Kurtz79

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by Kurtz79 12y ago
"Being sad" means exactly that, and does not imply having disdain, disrespect or not accepting someone. I'm just saying that whatever problems these persons have with their lives, I cannot see how this service can be of help
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
It's sad there are people for which having an invisible boyfriend/girlfriend is an appealing idea (which is the entire premise of the service), regardless if it's the case with the writer of the article. "On its Web site
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
It is revolutionary because its scale and breadth, the way it integrates so many moving parts and procedural generation. But "inspirational" it's not: procedural generation has been used in games since the dawn of times (the
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
My argument still stands. Would be commercially sound to support these "plenty of people" ?
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Android and iOS have more than 95% market share. http://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-os-market-share.jsp I suppose the benefits of supporting the remaining 5% against the costs of having to develop and mantain anoth
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Find a common interest, something that you would enjoy doing alone and that you know the other people you are meeting with will enjoy as well. Theater (or any other activities) might work if you are genuinely interested in it, but if it&#x2
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
If you just want to manage multiple tiled command-line windows, just try vim+tmux (getting session management on top of it). There was at least another tiled window manager able to embed GUI windows.
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Seems impressive, congrats! How long did it take from start to finish ? How many people were involved ?
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
"Visiting a campus in Australia is surrealistic. I'm so speechless to describe the difference in living conditions that, when I want people to imagine the life in Sydney, I tell them to imagine banknotes falling from the sky. That
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Expat here. I always thought that the perception of a country in foreign eyes is due to the contact with people of said country. I try to remember every day that the perception that my friends and collegues abroad have of Italy is due in so
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Do not take it personally, but I cannot think of any major problem attributable to Italy to be any better in Brazil or Argentina.
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
I still have the Ultima 7 map, apart from being beautiful it was fairly useful since it really helped you navigate the world. The booklets also helped the immersion, things really have changed.
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Roguelikes are defined by permadeath, quick runs and procedural generation. Diablo 2 and Torchlight have the latter, but they are quite old, and the resurgence of roguelikes is relatively recent. I believe it's just has to do with it b
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Heh, seeing Bernard as common name for Electrical Engineer made me think of Maniac Mansion...
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
My downvote is for the wrong premise (the parent never said that Islam preaches violence) and nonsensical argument (no one relates Hitler´s acts with christianity beacuse his motives were mainly ideological and political, while the only mot
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
It should depend (mostly) on the charger and battery size. Try to charge the S5 with the same charger you use for the iPhone and my guess is that they will take more or less the same time. Never use third party chargers of dubious origin, a
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
That's a very nice web page, as usual from NYT. Nothing fancy, but very pleasant to read.
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
As someone said, he is keeping the platform layer and game layer separated, the game layer is meant to be platform independent. The idea is to write in real time every single line of code, and if he had tried to set up multiple platforms fr
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
I have been enjoying the stream a lot, thanks to HN community since I learned about it here when it was starting. Aside from the game development angle, the host has his own strong opinions on programming in general that are quite unconvent
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I would never put my phone number anywhere near a login screen. At least my email has a spam filter.
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
My choice would have been "640K ought to be enough for anybody". (This will be understood only by those who lost countless hours tweaking their autoexec.bat and config.sys to squeeze that last KB of memory needed to run the game t
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
There are things like USB passthrough connectors (for devices that only need to be powered up by the USB power lines, but do not use the signal lines): http://bit.ly/1KsyPoS The power connector cable could be a variation on
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
On cursory glance I haven´t found a single comment, still I think the code is pretty readable, good job.
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Seriously are there no job openings for C/C++ programmers ? Things like games(or game engines), trading, embedded systems, operating systems should still be running mostly on that...
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Have you got dedicated graphics ? To me the issue was present mostly when gaming, not really during normal use (with the Macbook is the same). It failed me after a few years and sold it for spares.
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Recently I have been started using Windows 8 and was "relieved" to find out that Microsoft kept the Blue Screen of Death, well, blue. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/BSoD_in_W
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
If you want flame wars and care about upvotes/downvotes, there are plenty of other websites that will oblige. Here posts are supposed to add something to the discussion, not to "tease" or provoke a response.
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
From this review ( http://www.cnet.com/products/lenovo-thinkpad-t420/ ): "Thick and bulky, with a keyboard studded with enough auxiliary buttons to look like a space shuttle control panel, the T420 is as old-
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
I don't know what model you have, but my old T61p with dedicated graphics had the same heating issues as my newer Macbook Pro.
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Same here. I bought the version with dedicated graphics for some light gaming, but the GPU throttles almost immediately, I doubt I'm getting better performance than I wold have with just Intel integrated graphics. I have reapplied ther

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