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by _pi 16y ago
For most gamers the upside of playing the game overrules the downside all the time. Me? I haven't bought SC2, L4D2 or MW2, because all of them disrespect the platform, and it's users. I want more features than I had in 1995, not less, I wan
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Dude You're a 35 Year Old With a Neckbeard(omgubuntu.co.uk)
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by _pi 16y ago
It's not casual gamers, it's gamers in general. All of my friends who have bought this game ignore issues with it because "IT'S STARCRAFT II!!!!!!!!". Gamers are the weak, and easy to manipulate, they give in, boycotts aren't effective, and
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by _pi 16y ago
Another good point about his strategy is that he derives almost everything from the feel good feeling of "You're on the internet, I'm on the internet You can trust me." This is no different than candidates touting their religious affiliatio
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by _pi 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Plame Seriously? You're complaining about Wikileaks doing it (debatable) when Bush & Co make this seem like so 2006.
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by _pi 16y ago
Hey we're losing 20,000 dollars for each car we sell but don't worry we'll make it up on volume!
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by _pi 16y ago
SSL isn't a distribution channel. SSL is a authentication mechanism.
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by _pi 16y ago
>Third, Outlook isn't just a mail client, it's an integrated communications suite. It has taken OSS years and years to catch up with this. You may not agree that it's a critical feature, but for millions of business users, it's a deal-b
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by _pi 16y ago
You're right OSX did have Quarts and expose before linux did. I was talking about Microsoft Operating systems but I wasn't clear enough.
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by _pi 16y ago
>As long as we're comparing who did what first (as if that's relevant today), ReadDirectoryChangesW came in Windows 2000. inotify came in 2005. Inotify was a replacement for dnotify. Which was there since 2.4. http://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by _pi 16y ago
>There are few OSS projects that have done anything more than steal ideas from commercial software in terms of innovation. Programming languages are the only place I can think of that OSS is cutting edge. Surely you're joking? Outlook i
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by _pi 16y ago
I saw him speak, while I agree with some point of his argument, and disagree with others, and think that some points of his argument aren't fully developed and too clear cut. The worst part about it was hearing those stupid names.
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by _pi 16y ago
You forget existentialism has a clear definition of angst, despair and inauthentic living. That tie into what is "good" in existentialism. Essentially existentialism says yes happiness is good, but happiness supplied by drugs is an external
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by _pi 16y ago
Hmm for some reason my motions don't work with [ { ( or b/B. I can't seem to find a reason for this. " works though. Edit: seems actual jump selection can be finicky.
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by _pi 16y ago
Care to explain your vague statement?
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by _pi 16y ago
My point was that it's entertainment. I know it's a video game, but essentially it's no different from any other entertainment. I mean we don't have World Cup or Superbowl Stories on HN, why have the release of Starcraft? I'm sure there are
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by _pi 16y ago
>starcraft 2 is a game that values practice is thinking out of the box more than anything else, I know far more starcraft players amongst startups/hackers than settlers of catan, or anything else. I love it when people say games value t
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by _pi 16y ago
Obviously all hackers learned their leet skillz from the Starcrafts.
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by _pi 16y ago
You point is analogous to the idea of sales and marketing in start-up culture. Essentially how do you prove that this multimillion dollar deal was the result of the person being "fresh" rather than the product itself etc. As far as I know i
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by _pi 16y ago
It's really their rate, check the link under my comment thread.
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by _pi 16y ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/ads/comments/cpm2d/i_cant_believe_so... Here you go. Took a bit. Also it's risen about 1$ in the last year. http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090327/reddits-ad-experime...
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by _pi 16y ago
Reddit's actual CPM is 8$. One of the admins said that Conde wants to keep it a premium brand and they don't actually set the CPM. I'll try to dig up a link. It's also why there's tons of cross reddit advertising, and adverts that are paid
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by _pi 16y ago
True my original post is a bit harsh. The point is Old Spice is like the Burger King of deodorants, yeah there are McDonalds but McDonalds didn't have a recent gigantic/viral ad campaign with a now popular figure.
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by _pi 16y ago
I'm just gonna say this, NEVER have SSH keys without a password and say it's a secure way for a passwordless logon. It's unsecure and your keys can get used against you. Giving your key a strong password and using ssh-agent and ssh-add will
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by _pi 16y ago
You could have contact dermatitis (skin allergy) when exposed to aluminum.
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by _pi 16y ago
This is not explicitly true. Old Spice products use aluminum compounds in their deodorants aluminum based compounds especially when as fine as they are in deodorant are generally an irritant and a poison for your body. It's been proven to c
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by _pi 16y ago
Best joke I heard all week!
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by _pi 16y ago
Tried as in used it once and then threw it away because I got a rash. I sometimes get it when I don't have deodorant and am in a new location and the convenience store only carries Old Spice for some reason and I'm in too much of a rush to
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by _pi 16y ago
Last time I "tried" Old Spice I got a rash. They make crappy deodorant. It's okay if you're used to it but if you switch prepare for the worst. For some reason I've found this to be more common with Old Spice rather than any other deodorant
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by _pi 16y ago
Software isn't built it's designed, then prototyped, then finalized. The guy on the assembly line isn't designing an MRI machine, that's already been done, he's screwing screws into place. Building implies it's done more than once in a repe

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