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When designing the procedural rocket engines in Juno: New Origins (formerly known as SimpleRockets 2) this site was one of the resources I kept coming back to while learning the un…

How are they going to deal with the heat dissipation problem?

Are you referring to the Chinese Room? I've always had an issue with that argument. Instructions are immutable, but neural networks certainly are not.

This is what I have found. I started indie game dev a back in 2009, and I'm finally to the point where I'm making a very comfortable living, but by no means a millionaire. However,…

Great job handling the traffic spike by still giving us links so we can check out your game.

You might like the book "Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea." There's quite a few jaw dropping stories from people who defected from NK. It's such a mysterious country,…

What color do you see? I never realized that the bar changes color.

Very impressive, especially for a weekend "hack". What did you write the site in?

It wasn't covered in the blog post, but it is also interesting how slowly WordPress performed compared to DotNetNuke. I never felt there was a performance problem with my web site …

This is a level pack I just launched today for my iPhone game, Dummy Defense. I'm promoting Dummy Defense today with FreeAppADay and it is currently at #31 in Games -> Puzzle. Here…

I've used it on a few projects. I have never used NHibernate, so I can't really compare them, but I really like EF. I don't have a great deal of SQL experience, so I'm much better …

This is one of the problems I have with SQL Azure. They have yet to implement a satisfactory backup option: http://www.mygreatwindowsazureidea.com/forums/34685-sql-azur...

Thanks, I had no clue how this trick worked until I saw your link.

With the allergy season in full swing, I'm absolutely miserable, but I've realized that I'm not entirely sure what I'm allergic to. Is there a website that I can enter my email add…

I disagree that we should not allow such a thing if it existed. I think humans are a bit past the need for biological evolution. Technology can provide us with the ability to adapt…

Yesterday I climbed from 51 to 36 in the US app store and received 4,119 downloads.

I pop up a dialog asking for their e-mail after 3 app loads. I'm not actually sure what the rate is (signups per impression). I have surprisingly little analytics in my apps, I rea…