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by zevyoura 14y ago
> It's quite wonderful, and now I'm thinking about what the equivalent for Halo would be. Maybe a game that brings out the tragic aspects of war -- not just as shocking gore, but as sadness and horror. Last year's Spec Ops: The Line did
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At the level being discussed here, I don't think it's a question of avoiding struggle, but rather of ensuring your family's wealth for generations to come. It would be difficult to turn down such an offer, especially if the work would still
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I believe this is the project you're referring to, though it's now integrated into an ebook reader web app: http://www.magicscroll.net/
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Interesting; cinemagraph is a reference to a style of .gif animation popularized on tumblr and reddit's /r/cinemagraphs.
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The documentary E-Dreams is a very interesting behind the scenes look at Kozmo's rise and (mostly) fall. Not a great documentary as a film, but definitely worth a watch if you're interested in the history of the dot com boom.
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Students also now apply to many more schools than they did in the past, especially when you add in the Common App, which Stanford and Cornell both participate in.
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> Treasury paper is as dangerous as holding your money in a Cyprus bank. You were making some interesting points, but this kind of hyperbole makes it very difficult to take you seriously.
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>In practice, when I was attending meetups, I did not meet a single non-technical person who had done any of this leg work. I would have taken them and their idea very seriously if they had. This is why I've stopped attending meetups th
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>Not flying doesn't really reduce emissions though... Those planes are going to fly whether or not you are on it. On an individual level, sure, but not flying reduces demand, which in turn reduces the number of flights.
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I worked in an environment with a significantly larger repository, and svn switches were a constant source of frustration.
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You have to maintain a full copy of the file tree locally per branch, it's a pain that gets worse as your project size grows. With git, switching between branches is near instantaneous.
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> Feel free to try to get the Cyprian government to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender but be aware that putting the national reserves into a commodity that can be "stolen" in its entirety in about 30 seconds of computer footwork and it does
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I don't really want to devote more mental energy to this topic than it's already consumed. I do agree that there are problematic elements within the tech community, and HN. I acknowledged this in my post: "Of course, there is some overlap b
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You're absolutely right, to be more accurate I should have said that if I witnessed someone performing those acts I would dissociate myself from them.
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Please don't put words in my mouth.
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Your experiences sound awful and truly disheartening, and I hope we can move towards a better and more inclusive future for everyone. However, I do feel compelled to make one point about this part: >Okay, time to speak up! Hi, I'm a wom
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I think you're underestimating the complexity of native apps. To duplicate functionality of a web app, you're still going to need to know your networking layer, whatever it is, and you still need to write a server and persistence layer; the
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To be fair, those are all systems with a drastically higher cost of failure than general web development.
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There are also huge quality control issues with the GoPro 3 line, check out the amazon reviews.
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The pastebin has been de-obfuscated and manually cleaned up significantly compared to the original that's bundled with the game.
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This feature was often referred to as "T9." More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T9_(predictive_text)
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My mistake, I meant Light Table.
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Have you thought of building on top of a library like CodeMirror (which Light Table is built on)?' edit: ST2 -> Light Table
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I don't think mp3 is a fair comparison, because "font" is not a specific format.
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Isn't that already the case in practice? Tons of devs just know git commit/push/pull and can't do much more without research.
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I'm not the person you're responding to, but I think this is how what the poster said applies to a SimCity-like model: >heterogeneity is your guardian angel - varying the path-finding model a little bit from agent to agent hedges agains
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Remove the query string from the URL to get the desktop version.
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I don't think you could pair with random users, it was party based like XBL games.
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Reddit comes close. I don't know that there can really be a 'canonical' discussion site, any more than there can be a canonical Q&A site (Stack Overflow is not that, given the existence of Quora, Yahoo Answers, etc. serving other large
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by zevyoura 14y ago
"Images Used for Text," "Contrast Fail," "Mystery Meat Icons," "Missing Pages," and "Tiny Fonts" all have nothing to do with JS or CSS3, it's simply a very poorly named article.

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