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by valine 11y ago
"These are hard questions, and a lot of people outside of us tech guys are thinking about it." It seems to me there is an easy answer. Building Robots that can kill people without supervision is currently a terrible idea. AI, o
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On Force Fields and Turbulance(code.blender.org)
1 points by valine 11y ago|0 comments
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Improved GPU rendering performance in Blender 2.77(wiki.blender.org)
2 points by valine 11y ago|0 comments
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by valine 11y ago
If this trend continues I can't see myself continuing to develop for windows. Creating an environment hostile to developers might makes some parts of windows more intuitive for inexperienced users, but it will hurt their ecosystem in
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by valine 11y ago
That's probably fair. It likely would have taken me a minute to do the mental math. The burst force approach took 15 seconds of typing and very little mental effort.
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by valine 11y ago
Problem 5 was fun. My solution was less complex: if (((i * i) + 7 * i + 89) % 77 == 0) System.out.print(i);
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by valine 11y ago
I see it as a chicken vs egg problem. The reason only 1 in 10 schools offer programming classes is probably the same reason CS jobs go unfulfilled. There are not enough people with the required expertise. I'm not studying Computer S
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San Bernardino DA Suggests Terrorist iPhone May Contain 'Cyber Pathogen'(techcrunch.com)
2 points by valine 11y ago|0 comments
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by valine 11y ago
I can see see some good marketing opportunities for this. I would call it Honey Pot.
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by valine 11y ago
I wonder if unmarked roads would make the development of self-driving cars more challenging or less challenging.
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by valine 11y ago
I would absolutely love to get involved with a research project. Unfortunately the CS program at school is relatively new and I'm pretty sure there nothing like that going on. I know most of the TAs and they have a habit of coming to
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Ask HN: Staying motivated with school when I'm already getting job offers
3 points by valine 11y ago|5 comments
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by valine 11y ago
I have mixed feelings about this. An experienced programmer might know the best way to structure a application simply from past experience. In this situation, a blueprint ensures that everyone is on the same page and saves an enormous amo
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Ask HN: Do I need consent to track usage data?
1 points by valine 11y ago|1 comments
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by valine 11y ago
I believe that they have made attempts to increase its visibility. I don't recall when the change happened, but Apple routed all system updates through the Mac App Store, pretty much guaranteeing that every Mac user will have to open
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by valine 11y ago
Oh I wasn't questioning the value of the Mac App Store. As a tool for installing free apps it's fantastic. However as a developer if you want to make money off of an application the Mac App Store is all but useless. Even if you
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by valine 11y ago
I guess it a good thing hardly anyone uses the Mac App Store.
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by valine 11y ago
All it really proves is that English spelling rules is ridiculously inconsistent. It almost seems like an strange cousin of numerology. Where numerology applies significance to to arbitrary numbers, this applies significance to arbitrarily
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by valine 11y ago
The problem with smart guns is that they add an additional point of failure to an otherwise reliable piece of technology. In the unlikely situation where I need to defend myself I need to know that my gun will go off when I pull the trigge
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by valine 11y ago
I personally love this idea. Its a mini cloud running out of your home and it puts you in complete control of your data. I would even take it a step further and say that as long as you have a home server running 24/7 why not run a ma
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A 46 Gigapixel Map of Space(cbsnews.com)
2 points by valine 11y ago|0 comments
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The FCC will publish phone numbers of robocallers and telemarketers every week(theverge.com)
7 points by valine 11y ago|3 comments
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Guide to Python Scripting in Blender(en.m.wikibooks.org)
1 points by valine 11y ago|0 comments
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by valine 11y ago
Oh gosh. I remember the transition for 2.49 to 2.5. It was like learning a completely new piece of software. The only thing that motivated me to switch was the awesome new smoke simulator.
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by valine 11y ago
There's been a strong push in the community recently to make the UI more approachable. What makes Blender difficult to learn is that most of its tools are either hidden in an obscure menu or behind a hotkey. This has begun to change
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iOS 9 Untethered Jailbreak Released(9to5mac.com)
1 points by valine 11y ago|0 comments
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by valine 11y ago
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I wonder how big the data set would have to be. Finding a sufficient number of fonts with quality kerning might be a challenge.
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Ask HN: Is there a method for finding the optimal kerning?
12 points by valine 11y ago|8 comments
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by valine 11y ago
It was a couple years ago. I was never a fan of the transition, but I must say scratch projects ran considerablly faster with flash player.
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by valine 11y ago
Wow, that brings back memories. My parents had me using these from preschool to probably fourth grade. They sure made math a lot more fun. It's funny, I can actually trace my number synesthesia back to the colors of the pieces. Th

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