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by cwyers 8y ago
The purpose of a person is far, far more than simply to be able to work.
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by cwyers 8y ago
It's probably similarly hard for Microsoft, though, isn't it? It's not like their ending of the Windows Phone project opened up a bunch of vacancies in their other QA projects.
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by cwyers 8y ago
They worked under a contract. The contract ended. They could have gotten another contract with Microsoft. But they could have gotten a contract with any other software company, too. Why didn't Lionbridge find another contract?
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by cwyers 8y ago
Indie titles often use either a custom game engine that is easy to port or use something like Unity that has built-in Linux support. AAA titles are harder to port because they're more complex.
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by cwyers 8y ago
People rob gas stations, that doesn't mean that there's a system that doesn't police robbery. And that's still one case.
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by cwyers 8y ago
> The problem is that there are too many scientists chasing too few dollars- something's gotta give In anything close to an efficient market, what gives is that you end up with fewer scientists.
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by cwyers 8y ago
Wansink is a fraud. One case does not make for rampancy.
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by cwyers 8y ago
The lead point is about misuse of quote retweets. I don't disagree that quote retweets can be misused in the way that the article says, but I don't think that's the primary use. And Twitter didn't invent the quote retwee
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by cwyers 8y ago
The title of the post does not follow HN submission guidelines and is misleading; it's only Java 8, and by that time, Java 11 will be released. "Java will stop issuing patches for old versions of Java except for paying customers&q
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by cwyers 8y ago
This is based on a slippery slope argument: if the major platforms can ban speech inciting violence against Jews and African-Americans, then what's to stop them from doing it for other classes of speech? The answer is that the public o
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by cwyers 8y ago
As someone who has had to do tech support for family members, I can tell you right now that anyone who cannot Google "How to Install Unsigned Drivers in Windows 10" and then follow the directions _does not need to be using an unsi
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by cwyers 8y ago
That's Powershell.
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by cwyers 8y ago
Because he's already serving consecutive life sentences and the prosecutor sees no state interest in pursuing a conviction when the defendant is already going to spend the rest of his life in jail.
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by cwyers 8y ago
> Perry said if the president does not act according to the resolution, the country needs to elect a Libertarian president in 2020 to get Ulbricht pardoned. Yes. Clearly, that is the single-most important issue in the 2020 presidential e
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by cwyers 8y ago
You can do a lot with a tilt-shift lens and selective focus. Not that they did that.
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by cwyers 8y ago
My favorite pop culture reference to Schlitz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2f0nfrgaK4
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by cwyers 8y ago
> Wii games don't have to do any of this - they have full access to the 64MB of MEM2. This means that Dolphin doesn't have to worry about MMU emulation in general. As with any great rule, there are some exceptions, such as game
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by cwyers 8y ago
> Mathematics professor Jason Brown spent 10 years working with statistics to solve the magical mystery. > The three co-authors of this paper — there was someone called Mark Glickman who was a statistician at Harvard. He's also a
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by cwyers 8y ago
> Oracle have announced that, “after January 2019”, Java SE 8 public updates will not be available for “business, commercial or production use” without a commercial license. This is blogspam and FUD. Java SE 8 will be past EOL at that po
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by cwyers 8y ago
Distro maintainers didn't force you to do anything. They made a decision about how to allocate their limited resources. And we're past the days of Linux being a primarily volunteer OS, but a fair proportion of distro maintainers a
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by cwyers 8y ago
Not the person you're replying to, but: almost all of them. RStudio is useful for more than just notebooks, as opposed to having to switch between an IDE for code and something else for notebooks. It has more affordances than Jupyter -
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by cwyers 8y ago
http://archives.durangotelegraph.com/04-06-24/mountain_excha... > The story of the batch plant also goes back to 1992, three years after Heemeyer had moved to the area. Heemeyer bought his two acres from the Resolut
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by cwyers 8y ago
Well, either it makes them money to offer it, or it doesn't. If it doesn't, then MoviePass is even a less viable business than everyone had thought.
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by cwyers 8y ago
> To me it sounds they're removing peak pricing and being more conscious about restricting movies. Until they aren't. MoviePass changes the deal way too often to have any certainty except about one thing: the deal gets worse al
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by cwyers 8y ago
Because the theaters don't need MoviePass to offer discounts? They can offer discounts directly to the consumers. MoviePass is an intermediary to the transaction that offers no value and tries to consume value.
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by cwyers 8y ago
> it's just too developer intensive a task. there is so much work and not to mention IP in just Simplify[] that I don't know why people bother > the challenge that comes to mind is that undertaken by the teams that contribut
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by cwyers 8y ago
Is the volume for these specific problem domains ever going to get high enough to make yields worth it? There's a reason commodity CPUs took over.
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by cwyers 8y ago
How is this a business?!?!?
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by cwyers 8y ago
The problem is that there's a cottage industry of people who think they can cargo cult their way to Steve Jobs' success by emulating his flaws.
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by cwyers 8y ago
I wouldn't say that Twitter survived; I would say that whether or not Twitter survives is right censored.

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