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by ricree 17y ago
Very interesting, but I wish that there was more information on the time scales involved. How long does it take to grow one of these? How long will they last?
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by ricree 17y ago
This looks like it came from the slides of some talk. Is there a video available?
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by ricree 17y ago
I agree with the sentiment of "hey, let's talk about something else now", and I do like Erlang itself, but there's some good content over on the new page that's being overlooked due to the rush of Erlang posts.
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by ricree 17y ago
It's pretty well refuted, though. http://www.aquaticape.org/
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by ricree 17y ago
I do think there is some merit to their argument regarding newbie unfriendliness. There's a large contingent of established editors who are very vigorous about enforcing the notability guidelines. It doesn't help that the guidelines are s
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by ricree 17y ago
Agreed. I can't really speak for any other area, but several of the large Chicago papers (most notably the Tribune) have been key in exposing and fighting government corruption. While their average content isn't always that great, they are
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by ricree 17y ago
Sure, strengthening back muscles is not enough for real injuries, but neither is going to a chiropractor. At best, the chiropractor is a physical therapist with a focus on the back. But mixed in with those people are a good number of othe
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by ricree 17y ago
I played a version once that shipped with an old windows game pack. Each turn, each player was allowed to add one cell of their color and remove one of their opponent's, after which the rules were applied. The goal was to eliminate all of
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by ricree 17y ago
I don't agree with this comment, but are the votes against it really that reasonable? To me, it appears more as "-1:I Disagree" votes, which IMO ought to be avoided when possible. If anything, perhaps it would be better to instead vote up j
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by ricree 17y ago
It doesn't surprise me at all that there are companies who work like that. But it does surprise me to hear a company spokesman admit it so freely.
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by ricree 17y ago
“We’re a sue first, ask questions later kind of an organization.” Michael added that the company has a “good reputation it wants to preserve.” Something here has to be taken out of context. Surely no one whose goal was to preserve their co
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by ricree 17y ago
An interesting article, but I'm not sure what insight it offers over the original article it quotes so heavily from. http://smartstartup.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/01/the-dreade...
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by ricree 17y ago
On the other hand, there's a lot of great farmland that is constantly being developed for housing and retail purposes. I see this all the time in Illinois as the suburbs constantly spread out into areas that used to be farms. As far as I
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by ricree 17y ago
This would be more interesting if there was some attempt to filter the ones where there was some deliberate attempt to get views or exposure. As the author pointed out, "Not everyone uses YouTube to launch their showbiz or political career.
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by ricree 17y ago
He recently was interviewed on the StackOverflow podcast ( http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/podcast-59/ ). A bit of repeated material, but overall it was a fairly interesting program.
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by ricree 17y ago
Tarn Adams, the developer of Dwarf Fortress ( bay12games.com/dwarves/ ), is working on the game fulltime. He gets enough in donations to get by for the most part, but even living cheaply he still ended up spending around $2000 more than he
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by ricree 17y ago
Perhaps, but I'm guessing that what he means here is more of a rough structural understanding of the code. In other words, what pieces have what function, and in general how do they interact with one another. While this doesn't necessarily
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by ricree 17y ago
"Per capita, Americans rely on their cars more than Europeans. But adjusting for the size of the country, automobile usage is lower only in Finland, Sweden and Greece." It sounds like some interesting mental hoops were jumped through here.
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by ricree 17y ago
The best way I can think of would be to have a long term test where a number of users did all of their searching through a site that would randomly show the results of one search engine, and then have the users rate their satisfaction with
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by ricree 17y ago
When I tried the comparison, all three tended to have wikipedia pretty high in the rankings.
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by ricree 17y ago
"Your questions are loaded with some AJAX, which means that the search engine will never see them" I'm looking at the site with noscript on, and everything seems to be fine. Did he change things since you posted, or am I misunderstanding t
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by ricree 17y ago
I can imagine that asset creation might easily be as large an expense as building the technology. However, one of the big killers of MMOs is problems with the launch. With some of these large high profile failures, they've already gone thr
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by ricree 17y ago
"There are no MMO engines for sale that can make robust games. They just aren’t any good yet" That's somewhat surprising to me. There's so many MMOs out there that have failed for one reason or another that you'd think someone would be try
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by ricree 17y ago
Or if you're more hardware inclined but don't feel up to spending the time and money needed to make a wire wrapped cpu, I'd recommend learning vhdl or verilog and designing a cpu in that. It's at the logical level rather than physical, but
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by ricree 17y ago
The scribd link either seems to be broken, or there is an error in the site. The pdf link seems to load up fine.
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by ricree 17y ago
Does anyone know if the research team around this has actually published anything? Everything that I have seen on this is all in some mass media format. There's a book, a film, and a few pictures of a suspiciously intact skeleton, but I h
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by ricree 17y ago
It seems like an interesting idea, although I wonder how well it will scale. It seems like these sort of batteries would have large surface area and ventilation requirements, which might become a problem in many applications where lithium
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by ricree 17y ago
It shouldn't, but since lotto winnings are shared, it would decrease the already low expected payout.
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by ricree 17y ago
Agreed. It's hard to say how well this would extend to actually increasing the sentence for the crime itself. In this case, they already have the extra years, so I imagine that it looms larger in their mind. I don't know the psychology b
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by ricree 17y ago
I'd love to see some more Chicago meetups. I was down at school when the last one was supposed to happen, so I didn't get a chance to come.

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