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amichail
18,811karma·7,884submissions·February 20, 2007
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I'm an indie game developer.
My previous games include DropZap and DropZap 2 for iOS.
My latest game is DropZap World. Check it out: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1072858930
https://bsky.app/profile/dropzapworld.bsky.social https://x.com/DropZapWorld https://www.threads.net/@dropzapworld
a.michail@me.com
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This is a hard question. First of all, ideas are not patentable. And given the sorry state of patents today, some rather obvious things might be. Second, although I have published research papers, I …
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See: http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=6777
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ABSTRACT Linden Lab is the producer of Second Life, an online world with a growing population of subscribers (or "residents"); currently, the community has well over 140,000 residents from 91 countri…
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Does such a thing exist?
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Speaking of April fools, I convinced some people that I was giving up on startups and computing altogether to pursue a career in law.
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BTW, if you are looking for a superstar coder, it's probably more important to find someone who has been programming since the age of 12 than to find someone who is young. I suspect that even older p…
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I hope they will be happy with older applicants given the "8-12+ years lisp/arc experience" requirement. Do you know anyone who has learned lisp (or any functional language) at a young age?
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"Link spam is used to increase the ranking
of certain target web pages by misleading
the connectivity-based ranking algorithms in
search engines. In this paper we study how
web pages can be interconne…
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For a clever variation on PageRank using vision-based page segmentation, see: http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?tr_id=754 For a more sophisticated web page similarity measure ins…
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It's interesting that most web 2.0 services do not appear deep in any theoretical sense. In particular, 99% probably do not have anything that comes even close to the sophistication behind the PageRa…
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Any takers? What sort of technologies would you use? http://texmacs.org
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There's something about X-plane that is super addictive. You will never get bored of it!
Here are some cool X-plane videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFpp1zRrDfg http://www.youtube.com/watch…
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"Over the years Meyer has tinkered relentlessly with the program, producing some 140 new versions. His obsessiveness has kept him competitive. While several rival sims have withered in Microsoft's sha…
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I guess you might try applications like these as well: online dating airport security immigration finding cofounders
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Won't such a test limit the diversity of Y Combinator founders? And so you might get stuck in a local maximum as a result.
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Even if we take it as a given that a test like this can work well, I suspect that test takers will become more sophisticated at choosing images to get desired outcomes. And so the test will need to g…
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I've always been fascinated by likebetter.com and would like to see related work. As a start, see this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_fingerprinting
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