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by gnoupi 15y ago
Apparently it's Andrew S. Tanenbaum ( http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum ), and the actual quote was: "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."
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by gnoupi 15y ago
dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2618160
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by gnoupi 15y ago
"The Special Rapporteur considers cutting off users from internet access, regardless of the justification provided, including on the grounds of violating intellectual property rights law, to be disproportionate and thus a violation of artic
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by gnoupi 15y ago
Apparently some kid was having fun vandalizing the page to break this. The page is semi-protected now, so it should be ok from now on.
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by gnoupi 15y ago
That story reminds me of a more personal anecdote. Some day in the past year, my girlfriend found a picture of herself (taken from her Flickr) used as the "anchor" for some article on a online magazine's portal. No mail to ask her about it.
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Will Wright: My Publisher Didn't Want SimCity(gamasutra.com)
1 points by gnoupi 15y ago|0 comments
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Opinion: My Producer Hates Me(gamasutra.com)
2 points by gnoupi 15y ago|0 comments
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by gnoupi 15y ago
Actually, Minecraft model and appeal is different, because it's a game which is mostly geared towards your inner will to create, assemble, like a kid (or, you know, grown up kids) with Lego bricks. SL has two sides, the creator side is one,
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by gnoupi 15y ago
Since this article is only about the technical side, let's add to this. Another game has the same issue with loading times and general performance: The Sims series, until the 3rd. The Sims 2 was excruciatingly slow when you had lot of eleme
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by gnoupi 15y ago
Yes, but the title is enough for people to agree before clicking. Good choice, I guess. Myself I was also expecting a more detailed article about the economy, the communities... And it's just a basic rant about the time it takes to load ite
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by gnoupi 15y ago
dupe : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2570829
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A VC Boom Heading for Gaming?(gamasutra.com)
1 points by gnoupi 15y ago|0 comments
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Cliffski’s Blog » Things adwords should change(positech.co.uk)
1 points by gnoupi 16y ago|0 comments
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Show Me The Games(positech.co.uk)
1 points by gnoupi 16y ago|0 comments
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How to sell your game online without using an app-store(positech.co.uk)
17 points by gnoupi 16y ago|4 comments
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by gnoupi 16y ago
Actually, nowadays, you know game designers, more than actual programmers, at least for the big industry. You know the programmers for most indie games, though (but there they are often designers themselves). Besides, true that you don't re
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by gnoupi 16y ago
Probably because he worked on things which were entertaining, and not "tools" to people, simply. You can find plenty of famous people in the video game industry, recognized for their work. But you can be a wonderful tool programmer, make wo
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by gnoupi 16y ago
Same for programs. You can have the most sophisticated and optimized algorithm in the backend, if your frontend has too much clutter and is not easy to use, it doesn't matter. I will use another program, especially if it is easily replaceab
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by gnoupi 16y ago
The search engine market started before all the "serious people" started coming to the Internet, I think. I think it is harder nowadays to make a fame with a name like this.
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by gnoupi 16y ago
I see the interest in promoting DDG, but the "let me take your hand and do that for you" is and will always be a bit condescending. You can tell about a great search engine without that kind of approach, in my opinion. Because if your inten
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by gnoupi 16y ago
Oh, great, one more condescending way to answer people when you are too lazy to provide a real answer but want to be """funny""". Yay. Seriously, if you are concerned that someone didn't make an appropriate search on Internet before asking
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by gnoupi 17y ago
They indeed only needed to be the almost only free alternative to IE for a while, on Windows. Anyway, this "using government" is as good for Firefox as for Opera, no need to be condescending.
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by gnoupi 17y ago
What is "surprising", however, is the rush to release this version. I mean, it was a process for months, of alpha, beta versions... Then RC came 3 days ago, and hop, gold already, even if still some bugs. Surprising, but understandable, as
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by gnoupi 17y ago
Note that someone made an implementation of such race as an actual game: http://www.texasexpat.net/posts/wikirunner.html . Quite nice to play in my opinion.
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by gnoupi 17y ago
Nope, I use Opera ;)
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by gnoupi 17y ago
The iPhone is a smartphone with a touch screen, The Nexus is a smartphone with a touch screen, Therefore the Nexus is an iPhone :)
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by gnoupi 17y ago
I guess one just had to make his "counter-article" to the flow of "wow, amazing google phone!!" we see recently. Of course in itself it's pretty much only a rant, with fallacious arguments, but it fulfills its goal of generating a lot of "h
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by gnoupi 17y ago
Actually, a lot of people have it as a start page. Usually not power-users, but many regular users have it this way.
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by gnoupi 17y ago
Actually, the 10.10 is because of the Unite component. When they released the official new version, 10, they didn't have Unite ready yet, it was on another branch, the 10.10 (they reserved a few numbers for hotfixes for the version without
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by gnoupi 17y ago
Actually, Opera has already the ad blocker, named "content blocker", for some versions already. Find more details at this address: http://my.opera.com/Tamil/blog/ad-block

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