Nelgraf's comments

Nelgraf | 7 years ago | on: The making of Supreme Commander

Gyle! Agreed - a roommate and I slowly made our way through the backlog. You really grow to love Gyle - he's so enthusiastic and a fantastic commentator, if a bit obsessed with zooming in on reclaim while a battle is happening.

Nelgraf | 7 years ago | on: China Begins to Question Whether It’s Ready for a Trade War

Modern nations fiat debt, meaning their currencies ultimate value is derived from many things, but ultimately hard power. A $10 trillion diff doesn't mean much if it comes to enforcement.

Nelgraf | 8 years ago | on: The man who bottled evolution

Nice read, thanks for sharing.

Nelgraf | 8 years ago | on: Learning to program is getting harder

Your pun was underappreciated.

Nelgraf | 8 years ago | on: New silicon structure opens the gate to quantum computers

Someone linked this video the other day: https://vimeo.com/180284417

I really enjoyed it for layman's perspective while still exposing technical depth. I hadn't thought about how one of the big challenges of quantum computing is figuring out how to morph your traditional parallel algorithm into a quantum algorithm (with all the weirdness that entails)

Nelgraf | 8 years ago | on: Reverse-engineering the Starbucks ordering API

Could you pontificate a bit on four? Because of the identity problem, or is there something about a mobile app that is fundamentally less secure than say, a web browser? I'm genuinely ignorant, seems like it would be good to know.

Nelgraf | 8 years ago | on: The Largest Virtual Universe Ever Simulated

Thanks for the link. One of the best non mathematical visualizations/explanations for observation and uncertainty principle i've seen.

Nelgraf | 8 years ago | on: Generating executable files from scratch

"the ccc" usually refers to "The Chaos Computer Club"

Nelgraf | 9 years ago | on: Punched Out

I disagree.

"Suicide is, of course, a taboo. And the first rule of taboos is: don’t discuss the taboo! The second rule is: if you must discuss the taboo, express your opposition and then close the discussion."

I think this post can instigate discussion that is valuable to being human, "hacker" or not.