Lewisham

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by Lewisham 13y ago
> Yes we trash talk a lot in games, and yeah we don't see it as a big deal for the most part, because there's a part of creativity in trash talking in some ways so we can ignore all but the more original (and often laughable)
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by Lewisham 13y ago
All bluetooth headsets make people look like dorks, but that hasn't stopped their proliferation. FWIW, when I was an intern at Google, Sergey wore them 24/7. He looked a bit weird the first couple of times, but after that he just
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by Lewisham 13y ago
"Google glass doesn't add tremendous value over what I can currently do with my phone." Right now. And yet, isn't one of your points that it's not a micro improvement? You're saying here it's a micro impro
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by Lewisham 13y ago
I do this all the time with Amazon's Trade-In Program. A couple of times a year, I look at my book shelf and video games. If I haven't read/played them within the last 6 months, and have no compelling reason to hold onto them
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by Lewisham 13y ago
Gotta say that I disagree (yes, yes, it's all anecdotal). I find a great deal of the hassle in selling stuff online is the shipping aspect: how much does it cost? Will I have to travel to the Post Office? How long will I have to be there? D
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by Lewisham 13y ago
Also, Walking Dead's episodic format was at risk by Microsoft's XBLA release policy, where publishers are given slots that they can have, and you don't get any more (think like airstrip use at an airport). So they had to end-run it by havin
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by Lewisham 13y ago
You can turn it into single-column if you don't like the arbitrary-boxes.
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by Lewisham 13y ago
> Having a language feature to fetch dependencies from mutable online sources means that you're practically asking for programs to break unpredictably based on external changes. Go devs always said that Go is designed to solve Google pr
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by Lewisham 13y ago
Couldn't have said it better myself. There hasn't been a more unashamedly biased "reporter" than MG Siegler in recent memory. At least Gruber never tried to be anything approaching legitimate. I don't understand how he could be expected to
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by Lewisham 13y ago
FWIW, this has been heartily debunked by more modern research by Nick Yee, which is easily summed up as "Just because you like pizza, doesn't mean you don't like ice cream." People move into different modes at different times, and are not m
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by Lewisham 13y ago
The problem is that if your account is disabled, it's unlikely you'll be able to acces Gmail, IMAP or otherwise. I think Takeout has an exception so that it works even when your account does not.
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by Lewisham 13y ago
FWIW I believe Takeout does work when your account has been disabled, so that you can transfer to another provider. EDIT: Although sadly it looks like Gmail is not part of Takeout :/
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by Lewisham 13y ago
I think this kerfuffle does point at something that would be nice to have ratified in the HTML spec somewhere: the idea that content exists in different qualities and formats, and that when the user requests to download the content, she's p
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by Lewisham 13y ago
google.org might be, if there's a humanitarian spin on it.
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by Lewisham 13y ago
I'm surprised that Welsh argues that tenured CS profs still have to follow what publication venues want to see. Why not just say, "Fuck it?", publish on blogs / arvix.com/, and let the field catch up to them? Because funding agencies don'
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by Lewisham 13y ago
Nothing says "small government" like expanding government oversight, right? I really don't understand what the Republican party actually stands for. There's no consistency in their platform. I might not agree with the Libertarian Party eith
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by Lewisham 13y ago
Yeah, this is absolute nonsense. It's gamification for your procrastination, as if your procrastination was not intrinsically motivating enough, here's some pointless extrinsic motivation (Google News badges did the same thing, were equally
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by Lewisham 13y ago
a) It doesn't make a lot of sense for Random Google Engineer #62 to give a presentation about a small project. b) Go, like every other programming language, will take time to get up to speed. Programmers need to be familiar with it. Manager
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by Lewisham 14y ago
You're not wrong, but the motivational ship has already sailed. However, I'm sure much the same was said about television and radio before it. The problem isn't the technology, it's us. However, we've survived OK so far. Do I think people s
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by Lewisham 14y ago
Graphical representations are there to draw you in, but once you are there, the representation isn't as meaningful. Tetris remains a wonderful game whether you play it on a Game Boy or on hardware today. The hats thing is about people meeti
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by Lewisham 14y ago
I think it's a pretty facile view to take that Rocksmith or Dance Central are inherently more meaningful because they teach a certain real world skill. World of Warcraft teaches lots of skills (see work by Joi Ito, like [1]), but I am sure
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by Lewisham 14y ago
> I think saying that "your brain actively practices killing" is overstating it. It sure sounds good, but it's not even close to reality. To support your point a little bit, some video game scholars, like Espen Aarseth, don't buy into
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by Lewisham 14y ago
Yep, similar experience. I don't think it yet says "You should leave for the airport now" (I think the implicit use for it is for flights you're actually on ) but it does everything else: showing you where the flight is, ETA, terminal, gat
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by Lewisham 14y ago
This is as opposed to the bug reports you can file with other smartphone makers? I'm not trying to be snarky (well, a little bit), but you simply can't file a bug about an iPhone. You can go to the Apple Discussion Forums and see threads th
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by Lewisham 14y ago
It's funny/tragic just how much better the Fate of Atlantis' story was than Indiana Jones 4. They could have just made that into a movie and it would have been amazing.
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by Lewisham 14y ago
My guess is that either the company as a whole exists or it doesn't. They won't let Eidos go because they need the revenue, and breaking up Square and Enix seems infeasible at this point. My guess is it'll go the same way as Sega and LucasA
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by Lewisham 14y ago
To be fair, so did Force Unleashed, but that was not a great game.
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by Lewisham 14y ago
FWIW, this is not the first time LucasArts existed as a licensing arm and not a development house. For much of Jim Ward's tenure in the mid-2000s LucasArts was essentially what Disney is positioning it as now. LucasArts as everyone knew it
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by Lewisham 14y ago
Tomb Raider sold 3.5 million units in 4 weeks, and yet failed to meet sales expectations. This is because Square Enix is using Eidos to prop up its Japanese arm, which has been floundering wildly. They then shift all the hopes onto the Ei
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by Lewisham 14y ago
I eat breadbowls all the time! Although I live in Santa Cruz, so YMMV.

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