asimov42

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by asimov42 6y ago
So what about all the other gaming apps on the iOS store? Literally thousands of them are specifically designed to get (trick) kids to spend money on them. Apple is more than happy to enable In-App purchases for them and then promotes them
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by asimov42 9y ago
According to Trail of Bits : "There is no immediate risk of exploitation of these vulnerabilities for most users. Even if the full details were published today, attackers would need to invest significant development efforts to build at
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by asimov42 10y ago
Not really, I know quite a few (conservative) Indians who haven't been able to stay in the US simply due to the taste of food. IMO Indian spices are much harder to get right, whereas French cuisine relies much more on very expensive in
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by asimov42 10y ago
With such little information out there at the present I don't believe there is any point to discussion right now. With just unverified speculation, people are resorting to their imagination for any explanation which is never a good ide
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by asimov42 10y ago
I've thought about this a lot for India as well. To be realistic we would need unprecedented levels of transparency to get the amount of data needed to get usable results. With the amount of nepotism around even constructing a simple n
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Shadron: Edit and create graphics procedurally, using shader-based scripts(steamcommunity.com)
8 points by asimov42 10y ago|0 comments
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by asimov42 10y ago
Thanks for linking to the podcast, it was eye opening! Many people commenting here should listen to this before spouting off the same things repeatedly. It's so frustrating watching people ignoring history and then passionately agreein
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by asimov42 10y ago
What is also quite interesting about their platform is that they use Stackless Python for the game logic ( https://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/stackless-pyt... ). Their whole architecture is quite amazing
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by asimov42 12y ago
Loved the simple, straightforward language used at the time. Currently even mainstream news sites are are just dripping with way too many marketing terms that don't really mean anything anymore.
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by asimov42 12y ago
I definitely prefer hg but github has pretty much won war so I'm stuck with git. At the end of the day I'm not going to get religious about version control, I have vim for that :)
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Response to systemd's use of the debug flag(plus.google.com)
38 points by asimov42 12y ago|32 comments
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by asimov42 13y ago
That hula hoops bit was a bit... strange. If it were a couple of attractive girls I probably would also find myself staring. I mean, its just not something you see everyday working at an office. I understand being stared at is uncomfortabl
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by asimov42 13y ago
Obligatory link to the the skimmer: http://www.nytimes.com/skimmer/?pagewanted=all#/Top+News
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by asimov42 13y ago
Is there any serious competitor at Digital Ocean's prices?
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by asimov42 13y ago
Looks like they have chosen to only use App Folder permissions rather than full Dropbox. I suppose it helps in getting production approval, but then if other apps are able to get them I wonder why can't lightpaper.
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by asimov42 13y ago
Can you clarify what you mean by that? The slightly less poor exploit off the extremely poor?
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by asimov42 13y ago
Isn't it obvious this is the result of a country of extremely low average income and extremely high population? Of course it would be great to have even a semblance of equality, but I dont see a solution given the current economic mode
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by asimov42 13y ago
The "R" and "5" are quite interesting, and the symbols look fun, specially that "@".
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by asimov42 13y ago
You coudnt be more wrong. Read more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_British_salt_tax...
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by asimov42 13y ago
Wow really? Apparently pointing out the obvious bias and rewriting of history is "racism." I mean I get that the victor gets to write the history, but this is the empire that put "No Dogs or Indians Allowed" in front of
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by asimov42 13y ago
Love the nowhere layout! Is it possible to go to the previous track? Sometimes you get a song really stuck in your head and its nice to play it on repeat for a while while you work on something.
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by asimov42 13y ago
I agree. I get the feeling it would look great on print. On screen it looks strange. For me zooming out helped.
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by asimov42 13y ago
Where can I find alternative design styles and what would they be called? Gradient based?
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by asimov42 13y ago
I have never read an Indian newspaper making reference to someone's caste unless it was somewhat related to the story.