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by Corvus 10y ago
One of the most memorable experiences of my life was building a small 2D RPG named Dungeon Of Despair from the book "Game Scripting Mastery" https://books.google.ca/books/about/Game_Scripting_Mastery.h...
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by Corvus 10y ago
They never claimed VHS is “superior to modern alternatives”, they claimed it is “the vinyl of analog video recording”.
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by Corvus 10y ago
Moshe Safdie used “All the Lego in Montreal” to design his Habitat complex http://www.dezeen.com/2014/12/19/moshe-safdie-movie-intervie... .
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by Corvus 10y ago
Yeah, and look how well that turned out: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/crtc-skinny-basic-pick-and-p... (Spoiler: the unbundled packages cost more and have fewer shows)
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by Corvus 11y ago
The Bernoulli family produced several generations of outstanding mathematicians. According to http://www.storyofmathematics.com/18th_bernoulli.html they were quite competitive among themselves.
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by Corvus 11y ago
Many musical terms, e.g. “a capella”, “tempo” and others are Italian. I am curious about the potential impact on increasing diversity among musicians, especially when we consider the number of people globally who do not have access to a (go
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by Corvus 11y ago
I remember a similar bug in the early 1980s when a line-of-business system went haywire every Wednesday. Every other day it worked fine. We eventually found a maintenance programmer had changed "Wensday" in a database to "Wed
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by Corvus 12y ago
The subject and object of a sentence are often ambiguous; if Tom put Bill's suitcase in his car, whose car is the suitcase in?
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by Corvus 12y ago
Ordinarily I would brush off complaints about prerelease alpha software quality. But the same problems are affecting mature flagship products. Last month a Microsoft Visual Studio update intercoursed all our Azure development machines. We n
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by Corvus 12y ago
Consult the previous thread on Increasing Cognition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3277457
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by Corvus 13y ago
Glad to see it go. I signed up a while ago and soon deleted the app; 99% of the "schemes" it sent me were pure advertising. E.g. "Eat at this restaurant", "Go to this casino", "Donate money to this charity
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by Corvus 13y ago
Fredericton, New Brunswick, is a beautiful city with great cultural, government and academic facilities, and great business and communications infrastructure. Much cheaper to live in than Toronto or Montreal.
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by Corvus 13y ago
I believe the title is even better now than when it was written in the 1930s; the fact that when most people hear it they think of Machiavellian back-stabbing is evidence how important its lessons are today.
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by Corvus 13y ago
I think comments themselves are the “negative incentive”, not the scroll bar. If comments were as informative and well-written as the article, then including them in the total article length is what you want because you would also want to r
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by Corvus 13y ago
Hardware like nails and screws that you only need one of, but have to buy in packs of 100.
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by Corvus 13y ago
It's not just Filezilla. I have been using PDFCreator for years, and the latest installer from SourceForge has more adware, spam, and crapware than I have ever seen. It replaces your browser and email handler, adds Windows file handler
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by Corvus 13y ago
While I have no personal insight into Barack Obama, I have dealt personally with several politicians; and while there are many earnest politicians dedicated to public service, there are also those who conflate public service with their own
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by Corvus 14y ago
A machine that can turn garbage into useful raw materials.
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by Corvus 14y ago
A site to propose informal gatherings. The problem with MeetUp and EventBrite is that it requires someone to do the research on what everyone likes and send out proposals. If a proposal fails they're back to step one. I'd like a site where
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by Corvus 14y ago
Also note getting the count of articles by language, in fact all the language tools, require hover. This thing is unusable on tablets or phones.
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by Corvus 14y ago
A perfect example of Betteridge's Law of Headlines ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headlines ): “Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'”
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by Corvus 14y ago
Between 1582 and 1752 England had two different New Year's Days, January 1 and March 25, used for different purposes. The same day had different years depending on who you were talking to. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_dating .
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by Corvus 14y ago
From the Vista era: Windows Live Messenger My relatives still use that. That was also the one that added advertising to the bottom of the window.
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by Corvus 15y ago
Geeks will not be "rock stars" until non-geeks start calling other non-geeks "the new geeks" as a compliment.
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by Corvus 15y ago
That the illustration is Nixon's resignation letter should be a clue.
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by Corvus 15y ago
Please note this question was asked in 2008, when StackOverflow was considerably more tolerant of subjective questions, and it was locked to prevent any more votes. The notice on the question says "This question exists because it has histor
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by Corvus 15y ago
Mind Performance hacks ( http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/personal-productivity/0... ) by Ron Hale-Evans, and his web site ( http://www.ludism.org/mentat ).
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by Corvus 15y ago
We use MS Visual Studio to build WPF desktop apps (what MS is calling "Windows Clients" this week) in C#. Why? 1. Great dev environment (IDE, debugger, docs, online resources). 2. Powerful API (3D graphics, networking, local device access,
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by Corvus 15y ago
TNG? The original series had Uhura using an electronic clipboard with stylus back in 1968: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/08/how-star-trek-arti...
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by Corvus 15y ago
There are many graphics APIs for Windows. Which one is best for you depends entirely on what kind of application you are building, which you have not told us. I would not worry about Microsoft deprecating an API in "6-8 months". Microsoft h

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