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by flashman 11y ago
Oh, h2g2. So close to being Wikipedia, just without the idea (or possibly the courage) to let anyone edit an article.
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by flashman 11y ago
Andrew or David? We've done some work with you before (Vector 5).
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by flashman 11y ago
Existing thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10701785
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by flashman 11y ago
Fairly intelligent except that every one of Peg's lines sounds like it's spoken in upper case.
635.
by flashman 11y ago
Internet in SF is good enough to deliver Javascript, that's all Silicon Valley really is.
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by flashman 11y ago
Well, you passed the "Big List of Naughty Strings" test[1], as far as I can tell: https://www.pastery.net/fnfpmw/ [1] https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings
637.
by flashman 11y ago
More likely someone realised you could apparently type any 4-3-3-5 string, then came up with that text as a prank.
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by flashman 11y ago
If you're going to present numbers on the change in education's cost, you'll need to pair them with changes in its quality. No point using deregulation to lower prices if you needed higher prices to deliver it at a decent qua
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by flashman 11y ago
A useful option would be tiling: if a polygon crosses the frame edge, draw the rest of it on the opposite edge. This would let me use the tool to generate repeating patterns.
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by flashman 11y ago
Infallibility is probably the wrong word, on second thoughts. Part of what I mean is you want your kids to know that you'll be there for them and you always have their best interests at heart. You want them to rely on you like the sun
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by flashman 11y ago
I often wonder whether my parents felt the same way raising me that I do raising my children: just winging it for the most part, trying to figure out how to be a good parent from any available resource, and projecting an aura of infallibili
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by flashman 11y ago
And yet, I've never heard librarians question whether they should be retaining borrower records. If I don't trust the government not to abuse those records, why would I trust some other group of civil servants? Why do librarians s
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by flashman 11y ago
Yes, excising discrimination from processes is a feminist practice. That's not sexist, because feminism is about subtracting, not adding, discrimination based on gender.
644.
by flashman 11y ago
Because once an employer sees you're the Dwarf Fortress developer, they'll turn down your application because you have more important things to do.
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by flashman 11y ago
That's a really clever solution!
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by flashman 11y ago
I don't have any ride-sharing apps installed. Uber just showed up as an option in the directions section below car, walking and public transport, along with an estimated fare cost and 'first ride is free' offer.
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by flashman 11y ago
Ah, Uber took money from Google Ventures, that's why Uber is listed as an option in my Google Maps app.
648.
by flashman 11y ago
I suppose I hadn't really thought about why they'd use Facebook when you can just message all the cellphones in a geographic area. Your reasoning makes sense.
649.
by flashman 11y ago
I wonder what Facebook will say when the governments of the world realise they can use this capability to contact their own citizens - especially if Facebook's continued operation in that country is contingent on its cooperation. &#x27
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The German Tank Problem (2010)(statisticalconsultants.co.nz)
58 points by flashman 11y ago|52 comments
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by flashman 11y ago
I have played several hours of this game, and I don't know whether it's just that I'm older now, but the gameplay only kept me interested for about five hours. (As a child I played all the Escape Velocity games for months on
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by flashman 11y ago
Just so I have it straight, I borrow 1000 shares of KING from you and sell them all at $15 each. At some stage, I have to give you back those 1000 shares, so I have to re-buy them. If the price of KING goes down to $12, I can get 1000 share
653.
by flashman 11y ago
If you can't explain all the errors in an experiment, you still have science to do -- regardless of whether it violates currently-understood laws of physics.
654.
by flashman 11y ago
Visually it looks like Minesweeper crossed with Marble Madness!
655.
by flashman 11y ago
Maybe you don't get to pilot a speeder bike unless you're somewhat Force-sensitive. I'm sure there's a continuum of Force-sensitivity between ysalamiri and Jedi Masters, with some humans just having great reflexes.
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by flashman 11y ago
In my opinion, if you do CPM/CPC/Facebook marketing for your indie game, you are wasting your money. You are competing with the marketing budgets of industry giants, which are ten to 100 times larger. Your ads won't be seen.
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by flashman 11y ago
I am one of Jeff's true fans, having played his games since the mid 90s, which makes me think he's understated one important point: you have to have fans. You can't expect to stand out on the strength of your ideas, gameplay
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by flashman 11y ago
Well, quite simply, YouTube are (and Megaupload was) serving the infringing content, making them a contributory party. If we started holding building managers responsible for the lawbreaking of their residents, that would at least set some
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by flashman 11y ago
My gut instinct is that we're providing feedback for somebody's ethics homework. That doesn't make this any less of an important or entertaining discussion to have.
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by flashman 11y ago
I listened to a guy from Toastmasters once, and at the start of the speech he said, "Will you please pull me up if I say 'um' or 'ah' at any point?" And he didn't, over the course of an hour or so. The tri

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