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by v21 15y ago
I bet The Guardian is looking very closely at this - they have been losing money for years, and they're going "digital first" too. Let's hope it works out as well for them.
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by v21 15y ago
Nothing would be better for the educational community than for there to be a much larger community making cheap extensions, how-to guides, tutorials and libraries for it.
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by v21 15y ago
Yeah, Mario Kart is infamous for it's rubber banding. It's possibly a case study in going too far - it's prominent to the point that almost all players notice it. And it's frustrating to get spammed with blue shells when you're in the lead
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Puppet/Chef-style configuration management using constraint solvers(homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk)
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by v21 15y ago
I can actually understand this. If you're running an awards ceremony, then the payback from the winner of the competition is relatively low - hopefully they go on to great things, and you helped them along, and establish your reputation tha
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by v21 15y ago
Yes, but there's a prior prediction from theory that the Higgs will be within this energy band.
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by v21 15y ago
Why on earth would they show them off? All they'll do is scare competitors - the people who'd buy white label Amazon stuff will find it when they search for "HDMI cable" and click on the cheapest option. I mean, it's clearly inevitable (I'm
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by v21 15y ago
At the London Hackspace, there's a saying that gets used a lot. When someone has describes a great idea for improving the space, some excellent idea for how to categorize the book sin the library or whatever, the stock response is "Great! W
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by v21 15y ago
The headline says "Gmail and Contacts get better with Google+", but actually most of these features are about making your Google+ experience better, not your gmail experience better. In other words, this smells more of corporate policy than
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by v21 15y ago
But that Paypal does this shit has been a hardy perennial new story for years now. Competitors are coming, slowly, from different directions, but it's not clear that Paypal is actually much damaged by these stories.
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by v21 15y ago
I remember hearing about it while I was at uni, and checking it out of my uni library. I read through it, and it was a dusty old tome full of references to long dead systems. And it was good, while not saying anything I was hugely shocked b
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by v21 15y ago
Raising your voice to have an opinion and getting in lots of flamewars is a fine way to improve.
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by v21 15y ago
This is why clinical trial registries are so important. Unfortunately the last I heard they were a confusing mess, with many not actually providing the openness that was necessary for them to be effective.
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by v21 15y ago
I am an indie dev, and I do make things myself. But that in no way diminishes the pleasure I get at seeing other people's works, being delighted and surprised by a novel or well-executed bit of game. It's difficult to be delighted and surpr
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by v21 15y ago
It's really excellent to read a guide on this kind of thing that focuses on the difficult human factors rather than the easier technical ones.
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by v21 15y ago
I'm glad this is the case. A common trap for indie developers is to make one game, have it be at least partially successful, and then to continue to make that game - making DLC, expansions, porting it to other platforms, making a multiplaye
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by v21 15y ago
He's not presenting it as evidence, but saying that it can help to illustrate a pattern of behavior. There's still the larger, more important task of showing that that pattern of behavior exists in the world, but this allows exemplars of th
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by v21 15y ago
Likely enough to be random variation as to have some real underlying cause.
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by v21 15y ago
There's a whole world to discover: http://www.moddb.com/mods
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by v21 15y ago
But you can respond by going "But it's silly to exclude X from discussion". Which is why I have been trying (and, evidently failing) to convey.
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by v21 15y ago
You're right of course - and I should have tempered my post with caveats about "if the poster is correct", and "I don't really know much about the internal workings of the ASF". The main point I was trying to convey was just that there's a
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by v21 15y ago
That Actionscript is still a useful language, within it's niche. And since this post is all about finding the right language for particular niches I don't see why you'd argue against it's inclusion.
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by v21 15y ago
I do write games, and Actionscript (3, not 2) is a lovely language.
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by v21 15y ago
Piracy is definitely the draw for this. Enough to make it practical? Maybe - it depends on how many good alternatives to piracy exist.
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Most professional game developers are also professional plagiarists(lostgarden.com)
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Early Day Motion against Modern Warfare 3(parliament.uk)
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by v21 15y ago
It harms the opportunity cost of the projects that reside within it. That's a real harm. And I think the point is that while GitHub is there, use it. If it closes off, or goes bust, migrate. You can extract all your data - keep a backup els
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by v21 15y ago
I'm not the OP, but if something raises my ire almost enough to make me blog about it, it probably isn't going to irritate me enough to fork a large software project. But the lower the bar for submitting a patch, the more likely you'll get
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by v21 15y ago
I dunno about that. Spotify offers pretty much the same service, and is legal.
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by v21 15y ago
I think one reason they've been luckier legally is that they sold a fair fraction of the company to record labels for a pittance early on.

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