ZoFreX

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by ZoFreX 14y ago
The point here isn't whether or not you had a problem. There might be 100s of people reading that post and not replying because they did not have a problem. Without quizzing a representative sample of users, we can't figure out the size a
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
> You do have a point, though - as an open source dev, it's your time to spend as you see fit I agree with both of you - I don't see software as "complete" unless it has documentation, it's part of the package to me. I happen to like wr
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Throw ratbox and charybdis into the mix, too - very solid pieces of software! It is very easy to get any of these running and if you read the docs (or the comments in the config files) there aren't many gotchas either. I wouldn't say they'r
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
The price is negligible, first off (in the context of a business training course, even an online self-directed one). It's priced so low that I would consider buying it myself, personally, if I thought it would make me better at my job but m
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
> If the judges were at a competitive level, colour me impressed - but if it was their first time, or even their first week, I'm a little more skeptical. There's a pretty broad area between those two extremes - I'm nowhere near competit
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
This was in Unreal Tournament 2004, it wasn't as bad a scene!
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
I was debating whether to call it a modified Turing test in the title, but had already editorialised it quite a lot. What was interesting though is that the bots and humans did not converge on optimization strategies, and part of appearing
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Custom bots for Unreal Tournament 2004 pass Turing test(eurekalert.org)
67 points by ZoFreX 14y ago|31 comments
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
We try to aim for more constructive comments on Hacker News - if you didn't read an article, you probably shouldn't drop a comment, unless there's a tangible reason you didn't (such as - this doesn't work in my browser, I'm blind and it's n
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Oh, sorry, I didn't mean that the DRM in Steam adds value - but taking Steam as a whole, Steam itself is viewable as a DRM system that adds value (in all the ways that make Steam awesome). The core DRM in Steam (if we ignore the flakiness o
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Gabe Newell has been publically denigrating Windows 8, but I think his real fear, and this idea would support the move to Linux, is the way Windows is moving towards a closed app store model, which brings it into direct competition with Ste
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Technically what you described is "reverse ray tracing" but yes, these days most people just call it ray tracing.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
> I strongly oppose any legislative efforts to make it more difficult for me to obtain these substances. The way I took the article was that, if some sane rules were applied and enforced, it would actually be easier for you to obtain
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
+1 to avoiding if. Tryfiles is amazing!
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
It's worth revisiting. We had huge problems with it when we tried it out in 2007, but I tried it again earlier this year and was pleasantly surprised - I got everything working, easily, and nothing broke. And I got that speed up. My gut fee
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
DRM in general is terrible, though. It adds no value at all for legitimate consumers, and in fact makes their experience far worse than it is for those that pirate your games (seriously mis-aligned incentives there!) Steam is DRM, of course
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
In addition Valve have been playing around with biometrics a lot for their internal playtesting, and have expressed interest in bringing that to the living room (for example, the "director" in Left4Dead is supposed to adjust the difficulty
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Can you give examples of the sort of problems it found?
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
And from the same devs that brought us Uplink, Darwinia, and Defcon. Definitely a no-brainer purchase for me, too!
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Android Owners "More Complacent" Than iOS Users When It Comes To Browser Choice(marketingland.com)
1 points by ZoFreX 14y ago|0 comments
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Well, we need to define the attack if we're going to talk about what will and won't help. Generally when we talk password security, we assume the attack is to discover a large number of users' passwords, not to spoof as one. Additionally, i
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
> rainbow tables are no longer particularly relevant to cracking passwords If you use a common hash with no salt you can bet your britches the attacker will use rainbow tables! It's also worth pointing out that rainbow tables aren't the
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
> It obviously won't help if your database is compromised Good news, everyone: it will!
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Can we amend c) to mandate bcrypt, scrypt, or PBKDF2 with a sufficient work factor that is reviewed every 12 months?
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Why server-side browser detection belongs in your web design toolkit(lukew.com)
2 points by ZoFreX 14y ago|0 comments
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Trolling, as I first encountered the term (on 4chan, many years ago, back when "trolling was a art") was nothing new. My dad's generation calls it "fishing", and engages in it offline by parroting Daily Mail-esque views in the pub because t
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
So why wasn't the 2 minute full charge time that Better Place unveiled several years ago the tipping point? This is an incremental development and nothing more.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Surely increased demand for a resource should, long-term, drive the price down and not up?
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
I can't recommend any text on the subject more highly than "Bad Science" by Ben Goldacre. It covers a lot more topics than just this, but it still covers the basics very well and I believe it has references for its claims (it has been a whi
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
My local bus company has failed to grasp QR codes in a mind-bogglingly thorough way. Every stop has a poster with a QR code on it, advertising that you can now look up when the next bus will be here by scanning the QR code. The first thing

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