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by timje1 12y ago
This is a dynamite title.
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by timje1 12y ago
BMI is a quick but very rough way of measuring health, particularly regarding 'fit' individuals - muscle is far more dense than fat.
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by timje1 12y ago
It's got a lot of upvotes and not too many comments in a small period of time.
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by timje1 12y ago
This insight makes the line about not being a customer yet false - all purchasers of the Witcher are CD Project Red, and thus GoG, customers. Still not evil.
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by timje1 12y ago
There might be some people in the world for whom text reveals more of the interviewee's secrets, and other people that pick up more via face to face interviews. I'm willing to bet that for most people the latter is more intuitive.
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by timje1 12y ago
Yep, it's extremely frustrating to find that a google search result that claims to contain what you've asked for, only to click through and find a search page with the following: 'No results for "what you just searched f
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by timje1 12y ago
I'd actually argue that this is irrelevant. The key here is that they're not threatening to commit a crime - the threat itself is the crime. If a man on the internet says that he's gonna come to your house tonight and rape yo
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by timje1 12y ago
If I get provably burgled 50 times a month, I wouldn't expect the local police to stop taking me seriously. If anything, I'd expect them to streamline the process of investigating and prosecuting the crimes. If she was crying wolf
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by timje1 12y ago
This one could have legs. Nearest X number of people gets around the 'this app is a desert' feeling - even if only 100 people are online globally, you've still got a full application!
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by timje1 12y ago
Why do internet services always seem to be more expensive in the UK? Surely they should be able to be provided at approximately the same cost as the US. For example, Steam games are consistently well above the US price + 20% for VAT. Netfli
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by timje1 12y ago
I believe that many of the thought processes enforced by charismatic cult leaders (respect the elders, listen to the elders / leader in all things, avoid thinking for yourself, submit to god - through me) are designed to create docile
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by timje1 13y ago
The availability delay is significant for the other services. A large number of viewers live where HBO GO doesn't exist, and since the buzz around each episode hits the internet at the time of first broadcast, the rest of the world imm
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by timje1 13y ago
GTR was then blocked by the EU Commission as it announced a formal investigation into the proposal in April 2013, citing concerns including video games not being culturally equal to film, and thus not deserving of the same or similar tax b
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Approved: £188m 'jackpot' in tax relief for UK videogames industry(tiga.org)
2 points by timje1 13y ago|3 comments
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Programming as a form of empathy(blog.timje.info)
2 points by timje1 13y ago|0 comments
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by timje1 13y ago
Considering some of the atrocious numbers I've heard thrown around regarding piracy on the PC, DRM that scares off some customers may be the result of some execs doing some hard number crunching. Something like: At current estimates, w
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by timje1 13y ago
Genius.
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by timje1 13y ago
Clearly the currency of the future will be crypto-currencies. I'll buy your hat for 150 crypto-currencies.
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by timje1 13y ago
Strange, this article doesn't call PHP useless.
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by timje1 13y ago
[Not horrible] does not mean [has lots of redeeming qualities].
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by timje1 13y ago
Fixed, thanks
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by timje1 13y ago
Short of actually hacking them, how do you propose to do that?
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Plusnet (UK ISP) using reversible encryption, pasting passwords to users(blog.timje.info)
3 points by timje1 13y ago|5 comments
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by timje1 13y ago
This. It's amazing and powerful if you need 1m+ client connections per server. Outside of the epic scale engineering problems of facebook, twitter, google, amazon, whatsapp... It's very difficult to get anything done with Erlang.
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by timje1 13y ago
I learned Erlang at University, and haven't come across it in the real world yet. I've mostly been locked into Microsoft houses since I graduated. It's not wasted, though. I use my knowledge of functional programming to write
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by timje1 13y ago
I'm in London, and most people between 20 and 30 that I know of uses WhatsApp. Possibly it hasn't filtered to the rest of the country.
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by timje1 13y ago
The $240m figure is not profit, it's gross income. Taxes, marketing costs and distribution costs will dwarf that figure. In some cases, AAA games can even spend more on marketing than wages.
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by timje1 13y ago
These article titles are very link-baity, regardless of their relevance to HN.
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by timje1 13y ago
Two points: Let's not bring pop-evo-psych into this unless you're going to post a pile of references to white papers backing up the assertions. A link to a pickup artist's blog does not increase the quality of your statements
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by timje1 13y ago
That wasn't VLC's fault, it was Dell putting a 10w sound card with a 7w speaker. It was a hardware problem.

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