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by starwed 15y ago
Should read or a VM -- I still don't entirely understand how HN determines when you can still edit a post, pretty sure I've edited posts this old before.
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by starwed 15y ago
(This is exactly the reason Brendan Eich has said he prefers the "compile to JS" approach to incorporating other languages of a VM into browsers.)
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by starwed 15y ago
I think I've read somewhere of an earlier game with the same pattern? It's a hard thing to search for on google, sadly.
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by starwed 15y ago
Do you not understand how logical argumentation works? It is possible to address a particular supporting point without disagreeing with the conclusion. The scrolls issue is completely orthogonal to whether coca-cola v. pepsi-cola actually
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by starwed 15y ago
Further -- if a game called "Scrolls" is published, it is in the best interest of consumers that another company can't put out an inferior game with the same name, and cash in on the confusion. The system of trademarks is the way that's a
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by starwed 15y ago
To play devil's advocate, cola is an actual thing those drinks are/were made of, so that's not quite the same.[1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_nut
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by starwed 15y ago
If Warcraft & Starcraft had been the first games to use that naming convention, it actually would be pretty reasonable for Blizzard to claim that as a trademark. Certainly, when I first encountered some other game called <genre>
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by starwed 15y ago
This article was not about laptop displays.
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by starwed 15y ago
It is the difference between > My opponent is an idiot and believes X to be true, therefore X is false. ( ad hominem ) and > X is false. My opponent believes X to be true, therefore they are an idiot. (Not ad hominem .)
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by starwed 15y ago
Nope. He argued that the judge was wrong, and then suggested that it was the judge's age that caused him to make an error. What he didn't do is to use the judge's age in support of the first argument -- that would have been ad hominem .
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by starwed 15y ago
I picked up a Brother laser printer for ~$70, and it'll print thousands of pages on a single cartridge.
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by starwed 15y ago
I'm pretty sure the immune system already does basically that. I tried to find some specifics on wikipedia, but apparently the system is incredibly complicated!
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by starwed 15y ago
That is why the notability criteria came into existence, but it most assuredly isn't wielded like that any more.
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by starwed 15y ago
MW tables aren't really a monstrosity -- I doubt a better text editable table format that maintained the flexibility could be produced. But yeah, there are some problematic holes in MW, especially when you consider how wikipedia is used tod
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by starwed 15y ago
So, an article about how Felicia Day is well positioned as a figure in online entertainment, and they don't even mention Dr. Horrible? My understanding is that Whedon embarked upon that after seeing the success of The Guild, and talking t
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by starwed 15y ago
You don't have to? This was a blog post written by a guy whose job is to care about Firefox's memory usage. Most of his work goes into improving every day memory usage, but he thought it would be interesting to see what happens in an ex
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by starwed 15y ago
Maybe you missed the last line? It wasn't a "possibility", but an account of an actual event. That said, I'm always saddened that folk don't consider such a possibility in interaction with strangers -- especially when it doesn't cost the
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by starwed 15y ago
This test isn't about having lots of tabs open, but having lots of tabs opening , all loading at the same time.
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by starwed 15y ago
Well, in this case it should be compared to whichever version of chrome performed best. That way you include any improvements they've made, but not any regressions.
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by starwed 15y ago
Ah, "clunky" tends to be used to refer to ungainly machines , which is one reason most people reading your original post will assume you're discussing the aesthetics of the printer and not its products. The other is of course that the titl
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by starwed 15y ago
Nah, I had that impression from the very first scene the game loads, which is the creepy guy talking to you. (I don't mean convincing in a "mistake-for-real" way, but in a "lets-me-suspend-disbelief" way.)
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by starwed 15y ago
Err, no it hasn't? Certainly not on the mac -- mine has looked exactly like this( http://mozcom-cdn.mozilla.net/img/covehead/firefox/gettingst... ) for a while now. Also, I don't even think these will land for FF8, since I've been running
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by starwed 15y ago
Surely a lot of that is due, not to lighting/shadows/rendering, but to the incredible subtlety required of the animation? HL2 has some pretty amazingly convincing faces, and that's obviously not because it has the best rendering engine.
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by starwed 15y ago
>when is that ever better than a dedicated app? Obviously when it integrates well with a web browser. :P
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by starwed 15y ago
Sure, but many like the current default -- on a netbook, I used small icons, but everywhere else I willingly sacrifice a couple of pixels for an easier target.
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by starwed 15y ago
For people who care about such things, you can customize the toolbar and enable "Small Icons".
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by starwed 15y ago
You can actually download[1] an updated version of Ubiquity that works with even the nightly versions. The commands I personally wrote seem to be broken now, but I think the main pre-installed ones work. [1] Get tip.xpi at https://bitbucke
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by starwed 15y ago
Nice! This is perhaps the one single "essential" thing I miss on Linux. I wonder if their work overlaps with the android client at all?
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by starwed 15y ago
That's easily removable even now -- right click the toolbar and choose Customize.
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by starwed 15y ago
That's a weird way to read the OP comment, and I think you're way overreacting to it. You seem to be drawing some insidious connection between those two statements that simply isn't there. OP didn't claim all advertisements were morally ac

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