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"Learning to write games on the side"

Assuming you know basic computer science and a bit of programming (mostly backend systems), how would you start learning game development skills? I'm assuming that you need to be a…

There must be some interesting machine learning applications besides image- and speech recognition, driverless cars, ads serving or go... :-) I'd love to read anything about succes…

Agilord | Software Engineer | Budapest, Hungary | remote | https://www.agilord.com/ We are a small consulting shop, slowly moving to build bootstrapped products, currently looking …

Shameful plug: with a few friends we are planning to create another platform for such fun games. If you think it is a good idea, please sign up: https://www.botolympiad.com/

We were discussing an idea that we shall organize small game-AI competitions among friends, one idea led to another, and we have started to talk about a site for everyone free to p…

Randomizing children at hospitals would likely have big negative impact on society. On the long term, everyone would loose social cohesion because of the lack of bonds between brot…

Care to provide pointers on the correlations (research paper, whatever)?

Last time I've tried to install (~ 9-10 months ago): - Stash: it was a no-brainer (easy setup, easy use). - GitLab: hours spent with frustration (hard to setup, but this might have…

If you publish something, it can be read everywhere. There should be no surprise that people will judge your words based on their customs, on their laws, on their terms, and they w…

I think Tim O'Reilly or Jeff Jarvis or Clay Shirky (unfortunately I don't have the bookmark anymore) already addressed this: The case is a prime example that what you write is not …

Is there any benefit to use Presto on top of Riak or ElasticSearch (assuming someone writes the required connectors)? What are the main differences there?

You do realize, that because of the increase of content publishers, getting ranking becomes harder anyway (independent to Google).

I agree, banks and financial institutions are data driven businesses. I have seen several banks from inside, and most of them think that they are driven by financial analysts, figu…

I assume you have 'events' that you will 'merge' together in a single state object (in case you want to display something). So the operation is to fetch every related event, merge,…

> but if each user action that triggered a one cell update becomes an event I have to keep forever, I see my database size exploding I think there might be a balance here: you can …

Which payment provider are you using? AFAIK most of them are very picky on the subject.

oops, something deleted the part: [that was used by] US government to access [everything in plain text.]

It's not about questioning the law, it's about uncovering the internal works of the law. My previous readings pointed to this bill as one of the earliest regulations that was used …

"Comprehensive Counter-Terrorism Act of 1991" "Sponsor: Sen Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [DE] (introduced 1/24/1991)" "Cosponsor: [...] Sen Reid, Harry [NV] - 1/30/1991" "It is the sense …

Not entirely true. You can always offer to provide them electricity at a lower cost than they would get from the nuclear plants. There is a cross-country marketplace for electricit…

> "Which might explain why some people describe their purchase as watery and bland." This is true. The other part of the explanation is that many people just don't appreciate the c…

There is a lot of room in-between.

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I'd love to see your business plans, upcoming negotiation agendas and planned budgets. And I am not even your competitor, as I don't know what business you are in. Imagine your com…