silentmars

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by silentmars 6y ago
Howdy, I posted this and also run Sauerworld, the community news and resources site for Cube 2: Sauerbraten. As others have helpfully pointed out, Sauerbraten is an open source Quake-like arena FPS. It's been around for years, and this
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New Sauerbraten 2020 Edition Released(sauerworld.org)
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by silentmars 8y ago
This sounds more psychotic than hypocritical to me. "I'll win in a fight", is this a normal way of thinking? I'm a US citizen and I can honestly say this thought has never crossed my mind while driving. My thought when p
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by silentmars 9y ago
I'm not surprised at all. My observation has been that teachers - even ones who are brilliantly good as teachers - are abysmal PowerPoint users. Every one I've seen has made the same kind of mistakes: - Way too many slides for
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by silentmars 9y ago
You're not in it to win it anymore. Get out while the getting is good, relax a bit, prepare for your next shot.
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by silentmars 10y ago
So what? It sounds like you are using this argument to excuse companies whose practices are causing workplace injury.
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by silentmars 10y ago
Let me put this into terms that you might better relate to. To a person with kids, being lectured about the right choices to make in their lives with regards to their kids by someone without kids is much like being an engineer forced to end
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by silentmars 10y ago
What? How do you suppose this surveillance will be conducted? It sounds to me like you are proposing that we solve the problem of individual companies having to hire some people to look at bad things by having the government hire a whole bu
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by silentmars 10y ago
Obviously you have no kids and no interest in persuading anyone who does, to be throwing around this "failed parent" talk for anyone raising a child with special needs.
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by silentmars 10y ago
Which of the following seems more likely? A recruiter who was already giving the guy the wrong interview, and whose job revolves essentially around HR and sales, made mistakes in asking a series of technical questions. An expert with decade
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by silentmars 10y ago
A bit OT and I hate to be a pest... but can you guys please start offering laptops with more than 1080p displays? It's almost Kafka-esque that my phone has 77% more pixels than a $2,500 graphics workstation laptop.
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by silentmars 10y ago
21:40. He mentions in the video that they had a one-producer, one-consumer input queue that they originally implemented with clojure.lang.PersistentQueue. They engaged Cognitect for some code review/consulting, and Cognitect's adv
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by silentmars 10y ago
Restarting is different from reloading. Take a look at `clojure.tools.namespace.repl/refresh` - which in recent versions of CIDER is triggered with `cider-refresh`. It does what you're asking - blows away all the loaded namespaces
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by silentmars 11y ago
This article describes some seriously clueless agile practices. A massive reorg and restructuring dictated from the top to enable agile, a bottom-up methodology. They dictate that everyone must do Scrum - even support departments for which
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by silentmars 11y ago
You are perhaps trolling/satiring but there are certainly people who feel this way, even if they don't state it in such up-front absurd ways. Our founders responded to taxes they didn't like by seizing the contents of cargo s
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by silentmars 12y ago
Not a single thing about harassment. Why? Does Twitter's technical leadership think the problem is that irrelevant that it's not worth putting on the roadmap? Does the media care so little about it that they don't ask the que
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by silentmars 12y ago
Yes. Germany, for instance, has a similar system where you pay per TV.
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by silentmars 12y ago
It's very unlikely that you'd be a target in any such rampage... unless you keep complaining like this.
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by silentmars 12y ago
Is there anything of particular interest happening on the site now? There doesn't seem to be any new release or any kind of announcement, and this has been featured on HN before. While the free VPN feature is cool, it's been there
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by silentmars 12y ago
Remember when Gmail used to have that ticker for how much space you get that would update live? You'd watch for a few seconds, and instead of 3.104649 GB of free email storage you'd have 3.104672 GB! I think what Twitter needs is
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by silentmars 12y ago
One downside to this approach is that it can tend to create status or power rifts between the product people and the tools people. In traditional shops, the "skills that pay the bills" product people often get better treatment, hi
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by silentmars 12y ago
Twitter is already the premier platform for cyberstalking and harassment. The question they're struggling with is, how do they monetize that? Maybe if they charged for rape threats. Perhaps use something like the Facebook model, and ch
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by silentmars 12y ago
For those of us who are not familiar with the Indian political and business background of this story and the characters, can someone summarize? Some parts translate pretty clearly to a naive reader - high-growth startup accrues too much deb
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by silentmars 13y ago
Joel's article is cautioning against the kind of cost/benefit-blind thinking that makes "rewrite all the code" a default option. Actually, I think in a certain way your story - perhaps unintentionally - agrees with this
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by silentmars 13y ago
There is a bit of legal knowledge that may be relevant here, at least in terms of framing this question of who is responsible. In many jurisdictions (in the US) the legal standard of 'negligence' has two requirements. First, proxi
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by silentmars 13y ago
I used gentoo for many years. I have come to view this as something of an abusive relationship. Now I'm a happy arch user, and no longer think of interactions with the package manager with a sense of dread! Also, the article had some f
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by silentmars 13y ago
I think it's more likely that he's a self-hating closet case than merely an ass, personally.
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by silentmars 13y ago
That's a little different. The message of that video: never talk to the police. The two cases being, 1. you are not under arrest, or 2. you are under arrest. If you are not under arrest you should just walk away or refuse any kind of engage
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by silentmars 13y ago
The fifth amendment only covers criminal caes - in fact, technically only covers felonies. The implication for this case is that the lawyers can refuse to answer questions with an assertion of their fifth amendment rights, and if and when t
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by silentmars 13y ago
Abusive. Barbaric. Evil. Wrong. These are all words I feel confident in saying are accurate when applied to coerced female genital mutilation. While I appreciate Amnesty International's position - it's obviously impolitic to call someone th

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