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by troymc 11y ago
Are you sure it's not Central City? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYtDw06d-R0
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by troymc 11y ago
> "was called IRC" IRC ain't dead yet. For example, there are IRC channels for many of the projects within Mozilla: https://wiki.mozilla.org/IRC
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by troymc 11y ago
Did you try conda?
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by troymc 11y ago
Galileo. Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences . 1638. It's known as the square-cube law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square-cube_law
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by troymc 11y ago
Yes, that would be the Deutsches Technikmuseum: the German Museum of Technology. http://www.sdtb.de/Englisch.55.0.html A word of warning: you could easily spend days exploring that museum. Fortunately, the computers are c
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by troymc 11y ago
ML stands for many things. It all depends on the context. See the Wikipedia disambiguation page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML
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by troymc 11y ago
I laughed at "...building the software analogs of sewer systems, utility poles, or synthetic hairballs for ceramic cats." It derives from a Steven Wright Joke: "All of the people in my building are insane. The guy above me de
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by troymc 11y ago
Here's a nice summary of which (main) Python libraries now work with Python 3: http://py3readiness.org/
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by troymc 11y ago
If you're a user of DuckDuckGo, here's a quick way to get to the full-text of the WSJ article: !gn "Microsoft Buys German To-Do List Startup 6Wunderkinder" (!gn is the Google News !bang)
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by troymc 11y ago
You do realize that HN is more than one person, right? Tomorrow you should ask, "What text editor does HN recommend?"
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by troymc 11y ago
It's worth noting that large-scale simulations are nothing new in the world of science. For example, consider the EAGLE simulation of the whole universe with realistic galaxies: https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/news
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by troymc 11y ago
Yes, Second Life has one persistent world ("one shard") but it's composed of a bunch of "sims" glued together at sim boundaries. (A "sim" is a 256 m x 256 m x notsure m volume of space.) The states of the
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by troymc 11y ago
Is that just an educated guess, or do you have a source?
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by troymc 11y ago
Other ways to use Python on Android (and iOS): http://www.mobilechameleon.com/toolkits-using-python.html
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by troymc 11y ago
Facebook is building something they call React Native, which, as I understand it, lets you code an app using JavaScript and web stuff, but then it transforms all of that into native code that gets compiled to run on the various mobile opera
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by troymc 11y ago
Madden NFL is a counterexample. That game came out in 1988. Not many software companies can say they've been working on the same software series since 1988. Will Dropbox still be relevant in 2035? Madden NFL is not the only example of
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by troymc 11y ago
Startup game studios are startups. Many game studios do get acquired or IPO, classic startup end-games. Game studios also satisfy your other criteria, but since when are those criteria for calling a company a startup? For example, a single
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by troymc 11y ago
Where do you get the statistic that "most" HN folks are making native mobile apps? Are you sure it's not server-side software, or machine-independent code, or something else? i.e. [citation needed] Also, the reasons people
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by troymc 12y ago
"If however for legal reasons a licence is required, the license of your choice will be granted." Very well, I want an exclusive license, meaning I'm the only person who can use this software. Also perpetual, of course, so th
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by troymc 12y ago
There are far more lucrative ways to get revenue in education: people are happy to pay to improve their life chances. Frankly, it feels like this question was the result of mixing two cards from a card deck for generating business ideas. Ne
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by troymc 12y ago
There is something I don't understand; maybe someone here can explain: Sound travels at about 340 m/s (in a typical room). That means it travels about 3.4 metres in 10 milliseconds. Therefore another way to get a 10 millisecond pr
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by troymc 12y ago
I've only noticed that I write "So..." at the beginning of some sentences, when writing a first draft. I delete it, of course, but I suspect it serves a purpose when speaking: When you're speaking, you need a quick way t
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by troymc 12y ago
According to Unity Technologies (the makers of Unity), who say they're quoting an unreleased McKinsey report, "Worldwide, Unity takes a plus 45% share of the full feature game engine market, approximately three times that of our c
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by troymc 12y ago
Is there any large-scale email service provider who claims they own the contents of your email messages (i.e. own the copyright rights)? All they need is a limited license to do those things they must be able to do in order to provide e
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by troymc 12y ago
This is actually harder than it seems. Are you familiar with The Dark Mail Technical Alliance? https://darkmail.info/
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by troymc 12y ago
I see you've included your middle initial in your domain name. At least I think that's what you're doing. (Is 'E' your middle initial?) If that's what you're doing (including your middle initial, like Arth
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by troymc 12y ago
It seems you missed this chunk of the article: <quote>Will he continue to bankroll the business -- or does he see revenue opportunities? "We will become financially sustainable at some point," he says. "It will most lik
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by troymc 12y ago
If you liked this story, there are more like it, e.g. Natalie Portman - http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/science/01angier.html Brian May - http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jun/
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What is recreational physics?(recreationalphysics.com)
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by troymc 12y ago
Good idea. I added a page at http://www.mobilechameleon.com/toolkits-using-swift.html

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