agilord

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by agilord 7y ago
"Learning to write games on the side"
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Ask HN: How to learn game development skills?
16 points by agilord 7y ago|16 comments
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Ask HN: Machine learning in public sector?
4 points by agilord 9y ago|4 comments
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by agilord 10y ago
Agilord | Software Engineer | Budapest, Hungary | remote | https://www.agilord.com/ We are a small consulting shop, slowly moving to build bootstrapped products, currently looking for a frontend software engineer. The candi
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by agilord 10y ago
Shameful plug: with a few friends we are planning to create another platform for such fun games. If you think it is a good idea, please sign up: https://www.botolympiad.com/
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Ask HN: How much effort would you put in a game-AI competition?
1 points by agilord 10y ago|0 comments
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by agilord 13y ago
Randomizing children at hospitals would likely have big negative impact on society. On the long term, everyone would loose social cohesion because of the lack of bonds between brothers, nieces, whatever. Families would lose every incentive
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by agilord 13y ago
Care to provide pointers on the correlations (research paper, whatever)?
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by agilord 13y ago
Last time I've tried to install (~ 9-10 months ago): - Stash: it was a no-brainer (easy setup, easy use). - GitLab: hours spent with frustration (hard to setup, but this might have changed now, I need to try it again). Stash seem to ha
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by agilord 13y ago
If you publish something, it can be read everywhere. There should be no surprise that people will judge your words based on their customs, on their laws, on their terms, and they will act within their jurisdiction. But that goes both ways:
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by agilord 13y ago
I think Tim O'Reilly or Jeff Jarvis or Clay Shirky (unfortunately I don't have the bookmark anymore) already addressed this: The case is a prime example that what you write is not only the jurisdiction where you write it , but al
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by agilord 13y ago
Is there any benefit to use Presto on top of Riak or ElasticSearch (assuming someone writes the required connectors)? What are the main differences there?
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by agilord 13y ago
You do realize, that because of the increase of content publishers, getting ranking becomes harder anyway (independent to Google).
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by agilord 13y ago
I agree, banks and financial institutions are data driven businesses. I have seen several banks from inside, and most of them think that they are driven by financial analysts, figuring out clever equations for managing money (e.g. lending r
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by agilord 13y ago
I assume you have 'events' that you will 'merge' together in a single state object (in case you want to display something). So the operation is to fetch every related event, merge, display. Now the 'folding' ca
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by agilord 13y ago
> but if each user action that triggered a one cell update becomes an event I have to keep forever, I see my database size exploding I think there might be a balance here: you can always garbage-collect events that are already merged in
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by agilord 13y ago
Which payment provider are you using? AFAIK most of them are very picky on the subject.
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by agilord 13y ago
oops, something deleted the part: [that was used by] US government to access [everything in plain text.]
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by agilord 13y ago
It's not about questioning the law, it's about uncovering the internal works of the law. My previous readings pointed to this bill as one of the earliest regulations that was used by everything in plain text. A nice way to descri
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by agilord 13y ago
"Comprehensive Counter-Terrorism Act of 1991" "Sponsor: Sen Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [DE] (introduced 1/24/1991)" "Cosponsor: [...] Sen Reid, Harry [NV] - 1/30/1991" "It
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by agilord 13y ago
Not entirely true. You can always offer to provide them electricity at a lower cost than they would get from the nuclear plants. There is a cross-country marketplace for electricity in the EU, and probably nobody will stop you to sell such
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by agilord 13y ago
> "Which might explain why some people describe their purchase as watery and bland." This is true. The other part of the explanation is that many people just don't appreciate the coffee that is anything different than what
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by agilord 13y ago
There is a lot of room in-between.
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by agilord 13y ago
From the FAQ: "Can Social Fixer hide the Sponsored ads? Yes, just click on the "X" in the upper right of the box, and all boxes with the same title will be hidden every time you load a page." There is a lesson here somew
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by agilord 13y ago
I'd love to see your business plans, upcoming negotiation agendas and planned budgets. And I am not even your competitor, as I don't know what business you are in. Imagine your competitor's eagerness for such data.
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by agilord 13y ago
I am a big fan of postgresql, but I am always having issues with the cluster configuration part, e.g. failovers, automatic new master election and all these crazy administration about the wal shipping. Was there any improvement on this eith
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by agilord 13y ago
Secondary market provides liquidity to the shareholders, but not to the company. There is no cash-flow to or from the company if you buy an AAPL or GOOG. As I've said: the cash comes to the company only if it decides to have another pu
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by agilord 13y ago
> I think its reasonable that as a US citizen you're okay with the NSA being able to break crypto. Because the world is divided to US citizens or the bad guys? C'mon, there is a non-US world out there, who are not bad guys, but
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by agilord 13y ago
> People often forget that underneath the glitz, glamour and dazzling array of numbers of the stock market and Wall Street, the purpose of "the game" is moving real capital to real businesses in need. Well, if it is a public of
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by agilord 13y ago
> It seems impossible to limit someone's exposure on Facebook, I don't think anyone is forced to use it. I know several families who have account, yet, they don't share on it or use it for anything that could be embarrassi

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