nihilocrat

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by nihilocrat 18y ago
These days we have the advantage of popular open source licenses, and thus there is a strong culture of "if the source is available, it's okay to write improvements and re-release it. In fact, the source should always be available and free
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by nihilocrat 18y ago
Scroll up a bit, by the looks of the comments it seems like it's another case of "clueless journalist makes a hokey-sounding story about a real technology". This is why I don't generally ever read online articles about technology written by
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by nihilocrat 18y ago
It actually depends on which game you are talking about, but it's true that the majority of MMO makers are very anti-bot. Undoubtedly, Blizzard is not having an issue with botting itself, they are having an issue with a tool which can be us
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by nihilocrat 18y ago
I'd argue that you have a leg up being an immigrant. When American tech workers think of "immigrant" it is very probable they interpret that as "some guy who is better than me, works longer hours, requires less pay, and has no capacity for
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by nihilocrat 18y ago
Ok, I'm calling foul here. I had a friend who was trying to buy some new RAM for his older system. He is not super-nerdy so he took the RAM stick to Best Buy to see if they sold a similar module, or could at least tell him what sort of RAM
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by nihilocrat 18y ago
Hey, I remember reading that post (I subscribe to Bram's blog). I had never heard of Mark Cuban before, so I ended up only remembering him because he is terrible at writing.
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by nihilocrat 18y ago
I pretty much agree with your core idea here; "not having a 401k forces you to take care of your own retirement savings". However, it seems like you think that saving for retirement is completely stupid. I don't mean to insult, but it sound
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by nihilocrat 18y ago
They misspelled Howard Coble's name. They said "Howard Cobble".
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by nihilocrat 18y ago
You could always code a shareware video game. Thanks to the recent resurgence of indie games, it can actually be quite profitable if you manage to make a really good one.
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by nihilocrat 18y ago
I think a lot of mac users (no, not me) would like to have a word with you about putting everything in one main window. This is completely anecdotal, but I remember hearing a few mac users enjoy the fact that its apps tend to follow the 'lo
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by nihilocrat 18y ago
A more positive way of expressing the sentiment might be "manufacturers will find a way of improving performance, though the gains might be harder to capitalize on than clock speeds or core count". Either way, given that the industry can't
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by nihilocrat 18y ago
Here's a link to a better version of the story: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081001-blizzard-award... Most important part, in my opinion: "This is troubling and creates a chilling precedent. It basically says that the copy of th
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by nihilocrat 18y ago
working for an MMO company, I've come to the conclusion that there are a significant number of people who enjoy the current MMO model. I compare it somewhat to crack cocaine (yeah, real creative, right?); you can complain all you want about
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by nihilocrat 18y ago
Yeah, I bet those 'stingy savers' didn't go to college, and thus accrue the student loans that are practically required to get an education these days.
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by nihilocrat 18y ago
Don't forget about its predecessor, <a href=" http://www.goontower.com/ ">goontower</a>.
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by nihilocrat 18y ago
This guy (I mean whoever did it, not necessarily who the article purports did it) is ultimately pretty dumb; it's one thing to point out "it is easy to break into a public figure's Yahoo email because the security questions rely entirely on
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by nihilocrat 18y ago
Oh cool, the Hacker News community has gotten so big that people are coming out of the woodwork and saying that they're "hardcore" and don't like some of these new people that are diluting the content. They are telling the new kids on the b
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by nihilocrat 18y ago
Your headline is wrong, it's "Ted Dziuba, that guy who swears a lot while making macho comments about technology, slams x, y, and z". That's not to say his arguments don't have merit, just take it with a grain of salt because he's getting a
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by nihilocrat 18y ago
some dude on NPR (an interviewee, not an NPR employee) said that they should have gotten into agriculture or energy.
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by nihilocrat 18y ago
First reaction: Uh... someone is posting on Hacker News about... some anal retentive dude cleaning a car? Is this some sort of circlejerk for neat freaks or QA engineers? Now, after reading some comments: Okay, I can see how it's a little i
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by nihilocrat 18y ago
You see, I was about to make a snide little "too much jazz and hip styling and not enough, well, stuff I haven't seen before" comment, but when they put the "we need 21st century BASIC" wrapper around it, it sounds nice as a toy / prototype
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by nihilocrat 18y ago
I would agree with most people here that you should take a vacation of some sort, and make sure it's something that's going to really take you out of your element. Anything that keeps you away from the internet is a good idea; going sailing
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by nihilocrat 18y ago
Oh cool, another one of those 'them darn yunguns ain't made right' articles! “Because this generation has been so coddled,” says Michael Wilder, pointing to Yers’ ever-present boomer parents, “when they do have to make a decision on their o
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by nihilocrat 19y ago
I think they're barking up the wrong tree. Knowing a vast amount of theoretical CS knowledge might make you good at implementing the fastest possible algorithm, but more and more that sort of programming is only seen in applications where t