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Notch cancelled it. https://notch.tumblr.com/post/58707926941/so-thats-what-im-g... is the cancellation post. He wanted to work on smaller games that could fail rather than…

Because everyone who has been constrained to other databases has done things like "SELECT start, end FROM reservations" and then tried to write the where clause to find the range, had bugs (…

Weight limits, clearances, weight stations, truck routes, city boundaries (transporting material restricted in a city?)... There is a whole host of features that are trucker specific. Trying to reconc…

That depends quite a bit on the kids, their ages, and their attention span... and necessity of theme. A global pandemic is a bit heavy though.

> If a burglar can do that, he can definitely make better money elsewhere. His burgling career can officially be retired. True. Such as making $100 "nest cam defeaters" that are battery …

For the regional one I go to (That Conference), its about an hour each way. $10 in gas/day or so? Since its close enough for a long commute, I don't have to worry about a hotel (or plane t…

The big / national tech conferences - yes. They are expensive. There are many local or regional ones that are much less expensive. I'm heading to a regional one in August that is registered …

For some US background on deep snow plowing: * Yosemite: https://www.nps.gov/media/video/view.htm?id=F99C47BC-DA5D-5D... * Glacier: https://glaciermt.com/blo…

A formal statement of "we want this information and may be using it." There is a lot of paperwork that government goes through to document how it gets its information. Getting the informati…

It is a sound that lies between the two liquids in English. The words "flesh" and "fresh" sound the same t0 the ear that doesn't hear them. By way of http://ell.sta…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul#/media/File:Hangeul_let... suggests that ㅔ represents 'e' and 'ㅐ' represents 'ae'. The differences be…

A key point in the difference that might help explain it: > On 13 September 1999, Gelsinger was injected with an adenoviral vector carrying a corrected gene to test the safety of the procedure vs. …

Another system from back in the days of pre-very accurate gps: The advanced snowplow program http://www.path.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/documents/i... and f…

One might. And its not inconsistent with the sentence. There could be several days of disorientation prior to being able to form the memory that they had a stroke a few days ago. Tangentially related…

It is. But there's also the "how large is the rotation?" There's the typical cash crop rotation: corn to soy. This has the advantage of cash crop and cash crop. These are both w…

There was an edit history. If you look at an archive.org of the old site - http://web.archive.org/web/20160709091504/http://c2.com/cgi/... for example, a…

Noted in an existing GitHub issue from remodeling: full service static site - https://github.com/WardCunningham/remodeling/issues/2 That would allow for a return to cac…

See also: archive.org's archive of the old wiki page: http://web.archive.org/web/20160709095702/http://c2.com/cgi/... FunctionalProgramming * where …

One of the important things to remember when reading C2.com pages is that they aren't written by a single person. They're more akin to wikipedia talk pages without signatures (variations of …

MeatballWiki ( http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/MeatballWiki - a fork of the original c2.com dedicated to virtual communities, now in read only mode) had a few pages with insights on …

IBM's research projects ( http://research.ibm.com/#featured-projects ) seem to include areas such as polymer research ( http://www.research.ibm.com/articles/…

If I recall correctly, its the ongoing aspect. There is debt that a government owned company has in a government owned bank. Writing that debt off (and not continuing to accrue more debt) would mean…

The richer half of the country _own_ 97.5% of the wealth. ( http://www.businessinsider.com/15-charts-about-wealth-and-in... ). It is hard to not pay nearly all of the taxes in that si…

The chart depicted in xkcd https://xkcd.com/980/ doesn't seem to agree with this. http://taxfoundation.org/article/summary-latest-federal-inco... Shows…

As noted in http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ the changes in google's indexing algorithms caused massive swings in their index. If you search google for "Java programm…

"Good" must be put into relative terms. "Better" works better - "if it were not a better option (than working/living conditions in their current country), they wouldn&#x…