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by passivepinetree 8y ago
This is a really good idea that somehow I totally missed. I stopped playing at a level where this became important (as @elefantastisch noted above), but now I kind of want to pick it back up again. It's not guaranteed to work (differen
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by passivepinetree 8y ago
> What's the difference between France (lost quickly in WWII), Britain (barely evaded invasion), and the US (not invaded, economy grew during the war)? A lot of it is location, to be honest. Invading the U.S. was nowhere near as eas
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by passivepinetree 8y ago
It would be awesome if there was a way to gain information about your enemies. For example, sometimes (when facing a sludge), it's better to run away, heal, and come back to finish it off at full health. When facing an archer, it'
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by passivepinetree 8y ago
The HN hug of death strikes again. Cached version from Google: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:E3wiNT...
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by passivepinetree 8y ago
What? It's absolutely fair to criticize the NYT for manufacturing a narrative regardless of intention. That's just dishonesty. It's not reporting, it's creating a story, regardless of if you think what they're creat
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by passivepinetree 8y ago
Wait, what did you end up doing in that scenario?
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by passivepinetree 8y ago
The author mentioned that battery life is better than expected for a laptop running GNU/Linux: about 4 hours of normal use or 1:30 if painting. The trackpad is the biggest question though: it’s Apple’s trademark and no other manufactur
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by passivepinetree 8y ago
Off topic, but what is working for Buzzfeed like? I used to hate everything Buzzfeed-branded, but it seems like it's been improving journalistically recently. How are the working conditions? Do you believe in your purpose?
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by passivepinetree 9y ago
The only problem is learning to fly is prohibitively expensive for most people. Skydiving is a much cheaper activity.
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by passivepinetree 9y ago
I may be susceptible to nostalgia, but I still go back and replay them from time to time, especially Myst. The puzzles and story hold up very well, and the game was never about immersive graphics.
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by passivepinetree 9y ago
Interesting. Thank you for the clarification!
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by passivepinetree 9y ago
Those pictures are amazing. The United States has been having similar problems, just without the scale. See this article recently about the Dallas bikeshare program: http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/05/technology&
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by passivepinetree 9y ago
I'm getting a 504 Gateway timeout. Is the HN hug of death really affecting such a huge site?
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by passivepinetree 9y ago
Okay, so what is to be done about it?
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by passivepinetree 9y ago
Skepticism is healthy.
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by passivepinetree 9y ago
I work for a company that almost exclusively does mob programming. As in I'm in a mob 95% percent of the day, every day. What I miss most is "the zone." Pretty much every single line of code requires a verbal interaction with
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by passivepinetree 9y ago
Yeah, I believe the rationale was to know better where entrances and exits are to certain buildings. The idea is a good one, but many people were up in arms about tracking that wasn't expressly during the interaction with Uber the comp
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by passivepinetree 9y ago
The way TechCrunch presents this, it seems even shadier than Uber's "we'll track you for the 5 minutes after you get dropped off" tactic from last year. With no language addressing such tracking in the EULA, how is that
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by passivepinetree 9y ago
Do you mind linking me to the React one? I was unable to find it, but maybe my Google-fu is just not good today.
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by passivepinetree 9y ago
I'm a younger developer and I had never heard of Lions' Commentary. It sounds amazing and I'll order a copy, but is there a more updated version or a similar book out there that may be more relevant?
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by passivepinetree 9y ago
There's also Wave, but they're not available in all parts of the city, so certain people like myself are basically forced to give Comcast money. I'd be thrilled if we had more options.
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by passivepinetree 9y ago
The author has the right idea. The company I work at hires junior engineers somewhat regularly, and the quality of bootcamp grads varies wildly. It'd be awesome to see additional CS courses on a resumé, as fundamentals like time/s
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by passivepinetree 9y ago
Did you read the article? He was arrested in Ecuador, sentenced to a year in prison, and was out after 9 months for good behavior. There's no extradition treaty between Ecuador and the U.S., so he wasn't sent back to the United St
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by passivepinetree 9y ago
You're the best. Thank you!
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by passivepinetree 9y ago
Is there any resources for those interested in making these kinds of games? I'm relatively confident with programming in general, but I don't know where to start with something like this. Did he use an existing engine or framework
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by passivepinetree 9y ago
That's super interesting. Do you have a source?
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by passivepinetree 9y ago
I'm not disagreeing with you, but your case would be stronger if you could provide some examples.
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by passivepinetree 9y ago
I had never heard of what3words before. It's a super cool and potentially incredibly useful idea. I wonder how they manage altitude (would a cave underground have the same 3 words as the patch of surface above it?). I also wonder how t
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by passivepinetree 9y ago
Can you elaborate more on "buy a cheap island"? Do you mean actually purchase land? Have you done this? Where are the cheap islands I can buy?
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by passivepinetree 9y ago
It's actually not that bad; I'd say maybe a couple of hours at most. I actually enjoy the opportunity to slim down the apps/files/etc. that I need. It's like a spring cleaning for my files. My settings/dotfiles

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