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by thenomad 9y ago
Try some exercise in VR. "Thrill Of The Fight", "Holopoint", "GORN" or similar games are a lot of fun and are at least a moderate workout. I've literally just finished a half-hour session of GORN, I'm
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by thenomad 9y ago
This argument seems like it needs some evidence behind it. Where's the infinite supply of scientists coming from?
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by thenomad 9y ago
I've recently switched to Netlify and I'm very impressed. I may well end up moving most or all of my sites there. A great choice for OP's usecase, I think.
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by thenomad 9y ago
You'd be looking for BigScreen rather than Virtual Desktop for your use-case. Having said that, echoing other commenters - the resolution isn't there yet. Maybe have a look at the just-announced 8k headset - https://www
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by thenomad 9y ago
Very neat tool indeed! Is there a binary I can download and run? I don't know what version of Unity you used so I don't really want to compile myself if I can avoid it :) EDIT - Answered my own question, it's available from h
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by thenomad 9y ago
Just finishing up my first VR game, Left-Hand Path, ready for its exit from Steam Early Access. It's a Dark Souls-inspired full-length game (15 hours of VR gameplay) where you cast spells by drawing glyphs in the air. People seem to li
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by thenomad 9y ago
ARCore is Android, not iOS. (Not the OP, but thought it was useful information.)
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by thenomad 9y ago
How did you get this working in Windows? I'm struggling with just this problem in Win10 at the moment.
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by thenomad 9y ago
Thanks for posting this. I was considering an ad buy on Reddit next month to promote a niche product - I'll probably still do it, but I'll be a lot more ready to pause if the ROI isn't backing out, because now I know why. (&#
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by thenomad 9y ago
Where did you find the sample app? I've been looking for it with no luck.
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by thenomad 9y ago
Oh, didn't know that. Cool. Added to my to-watch list :)
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by thenomad 9y ago
Honestly, it does feel like the current crop of TV is somewhat weaker than it has been for a while. (I'd argue that Top Of The Lake, which is 4 years old now, doesn't fit in "current crop".) That might just be a taste th
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by thenomad 9y ago
You might want to look through ShareASale's catalog - they have a lot of tech-related affiliate programs running through their system, and you'll be able to compare them.
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by thenomad 9y ago
Yup, from time to time. I also use data science in one side of my business (online marketing), but as a hobby I periodically do data analysis of the computer game DOTA2. There's a large (huge, actually) available dataset, and lots of i
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by thenomad 9y ago
That's a really clever idea, and I am absolutely going to do that from now on. (I just wrap 'em neatly currently. The film industry is good at techniques for cable control. But I've not heard the "freezer bag" idea
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by thenomad 9y ago
OK, this is a very specific point to comment on, but - I'd disagree with you about the computer cables. I occasionally get annoyed by my Big Box Of Cables: I used to work in digital filmmaking, so I've really got a LOT of cables i
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by thenomad 9y ago
I know it'd need a much larger training set, but honestly you're not playing DOTA unless the full hero pool is in play. Never mind 5v5, a 1v1 bot that would let Dendi/Sumail/RTZ etc choose any hero and still win would be
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by thenomad 9y ago
Yup, that's exactly the same in DOTA. The pick phase is considered by some commentators to be the most interestingly strategic part of the entire game! (At a pro level, obviously. At the level I play at, not so much...)
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by thenomad 9y ago
Just for clarification - as brisk walking is generally considered to be rather good moderate exercise - your comment that "Walking in a shopping mall doesn't count" is because it's expected to be slow rather than brisk w
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by thenomad 9y ago
Looks very cool. If I hadn't already settled on a Hugo/Git/Netlify setup, I'd be investigating this for sure. Also, congrats on writing website copy to appeal to non-techie audiences. It's well written, benefit-focu
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by thenomad 9y ago
How passive are you looking for here? There's a biiiiig difference between genuinely passive "no work required; cash just turns up", 1-4 hr a month maintenance-mode businesses, the classic 4 hour work week, and even (I'v
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by thenomad 9y ago
True, but the OpenDOTA API does give access to estimated MMR stats for many games, which are pretty accurate. So you could use those if you wanted to. That would limit the available match pool, granted. It depends on how many thousand games
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by thenomad 9y ago
Here you go: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/15/pdfs/ukpga_20150... "I bought something sight unseen and now I don't like it, waah" will indeed entitle you to a full refund within
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by thenomad 9y ago
This is radically different to the above questions (which you may not find personally useful, but to the more bootstrap/entrepreneurially minded HNers are often pretty helpful or interesting.) They are general information/discussi
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by thenomad 9y ago
Are you partitioning the matches by MMR, or just doing global suggestions? I ask because this always seems the biggest weakness of all the existing picking tools. A 1k player and a 5k player throwing the same lineup into a picking tool shou
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by thenomad 9y ago
The Koenig editor looks a lot like the Medium editor. Bravo. Looks very cool. (Can it output static content? Ghost's fast, but HTML's faster. :) )
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by thenomad 9y ago
I'd suggest that for "things you like doing and are bad at", "use time and money to get better at them" is another valid approach. Particularly if you like doing them more than any of the things in the "things
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by thenomad 9y ago
Oh, follow-up: if you want to read more entrepreneurial content, https://barnacl.es/ is kinda "HN but for bootstrappers". I read it periodically - interesting stuff.
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by thenomad 9y ago
Day trading, you mean? I've heard mixed things about it - is that something you do?
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by thenomad 9y ago
Seconded. I have yet to have any problems with my Baratza grinder (which I've certainly had for more than two years) but if I do I've heard time and time again about their excellent support. Also completely unassociated with them

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