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811.
by wtracy 13y ago
Except that he never asked anyone to lend him money. He asked for someone to hire him on a contract basis.
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Video: Making Psychology Work for You in Video Games(gamasutra.com)
3 points by wtracy 13y ago|0 comments
813.
by wtracy 13y ago
Even in a hard real-time system, allowing the garbage collector to "catch up" whenever the mutator is idling sounds reasonable. It should make the system slightly more robust in the face of irregular heap usage.
814.
by wtracy 13y ago
All I know off the top of my head is that Stirling engines have pretty terrible weight to thrust ratios--they're heavy.
815.
by wtracy 13y ago
Plutonium is harder to machine that other metals, as it's density tends to be non-uniform: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium#Allotropes You go along milling a hard spot, then hit a soft spot and--oops! You took off too much.
816.
by wtracy 13y ago
Yeah, I gave them my email and created an account only to realize that I can't use the service because I don't own an iPhone.
817.
by wtracy 13y ago
Sadly enough, he actually has a point: http://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/sto...
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We Think We Know What Elon Musk's Hyperloop Is(businessinsider.com)
228 points by wtracy 13y ago|159 comments
819.
by wtracy 13y ago
Oddly enough, the thing that's disappointed me the most about Glass so far is that there's no real SDK for it that I can find. There's something called "Glassware" that lets you build views in HTML and throw them up on the screen, but that'
820.
by wtracy 13y ago
That's pretty much what games already use. The only difference is polygon count--doubling the polygons tends to halve the framerate. That said, of the magic comes from a toolchain that lets artists work with curved surfaces (NURBS or simila
821.
by wtracy 13y ago
The cost would be completely prohibitive. Pixar is at the point where they have to micromanage the electricity cost of their rendering clusters. (At one point they did a multimillion dollar hardware upgrade on the grounds that they would ac
822.
by wtracy 13y ago
Unmanned aircraft were impractical during the Cold War, which is the only point in history when nuclear-powered aircraft were seriously considered. Drones are workable now, but political considerations alone make nuclear aircraft a non-star
823.
by wtracy 13y ago
And the ability to get health insurance without being under a megacorporation's umbrella.
824.
by wtracy 13y ago
I'm not sure, but that sounds unenforceable in the state of California (where a lot of HNers are). If you work outside of California, sucks to be you, I guess.
825.
by wtracy 13y ago
It worked for a little bit, but now I keep getting 404s when I submit a name. Also, for my handle it keeps saying that there's not enough information to generate a report card. I would be a neat motivator to see what I need to improve to ge
826.
by wtracy 13y ago
I ate dinner in a Burger King last week that had a TV playing The Wizards of Waverly Place. I was horrified. The main character shows no empathy toward the people around her (she lets some girls eat some spoiled sandwiches that she was told
827.
by wtracy 13y ago
"Also, concentrated uranium deposits are probably less common [on Mars] than on Earth because they depend on sedimentary and hydrothermal processes which are much more prevalent on Earth." There is some evidence otherwise: http://en.wikipe
828.
by wtracy 13y ago
I also question whether the structural integrity of these things is enough for them to withstand centripetal gravity without ripping themselves apart. We haven't even really confirmed that the large asteroids are really even one solid piece
829.
by wtracy 13y ago
I find it to be a good way for recruiters to find me. That may or may not be something that you want.
830.
by wtracy 14y ago
So, some third party strips your work of contact information such that due diligence does not turn up any way of finding you, and redistributes it. Can this third party be in any way legally liable for lost income or other damages?
831.
by wtracy 14y ago
Is there any kind of a demoscene community alive today in the SF area? Everything I can find seems Europe-centric.
832.
by wtracy 14y ago
They broke a use case that does not generate advertising revenue. Of course they don't care. Actually, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see someone, somewhere tout that as an advantage of WebP: "Joe Shmoe can't rip off your pictures in Pho
833.
by wtracy 14y ago
If the exclusive video is hosted on YouTube, I'm struggling to understand what sort of API Hipset is using to control access.
834.
by wtracy 14y ago
Agreed--in particular, "software so good, you don't know it's Open Source" seems like a great way to alienate your audience. The people who think that Open Source is categorically low-quality are already happily using Mail.app or Gmail or e
835.
by wtracy 14y ago
Even if the dead load isn't a problem, the space taken up by a one- to two-meter-deep soil level is going to be significant. (Oh, you were planning on occupying the floor under the tree? Tough.) Also, even if draining the water isn't a pr
836.
by wtracy 14y ago
My understanding of pair programming is that the driver never even touches the keyboard. Do I have that backwards?
837.
by wtracy 14y ago
My personal line of thought on the matter: Self-publish if you're focused on making money from your writing. Find a publisher otherwise.
838.
by wtracy 14y ago
I know I'm being nitpicky, but OpenBox is a clone of BlackBox, not a fork. OpenBox is written in straight C, while BlackBox and FluxBox use C++.
839.
by wtracy 14y ago
Interesting. I don't see many MIPS-based handhelds coming out any more.
840.
by wtracy 14y ago
I suspect that a lot of it is just about the opportunity to shoot the breeze with a salesperson who shares your passion. In principle, you could make this work over something like video chat, but in practice I just don't see that working.

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