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by v21 14y ago
I'd rather have a government that you don't need to get restraining orders against.
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by v21 14y ago
In the Guardian link I posted it lists a mosque gaining a restraining order against a FBI infiltrator. They also reported him to the FBI, but as the FBI was employing him, they didn't do anything about it.
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by v21 14y ago
This is a special case of that.
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by v21 14y ago
Count yourself lucky you don't live in the UK, where you can be convicted for tweeting "Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You've got a week and a bit to get your shit together otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!!"
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by v21 14y ago
It's happened! They ended up having to get a restraining order against him. "Yet, far from succeeding, Monteilh eventually so unnerved Orange County's Muslim community that that they got a restraining order against him. In an ironic twist,
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by v21 14y ago
What of the harm to peaceful protesters who aren't going to be arrested? Should they be allowed to organize and plan peaceful actions without police officers continually derailing their discussions by trying to incite violence? What of the
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by v21 14y ago
You can buy advertising.
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by v21 14y ago
Hey, actually I moved so I could walk into work every morning. It takes me 20 minutes.
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by v21 14y ago
The usefulness of each movement isn't that they're right in themselves. It's that when the hype has faded, and they wash out again, the landscape they leave is different. If they're successful, half of what they advocated is seen as hyperbo
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by v21 14y ago
And that's the case in large part because your environment is optimized for driving. For me to get a car, I'd have to pay a fair bit more in rent to have somewhere to park, and I still wouldn't be able to drive to work (there's nowhere to p
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by v21 14y ago
They do mention it's only used for deciding salary adjustments. But generally, good points. What would you do instead?
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by v21 14y ago
For me the most impressive part is where they list things that Valve sucks at. How many companies have a list like that?
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Valve Employee Handbook(cdn.flamehaus.com)
569 points by v21 14y ago|160 comments
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by v21 14y ago
Because the expectations jobs have come in large part form the cultural expectations prevalent within the field. And your job's expectations can make you either unhappy or unemployed.
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by v21 14y ago
Work can't satisfy everything. I enjoy making useless things, sometimes! I enjoy owning a project entirely. I enjoy helping friends. It's okay those itches aren't scratched by work, because work pays me.
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by v21 14y ago
I agree with all of this, but also want to note that as a backer, your risk is significantly smaller than that of a VC.
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by v21 14y ago
I used to work support for a SMS aggregator. The core business was delivering texts to mobile networks. Mobile networks break all the time, it turns out. And can't really be replaced - there's only one T-Mobile. Now, when they died or sent
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by v21 15y ago
Minecraft needed to be made of blocks, it's true. But Minecraft could be more beautiful than it is. Which isn't to diss it - what it does well, it does really well. And it can often be beautiful -- the terrain generator can produce some won
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by v21 15y ago
If you're releasing frequently, which you probably want to be, then that's a lot of weekends you've just ruined.
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by v21 15y ago
Notch weighs in : https://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/186359914657091585
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by v21 15y ago
Sounds like he's well shot of them. And this seems bizarre behaviour on OMGPOP's part - he was entirely complimentary to OMGPOP and he publicly disclaimed credit for Draw Something. Even if you did hate him and the press he stirred up, the
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by v21 15y ago
The thing to realize is that the Javascript isn't Javascript. It just looks like it. Writing good Unityscript/Javascript is going to be only syntactically different from writing C# anyway. Unityscript/Javascript is well made, but there's a
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by v21 15y ago
Not quite true -- tweets can include in_reply_to metadata, indicating the last tweet responded to, and location metadata, indicating where the tweet was sent. And of course, the account that sent the tweet is metadata, and so is the time it
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How to make your first videogame(v21.posterous.com)
2 points by v21 15y ago|0 comments
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by v21 15y ago
I'm sure Mozilla feels very precarious getting such a huge chunk of money from a single source. But: - Mozilla isn't a company, it's a non-profit (this deal was done by Mozilla Corp, yes, but that's a wholly owned branch of the foundation).
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by v21 15y ago
Yeah, just shows me a full page ad for the iPad app, and tells me their content is now exclusive to their app. Would be interested to know what causes it to vary... But yes, a touch of irony there.
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by v21 15y ago
Yeah, the process for band posters is : recognise a band (or in this case, maybe a genre). If so, then check the details. That's all the poster needs to convey, and the most important way for it to do it is by being cool and by appealing to
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by v21 15y ago
The thing for me isn't that you'll necessarily climb the ranks as a result of this - but that any job you can automate away is a bloody boring job to do. Even if you don't automatically take on new responsibilities as a result, your job now
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by v21 15y ago
For an example of someone doing this all the way at the top of the corporate hierarchy, look to Ricardo Semler. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Semler
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by v21 15y ago
> It was a brilliant tactical maneuver. First, it delayed discussions while members of the august Judiciary committee wrangled with how to handle this unusual conversational detour. Second, it put SOPA-supporting chairman Lamar Smith, a

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