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by unsigner 13y ago
That's the point - not all feedback is valuable.
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by unsigner 13y ago
In the sufficiently left mind, you are unworthy to spend your own money, the state will spend them better; thus, passing savings to you is bad for you.
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by unsigner 13y ago
4 million AND oil-rich.
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by unsigner 13y ago
Cute, but seems like a solution looking for a problem, and finding the wrong one. The major problem with bike locks IMHO is their laughable resistance to brute force physical attacks, e.g. $100 hydraulic cutters. I don't think anyone a
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by unsigner 13y ago
Windows Phone is not exactly a sterling example of developer success, is it?
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by unsigner 13y ago
"Thermorectal cryptanalysis" it is called in Russian, and involves a soldering iron.
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by unsigner 13y ago
Toilet paper was a precious rarity in 1980s Bulgaria. Those ignoring the lessons of history are doomed to carefully collect yesterday's newspapers and stack them in the bathroom.
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by unsigner 13y ago
ECC RAM by itself might be cheap, but it goes with Xeon motherboards (1.5-2x more expensive) and Xeons (2-5x more expensive)
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by unsigner 13y ago
170k revisions and several repositories totalling half a TB, with some working directories in the high double digit GBs. Given that we have no performance or reliability problems, and our server isn't particularly beefy - just problems
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by unsigner 13y ago
This is what the home screen reminds me of (NSFW): http://oglaf.com/rainbowcake/
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by unsigner 13y ago
Translation: "game developers are now strongly encouraged to use Azure for backend".
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by unsigner 13y ago
Scintilla embedded in our own Lua IDE; the same "engine" is used by Notepad++. I also regularly use SciTE, which is a small standalone Scintilla-based editor.
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by unsigner 14y ago
Tiny espresso cup? At least Americans had taste back then!
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by unsigner 14y ago
To say that Samsung "spends loads of money in advertising, just like Apple" is a bit stretching the truth, if Horace Dediu's estimations are to be believed: http://www.asymco.com/2012/11/29/the-cost-of-selling-galaxie... Samsung seems to
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by unsigner 14y ago
The total price is the same, the PC version includes several DLCs, while on iOS you buy them separately.
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by unsigner 14y ago
To the pedant brigade: ease up. It's "little to now education" compared to medicine or law, where you have to toil in years in a very rigid pipeline of exams, internships and certifications. There's plenty of learning in programming, but
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by unsigner 14y ago
Game development in a fairly NIH-ish studio can be very close to the good scenario: very little API wrangling, very little red tape, the "client" (game designers and artists) are in the next room and generally reasonable. I'm not terrified
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by unsigner 14y ago
Carmack is talking about VR. Most high-profile console games run with latencies in the three digits. (E.g. lookup Eurogamer's Digital Foundry articles on latency.) Of course, adding another 200 ms in the middle won't exactly help...
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by unsigner 14y ago
For us it was way cheeper. Still a shocking amount for a small studio. I'm not aware of any "pricing structure", or if there is any; I heard the number we were supposed to pay.
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by unsigner 14y ago
We've been in the position of Fez's creator, and it pains me to say, we made the same choice as him (except for the drama) but... the $40k figure is way, way off. I have no idea how Tim Schafer came to it, or rather, how he was misinterpret
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by unsigner 14y ago
Here in Southeastern Europe, there's definitely a strong preference towards white in folklore; 150 years ago, only rich folks' daughters could afford to avoid crop work and stay indoors long enough to stay white.
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by unsigner 15y ago
There is little to no conservative populism in Europe; in Europe the political spectrum ranges from centrist (the so-called "popular" parties, passing for right-wing but still very much statist-oriented) to the extreme left, which is widely
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by unsigner 15y ago
SciTE, but since it's not on the list, I voted Notepad++ (which is the same underlying editor with uglier, more bloated chrome on top). Second choice: Visual Studio 2010 with the minimap-in-scrollbar extension - still better than the one in
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by unsigner 15y ago
I think this is why formats like Markdown eat newlines, and need two consecutive newlines to produce a paragraph break. This allows you to split paragraphs in smaller chunks, sentences or sub-sentences, hopefully approaching the situation w
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by unsigner 15y ago
How is this different than Microsoft giving away a version of their C++ compiler as part of the Xbox development kit which can only produce executables that can be sold via Microsoft to people having Xboxes? The comparison is favorable to A
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by unsigner 15y ago
A 32-bit executable can use 2 GB on both 32 and 64 bit OSes; there's a linker flag that lets you use 3 GB, if you're not playing any dirty tricks with your pointer bits. More than that, and you need to recompile the EXE for 64-bit, which is
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by unsigner 15y ago
In my experience (game development, hundreds of thousands of LOCs of C++), compiling is purely CPU limited if your HDD isn't utterly braindead (e.g. at or above normal desktop 7200 rpm levels).
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by unsigner 15y ago
You would raise more children. Oh no, wait, this is something only icky brown people and redneck Christian fundamentalists do...
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by unsigner 15y ago
Only on hackernews: 12 comments and no mention of xbox, one of the powerhouses behind this result. Guys, there's more to this world than cloud, JavaScript and iPhone apps!
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by unsigner 15y ago
Everybody keeps talking of boot drives - and the guy in the video boots his laptop. Do you really boot often enough to make a difference? I think I see my machine boot about 10 times when I reinstall Windows (used to be yearly 10 years ago,

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