ggame

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by ggame 10y ago
I thought it was because Umbrella corp was taken
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by ggame 10y ago
I wish it was my lack of marketing and business skills, that way there would be more room for others to succeed. While I'm not claiming to be a marketing guru, I am successful in business in a different domain. Hence my early retiremen
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by ggame 10y ago
None of the ideas you present are new to me. I've tried them all. I have many friends in the space who have tried them all as well. If anything worked we'd be the first to know. "If it can be phased in a culturally acceptable
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by ggame 10y ago
People will complain about the code of conduct and again about their banning upon breaking a code of conduct. Managing a community takes a lot of time for something you're not getting paid for.
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by ggame 10y ago
For general purpose programming I consider the meta languages (ML) to be great. E.g. Rust, Typescript, Swift, Scala, F#, Haskell, Ocaml etc. Something like Hindly-Milner typesystem in order to build good tooling. Scripting languages don&#x2
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by ggame 10y ago
I personally use Vim and Tmux for my IDE. But I build tools for people who aren't me and they need tools specialized for their job. Even general purpose devs can benefit from better compilers and code completion.
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by ggame 10y ago
I think the point I was alluding to is that the market should be much bigger than it is. And it would be great if open source contributors could make money from their work.
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by ggame 10y ago
As you point out, sufficiently good. But not great. I agree that the world is a better place with open source. I simply wish there was a culture were developers opened their wallet and supported it. That way we would have even more of it.
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by ggame 10y ago
Python, PHP, and Ruby are not great languages. Google, Facebook, and Twitter are successful inspite of them. I'm not saying open source is bad, I'm saying Dev culture in not paying for tools is bad. I agree that ideally it would b
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by ggame 10y ago
Not getting paid for open source is how the world works. If you do any of the above you invite yourself to so much criticism that it's not worth it. I have first hand experience of this. I hope to retire next year to do open source ful
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by ggame 10y ago
Why would SV clash with Trump on this? This seems like a sensible solution to the problem and one I've seen posted multiple times here on HN.
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by ggame 10y ago
This brings back nightmares I had from working at Microsoft (2009). As a PM; responsibility without authority was the job description. Hallway estimates and schedule chicken was 70% of the job. And the there was stack ranking...
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by ggame 10y ago
Could be a hypercritical hypocrite. It's a common cooccurrence.
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by ggame 10y ago
China is an economic house of cards. The best course of action is just to wait it out.
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by ggame 10y ago
An aside; I recently found out about the Nipster movement, Nazi Hipsters. Be afraid be very afraid
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by ggame 10y ago
Not a fan of Trump but this is a good thing. See this exert from John Oliver on the effect of such trade deals; https://youtu.be/6UsHHOCH4q8 And that's the existing trade deals, TPP would have made it much worse. There
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by ggame 10y ago
I look forward to seeing the parody in HBOs Silicon Valley
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by ggame 10y ago
It mixes a virtual world with the real world; thus augmenting the real world. I would argue that a fine grain occlusion (individual pixels) vs coarse grain (movable display) isn't that big of a difference with immersion. Consider that
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by ggame 10y ago
Founders can pull money out in later rounds and pocket a lot of cash. E.g. The Secret founders.
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by ggame 10y ago
Wow that TED talk really explains everything. I get it now.
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by ggame 10y ago
I'd hazard a bet that augmented reality already peaked with Pokémon Go.
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by ggame 10y ago
You're correct. I read the principal incorrectly. The Peter principal requires that a person is competent before being promoted. The Dilbert principle doesn't apply either as management has too much power. There must be a principl
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by ggame 10y ago
I never said they were alternatives. I specifically referred to federations of democracies where power is shared between state and federal government.
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by ggame 10y ago
I figured one counter example was sufficient. Thanks for adding to the list
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by ggame 10y ago
I'll defer to the wealth of online information on this topic. That said even my pro EU friends don't make the claim that the EU is democratic. Usually pointing out that the U.K. and the US are not that democratic either. The U.K.
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by ggame 10y ago
Once again we are in violent agreement. Trade is the strongest defense against war. In the same vain, economic sanctions are a prelude to war and in many cases considered an act of war. Which is why the EUs economic sanctions against Russia
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by ggame 10y ago
I think you have your parents mixed up. Assuming this was for me; I walked you through the logic and am in total agreement that a large part of the rational for the EU was to prevent war in Europe. My case is that the EU is undemocratic. Th
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by ggame 10y ago
I was told this by EU loving Germans with the explanation that the Germans, and Europeans, can't be trusted and need a superstate to prevent war. "Never again." Obviously forgetting the US civil war. It's a natural posit
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by ggame 10y ago
Not disagreeing... would the Peters principal also apply? Intentionally hired to be incompetent that would also imply malice? Those involved may have the best intentions, so no malice, and we're back to incompetence. Either way, if I w
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by ggame 10y ago
I second your statement. The EU is another attempt at a global power structure that has been going on since people were people. It's most recognizably German, and once the realities of governing a superstate are take into account, this

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