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by tslug 11y ago
1. No. 2. Yes. 3. Respect the people you want to help you. For instance, let's say you want a bunch of people to take the time to read and answer difficult, open-ended questions for free in a way that could lead to vast personal wealt
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by tslug 11y ago
If it's using infrared light for signaling, doesn't that mean waste heat could more easily corrupt data?
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by tslug 11y ago
I agree. The only people who disable JS are informed, and who wants those kinds of people visiting their website?! Ha! Good riddance, I say!
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by tslug 11y ago
What was your "why", and how did it motivate you?
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by tslug 11y ago
The Shawshank Redemption, V for Vendetta, Thor, Star Wars (1977), The Devil Wears Prada
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by tslug 12y ago
1. Eat that humble pie, confess that you don't know as much as you thought, get past it. To maintain your dignity, focus on the work, not the politics. 2. Unfortunately quite common. 3. No. Try not to dwell on it. Pity them quietly,
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by tslug 12y ago
Find a way to spend time with kids. I find kids are consistently better at knowing how to "be" than adults, and they can help you reset how to perceive reality. In my shirt pocket, I always carry stickers from a game I'm wor
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by tslug 12y ago
A cluttered desk has been shown to be subconsciously stressful and distracting to work. I don't think a box of random things showing up every month is going to help that. Either more stuff will accumulate on your desk, you'll ha
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by tslug 12y ago
There was so much reveling about the authenticity of modern bloggers that he forgot to provide links to the actual interviews.
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by tslug 12y ago
Ironically, waging effective war on them would probably involve not defacing their sites (which I imagine would only make them scatter) but instead infecting them and then handing the c&c server details over to the authorities, who I&#x
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by tslug 12y ago
I've tried coding with alcohol and marijuana. I find a little bit of alcohol provides a little liquid courage to start writing a big, scary system from scratch without harming my ability. For reference, I weigh about 170lb and very ra
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by tslug 12y ago
When people unknowingly do things that upset you, the considerate thing to do is to tell them first, not the whole Internet. Give them a chance to explain, apologize, amend. If they don't to your satisfaction, then by all means go wi
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by tslug 12y ago
git log
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by tslug 12y ago
Yep. So is eavesdropping on people without telling them and then posting what was said to the Internet. Can't say I'd recommend either, but they both happen with surprising frequency.
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by tslug 12y ago
People make racist, nationalist, sexist, and all other kinds of off-colour jokes in the game industry, particularly when they don't think they're in earshot of the butt of their jokes (obviously with some notable exceptions), but
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by tslug 12y ago
Yes and no. Crytek is a very unusual company with its own distinct personality. If you're a graphics engine programmer or an artist, it would not hurt your resume to work at Crytek. They make beautiful, sexy shit. If you're ju
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by tslug 12y ago
I don't sign them anymore either. My explanation is a little simpler. NDA's are contracts. I don't sign contracts without having them reviewed by lawyers. Lawyers cost money. If the contract doesn't come with some k
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by tslug 12y ago
If you take the work involved in keeping a closed, armored, pressurized habitat viable on Mars and instead direct it to create a closed, armored, pressurized habitat viable underwater or underground on Earth, you should get the same insuran
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by tslug 12y ago
It's not just commentary. I'm a game developer ( http://davetaylor.name ). I assure you, capitalism + our national laws + the international treaties our nations have agreed to is a game. It's the Old Game. Catch
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by tslug 12y ago
Your money is a microscopic magnetic domain of bits on a hard drive on a computer in a bank somewhere. If you acquire twice as much, you didn't even get a new bit, because you prolly already had at least 32 allocated, if not more, jus
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by tslug 12y ago
It isn't just open source. The whole US non-profit application process is needlessly long and difficult for anyone seeking it, which is generally, you know, the most benevolent people living amoungst us (like, for example, open source