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   by wtracy 13y ago

   Sedo.com is the big name in this space.
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   Alaska will be home to the highest-flying wind turbine, floating at 1,000 feet(spokesman.com)

   7 points by wtracy 13y ago|1 comments
3. 693.▲
   by wtracy 13y ago

   "At the present time, only operational International Space Station activities have been excepted." I'm guessing this means that we're still flying astronauts up on the Soyuz. I'm crossing my fingers and hoping that
4. 694.▲
   by wtracy 13y ago

   ... and the April Fool's posts have already started.
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   by wtracy 13y ago

   I was thinking about that, too. I suspect, though, that no matter what the devs signed, Matti Leshem never signed away the right to have himself shown in bad light He would probably raise cain if any of the footage of his flopped intervie
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   Apple's Cyclone Microarchitecture Detailed(anandtech.com)

   1 points by wtracy 13y ago|0 comments
7. 697.▲
   by wtracy 13y ago

   Actual quote from the article: "Going from a 32-bit to a 64-bit chip architecture means Apple was able to double the speed of its mobile chip..." Um, yeah. The source article is much more interesting: http://www.anandte
8. 698.▲
   by wtracy 13y ago

   I can think of lots of counter-examples. What if your product is licensed per-seat, and your change allows your customer to achieve their goals with fewer employees using your product, reducing the number of licenses purchased? What if your
9. 699.▲
   by wtracy 13y ago

   Anyone have a summary of how this fork differs from upstream? Is it mostly performance improvements? Bug fixes?
10. 700.▲
    by wtracy 13y ago

    Well, my device has just over 40Mb of internal storage. So, unless the app allows you to install to an SD card, it matters a lot!
11. 701.▲
    by wtracy 13y ago

    I'm on Windows 7, just stuck with IE 8 here at work.
12. 702.▲
    by wtracy 13y ago

    I somehow cannot access this page with IE 8. WTH, Microsoft?
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    by wtracy 13y ago

    The idea of cancelling until right before launch day came to mind. :-)
14. 704.▲
    by wtracy 13y ago

    Daz Studio is all about this: http://www.daz3d.com/ Their (free) app is 90% geared toward using content purchased from their store (not free).
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    by wtracy 13y ago

    Really, the scam is not the silent tracks--the scam is encouraging your fans to repeatedly play the tracks when they're not actually listening.
16. 706.▲
    by wtracy 13y ago

    On the tiny outside chance that you're not just trolling: I just spent a solid year looking for work while watching my bank account slowly dwindle. If I walked out of the job I just got, I don't think I would even have enough mone
17. 707.▲
    by wtracy 13y ago

    I hate to be That Guy , but could we get an NSFW warning on the link? (I figured the icons were going to be "nasty" in terms of being very shoddy quality. It turns out that they depict "nasty" subject matter.)
18. 708.▲
    by wtracy 13y ago

    It has some interesting details on how Mozilla manages the Rust community. The title is completely misleading, though.
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    by wtracy 13y ago

    I always wonder why we make cars that can go so fast. If you are actually questioning why car engines have enough power to do that in the first place: An engine capable of hauling a heavy load uphill at the speed limit is capable of excee
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    by wtracy 13y ago

    Passing another vehicle comes to mind. I'm not sure I would call that "extremely dangerous", though.
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    by wtracy 13y ago

    I say name some names. If this really happened at a company that sells products to women, I say it's time for a boycott.
22. 712.▲
    by wtracy 13y ago

    <<Capitalism is a greedy optimizer. When it finds a local maximum it goes all in. It does not explore the fitness landscape.>> Upvoted specifically for this line. That strikes me as a key insight into the free market's stre
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    by wtracy 13y ago

    Very cool--I'll look at this if I ever get back to this project. (Unlikely, given the changes in my priorities since I started it.) At the time, my primary motivation was really to learn more about x86 machine code, which explains the
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    by wtracy 13y ago

    That's a pretty accurate description of what I was trying to do. You are correct that it's a huge undertaking. :-) That said, even once you've got x86 -> LLVM translation working, there's a lot of code out there that
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    by wtracy 13y ago

    I've kicked around the idea of translating machine code to LLVM assembly code specifically to do things like this. I actually got as far as creating a GitHub repo to work on this < https://github.com/wtracy/recom
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    by wtracy 13y ago

    I'll throw this out there: http://www.wtracy.com/blog/quaternions.html
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    by wtracy 13y ago

    Has anyone here ever seen a good explanation of why quaternion multiplication maps to rotation concatenation?
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    by wtracy 13y ago

    (Former PayPal employee here.) I first have to give you a thumbs-up for calling your fraud detection layer "precog". Does AWS let you firewall off Knox from the open internet? PayPal's architecture has most of the machines th
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    by wtracy 13y ago

    These independent sources will license music on a royalty-free basis: http://magnatune.com/info/licensing https://pro.jamendo.com/stock-music-licensing Musopen claims to host all recordings that are
30. 720.▲
    by wtracy 13y ago

    At the risk of sounding flippant: Have you considered Bitcoin as a primary payment method? Situations like yours are the main reason I want to see altcoins succeed.