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by bendotc 17y ago
Or buy Brutal Legend, his company's new game. Or better yet, both (Psychonauts is available on the XBox360's back catalog of original XBox games, and I would hope Double Fine still gets a good cut of any sales of it).
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by bendotc 17y ago
Another excellent article from mises.org: http://mises.org/story/2066 And in case you're wondering: yes, I'm being sarcastic.
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by bendotc 17y ago
This article isn't terribly interesting, really. Yes, you can write clean, understandable code in Perl and most widely used languages. Yes, you can write awful code in any language. The real test of messiness, ugliness, readability and co
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by bendotc 17y ago
Speaking as a professional C++ developer, one difference is that Microsoft has actually improved some of their products. Even if C++0x comes out this year, how long 'til it gets support? Consider that C99 is still considered to be reasona
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by bendotc 17y ago
I read the entire question, and there are plenty of great resources out there for rivers, as well as human settlements, roads, railroads, etc. Even a "I've tried method X and had problems Y and Z with the output" could produce interesting d
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by bendotc 17y ago
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=terrain+generation&l=1 Seriously, I'm all for discussion of particular techniques, but your question is way too broad right now. Go read some papers or even just online tutorials or descriptions of how other softw
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by bendotc 17y ago
Depends on the pressure when the tires are fully inflated.
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by bendotc 17y ago
Misleading title. Videogame streaming is not here (at least not in the form of the OnLive service), and a great number of people still have some pretty fundamental questions about the technology. There was a tech demo at a videogame tra
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by bendotc 17y ago
I'm perplexed as to why this is getting votes on HN. I know we're not supposed to criticize things for not being "hacker news," but seriously, some guy discovers drugs as a coping mechanism for his grief, and it gets posted here (presumabl
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by bendotc 17y ago
Why would established members "have to worry too much about how any particular post received" if HN didn't have karma? You say that karma allows established members to "present unpopular points of view without too much penalty" but how does
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by bendotc 17y ago
"Python-stackless avoids this problem" Not really. Stackless Python still has a GIL, and if you want to make use of multiple threads, the GIL will still bite you. Stackless allows you to write coroutines and has lots of cool abilities, but
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by bendotc 17y ago
Poor people who couldn't afford meat have been much worse off health-wise because they weren't eating well in general, because they don't have access to medicine, because they don't have access to supplies for hygene. Put another way: poor
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by bendotc 17y ago
Honestly, I don't really buy into the idea that getting your protein from a mix of beans and grains will somehow cause you to end up making up the cost difference in medical bills due to the amount of carbohydrates you're ingesting, given t
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by bendotc 17y ago
Easy to fix: buy dried pinto beans and lard. Soak the pintos in water over night. The next day, pour off the water and simmer them in fresh water for about an hour. Strain your beans, put them in a pan (or cast-iron skillet), and pour li
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by bendotc 17y ago
Do you live in a place without freezers?
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by bendotc 17y ago
To the sibling comment: yes, I agree on the main point and am just discussing a finer point, an issue that was raised by an earlier comment on this chain. Voting based on opinion reinforces groupthink. Voting based on fact helps keep the l
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by bendotc 17y ago
I agree that one should do what feels right. FWIW, I was trying to posit a situation in which you don't have time to respond. I was using flat earth as a stand-in for a wrong statement, and oftentimes, it takes more than name-dropping Gali
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by bendotc 17y ago
The "factually wrong dilemma" is in no way a red herring. It's actually precisely the point I was responding to in the grandparent post. Down-voting based on opinion is something else entirely. Of course, people will confuse opinion and f
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by bendotc 17y ago
Let me pose a hypothetical: I'm reading HN while I'm waiting for a particularly long compile or backup or whatever. I've got about 5 minutes and about 4 minutes in, I find a comment that honestly and eloquently makes a claim based on the p
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by bendotc 17y ago
Are you saying you still have a tail? ;-)
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by bendotc 17y ago
Absolutely right. Still, I'd be wary of bringing on an "idea person" to a lean start-up if they didn't also have business contacts within the widget supply business that could be leveraged into sales, or skills to otherwise contribute to th
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by bendotc 17y ago
"idea types" This is why you "got laughed out of town." Why in the world, if I'm a coder-type, would I want to give even 1% of the benefit of my work to an "idea type"? There are plenty of people with great ideas and skills to make them
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by bendotc 17y ago
I'd be interested in hearing your reasoning on that one. Lots of people complain about X in various ways, and while a couple years ago I would've agreed, these days, I'm no longer entering my monitor's vertical refresh rate manually, and X
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by bendotc 17y ago
You say "It appears to me that the people on this thread arguing that 1!=0.9999... have come up with a fully consistent, alternative way of defining equality..." but if you look, there are absolutely no mathematical proofs outside of the pe
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by bendotc 17y ago
I'm starting to feel like a broken record here, but whenever anyone wants to pick in "str" I find myself compelled to point out: >>> type(str) <type 'type'> That is to say, str isn't a magical function, it's a t
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by bendotc 17y ago
When I've been on the receiving-end of a FrienDA, it's really served more as a signal that the sender wishes me to keep the following to myself. Someone sends the URL and it's a sort of lighthearted and quick way of conveying this informati
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by bendotc 17y ago
First, you don't need to be condescending. Second, are you claiming that because no accidents happened to occur , that Southwest was in the right to fly passengers in planes that safety inspectors deemed unsafe or which were two and a half
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by bendotc 17y ago
"Discount air carrier Southwest Airlines flew thousands of passengers on aircraft that federal inspectors said were 'unsafe' as recently as [March 2007]." http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/06/southwest.planes/index.html
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by bendotc 17y ago
But rman666 isn't requesting that up-voted articles be saved (they already are), he's asking that he be able to save articles he hasn't yet read. So the big list of saved articles would be the big list of articles with interesting titles.
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by bendotc 17y ago
The feature request thread is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363 . The page footer has a permanent link to it, so I believe that's the place pg would like feature requests to go. FWIW (probably not much), I'm -0 on this sugges

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