sambobeckingham

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by sambobeckingham 10y ago
Are we in the same industry? 26 here, coding since 11, never got a degree. Decided to develop for a living, managed it within a couple of months - didn't even have a portfolio. The industry is crying out for developers, theres no reaso
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by sambobeckingham 10y ago
You can get a SNES to USB adapter on Amazon/eBay for not much, plug and play pretty much, just need to map it to your emulator. You can't beat the feel of a genuine, 20 year old controller! They also make them for pretty much ever
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by sambobeckingham 10y ago
DDG don't track your IP or log activity against you. Bang searches are simply redirects as far as I'm aware and thus !g is equivalent to typing straight into Google. But if you're using Google through DDG you're probably
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by sambobeckingham 10y ago
Genius as it is, it shows the true horrifying extent of commodity fetishism in today's society.
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by sambobeckingham 10y ago
I don't get it... Let Google completely absorb my personal data for 6 months and seriously hinder my workflow - Because?
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by sambobeckingham 10y ago
50 people to maintain a site the size of Twitter?
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by sambobeckingham 10y ago
I find the technical and ethical complexities of coding fun though. There wouldn't be a market for puzzles if some people didn't get their rocks off on thinking.
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by sambobeckingham 10y ago
Humane killing, I imagine? Stun gun or that bolt hammer thing right to the brain, over in a flash as far as the animal is concerned. Far more pleasant than the natural way - 6 of us chasing it round the prairie chucking spears.
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by sambobeckingham 10y ago
I think this article would have been a lot better had it had no content.
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by sambobeckingham 10y ago
"based" is the key word there - The Xbox 1 1 has a CPU, GPU and an APU that are almost-but-not-quite like regular PC processing units. Couple this with the fact that there's no documentation about how any of these work, it wo