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by nocman 11y ago
I think you didn't read my post very carefully. I'm not confusing those terms at all. I said: "I am usually thinking of the match itself, rather than the design of the game". By which I mean pretty much exactly what you
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by nocman 11y ago
Definition: What Is Balance? A multiplayer game is balanced if a reasonably large number of options available to the player are viable--especially, but not limited to, during high-level play by expert players. Interesting. I think of &#x
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by nocman 11y ago
"Having this information public denotes a second-class citizen measure" Actually it denotes "not being a citizen at all "? It's got nothing to do with being second class. If you are here on an H1B, you're n
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by nocman 11y ago
Don is such an interesting and humble person -- and oh so very sharp. I ran into this short video after watching the music one, which shows what a very hard worker he was and still is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=95
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Donald Knuth – “I was scared and wanted to prove myself”(youtube.com)
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by nocman 11y ago
Yes, 1000 times yes! I know the author has a lot to say, but even after patiently wading through the first few paragraphs I was not prepared to invest any more time in figuring out what was so great about this project. The article title wa
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by nocman 11y ago
The only downside to Clozure CL that I found was the fact that it requires SSE2 instruction support from the processor. There are still some processors around that don't support that -- which can be a bummer if you want to use Clozure
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by nocman 12y ago
Wow, I've never even heard of IRI. Guess that proves your point :-D
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by nocman 12y ago
I, for one, do not want to die because I worked so hard. We call those people workaholics. I want to be good, but not dead. :-D
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by nocman 12y ago
Wow, I must have bad timing. I've had an account here for almost all of those, and I think I was probably lurking for the 1 or 2 occurrences when I did not have an account, but don't remember seeing it before. Or perhaps senility
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by nocman 12y ago
Wow, now there's a guy guaranteed to have his name mispronounced 99% of the time (well, at least by people who have never heard it spoken). [ edited for typo ]
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by nocman 12y ago
Actually that's not entirely true. There are a lot of places in the U. S. at least that still have very poor to no cell phone coverage, but do have landlines. In most of these places, calling to anywhere but the area around the neare
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by nocman 12y ago
Um, I'm assuming that you are purposefully avoiding mentioning Paul Graham's name. You know, they guy who wrote the software that runs the site on which you are posting your comment. :-D (wasn't sure if you were trying to b
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by nocman 12y ago
If only there was someone to restore balance to the universe ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jh4Mpgbi4A :-D
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by nocman 12y ago
Unless your business requires software which only runs on Windows, and using cygwin allows you to do a lot of things better on Windows, and lets you do a lot of things cross platform that would be a waste of time to implement two ways. I&
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by nocman 12y ago
Perhaps he grew up on a farm. :-D That kind of discussion (and much worse) often occurs at the breakfast table on many farms without anyone ever batting an eye.
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by nocman 12y ago
Yeah, I hear what you are saying. Some of the comparison seems like simple "mine is better than yours" childishness and elitism. However, I don't think all of the comparisons are without value, and I would not want all of
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by nocman 12y ago
Silly me, I thought this essay was going to be about Ron Popeil ( http://www.ronco.com ). Cue the obligatory Weird Al reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BX56syrmWQ "It slices.." "It dices..
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by nocman 12y ago
For anyone wanting to read the Geoff Wozniak post quoted in the article, here's the archive.org link: https://web.archive.org/web/20150105063342/http://wozniak.ca... Perhaps he removed the original
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by nocman 12y ago
I'm assuming you meant to say the "Linux/BitKeeper" mess. McVoy is the BitKeeper guy.
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by nocman 12y ago
I believe there is a very good reason that they did not recognize Jesus. I believe what the text says. The scripture in question is Luke 24:13-35. The two disciples did not recognize Jesus because Jesus hid his identity from them supernat
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by nocman 12y ago
Well, in fairness (strictly going by that article) it didn't have to mean "virgin" -- but it sometimes did: "Almah (עלמה, plural: alamot עלמות) is a Hebrew word meaning a young woman of childbearing age who has not yet
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by nocman 12y ago
"I apologize if what I said offended you in anyway" No need to apologize (though I do appreciate the civility). I was not offended -- I just did not want anyone to think that my beliefs were based on no evidence, because that is
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by nocman 12y ago
And similarly, with all due respect to you, I am convinced that you are definitely wrong. (I'm not being snarky, here. The "with all due respect" phrase in entirely sincere).
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by nocman 12y ago
No. My views are not based on any "leap of faith". A "leap of faith" implies that a person is believing in the absence of any evidence -- and that is by no means true of me. Eyewitness testimony is used every day in c
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by nocman 12y ago
Based on what God has revealed. I am convinced by the scriptures (the Bible) which includes eyewitness testimony of the things Jesus said and did. If anyone is genuinely interested, I would suggest you read the gospel of John, and decide f
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by nocman 12y ago
"Lunatic and Legend are far far far more likely options, which require no appeal to supernatural claims." I respectfully disagree. I believe that Jesus is exactly who He said he was -- the Great I Am -- God in the flesh. I have
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by nocman 12y ago
Yes, but the prophecy that Jesus fulfilled by being born of a virgin was from the Old Testament (Isaiah 7:14), not the New Testament . (the Old Testament was written in Hebrew) https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?
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by nocman 12y ago
Yes, and I am fully aware of reasonable subsets of C++. However, there are multiple other languages that I would rather program in -- although there are still places where I would chose to use C or C++. I was mostly disappointed that when I
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by nocman 12y ago
I'm not exactly new here. I figured some might not like the "hahaha...", but I don't really care. That's exactly what I did when I read the parent comment. I didn't just leave it at the onomatopoeia -- I made

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