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by Kurtz79 12y ago
To be fair it did catch my attention as well, it´s just uncommon.
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"The film begins with two bedraggled peasants, Tahei and Matashichi (Minoru Chiaki and Kamatari Fujiwara). Through conversation, they reveal that they had intended to fight alongside the Yamana clan, but turned up too late, were taken
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
That´s the point, we have to assume that "meat" is the English word that in their culture would be the best translation for the concept of "Biological, carbon-based lifeform".
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
This story doesn't work for me, because the emphasis given to main word (which is the whole point I guess) I imagine "Meat" to be a very human concept, strictly related to food, and to our nature as carnivores. I can´t pictur
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Sci-Fi stories with a final twist at the end are plentiful, some of my favorites: The Hunters - Walt Sheldon Impostor - Philip K. Dick
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Nostalgia trip. I remember reading about it as a kid in an illustrated book about lost treasures and being enthralled by it. It´s not difficult to see the fascination that a "mystery" like this can have on men, to the point of fue
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
The rising interest on e-sports (the recent DOTA2 tournament had 11 millions prize pool) is another market that they were able to tap quite well. Games are serious business.
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
"£5000 points in-game and, after paying tax (one of the more annoying features - who asked for that?)" If you had spent some time playing Civilization, you would know that taxes allow your country to have things like roads, an arm
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
If the perfect economic system was invented, all the free nations would be using it. Given the choice, between the two, I would also prefer "social capitalism", probably due to my background and upbringing, but by no means I can s
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
I don't have much experience in writing iOs apps, but the impression I always had is that the language is not nearly as important as it seems, to that end. Regardless of the language, the important (and most difficult) part is getting
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
I'm an Apple user, but reading an headline like this makes me lose interest in the article almost instantaneously (it could be about Go or Rust or whatever, and I'd have the same reaction). Thanks for the pointer, I will give the
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Yes I got it and I agree with you, my point was that Mobile Game Development, regardless of its relative youth, is evolving at a much faster pace that traditional games have, so comparing them in terms of years is kind of pointless. Genres
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
30 years ago it was 1984, and at the time game development was probably more akin to embedded software engineering today, having to program at a very low level of abstraction (if any) from the hardware. It doesn't really seems right co
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
-You can now provide up to 1.2 AMP to the 4 USB ports enabling you to connect more power hungry USB devices without needing an external USB hub. (This feature requires a 2Amp micro USB Power Supply) Nice. In my experience, using a good powe
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
I agree with most of your comments, but I really think Heartstone is Free to Play done right (not to the extent of DOTA2 or Path of Exile, but almost). After more than a hundred of hours on it, to date I haven't spent a dime of real mo
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Not really, but it was definitely this weird triangle-shaped brick: http://thumbs2.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/m1ZaYEMj4L9eCCMBaPuZ0... Now it sells for 25$ on Ebay, apparently :)
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
The Secret of Monkey Island is probably my favorite game of all time. I remember saving for the better part of a year to buy the ridiculously expensive 512K expansion module for my Amiga 500, basically just for being able to play it. The mo
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
It's very interesting. My introductory course was in C, but on my last year they already had switched to Java. I think Python nowadays is really the better choice: although C has its own merits (and it should be taught at a later cours
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Depends of where you are. Probably ludicrously low for Germany/Switzerland/Nordic countries, likely on par for Spain/Italy/Portugal (and maybe Eastern Europe ?). Company and sector also factor heavily, and number of payc
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Relevant xkcd reference : http://xkcd.com/353/
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
"If you're a true introvert, your biggest enemy is yourself. It's your desire to be alone" Yes and Yes. In a way, it's not too different than, say, weight loss. Thinking rationally, you know that, on the medium&#x2F
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
"I have learned the art of being incredibly outgoing and a veritable chatterbox when need be." How did you learn ?
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
I would give the opposite advice: go for a tech group! Since the goal is meeting people, and the challenge making friends, it will be much easier if you do it IN your comfort zone. Seriously, I think most of the people on HN is likely to b
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Amazon EC2 offers one free year for a micro instance for first time accounts. Otherwise, I have been quite impressed with Digital Ocean as well, cheap and FAST.
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I use a chrooted environment for development daily, but I didn't know of more advanced containment tools. I was fooling around with lxc containers over the last hour and they seem to me a much simpler concept to understand that the who
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Sometimes we get so invested in a language that we forget that it's just a tool, and a good engineer/hacker should try to choose the best one for the problem at hand. Go is just another tool in our toolbox: as the author says it s
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Wouldn't most of those be Google own websites ? If we consider a separate www.google.x for each country then we would get to around 100 very quickly, I guess. The remainder would be filled by youtube, gmail, etc...
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
It's not that different than contracting a mortgage of asking for a lease to pay a car... Maybe it's not a matter of "affording" the same way most people cannot afford to pay for a house on the spot, but I can understan
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I saw it goes from 10000 to 28000 in two hours. I wonder how many people pledged after seeing this on Hacker News.
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Yes, there is something as too much of a good thing. Even if I mostly browse Hacker News, I usually see quite a few in-depth articles that would really merit more attention than what I usually I give them, just because I'm distracted b

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