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by slm_HN 12y ago
>As balance improved fun went down. I don't think balance ruined WoW, I think it was that Blizzard just kept dumbing it down. Once they decided that every single player gets to do every single thing in the game it was ruined because
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by slm_HN 12y ago
>To me, ratings at the top feel more like an exponential scale than a linear one. For example, I have beaten International Masters at chess lots of times but have never once beaten a GM. If true this is purely psychological. You are unab
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by slm_HN 12y ago
Blitz games? Is your data from Blitz games played on an online server? I like the idea of your research, but blitz games are garbage and online ratings are frequently meaningless due to abuse. You should also look at replacing Crafty with S
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by slm_HN 12y ago
>The Mac App Store is a ghetto. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. From Wikipedia: "A ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, especially because of social, legal,
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by slm_HN 12y ago
I don't know anything about PCI violations but I doubt that reporting someone would "put him out of business". Reporting someone is a pretty weak move. A strong move would be a campaign emphasizing the superior features of yo
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by slm_HN 12y ago
This somehow reminds me of the show Halt and Catch Fire, which was one of the most god-awful shows I've ever watched. After Breaking Bad, Mad Men and The Walking Dead I expected a little more from AMC.
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by slm_HN 12y ago
>However, the cure is neither fast nor simple nor cheap for bed bugs. There have been a couple of interesting articles recently about an old folk cure for bed bugs: bean leaves. The bug's legs get trapped by the leaves almost like a
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by slm_HN 12y ago
>but the language was not “owned” by a single company which would loom in everyone’s mind, always the unspoken fear being “what if <company> doesn’t like it?”. >I will not use tools which make me afraid. I will not live a life i
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by slm_HN 12y ago
It's official. Haskell has become the Beowulf cluster of Hacker News.
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by slm_HN 12y ago
Vas Rajlich could write a program that solved chess. He would simply have to find an existing program that solved chess and copy it.
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by slm_HN 12y ago
Fish is chess slang for a weak player. An older term would have been woodpusher. Patzer would be about the same in German, which provides several other commonly used chess terms like zugzwang and zwischenzug.
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by slm_HN 12y ago
This is part of the plot of Sidney Sheldon's If Tomorrow Comes. A woman on a cruise ship with two chess grandmasters bets a large amount of money that she can draw a game with each of them. Of course she plays them at the same time, on
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by slm_HN 12y ago
>Once you get that base coat really solidly on, you shouldn't ever have to hit your skillet with anything harsher than water and a rubber spatula. Rubber spatulas aren't recommended for cast iron. You're much better off wi
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by slm_HN 12y ago
>Wow, this _open letter_ is so full of nerd rage that it fails to capture any of my sympathy. I expected to see a humble effort to create an open-source Swift compiler that would move the conversation forward. It's funny, when I fir
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by slm_HN 12y ago
One thing the raw numbers don't take into account is ratings inflation. Look at Karpov for example. In 1979 he was the only player in the world rated above 2700. Now there are almost 50 players rated above 2700. So it's much easie
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by slm_HN 12y ago
> 1. Rename the project. Sure, how about BTM? Does that stand for Better Than Markdown? No, not at all, it's just three random letters. I'm a little amazed Gruber is so protective of "Markdown". It's a mess and i
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by slm_HN 12y ago
>I would really like to know the software architecture of a WoW realm. >OS, tools, programming languages, how did the different parts of the software communicate between themselves... I don't know the details of the WoW software
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by slm_HN 12y ago
>It's not like Chess is some weird, esoteric game where there is a gray area of whether or not moves are legal or not. Actually it is exactly like that. If you play tournament chess, like USCF tournaments, then there's no doubt
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by slm_HN 12y ago
Unfortunately this program doesn't play legal chess. When I played the program it did not move its king out of attack when checked. And yes, I've played enough chess to know an illegal move when I see one.
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by slm_HN 12y ago
There's a lot of info, but I can't find what the phone is made of. Using nice metal phones has convinced me never to buy a cheap plastic piece of junk again.
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The Five Great Works of Software(medium.com)
1 points by slm_HN 12y ago|0 comments
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Tech founder's tale of sex, drugs and underground lairs (2008)(vanityfair.com)
10 points by slm_HN 12y ago|3 comments
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by slm_HN 12y ago
Daring Fireball is hard to read because the website is so poorly f
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The underwater hunt for a 2000-year-old computer(newscientist.com)
7 points by slm_HN 12y ago|0 comments
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by slm_HN 12y ago
"You can't actually attach "methods" to structs in C." You can have structure members that are function pointers which is basically attaching a "method".
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by slm_HN 12y ago
Indoor clouds?! This is cirrious business.
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by slm_HN 12y ago
I like that the article referred to it as a trial balloon.
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by slm_HN 12y ago
Was Meeker ever taken seriously? Her predictions were so bad that they got her and Morgan Stanley sued.
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by slm_HN 12y ago
I take this as a positive sign that Hacker News is working. I suffered through reading this post which contains such gems as: "Have you ever been clinging onto a rocket ship, then cut the engines at full speed, and then tried to fly ag
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by slm_HN 12y ago
"Starcraft is like high-speed chess." Ok, but what's really like high-speed chess is... speed chess, played with a chess clock. Five minute chess, three minute chess and even one minute chess, those are all like high-speed ch

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