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by jbattle 14y ago
Which profession doesn't work under the meddling of administrators, managers, or partners?
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by jbattle 14y ago
http://indiegames.com/ is pretty good for learning about new games, but not great for reviews
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by jbattle 14y ago
I remember Cas (the game's author) from waaaay back in the day on Java game programming forums. Always seemed like quite a character, but as far as I know he's been plugging away at indie game development for at least a decade. His compan
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by jbattle 14y ago
> Most people don't have malaria, they don't care about malaria, and they will only care if it affects them. The real answer is "most people with disposable income don't have malaria" From Wikipedia: The World Health Organization has es
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by jbattle 14y ago
First, the age of the Roman republic was a long way from the stone age. Second, by then grain was a HUGE part of the diet, so drawing conclusions about life expectancy from Roman traditions is probably not a great example. Third, Romans d
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by jbattle 14y ago
I agree. I'm not a big RPG player, but aren't basically all of the Elder Scrolls games going back to Daggerfall built around this very concept?
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by jbattle 14y ago
I wonder how much of the 'hate' being expressed is really just a tool to maintain the iron grip of the NK leadership on it's own people. Best way to unify a people is give them someone to hate.
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by jbattle 14y ago
Movies take years to produce. At least from what I've seen, people switch jobs every 3-6 years. So not much different really. I agree that the 25+ year tenure at a company is by and large gone for good.
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by jbattle 14y ago
I actually like my commute most days - I spend half an hour walking outside, and half an hour reading (each way). Those are good things I might not otherwise make time for. But if I had to drive, that same hour would be intolerable.
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by jbattle 14y ago
I can't imagine the pain of having to assemble a team of freelancers every three-nine months for the next iteration on some product/project. Unless the freelancers are utterly interchangeable, which is a pretty awful vision (people think t
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by jbattle 14y ago
I'd be more impressed if they hadn't trained the second rat beforehand. The second rat may be perceiving the stimulus as anything - a pressure in it's tail, who knows? The second rat is trained to press a button when it feels a pressure i
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by jbattle 14y ago
They do when it comes time to regulate
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by jbattle 14y ago
I think SalesForce has the potential to be the new spreadsheet. I know this sounds curmudgeonly, but SF makes it so easy to change the system that you end up with the primary maintainers of SF being people who don't understand how to desig
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by jbattle 14y ago
I'm not sure the civil war is a good argument. If they seceded lawfully, they weren't citizens. If they weren't lawfully seceding, they were traitors/insurrectionists. In arms no less. More germane might be the experiments at Oak Ridge.
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by jbattle 14y ago
> People are free to do what they want. No moral obligation - just freedom. You assume that, I don't. At least not for enormous numbers of humans past and present.
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by jbattle 14y ago
I suppose people groups who have had hundreds of years of experience of being oppressed with excuses from the Bible, Social Darwinism or the like might care. As a species we have considerably more experience with racial/ethnic judgement lea
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by jbattle 14y ago
Worse than that, this hypothetical 10% spends their time and attention on things that the 90% by and large don't value, while giving no attention to things the 90% do care about (like grooming)
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by jbattle 14y ago
I know it's not supposed to be a functional map per se, but I find the typography really hard to interpret - which names are cities, which are states? Is Chicago the capital of Gary? Or is Chicago a state that is surrounded by Gary? What
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by jbattle 14y ago
Read the first sentence of the ea spouse letter - the author's spouse , who is later identified as a man, is the one who's plight/mistreatment is being discussed. This letter has been generating tons of discussion for close to a decade no
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by jbattle 14y ago
I loved this game as a kid - I remember getting my whole family to play a few times, what a blast! It's touched on briefly in the article, but another thing I remember from this time in gaming is a short-lived but fascinating push to make t
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by jbattle 14y ago
Why do teachers need to be evaluated by metrics at all? Every professional (software dev) job I've had has managed to do a reasonably good job selecting and promoting the right people. Not perfect, but well enough. Why is teaching the on
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by jbattle 14y ago
This has a whiff of the perennial 'kids today' rant. I know Google NGrams is hardly a robust research tool, but a few phrases that are fun to speculate about ... 'Failing student' - big in the 30's, went out of fashion? http://books.googl
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by jbattle 14y ago
Ah yes - I read too fast, sorry
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by jbattle 14y ago
How much time do you spend weekly on forums dedicated to 'female dedicated industries'?
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by jbattle 14y ago
where are you (roughly) if you don't mind me asking? Libraries seem like a local thing, and I wonder how much use of them varies from state to state & across the urban - rural spectrum.
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by jbattle 14y ago
First off, I think it's a cool idea. Now, I certainly don't expect this is the case here, but the cynic in me notes that in a set up like this, there is actually a financial incentive for the 'service provider' here to provide such a bad p
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by jbattle 14y ago
What are the chances this 'structure' is just the unusual coincidence of a large number of quasars in (relative) proximity? Not unlike a seemingly impossible run of "heads" in a stream of coin flips?
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by jbattle 14y ago
I thought the problem with refined/processed foods was that they were too easy for our bodies to absorb. Or is that true, but the amount consumed still results in a lot of 'leftovers'?
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by jbattle 14y ago
If the NYPD can't get it right, what's the chances of the Oswego IL school district getting it right? And each of the other ~100K public schools in the US?
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by jbattle 14y ago
Sorry - that's a pretty silly argument. Countries that formed through some form of peaceful negotiated settlement exist, but most formed either through conquest, revolution, or through an imposed partition. I don't have numbers on this,

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