lgieron

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   by lgieron 14y ago

   I've read about studies [1] which shown that boys and girls under 1 year old already show preferences which we attribute with stereotypical gender roles (boys were more appealed to mechanical objects while girls were more interested in hum
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   by lgieron 14y ago

   There are is a (well-backed by arguments) viewpoint that, in order for the capitalism in its current form to work, some portion of the population just needs to get screwed.
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   by lgieron 14y ago

   As I understand it, in Polish law documents signed with XMLDSig (with a qualified certificate) are as good as paper ones. I'm not sure how much it's used in pratice outside transacting with governemnt (filing taxes etc.)
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   by lgieron 14y ago

   "Freelance work" is an extremely broad term, so it's hard to answer. Taxes are 100%-country dependent, so you'll need to research it on country-per-country basis. For example, in Poland I pay 9% on everything up to ~$28k, then 14% on the ne
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   by lgieron 14y ago

   I have no problem at all with SSH (SSH-ing from Poland to us-east EC2 machines), so it probably varies by country/ISP.
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   by lgieron 14y ago

   Well nothing prevents the game designer from implementing similar mechanics (lots of smallish randomized events in each game which will lead to variance reduction)
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   by lgieron 14y ago

   I'm not convinced of that. In either case, the random element just makes the game tree larger. What I like about randomness, is that adding it makes each of the individual games a unique story, which can have a great appeal (just look at t
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   by lgieron 14y ago

   Magic:the Gathering and Poker have lots of randomness in them and yet they're both very successful competitive games.
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   by lgieron 14y ago

   > I agree that the best developers will probably seek to emigrate I think the truly best developers will stay in their countries while earning States-level wages via telecommuting. Why pay $1500/mo in rent when you can pay $300?
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    by lgieron 14y ago

    > 40x rent for a 3-bedroom (family) apartment in SF is $120,000 a year I know plenty of families (with kids) who live in 1-bedroom apartments (in Poland). 3-bedroom apartment are considered lavish.
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    by lgieron 14y ago

    Hey, I'm in similar situation (also located in Poland, doing remote work for a US-based company). I'm currently using PayPal for money transfer, mostly because it's instantaneous and easy to both deposit (for the client) and withdraw (for m
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    by lgieron 14y ago

    As a person interested in developing games, I'd like to ask what's the aggravating factor here - the fact that many EA games require to be always online or the fact that EA's servers can't handle the load? I'm guessing the latter is the rea
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    by lgieron 14y ago

    I think you might have nailed it. Unfortunately, my eyesight is less than perfect - for example currently my screens are closer than arms's length from my eyes (granted, I have pretty long arms). So, in my case, the bigger monitors would f
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    by lgieron 14y ago

    Something similar was also used by C64 cracker groups adding their intros to cracked games. Before the intro ran, user saw a few seconds of random characters on screen - most likely a buffer for a decompression algorithm. In this was case i
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    How are the 30 inch monitors working out for you?

    9 points by lgieron 14y ago|13 comments
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    by lgieron 14y ago

    I think everyone agrees that dictatorship is superior to democracy IF the dictator is (and remains in the future) competent and also a decent human being. Maybe that's the state in Singapore right now?
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    by lgieron 14y ago

    In communist Poland it was basically the same... The ruling cronies didn't care about you as long as you didn't threaten their power.
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    by lgieron 14y ago

    I always thought the Microsoft makes money with server-side .NET by making people buy expensive Windows server licences. The whole .NET platform can be viewed as a "feature" of their server products, differentiating them from Unix-family al
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    by lgieron 14y ago

    You found it a bit odd that he's not cynical?
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    by lgieron 14y ago

    Why don't they just sale their goods at lower prices? No need to fiddle with artificial (non-gold-backed) currencies.
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    by lgieron 14y ago

    In Poland, the government does fund startups. It tends to draw all kinds of scam artists which will take the gov money and create some kind of hopeless facebook-for-dogs website just to satisfy formal requirements. The funding system is des
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    by lgieron 14y ago

    I write production code in Scala on a daily basis and compilation time is a non-issue for me - the project is compiled in the background (by Scala Eclipse plugin) so fast that I rarely have to wait for it at all.
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    by lgieron 14y ago

    Less than $100 a month on food? Is this even possible (I'm not from the US) without serious malnutrition?
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    by lgieron 14y ago

    Is there some support for Maven, like generating Idea project from a pom file?
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    by lgieron 14y ago

    Exactly! We just raise corporate taxes so high that the money collected can support unemployed masses, thus reaching the long sought after ideal of work being the option and not the necessity. Each person will have the choice to either work
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    by lgieron 14y ago

    Hey, that's what I'm bootstraping myself into right now - I'm currently three months into my first data science consultancy job (more on the programming/infrastructure side of things - extracting/preparing data, launching large distributed
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    by lgieron 14y ago

    I'm thinking lawyers might, by the nature of their profession, provide more value than devs though, since they can keep you out of jail or prevent you from being seriously screwed in a deal, while a dev is mostly just increasing your revenu
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    by lgieron 14y ago

    On a related issue, I'd like to know if there's market for security (mostly appsec I guess) freelancers working remotely? The area interests me, but I have limited time I could contribute to it if it were only a hobby; OTOH, if it could one
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    by lgieron 14y ago

    IMO homelessness doesn't really set you free, as you still need to provide for your body's needs (basic safety, food, protection from weather, hygiene, medicine). I can imagine it being a constant source of stress.
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    by lgieron 14y ago

    You know, that's exactly the kind of response you'd expect from a cluster of reps fronted as "Jeff Barr" ;))) (jk, jk)