atomicdog

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by atomicdog 15y ago
>It just occurred to me a main reason they chose "Don't be evil" as their slogan. The foundation of the company is a slippery slope They came up with the "don't be evil" thing when they were young idealistic hipsters who just wanted to
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by atomicdog 15y ago
My number didn't show up in the header but I think my data might be going through Blackberry, not o2.
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by atomicdog 15y ago
That explains distrubuting abandonware, but what about recreating it/porting it to another platform and charging for it?
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by atomicdog 15y ago
Thanks for considering colourblind people
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by atomicdog 15y ago
Why are they all black and white?
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by atomicdog 15y ago
My dad could beat up Anonymous' dad.
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by atomicdog 15y ago
>Megaupload never complied with DMCA requests Really? Because that statement completely goes against what people are currently saying over on Reddit ( http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/onplj/feds_shut_... ) Some examples: &#62
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by atomicdog 15y ago
>the abolition of the death penalty - a policy which most Britons still oppose. I don't think this is entirely accurate. If by "most Britons" you mean "most Daily Mail readers" then maybe...
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Really cool HTML5 SOPA blackout page(beanproducts.com)
3 points by atomicdog 15y ago|0 comments
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by atomicdog 15y ago
"an all-out war between Hollywood and Silicon Valley." makes it sound as if this is simply two factions of lobbyists battling against each other.
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by atomicdog 15y ago
The other of course being that very cool sleepsort algorithm that was posted there
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4Chan censors posts in /b/ in protest of SOPA/PIPA(s3.amazonaws.com)
1 points by atomicdog 15y ago|0 comments
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by atomicdog 15y ago
This is a very good point. Reddit, HackerNews & SlashDot down = Tech sites blackout Reddit down = Remember that website that we reported was full of pedophiles last month? ...
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by atomicdog 15y ago
>Shock waves from HN being blacked out won't travel to the general public or politicians. I disagree. If certain big sites (google, facebook) black out then it WILL be covered by the mainstream media. As a result they're bound to publis
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by atomicdog 15y ago
>(I think pretty much every commercial game works like this.) Is it common for commercial games to write AI in Ruby now?
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by atomicdog 15y ago
And hopefully not "defeated" as in "renamed to 'Flags for Orphans act'"
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by atomicdog 15y ago
Also: When I'm watching a video on a Windows PC the last thing I want to see is a simulated iPad border around the video.
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by atomicdog 15y ago
>I think the issue of kids being manipulated by mobile games is a legitimate issue. Unfortunately, the DS seem to have targeted a fairly legit company to "expose" this issue. I mean, it's not as if there is a massive dearth of shady com
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by atomicdog 15y ago
The video, while funny, kinda reminded me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bThouBcsMO4
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by atomicdog 15y ago
Depends on their content: An ad for a local garage? Fine. But I would class "Mom discovers new TEETH WHITENING solution! Don't listen to your DENTIST! CLICK HERE TODAY!" to be pretty distracting and intrusive.
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by atomicdog 15y ago
Weren't they mostly maths/physics/electronics graduates, though? Besides, university attendance was much less commonplace in those days, so it's not a particularly fair comparison.
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Micro Men: A full-length film about the early days of British home computing(youtube.com)
2 points by atomicdog 15y ago|0 comments
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by atomicdog 15y ago
"It takes up precious screen space... so we've replaced it with a fatter bar that takes up even more space."
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by atomicdog 15y ago
Hmm, it would be interesting to try to use this to generate ascii heightmaps for games out of images.
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by atomicdog 15y ago
>would then require extra complexity to provide a syntax for lines that should not get wrapped, And what's stopping someone implementing this?
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by atomicdog 15y ago
I'm still on Doom :/
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by atomicdog 15y ago
I would say 3 weeks could reasonably be described as "roughly 1-2 weeks", but another week would be pushing it. Either way OP should assume the worse and constantly be looking for other jobs in the meantime.
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by atomicdog 15y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkvQ-BJD2rU
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by atomicdog 15y ago
Good idea, but saying "I work at X company doing Y" for most companies is about as 'anonymous' as the average Facebook profile.
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by atomicdog 15y ago
Erm... this doesn't make any sense. >But in addition to lotions for the most common programming languages ??are gaining more and more popular functional languages ??and platforms

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