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by philosophus 13y ago
Not sure if you're joking there -- Elder Scrolls Online comes out in June. There is some controversy because you can pay ~$10 extra for the "imperial edition" that is the only way to play the imperial race ...
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by philosophus 13y ago
Most people just copy whatever everyone else is doing without thinking about it very hard. Hopefully people will eventually get tired of being nickle and dimed by their video games, and come to appreciate the advantage of paying upfront for
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by philosophus 13y ago
I agree with this. I've been playing Final Fantasy XIV which has a monthly subscription fee. It's refreshing after Guild Wars 2 which was constantly trying to sell you something in the gem store. Unfortunately, I doubt many compan
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by philosophus 13y ago
This is transparent left-wing propaganda; not sure how it's relevant to HN. To address the article's question, a recent poll[1] found that only about 1% of the population answered "inequality" in response to the question
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by philosophus 13y ago
Yeah, that or you can get an EC2 micro instance free for a year on AWS.
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by philosophus 13y ago
I am happy that stock images are going out of fashion. I'm looking for a job and whenever I see one of those brightly-lit "people in suits looking serious" pictures I immediately don't want to work there. Example: http:
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by philosophus 13y ago
If it is "worthless to the society at large" then why do people pay for it? Are they insane? It's popular to beat up on the financial industry, but they do actually do something: finance loans. Without them, good luck getting
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by philosophus 13y ago
Less Silicon Valley investment in OU would be my guess.
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by philosophus 13y ago
It isn't really "completely free" if it's coming out of tax revenue, is it? Paid for by taxation would be the correct way to describe that situation, it seems.
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by philosophus 13y ago
People said that about offshoring too, and that didn't work out too well for a few reasons: (1) the CS/ECE programs there are lower quality, (2) cultural and language problems make it easier to work with a native English speaker,
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by philosophus 13y ago
I don't know but I can tell you I stopped reading at "teh poor menz." Do people still do that "teh" thing?
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by philosophus 13y ago
There are several CS101 type courses available on sites like Coursera, Udacity and EdX. If you already know the basics of programming, you might try an intermediate level one that incorporates a project. As for production-ready software, I&
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by philosophus 13y ago
I think it's that much of his evidence doesn't really prove anything. Example: "Weibo is like Twitter, except bigger. Barra only ever had 6,000 Twitter followers. In two months, he has 200,000 Weibo followers." The secon
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by philosophus 13y ago
It's also a little unfair to criticize standard English for being largely what is spoken by white people. English is the language of English people. They are white. I would assume that standard Swahili, for example, closely correlates
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by philosophus 13y ago
Agreed, if you are trying to understand the topic and not the author, then injecting non-standard usage and "personality" is simply a distraction. There is something narcissistic about believing your writing should reflect you, ra
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by philosophus 13y ago
"focused, quiet work when they need that" Aren't you supposed to be doing focused work all day? The "social aspect of it?" Again, you're at work. Work is for working. I don't want to socialize at work, I w
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by philosophus 13y ago
The courts, that's their job. If you can find out what court it's in and the case number, you can request the documents, they're public records.
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by philosophus 13y ago
I don't think it's exactly the same. The tone in the Wired piece is way over the top, "hyperaffluence" and what have you. Can you see the difference between saying "Everyone's going to be rich! All our problems
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by philosophus 13y ago
Andresson didn't say anything close to "you'll be a millionaire soon [and] so will everybody else." He just said the technology market isn't going to implode again. There's a difference. I think his basic point
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by philosophus 13y ago
As you suggest part of the confusion is a lack of an agreed-upon definition of "bubble." Another part is poorly defining what constitutes the bubble. Is the bubble technology in general? Obviously not -- people aren't going t
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by philosophus 13y ago
You could say the same thing about the dot com scene around 2000. It was overvalued, but that doesn't mean it had no value.
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by philosophus 13y ago
Right. Who has rallied hard against BTC? The Chinese government and Bloomberg News. Are those people you trust?
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by philosophus 13y ago
Nietzsche describes "der letzte Mensch" as the lowest form of human life. His scientific materialism is the most degrading, smallest illusion, worse than any religious dogma. The last man has regressed to the thoughts of what we u