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by nihilocrat 16y ago
I'm skeptical that merely privatizing NASA or really any other public sector agency would automatically remove bureaucratic fluff, and that bureaucratic fluff is such a gargantuan problem at NASA that removing it would cause a miraculous in
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by nihilocrat 16y ago
I'm curious if anyone has worked for a company in Singapore, done lots of business with one, or better yet started one. By these rankings and the stereotypes I've learned it basically seems like a capitalist's paradise, with practically the
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by nihilocrat 16y ago
Probably almost none. It's very rare to find a gaming-related story on HN that gets any popularity, because the HN community overwhelmingly focuses on web development and getting/being filthy rich, which are both uncommon things in indie ga
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by nihilocrat 16y ago
On a similar note, Minecraft is written in... get this ... Java Which seems to be the dorkiest and most uncool language on the planet if you were to ask HN.
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by nihilocrat 16y ago
"Libre" is probably better understood in Europe to mean "free" in its intended "free as in speech" sense.
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by nihilocrat 16y ago
Or you could just make video games. Just be sure to finish them. The mantra in indie/hobby video game development is "finish your games, and if you can't finish, try making something simpler". See also: http://makegames.tumblr.com/post/113
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by nihilocrat 16y ago
It's posts like these that make me want to stop reading HN comments.
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by nihilocrat 16y ago
This is more than double the frame rate of Apple’s offering and is still 17 frames faster than the HTML 5 version on the same Nexus One. Everyone even relatively familiar with graphics rendering should involuntarily cringe when hearing co
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by nihilocrat 16y ago
I poked around to find the long-haired guy brandishing that controller, which led me to a page of some interesting snapshots of people from the early 70s SAIL: http://www.saildart.org/saildart_pix_1974/index.html If your imagination of wh
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by nihilocrat 16y ago
There's a data center in Lenoir, NC which they spun as a way of training and employing laid-off furniture / textile mill workers. The fact that this is in a paper mill shut down two years ago makes me think they would try to do something si
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by nihilocrat 16y ago
I'm a bit confused by the tone of this article. It sounds like the writer doesn't really understand the gaming industry, indie games, or the flash gaming market. plus sponsors are salivating with anticipation for his upcoming "games" which
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by nihilocrat 16y ago
(As an American) the first time I heard about people not going to university in Germany because they couldn't afford it I pretty much gave up all hope for humanity. Some people just don't know how lucky they are.
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by nihilocrat 16y ago
My company would be lost without institutional knowledge because it (unfortunately) doesn't document things very well and the problem solving methods rely on "tell x to fix it". Somehow we manage to survive when developers start to leave, t
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by nihilocrat 16y ago
We can extrapolate their intentions based on their history of actions, just like you can with real people or any other corporation / group of people. We can't predict with 100% veracity but we can have an educated expectation. Still, I'm mo
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by nihilocrat 16y ago
Well uh, Apple markets its products as being beyond Earth technology, extraterrestrial, life-changing, as if God himself had bestowed it upon us mere mortals... ... So yes, I don't think that's a ridiculous word to use.
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by nihilocrat 16y ago
I really wish we had a culture of portfolios like other professions do. Of course, it's hard to do this because of the nature of our work; the code we create every day is not only company property that is generally kept secret, but is very
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by nihilocrat 16y ago
This is pretty much why I hate the idea of applying for a job. Supposing I get the interview, based on my past experience there's at least a 80% chance I won't get the job. I never got feedback for any of my "no hires" so I just have to ass
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by nihilocrat 16y ago
People should be able to move to any country they want to so long as they work, pay taxes, and contribute to the economy, just like everyone else.
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by nihilocrat 16y ago
Because the kind of people that tend to make indie games don't have the money to keep themselves under a roof and fed without taking gainful full-time employment, which gets in the way of getting a game out in a timely manner since it's don
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by nihilocrat 16y ago
"they look for promising founders rather than good ideas." This is even more true in the gaming world. Everyone that's played a game has an idea for a game, a small number of them are actually very good ideas, a tiny fraction have been writ
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by nihilocrat 16y ago
"It is one of the main reasons we are able to offer funding terms that are better than anything else out there. Well, except maybe Canadian government funding, but we’re not all fortunate enough to be Canadian." Hells fucking yeah.
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by nihilocrat 16y ago
Does a question like "If George Washington had 20 white horses, how many grizzly bears did he own?" count? I always like those kind the best.
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by nihilocrat 16y ago
From a hiring standpoint, the industry is very inbred. Most new hires (except maybe in QA) in my company come from other companies. Our industry can bet that there are a fair deal of experienced (if only slightly) people out there who were
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by nihilocrat 16y ago
What do you do if in between if(condition) and return, there are a bunch of actions that modify state outside the function that, if condition is true, you'd never ever want to do?
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by nihilocrat 16y ago
I have some friends from college who made such a move. They said it's ridiculously expensive, rainy all the time (duh), and it gets much hotter in the summer than anyone wants to admit, because it's hard to find a place with A/C. Of course,
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by nihilocrat 16y ago
Apparently no one is moving OUTSIDE of the US! :B Guess that means I wasn't counted in this data.
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by nihilocrat 16y ago
I have an idea about model numbers involving gross overgeneralization: Asian cultures have a fetish for numbers. When working with a Korean company in the past, they would list their questions/answers in email in numbered lists; never bulle
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by nihilocrat 16y ago
On an indirectly related note, it helps if people hear your voice or see your picture. I find this podcast really interesting, because you hear stories from people who are otherwise just another name on the credits: http://irrationalgames
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by nihilocrat 16y ago
I was wondering the same. Perhaps it's because it's a very obvious statement? Apple routinely purport its products are perfect, that every detail is a facet of the best craftsmanship on Earth, use gaping-mouth words ("sooo perfect") and gig
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by nihilocrat 16y ago
This is an interesting article on the subject: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/05/dont_pay_your_fare_on...

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