the
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by randomacct44 10y ago
Is there anything like this for JS + WebAudio? Have a mate who wants to be able to embed something like this in a website (endless generative music).
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by randomacct44 11y ago
I don't quite understand it when people say that VR won't succedd but AR will. They're two points on a single technological continuum. One will enable the other. If AR does massively take off, all of that tech will benefit
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by randomacct44 11y ago
Why can't I just talk to the bot on the website? Garrr I must be getting old. I just can't be bothered signing up for any of those networks to try this. I already have SMS, Hangouts, Skype and WhatsApp to chat with. Don't
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by randomacct44 11y ago
In particular reference to HN: I read a comment somewhere (I think it was here, or perhaps another site) that Snowden was to HN what the SCO case was to Slashdot back in the day. That is - times were happier until it seemed like politics t
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by randomacct44 11y ago
My question is - why are bus drivers such assholes (as depicted by the comments here)? Serious question I'm curious about. Is this societal, is it a technology problem (do the way buses work somehow encourage this behavior towards oth
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by randomacct44 11y ago
I've been playing Clash Royale on iPad (it's a multiplayer battle game set in the Clash of Clans universe that essentially drops the base building element and concentrates on the strategic combat). Generally, competitive multiplay
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by randomacct44 11y ago
It's funny -- on the one hand, people SAY they want this (only fully cooked new features). Yet everyone is really quick to jump up and down and complain and bash $company for lacking innovation when their new OS or the next version of
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by randomacct44 11y ago
Speaking of Sydney, are there many tech companies that allow remote work in Australia? (I'm a software developer, primarily .NET but also C++ and embedded firmware FWIW). Are there any job sites / directories specifically for find
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by randomacct44 11y ago
Yes they have -- the Samsung Gear VR. You wouldn't even know that it was associated with Facebook in any way. The Oculus Store is accessed via your Oculus account. There's literally no mention of Facebook anywhere (I'm not
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by randomacct44 11y ago
Good. Fake rape claims are extremely damaging, not just to the people they're made against, but also to every single real victim of rape.
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by randomacct44 11y ago
Far more pronounced. The FOV reduction doesn't come from the glasses frame so much as it comes from the glasses moving your eyes further away from the headset lenses than they would be without the glasses.
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by randomacct44 11y ago
Ironically the AppleTV is currently the most 'open' in that regard for me - I can play all my iTunes content _and_ the Google YouTube app allows me to play my Play Store purchased content as well (it appears under 'Purchases&
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by randomacct44 11y ago
The YouTube app on AppleTV is a native app, not a wrapper. I don't know about the FireTV (on a side note, the YouTube app for Android TV is also a native app and not a wrapper). I actually quite like the youtube.com/tv page as a

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