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> It seems like every time there's a new game I need a new goddamned computer.

Shiny new games come out about every other week. A nice computer should play every one of them well for many years.

> And then the game is like 90 bucks!? Where's the fun in that?

90 bucks? Do you live in Australia? (fair enough) Do you feel compelled to buy the collector's/deluxe edition of every game? (don't)

Ever heard of Steam sales? Or indie games? Or Humble Bundles? Like zamalek said, ignore the hype and marketing. Get games after a year or so when the prices have come down. If said game is actually good, people will still be talking about it.

> Imagine if films, or music, or books were like that? It's ludicrous.

A good game is enjoyed for over 10 hours. A great one might be at least 50. Imagine listening or watching any other media for that long of a time. You'd likely be bored or insane. You can get ludicrous value per hour gaming very easily.

> It's like a vomitorium of the senses, and a lot of it is not particularly inspiring.

Indie games are maybe $20 each, and tend not to be your copy-paste $90 shooty-fest.
:-o... I am sure he would run away, scared!

I'll keep an image of Coconut Monkey as backup..
> They maintain that perception by having a massive bias towards consumers at the expense of merchants.

So you mean they maintain that "perception" by actually doing it. Their business practices are shitty, and they treat merchants terribly, but it's true that as a consumer, it's really easy (maybe too easy) refund and cancel payments with it.
Looking at Stripe's API docs, it seems their preferred payment technology is javascript popup which asks for CC number directly. If the technology has been 'properly implemented', only Stripe will see the credit card details, but as a consumer, I have no way to tell if the technology has been implemented properly.

As a result, I feel it is much safer to avoid typing my credit card number into random websites. Thus, my first reaction to a site which asks for my credit card (directly or via Stripe) is 'OK, are there any alternatives which take a safer payment method'
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We live in a society of laws. If Congress and SCOTUS want to get rid of the 4th amendment, then certainly things will change.
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Is there a modern engine with hi-res support capable of running Q1 and Q2 WADs?
Thanks for your feedback - glad you like the commute feature! I like the 'save' suggestion and will get that out soon.

The main idea behind the slogan is to highlight the map integration - going to figure out how this can be made clearer to the user.
Your function in the tail recursion optimization exemple is actually not tail recursive. Factorial needs an accumulator parameter to get that tail call.
Guido is against it, so I doubt it will ever happen.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9973301
Born in Concord, California, but got out by the time I was 8.
I've been right in front of ESO VLT, during a long motorcycle ride. A remarkable place, rough and peaceful at the same time.
There is no clear boundary of the atmosphere, so technically speaking no event ever happens in space.
Learning this, I will not renew my certs with Comodo. This is childish behaviour on Comodos part.

If it helps I'll advise any companies I consult to do the same until this changes. Money is the only thing this company will understand.
But can you tell me when the Stone Oak area of San Antonio will get fiber? Sorry, but living with TWC is a bear, and am hoping an actual date that I can add to the calendar of when to cancel would make it more bearable.
I love my old Subaru wagon.
Okay, I hesitate to ask, what is an Audi?
Negative interests rates... The Fed wants to stay relevant as a means of correction economic recessions and the rate is still pretty much ~0% atm.
Well done Comodo, this motivated me to donate to Let's Encrypt.

https://letsencrypt.org/donate/
yeah, I love ttys0 blog, it's great.

Perhaps a good strategy would be to still offer an interesting read despite a lack of "hey i found epic 0days and hacked everything":

- here's my methodology

- here are some cool ways they made this thing robust

- here is how I tried/successfully defeated the defenses

- some tooling I created to break this thing
> so my paranoia isn't visible from a mile away.

It's okay, the only people who would call you paranoid are obviously part of the conspiracy.
They are selling their homes, not sharing them. I don't really understand how this is different from that gay wedding cake case AT ALL.
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Compound words are common too in English. They're really just treated as new words, there isn't a real reason to syntactically split them. German does have some more comical examples though. My favorite was an archaic german book we had in highschool that for "typing" used the word, "schreibmachineschreiben" which is literally "write-machine-writing." It looks like the modern word is "Tippen."
>You cannot be more programmable than Excel, because VBA is deeply integrated and it already is fully programmable.

Well, Excel itself, just the cells, are already "turing complete" so, in once sense you cannot get "more programmable" than that either.

But I meant that Eve aims to "give better expressive power for programming compared Excel using a same-ish cell model" (so, without VBA required).
Hate them. They've burned charitable events, humanitarian fundraisers. It'll take a while for their momentum to die down, but I pray they disappear eventually.
NB: net _domestic_ migration. Population still increasing.
I will never use a Comodo cert again.
The app economy isn't dying, it's just becoming less dependent on the US
> Those discrimination laws don't apply to hosts' private homes or bedrooms

Well, they should, and if airbnb is not willing to comply, the lawmaker should force them to.
He's so well known publicly that even a small amount of information leaked from him can make a huge mess in the media so I kind of understand him.
There are also others trying to cash in on this. StartSSL recently started a "Start Encrypt" product which is based on similar ideas.
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You don't lose your copyright license, you lose the patent grant. Most MIT/BSD licensed software doesn't come with a patent grant; many people assume that you get an implicit grant but that opinion will vary depending on which lawyer you talk to.
But where would they fit that? The sides of today's laptops already have a whopping one port! /s

Why did hardware switches die out?
I agree. I have an existing cert from Comodo for my personal site, as they were cheap and easy to get when I was looking for one. I will look for another provider when it's time to renew.
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That was my first idea too. I'm surprised LE didn't target them too.
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I doubt they would sink their business. Airbnb is no longer a startup that is given free licence to go against established laws. Compliance at this stage will benefit their business.
> may I'd say that & is a symbol that represent a grammar connective

Then what about §? or $? Or %? The list is endless.
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Rebember that this guy's password is^Wwas 'dadada'. I would not put to much into this.
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I got it based on glowing reviews, started it up....and wasn't too impressed initially.

But I kept playing, and started getting used to the movement and the shooting and started dancing through the enemies and dodging fireball after fireball while charging headfirst into a room, picking off enemies easily even though I'm using a controller (I know it has some auto-aim assistance but it's one of the best I've seen) and it felt different from every other fps I've played lately. Last game in a long time to make me feel that way was Splatoon.

The monster AI is better than in most games too. They chase you, leap onto ledges, climb up ledges and hang from walls, run around to get behind you (sometimes), constantly moving to dodge you and get a better shot at you, not hiding behind cover and then appearing briefly for you to shoot where you've been training your gun for 30 seconds like most games. Not the best I've seen, but better than most fps games.

Then there's the secrets. It's hilarious how Doom will show you the secret, either through a window or behind a vent, or a hidden level section will show up on the map, and then it pretty much dares you to figure out how to get there. You go where it looks like you can get there and there's nothing there. It can take a long time to figure out how to get to some of these secrets. That's pretty fun also.

The need to shoot people enough that they can be glory killed, and then needing to rush in to get that melee kill because it drops the health you desperately need, or hit them with a chainsaw to drop ammo you need is great too.

It's super smooth, and the levels are giant, and puzzly, it's pretty, and just a lot of fun. What Doom should be.
If the laptop is administered by Facebook's IT, maybe they have a way to use the cameras clandestinely

(Unlikely with Apple's hardware but if I were an employee and the CEO was taping I'd do it too)
Hi egeozcan,

1) I don't think we currently have a benchmark specifically for Foxx. However we did some one-off tests in 2.8 and there was no noticeable difference between the plain HTTP API and a Foxx service using the equivalent JS API (just the V8 context switches).

2) See the section "Compatibility Caveats" in the docs: https://docs.arangodb.com/3.0/Manual/Foxx/Dependencies.html Specifically we can't support native modules and there are limits to what Node APIs we can support (network and filesystem APIs are different and more restricted, also Foxx is entirely synchronous).

3) Yes! Check out the case studies linked a the bottom of the website: https://www.arangodb.com/#casestudies All three of them use Foxx. I also dogfood Foxx: I'm the lead developer of a commercial e-learning product that uses full-stack JS with ArangoDB.

Feel free to swing by our community Slack channel if you have more questions: https://slack.arangodb.com
What does CA mean in this context?
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It looks like they have nothing left to lose. Acting in bad faith so openly lowers them to the levels of patent-trolls. I can't think of any company which respects its public image doing any new business with them after this news.
I'd love to see Comodo's defense of this.

By "defense" I mean their PR spin, of course. I doubt they'll actually come right out and say "Let's Encrypt is a threat to our revenue and we're attempting to trademark the name under-the-radar so that we can sue them out of existence."
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Of course template can return values.

The problem is that they need to be given the AST. What if one constructs a handler somewhere in another module (say an authentication handler) and you import it? How can you reuse it, considering that it needs to surround other handlers (that is, if auth fails, you do not go inside inner handlers)?

With Rosencrantz it is easy: if `auth` is our authentication handler, and in your module you define a handler `h`, you can use `auth -> h`, or `auth[h]` if you want to spell `h` inline.

Now, what you could in fact do is write a template `authTemplate` that takes a handler `h` and returns `auth -> h`, so that you can still write in template style. But you have to do this for all handlers.

It could make sense to provide such templates for builtin handlers, though... want to chime in? :-)
No, that's too simplistic definition. You're talking about representative democracy, but that's just one of the about 4 possible options how to implement democracy, which is at the core about everybody having same power in decision-making.
Other western democracies did not struggled through what America struggled through to free itself from the British monarchy in order to establish democracy.

Because of that, these western democracies do not value the importance of arms the way Americans value it.

Arms of the American people is the basis for which democracy in America was built on.
How does this compare with Hy?
There's some sort of Stockholm syndrome prevalent among too many Bay Area residents that compels them to accept the lower quality of life. I lived there for several years until recently, and it was a surreal experience to hear others discuss the sacrifices they were making just to have a roof over their family's head, to provide a half-decent education for their children. And these were well-payed folks at the brand-name companies! Those that took a tech job straight out of college and had never lived anywhere else seemed the worst affected. Not enough realized that they deserved more then they were getting back from the Bay Area.
Who knows - if the neighbors knew it was an AirBnB home then why would they get so worried?

There are lots of explanations for their actions that are completely reasonable. But when there is otherwise no evidence of racism, let's shout racism as loud as we can because the "movement" is more important than the facts.
This feature would actually be REALLY helpful for my http://imadefood.com project. Where I'm keeping revision history for recipe changes. Basically do a time travel select, versus a revision number select. Which I think works better in peoples minds.
Yeah. Modifying adjectives to match the case / gender always got me.
Well? Is the market itself unfair, yes or no?
What a scummy business practice. I will not be renewing my remaining Comodo certs.
>Safety and security are absolutely a selling point, although not one they lean hard on in their own marketing materials. But it comes up in any comparison between iOS and Android, and not without reason.

I think security with regard to malware (of which Android has like 90+% of all mobile malware according to surveys) was a selling point, but not safety/security in the privacy/encryption/etc way that the FBI incident was about.

That wasn't, as you say, much on Apple's marketing materials, nor was it much of a factor for the majority of buyers.

>Incidentally, why the past tense?

Because safety and security have become something of a selling point for Apple as of late (I'd say post the FBI incident), but it's not long ago they weren't.

So the past tense was meant to convey that those other things were Apple's selling points "back then", but leave the door open for security being a selling point for them now.
I've mentioned this before and I'm still curious to hear more.

> Barry Warsaw, one of the core Python developers, once said that it frustrated him that "The Zen of Python" (PEP 20) is used as a style guide for Python code, since it was originally written as a poem about Python's internal design. [0]

I did a quick search for more background but didn't find anything.

[0]: https://github.com/amontalenti/elements-of-python-style#a-li...
> there is no common fallback font that is used by all systems (win, osx, linux, android ...) as a default.

Again, meaningless. Why should there have to be a common fallback font?
CA stands for 'certificate authority'. It's an organization that can issue digital certs.
What if you use your laptop camera for video conferencing?
>Pretty much every Android OEM has a plan B. It would kinda stupid not to.

I am genuinely not capable of understanding this logic.google is not a small company and they are not going to destroy Android with these kind of stupid decisions.

So why Samsung and etc does spend billions on new softwares when they can simply fork Android (in most extreme situations to respond to Google, just like what Amazon did).
Certificate Authority.
Meh, it's not impossible. My salary went up 50% when I moved here.
It's the microphone, not the audio jack.
Here in America, we have the 4th Amendment. Don't like it? Leave.

Airbnb is not responsible for this, nor is doing anything wrong. If I do not want somebody in my private home, they will not step a foot in my private home. In fact, if they do, I have the right to take defensive action, including the use of lethal force when necessary. Don't like it? Leave.
I've seen a pretty neat looking camera cover for Macs, iirc it was a very wide magnet that spanned most of the top of the screen, could be slid aside easily.
Turns out I have a Comodo cert expiring soon. Let's see if they do the right thing before I do...
The circuit that delivers electricity to the Mac camera goes through the green light diode.
Last I checked, Unicode don't actually have anything like coverage of the entirety of every script and alphabet. On the other hand, approving emoji and random icons delights Westerners.
People are considering killing Prop 13, which will make more residents leave.
You're forgetting Outcast

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcast_%28video_game%29
Apparently you can set the screen brightness in Quake's console by assigning a value to the variable "gamma": Less than 1 is brighter, more than 1 is darker: http://www.quakewiki.net/archives/console/commands/quake.htm...
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Just a little cron job shell script that dumps the results from a command-line speedtest.net client into Librato Metrics.
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they break. and only a small proportion of customers demand them. (speculation)
> I still don't understand how anyone does business with Paypal.

I run a business which takes PayPal and there's one reason we take PayPal: Everyone has it and everyone expects it.

I'm speaking solely from annecdata here, but in my experience at least, if you don't have PayPal, you're probably giving up a huge potential amount of revenue even if you take CCs via another means.

PayPal makes buyers feel very much in control, if you're doing recurring payments, there's a cancel button, it's easy to challenge a seller and win and they take so many different methods including CCs, bank accounts, "instant bank transfer" (where they'll do bank transfer but fall back to CC, allowing your transaction to go through instantly which many people love). As a buyer, PayPal is very good. If you don't compromise and meet your buyers, selling is a lot harder. Unless someone can make buyers move, there's not much recourse a seller can take.
Does he do the same with his phone?
>any world power using nuclear weapons would probably need to be exceedingly irrational.

Leaders are exceedingly irrational. Stalin and Hitler literally killed millions.

Considering that many generals in the German army considered WWII unwinnable before Hitler started it, WWII may have been one of the world's longest and bloodiest suicide notes.

Combine that with a literal death cult, laced with bizarre fantasies about blood, iron, and the holy homeland, and you can see just how irrational world powers can get.

Japan wasn't much better off. The bombs were a horror, but at least they cauterised imperialism out of the Japanese psyche for at least a few generations - at a huge cost.

The US isn't much better off now. The reasons for war are more religious than personal - the pursuit of profit - but the millions who have died since WWII in US direct and proxy campaigns are no less dead for it.

Russia? China? Let's see.

It's clear that the only reason we've avoided nuclear suicide so far is blind luck - often the blind luck that put a relatively sane individual in a position where they, not presidents, emperors, kings, and politicians, could choose the fate of the world.

Ultimately you can't win at Russian Roulette. You can only not lose - for a limited time.
I buy one of these for all my MacBooks: http://spishutter.com

Looks better than tape.
I agree with you. I think pensions are a mistake in general, however, many municipalities, counties, and states are locked in to existing pensions schemes. I am for doing away with pensions in the future, but the existing obligations need to be funded appropriately.
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All control of Bay Area housing should be put into the hands of a single "housing czar" with absolute authority to rezone. Usually democratic methods are preferable, but in this case it's clear they've failed in an absolute sense, and a new approach is needed.
There's a jack in the mic port, so that cuts the internal microphone.
Ah, quite right. Not enough coffee when I made that comment, thanks.
Agreed. There's a very special mix of stupidity and arrogance you see in the kids that grew up here. "Swag/YOLO" culture is to blame IMO.
I read other comments here, and would like to point something.

Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and other early FPS, got the name "FPS", because people saw them as a first person version of shooters, and shooters were those games where you control some vehicle from the top view and would dodge a hail of bullets and shoot back.

Currently, most poeple think the important thing about "first person shooter" and "third person shooter" is the camera, and completely forget why "first person shooter" had that name, the "first person" thing was just an adjective added to the base genre, "shooter".

Most modern games aren't shooters... I am not sure how I would name them, but the focus is not on shooting or avoiding get shot, the focus is something else.

The descriptions I am seeing of Doom 4 single-player and why people are loving it (I am waiting for Vulkan version to try it) are the descriptions of a game that nailed the "shooter" genre correctly, Doom 4 can proudly call itself a FPS, because it is a true FPS.

So some people might wonder, what I am calling here an FPS, why people feel it is so fun and whatnot?

1. Base mechanic, is shooting.

2. Movement is very important, both to aim, and dodge.

3. Stealth should be discouraged.

4. Cover should only be part of the game if you dodge in and out of it, it would be acceptable in a FPS with parkour mechanics for example.

5. No Halo-style health regen, this requires you hide, stop and wait, and when you do that you are not shooting.

6. Weapon variety is important, even one of the shooters known to be "minimalist", Ikaruga, has 4 weapons for 4 different uses (dark bullet, light bullet, dark laser, light laser), the point of shooting games is the shooting, even if the only variety comes from using powerups (1942 for example) it makes shooting in different ways possible and interesting.

7. If game has few weapons, it should nail it REALLY well, and the few weapons should solve any situation, games with "realistic" limit of weapons that result in you picking up a shotgun and a pistol and then having to shoot something 3km away is not a shooter. (maybe it is some other genre, war simulator or something, but it is not a shooter).

8. For the thinking part, the important is tactics, not strategy, the player should only be thinking of immediate decisions while shooting, and not stopping to think what path (in the map, narrative or upgrade) he will have to take several hours on from now (unless he is replaying the game for completionism, then it is fine, but usually he will preplan before starting the playthrough anyway).
From native point of Tizen already had two reboots.

First it was based on Meego APIs, then it got the C++ dialect from BADA OS (very similar to Symbian) and now they rebooted it again using EFL + C, but adding another C++ API in the process.

Native is not always open to everyone, for example for TVs app developers can only use WebApps and need to become a partner for native code.

So I doubt that Tizen will ever get an app eco-system that people will bother to use.
I dont think we have the same understanding of the word "selling".

And even if i am wrong, there is still a huge difference between private selling and commercial selling.