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by Garoof 13y ago
"A gaming platform doesn’t have to compete with iOS on its own terms, but it does have to at least match it in the areas that are relevant to gaming." I wonder if this is true. I'd like to think that, if you're doing a g
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by Garoof 13y ago
Never heard of him, "The context is that I had rented a herd of goats for reasons that aren’t relevant here and had sent out a mass e-mail with photographs of the goats attached to illustrate that a) I had goats, and b) it was good.&qu
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by Garoof 13y ago
My impression is that it tends to be more about reaching out to women and making sure they know they're welcome and less about inviting women because they are women. (Like, putting some effort into making women submit talks to your conferen
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by Garoof 13y ago
Maybe if it's only about getting some bug fixed as soon as possible. But I'd say communicating the "MongoDB is terrible" part of it to the public is pretty valuable too. Because nice to know and the hype doesn't mention that so much. I'm su
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by Garoof 13y ago
"(how many people you think really empathize with you - vs. just going through the motions?)" I don't know that I prefer people going through the motions of hating on each other. It's not necessarily honest and genuine just because it's u
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by Garoof 13y ago
On SimCity and that, Will Wright tends to think of his creations as toys rather than games. 'hell even some BluRay menus could be described as having "gameply."' Which should be a pretty sure sign that "can be described as having gameplay"
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by Garoof 13y ago
"People arguing that piracy is ruining gamedev routinely ignore the fact that those who pirate don't necessarily have the means to buy many games; their choice is purely between pirating and not playing." Yeah. It's like these guys totally
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by Garoof 13y ago
(I like _why and I don't have any problem with the attention he receives or anything. But I did kind of agree with some of the "that's rubbish" responses to the "first" stuff.) I'm reasonably sure I won't agree with you on any definition of
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by Garoof 13y ago
Usually when someone writes a piece on taking gaming seriously, I get the impression that the author does not take gaming very seriously, finds some other issues to be pretty serious, and thinks that to take gaming seriously is a matter of
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by Garoof 13y ago
Yeah. Was trying to read that as "more free from social and clutter"...
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by Garoof 13y ago
... and also get introduced faster?
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by Garoof 13y ago
"Is that confusion intended by the article author?" Probably not. Most everything can be misunderstood, but it's not really a particularly confusing paragraph.
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by Garoof 13y ago
It's a reading comprehension thing. We're obviously going back in time, to some kind of cause, at "Her crime?". And then "Shortly thereafter" follows the sentence about the tweet and there is no reason to assume it refers to some earlier se
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by Garoof 13y ago
"Scala is a pretty terrible language to be learning it though." Pretty good course though. If you want something like that, maybe because you find it helpful to have exercises with deadlines and things, then I'd reccomend the course. But if
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by Garoof 13y ago
Heh. When I first checked out Scala, what I liked about it was that it dealt with a lot of the stuff that annoyed me when going from Smalltalk to Java :)
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by Garoof 14y ago
> I see a lot of mentions of Smalltalk on this page yet 'Smalltalk' doesn't appear on the Pharo home page. Huh? Are we looking at the same page? On the home page I see "Pharo's goal is to deliver a clean, innovative, free open-source Sm
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by Garoof 14y ago
> Closure (the construct) Of course, if we wanna, we can start getting confused right here. http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-15.html... (also also, http://www.4clojure.com/ and the "So wait, I can't buy cheap r
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by Garoof 14y ago
"Of course if you could buy the original games directly from their authors it would be a different story, but you can't! Is there something I'm missing here?" If we decide that games lose all their value the moment the authors are no longer
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by Garoof 14y ago
I'd say "freedom of expression" serves kind of the same purpose as "political correct" on this one though. This is not "freedom of expression" being under attack. It is, at most, about let's maybe not so much invite guys like that to talk a
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by Garoof 14y ago
So, on a "some other language does like so" note, in D you might write it kind of like this: allocate_memory(); scope(failure) free_memory(); setup_interrupts(); scope(failure) teardown_interrupts(); setup_registers();
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by Garoof 14y ago
If no one raises a counter point, maybe the downvotes are not really about disagreeing with the point you made? Maybe it's more like, people don't like your tone, or they don't think that fun post about fun with AR drones is the time and pl
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by Garoof 14y ago
The "deeply personal story" is about shit that went down in public. Things you might have seen happening because you saw her speak at a conference. It is perfectly reasonable to "attach" it to any "speaking on conferences"-stuff.
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by Garoof 14y ago
"We expect answers to be supported by facts, references, or specific expertise, but this question will likely solicit debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion." He's asking for free books about programming. When someone answers wi
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by Garoof 14y ago
I don't really feel that way, and it's not really something I've spent a lot of time looking into, but. There is one thing that bothers me and if you feel like talking about that that'd be cool. Most of time there's some example of people m
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by Garoof 14y ago
Note that my response was mainly to the "hard to understand because questionmarks" part of your post. I think that's a pretty weak argument, and that being clear about which part of the code depends on the ifs easily makes up for weird synt
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by Garoof 14y ago
I like the last one better. I think it reads more like "assign one of these values to sides[i]" and less like "do one of these three things". "By this latter I mean, if you change the code a little bit, you don't have to rewrite it; it look
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by Garoof 14y ago
"What is being parodied - the experience of Windows users encountering the peculiarities of Linux - is not particularly interesting, nor is it particularly worthy of ridicule. Such stories tend to be about people giving Linux a legitimate c
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by Garoof 14y ago
It's a nice post/example. Obviously useful, not that trivial, or at least something you might not have thought of doing if you're just beginning to grok macros, but simple enough so that you can do a pretty detailed explanation of it with
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by Garoof 14y ago
"and therefore keep it out of the package manager" That is not much like my reasoning. Taking something out of the package manager does not generally make it so that it is taken care of by the same thing that takes care of TF2 being up to d
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by Garoof 14y ago
"By that reasoning, if you have one package on your system that's not managed by the package manager, you should discard the package manager entirely." No? Something like "I want to play TF2, so I should update Steam and TF2" is a reasonabl

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