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by Skoofoo 13y ago
I agreed with your first paragraph, but the second one surprised me. Your comparison does not apply to everyone. Many people would much prefer to be hit with baseless accusations and rumors rather than have footage of their most intimate mo
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by Skoofoo 13y ago
This sort of freedom is available to perhaps the top-earning 1% of the world. At least 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 per day [1]. Many people have to live in 40-square-foot foot apartments [2], or cages [3], or have to spend their
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by Skoofoo 13y ago
A comment gwern left in reply to something like this 2 years ago: http://www.gwern.net/About#comment-257772944
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by Skoofoo 13y ago
Alternatively, just read the first line of Wikipedia's page on psychopathy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy
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by Skoofoo 13y ago
As wlesieutre mentioned, Team Fortress 2 wasn't free until after microtransactions have been around for some time. Early on, the game had a consistent 1960s theme and each character had a consistent distinct sillhouette and behavior, so the
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by Skoofoo 13y ago
"After all, isn’t that what open source is all about – the idea that collaboration and teamwork achieve amazing things?" Written by Valve in the cited blog post, despite having nothing to do with open source.
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by Skoofoo 13y ago
I was disappointed about this, too; not because it's necessarily bad, but because they had set the bar so high for themselves and then totally missed it with this. On the bright side, it raised a lot of money for charity.
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by Skoofoo 13y ago
If your account is stolen and becomes VAC banned, Valve won't do anything about it and you will be stuck with gimped games, regardless of how much business you gave them (back then they didn't have security codes). I can't find this on Goog
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by Skoofoo 13y ago
I would sympathize with Valve if they didn't completely ignore Linux before acting like the Linux community's best friend when it became apparent that they had nowhere else to turn to [1]. Like many, I'm a fan of their games and their flat
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by Skoofoo 13y ago
I tried this at some point and recommended it to a couple people in the past. I liked the convenient interface, though I remember having an issue with my address breaking at an inconvenient location and there was no apparent way to fix it.
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by Skoofoo 13y ago
This would benefit the open source community a whole lot more if it weren't made for a proprietary OS.
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by Skoofoo 13y ago
This is one of the coolest things I have ever seen.
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by Skoofoo 13y ago
Urgeous seems better thought out. It makes clever use of an interface that most are already familiar with, has a better visual design, and it doesn't put DISQUS ads on your content. I'd rather use this or GitHub Gist.
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How to build your résumé with the web(artur.ostrega.me)
2 points by Skoofoo 13y ago|0 comments
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by Skoofoo 13y ago
> Walk up behind an accountant or a web designer sketching out banner ads, and nine times out of ten they’ll know you’re coming from a mile away. But computer programmers aren’t like that. You can stand right behind a programmer for ten
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Tin Bull retrospective(artur.ostrega.me)
1 points by Skoofoo 13y ago|0 comments
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by Skoofoo 13y ago
Right; the author seems to be blaming the luxuries he skipped out on in the past for the lack of gratification he feels today, but what good would faint memories of him getting drunk with strangers do him today? It's easy to lose sight of j
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by Skoofoo 13y ago
I was initially skeptical and thought this would be another pet open source project without direction, a viable target market, or good design sense, but after checking this out I was proved very wrong on all counts. This is amazing. The peo
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by Skoofoo 13y ago
Behavior/test-driven development needs all the hype it can get. There are so many developers, even entire software development subcommunities (I'm looking at you, video game developers) who haven't written a single test in their lives and d
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by Skoofoo 13y ago
I recommend Jekyll + GitHub Pages.
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Use a sketchbook as your mousepad(artur.ostrega.me)
2 points by Skoofoo 14y ago|0 comments
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by Skoofoo 14y ago
I once tried to write a markup parser with slashes for italics, then I understood why no parser seems to use them. It interferes with URLs, dates, slashes as "or", etc.
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by Skoofoo 14y ago
This is cool! I'd like to see a Ruby front-end MVC framework that takes advantage of Ruby's unique strengths. For example, explicit getter and setter methods like in Backbone and Ember.js wouldn't be necessary anymore with Ruby's properties
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by Skoofoo 14y ago
Instead of focusing on making a PHP framework that's like Rails, you should focus on "how can I boost developers' productivity in a unique way?" This is how libraries and frameworks become popular. If you try to model your software after ex
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by Skoofoo 14y ago
Exactly. It bugs me how much these types of services are making the front page of HN, considering that they only undermine video game quality for the sake of profit.
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by Skoofoo 14y ago
I really wanted to like Ember.js, but I had difficulties writing tests for my app and there isn't substantial documentation for it, which was a deal breaker for me.
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by Skoofoo 14y ago
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this yet: Photoshop is not design.
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by Skoofoo 14y ago
Anything is difficult to pick up when you're just starting out. The important thing is to not give up. Too many people just stick what they're already good at as they grow older. I recommend http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ .
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by Skoofoo 14y ago
If it's any consolation, you wouldn't have to write any Ruby code with Jekyll. You'd only write HTML templates, Markdown/Textile, and a sprinkle of YAML.
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Software == limitless possibility(artur.ostrega.me)
2 points by Skoofoo 14y ago|0 comments

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