novaleaf

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   by novaleaf 11y ago

   > I'm still not convinced that this form of protectionism is the only avenue to innovation. Protections of inventions (as loose as the term "invention" might be) isn't the only avenue to innovation, but it is an ave
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   by novaleaf 11y ago

   Also agree. needs more "meat". maybe add 30 seconds in the middle actually explaining the USP of this thing.
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   by novaleaf 11y ago

   I went all in on XNA, and got very, very burned. It taught me a great lesson though: don't be locked into any vendor. I'm very happy about the .NET and Typescript developments as of late, and use Typescript for my web coding. Bu
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   by novaleaf 11y ago

   i bought a house on redfin (my 2nd house) and if you are willing to put in time to scout out your house, it's a good cash savings. (which, probably you should, since you are going to live in it!) I ended up touring maybe 15 houses. Re
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   by novaleaf 11y ago

   supporting anecdote: while jogging in Seattle, I got hit by a cop car turning right on red. only fell to the ground, no injuries (except bumper marks!), but I could imagine a heavy car like that not even registering a little kid hitting i
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   by novaleaf 11y ago

   Indeed that was about 5 years ago. The problems generally were around assets getting out of sync, and occasionally corruption when uploading to the large-file storage server. Problems generally occurred when a client timed out in the middl
7. 787.▲
   by novaleaf 11y ago

   I suppose it's a well traveled trope. To quote Aristotle: "Nature abhors a vacuum"
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   by novaleaf 11y ago

   Ahh, my movie quote mastery skills pale compared to you. (also HN markup skills it seems)
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   by novaleaf 11y ago

   ++! When I was in the games industry, it was extremely important to have this feature (and yes, it was a last resort!) This is why, then, we choose Mercurial over Git. Unfortunately there is a lot of wackyness and far too often assets got
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    by novaleaf 11y ago

    A huge problem with C#'s Async feature that I hope gets resolved (and, obviously that this failure pattern is not ported to Javascript): Explicitly blocking during a function that uses async somewhere inside (a sub-function) will caus
11. 791.▲
    by novaleaf 11y ago

    FYI, You are lucky they credited you at all. If you left before the game shipped they do not have a legal obligation to credit you.
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    by novaleaf 11y ago

    "Nature finds a way"
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    by novaleaf 11y ago

    Hey, wow, thanks for the protip on Coldturkey! I have to give that a shot :)
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    by novaleaf 11y ago

    Just don't use an inkjet (at least, with the normal cheap ink), any excess humidity will make the ink run, ruining your archive.
15. 795.▲
    by novaleaf 11y ago

    Perhaps I should quantify: "not crappy for the price". Sure you can get some snazzy stuff, but bang-for-the-buck I've found the 4000's have been a good price point.
16. 796.▲
    by novaleaf 11y ago

    Trying to give useful advice here, sorry if it stings. Perhaps you are not worth 75k/year? Just because your friends mention that as a standard salary doesn't mean everyone (you) are at that level. Going in and demanding a 75K s
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    by novaleaf 11y ago

    thanks for the writeup, that was the hunch from skimming the article but good to get confirmation!
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    by novaleaf 11y ago

    Tactical nukes are used in tactical situations (See Tactics vs Strategy), meaning during active combat against individual fighting units (tank battalions)
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    by novaleaf 11y ago

    I don't know about the battery, but when you buy a car you don't own the software/firmware, or at least that is what the mfg's want to tell us.
20. 800.▲
    by novaleaf 11y ago

    exists, but perhaps not enforced.
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    by novaleaf 11y ago

    I have a few ergo 4000's and the build quality is most certainly not crappy, this makes me skeptical about your other grivences. However, I have found that people not used to the tilted + split-key design style find it weird. And i
22. 802.▲
    by novaleaf 11y ago

    that would alternate the suit for each card, and all the aces would be the same suit, etc.
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    by novaleaf 11y ago

    Wish there was audio / text that went along with these slides :(
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    by novaleaf 11y ago

    I learned about this effect in Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. Who knew?
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    by novaleaf 11y ago

    Get an external battery pack, sit wherever you want!
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    by novaleaf 11y ago

    what would you say is best for 3d? (Html5 engines I mean)
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    by novaleaf 11y ago

    I don't mean to derail your main point, but I don't think it would be supprising that the police of other countries treat you nicer due to "tourist privilage". I lived in Thailand for 8 years, and I can confirm that &quo
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    by novaleaf 11y ago

    Based on the title, I expected this to be an article ranting about how someone thought their startup was being discriminated against. Surprised that was, dare I say, "fair and balanced".
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    by novaleaf 11y ago

    is there anything like this for browsers? I know theres things like casperjs but that seems more "browser test" specific, not "browser automation"
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    by novaleaf 11y ago

    i just use google cloud's HTTP Loadbalancer and AutoScale. it automatically spanws/remove's VM's based on load.