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by soup10 14y ago
Offtopic, but is there any sane reason plastic bags are outlawed here. It really annoys me because it seems like a victory of naive idealism over common sense. Plastic bags are really useful.
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by soup10 14y ago
It's the antithesis of the tightly scripted goal based game. Players are tired of the 'do this' , 'now go do this', 'now go do this' type games. Even so called 'sandbox games' like grand theft auto/skyrim, have highly scripted/predefined
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by soup10 14y ago
I love how this no-poaching debacle really shines a light on the hypocrisy of some much beloved tech mega-corps. Google and Apple execs may shower employees with perks, but at the end of the day, top execs still treat most of their labor li
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by soup10 14y ago
Arguing against piracy on the internet is a giant waste of my time because if you have it in your head that piracy is "good" or "ok" then you will rationalize bad arguments all day defending an incorrect position. To address your latest spu
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by soup10 14y ago
It takes some twisted logic to think thats a valid analogy. Dropbox is a perfectly valid filehosting service because they take reasonable measures to prevent copyright infringement. Megaupload(and mega) is not, because it's run by a perso
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by soup10 14y ago
However you feel about copyright, profitting off of the distribution of other peoples work, without their permission, is not something that should be encouraged or tolerated.
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by soup10 14y ago
It's pretty embarrassing that tech blogs are even covering this. Copyright law is about intent, not about technical specifics. The idea that new megaupload is ok because it encrypts illegitimate content before storing it is absurd.
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by soup10 14y ago
Usually a large part of a ceo's job is human interaction. While it's not strictly necessary to have strong social skills to be a CEO, it sure is helpful.
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by soup10 14y ago
The big psychological difference is that they are taking something that was free and then starting to charge/advertise versus having it be that way from the start. Kinda like how people would get annoyed if they have to pay to use the bath
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by soup10 14y ago
Most people i've met seeking venture capital have zero chance of being capable of building the next giant company. Yet many have succeeded in raising capital regardless. VC's generally aren't willing to take on much risk, so you see them
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by soup10 14y ago
Her videos introduce mathematical concepts in a fun and entertaining way. The way math is taught usually quickly convinces people it's a very dry and boring subject when it doesn't need to be that way. Especially in high school/middle sch
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by soup10 14y ago
I've been very impressed with Meraki, so it's unfortunate to see them acquired by a mega-corp that will no doubt slowly assimilate them into the borg(despite their insistence on remaining independent). Hopefully the founders and talent go
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by soup10 14y ago
Awesome, did this just launch? People love this kind of thing, i'd be surprised if it wasn't successful. Performance seems great for javascript/canvas. Though I would love to see a high performance native app. Good luck to you guys!
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by soup10 14y ago
It was the first console with 3D, and it was the last generation before 3d games started to become very expensive to make. This caused an explosion of new gameplay ideas.
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by soup10 14y ago
I see most new developments in web technologies as layers upon layers of frameworks designed to make it easier to create ever more complex web-based applications that will ultimately become irrelevant when people realize that the complexity
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by soup10 14y ago
The developers have nothing to do with it. The types of apps and pricing structure that will appear in the store depends entirely on how the store owner curates and presents the apps. Developers will obviously just price to maximize/reven
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by soup10 14y ago
The socialism vs capitalism debate is always super interesting. But I think from a practical standpoint, changes in technology seem to be far more achievable and impactful than fighting to change culture. The way I see history technology c
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by soup10 14y ago
One take away point from this for non-c coders is that higher level languages will always be significantly slower than C because it's far easier to make these kinds of fiddly pipeline optimizations when you don't have another abstraction la
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by soup10 14y ago
Even though its now dying tech(I think?), Flash/actionscript would be my recomendation. It's the only platform where you can make real games and easily share them online. The built-in tools for working with animations are great. Though p
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by soup10 14y ago
I obviously only skimmed the article then proceeded to make fun of it. It's fairly obvious to me though that ketamine makes people less depressed temporarily is a non-story and the article is overselling the importance of the research. I f
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by soup10 14y ago
Recreational drugs temporarily make people happier? No way... I'm glad the fine minds at Yale are studying such important, ground breaking stuff. I can't wait until this research leads to new antidepressants that turn more people into zomb
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by soup10 14y ago
It's absurd anyway. Advanced tech will(and already has, to an extent) put extremely destructive power in the hands of normal people. If we haven't learned to get along by then, we will certainly kill ourselves off.
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by soup10 14y ago
Everything about programming is easy when you break it down into parts. I think good programing is about the ability to learn new domains, abstract thinking skills, a good design sense(for architecting code and user interaction/interfaces)
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by soup10 14y ago
The problem is that 'safe driving speed' is completely dependent on road conditions(weather, traffic, pavement quality, time of day, day of the week(lots of drunk drivers on weekend nights), traffic makeup, etc.). Metal boxes with seat be
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by soup10 14y ago
Wow, is there anything google doesn't offer as a benefit? Something strikes me as odd about a Corp that has it's tentacles involved in so many aspects of daily life. Why not just offer higher salaries? Seems like all the perks are designed
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by soup10 14y ago
I believe you will always be able to make html5 apps if you want. But I believe the iOS 'apps' model is going to become the standard for consumer pc's. This will cause native apps to no longer be second class citizens, and HTML based apps w
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by soup10 14y ago
Programming languages can strive to be either tools or toys. Programming languages that strive to be tools focus on high quality standard libraries, speed, good debugging facilities, being easy to learn, ability to handle large projects, an
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by soup10 14y ago
Are AAA games still coded like this? Where you hack your way to the finish line. Or is there more process and things like code reviews?
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by soup10 14y ago
Low-level access to memory, cpu, and graphics(through opengl or directx bindings) are all needed to approach what the hardware is capable of. Pipeline bottlenecks are the real performance killers. Vendors can spend decades trying to fix t
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by soup10 14y ago
I agree with this, 'me-too' products should be everyone's first business. Creating your first product is too damn hard and requires too much risk and dedication to make something where there isn't clear demand and a path to profitability.

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