Deestan

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by Deestan 16y ago
Not based on the Minecraft engine. The Minecraft engine is proprietary and closed-source. Also, it is (according to the developers) a bit of a runny mess, so licensing doesn't make sense either.
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by Deestan 16y ago
It's not correct to attribute the voxel game genre to Minecraft. It's just the first game of the genre to reach a considerable level of success. Minecraft is just one of many games that were directly inspired by the underground hit Infinim
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by Deestan 16y ago
Your comment is condescending and uninformative.
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by Deestan 16y ago
On the other hand, it would be possible to effectively communicate with distant species, who in turn might have existed for a long time and have records of past events.
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by Deestan 16y ago
Why is it a cop-out to be ambivalent?
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by Deestan 16y ago
I started programming at the age of 8, and went on to study CS at the age of 20. So, I count myself a self-taught programmer with a Master in computer science, and I have an opinion: The formal education didn't teach me any skills I coul
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by Deestan 16y ago
It didn't help USSR, though. Corruption is rampant in Russia.
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by Deestan 16y ago
Of the world record, at least. The actual olympic competitions are still valid.
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by Deestan 16y ago
> if [...] it doesn't incite hate or violence, I don't see why it needs to be censored. It incites intolerance by implying that homosexuality is a disease.
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by Deestan 16y ago
The Trumpet Winsock story had to do with commercial actors "stealing" software and mass-redistributing it for profit. This story has to do with people "stealing" software for their own private use without paying. Given the existing level of
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by Deestan 16y ago
I tried that, and as a trading card game it's pretty good. Unfortunately, Sony has utterly crippled it: * You can pay extra (beyond subscription) to get super-cards. * You are not allowed to trade most cards. * Especially not the bought car
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by Deestan 16y ago
> I disagree. It looks like you are both saying the exact same thing.
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by Deestan 16y ago
When people ask me how it is to work in a male-dominated workplace, I always point out "no drama". I've gotten away with it so far. To contrast, my wife works in a female-dominated kindergarden. There's so much "did you see the way X Look
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by Deestan 16y ago
Always a risk. But so what? Goto N+1
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by Deestan 16y ago
But do I really need or want to know, remember and understand the nuances of each and every of my problems? For example, we have a lot of legacy Delphi code. Delphi 7 has a bug in which it gives incorrect compiler warnings for some of
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by Deestan 16y ago
If the programmer can't acceptable understand the issue at step N, he will move to step N+1. If Quora or SO doesn't yield enough understanding for a given problem, that's hardly an issue. Go to N+1. (At any rate: I'm not familiar with Quo
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by Deestan 16y ago
> should it be like this? Yes. Assuing a professional attitude, why not? By professional attitude, I mean thet the programmer in question gets a good understanding of the problem and the solution from his solution-source of choice.
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by Deestan 16y ago
No, that's just hysterical. This is completely safe for work.
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by Deestan 16y ago
> spending some session in seated meditation. First I misread this as "sedated meditation", which had me wondering: Does moderate alcoholic influence impair or improve a meditation session? I know it may sound weird, but I find it trem
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by Deestan 16y ago
"I can complicate this. I know I can!"
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by Deestan 16y ago
That's not a hack. It's an algorithm.
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by Deestan 16y ago
> keep following the strategy that got us to this point. No. To stop rampant outsourcing of R&D is a significant change.
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by Deestan 16y ago
In Norway, no. Some companies try to put it in the contract, but it has no base in law and holds no legal obligations. I.e. you can ignore the clause safely.
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by Deestan 16y ago
In this case the cleaning is clearly an initiation ritual/test. The psychological traits needed to submit to arbitrary unnecessary labour (brownnosers good, independent thinkers bad) are entirely different from the psychological traits
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by Deestan 16y ago
You are inconsiderate and dismissive. I don't want to work for you.
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by Deestan 16y ago
The "Wrong Version" is hilarious: http://htwins.net/scale/wrong.html
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by Deestan 16y ago
It's there, but it's hidden for some weird reason. It's marked as [dead]. Edit: Go to your profile and enable "showdead", and you will be able to see and vote on it.
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by Deestan 16y ago
To be a bit brutal: Peter Programmer knows Python very well and is a highly skilled programmer, but there is a rep hurdle Peter can't pass because there are already tons of eager Python programmers answering every question at least as good
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by Deestan 16y ago
> In studies of expert performance admissions people are less good at predicting UG[undergrad] GPA than a simple algorithm. (The "algorithm" is simply a weighted sum of SAT and HS GPA!) If you replace the admissions people with a simple
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by Deestan 16y ago
Do you believe everything must be explicitly defensible within the irrational and innately egotistical and greedy philosophies of finance? FWIW, finance bigwigs live in actual luxuirous ivory towers.

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