Nicknameless

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by Nicknameless 15y ago
One positive change I noticed is when I'm searching for something related to C#, Google now retains the # symbol in the search suggestions rather than changing my search to C. For me that almost makes up for the missing + change.
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by Nicknameless 15y ago
Well summer is December to February, so April is a fair way off... Perhaps they could do away with the stupid idea altogether and say 2nd quarter 2013 if they can't be more specific.
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by Nicknameless 15y ago
I'm generally pretty optimistic but I feel that I should push back against the crowd a little here. Plenty of people say "I'd use it", but who will say "I'll pay for it"? If you're not in it for the money, are you sure it's the most interes
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by Nicknameless 15y ago
Why the down vote? The education bubble is not a global phenomenon, and there are plenty of great working educational models in other countries that the US could look to (even if it would be branded as 'socialism' etc).
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by Nicknameless 15y ago
I think you need to qualify your point a little.. American middle class parents. Middle class parents don't have any problem doing so in plenty of other countries.
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by Nicknameless 15y ago
I live in Australia, I'm in my late 20's, I've got a pretty good software dev job and I pay about 25% income tax (which includes 37% above $80k). I don't know what the real tax rate would be after factoring in all of the other taxes I pay.
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by Nicknameless 15y ago
The big question is: would you pay for it?
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by Nicknameless 15y ago
Slightly further afield, communist Australia has major skills shortages. I doubt engineers would have serious visa problems.
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by Nicknameless 15y ago
Yes, mainly to reduce bandwidth and download quota usage. Given that I haven't bought anything through browser ads over my ten or so years of web surfing without adblock, I don't feel like leaving ads on will help much (particularly with ne
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by Nicknameless 15y ago
I'm not sure how many people living outside of the US would actually consider it to be the 'greatest country on Earth'. I certainly don't want to live there... Not sure if this is just a troll actually. If so, good job I guess.
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by Nicknameless 15y ago
It'd be one extra byte for 64k etc assuming you scrap the one byte magic marker.
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by Nicknameless 15y ago
If this technology is legit without problems with animation and lighting etc, what will it mean for the costs of game content creation? You still need artists to create the models, textures etc, and higher detail generally takes much longer
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by Nicknameless 15y ago
As an Australian living in one of the most heavily taxed countries in the world with socialised health care, education etc, all I can say is that I love my very high standard of living and freedom from any real financial concerns related to
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by Nicknameless 15y ago
Does anyone know if there is any code available for this algorithm? I'd love to get my hands on it.