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It's unlikely that there is an underlying voxel grid because that would not be compatible with relativity.

If we are in a computer, then you would need some other type of representation where voxels are local to each other - perhaps by storing distance between every pair of voxels that can interact.
The country is very dependent on tourism. However, the money generated isn't being pumped back into the country.

People who visit on holiday say how wonderful the place is, beautiful beaches and clear blue seas. But move to other areas of the island and it's a completely different place. Walk 5 minutes down the road from the fanciest hotel and there's a shanty town.

Mauritius certainly has a great opportunity and is probably better than a lot of the other African countries, but it still has a long way to go.
is it something different in American climate?.. :)

one can live in a cardboard box in California but not in Scotland?
The market is saturated with Android devices. Of course it's going to overtake the iPhone market. If there was only one Android device available at any given time, that'd be a completely different question.
Would you also educate consumers about the true cost of web apps?
"work for" != "full time salaried employee"
So, does this make the one who sent the text message a murderer?
Your in a city with a great startup culture. Staying in school in that city and thereby staying exposed to that great startup culture for 3+ years could very well be worth what debt you will accrue in the meantime, and if your smart enough to do well at neuro-science, you will probably get out of that debt in short order.
I realise my response seems more targeted towards sales than reviews, but it covers both sides.
Ah, I agree. Perhaps I misunderstood what you meant the first time around.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: this is one of the best business blogs there is. (And traditional publishing is screwed up if it was ever rational to have this guy move his own books at retail.)
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π does go on forever (unpredictably)
I guess some will say you have to add Quebec
Eh, you say "fragmentation", I hear "choice".
Nope, it makes them a hero for saving so many lives and not putting a black mark on the New year celebrations that night in Red Square
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You should try the Duck Duck Go challenge. I don't see torrents in my search results unless I choose !torrent of course.
i meant that - is that true that in America there are more risky, romantic hackers that would be happy to work for a promising startup for nothing, than in Europe, where too much people want to be full time employees?

without any critics, just wondering.
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You assume that every addition doesn’t disturb the others. If Android gaming can cluster around the Playstation brand (assuming it’ll be available on non-Sony hardware) then this could start clearing up the market.
What about Stockbyte? Sold for $136m in 2006.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0406/stockbyte-business.html?rss

Also, Jerry Kennelly (who sold Stockbyte), is running a seed capital program somewhat similar to YC, called the Endeavour program: http://www.endeavour.biz/ application date was yesterday. I posted a comment here the other day that we need to stop this Irish attitude of moaning about everything, and start doing stuff.

Another funding program:

http://www.ndrc.ie/

From what I've heard also, the banks are being forced to provide funding to startups, but that there isn't enough demand as of yet.

Check http://siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/ regularly to see what's going on in Ireland in relation to startups.
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well, I've been all around the island by car and sure the places locals live in are not posh, but far from being "shanty towns" you'll see in India (where many mauritians are coming from) or Brasil or most of Africa for that matter.

But that's the "freedom" Mises Institute applauds - freedom for foreigners to invest in local industries but not contribute much back besides employment.
A large-scale study … found optimism and sense
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longevity.

:(

(If I've understood that correctly.)
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Well they need to fix something because the essay farms were getting through. I think my suggestion would work. I'm sure they could find some heuristics for identifying marketers who might be trying to game them based on trust (say, ads that don't stay active long enough for a reviewer to see in order to sneak by). And it's a huge risk for me to get caught, even once.
"kill o" suggests "kill obama". Is Google encouraging to kill Obama ?

"kill osama bin laden" appears only with "kill os". Is this an hint of the Google priorities ?

These are obviously rhetorical questions.
If I'm going to work for nothing, I'll work for myself, or as a fully-vested partner.

If I'm going to work for a salary, I'll work for at least the going market rate for my skills. I don't care if you're Joe McStartup or IBM. It's your dream, not mine.
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The similar Slashdot poll a week or so ago ('What would you prefer to be paid in? Dollars / pounds / euros / etc etc') saw a similar effect: pounds had a huge lead for most of the UK day until the US woke up and hammered the 'dollars' button :)
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Gotcha. But still, the chart is old, and lacks browsers people use. The benefit of the CSS reset is that it resets everything in browsers so everything is equal. Normalization wouldn't exactly do that. And if things changed, the normalization would have to change as well.

Good idea, but practically speaking, I think it defeats the purpose.
Brazil here, in fact in a city called Campinas.
Your numbers are apples, and the US numbers are oranges. The US numbers are gross - before taxes, whereas yours are monthly, after tax figures in euros. 37K works out to 3000 a month, roughly, before taxes. Given how high Italian taxes are, that would put you at something like 1500 to 2000, which actually isn't unreasonable for a developer here.

It's still not very good money though, compared to what you could get elsewhere. It might be if things were still cheap here, like 15 years ago, but prices went up a lot with the Euro.
For everyone wondering about Corona:

http://www.anscamobile.com/

It's a game studio for mobile platforms, including ios and android. It has a yearly fee.
I like this story, because it draws the whole complex masquerade operation together around a nice focal point.

Fortitude was a very complicated operation (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fortitude, it even involved faking two entire fictitious armies :D) but executed brilliantly - one of my favourite pieces of war history.
(c)pickle uses a string protocol by default which is the most portable (even across Python versions and platforms). You need to specify another protocol version for best performance. See http://docs.python.org/library/pickle.html#data-stream-forma...

The times should be similar to lwpb then.

Edit2: Oh, and for JSON you should use http://pypi.python.org/pypi/simplejson
There are keyword triggers- you probably avoid them. I know groups whose ads fly in minutes.
Let me clarify. At 6$ a month, I don't feel like I'm getting ripped off, even if it really doesn't cost them nearly that much to provide me the service. The t-shirt I'm wearing costs maybe $1 in raw materials and manufacturing, but it sold for $20. I got it 50% off for 10$. Am I getting ripped off? Should $10 for a t-shirt not seem like a fair price?
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this is what i understand.

so, that guy in the movie, that won a drunken coding contest, must have been a fully vested partner.
Spam saving lives.
Regarding Stockbyte, I never said there wasn't any other successful Irish startups besides Havok, just that they are few. We can hope that this is improving though.

Thanks for the links, though. Very useful. Hopefully the two funding programs are better than EI and the other ones I've seen in the past. I definitely see the startup situation improving here, its just happening very slowly and I think a greater focus on startups would be good for our economy (though I don't know what more can be done to help that along).
Message was sent by robot (automated congratulations from mobile operator). So, does this make it a murder of human by robot?
I'm not familiar with these- but I apologize for the accidental/clumsy downvote from my iPhone. I must have dragged my thumb across the down arrow on my way to the reply button on this app.
Cool project. Why not call it 'UnMarkdown' or 'Markdownr'?
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Stealing content was never easier than with HTML5
If I bought a game and hated it, I wouldn't email the creator for a refund. I'd either use the built-in refund interface or give a bad review. I suspect most people are the same way.

You seem to be immune to that because you have created good games, but that is far from the norm on the market.

Also, you have no idea how many people didn't buy your game now that they can't refund within 24 hours. Just like piracy, it's impossible to measure actual lost sales. You can only make a guess.
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Best in the world ? Try Inverness, Scotland.
I wonder whether an editor saw this.

"effected"?!

"6 light years across (about the size of the orbit of Neptune)"?!

I'll check back when adult supervision does its job... Chances are no black hole will change measurably before that.
Heh, no thank goodness. 10,000 word systems engineering essay. An attempt at getting more edification in my spare time :)
Assume about 1000 GBP/month if you want somewhere half-decent to live. If you want accommodation to be 30% of your before-tax salary, then you need to make 40K per year.

If you're willing to compromise - live in a room in a shared house, almost like a student, or somewhere dodgy (e.g. tower block with lifts that smell like piss) or with poor transport links, you'll be able to reduce that by 50% or more.

Between myself and my GF, we make about 90K GBP, and we're fairly comfortable. But we live in Bow in the East End, don't have kids, and barely feel middle class.
Better get started on implementing Asumov's laws then.
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In Canada many people won't get Netflix[1] because of ridiculously low bandwidth caps. It's amazing how much lack of competition and corrupt regulatory bodies can stifle innovation.

[1] And of course, Netflix' catalog in Canada is very limited due to similar politics.
They're here to protect us! I knew it!
Sometimes I wonder why so many people find it so important having the best phone ever created.

I usually settle for "good enough" and don't think much about it.
Aww guys, I just thought it was a funny misread
Go to Portugal.
Great weather with amazing beaches and country side, low cost of living and lot's of engineers that can speak fluent English. Also the government has subsidies for tech companies, specially in the IT sector.
Spain is ok as well, but I find that people there have a hard time with English and like to party a bit too much.
And the comments about London are true. It is very expensive to live here and the quality of life is appalling. Many people who start out in sexy industries ( games, web, etc... ) gravitate to finance because they can't afford to live an adult life here on the wages of those industries.
Yeah. You can't do this shit anymore:

http://uvtblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/why_do_black.j...

http://suggestoftheday.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/gsold....

At least the results aren't as funny. "Chinese people are aliens" is still a google-endorsed suggestion though. WHAT DO THEY KNOW?
I suspect most Americans have annoying personal requirements like bills and mortgages to pay same as Europeans.

College students don't have these overheads, but they don't have experience either - so coding for next to nothing is a good exchange for experience and resume padding.

However, if you're an experienced developer and you work for nothing without a huge chunk of equity or ownership in the business then you're a fool. Look up some of the job offers on Craigslist - you'll be very much in demand.
Reminds me of the other day, picking a random transaction and following it's results across about 5 database tables, turned out that one network had a passthrough data size limit of 50 characters. Don't think this would have shown itself for a long time had I not randomly decided to follow the logic path.
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Don't know about other countries, but in Russia, mobile operators just love to SMS-spam you with tons of advertising. Even though they provide option to opt-out, but even then will still accidentally send messages. Some carriers even used to spam in USSD queries results, appending ads to useful information (like account balance).

(Therefore I doubt it was New Year congratulations. Probably just an ad (may be New Year-themed, though))
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I really like less as an improvement to css. I always end up discarding it though because of the dual representation you end up with. I've tried using the https://github.com/cloudhead/more/ plugin for rails which generates the css on the fly, but it doesn't work reliably enough for me to be confident the changes I've made have been reflected in the page I'm looking at. I also spend a lot of time in firebug tweaking rules and it can be a pain to translate back when you've abstracted the rules you're working on. I think the extensions they've made to css are absolutely the right choices, very minimal. If the browsers would support it I think it would be a winner.
So the bombing at the airport wasn't an isolated incident, but a planned attack. What's the motive behind it? Why Russia?
We proposed a reputation mechanism for mash-ups/apps that can be plugged on OAuth. The service provider (e.g: Twitter or Facebook) records every access to the user account and sends a report after a week. Users rate the application which reputation is maintained by the service provider. Average ratings and comments are displayed when a new user is asked to grant an authorization.

Link to the paper: http://www.dundal.com/R2M-CCNC2010.pdf
I am seeing about 50 people in Australia in the DB now.
Workflow systems for defense contractors (awfully vague, sorry).
Don't worry, with the current state of affairs in the US, we should probably be happy they don't know we exist.
Guys, I'm not Brazilian but you should check out http://hackernewsers.com/users.html?User[city]=&User[cou...

there are some people from Brazil :-)
LOL. 40k ~= 29k / year after taxes? That's 2400 / month (I'm not sure what health care coverage you get for that, it's been 10 years since I lived in the UK, but let's assume it is fully covered). A 1 bedroom is what nowadays, 1600 / month if you're not picky? Add public transport fees (100 euro / month?), above-average cost of food (depending on where you go and what you eat, obviously - 250 euro a month for 1 person if you're a bit careful should be doable); utility bills (gas, water, electricity; let's say you're not home much and it all adds up to 150 / month; that leaves 300 for clothes, cell phone, insurances, furnishing your apartment, social life if you want to have one, various local taxes, ... Luckily Ryanair flies for cheap, but the Stansted Express is already another 25 euros ;)

Obviously there are many people living off much less, but don't expect the same standard of living you could buy elsewhere with that money...
I think the point is that if you look at the average across all devices, the iPhone is still ahead, but if there was only one Android phone (and it was one of the good ones e.g. the Samsung Galaxy S) then Android would be ahead.

The average Android review score is pulled down by the crappy Android devices. Having an open market creates higher highs and lower lows than Apple controlling everything (it seems).
Netbeans discontinues Rails support
The below text went out to the mailing list this morning. A sad day for Rails...I've always felt theNetbeans support was top notch.

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Dear NetBeans Community:
After thorough consideration, we have taken
the difficult step to discontinue support for Ruby on Rails in the
NetBeans IDE. Two main issues underpin this decision:
Java SE 7
and Java Development Kit 7 (JDK 7) are the next major releases of the
Java SE platform, which Oracle is committed to deliver in 2011. A key
objective of the NetBeans IDE has always been to offer superior support
for the Java platform. To maintain that objective and capitalize on the
JDK 7 release themes--multi-language support, developer productivity
and performance--it is necessary that our engineering resources are
committed to a timely and quality release of NetBeans IDE 7.0.
Second:
Although our Ruby support has historically been well received, based on
existing low usage trends we are unable to justify the continued
allocation of resources to support the feature.
As of January 27,
the Ruby on Rails module will be gone from development builds of
NetBeans IDE 7.0. Developers who want to continue to use Ruby on Rails
functionality in the NetBeans IDE should please visit the NetBeans Ruby Support page <http://wiki.netbeans.org/RubySupport> for
details on how to do so going forward.
We
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Hi Rich,
I've never seen your site before, I have very little free time, and I use it to code more than read the news. Your site isn't bad.. it's not the best I've seen and not the worst either, which is similar to how I'd currently rate ours.

domaintyper.com is one of my new favourites and I was aware of domai.nr but found it too minimalist to be useful to me, and some minor ones you'll get through Google , or DuckDuckGo :).

Actually one of the things I learned on the project was how poorly I'd initally researched the market. There are far more competitors than I thought in this space.
Many are proof of concept or prepend adjectives, some are more advanced. We are trying to be creative and we're coming up with most algorithms and UI concepts from scratch out of necessity as we're not hugely impressed with what we've seen elsewhere.

Yes we have made sales, I won't divulge the number, safe to say, not enough for me to quit my day job but we're moving on much faster than expected. Being an affiliate, as you probably know has it's drawbacks in terms of not being able to track user behaviour once they disappear into the registrar's site.

Name Toolkit doesn't merely attach words to other words randomly, or prepend random words, but if that's how it looked, then we're not doing well enough. We're working to make our search better daily and we hope that will become apparent if you re-visit.

All the best with your efforts.
This is the kind of shit that will do Facebook in eventually. People don't like being exploited for someone else's profit so overtly.
I'm almost dead center of the city, but I'm on the 35th floor, so no dice for me.
Heh, I used to work at one time for someone whose products were cordially detested in the semiconductor industry because they were considered (with some reason) to be bug-ridden ad-hoc implementations of things the semi industry thought they absolutely needed :)
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This is not about last year's flash crash.
Failure is the path to success.
I made two articles about optimizing my game Crajsh (http://www.crajsh.com). Avoiding GC pauses is possible right now but you have to put some effort into it.

http://blog.gamesfrommars.fr/2011/01/25/optimizing-crajsh-pa...
http://blog.gamesfrommars.fr/2011/01/25/optimizing-crajsh-pa...

About the benchmarks: the maximum number of displayable sprites is not that a good measure. Performance of blitting would be better.
Something like `echo -e 'include "/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose"\n<Multi_key> <f> <slash> : "ƒ"' > ~/.XCompose` would do the thing.
Why wouldn't you want the best in class of any product? You only "go around once."

Also, consider the upside of companies striving to produce "best in class" products. Improvements are made much quicker and price drops more rapidly.
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