cadetzero

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by cadetzero 13y ago
Because if you're creating a 2d game, it can be rendered reasonably fast in your browser. Full 3d is a different problem. However, a game like Monaco, with super simple controls but really interesting game play, could absolutely be built in
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by cadetzero 13y ago
As a recently graduated student... ohmygod I wish I had this in college (only because I don't use matlab daily). The tutorials are lovely and I don't have to haul myself to a lab to run it. I would have paid out of my own pocket in college
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by cadetzero 13y ago
>"They haven’t excited the front-line developers -- the ones who made Amazon who they are," he said. "Those will be hard to influence." That may be true, but at the end of the day, startups aren't generating multi-millions/billions to s
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by cadetzero 13y ago
After Aliens: Colonial Marines, I really hope they don't spread their teams too thin across too many products... Borderlands was great, but given they've done almost exclusively first person shooters, I'm definitely concerned for the Homewo
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by cadetzero 13y ago
To be totally honest, if you heard a huge explosion behind you, would YOU stop to see what happened? Personally I'd book it harder.
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by cadetzero 13y ago
My mom still has no problem using QuickBooks and doing all the required web stuff at work with a Pentium 4 and 512mb ram. She literally just bought a new desktop because quickbooks requires it. In an office environment, she really doesn't n
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by cadetzero 13y ago
"Windows is done". What a final statement. PC sales may be mostly done. A desktop that was bought 10 years ago can still run fine today - and many still are. We reached a point in computing where upgrading doesn't make that big of a differe
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by cadetzero 13y ago
Why don't they fix Facebook on android before releasing a new product? It frequently "shooooops" for me - crashes, lags, hogs resources, and otherwise does unexpected things. I'm very wary to install any software from Facebook on Android.
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by cadetzero 13y ago
Wow, they built this when their Facebook app on android still consumes an ungodly amount of system resources? I have no faith in this from a technical perspective.
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by cadetzero 13y ago
Your current banking transactions aren't anonymous either. It's a nice additional security layer for people that want it, but by no means is it required.
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by cadetzero 13y ago
Yes, correct. Typo.
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by cadetzero 13y ago
> How is the non-tech user ever going to be able to use this with anywhere near level of trust/safety they do with current traditional currencies. Near everyone I know, regardless of age, does their banking online. I don't see how this
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by cadetzero 13y ago
I'm not really sure why you say it's so hard. You install the bitcoin wallet. You sell something for bitcoins, and you give them your private key address in your wallet. You receive bitcoins. You buy something with bitcoins else where, and
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by cadetzero 13y ago
US government declares it an illegal currency, and if you accept bitcoins at your business you will be investigated. Game over.
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by cadetzero 13y ago
Correct, and there are merchant services set up to do exactly this.
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by cadetzero 13y ago
It totally stands within reason that until it has wide spread adoption and regular people stop caring about what the exact exchange rate is that we will see large runs like that. As I stated, we have several people (myself included) investe
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by cadetzero 13y ago
That's about to be a total non-factor once all the ASICs online. http://launch.avalon-asics.com/ and http://www.butterflylabs.com/ The hash rates are order of magnitude faster than what's currently out there for the price, and most impo
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by cadetzero 13y ago
Source, on the whole, is http://bitcoincharts.com/ You can break down all the numbers yourself. You can also get a giant history table of all buy/sells with times from either bitcoinity or bitcoin charts, I forget which.
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by cadetzero 13y ago
Oh, this literally happened yesterday. Someone sold off 5k bitcoins (~USD $450k at the time). That's exactly what happened. Big sell off from 95 to 80ish, and then it sprang back to ~$90 today. There's low confidence in it right now, but th
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by cadetzero 13y ago
>As an asset class it's far too volatile Volatile, sure. Depends if you want to invest long term with it, and you understand the risk. > As a currency it's too impractical and there are serious hurdles involved with turning central
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by cadetzero 13y ago
As I understand, you can't hit those speeds with just a rocket engine. The HTV-2 is considered a rocket glider - it needs a rocket to propel it to altitudes and speeds where the SCRAMJET can kick in (as the scramjet itself has no moving par
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by cadetzero 13y ago
I found it really interesting to read about the underlying tech, scramjets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramjet
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by cadetzero 13y ago
Is there a single analytics product on the market today that can give me this solution? Is there a product that's self-hosted? If there is either, I haven't found them. I built these exact metrics in house... such a pain.
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by cadetzero 14y ago
Thank goodness. Maybe - MAYBE - this could give EA a breath of fresh air. So many pieces of AAA IP have been squandered...
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by cadetzero 14y ago
I submitted the exact same a day ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5365083
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A successful double spend with Bitcoin(bitcointalk.org)
5 points by cadetzero 14y ago|0 comments
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How I Over-Engineered ASP.NET Health Monitoring(mvolo.com)
9 points by cadetzero 14y ago|0 comments
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Angelhack NYC Post-Mortem(proelium.net)
2 points by cadetzero 14y ago|0 comments