anonymous
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Comment · 13 years ago
What's the point? It is not like they will actually delete your data.
Comment · 13 years ago
> implying 4chan is one person
Comment · 13 years ago
Person says overly angry thing on the betweentubes
Yeah, stop the presses. If commenting online and especially on places like 4chan has taught me anything, it's that anonymity lets people vent their emotions in ways they never would face-to-face. I'm sure you can find a similar list of shit I've said online and acted like a psychotic asshole. I can probably compose part of that list right now off the top of my head. Sometimes you need to say the angry words and let people tell you you're wrong to learn things once your head cools down.
Comment · 13 years ago
I actually agree with him, but I'd word it somewhat differently: Rules and legislation are made for a reason. Before you break a rule for your own self-interest or due to your own beliefs, make an as big an effort as you can to imagine how and why the rule is sensible and how following it could actually be better. Then, break the rule.
Of course this can sometimes take about 2 seconds and you conclude that the rule is utter crap in your situation's context.
Comment · 13 years ago
As the old adage goes: NEVER EVER build your business as completely dependent atop a Microsoft product. Or if you must, expect to go out of business at some point. In the 21st century, you can replace Microsoft with Google or Facebook or whatever else pops up that gets to their level. I'm willing to bet people will next be burned by relying too much on AWS.
Comment · 13 years ago
My opinion is that we're not sure how the social dynamics will change with a guaranteed basic income, so making predictions like this is not really constructive. I favour the experimental approach - roll it out and then follow through with surveys to see its impact. Maybe try it out in only one or two states at first, if possible ones with a good mix of people with various incomes and ethnicities.
Comment · 13 years ago
I have done all of that, except tried different ships. I only played with the starting ship, on hard difficulty, because I wanted to finish the main game before trying the extra modes.
Yes, I have maxed out dodge and shields. I have actually grinded enemies until I had every crew member maxed out on every possible stat. It doesn't help one bit, because you can still get hit 10 or even 20 times in a row, even though you have a 20% evade chance, and 20 hits from anything is pretty much enough to sink you.
It is honestly the most frustrating game I have ever played.
Also, I'm not struggling, I just gave up on it for good. I haven't played it in a year, if not more.
I bought into the hype and bought the game and it turned out to be ... that. I just want to give my perspective so other people don't get it and then feel misled.
Comment · 13 years ago
Too bad the unfair, uncontrollable, unmitigateable randomness turns this otherwise excellent game in a poor joke. There is no planning you can do, since every shop is random and there is nothing you can do if the game just decides to spawn precisely the kind of enemy that can kill you right then and there. All the different combat systems and options are good, but given that you have no idea what weapon drops you'll get, you can't do any planning ahead. Additionally, if you start having to run away from battles you fall behind the curve and there's no going back. You can't just scout the sector to find easy enemies to beat, because you have a very tight limit on how much exploring you can do. Once you fall behind the resource curve and have to run away from more and more encounters you're already dead.
I spent 15 hours with this game, did close to 40 attempts and only once got to sector 7. Usually I'd die around sector 4 or 5.
If you already have the game and like it, good for you. I just want to warn other people. My final opinion is: the devs don't understand statistics and randomness; go play nethack, it's easier.
Comment · 13 years ago
I'm more interested in why employees don't band together to game the system and ensure a given outcome, then split the winnings. Like a sort of a pyramid scheme - you and a buddy agree that this quarter it will be you who gets promoted and split the bonus/raise with your buddy. Then you get a third buddy and get him in on it if he agrees to let the second buddy be promoted this quarter. Now you're splitting 3 raises among 2 people. Then you get a fourth buddy in and promote the third one and so on. The system ends once the group has too many people at a high position. At that point any new employee joining the company at a low position is screwed, probably. Also at this point infighting will probably break out from people who don't want to split their raises with the ones with less money, given that they don't have a way of advancing any further. Obviously the only way to win at this is to be the very first person who, after everybody leaves, gets left with the highest position and highest salary. Which is why I called it a pyramid scheme.
Comment · 13 years ago
All of these things, including the int division "thing" are present in python 2.7 already. For division, you need to import it:
from __future__ import division
Comment · 13 years ago
In my view, if you actually do 8 hours of work in a single day regularly, meaning you perform a physical action which is directly attributable to your work description for a total of at least 8 hours every day for at least 5 days in a row, then you are one of:
* a physical labour worker
* a genius
* a sucker
* working crunch time to deliver a release (a potential sucker if the crunch time doesn't actually pay off)
* someone whose mind is too alien, that I cannot form a theory of mind (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind) for
Comment · 13 years ago
I highly suspect that impersonating someone online fall foul of the CFAA.
Comment · 13 years ago
If I am not mistaken, I personally maintain at least 3 distinct identities on the net. I think I might have more than that, one-off accounts made with a one-off email for some site that I've forgotten. And I make VERY certain to never ever mention anything about one identity on a communication channel used by the other identities. One of those I only ever use through private browsing mode to avoid leaking cookies to sites that track these things. Relatedly I suspect some of the people I know online are one and the same physical person, but since I know them through different channels, I cannot actually ask if this is the case, plus it would be extremely rude to do so.
I hope somebody some day comes up with a better way to keep threads of identity separate, so you don't face the situation where you're denied work or university because you woke up in a bad mood one day and said something angry about someone online to a friend of yours.
Comment · 13 years ago
"Chinese Restaurant Syndrome" is real though. Or rather I personally can't eat most things at chinese restaurants and this article was the first time I heard that this is actually a named thing, i.e. this is the first time I hear of CRS. Though I think it's more to do with the fat they use to fry rice in -- there is one place around here which serves chinese-style stir-fried noodles, but eating there reliably does not trigger any symptoms. They are also the priciest noodles around. Maybe CRS should just be named "bad cheap fried food syndrome". It's not a TLA, but you can just smush all the words together and call it bacheff syndrome.