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by nihilocrat 16y ago
Good thing I live in Canada, where they will slavishly adopt this practice maybe two or three years from now.
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by nihilocrat 16y ago
It's also a site frequented by people working salaried jobs and moderately successful freelancers who will never, ever see more than perhaps $100,000 in their bank accounts at any one moment for their entire lives. Thus, we may be thinking
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by nihilocrat 16y ago
Just noticing a similarity... The housing crisis was somewhat caused by people not thinking of houses as places to live, but devices to make money (see: house-flipping). The long-term growth problem is somewhat caused by people not thinking
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by nihilocrat 16y ago
This is a much better example of games you might actually see on flash portals, done in HTML5: http://www.kesiev.com/akihabara/
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by nihilocrat 16y ago
I'm curious... what happens to completely nonsensical and spurious patents like these? Does anyone actually treat them seriously? Is it just the case that filing a patent is cheap enough that they might as well file patents for any idea on
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by nihilocrat 16y ago
I think all the hubbub is because the browser has dominated computing in the past decade. Being able to play a game on both your web browser and your smartphone with only minor changes (input, screen scaling, and perhaps locked fps) is a bi
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by nihilocrat 16y ago
Every time my wife says something about biology or chemistry I realize how easy I have it because I only ever studied and worked with shifting bits around to create an imaginary world. Actually having to deal with physical limitations at ev
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by nihilocrat 17y ago
It's not really a joke, but it might be a reference to an analogy in Neal Stephenson's essay "In the Beginning was the Command Line" ( http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html ) where he compares Windows, Mac, and Linux to car dealership
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by nihilocrat 17y ago
I'm okay with waiting, but I'm just wondering why a site that's about leaking things is holding a carrot in front of us. I have a strange feeling that the video is not as juicy as we're lead to believe, and it's just a publicity stunt, whic
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by nihilocrat 17y ago
If they supposedly have the video, why don't they just release it?
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by nihilocrat 17y ago
This happens fairly often on gaming-related forums. It usually works like this: http://www.eegra.com/show/sub/do/browse/cat/comics/id/82 (NSFW) However, sometimes these games get completed, and I really do hope for the best.
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by nihilocrat 17y ago
I had the same reaction. Honestly, I don't think you are missing anything, this is like an oil baron saying he's set for life because his oil rig is pumping out enough money today so that he doesn't have to work. For some reason he forget
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by nihilocrat 17y ago
If I had a dime for every science fiction story with super-realistic spaceflight yet also with completely unexplained "ansible" technology that allows instantaneous communication with anyone in the universe....
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by nihilocrat 17y ago
I have a simple, genuine question. Why do smart people from countries with the highest quality of life in the world want to immigrate to the US?
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by nihilocrat 17y ago
Hope this is successful! There's a pronounced lack of incubators or "angel" funding sources for independent game developers.
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by nihilocrat 17y ago
Years. Months, if you know what you're doing (you've already finished a few games).
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by nihilocrat 17y ago
You forgot the parts where he blames the Catholic Church. The general feeling I get from this is that the guy cares way too much about money and tit-for-tat.
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by nihilocrat 17y ago
Taking it down anyways does, however, show that they explicitly disagree that the information should be published for the reasons you state.
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by nihilocrat 17y ago
"I have this great idea for a *video game*, I just need someone to build it. How do I find a *coder* and build this *video game* in a couple months?". This happens so often on gamedev-related forums it's depressing. Pure beginners o
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by nihilocrat 17y ago
If I understand correctly, that's probably the stupidest way of learning a language I've ever seen. Even the classic "learn like a kid would" methodology wouldn't suggest that you learn by mastering pronunciation months before even learning
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by nihilocrat 17y ago
That's basically what I was thinking, and it's so fundamentally obvious it's painful to think anyone would be surprised or wonder why people don't want to spend their lives in their no-name hellhole hick town. I grew up in the suburbs of va
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by nihilocrat 17y ago
I took a look at Chapter 6 (about thumbs) and noticed something that I get a very different signal from. There's a picture of a woman with her hands in her pockets with the thumbs exposed. The writer suggests this is a sign of authority, bu
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by nihilocrat 17y ago
Precisely. This is nothing new. Go to a park with a dog or a guitar (that you can play, of course). See what happens versus going there to just take a walk.
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by nihilocrat 17y ago
I saw this a few days ago on a French site and also wondered why they were complaining about typeface, especially when 80% of typefaces look almost identical except to graphic designers.
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by nihilocrat 17y ago
That's really strange. When I was just out of college no one took my work experience during college seriously, they all treated me like I was a clean slate even though I had about three years of part-time experience with two full-time summe
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by nihilocrat 17y ago
Has anyone seen a similar effect with UNIX / Linux admins in the pronunciation of /etc? Most newcomers say "et cetera", but veterans tend to say "et-see".
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by nihilocrat 17y ago
My first thoughts as well. It's about time someone with actual clout gave the mobile phone cartel the shaft. Yes, it's a cartel, when you pay $.50 a text message off your plan with all carriers there's gotta be some price fixing behind the
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by nihilocrat 17y ago
That could be very true, but it's not the point he's trying to make. He is using spending figures as if they were on equal footing: Just look at Texas, which spends 12 percent less per pupil with a similar kind of population but does signi
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by nihilocrat 17y ago
If you're just making games, you should just use one of the many free, cross-platform rendering engines (OGRE3D, Irrlicht, etc.) or a comprehensive game-maker (Unity or UDK). Both of these options abstract away OpenGL, Direct3D, shader impl
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by nihilocrat 17y ago
The quality of schools varies greatly from county to county, city to city. North Carolina has (apparently) excellent public schools... if you are in one of the major cities. I looked at his original article and I'm thinking there's some kin

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