Draiken

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by Draiken 10y ago
Yes, I completely hate some of their decisions on UX/UI But even with it's flaws, it was always reliably there when I needed it. Had to administer some linux servers with windows machines back on my internship days, and man... tha
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by Draiken 10y ago
It's closed. I will never vouch for a messaging app that is not open. Long live IRC. Look at slack... it's IRC with some design in the front, and suddenly everyone loves it! Somehow it's even worth billions! Irony aside... I
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by Draiken 10y ago
PuTTY Saved my ass a lot of times when I wasn't around a linux machine.
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by Draiken 10y ago
Man times must have changed... Had to use Netbeans on college and it was literally the worst IDE I've ever used. Crashed so often I just gave up. Decided to work with Gedit for a good period before I was introduced to vim. Have never e
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by Draiken 10y ago
Sorry I don't understand the point of your answer. I've mentioned multiple times "financial institutions", which include banks and paypal in my book. Bitcoins are amazing. Just not there yet. I can't give a credit c
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by Draiken 10y ago
Yes, they do provide a good service. But they're still a "duopoly" (is that a thing?) as far as I know. Can't even think on who's the third most used credit card provider. As always with lack of competition all of t
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by Draiken 10y ago
Honestly... I don't know. Nothing about the process is transparent AFAIK. If I'm a bank with billions of dollars worth of money from third parties, can't I use a big portion of that money to profit? Moving money around, gamin
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by Draiken 10y ago
I'm once again astonished with how much control of our businesses is simply out of our hands. When looking at practices these financial institutions use it makes me wonder what can't they do? Everyone cites "regulations"
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by Draiken 10y ago
Am I just naively pessimistic by thinking they will never go away? They're equivalent to big banks, and big banks never die. Even governments bail them out when they screw up. Bottom line, the bankers always wins. That's how the w
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by Draiken 10y ago
Ready and with $50M to defend himself? I have no idea how you get actual money out of it, but if he does get it, that's a lot of money for lawyers...
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by Draiken 11y ago
I completely agree with you. This notion that work is life sounds absolutely insane to me. I love programming, but I also love spending time with my wife, playing games, learning new things, traveling, writing and a whole lot of other thing
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by Draiken 11y ago
Interesting, was not aware of that project. Agreed that maybe the luxury car is the right way to start his attempt with a healthy cash flow. In fact, I'm a big fan of people like him, who have the money and instead of just playing the
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by Draiken 11y ago
As much as I'd love to own a Tesla car and it does show a lot of innovation in the right direction, it's still a luxury sports car that only few very rich people can own. If he built an electric car for the masses, that would be a
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by Draiken 11y ago
I would say it's because history teaches us that goodwill only gets you to a certain point. When you're acting on good faith, asking for a formal contract should be seen as a totally normal request. If the other party is also acti
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by Draiken 11y ago
Exactly. We are not the targets. I would doubt someone here ever spent $10k-$50k on a free to play game. And I believe they know it.
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by Draiken 12y ago
I think this is just utopian thinking... Of course that would be amazing if it had any chance of ever existing, but it's just not possible in the society today. Companies with money will build stuff and lock you in, and companies tryin
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by Draiken 12y ago
IMO it's how companies perceive "passionate programmers". The article just highlights how that's harmful.
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by Draiken 12y ago
I don't think you should rely on other's opinions when picking an editor. Just try each one (really try) for a week or two and decide after that. Everyone uses editors differently (hence the big vim/emacs/etc flame war)
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by Draiken 13y ago
I agree it's not a great idea. In the ever growing globalized world, learning english is essential and it doesn't really matter what's your native language. I think this might increase the mixed language coding that is almost
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by Draiken 13y ago
I partially agree... normally this is a symptom of someone selling it as being something super simple to do for the managers. Personally I make it clear to them that if they need something impossibly fast, I'll need to come back for it
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by Draiken 13y ago
Exactly. Specially with the chosen title. Almost all similar articles I read, are used as some kind of self justification to writing bad code and leaving it there forever. If you believe the software will fail (won't ever be changed&#x
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by Draiken 13y ago
The code is elegant AND it works, so it'll beat the one that just works every time. This kind of post is always the same, but any decent developer knows when you have to just "get it done" and when you should take time to mak
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by Draiken 13y ago
I think in the micro-donations theme, I much rather have a steady source instead of bounties for features, like with Gittip[1]. The pledge idea seems cool tho. Might make some necessary features come out faster. [1] https://www.g
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by Draiken 13y ago
Every time I read articles like this I see this common theme of watching less TV, playing less games, etc. But I think the real hard part is getting out of these. Many times you don't feel like your side project could turn into somethi
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by Draiken 13y ago
That's showing off as a critical. Nothing was DONE. A lot was said. If she had actually taken action against it, I'd buy it. She didn't and she won't, so I (and you should too) assume that's just propaganda. At leas
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by Draiken 13y ago
Saying Dilma Rousseff "has been intensely critical of the US government and the NSA spying program" is a big overstatement. Regardless, let's hope this segregation happens and the internet can get a little bit of freedom from
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by Draiken 13y ago
Unfortunately from someone looking from the outside, it looks like the venture industry you talk about is very small and restricted to a few areas. Maybe one day... but even with companies that come from that culture, normally after reachin
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by Draiken 13y ago
The problem is the decision to do this is never in the hands of the wage-earners... Only the powerful and rich can really change this reality, and it's clearly not aligned with their interests.
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by Draiken 13y ago
Except there are... Reasons that are not ours, but for those who control us.
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by Draiken 13y ago
By looking at the numbers the only thing you can see is the truth about how little they asked for such a big project. $500k barely pays the salary of the team building the game. As hard as it is to do an indie game, people do it for way les

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