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by aChrisSmith 1y ago
As one of the subscribers, I can confirm that I’m satisfied with the product. And looking forward to each edition of America’s finest news source.
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Factorio: Space Age Released(factorio.com)
11 points by aChrisSmith 2y ago|3 comments
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by aChrisSmith 2y ago
In case any of your colleagues have a mysterious "illness" today and/or seem sleep deprived tomorrow, this is probably why.
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by aChrisSmith 4y ago
I can see how this has the potential to disrupt the games industry. If you work on a AAA title, there is a small army of artists making 19 different types of leather armor. Or 87 images of car hubcaps. Using something like this could really
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by aChrisSmith 5y ago
An acronym for “working from home”.
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by aChrisSmith 5y ago
Yup! And in addition to making it easier to manage cloud resources by defining that state in a programming language, Pulumi can do other interesting things with your resource graph too. For example, analyze resources and check that they are
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by aChrisSmith 5y ago
It’s a bit more involved than that… Suppose you wrote a program to go and create your cloud infrastructure. Using AWS’ APIs you write an app to spin up a VM, setup a load balancer, and provision a database. You run your program, it works li
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by aChrisSmith 8y ago
> Doesn't that mean that the program will need privileged credentials? Obviously whatever program is actually creating the cloud resources will need credentials to do so. However, they aren't part of the Pulumi program. When yo
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by aChrisSmith 8y ago
Hi! I work at Pulumi and have been using it to standup and manage all of our service infrastructure. > How does Pulumi keep track of which services are launched, especially during testing/development Each Pulumi program is ran withi
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by aChrisSmith 10y ago
Does it really? Valve is extremely profitable because of their particular role in the video games industry. But outside of Steam, is the company really a role model for success? Is Valve's latest "new" IP DOTA2 successful whe
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by aChrisSmith 14y ago
Your body reacts to the sweetness and produces insulin, which when not paired with actual sugars, turns into fat. This is known as "Insulin Resistance" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_resistance )
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by aChrisSmith 14y ago
I'm pretty sure the secret to creating a good search engine isn't the speed at which you sort data.
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by aChrisSmith 14y ago
If you judge your success by fidelity with your competitor's product you will NEVER win. The only way they can possibly gain double-digit market share is if they actually do something different/disruptive. IMHO "metro style" isn't a differe
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by aChrisSmith 14y ago
This looks essentially like Economic dumping. Nokia is _giving_ phones away in order to game market share, and using this "PR coup" as cover. It's a good strategy, but I certainly do not thing this is corporate benevolence.
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by aChrisSmith 14y ago
OP here. For some reason nobody gets the point that it was a joke. While you could argue about the merits of the statement, the blog post on whole is just for entertainment.
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by aChrisSmith 15y ago
This reminds me of the "Windows Live Hotmail" fiasco. Annoying as all the brand vacillation is, this move looks like it is in the right direction.
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by aChrisSmith 15y ago
As a friendly reminder, you can click 'flag' for posts that aren't germane to Hacker News discussions. (Though I don't know why there isn't a flag link for this post.)
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by aChrisSmith 15y ago
From Google's privacy policy, they anonymize IP addresses after 9 months, and strip out any cookie information after 18 months. So I don't think many of the author's claims actually stand up. http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/faq/#toc
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by aChrisSmith 15y ago
Am I missing the story here? Man makes billions in income and has to pay billions in taxes?
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by aChrisSmith 15y ago
Something that most people miss is that at least part of what makes Google search so good (and Bing for that matter) _is_ the tracking. Without the ability to track some user behaviors the quality of the search results would be impacted. Fo
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by aChrisSmith 15y ago
I think it might be too early to pass judgement. I would hope that over time Google releases sample applications, better widgets, and so on to take care of the boilerplate. (Similar to HTML "grab and go" type sites.)
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by aChrisSmith 15y ago
I'm confused why Microsoft would sponsor something like this. Google going after game developers and getting them to port their apps to HTML5 makes sense, as it supports the Web as a platform as well as promotes the Chrome Web Store. Is the
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by aChrisSmith 15y ago
This is interesting, but why is this on Hacker News?
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by aChrisSmith 15y ago
Sadly, it's ironic to get advice which reads "AVOID DISTRACTIONS!" while participating in HN, the biggest distraction I have.
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by aChrisSmith 15y ago
For a company of 92,000+ people I am sure there are at least a few C and D-level people in charge of MSDN content. However, for a company of 92,000+ people, I would have also assumed there would be a standard tool or process for doing this
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by aChrisSmith 15y ago
I hate to be a negative Nancy, but if STM was going to take off it would have by now. Is there something I am missing?
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by aChrisSmith 15y ago
Captain obvious says, "Sometimes people get it wrong, even smart ones."
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by aChrisSmith 15y ago
I would be surprised if the Chinese government _didn't_ stipulate that the social network would have back doors for "official business".
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by aChrisSmith 15y ago
No. Remember the article talked about poaching students right out of college. $90k a year isn't much for an experienced developer, however right out of college (and at the time) that was 10-20k more than they could expect joining another co
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by aChrisSmith 15y ago
+1 for "dumb people say dumb things". Unless you realize this when participating in internet citizenry you'll likely fall into the trap of saying equally dumb things.

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