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by Fargren 14y ago
I see, I misunderstood what you meant then. Obviously if you are going to get the product by some means, it's best for the producer if you pay for it. However, it's important to note that a lot of the content that is consumed for free would
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by Fargren 14y ago
By what measure is second is miles better than torrents for the rights holder? It's been shown, at least in some cases, that having a free download of something increases the sales of that thing. It can be good publicity. The myth that free
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by Fargren 14y ago
I think both Canabalt and Passage are great exponents of current schools of game making (if you can call the "indie game" and the "art game" a school). They show what people with similar interest to those that made Katamari Damacy are doing
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by Fargren 14y ago
I do not believe the purpose of incarceration should ever be justice for the victim, it should be safety for other potential victims (either from the criminal, or from those who would see the crime go unpunished and decide they can do the s
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by Fargren 14y ago
I sometimes want to make a "posh looking document" on a WYSIWYG environment. If the content is only text, and maybe a few images, I use LibreOffice rather than start LaTeX; there's also less overhead to start writing the text. (Also, LaTeX
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by Fargren 14y ago
It is possible that it's some sort of auditory bias, but there's people from all over the world here (big tourist city and all), and it's almost always people form the US that I notice are loud. Even with the British, I can't normally hear
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by Fargren 14y ago
I think this being loud is particularly ingrained on the US culture. I have to say, tourists from the US are notably loud on Argentina. We have a large amount of tourists on Buenos Aires, but it's always the US accent you can hear all the w
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by Fargren 14y ago
That depends on how you define your representation. It is useful for some problems to represent an interval with it's first bits, e.g. to take 0.101 as representing all numbers in the [0.101, 0.110) interval.
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by Fargren 14y ago
Who manufactures these machines? I'm curious whether or not they may be vulnerable to Van Eck Phreaking[1]. Brazil discovered taht the machines they were going to use were vulnerable to it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreakin
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by Fargren 14y ago
What truly matter is intent. If you are trying to convey the illegal number, you are trying to break the law. If you accidentally transmit the bits that form the number while transmitting something else, you are not culpable. Obligatory IAN
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Compromising Electromagnetic Emanations Of Wired and Wireless Keyboards[2009](lasecwww.epfl.ch)
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by Fargren 14y ago
Where is Murakami funny? I've found him wise and deeply moving, but never funny.
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by Fargren 14y ago
If it seriously improved his life with little or no negative side effects... I'd say he was indeed the perfect candidate. I find too much of medicine is dedicated to make life longer; it's good that some of it is trying to make life better
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by Fargren 14y ago
They don't need to have your password in plaintext to verify it. They could just type it to verify it at their end. Asking for it is still bad practice, though.
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by Fargren 14y ago
Wouldn't it be reasonable/acceptable to deny support to those that use expletives when asking for it? Assuming you forewarn in your contact form or in your terms. Specially for non-paying users. Those people are not going to be paying for t
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by Fargren 14y ago
Newer versions of Steam don't require a security question for resetting your password; they instead send a confirmation code to your email address.
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by Fargren 14y ago
I was arguing that this policy would be bad for Steam or other PC marketplace services. It's possible than on a closed system such as the XBox some of the disadvantages of this are alleviated or solved. I still think charging the dev for ad
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by Fargren 14y ago
That's not very good for small developers that may want to iterate over their games or provide extra content for their users. Developers who simply do not have the resources to test in a wide variety for hardware, or to get their game just
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by Fargren 14y ago
Well, I'll admit I haven't played Metroid (shame on me, I know) but both Zelda and Megaman add complexity and power to the player throughout the game. They do this in the form of new abilities instead of levels, but the principle is the sam
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by Fargren 14y ago
Adding abilities lets the game designer present extra complexity later in the game. Most interesting mechanics have some complexity to them, so if you have many of these, you don't want to present them all at once. That would make it very h
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by Fargren 14y ago
No. The worse case is when the topmost floor is the most likely to break the egg. And it's not reasonable to to assume anything about the distribution, so there's not a "most reasonable" case. Except maybe assuming that the higher the floor
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by Fargren 14y ago
Well, the standard in computer science is to optimize algorithms and discuss their performance for the worst case, so if we assume he's talking from a CS perspective, I find it natural to assume he's talking about that. There are a few exce
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by Fargren 14y ago
Jeff Atwood made a similar argument back on 2004: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/09/do-you-want-to-save... I think autosave has a significant impact on versioning, and while it certainly has some pros, it's not by any means an abso
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by Fargren 14y ago
Sadly, it's still common for a demo to not be really representative of the actual game.
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by Fargren 14y ago
Well, of course OOP isn't required for a good design. What I'm saying is that, as far as not redefining functionality for different types, it doesn't work against it. At least not if we allow for static polymorphism, and I'm pretty sure t
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by Fargren 14y ago
But that's just because of bad programming, not because of OOP, I think. I mean, of course you can use OOP to make really crappy designs, but polymorphism should make you able to have N+M implementations and not M*N.
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by Fargren 14y ago
Free as in beer.
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by Fargren 14y ago
We really need an act to forbid this kind of laws. That's the only way we are going to end this ridiculous cycle of "propose absurd and overreaching law"=>"protest"=>"law rejected"=>"propose another silly law". Otherwise one of
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by Fargren 14y ago
Then, are software vendor required to offer a way too resell the software? Or are they just not allowed to persecute those who come up with a way to do it?
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by Fargren 14y ago
How long have you waited? I heard of emails to Facebook taking as much of half an hour to arrive.

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