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by scarlson 13y ago
That's when we go Greek, say hello to α.
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by scarlson 13y ago
EA won't be there. Blizzard won't be there. Steam is increasingly becoming a great indie platform where the only AAA titles we see on it are Valve's.
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by scarlson 13y ago
Casual vs Hardcore gaming. If they announce the console first, and it's not able to run the latest and greatest games on their highest resolution they stymie the idea of being able to run SteamOS on a high end gaming rig. This way peo
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by scarlson 13y ago
It's great for a run and go gadget, but I don't think it'll replace my HTPC. If I didn't already have dedicated hardware, I'd get one. As it is, there isn't anything it does that makes it worth including in an
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by scarlson 13y ago
At the same price as a Raspberry Pi, why would I want one? For me, the only benefit I see to the Chromecast is frequent travel for use on hotel televisions. Otherwise, an HTPC is going to provide superior functionality at the same cost.
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Amazon closing MN resident associate accounts(bpaste.net)
1 points by scarlson 13y ago|0 comments
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by scarlson 13y ago
Hanging out in /r/redditdev and /r/ideasfortheadmins, you'd be surprised how often ideas come up that could potentially harm users that some admins will either champion or agree with. I guess it's the same as a
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by scarlson 13y ago
Wait... where does bag not rhyme with vague?
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by scarlson 13y ago
Moreover, BTC isn't the only hot new digital currency out there. It's quite possible a currency with better technical support by vendors/exchanges could overtake BTC as the premiere ecurrency.
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by scarlson 14y ago
That and I'm not spending 60$ for Google Docs access.
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by scarlson 14y ago
Your C point implies purchase. It's safe to assume EA uses purchases as their success metric, as they are unlikely to complain you actually paid for the game.
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by scarlson 14y ago
EA's success to failure rate tends to be lower than its competitors.
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by scarlson 14y ago
You weren't playing Diablo 3 at release then. Give EA time and Sim City will stabilize as well as D3 has, either because they've expanded hardware, or shrunk their user base.
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by scarlson 14y ago
ChromeOS, Ubuntu, movies, music, books, web caching.
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by scarlson 14y ago
> Sure -- paywalls are a classic example. As soon as we accept paywalls and read articles behind paywalls, we can't share content any more. These dedicated apps are like paywalls taken to the next level. > But young, inexperienced p
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by scarlson 15y ago
That's fair. I was more intending to point out that Facebook does indeed have Python developers, and they are not entirely a PHP business.
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by scarlson 15y ago
Copy-paste from another comment: FriendFeed, acquired by Facebook in 2009, was a Python shop. These guys now maintain their Tornado platform as Facebook ( https://github.com/facebook/tornado ). Facebook's CTO, Bret Taylor, is a Python guy (
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by scarlson 15y ago
FriendFeed, acquired by Facebook in 2009, was a Python shop. These guys now maintain their Tornado platform as Facebook ( https://github.com/facebook/tornado ). Facebook's CTO, Bret Taylor, is a Python guy ( https://github.com/finiteloop
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by scarlson 15y ago
There's a chasm of difference between a router that's powered by Jesus and one that claims to be powered by Jesus. Customer's only need to believe it's so, much like the case presented in the internet being powered by the devil. Anyways, of
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by scarlson 15y ago
Assuming Hardware = Wattage Output = Voting power; US power sources overlayed on 2008 Electoral Map. Too close to call. http://i.imgur.com/d1Fyf.jpg I was too lazy to fix Alaska and Hawaii. Source: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/sto
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by scarlson 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech_Model_Railroad_Club Neither is "Hacker".
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by scarlson 15y ago
The same way you're able to login to News.YC without sending your actual password via the intertubes.
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by scarlson 16y ago
Started at a community college @ 15, first class I signed up for was Fortran.
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Senator Franken on COICA
5 points by scarlson 16y ago|1 comments
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by scarlson 16y ago
Piracy is nowhere near equal to shoplifting. Also, I'm curious how the DoD is going to enforce US law on non-US soil.
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by scarlson 16y ago
Response from Al: November 24, 2010 Dear Steve, Thank you for contacting me about the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA). I appreciate hearing from you on this important issue. I believe that intellectual property e
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by scarlson 16y ago
Or we could all just use international proxies and/or TOR.
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by scarlson 16y ago
I emailed my Senators (native Minnesotan). If I get anything other than an automated response I'll be sure to edit and include it. I'm really dismayed that Franken supported this, especially considering his stance on net neutrality. We mig
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Migrate your Google accounts, get rid of collegekid190@gmail.com(blog.shealaughlin.com)
3 points by scarlson 16y ago|0 comments
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by scarlson 16y ago
I can understand wanting 1 ring to rule them all, but having specialized devices has been the solution for a while now. 1 = Server 2 = NAS 3 = HTPC or Server w/ dongle 4 = HTPC again (any XBMC variant, with a receiver for audio) 5 = XBMC re

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