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by heresy 17y ago
Correction, that's only in the parallel universe. :)
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by heresy 17y ago
All the big name studios now use Linux for the farm, this is one market where Linux has come to utterly dominate. Ironic then that the final product is so heavily DRM'ed that you can't easily view it without breaking some laws if you're a f
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by heresy 17y ago
If only their MMO wasn't so damn addictive...I had to quit a year ago for the sake of my studies and career :) Love to play again tho.
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by heresy 17y ago
Screw ACM, glad I ignored all their spamming to get me to renew my membership. Never again.
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by heresy 17y ago
Blocking operating system calls? This has always been the problem I've run into with green threads.
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by heresy 17y ago
thanks. every time someone uses the password as input to some "secure" hash, i cry inside. why is the password even relevant to a user session identifier? it's not.
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by heresy 17y ago
I don't quite understand the complete lack of regard that younger people have for privacy these days, either. It will all end in tears. Unless you're an attention whore or a shill getting kickbacks for marketing, I really don't see the draw
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by heresy 17y ago
well its just his blogs, for a second i thought it was stackoverflow.com and the rest of his sites, which would have been funny.
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by heresy 17y ago
That article misses the boat. American cultural exports aren't popular because of some Ten Year Plan by the government to promote them. They're popular because they've found things that appeal to a large number of people, and because they r
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by heresy 17y ago
New Zealand has recently changed their immigration laws, but in return for your investment (which starts at NZ$1.5 million), you get permanent residence only. The investment has to be in a viable business (property does not qualify, obvious
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by heresy 17y ago
Agree, more like 1/100th of a look for managers... Any professional C# developer has already seen many more meaty topics by following blogs and twitter. To that list I'd add all the little "quality of life" framework additions, dynamic obj
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by heresy 17y ago
jeff merkey is still around? lol, he's an odd one
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by heresy 17y ago
Some Korean banks already do this - My girlfriend gets a call from her dad every time she uses his credit card number online, as he gets a text message notifying him it has been used for card-not-present transaction :) He doesn't need to au
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by heresy 17y ago
I haven't had anti-virus software on any of my personal PCs since MS-DOS 6.22. Number of virus/spyware infections: 0. Performance gain when compiling/building: Immense.
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by heresy 17y ago
He can have his ITIL/Six Sigma jobs. I'm sorry my education didn't prepare me to be a dumb ass robot. Oh wait, no, I'm not. And enjoying my intellectually satisfiying job.
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by heresy 17y ago
Awesome.
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by heresy 17y ago
People will accept it while the market exists. The alternatives simply do not have the consumer mindshare that the iPhone does, which is unfortunate.
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by heresy 17y ago
how terribly unsurprising...
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by heresy 17y ago
Does it buffer better than the Flash application? Their buffering is utter crap, and I have a 12MBit ADSL2 connection.
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by heresy 17y ago
Nice work, guys. Where were you when I was still slaving away in the network admin pits? :)
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by heresy 17y ago
The next generation of media companies must be laughing to themselves at how easy its going to be to eat Sony Pictures alive.
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by heresy 17y ago
Too true. I'm originally from an African country, and trying to get into the US was next to impossible despite my qualifications (valid), experience (in several Western countries) and financial position (good). Five years on, with New Zeala
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by heresy 17y ago
I better slit my wrists right now then, I have no future. Oh, wait. Completely forgetting the "making of things" and living absolutely in ideas land is a dumb idea that I hope doesn't gain any more traction in this environment. I estimate t
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by heresy 17y ago
think this is just a bit of Indian chest thumping, not sure what is the relevance to HN...?