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by eks 9y ago
Just because the social media guy likes to play social media'ish doesn't mean the rest of the team is like that. But definitely not a good moment to make a joke.
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by eks 9y ago
It's scary. Why not just revert to the old engine when things started to fell out of place? Having the exchange down for that long is bound to have a big backlash when it comes back online. They should have put a Kraken 2.0 trade engin
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by eks 9y ago
If Ethereum and smart contracts take off, "code auditors" are going to be making a fortune.
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by eks 12y ago
Uber is great, but the biggest cost is that you need to pay for the services of someone driving for you. I live in Montreal and regularly use http://communauto.com/ They have two services, 1) for ~$2,50/hour + $0,10&#x
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The rise of data and the death of politics(theguardian.com)
5 points by eks 12y ago|0 comments
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by eks 12y ago
X (the market) can also increase if people had more free time. (AKA: less working hours).
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George Orwell Explains in a Revealing 1944 Letter Why He’d Write 1984(openculture.com)
3 points by eks 13y ago|0 comments
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by eks 13y ago
It runs great here. But I have basically just Ubuntu vanilla and a NVidia card. I would expect games wouldn't run as easily on a different distro or on a heavily customized Ubuntu. The Linux ecosystem is HUGE. I suppose that's why
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by eks 13y ago
2.6.4... sigh... I do use Python and Maya/Motionbuilder. It would be great if Autodesk ever did upgrade python to 3.3, but I suppose A LOT of stuff would break in the process. But since A LOT of stuff already breaks from each yearly ve
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by eks 13y ago
I have my TV as second monitor to my PC in the living room. It's great.
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by eks 13y ago
I'm saving up to upgrade my PC (AMD HSA on Kaveri + DDR4) because of SteamOS (amongst other things) instead of getting a next-gen console. And I know a few other people doing that as well.
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CEO-to-worker pay gap is obscene; want to know how obscene?(latimes.com)
2 points by eks 13y ago|0 comments
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by eks 13y ago
Yeah, I agree. I was a 3rd country indie and strongly believer of UGC. I still am, but not in the mod sense. Modding is useful only if you want to break into the games industry, but that's it. And only the 0.1% of the good mods generat
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by eks 13y ago
I'm really beginning to think that the Snowden leaks came up too late, and the "intelligence-industrial-complex" might already be too big to dismantle.