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by mindstab 12y ago
Ahhh now MS's $2B buyout makes more sense!
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by mindstab 12y ago
Eleanor Saitta ‏@Dymaxion 6m Let's be clear in talking about that scary fine: Yahoo could pay $250k a day for a decade with cash on hand. Sorry, make that 300 years, if they wanted to push it.
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by mindstab 12y ago
I don't get it. Mojang already made "all the money" from selling minecraft and are largely maintaining it now. I haven't heard if they even have any new games on the way? The space one was cancelled. What exactly is MS p
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by mindstab 12y ago
> Languages don't matter. Platforms matter. APIs matter. Playing nicely with the rest of the world fucking matters. Common Lisp wouldn't. this. playing with CL inside CL is fun and nice. As soon as you try to interface with the
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by mindstab 12y ago
yeah but then there is badusb http://www.wired.com/2014/07/usb-security/ which attacks the usb firmware on devices. ANY data communication and your usb device/port itself can get hacked the usb condom mi
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Basic Income: Bots are going to force the issue(danballard.com)
15 points by mindstab 12y ago|1 comments
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by mindstab 12y ago
If people want to get high, they will find a way. For me, "Jenkem" is the ultimate argument ender https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem Fermented human waste in tupper ware in the sun for a day or two. How can
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The Hidden Damage From Geomagnetic Storms(medium.com)
1 points by mindstab 12y ago|0 comments
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by mindstab 12y ago
Ok so I won't be writing engine code necessarily in Swift. Or servers. But I'm not sure that's what it's for in the first place. How about user facing apps? Haven't we been through this a billion times on language o
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by mindstab 12y ago
Eleanor Saitta (@Dymaxion) had a few things to say about this on Twitter: On the one hand, I'm happy Google is trying to make GPG usable within GMail: https://code.google.com/p/end-to-end/ . On the other hand
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by mindstab 12y ago
turned shadowdead posts on for a sec and checked his history. he sounds like a troll of a schizophrenic or generally someone unwell, and WAY out of line with the normal standard of discourse here. Most of it is a junk. And even if there is
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by mindstab 12y ago
cus he still can't go home, or see his family, friends or anyone, and is in a precarious position with another super power and occasionally has to pawn along basically for his survival now. I doubt too many other people want to sacrifi
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by mindstab 12y ago
One of the assumed axioms of this argument is the the game industry is a zero-sum game, which it isn't at all in anyway. Now maybe it's not the flexibilist market and the low hanging fruit and easy stuff is much more saturated the
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by mindstab 12y ago
I can infer from that that I get presented with a choice, but it's not clear (especially on the main go page which is the scariest) that if I click that button it won't just start deleting my friends. You need to make it insanely
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by mindstab 12y ago
No I'm not granting an app with no details on how it works from random strangers access to my FB Also I think you misunderstand how some people use facebook. I use it as a long memory, address book, and passive way to keep in touch wit
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Codemancer: A Fantasy Game that Teaches the Magic of Code(kickstarter.com)
2 points by mindstab 12y ago|0 comments
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by mindstab 12y ago
Good, because UPS needs to die. Of my last 3 orders with them: 1) was reported "left at door" of ... my apartment building? so I never saw it and I had to reorder at my cost 2) my ouya was again marked "left at door"...
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by mindstab 12y ago
Slightly aside, but I am glad to see my monthly donation to https://openmedia.ca (like a Canadian EFF) seems to be paying off as they are getting their name and their point into big Canadian media :)
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by mindstab 12y ago
I still like how these timelines are all about the big tech companies and not about governments, services and banks etc. These are arguably where some of the biggest risk targets are actually at (see today's post about Canada governmen
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by mindstab 12y ago
"Naming a length variable ‘payload’ is borderline sociopathic"
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by mindstab 12y ago
Evidence? And if so, pretty much what we expected and exactly why this behaviour is terrible
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by mindstab 12y ago
Anyone want to host their mission critical project with a team that has 7/5 support as opposed to 24/7?
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by mindstab 13y ago
Did he ever say it was a mistake, did he ever apologize for it? no. he continually defended his right to do it and believe what he believes. That's about as far from a mistake as you can get.
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Suspension of NASA contact with Russian entities(spaceref.com)
64 points by mindstab 13y ago|60 comments
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by mindstab 13y ago
Actually I'm quite ambivalent about it, I never used ubuntuOne. The problem is there is now precedent for this, and it's all secret. We can't know one way or the other about this or a ton of other stuff. It's more a com
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by mindstab 13y ago
Maybe the NSA came for their files and they don't want to shill on their users but also got one of those security letters so they can't say anything about it. Maybe this is a heroic move for us against the US government and we&#x2
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by mindstab 13y ago
What is the music? is it an original creation? or a remix? because it reminds me very heavily of star control 2
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by mindstab 13y ago
I read it as facebook wanting to leapfrog google hangouts and skype and become the first next gen video chat client/platform. Games is now a side secondary thing.
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by mindstab 13y ago
gotta say it, one of the reasons Dropbox is king is good support for all platforms. Box still ignores Linux so it's a no go for me personally, and my work.
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by mindstab 13y ago
"So I do not insist that anyone agree with me on a great many things, including political issues, and I refrain from putting my personal beliefs in others’ way in all matters Mozilla, JS, and Web. I hope for the same in return." O

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