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by Dilpil 16y ago
Somethingawful has 100s of forums, all with wildly different rules. Some have virtually no rules, and are of course filled with trolls. But of the forums meant for serious discussion, there is far less trolling than anywhere else on the in
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by Dilpil 16y ago
Funny how about 1 out of 10 posts is about dwarf fortress.
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by Dilpil 16y ago
Electrical and Industrial seem to still be on the list.
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by Dilpil 16y ago
My first thought was "oh wow, some rich people who want to participate in the gaming industry, how cute". But when I saw the team, wow. The creators of Braid, Fl0w and world of goo are all among the partners it seems.
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by Dilpil 16y ago
Ten times faster? Ten times? I find that completely implausible.
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by Dilpil 16y ago
I don't understand- this is about the launch of a new air route? Why was there even a launch event?
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by Dilpil 16y ago
Many corporate IT departments run old browsers because they make use of proprietary intranet web applications and don't feel like developing them on multiple platforms. To them, this system would seem pretty stupid, and indeed, would preve
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by Dilpil 16y ago
What about the fact that sin and cosine have such elegant Taylor series expansions if you use radians? In radians, sin = x - x^3/3! + x^5/5! - x^7/7!... In 'Double radians', we have a 2^n factor in front of each term.
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by Dilpil 16y ago
Which is the wiser way to deal with hackers: Is it to enact hard to enforce ambiguous anti hacking laws, while at the same time individually patching each exploit with unrelated fixes? Or is it to step back and analyze why a system has so m
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by Dilpil 16y ago
Indeed. I wonder if the title is intentionally misleading, or if the writers had a different idea in mind when they wrote it? Indeed, the strong controversy this articles headline will stir up proves Obama's (actual) point quite well.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
But that doesn't really get to the point of the article- why were there fewer real things happening when more people were getting victimized?
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by Dilpil 17y ago
How many people involved in this actually have any idea about how computers work?
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by Dilpil 17y ago
I regularly fail to install flash on computers at libraries or even on my home computers. The installer is extremely buggy.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
One interesting point a proffessor of mine once made on the topic: The phrase "If I were them, I would.." is meaningless. If you were them, if you had an identical upbringing and identical genetic material, you would behave exactly as th
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Any humor can be made to sound stupid by explaining it sarcastically. It still has value.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
XNA studio is nice because it comes with a finished game that you can edit, and there's no pointer nonsense to get tripped up on.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
So lets see. A bunch of people bought stock. Stock rises and a bunch of people get rich. Somebody sells stock. A bunch of people get nervous and sell their stock, sending prices plummeting. This story is as old as Wall Street itself. T
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by Dilpil 17y ago
The new design is gorgeous, yes. No one is calling it ugly. But ugh, it is quite unusable.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
I wonder if this is why many foreign firms like to hire people who were educated in the US? Perhaps they have noticed that these people are, for reasons neither the employee nor the employer understand, better at dealing with western custo
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Perhaps Google's decisions have nothing to do with ideology. Perhaps they are legitimately concerned about IP theft and security, and are simply exiting china in the most PR friendly way possible.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
This is exactly the technique that the more efficient managers I know use: make people commit to exactly what they want to say and discuss at the meeting beforehand.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
I don't understand, will they be invulnerable to Chinese hackers after removing the Chinese version of Google?
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Cynical answer: by making you wait, they encourage many people to hang up, reducing volume at peak hours, and allowing the company to hire fewer CSRs.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
If you ignore opportunity costs and assume no money is borrowed, then yes, there is no risk.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
I was under the impression that DirectX was a more extensive API, and included support for more complex high level operations- is this untrue?
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Interesting premise, questionable conclusion. Kids can't do simple concept problems, so they need more drilling? Failure to calculate 1/.1 is not due to lack of practice, it is due to fundamental lack of understanding of fraction division
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by Dilpil 17y ago
I've always thought dataAt(x) would be more correct then dereference(x)
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by Dilpil 17y ago
If the Expected Value in human lives is 6 billion divided by 330,000 (18,800), it might be a worthy project.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
Links to a registration prompt. If anyone is really interested in reading this, google the URL.
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by Dilpil 17y ago
How long did the atomic bomb take to develop? 10 years?

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