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by hobin 14y ago
Not to be a cynic, but is this anything new? It seems to me that these are the 'reasons' the MPAA thinks TPB and other torrent sites are (supposed to be) illegal.
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by hobin 14y ago
The low level programmer is obviously not gone, as other people have already mentioned. Rather, what I think most of us who've been through a few decades of development can see, is that the hobbyist has become a different kind of person. Ye
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by hobin 14y ago
Not to sound like an ass, but getting a good programming job in the game industry is hard enough as it is. After all, the supply-demand ratio for these jobs is much lower than it is elsewhere in the IT industry. I would advise him to get an
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by hobin 15y ago
I think most of us agree that the TSA is very ineffective at what it tries to achieve. That being said, saying they've had zero success is a little unfair, because this would be very hard to measure. After all, in the case of 'success', not
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by hobin 15y ago
Ahem. I've got an OpenSolaris PC standing right there in the corner, thank you very much. ;)
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by hobin 15y ago
It's probably correct, actually. In the past there have been a few links from HN to my own site, and I was surprised to see that a LOT of people were using OSX.
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by hobin 15y ago
Can you apply it to mathematical formulae et al. as well?
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by hobin 15y ago
Yes. Another way to see this is that few (perhaps even none at all) other ships are constantly firing at maximum rate. If this were multiplayer, that'd be what most people would be doing.
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by hobin 15y ago
I'm somewhere in between 'I don\'t use Stack Overflow' and 'I use Stack Overflow as a resource, but don\'t participate'. It's not that I avoid it as a resource: if I stumble upon the answer to my question at SO via Google, I'll use it. Howe
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by hobin 15y ago
I have a question. You see, sometimes debates can get a little heated. I'm sure you've experienced such debates yourself. Are you also talking about these debates, when people say something is 'stupid' but are still capable of having a rati
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'Thermal cloak' designed, could solve major chip, spacecraft issues(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by hobin 15y ago|0 comments
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by hobin 15y ago
I thought you meant it. Then I realized I was on HN, and I got confused. Thank you for clarifying, anyway. ;)
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by hobin 15y ago
I didn't mean you had to use lightbulbs, I just wondered whether the difference between using a notebook and a netbook was actually significant. Do you by any chance know how much of a difference it makes (in energy)? I would be interested
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by hobin 15y ago
I stand corrected. I didn't know that, and indeed assumed the impact would be signifcant.
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by hobin 15y ago
A relatively low percentage of users * the total number of people who buy smartphones = a heck of a lot of users. If they manage to pull those people away from other companies (and such a future would do that), it's a big win.
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by hobin 15y ago
"I'm using a netbook instead of the notebook to save electricity." Why? A notebook uses less power than a lightbulb these days.
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by hobin 15y ago
It's only stupid and superficial if no one wants it.
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Court shuts down site that circumvents Pirate Bay blocks(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by hobin 15y ago|0 comments
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by hobin 15y ago
What's with all the 'Boo! College is bad!' posts these days? Don't get me wrong, if people find good jobs and educate themselves without going to college, more power to them. However, I dislike the tendency of some(/many) of these posts to
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by hobin 15y ago
"Lastly I'd leave everyone with this thought: The value of an education isn't a career unless you are studying business. The value of an education should be to make you a better and more rounded person." Note that we aren't all living in th
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by hobin 15y ago
"That book is really dense [...]" Yes, that's sort of the point. ;) Most textbooks that contain a lot of math and science-y stuff are that way. Also, you don't have to read a textbook cover to cover - I know I didn't in college.
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by hobin 15y ago
I think this poll might be slightly misleading (just like the other poll about favourite languages sometime ago). Quite simply, people are more inclined to vote for languages they've used themselves, because they've experienced the annoyanc
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by hobin 15y ago
I quite agree. The article seems to say something along the lines of "It's Red Hat! But it's not Red Hat!" I really don't see what's so great about this distro (having used it myself once). If it works for the people at CERN, that's fine of
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by hobin 15y ago
Because then they would no longer have complete control over what gets in their packages. In a place like CERN, total control is something people like to have.
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Samsung backside-bitten by emoticon patent trollery(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by hobin 15y ago|0 comments
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by hobin 15y ago
Well, yes. The problem is that a president with crazy and completely wrong ideas is also more likely to have a whole bunch of just-slightly-wrong ideas because of his (or her) complete lack of rationality.
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by hobin 15y ago
I don't think that's a European thing, per se. Have you ever been to Holland? ;)
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by hobin 15y ago
And he did . He banned federal funding for stem-cell research for biblical reasons. It might not have made the USA a theocracy, but he actually came pretty close with many of his decisions.
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by hobin 15y ago
Errr, no. He actually said that 'satan' has taken over academics, and other such nonsense.
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Why Nuclear Fusion Is Awesome(robinhoksbergen.com)
2 points by hobin 15y ago|0 comments

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