Irregardless

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by Irregardless 13y ago
> To say it is any more or less prestigious than winning Monaco is a purely subjective manner. Of course it's subjective, and anyone who would declare a particular race "the greatest in the world" is obviously full of it.
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by Irregardless 13y ago
Oh, you're so awesome it hurts? Sorry to hear about your rich people problems. > the greatest motor race in the world: 24 hours of Le Mans The entire southern half of the U.S. begs to differ. Personally, I'd go with the Monaco
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by Irregardless 13y ago
"Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him." -- Cardinal Richelieu
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by Irregardless 13y ago
> The move today will affect every part of the San Francisco social gaming company . . . Zynga is a gaming company? That's news to me -- I thought they were still in the business of tricking people into paying for the privilege to cli
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by Irregardless 13y ago
Right, also trying to reinforce the fact that we're talking about actual gameplay testing and not something code related (a lot of people might assume the latter since this is on HN). I'm sure testing games is far more demanding and tedious
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by Irregardless 13y ago
One guy had one bad experience as a gameplay tester, and now it's time for all gaming contractors to strike? That's a pretty big leap. This sounds like a typical story of poor management in any industry: Lack of communication, failure to fo
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by Irregardless 13y ago
> You're either a black/grey hat or a white hat. Either you're a white hat and believe selling to malicious hackers is fundamentally wrong and you wouldn't do it at any price, or you're a black hat waiting for the right price. > The
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by Irregardless 13y ago
Less money = less incentive = fewer disclosures = less secure. Facebook is abusing the good will of white hats by offering such trivial sums, and they're reducing the security of their platform in the process. They have how many $100k+ engi
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by Irregardless 13y ago
I'd be extremely hesitant to trust these guys with a single cent right now. They requested $400k in their last Kickstarter and received over $3.3 million, but that project (now called Broken Age) is STILL overbudget and delayed [1]. They're
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by Irregardless 13y ago
> She graduated in 1994 with more than $100,000 of debt. Within three years, she had one daughter, a surprise set of twins, and was earning less than $50,000 per year. 3 kids while earning < $50k and trying to pay off > $100k
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by Irregardless 13y ago
Why? They just alienated gamers while showing non-gamers that they've been overpaying for a glorified Netflix machine. I've been a diehard Xbox fan since I first got my hands on the original, but this makes me want to switch back to Playsta
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by Irregardless 13y ago
> He clearly shows that he includes basic arithmetic in his definition. He mentioned arithmetic just to show that he's not being 100% literal about the "I can't do math" statement.
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by Irregardless 13y ago
That's mainly directed at the person who wrote the essay (a math professor) and others like him who blame the students rather than themselves. I think he should be examining the state of math education in this country rather than chastizing
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by Irregardless 13y ago
People who say "I can't do math" are lazy? Sorry, but I think that's a gross oversimplification of the issue (which is also evidenced by the comparison to physical exercise) and the two assumptions fundamental to that opinion are just plain
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by Irregardless 13y ago
Zynga was once insanely successful as well, making north of $2.3 million per day with a 47% profit margin: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870351550457614... And then their profits dropped 95% year-over-year... But that's the
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by Irregardless 13y ago
I'm not sure if this is more of a testament to their corporate strategy or the effectiveness of the freemium model for mobile games. It's amazing how difficult it is to sell an iOS game for anything more than $1.99. But, if you give them th
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by Irregardless 13y ago
> By "Internet Famous" he is not actually famous to the greater internet So he's internet famous but not internet famous? > . . .but convincingly appears so. Obviously if put to the test, the crack experts on the internet could see
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by Irregardless 13y ago
"Internet famous" still involves actual humans being aware of your existence. This guy just bought some Twitter followers, posted a fake Wikipedia article, and then arbitrarily declared his alter ego internet famous. Color me unimpressed. H
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by Irregardless 13y ago
That's good to hear -- I own the previous Nexus and skipped the Nexus 4 mostly because of the customer service complaints. Still, it will take a lot more stories like yours to repair that aspect of their reputation, especially for people (l
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by Irregardless 13y ago
So we can expect a bunch of half-assed software with no support? Awesome. At least with paid apps we have a reasonable expectation of customer service and timely updates. Google's customer service is largely nonexistent, which they justify
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by Irregardless 13y ago
Wow, that's quite a fortune they'd be raking in if people are actually paying $100,000 per day for promotion. I agree with most people that paid app promotions are almost universally bad, but the selective enforcement of trivial guidelines
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by Irregardless 13y ago
This story isn't adding up so far. > But sources close to [Apple] say it was more than a little troubled that AppGratis was pushing a business model that appeared to favor developers with the financial means to pay for exposure. http:/
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by Irregardless 13y ago
> Dr. Ying-Hui Fu, a human geneticist and neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco, is part of a team that has found genetic mutations in short sleepers. > Unfortunately, she says, if it's not in your genes, you
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by Irregardless 13y ago
Yes, as they said, roughly 1% of the population has this "gift". Although they failed to mention that it's most likely genetic: http://www.npr.org/2011/04/16/135450214/eight-is-too-much-fo...
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by Irregardless 13y ago
Who cares? Would you want to date a girl who uses a gossip app anyway? No. Hell no. If this helps steer the superficial airheads in another direction, I'd only have one thing to say to Chong: "Thanks!" Saves us the trouble of finding out th
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by Irregardless 13y ago
One problem: He assumes that the market is being adequately served, i.e. that supply and demand are relatively equal. What if tuners have a 1 year backlog and they're charging triple what you'd pay in other cities because there aren't nearl
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by Irregardless 13y ago
Of course. It was worth reading just for this gem: > Bitcoin’s programming ensures there can never be more than 21m coins in existence. Part of the “bubble” effect, no doubt, is linked to a realisation that we are quickly approaching th
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by Irregardless 13y ago
> Here's an article critical of Bitcoin that does better than recasting opinions as facts: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2013/04/03/1425292/the-problem-wi... From that author's biography: > Everything she knows about economics stems
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by Irregardless 13y ago
> I have no idea why his thoughts on Bitcoin would be worth spreading on HN. Ad hominem attacks are somehow better? One would hope the crowd on HN is mature enough not to be swayed by those... It's popular because he made valid, well-su
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by Irregardless 13y ago
Not that that should detract from his credibility, since he abandoned the movement when it was "hijacked" by the Republicans: > However, Denninger later expressed concern with the Tea Party movement, stating in an October 20, 2010 blog

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