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by Pamar 4y ago
I haven't read the whole thread, so maybe I am just repeating a point someone else made. I draw as a hobby; during the pandemic, lots of people started hosting art posing sessions over Zoom (here is an example of one of my sessions, mo
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by Pamar 4y ago
The one that struck me the most was: "Sanpaku 三白 literally means “three” 三 “white” 白. It is used to describe eyes positioned in such a way that the iris does not touch the bottom eyelid, showing how the sclera is all connected."
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by Pamar 4y ago
Yup, sorry for the wrong reference. What I meant is that I believe (might be wrong) that earlier generations would not be so taken with the idea of becoming showbiz stars. Actors/actresses, singers etc. would be famous, well regarded a
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by Pamar 4y ago
Not sure. Probably they dreamed of becoming Babe Ruth or another sport star, maybe?
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by Pamar 4y ago
I noticed something similar in Prague (Summer 2020) - I am single and have no kids so I had no reason to visit one, but I did find odd that there was such a large number of shops selling just extra-sugary stuff. I am not 100% sure that we a
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by Pamar 5y ago
Is this your password?!
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by Pamar 5y ago
I suppose it is the same news from: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28978915
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by Pamar 5y ago
"They" are https://freeleaguepublishing.com/en/ and have already produced a fairly solid line of games.
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by Pamar 5y ago
They will use their own house system ( https://freeleaguepublishing.com/en/ ) which they tailor to specific settings.
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by Pamar 5y ago
I am an Expat in Germany and play weekly over Discord, together with my three friends (two living in Italy, one living in Belgium). The main obstacle is to find a schedule the fits everyone (so I suggest you start looking no more than 1 tim
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by Pamar 5y ago
I do not think so (but the Kickstarter has not started yet).
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by Pamar 5y ago
Ah, a true Connoisseur ... hat tip to you!
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Blade Runner RPG(bladerunner-rpg.com)
76 points by Pamar 5y ago|71 comments
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by Pamar 5y ago
No. I was aware of the issue at the time, and this is part of the reason for me to alter the source a bit. In my defense, the people I was working for at the time did not even understood the topic when I talked about that.
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by Pamar 5y ago
... hesitantly raises his hand Back in ... 1991? I did use the C version of the Simplex Method almost straight from the book. I needed a concise linear programming optimization module that would be called in the middle of a not-really-con
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by Pamar 5y ago
As many other here, I know about Christopher Alexander mostly from his influence on software theory and design. Here you can find 12 of his "real world" works: https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/design-studio-por
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by Pamar 5y ago
Is it this ? https://patterns.architexturez.net/doc/az-cf-173014
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by Pamar 5y ago
Yeah, and outsourcing sw development to India is a great idea, until ...
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by Pamar 5y ago
When you say "an American publication" you mean The Economist? They are not exactly Americans, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist
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Reading on a smartphone affects “sigh generation.”(lithub.com)
2 points by Pamar 5y ago|0 comments
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by Pamar 5y ago
I don't now what your experience is regarding sw development (especially corporate): - in my experience technical debt is often due to: "There is never enough time to do it right, there is always time to do it twice"
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by Pamar 5y ago
It was a way to illustrate the metaphor: I am just as "new to the legal system" as I am at asbestos removal or car repairing... but I have enough experience with software development to understand why "tech debt" is a pr
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by Pamar 5y ago
"They made the mistake of hiring people that were not capable of surfacing risks." Exactly the problem we always deal with: Business tends to distrust Tech because we always seem unable to stay on top of things we build ourselves
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by Pamar 5y ago
See my other answer below: trying to convince the payers that there are extra costs due to "technical debt" accumulated somehow during the lifetime of a sw project would sound "unconvincing" because from the point of vi
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by Pamar 5y ago
My point is: technical debt from the point of view of Business is something that the developers themselves introduced or did not manage properly, so trying to make it look like something beyond their control ("we just found out that
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by Pamar 5y ago
I am not sure that your metaphors actually work when talking about "Technical Debt" in the IT sense of the word. - If the contractor finds asbestos *which was put in by the contractor himself because using asbestos was legal (and
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by Pamar 5y ago
So far the best compromise I found (and I found it here on HN, btw) was historio.us, which I have used for a couple years so far, with fairly good results (for my use case, at least).
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by Pamar 5y ago
Nitpick: the quote about making a letter longer is usually attributed to Pascal: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/
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Japanese fashion: history, trends, innovation and sustainability(fibre2fashion.com)
1 points by Pamar 5y ago|0 comments
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by Pamar 5y ago
I am not contesting this. I am arguing against stuff like "education is an experience-type product". Usually - at least nowadays - you "buy" (i.e. put money and time) in pursuit of some kind of education (be it a degree

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