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by benched 13y ago
This looks like a pretty good summary. The stylistic way it's written as if about a 'foreign' language sure makes me feel old though. Twenty years ago, this was completely normal. When I went to work, the code was this. This
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This "other people aren't thinking about you" thing - I hear or read this every three seconds. It's a chestnut. Yeah, there's some truth to it... sometimes... maybe? It depends who and when? I know that I spend a l
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What is 'the' tech community? I've been a programmer for 25 years, and I'm honestly unfamiliar with it. Does Microsoft count as a tech community? If you go there, you will find tons of women developers doing great work,
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I agree. Perhaps the author is remembering the way Hacker News was 3 to 4 years ago.
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1. Hacker News usernames became a blur of random characters quite some time ago. I don't know how I'd begin to tell what gender you all are, and it never enters my mind. 2. I really don't think there are that many people who
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I have no idea what you're saying here.
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by benched 13y ago
Except, Candy Crush does go beyond simply being a match 3 game, in that all the base mechanics as far as what happens when you match 3, 4, and 5, are pretty much lifted exactly as-is from Bejeweled.
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"Saga" is much, much more sweeping than "Banner Saga". It's like the difference between trademarking "Quest" vs. "King's Quest". In fact, it's just like trademarking "Quest",
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http://rapgenius.com/Jay-z-ride-or-die-lyrics#note-1097040
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"If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for." If I say things like this, people are quick to suggest medication.
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Ah, there it is.
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It's pretty simple. Greed = desire for largest market = lowest common denominator.
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Not really an answer to your question anymore, but this is perhaps a little-known anecdote. The group within Microsoft that produced Encarta had a lot of teachers in it. After Encarta was retired, that group took it on themselves to create
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Then you haven't worked on my current team. I used to cringe on a daily basis for the one woman on the team, until she left. They think they're being funny, and they think they are somehow "standing up" for their right n
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One thing about knowledge, and being a tiny little human, is that if you don't know about the whole framework behind existence, then not only do you not know if there is such a thing or what it is, but you also don't know whether
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I hear you. I've lived in Seattle for 8 years, and my impression is that people here are professional . They say polite things. Even friends I've known for many years talk to me like they're composing a formal letter. I had
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Another one to check out: http://smallbasic.com/
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Ask HN: Friendly Cities?
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As for the worry over 'addiction' and escapism, just let us go. The moment it becomes physically possible to get the hell out of this reality and take my chances in another one, I'm gone. Just stick an IV in me, store me in a
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I don't have cancer, but for me, video games (esp. Minecraft) provide an escape from the psychological ravages of just being a person among people.
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3D movies look plain amazing to me. Don't worry though - the rest of my life sucks, so it balances out.
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One downside to having a lot of empathy. If you are a really great tipper, you will observe most people tipping worse than you. If you are super empathetic, you'll observe most people being relatively insensitive.
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I agree. In fact, the article seemed disingenuous to me from the first sentence. As if he's trying too hard to hit a 'can you believe my lack of perspective' note. But I don't see it. Sure, if you have millions, your per
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Of the programmers who made Quake, John Cash went on to lead WoW, probably the most inhabited shared reality yet; John Carmack went on to work on Oculus; and Michael Abrash ... is doing whatever he's doing here - I'm still reading
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I read the top comment as an unfortunate guide for fellating the manager. It has been 9 years since I last worked somewhere where anybody cared about hours in the office. Until the day casual work environments disappear, I personally wouldn
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No matter how many words people spend on writing about consciousness, not once have I ever seen anyone say anything revealing about consciousness. (And yes, I have read all the usual suspects.)
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And this is only the very, very beginning.
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Have an upvote. HN comments have long been a ghetto of a different kind. They're as constructive as YouTube comments, only instead of "ur a fagot", it's all "Not peer-reviewed, replicated, statistically rigorous sci
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This is like a group of Greeks trying to persuade Odysseus to boycott Troy by canceling delivery of the Trojan Horse.
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And for anyone who didn't know, Carmack has long been obsessively, arduously interested in latency problems.

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