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by stone-monkey 8y ago
This is why for me, Warcraft 3 and Starcraft were my fondest memories of playing online games. The standard multiplayer was always going to be competitive, but the real wonder was in the custom games. This was before the big wave of indie g
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
Looks amazing. WC3 has outsize influence on the online gaming landscape. It'd be interesting to dissect how much of the design choices of MOBAs are holdovers of the constraints of the WC3 world editor.
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
I read in an article that real vanilla only matters for applications that don't involve high heat, as the other flavors in a real vanilla bean get cooked out. Imitation is just as good for most purposes. Just remembered, it was a food
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
Social pressure is easy to write off in theory, but it can add extra friction to your life. You might be fine telling the first guy to fuck off, but after telling the hundredth person to fuck off, you might be a bit weary of telling people
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
Why not write under a pseudonym? If you don't want people to associate you with every little detail of your writing, the easiest thing to do is to disassociate your writing identity with your offline identity.
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
This is to be expected as people get closer to equality - the more low hanging fruit we pick, the smaller the gains will be. But does that mean we should stop shooting for equality as "close enough" because it's not on the sa
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
>>Rape happens a lot in war too, for strategic reasons. Are you going to argue that rape in war is also competitive? I'm honestly baffled at how you came to any of these conclusions. I don't condone war at all. I don't
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
>Rape doesn't apply only to humans. Yes, and society generally doesn't find it acceptable to rape animals, either, which was my point. As a counterpoint, try to think of the most contrived example where rape can somehow be just
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
I'd argue the difference is that rape is on a higher pedestal, simply because it's always unacceptable. Regarding the slaughter analogy: it's not explicitly about murder, but killing. Slaughter doesn't apply only to huma
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
That's exactly what doxxing is.(Paraphrasing here) "This guy was really shitty in my job interview. Here's their LinkedIn page." Seemed pretty cut and dry to me. What about it disqualified it as a not-doxxing situation?
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
Solid content marketing - I just spent the last 30 minutes taking the coding test because of this post.
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
This process sounds similar to seasoning a cast iron pan. Does that mean using a seasoned cast iron pan can play a factor in diabetes, since you're in taking more rancid fats?
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
Here's another good take on the moral killer in Ender's Game: http://adamcadre.ac/calendar/13/13857.html
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
Empathy deficiency is definitively not what the battle school was looking for. It's the reverse - they wanted someone capable of emphathizing with his enemy while still willing to destroy them with no hesitation. The obvious counterpoi
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
Huh - I would've guessed Algorithm Design Manual by Skienna. I have no idea which book the red book is supposed to be either, but I did read the Steve Yegge blog post about getting a job at Google in which he recommended reading it. Si
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
> How is that different from the gig economy? It's different because the purpose of the deposit isn't to crowdsource people to exploit via underpaying them to recycle, whereas that is exactly the case for the gig economy. Uber,
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
Does that frame of reference make sense for a recycling program though? The deposit system is a zero sum system that isn't designed for the purpose of making money - the deposit is to discourage consumers from throwing recyclables away
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
I don't see their comment as paranoid because cloud providers generally aee incompetent/steal your data, but because other cloud providers are direct competitors. Even if they're not sifting through your server data, they can
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
It doesn't really make sense to say it because it's not as if there's a general cultural tendency towards shrift. Most people aren't saving enough, what's the point in popularizing the message that we should continu
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
Since you asked: https://dailyflywheel.com To be honest, I put as little effort into maintaining this blog as possible. It's a default WordPress setup I use to spew my digressions that never have the opportunity to come int
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
Isn't this pretty common in East Asia though? I've heard similar stories about South Korea, and the salaryman culture there is supposed to be pretty bad.
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
>>no ketchup, no canned fish, no juices, no syrupy breads, etc One of these things don't seem to be like the others. Is there typically added sugar in canned fish? My go to is canned tuna, but the nutritional label checks out to
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
I can easily believe it. The overall structure may be designed to be ruthless to employees, but teams and orgs have a ton of leeway to form their own culture. They purposely break up teams that get too big in order to keep with the idea of
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
I can only think of one former coworker who cried from stress during work. Strangely enough, she's one of only two devs I know still on that team out of the original ten members when I joined. (I'm not the other dev)
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
For chromebooks, I still like the original Pixel. You can pick up a refurbished model for about 300 usd.
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by stone-monkey 8y ago
>> I found out they have a very generous severance program if you know what to ask about. What do you mean? Are you referring to the severance you get if you leave on a PIP?
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by stone-monkey 9y ago
Shenzhen losing Cantonese somewhat makes sense due to the sheer number of migrants moving in from different regions of China. They likely outnumber the population several-fold now. It was only declared a special economic zone back in the 80
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by stone-monkey 10y ago
Your point is wrong, though. Targeting everyone based on their distinct still isn't being equally hostile to everyone - you're just more exclusionary. That just means gaming communities are racist and fat shaming and etc in addit
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by stone-monkey 10y ago
It's hard to imagine consolidation in a winner take all market like we currently have. If content producers license their shows to Netflix, they're only going to get a fraction of that 9.99 a month subscription fee, with Netflix i
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by stone-monkey 11y ago
I would think LoL and Starcraft would be easier in terms of difficulty than something like Go, because they both have the fast twitch aspect of play. An automated player would have the advantage of perfect situational awareness of the mini

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