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How I got a game on the Steam Store without anyone from Valve ever looking at it(medium.com)
1 points by mdip 11y ago|0 comments
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by mdip 11y ago
I agree with you on Gentoo. I loved the project from the rolling distribution standpoint and had run it for a while but long-term maintenance of it was a mess. I'd reserve a few hours for doing updates since every emerge would have m
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by mdip 11y ago
I've stuck with openSuSE/SuSE since the early days, and doing Tumbleweed since about when it surfaced. There are several reasons I didn't switch over to Ubuntu (and a few reasons I wanted to, but the pros outweigh the downsi
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by mdip 11y ago
Ah, yikes! Good point. One has to factor in not only the trading fees but the potential fees incurred in preparing ones taxes (or having them prepared by a third-party as many in the US usually do -- I wouldn't even want to know what
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by mdip 11y ago
Funny you mention that. When I left Digg, I started participating in Reddit because it was far more civil at the time. Thinking about interactions in the last several years across several sub-reddits, it's long suffered from the same
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by mdip 11y ago
Gotta say, this is one of the most frustrating parts of using Tor. For fun, I decided to try it out a few months ago after reading a few articles. Nearly every single site I went to visit required me to click on pictures of lakes, store fr
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by mdip 11y ago
And in the good old days almost nobody was trolled because the energy required to send a message via snail mail (starting with "do I even own stamps any longer"?) is several orders of magnitude higher than composing a one senten
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by mdip 11y ago
These are good points on dealing with trolling as an individual. Ignoring it is the best, and most often ignored, advice. It's too easy to get emotionally drawn into a trolling comment, which is why I've always liked the idea of
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by mdip 11y ago
This is what caused me to wonder if allowing trolls, but eliminating their conversation from everyone but other trolling users might be an option. Let them revel in the attention of their friends, but have that attention only serve to give
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by mdip 11y ago
I wish this were a silver bullet, and of course, nothing would completely be a silver bullet, but even in forums/comments that require the use of a "Real Name" (to the extent it can truly be enforced), it's clear that
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by mdip 11y ago
The only difference between today and say 2500 years ago is the speed of dissemination and little fear of being run through with a sword. I think, though, that it's a pretty huge difference. The speed with which someone can crap a
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by mdip 11y ago
I've wondered about this for a while. There's no shortage of dicks [1] on the Internet. It's too easy to spout off and attack someone online in a way you'd never do "in person" and there's plenty of peo
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The Amish use GMOs, you know(biofortified.org)
2 points by mdip 11y ago|0 comments
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by mdip 11y ago
I had a nice chat with a friend who provides services for the Amish community in northern Indiana. I didn't know much about the Amish community outside of "they're the ones who don't drive cars" and the Amish turke
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by mdip 11y ago
Ha. I don't know if I'd go quite that far, and I believe it has a bit more innocence behind it. Interpersonal, HR related issues are usually very low on the list of things your manager enjoys. Assuming you're well known
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by mdip 11y ago
they threw $100k extra a year on the table to keep me but I still left anyway That was a smart move, especially if your skill-set was unique in your company. I've given this advice more times than I can think and I've been ig
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by mdip 11y ago
That's certainly true, and for most of us in the US, it's also true that as an at-will employee at a company, you're only protected by what the law covers . The list of things it doesn't cover is long enough that it&#x
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by mdip 11y ago
I just switched back to that, actually. Months ago, my default browser was Firefox Developer Edition and uBlock Origin had a bug related to LastPass that caused LastPass to hang the browser so I had switched to ABP. Unfortunately, LastPass
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by mdip 11y ago
Exactly. I'll get a phone call every time when a piece of crapware causes videos to play on Google's normally spartan search page, or ransomware is asking for "... something called a 'Bitcoin'? I don't remember
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by mdip 11y ago
Sadly, I've always considered adblocking software a form of security software rather than a mere convenience. Years ago I had to remove a mess of malware from my parent's PC due to a malvertisement received via MSN[1]. Since tha
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by mdip 11y ago
the continued use of caffeine (even only to mitigate migraines) I agree with that statement. It would reduce them by about 80% but during the fall/spring when I would get many in a row, they'd be more intense and caffeine would
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by mdip 11y ago
I've had Migraine for the last 20 years of my life, on and off, about monthly in the summer/winter and 4-8/month in the spring and fall. The frequency of the problem actually caused me to write a Visual Studio plug-in so I c
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by mdip 11y ago
I discovered that if I only consumed caffeine when I had a Migraine headache, that it was the most effective medicine I could take provided I didn't already have a tolerance built up so I gave up caffeine in my 20s. Frankly, it was a l
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by mdip 11y ago
Interesting read that strikes home for me a bit. As a kid, my mom was a working mother -- a terribly unpopular choice in rural Michigan where we lived. My mom drove 30 minutes away from home to get me to a suitable child-care provider. Sh
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by mdip 11y ago
I can't imagine what they have a patent pending on. They could claim nobody has put all of these features into a single device, but I'd challenge even that. WiFi switches have been around for a long time and there's a myria
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by mdip 11y ago
I'm a little skeptical about this product having had experience with some of these WiFi plug devices and as echoed by others, the price of this device is much higher than it should be. I've been using Ankuoo and Maginon devices qu
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by mdip 11y ago
Maybe it's time for game developers like Epic to support Linux and make gamers choose Linux as their desktop In the current market, this assumes a few things that simply don't work. Platform adoption drives game software develo
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by mdip 11y ago
Maybe I missed it in reading the article but what, specifically, is not available to developers if they choose to write the application against the typical Win32 APIs? Are they, for instance, making certain hardware accelerated APIs only av
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by mdip 11y ago
I've got a couple of these WiFi switches (different brands and configuration) and most of them are variants of the Broadlink SP1/SP2 switches/plugs. They work by sending UDP packets between the device and the app, either over
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by mdip 11y ago
My approach to answering this comes down to a very simple phrase that explains my political beliefs succinctly "my rights begin where your rights end." I don't think anyone has any problem with people wanting to adhere to t

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