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by hzzn 16y ago
Games are mechanisms for play. Play is not art. Play is dynamic, art is static. Play engages, art coerces. I think Ebert is mostly right, but we shouldn't give much serious attention to someone who has had so little experience with games
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by hzzn 16y ago
(The comment I am about to make is not supported by a link to a paper published by a widely respected, peer-reviewed scientific journal. You can safely assume that it contains nothing but falsehood and moderate accordintly.) It's possible
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by hzzn 16y ago
I agree with the fundamental philosophy behind Doctorow's argument, but good grief: The model of interaction with the iPad is to be a "consumer," what William Gibson memorably described as "something the size of a baby hippo, the co
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by hzzn 16y ago
This story was first broke by the New York Times: "Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts" http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/16program.html
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by hzzn 17y ago
(I realize--hope?--that everyone else has moved on from this thread.) "what you posted is IMHO quite insulting to HN posters" If it is insulting even with my comment just above that praising an article that itself criticizes the very kind
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by hzzn 17y ago
I only flipped through about ten pages of thumbnails, but as far as I could tell every photo on their stream is accompanied by a link entitled United States Government Work which points to http://www.usa.gov/copyright.shtml A work
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by hzzn 17y ago
I'm guessing from the down-votes that folks have taken my "Perl sucks" comment at face value. (Or maybe they just don't think I'm funny, which puts them in good company; my girlfriend doesn't think I'm very funny either.) I suppose the jok
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by hzzn 17y ago
Also, Perl sucks.
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by hzzn 17y ago
I remember first reading this not long after it was originally written. This article made a significant impact on me, and contributed significantly to my maturation as a programmer. I thought then (and still believe today) that the basic g
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by hzzn 17y ago
It's odd to hear all this victory hooting over a single hyperbolic prediction with so many glaciers in retreat all over the world ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retreat_of_glaciers_since_1850 ). Ah, but I suppose every claim on the page li
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by hzzn 17y ago
I agree. It seems you could have written this article during Jane Austen's time. "Children growing up are going to be SOOOO much different from the previous generation because the post is delivered as often as SIX times a day and OMG will
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by hzzn 17y ago
A quote from http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/GlobWarm.HTM The science, reduced to its simplest terms, is that carbon dioxide is known to be effective at trapping solar heat. So are water vapor (the source of 90% of earth