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by blaabjerg 14y ago
Keep in mind Lichess is a free online chess platform. The vast majority of its human visitors are likely familiar with the rules of chess.
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by blaabjerg 14y ago
Could you play single player games while they were having server issues?
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by blaabjerg 14y ago
I'm not saying they fucked up the SimCity launch on purpose, don't be ridiculous. I'm asking if they can indeed write off the full retail price of the games they give away.
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by blaabjerg 14y ago
I would think this petition is in response to the Sim City debacle. When people buy a game they want to be able to play it as much as they like, and EA is not going to keep running their SimCity server infrastructure forever. To borrow your
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by blaabjerg 14y ago
There's an interesting comment [1] by a fella called kodemunkee at TechCrunch. Is there any truth to this? > This is definitely an "unmitigated disaster". What nobody's seemed to realize about EA's offer to give away a free Origin game
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by blaabjerg 14y ago
Honestly I think people should stop saying anyone bought this game at all. They leased it. At some point in the future, EA is going to decide that the cost of running the servers outweighs the benefits of keeping them online, and they're go
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by blaabjerg 14y ago
Freak!
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by blaabjerg 14y ago
They can, but assuming that people (can) have a perfect understanding of all the technology they use in their daily life is not only optimistic, it is entirely unrealistic.
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by blaabjerg 14y ago
In addition to the points made by riobard and kd0amg, using the JRE ensures that their engineers can write code that is as general purpose as possible. They won't have to rewrite large parts of the software if they want to deploy it to a di
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by blaabjerg 14y ago
Here[1] is the inspiration, perhaps it'll make it clearer. Imagine the letters that are projected onto the walls are QR codes. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GEBcover.jpg
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by blaabjerg 14y ago
Would that really count as parsing? Honest question.
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by blaabjerg 14y ago
Yep, he went to Chico from 1993 to 1997 according to his LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianhall
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by blaabjerg 14y ago
FWIW, there's also a "Show: original" button on the top right of the Translate page.
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by blaabjerg 14y ago
Engineers that spent many years working on challenging problems in highly performance-critical areas of the core engine might not be all that interested in doing UI design on iOS.
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by blaabjerg 14y ago
Interesting move, but I guess it was pretty much inevitable considering how much WebKit has been surging ahead the last couple of years. This might be wishful thinking, but I hope they'll expand the desktop team and spend more resources on
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by blaabjerg 14y ago
I think that interpretation of the discussion died the moment the first recording device was invented.
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by blaabjerg 14y ago
That's definitely true. It's important to spread the workload over an optimal number of employees so they do enough triaging to stay in the loop, but not enough to get sick and tired of it. A delicate balance. It's an important chore, thoug
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by blaabjerg 14y ago
> The latest bug on the public tracker is bug number 174163. Chrome was released in late 2008, so let's round up and say the tracker's been up for five years. That's averaging nearly 35k bugs a year, or 95 a day, and in reality the rate
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by blaabjerg 14y ago
I'm quite pleased with the el cheapo 2560x1440 Korean 27" IPS panel I bought on eBay a few months back. Set me back less than $300 including shipping to Europe. It's nowhere near the pixel density of the small devices of course, but it's qu
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by blaabjerg 14y ago
I think that's why he qualified the statement with "in my experience", which means he's talking about usage in the US.
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by blaabjerg 14y ago
That's interesting, thanks for the link. Apparently I'm not like most people, as I guessed 20 million. Maybe the fact that you made me aware of potential cognitive bias affected the outcome, I don't know.
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by blaabjerg 14y ago
> However, back in the way back times, if you programmed the seeks on a large disk drive you could get it to play 'music' of a sort from the resonance of the stepper motors. I would love to see the entire facility spontaneously erupt in
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by blaabjerg 14y ago
Ah, my bad. I thought it was a play on "out of my depth". Apparently I need to work on my reading comprehension.
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by blaabjerg 14y ago
How do you get stuck? Are there actual technical or pedagogical barriers, or do you simply get bogged down in the amount of stuff to learn? If it's the latter, I think some structure and simple project management could help. Break down your
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by blaabjerg 14y ago
> this is out of my 20,000 leagues. 20 000 leagues is not a reference to depth ;)
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by blaabjerg 14y ago
A lot of relevant material is practically timeless, so older books aren't necessarily outdated. Also, I enjoy being able to take a break from the computer and sit back and read something paper based. Less eye strain, fewer distractions, etc