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by phn 12y ago
I am going to skip the counting part since I think it is borderline pedantic and doesn't lead anywhere. Defining what a culture is, or how you differentiate them is not on the scope of my comment, and the argument was not about culture
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by phn 12y ago
Well, perhaps they aren't two, but that is completely irrelevant to the argument (How do you "count" cultures anyway?). The important part in that sentence was that there were opposing sides in conflict, thus removing any for
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by phn 12y ago
Those are good counter examples, but they seem to happen in the context of a somewhat direct conflict between two cultures, thus entering a "survival of the fittest" kind of situation. Maybe we only get this protective spirit when
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by phn 12y ago
This is only tangentially related to the article. I find we (humans) have some kind of emergent "gene pool variety preservation" behavior, even when talking about non-directly-genetic stuff: culture, language, knowledge, ways of t
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by phn 12y ago
If you're on a feature branch, you can probably commit often, and push often (effectively backing up your work), then, the isolated unit of work is done on a single commit (non-FF) when merging with the main branch (this is the one you
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by phn 12y ago
Do you not trust the OSX Keyring because of apple? Or outside attackers? If it is apple you don't trust in this regard, keychain is the least of your problems. If it is outside attackers. At least they should need physical access to th
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by phn 12y ago
I know what I am suggesting is wrong on some levels, and creates a myriad of other problems, but bear with me. If I run a Tor exit node, can I block outgoing packets to known illegal servers/addresses? Would some kind of update mechani
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by phn 12y ago
I think the 8000 lines is after the release on github, which added lots of new functionalities.
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by phn 12y ago
I think rust wants to be a system language, akin to C rather than javascript. Dart, yes, a different language running inside the browser.
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by phn 12y ago
Maybe, but is the charger as durable? The construction as good? The colors on the screen as vivid? I am not trying to say apple is perfect, I am just trying to say that they show that bigger numbers do not correspond to a better product. An
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by phn 12y ago
One thing we should've learned from apple long ago, is that hard numbers (larger, sharper screens, more GHz, more RAM) do not make a better product. I won't change my macbook air for a laptop that will have a weaker construction,
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by phn 13y ago
Using unity or a similar game engine has absolutely nothing to do with how "well crafted" your game is, nor does it tell if the developer wants to make a "quick buck". I'm all for learning how stuff works and for ta
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by phn 13y ago
I DO get annoyed when I see those scores, but in a lot of cases even having a leaderboard is just something that was introduced in the game just to be more "social" and less because it makes sense in that specific game. And yes, i
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by phn 13y ago
Of course, in multi-player competitive games anti-cheating is a pretty big concern, because it works against the purpose of the game: a competition with well defined rules and conditions. If the core of the game is single-player/non-co
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by phn 13y ago
Cheating is good, I remember having tons of fun with age of empires and sim city because I used cheat codes. If the player has fun, it's a nice feature! :D
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by phn 13y ago
Take the road that scares you a bit, that's the best bit of the post for me.
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by phn 13y ago
Remember that it's not only the J2ME actives that matter. The fact that you have access to all your friends wihtout exception inside the same app is killer, even if you have the latest iPhone. That's what made me return to Whats
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by phn 13y ago
I know it is a little off-topic. But what is so bad about ActionScript?
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by phn 13y ago
It seems to me that the fundamental difference is the "timing" and duration of what you share online with your friends. Maybe it is more important what you want to share now and not so much save everything you share in the same
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Show HN: A crowd sourced football competition(gamebyronaldo.com)
1 points by phn 13y ago|0 comments
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by phn 14y ago
The portuguese ATM network operator provides this for free (its called mbnet btw). You can even set expiry times and value limit, it's the best thing to use when paying for stuff online. Want to buy a 9€ game? Just create a 10€ card and use
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by phn 14y ago
You touch an interesting point. Maybe the big factor then is to find out which "kind" of specialist can change "speciality" as needed. i.e. is not afraid of learning new things and take completely new roles.
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by phn 14y ago
Can you elaborate? I actually think that a freelancer should be a Generalist because he has to deal with everything business related, as well as doing "full-stack" development.
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Ask HN: Specialist or "Jack of all trades"
9 points by phn 14y ago|11 comments
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by phn 14y ago
I see, what about feature-wise? Is there a set of functionalities that can be considered "cross-browser"? I guess we're still not there yet (and probably will never totally be :)
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by phn 14y ago
First of all, thanks for your answer. > And the answer is: "Microsoft Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Safari". Well, my main issue is that testing in so many browsers, and making adjustments for each one seems to go a bit
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Ask HN: Which browser is the best to develop in?
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by phn 14y ago
Actually, open the console and call injectVideo() Voilá! EDIT: However, the video that pops up does not show the actual notes...nor anything that cannot be seen elsewhere on the website.
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by phn 14y ago
Well, if you prefer an on-topic response: The guy gave 500 million dollars to improve something in this world... The way he runs his company (or as someone else in this thread said, the company "runs itself") has nothing to do with it. Stil
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by phn 14y ago
Off-topic but: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwins_law

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