Falkon1313

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by Falkon1313 10y ago
Third Reich PC was one of those games that was years late (due to rewrites and so forth, came out almost half a decade after Advanced Third Reich and years after several competing PC games, and seemed archaic when it was released) and had a
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Systems like Cyberboard and Vassal (which started as Virtual Advanced Squad Leader) were created specifically to allow playing board wargames via email. But to keep them generic enough to work with any game (and to avoid lawsuits), they do
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But it is competitive. It's a competition to pay the least amount possible for the best employee possible. Hopefully a competition against other potential employers, not against the employee, but it's really a bit of both since
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My experience was a bit different. The local university had open-access dial-in numbers, from which you could telenet anywhere, use FTP, Gopher, IRC, Usenet, Archie, Veronica, WAIS, MUDs, email lists, dialout to BBSes, etc. We had lots of
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> "Even names like that, 'part-time' or 'reduced,' make it seem like a deviation from the norm, like you're doing less." This is a telling statement. Why are we still stuck on a minimum of 40 hours bei
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> If you don't have measurable inputs and outputs Of course if you're not giving employees anything to do, you'll get reduced productivity. That's also true if you force them to sit in a chair in the office and do n
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Slack has a powerful Do Not Disturb feature - that little X in the upper corner of the window. Same as any other program, close it when you don't want it running, open it when you do. Why go to such great lengths to complicate that?
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This is 100% wrong. We have a large surplus of labor, and no demand for it. Wages have been stagnant for decades. If there was a demand for labor, wages would be increasing. They're not. It's common for a minimum wage job (or
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To put it in perspective, a recent research study[1] conducted by a team of elite PhD economics researchers discovered the astonishing fact that people who face a sudden unexpected financial crisis (such as medical bills, car breakdown, job
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>a shrinking work force cannot foot the pension bill [...] >the political choices are unsavory — increase taxes or cut benefits Those are not solutions, those would both exacerbate the problems. A shrinking workforce, which has seen
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That's exactly one of the many things that FB Purity fixes - you can set it to chronological mode. (In addition to filtering out noise and junk.) It also had a "Do not autoplay videos" setting well before Facebook added an
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Browsers added built-in popup blockers and the option to disable flash for just this reason - to enable users to block only the bad behavior. Well-behaved ads would continue to work just fine. But the advertisers completely ignored that ve
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Yes. In a face-to-face interaction, if the other party is sneezing and coughing and spraying mucus on your face, it is not unethical to wear a surgical mask. There is no moral or ethical requirement to inhale someone else's possibly
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>The problem is, you aren't just delaying yourself by 1 second, you're also delaying the other 100 people behind you by 1 second. Except for most people, it doesn't take an additional second. Past experience in crowded ar
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Is this for android only? (It isn't mentioned, but download links go to Google play store.) I see no mention of ad-blocking, tracker blocking, or script blocking. Can it use things like uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, and Noscript?
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The article is all about concurrency, but to me that would just be a bonus if it happens to be easier. The main benefit that functional programming appears to claim is that you can spend much less time resolving bugs like "I got home a
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>It is sad that a student can leave high-school with almost no classes that ever makes math less abstract. I find it sadder that many can get through high school without any classes that make it more abstract. Too much of it is just m
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1. been there, done that. 2. been there, done that. 3. Considered that in a case where multiple systems were hitting the same database but doing inconsistent things - putting the logic in the database would at least make it consistent, bu
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It's not about code. When you, as a programmer, consider the purpose of programming, and how computer-illiterate people view it, things are different. A programmer's job is not to type code. It's to find out what is holdin
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>jobs are the cost of satisfying human economic desires. we want to minimise costs That's an excellent perspective. There's a major barrier though. Even if we produce enough that everyone could satisfy their desires and then s
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That assumes that it would be profitable to fund those ventures. But as supply increases and prices are driven down by automation, it becomes less profitable to fund ventures in general. It becomes relatively more profitable to charge ren
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In my early days of programming, things began with realizing that I could use this wonderfully powerful system to solve problems (almost any problem you could model!) and create things (almost anything you could want to simulate!). I just
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Careful to qualify that. Sure developers should write unit tests for their code when possible. But they should not be the ones coming up with the acceptance tests (product owner) and doing all the testing of their work (QA). I've see
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I feel similar - being used to the distraction of switching between multiple tabs while waiting for a page to load, while a video plays on the second monitor, scanning the feeds on my phone on breaks. I can't focus to read a book and
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>Data about current investigations has also been lost, which is delaying them. [...] >"We've opened an investigation to try to find out what’s going on, but right now, we just don’t know," Stefanek said. I wonder where
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For security updates, yes. But this is not a security update. Upgrades that completely change the UI, alter the set of programs that are capable of running on the platform (potentially disabling critical software), and add new processes t
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>Between 1991 and 2014 a lot has changed, particularly in the earning power of the generation being cited as being more educated. This is probably has very little to do with their education, more like it's kind of a macroeconomic ..
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IMO, experience indicates that the best code quality comes well away from deadlines. Code written just before a tight deadline or during the recovery period afterward could always use extra scrutiny. Is it really a surprise that the distra
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Nonsense. Do you think if instead she had happened to test positive for strep throat, the results would have been the same? It is absolutely about the war on drugs mentality.
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From the sounds of it, the reason people are calling for a lawsuit is the typical War On Drugs approach: Without reasonable suspicion, they did a field test (known to be faulty). Without probable cause or any corroborating evidence, they

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