thenomad

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by thenomad 13y ago
So, is there a way to get the depth map out of the image separately for more post-processing? Fake DOF is nice, but there are a lot more fun things you can use a depth map for. For example, it seems like ghetto photogrammetry (turning photo
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by thenomad 13y ago
That's the way he has been learning so far, albeit through the Digital Ocean rather than Linode tutorials. I'm hoping there's a better way!
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by thenomad 13y ago
Interesting - thanks! Are any of those plans more reasonably priced than Amazon's?
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Best LAMP administration introduction?
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by thenomad 13y ago
I've heard decent things about WiredTree for managed servers. Decent, not awesome. Bytemark are awesome, and do offer managed servers, but I don't know how much they charge for them.
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by thenomad 13y ago
A random thought on this - would topology encompass, say, better ways to unwrap 3D models / project textures onto said models? If so, various 3D / gamedev people might be interested in talking to you...
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by thenomad 13y ago
Do you have a link to that income graph? I suspect it'd be interesting and reassuring for a lot of people.
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by thenomad 13y ago
Indeed. I have paid and will continue to happily pay significant sums of money for educational material at approximately this detail level, so I'm very very happy that Patrick is willing to do it for free.
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by thenomad 13y ago
You'd need to take a sabbatical from your work in the US, rent an apartment in Egypt, and continue to pay bills in the US. But given that by doing so you'd be saving $83,000, that still sounds like a pretty good deal to me. I&#x27
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by thenomad 13y ago
As someone else has said on this thread: if you're definitely planning to shut it down and you have no interest in selling it, try just stopping working on it instead. (It'd be a good idea to at least have a discussion with your e
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by thenomad 13y ago
If you're really enjoying working 80 hours a week, and everyone else on the team is too, I don't see a huge problem with it - provided, and this is a big "provided", that if anyone doing that wants to stop working 80 hou
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by thenomad 13y ago
Speaking as someone who stumbled into marketing and lead-gen skills by way of something video-based, online, and not particularly lucrative (Machinima), I thoroughly and enthusiastically second patio11's "Bonus Points" sectio
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by thenomad 13y ago
And today offers more opportunities for rapid scaling of successful investments (key word: rapid) than ever before - which is why the rich are getting richer faster.
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by thenomad 13y ago
Does the existence of Diablo mean that we don't want Torchlight? Does the existence of Modern Warfare 2 mean we don't want Spec Ops: The Line? Games can be very similar to previous ones but still offer a new experience.
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by thenomad 13y ago
I'm also worried about this outcome. However, John Carmack is on the record as being an extremely outspoken opponent of software patents. He's also a smart guy. So, chances are a) he's already thought of and discussed the pat
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by thenomad 13y ago
Honestly, I'd recommend Photoshop. It's just as fast to do that with Photoshop as any less-full-featured application, and there's the advantage of a) a whole lot more functionality beyond that and b) tutorials for anything yo
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by thenomad 13y ago
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/entrepreneurs-adhd/20090... http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/health/from-jamie-oliver... Fairly reliable sources listing him as having ADHD.
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by thenomad 13y ago
Stephen Fry has tried to kill himself twice. That's not "mild" depression. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/10104138/Stephen-Fry-is-th...
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by thenomad 13y ago
I've also worked with multiple people with various mental health conditions, who weren't actors, but whom were extremely good at their jobs and I'd cheerfully hire again. Honestly, I've never seen a correlation between &
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by thenomad 13y ago
There's a huge list of highly successful, productive people who are a credit to the projects they work on, who have or have had mental health issues in the past. If I had the chance, for example, I wouldn't be at all "hesitan
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by thenomad 13y ago
An obvious concern is that independent developers will be barred from developing for the Rift, or forced into unpleasant licensing terms in order to do so.
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by thenomad 13y ago
Technological advancements have a funny way of producing important side-benefits. A change as massive as VR - we simply don't know how big a deal it is. For example, as one of the smaller potential side-effects, imagine VR became good
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by thenomad 13y ago
That's a very good point. And that might well be Zuckerberg's vision. He probably read "Snowcrash" when he was about 10, after all.
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by thenomad 13y ago
I know of Chi-square and Bayesian methods for A/B testing, but what's "survival" as a method? Sounds very interesting...
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by thenomad 13y ago
There's no reason the fee can't vary depending on the location of the person signing up. I also think this is a far better solution than "pending comments". I'm not convinced that either solution is ideal, but I fea
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by thenomad 13y ago
I recommend a thorough read through the resources on http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev as a starting point.
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by thenomad 13y ago
If you have a sufficiently rapid turnaround time, this works for products, too. For example, don't have a good idea for a landing page? Throw up a bad one. It'll get you data and you can improve from there. Obviously, a less good
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by thenomad 13y ago
I immediately thought of BigV too - my provider of choice for cloud servers that need to stay up and perform well. Their cores scale with memory, but they're pretty reasonable on how much - £80 pm for 3 cores and 8 Gb of memory, for ex
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by thenomad 13y ago
Interesting point. In fiction, it's often easy to identify what people want to read / watch / consume - a Joss Whedon fan wants "stuff like Buffy", a 24 fan wants "more 24". You're in the Naruto niche
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by thenomad 13y ago
I do think that Netflix may be on to something with its curation /discovery of new sub-sub niches. One of the issues with creating fiction compared to non-fiction right now, in any medium, is that it's much harder to niche down in

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