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by ajdoingnothing 5y ago
I am truly appalled by a response like this. Is this really the Namecheap CEO? I am sincerely glad I have never made use of your services (as a non-Russian, European citizen). By your logic, YOU should have acted against the (proxy) warfare
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by ajdoingnothing 5y ago
A major Grand Theft Auto release is these days rare (in fact, a new game from R* is rare). R* truly pushes the boundaries and gets the most out of the generation of console platforms it is running on. The incredible attention to detail is f
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by ajdoingnothing 5y ago
If there is one Google service I'd happily pay 10 bucks a month for (given that they would then provide proper support), it'd be gmail.... It'd be a nightmare for any gmail user when suddenly their account is blocked for no p
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by ajdoingnothing 5y ago
If you haven't seen Jordan Mechner talking about the development of Prince of Persia yet (definitely recommended): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw0VfmXKq54&ab_channel=ArsTe...
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by ajdoingnothing 5y ago
> but then I look around and see the cool jobs in 3D graphics, in distributed systems, in machine learning, or other "hard computer science" fields, and it feels like I will never be qualified without a graduate degree. I think
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by ajdoingnothing 5y ago
This is really interesting. I remember that the GTA 5 build log file was leaked back in the day. It contained a lot of interesting information too (e.g., something along the lines of an "auto play bot" which failed at a certain mi
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by ajdoingnothing 5y ago
I like to search in private windows, and Google harasses you everytime to accept their terms and conditions. I use incognito too for almost everything. However, I thought that the terms & conditions popup was only a Youtube thing (it
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by ajdoingnothing 5y ago
I'm staying away from Windows as much as I can. The Windows 10 home edition is so bloated with nonsense applications (of which some can't be removed directly). Also, it is odd that there are still some icons and popups that have t
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Ask HN: How often do you zoom in to read text on your screen?
4 points by ajdoingnothing 5y ago|7 comments
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by ajdoingnothing 5y ago
Yes - but I wouldn't put too much emphasis on the "easily" part. I think that the physics are now pretty deterministic if you run a simulation using the exact same input/setup (on different clients). However, in reality
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by ajdoingnothing 5y ago
Richard Feynman's take on the term Computer Science: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL4wg6ZAFIM
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by ajdoingnothing 5y ago
Spring Boot or Quarkus.
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by ajdoingnothing 5y ago
I still can't comprehend how the scientists and engineers managed to launch STS 1 (test flight) with two astronauts in 1981 - without doing a prior test launch with no astronauts inside (like SpaceX).. Absolutely incredible. I don&#x27