4chan4ever

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by 4chan4ever 17y ago
Still, sad to see the once-great China, who gave us paper, movable type, gunpowder, the compass, and too many other world-changing inventions to name here, devolving into a dystopian nation of bean-counting surveillance monkeys. A great soc
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by 4chan4ever 17y ago
I doubt you can extrapolate from your experiences on a single MMORPG to the industry as a whole. Grind may well be intentional in your case, or in WoW; but in (many) other MMORPGs, the designers put a lot of work into reducing grind. Grind
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by 4chan4ever 17y ago
Well I guess I'll be the only one saying it: this entire article reeks of male geek condescension. I didn't know Clay Shirky was a feminist-apologist but I certainly grow tired of messages like this delivered from male bloggers about how wo
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by 4chan4ever 17y ago
Italian dictionary... $20. Magnifying glass... $15. Internet connection... $40. Using the Internet Anagram Server to help decode an ancient esoteric manuscript? Priceless.
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by 4chan4ever 17y ago
It's extremely difficult for a global warming skeptic to get published in scientific journals because the decision-makers are beholden in one way or another to the global warming movement. This is why we've yet to see a fair and honest deba
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by 4chan4ever 17y ago
It strips content down to plain text, removing any advertising, promotional links, social networking buttons, etc., and it does so without the permission of the originating site. Digg tried to pull something similar when they introduced the
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by 4chan4ever 17y ago
I don't know if technology diminishes human creativity, but it certainly increases our love for big, intelligent-sounding words. :)
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by 4chan4ever 17y ago
Well I'll be the lone dissenting voice here. Downmod away... First, I think illegal immigration is still ILLEGAL immigration and yes, the laws need to be reformed but until they are, let's not be too devious in how we aid and abet criminal
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by 4chan4ever 17y ago
Frankly, I found this article a little insulting, and the comparison of the USA to Germany prior to the Nazi movement completely out of line. The fears the author voices may have been a real possibility 50 years ago, but the author makes a
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by 4chan4ever 17y ago
Does anybody else feel like there's just been a rash of this kind of stuff lately? Apple really seems to be dropping the ball on a number of issues. Whether it's the attempted trademarking of "glossy chat bubbles", lethargic update cycles,
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by 4chan4ever 17y ago
Fabulously written? Please. The writing was sophomoric and cluttered with pretentious metaphors and turns of phrase. The fledgling writer's first attempt at self-aggrandization. Heh.
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by 4chan4ever 17y ago
I looked at the HN comments page expecting to see the usual: a bunch of sycophantic comments to the effect of "America is evil! Her immigration policies are backward!!" I wasn't disappointed. But I'm glad somebody else noticed the pretentio
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by 4chan4ever 17y ago
Yeah this article requires registration anyway and NO, the New York Times never offers content which is compelling enough to get me to actually register. NYT is fast becoming the re-blogger par excellence, with virtually no original content
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by 4chan4ever 17y ago
Finally... this has been blogged about for at least a year. http://www.codingthewheel.com/archives/online-gambling-priva...
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by 4chan4ever 17y ago
There was not even close to enough content here to justify the shameless plug for the book. I agree it pays to be awesome to people, but come on... give us more than 3 paragraphs if you're going to try to get us to buy something. Sheesh.
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by 4chan4ever 17y ago
From the comments... "Can I build a multi effects processor for my electric guitar using a DSP with the Fourier stuff and the C++ programming?" "Sure!" Lol.
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by 4chan4ever 17y ago
I thought DARPA ceased to exist when they moved the island.
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by 4chan4ever 17y ago
Then again: if you build it, they will come.
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by 4chan4ever 17y ago
The title.
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by 4chan4ever 17y ago
Anything is better than the Lotus Notes "Egyptian Hieroglyphics" password protect. Entering a password iPhone-style has a nice fluidity to it, as each leading character melts into a dot.
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by 4chan4ever 17y ago
Dziuba's a clever writer to be sure, but to me, part of being a 'professional' journalist is that you refrain from the ad hominem. Hurling clever insults is easy there are a million writers who can do it but to create a piece of informative
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Stranger than Fiction: The story of PostgreSQL and Online Poker(codingthewheel.com)
53 points by 4chan4ever 17y ago|22 comments
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by 4chan4ever 17y ago
Ah, my apologies. RTFM I guess. Also, I'm a disgruntled Redditor.
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by 4chan4ever 17y ago
Interesting, but what does this have to do with programming, software, computers, hacking, etc?? Is HN just a slightly-more-programmer-oriented version of Reddit?
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Dartboard-Driven Design(codingthewheel.com)
7 points by 4chan4ever 17y ago|1 comments
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Matt Aimonetti and the Ceremony of Political Correctness(codingthewheel.com)
2 points by 4chan4ever 17y ago|0 comments