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by zavulon 15y ago
You have to see this video, dedicated to Albert Hoffman (nominated for Academy Award in 1998): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xqcjNUqIAw YouTube keeps deleting it, so in case link goes bad, just search for this: http://en.wikipedia.org/
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by zavulon 16y ago
I'm sorry, but this is just stupid. They would be much better off working with (good) recruiters. $12K is in the ballpark of what good recruiters charge anyway...
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by zavulon 16y ago
I love Linux's elegance and power for development, but can't use it as a "regular computer" for three reasons: 1) The GUI is terrifyingly ugly, in every single distro I've seen. Ubuntu is trying, but they're still way behind. If I only ever
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by zavulon 16y ago
Yes, but what's going to happen once Jobs retires/steps away? I imagine he's been very busy at choosing/grooming possible successors for a few years already, but usually empires ruled by a powerful individiuals crumble after the change at t
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by zavulon 16y ago
Half a year ago, I would've pumped my fist and screamed "Hell yes". That was the biggest feature I've missed in Outlook. However, Gmail has been so excruciatingly slow that a month ago, I've switched back to Outlook (Outlook for Mac 2011),
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by zavulon 16y ago
The most useful thing for me out of that list is "Shift + ?" shortcut. For too long I had to open another tab, open Google, and type in 'Gmail shortcuts'...
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by zavulon 16y ago
The real question should be which one is contributing the majority of your income. When I worked for "the man" I had numerous side projects (none of them went anywhere), and proudly called myself an entrepreneur. Now that I have my company
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by zavulon 16y ago
> With amazon's EC2 service, I'll be able to deploy as many temporary mirrors as I need in just a few minutes Can you go into detail on how does that work? I thought you had to have your site originally hosted on EC2 to do that ...
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by zavulon 16y ago
I was speaking Russian to her ...
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by zavulon 16y ago
I'm Russian-American and visit Russia every few years or so. The first time I went back, I remember getting on the Aeroflot plane, and finding out a blanket was missing (on an 8 hour flight, a necessity). I called the stewardess over and sa
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by zavulon 16y ago
If it wasn't for that about.html, I would've thought it was named after a Baldur's Gate II character, and was prepared to make a joke about sucking blood..
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by zavulon 16y ago
I couldn't find this info on the site, so how is this different from DosBox?
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by zavulon 16y ago
That's harsh... especially considering American jails are a picnic compared to what happens to you in a Russian jail.
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by zavulon 16y ago
I feel even more confident about my 2011 prediction: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1970634
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by zavulon 16y ago
While I agree with the concept 100% - doing this could land you in trouble if you're billing for your hours. My approach is different (I run a consulting company): when we take over existing code base, I always talk about it upfront with th
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by zavulon 16y ago
I guess I don't understand how anti-trust laws work. Didn't they break up "Ma Bell" a few years ago specifically to prevent monopolies? And since then, AT&T bought Cingular, now T-Mobile, and they pretty much have a monopoly on GSM, if
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by zavulon 16y ago
Whew, I almost got a heart attack reading the headline. As long as it's compatible with my Shure EC2 headphones, I don't care what the headphone jack looks like. Still remember the iPhone 1 headphone jack fiasco ...
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by zavulon 16y ago
> PayPal doesn’t want their cut of tens of millions of dollars of revenue we project in the next two years. Any idea of who does? Get a real merchant account and a payment gateway. I recommend Authorize.NET. Get it from one of the re-
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Hackers Discover Google's Cloud-Based Music Service(rollingstone.com)
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by zavulon 16y ago
As do I. It is my main work computer. It cost me $1200 for parts, and an equivalent Mac would be ~ $4000
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by zavulon 16y ago
Unless you're on a Hackintosh
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by zavulon 16y ago
I'm fairly sure a month from now, original iPad will cost ~ $200 and it's still ages beyond the Nook
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by zavulon 16y ago
Stringer Bell is definitely going to be applying.
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by zavulon 16y ago
Yeah, you're right, if you have wife/kids/anybody depending on you, then it's not the way to go. In your case, I would focus on being honest with yourself and force yourself to think hard what's going to bring money. In my opinion, "do what
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by zavulon 16y ago
A good way to stay focused is to quit your job and put yourself in a position where you have to make money in order to survive. Then it's going to be very easy for you to decide what to focus on. Disclaimer: this is what I did, wouldn't rec
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by zavulon 16y ago
Apple wouldn't allow a ScummVM app into the app store (that it would play any ScummVM game), but games made on ScummVM platform are ok.
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by zavulon 16y ago
Thanks, will definitely check it out.
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by zavulon 16y ago
Yes, you're totally right! ScummVM was a great part of this, as well. I remember getting an otherwise shitty Nokia phone in 2006-07, only because it could run ScummVM (iPhone wasn't even in the rumors then)
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by zavulon 16y ago
I've started playing adventure games in late 80's/early 90's with King's Quest and Gobliiins, and I've seen pretty much all of it, but for my money, there's no better adventure game than Longest Journey
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by zavulon 16y ago
I think the iOS platform is helping the revival of adventure games. Just the ones I've personally played on the iPhone over the last couple of years: - Monkey Island 1 & 2 Special Edition (remastered graphics) - Broken Sword special edi

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