lackbeard

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by lackbeard 8y ago
Is it possibly because you're a nerd, and the internet is no longer for nerds? It's now a platform for mass consumerism, and what interests the masses, and is thus good for advertisers probably shares little overlap with your inte
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by lackbeard 8y ago
Maybe they'd call it "gridder".
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by lackbeard 8y ago
There seems to be a spike in negative press about Steam lately. I wonder if this is some kind of coordinated PR hit. I can imagine a few large companies who would be happy to see such a successful independent distribution platform fall on h
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by lackbeard 8y ago
> I would never allow my kid browse that kind of shit This is exactly the right attitude, you should be paying attention to what your children are consuming--it's not Steam's job to parent them for you. > Why are people defe
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by lackbeard 8y ago
I'm pretty sure crime is far lower in Seattle than other large US cities, especially violent crime.
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by lackbeard 8y ago
Step number zero should be to let housing get cheaper by relaxing zoning laws in the city.
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by lackbeard 8y ago
I was excited about Kotlin at a first glance but came to feel this way as well, after looking into it a bit more.
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by lackbeard 9y ago
Code shows how it is being done. Comments should explain what is being done.
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by lackbeard 9y ago
For an alternate perspective you might find persuasive, I recommend you read through the following slide deck: http://www.sqlite.org/talks/wroclaw-20090310.pdf . (Relevant part starts on slide 80, but I recommend you st
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by lackbeard 9y ago
I avoid Safeway and Trader Joe's because the lines are so damn long...
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by lackbeard 9y ago
Isn't that what Fargate is, basically?
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by lackbeard 9y ago
The article isn't pushing for women to lower their standards. It's just describing the present situation and offering an explanation for how it came to be.
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by lackbeard 9y ago
> But for accomplished women who successfully traverse the waters of a mating pool unfairly stacked against them, mating triumph at the individual level typically takes precedence over loftier goals of reducing societal-level inequality
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by lackbeard 9y ago
If you're going to use a database that does not support these features then you should come up with a data model that does not rely on them. For example, instead of applying a bank account transfer as a database transaction that debits
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by lackbeard 9y ago
Yes, but that's Seattle's fault, not Amazon's.
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by lackbeard 9y ago
Yes, its much better than nothing, but it's also too little and too late.
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by lackbeard 9y ago
Correct. It's wrong to be angry towards their fellow residents who just want a place to live and work, like them. They should be angry at themselves and the representatives they elected for the governance that has gotten the city into
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by lackbeard 9y ago
> joining forces with the poor people against the landlords The poor in Seattle are actually mostly allied with the landlords politically in maintaining the zoning status-quo. This is what has led to the increasing housing prices.
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by lackbeard 9y ago
Yes, he means what you are calling sharding. Back in 2004 or 2005 when I first learned about "sharding" it was introduced to me as partitioning.
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by lackbeard 9y ago
> sneakers have more intrinsic value to people than either MtG cards or Beanie Babies do I'm pretty sure MtG cards have a lot of intrinsic value to the people who play with them. Much more than collectable sneakers. Also, I don&#x27
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by lackbeard 9y ago
I think Japan is actually a counterpoint to your argument. Post WW2 was not when it became a first-world economy. I'm pretty sure that when it first industrialized in the late 19th century, it did so under free-trade. (Its government w
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by lackbeard 9y ago
Masters Of Doom - The value of an unbalanced life and focused hard work. Also, how to start a startup. A really fun read, to boot. Fooled By Randomness - a) Survivorship bias. b) If you look at revealed preferences, people choose regular sm
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by lackbeard 9y ago
Go, Erlang, Elixer, Haskell, Clojure, Scala.
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by lackbeard 9y ago
Your claim is that Node was popular because people were excited about writing servers using 100% non-blocking I/O? I guess I agree that's a part of it but we should note that in 99.5% of those cases the servers would've perfo
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by lackbeard 9y ago
Everything sucks becauase tech is no longer a niche market for nerds. You're no longer in the target audience... I feel your pain.
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by lackbeard 9y ago
> is there a way for me to introduce solutions to problems that may require more technical expertise, to better not only myself but the company as well? Please do not think this way. You're there to solve business problems. Not to b
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by lackbeard 9y ago
That's a perfectly valid way to make a game and doesn't detract from how good or bad it is. Choosing what parts to keep and what parts to remove and then executing is not obvious or easy. You could say the exact same thing about L
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by lackbeard 9y ago
MOBA is a bad genre label used to distinguish games like Dota and League of Legends from RTSs like Starcraft. It's a concept that is completely orthogonal from providing a matchmaking service with your game.
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by lackbeard 9y ago
Not sure how you can say Relic has no track record... Homeworld, Dawn of War, and Company of Heroes were all very successful games.
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by lackbeard 9y ago
So he's appeasing the if-you're-not-with-us-you're-against-us bullies? That's sad, if true...

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