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by xsmasher 12y ago
"Feynman's Rainbow" has a dialog on how to get new ideas, with some advice from Feynman. Chapter five I think.
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by xsmasher 12y ago
3.5 stars on TouchArcade http://toucharcade.com/2014/08/04/revolution-60-review/ 4.5 on the iOS app store (222 reviews) https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/revolution-60/id7428
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by xsmasher 12y ago
If this article is true then "The Iphone 6 plus can never show a sharp picture" seems correct (your 3x assets will be scaled to 2.6x). What part of this do you think breaks other displays, though?
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by xsmasher 12y ago
Doing any native development (C, C++) on Android is a hassle, because all of the android lifecycle events, os calls, etc. are through Java (JNI). That sounds like exactly the hassle he's talking about. There are some applications that
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by xsmasher 12y ago
"The work that robots can't do," just like now. Rewind this conversation about 150 years and ask what the steel-drivers will do when the steam drill puts them out of business.
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by xsmasher 12y ago
We're looking for full-time on-site developers, thanks.
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by xsmasher 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_experimentation_in_Afri... Influenced "The Constant Gardener," based on a John le Carré novel.
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by xsmasher 12y ago
Thanks, my skimming was poor.
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by xsmasher 12y ago
I don't get it - he's giving up the ability to pick up riders at the cub, so where will his riders come from? Or does this loophole mean he CAN still pick up at the curb? I did not understand the whole TCP vs TNC business.
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by xsmasher 12y ago
TinyCo! We're hiring C++ developers in San Francisco, CA, or willing to move here. iPhone, Android, mobile, etc. We've had great success with the "Family Guy" game, and have more work than we know what to do with. http:
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by xsmasher 12y ago
On the flip-side, the scalability doesn't matter if no one comes. The efficiency of the implementation doesn't matter if the wrong idea is implemented. Sometimes skimping on the engineering is better than skimping on the idea. Tha
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by xsmasher 12y ago
I originally flagged this as spam; it did not seem immediately relevant. Now I see it DOES contain a task related to the Ebola outbreak... but I still don't understand what it is. Can you explain what this is, and how it helps?
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by xsmasher 12y ago
Sins of a solar empire, Warlock, Endless space; Steam has dozens of them under the "4x" tag. http://store.steampowered.com/tag/en/4X/
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by xsmasher 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trespass_to_chattels#Beyond_spa...
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by xsmasher 12y ago
People are uncritically jumping to Max's defense because (1) he's a famous guy who created something they like and (2) as males, it's easier to put themselves in his shoes than hers. Neither of those reasons are particularly
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by xsmasher 12y ago
"The publisher pays production cost in advance" - The publisher is paying the salaries of the developers while the develop. Digital downloads don't help change that equation. Crowdfunding could.
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by xsmasher 12y ago
> the fact they arrived a long time ago insulates them from that Being white doesn't hurt either.
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by xsmasher 12y ago
No pictures? A page entirely filled with renders doesn't instill confidence. This is something I'd expect from a kickstarter campaign, not a big manu.
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by xsmasher 12y ago
He'd be better off getting the time in seconds, and then choosing a random number as well. At least then the chance of collision would be a known probability!
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by xsmasher 12y ago
The right answer here is not a single correct number, but a handful of correct technique or methodology. Counting the number of rainy days in the last x days would be one possible method of prediction. There are many wrong ones too, like &q
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by xsmasher 12y ago
That's why I hope the teach corrected this student: > [One student] though the probability was 50% since it would either rain or not. His or her mathematical reasoning was wrong; having two options does not mean there is a 50-50 cha
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by xsmasher 12y ago
> [One student] though the probability was 50% since it would either rain or not. That student might have the right answer, but their explanation is dead wrong. I hope that (common) error was pointed out to that student and the whole cla
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by xsmasher 12y ago
Where the emphasis is on discussion and understanding each others feelings. >We brought it back together as a whole class to follow it up and each group shared the most interesting conversation that they had. Where's the part about
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by xsmasher 12y ago
>One student had seen the weather and knew there was a 90% chance of rain the other had not seen the weather and though the probability was 50% since it would either rain or not. They compromised and picked the middle but that’s not the
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by xsmasher 12y ago
> X dollars, Y developers. That's all that matters. That assumes the indie market is a only feeding on its existing audience. Minecraft's money didn't come at the expense of indie developers; it came from EA and Sony and t
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by xsmasher 12y ago
Someone is a Led Zeppelin fan; the artwork references many of their album covers.
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by xsmasher 12y ago
I predict that some good Samaritans with iPhones will collect food with the app and redistribute it to the needy; that's a great supplement to soup kitchens which must operate at a much larger scale and are not interested in 5-10 servi
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by xsmasher 13y ago
> In California (I have no idea about Texas), if Carmack worked on Occulus in his own time (ie. not at work), on his own equipment with software which was not owned by Id, then they would have absolutely no claim to anything written by h
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by xsmasher 13y ago
When I'm writing a state machine I make sure to add a method like machine.changeState( newState, "reason"); Now you can add a dlog inside changeState to see a history of state transitions and why they were made; useful for f
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by xsmasher 13y ago
Kevin Smith has taken his last two movies on the road, selling out venues with a combined "Movie + Q&A" performance. He's presumably making more this way than he would with the traditional theatrical distribution, and he

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