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by prerok 6y ago
Well, the history is a bit different. LoL was created as a clone from Dota (Defense of the Ancients) mod for Warcraft 3. So, DOTA 2 is a continuation of that story and Blizzard basically recreated the mod into a standalone game and called i
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by prerok 6y ago
I don't agree. While I played LoL for a while (never competitive level though), it's still not fun to watch any competitive game. Comparing these games to soccer is impossible. Every champion has unique abilities uncomparable to o
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by prerok 6y ago
I like this train of thought. It's actually the same as Douglas Adams'. Now we know the answer is 42 and now we need to solve what the question really was :) I think it's ironic how he foresaw the problem we are experiencing
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by prerok 6y ago
I know we are talking about people's names here and it's a bit off-topic but it used to be that companies did exhaustive research into naming their products as well. Lately, it seems they aren't doing a good job anymore. As a
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by prerok 6y ago
I'm guessing the language he meant was go. Would be interested to know if I'm correct :)
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by prerok 6y ago
Exactly. If you are developing a product you have to make sure that it reaches a sufficient number of people that would pay a certain amount. Number of customers times the price and you get your expected income. If that is too low then don&
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by prerok 6y ago
And yet, we expect games to be at this price or lower with the same hard constraints and I would argue they take even more work. That's just the economy of scale. I also think that anything beyond $10 is too pricey. Monthly plan? No wa
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by prerok 6y ago
I grew up in Yugoslavia. Again, not half as bad as your statements suggest. I have never heard people being coerced to work en masse. Everybody had a job and there were plenty who did very little, as I said in my previous post. In some sens
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by prerok 6y ago
Maybe I misunderstood the statement I was responding to. I thought they said you were sent to work camps for not working :) Sure political prisoners were sent to work camps. As long you did not speak against the regime you were safe, though
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by prerok 6y ago
I grew up in socialism and can tell you that things weren't half as bad as you describe them. Sure, everybody had a job (it was the state's responsibility to provide you with one) and people found themselves demotivated because th
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by prerok 6y ago
I also often use the elipses to show that I am still in the process of considering the implications of the point under discussion. I had not realized that the reader might find that distracting. Thanks for your thoughts! I think, though, th
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by prerok 6y ago
It would be great to learn what caused the software to behave like this. Could be that it thought she intended to continue the conversation? I remember the phones at the time having a "conversation over SMS feature", which never s
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by prerok 6y ago
Well, I've missed it. There are times I read HN on daily basis and times when I skip for weeks or even months, so I appreciate the reposting. Especially because it is an interesting read. There are a lot of articles being posted and so
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by prerok 6y ago
I guess that the point of the article is also that "money doesn't buy you happiness", but the author only says it between the lines. He does state that success in business will also not bring you happiness if you don't t
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by prerok 6y ago
If the person wearing the mask is not using it properly then that's not good for them. The wearer is still protecting other people from contracting the virus, if they (maybe not knowingly) have it.
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by prerok 6y ago
The power of ImageMagick is when you need to support multiple formats. Resizing BMP is easy, the hard part is supporting the various ways that data is encoded.
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by prerok 6y ago
The pay during maternity leave is covered by the state. I am guessing this holds for all countries but I can only say for sure for my country. It is somewhat annoying for the employer to "lose" the employee for a year but there is
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by prerok 6y ago
Agreed. Asked around here a few people and "deduce" is more wide spread than "infer". A lot of people don't know the meaning of either, though, and it doesn't help that deduction's first translation is rel
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by prerok 6y ago
I am from Slovenia. We have had confusions with Slovakia, which is a source of a few jokes here, so just to disambuguate :) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenia
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by prerok 6y ago
But not in Slavic languages :) I guess my point was just that I find the write up in "simple English" the same as the Rust book (I have just been going through it). I would not have any objections if the term is introduced later o
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by prerok 6y ago
I am from a small country of two million people. We have our own language and the faculties have a mandate to coin new technical terms in our language. Our theses all have to be written using these terms (they are updated annually). Unfortu
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by prerok 6y ago
I agree. The problem is that most people learn these precise technical terms first in their own language and must then learn them also in English (well, in truth, for me it was the other way around :) ). I think that this write-up could use
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by prerok 6y ago
I like efforts like this that try to use different wording to explain the same concepts. That said, this document still uses words I would not consider to be "simple English". There are many such cases in the document, but let&#x2
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by prerok 6y ago
Instabuy if it can iron too! :)
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by prerok 6y ago
I am wondering: how does Mac know whether you are in a light room or a dark room to adjust its screen's brightness without activating the camera?
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by prerok 6y ago
Well, my first thought is still "Unix, obviously" :) For fun I looked it up on Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UX . User experience is not listed under Software but under Science/Computing, so
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by prerok 6y ago
> that you should write comments such that if the code was removed, someone could use the comments to completely reconstruct it. I think this is an "archaic" concept in line with heavily structured methodologies, where everythi
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by prerok 6y ago
That sounds good and maybe the country you are from does not have this problem (anymore). The parents I know from my home country are telling me that their kids are often struggling and are overwhelmed by the homework assignments. While thi
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by prerok 6y ago
So, do you feel that the money has been misappropriated? I mean, should it have been spent differently (for the same cause)? I am asking because I understand the issue that you feel regarding spending the money but do you think that it shou
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by prerok 6y ago
Personal anecdote: I have had the privilege of meeting a person teaching Gaelic as a second language. I think we can still learn a lot of nuances of expression from dying (or dead) languages and they will always provide us with insights for

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