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Yeah, but you'd pay about the same price for gigabit ethernet from a company that isn't trying to kill net neutrality. I'd much rather google spy on my web browsing (they probably do with chrome anyway), than Comcast.

If you get yeast in your intestines and you're taking antibiotics, you can get what's called Auto-Brewery Syndrome. The yeast in your intestines starts to ferment sugars and you get drunk all the time.

Sadly, such wordsmiths are far from rare in the world of business. Very often they will go through linguistic gymnastics to make every action of theirs sound good, and justify things they shouldn't have done as okay. In my personal experience, salespeople are the worst about this, as their entire job is really to bullshit people into buying a product.

What about using a bluetooth keyboard?

I think it's a great example of why overriding the default prototype functions is a bad idea.

I grew up in Greer (about 20 minutes down Wade Hampton Blvd from BJU), and my mother, even in 2005, still believed that D&D was satanic. She had converted to Judaism, never went to BJU, and still she held that belief because of the moral panic in the 80s. It's amazing to me how easily some people will accept a moral position on something they know nothing about simply because someone else told them they should.

I actually got her to play D&D with me. It was interesting. We sat down and set up the game, had little tokens for our characters (it was the starter set), and dice and all of that. We selected our characters, entered the dungeon, and were promptly killed by the first orcs we came across. We stopped playing after that, but I think it opened her eyes to the misconceptions she had of the game.

BJU would go into K-Mart and demand they stop playing certain radio stations because the students couldn't shop there if they played rock music. They also caused a shitstorm when they tried to expel some students for holding hands when walking across campus because one was black and the other white, and this was in 2001. I even had a guy in my high school get into their weird religious beliefs trying to tell us in Biology class that the world was 3000 years old and the devil put dinosaur bones there to test us.

This is similar to the moral panic that happened around pokemon and harry potter in the 90s, and the daycare rape panic that happened in the 80s. It seems like moral outrage is a way that some people band together and identify.

It's still happening now, my university I went to is being attacked for giving a summer reading book that is about a lesbian. People are viciously attacking faculty and alumni from the university, and the state legislators have even taken to fining the schools for it.

XNA was quite far from what Unity is. Unity gives you a full engine, whereas XNA was a framework and you had to build the engine yourself. It was a great little library, but it was painful for unskilled software developers (myself at the time) to use it compared to Unity's WYSIWYG and property lists you could modify, not to mention all of the things that came with Unity that you'd have to build custom in XNA.

That's not to say Unity is better, it was just easier to use.

Some of us have HBO GO, pay a cable subscription, have Amazon Prime, and still pirate it. It's nice sometimes to be able to download it once and then not waste the bandwidth watching it again, especially when your ISP puts a bandwidth cap on all customers and calls you "data hogs". I also wholeheartedly support piracy (even of the things I make), so there's that.

Oculus may be the leader, but they're certainly not the only game in town.

Jeri Ellsworth (Technical Illusions) with the CastAR, Sony has one, GameFace Labs, Durovis, etc. are all competitors.

Even if Oculus is the best thing out there, their advances will quickly spread to the community. With the competition we're seeing in the area, it's going to be very crowded, I don't think Oculus being bought by Facebook is bad for consumers. It could be bad for Oculus, but it's not like Facebook is against open source (just look at their github), so I don't think we need to worry about them trying to squirrel away every advancement they make behind a patent or anything.

Kickstarter already has plenty of exploitative scam campaigns. I knew (I use the term loosely, more like I had to ban from a social group for being offensively rude to women) one of the guys that ran a successful kickstarter. He hasn't updated his project in months, and his last updates were about how he's only spent a small amount of the money, is looking for a new dev team, and wants to hire a web developer on the cheap.

I knew it was a scam from the day I learned of it, just based on this guy's character and inexperience.

I can assure you that equity would be no different, unless the investments could be protected by law in some way. I don't really know how to prevent this sort of thing, investors needs to do their homework, but even that's not always accurate.

It is brilliant on Facebook's part. They know they are widely loathed among internet users. They can use this Oculus acquisition to show the world that they aren't just some evil creepy web site with no regard for anything but their own profits.

Thanks for the info! It really helps knowing how others have solved problems like that. I am interested to know if there is an open source finite state machine for building in SC2.

I figured this was how it worked. What ways did you use to get an accurate model of the rules? Did you just use wikis and a stopwatch to figure out how long builds take, what can be built when, etc. or did you actually memory watch or decompile the game itself to figure out the algorithms and loops used?

I made a Tic-Tac-Toe GA in undergrad as my senior project. It was horribly stupid, but I didn't reduce the problem space down, and I could have easily implemented rotation and flip mapping to reduce the search space by a significant amount (just over 7% of the nieve search space), but the algorithm still worked pretty well and served as a great learning experience.

The genetic part is ridiculously simple, IMO. The hard part is figuring out how to define the rules of the game, break them out, and figure out what maps to the genome and how it maps. Evolution from that point is simply modifying the genome in different ways.

I like this, it reminds me a little bit of corewars. Is there a way to get an enemy's type when programming from the base?

Would it be possible to modify this to work at 125khz to use passive RFID?

An iPhone camera isn't really good enough to OCR vehicles as you move past them in a parking lot. You get skew from rolling shutter effects, plus it's going to be shaking violently when attached to an automobile without proper dampening.

The cameras used for OCR on license plates need to have a fairly high resolution, fast shutter speed, and a number of other little additions which make it more expensive than an iPhone camera. Granted, $10,000 is really expensive for such a device, and the real cost for something like that is probably a few hundred dollars, but after you add in software and radio communication (probably a cell plan if I had to guess), you're looking at an expensive device.

Of course, we could build one ourselves for a fraction of that, but that's why we don't drive tow-trucks or license plate scanner cars for a living.

Sometimes they ask and the seller will tell them. Sometimes the seller will try to use it as a bargaining tactic (which inevitably fails).

It's about convenience. Also consider that many workplaces provide the Keurig machine in common areas (kitchens, cafeterias) for employees to use their own k-cups with. One of my former employers actually had a contract with their vending machine provider where the Keurig machines were provided for free, but they were required to purchase a minimum monthly k-cup amount from the vendor.

The reasoning was that "a lot of coffee is being thrown out in the afternoon", so they wanted to cut waste by using the Keurig machine in the afternoon when fewer people were making coffee. When you actually do the math, an entire pot of coffee (10 cups) cost the same as a single Keurig cup. The logic didn't seem very sound to me, and I suspect it had more to do with the convenience of making a single cup and not having to clean up after yourself.

The k-cups cost about 30 to 50 cents each, unless you buy thousands of them.

It's illegal for them to reverse engineer (and reimplement) hardware DRM for interoperability, but software DRM circumvention is protected by DMCA, only for the purpose of interoperability.

Couldn't someone with a known withdrawal from mtgox use the address the money came from to trace up the blockchain? I don't know if gox used multiple wallets, but if not it should be pretty obvious where the money came from and went.

In what way would you write regexes verbosely? I'm actually quite interested in the idea because regexes can be confusing to write at times, and it's difficult to remember which form to use where, if you use them in many languages/interfaces.

There are tools like Regexper[1] that let you visualize the regex as an automata graph, and there are tools like text2re[2] which will allow you to put in text and visually generate a regex to match it.

I feel like better regex tools should exist on the command line, and it's potentially a great place for such tools to be rapidly developed and adopted. There are GUI tools for this like poirot[3], but the command line still exists because of its accessibility, uniformity, and extensibility.

links:

[1] http://www.regexper.com/

[2] http://txt2re.com/index.php3?s=24%3AFeb%3A2014+%22This+is+an...

[3] http://www.espgraphics.com/poirot/

The beauty of a badge is that you can meet someone, forget their name when they tell you, and by looking at the badge (assuming they have it properly displayed), not have to be embarrassed that you've forgotten their name. It also serves a security purpose, but that's secondary to the identification purpose.

The point of the strawman was, I believe, to mock those who claim to want a free market, but support politicians who legislate such local monopolies.

I've been casually exploring Godot Engine for the last few days, and I have to say it's got everything I personally need in a 2d engine as a beginner game developer. I feel like someone with more experience/knowledge may find it limiting, but for me it's actually allowed me to do more with less, whereas frameworks like XNA always left me trying to figure a lot out for myself and write a lot of code that seemed unnecessary/redundant.

Sure, GDScript is poorly documented and isn't really python, but it's not that hard to find the undocumented features (search the github code), and the fact that it compiles to pretty much any platform means it's a rather small mental investment for a large gain in deployability.

I use namecheap, but I don't actually maintain any of the domains I own, I just have one for my name and I used to have a minecraft server set up with a domain, but it stopped being played.

If they came up with a unified, cross platform, UI format, it would make it so much easier. As it is now, you have to write your own view for each platform, instead of being able to use generic objects (buttons, cells, text, images, etc.) which wrap the native ones.

If they did that, they would very likely, as you say, dominate mobile for a long time. Nothing is more frustrating than jumping between android XML, Java, and eclipse (or whatever) and XCode, OBJ-C, and the iOS UI, while trying to not go insane.

Xamarin relies heavily on mono, I don't see them rebuilding it just for Linux when they're so heavily invested in the MS platform.

It seems that now we have the opposite, an incentive for people to go directly to debt collectors. I had a radiology office in Charlotte give me a needless CT scan and bill me directly (instead of my insurance), so I owed them hundreds, and they went to collections after I paid part of it in a month, and never let me view the balance online.

The problem is that people just go to collections without trying to collect the debt.

Why can't this be used to replace all of the java applets or allow java back into the browser? I know there were security issues before with native Java, perhaps JS sandboxed Java could solve the security issues.

Well, it can transfer heat when electric current is applied. They used these for processor coolers in the 90s, I remember my father had one and it broke one day and so his processor let out the blue smoke.