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Awesome Procedural Terrain Generation(shamusyoung.com)
25 points by buggy_code 17y ago|10 comments
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by buggy_code 17y ago
My favorite variant on this is: every 20 years, have science advance enough to extend everyone's life by 30 years (doesn't take care of things like getting hit by bus, but takes care of 'regular' life extension) (iirc, there was some ted ta
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Ask HN: Best Command Line Email Client?
24 points by buggy_code 17y ago|17 comments
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by buggy_code 17y ago
I don't get it. Instead of "Let's get C++ easier to debug" why not: "Let's only write performance intense parts in C++", and have the rest in an interpreted scripting language, where things like this (and more) come much cheaper?
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Ask HN: Linux Development - Rapid Prototyping on the iPhone
6 points by buggy_code 17y ago|6 comments
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by buggy_code 17y ago
I found this book far more insightful than a bag of tricks. Clearly, anyone who practices these rules religiously will end up living a very lonely, paranoid life. However, as a nerd that doesn't understand social dynamics very well, I've fo
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by buggy_code 17y ago
Somewhat OT -- how do you have negative karma? I thought you can only vote up on hacker news.
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by buggy_code 17y ago
I really appreciate your comment. For a while, I thought it was an Asian thing (never as an Immigrant thing); you logic makes sense. From personal experience all the things I labeled as "Asian" that's causing pressure, actually, in reality,
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Ask HN: Obsessive Asian Parents
36 points by buggy_code 17y ago|34 comments
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by buggy_code 17y ago
Dumb question: I understand how URL shorteners work (hash the URL) however, how do they make money?
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Ask HN: is there a startup school 2009?
3 points by buggy_code 17y ago|1 comments
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by buggy_code 17y ago
Are you a professor or a research scientist now? I have pondered this route, but it seems that in general, the research community / academia tends to "shun" those that don't do straight undergrad -> research.
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by buggy_code 17y ago
This sounds alot like the "Monk and the Riddle" philosophy. Is this what you're getting at?
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by buggy_code 17y ago
Where would you live? In your own house? On your own island? Or somehow work in a company that lets you spend your free time working on an open source project?
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Ask HN: What to do after selling startup?
30 points by buggy_code 17y ago|51 comments
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by buggy_code 17y ago
Talk to your parents. It's amazing what the response to "I just recently graduated. Instead of going to Europe to get drunk for a year, I'd like to go home for a year and write software for my startup." can be.