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by tfinniga 13y ago
Man, I just learned about the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon the other day, and now it seems to be popping up everywhere.
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by tfinniga 13y ago
It reminds me of an old joke I heard shortly after 9/11. Did you hear that they confiscated knitting needles from an old lady before she was allowed to board her flight? They were afraid she was going to make an afghan.
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by tfinniga 13y ago
> I think it is extremely doubtful that they just happened to buy plastic components that could be used as a trigger and magazine Agreed. However, those parts aren't able to be used as a trigger or magazine. One of them hooks onto
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by tfinniga 13y ago
My current workplace has a policy of no sick day pool - just don't come in sick, no policy limit. If you're abusing the system, your manager will bring it up with you.
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by tfinniga 13y ago
True. There are some windows trackpads that have that same smooth scrolling trackpads.. I've used some hp laptops that also have it, for example.
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by tfinniga 14y ago
Reddit already produces the top items feeds, so that's easy. For example, the weekly top proggit feed is http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/top/.rss?sort=top&t=... You just add .rss to the url you get when browsing, before the args.
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by tfinniga 14y ago
Right, RSS is great for low volume stuff that you don't want to miss. I do have a way of using it productively with high-volume sites. Specifically, I read some of reddit via RSS. Sometimes I go deep into a project, and avoid distractions
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by tfinniga 14y ago
related: http://www.halfbakery.com
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by tfinniga 14y ago
I think it pisses them off that english is now the lingua franca.
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by tfinniga 14y ago
There is also a danger to trying to extract an amount of money as close as possible to the value from each customer. The difference between the value the customer receives and the amount they pay usually turns into good will towards the pr
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by tfinniga 14y ago
What about Bullfrog's Magic Carpet? It had resource gathering and terrain modification as core mechanics. I think it also had base building. It was first-person though.
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by tfinniga 14y ago
Sounds similar to uservoice. The utility of it really depends on the quality of the users. For example, if they're entering bugs and voting on each others' bugs, it can be useful. But if they're suggesting things for which there are diffic
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by tfinniga 14y ago
Here's another theory - maybe it just doesn't make sense financially. A source-only netflix wouldn't fly. So, they would need to get developers, packagers, QA, and support for either one or multiple distributions and many different hardwar
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by tfinniga 14y ago
But what's the advantage of a company with 50k employees? Why not have several smaller companies that collaborate? Microsoft could easily be broken into several smaller companies.
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by tfinniga 14y ago
> The NEA is about funding things nobody wants. That's an interesting perspective. I see it more as a tragedy of the commons situation. It's possible to make important and influential art which is not commercially viable. NEA is gre
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by tfinniga 14y ago
I do wish c++ had a keyword designating a function as implementing a base-class virtual function, similar to C#'s override. Then this kind of thing wouldn't be necessary.
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by tfinniga 15y ago
These anecdotal arguments back and forth are interesting, but they're not science. I mean, where's the details on the methodology? Where are the data? Why do we listen to/argue about the various experts, instead of digging into the actua
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by tfinniga 16y ago
This doesn't exactly answer your question, but this Bing-based live search is pretty awesome: http://www.istartedsomething.com/livesearch/
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by tfinniga 17y ago
I'm not too experienced with voxel rendering, but I'm familiar with the general problem. The most visible ways that nvidia and ati are tackling the LOD problem is on-GPU tessellation. This means using a mathematically smooth surface (such
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by tfinniga 17y ago
I think you might be missing the point. The technical reason why it's really easy to block huge swaths of internet advertising is because unless the advertiser is serving the ads themselves they don't trust that they're being served. If you
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by tfinniga 17y ago
This is great advice. One thing that I find that helps a lot is not to be afraid to have a bit of metaconversation. Things like "Are you asking because you're worried about X?", or after you've gotten to the point, asking "Do you want to
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by tfinniga 17y ago
If you're interested in noise functions, you might want to check out Pixar's wavelet noise - http://graphics.pixar.com/library/#WaveletNoise
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by tfinniga 17y ago
Good point, here's a block from the WebKit goals page. WebKit should remain freely usable for both open source and proprietary applications. To that end, we use BSD-style and LGPL licenses. Specifically, we aim for licensing compatible with
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by tfinniga 17y ago
The only hope is a javascript-based interpreter, which bypasses the SDK. We'll see how fast the A4 is, I guess.
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by tfinniga 17y ago
Right, insurance isn't a scam. You buy it hoping that you'll have lost money on it. And for most people, that's the case.
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by tfinniga 17y ago
In case you haven't seen it, it looks like they're interested: http://www.youtube.com/html5
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by tfinniga 18y ago
By far the easiest way to get started is something like Dream Dinners or Dinner A'fare, as mentioned. The price and convenience are both somewhere in between cooking yourself and eating out. They've got a bunch of recipes you can choose fr
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by tfinniga 18y ago
Just the URLs are pretty telling.
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by tfinniga 18y ago
Sure, standard machine learning stuff. But in order to be a reliable predictor, I think it would be necessary to predict the economy as well. The same startup that would be successful during the bubble would not be so successful after it p
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by tfinniga 18y ago
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