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by rtpg 14y ago
Minesweeper is probably the best "first" game out there for people to make. It's relatively simple, and you can just use grid coordinates as input if you want. Definitely a lot less trickier than something like tetris.
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by rtpg 14y ago
Your app didn't really like my vertically oriented screen, but otherwise it's really neat, the random picture button is really genius (lets us use the software quickly). I hate to be "that guy" but... maybe using rounded buttons for the "pr
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by rtpg 14y ago
Can someone explain to me how Google promoting their own services can be considered anti-trust? I'm genuinly curious for what the arguments are for that, since it's said so many time I imagine there is something valid in there.
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by rtpg 14y ago
no, users ensure delivery by querying for the page. It's not like we are forced to open pages with google ads. Net neutrality means that all content fetching should be treated equally. I have no idea how that can be contorted into incumbenc
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by rtpg 14y ago
There is a logic to this madness, at least in my experience with SO. One of the big rules seems to be "don't start flame wars", and this question could definitely start bickering. The value brought by these sorts of questions seem to be ove
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by rtpg 14y ago
the ones you see are good because those are the ones that get passed around. For every good closed question there are a thousand redundant or non-constructive questions that get closed.
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by rtpg 14y ago
One advantage of phone calls is that you can have the entire conversation right there. With e-mails you get this back-forth (and of course the constant delay between e-mails) which means that a 15 minute conversation can become a 4 day e-ma
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by rtpg 14y ago
Haskell might be a bit of a bad example considering how far ahead it is compared to other languages in terms of PL features (like type-level programming). When compared to other imperative languages, Scala is very feature complete, and Scal
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by rtpg 14y ago
to be fair I don't think that being a telecommuting software developer is glorified anywhere really. From France, the view seems to be that small businesses are mainly for artisanal things. People don't really have this idea of working your
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by rtpg 14y ago
the employer/employee relationship isn't symmetrical.
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by rtpg 14y ago
anyone making a non-trivial amount of money profited from public services, infrastructure, and protection paid for by taxes. Ensuring a stable and strong infrastructure is in the interests of the rich anyways. Not like the super-rich will s
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by rtpg 14y ago
I wonder what their objective is by opening up a new studio in SF. If you look at their [employee handbook]( http://newcdn.flamehaus.com/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf ), you'll immediately see that their corporate culture is the complete antith
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by rtpg 14y ago
It complicates the process,and when you make paying for something more difficult, people are less likely to do it. I'm surprised that the company can't simply do a 'phone home' procedure when online services are tried though, verifying thro
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by rtpg 14y ago
Is amazon really "barely viable"? They seem to sell huge volumes in their main business. They might be losing money in the kindle business but that won't affect their main business (at least I wouldn't think so)
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by rtpg 14y ago
>I haven't met a DRM scheme that doesn't achieve this purpose backwards Steam would be a good example. It is DRM in the sense that it prevents people from simply copying the game folder anywhere, and it is more convenient than pirating