Drakim

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by Drakim 11y ago
You really think Amazon paying per page turned for Kindle Unlimited is "the final blow to the paper book market"?
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by Drakim 11y ago
Yeah. If they went from 1 to 6 users it wouldn't be impressive at all, so "600%" is meaningless by itself.
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by Drakim 11y ago
You'd think with all the bad press lately that they would lay a little low.
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by Drakim 11y ago
Fortunately any company that sits on information about you can sell it to third parties, and has little incentive to not do so, meaning you won't be restricted to just one company sitting on your privacy.
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by Drakim 11y ago
Yeah, you'd have to clone the data.
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by Drakim 11y ago
Fortunately, Transferable Objects (which didn't arrive until a bit after Web Workers) solves this :) http://updates.html5rocks.com/2011/12/Transferable-Objects-L...
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by Drakim 11y ago
What I feel many people miss is that goods and money are not synonyms. If there was a huge influx of money into the world, that helps exactly nobody because the amount of food, shelter and other goods has not increased. I find that people &
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by Drakim 11y ago
That is how business and capitalism works. Being immoral can hurt your profits, because customers might be repulsed and boycott you. Breaking the law can hurt your profits, because the government might take action against your business. Tho
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by Drakim 11y ago
Is this sustainable? Wouldn't they put themselves out of business pretty fast?
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by Drakim 11y ago
This isn't actually a new problem though! After all, what if the JavaScript on a website makes an AJAX request to fetch illegal content and store it in your HTML5 LocalStorage? Bam, you are now a criminal in possession of illegal conte
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by Drakim 11y ago
And at the end of the day, he goes over hist list of what buildings you went into, to analyze what sort of things you like so he can show up at your door as a door salesman to sell you some product he believes you will be interested in.
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by Drakim 11y ago
Anything that happens client-side is out of your hands. An potential image thief could just make his browser not run the watermarking function if he wanted. What we are essentially doing here is handing the image thief an image, and then ha
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by Drakim 11y ago
"there are lies, damned lies and statistics" Your graph still shows the trend. But in a way, that's the most dangerous lie, the sort where you "help truth along" a little bit, to be more compelling.
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by Drakim 11y ago
The question of ownership on this topic isn't as new as you'd think. If you get a free sports bag from your local training center, is it ethically right for you to use a black marker and erase their printed logo? I think most peop
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by Drakim 11y ago
I replayed Deus Ex recently, and was surprised at how bad it looked, especially the character models. It was so bad that it was ruining my immersion. However, my brain eventually forgot about this and I could continue play, and eventually I
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by Drakim 11y ago
Yeah, especially that last part. It would be great if all permissions started with "Upon page load..." or "Upon clicking the extension icon..."
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by Drakim 11y ago
I would argue that "drawing a card" isn't merely an information look up (GET) but an action with consequences (POST). Looking at the cards in your hands, if the server maintains your hand state, would be a GET though.
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by Drakim 11y ago
Every single Open Pandora edition there is "out of stock" and has been so for as long as I've known about Open Pandora.
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by Drakim 11y ago
Been waiting for this. I had been thinking of picking up an OpenPandora but it seems like they aren't being made anymore, which is understandable with the Pyra coming out.
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by Drakim 12y ago
Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scandals_with_%22-gate%...
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by Drakim 12y ago
I don't really see how that's relevant. We make computer AIs to play games because humans enjoy playing against smart opponents, and not all games lend themselves to a player vs player setup.
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by Drakim 12y ago
Would it be okay for Twitter to censor tweets about rival products?
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by Drakim 12y ago
Would it be okay for Google to censor competitors in their search?
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by Drakim 12y ago
While it could invite legal hassle for him and his users, if he thinks it's a fundamentally immoral thing then I can't fault him for not partaking and supporting the system by using a license, which does legitimize a system what h
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by Drakim 12y ago
> But in reality, the richest countries are the ones that have strong research curriculums, with people studying things that are not immediately beneficial or even useful. Is this because studying those creates a rich country, or because
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by Drakim 12y ago
It could probably be used for games as long as you keep within the bounds of your pixel data. However, modern games use GPU acceleration instead of plotting the pixels with the CPU, and most higher languages don't expose the sort of fu
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by Drakim 12y ago
I think that stereotype comes more from outsourcing IT helpdesk to third world countries to pay a tenth in wages. And surprise, you get what you pay for.
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by Drakim 12y ago
Disclosure: I own Bitcoins While Bitcoin came out of our "own" community, and a lot of technologically inclined people are enthusiastic over it and it's features, I wonder if Bitcoin got planet-wide adoption, would it be a bi
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by Drakim 12y ago
I wonder who bought the last license, and how long since it now became free to use.
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by Drakim 12y ago
Haxe uses the first syntax, as does AS3. So it's not like "other languages" are universally opposed to this order.

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