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17y ago
I'm actually impressed with Lucas arts open mindedness compared to Vivendi. By the way, I wonder why Vivendi allowed AGD Interactive ( http://www.agdinteractive.com/games/games.html ) to release their King Quest 1 & 2 remake and didn't
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17y ago
I actually decided to install windows on bootcamp just for this...
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17y ago
Instead of dos, to play lucas art games you're better off using scummvm
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17y ago
And this is why I loved merb and I'm still not sure the merge was a good thing....
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gommm
17y ago
That would be right if people didn't use the same email and password as their paypal account everywhere... But since a lot of people do, getting the security right on your web app is important.
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gommm
17y ago
Yes but you should make that random password a reset password that starts becoming valid only once used and sends the user directly to a new page where he can change his password
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17y ago
Cool I'm not the only one who did that before... Thanks from my ego
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17y ago
I had a lot of friends from asian countries in my university (about 10% foreign students there) and they paid exactly the same as me. They even got the 40% aid from the government on apartment rent as students... The only foreign students w
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17y ago
Well in that case you can tell your kids to go and study in a good university in a country where higher education is (almost) free... I don't really understand why people still keep paying huge amount of money for tuition in american univer
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17y ago
I didn't know any website doing that... Is it because something triggered their spam detection? (I mean I don't see the point otherwise of doing that to a user)
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17y ago
It depends on your intent if it's only hiring those users to get some first users or if you hire them to have a baseline level of participation so as to get feedback and find bugs you wouldn't find otherwise....
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17y ago
I remember when I was a kid and didn't have a very reliable internet connection I mirrored fravia.org to make sure that I could read it when I wanted to. I was fascinated with all his writings on reverse engineering and learned a lot from h
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18y ago
I don't agree with that... If the only good economic reason for making content is that you love doing it, then we're more likely to content made by passionate people.... Some content maker can make money on TV (with reality shows and the li
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18y ago
I used to ride a bicycle to work during Kyoto's summers (very hot and humid weather) and frankly I find it much more bearable than walking in this weather... The air while riding helps cool off...
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18y ago
I kept checking that this wasn't the onion while reading it...
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gommm
18y ago
Why do I get redirected to google after filing a survey?
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18y ago
I've been reading novels electronically on my computer/palm/nintendo ds for years and I completely disagree with him... I don't feel an inch of difference between reading a book electronically or in book form, it's still the same kind of im
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18y ago
I'm not sure if it's being more critical or just being more honest (or less tactful) when talking to or about people. I think people everywhere in the world are also critical of others but don't show it because it's not politically correct
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18y ago
I had a very hard time learning east and west as a kid until I started playing Lands of Lore... So I guess it was probably a question of motivation....
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18y ago
"the US having an appalling infant mortality rate" do you have any sources? or more specifically articles or papers researching the cause of this high infant mortality rate?
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18y ago
I'm quite sure that the bonus at fog creek is not based on performance... It is based on profit (he does say that he has a profit sharing plan) but joel is against giving bonuses as incentive... see http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/f
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18y ago
A bit out of topic, but the main reason I never really got into using webmynd is that it forces me to allow third party cookies... And I've never really liked allowing advertisement companies to give me cookies... If there was a way to sele
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18y ago
I'm a french living oversea and so write and think mostly in english... Most of my friends in France work in french and their english level is often quite weak (especially when it comes to oral communication, one of my teacher at university
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18y ago
hey, fvwm with the right configuration is quite nice... It was my windows manager of choice before switching to os x 4 years ago (and I still miss it some times). I used to run the gnome panel with it and found it much nicer than metacity+g
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18y ago
" I noticed that the article disappeared from the front page("Dead" ed) and then came back a few minutes later. How does that happen? Just curious." The article was killed because enough people with high enough karma to flag, flagged it and
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18y ago
Well for the other subjects I don't know but for home decor, I hope to ask people here to review my startup in this field (home decor and interior design) when we launch :-) That said, I just finished reading this article and found it quite
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18y ago
What company do you recommend for outsourcing my affiliate program?
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18y ago
"Do you pay commissions to affiliates? You’re automatically a higher fraud risk." Why is that? I can understand the reason for the other fraud risks but I don't see why paying commissions to affiliates is a fraud risk....
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18y ago
..additionally to losing your merchant account, you may also pay heavy fine to visa and mastercard from what I've read I've been looking at those things lately since I'm working on an ecommerce platform and it will be my server dealing wit
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18y ago
France but I currently live in Malaysia
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