jamesgeck0

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by jamesgeck0 16y ago
Google already has terms of service. You agree to them by using Google. http://www.google.com/accounts/ 5.3 You agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services by any means other than through the interface that is provided
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by jamesgeck0 16y ago
As a user interface shishya, I agree completely. As a developer, I still have to write code that validates the data twice and possibly deal with validation failures in two different ways. Further, I have to make sure that both checks are us
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by jamesgeck0 16y ago
I wonder how many people will realize that Ace is the new Skywriter. The last name change was only in September.
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by jamesgeck0 16y ago
Large objects are easier to target. (That, and Chrome doesn't have a menu bar, which would at least bump it up to 80px.)
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by jamesgeck0 16y ago
A significant amount of Gnome 3 development time has been spent on things which will be mostly invisible to the user; overhauling libraries and such. It looks like Gnome Shell has been in development since late 2008, but only got to a state
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by jamesgeck0 16y ago
Speaking as a male peer, do you mean to tell me that computers aren't toys? Code is my game, and the line between "tool" and "toy" is extremely narrow based on how much enjoyment I get out of a good hard problem.
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by jamesgeck0 16y ago
Crafting is the biggest part of the learning curve right now, although Notch has some ideas about how to address it. One way might be by having the player unlock "recipes" as they gather resources and experiment. Redstone is the other part
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by jamesgeck0 16y ago
The canvas version does seem noticeably more smooth in Opera. Perhaps that's just because the balls don't zoom out as much.
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by jamesgeck0 16y ago
By that logic, vi isn't vi enough. Surly you mean a "that does not run on UNIX"
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by jamesgeck0 16y ago
If I remember correctly, they've been serving ads occasionally since close to the beginning of the site. It was just a reasonably infrequent occurrence.
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by jamesgeck0 16y ago
So you're saying that it grants users of the GPL code an exception from the patent owned by the original developers? In that case, wouldn't the exception only be extended to Google if their implementation of Java was not independent from Su
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by jamesgeck0 16y ago
When I tried it, I used jj as a shortcut for escape. It seemed to work well enough.
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by jamesgeck0 16y ago
I'm a fan of the tautline hitch because, while not optimal for everything, it adapts decently to a wide variety of situations. It's also easy to remember and modify. Need more grip? Just add more loops. Too tight? Take a loop out and you ha
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by jamesgeck0 16y ago
The Ludum Dare 48 hour game making competitions are also pretty fun. A relatively low barrier to entry, a set theme, and a large community. They probably won't help with sleep much, though. ;-)
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by jamesgeck0 16y ago
There are two features I'm excited about for Gnome 3 which were not mentioned. Both exist as ideas. Ideas are fragile, delicate things. Attack people, not ideas. The first is the "task pooper." http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/