GrandMasterBirt

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by GrandMasterBirt 15y ago
I will answer this with an anecdote: My friend bought a building. 50 apartments. He got investment money from family to put a down payment on the loan. Fix it up. Have tenents pay rent and cover the loans while looking for a seller. Sell it
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by GrandMasterBirt 15y ago
Look. iPhone is superior to Android. I know it every day I use an Android. However I cannot buy an iPhone because: a) I use sprint and am happy with it. b) I don't support Apple's control on a moral level. So I will not support Apple by buy
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by GrandMasterBirt 15y ago
No, my direct suggestion is the following: a) A game has no issues. It's life cycle is short. a.a) A long-term product/service strategy can't rely on one platform as they are under the whim of the owner. b) Don't build exclusively for one p
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by GrandMasterBirt 15y ago
BOO FREAKETY HOO. They put all their eggs in apple's basket. Sorry dudes, bad strategy.
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by GrandMasterBirt 15y ago
Is it wrong for our government to do any security research? I mean can good things not come out of it? Be thankful it was reported.
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by GrandMasterBirt 15y ago
Often when pairing we'd commit with messages like "WIP: 1" "WIP: 2" etc. push pull switch machines (remote pairing) get checkpoints in there. Then before pushing to the main branch we'd roll all that up into one commit with a very helpful m
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by GrandMasterBirt 15y ago
Git gives you granular control of every aspect of itself. When you REALLY need it, it works out. Insane history rewrites make the full team have to propperly sync. Rebase is an amazing tool for getting your repo up-to-date and not making so
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by GrandMasterBirt 15y ago
If anything the lastpass breach gave me MORE confidence in lastpass. For all we know there was no breach. HOWEVER lastpass immedicately communicated to everyone and discovered an issue in a very paranoid way. I think this is security I wish
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by GrandMasterBirt 15y ago
Thats cheaper than my 10mbit connection + phone + basic cable in new york.
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by GrandMasterBirt 15y ago
Consider this question: Let us say the cost of an infrastructure at google HQ is X. X is the cost regardless of internet. Now let us say you have Y which is the price of an average inernet connection for google offices. Or you pay 4 * Y to
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by GrandMasterBirt 15y ago
Internet at work: 100mbps download speeds when downloading ubuntu. Its the nature of the game. My company and google both need high speed internet and they will pay for it.
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by GrandMasterBirt 15y ago
Heres my input on these sort of questions: To determine what language to use, ask yourself the following question: a) How many devs will or you want to support your application. b) Approximately (ballpark) how many users will be sending sim
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by GrandMasterBirt 15y ago
Question: Why is the power cord so important? Can one not be made with cheap materials? I was waiting for a punch line but it didn't come.
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by GrandMasterBirt 15y ago
Of the people I know: my wife - tech unsavvy, afraid of the dvd player - has no use for chrome os. Not enough features for her everyday use. Cannot play 99% of any flash content she constantly uses. Cannot play netflix. my daughter - 4 year
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by GrandMasterBirt 15y ago
I am right now unable to have lunch with co-workers. I've always done the group lunch and would always make every possible effort to get as many people involved as possible. The problem is that at some point, I simply run out of people :( I
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by GrandMasterBirt 15y ago
I have to say, I once came fairly close to bricking my router. However after I realized the router was complete and utter garbage I put the brick to it, so now it is officially bricked, office space style.
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by GrandMasterBirt 15y ago
While I agree, the thing that jQuery does, and this was outlined a long while ago in a presentation is that different browsers have different behaviors sometimes for some of the most simple things. Querying is one of those, and the list goe
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by GrandMasterBirt 15y ago
I must disagree. Managing 2500 people is a daunting task. I've seen problems that arise out of managing 30 young people playing a game. It is an extremely difficult task and most can't tackle it in the smallest of scales. Writing this will
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by GrandMasterBirt 15y ago
Wait, "Password" was stolen? WTF they store unencrypted passwords?!?!?!!?! I sure hope they meant password hashes otherwise upset many people should be.
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by GrandMasterBirt 15y ago
The problem is audience: Kids don't give a shit. Privacy is crap, they got their penis pictures on facebook. They want their fucking video games. People playing games all day don't give a shit. They want their fucking games, stfu privacy an
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by GrandMasterBirt 15y ago
Think about that for a minute. They made a really good operating system which I would use if I could. However not many could afford it. Usually its... buy 2x computers, or one Apple. Thus only the few "elites" have it (or those willing to s
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by GrandMasterBirt 15y ago
> In India Wait, what about in the united states? Sure colleges may have great professors, but what about our lower education which people go through for 80% of their life's education, for many its 100%. Those people are underpaid, and
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by GrandMasterBirt 15y ago
I never used WON. The thing is I like Stardock's Impulse. All the benefits none of the crap. The problem with impulse is that steam has the nice steam APIs for matchmaking and such that require steam. Can't use it if you sell on another sto
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by GrandMasterBirt 15y ago
Thunderbird? Seriously dude thats back in '99. I have yet to meet ONE person who outside of the office uses outlook/tb/anything who is also not a hacker. (iPhone/Android/etc does not count, and even on those they use the gmail app). Sure so
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by GrandMasterBirt 15y ago
Just a quick thing to point out. The rabbit is out of the hat (or whatever is the correct proverb for it). As with all technologies seen in years past, don't fight it on "legal" terms, and I don't mean legal as in suing the crap out of them
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by GrandMasterBirt 15y ago
I still am hating on steam for: a) steam startup is the biggest contributor to starting up any game I got on steam. b) attempting to sell a steam account results in a ban. Well actually why the hell can't one sell their steam account in the
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by GrandMasterBirt 15y ago
Haha! Xbox wins. Well... kind of. I still won't buy one or pay for online... but well... no. I just use ps3 as a glorified netflix player. HA!
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by GrandMasterBirt 15y ago
The difference is that if a ps3 gets hacked, the hack can prevent you from removing it thus causing the need for new hardware. Opse.
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by GrandMasterBirt 15y ago
a) what stick said. Not such a critical system. b) Good to know from responses that amazon's paid support is crap. They'll officially tell you "were on it". c) People are bashing this person for relying on amazon not failing all at once. I
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by GrandMasterBirt 15y ago
10fps? wow it ran super smooth on FF4... awwww...

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