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by troymc 13y ago
Lithium and lithium compounds can be toxic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium#Precautions The batteries envisioned by Ambri would be enormous, shipping-container-sized things sitting (stationary) in the same place
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I guess the question is, did the buyer want him to keep blogging there, as part of the deal?
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by troymc 13y ago
Yes, in the case of Bezos, it was mostly his decision to leave his cushy, high-paying job to go start an online bookstore. It seemed crazy at the time, but he knew he would regret not trying. Relevant book: The Everything Store
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If you do a search for "Cellular Automata Machines" on Google Scholar, you'll have a good start. The idea of cellular automata was first developed by von Neumann and his colleagues back in the 1940s.
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It's my understanding that in open source communities, the relevant trademarks are usually held by a community-led foundation (e.g. the Apache Software Foundation, the Python Software Foundation). Is there no "Node Foundation&quot
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by troymc 13y ago
I was playing around with Wolfram Alpha yesterday and found this page of examples: http://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/
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I did: just follow the link.
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Blogger isn't the winner of the blog engine wars anyway. That would be WordPress, which is open source and now runs about one in five websites. http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cm-wordpress/all&#
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Fine, but give me a program in any programming language, be it "text-based" or "purely graphical" and it's probably possible to translate it into a representation that's vice versa. (Problems arise when a repre
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It's fine to classify programming languages. It's not fine to get confused between a programming language and a way of representing a particular program. For analogy, there's only one true physical Earth, but there are many p
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If you think of a programming language as a set of tokens and production rules (a grammar), then can't every programming language have infinitely-many visual representations, including "pure text," "blocks/pipes&quo
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Can someone here translate "core gamer" and "core gaming audience" for me? Those phrases mean nothing to me.
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They aren't using Bitcoin. They're using the Bitcoin Protocol but to trade in something else, which they call "Traffic." I suppose you'd be able to trade Traffic for Bitcoin, US dollars, or cabbage, once exchanges g
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"By testing crazy ant secretions, the researchers found that the life-saving substance was actually formic acid from the crazy ants’ own venom." That quote reminded me of "The Ant" by Ogden Nash, which ends: Would you be
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by troymc 13y ago
I didn't imply anything about the web. I was just referencing the ideas in this book (with which I have no affiliation): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ocean_Strategy
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It seems to me that making games for the iTunes App Store has become a "red ocean strategy." It's fiercely competitive, and there are now some monster sharks (e.g. King, Zynga). I don't like the sharks, but hey, they&#x2
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There's a list of Backend as a Service (BaaS) providers at: http://www.mobilechameleon.com/web-services-for-use-by-mobil...
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No. I did enjoy the King's Quest games back in the 1980s though. Does that count?
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Maybe it will once enough people have web browsers that support WebRTC.
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They're also doing a kickstarter for Thorium Core: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thorium/thorium-core-cl... "Thorium Core is an attempt to build a commercial operating system and cloud services pl
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You are correct. Amazon only sells books and Newegg only sells electronics, so they totally don't compete and never will.
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I thought the DMCA was about copyrights, not trademarks.
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He starts with his philosophy of what science is, which is apparently based on a TED talk by David Deutsch: "...good explanations for why things are the way they are." Oh no. Science, emphatically, does not answer why, or at lea
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Free course: Parallel Programming Concepts(openhpi.de)
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or trademark infringement. Maybe the offending WP app makers are in a legal jurisdiction beyond Facebook's reach?
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Maybe Microsoft thought WP owners would give the bad apps bad reviews, so that the best app would rise to the top? I suppose if I wanted the real Facebook app for Windows Phone, I'd just go to Google and search for: site:facebook.com a
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Yes, but it also raises some interesting questions. Why is this squat common in Southeast Asia yet uncommon among Europeans? What are the benefits of the Asian squat?
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I can see how using a standard keyboard while squatting could be problematic. However, I suspect it may possible to design a new input device (or mechanism) that's optimized for use while squatting. It might take time to learn, but the
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If I understand trademark law correctly, a company must defend its trademarks or risk losing them. It wasn't about "a quick buck," it was about fulfilling the responsibilities of owning a trademark. It's hardly fair to f
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First of all, bravo on your business! Some notes: The 'October 2013' block on your 'About Us' page ends with a bunch of Lorem Ipsum text. I thought the 'About Us' page would be about the website and courses, no

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