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by adwf 13y ago
I think it just became irrelevant at some point. Every decent Lisp editor since the 80's will automatically match parens for you, so I don't even notice them anymore, unless I specifically need to do something special with them.
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by adwf 13y ago
Perhaps. But speaking as a person from a physics background, a difference you can't quantify is a difference that may as well not exist... I went back and checked the Medium website with a handful of different typefaces on the body te
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by adwf 13y ago
Not to mention that when you find one particular solution that works (eg. 6 chicken breasts a day), it gets very boring, very quickly. Although I doubt that drinking Soylent everyday is going to help with the boredom!
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by adwf 13y ago
Yes very good point. Particularly with tablets, the use-case they are frequently replacing is that of an old-fashioned print magazine. I did just test turning off webfonts on Medium and I still honestly can't see any huge problem with
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by adwf 13y ago
Interesting read, but I still think that people spend faaaaaaaar too much time thinking about typefaces. I just don't think they make as much of an impact on the page as people think they do. At first glance, I thought the "elite
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by adwf 13y ago
Yes very true; I remember hearing once (I don't know how true this bit is), that Samsung Group alone make up around 20% of the South Korean economy... It may just be me, but I do detect a slight slowing down of Apple's supply chai
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by adwf 13y ago
Perhaps we're still seeing the aftereffects of suing their largest component supplier, who also happen to be one of the largest LCD panel manufacturers in the world?
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by adwf 13y ago
Yeah that's exactly what I was thinking. Just the presence of a small bottle fridge says to me - "We're a relaxed and fun place to work. We take your mental wellbeing seriously and don't mind you unwinding a little on a
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by adwf 13y ago
I believe you're thinking a bit too US centric if you assume that regulations are there to keep out people of colour... I questioned your premise that cities were "designed" to be expensive, whereas I believe they merely &quo
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by adwf 13y ago
On the contrary. Historically, cities are designed to be cheap and high density. The expensive part comes when people expect the same housing standards/square footage as they would get in the country. Whilst I've never seen San
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by adwf 13y ago
I think it's partly to do with the extreme flexibility of the language. When you have a large team programming in Java, you pretty much know that they're all going to be programming in roughly the same style. eg. They'll obv
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by adwf 13y ago
Interesting to know, thanks. My example was probably a bit too hastily made-up. So I guess in summary, it's not so much about investor time and attention but mostly about managing the risks of the different sectors. Consumer startups
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by adwf 13y ago
I don't know the ins and outs of InnoDB, but some databases match the physical order to the primary key order. Therefore this would probably make sense in that case.
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by adwf 13y ago
Losing the ability to identify or losing the desire? When you get down to it, if you have a $50m fund, you might want to invest in ~10 A-rounds at ~$5m each. If you have a $1.5bn fund however, do you really want to invest in 300 A-rounds?
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by adwf 13y ago
OT: I used this site just a couple of weeks ago when looking for a fountain pen. Went looking for the TWSBI 540 as suggested there; ended up with the the 580 and can highly recommend it. Whilst I did check it out, I didn't like the l
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by adwf 13y ago
They've also released a new standalone expansion for Capitalism 2 called Capitalism Lab [1]. It's a combination of updates to make the game work on modern systems/resolutions and a bevy of new features/usability improvem
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by adwf 13y ago
Yes, so much corruption went on with that particular round of World Cup bidding. For example: http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment... The disturbing thing is that everyone knew that was onl
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by adwf 13y ago
Yes, our libel laws are much stronger. And scarier in scope.
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by adwf 13y ago
I was only sensitive to light immediately after the operation, it went within a week. I was nervous about the operation too, but I can easily say that it was one of the best decisions I've ever made, no regrets whatsoever.
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by adwf 13y ago
Yeah, but that's what I thought they were doing after the whole Randy Powell incident - look it up, embarrassing... I hope they try harder to audit the TEDx events. The main TED events are usually so inspiring, it's a shame to ha
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by adwf 13y ago
This isn't the first time this has happened, shoddy "science" at a TEDx event. How long until people start saying that TEDx is the actual scam? It's a shame because I love TED itself. They've tried regulating bett
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by adwf 13y ago
Except that at least Diablo 1+2 were for everyone. I remember playing those for the story and the gameplay. The loot and levelling were a means to an end for me - finishing the game. The whole repeating the game again on harder difficulti
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by adwf 13y ago
Not to mention that AAA games take 2-3 years to produce, whereas Steam Linux has been out for only 6 months. There's a lot of inertia to overcome.
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by adwf 13y ago
Try netflix-desktop. It's a package available for Ubuntu and Arch (probably more, but those I know of). One click install of everything you need for Netflix, without messing with your current Wine install. Worked for me!
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by adwf 13y ago
Knowing that the game exists is 80% of the battle for indie devs. I check Steam everyday looking for new Linux releases. I can't say the same for checking indie game blogs or wherever else I'm supposed to find the announcements o
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by adwf 13y ago
Good point. I hadn't really thought about it from the point of view of relative advantage of platform. More just my own personal desire to game where I work I guess! Having said that, I do still find Linux to be a much more stable an
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by adwf 13y ago
I agree that he's certainly not doing this for the Linux community purely out of the kindness of his heart. But why should he? He's running a business and has to choose the profitable products to develop. Up until recently, Lin
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by adwf 13y ago
I completely agree; the combo of Kickstarter, Unity and Humble Bundle has been a powerful force to demonstrate Linux gaming. Then add Steam in to help tie it all together in a convenient one stop shop and advertising platform and it really
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by adwf 13y ago
Oh god, I'd forgotten about Optimus, it's a whole new level of messed up! I completely agree on that front. Took me days to get my laptop working right over the summer. Thankfully I don't game on my laptop, but if I did, I
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by adwf 13y ago
Two answers that I can think of at first glance: 1) A large proportion of the games that I own for Linux are developed using the Unity engine. This has many advantages for an indie developer (ease of use, cheap license), but is especially

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