blakeyrat

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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Well for next time, maybe you could do this thing called "testing" or "QA" before you put a product out there for hundreds of people to use. EDIT: sorry I know it's negative, but while you're posting stuff abou
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Good site, but don't you think it's a tad sleazy to use these people's videos without at least letting us click-through to their YouTube channel? I mean it's the absolute least you could do to give them due credit.
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
You're kind of missing my point. That's great for the person who is already a Nintendo fan and already plays every Mario game like clockwork. As a person who hasn't own a Nintendo console in a decade, what would be my inc
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
> on the same PC I run Skyrim on. I don't really see how that game is still supposed to be a selling point. It seems embarrassing for Nintendo: "We finally have the game you've been playing on every other console for liter
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
> The GC was the most powerful console of its generation, That's not true. The Xbox was far more powerful CPU/GPU-wise, and had far more storage (the 8 GB HD was pretty amazing) so games could install themselves to HD and use v
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
> You say that like this is a bad thing. Probably because I believe it is a bad thing. > Nintendo isn't just making the same games over and over again. Let's say I haven't owned a Nintendo console in a long time (which
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
> I love Nintendo and am a huge fan. But part of me can't help but wish Nintendo would just straight up compete with Sony and Microsoft. Well I don't love Nintendo, I think their consoles are pretty gimmicky and sales are fuele
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Define "online services". Xbox Live still lets you do quite a few things for free. (Although I gladly admit the free capabilities suck compared to the Gold capabilities.)
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
I need more random people on the internet to tell me how stupid and illiterate I am, I guess. Thanks, that's really helpful.
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Wow. Someone needs to tell the EPA about the inverted pyramid. You can't blame me for missing that when they bury the lede in the very last paragraph. That aside, the headline here still says the opposite of what it means to say. Exc
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Note: they mean exceeding in the bad direction, not the good direction. At first I thought this was some kind of spoof article, or Chrysler marketing effort. It should probably read "exceeding limits" not "exceeding standards
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Perhaps eventually our technology will out-pace NK's artillery so that Seoul will be basically immune from attack. We're nowhere close to that at the moment. Iron Dome isn't even entirely effective against a few artillery pie
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Going solar is great, but we need some base-load power generation, and nuclear is brilliant for that. The options for base-load are: nuclear, gas, oil, coal, dammed rivers. Pick one. Of that set, I prefer nuclear.
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Take the mutated animal photos with a huge gigantic grain of salt. The "citation needed" alarm rang out loud when I looked at those.
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
> that will result in large swaths of Japan being uninhabitable for lifetimes. Utter hogwash. This statement could not be more false.
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Well of course it's not going to be popular here, where open source is considered holy and perfect, but he is 100% right. For the record, I'm a HN reader and I don't feel disrespected.
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
The first patent troll was around in 1879: http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/11/05/the-origina... Yeah, it wasn't a software patent, but. It's not hard to see something that&#x2
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Many, perhaps, but zero of those subject to (for one example) HIPAA data sharing rules.
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
It's been decades, so I'm probably remembering it wrong. Point is: building's big.
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
My best bit of the tour was the explanation that if the climate control system ever goes down, the building's large enough to develop its own weather systems, including potentially clouds and rain.
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Sourcetree is a pretty crummy product regardless of how maintained it is. It reveals a culture that seems to hold basic usability testing & concepts almost in contempt.
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
The "culture" part might be good, but the end-result is Steam-- lousy software which has been lousy for decades at this point, and is unlikely to ever improve.
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Of course you can DISPUTE the claim. And in fact actual scammers will release the claim right away because they make all their scam-dollars off old videos where people don't check the ContentID status every week. But there's no wa
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Nobody who's been a victim of ContentID scammers (basically, 80% of YouTube Creators) would never say Google is "ethical".
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
You should get the YouTube developers in on this, because their ContentID system is about the LEAST ethical piece of software in common use. In my 2 dozen or so ContentID flaggings, maybe two of them have been by parties with a legitimate c
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
What I'm not understanding is why logging out or rebooting is required to keep a computer with full disk encryption secure. That's certainly not the case on competing OSes like Windows.
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
Location: Seattle (Snohomish County preferred) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: C#, MS SQL, web analytics, healthcare experience Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesschend Email: jamessche
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
> but I do need to close down/reboot a couple of times a day otherwise no point in encryption. Given, I'm not a Linux user, but I don't understand this at all. On Windows, encrypted is encrypted-- the lock screen is exactl
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
I was about to point out that Marathon: Infinity did it first, but it turns out DN3D beat it by about half a year. The fact that Marathon: Infinity included the game editor on the disk was a huge deal at the time though. Obligatory name-dro
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by blakeyrat 10y ago
> And while I do love my PC for gaming, it definitely feels more and more like an afterthought these past couple of years. Whenever people complain that the UI for AAA games like, for example, Skyrim, is designed with a controller in min

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