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by epsylon 13y ago
I wish it had been ijkl, just like gamers use wasd.
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by epsylon 13y ago
I'm surprised that the article doesn't mention environmental causes. It's been known for a while that almost all water involved in human activities is polluted and contain residues of pharmaceutical drugs, pesticides and othe
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by epsylon 13y ago
I'm not debating the existence of extreme opinions among people who label themselves as feminists. I'm just saying that feminists come in all shapes and colors, and, lo and behold, there are a wide range of opinions among them,
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by epsylon 13y ago
Adria Richards was also fired for that. > Chances are your HR bureaucracy is radically feminist. Ah, the good old feminist conspiracy. Do you really believe what you said ? I will stand by my words. There is no feminist conspiracy .
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by epsylon 13y ago
> 1. I'm basically not allowed to voice an opinion that isn't completely aligned with the feminist status quo (I believe in equality, fuck me right). Yes, because there is actually a single, unified, globally agreed upon femini
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by epsylon 13y ago
WP, especially WP8 got pretty got reviews. Why the hate ? Especially with Nokia phones where you get Nokia Maps for free. I don't know of any Android phone where you get an offline quality GPS for free.
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by epsylon 13y ago
Kyle, I have a few gripes concerning the sign-up page: 1. It would be pretty cool if the availability of the name could be checked instantly 2. When there's an error on the signup page, for whatever reason: please don't RE-SEND
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by epsylon 13y ago
I find it quite adequate : there's a lot of similarity between a DotA match and a WoW (or any MMO) arena match.
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by epsylon 13y ago
> Gameplay-wise, DotA is very cutthroat in that a single hero can go rambo and 1v5 the other team if he gets out of control Well it only happens if there's too much of a skill gap between the 1 and the 5. The same exact thing would
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by epsylon 13y ago
> Dota is not so much skill based as it is trivia based You're saying that because obviously you haven't progressed past the trivia plateau. There's a LOT of skill involved in DotA. You need a few hours of play to acquir
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by epsylon 13y ago
> creep-denial (a bug that becomes popular to exploit is still a bug, I don't care what the pro-gamers say) That's a subjective opinion. Creep denial is typically one of these game mechanics that differentiate skilled players f
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by epsylon 13y ago
Or use pattern matching.
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by epsylon 13y ago
C++ const is defective because it's a shallow const. You can modify an object through a const pointer. The D language "fixes" this by making const transitive (and also adding an immutable annotation, which means the object is
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by epsylon 13y ago
Yep, Tom Forsyth ( https://twitter.com/tom_forsyth ), who was working on VR support in TF2, got laid off in the same period of time. (Turns out he's now working for Oculus VR.)
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by epsylon 13y ago
At 300 people, they are well above that limit. See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6018134
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by epsylon 13y ago
> Valve maybe choosing to stay small to avoid scaling beyond their effective structure. I wouldn't call 300 people a small number for the size of a company. In fact, Jeri Ellsworth addresses this point (I'm quoting the transcri
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by epsylon 13y ago
What you need is a Bring Your Own Computer Internet café. 10 years ago, I hanged out a lot in internet cafés, and loved it. There was definitely something cool about it: hanging out with tech-savvy people, using beastly machines on powerful
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by epsylon 13y ago
Europe is merely a free trade agreement between various independent country, and a common currency between a subset of these countries. > Unless you think that is normal for a country to have permanent military bases of a foreign power i
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by epsylon 13y ago
Floating point arithmetic is deterministic if you are careful enough: > "I work at Gas Powered Games and i can tell you first hand that floating point math is deterministic. You just need the same instruction set and compiler and of
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by epsylon 13y ago
The old adage says "When you hold a hammer, everything looks like a nail." I'd say: learn the patterns, and then forget about them. And when you'll work on an actual problem, the one pattern that is relevant to your prob
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by epsylon 13y ago
> Stanford Prison Experiment Relevant SMBC http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=3025#comic
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by epsylon 13y ago
80 is still above life expectancy by Western industrialized countries standard. It's also an age where if for some reason you are hospitalized (whether it's because of "natural" diseases for old age or because you broke
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by epsylon 13y ago
Interoperability == open standard. If Facebook or Google provides an API that's not an open standard, you're locked-in because the day they decide to remove the API, or to charge high prices, or deprecate a crucial feature, you ca
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by epsylon 13y ago
Google shut down Reader because they think that we should be using Google+ instead.
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by epsylon 13y ago
Of course it's possible, wealth just needs to be redistributed fairly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM
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by epsylon 13y ago
> Who is truly, a slave? Both of them. The second one is aptly named a wage slave . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery None of these are ethically acceptable.
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by epsylon 13y ago
I'm pretty sure plenty of Reader power users would have been glad to pay for it, myself included.
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by epsylon 13y ago
> make a static page with no scripting. Well, in my book, that's a recipe for great content.
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by epsylon 13y ago
I just can't construct the damn square in 8 steps : I always need at least 9...
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by epsylon 13y ago
Not really, no. Porting a 20 year old game for fun in Haskell doesn't mean that Haskell is ready for the cutting edge of modern games.

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