came here to say this, they have some amazing content! Sort by top > year/all time gives you tons of good stories.
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I usually buy courses for 10$, which are good. But there are some awesome courses which costed a lot more, from 99$ to 199$. I used to add them to my wishlist so that I can buy them later when I save enough money, but sooner or later, all those wishlisted courses would be on sale for 10$. No idea if this is intentional, or if I picked the most popular courses and hence were on sale.
I assumed this is because Game Engines are built usually targeting Windows/DirectX. Some say that DirectX is more mature and powerful, although this might be subjective. And so the games perform better on Windows.
FYI, With the advent of Vulkan, maybe subjective opinion that DirectX is better than OpenGL dies down, as Vulkan is supposed to very good - kind of like a rewrite of OpenGL. And with DirectX 12 on Windows 10, Microsoft has done a lot of good stuff.
I've even bought the game for my iPad so that I can traverse it time to time to refresh my Palace!
I heard about the "Memory Palace" on BBC's Sherlock. Holmes says that you can theoretically remember everything (I think this was in the episode The Hounds of Baskerville). I then happened upon this book via gatesnotes[0], and picked it up.
The author is quite successful in learning and putting this technique to use. He reaches the finals of the USA Memory Championship. However, he says this at the end - "For all the memory stunts I could now perform, I was still stuck with the same old shoddy memory that misplaced car keys and cars. Even while I had greatly expanded my powers of recall for the kinds of structured information that could be crammed into a memory palace, most of the things I wanted to remember in my everyday life were not facts or figures or poems or playing cards or binary digits."
It seems this method can help in memorizing things you consciously put effort to remember. This becomes easier as you practice. But if you were thinking of using this to remember every point of your life, as in where you placed your car keys this morning, or where you left your phone, things get murky - like what the Author mentioned. Although I do wonder how many people would try doing that.
0: http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Moonwalking-with-Einstein
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope
No idea if anymore are planned.
http://www.quora.com/Robert-Frost-Quora-user/What-are-Robert...