dexwiz

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by dexwiz 11y ago
Its easy to sell the demon of the welfare faudster. If you live in a rural area, you probably know more than one family on welfare. Most of them you may not know is even on welfare. But you do know the one family with too many kids, new iPh
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by dexwiz 11y ago
Facebook wants a single platform to provide the Web through. If they built a search engine, it would only search Facebook.
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by dexwiz 11y ago
At 300 million active users (exact numbers debated), if even 1% paid $10 a month for promoted Tweets, that's 30 million a month. That's not pennies. King Games and Supercell (Clash of Clans), have shown that microtransactions are
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by dexwiz 11y ago
This will surely end up like Facebook's feed, full of sponsored content. I wonder if Twitter would market this to individual users instead of just companies. What to make sure all your friends see your Tweet? Then spend 1 Twitter Stamp
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by dexwiz 11y ago
The article cites a race where the bikes were ~50 and 36 pounds. That sounds like a lot. Even a cheapo bike from Walmart is half that. But over time, its going to be the bearings that suck the most energy. I wonder what those were like comp
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Hacking Roller Coaster Tycoon with Genetic Algorithms and Go(youtube.com)
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by dexwiz 11y ago
D3 is a completely different game than on release. On release it was all about maxing a few stats (main stat, attack speed, crit chance, crit hit). The differences between one piece of the gear and the next was just a few points. Also gear
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by dexwiz 11y ago
I wonder what happened. Looking at their youtube page, most recent videos have between 10k-20k views. This is nothing compared other popular video game channels. What killed it? Streaming? Bad writing? Low production quality? They still got
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by dexwiz 11y ago
I think people who do OSS, and people who mod cars do it for very different reasons. The thrill of going fast and the thrill of solving a logic problem are very different.
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by dexwiz 11y ago
Project hasn't had any commits in 8 months. Look like it was very active, and then the funding was pulled. https://github.com/Spreadsheets/jQuery.sheet/issues/91
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by dexwiz 11y ago
Git is a steps away from being decried as "monoculture". Everything is on github because everyone uses it, and everyone uses it because everything is on github. Github won for a few reasons. Their only real competitors were Bitbuc
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by dexwiz 11y ago
If you are an arms dealer of some sort you have to do checks. You do not if you are doing personal sales.
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by dexwiz 11y ago
Excel has a tight development loop. You can see the data and work with it at the same time. No need to compile or run. It's always in debug mode.
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by dexwiz 11y ago
It affects newborns because it affects fetuses. But if a newborn gets the disease (I assume) it won't result in the same level of brain damage.
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by dexwiz 11y ago
Latin America in general is very Catholic and very Pro Life. Abortions are often illegal or only legal in select cases. Even if the disease was detectable, they mothers may not terminate.
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by dexwiz 11y ago
Truly a terrible disease. The fear associated with it must be horrible for pregnant women. I wonder if the warning would be the same if the virus had killed or disfigured 4000 newborns instead of affecting fetuses. We seem to put more empha
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by dexwiz 11y ago
Can I run mocha tests with it? I find I often want to debug mocha but don't want to deal with node inspector.
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by dexwiz 11y ago
The use of bootstrap style CSS classes.l, but it's a strech. Seems like every new layer of abstraction that does more than one thing is now a framework.
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by dexwiz 11y ago
There is a lot of good TV. But there is also 1000 channels of crap.
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by dexwiz 11y ago
You can do some hacky stuff with onClick listeners for links, especially if its a single page. That said, I do not do this. But I don't think I use much beyond div, span, a, ul, li, table (and friends), form (and crew), h1-6, script, b
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by dexwiz 11y ago
Agreed. I understand missing accessibility (either you have ARIA or you don't), but what does "solid markup skills" mean? The differences between many tags is just user agent stylesheet defaults. If I wanted to be extra crazy
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by dexwiz 11y ago
Good luck to him. Going Indie is a bold choice, especially after Steam Greenlight.
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by dexwiz 11y ago
Webpack/browserify remove/polyfill most of the ES6 syntax so it is backwards compatible for browsers. Server side you just need to be aware of your engine's support of ES6. The extra syntax around arguments (defaults and rest
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by dexwiz 11y ago
Video games have caught up with the rest of the common media in terms of publishing for profit. Most TV and movies (not even counting adult films) are completely garbage. They are built around formulas that are known to work so people make
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by dexwiz 11y ago
Blizzard is taking marks from WotC and MTG about devaluing older cards. Catch-up mechanisms would make the game only focus on the newest cards. The playerbase often feels cheated when their existing collection's value decreases and new
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by dexwiz 11y ago
Medium is the next generation of magazine where the users are content creators instead of the publishers. You can post to medium and get the distribution benefits of a publisher that people know and look to for content. Not everyone wants o
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by dexwiz 11y ago
We have been looking for a "missing" objects for a while. The nemesis star theory says the sun has a brown dwarf companion. This object would interact with the Oort Cloud instead of the Kuiper belt. But this theory has been pretty
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by dexwiz 11y ago
Agreed. There is a reason MMOs didn't appear until 30-40 years after the first video games. They are extremely complex, require a large number of assets, and a large testing team. I am still waiting for that 100% science based dragon M
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by dexwiz 11y ago
Any sane medical professional will tell you exercise is good for you. This has been proven time and time again, and could be treated almost as an axiom of health research.
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by dexwiz 11y ago
Same. Went home to Indiana for thanksgiving, and found out my 4th grade best friend had ODed a few months before. Sad thing was, is that I wasn't surpised.

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