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by AimHere 10y ago
Which makes whatever Valve does all the more impressive.
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by AimHere 10y ago
Cough, that was me. Between posting this, and posting that, I went to Wikipedia :)
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by AimHere 10y ago
It's a bit disingenuous to just mention Half Life, although note that work on Half Life series games was still ongoing as of last year (and they did a fair amount of work on the whole series in ~2012/2013 porting it to other opera
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by AimHere 10y ago
I suspect it's much more that Valve is an insanely lightweight company for it's customer base. It has something like 330 employees servicing 100 million customers on the go-to PC gaming platform, and a lot of those employees are
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by AimHere 10y ago
Is Valve expanding all that quickly? I suspect it still has well under 1000 employees.
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by AimHere 10y ago
I suspect it might work differently in Valve's case. I'm led to believe that Microsoft had a fixed, conventional hierarchy, where every little group and person within the group was backstabbing everybody else to keep their jobs. I
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by AimHere 10y ago
Check again. There's a mac icon on the Steampowered page.
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by AimHere 10y ago
Strange. I run Steam games just dandy on Debian Sid with little to no hassle. The Steam runtime provides a base platform with libraries to build against, which cuts down on the library rot and version mismatches that plagued proprietary gam
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by AimHere 10y ago
What happened here is that there are third party porters (in this case Feral) who take all the hassle off the devs hands, so that it's likely a small chunk of free money for Squenix to have their games ported (this is their fourth so f
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by AimHere 10y ago
If I'm reading the OP correctly, the video isn't being distributed. Just an alternative media stream with some form of captioning that could paired up with the video at the user end.
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by AimHere 10y ago
Isn't vi being superceded by Nano in that regard? It's more or less become the default editor and I suspect that there are now distros that don't ship vi but do ship nano.
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by AimHere 10y ago
Indeed. This research is part of Dick Cheney's sinister plot to regain power using an army of crows trained to hate everyone but him...
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by AimHere 10y ago
Sure. That's probably a comment on the level of racism against African Americans (and the distinctness of the dialect) compared to the other forms of bigotry out there.
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by AimHere 10y ago
Indeed. But sadly, its very much non-obvious to an overlarge proportion of the population. In fact, plenty of nonexperts think it's obviously not the case. I reckon this is because people speak language throughout their lives and the
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by AimHere 10y ago
Ubisoft has released one game so far - Grow Home - on Linux. It's one of their smaller titles, but it's a start! > The only big publisher that releases games for Linux is 2K Warner Brothers, SEGA, Valve, CD Projekt Red, Deep Si
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by AimHere 10y ago
Not really. The UK is bombing Syria at his behest. The joke is that a year or two before that, he tried, and failed, to get the UK to drop bombs on the other side of the war.
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by AimHere 10y ago
Even if everything you just said is true, not one word of it justifies the use of the term 'conspiracy theory' - which, in turn, is almost always a term used by the detractors of conspiracists. (And, of course, that doesn't m
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by AimHere 10y ago
Oh, that's fine. I don't want anyone to trust me, I just wanted to get the OP to go to the trouble of checking up on me, since he or she is willing to go at least partways in that direction :)
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by AimHere 10y ago
Hah. Apologies for that! I thought the downvotes were because it was a lame joke, not that I was destroying the site!
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by AimHere 10y ago
> If there were an article on HN tomorrow with the headline 'Integer with more than one prime factorisation found' I wouldn't be able to resist clicking the link. Curiously, I've only just found out that 480164164
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by AimHere 10y ago
What makes the use of the term 'neoliberalism' to be a conspiracy theory? I thought it was a blanket term for the sorts of laissez-faire capitalist ideologies that sprang up since the 1980s, and whose proponents did have a big thi
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by AimHere 10y ago
Taking a photo of your ballot paper is a criminal offence (at least where I am) and one which can only be committed at a specific physical location and time. In other words, it's a crime with a very low payoff (an individual vote can&#
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by AimHere 10y ago
He's allowed to talk about them, sure. But nobody listens to the ten million high school students who have variations on these same thoughts, with roughly as much insight on the subject as Musk does.
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by AimHere 10y ago
My point is that it's the same old unfalsifiable, adolescent speculation that every teenager of sufficient nerdiness or THC intake has had at some point. We're broadcasting these ideas, not because they're at all new, or inte
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by AimHere 10y ago
So why is Musk better qualified to talk about this than every stoner high school kid who read the first few pages of Descartes, saw the Matrix or simply used their imagination when playing a SimCity style video game?
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by AimHere 10y ago
Okay, nitpick time. Your story about the game is surely wrong. Rollercoaster Tycoon was developed for Windows 95/98. Perhaps you meant it's a later version of Windows, or the game's spiritual predecessor, Theme Park, which r
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by AimHere 10y ago
They WERE tracking you already. Now they're throwing ads at you.
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by AimHere 10y ago
Stalin was considered right-wing by other communists, and the mainstream Communist Party would often be described as such by those who lived in the Soviet Union. I'm not sure if Orwell actually used the term for the Stalinist Communist
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by AimHere 10y ago
Sometimes intermittent boredom might be what you want... Here is a game reviewer pointing out that one particular game (Sunless Sea) appears to be somewhat improved by having stretches of monotony interrupted by more interesting gameplay.
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by AimHere 10y ago
That's exactly right. The author does have a problem. And one perfectly excellent way of managing the problem in question (alcoholism) is to not drink alcohol. Pressuring unwilling non-alcoholics into drinking is already a dick move to

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