Splines

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by Splines 15y ago
Castle Crashers is and old-school beat them up with very nice art. Which is a derivative of Double Dragon (and probably something earlier), but it's a fantastic game nevertheless.
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by Splines 15y ago
At my work we get Vim for free with your dev enlistment. It's 7.3.46, and the version that works inside cmd.exe.
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by Splines 15y ago
This is a circular argument (or some sort of thing like that), but if you ever find yourself at a *nix command line prompt and need to edit a file, you can be certain that vim will be available. Basic familiarity with it can be helpful. Pe
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by Splines 15y ago
Waze has a "Switch Off" command, although that seems to make sense since it's a way to stop running GPS. Maybe they got a pass since ":q" is a basic Vim command. People are going to type it - what should they do instead? Nothing?
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by Splines 15y ago
FWIW, I hit the activation limit in WinXP, and the activation dialog had a phone number and some numbers I had to read to the person on the line. A few minutes later everything was fine. (I'm a MS employee but I was doing this at home with
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by Splines 15y ago
Air Canada's requirements specify that they require gov't issued ID, but they don't specify which gov't. Would a gate agent be able to identify and verify the authenticity of an arbitrary ID card from a distant country? Probably not - I
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by Splines 15y ago
most of what gets shared on Facebook is fairly innocuous, if not utterly mundane. It usually is, until it isn't. By then, it's too late.
788.
by Splines 15y ago
The easiest of which is simply to not aggressively share knowledge. When you're stack ranked against your peers, I wonder if people ask themselves, "why should I help you , when all I'm doing is making it harder for myself to get a bonus
789.
by Splines 15y ago
and really how many of us can pull out $5000, right now If you don't have an emergency fund (~$1000) and a few months of living expenses saved up, please try and do so.
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by Splines 15y ago
Don't get me wrong, I do love DLC that adds to the game world and extends the life of the game. I've bought DLC like this in the past, except they were called "expansion packs". Having never played LoL I can't really say one way or another
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by Splines 15y ago
It angers me to see this same logic applied to video games. From a business perspective it might make sense, but playing a video game that functions this way (like FarmVille et al), leaves a sour taste in my mouth. I've tried a few of them
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by Splines 15y ago
FWIW, Pandora is just as vulnerable.
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by Splines 15y ago
No one likes making mistakes or missing opportunities, but even with your mistakes and missed opportunities, you're smart enough to recognize your mistakes and missed opportunities and learn from them. Maybe even because of your mistakes.
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by Splines 15y ago
As someone who hardly ever uses a RDBMS (I'm in QA and most of my "work coding" is test automation and/or tool work), what happens when you try to deal with data validity constraints? In .NET-land, do you put a try-catch around it and bubb
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by Splines 15y ago
Not to discount your possibility, but interestingly enough it's possible there are bugs in the mapping data. See http://testoptimal.com/ref/starwest-2006-mbt-tutorial.pdf , page 99 for a neat example. It's sort of ironic, I remember readin
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by Splines 15y ago
http://wiki.bssd.org/index.php/Main_Page looks like a good start. I hope that open source curriculum takes off - IMO there are fact-based topics that translate easily to software learning, where a child's mastery can be measured accuratel
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by Splines 15y ago
Very interesting thanks for sharing that. I'm not an OS X user so I didn't know about that one. As a Windows user this makes me jealous. I've dabbled in Linux (Arch) but I'm not aware of a similar feature. Does one exist?
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by Splines 15y ago
Out of curiosity, is there a desktop OS that provides the same level of "multitasking" application control? I mean, sometimes I want to minimize an application and I'm not interested in it doing any work. In other words, I'd like to "free
799.
by Splines 15y ago
I wonder what his life would have been like had he not have ALS?
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by Splines 15y ago
If you were up for it, you could automate this with something like X10.
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by Splines 15y ago
How many non-US customers use GoDaddy? I wonder how many people outside the US know or care about SOPA.
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by Splines 15y ago
That's an interesting take - there's always the danger that filling in the gaps in someone else's product will cause that someone else to wake up and fill it in for you. Seeing as this is a government failing, however, makes me think that i
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by Splines 15y ago
It depends on where you work and what stack you worked on. As an intern working for Nortel we had HPUX machines, and vi was frequently used. These days at my current job it's an all-Windows stack, so I'm in VS all the time and don't really
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by Splines 15y ago
Some rhythm games have a built-in calibration tool you can use - it'll offset the video/audio by a certain amount to compensate for HDTV lag. I know Guitar Hero/Rock Band have one, maybe WiiFit does too?
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by Splines 15y ago
I'm only postulating, but I think gains in flat-screen technology were put into other quality factors other than resolution.
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by Splines 15y ago
Thanks to both of you for the input. I've never attended a local meetup before but I think now's a great time to start :).
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The Short Second Life of Post Secret(thelearnedfangirl.com)
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by Splines 15y ago
(I feel like this is probably a frequently asked question on HN, but I'm throwing this out here anyway) As a full-timer working for a big corporation, where would I even begin to start getting freelance work? I'm thinking about a change in
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by Splines 15y ago
I'm not a runner, but I do enjoy a brief walk when I'm stuck on something, feel uninspired or just feel like my brain is slogging. The break away from the screen is really welcome. At the moment I usually walk up, across and down a few flo
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by Splines 15y ago
And that's what rubs me the wrong way about the state of the world with mobile devices. I like fiddling with my hardware and trying different OSs on it. I like being able to upgrade my OS as I see fit, and it's a shame that I can only do t

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