mantrax5

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by mantrax5 12y ago
"Does a mom obsessed with candy crush count" Why wouldn't she count? Cause she's a mom? Cause the game has candy? Or what? As for female assassins, truth is somewhere in the middle. You don't need to make everything
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Autism isn't just a "bad brain" condition that needs a "make brain better" game. Unfortunately it's a very specific condition with very specific needs. Calling Lumosity bullshit due to some expectation towards
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by mantrax5 12y ago
http://www.pixeltrek.com/img/crew.png Jean-Luc, you've really let yourself go, dude.
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Does Lumosity make any claims about improving autism conditions? It's a pretty big leap of logic to believe that a generic brain game system should improve autism range conditions.
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by mantrax5 12y ago
And yet, I wouldn't have opened yet another article on gamer sexism (I get it, gamer sexism is bad mkay?), but I did find the data point of half the gamers being female very compelling (and useful to mention during meetings). Sometim
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by mantrax5 12y ago
I feel they almost got the reason right, but not quite. We're used to hearing media stories about other people's success stories coming up with exotic, creative ideas. If we're hearing someone else's story, therefore, we
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by mantrax5 12y ago
I really wish Lego made the parts, let us order whatever parts we need, and then show our creations on their site. Not the other way around. Maybe this is reflecting the state of our society - we just like to see a cool brand, buy pre-made
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by mantrax5 12y ago
It's sharded, dude. You may want (typically) 3, 5 or 7 machines per shard for redundancy and failover, but there's no limit on the number of shards you may want to have.
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by mantrax5 12y ago
This thread is 50 shades of gray, damn.
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by mantrax5 12y ago
I actually upvoted the post for the comedy value.
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by mantrax5 12y ago
For anyone paying attention, the SDK has been specifically modified to allow for: 1) Smaller satellite devices for iPhone (iWatch? I don't know, but something like it. Look for it in the Continuity & notification widget APIs). 2) M
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Oh look, it's a Daring Fireball post where Gruber is talking at length about how awesome Apple is.
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by mantrax5 12y ago
I actually did read it. And I'm responding to the idea that "see, you complained, and Google changed it, so your former complaints are now misunderstandings" is really not a valid thesis.
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by mantrax5 12y ago
I understood it won't pick up, and lo and behold, I understood it right. People were right that an x86 sandbox is a silly idea for a web standard, this is why it's no longer one. As it is right now, it's ASM.JS, without the
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Random statements alert: - "Cool" fuzzy term, no specific definition given. - "Lose" fuzzy term, no specific definition given.
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by mantrax5 12y ago
I'm happy that developers are excited enough about Swift that they can't stop writing about it. But... this is basically reiterating Apple's keynote and WWDC sessions. We already know about those strengths of Swift. And peopl
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Kudos for the effort and so on, but the thing I can't understand is, who would use these backgrounds, unless they specifically want their site to look like their grandmother's house. It's 2014. By now we've realized it&#
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Who is assuming that "system is against me" victim position you're talking about? I don't see it. People do what they can in their position. Spontaneous organization leading to system change happens, but it's sponta
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by mantrax5 12y ago
There are entire countries where the modus operandi is finding a position of some power, then finding a way to cheat there so you can get something for yourself. Corruption is a measure of success. Knowing the loopholes and exploiting them
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Missing features weren't Microsoft's problem with Windows Phone. You can't ship from day one with all the features whether you lead or follow. Waiting until everything is there is a recipe for burning out your team and shippi
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by mantrax5 12y ago
We're carrying cultural inertia from simpler times when people didn't have easy access to the entire world to air their feelings. It's culturally accepted to share your pain with people you know, and it's culturally acce
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Well I'm saying it tongue in cheek. For a long time I and many others have stuffed JSON in SQL table columns, and I will continue to do so (heck, databases have started supporting JSON as a result). But every time a developer sees an i
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by mantrax5 12y ago
I'm sure the last thing on Eric's mind right now is CSS and especially the implication of a RFC putting the name of his daughter in a technical specification. It's one of those nerdy endearing gestures that, while made with g
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by mantrax5 12y ago
It's always interesting to observe my bad developer practices (such as stuffing JSON in SQL table columns) become flexible "architectural patterns" for building "schema-free, scalable data storage".
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Some nice finds here, but there's an issue. The conclusions are served completely isolated from the kind of people the research was done with. We're not all the same, we don't all react the same to the same traits of your mar
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by mantrax5 12y ago
There are 7 billion of us, so we can take a hit of 50 million. Gimme a shot.
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Reminds me of Forstall who dumped all his Apple stock months before being fired. Why should they dump their stock before being fired? Is there a reason not to wait a little bit? It just looks plenty passive-aggressive. Unless, of course the
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by mantrax5 12y ago
They wanted to study more people, but got distracted.
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by mantrax5 12y ago
After all the indiscriminate B.S. published in the media for this software "passing the Turing test", kudos to Ray Kurzweil for calling it like it is, despite he of all people has very serious reasons to be in the "I want to
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by mantrax5 12y ago
Wow. FYI racket is defined as offering to solve a problem that does not exist, or that would not exist if the offerer wouldn't force it upon you. Unless you're claiming the blackmail group is made up of Cloudflare employees, you s

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