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by gordaco 13y ago
Spaniard here. I'd rather have the extra sun hour in my free time than having daylight at my first hour in the office. I don't want it to be dark at 17:00 in winter.
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by gordaco 13y ago
It's baffling how many times the "think of the children" excuse gets used to, actually, treat everyone as children. Won't somebody please think of the adults?
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by gordaco 13y ago
Gives a new meaning to "won't somebody please think of the children?"
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by gordaco 13y ago
"When you’re paying for your social network, it makes you a customer instead of a product". Wrong, you're still a product. The "consumer vs. product" dilemma is a false one.
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by gordaco 13y ago
The ADHD craze is rampant on the USA, but fortunately not in Europe, where I'm from. I'm so glad of that, even if I'm more or less on the opposite side of ADHD when it comes to focus and behaviour. Don't get me wrong, I&
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by gordaco 13y ago
I was expecting a flat out NO in a big font, but the page manages to make the point much better.
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by gordaco 13y ago
I have to say that one of the best things I've ever done to my depression is to stop using Facebook, cold turkey. I have less social interactions, but they have much better quality thanks to the filtering, and there is a significant ef
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by gordaco 13y ago
Fellow spaniard here :). I think it's quite a different thing: a hikikomori is someone who suffers a depression, has coped with it by closeting him(her)self, and now doesn't know how to got out (nor does him/her want to, in m
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by gordaco 13y ago
And made it opt-out instead of opt-in, making a sizable amount of its users unkonwingly accept it. Of course, some of us still consider "acceptable ads" to be a big, big oxymoron.
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by gordaco 13y ago
Exactly! C++, well used, is largely a vertical language, not a low-level or high-level one. That's why it's easy to create a fairly big system entirely in C++. And having worked with such a system, I can say that it's quite
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by gordaco 13y ago
Thank you, this is the information I was looking for. They won't have my money, then. Why is it so difficult to do GOG-like releases? I would buy things like this with my eyes closed.
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by gordaco 13y ago
This is why I block ads.
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by gordaco 13y ago
And don't forget that the object of study is actually sensible to predictions about it, in multiple ways, which gives a new dimension to that can of worms. I'd say that the main problem is that economists are using numbers, and th
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by gordaco 13y ago
About DLC, those can't be resold, plus they're useless if you don't have the original game any more. So they are kind of a lock-in tool. Which is, by the way, why I abhor them.
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by gordaco 13y ago
Something is very, very wrong with your government agencies when such a sizable percentage of the population can be considered "threats".
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by gordaco 13y ago
Whoa, I dind't know about the 21 countries thing. What are they smoking, indeed.
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by gordaco 13y ago
Sorry, but the very nature of a black swan makes it unpredictable, thus unstoppable. This is what advocates of privacy loss don't seem to understand. A few days ago the front page of HN featured an article about the likelihood of getti
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by gordaco 13y ago
If it was just a PR stunt, PRISM wouldn't have needed to be secret. (OTOH, you could say that all this is a PR stunt and Snowden is being paid to be part of it, but now that would be a conspiracy theory I'm certainly not willing t
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by gordaco 13y ago
This is a very well known problem, but one that no politician on this planet seems to understand. Of course, as others have pointed out, the problem is not the likelihood of getting a bad guy. The problem is that the means are unacceptable,
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by gordaco 13y ago
I don't know if that was what you wanted to imply, but what Afforess said is precisely why there is a lot of people who think that Ayn Rand had, well, a warped and extremely cynical worldview.
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by gordaco 13y ago
And then there are glLight, glLightModel, etc.
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by gordaco 13y ago
I haven't read the paper, but I'm from Spain and I've seen several things that support the hypothesis. 1) Home ownership ties you to a geographical location. If you're renting you have more freedom to move, and increased mobility leads to l
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by gordaco 13y ago
And, more importantly: the other way around.
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by gordaco 13y ago
If working has taught me something, it's that every job is "selling your time for a living", including entrepreneurship of any kind (selling your time to your clients, not your boss, but it's not different), and unfortunately that's a nec
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by gordaco 13y ago
True. It's a little like http://xkcd.com/810/ : "Mission fucking accomplished".
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by gordaco 13y ago
I'm a little annoyed that "Work-life balance" almost always refers to "Work-family balance". Not everyone has children, or, more exactly, not having children does not mark you as "one of these guys who CAN work 14 hours". You know, I want w
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by gordaco 13y ago
I feel that this new design makes HN lose its personality and look more like some random, more generic page or blog following pervasive trends of design. Maybe it's the font or the spacing, I'm not sure. I'd stick with the current design. E
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by gordaco 13y ago
And even more, a few weeks ago there was a really good sale of classic EA games at very good prices. I think this is the complete list: http://www.gog.com/promo/ea_weekend_promo_030513 . DRM-free Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, plus the expa
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by gordaco 13y ago
Surely a single data point is not much, but in that case they could count me as another consumer in their extremely loyal user base.
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by gordaco 13y ago
Sorry, but the "bug" is that someone doesn't know well the language's syntax and/or has spent too much time with braceless languages and tries to put as less braces as possible because of their personal preferences, resulting in a wrong blo

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