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by zalzane 13y ago
>scientists and tinkerers of yester-year once appropriated the term Engineer from the well respected steam engine operators, engineer (n.) early 14c., "constructor of military engines," from Old French engigneor, from Late Lati
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by zalzane 13y ago
One particular thing I've noticed while playing video games is that it's very easy to lose track of where you "are" in the scene. Despite a relatively simple building layout, I notice that my mind doesn't "map&
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by zalzane 13y ago
Don't forget to patent it and sue everyone who uses it, OP. suggestion: seems to only be one level of bounciness, and it only applies at the end of the scroll. itd be cool to see the screen morph while the scroll occurs as a function o
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by zalzane 13y ago
I recommend 2b2t.org, as it is probably the best survival server out there. It's a pvp-enabled anarchy server. Nobody can get banned for any reason whatsoever. The server is ~3 years old and the map has never been reset. What this mean
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by zalzane 13y ago
oh man I love these. Here's an old gem I came across a few years back: https://gist.github.com/bsamuels453/5819204 This is a bitch to detect if you have a huge project. The #ifndef _DEBUG is like frosting on the c
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by zalzane 13y ago
I imagine that there's plenty of groups from third world countries who would be more than glad to take advantage of a cheap botnet to hold a website at gunpoint in exchange for protection money.
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by zalzane 13y ago
I didn't suggest the book for PUA. When I was 16, I was a socially degenerate nerd who had no friends and zero romantic prospects. The interactions and steps that people go through when forming relationships was absolutely alien to me.
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by zalzane 13y ago
I would be more concerned with my 16 year old self developing their technical skills and social network rather than thinking about doing a startup, so my advice reflects that. -Stay away from python, dynamic typing is a sick joke for anythi
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by zalzane 13y ago
There's a not-so-well known secret about 4chan that can't be glossed over when considering these kinds of things. On 4chan, there's 5-10 boards that are implicit "cancer filter" boards. These boards are used to cura
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by zalzane 13y ago
I like to think that the more passionate people get over something on the internet, the saltier the stuff they tend to write about it.
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by zalzane 13y ago
I think this is a good article, but it was a mistake to start out by citing Fish's situation. Fish is absolutely not an innocent player in this scenario. He would fill his twitter feed with rage-filled comments in reply to people who w
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by zalzane 13y ago
The last thing this situation needs is a bit of petition-based slacktivism to calm people's nerves. Petitions do absolutely nothing. Off the top of my head, I can't recall a single petition in recent history that has done anything
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by zalzane 13y ago
I agree with this comment. Developing a game is one of the most complicated and rewarding projects you can perform on your own. I would go as far to say that developing a complex game may even be on the level of operating system development
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by zalzane 13y ago
Correlation does not imply causation. While this article may portray the trend as "universities that produce successful startup founders", it's very possible that it may actually be something like "prestigious universit
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by zalzane 13y ago
Lately my group of friends have been discussing the most underhanded ways to get PAE's to bugger off. Nothing serious, but it's interesting to think about how one of these PAE lawyers would react if you told him his daughter'
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by zalzane 13y ago
Great, exactly what this situation needs, a bunch of self-righteous vigilantes trying to evangelize themselves with another leak. At least Snowden held back any state secrets that would have seriously compromised national security. I highly
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by zalzane 13y ago
To be fair, there was only one paragraph lamenting that the system didn't bend to his needs. If you think that was the theme of this essay, then I suggest you reread it.
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by zalzane 13y ago
Because hacker news isn't reddit and has no business caring about a murder case that's only notable because the mainstream media wants to blow it up for ratings.
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by zalzane 13y ago
Reddit produces so much drama it's ridiculous. I use to think 4chan was a big catalyst for drama, but then reddit rolls around and resets the standard. Between rage over shill moderators on meme subreddits to accusing innocent people
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by zalzane 13y ago
Trying to install a tap on an active fiber cable sounds like a very much impossible feat for any kind of modern technology. If I was the poor EE they laid this problem on, I would have the submarine install the tap while the cable is still
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by zalzane 13y ago
What would really make me wet my pants would be full page takeover-ads. I'd pay serious money to do a full page targeted troll-ad on any number of boards. I can't even imagine the scale of the butthurt that would ensue if someone
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by zalzane 13y ago
Before it was pretty difficult to get any kind of advertising on 4chan. I was looking to advertise a product there a few years or so ago, and you pretty much couldn't get ahold of the admin through the advertisement email address.
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by zalzane 13y ago
Revelation space is a speculative fiction novel set in the far future during the golden age of space colonization. Spoilers ahead. Throughout the novel there's alien civilizations that use different kinds of way to cloak constructs and
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by zalzane 13y ago
This looks like it would make an excellent spying tool, if there isn't already a similar device available.
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by zalzane 13y ago
There's a lot of americans that have bad blood with the space program; deaths in a colonization program would just fuel them. I'm pretty sure the number of deaths doesn't matter either. Only a few people died in the boston b
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by zalzane 13y ago
I have no idea how criticisms over only allowing logins to a service through facebook could ever possibly be construed as trolling.
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by zalzane 13y ago
Lifts on the ground floor have to service the entire tower, where a lift that started half way up the tower would only have to serve half as much traffic as the ground floor lift, so you could have like a dozen lifts that go from ground-&gt
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by zalzane 13y ago
The only thing more terrifying than the great firewall is a construct with the same purpose that doesn't block internet access, but silently lets the government know when youre likely to be the kind of person who steps out of line.
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by zalzane 13y ago
>If so, it's incredibly dangerous. I think it's absolutely thrilling. Just imagine, all it takes is one disgruntled, lucky cypherpunk to crack into the NSA content database and reveal its content to all. Unencrypted emails, tex
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by zalzane 13y ago
it has nothing to do with their pizza, people just thought your comment wasn't constructive

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