mrobataille

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by mrobataille 11y ago
stop comparing yourself to other people
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by mrobataille 12y ago
As a point of reference, the story of North Korean prisoner Shin Dong-hyuk ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr6Rw0ltFxc ) is the single most broken, fucked up, yet amazing thing I have ever heard. Not trying to belittle hosip
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by mrobataille 12y ago
Got all 35 - I did brute forcing with a few rules: 1) Don't worry about the colors at all, because you can usually shuffle them around to get the right order. 2) If there's a particularly cute combo, it's probably part of the
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by mrobataille 14y ago
Don't forget the qualifier - "the company will take all profits from the game until the cost of hiring artists for the graphics is payed off". So, what do they offer? - Tutorials/community? Ubiquitous and free anyway, no value added. - Anal
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by mrobataille 14y ago
I wonder what your friends would think about you if there were a website exposing inconsistencies between your public and private persona.
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by mrobataille 14y ago
Here's a possible solution that doesn't exclude round robin games: 1. Play round robin as usual, but use the results of this to uniquely seed the teams (tiebreak any way you want) 2. In the elimination stage, for every round, assign the hig
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by mrobataille 14y ago
Wow, nailed it. I totally missed the Washington Post incentive angle.
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by mrobataille 14y ago
$1.49 might be a play to attract developers whose revenue is tied to the lowest app store price point.
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by mrobataille 14y ago
It's much harder to circumvent the $80, otherwise they would.
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by mrobataille 14y ago
So, where's your rules list?
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by mrobataille 14y ago
Shut up and deal with it? I really wonder what this world would be like if everyone who had a career, family, or life to risk over being a whistleblower took the safe, sure path and shut up and dealt with it.
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by mrobataille 14y ago
Ah, yes, that's brilliant. I never thought of that one. Continue dealing with a company that will not pay as promised for your previous work. Can you give an example where this course of action has ever worked out well for the designer?
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by mrobataille 14y ago
This is the natural result of a commoditized profession. Talented people will not be rewarded to the extent they deserve, and will leave.
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by mrobataille 14y ago
I agree with you completely.
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by mrobataille 15y ago
That's my favorite xkcd - so simple, and true. Ironic side note - I tried to use it as my ESPN.com forum account avatar, and was denied.
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by mrobataille 15y ago
Set up a recursion: 1000x - .001 (repeating) = x The .001 repeating = 1/999, simplify, voila.
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by mrobataille 15y ago
Remember the people who thought music piracy was over after Napster got shut down? Once the masses get used to a certain convenience, and that convenience is taken away, someone will inevitably spring up to provide it again. So it really do
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by mrobataille 15y ago
This. When I went shopping for gifts, it was remarkable how much the Lego section had changed from a decade ago. It was mostly filled with Star Wars sets, which were expensive (relatively) and against the spirit of universality and creativi