WhaleBiologist

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by WhaleBiologist 13y ago
Sadly this is the exact behaviour I have come to expect from these types of people. Rather than actively work towards fixing the big issues in gender inequality (which requires society as a whole to change, and consequently will take decade
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by WhaleBiologist 13y ago
Unless you are a rape victim you have no right to determine what is and isn't acceptable usage of the term. Please respect the triggers of other people and check your privilege.
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by WhaleBiologist 13y ago
>Not everyone is willing to deal with graphics drivers and endless installers. To be fair this is much simpler now than it was 5-6 years ago.
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by WhaleBiologist 13y ago
From my experience code is either 'done properly' or 'shoehorned in'. But really, 'done properly' means 'you have time to organize everything satisfactorily at a high level', typically only when you a
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by WhaleBiologist 13y ago
Schools need to empower and educate young people as to how to create wealth, and not just how to fit into a predesigned hole the labor market has ready for you. Until that happens the relatively few people that 'get' wealth creati
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by WhaleBiologist 13y ago
Mining boom. There are legions of cashed up FIFO (fly in - fly out) bogans that have more money than sense, and so the price of everything has gone up.
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by WhaleBiologist 13y ago
Business is extremely competitive. How is that any different from a car race? No entrepreneur starts a business to fail and lose all their money; they start a business to succeed, just like a competitive racer races to win. Why is it okay t
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by WhaleBiologist 13y ago
It's a good idea in theory. In practice a conservative government will end up selling off and privatizing the company. Subsequent governments will still act like they own it though, because that one company now controls 99% of the country's
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by WhaleBiologist 13y ago
Pretty much. More mass to lift = more fuel = more mass = more fuel etc., plus burning fuel isn't the most efficient way of getting kinetic energy into the thing you are lifting. I would say it is unsuitable for atmospheric engines because o
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by WhaleBiologist 14y ago
Once you hit a population of 50,000, you start to get bad traffic. Density then ramps up pretty quickly from there. Quite soon you'll have a population of 200,000, and the traffic is quite a lot worse, but not terribly bad. The real horror
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by WhaleBiologist 14y ago
While I wasn't cured after a 'short course of treatment' I started to get better from near-suicidal point when I started getting treatment. I had anxiety problems after that, but kept on at it. It took me a good 5 years to deal with all of
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by WhaleBiologist 14y ago
My father was a holocaust survivor, and he was the exact same way. In fact, all of his surviving relatives were the same also. It seemed completely contradictory to me when I was younger (especially being raised as an atheist jew), but as I
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by WhaleBiologist 14y ago
Once upon a time, the Australian dollar was worth about 50 US cents, so things in Australia cost about double what it cost in the US. Then the Australian economy started booming, and now the AUD is stronger than the USD. But everyone who se
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by WhaleBiologist 14y ago
Ah, internet petitions. The best way to feel good about doing absolutely nothing.
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by WhaleBiologist 14y ago
Banks got retarded amounts of taxpayer money because of "too big to fail"
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by WhaleBiologist 14y ago
>it's objectively a worse use of those engineers' time If you are ActivisionBlizzard, or EA. What do you do if you're not them? THQ is a good example of a publisher that tried to mimic the big dogs, and failed dismally because of it. Th
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by WhaleBiologist 14y ago
http://warhorsestudios.cz/index.php?page=blog&entry=blog... is a very good blog post, outlining how poisonous executive management of large video game companies is, and how there are inordinate numbers of useless/inefficient positions
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by WhaleBiologist 14y ago
>Ortiz framed a brilliant, selfless young man as a criminal who should be locked up behind bars. Law is about drama? There's plenty of drama and hyperbole in your post. He broke the law. Which means he is a criminal. If you think the la
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by WhaleBiologist 14y ago
Martyrdom is a hell of a drug.
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by WhaleBiologist 14y ago
Geez, it's been almost a decade since the last good space sim, Freelancer. I wonder why no one has made a mainstream space sim game since (X3 is a notable exception, though the learning curve is quite steep). Between this and Star Citizen,
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by WhaleBiologist 14y ago
See http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/freshers/raspberrypi/tutorials/os/ for some really good tutorials for making a toy OS from scratch on your Raspberry Pi.
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by WhaleBiologist 14y ago
But I thought Google isn't allowed to do _any_ evil.
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by WhaleBiologist 14y ago
No government on earth can claim that they do not violate human rights, either in public, or in secret. I guess Google can't do business with any government.
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by WhaleBiologist 14y ago
Cool, another high profile person has joined the 'looks like a famous person on twitter but is actually a large PR team' club.
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by WhaleBiologist 14y ago
The biggest problem is when the 1% of good apps get overlooked, or have 90%+ piracy rates.
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by WhaleBiologist 14y ago
As far as I see it, with piracy rates around 90%, going freemium is the only way a dev can make money these days. It's sad how these kids don't realize they are killing the platform they are trying to play on.
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by WhaleBiologist 14y ago
That's fine if the projects you are loading in Visual Studio are reasonably sized. If you load a single monolithic legacy solution, the Intellisense database is huge, and you run into cases where you have to close every single thing other t
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by WhaleBiologist 14y ago
This is fine for the slightly aware power user (I have Windows 8 set up with Start8 and find it miles better than Windows 7), but if you put yourself in the shoes of your technically incompetent grandmother then you can see how things could
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by WhaleBiologist 14y ago
It would be awesome to call a random car any time you want, but I hate to think of the mess some people would leave in it once they were done with it.
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by WhaleBiologist 14y ago
I don't think short variable names are bad per se. To me their context in the surrounding code is more important. I've seen some beautifully, long, descriptive variable names, but the clarity their names afford counts for nothing if they re

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