brandonjm

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by brandonjm 8y ago
> the employer is not aware of what they're getting in return for being deprived of that employee's compensation. This would make sense except this article suggests that employees are not given a proper chance to actually prese
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> I can count on one hand the number of times I've used the Switch outside the house For me it isn't even about taking it outside or play while commuting so much as being able to pick it up and play it on the couch, at my desk,
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by brandonjm 8y ago
EA DICE do the same, Battlefront and Battlefield feel and play very similar, they just have different visuals and voices. There's nothing inherently wrong with reusing the same code, especially when the games work and sell very well, b
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by brandonjm 8y ago
It's not your average cardboard from what I've heard and once complete the toys sound like they are quite sturdy.
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by brandonjm 8y ago
It's the build that you buy it for, which sounds silly but its true. It's like buying a LEGO set, kids don't generally buy a LEGO set and stick it on a shelf once it's built, they pull it apart, upgrade it, build somethi
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by brandonjm 8y ago
> ...bend to them too much and those games stop being fun for everyone else. There is definitely room for multiple configurations though. Splatoon for example has Turf War which is exclusively non-competitive and Rainmaker etc. which are
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by brandonjm 8y ago
> With Ultimate, Nintendo seems to have finally started thinking of Smash as primarily a competitive game. It definitely does seem that Nintendo are showing more and more interest in the competitive aspects of their games. Some other rec
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by brandonjm 8y ago
Have you considered looking into white hat hacking? You could essentially be paid by companies to hack their own product entirely legally for the purpose of better securing it against potentially malicious hackers.
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by brandonjm 8y ago
Yet the same organisation that seems to care so much about giving every little addiction it's own name also lumps every variety of autism under the same umbrella term.
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by brandonjm 8y ago
What about television disorder, Netflix disorder? BBC News seem to be implying that 20 hours per week is too much [1]. I feel like most people that watch TV/Netflix/Youtube etc. would easily watch more than 3 hours a day. They als
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by brandonjm 8y ago
> If there's a way to do this on reddit once some dubious character has claimed a given topic, I'd like to known. There is nothing preventing multiple subreddits dedicated to similar or identical things. If you feel abusive peo
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by brandonjm 8y ago
> “real” diamonds have very little intrinsic value >> Diamonds actually have some very useful physical properties. Physical properties shared and almost always improved upon by their synthetic counterparts. Someone using diamonds e
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However De Beers aren't the only ones who know how to make them, and given their apparent distaste for them they probably don't hold the patent. Unless they intend to buy every company that starts making them or pay the patent hol
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I think what they is saying is that a jeweller could get synthetic diamonds from another source for the same or less than Lightbox's marked diamonds and on-sell them as real. Only the original jeweller would know they aren't real,
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by brandonjm 8y ago
Not to mention that Apple's rounded corners are not just a quarter of a circle stuck on the corner of a rectangle. Their corners are actually a specific design for their icons and their devices. [1] It's worth noting that they act
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by brandonjm 8y ago
> only a tiny percentage of users give consent Implying that the majority of user's wouldn't just instantly click the largest button that says "make this annoying wall of legal text go away" whether that is agreeing t
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by brandonjm 8y ago
If a similar law to GDPR was introduced in other countries such as the US, complying now would probably cost considerably less than dumping business in every country that does it and complying with all the laws only once you can't ope
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by brandonjm 8y ago
> Of course you can find examples on each end of a spectrum. A good example is the Adobe Creative Suite 6 Master Collection which was so expensive to buy in Australia that it was cheaper to fly to the US, buy a copy and fly back. Now, yo
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by brandonjm 8y ago
I bought a copy of Office 2016 when it came out, it has now lasted me 2 years and I paid about the same as 2 years worth of Office 365. I intend to keep using it until it is no longer supported at all and I am sure I will have saved quite a
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by brandonjm 8y ago
I believe this is implying that developers take Atom (and other Electron apps) working fine on their computer and believe Electron app products they build will also work fine on any computer their end user may be using. So that particular l
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by brandonjm 8y ago
> No one knows anything about a user on Stack Overflow unless they explicitly announce it StackOverflow has names and profile pictures. Users can choose not to have their own photo or name but some do and provides some identifiability.
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by brandonjm 8y ago
No one currently polices whether or not I accept a particular friend request on Facebook except me. There is no way for me to guarantee that the person I am accepting a request from is who they say they are and isn't going to scrape al
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by brandonjm 9y ago
This video is horrifying, I assume even the sensors on cars with automatic braking sensors should be able to identify a barrier that large in front of the car. I am way oversimplifying this but I'm sure there is some level of prioritis
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by brandonjm 9y ago
There is an interesting video series by Nintendo on the making of Breath of The Wild. In one of them [1] they talk about how most of the game mechanics were implemented in a 2D version of the game to see how enjoyable and effective they wer
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by brandonjm 9y ago
> repeatedly called for Australian-style gun buybacks, which were mandatory, which are the same as confiscation. They were mandatory, however gun owners with reasonable reasons (i.e. hunting, sport, recreation) were free to acquire a lic
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by brandonjm 9y ago
Does it? I wasn't aware of that. Nowhere does it specify that just the source code is protected by it, it refers only to 'Software' which includes relevant documentation and I assume, the compiled version of the software. If
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by brandonjm 9y ago
I don't know a lot enough about aerodynamics or airflow to be sure, but could they be moving pieces of plastic on the inside of the donut to block some of the airflow on one side to make it bank in that direction?