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by soup10 12y ago
What a dumb assertion that someone can be an expert on changing the world. Paul graham has lived in the startup world bubble for too long and is a bit off his rocker when it comes to having perspective on the larger picture of changing ind
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by soup10 12y ago
Seems like an easily overlooked and underestimated sector of the world. Most software and tech development happens in cities and away from rural areas and farm-towns. And agriculture doesn't exactly have a reputation for easy profits.
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by soup10 12y ago
oh man the feels, stay strong friend. mental illness history myself. gotta remember to stay safe and make sure others don't see you as a threat. try to do things that make your life calmer and more stress free. it's the only way
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by soup10 12y ago
Gates was being super evasive, with-holding information and playing dumb. I don't fault the interviewer at all, the name of the game is pin the tail on the weasel, it's only natural that he has to repeat himself and ask gates to
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by soup10 12y ago
Testflight has been around for a while. was using them for beta tests a couple years ago. looks like apple acquired them and made it official.
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by soup10 12y ago
I agree with this. Sounds like the newer devs are not as experienced/knowledgable optimizing java as notch was. Article also highlights the challenges of using a GC language for high performance games. GC works against you most of th
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by soup10 12y ago
It's a cultural thing. Especially heavy drinkers tend to exist in a bubble where all the people they regularly socialize with are also regular drinkers and enable each other.
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by soup10 12y ago
Associating this product with blood money is highly offensive and it's disappointing that this is the top comment. The team behind this has put a lot of sweat and tears into making this a reality, as is always the case when starting a
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by soup10 12y ago
You should know it's an open secret now that the NSA has racks of hardware at telecom data centers which record your calls and has for a while. On the other hand the big corps don't care unless they can profit from it. Privacy by
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by soup10 12y ago
Probably iPhone 6
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by soup10 12y ago
+1 my first program was a hilariously poorly coded pong game on the ti-83. A ridiculous mess of labels and goto's, but it worked! I may not have gotten into programming if not for the early introduction through graphing calculators.
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by soup10 12y ago
Just FYI this is a very specific optimization for mc. Normally you have static terrain and precisely pre-calculate what geometry is hidden from different regions and field of view and bake that information into the world. It's quite s
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by soup10 12y ago
If the machine works decently these will sell really well(if not the next generation model or a competitors will). Every overpriced coffee shop, bakery, and restaurant that can think of something creative to do with it will want one.
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by soup10 12y ago
This is identical to the sentiment against iPod when it first came out. If the design is good, user friendly, and people still like the product, it won't matter if it's got worse specs since they can always improve them in later r
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by soup10 12y ago
It's completely fucked up to be so casually dismissive of a sexual assault allegation. For every girl crying wolf there are 10+ others that never speak up out of fear.
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by soup10 12y ago
It's funny that code rot is so inevitable. Some people think that the code just needs to be written and designed very well to avoid technical debt. But it always rots in some way. Even if the code is never changed or amended and no
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by soup10 12y ago
Bitcoin is still mostly a speculative vehicle. 9/10 links about bitcoin are not real news and are just propped up by people with a stake in it. Nobody else cares.
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by soup10 12y ago
I agree, but this press release misleads the public into thinking their data at Facebook is more secure and private than it really is.
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by soup10 12y ago
Being able to set my own sleep schedule was a driving factor in wanting to start my own business. The tyranny of early wake ups and long commutes left me pissed off, grumpy and unable to work to the best of my ability at school and jobs.
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by soup10 12y ago
Boring pr that ignores the elephant in the room, NSA and other intelligence agencies undoubtably have super user access. They probably even have agents that work at Facebook to ensure they don't lose that access.
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by soup10 12y ago
The blog post was a lot of 'this is amazing and will change everything'(which wolfram thinks about everything he does, lol) without a convincing demonstration as to why. To me it sounds like they added more features to the Mathem
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by soup10 12y ago
So the cost of college is skyrocketing and teachers are getting paid less and less. Where is the money going??
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by soup10 12y ago
Seems like reasonable player-friendly rules, I think minecraft has a ton of servers and sub-communities though so it will probably be quite hard to police. The idea of individual server ops creating mini-businesses seems a little odd. The
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by soup10 12y ago
I think test prep helps a ton for standardized tests. It familiarizes you with the subjects and testing format. Which means when it's time to do the real thing, it's all old hat. The article only mentions the average score incre
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by soup10 12y ago
War has a long history of driving technological innovation, it's not pretty but it's true. The development of computers, the internet, airplanes, nuclear power, and space exploration were all greatly accelerated due to military f
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by soup10 12y ago
Not sure how useful this is, seems like it would be pretty limiting without spending a significant amount of time customizing assets. If your in the market for low-end art, there are offshore studios that produce decent stuff incredibly che
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by soup10 12y ago
Uber's revenues were leaked earlier this year( http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/04/leaked-uber-numbers-which-w... ), they're earning buckets of money and would thrive without VC investment, assuming they
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by soup10 12y ago
OP is not suggesting they ban all IAP, just consumable ones, which tend to be the most abusive. It would be a bold move and lead to an increase in quality for sure. It would also gut companies like zynga who design their games around them
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by soup10 12y ago
This fear is part of why we have the absurdly opaque and inefficient grant writing process, in which funds are allocated by the government without so much as interviewing the recipients.
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by soup10 12y ago
Funny how similar it is to high frequency trading. They both invest a bunch of capital to get better/earlier information, then leverage it to make profitable bets and trades. Atleast in the professional gambling world they don't

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