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by Nr7 9y ago
I wish I could share your optimism
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by Nr7 9y ago
Captive, another cult classic from early 90s used another novel method of calculating the stats for the characters. The game used an algorithm that determined the stats based on the name the player gave to each character. I even remember se
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by Nr7 9y ago
The article briefly mentioned that different stats are useful for different character classes but didn't really take that into account in the model. For example if a barbarian get really high rolls for all stats except strength is it a
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by Nr7 9y ago
It's a similar phenomenon as the video game crash of the early 80s. Companies flooded the market with hastily made shoddy games just to get a quick buck but it resulted in nobody wanting to buy games anymore because most of them were g
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SSD Prices to Jump by More Than 10% in Q1(press.trendforce.com)
2 points by Nr7 10y ago|0 comments
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Listen to Machines Talk(machineconversations.kone.com)
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by Nr7 10y ago
Do either of the devices do actual voice recognition or do they only have speech recognition?
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by Nr7 10y ago
Yeah, Win2k was NT based and thus much more stable than Me.
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by Nr7 10y ago
Some backstory: http://www.pcgamer.com/fan-made-doom-spin-off-from-2002-chal...
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Intel Kaby Lake Core I7-7700K Overclocking Performance Review(tomshardware.com)
2 points by Nr7 10y ago|0 comments
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New MacBook Pro generated 7x more online revenue than MacBook at launch(intelligence.slice.com)
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by Nr7 10y ago
Leisure Suit Larry 1 (and 3) also had a secret key combination that you could press to skip the age verification check completely.
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by Nr7 10y ago
IMO Dungeon Master for the Atari ST & Amiga has the greatest copy protection scheme ever created. It utilized (amongst a multitude of other things) something called "fuzzy bits" that were bits which values were not set but cou
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by Nr7 10y ago
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9151275
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by Nr7 10y ago
Totally agree. Duke 3D was far superior to Quake IMO. The only good things about Quake were the engine and the soundtrack. Everything else was just boring. Especially the weak sound effects (especially when compared to the Doom SFX) and the
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by Nr7 10y ago
http://www.buildyourownlisp.com/
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by Nr7 10y ago
Too bad this never amounted to anything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwGO2Ky-b8k
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by Nr7 10y ago
Could've been Transport Tycoon (Deluxe) which was the previous game from the developer of RCT
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Microsoft opens Windows Holographic to all devices(neowin.net)
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Fixing Color Gotcha – First color arcade video game(edfries.wordpress.com)
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by Nr7 10y ago
The file explorer address bar was one of the best features that were introduced in Vista IMO. If you're in folder "C:\foo\bar\baz\boz\" and want to go to "C:\foo\" it's just one mouse click. Or if you want to g
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Nokia making a return to mobile market(finance.yahoo.com)
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by Nr7 10y ago
In my experience only excessive use of 'umm's and 'ahh's is distractive. If a speaker uses them only every now and then to gather their thoughts I don't mind at all. Actually it might even help the listeners to gath
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by Nr7 10y ago
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8813883
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by Nr7 10y ago
Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bVb0ETV...
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Sega embraces legal console game modding with new Genesis PC emulation hub(arstechnica.com)
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Microsoft’s Azure Container Service is now generally available(techcrunch.com)
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by Nr7 10y ago
The screenshots don't show the "Details" tab. Maybe the process can be seen there?
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by Nr7 10y ago
True. I think VS is also based on Microsoft's earlier language specific IDEs, making it probably at least 25 years old as well.
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by Nr7 10y ago
Xcode is 13 years old. Visual Studio is 19 years old. Why would people use them? Because they have evolved, just like Vim & Emacs.

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