guybrushT

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by guybrushT 2y ago
I waited for this thread for 10 years (check my username) and then didn't log into hacker news on the day it was posted :) I wouldn't shower more praise on this game than folks have already done. Great article. Great HN thread. A
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by guybrushT 9y ago
"I would lose the verbs. I love the verbs, I really do, and they would be hard to lose, but they are cruft. It's not as scary as it sounds. I haven't fully worked it out (not that I am working it out, but if I was working
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by guybrushT 10y ago
"Dubliners there was the unlovable A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which starts well, charting bold, clear routes, like “Araby,” through the trackless waters of childhood, then fouls its rotors in a dense kelpy snarl of cathec
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Pearl Announces RearVision: World’s Most Advanced Automotive Backup Camera(businesswire.com)
2 points by guybrushT 10y ago|0 comments
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by guybrushT 10y ago
Quit a highly paid job with a big company (my decision). Joined a smaller company (my decision). Found great people to work with (luck) who are humble, smart and willing to teach - these days I tap dance to work.
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Show HN: Life is too short(42.life)
1 points by guybrushT 10y ago|0 comments
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by guybrushT 11y ago
The article doesn't dig into some important possible reasons why the growth may be slowing down. When a company is shipping at a large scale (~80 million devices a year), macro factors must be playing a role -- may be the # of phones s
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by guybrushT 11y ago
I fully agree. Does anyone have an insight into: Why doesn't he make the source the code he uses in his presentations (e.g. the demo in 'Inventing on Principle') available? It would be hugely instructive and joyful to play wi
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Ask HN: Going to meet one of the world's top string theorist – what should I ask?
6 points by guybrushT 11y ago|7 comments
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In light of recent events in Paris have your views on mass surveillance changed?
7 points by guybrushT 11y ago|14 comments
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Scott Adams illustrates why goals are for losers and passion is overrated(businessinsider.in)
1 points by guybrushT 11y ago|0 comments
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by guybrushT 11y ago
One of the best (and incidentally, very recent) illustration of your point was seen an AMA by Bill Murray [1]. The Reddit mod was simply transcribing sentences as Bill was saying them. Soon after, /u/BillMurrayTranslator (some ran
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Researchers use engineered viruses to provide enhancement of energy transport(sciencedaily.com)
1 points by guybrushT 11y ago|0 comments
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by guybrushT 11y ago
I hope this prize leads to a more systematic (re)look at traditional medicine - both Chinese and Indian. It would be important (and exciting) to understand what thousands of years of 'wisdom' can offer modern science and the drug
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by guybrushT 11y ago
I had the good fortune of reading his autobiography. I highly recommend it. It explains the events described in this article (eg the ostracization; allegations of being a communist; attacks on his character; the affairs; seizure of his weal
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by guybrushT 11y ago
There is no immediate need of a hierarchy. Depending on the size of the team, this is a good thing. As long as you have one "alpha", a designated or undesignated person who makes a call when contentious views are blocking progre
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by guybrushT 11y ago
Post ends with: "This project was fun. It was very exciting to bring it to life step by step, and such a pleasure to see it working after we put so much effort in it. But this is nothing compared to how much we learned thanks to it. Wh
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Mark Zuckerberg Hosting Town Hall Q&A with India’s Prime Minister Modi(venturebeat.com)
1 points by guybrushT 11y ago|0 comments
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by guybrushT 11y ago
I didn't know about Julian Schwinger's life before this. Two of the many awe-inspiring paragraphs from the text: Bethe describes his meeting with Schwinger: "I entirely forgot that he [Schwinger] was a sophomore 17 years of
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An Interview with Alex Gibney, Director of Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine(theverge.com)
1 points by guybrushT 11y ago|0 comments
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by guybrushT 11y ago
I do. And you are right. I think we will get to a place where one company does it right, before we agree on an interoperable standard.
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by guybrushT 11y ago
One of the companies that is solving this very problem is Xiaomi. Their method is quite crude - that is, they make everything themselves. But the end result is that everything they make - from an air purifier to a TV - is connected and oper
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by guybrushT 11y ago
Couldn't agree more.
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by guybrushT 11y ago
As my username probably reveals, this is my favorite game, and one of the most enjoyable / funny gaming experiences that I have had. The part that I still remember, after all these years is sword fighting insults. Till today, my friend
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by guybrushT 11y ago
There are 2 amazing things about this article: 1. It was written a while ago, and the general description of the country and its problems are just as true. 2. This quote: "In the eastern section of India, there is a company called
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by guybrushT 11y ago
As a father, and as someone interested in this discussion (about "child learning to talk"), I think you will love Prof Deb Roy's insights into how his infant son learned language. http://www.ted.com/talks&#x2F
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by guybrushT 11y ago
this is very well made. i was hoping to make something like it - but way (way!) more minimal. here is the first draft - http://adombic.appspot.com
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Programmer Creates An AI To (Not Quite) Beat NES Games (2013)(techcrunch.com)
5 points by guybrushT 12y ago|2 comments
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by guybrushT 12y ago
I love this part: "It would have taken an entire lifetime for any engineer with a soldering iron to try all those variations. So I said to him, Now that games are software, it's going to be a different world for games." Thi
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Ask HN: Need help finding the best tool for text mining
1 points by guybrushT 12y ago|0 comments

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