cobrausn

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This Guy Created Angry Bird’s Physics and All he Got Was This Lousy Sweatshirt(kotaku.com)
2 points by cobrausn 15y ago|0 comments
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by cobrausn 15y ago
He does. Once you’re detected and you’re on the list then you’re banned from all servers (unless they remove the cheaters.cfg - which is up to them).
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by cobrausn 15y ago
Right, almost as though they had fun implementing the first one and they felt like doing another. Also, google 'do a barrel roll'. Not sure if you've seen that one.
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by cobrausn 15y ago
One of his comments kind of stuck out when I read it. ... but many object[s] are large enough to constitute a sort of global state all their own, blunting some of the clarity benefits of pure functions. I think we've all run into (and pro
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Silicon Valley's Hottest New Start-Up Idea: Nothing(forbes.com)
2 points by cobrausn 15y ago|0 comments
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by cobrausn 15y ago
If you wish for some additional reinforcement on interpolation and splines, the presentation on this by Squirrel Eiserloh for GDC is fantastic. http://www.essentialmath.com/tutorial.htm
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by cobrausn 15y ago
One of the most well-adjusted 'kids' I ever met was 18, starting college, and came from a home-school environment. I, on the other hand, went to 'normal' school and was a fairly typical 'weirdo'. By the end of high school I had no friends
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by cobrausn 15y ago
Arguably, a 'superclass' of that is 'The government should run everything the private industry could'. Is it still correct?
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by cobrausn 15y ago
I've come to expect hypocrisy from anyone with a strongly held value set. Progressives touting 'diversity' while living in the suburbs and paying exorbitant amounts to send their kids to all-white private schools, conservatives railing abo
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by cobrausn 15y ago
I think you are being overly generalist here. Governments are as rational as the people that make them and run them, in the same way as a corporation (or any group of people, really). Can you really say that all governments are fairly rat
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by cobrausn 15y ago
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16969509 Coming soon to a country near you.
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by cobrausn 15y ago
To be fair, everyone with cancer dies of it, the rich just generally get to try a few more (mostly unsuccessful) treatment options and extend life a bit (at quite the cost to them). My sister has cancer, hardly counts as rich, yet she got t
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by cobrausn 15y ago
No, not pretty much. Usually you end up in a lot of debt. But it is actually illegal in the US (last I checked) to actually turn away a dying person at the emergency room because of a lack of coverage. Now, they may wish they had died when
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by cobrausn 15y ago
That's just something smugly people say. ;-)
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by cobrausn 15y ago
I'm not so sure. OOP entered the scene and became a dominant paradigm in a short amount of time - this doesn't happen without massive amounts of evangelization (from existing users) and marketing, neither of which can be particularly smug
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by cobrausn 15y ago
> That's no reason to accept unacceptable behaviour. We should be working to make things better for everyone. We should be helping people who have good contributions. Saying that startups are stressful becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy
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Floating point error is the least of my worries(johndcook.com)
2 points by cobrausn 15y ago|0 comments
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World War 3.0(vanityfair.com)
5 points by cobrausn 15y ago|1 comments
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by cobrausn 15y ago
In my early 20s I was somewhat like the OP - I would eat out for pretty much every meal. The trick to it was only eating twice a day, or once if you could manage it. The end result was actually fairly inexpensive depending upon where you
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by cobrausn 15y ago
In response to your first argument - simple. Punish the crime where applicable and move on. In my examples, you have effectively tied a person's hands by banning the use of firearms, and now they are dead because of it. They had no chanc
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by cobrausn 15y ago
Your average street thug would not be able to get a gun very easily, probably. Then again, neither would your average citizen, so they wouldn't need them. When your victims are unarmed, all you need to be is bigger and stronger than they
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by cobrausn 15y ago
ESR had actually posted about this particular issue not too long ago and was looking for assistance with the 'Bufferbloat' project. Not my area of expertise, so I don't think I would be able to do much, but I thought this might be worth me
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by cobrausn 15y ago
No WTFPL? For shame. http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/
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by cobrausn 15y ago
I can't wait until the government types (or involved parties with money) roll out hunter-killer drones that target these, furthering the oppressive use of modern technology. ;-)
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by cobrausn 15y ago
Yet despite the rapid rate at which media is getting more and more violent, violent crime rates continue to decline. Of course, correlation != causation and all that, but it is certainly appearing that exposure to violence in media, glorif
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by cobrausn 15y ago
Currently, yes. For more of human history than not, both were common.
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by cobrausn 15y ago
Why is it that every time this 'violence vs. sex' shtick is brought out, the people who are upset about violence often react to it in the same way the people they are criticizing act about sex (i.e., ban this sick filth!) ? Death is just as
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by cobrausn 15y ago
I'm too pragmatic about these things to try and advocate anything for the consumer other than ask that they pay for their games. I'm not asking the FBI to kick down their door. I'm asking consumers to understand exactly what it is they ar
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by cobrausn 15y ago
Whenever I read a comment like yours I get this feeling that people like you are: A) Either Astroturfing on behalf of content publishers OR B) You are taking a moralistic stance that is completely unrealistic not unlike a grown man chastis
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by cobrausn 15y ago
Someone as entitled as this fellow, who thinks he should basically be able to pay whatever he wants without taking into account development costs, market factors, desired profits from the people that actually did the work , etc... will pro

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