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by bendotc 14y ago
Who asked? Most of the game industry. This and the lay-offs at Funcom today have been the talk of the town(/Twitter) before they came out and posted this.
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by bendotc 14y ago
I'd be interested to compare the "seek time" though. Platter drive seek times can be pretty nasty, but I'd be interested to see if Dropbox or some competitor could serve up better with network latency involved.
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by bendotc 14y ago
Yeah, I wasn't crazy about the implication that str and int only do this via special built-in magic. In reality, you can overload __new__ to return whatever you want, including object interning.
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by bendotc 15y ago
For more info, the main website is at: http://www.rust-lang.org/ They recently added a tutorial: http://doc.rust-lang.org/doc/tutorial.html Of specific interest to language nerds may be the recent addition of interfaces ( http://doc.rus
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by bendotc 15y ago
I didn't mean to "alienate the president" from this in policy position terms, but speaking of rhetorical style and flourishes, it seems a little silly to use "Obama says" to cover anything written by anyone officially on behalf of his admin
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by bendotc 15y ago
While I agree with the sentiment, this isn't written under Obama's name. Its listed authors are Victoria Espinel, Aneesh Chopra, and Howard Schmidt.
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Women negotiate pay less because they are acting rationally(motherjones.com)
2 points by bendotc 15y ago|0 comments
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by bendotc 15y ago
This is way premature optimization, and it's based on a lot of assumptions. Did you know that, on CPython, your integer increment creates a new object each time (outside of the range -5 to 255 or so, IIRC)? Now, xrange might do its own in
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by bendotc 15y ago
Hey, I see you're new here. You may be wondering why your comment got down-voted. It's not that we're a community of jerks, I promise. People just really prize a high signal-to-noise ratio here, and while we appreciate that you enjoyed the
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by bendotc 15y ago
This immediately made me think of a quote about folks wanting to get into the games business: "Thinking that 'Hey, I like playing games, so maybe I'd like making them' is sort of like saying, 'Hey, I really like taking baths, maybe I'd like
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by bendotc 15y ago
I looked at "Elder Scroll series" and "Fallout series" and wondered how these met the 30 hour rule. Then I remembered that the advice also suggests skipping all side-quests. If you're only playing the main-quest stuff in those games, though
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by bendotc 15y ago
Frank Lantz, Ian's friend mentioned in the article who used to work at Area/Code and now at Zynga NYC wrote a response: http://gamedesignadvance.com/?p=2383
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by bendotc 15y ago
It's a bit more complicated than that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_productivity
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by bendotc 15y ago
Right, again, I think there's a political dimension to this, but I don't think Reagan created the problems two years before he got into office. My gut tells me economic repercussions like this probably lag their causes by several years, and
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by bendotc 15y ago
To be fair, Carter's reign wasn't exactly an economic wonder-time, and I don't think Reagan was influencing the economy that much as governor. I do think there's a political dimension to the change, but laying the blame at Reagan's feet exc
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by bendotc 15y ago
The US doesn't do terribly well in terms of economic mobility compared to other developed nations, either: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4662456 It's hard to move out of the bottom quintile when the bottom quintile
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by bendotc 15y ago
"So you'd bet that if I shadowed 1,000 self-made millionaires while they were building their businesses, and then shadowed a random sampling of (employed) Americans, the millionaires would work LESS than average? Really?" No, I never said a
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by bendotc 15y ago
I have no doubt that determination and enthusiasm are positively correlated with both success and with working long hours. However, as a rational skeptic, I've yet to see evidence that working long hours has a causal relationship to success
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by bendotc 15y ago
What he's calling "a mess" certainly is debt. In money, debt is debt, whether you acquired it by taking out a responsible mortgage or running up your credit card on bottles of Dom Perignon to impress your friends. In software, technical deb
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by bendotc 15y ago
While I agree that being defensive at first does use up the most important part of a post, I don't think it necessarily undermines it. If you can disarm people's preconceived prejudices even a bit, it may well have been worth it to avoid th
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by bendotc 15y ago
"And if you feel the need to deploy 'defense' against downvotes, you are either saying things that don't need to be said, or you are being needlessly defensive and thereby undermining your own point." The place I have used this rhetorical t
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by bendotc 15y ago
In my personal experience, the difference between a crappy CFL and a good CFL is huge. Low-end CFLs are dim, flickery, have a large warm-up period and often worse color. High-end CFLs, on the other hand, can have really nice quality light,
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by bendotc 15y ago
I agree that these are no small feat, and while I honestly think that these things were huge gaps in the service previously, I do applaud the quick implementation of them. However, even if they could not be implemented immediately, coming o
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by bendotc 15y ago
This is pretty much exactly what they should be doing. The fact that it took them several weeks to do it is what constitutes a poor response to the crisis. Regardless, it looks like they're doing what they should be doing, and I hope it wor
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by bendotc 15y ago
You seem to be arguing against a point I didn't make. I didn't say that "Hacker News is more qualified on economic issues than Cato" as you put it. I said that I found the case made in this blog post to be questionable and that this politic
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by bendotc 15y ago
I agree. And I have no problem with people having their opinions. I know it feels like my own beliefs are in the minority here, and I don't have a problem with that, but Hacker News is always a better site when it sticks to what it's best a
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by bendotc 15y ago
Really interesting, shocking quote from the original article, but the Cato free-market spin is questionable and not terribly well suited to Hacker News, IMO. The original Wired piece is great, though.
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Amazon user feedback used for censorship(marklynas.org)
55 points by bendotc 15y ago|24 comments
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by bendotc 15y ago
While "juicy" interface elements are certainly found in games, the "+1" pop-up circle is no more a game mechanic than a text input box is. (I realize I'm being pedantic. As a game developer, this sort of playing fast-and-loose with words an
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by bendotc 15y ago
Except he doesn't work for the post anymore, unless I missed something and he was hired there again recently.

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