allendoerfer

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   by allendoerfer 13y ago

   I look at it this way, too. The brutal approach has been chosen, we can argue about it's effectiveness or individual choices, but the only way we could make it worse would be to start all over again, this long in the game. There is not
2. 1322.▲
   by allendoerfer 13y ago

   So what you describing is an FFA (free for all) game. I would let the points the winner gets equal the points the losers lose and spread the lost points across the losers according to their ELO ranking. To prevent inflation, you could decay
3. 1323.▲
   by allendoerfer 13y ago

   Someone will do it, so it does not really matter whether you are a good guy or not. The question is, if governments can keep up with the companies (read: Google) buying your technology. They need to be taxed properly to invest in education
4. 1324.▲
   by allendoerfer 13y ago

   This is exactly the point. Often the person with the idea additionaly greatly underestimates the complexity and time it tooks to actually build the product.
5. 1325.▲
   by allendoerfer 13y ago

   I fear, they will give unicode another try, fail again and just keep on bloating the API. I bet there is a language out there, which way to set or get attributes, PHP has not yet copied.
6. 1326.▲
   by allendoerfer 13y ago

   I share the opinions of the other comments: We have our subjective world view and it is easy to get lost in it and think of it as objective and thus overestimate the importance and benefits of knowing how to code. That said, I still think,