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by b0rsuk 7y ago
How is Heroes of Might and Magic IV not a commercial failure? The game was rushed, and in the words of its main designer, the AI was lobotomized. They even introduced the infamous Potion of Insurrection a last-minute effort to fix balance,
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
Enjoy! http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html Advertising is a cancer on society (last update: 2019-10-02)
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
Do you know a single movie which accurately shows drowning?
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
In case of lifeguards it's probably best to react even if you have doubts. Human life is at stake, better safe than sorry.
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
Maybe you need a cat and two dogs as his bodyguards?
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
I was one of top math students in primary school. In secondary school I barely kept up with writing down stuff from blackboard, even less so at university. I just got by. Now I learn at home using textbooks, solving exercises, programming a
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
I've seen a better explaination in this Mathologer video. In a bizarre twist it is now private (?!). Maybe it will work for you. But I suspect it was a takedown notice because he used a short clip from a movie famous among teachers. h
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
We need (a) Linus Torvalds to scratch this itch. We need someone to write a serious open-source alternative, like happened with Linux and git. Only, it's going to be very difficult for software that needs critical mass to succeed, like
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
I really like the design of Heroes of Might and Magic 2 spells: https://www.pngkit.com/png/detail/204-2044131_spells-heroes-... Clear, quite colorful, and they communicate the spell function well. In the worst cas
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
Vector images optimize for file size and flexibility. This is good for non-standard displays and network. The network advantage is hard to disprove. But which has lower total computation cost? A bitmap is created once, and the idea is very
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
The phone and online coding exercises are called pre-screening. Their goal is not to find out if you're a good programmer, but if you can write code at all. This is to save time and see as many candidates as possible.
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
They told me they would mail me a programming assignment, giving me one week but a skilled dev would really only need 2 hours for that. I asked them "what contract"? And they were befuddled I expected to be paid for a week's
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
Life is not superhero movie and you have to deal with assholes on a daily basis. You can get away with what you're proposing if you already have an escape plan (another workplace). If they're your coworkers, following your first g
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
Not unless Sahara is going to become a green grassland again. With the way the climate change is going, unlikely.
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Ask HN: How to Regain Sense of Humor?
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
I think the situation was unwinnable. You've exposed their incompetence. Rightly or wrongly, most people can't stand being criticized. If there's a solution to that one it's a diplomatic one, not a technical one. Be simi
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
Not necessarily assuming, but giving a chance. A person may have a bad period in his life. Silently banning someone is as cool as reviewing a person for a job then giving him no feedback. It's ghosting. Or gossiping behind my back. Or
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
This is clever and an effective way, but has a downside: it's like death penalty. You're giving the person no chance to improve, and there's risk ruining experience for someone who didn't deserve it.
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
Didn't SVG simply lose the power struggle with Javascript/Canvas people? I've heard most of the cool features were poached and implemented into CSS.
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Wouldn't you love icons that animate on hover? That's when your attention is turned to the icon anyway, often waiting for the tooltip to pop up.
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
More SF fans around here know Peppa than Dune. Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Honor Harrington, Star Trek come before Dune.
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
...and they also often delegate boardgames to "child's play". Having done that, they pre-emptively dismiss new board games because they're - by definition - for kids.
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
You are exactly right, because Monopoly was literally invented as a propaganda device to show how awful capitalism is. The game was literally meant to be unpleasant and soul-draining. But... something went wrong. People took it at face valu
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
Should we take advertising for granted? A few years ago Hacker News had this article which says 2x happier customers means 2x less money on marketing. https://www.candyjapan.com/behind-the-scenes/twice-as-happy-...
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
Now I'm going to annoy my friends by telling them Star Wars is just an advertisment built around products, like Peppa.
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Monopoly! Woo!!
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
I'm sure ancient peoples had much more opportunity to play outside. They didn't have our resources, but they had lots of playing field. Lots of room for throwing stones, darts, climbing. If you were old or unathletic you could sti
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
Pollution is something so abstract, hard to measure and put a finger on that a lot of people get away with it. When you punch a person in the face or rob someone, soon there's one very angry person wanting to get even with you. Because
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
Thank you for reminding me, I've seen a documentary including that country.
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by b0rsuk 7y ago
Even if we successfully build a space elevator and putting stuff on orbit becomes relatively free, we would still need to build a 100% sustainable spaceship. Or a completely game-changing technology like teleportation, and there's no p

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