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by alttag 15y ago
I've thus-far enjoyed ME3, but haven't yet completed it, in part because of the time spent on multi-player (and I suspect most of the reviewers hadn't completed it by the time their reviews went live, so that defense is less compelling). My
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by alttag 15y ago
"... we respect your opinion and want to hear it." "We listen and will respond to constructive criticism ..." "Thank you for your feedback – we are listening." "Comments are closed."
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by alttag 15y ago
After about 10 seconds of not finding anything (even with a horizontal scroll), I gave up ... and didn't learn there was more below the fold until I (re)checked the comments here.
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by alttag 15y ago
... and I had to horizontal scroll to check.
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by alttag 15y ago
Following back the chain of links o the original newspaper story [1], there appear to be three books involved. Only "Ender's Game" is named. Based on the account in the complaint, one of the phrases in question certainly does not come from
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by alttag 15y ago
8th grade for me, making most students about 13/14.
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by alttag 15y ago
Odd. This was perhaps one of the earliest Sci-Fi books I read (along with many of the Doctor Who books.) I'm fairly certain I first read it in middle school, which would have made me about 10, but may have been as late as the start of high
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by alttag 15y ago
> Then you would no longer have a free market; And that's part of the point ... These aren't typically free exchanges. Part of the complaints brought on my customers is monopolistic (oligopolistic) practices, including forced b
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by alttag 15y ago
Hey! What's with all the down-voting in this thread? I understood HN was a place where down-voting was reserved for trolls, not disagreement ... and "good" down voters explain reasons not immediately obvious.
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by alttag 15y ago
Is there an OS-type license that includes a NC clause? (Yes, I understand that true OS licenses can't have that restriction by definition, but I hope the intent of my question is clear.)
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by alttag 15y ago
> What if the "invention" is not prior art, but other > people can come up with the same idea on their own? Then at the very least, it's evidence for obviousness, which (although a tougher sell) can also invalidate a pat
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by alttag 15y ago
I agree ... mostly. One of the examples was bytes downloaded. The reason I, and I suspect other users, interpret that as % downloaded is that in most interfaces (e.g., iTunes, Firefox, Safari), below the download progress bar, it says "XK o
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by alttag 15y ago
No, I don't think it's unusual. I've watched a former colleague (now the state superintendent of schools) successfully identify not only pepsi from coke, but coke, diet coke (which he drinks regularly), and caffine-free diet coke from each
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by alttag 15y ago
After thinking about it for a moment, my response is this: if the same idea can be delivered in fewer (words|paragraphs), then show the reduced form. Tighter writing is clearer, and thus easier to read. If you can trim, you should be doing
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by alttag 15y ago
Prior art doesn't prohibit someone from patenting the idea ... I rather suspect not too many patent examiners peek inside source code or the interfaces of indie apps to check for prior art, and if a behemoth company is going to patent someo
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by alttag 15y ago
A typo. But in retrospect, an amusing one. (Star Wars: Force Unleashed. I'm not a hard-core gamer, so I found the hardest level to be a quite difficult at times until upgrades could be had.)
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by alttag 15y ago
> when you die it is not fun. Tell that to Dark Souls . I recently replayed ST:FU on it's harder setting. I think perhaps the difference between "dying" and "not fun" is a couple of things: first, there are regular and predicta
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by alttag 15y ago
The 'ji' (じ) uses the same kana as 'shi'　(し), just with some tick marks. Which sound is used in a compound word depends on the previous syllable. So, by itself, yes, it's "shima", but in a compound it could be either.
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by alttag 15y ago
In scientific writing and inter-office memos the use of passive voice is strongly discouraged by pretty much every style guide. <smirk> Sure, it's a stylistic choice, but one best adopted by writers whose purpose is entertainment, n
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by alttag 15y ago
I'm not sure I (fully) agree with your example of education. In education the scratchable "itch" is felt by educators and parents in their offering of a service (education). The extent to which we as a society expend resources providing to
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by alttag 15y ago
Because no one ever shares links online ... email, twitter, delic.io.us, pinboard and pretty much every other method of communicating excepted, of course.
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by alttag 15y ago
Yes, but why is that a show stopper? It's a small market filled only with people who typically have large fist-fulls of cash and are dependent on version control. It's a small market, but companies in it have the resources for a good soluti
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by alttag 15y ago
Yes. This is a theme in Tom DeMarco's book _Slack_. It applies not just to developers, but office furniture, conference rooms, processes, and most other employee types too.
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by alttag 15y ago
Me too, because I don't have a FB account. I actively avoid one. I'm being excluded from marketing campaigns, contests, and give-aways because I don't trust FB with my privacy.
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by alttag 15y ago
Only mostly a scam. I've had some experiences that suggest if you push hard enough you can get what you want. Years ago I purchased Neverwinter Nights (the first one) from a big box. Best Buy, I think. Despite my computer technically meet
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by alttag 15y ago
Conversely, Apples does have a history of long-term support for the products they do release, so in that sense, the future is extremely predicable ... more so than other players in the mobile space. The predictability of support is perhaps
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by alttag 15y ago
Okay, you've made the point that scaling technology is easy ... what is less easy (for example) is scaling the business processes to support in increased number of users or handling the communication overhead of an up-sized development team
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by alttag 15y ago
Whole-heartedly concur. Another issue that my programming students (university sophomores/juniors in a business school) often have trouble with is the concept of = being used for assignment rather than equality testing. It's as natural as b
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by alttag 15y ago
So it's in the customer's best interest to have a separate account for the four-year-old? If they tried to suggest it, I'd think they're off their collective rockers.
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by alttag 15y ago
Right. Because no one on the Internet has ever rightly compared the general public to easily manipulated sheep.

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