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by hazzen 16y ago
I have 300 minutes a month with free nights/weekends. I use maybe 50 minutes in a normal month. I use mostly email/SMS/chat because all of those things are free. Mind you, I don't run a business or have family in different time zones, but i
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by hazzen 16y ago
An addendum, and a game I think about quite frequently, is FlyWrench. It looks like Bit.Trip Runner has taken some lessons from it. FlyWrench is also a punishingly difficult game that appears to flow for an expert player, with instant death
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by hazzen 16y ago
You are implying that a few heavy users are the cause of everyone else's poor experience (a non-obviois fact), and you compare this to frequent offenders placing a high burden on police forces (a somewhat more plausible fact). I agree that
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by hazzen 16y ago
The point we should all take away from this is to avoid inflammatory comments that segue into the point you actually want to make. They serve only to distract and weaken the opinion. A simpler statement would have sufficed - say, "I believe
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by hazzen 16y ago
To add: Desktop Dungeon with Derek Yu's tile set. Short-form "roguelike" that is actually more of a puzzle game. Takes less than 10 minutes to play a complete game. I am on mobile right now, but search TIGsource for full links. And to add t
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by hazzen 16y ago
Thank you for the source link - I stand corrected, but I will wait until I see it in action before passing judgement. In retrospect, it makes sense that they would have some way of running a game specifically for high-level competitive tour
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by hazzen 16y ago
Hopefully they are not so stupid as to "disable" LAN play. What they have probably done is to never have written LAN netcode in the first place . There is a very large difference between those two - one implies maliciousness, one implies t
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by hazzen 16y ago
I merely glanced at bits of the code without diving into the implementation that much, but my high-level thoughts: + I love the "synopsis" header in front of all the classes. + I find the style horrible, but still more readable than the SGI
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by hazzen 16y ago
My Nexus One seems to be missing a number of symbols because I saw a few square boxes. Otherwise an amazing achievement - a very usable mobile PDF viewer. Anyone on an iPad/iPhone/Pre able to see every symbol on that paper?
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by hazzen 16y ago
I agree with your point of view, and it is the one I hold. I don't like that Facebook et al. ask me to give up my privacy, and I want a better option. In the meantime, if I want to get invited to events with friends, I must have a Facebook
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by hazzen 16y ago
Many of my friends handle social planning exclusively through Facebook/Twitter/FourSquare/Buzz/etc. Not having accounts on these sites would be akin to not having email/phone w.r.t. social life. In fact, my use of all these technology is pr
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by hazzen 16y ago
Users will be able to easily view PDFs on the web from any device. I primarily read HN on my phone. Any time I see a [Scribd] link, I forget about the story because I can't read it. I have also had several occasions where I needed to read
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Pedal to the Chrome metal: Our fastest beta to date for Windows, Mac and Linux(chrome.blogspot.com)
119 points by hazzen 16y ago|77 comments
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by hazzen 16y ago
Alternatively, you can type <period><down><enter>. Period opens the "more actions" menu and you can then use arrows/enter to navigate the menu.
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by hazzen 16y ago
I like to make a very important distinction with templates in C++, categorizing uses into three classes: 1) "Java" generics. That is, anything you could do with generics in Java. No one should have an issue using templates like this. 2) Non
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by hazzen 16y ago
Unless my memory is playing tricks on me, I recall Luis Von Ahn mentioning this as an example of ways people had attempted to defeat his system at a talk of his several years ago. He may have been talking about theoretical attacks and not a
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by hazzen 16y ago
As has been pointed out on reddit[1], this article is incredibly inaccurate and should be ignored. [1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bu6j1/c_languag...
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by hazzen 16y ago
Can you expand on why you believe Google needs a Lisp team? I am having trouble coming up with any convincing argument for needing one.
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by hazzen 16y ago
Old versions of Foxit were ad-free. Only the newer versions have turned into some kind of crapware mess. The same thing happened to BSPlayer (VLC-like media player). None of these programs force updates, so someone who hasn't updated their
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by hazzen 17y ago
Go figure: by counting how many people are excited for a film the week before it opens, you can estimate how much money it makes. Even if the model is perfect and works everytime, it is not giving you any useful information. If the predicti
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by hazzen 17y ago
I use an Android; it has copy-and-paste. I believe I have used it exactly once in over a year of using the phone - I had started composing an SMS to the wrong person and decided to copy/paste the text instead of simply typing it again. For
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by hazzen 17y ago
Does anyone else feel that this article is both poorly written and furthermore just bad reporting? I was curious about the original source, which I tracked down to a blog post by George Kurtz and several links on it [1]. It seems to only cl
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by hazzen 17y ago
The author appears to have either a few false assumptions or simply wanted to rant against FarmVille and thought mentioning Indie games was required. Indie games come from a few places. There are non-games industry and games industry creato
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by hazzen 17y ago
Whether or not Valve Anti-Cheat System works, I believe its existence has reduced the number of players who assume every good player is hacking. In the old days (0.6 maybe?), chat was filled with hack accusations on death. These days, it se
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by hazzen 17y ago
C++ doesn't actually have a standard "hash list" (I assume you meant hash map or hash set?). Depending on your implementation, you either have hash_{map,set}, unordered_{map,set}, both, or something entirely different. tr1 specified unorder
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by hazzen 17y ago
As someone who recently moved from XP to 7, my review can be summed up as "it works". Feels just as fast as XP, and the new UI is a neutral/positive change. The best feature is the configurable systray settings (always show, always hide, hi
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by hazzen 17y ago
I don't think this "CPU Intensive" task is the kind of CPU-intensive task you actually care about. I haven't done any formal experimentation, but I'm guessing this is a better test of how many instructions are generated for a call/ret seque
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by hazzen 17y ago
true and false are lousy arguments is probably the easiest to implement and most helpful tip on this list. I can't count how many times I have been reading a piece of code and forgotten what the "true" indicated in a call, or even seen co
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by hazzen 17y ago
I think the article's author is missing a key point - there are equally valid reasons for taking 6 weeks. Say, it is company policy and Feedjit is not high-profile enough to warrant going against a policy that errs on the side of caution. O
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by hazzen 17y ago
I have long wondered if there is a good solution this this problem: given that politicians serve some short term length, say 2-6 years, before running for re-election and given that major policy changes can not be enacted overnight nor in o

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