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by benched 13y ago
Thank you for this stirring description of the view from way up there, where you are.
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by benched 13y ago
It sounds perfectly normal to me. Management have to be true believers in whatever management decide. If you disagree with the fundamentals of their decisions, then everything they say will sound like bullshit. For example, I work at a comp
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by benched 13y ago
You didn't really need the part after "I don't understand. If it was irrational, you'd have your explanation.
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by benched 13y ago
Yes. All of us who hate this development are irrational. That's the only explanation for this groundswell. I can't think of a single reason to be cynical about Facebook or about this deal.
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by benched 13y ago
You're right. It has noticeably, negatively impacted all of my real world friendships.
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by benched 13y ago
never You take the long view, I see.
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by benched 13y ago
I hope that this illustrates for some that the distaste over this deal is more than a few "irrational" / cynical malcontents on Hacker News. A lot of people have a serious problem with Facebook the service, the cultural shi
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by benched 13y ago
Interestingly, John Cash, another Quake programmer, went on to lead the development of World of Warcraft, something much closer to a shared VR universe.
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by benched 13y ago
Why does everything on this site need to be backed up? Am I supposed to take a personal interest in your epistemic state as a matter of charity?
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by benched 13y ago
> When Facebook first approached us about partnering, I was skeptical. Translation: I hadn't heard their offer yet.
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by benched 13y ago
Is this the real Hacker News, or am I being spoofed? Well, obviously I'm as disappointed as everybody else, but at least there is still Valve's research? Perhaps that could be productized for games in a couple of years.
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by benched 13y ago
Funny. I've played threes and 2048 quite a bit, and although I can see the similarities as well as anybody, they feel like completely different games to me. On the other hand, I find Candy Crush to be exactly the same game as Bejeweled
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by benched 13y ago
Don't y'all know? If an individual receives a certain payout, we can reason backwards about the amount of risk they must have shouldered based on the amount! (My apologies, nilkn, this isn't aimed at you. I object to the near
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by benched 13y ago
I don't see any problem at all with pointing out a local trend. Abolition, women's suffrage, civil rights, desegregation, women's rights, gay rights - in every case, a low-status class of people promoted to more equal rights.
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by benched 13y ago
You're being obtuse. Are you trying to say that minorities oppressing a different minority is somehow relevant? It isn't. That is completely within the normal (and bad) operating parameters of human nature. It even got its very ow
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by benched 13y ago
I fervently wish that arguments that rely wholly on self-reference were illegal. For the love of Gödel.
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by benched 13y ago
And why not?
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by benched 13y ago
It's a highly suspect source at best. The original FAQ (lite) is worlds better in spirit and in content.
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by benched 13y ago
For those who don't know, the FQA, unlike the FAQ is well known to be extremely biased and exaggerated. It is not a neutral resource - it was expressly written as a takedown, with exaggeration used to great effect.
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by benched 13y ago
As long as people are eating, I don't care. People shouldn't have so much power over each other's lives and attitudes.
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by benched 13y ago
Gates had a change of heart, and a matching change of public image.
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by benched 13y ago
Looking back over my career, it seems to me that I mostly warm chairs and surf the web while in the offices of software companies. Occasionally they ask me to code something, and I do it. I'd say that accounts for less than 10% of the
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by benched 13y ago
It should be tied to some indexes that reflect the cost of living. If it's impossible to actually live a very minimal life on the basic income, there's not much point, as you'll still have to work and be under stress about ma
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by benched 13y ago
Right now, there is no shortage of things to work on, and things that have not been done yet. I am not currently aware of any horizon past which that won't be true. I don't see any problem yet, and at any rate, there are tons of o
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by benched 13y ago
The idea that you absolutely must work hard in exchange for the necessities of your life, is so deeply ingrained in our collective consciousness, like a fundamental law of conservation, that it seems a lot of people cannot conceive otherwis
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by benched 13y ago
I am a graphics engine programmer. This is not an absolute. Rather, a graphics API is an abstraction of a generic GPU, so it is never as low-level as it could be. The more the API provides ways to expose the underlying hardware more direc
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by benched 13y ago
Oh please. I'm really sure this is completely based in fact, and doesn't involve anybody being oversensitive, judgmental, or self-righteous.
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by benched 13y ago
The human race is quite a large and diverse organism. In terms of development, it's parts are stratified. At the extremes are the front, and the rear. The front is fulfilling our current best potential - space travel, computing, great
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by benched 13y ago
Ah yes, The Right Thing. A well-defined category if ever there was one. This is kindergarten morality. Human beings will never stop creating art. They don't need a Media Industry. There is no "we", and none of us control the
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by benched 13y ago
This graphics programmer disagrees.

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