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by troymc 12y ago
Oh, nice; I added it to my site.
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by troymc 12y ago
I try to keep track of all those platforms, and you're right, it's hard. My findings are summarized at http://www.mobilechameleon.com/ (hosted for free by Weebly, a YC alum).
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by troymc 12y ago
He alludes to the sad, bud plausible, possibility that Google/YouTube will stop hosting some of that record. After all, it costs money to host all those videos. How big is YouTube's archive today (in bytes)?
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by troymc 12y ago
EA has at least one other strategy, with EA Sports: every year they come out with a new and improved Football, Basketball, Hockey, Golf, etc. and people get it. Madden NFL has been going since 1988. To be fair, EA Sports did discontinue som
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by troymc 12y ago
Is this Scott Adams' way of telling us that he has taken over XKCD?
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by troymc 12y ago
Check out the "In the News" column on the home page of Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page For a few pages of quick summaries of all the big political, international, and business news, check ou
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by troymc 12y ago
If you're curious about how ICANN's "New generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) Program" works, check out http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about
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by troymc 12y ago
One of the central assumptions in the argument is that the miners need an economic incentive, a (spendable) reward for mining. How then to explain why people contribute to Wikipedia? Or volunteer at the local seniors centre? Or donate compu
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by troymc 12y ago
Models like theirs predate Bohm by a long shot. From the introductory paragraph of the paper: "In 1746 Euler modelled light as waves in a frictionless compressible fluid; a century later in 1846, Faraday modelled it as vibrations in ‘l
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by troymc 12y ago
See also: Procedural generation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_generation
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by troymc 12y ago
Would using code that converts data into standard visualizations (e.g. heat maps, sparklines) be considered meta-design? If so, it's not so uncommon (e.g. ggplot2, Tableau, matplotlib, Excel charts…). Another example of a parametric me
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by troymc 12y ago
You need to read about what you can and can't do in the US, given your current immigration status. The central hub for that information is http://www.uscis.gov/
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by troymc 12y ago
@tootie didn't say anything about the certificates being self-signed. Later this year, the new Let's Encrypt CA will make it free and easy to get certificates.[1] Moreover, it's my understanding that the default with HTTP&#x2
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by troymc 12y ago
If you're not a US citizen, then I suspect your problem will be getting the proper work visa, not the lack of a degree from some US university. How is it that you can move to San Francisco? We need more information.
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by troymc 12y ago
Maybe have a video showing someone drawing a fast zig-zag scribble; it would answer the latency question implicitly. Ditto for palm rejection.
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by troymc 12y ago
"Toyota was the largest automobile manufacturer in 2012 (by production) ahead of the Volkswagen Group and General Motors." [1] For example… "Introduced in 1966, the [Toyota] Corolla managed to become the best-selling car worl
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by troymc 12y ago
Even highly-respected peer-reviewed scientific journals make mistakes. The beauty of science (and scientific publishing) isn't that it's always right, but that it's willing to admit it was wrong (given sufficient evidence or
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by troymc 12y ago
I don't know what @webwanderings does to backup the external drive, but most cloud backup providers give you the option of backing up external drives (in addition to the internal ones).
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by troymc 12y ago
My first thought upon reading this headline was, "The health insurers have an anthem??"
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by troymc 12y ago
Clipart.com claims to be the "web’s largest collection of royalty-free clipart, … available by subscription. Subscribers pay one flat fee, and download whatever they need from over 10 million digital assets." Much of it even looks
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by troymc 12y ago
Here's the paper in Nature Communications : http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/150120/ncomms6895/full/nco... "Revealing letters in rolled Herculaneum papyri by X-ray phase-contrast imaging
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by troymc 12y ago
You wrote "it's expensive to fact check every single creative that comes through" I'm surprised they fact check any ads. Many publications don't have the budget to fact check their news, features, or editorials, n
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by troymc 12y ago
Wikipedia already has this at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_wave_equation
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by troymc 12y ago
I was confused if this was something from the real Comcast, so it seems to be a clear case of trademark infringement (but it's not my call, and I may be wrong). If GitHub agrees, then it would be a violation of their Terms of Service [
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by troymc 12y ago
Here's an idea for a web plugin: it takes displayed colors that you have difficulty distinguishing and moves them in color space, to the point where you can distinguish them.
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by troymc 12y ago
It's only two lectures, so far. Maybe wait until the whole course is up before giving a review? (Stanford has some older iOS programming courses up on iTunes as well. For example, the course "Developing iOS 7 Apps for iPhone and i
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by troymc 12y ago
The number of fish swimming past the escalator each minute could be modeled as a random variable with a Poisson distribution.
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by troymc 12y ago
I often ask a question on Google, get taken to a Stack Exchange site, and find that yes, they have my question, but some moderator closed it before it got answered. SE got my traffic, but I didn't get my answer. Isn't that broken?
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by troymc 12y ago
My first computer was also a TRS-80 from Radio Shack. We'd go to Radio Shack to get new game cartridges, new cassette tape games, magazines with actual code in them (!), and even an upgrade from 8K to 16K RAM. Those days are long gone.
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by troymc 12y ago
There's a similar market to connect students with tutors, e.g. "I'm stuck on this physics homework problem, can you help me right now?" Examples: http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2014&#x2

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