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by stevedekorte 18y ago
I agree that for big studio games this might not be a good match - but for smaller more casual games, it may allow us to write them in JS instead of Flash. Also, anyone that's tried to install a game on Windows knows why consoles still exis
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by stevedekorte 18y ago
"Selling stuff online isn't an artistic exercise-- it's an analytics and psychology exercise." Does these imply Apple does sell much online? I do like the idea of setting up some tests and doing some measurements. The tricky thing is testin
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by stevedekorte 18y ago
I can see why one would be interested in the price of something they like, but do you particularly care about the price of items which you do not like? After all, these are fashion items not bushels of wheat. If you like most of the items,
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by stevedekorte 18y ago
Even when you have market share, it's not clear if your assumptions are validated as it is difficult to isolate variables in the real world. For example, is Microsoft or MySpace dominant because of their UI or despite their UI? Because of t
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by stevedekorte 18y ago
A long response to Krugman's scrip example can be found here: http://www.amconmag.com/article/2009/jan/12/00031/
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by stevedekorte 18y ago
I'd be happy to use it if the only user interaction was flipping a preference switch.
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by stevedekorte 18y ago
TRON
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by stevedekorte 18y ago
I prefer black on grey for editor windows and gray on black for terminal windows.
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by stevedekorte 18y ago
There is nothing random in QM, only in it's interpretation. But interpretations are meaningless as there is no way to differentiate them via experiment.
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by stevedekorte 18y ago
In other words, a horrible example of?
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by stevedekorte 18y ago
Looks like the $2 trillion bailout was well spent.
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by stevedekorte 18y ago
In order for this to measure to be meaningfull, typical viewing distances need to be taken into account. A better measure would be pixels per degree (PPD).
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by stevedekorte 18y ago
"In all other languages we've considered [Fortran, Algol60, Lisp, APL, Cobol, Pascal], a program consists of passive data-objects on the one hand and the executable program that manipulates these passive objects on the other. Object-oriente
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by stevedekorte 18y ago
The government is buying overpriced assets (mortgage bonds on homes bought for 2x the inflation adjusted norms and corporate junk bonds) whose market value has dropped so much that they made the balance sheets of financial companies negativ
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by stevedekorte 18y ago
$700B is the tip of the iceberg. With Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, US taxpayers are now on the hook for paying off $5T in mortgage bonds. And add to that the unknowns on AIG's balance sheet which may run into the trillions as well.
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by stevedekorte 18y ago
Libertarians have been warning others about the collapse of the debt bubble since the early 1970's and have been alone in calling for the end of the central banking system which creates debt bubbles. It is the height of ignorance to claim t
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by stevedekorte 18y ago
The so-called insurance is a promise by the central bank to print money to cover your deposit. That is, to steal value from everyone else holding cash in order to pay for the losses of those that choose to invest theirs unwisely. It's not l
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by stevedekorte 18y ago
As I said, if you want to secure your deposit, use a 100% deposit bank that gives no interest and charges a small storage fee. What we commonly call banks aren't - they're investment houses - and very highly leveraged ones at that. And what
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by stevedekorte 18y ago
There is no solution to resources which were already misallocated. The best we can do is to 1) not missallocate more resources (via a ballout) and 2) end the system that credited the debt bubble. Here's how to do that: End Fractional Reserv
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by stevedekorte 18y ago
If you want to show your appriecation for design, then nothing would show it better than a bare wall and a debris free workspace.
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by stevedekorte 19y ago
IME, stimulants (xanthines, amphetamines, etc) in doses for which their effects are mild, tend to make me more productive while all other drugs (depressants, disassociatives, opiates and psychedelics) make me much less productive.
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by stevedekorte 19y ago
How about the service of giving back 4/5ths of that 25% and providing the same services the government did when tax rates where in that range? (courts, policy, legislation and defensive military)
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by stevedekorte 19y ago
Vienna for OSX