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GOG Galaxy beta is now available(gog.com)
7 points by kderbe 11y ago|0 comments
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by kderbe 12y ago
A fair amount of the interview is dedicated to Nintendo's eShop and how its pricing, release schedule, and promotions are determined by Nintendo's market research--as well as company culture. It also brings up a study I'd not
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Pivotal Pulls Groovy/Grails Funding(infoq.com)
3 points by kderbe 12y ago|0 comments
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by kderbe 12y ago
The most over-engineered blog that I know of is Casey Muratori's at http://mollyrocket.com/casey/ . "View source" and you'll see a long list of auto-generated variables and function calls, unlike an
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by kderbe 12y ago
The New Yorker's piece on civil forfeiture published last year, "Taken", is also excellent and also prompted a lot of comments on Hacker News. The article: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/08&#
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by kderbe 12y ago
Their FAQ includes an explanation: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/faq#MembersOnly Their explanation may not be all that satisfying, and thaumaturgy's story about the disabled account is kind of alarming. B
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by kderbe 12y ago
They're describing how things used to work. Read the very next line in the blog post: > Take that long-standing well-known fact about our service, and pitch it straight into the trash.
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by kderbe 12y ago
Previously I thought of NFSN as a place to host a low-traffic static site for $1/year, or host an unmanaged WordPress site for $1/month. It sounds like it can now run web frameworks like Rails or Node.JS, as well as internal servi
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NearlyFreeSpeech.NET now supports persistent processes(blog.nearlyfreespeech.net)
69 points by kderbe 12y ago|29 comments
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by kderbe 12y ago
The Oakland Museum's Gallery of California Natural Sciences has some great installations highlighting California's water management and usage. I was taken aback by how much of California's total rainfall is captured and diver
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by kderbe 12y ago
Your Wikipedia link says there are over 1,400 named dams in California (and presumably more unnamed ones). But the list you are reading from contains less than 250 of them, so you are probably under-counting. A thousand dams and reservoirs
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by kderbe 13y ago
Thanks for being open about your moderation and intent. Folks need to understand that the alternative is not to have Homestar Runner stay on the Hacker News front page (that was never in the cards), but to go back to silent moderation. Thi
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by kderbe 13y ago
That's right, Carmack said Armadillo Aerospace would "[...] probably stay in hibernation until there’s another liquidity event where I’m comfortable throwing another million dollars a year into things." ( http://ww
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by kderbe 13y ago
Lucas Pope kept a Papers, Please development journal from start-to-finish: http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=29750.0 It was fascinating for me to read because: 1. The art and design are almost unchanged from the o
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by kderbe 13y ago
That's incorrect. Google fonts subsets the font (default is latin). You can also limit the font to just the characters you want by appending &text=ABCDEF... to the URL. [1] They use other tricks to shrink the size of the font: WOFF
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by kderbe 13y ago
The table on page 23 shows the US tying or beating all other sampled countries for % correct in most of the basic science pop-quiz questions. How does this mesh with the widely-repeated statistics of US math and science education ranking 10
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by kderbe 13y ago
Can you explain the benefit of defining media queries with em's rather than pixels? It seems like an unnecessary layer of mental translation for developers, given that you deem it necessary to list px-equivalents in the CSS comments. [
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by kderbe 13y ago
What do you mean? FB2K has had excellent ReplayGain support for as long as I can remember.
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by kderbe 13y ago
I have no experience with perforce so I cannot directly compare it to git. Some of the things you ask for can be done with git. As eru mentioned, you can sign a commit (and therefore all history leading to that commit), which will prevent a
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by kderbe 13y ago
All the money raised by the Humble Origin Bundle went to charity. EA kept none of it.
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by kderbe 13y ago
Games that sell through the Humble Widget get a 95/5 revenue split (as opposed to 75/15/10). For that reason among others, I think Humble needs permission from each developer to sell their game in the new Humble Store.
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by kderbe 13y ago
The Humble Store doesn't seem to let you tailor the distribution. Click on "What is the Humble Store?" and you'll see: Get your games and contribute to awesome causes. Here’s where your Humble Store dollars go: 10% Char
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Our Lapped CPU Heatsink Test Platform (measuring effect of IHS concavity)(silentpcreview.com)
2 points by kderbe 13y ago|0 comments
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by kderbe 13y ago
OT, but: you get a toolbar-less installer if you go through oracle.com instead of java.com. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/ (choose the JRE download)
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by kderbe 13y ago
Silent PC Review ( http://www.silentpcreview.com ) occasionally reviews complete systems. Last year they measured an i7 machine from Puget Systems at 11dB in their anechoic room ( http://www.silentpcreview.com/P
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by kderbe 13y ago
"If you've got an entire history that's been heavily-rebased and your problem is This bug started happening on Tuesday last week", you have a big problem: You can't just track back through your simple, linear branch until you get to last Tu
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by kderbe 13y ago
The Atlantic piece is light on details, but the Sunlight Foundation has a blog post describing the technology used for text pattern matching, titled "Churnalism US: the Nuts and Bolts" ( http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/04/23/churnal
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by kderbe 14y ago
It's 8pm on KQED (the PBS station here in Silicon Valley). http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/index.jsp?pgmid=21281
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by kderbe 14y ago
No, you're right, it's a specious argument. While digging for data to back it up, I found this interesting quote from Camenzind: There are no patents on the 555. Signetics did not want to apply for a patent. You see, the situat
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by kderbe 14y ago
Those excerpts demonstrate that the 555 timer became significant in part because it was not patented. You could even argue that Camenzind wouldn't have been eulogized for his invention of the 555 timer if it wasn't for its success due to w

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