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by cobrausn 14y ago
In a company with a well known lack of traditional corporate hierarchy, who does the firing? I'm genuinely curious. None of the reports I've read have mentioned it, which leads you to assume Gabe. This would imply an informal hierarchy.
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by cobrausn 14y ago
Please, tell me about all the oil in Afghanistan, and all the oil gained in a night border raid in Pakistan. Seriously, stop spewing rhetoric. It's embarrassing.
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by cobrausn 14y ago
If you think he was killed 'out of passion', then you are not thinking. It was an execution of a war criminal.
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by cobrausn 14y ago
Bin Laden was an admitted architect of mass murder. I'd have felt better if they carried out a trial with him in abstentia and sentenced him to death before his execution, but so be it - his killing was justified.
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by cobrausn 14y ago
Agreed. Input devices like this have been common on PC for a while now, just for specialized games. http://www.naturalpoint.com/trackir/products/trackir5/
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by cobrausn 14y ago
Scarcity does exist in the digital realm - only on the production side. Distribution is effectively free. Until dev/random spits out complete programs that are worth using, it needs to be taken into account that all software requires effor
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by cobrausn 14y ago
Again, I mentioned that it wasn't screened (necessarily) for completeness or 'fun' - just that it wasn't malware disguised as a product.
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by cobrausn 14y ago
To play devil's advocate here... Let's say I work a full day with the understanding that I will get paid for my efforts. The employer then refuses to pay me. It would not be uncommon for someone to say that the employer 'stole' from you,
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by cobrausn 14y ago
Part of the allure of Steam is that everything on that service has been vetted before I ever see it, if not for fun then at least for being a game and not malware. Not sure how I feel about this. Sure, the users will catch the problem even
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by cobrausn 14y ago
Hitler and Stalin reference in one comment! Surely there is some kind of achievement for that.
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by cobrausn 14y ago
He missed the chance to title this post with 'In the grim darkness of the far future...'
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by cobrausn 14y ago
pretoriusB, you appear to be hellbanned. Not quite sure why - I don't see anything offensive in your comment history.
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by cobrausn 14y ago
The 'native born' citizenry of the US is hardly what I'd call 'homogeneous'.
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by cobrausn 14y ago
From a better article ( http://ventspace.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/directxxna-phase-o... ): This email was sent out to DirectX/XNA MVPs today: The XNA/DirectX expertise was created to recognize community leaders who focused on XNA G
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How a 1995 court case kept the newspaper industry from competing online(ojr.org)
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by cobrausn 14y ago
The amount of code the wizard generates is actually remarkably small - most of the interesting stuff is happening in the base classes. You could probably create a new wizard project and merge in what you need, depending upon the options ne
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by cobrausn 14y ago
If you wish to make a Visual Studio style application, there are few quicker options than MFC. You get a lot of functionality just with the wizard generated app.
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by cobrausn 14y ago
Interestingly enough, this appears to be an Intellectual Ventures product (idea?). I might even be tempted to tolerate their existence if this thing works as advertised and becomes available on the cheap.
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Mosquito Laser(en.wikipedia.org)
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by cobrausn 14y ago
Statistics don't comfort the victims that could have done something but were restricted from doing so, usually by people who already live safe lives and want them to be safer. And your second example basically says 'we will prevent you from
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by cobrausn 14y ago
'Gun Toting Nonsense'? God this is absurd elitist bull - the type of drivel spouted from the mouths of people who assume the argument is already won by virtue of their 'superior minds'. I'm guessing you live in a wonderful neighborhood wit
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by cobrausn 14y ago
Of course it's not possible to arm every potential rape victim and say "now it's on you!". But it's either something you choose to do, or something you don't. You don't tell them what they should have done to prevent it. But when someone
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by cobrausn 14y ago
Guns: Provably better than snark at preventing and stopping rape.
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by cobrausn 14y ago
I hope this was an ironic attempt to demonstrate the sexism inherent to that kind of argument against self-defense.
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by cobrausn 14y ago
And many women recall every horrific detail. Seriously, you sound like you are advocating that any potential rape victim should just shut up and take it. My guess is it would be because your (already stupidly safe) life would be a bit saf
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by cobrausn 14y ago
What is with this absurd first world notion that nobody should ever have anything bad ever happen to them in their life? Self-defense has been part of being alive since the dawn of humanity - living in a civilized (to various degrees) area
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by cobrausn 14y ago
You are on Hacker News and surprised to find pedantry?
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by cobrausn 14y ago
As mentioned by tocomment in another thread, the rules are apparently changing. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5110144
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by cobrausn 14y ago
Well, there has been some push from at least one Senator (John Cornyn, R-TX). He does appear to be asking some embarrassing and obvious questions. http://www.cornyn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=InNews&C...
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by cobrausn 14y ago
So, most of these seem to be basically Obama telling federal agencies involved in firearms regulation to be better at their job, and here are some new tools that might help? IANAL, obviously.

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