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by jere 13y ago
There's public minecraft servers. People share maps. That's nothing new and I think it's beside the original intent. The theme of the challenge was "religion" and Chain World was designed to have the characteristics of one: laws, tradition,
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by jere 13y ago
Perhaps you're right and the board game is crap. From the presentations I have watched, I think the challenge is more about ideas than it is about building a complete game. And presenting those ideas carefully.... that is marketing. Howev
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by jere 13y ago
Damn, Rohrer is really good at these GDC game design challenges. Here's a great write up on Chain World (his previous win): http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/07/mf_chainworld/ Besides Will Wright, he is the only person to have won twice:
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by jere 13y ago
>While I love sci-fi featuring white male protagonists It's interesting that Star Trek was actually quite progressive: >Beyond Star Trek's fictional innovations, its contributions to TV history included a multicultural and multiraci
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by jere 13y ago
Really? I don't doubt there are plenty of bad desigers on HN (myself included), but skeuomorphism is a useful word that describes a real and easily defined phenomenon.
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by jere 13y ago
I guess that's what I'm asking. The only thing I know it's really useful for is making small QR codes. Of course, a lot of people would disagree about the utility: http://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/
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by jere 13y ago
One of the main reasons I used short URLs before was twitter, but they shorten* all of them for you now. *Unless the original URL is less than 22 characters, in which case they conveniently _lengthen_ it for you. Which includes many of the
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by jere 13y ago
Ugh, the flat vs skeuomorphic debate seems like a false dichotomy. I hate flat design. Isn't there a middle ground? If you think this looks great, more power to you, but I'll stay far away: http://uxmag.com/uploads/clum-flat-design/UX-11.p
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by jere 13y ago
>I've independently come up with the same decisions on many of these points and, weirdly, a very similar blog design Yea. I feel the same way, though strangely a lot of this is recent and I didn't have the same opinion a few years ago.
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by jere 13y ago
I think what you mean to say is "by their area" which is not necessarily true. Sometimes, we do measure things by a single dimension. Such as height. A person can't claim a world record on hobese. Area would probably be a more useful measur
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by jere 13y ago
It's like the Megahertz Myth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megahertz_myth Their claim is technically true, if the way you agree to measure size is diagonally (this is how TVs are advertised after all), and also pretty meaningless and disi
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by jere 13y ago
Yea, it's rather silly to claim that Soylent contains no toxins. It's been suggested that the positive effects of antioxidants may arise through hormesis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antioxidant#Pro-oxidant_activit...
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by jere 13y ago
"And I've only noticed a single deficiency! So far."
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by jere 13y ago
>Soylent is perfectly balanced and optimized for your body and lifestyle, meaning it automatically puts you at an optimal weight, makes you feel full, and improves your focus and cognition. Citation needed. I'm a big fan of n=1, but mak
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by jere 13y ago
Neat. I'm curious how you learned compilers. Books? On the job?
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by jere 13y ago
>That looks to be a significant improvement over any kind of cryptography that stores keys electronically and is therefore vulnerable to an electronic attack that can copy digital information perfectly. Hmmm... so is paper?
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by jere 13y ago
>It is not necessarily a number to retire, but a number that will give you the financial freedom to do whatever you want. For how long? If I were to somehow come across 3-5 years salary, I would probably be tempted to quit my job and wo
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by jere 13y ago
>only meant to be rolled out as a very last resort in the emergency situation that Nazis had occupied England. Source? I'm reading that it was to be used if they experienced a "national catastrophe" or bombings with poison gas. I don't
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by jere 13y ago
Using your numbers, he'd be one out of thousands or tens of thousands of math professors at well known universities. But it's worse because he has never published before and he's only a lecturer. Needle in a haystack.
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by jere 13y ago
I think I'm going to go with CloudFront, but I'm pretty upset about not being able to use a naked domain.
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by jere 13y ago
>If performance at the expense of convenience was your main reason for going with static site generation, you might want to rethink that decision (there are other perfectly good reasons for wanting to use a static site generator, securi
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by jere 13y ago
For everyone saying this is obvious: I'm one of those idiots that didn't quite get it and I appreciate this post a lot. For the past week, I've been working on writing a little static site generator and putting it on S3 and I thought I was
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by jere 13y ago
I was recommended Text Wrangler and I've been using that while on Mac.
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by jere 13y ago
>However, checking the referer is considered to be a weaker from of CSRF protection. For example, open redirect vulnerabilities can be used to exploit GET-based requests that are protected with a referer check. https://owasp.org/index.
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by jere 13y ago
They contribute to the confusion by showing a photo of a young woman in a field.
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by jere 13y ago
>Help me buy cheap beer and fixed gear bikes I think the name you were looking for is "Coin Hipster"
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by jere 13y ago
>It was with this in mind that I spent a week in LA earlier this month recording Hardly Workin', a seven song album of motivational business music targeted at people newly entering the workforce. Uh... what?
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by jere 13y ago
I'd say the patent, at least the beginning, is fairly readable. I don't see any way that it could be applied to suing any of these companies though... perhaps that's the point: http://www.google.com/patents/US5649131?dq=5649131&hl=en..
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by jere 13y ago
Interesting. I'm also doing an EOL degree from NC State (but an MCS). I'm nearly halfway through. I agree on the deadline thing. A couple weeks ago I asked for an extension due to family medical issues (never done this before) and the prof

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