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by Paul_S 14y ago
I avoid both but how is auto_ptr broken?
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by Paul_S 14y ago
The "Spelling, terminology and markup" section is a bit painful. Does anyone really keep it printed and stapled to the wall in case they write non-zero rather than nonzero? Seems really petty. I hope the enforcement is done by simply runnin
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by Paul_S 14y ago
Oh, the irony of advocating peace and love for java whilst waging a war against COBOL. How about we confine language battles to language specific discussions (and I don't see anything wrong with those) and concentrate the overall engineerin
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by Paul_S 14y ago
UK immigration policy is the most lenient I think, depends which country you come from - where are you from?
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by Paul_S 14y ago
You've pasted this link in every Mars thread. And submitted it on its own. Multiple times. I had a look at your submission list out of curiosity and all your submissions are just self-promotion. I don't think that's in the spirit of HN. Bes
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by Paul_S 14y ago
I agree, they should leave the streamlined gimmicky "we know what you want better than you do" approach to Unity and stick to making a developer's desktop. Canonical can invest money in Unity to pay devs - it's beneficial for them to get no
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by Paul_S 14y ago
If your game offers the same experience when played or watched played then it's a really crap game and should've been made into a film instead.
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by Paul_S 14y ago
I don't see people in that thread being hostile - only honest. And honestly, that redesign is really bad. There's really nothing positive to say about it and although the old adage goes "don't say anything if you have nothing positive to sa
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by Paul_S 14y ago
The upload has been made last year - what's the news?
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by Paul_S 14y ago
Not all posts there are vile or inane (but many are and I don't think you dispute that). I'm just saying you get to see the full gamut (like you say people have many aspects to them), rather than just the polite, self-censored (for good rea
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by Paul_S 14y ago
I would be surprised if there wasn't an overlap between HN and 4chan (same as with SA). Being run in diametrically opposed way it fills its role rather well, I think. There is no reputation system, no limits, no censorship, etc.. This means
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by Paul_S 14y ago
It's not gathering opinions, it's conveying a decision. I'd appreciate the terseness as it values my time. ...maybe I'm just jealous of companies who allow you to work from home.
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by Paul_S 14y ago
Absolutely agree. This is how the email should look like: "Hi Everyone, Starting next week if you want to work from home you must send an explanatory writeup to your manager who will decide whether to allow it." On a tangential issue: I hat
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by Paul_S 14y ago
Bridges tend to be interconnected - I'm afraid the analogy breaks down here but you know what I mean. It might be tempting and your ego might demand it but the advice in the article is pretty solid. There's nothing to be gained here except
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by Paul_S 14y ago
I think it's because men working in female dominated industries don't think of it as an injustice that requires an organised social movement to set right. They do what they want to do and just don't give a monkey's. Much like all the female
886.
by Paul_S 14y ago
This is just noise. You might as well use actual white noise at this point. Different strokes I guess.
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by Paul_S 14y ago
Is there a backstory to this?
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by Paul_S 14y ago
I'm not going to do any kind of full disclosure here (I know this is lame) but I work in video games so I know what it looks like from the other side. We're not all idiots here, we just do as we're told.
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by Paul_S 14y ago
I don't subscribe to "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity". I'm not citing sources - hence it's just my opinion. Reminds me of google wifi slurping and hundreds of other cases where everyone plays dumb
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by Paul_S 14y ago
Because the company wasn't acting in good faith? IMHO they put that there on purpose and they deserve to be exposed as evil bastards that they are.
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by Paul_S 14y ago
We missed the boat for the great gaming bubble of 1980s but maybe it’s time for our own bubble. The game budgets are so high now that you have to sell hundreds of millions of copies just to break even. Not to mention the Zynga IPO. And ther
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New video games bubble?(money.cnn.com)
1 points by Paul_S 14y ago|1 comments
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by Paul_S 14y ago
I see how the author gets useful information for himself but is this ethical? He essentially wasted time of those people who applied in good faith. A bit cruel. He solicited personal information from those people - I'm sure there are rules
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by Paul_S 14y ago
By 2037 WW III will have happened. My guess is that it won't be an all out single epic battle but a dissolved multitude of tiny conflicts dragging out for years and sapping the economy and living standards all over world (including the deve
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by Paul_S 14y ago
That's not a joke, it's a good natured jibe at best. Maybe it's an American thing. (and can I take the opportunity to thank you for the great work, I love HIBs and 'buy' them all)
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Humble Music Bundle(eff.org)
2 points by Paul_S 14y ago|0 comments
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by Paul_S 14y ago
Dell U2312HM 23" IPS LED Monitor - £187.66 ...and similar ones. I remember there were quite a handful of them when I was picking mine (I bought a ViewSonic one because it was the cheapest swivel option).
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by Paul_S 14y ago
I don't know, I'm not in the economic class that can afford things like that so I wouldn't even consider such a size. With the added distance requirement I don't think I could even fit one on my desk. Is 27" the comfort sweetspot then?
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by Paul_S 14y ago
If you're a freak like me and swivel your monitor 90 degrees into portrait orientation it makes a massive difference (even if only because of the viewing angle - the horizontal and vertical viewing sensitivities are different and more optim
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by Paul_S 14y ago
You could buy an IPS LCD for a bit above 200 quid for years now. Someone has been not paying attention. edit: turns out it was I who was not paying attention, not realising that's it not about affordable IPSs in general but this specific si

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