dsirijus

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by dsirijus 12y ago
The more I push the line of "I don't care what others think about me" to its absolute, the happier I am as a person. That does not neccesarily mean me earning more money or having a better team morale.
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by dsirijus 12y ago
Ask HN: So, I'm the sole founder here with investor. The dude's awesome, but the contract we signed puts me in significant financial risk if the company doesn't turn up profitable. I have more than several employees (some of
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Jaguar Relives Its Past with a Perfect Recreation of the Racing E-Type(wired.com)
1 points by dsirijus 12y ago|0 comments
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The RoboRoach: Control a living insect from your smartphone(kickstarter.com)
1 points by dsirijus 12y ago|0 comments
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Tripping through IBM’s astonishingly insane 1937 corporate songbook(arstechnica.com)
1 points by dsirijus 12y ago|0 comments
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Inside the mind of Derp, a hacking group with a taste for cyber chaos(theguardian.com)
1 points by dsirijus 12y ago|0 comments
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by dsirijus 12y ago
I know a few folks from http://houseogames.com From what I recall, it didn't really pan out, but people grew wiser and better at what they do, so that's good. Personally, I got some investment money and almost all the
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Hackers Steal Gigabytes of Customer Data from JPMorgan and Other Banks(gizmodo.com)
2 points by dsirijus 12y ago|0 comments
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by dsirijus 12y ago
Any sufficiently advanced business model is indistinguishable from a scam.
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by dsirijus 12y ago
The most important bit missed here is - what exactly are you doing? I started as a physical worker, and when I switched to computers, coming back to physical work felt like taking a holiday. Now when I'm actively managing people and fi
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by dsirijus 12y ago
I don't really care if it's silent or not, but I find it important that it's controlled by me as much as possible. Even to the point of running a rain noise simulator under some music album. As far as actual volume is concern
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Python with Braces(pythonb.org)
2 points by dsirijus 12y ago|0 comments
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by dsirijus 12y ago
Extremely insightful. The blame is on all of us, even if the pollution did in fact leak from China (fact about which we have no clue about yet). This is exactly the sort of thing where we're all in it, hands dirtied, want it or not.
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by dsirijus 12y ago
It's all too easy to jump to conclusion and shout "China!", but in spirit of true political correctness (without the usual hubris) - there is nothing so fundamentally different between Chinese and any other dear humans of thi
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by dsirijus 12y ago
What Adobe got right with Flash (and Blender unfortunately failed to do for 3D) was entire self-contained production pipeline within a single product. You get to fire up Flash IDE, draw in it, layout in it, add scripts to it, debug there, t
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by dsirijus 12y ago
I'm not saying it wouldn't be (probably) better if they did release it but that the fact that they do not isn't surprising.
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by dsirijus 12y ago
Then you upvote! Like I did!
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by dsirijus 12y ago
Now this might sound like a rude and blunt answer but it's true - it's because most of those other engines suck. This is coming from game dev trenches. :)
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by dsirijus 12y ago
I still listen to Terry S. Taylor's soundtrack to it on basically a regular basis.
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by dsirijus 12y ago
Just one shot in the air usually does the trick. This ain't a video game.
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by dsirijus 12y ago
It's a good thing to get out of your comfort zone every once in a while.
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by dsirijus 12y ago
Good that you haven't caught on any actual argument I've provided, but a casual non-offensive joke. Please continue traversing irrelevant nodes.
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by dsirijus 12y ago
Worked for Hefner.
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by dsirijus 12y ago
Then we disagree at a fairly fundamental philosophical level. And that's perfectly fine.
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by dsirijus 12y ago
I'm actually pro this blanket cover, but I just see it as band-aid with pretty unclear non-business related consequences. As for you argument, I'm considering looks an asset to be employed alongside intellect, presentation/
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by dsirijus 12y ago
You're not listening. It's not happening ocassionally . It's one of the major drivers of relationship genesis. You may knee-jerk deny it and be inappropriate in your response as much as you want.
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by dsirijus 12y ago
Not insignificant, but major amount of relationships and subsequent marriages have sprung from flirts and advances at work, obviously frequently including power-disbalanced positions. [1] While this particular (and pretty stringent at tha
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by dsirijus 12y ago
> there were times when I got completely burnt out as often as once every few days Hm, maybe we call two different things a burnout . I had it twice, one ending in a visit to ER, the other one blasting a single song at max volume for 20
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by dsirijus 12y ago
Well, a committee of scientists that know better than you think results will be worthwhile and disagree. I'll take their word over uneducated ethical argument. I apologize for being presumptuous about your occupation and field of resea
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by dsirijus 12y ago
I played/sang in a garage band and smashed a lot of cheap guitars during sessions. Nothing beats shouting your ass off for few hours then smashing the guitar on a peak of an adrenaline surge. Genre matters.

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