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by benched 13y ago
Very sorry. Speaking from experience, this is exactly how it is. When there's a serious medical situation, the focus is necessarily on the bills. They even send you separate envelopes for every little line item and provider, staggered
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I don't know you, but I'd wager that in order to be able to say things like this, you're very privileged. And it's leading you to say extremely ignorant things.
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Some people don't have family. Friends are good at help that's very limited in time, extent, and especially cost.
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Yeah, that's the pretty answer, kind of like "Cops are there to protect you" or "Poor smart kids get scholarships." That stuff exists in theory, but whether it materializes for you is arbitrary. The government can f
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I think I could do it in 2 days tops, to the same level of polish, using only my personal iOS game library. I've been a game developer for more than 20 years, though.
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poetry legitimate Yeah, lemme just go check with the Poetry Oversight Council. I got a cousin who's on it, and he's a true scotsman, so I think I'm gonna win this one. While I'm at it I'll ask them what art is,
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Ok, this is the most idiotic Internet comment I've ever responded to, but here goes. Rappers are more akin to poets than musicians, the way you are using the word musician . The musicians in rap are called producers - they make the ba
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"new PAths through grAss byPAssing sidewalks and Paved PAths" You might consider writing rap.
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Yeah. I want everyone give themselves a pat on the back for the quality of this discussion. Jeezas.
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I relate to straight shooters who say what they see. I understand that fronting, ass covering, being indirect, and speaking the mel[odious] language of business are ways to play the game. Mention of IQ induces reflexive invocation of multip
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I think programming is easy. When I sit down to code something, it feels deterministic, and everything falls into place. I attribute this to: 1) IQ 3 standard deviations above. If I hadn't been this way when I started, I probably would
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by benched 13y ago
I've just discovered that 'Another One Bites the Dust' provides a good rhythm for maintaining a roughly constant altitude. You're welcome.
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Even though I don't know people in real life, I couldn't miss it. The only sites I visit are HN and Kotaku, and it's front page on both. And now it's on HN twice. Success flows to success, but good luck creating either a
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by benched 13y ago
I have a prototype I wrote sitting on my phone right now that has very similar mechanics. But I don't believe for half a second that, had I finished it, it would have achieved one ten-thousandth of the success. In the age where anyone
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It's not a bot, but an individual. If you're interested in some back story: http://www.youtube.com/user/losethos http://www.templeos.org/
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It's less of a statement. I put no thought into what I wear. If that's making a statement, I think it's a weak one.
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by benched 13y ago
Anytime anyone tries to spin any of the following - coding, programming, software engineering, software development - as distinct things, and expects me to acknowledge their special definitions that they probably made up, I kind of lose int
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I think you're off-base. Rather, the conceptualization of game theory is so all-encompassing of the dynamics of agents interacting in a resource-rich environment, that it can't help but make an informative metaphor for 'life&
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The onus for fixing the "us vs. them" situation is on the police. It's part of their job. I've seen police successfully practicing those soft skills with civilians many times.
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You can be let go at any time. It will be a surprise - companies typically go to lengths not to provide any warning. Usually you just go to work one morning, and get turned away - sometimes you won't even be allowed to go to your desk.
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And learned how to find clients. That seems like the biggest leap I'd have to make.
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Mm. As meaningless as what most believe (without all that much justification) is the 'top level' reality - life.
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It's interesting to see someone else talk about this. Becoming something like independently poor has become sort of a goal of mine. It's a little surprising to me to realize how hard this is. There are so many organizations eager
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I'm almost out of energy for repeating myself on this point. Every good game that I can think of offhand made plenty of money. Right up to the present day. Selling a game for money is still a plenty viable business model. Now, ok, ye
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This looks like a bunch of baseless assertions. Good games sell. I'll just pull one example out of the air - Portal 2. Relatively recent. PC version sold over 2 million copies. And iOS games are harder to pirate than that. As far as th
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Because of the nature of IAP-based game design, I don't believe this is really about the revealed preferences of gamers. There's widespread hate for IAP among gamers. Zynga or whoever was first discovered a way to exploit players.
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That's just one model. Personally, I'd much rather pay for levels than pay for resources that make the game less tedious.
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I work at a well-known and [formerly?] successful casual game company. Recently, the company ventured into the 'freemium' with in-app purchases model. It hasn't gone so well - garnered a lot of hate, and not nearly as much mo
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And how eager are those responding to this comment to use their analytic understanding of the world to apologize for and rationalize the position of government or other heavyweight institutions? Cookies all around for being so smart - whi
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This here is making perfect the enemy of good, blended with the pathologically compulsive Hacker News "data needed!" tic.

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