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by madrox 4y ago
As someone who also used Hypercard, I tend to agree. There's a reason we aren't still talking about Hypercard today the way it was talked about then, but it was a different time. We were so much more enamored with software's
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by madrox 4y ago
I tend to agree with you. Hard to unpack all this nuance in an HN comment. I've found that there's a middle ground between "making" a child do something and being involved in their life.
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by madrox 4y ago
There's a lot here to unpack, but I don't believe this is a red flag. CS is not a "gimme" major. If he's continuing to pursue it and the college isn't weeding him out, then he's clearly doing alright and h
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by madrox 4y ago
I believe they updated the EULA long before that, but Reforged got a lot of press about it since it represents such a contrast between yesterday's games and today's.
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by madrox 4y ago
In another place and time, a similar circumstance is what led Blizzard to unintentionally provide the tools for inspiring the MOBA genre, which spawned League of Legends and DOTA2. That altered games forever. You'll notice few games sh
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by madrox 4y ago
You beat me to this comment. That's not even the most dubious thing on this page. No revenue cuts? Make money day one without viewers? I don't understand where the incentives are here. I suspect there isn't any tech at all ye
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by madrox 4y ago
We haven't seen a paradigm shift in search since 2000 when Google came on the scene. If y'all don't remember what it was like back then, it unlocked a new era in information retrieval. It made other engines like Alta Vista ir
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by madrox 4y ago
Ed Catmull calls this "feeding the beast" and it's one of the biggest barriers to innovation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LafDex0L7FM
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by madrox 4y ago
If you can't be a shining example, at least be a terrible warning. I laughed.
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by madrox 4y ago
I don't think that's a fediverse problem. Nothing is stopping a server from implementing OpenID or some other centralized identity solution. However, these things don't happen for a reason.
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by madrox 4y ago
This is arguably a client issue and not a federation issue. In the days of instant messaging we had no problem managing our AIM, ICQ, MSN, etc all in Trillian. We manage lots of accounts all the time anyway. The alternative is we revive Ope
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by madrox 4y ago
Finally "enhance enhance enhance" won't just be a meme from CSI.
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by madrox 4y ago
This is not a bug. It's a feature. You see this today in subreddits, twitch channels, and discord servers, and the community is better for it. Places with community moderation have higher levels of engagement. I'm one of those peo
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by madrox 4y ago
Factor into this the consolidation of so many industries, and if you happen to run afoul of one company you've effecively become a pariah. Getting banned from Google is bad enough. There is certainly a line that needs to be drawn, sinc
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by madrox 4y ago
This is something I'd love to see built into the OS. I don't want multiple desktops as much as I want the ability to zoom around a giant desktop.
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by madrox 4y ago
Yes, this is a real thing that will happen. However, this is no different than a popular website like, say, HN, linking to someone's hack project and giving it the hug of death. This stuff happens, and if any operational element boils
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by madrox 4y ago
I'm reminded of ramen restaurants I've visited that tell stories about their broth and its origins, mentioning that it's been simmering for decades. Some of the more famous ramen places I've visited have gone so far as t
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by madrox 4y ago
We should all care about bad developers because if they make bad products sooner or later you or I will use one! Bad developers are the ones who store your password credentials and personal information in plain text. We should all care abou
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by madrox 4y ago
I've heard it differently, but is a corollary: bad tools make it easy for bad developers to do bad things. Good tools make it easy for bad developers to do good things.
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by madrox 4y ago
I remember those days before snowflake and Blaine was desperately trying to keep the lights on. It's why no one had time to talk to us (marketers and related disciplines) back then. Even Facebook said "all our focus is on acquirin
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by madrox 4y ago
In another subthread, we realized my memory was wrong and we were measuring millisecond collisions. The serving ID imbalance was a side-effect. Also, it might've been an int16 I was thinking of but turns out the whole thing was shadows
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by madrox 4y ago
A little of both. I was working in social media analytics, and we were collecting everything we could to understand how to communicate the value of this new medium to businesses who could use twitter for marketing. This was still in an era
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by madrox 4y ago
This is awesome and completely retconning a 10 year old project for me. I was working on social media analytics at Disney and we were exploring ways to measure twitter conversation of our brands, which led to us attempting to estimate total
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by madrox 4y ago
Awesome to hear from someone on the other side of the API with knowledge of this. This is ringing bells for me. Yeah, the id parameter was how we knew how many servers there were, and we saw more assignment in some servers than others that
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by madrox 4y ago
A long time ago we discovered Twitter used a round robin of three servers for assigning IDs to tweets. We inferred the round robin was done by doing mod 3 of a signed int32, and because that space doesn't divide neatly by two it meant
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by madrox 4y ago
I was nodding along in the introduction, rolling my eyes in cognitive artifacts, and sighing in the conclusion. It seems like math educators still loathe students use calculators, and I find the reasoning has major blindspots. Competitive a
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by madrox 4y ago
I fail to see how the means of acquiring exclusivity matters if the outcome is the same. Would this feel different if Microsoft slowly acquired exclusivity of these franchises over 20 years instead of in a single day?
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by madrox 4y ago
While I don't disagree, companies don't get points if their monopolies are home grown vs acquired. Xbox arguably doesn't have the same level of compelling exclusives that Playstation does. The FTC saying this will harm compet
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by madrox 4y ago
The idea would be you would travel without your bike and use one provided by the organizer. That's what other esports do. There's still advantages to the esport, such as not needing to close public roads, design tracks that don&#x
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by madrox 4y ago
FTC is blocking this on grounds that Microsoft would acquire a lot of franchises they could turn into platform exclusives. I'm curious what the FTC thinks of Sony then, and the number of studios they've acquired over the years to

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