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by solardev 1y ago
Fortnite started as a P2W coop game where legendary weapons were all inside loot boxes. It was very predatory. Then an internal team at Epic made an experimental battle royale mode and that's what became modern Fortnite. The old one is
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If this is true, how is there an entire marketplace of Steam keys for sale elsewhere, like Humble Bundle and Green Man Gaming and Fanatical and all of isthereanydeal.com? They've existed for years and sell many many Steam keys for many
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What useful major features had Office even gained since 97?
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Overview of what "kerning" is: https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/design/discover/kerning.... It's hard to do right. When it's done well (the font designer spent time making sure all the
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How often are these magnetic maps updated, and what sort of coverage globally do we have? Like is this something that an agency could map at once a year and maintain a reliable enough accuracy, or are there small fluctuations all the time t
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This is really cool! Thanks for sharing! Is there a way to get it to compute and visualize the MAXIMUM possible error rate for any given QR code? Like what is the greatest number and arrangement of pixels that could be altered before the QR
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Well said. > For most businesses and most founders, more is achieved with less. Most businesses don't need scale to be effective. I wish more businesses thought this way.
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Great way to get your site blacklisted
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Exercise while sitting down. Curls? Tricep pull-downs? If you do a bunch of squats, you could still be sitting half the time but getting fitness xp the other half.
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Yes... but that isn't new. It's been around for years.
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Sprinklers. Have you ever tried to program the timers on one? They're hell! But after the AIpocalypse, it's only the not-yet-sentient sprinklers that will still be willing to water our few remaining crops and feed us.
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Um... we went from jQuery to a chatbot that can draw hands? Should I give up React and learn to draw feet?
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Shopify offers both a hosted storefront and a product management system API if you want to use it with your own frontend. For WordPress, check out WooCommercd, an e-commerce plug-in by the same company that makes WordPress. You're ente
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Wait, is this really a new thing...? I could've sworn I've seen it in streaming services before, where you could choose between dialog only and closed captioning. One is usually called "English" and the other is "En
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It's not that "we like coding so much", it's that we hate pointless busywork. If you need a status update on my project, that's something I can provide in a sentence or two over Slack or in a PR or a Kanban. Progres
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Canonical and capital-A Agile never, ever works in my (admittedly limited) experience. Part of the original Agile philosophy was "people over process", but when you get overly dogmatic about it and hire consultants etc. and try t
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Sounds like your process is a little broken and dogmatic and useless, which can happen if people follow Agile blindly. Can you tweak it to make it more useful for your team? Encourage what works and drop what doesn't.
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Welcome. I would love to hear other perspectives too, though, especially positive ones. Sorry I didn't say this earlier, but I think the other devs on my team do like Basecamp (or at least haven't complained about it?). They'
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> I bet there are bunch of ways to organize work in Basecamp [...] Most of the issues you describe aren't software issues, they are issues with how the people are organized around the work. I think that's fair, but to some exte
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Slack is basically non-shitty Discord. It has online indicators, video chats, etc. Free for a 2 person team and minimal ads.
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What's the context here? Is this guy just pro free speech and anti immigration? Conservative? (I don't know anything about him and haven't heard of him before this post. It at least seems more coherent than most political pos
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I've been using it for a few years now, and I unfortunately strongly dislike it. I've never felt this disorganized before. Basecamp is meant to go along with the "Shape Up" philosophy ( https://basecamp.com&#x2
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In the Jetbrains AI assistant plugin, you should be able to choose a faster model. Does that help at all? Jetbrains benchmarked the options last month: https://blog.jetbrains.com/ai/2025/03/how-to-choose-the-r
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Maybe, just maybe, the absurd carelessness of DOGE and the tariffs were enough to make some people rethink their previous beliefs. Probably not. But it's a nice fantasy.
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> If I have a bin of apples, and I say it's 5 apples wide, and 4 apples tall ...then you have a terrible bin for apple storage and should consider investing in a basket ;)
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Microsoft's developer experience is often world class. If they hadn't burned so much goodwill in the 90s and 2000s through embrace, extend, extinguish, they might have won (or at least stayed relevant) through the Web wars. It&#x2
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That's one of the things they are discussing in the comment chain. Apple hasn't directly addressed it yet. Seems like if they want this to be official, they ought to donate some headsets and money to offset the increased maintenan
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Charge it back on your credit card. Let your credit card company handle the dispute with them. Or escalate, escalate, escalate, calling and emailing every day and asking for a manager and their manager until you get what you want. Be polite
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If you add a few cups of water to the orange juice, it'll be much healthier. Because there would be no orange juice left, and thus way less sugar. OJ isn't a health food, it's junk. Eat an orange if you must, or just drink wa
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We have an excellent moderator, dang, and also the new person who just joined (forgot their name, sorry). And users can flag things that seem spammy. If you turn in "showdead" in your preferences, you can see all the spam. They&#x

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