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by daemin 8y ago
I don't see how they can have it both ways. Either the game is an eSport where the most skillful person wins, or they can have lootboxes where the person that spends the most wins. So in the first case there is no super significant dif
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by daemin 8y ago
In Australia I'm not sure how much a poker machine (slot machine) maker is taxed over and above the regular company tax, but I know operators of such machines are taxed more (and I think that's a state based tax). Somehow though i
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by daemin 8y ago
The classic one is Star Wars Battlefront 2 where they altered the progression system so that you either grind for an incredibly long time (much longer than reviewers had to) to get the better characters. There was an uproar about it - and t
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by daemin 8y ago
The problem is that in their pursuit of profit they are creating slot machines with the actual game on the side. Then they are crippling the game so that you have to use the slot machine to have any sense of fun while playing the game. Ther
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by daemin 8y ago
I worked at a startup making a handheld ultrasound machine back over a decade ago. Even back then we could easily power the transducer using a mobile phone capacity battery, you just need to step up the voltage to around 100v so you could f
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by daemin 8y ago
It's a pragmatic attitude, especially at a time when embedded devices were far more expensive and limited. Granted the software could have been written to always take a delta and handle overflow of the variable gracefully rather than u
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by daemin 8y ago
I don't think this cases needed to use 64bits for the clock. Because realistically I would hope that the plane would be serviced more than every 248 days. Therefore each service the computer could be reset or go into a self-check which
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by daemin 8y ago
Since you'll be earning your year's mortgage during a month, how about asking to work remote, or just take leave without pay for the month?
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by daemin 8y ago
True, but I was referring to the fruit and quarantine zones set up in parts of south and eastern Australia, where they are trying to prevent the spread of fruit fly.
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This is also one reason countries have a higher wage than others, because not everyone can come in and increase the supply of labour.
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Or even between parts of Australia, both countries take bio security very seriously!
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by daemin 8y ago
"Potato Paradox" just sounds so much better than "Water Balloon Paradox"
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by daemin 8y ago
Little story: I actually saw one employee at a fast food joint brazenly dig into the till and take a 20 out and put it into his pocket right in front of me. He wasn't a cashier but just someone that assembles the food product.
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by daemin 8y ago
In Australia the government put in legislation to cap the maximum credit card surcharge that a merchant could charge the customer to the actual fee that they pay on the card. When I was there I remember things like $10 or $20 minimum and al
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by daemin 8y ago
We had Classy (Client* Team) Mondays at a previous job of mine. The whole larger group would come in dressed up in suits and business appropriate dresses, then have some nibbles and drinks afterwards. Pretty much a reverse of a casual Frida
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by daemin 8y ago
Not necessarily in the sun in that temperature, but just say indoors where there is no air conditioning. It's not bright sunlight but it can easily get to +35c. You yourself can cool down with a fan and a cold drink but the laptop is s
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by daemin 8y ago
Also you can be running your own skins gambling site on the side, promote it using your channel, and not disclose anything. But who would ever do such a nefarious things /sarcasm
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by daemin 8y ago
Isn't the operating temperature of a mac laptop max out at something like 35c ? That's woefully low for anywhere it gets hot, like Australia for example. It basically means that on a hot day in summer you cannot use your laptop un
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by daemin 8y ago
I'm only comfortable doing that after I've got at least 3 years of value out of it. My current laptop is an aging Zenbook Pro where I've replaced the custom SSD with an adapter plus an m.2 board. So maybe if you still want to
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by daemin 8y ago
Why not? They're following the fashion of minimalism, first in their hardware and software styling and now in their offices. They're making their workplace look like they aspire their software to be, even if its to the detriment t
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by daemin 8y ago
I think the reason is simpler than that: fashion. Big successful new companies started out scraping by being built in garages with just a computer, table, chair to use, no private offices. When they grew up they saw no reason to change beca
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by daemin 8y ago
It's not only that, just from having to have such a loud work environment and no ear protection. Because if you have a room with more than a dozen people in it, it can be whisper quiet sometimes, but then when one or two groups of peop
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by daemin 8y ago
For the first two points, you end up overwriting the stack and most likely crash. This is how security holes were/are made. For the third point, you have two main ways of storing strings in general. The first was called pascal style, w
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by daemin 8y ago
That seriously sounds like someone that has only learnt through rote memorisation. Absolutely great at taking tests and doing things by the book but completely unable to apply the things they should have learned to a problem that falls slig
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by daemin 8y ago
The same thing as people inheriting from standard containers. It does not make sense! It's like people see inheritance and then forget that containment is a thing.
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An Intel chip having a flaw will actually help sell more Intel chips in the future as people upgrade their computers and equipment to the "fixed versions".
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Also a lot of games actually run a web browser within the game itself these days. So then what do you want to happen if the website the game loads suddenly becomes compromised? (Through DNS poisoning, stealing the domain, etc)
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I hope so too, but then again we constantly read stories where serious industrial equipment and critical infrastructure has their computer systems opened up to the wide Internet because someone thought they would like to control it from a c
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So what are the odds then that they created a new user account on some local machine and used that to make the changes?
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by daemin 8y ago
My point is, as a manager one can request that their subordinates get credentials to access systems. Therefore as a manager you could create a fictitious person (or use one that's recently left the company), and have them be given cred

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