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by cliff 2y ago
I think I was the person who originally proposed to implement the crew control UI in a web browser, and I participated in a week-long retreat in beautiful Bend, Oregon where we implemented the first prototype. At the time, some very good fl
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by cliff 3y ago
Other games have 'start with partial download' technology. In fact, the core tech of the team that eventually created Valve's Steam was downloading assets on-the-fly so that you could start playing a game before everything wa
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by cliff 6y ago
The website says you're planning to build your own manufacturing plant. What will that plant do? Will you actually be manufacturing your own medication? If so, would that include manufacturing the active pharmaceutical ingredients or w
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by cliff 7y ago
It would be better to read the book she wrote, "Bottle of Lies". I highly recommend it.
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by cliff 7y ago
If you haven't read it, I highly recommend the book 'Bottle of Lies' which was released a few months ago. It details systemic corruption in a number of generic pharmaceutical manufacturers. It also details how the FDA is stru
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by cliff 7y ago
DOTT is a totally free-standing game -- and amazing. They address this in the linked article (also from personal experience) -- you really don't need any context from Maniac Mansion to thoroughly enjoy DOTT and they are really totally
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by cliff 7y ago
Cool, that was actually what I had hoped would happen! It was fun creating public APIs; the ArenaNet leadership was extremely supportive.
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by cliff 7y ago
Happy to see people using that! :) I implemented that Mumble integration while I was at ArenaNet.
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by cliff 14y ago
My salary expectation is pretty different based on whether I take a job in Seattle, San Francisco, or Austin. How is this accounted for?
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by cliff 14y ago
It happened to me on chrome on Windows on the front page. Kinda freaked me out as it started downloading a strange file immediately.
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by cliff 14y ago
On the homepage, there is an example of an incrementing counter. Is this actually an atomic operation, or if two users hit the button at the same time, will it potentially only increase the count by 1?
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by cliff 14y ago
Your're probably right, but maybe it doesn't matter? Voice traffic is a diminishing percentage of overall cellular traffic. LTE optimizes for the increasing majority of traffic - data. There are extra advantages to LTE -- for example, T-Mob
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Double Fine Adventure(kickstarter.com)
150 points by cliff 15y ago|61 comments
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by cliff 15y ago
I remember seeing this before. I think it's really cool, though in the article I read before one major block to implementing this is that you'd be splitting up group boarding (of even 2 people travelling together). I feel like that might be
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by cliff 15y ago
Actually, that translation was accurate. :) I found an English version of this article at http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_business/48... Basically, they put up this ad in a subway for a couple hours at night, filmed it, a
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by cliff 15y ago
This is FAKE! http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_business/48... [updated with English article] But it's a really cool, fun idea :) grocery shopping while waiting for the subway. It's one of the coolest concepts for a subway
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by cliff 16y ago
Yup, you're right!!! Fixed my comment, I get mixed up because I love those companies and both of them have ex-lucasarts people
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by cliff 16y ago
Double Fine's new game Stacking on xbox live arcade is definitely reminiscent of old-school adventure games, and it's great!
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by cliff 16y ago
Seattle, WA - ArenaNet Looking for Web, Mobile, and Server (C++) programmers for an upcoming AAA MMO's extended experience -- bringing our game to web & mobile. Web - http://tbe.taleo.net/NA5/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=NCS... Ser
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by cliff 16y ago
Use KeePass + DropBox or a network share. That's what my company does. KeePass is really solid software. http://keepass.info/
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by cliff 17y ago
You're still sending the password I entered back to me in an email in plaintext, even if you're not keeping it. This is considered horrible practice. I was excited about your product until I received an email with my password in it.. it jus
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by cliff 17y ago
The description might be sufficient, but it's inaccurate. You can't say AT&T 850/1900 and T-Mo 1700/2100 in one sentence. It's not the same context. You can say AT&T 850/1900 and T-Mo 1700. The point is it's more difficult for pho
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by cliff 17y ago
It's actually a little more complicated than this and the terminology makes it very confusing. The key to this is that the frequency band is different from the actual frequencies used for the radio. Much of the world's 3G usage is on the 2
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by cliff 17y ago
Warning: lsof can cause a kernel panic in OSX. I haven't tested it since leopard, but if you loop lsof continuously you'll hit it. There's some kind of race condition.
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by cliff 17y ago
But you're helping break the internet. When I write software, thanks to people like you now I can't depend on DNS to return accurate results. Another example of this is web browsers, which cache DNS beyond the TTL in order to provide a slig
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by cliff 17y ago
The US has a system. It's called ACH (Automated Clearing House). You can find many banks in the US that offer free transfers between accounts using this system. Examples include ING Direct and USAA. I use this all the time, and never write
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by cliff 17y ago
Actually, no. UMA-equipped phones support what is called Unscheduled Automatic Power Save Delivery, an extension to wifi which reduces wifi battery consumption both when idling and when on a call to about the same level as a cell connection
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by cliff 17y ago
So, T-Mobile is pretty bad at explaining all this, and majorly screwed up branding and markering. T-Mobile has two related but different services, which have been called T-Mobile @Home, and T-Mobile HotSpot @Home (now called wifi calling).
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by cliff 17y ago
Hardlinks and junction points are -not- symbolic links, and have lots of esoteric restrictions and consequences of use. NTFS does support symbolic links as of Vista.
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by cliff 17y ago
They very much believed that their optimized interpreter would be faster and better than JITing. And it is optimized -- they took into account cache locality, ARM instruction size, etc. You can read the design doc. They spent a lot of time

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