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by pachydermic 13y ago
Specific comment: http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/224ntd/unreal_engin...
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by pachydermic 13y ago
Unless they only write good custom drivers for hardware they know will be used in Steam machines. Don't know of any reason why they'd do that, though... I'm hopeful :) Finally. The year of the Linux desktop is upon us!
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by pachydermic 13y ago
It's almost as if that sentence itself were pieced together by some kind of blagosphere-mining machine learning algorithm. I guess that's kind of what writers do?
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by pachydermic 13y ago
Except for the fact that sudo is already built into your system. What? Rooting most likely voids your warranty and is definitely nontrivial to non-technical people. I have rooted my phone and installed cyanogenmod before and I wouldn't
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by pachydermic 13y ago
I think a lot of people our age are just happy to have a job in the first place. Young people are flocking to big cities (especially the Bay area, NYNY and DC) just to get anything. I feel really lucky to have the nice "real" job
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by pachydermic 13y ago
Right... in theory, a smartwatch type device sounds great. Battery life, screen brightness/visibility (can I read the screen on a clear summer day at noon?), size, and ease of use are all really important. Price matters for business pu
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by pachydermic 13y ago
And her actual speech here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/transc...
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Feinstein: CIA searched Intelligence Committee computers(washingtonpost.com)
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by pachydermic 13y ago
I don't really have any training in this area (I didn't study anthropology, history, biology or nutrition in school), but while the implementation of paleo might be flawed the principle makes sense to me - eat what we evolved to e
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by pachydermic 13y ago
Right. The insurance problem is the reason why I am hesitant to use these kinds of services (airbnb, peer-to-peer car rental, car-pooling apps). When something goes wrong, what happens? It just freaks me out - not that companies conformin
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by pachydermic 13y ago
I don't know if it's fair to say he's copying - there's always the chance that they came up with it on their own. Are you really saying that you're the first person to come up with this idea? Anyways, I think your s
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by pachydermic 13y ago
Yeah I'd say being smart doesn't necessarily help you play good chess - being dumb hurts, though. I wonder when the last time Gates even played chess? And even though he had way more time than Magnus did, 2 minutes is not a lot of
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by pachydermic 13y ago
Obviously the DEA doesn't support legalization. But I think that the DOJ has established that they're going to legitimately and honestly let the experiments in Colorado and Washington play out by themselves. Despite what they&#x27
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by pachydermic 13y ago
Dude. rms founded the freaking FSF. If he doesn't support free software, then what the hell is he doing? I think what he wrote here makes total sense, even if I use tons of nonfree software myself. I value convenience and performance m
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by pachydermic 13y ago
Dude what are you talking about? Honestly, are you trolling? http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/in-major-shi... Turns out that old white dudes - which I think would most clearly fit your label of &quo
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by pachydermic 13y ago
My brain really wants this to happen, but my wallet doesn't. That would be really effective! If they really could get the costs right maybe it could happen - of course, the math just might not work out.
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by pachydermic 13y ago
Man, some people really don't like Path. I saw people making similar comments when they raised some cash a while back. A high school friend of mine works there, so I'm curious... why all the hate? Seems like an okay idea to want t
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by pachydermic 13y ago
I think the argument (and I don't really believe it, so excuse me if I don't present it convincingly) is that certain materials are just harmful to children (and possibly adults). You have a daughter, but I think that with boys&#x
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by pachydermic 13y ago
Thank you, fsf. Hard to ignore the irony when Google, Facebook and even freakin' Linked In (ugh) are calling to increase protections for peoples' privacy. I don't know what the answer to all of this is - I like free products
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by pachydermic 13y ago
I'm not going to doubt that... I'm just saying there must be some underlying economic reason why that's true. Seems that things are in an equilibrium, but maybe not the optimal one (blasphemy, I know).
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by pachydermic 13y ago
Also, because the US has an increasingly unequal income distribution, that makes a college degree relatively more valuable. In addition to the social-status factor it certainly still seems to pay off despite the increased tuition ( http:&#x
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by pachydermic 13y ago
perlmonks is definitely the thing which most impressed me about perl. Very helpful, kind, patient and incredibly knowledgeable people there. I don't really have anything useful to say, I just want to thank anyone that's been a par
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by pachydermic 13y ago
How many of those sources have a "Buy for $x" button under them? And I don't necessarily want to send the context of searches for content on my own computer over the wire to Canonical's servers (especially these days). I
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by pachydermic 13y ago
I have been pretty pissed at Canonical lately for a number of missteps they have made but a few of them do seem like legitimate mistakes. Mark is not really a PR guy and you can tell - a lot of what he has done has just kind of fanned the f
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by pachydermic 13y ago
Not sure if it's fair to call it "flagship". I have one now and it seems blazingly fast and it's nice to have stock android... but the device isn't without compromise. The battery life is 'meh' and the cam
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by pachydermic 13y ago
If people make biased ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_of_an_estimator ) guesses you will still have a problem. I think that's often what's meant by "rational": that people, in aggregate, make unbi
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by pachydermic 13y ago
Interesting - although it's worth pointing out that it's about half of private sector GDP, not half of US GDP. Also, I'm not sure I'd call a business with over 100 employees "small", but I guess that's t
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by pachydermic 13y ago
"Homo economicus" is still really important for macroeconomics. The reason for this is pretty simple: designing rich, large models is still hard to do and the practical limitations introduced by basing your assumptions on the idea
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by pachydermic 13y ago
You get to turn pieces of paper which say "I own x% of TWTR" into pieces of paper which say "I own $y". A lot of people are happy to make that trade, especially if they don't think their ownership of the company i
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by pachydermic 13y ago
Yeah that just seems crazy to me. Someone's going to make money, though... EDIT: Wow! Who are the people buying this at $49 a share?!

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