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by kmkemp 10y ago
Also, in LoL the relative power ceiling of any one character is smaller than in DOTA2. If someone goes afk or trolls, your chances of winning in DOTA2 will be higher since their hyper carries can rip through a team (compared to LoL) if exe
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by kmkemp 10y ago
Company interests generally outweigh individual interests in America. Besides, we live in a global economy, so putting off technology that is profitable (by a huge margin) today only ensures more American job losses as companies can't
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by kmkemp 10y ago
It's not just the content, but his popularity and speaking ability.
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by kmkemp 10y ago
I think historical comparisons like this are just generally nostalgia. In general, players get better over time. There is more competition for a limited amount of slots, so the competition is more fierce. Players start training with bett
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by kmkemp 10y ago
There are a lot of players that can shoot as well as Kobe... the difference is that the group of players that can shoot as well as he did AND are his size AND share his athleticism AND are willing to sacrifice as much as him is a very, very
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by kmkemp 11y ago
TurboTax and this proposal are just a consequence of a complex, manual process that needs simplification. I'm not sure how the government would make a better product than TurboTax without spending at least as much as they have. Subsi
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by kmkemp 11y ago
They originate that many per year. So that's $5.5B per year for 20+ years. At any given time, they should have income for 20+ years worth of originations, right? Obviously, this situation is more complicated since they couldn't
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by kmkemp 11y ago
Exactly this. Reminds me of this quote: "If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late." - Reid Hoffman
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by kmkemp 11y ago
You can reasonably argue that the government is involved in issues that are not free rider problems, but I've never heard a reasonable alternative solution to the necessary problems that government does address. Do you have one to con
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by kmkemp 11y ago
Browsers will always lag behind specifications.
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by kmkemp 11y ago
You can say that students should know to read paperwork by the time they're entering college and that's fine, but the problem is that (for most) their only avenue towards high earnings is a degree and the only avenue to a degree a
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by kmkemp 11y ago
I am a mid-gold elo LoL player and was a Diamond SC2 player when Diamond was the highest league. In my experience, MOBA's are winning because controlling one unit doesn't give you the same stress level that comes with controlling
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by kmkemp 11y ago
I fear the day that google has broken the political barriers and car manufacturers release different software that turns into headlines of automated car crashes. I sincerely hope that google's software is licensed at a reasonable rate
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by kmkemp 11y ago
No, it isn't. They have the most popular video game of all time and you think that a poorly written client is killing them? It has had some problems over the years that are annoying to users (and frankly embarrassing when compared to
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by kmkemp 11y ago
Except that the reason the loopholes exist is because of the lobbying of companies that take advantage of them.
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by kmkemp 11y ago
I really hate the "I did it so others can to" arguments. Some people are capable of that... the point is that there are is another entire class of people who are almost capable. Besides, the case today is usually that you take o
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by kmkemp 11y ago
In this kind of system, I think the negative points are to remove the burden of confirming infractions. It's in an individual's best interest to both keep driving AND to remove poor drivers. Hitting the correct ratio is the key.
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by kmkemp 11y ago
I think that would just encourage contestants to buzz in immediately, since I imagine that the risk of penalty of not knowing a question pales in comparison to the reward of getting to answer for a strong contestant. You effectively elimin
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by kmkemp 12y ago
I disagree. Decisions are made based on risk/reward. Just because the reward is raised doesn't necessarily mean that its ratio is higher than another endeavor's. Economic incentives lining up with the public good is the ul
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by kmkemp 12y ago
And what happens when the amount of your users drops slightly or that hired dev is now worth more money? And what about the other costs on complexity in your codebase? I think the revenue needs to far eclipse one dev's salary to just
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by kmkemp 12y ago
I don't think that's what the author was trying to say. The point of the 10,000 hours rule lies in it being the largest factor towards success... not in it being the only factor. This article doesn't misrepresent that posit
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by kmkemp 12y ago
Vimium: type b to search bookmarks (or shift+b for new tab), and then h to bring up Hacker News
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by kmkemp 12y ago
I don't disagree that pirating is not a great option to a normal user. I'm simply saying that the reason for the success of Netflix is because they've taken the torrenting model and translated it for ease of use and safety,
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by kmkemp 12y ago
Piracy isn't eating cable tv's profits because of pricing... it's eating their profits because of convenience. How ridiculous is it that I can get an entire season of X show in high definition with no commercial interruption
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by kmkemp 13y ago
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." Obviously "stupidity" is way too strong here, but the principle still applies.
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by kmkemp 13y ago
That is only one use case for two-way data binding. A better example is that choosing an option in a select list instantly modifies your model, which triggers changes in some other computed properties on your model, which instantly binds b
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by kmkemp 13y ago
Not a single example of the aspects of Angular that are "difficult" or how they could be made simpler. I can't take this seriously.
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by kmkemp 13y ago
The template method pattern is a great example of how you might define some behavior for is_inside, without completely defining it.
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by kmkemp 13y ago
It's pretty bizarre that people keep saying AngularJS is "large and monolithic" when it, in fact, is modular.
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by kmkemp 13y ago
Honestly, the Playstation 1 was probably the greatest system ever for RPGs.

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