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by frenchie14 9y ago
That has to do more with how they package the game than how much they changed. Often times large parts of the game are bundled together so a single small change in one bundle causes you to re-download the whole thing
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by frenchie14 9y ago
> Eighty-two per cent of the wealth generated last year went to the richest one per cent of the global population It's worth noting that in order to be in the global top 1% you need an income of $32,000 http://www.glo
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by frenchie14 9y ago
I guess the question should be rephrased then as "how much have the current owners of bitcoin collectively exchanged for their coins?" This question also becomes more interesting when you factor in every coin that has been mined b
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by frenchie14 9y ago
I'm specifically talking about his statement that "It’s definitely not a drop in the bucket for me" seems disingenuous when he appears to have a large amount of wealth. I'm not disputing that he paid for the fee himself.
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by frenchie14 9y ago
From the sounds of it, he wasn't "a typical engineer with not enough stock." He lives in Los Altos Hills. The cheapest house for sale on Zillow right now is $5.5 M [1]. This guy made out just fine [1] https://www.z
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by frenchie14 9y ago
The article states he was a co-founder and the crunchbase page has two other cofounders
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by frenchie14 9y ago
Well if he'd sold below valuation (and in the middle of a lawsuit to his prosecutors no less!) it would be plausible that he didn't make out well. But I don't see how one can live in Los Altos Hills without having a lot of we
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by frenchie14 9y ago
> He then wrote a $6,000 personal check for the reexamination fee... “It’s definitely not a drop in the bucket for me,” he says. > Swildens tells me from his home in Los Altos Hills, near Mountain View. I can't help but feel that
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by frenchie14 9y ago
You can make fine games in Python. See Eve Online: https://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/stackless-pyt...
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by frenchie14 9y ago
Read very carefully: https://www.united.com/CMS/en-US/travel/Pages/BaggageCarry-O...
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Ask HN: Why are tech stocks down today?
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by frenchie14 9y ago
A browser cookie that can be trivially deleted by the client? What's the purpose of the cookie?
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by frenchie14 9y ago
This one comes to mind: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14166966 > Raneri questioned my motivation and I said that I want to give the vendor ample time to resolve the issue and then I want to publish academically. H
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by frenchie14 10y ago
> No more 'find . -name * .java -exec grep -Hni System.out {} \;' While ack is great, I just want to point at you could easily do 'grep -rHni System.out --include \*.java'. Granted it's still more words, but the
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by frenchie14 10y ago
The name Quake came from Carmack's D&D character, who was an inspiration for the original game design
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by frenchie14 10y ago
Sure, but signal interference is about mixing two signals together. Once the GPS signal has passed the interference signal (below 50 ft) it shouldn't matter anymore
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by frenchie14 11y ago
I wonder if most members of congress owning locked/encrypted iPhones with personal information made this issue feel a little closer to home.
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by frenchie14 11y ago
Just an FYI, Maxime is a boy's name. I'm guessing you saw the name at the top and assumed it was a girl.
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by frenchie14 11y ago
That has nothing to do with Friday vs. Monday though. A major deadline can be set any day of the week and management has to be cognizant of that in deciding when to lay off. It's likely that in your case they were, but not in the way w
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by frenchie14 11y ago
On a somewhat related note, you may enjoy this TED talk if you haven't seen it. It's on the paradox of incentives and motivation: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation?language=en
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by frenchie14 11y ago
> Without a PrintScreen key, I had to download some software to let me take a timed screenshot. One thing I miss from OS X is the Cmd+Shift+3 shortcut. I believe the shortcut you're looking for is Cmd+Shift+S. Courtesy of OneNote, i
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by frenchie14 11y ago
I don't think the parent comment was referring to Liebeck v. McDonald's "as an example of a 'bad' lawsuit." I think they were using it as a point to demonstrate what happens when a company gets sued by a force