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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Anyone brave enough to bet which ones are going to turn out big ? Swift has a big potential in the sense that it's backed by Apple, and looks like Objective C reimagined for Apple's purposes. Rust has Mozilla backing, and it'
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
China doesn't need to. It only needs to threaten Taiwan, Korea, Japan and other US allies in the region. Then they will switch alliances.
813.
by b0rsuk 9y ago
I would even say they are not values, they're slogans . I'm puzzled by the overwhelmingly positive reception this site gets. These are not things I'm interested about. I don't speak corpospeak. I mean... Friends outside
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Can someone give me a concise explanation why a language this influential and talked about is not used for regular programming ? What are its disadvantages ?
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
I think it's the combination of anonymity and inability to police themselves. Offline communities make it easy to do the latter, even if it's something as crude as punching a person in the face. So people can say anything and th
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Prowler is even better against Mohawk, especially those staying on the edge. One shot, one kill, they don't see it coming.
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Upgrades are designed in such way that Goliath benefits from them more than other aircraft. Defense: +5% per upgrade. Goliath gains the most, while a Mohawk (helicopter) with 2 Defense upgrades blows up from a single Predator (default) miss
818.
by b0rsuk 9y ago
"orienting yourself to face north" is not a strategy, it's an interface deficiency. Yes, it would really help if viewport rotated with your aircraft !
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Another upgrade idea: anti-missile system. Rather than destroying, slowing or deflecting missiles, it would draw a vector in front of each missile as it gets close to you. Higher level could warn you earlier and draw more useful vectors.
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
I don't agree Prowler is good against Goliaths. Even if you find one that stays on the edge of the crowd and doesn't use radar, it takes so long to kill a G because of your poor damage potential. It's easy for another player
821.
by b0rsuk 9y ago
Goliath is strong, and I haven't seen a very good player playing it (I was leading the list with it for some time). But I think a Mohawk (helicopter) player would eat it whole. Mohawk has high rate of fire so reflecting missiles isn&#x
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
In a way, Project Euler was years ahead of its time. It's a set of problems for aspiring machine learning and data science specialists. They should really update their description.
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Gameplay feedback: Mohawk (helicopter) and Prowler (stealthy) don't seem worth it. The helicopter dies from a single stray rocket, random spam and attacks from behind. Alt+arrow for strafe worked in DooM because field of view al
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
If it looks stupid, but works, it ain't stupid ? Hmmm.
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Sweden used to have a very high trust rating until very recently, too. If you watch some old movies, you can see very lax airport security. How times change. How did we end up trust each other so little ? What happened ? Is it really inevit
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
I never said UAE is an utopia or even a fun place to live. I think there is merit to criticism of Islam that it doesn't distinguish between religious and secular, so it's a totalitarian state by default. I believe that the world o
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
They do it in Poland.
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
The delivery people are notoriously overworked and constantly in a hurry. But there are other alternatives. For example, a service I like is Inpost. They have a few dozen of huge post boxes in each bigger city. About 20 compartments in each
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
I read about one of Arabic countries - I don't remember if it was the Emirates or Saudi Arabia, but one of the big names. The newspaper article claimed milkmen in that country walk into your house, take money lying on your fridge, leav
830.
by b0rsuk 9y ago
tl;dr: Amazon wants to be the Facebook of your home. Decide who and on what terms can access your data. Physical data. Trusted Amazon partners will have an advantage. Others will be excluded. Actually I think this is not as bad as Facebook,
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
I concur. The OP says data science doesn't sound like feel like doing math. On the other hand, job postings for "data scientists" where I live don't sound like they have much to do with programming. They have long lists
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
This is like something from the movie "Brazil" (1985).
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Not only that, but monoculture is bee bonanza one time of the year and a wasteland in the rest. Unsurprisingly, bees need to eat the whole year, and they prefer a variety of plants and flowers which mature at different times. A diversified
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Well the garden I mentioned is close to a busy street. It could be the increase in traffic. I'm happy to hear about your insect diversity. I hope if you ever get fed up with them you'll use natural countermeasures, such as install
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
You don't have to convince employees, who are eager to try it and unwind. How do you convince employers ? Surely not by pointing out THEY don't work as much as we do.
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
One of older articles linked from HN said the very name "stress" is wrong, because it conjures incorrect expectations. That you can forever endure a certain level of pressure, but will break after a certain point. The term "s
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
My mother is a lover of birds and she installed several nesting booths in her garden. All but one are empty. I think it's not a problem with birds, it's just they don't have anything to eat.
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
And I thought it was because my parents replaced their plot of tulips. But now there are more flowers than ever and very few bugs.
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
If it makes you happier, these results confirms what me and my family simply see in an adjacent country (anecdotal evidence from several data points). There are barely any bugs. Mosquitos used to be a nuisance, everyone shared tips how to p
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Or they're just so confident the product* won't care, because they're too heavily invested and can't imagine life without FB. * a.k.a. users

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