chadwickthebold

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by chadwickthebold 13y ago
I'm not as interested in the social aspect, but oh my god have I been waiting for a recommendation engine for video games for a looooong time. It's especially a problem if you're running on an underpowered rig, where playing
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by chadwickthebold 13y ago
>We work 9-5 so that we can appear hard working in the eyes of others, so that we can look ourselves in the mirror and conclude an elaborated illusion – that we are doing something worthwhile. I don't think this is the case at all,
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by chadwickthebold 13y ago
Yeah, for two months I thought wildcat was just a really, really loud weed-wacker that was used every single day.
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by chadwickthebold 13y ago
They test this across the street from my office. Pretty crazy when you actually see it sprint the length of a football field, turn around and run the length again. Then again, it's also pretty funny when it faceplants and one of the en
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by chadwickthebold 13y ago
There's a difference between a closed plugin and a closed browser. Let the DRM content stay in their plugins in their paywalled sites, while the web in general remains open and benefits from the creativity and innovation that flows fro
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by chadwickthebold 13y ago
I think that many people are drastically underestimating the effect this may have on the open web. The response "oh, well we'll just build a browser that will avoid the DRM" isn't going to work quite as well as one might
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by chadwickthebold 13y ago
I thought the Harrison Ford films were pretty good, and The Hunt for the Red October is absolutely a classic.
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by chadwickthebold 13y ago
It's a little disappointing that Techcrunch doesn't mention any of the controversy / dark pattern-ness of their subscription model, except in passing.
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by chadwickthebold 13y ago
Is it just me or do those icons look like they were drawn by a 5-year-old with a crayon?
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by chadwickthebold 13y ago
I'm pretty sure there's the same distinction today, where a ~$500 console is more graphically powerful than a ~$500 general-purpose computer. I don't think that you're going to see that price point move very much 'i
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by chadwickthebold 13y ago
@gknoy It's just frustrating from a personal perspective... I mean, taking 6 years off to work on hats? It feels like heckling from the sidelines, but if Valve is truly great they'll find a way to, you know, make a great game agai
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by chadwickthebold 13y ago
'In a few years any SteamMachine for 300$ will easily outperform PS4/XBone.' Uhh, do you have any support for this claim?
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by chadwickthebold 13y ago
... Did you finish Episode 2? Have you lost internet access for the last 6 years? Valve confirmed it waaaaay back in '07, and Gaben has been dropping little nuggets about it every few years. You really need to understand how painful th
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by chadwickthebold 13y ago
Back to the halcyon days of yore, when a single copy of Starcraft was all you needed for a great night of LAN gaming for a number of people. Allowing 'spawned' copies for friends to share for gaming would make co-op games so much
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by chadwickthebold 13y ago
Nice try, HN. You almost got me to visit 4chan while at work! You rascals ;)
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by chadwickthebold 13y ago
This shouldn't really be that much of a surprise. To me, Netflix has always seemed to be halfway between purchasing a series and pirating it. It'd be interesting to see someone crunch the numbers and see if releasing a series on N
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by chadwickthebold 13y ago
'Ansys...has fed the Hyperloop specifications into a computer..' I love technical explanations like this. I think the specifications could have used more salt.
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by chadwickthebold 13y ago
'Pre-Steam'... My god, that makes 2003 seem that much longer ago... How can I be 23 and still feel like an old man? Makes one nostalgic for the days when games still came in boxes...
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by chadwickthebold 13y ago
Were you watching the same keynote? “It’s tough if you’re poor, it’s tough if you’re middle class. It means you have to have the right education to work at [the tech giants]. If you’re not like us, it’s tough The key point of data factories
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by chadwickthebold 13y ago
so, we can look forward to another one of these posts in ~250 days
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by chadwickthebold 13y ago
... and istumblrdown.com is somehow stealing tumblr's business?
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by chadwickthebold 13y ago
I think the authors point was to suggest that Atwood's keyboard is no better than existing models, which can be had for much, much less $$$
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by chadwickthebold 13y ago
Yeah, serious misunderstanding of the Windows market here. They absolutely kill enterprise. And they do it selling the platform and the software that runs on it, too.
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by chadwickthebold 13y ago
Not really news. Makes one wonder how the heck it could make it to the front page.
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by chadwickthebold 13y ago
Define 'the best'. I'd argue that if the revolving door between industry and the public sector was closed, the government really would get 'the best' - people who actually cared about serving the public interest.
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by chadwickthebold 13y ago
It's not entirely slimy. Its a great way to drive traffic for both Forbes and Quora. How many people would have read this opinion if Forbes hadn't made it slightly more high-profile? Ars has been doing a similar feature-series for
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by chadwickthebold 13y ago
I'll see you in 10 years when they get around to answering that FOIA...
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by chadwickthebold 14y ago
I don't understandd how that can be a legitimate mindset for Canonical. Ubuntu is on the verge of becoming the major player in the early-stage linux convert market. They have the best supported platform, the largest and most accepting commu