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by pwny 14y ago
The "naysayers" as you say, bring up a lot of valid points that have nothing to do with the OUYA's ability to raise kickstarter money so this will probably not silence anyone. If anything, the money raised only proves the fact that over 60k
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by pwny 14y ago
What's great about game tutorials (imho) is that they are really motivating for young people to follow when they learn to program. You get some very interactive and sensory feedback, get to have fun with something you made and learn a ton
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by pwny 14y ago
Projects keep migrating/being built in it because it offers things other languages don't (for example being relatively close to the metal while still being Object Oriented) and it's available. On the other side you have web people who hate
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by pwny 14y ago
It would be great if people stopped seeing native and web games as mutually exclusive. I'm a huge fan of native games and all the oomph they can dish out. Of course we're not going to see AAA titles in the browser any time soon and of cou
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by pwny 14y ago
There is something to be done here by combining this with a Kinect or by by finding a way to point a camera at where the user is looking and going the Augmented Reality way. I have to admit I'm a little turned off by the way those big playe
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by pwny 14y ago
That wasn't so hard to avoid the guaranteed s *storm that would obviously emerge from claiming one sex was smarter than the other. Also, taking discussions seriously is exactly the reason why I come to HN. I'm sure I'm not alone. That bei
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by pwny 14y ago
Absolutely. On a related note, we seem to be a lot better and consistent at giving negative feedback. Encouraging positive feedback and giving more of it to young people as they grow up would probably go a long way.
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by pwny 14y ago
Please do show us statistics though. I'm not saying you're wrong (I genuinely don't know) but you can't say other people don't have data to back their claims when you don't put any data forward yourself. Especially since you brought up th
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by pwny 14y ago
While there's still a lot of stigma about men in some women related fields (ask male nurses), the issue in software is of larger scale than you imply. Try 1 female for 40 male programmers (That's about the ratio in both my internships, as w
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by pwny 14y ago
"The only thing an IQ test is good at is measuring how close the test taker is to thinking the same way the test maker does."
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by pwny 14y ago
While you make a point that it doesn't always have to do with harassment, your second argument is very weak. There's nothing anyone but yourself can do about "[...] a person's perception of herself and what people might be thinking, not th
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by pwny 14y ago
While I agree with your point, I believe "projects with 'random' (assigned) partners" to be a bad idea as far as encouraging social interactions. From my experience, no one enjoys being randomly assigned a partner (at least in high school)
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by pwny 14y ago
Probably because it's really hard/time and resource consuming/tricky to do what ReactOS is doing. By allowing Steam to Linux, they open a new and easy market for developers distributing games through Steam, where developing ReactOS would o
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by pwny 14y ago
I accept your premise but respectfully reject your conclusion. However, my stance might have a lot to do with the way I personally use the internet. There's a few points here that I make sure I follow: 1. Whatever activity I have online is
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by pwny 14y ago
Thanks for the link, this is very interesting. Although by transmitting any personal information (email address, etc) through a supposedly anonymous network you kind of limit the benefit of said network.
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by pwny 14y ago
As another commenter suggested in the article, the government probably found the man because of factors external to TOR, such as the delivery address and the payment processor/information he used. I don't believe the TOR network was comprom
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by pwny 14y ago
Of course, but no other ISP is any better (at least that I know of) and THEY certainly don't offer gigabyte unlimited internet for 70$ a month. Google being the lesser of all evils here, we can only hope that they will drive the market into
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by pwny 14y ago
Ok, I might be missing something here, but WTF? Does this bit actually have a use? EDIT: Oh, April 1st...
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by pwny 14y ago
You're absolutely right, that's one of my fears as well. That's up for another debate, but there's a point where legislation shouldn't interfere. If we're stuck with awful service because of the law, it's time the law (which should be serv
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by pwny 14y ago
Let's take a poll: How many people here understand that Google is a corporation and therefore has making money as its primary goal? Seriously, what would be wrong from a corporate standpoint would be for Google to be doing this out of the g
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by pwny 14y ago
Whether they succeed or not with Fiber, whether it expands to every American city or not and whether they get sued because of antitrust laws (which I don't believe they will), the fact is that they're changing the status quo. Even only sca
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by pwny 14y ago
I guess living in Montreal means I'm not getting a piece of this action any time soon. It had the merit of making me reconsider how I live my life though. When you think about moving to another country, even for just one quick second, for
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by pwny 14y ago
So you're telling me it would be reprehensible if I said "big boobs" aloud, out of context, in my workplace cafeteria (because that's what this is, "big boobs", said out of any context)? Talk about overreaction.
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by pwny 14y ago
In this case, 2976579765 should be considered sexist too!
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by pwny 14y ago
Then fight the people that are truly objectifying women and harassing them. This kind of overblown press coverage for an hex value that is not degrading in itself serves only one purpose: making the sexist males take this issue even less se
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by pwny 14y ago
I encode my numbers in base 21, therefore I can use 0xB1GD1CK as a value. Anyone care to write an article about how sexist I am and shame my employer into a public apology? Sarcasm aside, we ARE facing an issue in the tech world. People t
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by pwny 14y ago
Now there's a limit to draw too. I don't approve of some of the blatant sexism going on in our field, but this is a little too much don't you think? If I tell someone I like boobs, should I issue a formal apology too? Should Microsoft iss
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by pwny 14y ago
Yep, I knew about Valve and they are an inspiration, truly. I think Gabe and the other people in charge realized a quite important fact: it's not because they're in charge that their opinions and beliefs are automatically worth more than th
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by pwny 14y ago
But in the end (shareholders aside, which if you have any I guess you have to please), a company without management would only have engineers to please, making this kind of a circular problem.
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by pwny 14y ago
I'm honestly wondering why we value management so much. It might be my lack of corporate experience but I have a lot of trouble seeing most management positions as important (in fact, my general feeling is that they're a hindrance most oft

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