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811.
by wlievens 16y ago
Similarly there's an invasion fleet near the coast of Google Talk island.
812.
by wlievens 16y ago
And the base concept is probably based on Dwarf Fortress, where logic does come from an unexpected and novel aspect: hydraulics.
813.
by wlievens 16y ago
I interned at a language engineering research lab in 2003-2005 and I heard the exact same sentiment about DSL's from most people working there. All the typical examples are techie languages (SQL, Rake, ...). I've almost never seen a non-t
814.
by wlievens 16y ago
In retrospect I think I exaggerated it. But if we would somehow put our effort to it and invest a couple trillion in it, it may be achievable in this century.
815.
by wlievens 16y ago
Actually, the most interesting results won't be here til the second half of 2012, if you take the following [somewhat chauvinistic] criteria into account: - A really interesting planet orbits a planet similar to the sun. - The goldilocks zo
816.
by wlievens 16y ago
With current technology it's probably possible to build a 99%C speed [unmanned] spacecraft but it would cost hundreds of billions and we'd have to get over some politically difficult issues such as shipping tons of weapons-grade plutonium i
817.
by wlievens 16y ago
For this specific idea, I can imagine there being several items that add value. I just wanted the OP to clarify what he's offering. For example: Queueing multiple conversions as jobs Faster processing than you'd do on your crappy box
818.
by wlievens 16y ago
... and I'm asking him to explicitly state the value proposition. I'm not trying to insult or antyhing.
819.
by wlievens 16y ago
If you're looking for ideas and are into Open Source GIS, I may have a good one. I worked as GIS consultant for abiyt a year and there was one tool missing from the open source ecology that would have made work a LOT smoother. I'm still emb
820.
by wlievens 16y ago
> I assume very few people do GIS file conversions for fun Actually that could surprise you, I know quite a few GIS nerds that would :-)
821.
by wlievens 16y ago
$10 for an automatic conversion from one file format to another? For something that can be done with a handful of scripts? Or am I not seeing the added value here.
822.
by wlievens 16y ago
A polynomial is the sum of terms with powers in them. For instance: y = 3*x y = x*x y = 3*x*x*x + 5*x - 7*x Any polynomial you can think of will always, at some point, grow slower than an exponential curve. So it's not necessaril
823.
by wlievens 16y ago
People often (in a non-formal context) use exponential as meaning "more than linear". Any idea why this happens? (don't mean to offend the poster here)
824.
by wlievens 16y ago
Do you want to know this? I mean, spoiler-wise?
825.
by wlievens 16y ago
DF makes about $30k in donations per year. It's insane to see MC make more than that per day. Poor Toady.
826.
by wlievens 16y ago
Same here, on the MacBook. I was actually afraid that the repetitive mad clicking would wake the entire appartment. And then I realize you have to keep it pressed.
827.
by wlievens 16y ago
Damn yes. The unsettling feeling you get when you enter a night and realize you haven't found any brimstone (or whatever is used to make torches) yet is awesome. It's a bit too easy to escape the creepers though, because the physics are too
828.
by wlievens 16y ago
The major performance killer is the view distance. If I set that to FAR, I get occasional hangups and even crashes, on my MacBook Pro.
829.
by wlievens 16y ago
If he's really succesfull he's likely to have less time available, actually :-)
830.
by wlievens 16y ago
True. I suggest: eliminate watching crap on TV and only watch that which is (to you) truly worth watching.
831.
by wlievens 16y ago
Excellent remark. The demos are things that typically work just fine with tiled (e.g. WMS) raster images rather than vector data. It would be more interesting to see the vector aspect come to life.
832.
by wlievens 16y ago
WMS tiles are designated by such an URL. Implementing a WMS subset sufficient for something like this is close to trivial.
833.
by wlievens 16y ago
GeoServer + PostGIS is the typical setup, in my experience it's "light" enough.
834.
by wlievens 16y ago
I really don't want to troll with this comment, but this kind of information is widely available on sources such as Wikipedia. If you'd read that generic information first, and then came here to ask about specifics or anecdotes, the discuss
835.
by wlievens 16y ago
How does this compare to OpenLayers? Does it follow the OGC specs such as WMS, WFS, etc? Edit: okay, it does vector tiling. That's very nice. OpenLayers' vector support scales badly so this might help.
836.
by wlievens 16y ago
> 3. What this means is, you can map almost any command in C into a specific command or a few specific commands in assembly. Is that really true? It depends very much on your compiler and on the optimizations that it uses. I'd say that
837.
by wlievens 16y ago
es-cue-ell, of course
838.
by wlievens 16y ago
It's a rather thing wrapper around SVG (I don't mean any disrespect with that statement), so learning SVG is a good start.
839.
by wlievens 16y ago
Granted, the Half Life episodes haven't exactly been truly episodic, but it's only been three years since episode 2. Fake edit: damn has it been THREE years?
840.
by wlievens 16y ago
You guys have failed projects, too? Nice to know that :-) Is there anything new coming out of you guys in the near future?

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