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Practically impossible: The quest to decipher Fez's cryptographic final puzzle(arstechnica.com)
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by homosaur 15y ago
They aren't obligated. And let me check.... yep! Turns out my computer still can reach the Pirate Bay! So there's your choice, philosophical discussions are worthless.
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by homosaur 15y ago
I essentially find his argument incoherent. What's he complaining about, that publishers don't have the right to illegally fix prices? They can set prices to whatever they want but can do so on their own marketplaces. Amazon has the right t
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by homosaur 15y ago
OF COURSE that's what it's about, maybe Blow doesn't want to bother to say it because it's so freaking obvious that he doesn't feel he needs to bother. If we're going to get games like Braid, he can be as pretentious as he wants. John Romer
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by homosaur 15y ago
I loved Planescape! I remember how excited I was the first time I got to an absolute dead end and died. I was getting ready to restore from a save when I woke up on a table... "wait.. this is how you advance?!?!?" So cool, I've still not pl
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by homosaur 15y ago
Sure. Mostly extensibility. I know BBEdit has made some strides here but there's no community behind it. I'm basically stuck with whatever Bare Bones ships in the current version. TextMate and Sublime on the other hand have a giant buffet o
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by homosaur 15y ago
It's not about disliking Word's advanced features, it's about disliking Word and that most industries have no particular need for most of Word's unique features. So far we have legal, so every other industry can stop using Word tomorrow wit
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by homosaur 15y ago
There's a few solid reasons I've heard for using Cucumber, although in my life I've not found a need for it yet. 1) Although it's a Ruby tool, it works with a ton of languages. Someone can write code based off Cuke tests in Ruby or .NET or
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by homosaur 15y ago
So there's one industry that's keeping it. Any others actually NEED Word's advanced functionality? Not being facetious, let's name em.
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by homosaur 15y ago
I didn't think about the G+ aspect, you're probably on the right track there.
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by homosaur 15y ago
You might be right that was their thinking, but it's a long trek from photo sharing to ubiquitous social network.
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by homosaur 15y ago
Maybe YouTube could have done it on their own too, but a big reason why Google was able to keep YT afloat was its widespread peering agreements. So even though it bled cash for years, it didn't bleed near as much cash as it could have becau
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by homosaur 15y ago
Can someone please tell me how Instagram's actual content is worth anything? We're talking about photo-filtered cell phone camera shots here. Facebook doesn't need a user acquisition ploy. I guess maybe it's a move to keep users in Facebook
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by homosaur 15y ago
YouTube is a content paradise though. There's tons of value there and you can sell ads against it or even charge for premium services. Where's the money in Instagram? The content is practically worthless and their only real value is in thei
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by homosaur 15y ago
I'd think they couldn't sue them directly but the US would definitely put major pressure on that nation's government to shut them down.
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by homosaur 15y ago
Absolutely not, but you have to make that textbook as relevant as possible to the widest population if you're going to require its usage.
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by homosaur 15y ago
That just isn't accurate though. That's not what happened at all. Yes, there was a period of about a year where they did not increase security or have a curfew or parental supervision policy in place where there were several incidents and a
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by homosaur 15y ago
I like how they refer to reddit as a "FreeBSD box." My guess is that it's something much, much larger now.
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by homosaur 15y ago
That's not pedantic, those are the same metrics retailers use when making decisions.
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by homosaur 15y ago
I will say, in rich white folks' defense, that the particular incident that is discussed in that article was pretty shocking; it wasn't just a couple of fistfights, it was a mini-riot. We're talking about 50 kids fighting here. The issue of
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by homosaur 15y ago
All the plugin does is launch a Google search. It's the same manual bypass that I would have done anyway.
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by homosaur 15y ago
http://voices.yahoo.com/st-louis-mall-sees-crime-drop-after-...
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by homosaur 15y ago
Just so you know, this article might have been accurate in 2006, but it's completely outdated. Kids don't get to hang out in the mall anymore and security at the Galleria is quite strict on this. There is a very staunch curfew policy there
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by homosaur 15y ago
That general hypothesis seems to be supported by the massive expansion of the Galleria in recent years, including the giant new Apple store, several new restaurants, Nordstroms, etc
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by homosaur 15y ago
Yeah, but if you're taking four regional flights a month, you are probably spending as much or more than this and you're paying to do it either in a cattle car or for a 300% first class markup. It does have a limited market now, but what ha
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by homosaur 15y ago
I wouldn't count on that scenario lasting if that is even the case at all.
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by homosaur 15y ago
In St. Louis, the suburbs have actively petitioned against and succeeded in blocking light rail service from the city. They are convinced that somehow evil city dwellers (mostly black, let's be honest) are going to come out to rob everythin
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by homosaur 15y ago
It actually has no effect on the market, it's the same as if I searched for the name of the article in Google. Companies can't tell that I'm using the link for the app or not. I do agree though on discouraging your friends to use these thin
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by homosaur 15y ago
Yeah, this is the same reason I would like it. I'd actually like to hack on the BIOS and learn more about the full stack of technology in general. I think if you only worked in terminal it would be quite enough beef to run with. I think X w
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by homosaur 15y ago
Oh and RMS makes a living mostly off speaking fees and academic stipends. He has talked in the past that he chooses to live like a grad student so he has the freedom to basically do whatever he wants. If you haven't guessed, Stallman is kin

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