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by exch 11y ago
Having things be complex and messy is hardly ideal, but I think Neil deGrasse Tyson's sentiment is important to keep in mind: The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. But as cshimmin mentioned, we already unified elect
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by exch 11y ago
This talk by Hans Rosling may be what you are referring to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dymPP9RhPjw
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by exch 11y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dymPP9RhPjw A talk by Hans Rosling[1] on the subject. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Rosling
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by exch 11y ago
What does 'post human' mean? Unless we go extinct, we will always be humans, regardless of what species we evolve into. Our current species is "Homo Sapiens Sapiens", not "Human". Ergo, if we evolve into amorph
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CogniToys: Smart Toys Powered by IBM's Watson(kickstarter.com)
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by exch 12y ago
As a fellow, certified autist (High Functioning Autism diagnosis since 2009), this article resonates with me on many points. Since the diagnosis, my life has improved 100 fold. Not so much because I got go to some courses and group meetings
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by exch 12y ago
They do in my (marginal) experience. I have found it to be a very common idiom to keep word definitions in these languages as short as possible. Probably for this very reason. You define new words for the sole purpose of keeping things shor
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by exch 12y ago
This is definitely one of my all time favourite games. The atmosphere and story are top notch. Good to see it being revitalized.
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by exch 12y ago
Not to mention the vastly better field of view and detail. Neither of which translate very well through a phone camera.
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Multiplayer Tron light cycles through SSH(github.com)
1 points by exch 12y ago|0 comments
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by exch 12y ago
Not sure why you are getting down voted. These are all valid points.
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by exch 12y ago
Thank you! It seems my confusion arose from assuming this is a power generator, while it is a storage device.
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by exch 12y ago
As a completely non-technically-inclined person, can someone explain how this is intended to yield electricity as output? From what little I do understand, the enormous surface area of the crushed gravel acts as a very efficient heat transf
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by exch 12y ago
Go would fit that definition quite nicely as well. It may be worth adding to your list of things to check out.
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by exch 12y ago
[unsubstantiated armchair physics ahead] One benefit of this approach I can see is that you don't, in theory, need transmitters and receivers to be in line of sight for a clear signal. If you are doing standard radio transmissions, it
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by exch 12y ago
Having congenital Glaucoma, I've always had to live with the possibility of one day being blind. My left eye is already pretty much there. What has always fascinated me about sight is how our brains augment and outright invent things y
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by exch 12y ago
I am guessing OP is referring to the ability to reliably orbit and land on comets (and asteroids). We can use them for manned way stations or construction platforms. Not to mention mining them for whatever useful stuff may be in there.
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Using throttling to reduce network errors(joostdevblog.blogspot.com)
2 points by exch 12y ago|0 comments
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Why composition is often better than inheritance(joostdevblog.blogspot.com)
192 points by exch 12y ago|90 comments
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Solving path finding and AI movement in a 2D platformer(joostdevblog.blogspot.nl)
2 points by exch 12y ago|0 comments
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How we solved an infamous sliding bug(joostdevblog.blogspot.nl)
65 points by exch 12y ago|22 comments
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Why Scrum is fundamentally broken (but we still use it)(joostdevblog.blogspot.nl)
8 points by exch 12y ago|10 comments
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by exch 13y ago
I'm thinking he means registering an account on the formspree site. So your form's `action` attribute doesn't require the inclusion of a plain e-mail address. Instead it gets some encrypted string, which is uniquely tied to y
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by exch 13y ago
Given the current exchange rate, those 600 BTC would still net him $628,932.00. That seems like a pretty good deal. Granted, it could have been nearly $260 million, but I guess one can never have it all.
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by exch 13y ago
I think this whole thing sits in the same boat with error handling and unit tests. Many folks tend to see these as something separate from programming. Some kind of side effect that isn't a lot of fun and is therefore best ignored. &qu
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by exch 13y ago
The README is mentioned is more or less a lightweight specification of the public parts. Sometimes it warrants more detail and I add an actual SPEC document which goes into great detail. I have not had much trouble with the comments divergi
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by exch 13y ago
I think the article hits on the wrong conclusion. Don't write less documentation because you're going to assume it will all suck anyway. Insist on writing better documentation instead. Having said that, I find it helpful to write
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by exch 13y ago
I'll add that the reason for using `struct{}` over `bool`, is that an empty struct occupies 0 bytes, whereas a boolean occupies 1.
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by exch 13y ago
> (assuming, of course, that Go accepts Reader as a valid subtype of ReaderCloser (i would hope so!)). Yes it does: http://play.golang.org/p/OnBotL9zfF
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by exch 13y ago
I've looked at this sort of stuff as utter voodoo for a long time. Then I ran into this book[1], and everything just kind of 'clicked' into place in my head. I can't recommend this book often enough. [1]: http:/&#

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