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by hooby 4y ago
Minecraft is indeed a great example of a game pushing the envelope on player freedom - and allowing emergent gameplay. Tip of the hat to you, good sir! Still, Minecraft is pretty limited mechanically. The game doesn't actually recogniz
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by hooby 4y ago
A true "MMORPG". Back in the day when the genre was new, people were fascinated by the potential of virtual worlds and virtual societies. Social scientists did online studies on player behavior and the interactions people had onli
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by hooby 4y ago
I don't think that a chariot is a tank, for the simple reason that "tank" is typically defined as *ARMOURED* combat vehicle. The chariot as described in that article is more along the lines of mobile artillery.
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by hooby 4y ago
the hen ate the egg
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by hooby 4y ago
I've seen dozens of examples of this, but I'm still hesitant to brand this to be causality. There seems to be some degree of correlation though. Smaller communities tend to be more familiar - people recognize each others names, an
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by hooby 5y ago
You might want to teach your kids about the dangers of social media, and how they can protect themselves - rather than completely forbidding them from gaining any experience and thus leaving them completely vulnerable for when they they are
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by hooby 5y ago
I feel it's perfectly normal to mess up as a junior. It's part of the learning process. What does NOT feel normal to me, is that you are just assigned stories and that there seems to be no one who's there for your questions,
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by hooby 5y ago
Found it - it actually was an extra checkbox. see: https://www.fabrica.cz/fabrica/img/netscape.jpg
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by hooby 5y ago
You are right about consent forms - but pure cookie banners: "this site uses cookies - OK" do exist as well - or at least did exist for a time, mandated by a law predating the GDPR.
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by hooby 5y ago
Netscape. Well, at least some versions of it. In the browser settings you could switch the "accept cookies" behavior between "never" - "ask" - "always". I believe it was set to "always" by d
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by hooby 5y ago
I still remember the day, when the browser would show you a pop-up "Allow somesite.com to set a cookie? Yes - No"... Something like that (with a "remember this choice" checkbox) would be so much more economical, than mak
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by hooby 5y ago
I think the best thing you Americans could do right now, is to stop trying to divide the country even further, stop shifting blame, but unite and work together to effect actual change.
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by hooby 5y ago
I am assuming you are talking about the U.S.? I can't really comment on the situation in the U.S., as I'm from Europe, sorry. I just wanted to say, that I find it rather irritating how you are trying to put blame on "the curr
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by hooby 5y ago
Pretty amazeballs. Although, to be fair, some of the best answers I got have to be credited to WolframAlpha ;)
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by hooby 5y ago
I'm not arguing for removing karma points - just pointing out, that the way they work,they do (somewhat) incentivize such behavior. Obviously we DO need a signal. Hackernews probably would not work (or at least not work as well), if th
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by hooby 5y ago
I think the more interesting question is: would less people be doing that, if it weren't incentivized through karma points? If yes, how big would the impact be?
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by hooby 5y ago
By my personal experience to make TDD work (where you make many small changes, run the tests, make more changes - step by step), tests need to run FAST - as in ideally less than 1 second. Even if it is easy to spin up a container, seed a da
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by hooby 5y ago
I would assume the two main reasons are lack of access to this sort of dog training, as well as the impracticality of having a dog at a doctors office.
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by hooby 5y ago
I'm not talking about making everything technically perfect. I'm talking about removing things which cause extra work, are more error-prone, do not scale, and/or demotivate the team.
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by hooby 5y ago
The thing with debt is, that you have to pay it back eventually - and you have to pay interest on top of that. With software you can avoid the "pay it back" part - simply by retiring the software entirely. But you cannot avoid the
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by hooby 5y ago
So... do I laugh or cry now?
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by hooby 5y ago
Since the body adjusts quite a lot to all sorts of circumstances, kind of balancing out where your available energy goes, the prime and main method of adjusting body weight is always going to be through nutrition intake. I personally would
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by hooby 5y ago
The first step to fixing a problem, is to understand the problem. I know, many people will possibly agree that this problem exists - but that sort of empirical observation isn't all that useful. If you want to try a method to fix it -
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by hooby 5y ago
Remote work has many upsides as well as downsides when compared to working in office. What's interesting to me is, that many of the upsides of home office (which are also the downsides of going onsite) seem to be pretty much inherent a
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by hooby 5y ago
The base concept of "everyone can host their own instance (within a few limitations)" is how most of the internet actually works. HTTPS, Email, DNS, etc. - all of those things allow pretty much everyone to host their own, individu
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by hooby 5y ago
You can't engineer happiness, but there are things that can be done to support and foster happiness. Some very important key factors to happiness that can be provided in a job environment are: .) self-determination \ .) a feeling of m
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by hooby 5y ago
Wow... "It's not a crisis, because (mostly) only old people die." I'm speechless.
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by hooby 5y ago
Now I want a T-Shirt with "I have no capslock and I must scream!" written on it!
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by hooby 5y ago
Sounds quite similar to my accountants-example, doesn't it?
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by hooby 5y ago
Programmers are increasingly needed for *everything*. I mean, we've entered an age, where a farmer can't milk their cows, if the software of the milking robot has a hitch - can't plow their fields, when the gps-software that

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