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Ahead of its time: The history of Looking Glass(polygon.com)
7 points by velik_m 12y ago|0 comments
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by velik_m 12y ago
Mortal Kombat? Uwe Boll's Postal is also surprisingly good.
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by velik_m 12y ago
I find the analogy slightly ironic, since the best driver in formula 1 is indeed determined not only by his own skill, but also on the basis of his car quality.
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Workers paid $1.21 an hour to install Fremont tech company's computers(mercurynews.com)
52 points by velik_m 12y ago|42 comments
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by velik_m 12y ago
Yes this bothered me too, so i checked: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_in_Europe , with that kind of doctoring of data for the sake of the story, how can we trust the rest of the data?
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by velik_m 12y ago
I agree, the wikipedia example is especially strained, sure you can not represent that sentence clearly in picture, but can you represent Mona Lisa or Beethoven's 5th in text? Different types of representations are used for different t
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Ubuntu Touch finalized, first phones coming this year(pcworld.com)
2 points by velik_m 12y ago|0 comments
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by velik_m 12y ago
The problem with big businesses is that even if the organisation needs and wants to cut costs, its smaller organizational units often have little incentive to do so. So the push for a new cheaper solution has to come from above, which means
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3D Video Capture With Three Kinects(youtube.com)
2 points by velik_m 12y ago|0 comments
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by velik_m 13y ago
I think that would be probably better put as "Not raising venture capital doesn't make you a bad person", but that doesn't sound quite as good.
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by velik_m 13y ago
That is 20% drop in injuries. EDIT: it's actually a 25% increase as ebrenes correctly pointed out. Server me right for trying to do math early in the morning...
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by velik_m 13y ago
It's not such much what they left out, it's what they put focus on: quick and fast examples, which is what people mostly want (the "Try it Yourself" is also a huge plus here). If i want more detailed docs, i'm more
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by velik_m 13y ago
Who really killed adventure games: http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/77.html
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by velik_m 13y ago
I suspect it goes something like this: if we don't do it we will lose money and possibly our jobs. It's us or them, and for most people that is then not a difficult choice.
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by velik_m 13y ago
Just a few refs...
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by velik_m 13y ago
I posted this link on hn a while ago: http://www.polygon.com/features/2013/8/19/4614410/xcom-the-b... , but it didn't get much traction. I thought it was a great example of software development
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PostgreSQL Database Modeler(pgmodeler.com.br)
4 points by velik_m 13y ago|1 comments
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by velik_m 13y ago
To maximize the profits?
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by velik_m 13y ago
Or use one of those Xerox copiers that randomly change numbers...
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by velik_m 13y ago
I would contest that if they "slowly became angry, bitter, and defeated about their jobs, bosses and coworkers", they weren't the ones doing the poisoning...
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by velik_m 13y ago
Honesty is far more important than openness. Workers don't need to know every gritty little details, but they should trust in what they do know.
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by velik_m 13y ago
I disagree with some of it agree on some of it, but i strongly disagree with section on cultural values. First of: "Spend a lot of time figuring out what you want your cultural values to be (there are some good examples on the Internet
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by velik_m 13y ago
The obvious solution of course is to move all the people (except select few) underground for their own safety.
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by velik_m 13y ago
Hm, it sounds like they just got lucky, so i'm not sure what the lesson is here. A sample size of 1 is useless for learning what works and what not. I would be far more impressed if they would get similar results repeatably after each
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by velik_m 13y ago
How do you deal with multiple languages?
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by velik_m 13y ago
Cookies are just ONE method, that's why the law is not limited to cookies, but instead refers to all client side saving technologies (of which the cookies are the most common). Your post is yet another fantastic demonstration why criti
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by velik_m 13y ago
That's a pretty good idea, customers might even appreciate the "thank you" note. You do need to get their address though.
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The many faces of The Bureau: XCOM Declassified: from 2006 to 2013(polygon.com)
1 points by velik_m 13y ago|0 comments
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by velik_m 13y ago
I think GoComm and Kivo have the best chance of this batch. I think GoComm especially is a good idea and in retrospect so obvious, that i wish i would've though of it. Coordinating people, even in small scale events is painful. I remem
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by velik_m 13y ago
But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.

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