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by alex_c 14y ago
The author's problems all have solutions Well, no, those are symptoms, not problems. The problem, as explained by the author, is the sheer improbability of discovering how to play Dwarf Fortress by trial and error. (I say that as a big f
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That's funny, it always felt to me like it was "Startup News" for a lot longer than 6 months. If I had to guess and couldn't look it up, I would have said 1-2 years. Interesting how powerful first impressions can be.
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They will need a stunning amount of marketing and advertising for this to become socially acceptable. Not necessarily, the popularity of hipster glasses is a perfect example of something ugly and awkward becoming hip. It's very possible f
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9 points in 7 minutes for a "coming soon" page?
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>Just look at the points per hour this thread is getting, if I had posted this about my website on my website people would have said I was stupid. For what it's worth, I upvoted this thread specifically because we've all done something
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Boxing gloves are actually a type of mitten, but are named gloves. I submit that as (very weak) evidence that mittens are a subset of gloves.
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I was having lunch recently with a few developers, and the topic of "What is the worst API you ever had to work with" came up. The unanimous answer was immediately "Facebook". Everything from the documentation, to multiple ways to do simi
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I hate the word privilege (used in this way), but I'm having trouble articulating why. It's become a loaded term, indirectly associated with sexism, racism, and other isms (just look at a Google search - you'll see "male", "white", "straig
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So, why is secretary still the top job for women?
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Thanks! Saved for future reference for when I have a bit of time to play with this :)
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I wasn't necessarily thinking any certain way - I haven't done much front-end development in a few years, so I don't know much about any of the frameworks mentioned. I was just trying to politely point out that the post is fairly content-f
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None of that makes a good argument for why you need to reconsider your frontend, it's just a list of cool libraries. Developers like to try new technologies, and like to improve things and make their life easier (which often involves some f
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by alex_c 14y ago
I'm not very familiar with either site's history, but Something Awful was around for a few years before 4chan.
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Right on the money, but titans are also arguably most valuable for logistics - "jumping" large amounts of ships over large distances. Some may never see battle because the corp or alliance needs them for this purpose and doesn't want to ri
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Most income for large alliances comes from mining moons and from taxes on members' income. Ships lost in these alliance-level battles are usually (at least partially) reimbursed by the alliance. Incidentally, this is what makes some territ
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Admittedly I haven't followed Eve politics for over a year, but I would be very surprised to see Test and Goons get in a "real" fight (e.g. over sovereignty or revenue-generating moons). They both treat the game in the same way (a strange
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And this long-term view is, I suspect, how NewEgg justifies the short-term risk of losing a trial. Never negotiate with terrorists.
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>It is brutally hard for most people (after the age of puberty, and perhaps especially for males) to learn to attend to sound distinctions that don't exist in the learner's native language. Do you think people who grow up bilingual have
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Memrise works quite well for vocabulary building, but more interestingly they're working towards becoming a "course platform", where people can create and sell their own courses. It's not necessarily an innovative learning method (though t
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This is a problem worth talking about. The good news is there's a lot of innovation in the field, and language learning in a few more years will be completely different than it was, say, 10 years ago. I mostly agree with the author's four p
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>they did what Quora does now, gained hate of geeks and they lost their competitive advantage. Which opened the field wide for StackOverflow to come in and succeed. Is there any reason why a similar replacement for Quora can't take off?
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A Twitter message is a publicity stunt, not a sincere offer for help. I'm sure Elon knows the right people to contact at Boeing directly if he really wants to work something out.
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No, it takes you exactly where you'd expect... back to the first page you see after logging in, so the "home" page. The left side right now is Justin Timberlake, the right side is your newsfeed with posts from whoever you're following.
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The new MySpace opens to the public(mashable.com)
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The article is pretty light on details. What exactly defines this as a single "structure"? How do we determine where one cluster ends and another begins?
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>so much justice I suggest the "careful what you wish for" lesson applies both ways. "Justice" implies that Google can and should get away with a lot of things under threat of removing your content from their index.
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>What I have come to feel is that my use of the internet is mostly driven by rage - and it seems to be similar for a lot of people. On HN I waste time trying to correct people who will never in a million years be swayed by a random inte
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The reversed scrolling direction jumps to mind. Minor in the large scheme of things, but it shows a conscious move towards combining the desktop and mobile concepts.
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Given how easy "Likes", "Follows" etc. are to manipulate, I very much doubt it.
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>Most programmers are not gifted enough to read the docs? Well there's the problem. Which one's easier - fixing an API, or fixing most programmers?

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