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by itafroma 14y ago
If you rely on Google Reader for your daily workflow, figuring out which service or application is a suitable alternative after Reader closes is too late. Unless you're hoping for a 180 from Google, which there's no evidence to support righ
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by itafroma 14y ago
Where did I comment on or compare the acceptability of either? GGP mentioned the hypothetical outrage that would occur if WoW was unavailable for a week: well, surprise, it actually did fail, repeatedly, and not just for a week—but for we
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by itafroma 14y ago
Funny you should mention WoW: its launch was arguably much worse than SimCity's, lasting far longer (it took a good month or two to settle down). If you do a search for "wow launch disaster" or "wow launch 2004", you'll find a number of mes
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Not Greedy, Just Clueless(escapistmagazine.com)
3 points by itafroma 14y ago|0 comments
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Anonymous Internet Boy Taliban Tropes(dudehugespeaks.tumblr.com)
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by itafroma 14y ago
Note this isn't a new policy; AT&T has been allowing this for almost a year now (a story mentioning it from April 2012: http://techland.time.com/2012/04/11/unlock-an-att-iphone-in-... ). They're just reassuring customers that the LoC e
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by itafroma 14y ago
It's mentioned in the article; Tile Layer Pro: http://www.zophar.net/utilities/graphutil/tile-layer-pro.htm...
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by itafroma 14y ago
Ah, I can see how it could be misread. I adjusted the wording from "Nintendo overusing" to "Nintendo's overuse of" to clarify that.
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by itafroma 14y ago
I didn't say Nintendo, at the time Donkey Kong was created, had already overused the "damsel in distress" trope. What I said was of the set of games Nintendo has developed or published in the past 30-odd years that ostensibly demonstrate th
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by itafroma 14y ago
I'm not sure what you're taking exception to: I said it was one of the first examples (wasn't sure if it was the first, so thanks for clarifying that). While in the video Sarkeesian goes through its overuse in general as mturmon mentioned
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by itafroma 14y ago
Donkey Kong was highlighted as one of the first examples of Nintendo's overuse* of the "Damsel in Distress" trope in the first episode of Anita Sarkeesian's series on the portrayal of women in video games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X
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by itafroma 14y ago
Thanks, I appreciate it: I'm just not a fan of people not getting the credit for or benefits of their creative works. While I don't have an opinion on the use of the images, I can definitely understand where you're coming from and what you
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by itafroma 14y ago
The sense I meant "original wordmark" (not artwork) was that it was the first wordmark, not that it was novel. It was not created by a Twitter user or dev: it's just the name "Twitter" in the Pico font, which predates Twitter by several yea
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by itafroma 14y ago
This is misleading-to-false, particularly regarding the logo. The logo was created by Simon Oxley. It's misleading because while Oxley is a Twitter user, he didn't create it for Twitter: he created as stock imagery, and Twitter purchased th
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by itafroma 14y ago
What gets me is that they aren't even re-hosted: they're hotlinks to other websites' imagery. Besides being incredibly lazy , leaching off of other people's bandwidth without giving them credit or placing the imagery in their original cont
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SimCity's Glassbox engine reducing everything to a shortest path problem(reddit.com)
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by itafroma 14y ago
That's exactly what it is; EA has now documented this behavior: http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9337036.page
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by itafroma 14y ago
Original: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5297229
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by itafroma 14y ago
The Hacker News discussion from a year ago about the original incident: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3663197
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by itafroma 14y ago
Apple never provided PS/2; their solution was the (proprietary?) Apple Desktop Bus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Desktop_Bus You may be thinking of the licensed Mac clones of the mid-90s: some of them did include PS/2 ports.
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by itafroma 14y ago
Links to the Hacker News discussions from previous parts, compiled because I was curious and on occasion a mention to a Hacker News discussion is made without a link: Part 1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5265563 Part 2: http://new
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by itafroma 14y ago
The only place I see a grammar faux pas is in this sentence (emphasis mine): > Spend less time on tracking down lost orders and focus on building great products. It should be "Spend less time tracking down..." The bigger issue is that
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by itafroma 14y ago
Wow, they closed and locked that? That type of question is pretty much exactly what Programmers.SE was intended for. But unless I'm not understanding Slant's mission correctly, this type of question wouldn't work there: it's for things li
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by itafroma 14y ago
To be a little more explicit than coderrr, Ripple is directly on-topic on Bitcoin.SE: http://meta.bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/346/adjustin...
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by itafroma 14y ago
Though I don't have any metrics on how "commonplace" it is, it is pretty accessible in several urban areas (Portland and other Oregonian urban areas, Seattle, LA and other SoCal urban areas, San Francisco, and New York off the top of my hea
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by itafroma 14y ago
Wikipedia actually already has this in the form of Navigation Popups: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation_popu...
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by itafroma 14y ago
Preventing innovation: a gang of hackers makes a new browser that utilizes the 100 cores in 2018-era laptops perfectly evenly, unlike existing browsers that mostly burn one CPU per tab. It’s a ground-up rewrite, and they do heroic work to
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by itafroma 14y ago
It seems unlikely you would've been been able to check your knowledge due to the nature of the grading system being employed. In my experience, getting a final exam back complete with annotations and corrections is generally not done: you s
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by itafroma 15y ago
I agree it's not intuitive, particularly to those not well-versed in the history of Stack Overflow. For the backstory, when there was just Stack Overflow (and not the network of Stack Exchange sites), there was a large contingent of people
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by itafroma 15y ago
Programmers mod here: this is inaccurate, as these types of questions are pretty much off-topic everywhere on Stack Exchange. Programmers is the whiteboard to Stack Overflow's compiler: if you have a specific (emphasis on specific) programm

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