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I'm not sure how well this metric works for Supercell and Clash of Clans. I sometimes play that game, and I can tell you that during the Superbowl, there was an in-app notification sent to all it's players to watch the youtube ad, which greatly increases the number of views of the ad beyond what the other company ads could do.

NoSQL in SQL 12 years ago

For any that are interested, Couchbase Mobile is essentially, in its current form, a NoSQL database in SQLite. They might port to ForestDB in the future though, but that's an implementation detail.

Funny, the first thing that popped into my mind was "This sounds similar to the iTunes Match program for books." Nice name analysis though :)

I started using NS_ENUM, but I noticed that if I used it in a header file, if I tried to make a property or variable of the enum type: @property (assign) EnumType, it would require this to prefaced with enum, i.e. @property (assign) enum EnumType.

If you just type typedef enum {...} EnumType, you could write @property (assign) EnumType. I prefer this format in my source code, so I quit using NS_ENUM.

I personally like to keep my bug and issue tracking, along with ToDos with my repository, like on Bitbucket, so that it is all well compartmentalized together. If the app would be able to synchronize with these online repos tracking systems, then I could see myself using this app. The synchronization is important as I have multiple systems that I use for development (desktop and laptop), and would want the issues automatically updated on both.

Love bitbucket - use it exclusively for private projects and small group shared projects. If you sign up with a .edu account, you get free lifetime unlimited collaboration, which is awesome.

Just to clarify, this is not whole organ decellularization. The brain tissue, with it's neurons, glia, ECM, are left all in tact, along with their proteins, mRNA, etc.

Now, instead of having to slice the brain into micrometer slices just to understand architecture at a localized level, you can understand the architecture of the whole brain's network down to the cellular level, as well as do both immunohistochemistry and in-situ hybridization to probe what kind of proteins and molecular markers are present throughout the brain. This is nothing short of a revolution in experimental technique not only for neuroscience, but all of pathology.

First article I've seen approaching emotional state in this manner, so kudos to that. Back at MIT, I also came to this realization and my friends and I used to say "it's all about the ddt" whenever life got us down (or even up, as a cautionary tale to not get too excited and watch out). We were of course referring to d/dt of life, and how that had more influence on our states than the absolute position of our lives. Nothing proven, but an observation that held up very well in all our lives. We still have this saying amongst ourselves - glad to see others thinking along this path now.

I also am inclined to believe much of this. I actually did the same thing while at MIT for chemical engineering. Took all the required freshman through senior level classes at the same time, each semester, and finished all the requirements for a chemical engineering degree in a year. I loved MIT for this reason - they had no rules/regulations on the number of classes you could take in any semester, and they didn't enforce prerequisites/corequisites. Very different than other institutions I've trained at. I was still able to participate in extracurricular activities and develop relationships with lots of people.

It's true that I didn't attend a lot of classes (since they all overlapped anyways), and had 2-3exams virtually every week. The only issue I see is that there is only so much you can do online. I also did the same thing with Chemistry and Biology, which had lots of laboratory classes, and I don't see how one could gain the practical experience of putting knowledge to work in those fields without a wet lab class. EECS however is amenable to this (for the most part - likely hard for an optics laboratory), and most of my EECS labs were really done in Athena clusters instead of a distinct laboratory.

Immediately, the opening paragraph states that this service would be useful to "college students." However, Bitbucket offers their full unlimited package to college students with a .edu account, and this account lasts for a lifetime, even after graduation. Perhaps you could offer this deal to college students as well.

I posted this in the other thread, but wish there was a nice forward looking, expansive Mars horizon photo instead of looking at the ground and wheels of the rover.

Why can't they ever take just one horizon photo of the scenery in front of the rover instead of the typical, "looking at the ground" photos that are common with these rovers? That would have been a far better shot to show live.