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by beaumartinez 13y ago
Agreed. "Customary service charges" are douchebaggy—it's my decision whether I tip you or not.
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by beaumartinez 13y ago
Yes. It's very sad that /v/ has it in for Fish. I thoroughly enjoyed Fez, and IMO it's up there with some of the best. He might be a bit of a dick, but so was Steve Jobs. Interesting how Jobs is reveared and yet Fish is
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by beaumartinez 13y ago
Fascinating article, especially all the political reasons as to why Microsoft introduced Direct3D in the first place. "Direct3D was not an alternative to OpenGL [...] it was a designed to create a competitive market for 3D hardware&quo
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by beaumartinez 13y ago
The other possibility is that someone creates a malicious service that harvests and tries connecting using those keys. Scary indeed.
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by beaumartinez 13y ago
It's especially useful as a left-handed gamer. Right-handed gamers have the mouse on the right and use WASD for movement—and there's a comfortable distance between the two. Left-handed gamers have the mouse on the left—using WASD
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by beaumartinez 13y ago
> Comments are not testable/verifiable Although not strictly comments (rather, docstrings, which have a similar purpose), Python's doctest[1] allows you to write code in your docstrings and then test them for correctness. [1
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by beaumartinez 13y ago
You can curl the URL and see what it is you'll be executing. You don't get that with an obscure binary you download from the web. But the URL should be HTTPS.
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by beaumartinez 13y ago
Xbox One, real gaming? A machine that was going to lock all your gaming purchases down, so you couldn't even share your physical discs with friends? A company that charged $10,000 for patches—even trivial ones fixing serious, game-br
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by beaumartinez 13y ago
Or, absolute trolling. Especially since you can target specific boards. I remember when someone spammed the ending to LA Noire on /v/ for a whole day.
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by beaumartinez 13y ago
> Our caching ruleset was not obeyed by our CDN partner. [...] Before the site was shut down, you may have viewed some pages as another user. What CDN would not respect "caching rulesets"? Cache-Control: Private and Vary:
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by beaumartinez 13y ago
Yeah, networking at HN is very much "butt into the conversation or you're not talking to anyone"—but I find that's the case with most networking. Vim London (another example) has some quick talks and then we head to the
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by beaumartinez 13y ago
> "I actually got stuck early in the game by not remembering there is a run button." I know exactly the bit! Super Metroid is a fantastic game. Perhaps requiring a bit more dedication than is common today, but it is still a fan
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by beaumartinez 13y ago
Bugs are inevitable. No matter how much you think about the problem, there will always be things that slip between the cracks.
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by beaumartinez 13y ago
So how else should they handle them? Assuming the repo is private , keeping keys in the repo is the most frictionless way to ensure everyone has everything set up correctly. Environment variables get annoying quickly if you ever need diffe
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by beaumartinez 13y ago
Well, it could contain OAuth tokens for external services (eg Twitter), as well as secret tokens (used in Rails, Django for cookies). Worse still, they could be using passwords in an external service (eg, for a database) and have included t
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by beaumartinez 13y ago
"Modern" FPSs (COD, Battlefield, etc) have one killer feature, at least on consoles, RE skill-balancing—intelligent matchmaking. With a large enough volume of players, players get matched by skill—meaning fewere "noobs"
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by beaumartinez 13y ago
Cool. For those unaware, Xonotic is a FOSS FPS, forked from Nexuiz after the Nexuiz IP was sold (bit of drama on that one—the creators of Nexuiz did so without asking the Nexuiz community[1]). Although I've only played Nexuiz, it'
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by beaumartinez 13y ago
"Household" income is a bit of a pointless stat when you're a bunch of strangers in a flat share—which I'm betting represents a fair proportion of London's earners.
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by beaumartinez 13y ago
You mean input[type=url] right? My internal CSS parser broke for a moment whilst I read that.
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by beaumartinez 13y ago
Off the top of my head—have a BlogPost and a BlogPostVersion resource. BlogPostVersion has all the content, and BlogPost simply has a canonical URL and a link to a BlogPostVersion. You could then PATCH the BlogPost with the link to whatever
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by beaumartinez 13y ago
> When would this be an advantage over some sort of named test? Never. "Line number" is very obscure and prone to breaking. "I just added a comment at the top of the file... Whoops! Broke all the tests." To quote the Zen Of Python—"
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by beaumartinez 13y ago
I did two years of computer science, then quit. I use very little of what I learnt, and the personal development (no pun intended) outside of what I was taught at university has been far more important to my career. If money is your goal, k
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by beaumartinez 13y ago
I'd add that for jobs in startups (a focus for the HN crowd) salaries are particularly low.
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by beaumartinez 13y ago
> I worked with a retard programmer, he thought that learning Django was a feat of strength. Maybe it was for him ? You shouldn't be so hard on someone else. I'm sure there are people here way smarter than you or I, and they don't
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by beaumartinez 13y ago
"At least 200k" full-time , wow. For anyone who's on that type of salary, what role and industry is it? CTO-level?
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by beaumartinez 13y ago
If you install fish on your local machine, you'll still be able to run bash and punch those commands right into it—just do $ bash And hey presto, back in bash land. I agree that it makes sense to know the lowest common denominator
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by beaumartinez 13y ago
The alternative is that people will continue to use Flash, an even more obscure (and not to mention closed) format, which we are forced to take with even less inspection. At least with <video> the only thing encrypted will be the
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by beaumartinez 13y ago
> It's better. What's "better" about it?
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by beaumartinez 13y ago
Slight nitpick, but this is Unreal Engine 3 , not Unreal, the 1998 PC FPS[1]. That game blew me away when I was younger—the graphics were truly stellar, better than Quake 2 and Half-Life, games released at the same time—and for a moment I
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by beaumartinez 14y ago
What about Favstar and its pro features? The service makes money of people's favourites, albeit less directly.

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