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apolymath

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apolymath··on Nintendo Switch – New Video Game System [video]
I'm guessing they will ship an Nvidia chipset. Even if this isn't true, we are reaching an age where GPU technology is nearly identical for PC, console, and mobile.
apolymath··on platform: Enable support for Pi2+
well I would hope there would be a new Pi coming out... eventually.
apolymath··on Ask HN: What is the cost of sending an email?
depending on who you send an email to and the contents of the email, it could cost you your life...
apolymath··on Children Should Eat Less Than 25 Grams of Added Sugar Daily
This post should be renamed to "Children Should Eat Zero Grams of Added Sugar Daily" because sugar is more harmful than alcohol, cigarettes, and sitting idly in your office chair all day.
apolymath··on Ask HN: What programming language has you really excited lately, and why?
C# and ASP.NET Core. No more IIS server. Instead, built in web server that can be configured via pure C# code. Visual Studio is the most powerful GUI on the planet. C# & ASP.NET is now open source. CNTK is a multi-core GPU optimized deep neural network run via C#.
apolymath··on WebGL raindrops animation that took realism way too far
i reverse-engineered this raindrop demo so you can run it on your own PC with your own background image. PM me on Twitter @markentingh if you want the code
apolymath··on And I was like...
Thank you for your insight into this topic, stray. I now have less faith in the future of the English language hahaha. Oh well. Thank you again for taking the time to share.
apolymath··on And I was like...
Somehow I still understand what he is saying... for the most part.
apolymath··on And I was like...
Perhaps not, then... maybe in the future we won't even have to talk. We will just stare into each others eyes & read body language. Who knows where language is going.
apolymath··on And I was like...
Before I die, I want to be cryogenically frozen and revived 500 years from now, just to see how people speak in the distant future. And then I'll die a very confused old man.
apolymath··on Democracy is broken
so what you're saying is that our vote indeed does not count? We are so screwed.
apolymath··on [dead]
good point, they wouldn't vote if they didn't care... how do you get past the paywall (without paying)? or do you pay?
apolymath··on Ask HN: Any movies that changed your life?
I saw Grave of the Fireflies last night for the first time, and it has helped me realize how vital it is for everyone to eat healthy food every day. People take this for granted and eat horribly, and you wonder why so many people are bipolar or depressed or crazy.
apolymath··on Show HN: GameTime – JS emulator supporting SNES and GBA
if your rom is in a zip file, extract it & drag the rom into the window. Also, try a different rom if that one doesn't work :)
apolymath··on Emdrive – A New Concept in Spacecraft Propulsion
I saw this back in 2007 - 2008. I was so excited about it, even if it could only push a few micronewtons.
apolymath··on So I need to be sad, bored and happy to be creative
what you really need is time to think in order to be creative. Doesn't matter where or how you get it, just as long as you have the time to conjure it up.
apolymath··on Milkdrop visualizers for Winamp on Android
i can appreciate an HTML5 visualizer. One of my favorites though is at http://www.georgeandjonathan.com/
apolymath··on iPhone wallpapers made from Aerial images
too bad the guy who created these photos didn't give details as to the long & lat where these photos were taken. Shame on that guy.
apolymath··on Ask HN: Object you'd like to see connected to the internet?
SLR cameras, drones, cats... anything that records video, photos, or audio, and any kind of sensor, so that the data can be instantly uploaded or even streaming at all times.
apolymath··on Show HN: Breach – A modular browser built on Chromium and Node.js
but not for windows.... fml.
apolymath··on Why the Web Won't Be Nirvana (1995)
I have to disagree with your comment about how CD ROMs aren't keeping kids off the streets. That would be equivalent to saying video games don't keep kids off streets. Kids these days don't sell drugs or commit crimes on the streets, or even PLAY in the streets anymore, they sit in their room or friends room and play video games all day. This is a common fact. Unless you're talking about 3rd world countries where most people don't have a PC or internet or even electricity.
apolymath··on Why the Web Won't Be Nirvana (1995)
18 years later... Google has singlehandedly organized vast amounts of data on the internet, along with wolfram alpha, thousands of hand-crafted infographics, youtube & vimeo, twitter, and a handful of other services. The internet is not only a nirvana but a way to simultaneously empower entire nations of people against the veils of corruption that have befallen civilization throughout human history.
apolymath··on Turing Drawings
i spent an hour finding the most unique animated ones. the longer I experimented, the more unique the patterns became.

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#9,3,2,2,2,1,1,2,5...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#9,3,6,2,2,6,2,3,6...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#9,3,6,1,0,1,1,2,6...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#9,3,4,1,0,5,2,0,5...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#2,8,0,6,3,0,5,1,0...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#2,8,1,7,0,0,1,3,0...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#2,8,1,7,0,1,6,3,1...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#3,3,1,2,1,0,2,3,1...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#3,3,2,2,0,0,2,3,0...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#3,3,1,2,0,1,2,0,2...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#3,3,2,2,2,2,1,0,2...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#3,3,1,2,2,2,2,2,1...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#3,3,2,1,3,2,2,2,1...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#3,3,0,1,0,2,1,1,1...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#3,3,1,2,1,0,1,0,0...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#3,3,2,1,3,2,2,3,0...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#3,9,0,3,1,0,3,3,2...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#3,9,0,5,2,2,3,2,2...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#3,9,2,4,1,2,7,3,0...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#2,9,1,6,2,1,4,2,0...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#2,9,0,4,0,1,5,2,1...

http://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#2,9,0,1,1,1,1,0,0...

apolymath··on Mario Party N64 dice is predetermined
See, this is a very important topic for me because as a child, I'd sit there and watch the dice and look for patterns and try to get the number I wanted by some kind of luck and timing, heh.
apolymath··on Mario Party N64 dice is predetermined
you're welcome. Great minds think alike ;)
apolymath··on Mario Party N64 dice is predetermined
could you tell me what web browser & version you were using when this bug happened? sorry this happened, the platform I am developing is still in beta.
apolymath··on Show HN: Test your website's responsiveness
i have to say that this preview thing is bullshit. For example, your web-based iPad viewing size is only 582px wide, when in all reality, the iPad is 1536px wide. Sorry, but this little test is an epic fail.
apolymath··on On being a single founder for 7 years
if you look at the blog post again, I added more screenshots of the back end dashboard. The platform is more advanced than you think. Designers can use a server-side markup language to handle custom skinning of web page content & UI, along with half a dozen other advanced core features. complex applications that can be installed, tableless responsive design, editable web design template for every web site with built-in source-code editor, javascript-like server-side/client-side scripting language, 3rd party widgets, google analytics, near-live-editing of web pages, DNS management.
apolymath··on On being a single founder for 7 years
I didn't switch server-side languages, but I started from scratch 2 years later, in the beginning of 2008. I had developed my own Flash based AJAX system I called AFLJAX before then, and was using ASP.net 2.0, then started a new project with ASP.net 3.5, Microsoft AJAX and update panels.
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