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by zyxley 11y ago
There are any number of free text adventure games built using Z-Code or Glulx systems (or newer alternatives, like Twine) that you can play online: http://ifdb.tads.org
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by zyxley 11y ago
Dschargeable student loans, and the subsequent elimination of everyone and their dog automatically getting student loans, would also probably go a long way towards reducing constantly-ballooning tuition in the US.
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by zyxley 11y ago
> Medical records also show that over the course of her eight-day stay, personnel at the hospital repeatedly tried to get Brock to deny three things before she could be released: that she owned the BMW, that she was a professional banker
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by zyxley 11y ago
I'm guessing the judge here decided that people repeating "Kickstarter is not a store" doesn't actually matter when somebody obviously uses Kickstarter as a store, in the same way that the police are unlikely to care you
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by zyxley 11y ago
The important bits: > 4.15 Defendants represented on the Asylum Playing Cards Campaign website that delivery of the rewards to all backers (e.g. the Asylum playing cards themselves, as well as the various add-on rewards) would take place
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by zyxley 11y ago
I like this. It feels pretty similar to the "enter this random set of numbers" method for some Bluetooth keyboard pairings.
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by zyxley 11y ago
I'd like to suggest a course in: how to argue with management about system or vendor implementations that you know will affect both future development time and user experience within your company.
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by zyxley 11y ago
Same kind of thing here. System calls, concurrency, etc. Nothing at all about linking.
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by zyxley 11y ago
> I've always considered the Utah program an interesting failure in that regard How is it a failure? It's not a solution to literally everything, but it's benefited many people and saved the state a fair amount of money
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by zyxley 11y ago
> Casual gamers don't care about playing on their TV. Wii Sports says otherwise.
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by zyxley 11y ago
The remote looks a whole lot like a Wii controller in disguise. There's even a wrist strap accessory. What I'm really curious about is if there will be any support for pairing multiple remotes. There could be a lot of Wii Sports k
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by zyxley 11y ago
I suspect if you did a survey, there would be plenty of programmers who would reply "it works like this, except these languages do something different", because "const means immutability" feels "right" despite
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by zyxley 11y ago
Why? The whole point of the app is to be as convenient as possible. Heck, it's got better design than services like Netflix or Amazon when it comes to looking through TV shows.
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by zyxley 11y ago
I think self-driving cars won't stop car ownership, because if your car drives itself it's basically a very small moving home. If you're 'living in' instead of 'driving' your car, you'll want it even
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by zyxley 11y ago
Most countries have something approximately similar to the broad strokes of US copyright and trademark laws. Details are different, but "just using the same assets and names directly" is going to be a problem in pretty much any ju
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by zyxley 11y ago
Would couldn't they? They do business across most of the world already. Think about how many countries have people with WoW subscriptions. Heck, just take a look at their list of offices: http://www.activisionblizzard.com&#x
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by zyxley 11y ago
> What will Blizzard normally do if they accuse me pirating their assets? Most likely, they will tell you: "shut it all down or we'll sue you into bankruptcy". I recommend taking a look at http://opengameart.org
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by zyxley 11y ago
This seems strangely plausible.
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by zyxley 11y ago
> Researchers noted that a limitation of this technique is that magnetic fields require circular geometries in order to propagate through the human body. Devices like smart watches, headbands and belts will all work well using magnetic f
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by zyxley 11y ago
Unrelated to this specific survey, but as somebody unfamiliar with Angular, having both angular.io and angularjs.org with neither making the version difference clear at a glance is confusing as heck.
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by zyxley 11y ago
Have you take a look at Cloud 9? https://c9.io You really can do almost everything in the browser there - the (remarkably solid) editor plugs into an actual terminal on a VM, with full build tools, deployment integrations, etc.
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by zyxley 11y ago
> Prices for the Campaign items — chairs start at $495, love seats at $745 and sofas at $995 — are a bit more than Ikea’s, but they include shipping to anywhere in the US. "A bit more" is a drastic understatement. Somebody buyi
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by zyxley 11y ago
> "The Census Bureau does not produce or publish a total count of the homeless population[0]." > So it is very likely the 9.8M you quoted for the total population is off. Note that the decennial census is supposed to inclu
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by zyxley 11y ago
> and should hardly be called basic That was danneu's point - that any forum that actually implements most of what people will want out of it (just to start with - separate subforums/categories, user permissions, tags, thread a
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by zyxley 11y ago
I wonder how well it scales to upwards of thousands of comments, though. There are some forums I've seen where it's not unusual to have threads that are several hundred pages of 20+ posts each. It also seems like prime territory t
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by zyxley 11y ago
This looks interesting, but it would need proper, nested subforums that are more discrete than the current tag system to really substitute for any of the major forums I use. This isn't because of navigation, but because of the alerts a
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by zyxley 11y ago
This is basically what a number of episodic games do - for example, the Ace Attorney iOS ports and the iOS versions of the assorted Telltale Games series. You can download the app for free and access the first 1/5th or so of the game,
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by zyxley 11y ago
> there was a pseudo version for people who strictly believe in creationism http://www.conservapedia.com/Evolution
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by zyxley 11y ago
There "where were you born" question strikes me as the kind of thing that's at a minimum pretty tasteless just by the nature of the question. If someone asks where you're from , they're probably curious about your
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by zyxley 11y ago
Even sugar-free sodas are still acidic enough to be extremely bad for your teeth in the long run.

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