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by mungoid 9y ago
Oh yeah, I definitely know people do. There wouldn't be so much advertising out there if visitors didn't click them. I'm just generally a little overly suspicious about ads because they can be 'phishy'. That and, li
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by mungoid 9y ago
It seems so strange to me that there is such an ever increasing push to get people to click ads when I can't tell you a single person I know that ever actually clicks one on purpose. If I see an ad for something I just search it instea
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by mungoid 9y ago
Wouldn't something like Pi-Hole be a good network-wide way to manage this tracking? I know plugins are convenient but they all have to intercept and modify css/etc coming in on the fly which can lead to slower page loads. Plus I&#
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by mungoid 9y ago
I started with arduino a few years ago as a hobby and loved it as an easy way to get into the field but lately I have been realizing how many terrible habits I've obtained by learning this way. It took me weeks to retrain my brain to
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by mungoid 9y ago
Huh.. This was one question i have always wondered but never thought to look up even after 15 years of coding..
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by mungoid 9y ago
I dont think i have ever put contacts in with dry fingers. I always have them wet from faucet. So thanks.. Thanks for adding one more very rare thing for me to be constantly afraid of.
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by mungoid 10y ago
True. But I am pretty sure that the effort, passion, frustration, long nights, etc. that developers and designers put into those games are the same today as what Michelangelo went through while painting the ceiling. An impatient Pope consta
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by mungoid 10y ago
>And for many, later in their life, they feel they picked the "wrong" priorities. That, right there, is exactly what im feeling currently. It all started as a hobby some years ago and I got an opportunity to turn it into a care
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by mungoid 10y ago
Nah, I dont think its strange in this day and age. To me it's infuriating, but it is all about that bottom line, man. Maximize profits, lower overhead, vertical acuity, do more with less, faster, more, grow grow grow! Plus if you contr
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by mungoid 10y ago
Totally true. I'm only 34, but the the increasing number of grey hairs I have is mostly attributed to this exact thing. Stockholm Syndrome is pretty close too because I stayed at my former company for longer than I should have, because
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by mungoid 10y ago
Yep, exactly! I was in pretty much in the same boat as you, and almost every project we got or worked on ended up coming from other contracting companies that were in over their head. I think that right there is the biggest issue of contrac
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by mungoid 10y ago
There is, but the problem with that is people get drained doing boring software over and over for years. No passion, no motivation, etc. Believe it or not, most people dont care about making a ton of money. Making a good income doing someth
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by mungoid 10y ago
What makes this so frustrating for game developers looking for work (or people wanting to get into the field) is that it is really difficult to find the names of those contract companies. Most dont even think to look for something like thi
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by mungoid 10y ago
I knew someone was gonna beat me to this!
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by mungoid 10y ago
I want more people like this domain owner in the world
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by mungoid 10y ago
Yeah that's definitely true, and it is what makes me question a lot of why they do what they do and distrust it generally. But would it be better if a company was vastly more powerful than the government? Actually, I think some compan
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by mungoid 10y ago
I cant speak for other countries, but why do American people seem to trust companies more than they do the government? I mean, it is completely known that companies are here to make money, and publicly traded companies are here to please th
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by mungoid 10y ago
Soo, how different is this new game engine since it a offshoot of the crytek engine? Is it going to add another x years to the development? Because it took my company almost a whole year to switch engines for a game that is a tiny fraction
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by mungoid 10y ago
About once a year I get a hankering to mess with disassembling something but usually after countless screenshots, open tabs, notes, etc. I remember that I am terribly slow with assembly.
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by mungoid 10y ago
I just now learned about this DB and was intrigued but havent researched much about the cons yet, so I am curious to hear your thoughts about the file size?
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by mungoid 10y ago
I was actually a bit surprised when these were banned in the first place. They had an age range, warned to not swallow, and there are thousands of other toys out there that are as dangerous if swallowed. Well, maybe not as dangerous but sti
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The ban on bucky balls has been lifted(popsci.com)
2 points by mungoid 10y ago|1 comments
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by mungoid 10y ago
Totally agree. I use 3ds Max a lot for work and I have modified as much as possible in those settings to work like blender. It baffles everyone else I work with.
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by mungoid 10y ago
Before 2.5 I hated the UI. But after 2.5, I realized I could work so much faster once I learned the keys and layout. I have used 3ds Max for years and even knowing a lot about that software, I still find myself exporting to blender so I can
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by mungoid 10y ago
I actually JUST left my company this week to do freelancing for this exact reason. They tell you to not work over 40 but then they give you more work than you can reasonably get done in a normal work week so what do you do? Either get behin
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by mungoid 10y ago
I'm willing to bet its more because other defense contractors that have a longer history with the government want them to buy their much more expensive equipment than some new company that isn't 'in' with the decision ma
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by mungoid 10y ago
I was just getting ready to ask HN about this when I happneed across this article. I learned advanced(ish) math the hard way, depth first from a coding pov, and not really having a handle on some core concepts, so reading math formulas was
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Math for Programmers (2006)(steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
3 points by mungoid 10y ago|1 comments
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by mungoid 10y ago
This sounds like the perfect opportunity for some researchers to create nanobots or something to act like spinnerettes. Wonder if there has been any such thing?
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by mungoid 10y ago
What about new diseases that are discovered between now and then?

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