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by ricree 13y ago
Or just not adding to the list. It's undated, but another posting from last year lists it as (2002). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4954663
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by ricree 13y ago
There's a reason he said toy.
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by ricree 13y ago
>Things like Python's generators do not conform entirely to this definition, but you get people calling them coroutines anyhow What's python still missing these days?
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by ricree 13y ago
If I had to guess, I think he's talking about coroutines that allow you to pass data as well as take it out. Python's PEP 342, which expanded python generators into truer coroutines, has a decent discussion on the differences. ht
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by ricree 13y ago
If I'm remembering my history right, there were two main reasons for the name. It was, in part, a callback to the older, defunct, Democratic-Republican party that had been around in the early US. It was also a mild dig against the Demo
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by ricree 13y ago
Speaking of the history of roguelikes, I've been pretty impressed by Nicolas Casalini, aka Darkgod. I'm not sure exactly how long he's been involved in the scene, but he's been developing since at least Pernband back in
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by ricree 13y ago
>Champions of human rights don't go to russia for "asylum" - it's where defecting spies go. Who's lining up to offer him asylum? It isn't like he picked Russia out of a wide range of better options.
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by ricree 13y ago
>If you take the device fresh and something isn't right you can claim it was defective. If it was used for another operation who is to say when something happened to it? There's something on the order of 100,000 ACL tears per year. Even
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by ricree 13y ago
The Supreme Court only takes on a fraction of the cases that appeal to them. Given the 9-0 ruling and seemingly clearcut contract situation, does anyone know why they chose to take this case in the first place?
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by ricree 13y ago
If you don't mind 2d and are ok without competitive multiplayer, AI War: Fleet Command is a really good take on the RT4X genre.
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by ricree 14y ago
About 250 million iphones have been sold. That's fairly close to the WHO estimate of 210 million cases of Malaria in 2010. Even accounting for overlap, the hyperbole is a bit excessive there.
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by ricree 14y ago
>I sincerely feel someone should take the 10.04 and spin it off into a new better OS, polish it and give it back to the community Do you have any particular objections with Mint? It's what I went to after 10.04 (well, after a couple mo
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by ricree 14y ago
Sucked might be taking it a little far. Though it didn't work well as a game, the editors they created were really, really good. A very nice combination of user friendly and just powerful enough for creativity. One of my biggest disappointm
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by ricree 14y ago
If you're talking about the old Middle Earth one (tome2), then it's a very different game in many respects. A lot more changed besides the graphics, but it's turned into a pretty polished game that encapsulates many of the best parts of *ba
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by ricree 14y ago
Tome 4 ( http://te4.org )is a really polished, modern take on roguelikes. It's also based on a pretty modular, GPL3 licensed engine, in case you ever feel like making your own.
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by ricree 14y ago
The stories were written by Dave "Fargo" Kosak (he's currently lead quest designer for World of Warcraft, btw). You aren't wrong in remembering the Penny Arcade connection, though. About half of the stories had accompanying illustrations dr
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by ricree 14y ago
Or for a more recent example, 38 Studios. MMOs are a notoriously hard genre, and while I wish him luck, it doesn't inspire optimism.
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by ricree 14y ago
Nor will I. But judging by the past response to privacy issues, there are a lot of people that will complain for a week before jumping headfirst.
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by ricree 14y ago
I didn't see anything about using the H2 O2 as an energy source. Presumably, he meant that they would use some other energy source (presumably solar) to hydrolyze the water, then use that to generate thrust. I have no idea if that's the bes
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by ricree 14y ago
Would you care to explain why? As someone not familiar with lace or wedding dresses, it's far from obvious why it would be notable. If you wrote up a response explaining, I'd bet that a lot of readers here would find it informative.
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by ricree 14y ago
They already have a lot of experience as a distribution platform. I doubt the majority of Steam games even come close to a million units. While it's not clear that there's enough market to extend that platform to commercialize their movie
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by ricree 14y ago
And they're matching the kindle fire's price, too, in case the media presentation and size wasn't clue enough.
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by ricree 14y ago
They seem to be positioning it as a kindle competitor. If that's their intention, they want to show that they can match the amazon media ecosystem.
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by ricree 14y ago
The Canadian one still exists as an independent site ( http://windsor.kijiji.ca/ ). For the US equivalent, it looks like someone thought it was a good idea to use an unreadable graphic as its interface.
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by ricree 14y ago
Didn't facebook largely reimplement php, though?
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by ricree 14y ago
Following the previous story, they explicitly stated that OS installs didn't prevent returns "Newegg's Computer Standard Return Policy does not exclude a computer from being accepted for return if an operating system is modified or install
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by ricree 14y ago
A Tale in the Desert is probably the closest I know of. Its player base is limited compared to most MMOs (around 1000-2000ish, last I looked), but it's a combat free game centered around economic production. It's also a bit unusual in that
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by ricree 14y ago
Interesting link, feral. For anyone else reading, I'd also suggest reading some of the followup posts such as this one: http://www.box2d.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1800&...
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by ricree 14y ago
He's comparing the stated delivery fee to Amazon's S3 costs for outgoing data, which he says costs $0.01 per 5 books.
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by ricree 14y ago
I just checked my download page, and the new additions are showing up even though I bought several days ago. According to the front page, the new ones are for people that paid more than the average. If you have bastion but not the new thre

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